The Era of Gods

Or when a stable territory is opened up in the future, some ale can be shipped in large quantities from outside to trade with the gray dwarves.

Ten barrels of ale can be exchanged for fifty sets of dwarf fine plate armor, which is more than a huge profit.

At this time, the ale brought by the Marin caravan was sold at a high rate. He handed over the rest of the work to his nephew to let him accumulate some experience. He came to Lin Xiao and said:

I'm sorry, I was so busy with business that I left out Your Excellency Mystery.

Lin Xiao waved his hand and said:

You're welcome, I'm going to visit the second and third floors of the Underdark, can you help me find a guide?

Marin was taken aback and said:

Master Mystery is going to the third floor of the Underdark? That's too dangerous. It's the territory of the drow elves. If you encounter them

I didn't say it later, but Lin Xiao understood what he meant. Obviously, even if he was a high-level mage, it would still be very dangerous if he ran into drow's patrols or powerful monsters.

Lin Xiao didn't mean to make excuses, but just slapped the staff in his hand on the ground, and a faint halo stretched from his feet. Marin's eyeballs suddenly bulged, and he shouted in surprise:

Magic halo! Your Excellency is an archmage?

In this world, when the professional level of a mage reaches level 15 or above, he will naturally have this magical aura, and this kind of mage is called an archmage.

Like the mage system in the Toril multiverse, the occupation system in this world is divided into twenty levels. Levels zero to four are low-level professionals, levels five to nine are intermediate professionals, and levels ten to fourteen are high-level professionals. Levels 15 to 19 are top-level professionals, and levels above 20 are legendary professionals.

It can be seen from this that professionals above the fifteenth level are already extremely powerful professionals, and they can go anywhere as long as they don't die, let alone such a high-level profession as the master.

When Lin Xiao showed his strength, Marin had nothing to say.

Soon a tauren warrior named Jonila expressed his willingness to be his guide. He heard from Marin that this tauren warrior had been to the third floor of the Underdark during the coming-of-age ceremony trial, and had personally beheaded a drow. elf.

This tauren warrior named Jonila is 2.67 meters tall, wearing a thick steel half body armor, carrying a huge steel giant axe, and several small handaxes pinned to his waist belt. He is almost armed. to the teeth.

He had a brass ring on his nostril, but the other nostril was broken, and he said it was cut off when he was fighting with the drow in the trial of adulthood.

Even Marin praised that Jonilla was able to compete with a level 14 fighter after becoming berserk, and his actual combat ability, good equipment and professional level up to level 13 barely met Lin Xiao's needs.

Jonilla looks very simple and honest, and he blushes a little in the face of Marin's praise. Lin Xiao's eyesight is so strong now that he can spot the red marks on Jonilla's face with thick and fine fluff, which shows that this child How red your face is.

This is easy to make people feel good. After all, people who are prone to shyness and blushing are generally very obedient. Generally, this kind of simple-minded subordinates use it to make people feel at ease.

Saying goodbye to Marin, Lin Xiao took Jonilla on the road to the second continent.

It has to be said that it is quite convenient to have a local guide as a guide. After leaving Stonehammer Castle with him, Jonila quickly came to a passage leading to the next floor and drilled in. There were not many monsters encountered along the way.

After driving for a few days, Lin Xiao felt that a person who is too shy is not necessarily a good thing.

Take the matter of eating as an example. Although the tauren has six stomachs and can store a lot of food at a time, they will be hungry and eat very well.

Of course, this is nothing to Lin Xiao who has prepared an unknown amount of food. What gave him a headache was that after the tauren Jonilla finished eating the food he brought, he was still very shy when he was hungry again. Xiao asked for food, so he didn't find out about it until the tauren fainted from hunger the next day.

So every once in a while he had to ask the tauren Jonilla the same question:

Jonella, are you hungry?

Fortunately, this situation did not reappear after the two got to know each other well. Besides being shy, Jonilla was indeed a very good little tauren.

He knows that magicians are generally weak and unable to withstand blows, so whenever he finds a monster along the way, he will take the initiative to rush up and fight. After knocking down the monster with a few axes, he turns around and smiles at Lin Xiao, showing him how extraordinary he is. Value, definitely worth the food you eat.

Just stop and go all the way, half a month later they stepped on the land of the second continent through the long revolving stone ladder.

Lin Xiao's first impression of the second-level continent was that it was tall and big. The space here was much higher than that of the first level, and the terrain was relatively flat. At least one could see farther from a high place.

Jonila took the initiative to introduce that this layer is barren compared to the first and third layers of continents, and there are relatively few monsters. Outside of Erda's raids, this place is considered safe.

When mentioning the drow elves, Jornila seemed to be a different person, instead of a shy image, she looked like an angry youth gnashing her teeth.

Lin Xiao understood that they had talked about the tragedies committed by the drow elves during the chat along the way.

These drows are much more ferocious than their counterparts in the Underdark region of Faerun's main material plane in the Toril multiverse. The Lord of Darkness in this world is a pure evil god, even more ferocious than the spider queen Rose, The drow are a thoroughly evil race under the Lord of Darkness.

After the drows won the battle, all the adult males were slaughtered as materials for summoning the soul-bound corpses, and the women and children were used as slaves, even the drow corpses killed by one's own side were the same.

Not only Jonilla, but in the eyes of other underground races, these drow should all live in the abyss.

This season is still a long time away from the drow raids, and caveman tribes of different sizes can be seen everywhere on the broad mainland plain. This kind of small man in his early one meter is quite timid, and he can see Lin Xiao from a distance. Jonilla and Jonilla walked over, and after a few sharp whistles, the cavemen who were busy planting underground crops by the geothermal hot spring were in a state of confusion, and burrowed into their caves like gophers.

The Tauren laughed instead:

These dwarfs are very timid, and they will jump into the hole in fright at the slightest sign of trouble. Last time I passed by, a caveman didn't escape and bumped into my calf and knocked himself out.

Lin Xiao turned his head in surprise, the tauren could tell jokes?

How far is it from the third floor passage you went to last time?

It's almost here, I put up a signpost there last time.

Oh, now that there are signs, it should be easy to find.

However, in the next three days, Lin Xiao watched Jonilla repeatedly look at various huge rocks in a certain area, and kept muttering in his mouth:

I clearly remember being here?

Lin Xiao keenly sensed that there were traces of a battle nearby, and it is estimated that the road sign was destroyed.

This must not be found, so he took Jonilla and walked to a caveman tribe not far away. The best way at this time must be to ask the locals.

In the situation where Jonilla scared away a group of cavemen as soon as he stepped forward, Lin Xiao had no choice but to personally step forward, take out some delicious food from the six-color Rubik's Cube, and then heat it up slowly. Blessed with a human-like charm technique, it gradually dispelled the caveman's fear.

Two hours later, these tribes of cavemen already regarded Lin Xiao as their best friend, so they naturally easily obtained the passage position to the third floor from them.

During the period, he had tasted the food of the cavemen, and it was really similar to moss. It was unpalatable to death, but it was extremely precious in the underground where there was a shortage of food. Even the drow elves relied on it to satisfy their hunger when there was not enough food.

Eat these moss-like foods every day, and suddenly eat delicious barbecue and snacks. Every caveman who gets the food regards it as a treasure. It takes a long time to aftertaste a small bite. Many cavemen sing and dance excitedly like a festival. Although the dance was ugly, it must have been the best food they've ever had in their lives.

It can be seen from this that these cavemen are in a very difficult situation. It is said that the average age of the cavemen is no more than five years old, and they can escape the drow's pursuit once but not the second time.

From these cavemen, he saw kindness, docility, and... good potential.

For this reason, Lin Xiao didn't go down to the third floor immediately, but stayed in this caveman tribe for a while, and took Jonilla to wander around this continent for a while, specially inspecting different tribes of this race.

Before Lin Xiao came, he had taken the caveman race into consideration.

In other words, there are actually only a few intelligent races that can provide faith in the entire Underdark, and most of them have masters. Among the races he considered before, the drows ranked first, and the cavemen actually ranked at the bottom. It is really this race It's too weak, and it doesn't provide much power of faith.

But after he seriously investigated this race for a period of time, he raised the ranking of this race by several places.

Next, he will continue to investigate the drow elves, and then he will make a decision, choose a race to spread the faith, and then accumulate enough believers to use this incarnation as a basis to confer gods in this world and start the road to conquer the world .

Although the drow are vicious and brutal, they are not unchangeable.

In the multiverse of Toril, the drow elves believe in besides Rose, the queen of spiders, and the kind goddess of dark maiden.

It's just that the risk of snatching some drow from the Lord of Darkness as believers is too great, and he has to investigate on the spot to see if it's worth the risk.

Two months later, Lin Xiao and the tauren Jonilla came to a passage leading to the third floor under the guidance of several cavemen, but before he left, he dug a cave near this tribe of cavemen. A magic circle was placed inside to isolate the breath, and a teleportation coordinate was left. If they encountered any danger, they could directly activate the coordinate to teleport back.