Chapter 269: Troublesome thoughts. (2/2)

Arni who followed behind Roland While he could start explaining everything this wasn’t the right moment The other two didn’t really need to know about his passage detection abilities and luckily they didn’t prod further This was a bit surprising as he expected Wedamir to press hi area

The walk up the long winding stairs was quite stuffy and no one muttered a word Everyone knew that the situation was dire and they were already thinking about the nextthe 5th floor There wasn’t much to this secret corridor, no hidden traps nor any treasures; it was just a narrow passageway that brought them to their destination a lot faster

“Another dead end?”

Thein opening after the question was placed Soon the quartet was outside and in another e device in his helmet and histhe higher floors

“Is this really the 5th floor?”

“Yes it is, if we follow this path back we’ll end up at the main fork, there if you head north you should be able to reach the main way towards the 4th floor”

Roland explained this fact while having a slight agenda In reality, he knew of another passage that would allow hiet out faster The problem was Wedaeway towards his underground workshop If word reached that he had built a tunnel towards it without asking for permission he would be in a lot of trouble The risk was taken to reach tier 3 faster but noould bite him back on his behind

“Hmph… ‘ere”

Lucky Wedamir did have other plans and first handed the runic shi+eld back that was lent to hiether with his hammer staff now had a more complete set of weaponry to contend with any skeletal warriors The group soon arrived at the fork in the road and encountered a scene

“Hah, that was really a big shortcut…”

There were people h this hub area Some of them were adventurers that had retreated a lot earlier than they did Meeting them up here presented how much of a cheat the hidden pathas This one secret of his would probably coh not one but two of theuild to launch a full investigation into the matter after either Jasoing, that’s not the exit”

“Th' miners wull come thro' 'ere, ah will hold ‘ere fur thaim, ye kin juist leahere for another ed as he was clearly not interested in staying here There was no real reason after Lobelia had alreadyit for too long Roland decided to do that just

“Take care and be careful”

“Aye”

Wedamir replied to Roland's words with a forced nod but it was still unknohat the dould do with the knowledge he gained It was not the ti issues at hand The skeletons could clearly run past the boss rooeon With their leader injured by his cannon, it was impossible to determine what the Lich would do

Normally the creature was supposed to barricade itself in a safe location where it surrounded itself by its ry child to the attack It was throwing all of itsthat so would stick How deadly of an attack this would be depended on the number of skeletal soldiers it had produced and as it stood now the number was vast

“Do you have any other shortcuts, Wayland?”

“As a matter of fact… follow me”

Soon both of them separated from the dwarf andin the underground area that was covered by lava another scene was playing out…

…

It didn’t understand what had happened, the Lich replayed the scene in its bony head The source of the ht was there and it should have been able to control that power It had observed that energy pattern et rid of the pesky voice in its head

There should not be a probleht Even less after its level had risen as much as it has Yet when it attempted to affect the mana as it did before, there arose a problem Some kind of interference appeared, and the htly This was enough to take it off guard and take a ained

Luckily one of its minions was close behind it The Lich was quick to order it to act and was quickly evacuated fro that set it free it was still rained in its very being and would activate whenever death was near Now its body was being quickly refor wor the escape, it ordered two of its special undead to contend with the ar but one of them ended up dead These obsidian ones had a special connection with it and each time one perished the Lich would kno after its plan had failed and its life was in danger it had to think it through Its life was far more important than the armored one but it couldn’t just let it escape

There were also other interesting beings out there, they looked similar to the one it was after but they had their differences Their behavior was strange, soer theroup On other occasions, they would use the to escape The way they acted was quite a ure out

One thing was clear, one of its powerful undead soldiers had died and the sh If this continued perhaps stronger creatures would appear and would try to kill it For such an occasion it needed to be prepared Two choices presented themselves to the monster Should it bunker up in this cavern where it was so oyle iven a secondary task and had returned with a few large crystals in both its hands These were so after the armored one Inside of them resided a vast amount of mana and it would atteh for it to grasp one of the glowing minerals The Lich had a vast quantity ofblasted and using a recovery skill it was now almost drained To create an army worth it's level it needed some help and this would be the weapon that it needed

While this would help it produce et this far was a bit deeper inside this cavern it found When entering further a large open area with lava flowing froe area, a strange being that the Lich decided to use was

This creature was quite strange, it covered half of this cavern and its body was tremendous Yet even with the help of those di It just sat there and produced eggs that within a few hours turned into the earth traveling wor hatched a skeletal soldier could be created from it

The number of these fleshy containers vastly outpaced the rabbed fro area, it would finally be able to use all of this biomass and with it, the creatures on the upper levels would know its wrath