Chapter 199: Ruins
The sword flashed, like a stone fire spring thunder, and even the atmosphere was frozen.
The explosion in the air sounded violently, and the wonderful slash that was enough to be included in the textbook did not stop even for a second, but one move after another, and the tip of the knife took advantage of the situation to provoke a gorgeous crescent moon slash!
One by one, the deformed and strange heads flew up, and the monsters with clumsy bodies and hateful faces turned into headless corpses one after another, or were cut into upper and lower parts by the waist, and fell to the ground, and a large amount of blood gushed out from the wounds without money......
Short centipedes are extremely aggressive crustacean venomous insects, each the size of an adult wolfdog, extremely fast and disgusting to watch, with sharp mouthparts and venom that are quite deadly, and they come up in the darkness like an endless tide.
However, it was still directly cut in half before the energy slash from the blade was swung, or it was directly dismembered, and it was torn to pieces, leaving only chelicerae limbs, broken carapaces, and viscous and disgusting body fluids......
The smell of blood and other strange smells permeated the dark underground space, and it became more and more intense.
These monsters are not completely unarmed, although most of them are bare-handed, but some of them are armed with rudimentary bows and arrows or hand axes, and wear leather armor that is horribly made.
Not the disgusting centipede-like crustacean insects, of course, but the clumsy humanoids, which are essentially degenerate snow elves, a race once thought to have gone extinct under the hunt of the Nords.
In fact, they have always been hidden deep underground, because they were betrayed, framed, and enslaved by the dwarves, and finally their original splendid civilization was degraded. And because they adapted to the dark underground environment, they evolved into a violent, cruel, primitive, and bloody race.
It is said that the snow elves, like the dragons, are legendary species, originally one of the elves of the ancient ancestors who migrated to the snowy sky, and were called snow elves because of their tall stature and white skin.
They were supposed to get along with the ancient humans who had also migrated to the sky, but perhaps fearful of the rapid development of humanity, or perhaps because of the innate confrontation between dragons and snakes, they launched a massacre known as the "Night of Tears".
Karma cycles and retribution are unhappy, and the surviving ancient pioneer Isgramo leads a group of super macho men back to counterattack, and the Snow Prince, the leader of the snow elves, is killed, and this race is finally expelled from Skyrim Province by the ancient Nords at the beginning of the First Age.
Then, the race turned to the dwarves for help, and the dwarves graciously agreed to shelter them, giving them a chance to continue to survive -
On the surface, it seems that this is the case, but in fact, the dwarves have maliciously forced their entire clan to use poisonous mushrooms, causing them to gradually lose their eyesight and gradually become mentally retarded.
And in order to ensure that these traits penetrate deep into the snow elf population, so that their offspring can inherit these degraded genes and better breed them as livestock slaves, the dwarves have elevated their plan to enslave the snow elves to the general priority of daily diet.
Of course, the cruel treatment and living conditions have resulted in rickety bodies, degraded blindness, wrinkled skin, low intelligence, and violent personalities. The snow elves were forcibly degraded physically and mentally, and they began to retreat deeper into the ground......
In the end, a civilized race, both in terms of etiquette and cultural education, has been completely lost because of centuries of caveing, and has become a monster with a crickety body and an abominable face, driven by the dwarves as slaves.
Until I don't know when it started, after the dwarf clan was suspected of being a god-making plan failure, the clan died violently, and the entire world evaporated, and the snow elves began to occupy the underground dwarf ruins. They breed the poisonous insect Charus, eat Charus eggs, craft armor and poison weapons from Charus's and toxins, and begin to attack and plunder all beings on the ground in a frenzy.
Xia Ran didn't expect to meet this poor race at this time, but he didn't relent.
Compared to the explosive, amazingly powerful, and powerful destruction spells, his killing at the moment was more like an art of showing off his skills, but it was also extremely efficient and fast, and a set of air blades could harvest an unknown number of human heads in a big whirlwind.
And the range is not bad, as long as the magic power that is deeply infused into it overflows, it can turn into a huge blade, and by swinging and casting a smooth slash of light, it can easily slash nearly 100 meters away.
Whether it is a snow elf with a rickety body and an abominable face, or a poisonous insect as disgusting as a short centipede, it will be cut in two and die in pieces.
They were like the tide of the ocean coming from the depths of darkness, but Xia Ran's slaughter speed and killing efficiency were faster than the number of them refreshed.
In addition, the power of this energy slash is extremely compressed, almost condensed into a straight line, and there is no large-scale explosion and splash damage, not only will it not be wasted, but it will not cause too much movement or terrain change.
If you switch spells, so many monsters are a little troublesome, if the spell power is small, it will definitely not be able to sweep away, and if the spell power is too great, I am afraid that it will cause the mountain rocks above to collapse and press down directly.
Reality is not a game, and it doesn't say that skills that are supposed to destroy the world can't even smash the floor of the battle scene when released, because the engine doesn't support environmental physical destruction......
Moreover, the Ebony Blade not only gives Xia Ran extremely powerful melee ability, because of its characteristics, when using this knife, the consumption is very small, and it can completely achieve the battle with battle-
As soon as he consumed his mana, he slashed out a huge light slash, and with a swing of the knife, all the mana was sucked back, and he was even able to have excess energy feedback to strengthen himself...... Although he didn't notice any of his stats increase for the time being, the spatial annotation was always correct.
And just like that, the efficient and swift slaughter continued, the blade of the sword as if it had set off a storm of killing, the lines of destruction slicing through the air in a criss-cross manner, mercilessly dividing everything that stood in its way......
As a result, bodily fluids of various colors splashed into the air, and all kinds of fragmented limb tissues were scattered all over the ground, and the corpses of snow elves or the carapace arthropods of the Charus poisonous insects were soon piled up all around, and more and more ......
In the end, I don't know if they were afraid, afraid to retreat, or completely slaughtered, when Xia Ran stopped, nothing surged out of the darkness in the distance.
The drooping ebony blade had liquid dripping, and it was impossible to see what color it was due to the dim light.
Xia Ran whispered softly, and then with the help of the effect of aura whispering, he made sure that there were no more enemies nearby, so he swung his sword to shake his blood and put away the demon blade. A white space message rang a while ago, telling him that he had gained 3 free attribute points.
Two of them are earned by the regular amount, and the remaining one is earned in addition to the Ebony Blade's energy-absorbing effect.
It seems that the wool of the space is really gathered? Does this mean that the essence of the lives killed by the lost through the rules of space is at least as high as 30% or more?
But does it really allow wool? Will it settle accounts after the fall, or is there something else hidden?
Xia Ran didn't have time to think too much, although those snow elves and Charus poisonous insects had disappeared, but in a certain direction ahead, there seemed to be something coming over, but there was no breath of life.
But it doesn't look like an undead, in the map model reconstructed by the breath feedback information, Xia Ran roughly confirmed what they were-
It was all kinds of strange mechanical golems, the models were not consistent, large and small, even if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, the modeling of the breath feedback alone was enough for him to understand a lot of details, and he was sure that this was an extremely sophisticated dwarven machine.
But think about it, a place where there are a lot of snow elves often means that there are dwarven underground ruins nearby.
Many people may have some preconceived notions about this race because of the term "dwarf".
In fact, they are not short at all, because they are also a branch of the elves called the deep elves, which are called "forging mo" in the elven language, and the dwarves are said to have been handed down by giants.
They are the most mysterious race on the entire continent, with advanced culture and advanced technology, and they make good use of steam, machinery, and geothermal heat, and combine technology with magic......
Although they have evaporated from the human race, the dwarven machines they have created are still operating in the underground ruins, and they are very powerful.
Xia Ran still pressed his right hand on the hilt of the sword, crossed the battlefield just now, and walked forward spotlessly, if it weren't for the magician outfit with a magic robe and hood, he really looked like a personable swordsman.
He was interested in dwarven machines, and wanted to take the opportunity to see them.
A passage appeared in front of him, but unlike before, although it was pitch black and there was no light, Xia Ran could clearly see that this was obviously a passage for a man-made building, and it was very spacious.
The magician stepped into it without paying attention, and at a glance saw large neatly paved floor tiles under his feet, and on the walls and ceilings on both sides, there were thick brass pipes that stretched out into the distance, like modern pipes for water or gas......
He looked up and looked back, only to see that the other end of these brass pipes had submerged into the mountain, and he didn't know where it had penetrated, and the metal was still emitting the heat from the high temperature inside.
If ordinary people dare to reach out and touch it, it is estimated that they will be able to scald their skin and flesh directly. Ahead of the passage, there were probably some broken pipes, and steaming hot steam was spewing out, sizzling in the darkness.
With the sound of rapid and dense tapping, several small spider-like figures shot out of the darkness, showing amazing jumping ability, like face-hugging insects that broke out of their shells and flew towards Xia Ran's face.
The lightning-fast knife drawing technique was once again sharp, and in the crisp sound, the precision metal parts were scattered all over the ground, and several dwarven spiders were directly scrapped.
Xia Ran took advantage of the situation to put the knife into the sheath and squinted his eyes and looked ahead...... There is an even more terrifying approach.
Accompanied by the dull sound of footsteps, the silhouette of a massive mechanical golem equipped with a giant warhammer on its other arm gradually emerged from the steam-obscured passage......