Volume Dragon: Start by obtaining the Infinity Gems

Chapter 10 The Underdark Area
Ten days later, in front of the abandoned tower.

The mottled shadows of the trees made slight sounds in the breeze, a faint smell of blood filled the air, and huge monsters with sharp teeth and claws gathered in front of the tower, as silent as corpses. Only their chests that rose and fell slightly in the moonlight showed any signs that they were alive.

In front of Nemesis stood sixty gnolls and a giant ogre, three of whom were barbarians controlled by the Gnoll Ring like Rust. Behind him, there were a hundred untransformed gnolls!
It’s not that the Volume Dragon doesn’t want to collect more jackals, but his mental strength has reached its limit.

He, who controlled sixty gnolls and a hundred jackals, received a mental warning that he could not control more servants with his current mental strength.

In fact, according to his mind's calculations, his mental power could control the Mind Gem to control at most one hundred jackals. If the jackals were not stupid creatures without intelligence, the mental power consumed by the control would be far less than that of the jackals. Now he is overloaded.

The power of the Mind Stone is not infinite. Nemesis's own mental strength is intertwined with it. Only when he reaches a new stage of growth or breaks through the mage profession level can he control more people.

"If the object of control is the spellcaster, I'm afraid I will be overloaded if I can only control five level four professionals at most." Nemesis silently calculated in his mind.

Spellcasters are different from ordinary professionals. They focus on improving the spiritual field. There are even some spellcasters called psychics who are masters of the spiritual world.

The difficulty of controlling such a being is more than ten times higher than that of an ordinary warrior. In terms of cost-effectiveness, melee professionals are the best choice for control.

Of course, this is not without exception. A strong will can also promote spiritual progress. There is a special melee profession called the monk. Their mental will can be said to be extremely strong. When you encounter such a person, it is more difficult to control him than a spellcaster.

"it's time."

Nemesis gestured to Rust beside him, he nodded, and led all the gnolls into the tower in batches.

At this time, on the first floor of the tower, there was a huge hole in the center of the floor, and an ancient stone staircase spiraled downward, leading to an unknown place in the darkness.

Nemesis had been here for five years and had never discovered that there was such a secret passage underground. If it were not for the record in the diary that a candlestick on the top floor of the tower was the switch to open the passage, this place would probably have been forever sealed in ruins.

Nemesis left three gnolls behind to close the passage after he entered, and then they fled in all directions and returned to open the passage every month.

First, it was to prevent the green dragon from passing by the tower and discovering a large hole, and coming in out of curiosity to take a look. Second, it could also ensure the normal opening and closing of the passage.

The jackals filed in, and Nemesis also flapped its wings and flew into the depths of the black hole.
-
"Is this the Underdark?"

Deep in the darkness is a vast cavern with no sky or sun. The mysterious starlight praised by poets has never shone on this land, and the sunlight that radiates warm life has no way to enter. This is the Underdark, a secret world beneath the tumultuous surface of the Forgotten Realms.

In the dark underdark, the sky is replaced by hard rock without blood or tears. After hundreds of millions of years of snow and water being frozen into solid ice, clay and organic matter have been precipitated over a long period of time to form large pieces of stalagmites and stalactites above the cave.

Fortunately, in this dark underworld, many places are covered with various luminous cold-light fungi and plants. These small and inconspicuous lives continue to illuminate this underground world with their short lives.

Of course, it is limited to the upper Underdark and a small part of the middle Underdark.

The entire Underdark is divided into the upper, middle, and lower layers. The lower you go, the fewer traces of intelligent life there are, and the rarer the existence of light. Most creatures in the Underdark live in the upper and middle layers, and only those ancient, forgotten, terrifying monsters still live in the lowest world. Nemesis is now in the upper Underdark, 750 meters below the surface.

The red-robed wizard who was once stationed here built a temporary residence under the wizard tower, but the dilapidated wooden house had long since turned into ruins after hundreds of years of erosion.

Nemesis looked towards the southwest, where there was a graben that stretched for hundreds of miles. It was caused by a large-scale rock collapse caused by a major earthquake on the surface of the Butu Kingdom hundreds of years ago. According to the records in the diary, this graben was extremely wide, cutting off the connection between the bottom of the Mage Tower and the other side of the graben.

A few hundred meters to the northeast is where the cold iron ore veins exist, as well as two cave passages leading to further away.

The red-robed wizard once cast a magic seal here, blocking the cave passage in the northeast and locking the cold iron ore vein and the territory under the spell tower here.

This is also the reason why Nemesis left three gnolls to open the passage regularly. If the seal worked well, so many gnolls he brought would probably starve to death because they were trapped here.

To prevent this, returning to the surface to hunt once a month can provide a good supply of food for the gnolls.

Although these gnolls are completely controlled by his mental power and will not rebel because they do not have enough meat to eat, Nemesis still has to ensure their most basic food supply.

"Rust," the Tome Dragon ordered. "Take twenty gnolls and a brute with me to the mine."

"Boss, boss, I want to go too!" Peng Peng was not willing to be outdone. He would not let that flatterer take all the credit.

The ogre Oger standing by looked at the strange meerkat and imitated him with his simple mind: "Oger, go~"

Nemesis had long seen through the meerkat's inner thoughts. He raised his dragon claws and used his nails to knock Pumbaa to the ground. "You take the gnolls and guard here. Don't cause me any trouble."

Then he turned his head to look at the ogre and hesitated. Although the mine should be safe because of the magic seal, there were various secret cave passages connecting various places in the Underdark. There was no guarantee that there would be no monsters in there for such a long time.

So he agreed to Oger's joining.

A group of people came to the mine in a mighty manner, and not far from the mine, there were two deep cave passages leading to unknown places.

Nemesis frowned as he looked at the mineral vein in front of him. According to the diary, the passage developed by the red-robed wizard should be very small, but the mineral vein in front of him revealed a huge hole that was five meters wide.

"Something's wrong. I'm afraid someone has been here."

Juance Long Teng moved his body and came to the front of two cave passages, and indeed found something strange.

The magic seal here has disappeared!

(End of this chapter)