Chapter 234 Obsidian City

About an hour later, the truck arrived at the wall of Obsidian City.

The coolly dressed female drow soldiers surrounded a drow mage and floated down from the tall wall and landed in front of the truck.

"Stop!"

A drow soldier holding a scimitar stepped forward and shouted with an elven voice with a slight accent.

Thorin stepped on the brakes and did not run over the other person.

Scorpion gestured to Thorin, and Thorin immediately opened the door.

"Friends of Obsidian City, we are adventurers who have fallen unfortunately. Can you tell us how to return to the surface?"

Using the same elven accent, Scorpion tried hard to reach some kind of deal with the drow on the opposite side.

"Humph! A degenerate who covets the prosperity of human society!"

Without directly answering Scorpion's words, the drow soldier just now snorted coldly, looking very disdainful of Scorpion in front of him.

However, the drow mage behind her reached out and pulled her behind him, then asked Scorpion:

"You need to provide property corresponding to the intelligence, weapons or food are also OK.

But I have to say in advance that the road to the ground is very dangerous, and there are many monsters living there."

Hearing this, Scorpion narrowed his eyes slightly and re-observed the situation of these drow in front of him.

'The weapons are slightly damaged, and the clothes are messy. They should have just experienced a battle not long ago? '

As an intelligence officer, Scorpion has a certain analytical ability. Through some clues, she immediately discovered the abnormality of the group of people in front of her.

'She just said that we should exchange property, weapons or food for intelligence.

Food? This kind of thing should not be so difficult to obtain in the dark area. Wait, we don’t seem to have encountered any creatures along the way. Is Obsidian City short of food? ’

Thinking quickly, Scorpion said quickly: "The collapse we encountered was very sudden, and we don't have much property on us. How much do you hope to get? Let's see if we can get it together."

Without questioning whether the information provided by the other party was true, Scorpion tried to use these words to judge the other party's true purpose.

She, Bain and Thorin had experienced food shortages. In that situation, money had become a burden.

Sure enough, these words caused a commotion among some soldiers in the opposite team.

But the drow mage quickly raised his hand to suppress his voice, and then continued: "You can take out some of the things I said and let me see the quality, or you can hire us."

At this point, the drow mage emphasized: "The road to the surface is very dangerous!"

Out of the instinct of an excellent intelligence collector and a bargaining expert, Scorpion planned to talk to the other party more to grind the other party's patience, but at this moment, an explosion suddenly sounded in the Obsidian City.

The pupils of the drow mage and her subordinates shrank, and they instinctively wanted to find a place to hide.

Just as Carl and others were puzzled by the other party's current performance, several huge flames rose from the city.

Carl and others often saw this scene when they were on the road a few days ago. At that time, they thought it was some tradition of Obsidian City.

Along with the appearance of those huge fireballs, some huge figures with red skin jumped out of the flames.

They held huge machetes that were almost as tall as themselves, and orange-red flames lingered on themselves and their weapons.

As soon as they jumped out of the flames, they fell down with cruel smiles.

The machetes heated to orange and yellow by high temperature were swung to produce afterimages. The drow mage and drow soldiers quickly hid under the city wall, trembling all over.

Although they didn't know what happened in Obsidian City, it was obviously not a good thing.

In order not to be affected by the disaster, Scorpion quickly returned to the inside of the truck. The truck transformed by the mecha and her husband Bain could give her enough sense of security.

"What happened?"

Lying on the steering wheel, Thorin muttered to himself with a confused look.

He had already recognized what those giant red-skinned figures were. They were the nobles of the Fire Elemental Plane - the Fire Giants.

Probably because of the violent nature of the Fire Elemental, these evil creatures are extremely aggressive and are also the giants who like to raise slaves the most.

Most of the intelligent creatures in the entire Fire Elemental Plane are slaves of the Fire Giants, and they even try to enslave super giant Fire Elements.

The sound of fighting in the city wall soon stopped, and the Fire Giants that jumped out of the flames left one after another after a short killing.

I don’t know if they were stimulated by the Fire Giants’ behavior just now, but the drow mage and her companions were a little anxious this time.

Seeing that the movement in the city was gradually stabilizing, they quickly ran to the side of the truck and slapped the truck’s shell with all their strength.

“As long as you provide food! We will try to escort you away from here!”

She no longer held the airs of a spellcaster. The whole person looked weak, as if she hadn’t eaten for a few days.

Instead of taking out the food that his own people would eat, Carl used the grain-making spell to provide these drow with plenty of dry food and fresh water.

This drow team consisted of a drow mage and eight drow soldiers, and the grain-making spell could produce food that could at least satisfy the normal appetite of 15 people.

Moreover, the food produced by this spell was clean, and there was no possibility of poisoning.

Karl used a magical optical camouflage to cover the truck and the land around it, and the drow sat on the ground and ate their dry food and water.

"What happened to your Obsidian City?"

Wearing a full set of power armor, Karl folded his arms across his chest and asked the drow about the situation inside.

The drow mage wanted to change the subject, but he didn't know what he thought of. After a few seconds of pausing, he explained the situation truthfully.

"After settling here, we in Obsidian City embarked on a completely different path from other tribes. We used the abundant fire elements in this place to practice and became firebenders who could freely manipulate fire.

However, just a few decades ago, a group of drow sorcerers who regarded the fire giants as their lord came to Obsidian City.

They claimed to be drow who left here hundreds of years ago because of the failure of the struggle, and defeated the firebenders in the city with the power of the fire giants.

Over the years, they controlled Obsidian City.

But a few years ago, they suddenly announced that Obsidian City would have a comprehensive marriage with the fire giants, and all female drow must be pregnant with the children of the fire giants."

At this point, the expression on the face of the drow wizard became a little uncertain.

"Many drow who disagreed with this were exiled. We thought this would come to an end for the time being, but as more and more drow were exiled, those sorcerers actually summoned the fire giants to the main plane!

Since then, we have become slaves of the fire giants. They often kill male drow in the city. In less than two years, almost all the few male drow were killed by them."

At this time, Scorpion asked his question with some confusion: "Then why don't you run away?"

Hearing this, the drow mage raised his head and looked at her with a complicated expression.

"Because we saw the miserable state of those exiles! Before those sorcerers implemented this decree, they had already asked the fire giants to summon countless monsters from the elemental plane of fire to occupy the passage out of this cave.

Most of those monsters are immune to fire, and the Obsidian City, which once symbolized the strongest firebender, was helpless against them.

And in the entire cave, only Obsidian City has food production. If we leave here, we can't even hold on until we get out."

"Tsk, that's really miserable."

Shaking his head, Carl looked at these drow and couldn't help feeling sad for them.

'You are a good wanderer, why do you play with fire? You are being targeted now, right? If you still maintain the original tradition and inherit the training method of wanderers from giants and elves, you won't be so deadly to the fire giants! '

Even the wizards of the School of Evolution will not only learn one trick of fireball, but this group of drow actually want to dominate with fire elemental magic.

Karl continued, thinking: "How did you escape? I saw that those fire giants were so brutal. If you dared to run, how come you were not caught by them?"

When mentioning this, the drow mage showed a guilty expression on his face.

"We are responsible for guarding the city wall. In fact, there is nothing worth guarding, but Obsidian City is occasionally attacked by giant fire elementals or earth elementals. We found you, so we thought about escaping. We ran out after knocking out the other diehards.

Those sorcerers and fire giants think they control the only food production area in the cave, so they don't care about those who try to defect, because according to past experience, the defectors will escape back soon."

As for how those defectors who went back would be treated, the drow mage didn't continue, but everyone guessed it.

"In that case, you can act as our guide, but you can't sit in the car."

The roof of the truck can actually be sat, but the temperature outside the car is really touching.

"No problem! As long as you can provide food!"

After temporarily relaxing their vigilance against the drow, they immediately set out in the direction they pointed.

During this period, Carl deliberately kept the truck's optical camouflage on for a while longer.

He removed the optical camouflage only when he felt that the people in Obsidian City could not see him with their naked eyes.

Carl and his companions did not believe all the words of the drow. After all, the situation in Obsidian City was problematic at first glance, and they certainly could not go in to verify it.

In this way, with vigilance and expectation, Carl and his companions set out again towards the so-called passage back to the surface.

In the Obsidian City behind them, the fire giants would still appear above the city from time to time, but these had nothing to do with Carl and his companions' journey for the time being.