"It should be around here, right?"
Søren's figure slowly descended from the sky. He looked at the barren Gobi in front of him and murmured, "I remember that the battle of the Golems broke out in this area. When those Golems went berserk, it began to spread to other places."
"Huh?"
"Someone left traces! There seems to be a lot of them! It seems to be a team of adventurers! "
"Tracking [Clergy]!"
As a god who controlled the tracking clergy, Søren found the traces left on the ground at a glance.
These traces had been left more than a day ago. The sandstorm had buried most of the things, and even a legendary ranger might not be able to get much information. But all this was not a problem for Søren, who had mastered the tracking clergy. He could even judge the number of the team and the characteristics of some of them based on the traces that were almost buried by the sandstorm.
"There are a total of sixteen people!"
"Looking at the depth of these footprints, the weight is probably more than 500 pounds. Judging from the size of the footprints, the target should be a small or medium-sized creature. If I'm not wrong, it should be a relatively tall human. It's impossible for a human to leave such heavy footprints. If he didn't carry a lot of luggage, he should be a strong heavy armored warrior. "
Søren estimated that the person who could carry such a heavy load was at least a high-grade warrior.
"These traces are so shallow!?"
As the tracking clergy was activated, Søren also saw some smaller traces and murmured, "It doesn't seem to be left by the halflings. Their footsteps can't be so light."
"It seems to be a monk?"
"It seems to be a team from the Eastern Kingdom!"
Strong.
Many people.
From the Eastern Kingdom.
According to the information left behind by these traces, Søren gradually began to match the things in his memory. He activated the tracking clergy ability and looked for the direction of the team in a way similar to time backtracking.
The tracking clergy could go back according to the traces left behind.
Even if most of the traces had been buried by the sandstorm, Søren could still easily catch up with their pace.
Three hours later.
A dark tunnel appeared in front of Søren. There were obvious signs of excavation, and there were a couple of torches on the wall.
"Looks like they've already gone in."
When Søren thought of this, he didn't stay any longer. His figure instantly disappeared into the shadows, and he continued to go deeper into the tunnel.
Broken stone pillars.
Weathered walls.
Even though it had been buried for thousands of years, the buildings from the Arcane Empire were still intact. Søren found traces of a battle, and it seemed that the team had run into some trouble.
"This is?!!!"
Søren bent down and picked up a piece of carapace from the ground. There were some severed limbs around the carapace, and they were about the size of an adult's arm. There were strange patterns on the surface of the carapace, which looked like natural magic patterns. It was almost impossible for a normal creature to have a limb like this. In Søren's memory, there were only a few creatures that had something like this.
A magical light appeared in his palm, and he muttered to himself, "Could it really be the knell beetle?!"
Knell Beetle.
Challenge rating: 10.
Challenge difficulty: S.
Underground Insectoids. Neutral. Mutated creatures.
The number of Insectoids in the multiverse was very large. Almost all the planes that could survive could be found with traces of the Insectoids. There was even a Demon Lord of the Insectoids in the Bottomless Abyss. The proliferation of mutated Insectoids even caused a lot of trouble during the Arcane Empire and the Thorium Era. However, after a few crises, many forces began to wipe out the Insectoids.
In the deepest part of the Bottomless Abyss, many Demon Lords were still guarding against the Insectoids' counterattack!
The Demon Hunting Spider was a creature created by the Demon Prince Demogorgon by extracting a part of the Insectoids' abilities. The Insectoids in the material plane were relatively rare, but they were a relatively common creature in the lower planes.
"If it's really the knell beetle, it won't be easy to deal with."
The ancient ruins of the Arcane Empire had a lot of energy radiation, so there were a lot of mutated creatures, and some very dangerous creatures were often born.
The knell beetle was one of them!
This ten-legged beetle-like creature had a hard, bright red carapace. Its two sinister claws swayed in front of its four black round eyes and jagged jaws. Their huge mouthparts were very dangerous, and they communicated with each other through a kind of vibrato. The knell beetle was a mutated giant beetle. A long time ago, it was distorted due to excessive exposure to shapeshifting magic and sound wave energy. Since the day they were created, these giant beetles with twelve legs would breed in their underground nest, building a huge and complicated tunnel system, just like an ant hill.
They were creatures that could easily mutate.
In areas with high energy radiation, it was very likely that new mutated creatures would be born.
The reason Søren knew more about this was because knell beetles were not rare in the Underdark. They were mindless hunters. Their only purpose in life was to reproduce and expand their nests. When the beetles in a nest overproduced, the knell beetles would open up a new nest. It was known that knell beetles were used as mounts by the races in the Underdark. The earth goblins had tamed them in the past, and several orc tribes had tried to do the same. The knights who rode knell beetles in the Underdark would sometimes become the elite combat units of the tribes or cities they belonged to.
A knell beetle was usually about nine feet long and weighed about 1,500 pounds.
…
"There are no traces of earth goblins. This place is not suitable for earth goblins to live. It seems that there is no passage to the Underdark."
Søren looked around and confirmed that this was just a wild insect nest.
The knell beetle could be tamed as a mount. Creatures that could tame this kind of insect were not easy to deal with. Some powerful tribes and cities in the Underdark would control them. They were a very difficult native force to deal with.
"The wild ones are slightly better."
Søren continued along the passage, but he was much more careful than before. An adult knell beetle had 26 points of Strength and 22 points of Constitution. In terms of strength, it was comparable to a middle-grade demon in the Abyss. If there were mutated creatures that were affected by energy radiation, then the danger level was even higher.
The knell beetle was extremely dangerous when used as a cavalry mount. Its collision force was even more terrifying than that of a drake. The drows had also tried to tame them.
However, because it was not as easy as the petrifying lizards, they finally chose to give up.
"Buzz!"
A strange vibration suddenly came from the deeper part of the passage, followed by a piece of sand falling down crazily.
Sound wave attack!
The knell beetle had the ability to attack with sound waves. It was a special attack that could not be defended by conventional means and could only be resisted by Constitution. It seemed that those people had encountered a large number of knell beetles. Otherwise, it would not be possible for even this place to be affected.
"Haste!"
Søren's figure instantly turned into a shadow and rushed out. The surrounding scenery was passing by quickly. There were some huge insect corpses in front of him, and one or two human corpses could be vaguely seen.
This adventurer team had already suffered casualties.
…
"Phew! Phew! Phew! "
In the rapid breathing, Di retracted her hands. She moved her wrists and gently rubbed her temples.
"These damn insects!"
An Oriental Dancer with a dagger in her hand landed beside her. Her arm was bleeding. She looked a little embarrassed and said, "There are too many of them! We can't kill them all! "
"We have to think of another way."
Annoying insects.
Not only did they have hard carapaces, but they could also send out strange sound wave attacks. There was no way to defend at all. If it were not for the strength of the adventurers present, they would have been directly cleared out by the sound waves.
Di's current state was not very good. As a Pugilist, although she had legendary strength, it was still very difficult to deal with these knell beetles by physical means.
They were too difficult to fight.
And although the monks had extremely strong magic resistance, the effect was not good in the face of sound wave attacks. If it were not for the other strong people in the team, they would have died this time.
"Do you remember the hall we passed before?!"
At this time, a Rogue in the team suddenly spoke. While dodging the attack of the knell beetles, he shouted, "There seem to be a lot of golems there!"
"Maybe they can still be activated!"
"If they can be activated, we may be able to use them to deal with these damn insects."
They had gradually approached the core area of the hive.
Obviously, some things from the Arcane Empire were still preserved here. The rich energy radiation created such a large hive. Di even suspected that what they were looking for was in the deepest part of the hive.
"Who knows alchemy?"
At this time, another person in the team spoke and shouted, "Those who know alchemy, go and try. We'll cover you and rush over!"
"These insects can't be killed!"
"If we continue to delay, I'm afraid we will all be killed by them!"
"Buzz."
Trembling noises could be heard coming from the tunnel ahead. They had no idea how many Knell Beetles there were here. They had already killed 30 to 50 of them, and there seemed to be even more beetles rushing over from the other side of the tunnel.
"I'll go!"
The Oriental Dancer at the back of the team suddenly jumped out and shouted to Di next to her, "Cover me! I still have some understanding of alchemy. Maybe there is a way to activate those golems! "
There were not many spellcasters in the team.
There were not many spellcasters in the entire Eastern Kingdom. The Oriental Dancer also had a certain amount of spellcasting ability. Many of them inherited the bloodline of the Warlocks.
Because she needed to use alchemy potions and study puppetry, the Oriental Dancer had good attainments in alchemy.
…
In the Eastern Kingdom, the golems had evolved into another kind of puppetry.
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