Chapter 12 Chapter 9: The Sharp Knife Edge

"Goblin?" Regis asked.Drizzt was bending over the corpse of a dwarf, shaking his head before he could fully see the wound.The drow ranger knew that the goblins would not treat the dwarves this way, and nothing was missing from their valuable armor and weapons. Moreover, goblins never collect corpses for their own kind, and there are only dwarf corpses in this corridor.No matter how large the goblin horde they encountered, or whatever disadvantage they faced, Drizzt did not think the tenacious dwarven warriors would come to nothing. The dwarf's wounds also seemed to confirm Drow's judgment. These wounds were thin and deep, and they all hit the vital point.It was definitely not the goblins' inferior notched weapons that caused such a knife edge, but the sharp stainless steel blade.Maybe there is magic on the blade.Among them, the knife that cut the dwarf's throat was difficult to detect even if Drizzt wiped off the blood, but its lethality was beyond doubt.

"What killed them?" Regis looked impatient, pacing up and down, switching the torch from one hand to the other. Drizzt's mind refused to accept the obvious conclusion. How many times had he seen such wounds in Menzoberranzan?Among the nations, no race other than the surface elves wields such a precision blade. "What killed them?" Regis asked again, the tremor evident in his voice. Drizzt's white hair shook twice, "I don't know." He answered truthfully, and then he walked to the next corpse, which was sitting upside down by the wall bleeding profusely, but Drizzt The only wound was found on his right neck, which was as thin as paper but unfathomable.

"Possibly the duergar." Drizzt said of the evil race of dwarves.This speculation is very reasonable, the gray dwarf is the slave of the dragon Shimmer.Only a few months ago they dwelt in these halls, when Bruenor's army drove them out.However, Drizzt knew that his speculation was wishful thinking.Greedy duergar will strip these victims, especially those valuable miner's equipment.Like the mountain dwarves, the duergar have a penchant for heavy weapons, but there is no trace of a hammer on the dwarves' corpses. "You don't believe it yourself," Regis said behind him, and Drizzt didn't turn to look at the halfling, but stood up and walked over to the other unfortunate dwarf.

Regis' voice cracked behind him, but the halfling's last words were the clearest Drizzt had ever heard in his life. "You think Entreri did it." Drizzt didn't have this idea, he didn't think any warrior could do this so thoroughly and precisely alone, no matter how powerful he was.He looked back at Regis, the halfling standing under the torch, his indifferent eyes searching Drizzt for a response to those words.Drizzt thought the halfling was acting out of curiosity, and the thought of Entreri following him from Calimport terrified him. Drizzt shook his head, and turned to continue his investigation.On the third dwarf body, he found a clue that allowed him to narrow the list of suspects down to one race.

A thin arrow stuck under the cloak on the side of the corpse. In order not to break it, Drizzt tried his best to breathe steadily, and slowly pulled it out.He knew it, and it explained why these warlike dwarves were slain so easily.These arrows are fired from a hand crossbow, coated with a sleep potion, and are a common weapon of the dark elves. The blades slipped into Drizzt's slender palms. "We must get out of here," he whispered to the halfling sternly. "What's wrong?" Regis asked. Drizzt, who was searching the dark corridor ahead, did not answer. Somewhere behind the halfling, Guenhwyvar let out a low growl.

Drizzt slid one foot back slowly, knowing that any sudden movement now might invite an attack.There are dark elves in Mithril Hall!Of the countless dangers in Faerûn, Drizzt knew nothing that could compare to the devastation wrought by the drow. "How?" Regis whispered. The flashing blue flame jumped. "Get out of the way!" shouted Drizzt, who understood the warning sent by the cutlass. He turned back just in time to find Regis disappearing into a cloud of darkness, the halfling's torch extinguished in the blink of an eye. Drizzt turned and pressed himself against the stone wall, then quickly ducked behind the dwarf's corpse.He closed his eyes tightly, trying to switch his vision to the infrared spectrum. At the same time, the dwarf corpse twitched slightly, and he knew it was caused by the crossbow bolts.

A dark figure moved out of the black ball, and Regis, stepping out of the darkness, shed a little light in the corridor, and his torch illuminated some places around the black ball. The halfling didn't cry out, which surprised Drizzt, who suspected Regis was under control. Guenhwyvar leaped left and right beside the halfling, a poisoned arrow missed inches from her paw, and a second arrow hit her, but the panther's speed was not noticeably slow. Drizzt saw the hotline drawn by two slender figures many paces away, each with a hand outstretched, as if they were re-aiming.Drizzt also summoned a cloud of darkness in front of Guenhyvar with his innate magical powers, providing some cover for his companions.At the same time he stood up and rushed out with the panther, hoping that Regis would escape in time.

He entered the dark area of ​​his own making, and the speed of his feet did not decrease at all.He knew the layout of the corridor by heart, so he jumped over a dwarf corpse in no time.Drizzt knew there was a side road ahead on the left, and Guenhwyvar had leaped across it, attacking the two drow.But Drizzt, who had been trained by the dark elves, was sure that the side road would never be clean. He heard a rush of footsteps, as if many limbs as hard as knives were hitting the ground at the same time, and the ranger backed away in fear.An eight-legged half-drow, half-spider sprinted out of the hole.Eight black limbs climbed easily and powerfully on the floor and cave walls at the same time, and the once delicate and delicate drow swung two axes ferociously with both hands.

This is the creature most hated and feared by all the dark elves in the world, including Drizzt - the spider elf. Guenhwyvar's growl and a few bowstring twitches woke Drizzt just in time to block the first wave of the lizard's attack.The monster kicked out, knocking Drizzt off balance, and the twin axes fell on the ranger's head. Drizzt turned over and jumped out of the range of the kicking axe, then grabbed a kicked spider leg and grabbed it back with force, the flash pulled out horizontally, the second spider leg retreated in pain, Drizzt got enough The gap, drilled under the monster.

The spider elf propped up the spider's body with its hind legs, and slashed at the ranger's back with the twin axes. Drizzt had already slid another scimitar over the nape of his neck, parrying an axe.He stuck the handle of another ax with the blade, and then he turned sideways sharply with both knives, pressing the knife with his left hand over the handle, and finally let the ax fly out of his hand.The flash pierced straight up, penetrating through the gaps in the spider's body armor, the blue flame completely disappeared in the black body, and the heat gushed out, covering Drizzt's arms.The spider elf screamed in pain, and his whole body twitched violently.

Eight spider legs attacked Drizzt from all directions, forcing him to draw a flash block.Through the siege of the spider's legs, Drizzt saw more hot figures bursting from the side road, drow, each with an arm extended toward him. Drizzt turned sharply as the first arrow came, wrapping his heavy cloak around the bolt.Later, Drizzt found that half of his body was exposed from the spider's body, and the spider elf also turned around, and was about to attack with the remaining axe.To make matters worse, the second drow had already aimed closely at him. The ax swung down in a strange way—the blunt head was directed at Drizzt, but Drizzt held up his knife to block it.He waited for the sound of the bowstring snapping, only to hear a muffled growl as the six hundred-pound panther crushed the drow killer. Drizzt knocked away the axe, took the opportunity to escape from the spider body, and blocked the drow's enemy's stabbing sword in time. "Put down your weapons, you'll feel better!" The drow with two swords shouted in a language that Drizzt hadn't heard for more than ten years.The beautiful, twisted, terrifying city of Menzoberranzan rushed into his mind with those words.How many times had Zach Nafein - his father - stood before him with the same weapon, waiting to start a new training session with him. Drizzt let out a roar that he didn't even know what he meant, and unleashed a series of onslaughts that dazzled and knocked his opponent off balance in less than a second.A scimitar cut down from the enemy's side, the second one was raised in the face, and the first knife jumped to his shoulder in an instant. The drow killer opened his eyes wide, as if he had seen his own doom. Guan Haifa launched an impact for the second time, hitting the spider elf's body at full speed with his two front paws, and shrunk his body into a ball under the madly attacking spider legs. Drizzt knew that more dark elves were gathering here from the corridors and side roads.But his anger did not subside, and the flash and another scimitar cooperated in the most violent way, suppressing all drow killers. At this time, he saw the drow's neck exposed in front of him, but he had no intention of swinging the knife that would kill him.He was not facing goblins now, but drow, his own kin.Maybe a dark elf like Zaknafein.Drizzt had sworn never to kill another dark elf again when he left the drow city, so he didn't look at the limp neck again, and just lowered his scimitar to deflect the incoming blade.The flash hit the sword immediately, and another scimitar struck from the opposite direction, finally knocking the sword away.The drow slayer fell backwards, but quickly rushed forward, hoping to drive Drizzt back with his remaining sword and pick up the dropped weapon. Flash's side attack knocked the second sword away, and Drizzt, who had no doubts about the effect of the scimitar's attack, had already rushed forward almost before Flash's force. Now he could attack any part of the drow's body, but Drizzt Do'Urden never forgot his oath, which represented his faith and justice. The scimitar pierced the foe just above the knee, and the evil drow howled and fell to the ground, clutching his broken joint. Guan Haifa fell under the spider elf, and the muscles on the side of the panther were exposed outside the broken skin. "Go, Guenhwyvar!" Drizzt ran along the wall, jumping over the blocking enemies along the way, smashing the attacking swords, and rushed between the eight legs of the spider elf.With a howl from the monster, Flash sliced ​​through a giant bug's leg, nearly severing it, and the ranger rolled backwards, reaching behind the spiderling. Guenhwyvar was struck by the axe but did not respond, neither following Drizzt out of the fray nor dodging the oncoming blade. "Guenhwyvar!" Drizzt called eagerly, and the panther slowly turned his head to look at him.Drizzt saw the few bolts protruding from her body, and understood why his companion was moving so slowly. Drizzt's gut told him to get the panther off immediately before she took any more damage, but he didn't have a statue! "Guanhwyvar!" he shouted again, and at the same time saw many shadows gathering here from in front of the spider elves.With tears in his eyes, Drizzt decided to rush back and fight to the death with the panther. The eight-legged creature roared triumphantly, and the ax struck the neck of the black panther that was trembling weakly.The blade of the ax fell, but it only hit a mist, and the howl of the spider elf was immediately full of a sense of failure. "Run!" Drizzt heard Regis shouting behind him, and his tense nerves suddenly relaxed. At this moment, the spider elf turned around, facing him directly.The torchlight returned to the dark tunnel, and Drizzt could just make out the creature's dead, familiar face. But he didn't have time to stop and think about it all.He whirled around, swung his cloak (to catch another crossbow bolt that was shot at his back), and ran away from the scene. The corridor suddenly darkened again, then lighted up again, then fell into darkness again.Regis passed through two dark barriers one after another, and Drizzt covered himself with black mist, and quickly jumped to the side, and the sound of arrow clusters hitting rocks was heard next to his ears.Just as Regis passed through the second black ball, he scooped it up. The ranger jumped over the corpse of the dwarf, rounded the corner of the corridor, and ran desperately according to the map in his mind.