Chapter 23 Chapter 18 The Common Danger

"His voice will make us known to all life in the Underdark." Katie whispered to Bruno, complaining about the ringing steel ring armor of the war madman.Panter realized this too, so he walked far ahead of the others, and gradually moved further and further away from them.Kitty and Wulfgar, who had no infrared vision, could only place one hand on Bruenor and move slowly together.Guan Haifa sometimes leads the way, but most of the time he stays between Bruno and Zhankuang, maintaining the connection between the two parts of the team. Another harsh rubbing sound came from the front, and Bruno's face showed a bitter look. He heard Katie's resigned sigh and felt the same feeling immediately.However, the experienced Bruno knew better than his daughter that such worries were useless.He once thought about asking Panter to take off the "loud voice" armor, but immediately dismissed the idea.He understood that even if the four of them were all walking barefoot, for the dark elves with exceptionally sensitive hearing, it was no different from marching with a marching drum.

"Light the torches," he said to Wulfgar. "No." Katie objected. "They're right next to us," Bruno replied, "I can feel those vicious dogs, with or without light, they can see us, we can't avoid the next battle, so we might as well make the combat environment more for us It is beneficial." Katie turned her head to the side, and although she couldn't see anything in the darkness, she could sense that Bruno's observation was correct.Dark and soundless shapes were leaping around them, tightening the noose around their necks.A moment later, the torch in Wulfgar's hand shone brightly, causing her to turn her head away, blinking.

Flickering shadows replaced absolute darkness, and Katie was amazed at how natural this tunnel was, more natural and rough than the tunnels they had passed through.The walls and roof of the cave are all made of mud mixed with stones, which makes the young woman quite worried about the stability of the place.The slightest jolt of hundreds of tons of earth and rock hanging above their heads would have buried her and her companions alive in no time. "What are you thinking?" Bruenor caught her obvious uneasiness, and turning to Wulfgar saw the same nervousness on the barbarian's face.

"Unprocessed tunnel," the dwarf understood their thoughts, "you don't know such an area." He put his thick palm on the arm of his beloved daughter, and felt a cold sweat. "You'll get used to it," the dwarf reassured her tenderly. "Remember, Drizzt is down there alone, and he needs our help. Remember that, and you'll soon forget all the things above your head." Stone." Katie nodded firmly, took a deep breath, and wiped the sweat from her brow vigorously.After Bruno finished speaking, he took two steps forward. He said that he would go to the front of the fire to see if he could stop the leading battle madman.

Once the dwarf was gone, Wulfgar said to Katie, "Drizzt needs us." Katie turned to look at him, surprised by his words.For the first time in a long time, Wulfgar neither expressed an attitude of coercive protection nor unreasonable anger in his words. Wulfgar walked to her, put his arm gently on her back, and walked with her.She kept up with the slow pace of the big man, carefully looked at his handsome face, trying to distinguish the reason for those painful expressions in the tough lines on his face. "After all this is over, we have a lot to talk about." He suppressed his voice.

Katie stopped and looked at him suspiciously, and her actions seemed to have done the Savage more damage. "I have a lot to apologize to you." Wulfgar tried to get the words out. "And Drizzt, Bruenor. But I apologize to you even more. I shouldn't have made Regis—that Artemis Entreri fooled me!" Wulfgar stared at Catti-brie, seeing the sternness in those blue eyes slowly ease, and his agitation gradually calmed down. "Things have been messed up in the past few weeks by that killer and his magic mask." The young woman agreed with the barbarian, "but I'm afraid this problem existed before Entreri came, you It should be acknowledged."

Wulfgar looked away, mulled over the words, and nodded in agreement. "We're going to talk about this," he assured Katie. "After we found that drow," Katie said. The Savage nodded again. "Also remember your position," Katie told him. "You are a member of this team. Your task is not to monitor my safety, but to fulfill your own duties." "You too." Wulfgar's smile made Kitty feel warm.She saw again the childish, naive, reckless barbarian, Wulfgar who made her heart flutter. The Savage nodded at her again and stepped forward with a smile on his face, Katie walking beside him rather than behind him.

※※※※ "I gave them all to you." Entreri moved slowly towards his enemy, rapiers surrounded by light and jeweled daggers splayed at his sides, as if he were viewing a precious treasure. "Because of my efforts, you have gained hope again, and when you walk through these dark tunnels, you have regained the belief that you can see the sun again." Muscles tensed in Drizzt's cheeks, and he clenched his knives tightly and said nothing. "Don't you thank me?" "Please kill him." Drizzt heard Regis whisper weakly, perhaps the most pathetic voice a drow ranger had ever heard.He looked at Regis and saw the halfling shaking in terror.He bit his lip, his still swollen hands clenched together desperately.What horrors had Regis experienced at the hands of Entreri?

He turned his head to look at the approaching killer again, the flash burning with rage. "Now, you're finally going to fight." Entreri's characteristic evil smile played on his lips. "Finally dying too?" Drizzt flipped his cloak back and strode forward, not wanting to fight Entreri beside Regis.Just to torture Drizzt, to provoke Drizzt's wrath, Entreri would plunge his murder dagger into the halfling's body. The killer withdrew his left hand holding the dagger, as if about to throw it.Drizzt subconsciously lowered his body, and his two knives were ready for defense.But Entreri didn't shoot the dagger, and a more contented smile showed that he had no intention of throwing it at all.

Taking two more steps, Drizzt entered the range of melee combat, and the dancing of the two knives began. "Nervous?" The killer sneered, knocking away the flashing blade with his rapier, "Of course you are nervous, this is the problem that your weak heart brings you, Drizzt Do'Urden, you Your feelings have flawed you." Dexterously, Drizzt slid sideways past the killer, and the blade swept across Entreri's belly, forcing the killer to bend and leap back, while raising his dagger to block the scimitar's attack. "You have too much to lose." Entreri didn't seem to care about Drizzt's ultimate move. "You know, if you die, the halfling will die too. It will distract you, my friend." .There are too many things involved in your heart, and you can't concentrate on this battle at all." When the voice fell to the ground, the killer's attack had rushed towards Drizzt, and the blade was swept up like a storm, hitting the two knives continuously, trying to kill Drizzt He tore a hole in Tate's defenses, giving the dagger a chance to take Drizzt's life.

There was no gap in Drizzt's defense, and every movement was wonderful.Entreri's onslaught was still unable to achieve success, and Drizzt gradually shifted from defensive posture to offense, which interrupted Entreri's attack. "Very well!" Entreri exclaimed. "Now you are fighting with your heart. This is the moment I've been waiting for since our battle at Calimport." Drizzt's expression was still indifferent, "I hope I won't disappoint you." He stepped forward quickly, spinning his two knives as in the upper cave. Entreri did the same as that time, flicking the knives away one by one at will. Under the cover of the double attack, Drizzt turned to the left hand side of Entreri's dagger, and rolled on the spot, avoiding the stabbing knife.Standing up, he turned and appeared behind Entreri.The killer sprinted quickly, swinging his sword frantically, hoping to block the sneak attack of the scimitar. Entreri's smile faded. He managed to avoid a direct attack, but Drizzt's constant pressure drove him back. They heard a light sound of crossbow strings, and the two opponents rolled back quickly, and the crossbow arrows shot between them. Five black figures came into view, swords in hand. "Your friend," Drizzt said, still calmly, "it looks like our battle is going to drag on again." Entreri looked at the approaching dark elf, his eyes narrowed with infinite hatred. Drizzt could feel the frustration of a killer, and could Vierna let Entreri fight again when the powerful enemy was searching and rescuing Drizzt in the tunnel?Even if she had said yes, Entreri would have learned from the previous fight that Drizzt would never fight with all his strength when there was no hope of freedom. And the killer's next sentence surprised the drow ranger. "Remember when we fought the duergar?" Entreri struck again in front of the approaching dark elf, and Drizzt easily parried the swift but misshapen rapier. "Left shoulder," Entreri whispered to him, and his sword fell on Drizzt's shoulder at the words.Flash reached to block from the right, but was a step too late, and a rapier emerged from behind the drow's cloak. Regis yelled, and Drizzt dropped a cutlass and staggered back, his pain plain to see.Entreri's sword thrust out again, only five inches from Drizzt's throat, and the flash was too late to block. "Surrender!" shouted the killer, "Drop your weapons!" The flash fell to the ground, and Drizzt leaned as if he, too, would fall soon.Behind, Regis groaned loudly, trying desperately to get up and run away, but his weary and injured limbs could not support his weight, and he could not even crawl. The dark elves tentatively walked into the light range of the torches, talking to each other.And nodded appreciatively to the killer. "We're going to bring him to Vierna," a dark elf said to Entreri in brusque Common Tongue. Entreri nodded in agreement.Leaping forward suddenly, the sword in his hand pierced the speaker's chest. Drizzt, who was leaning over, was not injured, he picked up two scimitars from the ground, flicked his body, and sliced ​​open Drow's stomach beside him.The injured dark elf desperately dodged to the side, but Drizzt was much faster than him, the ranger raised his backhand, and the scimitar pierced the dark elf's rib cage into his chest. Entreri was now on the third drow, the dark elf swinging his swords frantically, parrying every attack of the killer's sword and dagger.The Killer wants to end the fight quickly, so he takes a purely aggressive approach, trying to kill the enemy in one fell swoop.But this drow was a veteran of Dayet's mercenary regiment. He rolled back, opened the distance from the killer, and danced his double swords into a sharp edge. Entreri let out a cry of disappointment, but he also stepped up the pressure on the attack, forcing mistakes. Drizzt found himself facing two enemies, one of whom had turned his hand crossbow on him in an evil smile.But Drizzt's speed was even faster, a scimitar suddenly appeared in the path of the crossbow, and bounced off the small hidden weapon. The drow threw a crossbow at Drizzt, forcing the ranger to take a step back, and he took the opportunity to draw the dagger that went with the longsword in his right hand. The other drow had already launched a fierce offensive with broadsword and short sword when Drizzt retreated. There was a series of clashes between metal and metal, and just when Drizzt was still unable to disintegrate the enemy's offensive, the second drow had joined the battle group, and Drizzt couldn't help but feel a burst of pressure due to his high martial arts skills.The flash blocked the side attack of the dagger, continued to slash forward, suppressed the thrust of the broadsword, and then swooped back to block the sharp edge of the dagger. The scuffle went on for quite a while, and the two soldiers of the Dayet mercenary group showed excellent offensive and defensive tacit understanding, and the gap between the two drow's respective offense and defense was completely filled by their companions. Facing such two enemies, Drizzt did not have complete confidence in winning.Moreover, he knew that even if he could win, it would take a lot of time.Glancing behind him, he saw that Entreri was backing away from him, slowing visibly. The assassin noticed Drizzt's predicament, and he gave the drow ranger a slight nod. Drizzt dashed forward, driving the dagger-wielding drow back, then turned to face the other drow, slashing down with his scimitar, forcing him to raise his broadsword to block. The scimitar slammed into the broadsword so forcefully that Drizzt jumped back immediately. The enemy took a heavy blow and was unable to recover for a while. Holding the broad-edged sword, he paused for a moment, and this moment was already too long. The gem-embedded dagger turned into colorful lightning, cut through the air, and penetrated the drow's defenseless rib gap. The wounded groaned and leaned against the wall, but he still maintained his balance and swung the double blades in front of him. Take a defensive stance. His partner rushed over immediately, stabbing up and down with the long sword, cutting across with the whirling blade, trying to restrain Drizzt's movements with all his strength, and rescue the injured companion. Drizzt parried the first two strikes, then ducked through the expected third sweep.Fleeing to the wall, the double scimitar broke through the defense of the injured drow's side in a short distance.A scimitar pierced from below the opponent's arm, followed by another scimitar, completing the kill. As soon as the first scimitar left the enemy's body, driven by the warrior's instinct, it was lifted upwards, and the second drow's head-slashing attack started. When Entreri shot the dagger, the dark elf opposite him took the initiative, and the two swords immediately surrounded Entreri from all sides.Finally, he seized a favorable attacking position, thinking that he could end the fight in one blow, so the two swords thrust out in parallel, pointing directly at Entreri's chest. The rapier knocked away one sword and then the other, the speed in the process was incomparable, and then the two swords were hit hard again, and they swung far away, almost losing their hands.Drizzt's second scimitar was in no hurry to leave the enemy's body. He put the point of the knife against the dagger in the chest of the dead drow, glanced back at Entreri, and flicked the scimitar, sending the dagger back. To Entreri. Entreri caught the dagger with his backhand, followed the trajectory of the dagger, and smashed it directly into the opponent's exposed heart.The killer leaped back, looking coldly at the dying drow's disbelieving face. Seeing the enemy desperately trying to raise the double swords with his arms that had lost strength, Drizzt felt a little pathetic, and then shrugged at the dead drow corpse on the ground. The only remaining drow knew that he was no match for Drizzt Do'Urden, and he also noticed his last chance, so he went around Drizzt's side while defending.The long sword barely blocked the attacking double knives, and the left hand held the dagger, making a gesture to throw it. Drizzt immediately took a defensive stance, one machete ready to parry the flying daggers, the other continuing to apply pressure on the enemy. But the enemy jumped to the side of the halfling lying on the ground. "Surrender, or I'll kill the halfling!" the evil dark elf yelled in drow. Drizzt's purple eyes flickered darkly. A scimitar hit Drow's wrist, knocking off the dagger, flashing a blue light, smashing the protective long sword, and another scimitar slashed at the enemy's thigh. The wounded dark elf's face was contorted and his body was shaking. He tried to step back, trying to say something to express his surrender, but his assault on Regis had already driven Drizzt out of his mind. Drizzt's movements were slow and deadly, cutting the scimitar inch by inch into the side of his foe, blocking all his attempts to resist. All the drow soldier could see were Drizzt's burning eyes. He had seen the snake's eyes on the whip of the cruel priest, and the maddened eyes of the Matron, but he had never seen such eyes. absolute commitment. He dropped his head, hissed and screamed, and fell forward, completely in a frenzy of terror. The scimitar slashed through his heart one after another, and the flash cut off the muscles of his sword-holding arm, while the other scimitar slanted upwards and passed under his jaw. When he died, he was still staring at those two arms purple eyes. Drizzt's chest fluttered with excitement, and the fire in his eyes intensified.He pushed the dead drow away, frantically seeking Entreri, to end the fight with him. But the killer was gone.