During the long wait, Brian suddenly found that the figure of the goblin copper block appeared in his sight, running towards him at an extremely fast speed.
"Didn't I tell you to leave as soon as possible, why are you still here?" He couldn't help but be startled, and faced the goblin who appeared in doubt, "How are things going at the Jeep?"
"Don't mention it. You were right. He has gone completely crazy." Copper Null sighed depressingly and told Brian the whole thing in detail.
"There's nothing to do now, let's go check out the altar built by Jeep." Brian suddenly said on a whim.
Hearing this, Copper Block hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded.
It won't take a while.
Under the leadership of Copper Block, they arrived at the location of the jeep altar.
Looking at the tragic scene in front of her and the rotten stench in the air, Hesiah frowned subconsciously.
As she was walking, she accidentally stepped on a dead drow body, and her boots were still stuck in the blood-red bones and clothes.
This made her feel a chill and she didn't know what to do.
Brian noticed something strange about the sword mage.
He chuckled lightly, walked closer, pulled her boots out from between the ribs of the corpse, threw a cleaning spell at her, and said to her: "Just wait outside."
Hesiah hesitated for a moment, met Brian's unquestionable eyes, and finally gave up and walked out of the cave alone.
Brian walked among the corpses as if nothing had happened. He saw that these remains came from many races, including derro dwarves, deep gnomes, goblins, and several blind stone savages.
Just when he was about to leave after searching to no avail, a ghost suddenly emerged from the debris and appeared strangely in front of the two of them.
Goblin Copper was so frightened by this sudden scene that he screamed and disappeared into the shadows.
Brian was just surprised for a moment, and then looked at the shadow with interest.
Ghosts are the souls of dead living creatures that are bound to a specific place, creature or object that is of great significance to their lives.
They are eager to complete a certain unfinished task during their lifetime, perhaps seeking revenge for their own death, fulfilling an oath, or sending a message to those they love.
Ghosts may not realize that they are dead and continue with their daily lives. There are also ghosts who are driven by evil or hatred and refuse to rest until everyone in a family or organization is confirmed to be dead.
The surest way to get rid of a ghost is to fulfill its unfulfilled wish.
Or you can take advantage of the ghost's weaknesses before it's alive to eliminate it more easily.
From the hazy shadow of the ghost, Brian could tell that the other party was a female dwarf, with an appearance as delicate as a porcelain doll, with long brown hair flowing down, and eyes shining like black orbs, looking at her expectantly.
Hold yourself.
"Who are you? Do you need me to help you fulfill your wish?" Brian pondered for a moment, looked at the ghost and asked.
"Sorry, kind adventurer, to disturb you."
The underground dwarf ghost deliberately suppressed his sharp voice full of resentment and said to him with kindness:
"I am a gem merchant from Bullingdon Stone City. I was originally going to meet a gray dwarf merchant at the Dark Lake Pier for a transaction, but I waited for a week and still didn't see him."
As the deep dwarf narrated, the goblin copper slowly poked his head out of the shadows.
"Later I found out that the gray dwarf merchant I traded with was arrested for selling stolen gems." Ghost blinked and floated in front of Brian, his tone uncontrollably turning into hatred.
"Then I was tricked into coming here by a derro dwarf named Gip. He not only killed me, but also brutally dismembered my body and mixed it all into the remains of the altar."
Bullingdon Stone?
Brian frowned. Blingden Stone City, once known as the City of Speaking Stones, was a settlement established by the underground gnomes more than two thousand years ago.
The underground gnomes, who are secretive by nature, rarely care about history and heritage, so most of the past of this ruined city has been lost with the passage of time.
For centuries, Bullingdon Stone has relied on its intricate terrain and magic to maintain the impression of being secretive and isolated from other parts of the Underdark.
It wasn't until the deep gnomes provided shelter to an exiled drow ranger that more and more outsiders began to take an interest in the cave where they lived.
In order to avoid the invasion of the infamous drow, the deep gnomes abandoned their isolation policy and assisted the dwarves of Mithral Hall in resisting the drow invasion from Menzoberranzan.
However, this alliance ultimately led to the end of Bullingdon Stone.
After the drow, who planned revenge, recuperated and rebuilt their army, they immediately sent troops to launch frequent attacks on the underground gnomes, and then besieged Blingden Stone City with a large force.
As one can imagine, the underground gnomes were unable to compete with the drow army.
Thousands of deep gnomes were brutally slaughtered. Except for those survivors who fled to Mithral Hall or the surface world, the remaining survivors had to be shackled and taken back to Menzoberranzan and became slaves.
In Brian's impression, decades later, the underground gnomes returned here and began to rebuild their city.
Their efforts are likely to succeed, but a series of threats hang over their heads.
Most areas of this ruined city are still blocked and dangerous areas, with tunnels and caves blocked by gates or man-made collapses.
The deep gnomes also have to deal with some invaders.
These include Skaven, insane elementals, ghosts, and the oozes spread by the plague, controlled by the Pudding King, a deep dwarf driven mad by the influence of the demon lord Jubilex.
He thought for a moment, had an idea in his mind, and turned his gaze to the copper blocks trying to organize Jeep's body.
The keen copper block immediately sensed his gaze, shrugged helplessly, and stopped arranging Jipp's body.
Seeing that the copper block would mislead him, Brian chuckled, looked at the underground dwarf ghost, and asked, "Then what do you want from us?"
"Kind adventurers, I hope you can help me bring some of the remains back to Bullingdon Stone City for burial."
The ghost of the underground dwarf floated in front of Brian. Her height only reached the top of Brian's thighs, so she could only raise her vague face, clasped her fingers, and begged: "In this way, my soul can rest in peace."
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"no problem."
Brian readily agreed, and then said to her with a queasy look on his face: "It's just...as you saw, all these corpses are mixed together. It's impossible for us to rummage through these corpses in this crazy and gloomy scene."
piece."
"That's it..." Seeing Brian agree, the ghost of the underground dwarf looked happy at first. After hearing his next words, his two thin eyebrows almost knitted together.
She was suspended in the air and struggled for a long time. She seemed to remember something, and with a thought, a severed hand floated out from the pile of corpses.
Brian was surprised to find that there was a ring on the finger of the severed hand. It looked like it should be a space ring for storing items.
"Good-hearted adventurer."
The ghost of the underground dwarf said, "I can feel the weird magic filling the tunnel. These magical energies are gradually consuming my will. If you can bring part of my remains back to Bullingdon Stone City, the items in this ring will
, it shall be your reward.”
"I can promise you." Brian took the ring from the severed hand, made a thick piece of linen cloth out of thin air, carefully wrapped the dwarf's remains, and said to her:
"But we won't leave immediately. After all, we will return to the surface soon. If I have time, I will definitely help you fulfill your wish. What do you think?"
In fact, Bullingdon Stone City has already been in his future plans.
Because the dwarves in this city have developed a gem that can store magic, he needs this technology to arm himself.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have agreed so readily at first.
"But..." The ghost of the little dwarf began to twist his little fingers again and became entangled.
"Let me go, I know where Bullingdon Stone is."
Goblin Copper Block looked at Jeep's body, sighed, and said proactively: "Just think of it as my atonement for poor Jeep."
"Then be careful yourself."
Brian handed the body and the space ring to Copper Block and said to him, "After you go, stay there for the time being and don't come back. I will go there myself after I finish my work on the surface."
Then, based on the knowledge in his memory, he explained to the goblins in detail all the circumstances of Bullingdon Stone City and the various forces in the city.
"Hey, you better take this thing, I feel it's a bit hot."
After listening to Brian's explanation, Copper Nugget looked at the space ring he handed over hesitantly, not knowing what to do.
"If you don't want it, wait until you get to Bullingdon Stone City and treat it as a relic to her family." After Brian finished speaking, he left the goblin and the dwarf behind and turned to leave.
After walking out of the cave, he saw the sword mage following him. He thought for a moment and said to her, "I am going to deal with the demon lord's servants now. For the sake of safety, you should not follow me. Just wait for me nearby."
"Why?" Hesiah looked at Brian in surprise, "Is it really possible with your own strength?"
"Sometimes, you don't necessarily need strength to solve problems." Brian said to her mysteriously.
"You...don't you want to use the same method again..."
At this point, Hesiah stopped in time. Although the little devil's master's name sounds very feminine, it does not mean that she must be a female elf.
"That's not true." Brian smiled and said, "In short, there is no need to fight. If you go, it will only get in the way and affect my plan."
"I'm in the way..."
Hesiah looked at him depressedly and guessed: "Do you know this demon servant?"
Chapter completed!