Apostle had been carrying out high-risk missions for many years, and their vigilance was comparable to that of warriors on the battlefield.

Wei Si had some uneasy premonitions, as did the other Apostle in the guild. Among them, the female priest with the highest perception, Lolita, was the most obvious. The strongest attribute of a shield guard was physique, the strongest attribute of a mage was spirit, and Wei Si placed equal emphasis on strength and sensitivity. As a priest, perception was the first attribute.

As the team went deeper into the mushroom forest, Lolita looked around vigilantly. She could vaguely sense the potential threat from all directions. The reason why he hadn’t said anything was because the sensations of these threats weren’t too intense. It was like a group of mice were running around by his side.

Although it was disgusting and frightening from time to time, it would not threaten one’s life.

‘”There’s nothing to worry about. Guild Leader has already released a few light-sounding bats with a radius of more than five kilometers. There are only a dozen medium-sized creatures nearby. They should be underground creatures foraging in the mushroom forest.” Seeing Lolita’s cautious appearance, Romon could not help but speak to comfort him.

With a reconnaissance radius of about five kilometers, the reconnaissance area would be seventy to eighty square kilometers, covering almost half of the mushroom forest. The light-sounding bats’ ability to detect ultrasound never disappointed them, and the shadow in Lolita’s heart subsided slightly.

They had already learned from the Dark Elves’ Raven that there were roughly one or two Zhuo Er priests, ten Zhuo Er warriors of various professions, and a few slave arms such as Lizardmen, Arachnid Elves, and Zedi Bearmen. The total number of slaves would not exceed 50.

If the Zhuo Er Elves wanted to ambush them, it was impossible for them to form a large ambush circle with just such a small amount. As for the fact that there were teams that could surround the entire Mushroom Forest, the number was at least several thousand.

Obalan City was too far away from here, and this place was too close to the surface. It was impossible for the underground city to send so many troops to hunt them down.

…

What Lolita and the others didn’t know was that Wendini, the priest of the seventh clan in Aubalan City, was sitting cross-legged under a giant mushroom that was only fifty steps away from them.

Her face was slightly old, and there was still a faint trace of the beautiful female elf in her eyebrows. She draped a piece of the fur of the Devil Horned Deer over her body and covered her head. She leaned against the giant mushroom with her wand in her hand. If he didn’t look carefully, he would probably treat her like a Jurassic beast that was eating mushrooms under a tree.

“That’s a soft-sounding bat? Looks like that surface Elves didn’t deceive us!”

Wendini raised his head slightly. A cold light flashed through his smoky phoenix eyes, and his gaze followed the slight ripple in the air. Zhuo Er, Elves, had good eyesight, and the environment in the darkness had little effect on them.

The light-sounding bat’s speed had also decreased slightly in the obstructed mushroom forest, and Priest Zhuo Er had completely noticed it.

Wei Si and the others’ blind trust in light-sounding bats was also an important factor in their trap. With Qin Lun’s meticulous thinking, how could he ignore the light-sounding bat’s scouting ability?

To others, it was almost impossible to hide the ability of a light-sounding bat to bypass obstacles and use ultrasound to draw an image of an object. However, for Qin Lun, who possessed the clairvoyant pupil technique and the ability to reconnoiter, he was even more clear about how he could break through the reconnaissance skill of an object’s imaging.

He didn’t need to hide anything from the light-sounding bat, he only needed to hide it from the person who had obtained the light-sounding bat’s reconnaissance image.

The light-sounding bat had no primary or secondary imaging abilities. Like Qin Lun’s clairvoyant pupils, it would feed back all the images to its owner without any difference. Whether or not there is a dangerous individual needs to be identified by the owner himself.

The image formed by ultrasound and perceptual line has a weakness. Although it can bypass obstacles and break the stealth effect to a certain extent, its black-and-white sketch-like pattern is blurry. To put it bluntly, the resolution wasn’t enough, so he could only roughly recognize what this was.

If someone were to disguise themselves for this, such as Wendini sitting under a tree in the hide of a deer, the soft-sounding bat would be treated as a herbivore if it didn’t come close enough to scout. The Zhuo Er warriors who climbed onto the mushrooms and stuck to the mushrooms would be treated like big beetles or monkeys.

It was normal for there to be such a dozen animals in a jungle. Wei Si, who commanded the light-sounding bats, would not pay attention to these things. So what if they were all enemies? The numbers were not enough to pose a threat. What he really wanted to see was a bunch of unidentified objects gathered together, which could be Zhuo Er Elves’s pursuing force.

“We’ve completely entered the encirclement. Almost right now!”

Looking at the dwarves and apostles who had completely entered the encirclement, Wendini slowly got up from under the tree and gently stomped the ground beneath his feet with his staff. A burst of obscure magical fluctuations pierced through the mushroom forest floor like a dark brown carpet of moss, rippling beneath the ground.

Under the darkness, which was only a few feet deep, pairs of earthen yellow vertical pupils slowly opened, and the evil bloodthirsty aura quickly spread out like mercury.

The light-sounding bat’s ultrasound was as transparent as Qin Lun’s gaze halo, but it could not form a “thermal image” of the gaze halo based on biological aura and spiritual fluctuations, so it was easily deceived.

The ambush circle Qin Lun had created for Wei Si and the others was not on the ground, but underground. He had Wendini and Kirkner, two Zhuo Er priests, bury the Lizardman Cavalry alive. Although it was only a few feet deep, it was enough to hide it from the Light Sound Bat.

Lizardmen and the giant lizards they sat on were cold-blooded creatures. They could fake their deaths and hibernate. They could not die from lack of oxygen. The thick cuticle scales of lizardmen and lizards can also resist the absorption of moss vegetation for a short period of time, making the plan completely feasible.

In fact, Zhuo Er Elves was familiar with underground ambush tactics. Unlike the creatures on the surface, many of the soldiers in the Buried City could be buried deep underground. Even if they didn’t eat or drink for a few weeks, they wouldn’t be life-threatening.

Therefore, when Qin Lun put forward this plan, the two Priest Zhuo Er agreed to it without even thinking about it. This was originally the housekeeper trick of the underground city troops.

…

Lolita, who was walking in the middle of the group, suddenly felt a throbbing sensation, and a creepy feeling rose in his heart.

“Whoosh!” Before she could react, a pair of dark green scales broke out from under her feet, tightly clasped onto the female priest’s ankle, and forcefully pulled her downwards.

“Underground!” Newton, the shield guard on Lolita’s left, reacted very quickly. He shouted and reminded his companions. At the same time, the tower shield in his right hand smashed towards the ground like a heavy hammer.

“Pu!” The tip of the triangular pyramid of the tower shield stabbed deeply into the soil, and a furious roar like that of a wounded beast sounded from underground.

However, the shield guards hurriedly attacked after all. In addition, there was still two feet of soil to remove most of the impact. The owner of the scales did not receive any fatal injuries. Instead, he used the pain to burst out with a brute force and forcefully pulled Lolita down.

“Ah!” The female priest’s calves sunk deeply into the ground, and her expression couldn’t help but change as she cried out in alarm.

Regardless of whether it was the storyline characters of the Ferren World or Apostle who had shattered the starry sky, they all knew that a priest was the most irreplaceable character in a guild. Priests may not be guild souls, they may not be the core of attacks, but at the very least, there are no other characters who can replace them.

Therefore, no matter how anxious the dwarves were to return, they paid great attention to protecting the female priests in the middle of the group. The first target of the drow elves’ ambush was also Lolita. Killing Lolita meant that the expedition team had no ability to recover. No matter how strong the others were, they would be slowly ground to death.

The Lizardman’s luck in attacking the army was very good. The Lizardman who caught Lolita happened to be the commander of the Lizardman Cavalry. The strength attribute firmly suppressed the female priest, making it impossible for her to break free with her own strength.

“Lolita!” Wei Si, who was at the front of the group, was shocked. He quickly turned around, wanting to save the female priest.

However, a cloud of dust exploded from the ground in front of him, and two tall and large lizardmen, carrying flails, surrounded him with sinister smiles.

Behind him, there were also rope sounds as two giant lizards spitting out snake letters staggered out from the ground. These were the mounts of two Lizardmen. When they weren’t mounted by Lizardmen, they could still cooperate with their masters to attack.

“Get lost!” Wei Si’s eyes were scarlet, and his skin wriggled. His pale white bones broke through his skin and quickly covered his body, turning into a complete set of seamless bone armor.

Wei Si turned around and danced like a whirlwind. The serrated bone blade on his elbow was like a full moon scimitar, slashing towards the two Lizardmen in front of him.

Starting with the capture of Lolita, it was as if a silent horn was being blown.

Every member of the exploration team, be it Dwarves or Apostle, was suddenly attacked. Lizardmen and their giant lizard mounts exploded from close proximity, as if countless enemies had appeared beside them.

The entire expedition team was instantly surrounded by the Lizardman Cavalry, and the defensive formation completely disappeared. They had actually fallen into a desperate situation in an extremely short period of time.

Although the Lizardman Commander who grabbed Lolita’s ankle was underground and could no longer attack the female priest, there were five Lizardmen in this core area, and their mount lizards were ten enemies.

Three of the lizardmen and their giant lizards intercepted the shield guard, Newton. Perhaps they were still no match for the Shield Guards, but at least they stopped Newton from helping the female priests. The remaining two lizardmen did not hesitate to pounce on Lolita and even abandoned their defenses.

To these ugly lizards, Priest Zhuo Er’s orders were absolute. Since he was asked to kill this human woman at the first moment of the raid, there was no room for compromise. Once they showed signs of fear, even if they won, the Lizardman Cavalry would still be executed.