Chapter 316: The Three Separated (2)
Let's take a moment back and look at Elph. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
This road idiot tree elf has been in a state of self-blame since he and Ann Yizhi John separated, although they know that Elph is a road idiot who is not divided between left and right, but in the eyes of outsiders, Elph is more like a coward who abandoned his teammates and escaped alone.
Nothing saddened a determined dryad more than that, so she quickly chased in the direction of the Demon Hunter.
However, the speed of the demon hunting spider is very fast, and the maze is intricate, and it will change its route from time to time, and Elph quickly discovers......
- I'm so lost again!
However, as a tree elf, Elf naturally knows a lot of tracking skills, and he follows the clues that have become intermittent due to the movement of the maze, praying in his heart that Ann Yizhi and John will never be fine.
Eventually, she found the corpse of the demon hunting spider, and then she breathed a sigh of relief.
Since the bodies are here, it means that John and Ann have successfully escaped, and now the question is how to find them.
The Demon Hunter died in the cracks of the labyrinth's path, and it looked like it had been crushed, and its flesh and blood flowed everywhere. However, the exoskeleton of the Demon Hunter was very strong, and the rest of it was stuck between the gaps, which seemed to make the maze moving machinery also stuck, leaving a glaring gap between the two modules, and Elph was lying on his stomach and looking into the gap. The elf's dark vision made her see the darkness as day, and inside she saw the marks left by a man who had fallen on the dust, looking like Ann's finger, but there was no trace of John.
She also saw a dark red rope attached to the spider's front paws and a stone pillar below. Recognizing that this was Master Nikolai's unique 'Ranju' item, Elph estimated that Ann's finger was using the huge power to move the maze to crush the demon hunting spider to death in the gap.
Although there is no trace of John, Elph knows that Ann Yizhi will not leave John alone, so she should have escaped with her, but the question is how to meet them?
The gap caused by the corpse of the demon hunting spider is only very narrow, and it is no problem to look inside, but it is probably no fun to think about a big living person.
Elph, who was thinking about how to join the others, suddenly sensed something, the elves' five senses were much sharper than those of humans, she took off her longbow and turned to look in the direction she had come.
"Who is it?!"
But she didn't find anything strange in her elven eyes, only a passageway.
"Am I too careful?"
Confused, she continued on with her longbow.
Right now!
Suddenly, Elph turned around and shot an arrow:
"Magic Arrow: Magic Missile!"
She saw a shadow wriggle out of the shadow of the wall, and the arrows infused with magic missiles hit their targets with precision.
At that moment, she seemed to see what appeared to be a pair of dark red eyes in the shadow that had been hit, but in an instant, the shadow burrowed into the ground along the gap created by the corpse of the demon hunting spider.
It's Shadow Fiend!
Elph recognized the creature, could it be that the demons outside had found it?
She didn't know that this Shadow Demon and the men of the Abyss Triumvirate outside were not all the way......
Shadow Fiend, belonging to the Shadow Order.
I have to speed up!
Elph didn't know about the Shadow Order, she saw the demon appear and thought that the demon outside knew about the Demon Lord's sealing place, if the Shadow Demon came to release the Demon Lord, it meant that Elf didn't have much time to waste.
After a little consideration, she made the same choice as John, for the same reasons, but she was more blind than John.
Don't forget, she's a road idiot......
As for the shadow demon who chased Ann Yizhi down? Elf wasn't worried, she didn't hide it from Ellef when Ann Yizhi took the two-faced staff, she knew that as long as the staff was there, the Shadow Demon was no match for An Yizhi at all, and instead of worrying that the Shadow Demon would attack Ann Yizhi, it was better to think about how to find the Demon Lord's sealing place.
It's easy to set goals, but how to do them is a big question.
Elph didn't do as well as John in this labyrinth, in fact, this girl would be blinded as soon as she left the Misty Forest, let alone such a complex labyrinth.
As she pondered what to do, Elph noticed that the ground seemed to shake.
Could it be that the labyrinth is moving again?
The next moment, the passage she was in really started to move, but because the corpse of the Demon Hunter was still stuck in the gap, it seemed to move very slowly, and it seemed that the corpse of the Demon Hunter was causing some problems with the maze's moving mechanism, and Elph felt the entire floor begin to tilt, and then the slope became larger and larger.
Just as she was about to jump into another passage, she saw what appeared to be a flash of light underneath the gap exposed by the slope of the road.
It's a long way away, but with elven eyesight, you can see the massive, rumbling mechanical gears underneath, and you can see the solid ground beneath the pile of machinery.
Elph immediately remembered that Ann had thought that the Demon Lord's sealing place was underground, and she also understood that the location of the Demon Lord's sealing place must be very close to the underground water vein, and the space under the labyrinth was obviously an area with a very high probability.
Looking at the gap that was getting bigger and bigger, Elph gritted her teeth.
Anyway, you can't find your way down if you spin around on it, so it's better to jump straight through the gap!
She took off the rope hanging from her waist, attached one to the arrow, and shot it into the ceiling.
Taking a deep breath, Elph glides down the cracked crevice.
Fortunately, the rope she was carrying was long enough, and Elph felt like she had descended nearly a hundred meters, and she carefully walked through the various machines and gears in motion, and the earth directly below her vision was getting closer and closer.
But when she was about to reach the bottom, she felt a pull.
When I looked up, it turned out that the rope was bitten by the gears and was pulling up in a grid.
If she didn't find a way soon, the gears would soon reel Elph with the ropes, leaving her bones gone!
At this point, the partition rope was the only option, but it was too high above the ground for even the dryads to fall from such a high place.
However, Elph saw a flowing underground river below, which was clearly more appropriate than the one on the edge of the hard ground.
She desperately used her center of gravity to swing the rope, calculate the landing point, and find the frost thorn dagger to cut the rope.
The clear, icy water is getting closer and closer, and all Elf can do is try to keep the contact surface as small as possible when entering the water, otherwise the flowing river will be the same as on the ground.
Hearing the sound of rushing water, Elph's eyes went dark and she fainted......
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On the other side, Ann pointed a finger.
He followed the passage all the way, but there was no danger for the time being, and the experience was not as exciting as that of his two companions. The old elves are idle, and he has learned the bad taste of pain.
Coming out of the room, the first place he arrived looked like it was supposed to be a courthouse, where he could find some of the usual set-ups of a courthouse in real life, such as rows of chairs, seats for plaintiffs and defendants, and seats for the judge's jury.
But there were no monsters, no traps, and no clues, so he had to hit the road again.
When he opened the door this time, he noticed a vibration around him, presumably the labyrinth was moving, and the room he had arrived at after leaving the courthouse was ......
Restaurant?
The devil knows how the path of the labyrinth has changed, and why is this the direct access of the courthouse to the restaurant?
There are countless strange settings like this, and what hurts even more is that when he opens the door again, he finds that he is back in the hallway where he came out.
Definitely my opening is not the right way!
So he went back again, and when there was another tremor around him, this time he came to a place where he didn't know what to do.
In front of him were two doors side by side, leading in different directions.
Each door is engraved with an ancient elven language, and Hela translates that one door says 'loyalty' and the other 'betrayal'
Is there any special meaning between these two words?
"According to Master Nikolai's database, master, you have encountered the most common traps of the Elder Elves."
"What's that?"
"The Door of Trial, which is based on the habits of the Elder Elves, is usually placed in front of the more important rooms, with a puzzle to solve behind each door. Depending on how important it is, the number of levels at the Gate of Trials varies."
"The more important, the more?"
"No, the less important the more, because the less important the place does not need to rush in, they can slowly enjoy the process of solving the puzzle"
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It is completely impossible to understand the thoughts of the Elder Elves.
"But master, you don't have to worry about which door to choose to enter, according to the habits of the ancient elves, these two doors can lead to the same place, but the test on the road is slightly different, as for the text on it...... It's purely because the ancient elves think it's very high to write like this."
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This likes to pretend to be forced in the second disease, and it feels inexplicably in tune with An Yizhi.
Since Hella said that it didn't matter which one she chose, An Yizhi didn't bother with which one to choose, and picked the closest 'betrayal' to him.
After entering, An Yizhi found that the door could not be opened, and it seemed that he could not continue to go back without passing the test.
The room that appeared in front of him was about 20 square meters, with a stone table and two stone seats in the middle of the room.
When I walked over and looked around, I could see that there was still a chessboard on the table, and the shape of the chess pieces and the arrangement of the chessboard felt like chess. A playgame is played with several pieces on the board.
At the other end of the room was a stone door, which An Yizhi had tried, but could not open.
"Master, it seems that there are still words engraved on the table"
Ann pointed over to wipe the dust and make the handwriting clear, and Hela translated:
"Show your wits and losers will be ridiculed"
"Is this what it means for me to solve the endgame?"
Ann thought as he touched his chin before he stepped into his chair.
"! Magic Missile! ā
As soon as he sat down, he saw a translucent figure appear on the chair opposite, and it was a magic missile thrown at him.
However, the magic missile did no damage, and went straight through the translucent figure.
"Master, that's supposed to be a magical image."
Despite resembling a ghost, the figure was, as Hela had said, a magical figure.
He looked like a typical elder elf, with his hands on his chin and looking at Ann with a finger, as if waiting for him to play chess first.
Isn't this a magical version of a man-machine endgame battle......
An Yizhi didn't play many chess and card games, but he could see that his side was at a disadvantage, and the other party could checkmate the king with just a few steps.
How to reverse?
After a moment's thought, An Yizhi picked up the chess piece representing the king.
"Go to the king first?"
The magic image said in surprise, his language was something Ann had never heard before, but he could magically understand the meaning easily.
Although answering the magic image was a bit like talking to himself, he smiled proudly and replied:
"If the king doesn't advance, how can his subordinates follow"
Oh also! Lao Tzu has wanted to say this line for a long time!
The second disease is really troublesome......