The Underdark, the Pass of the North Tunnel, and the Ten Mile Acropolis of Gelthorne.

Just when the Minas Tirith defense battle above turned the endless wilderness into a scorched earth, something happened in this small acropolis built by Zelandia secretly and secretly for the construction of the North Nether Tunnel in violation of the Shadow Queen's orders.

The battle presented a completely different situation from the heroic head-to-head war on the surface.

Perhaps, since this group of drow was exiled underground by the Elf Lord Corellon, they have gradually forgotten the dark elves' fighting style of sweeping half of the continent, conquering cities, and attacking like fire, as well as their past glory.

What they are best at now is wandering, sneaking and assassinating!

If it hadn't been for the advance warning from Dishana, Matron of Jadir, no one in this Acropolis would have been spared when this sudden wave of assassins struck.

Even if they received the warning in advance, the Zeelandian defenders of the ten-mile acropolis still suffered heavy losses when the first wave of Gelthorne rogues attacked.

This war that took place underground has not yet been noticed by more people. Almost from the beginning of the war, it fell directly into the most bizarre, most sinister and coldest hand-to-hand combat in the streets!

After so many years of contact, the drow are very familiar with the lethality of Zeelandia's alchemical heat weapons against the army, so naturally they took the initiative to avoid this shortcoming and adopted their best stealth tactics.

The artillery position of the defenders of the Acropolis has completely lost its original function. Under such circumstances, these legions composed of the sixth and seventh Dragonborn Knights of Zeelandia and 30,000 Hog Mining miners, and

These insidious drows fought to the death in the mottled streets, dark sewers, and long northern tunnels for fifteen days.

Many soldiers completely entered a state of hunger strike after using up the food and water they carried with them. This was also an order personally issued by the Jackal Commander Hotz.

Because priests and priests were the first to be assassinated and suffered the most casualties. Without these logistical supports, the soldiers would never know whether the food and water they found in the city had been poisoned!

Hotz, who had not had a drop of water for three days in a row, leaned his body full of wounds against the corner wall and gasped for air. Just this movement made his lungs filled with burning pain.

He is not afraid of ordinary poisons. He was promoted to legend and obtained the astral body after the Moon Shadow War thirty years ago. His resistance to ordinary poisons is also ridiculously high.

But later on, he didn't even have time to look for water.

Because he was targeted by one of the most terrifying beings in the Underdark from the very beginning.

Gelthorne once had a relationship with the current ruler, the Shadow Queen - Xenia.

Pfft.

Hodes took a deep breath, looked helplessly at the two daggers that penetrated the wall and came out from his abdomen, coughed out a mouthful of thick blood foam, and the bloodshot eyes became thicker, and he cursed:

"Mard! Sineiah, you insidious drow girl, you actually put energy potion on the dagger! You can't even think of it!

"Don't let me catch you! I, Hotz, must fuck you to death!"

As he spoke, he smashed the wall behind him with a fierce elbow, but the drow behind the wall had already turned into a shadow and disappeared, leaving only a string of delicate smiles that could not be heard clearly.

Voice:

"Come if you dare.

"It's just that, even if you are a body in the astral world, how many times can your recovery ability last after being drained of blood by me for so many days?"

As soon as she finished speaking, several arrows shot into the jackal's chest one after another.

Hotz slowly raised his head and saw a drow archer holding a large bow standing on the tower at the end of the street, looking at him silently, like a hunter examining his prey.

The legendary drow archer, Ikariya!

The moment he saw her appear, Hotz's heart sank. This meant that after the Acropolis was broken and Iger was forced to return to the defense of underground Zelandia and organized the evacuation of the First Demon Research Institute, he had been

Tiger, his old partner, silently held back the difficult shooter for him.

He's probably already one step ahead of him

Not only that, I don’t know when it started, but the entire Shili Acropolis became silent.

And more and more drow appeared in the streets and alleys, above the dilapidated buildings, raising their long bows and powerful crossbows against this silver lone wolf.

Hotz completely ignored these potential fatal threats. He looked around at his subordinates who had died in the streets and alleys with a blank expression. He immediately grinned and showed a sad but relieved smile:

“All good”

Just as the Queen of Shadows said, it was even overestimated. Even with his astral body's super resilience, he had reached his limit under the endless siege and attack by the drow.

Especially under the influence of energy potions, those wounds that have begun to fail to heal will continue to wriggle and bleed out due to excessive nerve excitement.

Then he knew that he only had the power of one blow left.

His wolf eyes were fixed on the Shadow Queen who reappeared at the end of the street. He took off the wine bag that he had been reluctant to move from his waist, took a swig of it in his mouth, and then poured all the remaining wine on it.

head on.

"For Tiberius, Your Majesty! Ouch!!!"

Hoz raised his head to the sky and let out a wolf howl that resounded over the entire Acropolis. In the eyes of all the drow elves who were watching this scene silently, he dragged the large and exaggerated sword and strode towards the shadow that he still could not defeat.

The Queen rushes with her head held high!

But this time, Shadow Queen Xenia also seemed to see his end, and did not hide away. She just stood on the street, looking at the legendary jackal warrior charging towards her alone, with a touch of admiration in her eyes.

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She had heard about the history of this jackal. Eighty-four years ago, he was just an unknown jackal warlord under the command of the black dragon Kangevian.

But today, less than a century later, under the command of that silver dragon, a formidable opponent has grown up that even she must deal with with caution.

However, at the end of the day, it was the turn of the black dragons from underground Zelandia to deal with him, and she had to save some energy to deal with the equally difficult Corrupt Lady.

So facing the jackal warrior who had already rushed halfway with a determined look in his eyes, the little shadow queen raised her hand and then pressed it down.

Following her order, the drow archers who had occupied all the highlands of the Acropolis, led by the legendary archer Ikariya, all loosened their bowstrings.

The next moment, arrows like a downpour were fired at the silver lone wolf from all directions.

Looking at the oncoming arrow rain, Hotz could only wave the only sword in his hand that he could rely on and kept slashing, but even so, like a pedestrian holding an umbrella, he could not escape from the rain in a typhoon.

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Ding-ding-ding-ding-ding!

Puff-puff-ding-ding-puff!

The sound of dense arrows hitting the broken armor was shattered and bounced, and the muffled sound of shooting into the muscle texture through the damaged gaps continued.

But the Jackal Commander, whose body was getting heavier and heavier, could only see the enemy at the end of the street!

When he crossed half the street and was still thirty feet away from the Queen of Shadows, the jackal was almost turned into a hedgehog. But what shocked the drow was that not only did the opponent seem to be fine, but he was also getting faster and faster.

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The distance of thirty feet is just a moment of "charge" for a legendary warrior!

Bang!

"ah!!!"

The stone slab under Hotz's feet cracked immediately, but just as he was about to rush in front of Xineia, dozens or hundreds of crossbow arrows with iron chains on their tails were suddenly shot out from both sides of the street.

In order to deal with this legendary war wolf, Drow even used ballistas for siege.

clang!

Just when Hotz's sword was about to hit the Shadow Queen's head, Hotz discovered to his dismay that under the heavy chains that were like silver spider webs, his sword could no longer move forward, and he immediately revealed a free and easy figure.

Self-deprecating look:

"Is it still a little bit behind after all? Haha."

"If there is an absolutely fair duel, maybe you can die with me, Jackal Warrior." Xenia said with some emotion.

"Ahem, you drow, since when did you have such a thing as a fair duel?" Hotz's eyes were filled with sneers.

The Shadow Queen looked at the dying Gnoll warriors and recalled in her mind what was recorded in the books. Thousands of years ago when their ancestors were dark elves, there was indeed such a glorious duel.

So Xenia did not explain, but looked around and said:

"Where's the moon elf?"

Of course Hotz knew who the other party was referring to, and immediately showed a look of relief:

"I may disappoint you, Lucifer, on the orders of his master, is leading the elves in Tethyr to fight against natural disasters."

Relief appeared in Xineia's eyes, and she naturally understood that the dragon's arrangement was probably to prevent the 'god's favored one' from suffering mental torture and the curse of Queen Rose in this situation.

He couldn't help but sigh: "Your master is really gentle."

He added in his mind, but for enemies like them, they are so cruel and terrifying.

That claw in Nether's magic ship nearly caused her to report to the Pit Magic Network on the spot.

"yes."

Hotz smiled and was about to ask the other party to give him a good time, but suddenly showed a shocked and excited expression, looked behind the other party blankly, and then lowered his head apologetically:

"Sorry, Master, I couldn't lead my brothers to defend this acropolis after all."

"No, you have done a good job. Thanks to you, Zeelandia is fine. Hotz, my most loyal warrior, go to sleep peacefully and leave the rest to me."

"I can rest assured that"

The jackal leader, who finally achieved his mission and obsession, breathed out the last breath he had been holding in his chest. The heavy wolf head dropped silently, and it fell into silence.

When she heard the familiar voice coming from behind, Shadow Queen Xenia suddenly turned pale, and her body began to tremble slightly involuntarily.

She instinctively turned around and was about to sneak into the shadows, but just as she had time to move, she was tightly grabbed by a huge dragon claw. The terrifying force crushing her from all directions made the Shadow Queen vomit on the spot.
To be continued...