Witch Monastery

A bandit group led by a hobgoblin like Zenis would also be a criminal gang feared by many people.

Of course, no matter how terrifying a criminal gang is, they still need alcohol to help themselves through every lonely night.

So close, he could even hear the sound of the hobgoblin throwing dice and a drunken voice: "Listen, big failure, well, you rolled down the stairs..."

Several other goblins began to mutter and complain. Apparently, they didn't need to be on duty tonight, and they all drank a little wine during dinner, so they were now a little confused.

Listening to their tipsy voices, Hawthorne's lips curled up slightly.

What a great opportunity.

Then please go to sleep...

He chanted a spell in a low voice, then suddenly jumped over the collapsed wall and appeared in front of those guys. In their astonished eyes, he raised his hand and the spell flew out: "Sleep!"

The magical power of the second ring sleep spell was released, and in a blink of an eye, it enveloped the entire room. Several hobgoblins, who were already a little drunk and were sitting on the quilt, were hypnotized by this, and their bodies immediately tilted, and they just lay on the ground and fell into a deep sleep.

perfect!

Hawthorne exclaimed in his heart, then clapped his hands and waved to the back, "Come here, it's been solved."

Having said this, he walked into the room first.

Due to the conditions in the mountains, the earth elves' bedding was not washed very cleanly, but fortunately the ventilation conditions here were good, so there was no peculiar smell in the entire room.

Of course, it is unlikely that there is no ventilation. After all, there is such a big hole in the wall here, and the cold wind blows in, blowing away any strange smell.

Three girls came quickly from behind. Uta and Tribis were the fastest, entering the room in a few jumps and standing beside him. Nidalee was the last one to come in. When she entered the room, her eyes were filled with surprise: "I didn't expect that you are actually a skilled mage..."

Hawthorne smiled softly: "Rather, I have always used spellcasting as my main means of fighting."

Without dwelling on this topic for too long, he continued, "Okay, let's not talk about this. Do you know the situation inside the castle? In particular, where are Zenis and the necromancer's rooms?"

He actually knew the layout of the castle, but he didn't want to reveal that he knew this information. And if there was a discrepancy between the reality and the game in his memory, it would be a loss.

After all, in the game, Zenis never touched the power of the undead from beginning to end!

Chapter 135 Dark Elf

Hawthorne had no intention of waking up the hobgoblins on the ground and interrogating them. These creatures were very loyal and had a strong sense of racial honor.

Therefore, if he woke up, he would most likely shout immediately to attract the attention of his companions, but Hawthorne did not want to take this risk.

For admirable enemies like the hobgoblins, it is best to kill them all, as a sign of the highest respect.

Having said that, after hearing his words, Nidalee came back to her senses and said, "I'm not sure, but we can catch a few goblins and ask questions like this."

As she said this, she looked westward, looking at the arrow towers across the wall. "There should be a few goblins stationed on those towers. We should be careful, capture a few, and interrogate them. We should be able to get the information we want."

Hobgoblins, as the smartest type of goblin-like creatures, usually command some of their cousins, namely bugbears and goblins, to serve as laborers, thugs and cannon fodder for their own legions.

This often makes their troops grow rapidly, but at the same time, these guys may also become a breakthrough point.

Hawthorne nodded gently. "That's it, Jutta. You and Miss Nidalee will act together. Make sure to capture a few goblins alive and bring them here for interrogation, just like we did last time!"

Yuta nodded: "Understood!"

The two agile women immediately took action. They first eavesdropped outside, and after making sure there was no movement, they quietly opened the door of the room and rushed towards the two towers silently, one on the left and one on the right.

Two minutes later, they each carried a goblin with a gagged mouth and a terrified look on his face back into the room.

"We've finished cleaning up," Jutta reported first. "I killed all the other goblins guarding there, leaving only this one alive. He must have been scared out of his wits, and he will answer any questions we ask."

Nidalee's expression was complicated, and she continued, "I only captured this one. I didn't kill the others, I just knocked them unconscious."

Cuibisi chuckled when she heard this: "Oh, then you are really kind."

Nidalee looked unhappy, but she didn't refute. Hawthorne didn't continue to be sarcastic to her. He took the trembling goblin from Utta's hand, pulled him outside, and then said, "You have seen the fate of your companions. I have a few questions to ask you. If you don't answer honestly, or do something else, you know what the result will be!"

The goblin nodded repeatedly, and Hawthorne pulled out the rag that was blocking his mouth and asked, "Which room is your boss Zenis in? Where is the necromancer?"

"They are in the deepest room on the second floor," the goblin said tremblingly. "As for the dark elf, he is resting in the room with a basement in the northeast of the first floor."

Hawthorne raised his eyebrows when he heard this.

Dark Elf?

Hiss, it’s different from the dungeon… No, that’s not accurate. The dungeon didn’t mention the identity of the necromancer. This castle is just a small dungeon after all…

Could it be that this guy Zenis is actually connected to the Underdark?

There is indeed a road leading to the Underdark in the rubble area. It is an abandoned mine deep in the plateau known as the "Haunted Gold Mine". Because the rumors are too terrifying, most locals are very secretive about it.

However, as a player, Hawthorne knew very well that it was not haunted at all, but a lie. The real situation there was that the miners dug a road to the dark area, and then a group of

The mind flayers made them slaves. Later, the mind flayers occupied the place and used it as their secret passage to the surface world.

Now, after many years, the gold mine is still rumored to be very scary, and anyone who gets close to it will disappear. But at the other end of the mine, in the Underdark, this place is often in dispute and has changed hands several times, so it is not surprising if residents of the Underdark, such as dark elves or gray dwarves, appear here.

Nidalee's eyes also visibly lit up, and her expression was eager, as if she wanted to say something, but as soon as she opened her mouth, her eyes flickered, and she stepped back, looking indifferent, waiting for Hawthorne to continue questioning her.

All of this fell into Hawthorne's eyes, but he remained calm and continued to interrogate the goblin.

"Very good. I admire you, so you can live." He said, "Which room is the necromancer in? How do we get there? How many enemies are there along the way?"

The goblin's eyes lit up, and he seemed to be encouraged. His speech became clearer. "From this room where the hobgoblins rest, open the door and walk east to our storage room. Then there is a small door to the east of the storage room. Through a dark corridor, you can go directly to the place where we worship the gods."

"Our priest and two acolytes are usually there. If you walk east from the priest's room, you will see three rooms. The one in the middle is where the dark elf lives."

After a pause, he rolled his eyes and continued, "You can also go from the restaurant in the south, but the restaurant is next to several dormitories, so you might be noticed if you go there."

Hawthorne nodded: "Very good."

As he spoke, he took out two gold coins and said, "Answer me one more question, answer it truthfully, and you will not only be able to survive, but also get these two gold coins. Do you understand?"

The goblin nodded repeatedly: "Understood, understood!"

"How many bodyguards does Zenis have?" he asked. "Where do his bodyguards usually stand guard? What equipment do they have? Tell me everything you know."

"There are... two hobgoblin officers," the goblin said. "They are also sleeping upstairs, very close to Zenith. They are also our leaders."

"Oh, Zenis has recently kept an owlbear downstairs, but he just keeps it in a cage and won't let it out."

Hawthorne nodded. "Okay, is there anything else we should be aware of? Like traps and ambushes?"

The goblin thought for a moment and shook his head: "No more..."

"You're lying," Hawthorne said. "There's a cave-dwelling grub lurking in that dark corridor you're talking about, right?"

A burrowing grabber, a strange monster that looks like a giant worm, with a short and thick beak and four tentacles growing above, below, left and right of the beak.

They have the ability to climb walls, so they can lurk on the ceiling, and they can adjust their skin color to almost blend in with the surrounding rocks. Unless you are a particularly skilled scout, you won't be able to spot any clues!

This guy is the priest's pet. Not only is he quite powerful, but he will also alert other people in the castle. The rookie adventurers who have just arrived have been ambushed and suffered a lot in this dark corridor.

Hawthorne really didn't know the way to the castle. After all, this place was a separate copy in the game, and there was no option to launch a sneak attack through a small path at night. He could only attack head-on.

But he still remembered clearly what traps and ambushes were inside this copy, and where players would suffer losses.

When he said this, the goblin's face turned pale and his pupils shrank. "Yes, yes, there is a cave monster! I forgot. I don't often go to the altar..."

laugh--

A flash of sword light passed by, and Hawthorne had already cut his throat. Hot blood gushed out, and the goblin's body shook stiffly twice, and then fell to the ground.

Chapter 136 Bloody Night

After kicking the goblin's body aside, Hawthorne took a deep breath, suppressed his heartbeat that was aroused by the killing, turned around, and spread his hands slightly towards the three girls: "I gave him a chance, but he didn't take it."

Nidalee looked unhappy when she saw this, but she didn't say much: "Do we still need to interrogate this one?"

She was still holding a goblin in her hand, and at this moment she was so scared that her eyes rolled back and she fainted.

"No need, just kill him." Hawthorne shook his head. "I already know almost everything here, he's no longer useful. To be on the safe side, it's better to kill him."

He had no mercy for the bandits here. As a player, he knew better than anyone how inhumanely the adventurers who fell into their hands would be treated.

Especially now that there is a dark elf necromancer from the Underdark among them, what they do is even unbearable for the druids who have always been peaceful. It is conceivable what kind of heinous crimes they have committed.

After saying that, he raised his sword, his eyes determined: "Don't worry, just wait for a while. When the goblins in the dormitories in the south fall asleep, we will clear this place and then attack Zenith!"

Nidalee was stunned. She looked at his expression, then at the other two girls, only to find that they had no objection to the decision to "clear the field".

For a moment, her heart trembled, and then she couldn't help but clench her fists.

……

Bugbears, as their race name suggests, are the strongest type of goblin-like creatures. They are covered with brown

He had a lot of body hair and could touch his knees when his arms hung naturally. He looked more like some kind of monkey than a humanoid creature.

They are bloodthirsty, warlike and rude, with great strength but light bodies. Therefore, in any legion of earth elves, there are always some bear goblins as thugs.

But now, no matter how powerful these guys are, they can't show off.

The door of the dormitory was slowly pushed open, and a tall and thin figure tiptoed in silently. There were more than a dozen bugbears sleeping in the room, after all, the castle had a limited area and many of them were damaged, so on the south side, many people were crowded into the same intact room.

The man who walked in started with the bear goblin near the door, and first leaned over him, covering his face with his left hand, and summoned a long sword with his right hand, stabbing it fiercely into his heart.

The bear goblin suddenly opened his eyes and wanted to roar, but the assassin immediately pressed on him and held his neck, making him unable to make any sound.

A sense of crisis of death surged into the guy's heart, and his body began to spasm, but within a few seconds after his heart was pierced, he completely lost his voice.

Get one.

The assassin who lurked in was naturally Hawthorne. After interrogating them and finding out the situation inside, they waited in the dormitory of the earth goblins for a while. When all the lights were turned off and all the bugbears were asleep, they started to act like ghosts.

After dealing with the first one, Hawthorne's heartbeat quickened a little, but after killing a large number of people in the past few days, he had some resistance to such bloody scenes. Without any delay, he suppressed the next hairy bugbear and did the same thing, piercing his heart!

After a struggle, there was a second body in the room, then a third, and a fourth...

Blood flowed out, soaking the blankets under the bear goblins and almost dyeing the entire floor of the room red. Dark clouds covered the moon outside the window. In less than twenty minutes, he had killed more than a dozen people.

"knock off."

After killing the last bugbear, Hawthorne stood up trembling, his hands were already stained with blood, his forehead was covered with a layer of hot sweat, and his legs were fighting frantically due to excitement.

It was impossible to say that he was not nervous. Whether it was the consequences of making a noise and waking up one or two bear goblins, or the excitement of killing people at such a crazy close range, it made his nerves extremely tense.

"call……"

Wiping the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand, he turned and walked out of the room. When he came outside, he saw that Jutta, Cubis and Nidalee had all completed their clearing tasks and were waiting here.

Nidalee's expression was a little ugly. Although she didn't do it herself, she also had a lot of psychological pressure after witnessing so many deaths. But the two witches looked normal. Seeing that he looked unhappy, they hurried to his side, one on the left and one on the right, and worriedly held his arms: "Are you okay?"

Hawthorne forced a smile. "I need to rest for a while and calm down. Nidalee, how about you?"

Nidalee's face was not looking good either, so she didn't object and nodded slightly: "Well, I'll take a short break, maybe ten minutes, and then we'll continue to go inside."

With that, she turned around and left quickly, returning to the north, as if to escape from this purgatory-like Shura field. And Hawthorne followed the goblin's instructions, took the two witches, and pushed open the door of the north storage room, hoping to find something useful.

Then I saw that in the storage room, there were two rows of old wooden barrels against the east and west walls. The first barrel on the east side was filled with salted meat, the rest were filled with slightly rotten grains that gave off a slightly sweet smell, and the barrel on the west seemed to be filled with wine, but the quality was also not very good.

He walked to the wooden barrel containing the pickled meat, rummaged through it, sniffed it, and finally said with a slightly disgusted expression: "Well, I shouldn't have expected anything from the goblins."

As he said that, he put the meat back and sat down on a wooden barrel. The two witches gathered around him tacitly. Then, he glanced at the door behind him, pondered for a moment, then turned his head and looked at Yuta in front of him: "Do you have the confidence to kill a cave monster in an instant?"

The monster is hiding in the dark corridor behind this door. Even if we can find its trace, if we can't kill it instantly and let it move, it will still alarm the priest in the temple behind.

Upon hearing this, Yuta looked embarrassed: "The cave-dwelling grabber... I have the ability to kill it, but killing it instantly with one strike... I'm afraid it's not easy to achieve."

After all, this guy is a monster with a total length of three or four meters and has such tough skin. With Uta's strength, it is not difficult to defeat it, but killing it instantly with one blow is indeed a bit too much.

Hearing this, Hawthorne sighed softly: "Well, it seems that the shortcut can't be taken, just go through the restaurant."

After a pause, he continued, "Besides that, beware of Nidalee."

Chapter 137 Kick the Door

Cuibis's expression changed for a moment, and she seemed a little puzzled. Yuta raised his eyebrows, and then his purple eyes flashed with murderous intent: "I feel the same way. The safety of the master should be the first priority. How about we take the initiative when the battle is over?"

When facing outsiders, she is still the witch who becomes murderous at the slightest disagreement.

Cuibis is actually a kind of

She had a similar idea, but she was not that murderous, so she did not express her suggestion immediately.

At this moment, the most merciful person was Hawthorne: "No, Cuibisi, just keep an eye on her. If it's not an irreconcilable conflict, there's no need to fall out with her."

Cuibisi nodded, indicating that she understood what he meant. After reaching a consensus, the three of them walked out of the storage room and went to find the druid.

At this moment, Nidalee was squatting in the open space outside the north room, looking at the night sky and resting. Hawthorne walked straight over and said, "Let's go around the restaurant. That cave monster is really hard to deal with. In order to avoid alerting the people inside, we'd better not fight it."

Her face looked much better than before, so she nodded gently: "Okay."

As she spoke, she stood up, grabbed her javelin, and glanced at the night sky again: "It's getting late, let's get started as soon as possible!"

As she spoke, she headed towards the large dining room in the southeast direction of the castle.