Age of Adepts

In a dark, dark underground tunnel, silent.

There was no path in the underground world, except tortuous rock fractures and watercourses eroded by perennial running water. However, after countless generations of underground creatures trying to dig up, one or more large or small caves, melting caves and caves are connected by a long or short tunnel or pit to form an endless three-dimensional passage to the underground world.

There has never been a road as straight as the surface, and all the paths have been cleverly cracked along rock formations, opened along old waterways, winding and spinning. Sometimes thick rock formations less than ten meters apart from the next cave can only be reached by winding back and forth for more than a dozen miles in pitch-black corridors.

Countless stone clocks hang from the top of the cave, and there are some dental projections on the ground. The water beads drip from rock to rock, passing the ground covered with wet and smooth lichens.

To be honest, moving forward in such a closed and quiet environment can easily give a sense of horror that the next moment will be crushed to death by the hundreds of tons of dirt rock on top of your head.

Grimm's line of ten people lit a torch, lined up long lines, and walked hard and slow in the underground tunnels.

The flame of the torch can only illuminate a small area of less than 5 metres, with hidden cracks on the walls of the hole blowing out a gust of wind. The fire extinguished a moment of uncertainty and cast their shadows on one side of the stone wall, turning them into teeth dancing claws, like twisted demons.

Though they tried to remain silent as they walked, the sound of the footsteps of the sand, the sound of the body rubbing against the walls of the cave, came a long way in the pits of deep darkness. This can create a lot of unexpected perils for the journey behind them.

After three consecutive hours of walking, the crowd finally arrived at the first stop on the tour route.

Seriously, the first three hours are just a little trial before they go into a dark hole. From here on out, this is the real starting point for their exploratory mission.

“Well, it's time for us to break up here. Everyone tries to complete the mission quickly and then come back here to assemble. I hope you have a good trip!” Sabrina's crisp voice is also breathing in this dull cave.

Ten wizard apprentices, five teams, rushed to different areas to complete their tasks. Sabrina and Sheila are in charge of the deepest part of the mission. Of course, there was no objection to her taking the initiative to take on this most dangerous task, and her leadership was therefore acquiesced in.

For the Mary and Grimm groups, although the hearts and minds of the people were uncomfortable, they could only be assigned the simplest task in comparison. After all, this time the sharp pit hurts them, the next team can only work for eight people and 10 people.

Everyone wears a thick black cloth robe, covering all their skin to avoid breath and temperature leakage into the eyes of underground organisms with infrared vision. Two words of silent congratulations to each other, the five teams did not enter the darkness out of the hole and each went towards a different goal.

After breaking up, Grimm stopped walking for less than half an hour along the dark and dark passage in front of him.

His side ears listened for a moment and he could no longer hear half a filament of distant movement. Grimm put out the torch in his hand. When the last glitter disappeared into the shadows, Grimm saw a strange world bewildered by magic.

Fluorescent moss grown around the walls of the cave emits a dark, cold light that outlines a completely different and bizarre scene in Grimm's temporarily microscopic eyes. Darkness slowly fades under the reflection of faint light, replacing it with a magical green world.

The shady cold rock cave walls are black, and the areas where the currents converge are gray, dispersed in Grimm's bizarre vision, except for the large pieces of green light, which are large pieces of gray and black. But in the dark corners far away from the cave walls, one or two strangely crawling red dots can be seen.

Red dots herald spilled life energy.

Depending on the size of the red dot, it should be small creatures like rock scorpions or geckos.

Grimm looked over and saw that Mary Redcoat was still the bright red veil skirt that exposed a large portion of her greasy white skin. But the weird thing is that Grimm can't detect temperatures specific to half a filament of life, even if it's only three steps away from her. If infrared vision alone, I'm afraid Mary is the same as a human stallion in his eyes.

Okay, well, vampire tactics are definitely unpredictable.

With infrared vision, hidden breath of life, and super agility, this deep, dark underground world is more suited to their type of agile killer.

Grimla pulled the hood and walked ahead, following the rough road bending down.

Their mission point is in the vicinity of an underground water pond seven miles away, which may pass through two or three underground biological habitats along the way, although the threat is small, so long as you be careful and pass undamaged without any problems.

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Although they possess powerful witchcraft skills, even Mary, with her advanced apprenticeship status, is just a toddler in this crisis-ridden underground world.

The first ambush into the underground world took place before Grimm, who thought he was ready, had walked 100 metres out.

Yes, ambush!

A python that curled itself into the cracks in the rock wall passed Grimm and pounced out of it, the stinking, fierce faucet fangs not hesitating to bite at its neck.

It really fails to protect itself.

Cold rock walls shielded the faint life of the python, and when Grimm saw a red dot spreading in front of him, the python's venomous fangs were close to him.

If Grimm had more than 10 points of agility, maybe he could have reacted, but 4 points of agility severely limited his instinctive response. He could only wait for the fierce bite in horror.

A python could not bite him, but the bitterness of the flesh was inevitable.

……

A sharp, broken wind sounded in his ear, and Mary, clearly embedded behind him, appeared in front of him the next second. And pointing like a knife, the wind kept breaking, and she cut the python into seven instantaneous pieces.

A stinking smell of blood began to diffuse in the passage.

Grimm took a few deep breaths, which quenched his agitated heartbeat and stuck out a cold sweat. These goddamn underground creatures, ambushes are such a picky place!

Grim's cheeks had a faint fever, although there was no light in the passage.

Totally! Totally! Theoretical knowledge is theoretical knowledge, I think I have stored so many traveling adventure skills and experiences in my mind, but there are still so many unexpected traps in real life.

After this ripple, the position of the two was changed.

Mary, who attacked the red coat, walked ahead lightly and silently, and no subterranean creature could escape her sharp, magical weapon fingernails. Even a nearby raid allows her to take advantage of her super agility before cutting her enemies into sections.

So it's only been an hour, and eleven underground creatures have died at her hands.

Invisible, Grimm can hear the roar of biological competition for food coming from behind the corridor, and it seems that a small war is inevitable. In the underground world, making unnecessary noises or having wounds on your body is taboo and can easily provoke bigger and more fierce underground creatures.

With the strength of Mary and Grimm, they are not afraid of such small characters, but they can cause unnecessary trouble for their journey.

The first real trouble occurred in their seventh hour underground, when a group of 11 terror claws attacked them.

This widely distributed claw monster resembles a small dinosaur in biological scales, standing only 2 metres tall. They are not huge in size, but their skeletons are thick and thick, and they have two large rows of flashing sharp fangs in their mouths, and their sticky mouth keeps dripping, making them look like they want to be big and happy.

Instead of choosing to sneak up on the smaller underground creatures, they wait for the two Grims to enter their perimeter before taking steady steps out of the darkness. Without seeing the body, Grimm first saw a pair of dusk golden eyes.

Such hard-skinned monsters are hard to deal with, at least Marina's sharp fingernails are hard to break through their thick squamous armor. Mary's attack had nothing to do with itching without attacking these slightly weaker defenses in the axillary, eye and neck crevices. And the thin, sharp upper limbs on their chests could cause her terrible harm.

Combined with the impact of heavy bodies and the paralytic retardation characteristic of earthly warcraft, it is also difficult for ordinary sorcerer apprentices to retreat from such a small area.

Shook his head and smiled bitterly, Grimm pulled out two summoning nuclei and threw them on the nearby dirt.

Although most underground tunnels are excavated within hard rock walls to avoid the collapse of the tunnel with hard rock formations, soil and sandstone are still everywhere, so Grimm's earth magic puppet lacks plastic material.

A silent roar sounded and the Demon Alligator Hunter slowly emerged beside Grimm.

“Oh, boy, you hid your hand!” Mary the Red sounded in the dark.

With Mary's 17-point agility, it's easy to get rid of the Claw Monster entanglement. If it wasn't for Grimm's “dragging," Marie would only take five seconds to cross the other side's extreme encirclement.

Several random attacks on the side of a few claw monsters did not yield anything, and Mary had to give up her attempts and sneak back to Grimm's side to carefully gauge this novel puppet.

This... seems a little different from the last time I saw it! Isn't this the muddy crocodile he got to kill the swamp giant crocodile queen? Looks like this kid's not as weak as he thought!

With endless doubt, Marie watched Grimm step onto the crocodile ridge and sat down, then, amid a slight tremor of rumbling, the crocodile twisted its huge body toward the surrounding claw monster and crushed it.