Arcane Journey

Chapter 16 Escape
The weird soft light produced by the radiation of the earth veins filled the entire cave, twisting into a vortex shape and extending towards the cave wall.

The shadows cast by the jagged stone pillars can't stop dancing, and are decorated with weird decorations on the stone walls.

Silver cobwebs woven with thick and dense spider silk hang everywhere, and under the blowing of the weird breeze, countless spider threads vibrate like strings, making a creepy and sharp whistling.

"The web of the song spider."

A priest of Lolth in a dark red robe whispered, with strong awe in his scarlet eyes, "Listen to the voice of the Spider God Queen."

The priestess knelt down on the ground, raised her whip with one hand, and five red and black poisonous snakes shook their heads, revealing their terrifying fangs.

Just when she was about to sing praising Rose devoutly, she suddenly thrust forward, the sharp sword pierced her slender body, and the bloody tip of the sword protruded from her chest.

Before dying, the priestess turned around with difficulty, staring at the deadly hunter with an expression of disbelief in her eyes.

"Target is dead!"

"Draining soul energy."

"Acquired experience points: 700 points!"

……

——"Lightning traction!" [Powerful]

Brian drew out his sharp sword, and a whip with blue lightning flashed out of his left hand, precisely wrapping around the throat of another priestess who had reacted and was about to cast a divine spell.

The crackling electric sparks on the lightning whip flickered on and off, leaving shocking scorched marks on the delicate skin and tender neck.

Waves of lightning shot out along Brian's palm.

The priestess' harsh lips trembled, her hair stood on end, twisting like a snake on Medusa's head, her slender body convulsed and trembled.

This is a zero-ring trick, and it is also Brian's favorite spell to use in battle.

In addition to being more hurtful and touching, the consumption and release speed are almost nothing.

However, the low damage, as a battle mage, Brian, can fully make up for it with his own professional characteristics "spell sharpening" and "sharpening enhancement".

The former increases the extra damage of the spell according to the intelligence attribute, while the latter increases the overall damage by 20%.

With the blessing of the supermagic specialty "Spell Empowerment", the damage is almost comparable to that of the second-level spells.

After controlling the priestess, Brian's right hand holding the hilt threw out a series of brilliant sword lights like lightning, forcing the drow soldiers who came forward to retreat steadily.

As a battle mage who has practiced swordsmanship for nearly 20 years, his swordsmanship skills are not inferior to most drow warriors in Ancient Orens City.

If it weren't for the fact that there were other opponents around him, he could have eliminated this drow warrior with a challenge level of up to level 5 in the blink of an eye.

"Clang!"

At this time, the last soldier who reacted drew out his scimitar, trying to flank the enemy with his companions.

——"Mind stabbing!"

Brian's highly concentrated spirit made him transmit the surging spiritual energy to the depths of the soldiers' minds without hesitation.

"what!!!"

The shrill scream echoed in the empty cave, and the drow soldier dropped the scimitar in his hand with a bang, and sat down on the ground, holding his head in his hands, sweating like rain, and shivering.

Brian's left hand holding the whip shook violently, and together with the whip made of magical energy, he threw the priestess who had just died to the entangled drow soldiers.

The drow soldier looked shocked, and his sharp sword, which was too late to take it away, pierced through the priestess' body in an instant.

Bryan took advantage of the gap between the opponent's sword and put the long sword in his left hand. With a fast and precise backhand, Brian tore through the air and cut open his exposed throat.

"Pfft!"

Blood gushed out like a horse, and the drow soldier fell to the ground on his back, lifeless.

With the death of the drow soldier, the last soldier just recovered from the shock of the heart, and immediately fumbled instinctively for the scimitar he had lost.

However it was too late.

By the time he reached for the weapon, Bryan had already charged, and at the same time he swung his sword.

The soldier's pupils widened, his hands clasped his neck, and he fell at his feet.

"Target is dead!"

"Draining soul energy."

"Acquired experience points: 500 points!"

……

After finishing off the four opponents neatly, Brian didn't dare to waste time, he immediately walked along the curved wall.

This is the cave used to raise spiders in Ancient Orens City. If he fails to leave in time and is surrounded by spiders, one can imagine his fate.

at this time.

A huge spider burst out of a hole carved with spider symbols from hiding beside him.

Having been prepared for a long time, he bent over suddenly, dodged the spider's venom spit, and burrowed into the spider's abdomen in a smooth manner, then lifted his foot to give it a heavy kick on its soft abdomen, and inserted the sword deeply into it Ball-shaped body.

Then, Brian rolled and drew his sword back, just in time to dodge the gush of disgusting goo.

"Target is dead!"

"Draining soul energy."

"Acquired experience points: 300 points!"

……

The spider trembled a few times, lying on the ground lifeless.

With the death of the first spider, countless creepy rustling sounds came from all directions.

Brian looked startled, and immediately ran along a dense tunnel full of cobwebs.

In fact, he has a teleportation scroll prepared for him by Santilla in his hand. Just tear it open, and he can teleport to the streets of Ancient Orens City in an instant.

But he didn't plan to use it, because the drow elves were treacherous guys, and if they were not careful, they would lose their lives or fall into the trap of others.

Perhaps Santilla had no malice towards him, but she did not make this scroll herself.

Therefore, it is better for him not to use this kind of teleportation scroll whose whereabouts are unknown.

Wouldn't it be terrible to finally escape and fall into another trap.

Besides, he has a faster way to escape.

If successful, he could even return directly to the surface.

However, he doesn't plan to do this for the time being, because there is a floating city ruins that fell here during the Netheril Empire period in the Underdark.

In addition to a lost color-resistant scroll, there is also a piece of legendary quality equipment.

Thinking of this, Brian had no choice but to be thankful for his unintentional act of letting the halfling servant help him spread a message, which played a major role.

If he really escaped this time and got the treasure, if he had the chance, he would definitely complete the commission of the halfling Elton from Greenest Town.

After all, he still has a bit of the character of knowing kindness and repaying.

Brian sprinted along the path he had come in.

The tunnels are full of near-vertical hidden pits and rolling loose rubble, and every step he takes is a serious test.

Most of the deep pits spread out into cobweb-like tunnels, winding and winding deep into the darkness of the ground.

The rotten smell emanating from the depths of the dark pit, as well as a faint cracking sound as if insects were scratching, made him really reluctant to guess how many terrifying things were lurking under his feet. thing.

Fortunately, as a half-elf, he has a high agility attribute, and the magical elf boots allow him to step or jump easily in the tunnel.

As a spellcaster, if the intelligence attribute represents a person's spell learning speed and power, then his agility attribute determines the release speed and reaction ability of spells.

Otherwise, what is the difference with a bulky fort.

Therefore, he practiced swordsmanship all the year round, so that his own reaction speed and hand speed were comparable to those of wanderers or rangers who were similar in strength to him.

After half an hour.

Brian finally got out of the hole as big as the ogre's arms wrapped around him.

Despite the annoying clicking noises coming from inside, he knew that the rearing spiders would never come out of their burrows easily.

In other words, he is safe for the time being.

“It feels so good to be free!”

After a short rest, Brian sighed with emotion, and immediately appeared from the hidden stone pillar, put on the hood, tightened the cloak, followed the instructions on the map, drilled into a dark underground tunnel, and continued on.

(End of this chapter)