Shadow Covenant

Chapter 87 "Secret Door"

Apart from eating, the greatest joy of a magical creature like a shark lizard is mating.

However, most males are unwilling to take the initiative to go out to find another female, unless they meet them occasionally when changing territories, otherwise, they would rather stay in one place until the next cycle.

That's why Woody, in a way, sees them as no different from home nerds.

"Don't move around, this is the liquid secreted by the shark-lizard beast. It acts as an aphrodisiac. The gray dwarves and underground drows occasionally use it to make drugs."

While exhorting, Woody headed towards another location with fewer stones.

Generally speaking, the shark lizard beast will pile up the sundries and things that are not needed in the corner. According to past experience, Woody avoided the pile of rocks, and then started from an area with the least amount of rocks. where to start searching.

Soon, he found a pile of debris piled up into a hill.

Woody stepped forward to search without saying a word.

Worn furs...broken wooden frames...oh and fishing nets...what's this?
Woody touched a piece of stick-shaped object that was cold to the touch, rather heavy and thick, which was a little strange.

But soon it was no longer strange, and when the rag was lifted, he stuffed the stick back into the pile of scattered humanoid skeletons.

A bone of who knows.

Woody was even weirder.

Because skeletons are very normal in the lair of powerful monsters, but very abnormal in the lair of shark lizards.

Because the shark lizard will eat everything that can be eaten, just like human bones are to it, just like humans eat French fries.

What's more, it doesn't have the habit of spitting out bones after eating.

However, the size and thickness of the stick, as well as the aura of spiritual feedback from it, made him think of a possibility, that is, these are not human bones.

Instead, they are gray dwarves who live underground and were tortured by mind flayers to give birth to psychic powers...

Because there are two kinds of meat that the shark lizard does not eat, one is elves, and the other is dwarves.

The former is said to be because the mysterious mage who created the shark lizard beast added the magic of elves to it, and the latter is because the breath emitted by the dwarves' flesh seems to be similar to their excrement...

Looks like a bad luck...

It stands to reason that dwarves, especially gray dwarves, have far more experience in dealing with shark lizards than humans. After all, they have dealt with this kind of monsters parading in the stratum all year round. Some gray dwarf mines even take the initiative to raise and imprison a shark. Lizard beasts, in order to avoid other shark lizard beasts straying into their mines.

But as Woody continued to search, he found that the number of unlucky ones might be a bit too much...

Counting carefully, there are as many as seven or eight. It stands to reason that let alone the shark lizard kill them, it is not impossible for the explosive hammer shark lizard to be the other way around.

After all, dwarves are natural fighters and blacksmiths. For them, extraordinary strength and physique are not difficult to achieve. Dwarves born after bathing in the grace of Moradin can even reach 20 points in both physique and strength without exercising after adulthood. above.

What's more, the gray dwarves used to be the slaves of the mind flayers, and under the gift of their former masters, they turned into new psionic races. Their inborn giant enlargement and invisibility skills can almost allow them to deal with most of the common encounters underground.

This is impossible!
And if there is a gray dwarf tribe, it is impossible for the shark lizard to be so rampant, unless... the gray dwarf tribe is gone.

Although Woody had never heard of any underground ruins nearby in Palermo in his last life, there are only ashes and ruins in this place...

But every time he thinks of the underground, the figure of the drow priest will subconsciously flash across.

The relationship between the drow and the gray dwarves is not so harmonious. The underground resources are far less scarce than the surface. In a dark area, it is common for the two to fight each other.

If the new drow wiped out the duergar tribes, it would all work out.

Fleeing away as the defeated, and finally encountered the underground predator "Shark Lizard" who had been watching for a long time when he was exhausted, the ending was obvious.

Woody rummaged through the trash with a heavy heart.

If it was what he thought, and the drow was so powerful that it could completely wipe out a tribe that originally occupied the ground, then the power behind it must be more than that on the surface.

The only good thing is that I have escaped the sight of the drow elves, and now I just need to follow the steps and leave Palermo with my aunt Verando and the others.

As for Angelina, she can continue to stay here. Judging from her previous life, those drows should target the aristocratic class in various cities, so the turmoil in the upper class should not be a big problem with the lower class.

However, when the time comes, ask her if she can go.

Woody put aside distracting thoughts and continued to search.

However, the pile of debris has been turned upside down by Woody, and he found that this shark lizard really left a pile of debris, none of which is useful, and there is no equipment of any value.

But yes, as a magical beast, the shark lizard beast has a keen insight to identify magical objects. Even if it hates the gray dwarf and the smell on his body, it will not leave such a precious magical object there.

"Come and see!"

At this moment, Angelina's shout came from Woody's ear.

He followed the prestige, and found that the monk girl had walked to the other end opposite her at some point.

"what?"

Woody patted the dust sticking to his body, got up and walked over, only to find that Angelina was pointing at a wall and asked curiously.

"It looks like there was a pattern on it before, and there seems to be a statue here before."

He looked over and found that there were traces of unworn reliefs on the other round and smooth walls, which were similar to the rotten mother tree relief in the basement of the manor, but this relief was much smaller than that.

It is barely recognizable as a person, but its appearance has been corroded, but Woody can still recognize which god it belongs to from the broken arrow emblem that has not been worn away on his chest.

God of the duergar, "Dulag" the protector of the wandering dwarves

It was also He who freed the gray dwarves from the control of the mind flayers and regained their freedom.

And the base of the statue was originally written with such a line of words in underground language and dwarf language.

"Please protect the lord of all gray dwarves, the asylum walker in the wilderness, please bless the people in the gray rock—"Torik Dunbar"

It should look like a place of worship for the duergar.

Woody intends to step forward to observe, feel around, and see if he can find some clues.

But as Woody groped, he found a bump.

Woody was slightly startled, but then he thought, if it was really a trap, he would probably have been scolded by the shark and lizard, so he pressed it directly, followed by a click.

The sound of the door opening came from behind...

(End of this chapter)