Chapter 675

There is no exit on the rock wall of the cave, and there is no light source. Apart from the teleportation array engraved on the ground, there is nothing else in the cave with a diameter of about ten meters, and it seems to be completely enclosed.

The teammates judged from the weak air flow that there must be a hidden exit.

Before they could look, Raistlin's mirror image pointed to the wall in front of him. Everyone looked carefully and found a half-meter-long crack on the wall in the dark. It was so narrow that even a finger could not be inserted in. The air was blown out of the crack, which obviously led to the outside.

"The exit is behind the wall?" Barack asked.

"There is no exit." Raistlin replied, "This cave was excavated by Kwesasen, and the five-meter-thick stone wall can only be passed through with magic."

While speaking, he opened a random door.

Everyone passed through the door and found themselves in a very ordinary cave with a stone wall behind it, and the teleportation array was arranged inside the stone wall.

Such a hidden location, even the most sensitive person can't find it.

This made the teammates once again lament the superb method of the caster.

Izzet explored the way ahead, and after many detours, he found the exit of the cave and entered another larger cave. Looking at the vast underground forest in front of him, the dark elf showed joy, "I've been here before, it's just to the east of Menzoberranzan City, not far away."

The teammates are all refreshed.

Perhaps the most dangerous place in the Underdark, Menzoberranzan is not to be taken lightly.

"follow me."

Izzet continued to lead the way to the forest, and at the same time reminded in a low voice: "This road is one of the trade routes to the east of Menzoberranzan, and it is very likely that you will encounter underground caravans, as well as Zhuo who come out of the city to patrol. Ernest cavalry, they are very hostile to outsiders on the surface, and they will capture slaves once found, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, we'd better avoid it in advance."

Everyone nodded to express their understanding.

Given their strength, they naturally wouldn't be afraid to fight the drow, but they just didn't want to disturb the ruler of Menzoberranzan for the convenience of doing things in the future.

The team quickly entered the forest, and there was a road opened in the middle, which was more than ten meters wide, and the ground was flat. Luminous moss was planted on the side of the road, which was obviously maintained by people.

"This is the Darkmoor Forest, which belongs to the territory of Menzoberranzan City."

Izzet identified the direction while talking, and then headed west.

After passing through the Mirkmarsh Forest, enter the other caves through a very wide tunnel.

The areas of several consecutive caves are very large, and the environment and resources are much better than those in the upper layer of the Underdark. They are either covered with forests, or there are abundant water flows in them, and a large piece of fertile and flat land where mushrooms and other food can be grown. Those dangerous Subterranean life is also cleared away, and there is little danger.

If it weren't for the dim light around and the oppressive "sky" above, this area would look no different from the surface.

Raistlin and the others were all stunned.

It is precisely because of the richness of this area that the dark elves occupy it as a territory and build the largest city in the Underdark, bar none.

Izzet said that he has wandered and lived in the Underdark for hundreds of years, and he has never seen a better place than the surroundings of Menzoberranzan. There are more than a dozen cities of dark elves in the entire Underdark, and about ten cities of gray dwarves, as well as cities of hidden illithids, aboleths, or other races, regardless of population, resources, and geographical environment. In terms of respect, it is not as good as Menzoberranzan.

The cities of the dark elves are independent, which is a typical city-state system. If a huge drow kingdom can be formed, Menzoberranzan is definitely the capital of the kingdom!

But it's almost impossible.

Various drow cities often break out wars to rob resources, wealth, and slaves. The hatred between each other is stronger than the hatred of foreign races, just like the enemy of life and death.

After a group of people passed through several caves, they gradually saw a figure.

Raistlin opened the cloaking force field just in time, allowing his teammates to come closer.

After approaching, everyone saw many slaves working on the land beside the road, planting mushrooms, weeding, and irrigating. There were also slaves digging mines and digging holes. The slaves were of various races, night goblins, duergar, stoneblind, cavemen, kuo-toa, and duergar.

Raistlin also saw humans, orcs, and netifers, and even surface elves.

Surrounding each group of slaves were dark elf overseers, most of whom were drow warriors. They yelled at the slaves and beat them with black snake-headed whips, leaving bloody whip marks on the slaves. The screams of the slaves made the overseers laugh heartily, and seemed to enjoy this painful wail very much.

Not so pleasant to the ears of the Raistlin Five.

Daensos looked sharp, and raised the mace.

"Leave them alone."

Izzet resisted the wildling priest's urge to attack, and said in a low voice: "Most drow are followers of the Spider Queen. They use this method to please the Spider Goddess, but they will not be fatal to slaves. In Menzoberranzan, slaves are the most Valuable treasure, if a slave is killed by mistake, they will be severely punished."

Athena looked away. "No wonder you left Menzoberranzan."

"I didn't leave, I escaped." Izzet was depressed, "The dark elves have a strict social hierarchy, and the spider queen's belief is like an invisible web, which binds every drow and pulls us a little bit." Sinking into the darkness, only a few lucky ones can escape from the clutches."

Barack sighed, stepped up two quick steps and patted his shoulder as a gesture of comfort to his friend.

The dark elf returned a grateful look.

Suddenly, Raistlin looked ahead of the road, and Izzet was only half a second later, looking in the direction of Menzoberranzan.

"There are cavalry coming," Raistlin said.

"It's the Gray Lizard Cavalry." Izzet listened carefully for a few seconds before confirming, "About twenty of them, they are Menzoberranzan's patrol."

Raistlin stepped back to the side of the road to focus on maintaining the cloaking field, enveloping his teammates.

Soon, the ground shook slightly, and a group of cavalry came running along the road. There were twenty huge lizards about five meters in length. Their skin and scales were like gray rocks, their limbs were flexible, and they dragged a thick tail. , running close to the ground, the speed is quite fast.

These gray lizards are creatures unique to the Underdark. Raistlin and the others encountered a few nests when they were in the upper floors, and they were easily wiped out.

The eyes of the soul saw that the group of gray lizards were all middle-level monsters, and they were completely tamed.

Each gray lizard carried a dark elf on its back, wearing tight leather armor, with a long sword or scimitar hanging from its waist, and carrying a bow and arrow on its back. It was the most common drow warrior costume.

More than half of the twenty gray lizard cavalry are women, which is not common on the surface.

Dark elves are a matriarchal society, and female drow have absolute dominance. They occupy occupations such as mages, priests, and patriarchs. The higher the class, the higher the proportion of women. Male drow are just servants or playthings of women. Unless they are extremely talented, men are not allowed to learn spells. Even if they have great strength, they can only serve women, and their status is slightly higher than that of lowly slaves.

Half a minute later, the gray lizard cavalry had arrived in front of them.

The leader is a high-ranking female drow warrior, with dark skin and a curvy figure, but she can't hide the cruel aura exuding from all over her body. Her eyes are like poisonous snakes, making the male drows around her subconsciously stay away and dare not meet her gaze.

The slaves working in the distance didn't even dare to look at them, and the overseers also restrained their arrogance.

Raistlin saw the flame of faith in her soul, burning like a torch, filled with blood, darkness and evil, and the negative aura was comparable to the devil of the abyss.

She is the priestess of Rose, the Spider Goddess.

In the history of Ellenus, more than 10,000 years ago, as a member of the elf gods, and even the wife of the elf ruler "Asu Ruilong", she was expelled from Austria because of the betrayal of Asu Ruilong. Rose, the spider queen of Roan, has become cruel, evil, and capricious since then, and even directly turned to the evil god of the abyss at the end of the third era to help destroy the kingdom of elves on the New World, so as to avenge the elves and gods, becoming the most powerful person in the world. One of the notorious evil gods.

The dark elves are so hostile to the surface races, and the notoriety of Spider Queen Rose is a large part of the reason.

In the eyes of many people, dark elves are almost the same as demons.

Being able to climb to the position of high priest in Rose Church, this female drow will naturally not be a kind person, but she has not reached the legend, so she can't find the enemy hidden by the roadside.

Raistlin's cloaking force field was hard to detect, even for legends.

The gray lizard cavalry left without a trace.

Everyone returned to the road and continued to move forward. They got closer and closer to Menzoberranzan, encountered dark elves more and more times, and saw two underground caravans.

Through the voice of all things, Raistlin sensed them from a great distance and avoided them easily.

Finally, half a day later, they walked through a tunnel tens of meters wide, walked out of the cave entrance, and entered a huge cave that had never been seen before. Raistlin and the others stood on the edge of the cave, and his eyesight had to work very hard to see through the dim light to see the opposite side of the cave, which was at least five kilometers away, and the highest point was nearly one kilometer from the ground.

A bustling underground city was built in this huge cavern.

Menzoberranzan has arrived!

There are many rock pillars in the city supporting the dome, connecting the ground and the sky, the most conspicuous of which is the stone pillar in the center of the cave, with countless runes engraved on the surface, forming a magic circle, emitting red flame light outwards, illuminating Light up the whole city.

As Izzet has introduced before, this is the Nabondel Hour Pillar.

The underground world is always dark, without seasons and day and night changes, so the archmage of Menzoberranzan set up a runic circle on the central stone pillar, which is used not only for lighting, but also to indicate the passage of time in a day through the change of flame temperature.

When the flame is completely extinguished, it represents the entry into the night.

Until it burns again and lights up, it means daybreak, and when the flame is at its highest temperature and brightness is the highest, it is noon in the day.

At this moment, the flames of the Hour Pillar are slowly weakening, and the brightness is also decreasing, indicating that it is afternoon in Menzoberranzan City.

Under the red light of the hour pillar, the whole city can be seen clearly.

Most of the area in the cave is flat, and most of the buildings are built of rocks, mainly in black tones, and the overall style is dark and cold. Most of the statues dotted around the city are in the form of spiders, and the flames of the hour pillars dye them. On a layer of blood.

The highest point in the city is located in the north, where there is a huge boulder with a height of 100 meters, shaped like a hill, and stone steps have been dug from the foot of the hill to reach the open hilltop step by step.

On the top of the mountain, there is a temple in the shape of a spider.

Raistlin didn't look at it much. This temple was the most important place for Lolth the Spider Queen in the mortal world, and it was also the core holy place of Lolth's church. Try not to get close to it, even if you take a few more glances.

On the left of the Spider Temple is the Mage Academy, and on the right is a black stone tower less than 100 meters high.

That's the Fighting Tower, where drow males learn the art of fighting.

Izzet said that his childhood was spent in the Fighting Tower, where he left painful memories that he would never forget for a lifetime.

There is a tall city wall built around Menzoberranzan, and there is an open area hundreds of meters wide between the city wall and the cave wall, surrounded by hundreds of tunnels, leading to different areas. At almost every hour, patrols or caravans came in and out of the tunnels, circled under the walls to the gates, and entered the city.

Raistlin and the others are located in the east, and there is a large lake not far from the city.

"I'll go in first."

According to the previous plan, Izzet went into the city alone to find a suitable foothold, and then Raistlin opened the portal through the transmission coordinates and went directly to the city.

Otherwise, if these alien races enter Menzoberranzan, they will definitely attract attention.

Menzoberranzan is different from the weak kuo-toa murlocs. According to Izzet, there are at least four holy-level powerhouses in the city, including two archmages. In addition, the Spider Temple is even more unfathomable. Rose, the Queen of the Spiders, often responds to the priest's call and descends her avatar.

Although the whole team is legendary high-level and there is a holy-rank demon hunter, but if the identity is exposed and the holy-rank powerhouses of Menzoberranzan are attracted to chase and kill them, they will lose their skin if they don't die.

Raistlin didn't want to take any chances either.

If it wasn't for Izzet who wanted to enter the city to contact his tribe, they would have walked around under the city wall without disturbing the dark elves in the city at all.

Izzet put away the green war blade, restrained his evil energy, and changed into a drow warrior's equipment, with two scimitars hanging from his waist, and adjusted his facial features to disguise himself as a high-ranking drow warrior.

Ready, he slipped out of his invisible force form and dived into the shadows, revealing himself in a tunnel not far away.

Then go to the gates of Menzoberranzan.

The teammates watched as Izzet swaggered in front of the drow guards, with a high-spirited face, just like those arrogant and mean drow warriors, with an aristocratic demeanor. The city gate guards didn't dare to stop him at all, and let him go in.

The detection array arranged in the gate opening of the city wall is also normal.

The teammates breathed a sigh of relief.

If Izzet shows his feet, then everyone can only run away before Menzoberranzan's holy-rank powerhouse arrives.

After waiting outside the city for more than two hours, Raistlin received a message from Izzet, so he opened the portal under the cover of magic, and the whole team walked in.