Overlord: Start from the Goblin Lair.

Chapter 42 Under the Cave
"Ron——"

Amid Mindatis's desperate shouts and their echoes, Ron slowly walked down the ceiling of the cave. At this moment, his feet seemed to have a strange adhesion ability, allowing him to walk freely on the wall that was so steep that it was almost vertical, and even hang upside down on the ceiling.

"Fortunately, I reacted quickly..."

Ron wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. Even now, his heart was still pounding.

He just wanted to dodge the opponent's lightning beam. Mindatis's hostility towards him was far greater than that of others, and that lightning beam was clearly aimed at him!
And he was very close to the other party. In that situation, if he didn't think of a way, he would be in a worse situation than the Swampmaw Monster.

In desperation, Ron tore open the scroll of Spider Walk and jumped onto the nearby wall, which allowed him to narrowly avoid the initial impact.

Thanks to Mindatis who wanted to maximize the lightning damage, he released the lightning beam under the water.

As for the subsequent ground collapse, that was something Ron could not have imagined - the Madwugs actually built a cave on top of an underground cave, and looking at the cross-section now, the thickness in the middle may be less than two meters!

Their gods may not even need anyone else to take action; their own activities alone are enough to break through this "window paper".

"Ivy? Driver!" Ron called out his companions' names, but received no response. He thought that they had fallen down with Mindatis in the explosion just now.

We must go down and find them, and Mindatis, and the gem.

Ron made up his mind and walked quickly along the wall and headed straight for the cave below before the crazy frogmen outside heard the noise and came over.

dark.

Even if Ron turned on the dancing lights, it was still difficult to see farther away. It was hard not to feel panic when acting alone in this unknown darkness.

What was even more frightening was that Ron found that he was now about three or four stories above the ground of the cave! If he wanted to walk down the wall of the cave, he would have to go a long way!
It was a life-threatening situation... Fortunately, the duration of Spider Walk was a full hour, otherwise it would not be pleasant to just fall down - not to mention that Ron was now upside down, hanging there like a bat.

"We have to think of a way..." Ron walked around and looked around, hoping to find a place to stay.

Finally, he found the only soft place in the cave where he could fall: a winding underground river.

However, this underground river did not pass through the place where everyone fell just now, so Ron did not notice it at first.

"It's right here." Ron repeatedly compared his relative position with the dark river, and summoned the wizard's hand to confirm the depth and the location of possible rocks and reefs at the bottom of the river to ensure that he could fall into the water safely.

After several attempts, Ron took two deep breaths repeatedly, and after making full mental preparations, he released the Spider Climb skill on himself.

“Bang—crash!”

The underground river, which had been flowing peacefully for who knows how many years, was hit so hard for the first time. Ron's angle and posture of entering the water were both amazing, and it was like a depth charge that splashed the water of the underground river up to a height of one or two meters. After making intense contact with the water surface, he fell into the water.

Ron's screams echoed in the cave. It's not like he had never swum out of the water before, but this was his first time doing it!
His entire back "slapped" directly on the water, which was not much better than jumping directly onto the ground. Even without a mirror, Ron could guess that his back must have suffered a lot.

Now not only hunchback but even hunchback has been cured!

"I must learn the Feather Fall Technique!" Ron climbed to the shore trembling all over and lay there for a long time before he came to his senses. This impact was too terrifying!

"But now it's more important to find them." After resting, Ron simply tidied himself up, squeezed the water grass on his robe dry, turned on the Dancing Lights again (the fall into the water just now knocked out his concentration), and began to search towards the place where he had just fallen.

Since almost the entire bottom of the cave was shattered and many people were blown away by the impact of the lightning beam, the landing points were much more dispersed than expected. Ron had just taken a few steps when he ran into the corpse of a crazy frog man.

"I wonder if it's that housekeeper..."

Ron simply searched the other person's body, but unfortunately there was nothing special, so he had no way to identify the other person. In his opinion, those crazy frogs looked basically the same.

The only way to distinguish the butler from the other bullywugs was that he spoke Common.

Along the way, Ron found a lot of corpses, half of which were bandits and half were crazy frogs, and he even found the warlock.

The lightning bolt did not cause much harm to the warlock, whose ancestors had played poker with fire elementals. His fatal injury came from the fall. The comminuted fracture of the cervical vertebra caused damage to the cervical spinal nerves, leading to failure of the respiratory center or respiratory nerves.

If he had been rescued in time in his previous life, he might have been able to be saved. As for this world, he would see if there was any big guy nearby who was willing to perform a resurrection spell on him. However, Ron estimated that there might not be any in this underground.

Next to the warlock's body, Ron found a wand broken into two sections, which should be the magic weapon he used to cast spells.

Unfortunately, this warlock was probably not the type who loved learning. Ron did not find any magic items such as spell books or scrolls on him. There were only two gold rings on the fingers of his left hand, which Ron took off and put into his arms.

"You don't need it anyway, right? Why not give it to me?" Ron was still trying to find a solution. If he had a choice, he wouldn't want to be a tomb raider, but he was really short of money.

After putting the ring in his pocket, Ron continued to move forward, but there was still no sign of his companions. Just as his heart began to beat faster, a tall and slender figure appeared in his sight. Ron's heart moved, and he quickly took a few steps and rushed over.

It was an elf, who seemed unconscious, and next to his hand, a gem ball shining with blue and purple luster was lying quietly on the ground.

Mindatis, and the key!
Ron reached out quickly to pick up the gem, but as soon as he leaned over, the tip of the cold rapier was pressed against his throat.

(End of this chapter)