Encyclopedia of Feanor Continent

The custom of the dark elves is that women are superior to men and men are inferior. Within a family, the mistress holds absolute power. They believe in Rose, the spider goddess. There is no king or chief, but a council composed of the mistresses of the ten most powerful families. Rule the entire Undercity.Of course, the ranking of the top ten families is not fixed, and the various families will continue to compete with each other for power. In this power struggle, the loser will face the cruel fate of becoming a slave or even being exterminated.

The second cataclysm also dealt a heavy blow to the dark elves. Coupled with the continuous open and secret struggles among the major families, the population of the Undercity has not been able to recover to the level before the cataclysm. Today's Undercity is bigger than ever before. Increased focus on fertility.

In a family, only the children of the mistress are nobles, and the offspring of the children can only be regarded as commoners. The more children a noblewoman has, the more help she will have when competing for the next mistress. All the children will unconditionally support the mother to seize power, which is the most unbreakable alliance in the dark elf society full of intrigues. —— "Encyclopedia of Fei Nuo Continent - Customs"

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Phils has quickly gotten used to the mage's interruption and divergent thinking, and after Evandel finished expressing his emotions, he continued: "At that time, Duris was happily waiting for the birth of the child. If the baby was a daughter, It will greatly enhance her status in the family. Even if she is a son, it will be a help to some extent. As a result, she waited with great anticipation for the day of delivery, and everyone was shocked. What she gave birth to was not only a boy, but also a bastard .”

"So, you are a hybrid of dark elves and surface elves." The mage began to say something Fiers couldn't understand. "This shows that there is no reproductive isolation between the two, and the pregnancy rate is quite high, which is interesting."

In fact, Firth's appearance is still more like a dark elf. His skin color is not like the ink-painted charcoal black of ordinary dark elves, but it is also a dark brown that is closer to black. His hair and eyebrows are as white as dark elves. , the eyes are not red, but bluish light gray, and the height is more in line with the characteristics of dark elves.Probably the races that have lived in underground caves for a long time can’t grow too tall, or they will easily hit their heads. Dark elves are much shorter than humans, not to mention elves. Phils is only a little over 1.6 meters. He was considered tall among male dark elves.

"And what happened next?" Evandel asked.

"Of course Duris was disappointed and angry, and wanted to strangle me on the spot, but the mistress stopped her, and the mistress wanted me to slap her in the face, reminding her of what stupid things she did forever. Her The sisters gloated and suggested sending me to a brothel in the Undercity to humiliate her by asking me to do the most menial work." Fiers continued, "That's how I grew up in the brothel, When I was not yet an adult, the Black Rose family was wiped out by other families, the kind that was uprooted. Since there is no attention from the Mistress Black Rose, the owner of the brothel does not intend to waste food to raise me to be able to At the age of receiving customers, she sold me to the 'Blood Spider'. Every year, the 'Blood Spider' buys hundreds of slaves and untouchables for cruel assassin training. In the end, only three or five of them survived until the end of the training. Moreover, most novice assassins will die within the first year of their missions, so I am lucky to be able to survive till now."

"This shows that you are still a tenacious guy." Evandel said pertinently.

"It's mainly luck." Fiers said modestly, "Perhaps the power of blood is really irresistible. When I was a child, I kept cursing my elven blood, but after I really went to the surface, I would have thoughts from time to time. The idea of ​​going to the surface to live. I found an excuse to start learning the common language, and secretly saved some gold, thinking that one day I would go crazy when I was tired of life, but I still couldn’t make up my mind. Escaping from the underground labyrinth alone while being chased by the 'Blood Spider' is even more difficult than ascending to the sky, and after I got out, I knew nothing about the world on the surface."

The half-breed dark elf raised his head, and looked at Evandel with the most sincere eyes in his light gray eyes: "This time I'm absolutely telling the truth, and I don't ask for anything else, as long as you can leave the underground labyrinth." Take me with you whenever you want, and I can do whatever you want. You see, with this collar, I will definitely be your most loyal servant."

"But I don't need a servant." Evandel still refused him.

Before Phils could be disappointed, he heard the next sentence from Evandel: "You can go to the surface with us, and then you can go wherever you like."

Phils couldn't believe that there was such a good thing, but the mage didn't seem to need to lie to him. With this magic collar around his neck, he didn't dare to be disloyal to the mage. "Spider" is much easier, but why does the mage let him go for nothing?

Before he had time to ask this question, the mercenaries had already prepared dinner, and Avondel got up to eat, leaving Phils sitting where he was, looking at the mage's back meaningfully.

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If the big fissure is a vertical split in the middle of the thick rock formation, then the White Tower City splits another horizontal gap, and the two gaps intersect in a cross shape, so there is no need to worry about finding the way to the White Tower The road to the city, as long as you climb down the cliff, you will definitely be able to reach the White Tower City.

The problem is that the exit of this cave is not the same route as they originally planned, and the height is also different. The rope they brought is simply not long enough. The Templars can’t climb the nearly vertical or even inverted cliffs like the dark elves. Free, don't tie the rope, let them go down with bare hands, if they miss, they will fall into the abyss.

Kent was very anxious. He had reached this point. It was obviously impossible for him to give up his mission and go home. He even had the idea of ​​climbing down with his bare hands, but the mage dissuaded him.

Avondell figured out a way.

As one of the races living underground, the gray dwarves are experts at digging holes in rock walls. Evandel cut the rope short, tied one end to Kent's waist, and tied a gray dwarf to the other end, so that the gray dwarves Hanging in the air, he dug a small pit on the rock wall with a pick as a foothold. Kent stepped on these footholds and climbed down step by step. Every time he climbed a step, the gray dwarf dug a new foothold below. point.

Although it is still climbing the cliff with bare hands, having this "step" obviously saves effort and is much safer. Even if the Templars are not afraid of sacrifice, it is always a good thing to climb down directly without risking their feet and falling to their deaths.

After all, Kent was getting old, so he had to come up to rest for a while after hanging for a while, and let Basil and Palos take over for him. Seeing that the Templars took off their armor to reduce weight and save energy, Evandel tied the knot into a back Ribbon so they don't strangle your stomach by tying them around your shoulders.

The excavation was proceeding slowly, and in order to hurry, Kent asked the gray dwarves to go down to dig stones in shifts, and the clanging sound never stopped.

About two days passed like this, the sound of chiseling stones suddenly stopped, and everyone in the camp heard the screams of ghosts and wolves from below the cliff.

Evandel, who was writing a book, immediately closed the book and went to the edge of the cliff, and threw a torch down, but the light of the fire quickly disappeared in a thick white mist, and nothing could be illuminated.

He grabbed the bat on his shoulder and threw it down. Natalie flew around in the air reluctantly, and then reluctantly flew down under the mage's silent urging.

Now below is Kent, this mature and prudent Templar should have enough psychological quality to deal with any emergencies, but Palos is still very anxious about the safety of his mentor, he is lying on the edge of the cliff but can't see anything, only Can turn to look at the mage: "What happened?"

Natalie had already broken through the thick fog and flew up, the mage shook his head: "It's okay, don't worry."

After a while, Kent came up with the gray dwarf hanging up. He looked fine, but the gray dwarf hanging below was not optimistic. He didn't even grab the rock wall to climb up together like usual, but Sacks of potatoes hang as stiff as potatoes on a rope.

The mercenaries thought that the gray dwarf was dead, and they didn't find out until they pulled him up in a hurry. It's just that the gray dwarf's iron-gray face was now black and purple, his limbs were stiff, and he was crying with snot and tears. He was full of beards, sobbing and expressing that he would not go down even if he was killed.

"It's a ghost." Kent explained, "Many ghosts suddenly came up like a tide. I immediately dispersed them with the holy words of exorcism, but he was still affected."

"The tide is the same? As for so many?" The mercenary captain Harris didn't quite believe it.

"It's really not an exaggeration." Evandel said, "The white mist we saw just now is actually not a mist, but a ghost that has not condensed into a human form. Don't forget that when the White Tower City sank to the ground, one of the 10,000+ residents They couldn’t run away, and the underground doesn’t see sunlight all the year round, so the power of the undead will not be diminished in any way, and the resentment accumulated for thousands of years, they must be hungry and crazy now.”

Everyone showed expressions of fear or worry, only Kent looked very excited: "Meeting the ghost means that we are very close to the White Tower City, everyone, take a good rest, recover your strength, and prepare to go to the final destination. "