Overlord: Start from the Goblin Lair.

Chapter 83: Mine Level

"And then?" Ivy was so absorbed in listening that she kept asking Sera about the rest of the story.

"And then? And then of course I chopped them all into frozen scraps! Girl!" Sera laughed out loud, "And I'm still standing here, and I came to the south!"

"But I didn't win the bet because when I took them to see the mammoth corpse at dawn, those bastards insisted that I had found a mammoth corpse and killed the surrounding ghouls as my own record. Ugh!"

Sera picked up the water bag at her waist depressedly, took a big gulp of beer, then lifted up her animal skin coat to show her companions a large old scar on her waist.

"Look, this is where you get scratched by a ghoul. There's a deadly poison on their claws that can paralyze people. If you really run into one later, be careful!"

"Ivy shouldn't be affected, right?" Victoria looked at the half-elf. "I heard that the first ghoul was once an elf. After he fell, his despicable master abandoned him in the war with the gnoll lord. With nowhere else to go, he asked for help from the elven gods and was saved with mercy and tolerance. From then on, the poisonous claws of ghouls would no longer be effective against elves."

"Then I'll probably be paralyzed half the time," Ivy said with a self-deprecating smile, "After all, I'm not a 'whole' elf!"

Elves are elves, half-elves are half-elves, even many normal races cannot tell the difference between the two, let alone ghouls.

"Are we going in now?" Sylvia looked at the gradually darkening sky with some concern. "Will they be strengthened at night?"

"Wouldn't you be strengthened at night?" The UFO floated next to Sylvia. Although she thought Ron was the best person in the team and Ivy was the most talkative, she still preferred to stay with Sylvia - her body temperature was lower.

"But I'm a spellcaster..." Sylvia sighed and pulled out a pair of daggers from her waist, "Okay, okay, this is my first 'adventure' and I don't want to appear too cowardly."

"Don't worry, if you can't beat them, just stand behind me and Victoria." Ivy smiled, put up the tower shield and walked towards the entrance of the mine on the hillside.

"The wooden planks blocking this place have been torn. It's probably the work of the ghouls." Ivy used the scabbard as a crowbar and widened the entire entrance to accommodate the heavy tower shield. "Come in. There are no ghouls nearby!"

Ron turned on the light spell, and the dim mine tunnel inside was indeed empty as Ivy said. The track on the ground had long been decayed and abandoned, the sleepers were rotten and broken, the rails were rusted and twisted, and the mine cart was overturned on the side, covered with marks of teeth and claws.

You's figure became illusory, and he flew lightly into the interior of the mine. After a while, he turned back and said, "There are no ghouls in the nearby forks. These guys should have hidden deeper."

"But this layer of the surface seems to be used as a nest by spiders and centipedes, and there are quite a few of them, so it's better to be careful."

The spiders and centipedes that You was talking about were not those little guys, but giant spiders and giant centipedes. They were large beasts that were several times larger than humans and were highly poisonous. The giant spiders were even more insidious characters that were good at using spider webs to hunt.

Because they didn't want to alert other monsters, Ron and his team could only grope forward slowly, dealing with wild animals as soon as they encountered them, and trying not to make too much noise. But even so, it seemed that their breath of life alerted the predators here, and various wild animals and monsters continued to gather towards their location.

"I feel like we are just like tomb robbers..." Ron shot a flaming arrow and set the hair of a giant spider on fire. "These guys are the guardian beasts guarding the tomb owner."

"Interesting metaphor," Sylvia whispered in response, "If I could own a castle like a vampire in the future, I would also like to raise a group of these little guys." She put her mouth to the head of a giant centipede at her feet, as if she wanted to taste the blood of the insect, but for whatever reason, the vampire was ultimately unable to bring herself to do so.

"Then I will go to your castle with Driver to hunt every day!" Sera laughed, "It would be great if we had something like this on the snowy plains! We wouldn't have to risk our lives to hunt wild beasts!"

In fact, for ordinary people, creatures such as giant spiders and giant centipedes are still dangerous and deadly, but they are nothing compared to the creatures Sera has dealt with before.

"If that's the case, you'll be annoyed." Ron muttered. He remembered the big cockroaches he had encountered in the south in his previous life. The relatives of that thing in the north couldn't grow that big!

"Wow! Look what I found?" Driver followed You and popped his head out from a corner in front. "A guard room!"

When Ron and the others got there, they found that it was just as Driver had said. It was a guardhouse at the intersection of the mine tunnel, but there were no living people or undead creatures inside. There were only pieces of broken bones scattered on the rotten chairs, beds and the ground.

"There were at least three people here," Ron gathered the bones on the ground, "seems to be zombies..."

"How did you know?" Ivy pointed at the fragments that Ron swept out, "I didn't even see a skull."

"Here, look at this," Ron picked up a few bones from the ground, "Does it look a bit similar?"

"This is the cervical vertebrae, of course they look the same." Ivy took a glance.

"Then take a look at this one?" Ron picked up another one. "Is the shape the same as the previous one?"

"It's different," Ivy shook her head, "but it should be the cervical vertebrae or spine, right?"

Ivy may not have studied systematic anatomy, but as a veteran adventurer, she can still answer such simple questions.

"This is the first cervical vertebra, also known as the atlas. It is located at the top of the spine and connected to the occipital bone. It is ring-shaped and has no vertebral body." Ron picked up the other two. "A person has seven cervical vertebrae, but there is only one first cervical vertebra."

"And there are three atlases here. Doesn't that mean there are three people?"

"Then why did they die here? Didn't they say that the ancient queen sealed the mines?"

"Don't be so superstitious about the so-called 'orders' and 'queen'," Sylvia smiled disdainfully, "It's likely that the outsiders received the order but didn't inform the people inside at all."

"In the darkness, monsters proliferate and wild beasts run rampant. With no way out, they can only stay here until the end of their lives."

(End of this chapter)