My Skill Bar is Full of Monster Skills-Chapter 224 - 155: Wow~ Such a Beautiful Warhammer!
Gently supporting Reid’s limp corpse.
For a moment, Freddy felt a wave of emotions in his heart.
Recalling their once decent cooperation and years of adventures together, Freddy sighed:
"I’m sorry!"
At this moment, a faint oppressive feeling from the distant sky jolted Freddy back to his senses.
With no time to lament the past, he immediately began searching Reid’s body.
"Empty?"
"A hole?"
Suddenly, Freddy felt a bad premonition.
But then, he reached towards the other side of the waist pouch.
As his fingertips touched a familiar texture and shape, Freddy’s mood lifted like a rollercoaster.
"Thank goodness!"
"It’s here after all."
After staring at the miniature model in his hand for several seconds, Freddy quickly put it into his own pouch.
Then, he removed Reid’s floating boots and swiftly put them on.
He also took off Reid’s cloak.
"Torn?"
"Such a pity, the infiltrator’s cloak effect will be somewhat affected."
"But it will suffice."
Without wasting time searching for anything else, Freddy lightly kicked off the ground, his suspended figure shot forward.
From his departure direction, Freddy didn’t head towards the second retreat point but instead went straight back towards the surface.
....
Several minutes later.
Having confirmed no shadow hounds or cave spiders were pursuing him, Freddy quickly found a safe spot to stop.
Shadow hounds mainly use smell for tracking, and with Reid dead, the scent tracking likely stayed with Reid’s corpse and could not continue.
Of course, having taken Reid’s floating boots and infiltrator’s cloak, Freddy was cautious, scattering gray mice droppings along the way to disrupt scent tracking.
"Finally got it..."
Freddy carefully took out the miniature suitcase model from his pouch and eagerly stroked it thrice with his thumb.
But to his astonishment, there was no reaction around him.
The hidden chest of Liamon, which was supposed to appear, was nowhere to be seen.
Huh?
Freddy looked around again, puzzled and bewildered.
"Could it be I stroked it too quickly?"
Thus, Freddy gently and steadily stroked it another three times.
Looking around again.
Still, nothing!
This made Freddy’s heart skip a beat.
He started stroking quickly!
Three strokes after three strokes!
Until his eyes grew redder, and with a ’rip’ sound, the black animal hide on the mini model’s surface was torn open, revealing a tiny slit, finally bringing him to his senses!
"How is this possible!"
"How did it turn out like this!"
Freddy felt utterly despondent, like losing close kin in an instant, muttering continuously.
The team’s entire two years of earnings invested!
Vast preparation over half a year!
Even sacrificing all members of the Dawn Dual Blades team except him!
Yet, the result was this!
"There must be a problem!"
"There has to be a problem here!"
"But where exactly is the problem?"
Freddy clutched his head with both hands, face filled with pain...
....
Several hours later.
The spore forest was bustling.
A particularly dignified gray dwarf, wearing a golden robe and a crown on his head, came to the spore forest near the Dark Furnace City gates, surrounded by dozens of gray dwarves.
"Your Majesty Lokar!" The appearance of the figure made Dughal High Priest, a Transcendent Strong Person, slightly bow in salute.
"Chieftain!"
"Master of the Dark Furnace!"
In these several decades, the Dark Furnace Clan gradually transitioned from a clan to a kingdom, so when seeing ’Master of the Dark Furnace’ Lokar Dark Furnace, subordinates had various forms of addressing.
Yet, from the addresses, one could discern the rank and relationship with the Master of the Dark Furnace.
"High Priest Dughal, what is the current situation?" Lokar asked solemnly.
The epic-level warhammer ’Counterattacker’ is not only one of the top treasures of the Dark Furnace Clan but also bears extremely important symbolic significance.
Passed down generation after generation without being stolen, yet under his watch, Counterattacker was stolen.
Lokar’s expression naturally wasn’t pleasant.
"This human adventurer mage confessed that this ’Counterattacker’ theft was their doing... everyone had clear divisions of labor... first retreat point... second retreat point..."
Dughal gestured toward the fire mage Manning, who was shackled nearby, and began narrating in detail.
"The imperial palace guard tracked the stealing Wanderer not far away, but he was already dead, his heart fatally struck by a sword!"
"Oh? Has the second retreat point been searched?" Lokar asked inquisitively.
"It has. Their leader named Freddy did not head that way."
"So, their entire squad essentially became cannon fodder, and the leader alone took Counterattacker back to the surface?"
"From the current perspective, it seems so." Dughal nodded.
"Dispatch the Shadow Hammer squad to hunt him down!"
After a moment’s thought, Lokar shook his head, sighing.
There’s just no way.
Once they leave the Dark Furnace Clan’s influence, the Underdark is fraught with peril; diverse dangerous demons, Drow, Mind Flayers, etc. aren’t suitable environments to send large crews searching.
Only a skilled team could be dispatched for tracking.
And if he returns to the surface, then relies solely on the strength of the Dark Furnace Clan, dealing with this matter becomes quite powerless.
