V3.Chapter 72

dark. ◎

This is the strongest feeling anyone who enters the Underdark from the surface world.

The entire narrow passage was dark, the ground was a little slippery due to the water, and there were a lot of dark cyan moss growing on the walls on both sides. Sauron's night vision ability can easily see around, but the little loli behind him is a little troublesome. The eyesight of giant dragons is far stronger than that of humans, but the effect on the dark environment is very limited. At most, they can reach the level of 'dim vision', and it is very inconvenient to move in this complete darkness.

The Underdark isn't completely dark.

In fact, the vast majority of the entire Underdark is in a state of 'low-light'.

Because there will be more or less light diffusion, it may be a fluorescent plant that emits light, or it may be from other light. The difference in the specific situation can be understood as the night when there are dark clouds and no moon and no stars. In this case, the visible range of humans is reduced to less than three meters. This is the case in many places in the Underdark, so adventurers from the ground must prepare torches or find some supernatural item that grants night vision.

This is not difficult for wizards, and ordinary night vision helmets cost about 3000-5000 Kindlers.

Those who are capable of going on an adventure in the Underdark won't be short of that!

"Oh! It's so dark!"

Little Lolita lay on Sauron's back, put her little head close to his ear, and whispered, "Isn't it underground yet? Can I keep a light spell!"

Illumination?

Are you planning to be a target in the Underdark?

"No!" Sauron refused without hesitation, and said solemnly: "About 1,000 meters down, there will be fluorescent moss, and then you will be able to see things clearly."

light source.

In the dark area, the light source is a living target. Sauron knows too much how much trouble igniting a light source will cause.

Direclaws, giant lizards, mind flayers, and more.

The creatures in these dark areas are very sensitive to light sources, and rashly using the light spell is equivalent to opening the 'monster spawning mode' that the adventurers jokingly called.

As he gradually penetrated into the underground world, some stalactites began to appear on the top of Sauron's head.

Not knowing where there is a groundwater source nearby, ticking can be heard. Any place close to the water source in the Underdark is a battle trigger area, and monsters living underground are bound to be encountered nearby.

"Hmm! There seems to be a swamp nearby!"

Little Lolita was lying on Sauron's shoulder, as if she didn't like it a little, she wrinkled Xiaoqiong's nose and said, "I can feel the wet breath and a rotten smell from far away. No wonder those ugly and dirty Dirty black dragons like to stay underground."

Underground swamp.

Basically, where there are swamps in the Underdark, there will be obvious light sources.

as predicted!

Light began to appear in Sauron's line of sight. It was dark cyan moss with faint fluorescence, a mutant plant that was very common in the dark region, and the other was a special mushroom in the dark region. The vitality of these two plants is quite tenacious. It can even grow near volcanoes, Sauron has seen fiery red moss near a volcano in the underground world. The ground became a little wet, Sauron gently put the little loli down, and then made a silent gesture.

Underground swamps, basically such terrains are prone to a creature.

——"The Swamp Bearman!"

To put it simply, they are a mutant human being infected with a virus, belonging to a branch of lycanthropy, for some unknowable reason. After being bitten by other lycanthropes, or born with lycanthropy symptoms, he finally has the ability to transform into a beast form or a lycanthrope form in battle. The Lulumiao brought back by Sauron is the 'cat man' in the lycanthrope branch. Looking at Lulumiao's talent, you should understand how the lycanthrope's combat effectiveness is. The vast majority of adult lycanthropes have a natural level between 5-8.

About the lycanthrope.

Sauron should be most aware of werewolves, tigers and bears. Among them, werewolves infected with the lycanthropy virus are the most common, and they can also be encountered occasionally in the surface world. The rarer ones are the Kagura and the Bearman, most of whom live in very rare areas. As for cat people like Lulumiao, they are basically close to the brink of extinction. Needless to say, werewolves and werewolves have a natural Strength modifier of +16. That is to say, as long as they transform their strength value, they will directly increase by 16 points. (Note: The strength of the bears in the Underdark fluctuates between 27-36. In human form, the strength is not much different from that of ordinary people, most of which are between 9-14.)

Even just adult bearmen, their transformed strength is higher than that of a strong brown bear!

Huge footprints began to appear on the ground.

The size of these mutant bears is similar to that of brown bears. These mutant bears are between humans and beasts. The lycanthropy virus has affected their intelligence, so that the IQ of bears is not much different from that of savages. Most of them live in a tribal way. There are rumors that the bear man was the failed product of a Druid transformation research experiment in a glorious arcane period, which eventually led to the emergence of the animalization disease, but unfortunately no one can confirm it. (Remarks: The animalization disease appeared earlier than the Arcane Empire, and the Arcane Empire also conducted research in this area.)

If you think about how you met Lulumiao at the first time, you can understand what kind of creatures these bears are.

She was wild and untamed at the time!

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"I'll go check the situation."

Sauron glanced at the little Loli behind him and said softly, "Maybe we can find a guide from the bear man's territory. They like to capture other creatures as slaves and reserve food."

sneak.

Sauron's figure disappeared into the shadows. In the dark area, he seemed to be in the water and could enter the stealth state at any time.

There are many footprints on the ground.

Sauron initially judged that there were 3-6 bearmen living here, and even the patrolling drow guards would not provoke them easily.

Swamp terrain is a bit of a hassle.

Fortunately, Sauron still had spells, and as he gradually sneaked in, he soon saw a shabby and shabby shack.

and a huge cage.

There are obvious skeletons on the ground, which can be initially classified as creatures from drow elves, gray dwarves and dwarves. The existence of bonfires cannot be seen, which means that the bears in front of them belong to the most primitive blood-drinking level, and there is absolutely no way to do it. kind of communication. The lycanthropy disease may completely destroy the brain and turn it into a beast, and some may even be unable to master the ability to transform back into a human in a lifetime. There are very few lycanthropes in the entire dark region that can possess civilization and wisdom.

From this point of view, Lulumiao is a very smart one among the beastmen! (Strong combat power, and low IQ, it seems more like preparing for war.)

There are some creatures in the cage.

Sauron saw a wounded mutant bear goblin, a dying gray dwarf, and a dead Dreadclaw.

All are tough creatures.

But to bearmen infected with lycanthropy, they are all just food.

boom.

There were heavy footsteps.

In Sauron's field of vision, a huge monster weighing more than 1,500 pounds appeared. It looked like a brown bear walking upright. Its head was like a giant bear, but its body had a part of the outline of a human being. The werewolf is very similar. From any point of view, their bloodline level is a lot lower than that of Lulu Meow, which also means that they are more primitive, wild and threatening.

"A bear man who won't turn back into a human!"

Sauron judged the enemy's state at a glance, because after the other party returned to his own territory, his nose wiggled and sniffed everywhere, as if he had smelled something.

Wild Intuition!

In front of them are the lowest, most brutal, vicious, and inhumane beasts. They can't be regarded as intelligent creatures at all, they can only be regarded as beasts that walk upright.

"Bearman [Beastman] (Tier 3)."

"Challenge level 10, creature level 12+, with the ability to transform."

"The highest attribute is 36 points, the lowest attribute is 9 points, and the total attribute value is 85-100 points."

"Special feats: Strength, Power Attack, Power Slam, Rend, Claw, Roar, Shapeshift, Rage, Bloodlust, Charge, Wild Intuition."

"Challenge difficulty: s+."

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Most of the bearmen are around the third-order creatures, but if you measure them according to the ordinary third-order enemies, then they are basically looking for death.

Because their challenge difficulty in Tier 3 is 's+'! (Note: A team of adventurers with a fully armed professional level around 10 has less than a one-tenth chance of defeating it by exhausting all items.)

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