Overlord: Start from the Goblin Lair.

Chapter 41 Lightning Beam

The robber who tried to escape just now was stunned at first, and then his face became gloomy.

His originally smooth ears began to extend outward and become pointed, and the messy brown hair on his head began to turn into smooth gold. As for his Gobi Desert dweller-style clothing, it slowly faded away and was replaced by a set of luxuriously decorated elven light armor.

"No! Miles!" The warlock was shocked. "I have known him for five or six years! Could it be that he has never existed from the beginning?"

"You are really stupid," said Mindatis, who had revealed his true identity, with disdain, "But you are right, you will never see your Miles again."

"I spent a little money to lure him here, and used him to attract the Swampmaw's attention. I took the opportunity to use invisibility to steal the orb from its body. High-end plans often only require simple steps to achieve."

"And you, nosy Ron, do you know why I had to help you just now? There is no pit there at all. Miles' body is lying there!"

Ron looked at the other person quietly, then pointed at his own eyes; "You are being too clever for your own good."

"You're worried that I'll find a body underwater, but isn't it possible that I don't have dark vision, and even if I stumble, it'll be hard for me to see anything?"

"But, this is just one of the things that made me suspicious. You were paying attention to me just now, and you didn't pay attention to Victoria, right?"

"A strong magical reaction. How could a bandit have such strong power?" Victoria dispersed the spiritual light in her hand. She had never let her guard down against these bandits. She even used detection magic from the very beginning for this guy who mixed in her team.

Ron and the others didn't even need to communicate. They just needed to turn around and look at Victoria's gestures and gaze behind them.

"And there is another point: if you were just a bandit, why did you run away when the battle line had not collapsed? Did you have a weak psychological endurance and were scared out of your wits? But why did you run away after we arrived?"

"Because I thought you hypocritical, self-righteous guys would go to war with the bully wags directly!" When talking about this, Mindatis's face twisted. This was the only thing he thought he had missed tonight. "I never expected that a priest of Heim, a half-elf from Rose City, a barbarian who lived by hunting beasts and monsters, would actually try to negotiate with a group of ugly beasts!"

"What's in your heads? Waste?!"

"What did you say?!" Mindatis said this, but the bullywugs didn't like it. They are nobles!
"I'll listen to Ron, it's that simple." Ivy seemed to want to shrug, but the armor and shield on her body stopped her movement, and a series of "bang bang" sounds were made.

"Ron is my leader. Since he has his own ideas, I will obey his will." Victoria observes her eyes, nose, mouth and heart. She positions herself as a follower, even if the instructions are not to her liking, unless they are too ridiculous.

"I know I'm not a smart person," Sera waved the axe indifferently, "Since someone else is making the decision, I don't have to rack my brains."

"Ron! Ron!" Driver also joined in the fun, but he was basically swimming in the water now, so Mindatis almost ignored him.

"It's... unreasonable!" Mindatis was furious. As an elf, his temper was obviously too bad. "Unreasonable!" "But it doesn't matter, because I have got one of the eight pieces of the puzzle, and you will all die here!"

As he spoke, Mindatis took out a spherical gem that was shining with blue-purple light from his arms. The stone ball made of this gem was not big, and Ron and others could recognize that its shape and size were just right to be embedded in a hole in the stone slab. Obviously, this treasure was one of the seven keys, but no one knew what kind of story it had experienced before, and it was actually embedded in the head of a swamp monster.

"This puzzle piece itself is a powerful magic item. It allows me to cast six lightning bolts a day while being immune to lightning damage. Although I used it a few times to kill that Swampmaw, it should be enough to deal with you!"

Mindatis grinned and pressed the gem in his hand into the water. Ron and the others immediately felt the tingling electric current coming from underwater. Ivy, who was covered in metal armor, felt it most obviously. She was almost paralyzed and unable to move.

"Stop him!" The Madwug butler howled, and the Madwugs, bandits, and members of Ron's team all rushed towards Mindatis at the same time.

Anyone could imagine how powerful the force would be if a lightning bolt was released in this kind of terrain.

"Too late!" Mindatis laughed. In his opinion, everyone in this cave would be electrocuted into charcoal like the Swampmaw.

A dazzling white light instantly exploded under the water, and a thick lightning bolt engulfed all the people in the cave. At this critical moment, the only reaction Ron had time to make was to tear open the scroll of Spider Walk that he was carrying.

“Haha, haha—eh?”

Amidst the thunder and lightning, Mindatis's laughter echoed throughout the cave. The members of Roan's team were standing around him and immediately avoided the lightning, so they were not hit directly by the lightning. But the bully frogmen and bandits who rushed over were in trouble.

The aroma of frog meat spread throughout the cave.

Then, perhaps because of excessive joy, sorrow came to those who followed. Just when Mindatis thought he had won complete victory, there was a sudden violent shaking in the cave.

"What, what's going on?!"

Amid the vibration, the accumulated water on the ground began to seep downwards at an extremely fast speed. Perhaps the strong lightning strike destroyed the structure of the cave, or perhaps this was just the last straw that broke the camel's back. In short, after a flash of lightning, the ground of the entire Swampthroat Cave began to collapse, revealing the space beneath the surface.

In this earthquake, even Mindatis who was holding magic items was not immune. He had no time to escape to the outside and stepped on empty air, falling into the unknown underground.

And in his last view, looking upward, he saw a man hanging upside down above the cave, watching him fall.

While falling, Mindatis kept roaring and screaming, but he had no way to vent his anger. He couldn't understand how this guy, who was just a rookie, could hang above the cave - how did he get up there? !

(End of this chapter)