“Subsonic alchemy bat! Wei Si Guild Leader, you’re really big …” Qin Lun and Hill couldn’t hide their astonishment.

Regardless of whether this item had offensive power or not, it was at least a Violet Gold item with just one speed. It was probably worth a lot of money. Most reconnaissance items were easily lost. Using such high-quality items, high-grade Apostle was indeed wealthy.

“It’s nothing.” Wei Si inadvertently waved his hand. As a high-level Apostle, he had accumulated much more resources than Qin Lun and the others.

With the speed of a light-sounding bat, it wouldn’t take much time to cruise the entire Mushroom Forest. Moreover, this thing was small and could drill into a hidden corner of the Mushroom Forest. Qin Lun and the others quickly found clues about being trapped in Dwarves.

“Ratman?” Qin Lun and the others’ eyes were filled with surprise as they looked at the image of the light-sounding bat using ultrasound.

“It’s the Gasra rat monster. I’ve seen this kind of monster in the books of the Santalin Society.” Wei Si’s expression relaxed a lot.

The Gasra rat monster was a low-grade creature. Its only advantage was that it was fertile, abundant, violent and ferocious in battle, and didn’t fear death. However, as long as he didn’t fall into their encirclement, the threat to Apostle wouldn’t be as strong as a large magical beast.

There were about a hundred rat monsters in this group, and the two large mud monsters were the most eye-catching ones in the group.

The mud monster was a mid-tier magical creature unique to the dark region. Its attack power wasn’t high, but its defense was extremely strong. It was immune to most elemental magic. If it weren’t for their slow movements and lack of offensive techniques, they would have been even more difficult to deal with than the high-grade Terrorclaw Beasts that Qin Lun and the others had encountered before.

The Mud Monster and the Rat Monster were a very compatible team. The large number of Rat Monsters made up for the slow movement of the Mud Monster to a large extent, and the Mud Monster was the best meat shield for the Rat Monster. The two matched perfectly. No wonder the Dwarves Exploration Team couldn’t handle it.

Now that Qin Lun knew what kind of monster was causing the dent in Dwarves’s chest, it wasn’t unusual for the mud monster to pounce on him and cause such a wound.

He saw that the rat monsters were dragging a dozen or so incomplete corpses towards the left edge of the mushroom forest. Qin Lun and the others knew that the previous batch of Dwarves exploration teams had probably been completely annihilated.

Compared to the Terrorclaw Beasts from before, this batch of low-grade rat monsters made Qin Lun and the others feel a little troublesome.

Unlike most underground creatures, rat monsters have excellent eyesight in the darkness and have a keen sense of smell and hearing. Close to a certain distance, it was almost impossible to conceal the stealth of the thieves from them, so there was no possibility of a surprise attack.

“Let the light-sounding bats hang them far away. We’ll talk about it after we find the nest.”

Qin Lun and the rest of his companions discussed for a while before deciding to continue waiting for the Dwarves Exploration Team. There were such a group of rat monsters in the mushroom forest. Jillim had to clean up this creature’s nest first before he could safely explore

…

About half an hour later, Jillim’s Dwarves exploration team finally arrived.

“Prince Ferrari, how nice to meet you!” Seeing that Qin Lun was safe and sound, Jillim heaved a sigh of relief. His heart, which had been hanging in suspense, was relieved. They had already seen the corpses of the two Devilclaw Beasts in front of them.

“Sorry for worrying you!” Qin Lun smiled and apologized.

“Nothing, it’s good that you’re fine!” Although he didn’t like Qin Lun’s utilitarianism, Jillim was still a straightforward Shield Dwarf. He had already forgotten a little bit of unhappiness.

“Ferrar, you are too reckless. The dark region is exceptionally dangerous. Even I wouldn’t dare to barge into it!” Mastasia looked at Qin Lun with some resentment. As far as Qin Lun was concerned, the Highland Elves were probably complaining that he didn’t bring them with him.

However, Qin Lun didn’t care about Masta Xia at this time. He still had another angry Elves beauty to deal with.

‘”Well … Elistine, hehe ~ ~” Qin Lun carefully observed the expressionless beauty of Elves. Although he had had relationships with several women, he was still not good at dealing with these emotions.

“Humph!” Elves druid threw him a sanitary glance, turned his head, and angrily ignored him.

Qin Lun sighed and rubbed his nose awkwardly. Just as he turned around to leave, he felt the soft meat on his waist hurt and was pinched fiercely by the beauty of Elves.

…

“Ratman? It’s Ratman!” After learning the information that Qin Lun and the others had found out, Jillim was both shocked and furious.

As the successor of the ancient Sanata Empire, Shield Dwarf once belonged to one of the underground creatures. However, among the humanoids in the dark regions, Shield Dwarf’s status was completely different from that of a rat.

Shield Dwarf was the strongest underground ruler before Zhuo Er appeared. Even the few Eye Devils and Spirit Absorbers were ashamed of their inferiority.

Ratmen, on the other hand, were the weakest humanoid creatures. Whether it was martial power or intelligence, they were far inferior to dwarves. Most of the time, they were just subordinates of other underground races. In ancient times, the Sanata Dwarves also raised a lot of rats as slaves.

Hearing that the members of the Dwarves Exploration Team had been killed by the rat-men he looked down on, and even dragged away their corpses as food reserves. Even Dwarves, who was below Jillim, was furious, wishing he could immediately kill all of those rat monsters.

“Our summoned bats have found the rat monster’s nest. It’s a rock cave on the left side of the Mushroom Forest” Qin Lun told Jillim about the light-sounding bat’s surveillance.

“Let’s go now. Kill all these rat monsters and return the souls of our compatriots to the Moradin Divine Palace.” Before Qin Lun could finish speaking, Lorraine roared angrily.

Gilliam looked at Prince Dwarves sternly, but did not blame him. In the heart of the legendary expert in Dwarves, he also agreed to do so.

“Are you sure that the number of rat monsters is only around a hundred?” Jillim asked cautiously.

“We didn’t allow the summoned bats to enter the cave to avoid alarming the snakes. However, based on the information you provided and the situation detected by the bats, the mushroom forest can only support 300 rat monsters. Among them, there won’t be more than 150 adult rat monsters. The rest are old, young, sick, and disabled.” Qin Lun said thoughtfully.

“Oh right, there are still an unknown number of mud monsters!” Weiss added cautiously.

“There’s no need to worry about those mud monsters. Among the expedition team members I’ve brought here, there are two servants of Dumason. They will control all the mud monsters.” Jillim said nonchalantly.

Everyone was shocked and privately asked Mastasia about it. Only then did they know that Dumason was Dwarves’s God of Exploration. Priesthood is concerned with mineral veins, treasures, and exploration. Its attendants (priests) can control earth elemental creatures such as mud monsters and mountain giants.

“Since that’s the case … Lord Jillim, please make sure that my followers and I join the battle as well!” Qin Lun bowed and pleaded, “I truly regret not being able to save your compatriots in time!”

“Alright, on behalf of all the Shield Dwarf compatriots here, I accept your friendship and help!” Jillim’s rock-hard expression relaxed slightly as he took a deep look at Qin Lun. “In the next few days, we will live and die together until we complete the mission given to us by King Dwarves!”

Regardless of what he thought of Qin Lun in the past, he could no longer refuse to let Qin Lun join the Mithril Hall Exploration Team at this point.

As Gilliam spoke, a quest prompt sounded out from all the apostles’ soul seals at the same time.

“Apostle 70053, you and your team have triggered the epic storyline branch-Explore the Silver Hall mine!”

[Exploration of the Silver Hall mine tunnel (difficulty unknown): The predecessor branch mission of the epic storyline Silver Hall. The apostle team will need to help the Dwarves Exploration Team led by Elder Gilliam of Dwarves and Prince Lorraine of Snowpeak Dwarves find the mine tunnel in the dark region beneath the World Ridge.]

Mission objective: Find the real mine tunnels leading to the inner city of the Silver Hall, and ensure that one of the two storyline characters, Jillim or Lorraine, returns to the ground alive during this period. After confirming the location of the tunnels, they will complete the mission.

Basic mission rewards: 50,000 broken crystals, 20 contribution points, 1 master-level skill crystal, 5 broken fusion crystals, 10 upper limit of longevity soul.

World Exploration Reward: Depending on the contribution of the apostles to the mission, the duration of their stay will be increased by one natural month and the timing will begin immediately. Because Apostle 70053’s Black Iron guild had already increased their stay once, once this mission was completed, it would automatically return to the Shattered Star Sky within three days.

Tip: This storyline quest temporarily has no competing teams. You can share the quest with other Apostle teams. After Apostle dies in non-slaughter mode, you will not drop the Bloody Magic Cube.

Tip: This mission is 90% complete. There is a certain chance of producing a world token so that Apostle can join the Mithril storyline again in the future. ”

Qin Lun and the others were delighted. They had finally received the mission before they ran out of time to stay!

Even though it was just the predecessor of the epic plot, the reward for the quest was still generous enough. Compared to the previous [Star-Moon Alliance], this quest had a lower lifespan limit. However, Master-level skill crystals and contribution points had been compensated.

Most importantly, they had another chance to obtain the World Token, which could be considered a pleasant surprise.

“The length of stay has actually increased by a month. Could it be that there is still a long way to go from the mining tunnels in the Secret Silver Hall?” Qin Lun frowned slightly as he looked at his other companions who were delighted.

Judging from the distance shown on the surface, Camp Dwarves was actually very close to the Michigan Hall. Not counting the mountain path, it was less than a hundred kilometers away in a straight line. In this way, even if the dark region was a three-dimensional space, the dwarves had already explored it for nearly four months. Logically speaking, they should be near the mining area.

“Unless the dark region that Dwarves is exploring is unable to connect to the Silver Hall Mining Area and needs to find other cracks on the surface,” Qin Lun faintly had a hint of worry in his heart.