Idle game leads to another world.

Chapter 564 The Sacred Object of the Goddess

On both sides of the passage with obvious dwarven characteristics, two rows of torches with light blue flames were burning. Instead of bringing warmth, its dim light made people feel a little chilly.

A hazy voice was heard echoing along the passage. Although it was blurry, it was certain that it came from the left side of the passage.

——Because the right side is a dead end.

The light blue torch is a torch enchanted with an eternal flame. The characteristic of this spell is that it can illuminate for a very long time. It looks like a flame, but it is actually just a flame-type light.

But the dwarven ruins from the Five Kings Mountains period could not have had an eternal flame; the dwarves at that time preferred to use their own mechanical lighting devices.

Besides, even if it was an eternal flame, it is unlikely to have been burning from thousands of years ago to the present day. There must have been people active here in recent times, and judging from the number of people, there might be a temporary base nearby.

I had just come down from the second floor and had just gotten the map, things were looking good, and then I got some bad news.

Alday took out the map again and looked at it carefully in the light.

If I don't go this way, I'll have to go around in a big circle to get to the entrance to the next level. I'm afraid it's unlikely that I'll be able to get around in the whole day, and there's no guarantee that I'll encounter anything on the way.

Speed ​​is very important. There are already three waves of forces in this ruins, not counting the Holy Knight Andy we encountered before. No one can guarantee whether there are more.

If they are all going for the Demon King's Ring, it will be difficult to deal with.

The three of them discussed it quietly and decided that it was too early to go back and circle back, so they decided to just keep going forward and see if it worked, and then take a detour if it didn't work.

In order to avoid being discovered, Alde had to turn off her dancing lights, recast the dark vision spell, and continue moving forward with the light of the eternal flame.

The eternal flame is like an energy-saving lamp with super energy-saving performance. It is very long-lasting, but the brightness is really disappointing and can only be used at a makeshift level.

Using the dark vision spell will be better, but the duration of this spell is not long, and repeated casting will increase mana consumption.

Fortunately, this passage was not long. The three of them had been walking for less than three minutes when they saw a broken doorway on the wall on the right side of the passage. The vague voices they had just heard came from this doorway.

It was still Nimia who stepped forward first to explore the way and make sure there was no problem. When they saw her gesturing for them to follow, Zora and Oldie moved closer.

Through the doorway, you can see what was supposed to be a dwarf factory workshop.

This huge room is a two-story building, but there is no floor between the two floors. The place where Oldie and the others appeared was exactly the entrance to the second floor. They could see a crane similar to an overhead crane and a large number of chains hanging on the ceiling.

On the first floor, you can see a large number of forging tables, conveyor belts, and things like small furnaces or crucibles. It is not clear what the dwarves made here in the past.

As for the voice of speaking...

Nimia pointed to a furnace, and Zora and Olde noticed that there was a row of drow behind it.

Darkvision is not night vision goggles. Its effect is only to brighten the image seen by the recipient. The dark skin of the dark elf and the rotten and dusty machine are almost like a protective color.

Could this damn place be the temporary base of the drow?
In a sense, this is good news.

Among the three forces, the drow have the smallest number. Although they are strong individually, they are not enough to make up for the huge gap in numbers. That is why the drow command a large group of spiders to help fight. Compared with the other two forces, the drow are easier to deal with.

Oldie nudged Zora and Nimia gently, and when they looked over, she immediately cast an invisibility sphere and pointed to a row of things that looked like broken gas cylinders on the other side.

The three of them sneaked over carefully. Under the protection of the invisibility ball, the drow didn't even notice that there were three more people above them. Looking down from behind the exhaust bottle, you can see more clearly.

There were about five or six female drow priests, led by a girl holding a five-headed snake whip. She was sitting on what was supposed to be a forging table but was temporarily converted into a chair. The other female priests stood in a row behind her.

The male drow all stood opposite with their heads lowered, looking a little dejected.

The fierce curse came from the mouth of the highest-ranking female drow. I guess this guy is also a very aggressive troll when he is a keyboard warrior on the Internet.

The beauty of elves is renowned throughout the multiverse, and you rarely find ugly people among elves or half-elves with elven blood. But the drow female priest was so emotional and her face was so distorted that people didn't feel that she was beautiful at all. Instead, they were a little worried that she would spray them in the face.

Alde and the others arrived at the right time. Zhuoer was probably tired of spraying and it seemed that the end was approaching.

"You are a bunch of losers! If I cannot retrieve the goddess's holy relic, I will use you to hatch spiders!"

The sacred object of the goddess?
Oh, it’s not for the Demon King’s Ring?
How many good things are there in these ruins? How come there are even the sacred objects of the Spider Goddess?
By the way, the Spider Goddess's sacred object...

Alde couldn't think of any specific name, mainly because the drow didn't operate in the Demon Realm, and their knowledge of the Spider Goddess was limited to a few words mentioned in books.

However, Alde knew very well why these drow were in such a hurry to find the holy relics. It must be because their prayers were not answered and they could not use magic. They were all panicking. They thought they were abandoned by the Spider Goddess, so they hurried to find the holy relics to try to win back the favor of the goddess.

This is a typical case of information asymmetry. The drow do not know that the Spider Goddess has not abandoned them, but that the gods have fallen.

The consequences of losing the favor of the goddess are very serious for the drow. After all, their society itself is built on the absolute authority of the goddess. Without divine magic, the drow female priests will lose their lofty social status, and the society where women are superior to men will immediately collapse.

No wonder the drow are so anxious.

"Now, come here and get whipped!"

The male drow who were standing there being trained were very cooperative. They stood in a line, one by one, with their backs to the female drow priest. Several female drow behind the chairs took off their snake-head whips and hit the male drow three times on the back, then replaced them with the next one and continued to hit them three times.

The drow who were beaten could not say a word, but they could not remain expressionless either. They had to show pain but could not groan, otherwise it would make the female priests unhappy, and they would be whipped a few more times.

——It looks like playing some kind of alphabet game.

Whipping is the lightest punishment for the drow. They even reward slaves with whipping, which is simply unreasonable.

The snake-headed whip is much more powerful than an ordinary whip and is a symbol of status for drow priests. Except for the one sitting on the chair which has five snake whips, the others have three or one.

It seems that this should be a not too powerful drow family.

The society of the drow is very sophisticated and orderly. In a drow city, while ensuring that the priests occupy a dominant position, there will be several families who jointly manage the city and divide the interests of the entire city.

The powerful families will naturally get more, while the weak families will have a hard time just getting the soup. The power of a family mainly depends on whether it has high-level priests, the number of high-level priests, and the amount of favor from the goddess.

Men who serve as the main fighting force and slaves who serve as cannon fodder are secondary. As long as there are enough priests, a large number of men will naturally join them. With men, it will be easy to capture or buy slaves.

Alde and the other two just watched the drow priests whipping the male drow one by one. To be honest, they felt a little excited. They didn't know if some bad interest had been awakened.

(End of this chapter)