The knight in the abyss

Chapter 45 Mud Monster

"What are you talking about? What is a shark lizard?" Lancelot's ignorance only confirmed one thing again, his world must be in a very remote corner of the multiverse.Although Barende and Karalin came from different worlds, they both seemed to know this terrifying monster.

"It's a calamity-like creature, more than 10 feet long." There was a look of horror on Barende's face. "It is the absolute overlord everywhere, and all the creatures on the ground are his food."

"It's so powerful, what does it look like?"

"It looked like a reptile, with a thick, shark-like carapace on its back. The lower body was like a crocodile, with enough claws to sever. Its head was its scariest part, and it looked like a It's like the head of a magnified snapping turtle, except that the end is bulging like an awl, allowing it to break through the soil and drill wherever it wants to go." Barende said with a pale face, "Fortunately it is there. The movement of burrowing underground is very loud, and it will not ambush like a digger with a high self-esteem, so we can at least know its approach in advance."

"It's never been clear how the sharks came to be. Some scholars believe that the sharks were the result of some crazy spell, like the demon prince Demogorgon who created the chimera," Karalin added. "No one has ever I have found the breeding ground of shark lizards. There are several times in history that they have become extinct, but after a few decades, this kind of beast will reappear in the world. A reasonable guess is that their hometown is in the lower level. A certain corner of the plane is occasionally sent to the main material plane for unknown reasons to be a disaster."

"Sounds terrible." Lancelot frowned, "Kararin, I remember you said you prepared a magic called 'Growing Giant', and then tell me about the effect of this spell in detail."

"This is a 2nd level spell that doubles the subject's height and eight times its weight. Your strength increases with the increase in size, but your agility decreases as your size changes. You Your equipment will grow in size under the influence of this spell, but will immediately return to its original size once it leaves your grasp."

"How long does this spell last?" Lancelot pressed for important details.

"With my current strength, it can last for about 8 minutes." Karalin looked a little hesitant, "Are you sure you will rely on this to deal with the shark lizard?"

"At least it can buy you time to escape." Lancelot said to everyone with a serious face. "From now on, keep the Scroll of Enlargement where you can take it out at any time. Once I'm entangled in it, you have to quickly move away from it. If you find that something is wrong, run quickly, and you can run one by one."

"The dwarves will never leave their companions behind!" Pluto roared angrily.

"But that's the most reasonable choice." Lancelot tried to convince Pluto, "If everyone dies here, who will avenge me in the future?"

"If you dare to die, I will never take revenge for you!" Pluto became even more angry, "Listen to human beings, I know you are well-intentioned, but this kind of request is an absolute humiliation to the dwarves, so please don't Moreover!"

Lancelot turned his eyes to Barende for help, but the old dwarf just looked at Pluto with complicated eyes, full of worry, but more proud.

"He's right," Barende said to Lancelot. "We lost our most cherished honor during our time of enslavement. I assure you, this will never happen again. , don't hold us back even in death."

Lancelot could be said to have seen the notorious stubbornness of the dwarves, and he had to look at the last teammate.Karalin shrugged at him and said simply: "The caster is standing far away, so don't rush to run after the fight."

"Okay." The human knight finally gave in. "If that monster really dares to come, we'll tear it apart together."

"That's right." Pluto nodded in satisfaction.

Lancelot could only helplessly shrug.They stopped the quarrel and continued to search the ground for more clues.

"Look here." He soon found out, "There are some footprints here, probably left by survivors."

After confirming that there were no more clues, the group began to follow the trail.

They soon found themselves back in the main alleyway, and those footprints extended intermittently into the depths. Barend guessed that the group of gray dwarves was probably divided into two teams, and the survivors of the attack were likely to want to go. Join another team.

Just when the footprints were about to become unrecognizable, they got a new clue.

It was the two dwarves who first noticed the faint sound of the pickaxe hitting the rock, and at their prompt, Lancelot also heard the sound.

"Could this be some kind of trap?" Lancelot asked cautiously.

"It can't be ruled out that many monsters have a trick to attract victims with their voices." Karalin replied, "but usually it's beautiful singing, or demagogic whispers, I haven't heard of one that uses a pickaxe. Sound can lure some prey."

"Just be careful."

Everyone had no objection to this, they followed the sound and proceeded cautiously, and Barend noticed that they were heading for the No.16 working face.

But when they approached the No.16 working face, the voice became hazy again.Everyone was puzzled by this and decided to go there directly to find out.

Their questions were quickly answered.The roadway leading to the No.16 working face was blocked by some kind of almost transparent glue. If it wasn't for a corroded gray dwarf corpse in mid-air with its skeleton exposed, they would probably have walked into it.

Lancelot looked at this strange phenomenon in amazement, and these strange existences surprised him even more than demons.In front of this mass of glue, the sound of the pickaxe hitting the stone became extremely dull, but it was not difficult to understand that the sound came from behind the mass of glue.

"Is this... a mud monster?" Although his martial skills were stronger than everyone present, his understanding of various monsters was really ignorant.

"This is the stronger one of the mud monsters, the gum block." Barende frowned and looked at the monster in his way. "If the gray dwarves didn't bring a few buckets of strong alkali, this guy would be enough to block their escape. I guess the guys inside are desperately trying to dig another way out, and even if we leave it alone, they It's almost a success."

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(End of this chapter)