A Bear Goblin crept towards Feng Chou's position. There were many human slaves sleeping on this dry and stony land.
What the drooling Bear Goblin didn't know was that there was a more hidden figure behind him.
Feng Chou was familiar with the figure. He quickly judged that it was a Tigerman, a Tigerman in beast form.
Under Qiankun Pagoda's scan, the Tigerman in stealth appeared in Feng Chou's eyes. Its body was humanoid, but its whole body was covered with thick striped hair. Its head was a combination of a tiger and a human face, and its hands were sharp tiger claws.
The Tigerman was on all fours, and its body was low. Its movements were silent, and it quickly approached the sneaky Bear Goblin from behind.
The Tigerman was born with the ability to sneak. Although they couldn't use the power of shadows to hide their existence like Rogues, they had camouflage stripes on their bodies. Coupled with the dim light in the underground world, their stealth effect was no worse than that of low-level Rogues.
If it weren't for Qiankun Pagoda's scanning function, Feng Chou would never have been able to discover the Tigerman in stealth.
About ten meters away from Feng Chou, the Bear Goblin stopped and seemed to be choosing a target.
He quickly stared at Feng Chou. Feng Chou looked relatively tall and burly, and seemed to have a lot of meat. He was also excluded from the group of slaves. Among the slaves, this was the performance of a weak chicken. He looked like an excellent target.
After choosing a satisfactory target, the Bear Goblin was about to move, but the Grim Reaper behind him was almost on his back.
After entering the best attack range, the Tigerman gently pounced on the Bear Goblin's back. One of his claws scratched the Bear Goblin's neck like lightning, crushing his subconscious roar.
Then, the Tigerman picked up the Earth Spirit Bear that was even more burly than him and quickly retreated, entering the underground forest in the blink of an eye.
While the Tigerman had taken care of the Bear Goblin, there was also movement in the female architect's tent.
The curtain of the tent was opened, and the female architect came out with a thin figure. She used a rope to wrap around the thin human's neck and hung him on a wooden pole erected at the entrance of her tent.
After a spasm of struggle, the thin human lost his breath.
The female architect admired her masterpiece and returned to her tent as if nothing had happened.
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The next day, Drow's patrol found that many Bear Goblin were missing.
In the next few days, the Bear Goblin became well-behaved.
From the second day onwards, new slaves were escorted every day, but they didn't stay at the construction site. Drow's escorted them along the road into the depths of the big cave.
According to Qiankun Pagoda's statistics, nearly a thousand human slaves were escorted over. According to Simon's estimation, this number accounted for almost half of the human slaves in Drow City.
In the following period of time, Feng Chou discovered a few more Tigermen attacks. These Tigermen didn't seem to have high intelligence. They didn't target the slaves in the camp. Instead, they targeted the Bugbears in the outer patrols, who seemed to have more meat.
When the Tigerman attacked for the third time, the Drow's launched an ambush and killed a few Tigerman. Finally, the Tigerman's rampant momentum was curbed.
A month later, a D-shaped fortress appeared at the entrance of the cave.
The D-shaped side was close to the entrance of the cave, completely sealing the entrance of the cave. People who came out of the cave could only enter the fortress through the gate.
The semi-circular side of the fortress faced the open cave forest.
The core of the fortress was a three-storey defensive tower. The tower was twice as tall as the walls outside.
During the construction of the fortress, Feng Chou saw the amazing effect of magic in construction.
When building the stone wall, the female architect asked the slaves to fill the gaps between the stones with mud.
When the stone wall was finished, a few young Drow mages wearing hoods came to the fortress. They took out scrolls and cast spells on the stone wall. When the power of the spells subsided, the mud in the gaps of the stone wall had turned into hard stone. The stone wall that was originally made of stone had turned into a whole piece of stone!
The stone fort in the middle of the fortress also turned into a stone carving with the help of magic. Feng Chou estimated that its sturdiness wasn't inferior to the cement bunkers in his previous life.
As soon as the fortress was finished, an army of twenty Drow warriors and forty Bear Goblin slave soldiers entered the fortress.
These Drow warriors were different from the Drow warriors in the patrol team. They looked more serious. The armor on their bodies exuded the power of magic. In addition to being equipped with standard heavy scimitars, they also carried magic heavy crossbows on their backs.
Even the Goblin Bugbears in the army were different from their counterparts in the patrol team. The armor on these Goblin Bugbears was much thicker, and the workmanship was much better. Each of them carried a thick longbow on their back. Their expressions were solemn, unlike the Goblin Bugbears in the patrol team who were always drooling over human slaves.
After Qiankun Pagoda's scan, more than half of the Drow warriors were level seven warriors. The two leaders were level eight warriors. Most of the Bear Goblin warriors were level five warriors, and a few of them were level six.
After the fortress was completed and the army entered, the patrol team escorted the human slaves, including the artisan slaves, and continued to move along the road.
Along the way, Feng Chou found that about every kilometer, there was a fortress smaller than the entrance of the cave under construction. The two fortresses closest to the cave had already been repaired, and the third fortress was about to be completed.
The team moved along the road close to the cave wall for more than ten kilometers, but Feng Chou still couldn't see the end of the road. After passing through fourteen fortresses, they stopped one kilometer away from the fourteenth fortress and began to build a new fortress.
The scale of the new stronghold was smaller, and the slaves already had experience, so the construction speed was much faster, and it was completed in half a month.
After the fortress was completed, the slave team continued to move forward.
After they moved forward for more than ten kilometers, Feng Chou finally saw the exit to the surface world.
It was a rather large cave, and the entrance was more than thirty meters wide.
Unlike other underground caverns, this one had an obvious upward slope.
The reason why Feng Chou was sure that this was the cave that led to the surface was because he saw a lot of humans in the Drow camp located in this cave.
Although they saw the exit, Feng Chou and Simon felt despair.
This was because they saw not only humans in the camp, but also a large number of Drow warriors, as well as female Drow priestesses. They even saw the silhouettes of spider elves!
Among the Drow elves, the priestesses had a much higher status than the warriors. This was not only because the priestesses were closer to the gods, but also because the priestesses were much stronger than the warriors.
The priests or priestesses of this world were not pure spellcasters, but powerful professionals who could cast spells and were proficient in close combat.
With the blessing of divine spells, the priestesses' close combat ability was much stronger than warriors of the same level.
This world was not a game, and there was no balance between the professions.
The spider elves were at least high-grade (profession level 11 and above) Drow priestesses, and the abyssal creature "Demon-Hunting Spider" that was at least level 11. Through an evil divine ritual, they formed a twisted creature.
This creature was like removing the lower part of the priestess Drow, then cutting off the top of the demon-hunting spider's head to open a skylight, and transplanting the upper body of the priestess Drow, forming a synthetic creature composed of the upper body of a human and the body of a demon-hunting spider.
The lower body of this creature could be like a demon-hunting spider, using its pincers and sharp front claws to fight. It could spit out webs to trap the enemy, and could move flexibly on any terrain to fight. It could jump more than ten meters away like a jumping pearl.
Their upper body could cast spells and fight like the priestess Drow, and the spider elves were also trained to be good at throwing javelins.
The spider elves would retain the intelligence of their upper body, but they were completely under the control of the priestess Drow who presided over the ritual.
Feng Chou saw two spider elves in the camp. This in itself was a terrifying force, not to mention that behind these two spider elves, there was a high priestess controlling them.
With such a force guarding the exit of this passage, Feng Chou felt that his chances of escaping were as slim as none.
Simon also looked shocked and depressed.