Chapter 245 Hunting and Roundup

Just like they dealt with the drow slave transport team, the two stalkers launched a bloody hunt within a hundred miles around the city of Menzoberranzan.

Their targets are all small and weak drow teams, including but not limited to small-scale drow lizard cavalry, patrols, tax collection teams, caravans, slave-catching teams, raiding teams, and coming-of-age rituals Team...

Even if they encountered a large group of people, Luo Feng and Arkanis were brave, and Arkanis set up advanced explosion traps. Luo Feng planted several super magic crystal bombs next to the traps, causing several casualties of nearly a hundred people. explosion tragedy.

The locations where they launched their attacks were chosen randomly to ensure that they were evenly distributed within a hundred-mile circle centered on Menzoberranzan, so that the Drow Mother could not tell which direction the attackers were coming from.

They set off overnight, and the time interval between the attack on the slave-catching team and the time when the drow hunting team was destroyed was less than five hours. Within an hour after the slave-catching team was destroyed, they attacked two six-man drow patrols one after another.

Due to the lag in the speed of information transmission, by the time the news reached Menzoberranzan, there were already more than a dozen reports of attacks on the desks of the matrons. No one could tell which one was the first.

There is a majestic temple in the center of Menzoberranzan. This temple towers like a giant tower. It is a huge building made of steel frame supplemented by hard and dark obsidian. The main building of the temple is supported by eight curved pillars. Like the eight legs stretched out by a spider.

This temple is the Spider Academy in the city of Menzoberranzan. It is a school for dark elves to train warlocks. It is controlled by the Banre family. The name of the matriarch of the academy is Tril Baenre, and she is a member of the Banre family.

This academy is regarded as forbidden by the Baenre family and is completely in the hands of the Baenre family. Most of the warlocks it trains every year are members of the family. This has established the unshakable position of the Baenre family as the first family in Menzoberranzan. status.

In the conference hall of the Spider Academy, the core members of the Banre family were gathered together.

The matriarch, Tril Baenre, looked through the stack of scrolls on the table, his brows furrowed, and anger brewing in his chest.

The great Matron Baenre stood opposite her. This long-lived dark elf old woman was nearly 800 years old. She had 15 daughters, 5 sons, and countless grandchildren.

In her long life, the old mistress was used to seeing storms, and her expression remained calm even when faced with reports one after another representing the death of her children and grandchildren.

"Other families were also attacked."

Dendro Baenre, the master of martial arts of the Baenre family reported: "But it was our family that suffered the most losses. The attackers probably acted after identifying the family emblem."

Each dark elf family has a unique family emblem. For example, the emblem of the Do'Urden family is a grinning spider. The sigil of House Baenre is an abstract spiderweb in the shape of a spire.

Members of the drow family will have their family crest printed on their armor, shields, and cloaks to show their family's glory.

"The teams attacked by other families are only a fraction of those of the Baenre family!"

A male dark elf wearing a mage robe sneered and said: "Even the crusade we sent to the deep dwarf city to collect taxes was attacked. An explosion killed more than one hundred and thirty people. It was obvious that the attackers were targeting us. They are from this family, and they occasionally attack other families just to confuse us."

His name is Gromph Baenre, the eldest son of Matron Bare, the archmage in Menzoberranzan, the controller of the Pillar of Narbondel, and possesses extraordinary magical power.

"Who is the attacker? Why did he attack us?"

Trier-Banry gritted his teeth and squeezed out these words. In just ten days, the Banre family lost more than 200 soldiers and more than 30 spider elves. This is only the number of confirmed deaths. Many family members have been away from home for a long time, fearing that they may have died in some unknown corner, or their bodies may have been eaten up by scavenging lizards before they were discovered!

"I investigated several crime scenes and found no clues. I can only judge that the attacker was quite strong, but he did not have the ability to cast spells and his stealth skill level was very high."

A slightly younger drow male said: "The attackers used blunt weapons and sharp blades to kill people, and never used magic. The fatal wounds on the corpses of most of the family members can prove it. Of course, except for the big explosion, the attackers just set up The powerful trap turned the dead and injured into pieces, and they were all killed by the explosion."

This young drow man is Jarlaxle Baenre, the commander of the Dayet mercenary group of the Baenre family. He is the best investigator among the family members. During this time, he led the mercenary group to search everywhere, trying to The attackers found out, but when they arrived at the scene of the incident, all they saw was the corpse of the drow.

"Is it the work of the pigs on the surface or the other drow families in Menzoberranzan?"

Triel Baery asked several male drow present, but they frowned and pondered silently. There were too many doubts about this matter and too few clues to make a judgment at all.

"A bunch of idiots, men are really useless!"

The matriarch waited for a long time but did not get an answer, so she screamed and cursed.

Jarlaxle smiled bitterly and said: "Master, it's hard to tell whether it's another family or an enemy from the surface. The Baenre family has been the first family in Menzoberranzan for a long time, and they are among the top five families. For those who are ambitious, there is certainly the possibility that these families will unite to deal with the Banre family secretly."

"but……"

He changed the subject and continued: "Adventurer teams on the surface often sneak into the Underdark to play their game of 'driving out evil and saving the world'. Some time ago, I heard that another dark elf city was infiltrated by surface adventurers. That group of people Transformed into a dark elf by a silver dragon, he stole the dragon egg and deceived the mistress who wanted to sacrifice the dragon egg to the devil, killing her."

"It's not because you and your mercenaries are too stupid and always come a step late. I really should have transformed you into a spider elf. It doesn't matter to you whether you have a brain or not!"

The matriarch threatened viciously.

Jarlaxle's face turned darker when he heard this, and he lowered his head and did not dare to speak anymore, for fear that the Master would be just like what she said and turn him into a spider elf who had no self-awareness and could only obey orders.

"enough."

Matron Banrui stretched out her hand and said in a hoarse voice: "Since there are two possibilities, let's investigate them at the same time. Chief Trier is responsible for the interior of the city. Check to see if any family has designed a conspiracy against us. Focus on one." The Chatur'Urden family, we have the deepest hatred against them."

She turned to Jarlaxle again and said: "You continue to bring the mercenary team to patrol, and I will arrange a few decoy teams. Once there is another attack, after receiving the secret message, you will lead the mercenary team to surround the incident site and let the priest We open the real vision and must capture the attacker!