Hunter’s Blade - Chapter 280

[Demon Hunter’s Blade Chapter 280]

“The location of the secret sanctuary must also be very mysterious.” Heigagesen was curious.

“I know, in Ryan Fort,” said Shire, “…but I heard that Ryan Fort is in a far and dangerous dark place, and I don’t know when in my life I will have the opportunity to explore.”

“Danger is danger, but, far away? Not far at all, just above the Great Rift Valley is the dark place.” Hejgagson said.

Chapter 352 The Dwarf in Dormancy

“The dark place is in the east of Loman, in the north of the Mountain Empire.” Hejagesen gestured, “This area has long been filled with lush dragon miasma. The high mountains we live in are not bad, and the lower areas are basically uninhabitable. , but there are also Yamauchi warriors and adventurers who go to the dark places to hunt for treasure, and they often come underground to deal with us.”

“Dragon miasma…” Ciel pondered, “I heard that the dark place is covered by a cloud that can’t be dissolved. Is it called dragon miasma?”

“Yes,” said Heiggson, “the Dragon Empire once ruled here, and there were two suns in the sky at that time. The Ryan Fort you want to go to is actually the capital of the Dragon Empire. The dragons were destroyed, and the remaining dragons fought with each other for precious resources… The body of the giant dragon was very large! It was dozens of meters from the head to the tail, but it was such a giant dragon, and they died one by one in the dragon war! They were hills The corpses slowly corroded on the ground, forming a dense miasma that covered the sky.”

“Simple miasma shouldn’t have any effect, but from what I heard from Loman, the dark place is a cursed place.” Ciel frowned.

“Yes, yes,” Hejgagsen nodded, “the people who entered later… in order to disperse the miasma, they committed huge sins, followed by a series of larger disasters, and then the miasma did not disappear, but the scale became Bigger, diffuse.”

“What is a series of larger disasters?”

“Actually…” Haijagesen shook his head, “I know so much, maybe you will know it by going to the dark place yourself.”

The dark place, the ruins of the cursed ancient empire, deadly, dark, and surrounded by the so-called “Dragon Miasma”, and now there is a large-scale demon invasion on the surface, it must be the most dangerous place.

“I can’t go,” Ciel shook his head. “Although according to what you said, Ryan Fort and the Secret Sanctuary are within easy reach, but my first priority is to return to Loman, and I can’t stay here for too long.”

“So you have to go back to your hometown, but one day come back and solve the mystery?”

“Absolutely,” Ciel nodded. “I absolutely have to figure it out. I want to know what the original hunter did, and why he was waiting there for someone to open the secret sanctuary.”

The original hunter is a real bastard, a riddleman, leaving a mess of information for future generations to decrypt.

Charles thought to himself.

I definitely can’t follow his example. In the future, I have to get all the things and missions I have at hand, and if there is anything to explain, I will write it down and pass it on, so that future generations will not bother to guess.

Leaving the running water area, they returned to the core hall of the snowmelt well.

This place is very large, and Shire can see the snow column in the middle. The diameter is probably several hundred meters. There is no end in sight. The white snow and ice has accumulated over the years, and the ice is biting. There is a torch next to it. Shine warm.

The dwarves are maintaining the facility, reopening the plumbing, lighting the wall torches, and going to work.

“Soon the glowing mushrooms will be sent back to the fortress!” Heigagesen was very happy.

“Let’s just say we can be ten times faster than the Scourge Walkers.” Ciel laughed. “Cliff Cave, Streamfire, and Snowmelt Well, even if they take Grey Dove Mound and Crow’s Watch Rock, we’ll win.”

“Yeah!” Hejagesen was excited, “You can get your artifact and fulfill your long-cherished wish!”

“What about you? What about your long-cherished wish?” Ciel looked at Hajjgsen.

“No…it’s nothing.” Higgerson shook his head. “My wish…my wish is nothing to mention.”

Later, Charles and Elio eat together.

Dwarves’ recipes focus on making the best use of everything. They make the best use of the limited ingredients, while ensuring that they are nutritious and delicious. The key is to eat as soon as possible without wasting food.

Because of this principle, Ciel was fortunate enough to witness a very typical dwarven dinner.

They gathered around a large stone table, and two dwarves came and went, finding something to eat and serving it.

The first is a large pot of surimi, which is made by mashing the cavefish in the underground lake, adding a lot of underground mineral salt, white salt crystals and black-gray fish meat are mixed together at will, it tastes very salty, and it feels like licking it with your tongue. Can’t eat anymore.

Then there is a large plate of cooked and air-dried flash mushrooms. They are tough and chewy, and have no taste. There is only the astringency of the mushroom itself. If you eat a mushroom, you can chew it in your mouth for ten minutes, and then swallow it reluctantly. The dwarves carry it everywhere. A lot, just take out one and chew it when you are hungry.

Then came a large sun-dried moss, which the dwarves scraped from the damp rock walls and roasted and eaten like a vegetable. The moss was delicious, a little sweet, and crunchy and crunchy. ,can not stop.

The food served later was a little disgusting. It was a special meal made by dwarves for worm meat.

They made the worm eggs into yellow-green worm egg paste, smeared them on mushrooms and ate them, and then went to find the remains of the giant worms outside, cut the meat off and roasted it on the fire. After roasting, it gave off a strange aroma, something close to that of chicken. smell.

Although they looked delicious, as soon as Ciel saw them, he thought of the thick and sticky stink bug blood, which was a little unacceptable.

“Eat, eat, eat!”

“Ooh!”

“It’s all delicious, please!” Everyone was hospitable.

The dwarves ate very frugally, and they didn’t eat much themselves, but they tried their best to push these underground foods to Charles and invite him to taste them. They also found wine from the warehouse, and filled them with mushroom wine glass by glass.

“Drink!”

“You must try this.”

“Delicious.”

Ciel greeted them, and it was relatively comfortable to get along with the dwarves, they were honest and simple, and they had no bad intentions.

“Please try it, this is something we have treasured for a long time.” Elio brought a large piece of meat himself.

The meat was dry and hard, with a clear texture, like the back of some creature, with a burnt and salty flavor that the dwarves had seasoned as much as possible.

“I’ll try it.” Ciel tore off a piece of meat and tasted it.

It can’t be a mutant worm.

……delicious.

After eating shriveled mushrooms and bitter worm meat, this jerky tasted extremely delicious, hard on the outside, tender on the inside, smooth and fat, and mellow in taste.

“Is it delicious?” Elio said happily, “This is dragon meat.”

“I see.” Ciel licked his lips and returned the meat, “This is your precious food, so keep it.”

“do not do that.”

“You’re a hero, you should try this.”

“Yeah yeah.”

“We watch you eat as if we were eating,” the dwarves said sincerely.

“Please accept it,” Elio said.

“Thank you.” Charles greeted them. “Well… there’s not much to eat in the underground. There’s always very little food.”

“There is worm meat.” He pointed to the corpse of the huge worm outside. “We dragged it into the snowmelt well, and a piece of ice was kept fresh.”

“Frozen worms don’t taste good either,” said Charles.

“Delicious food, unpalatable food, when you put it in your mouth, it becomes power. We dwarves only need power. The environment here is very poor. In order to protect this place, we must have enough power. Before the disaster walker and When the giant worm invaded, it was because of the lack of strength that many companions fell.”

“How long have you been stationed here? When was the last time you went back? There should be a vacation or something.”

“No, I haven’t returned to Xiongxu Fortress for thirty years.”

“It’s not far, it’s an hour away at most, why don’t you go back and see where you were born? Xiongxu Fortress is warmer than here, with the heat of a cliff cave, a huge public lounge, furnished and beautifully decorated, and probably some Bigger dorms…”

“You don’t understand, the patriarch ordered us to guard the snowmelting well, then we have to guard the snowmelting well. This is our duty. The living area that the patriarch has designated for us is here,” he said.

“Then about love, there are no dwarves here.”

“Then there is no love,” Elio said.

Obviously, the female dwarves will not go to the snowmelting well to find a husband, which means that only the dwarves who live in the Xiongxu fortress have the opportunity to give birth…

“What?” Ciel was a little confused, “Then you won’t have descendants.”

“No,” Elio said, “Um…”

“Don’t mention that,” said the other dwarves.

“yes.”

“It’s hard to hear.”

“Please don’t say it. No matter how hard or hard I have been in the Snowmelting Well, I will not feel sad. Only when you mention the female dwarf, my heart hurts like a knife, and my tears can’t help flowing down.” One The young dwarf miner lamented.

“Um…” Charles groaned.

“You don’t understand that Dumark created us to labor and produce,” said one of the dwarves. “Procreation is not absolutely necessary for us.”

“Yeah, it doesn’t matter, we are sent to the snowmelting well, and then we will live and work here until we become one with the soil itself, which is a natural thing,” said the other dwarf.

“There are so many things in the world that are more meaningful than having children,” Elio concluded. “When you talk about dwarves, big dorms, and comfortable living, there’s sympathy in your eyes, but we don’t need it. We just need to keep fighting for the fortress!”

Ciel looked at the young miner who had longed for the female dwarf before, his eyes dimmed and he didn’t say anything.

“This is the internal affairs of the fortress, I won’t talk about it.” Ciel shook his head.

When the meal was about to end, Ciel heard footsteps in the distance.

A dwarf sentinel ran in, wearing a gray cloak and carrying a crossbow, a little embarrassed.

“Oh!” he shouted. “I was patrolling the upper tunnel and saw a… strange, seriously wounded man! He was covered in blood and fell into the tunnel!”

“What kind of person would fall down in the upper tunnel covered in blood,” Elio shouted. “There are scourgers near the Raven Lookout! Someone can’t kill the scourgers and come here!”

“This is the strange place, that guy is still a dark elf.” Sentinel said.

“Take me to him.” Charles stood up, “I know who it is.”

Chapter 353

They head to the tunnel where the target was found.

It was a dying dark elf slave with tattered armor.

The dark elf’s body was almost cut off in the middle, his stomach was split open, his intestines flowed all over the floor, he was lying on his side, and his internal organs were exposed to the air. Lesion-like cyan.

Sustained by a mere indifference of will?

Charles hurried forward.

Hearing the footsteps, the dark elf didn’t have the strength to turn his head, he just said in a very weak voice, “Go and help them.”

“I know.” Charles fell to one knee on the ground.

“Okay.” He stared straight at him, and the last thought was lost, so all his physiological functions were temporarily lost and he died completely.

“Who is he?” Sergeant Elio followed behind.

“The Scourge Stalker.” Ciel pointed to the equipment on the Dark Elf slave. His weapon was lost, and the patterns on his armor were blurred with blood.

“Ah, that’s the team composed of the dark elf slave master and her thugs.” Elio was obviously not interested, “Let them and the Calamity Walker fight until the last one is dead. Neither the Dark Elf nor the Calamity Walker are good things. .”

“Having said that, Crow’s Watch Rock is crowded with Scourge Walkers, and since we found the hunters here, it means that they have at least recovered Grey Dove Mound and are attacking Crow’s Watch Rock, that is to say, they and us The same front is all contributing to the fight against monsters. At this time, I don’t want to die.” Ciel said.

“That’s nice, but we’re going to be stationed at the snowmelt well,” Elio said. “We also want to block the tunnel so that the scourgers don’t crawl over.”

“Powerful catastrophe runners can easily pass through tunnels. Have you seen other catastrophe runners pass through snowmelting wells before?” Ciel thought that the winged and flying catastrophe runner should be on the same level as the faceless demon, very close to high tier devil.

Dahn had said before that it was holding a magical weapon he personally built, “Breath of the Dying”, a powerful demon plus a powerful weapon, which was obviously not easy to deal with.

But it is also probably the most powerful and final leader of these demons.

As long as it is defeated, the major fortresses of Xiongxu Fortress will be completely recovered, and he can finally take Sindariel away calmly and return to Loman calmly.

[End of This Chapter]