City of Sin: One, two, three furnace
Standing in front of Furnace Stronghold, Richard couldn't help but feel shocked by the dwarf's Royal Capital. In front of Richard is a thousand-meter-high mountain. The entire range of 100 meters from the ground upwards seems to have been cut by a giant with a sharp axe, and there are slices of cut surfaces. Each cutting surface is ten meters square, covered with various windows, entrances and vents, and the surface is covered with giant stones and decorated with carvings. In the upper part of the mountain, a dwarf head tens of meters high was embossed. It is said that this is the great character of the pioneering Furnace Kingdom, a statue with a combat strength close to the legendary Doro Anvil.
From afar, the entire mountain looks like a huge peak nest. From time to time, dwarves can be seen entering and exiting from various cave entrances.
Seeing this scene, Richard is quite emotional. Dwarves, like Drone or ants, are naturally interested in excavation, construction and forging. Although their number is not particularly large, but hundreds of years of tireless excavation has created a miraculous sight in front of them.
When the power of perseverance and time are combined, a miracle occurs.
After two complicated investigations, Richard and his party entered Furnace Stronghold. Entering the gate of Furnace Stronghold, a magnificent hall nearly 100 meters high immediately appeared. Standing in this 500-meter-wide hall, Richard immediately felt very small. At the end of the hall is an iron gate up to ten meters high. The iron door was tightly closed at this moment, and only four channels on both sides could enter and exit. These passages are the same as those seen by Richard. They are wide enough, but the height will make people feel embarrassed. Fighting in this type of terrain will exert at most half of its combat effectiveness.
Richard looked up and saw that the opposite vertical wall was covered with large and small windows. Near the top of the hall, there is a huge natural opening. If foreign enemies invade, after rushing into the hall, as long as the dwarves close the iron gate on the opposite side, the invaders will immediately face full blows from above, below, and around. If the dwarves threw war hammer in the air at a height of tens of meters, the human Heavy Shield Warrior could not resist.
Seeing this, Richard frowned slightly, and he had no idea that the dwarves would actually build this kind of almost unbreakable stronghold. At least the troops he brought did not want to capture Furnace Stronghold at all.
At Faro Plane, we all know that dwarves are very determined Ancestral Worship races. And there are many precedents among dwarf ancestors. Furnace Kingdom, a race that has lasted for hundreds of years, almost all the Ancestral God statues that were enshrined are integrated with the ancestor Ying Ling, and have the potential to become Demigod or Holy Spirit. This is not comparable to the Beast God statue snatched from the Crackstone Camp. Richard estimates that the value of this thing may be comparable to the head of an Greater Devil.
But now, Richard has to temporarily stop thinking about capturing Furnace Stronghold. Moreover, if you don't have the confidence to capture Furnace Stronghold, or even the dwarf dwarf, then most of this transaction negotiation won't take much advantage. Fortunately, Richard was well prepared, immediately adjusted his mindset, and took the second plan as the bottom line. The main content of the second plan is the normal trade between the two races. The first plan is similar to plunder.
After entering Furnace Stronghold, the fire beard may be out of ostentation, and he specially led the Richard and his party around the large furnace in the depths of the castle. It can be seen that the magma continuously gushes out from the fissures of hundreds of meters deep, and is lifted to the ground through a special channel, divided into several channels. After flowing under the feet of several dwarf statues, the fiery firepower of berserk immediately became much more stable, magma The flow has become smoother and faster. These fire streams flow most under the big furnace, continuously releasing the fire power to the furnace to melt the metal.
Richard saw the apparently special dwarf statues, and moved his heart, and asked the whiskers around him: "The dwarf statues are very special, I smell the power and the smell of metal on them."
The fire beard is very proud, saying: "That are the statues of some of the most outstanding smelting masters in the descendants of the anvil, and there are the souls of those masters in them. They use the power of the Yingling spirit to control the magma The power of the disaster will make the source of the disaster become the source of fire in the melting pot! "
"Yingling Spirit ?!" Richard looked surprised.
"Of course! Several masters had the power of Saint Realm during their lifetime. Before their death, they voluntarily sealed their souls into statues out of their incomparable love for ores and metals, and became the heroes of Furnace Kingdom."
Richard glanced sideways at Quicksand and saw the same glow and regret in her eyes. It ’s not very comfortable to see the precious sacrifices in front of me, but I ca n’t take them away. These statues that sealed the heroes of Ying Ling are enough to make Low Level Sacrificial Offering once.
Richard continued to ask Huoshu: "So how did these mortars come here from a fissure hundreds of meters deep?"
Husu Xu ’s face is fanatical: "That is the power of the great Doro Anvil! If it were not for him to constrain the power of the melt, there would be no Furnace Stronghold today."
Richard asked a few more questions, and apart from knowing that temple is Doro deep in the underground melt, he could never ask anything else. Husu has never been to the real temple of Doro. The high temperature there is that ordinary dwarves can't resist. Only the dwarves of Saint Realm can be entered with special protective equipment.
After a tour in Furnace Stronghold, Richard finally saw the dwarf king, Bamore Steel Hammer, the 22nd generation of Doro Anvil in the King's Hall.
The King ’s Hall is equally magnificent, with a twenty-meter-high dome that makes people feel awe from out of thin air. At the end of the King's Hall, a high ladder was built, and Bamore Steel Hammer was sitting on the throne at the top of the ladder, overlooking the Richard pedestrians below. On the wall behind him, there is a mural of rock carvings, which depicts the scene of Doro Anvil when the furnace was built. On both sides of the King's High Platform, an arc-shaped platform is extended, and four high Iron Throne are placed on each side. The eight dwarves sitting on the high Iron Throne are the eight elders of Furnace Kingdom. After the introduction of Firebeard, Richard knows that half of the Presbyterian Church has the bloodline of the anvil, and the other half are dwarves that excel in other fields.
Totems are carved on the backs of the eight elder chairs, symbolizing the eight areas of exploration, excavation, mining, smelting, forging, brewing, Shaman and combat. Only from the field of division of labor by the eight elders, it can be seen that the dwarves attach importance to ores and smelting. The brewing actually set up an elder, but it is beyond Richard expectations.
After the courtesy of Richard, the tall dwarf king Bamore said: "Human, your etiquette is very thoughtful, we have seen your respect for the dwarf. Otherwise, you ca n’t get here at all. In front of Furnace Stronghold .Your 10,000-plus Warrior is nothing at all! "
Richard agrees: "Indeed, Furnace Stronghold is completely a fortress that will not be captured."
Bamore proudly said with a thunderous voice: "Since the day Furnace Stronghold was built, it has never fallen."
"The defense of Furnace Stronghold is shocking, but it doesn't make sense to me." A sentence of Richard changed the dwarves' faces, but then Richard said, "Because I came here through the entire Bloodstained Lands, and Not for war! It is to hope to be friends with Furnace Kingdom and help each other in the years to come. "
Bamore nodded slowly and said, "There are still many dwarves living in your human slave camps, but you look different from other humans. Okay, let ’s see what you bring What happened. "
Richard waved his hand, and the four Free Archeron Warrior took the small wine barrels to the king ’s ladder. The guards stepped forward to take the wine barrels and delivered them to Bamore. Bamore directly took the small wine barrel decorated with Blackgold dual-colored, and directly pulled out the barrel stopper, the rich aroma immediately moved him. He sniffed the wine deeply and shouted, "Take my gold cup!"
The guards flew away, and in less than three minutes, they took in nine wine glasses of different styles. Not only the king, each elder has a beloved wine glass. The nine wine glasses have different materials and styles, but the only common feature is their hugeness. In just three minutes to get the wine glass, Bamore and the elders were a little restless. If they were not worried about the humans in the hall, they must start drinking directly at the wine barrel.
As soon as the wine glass arrives, Bamore immediately pours wine in each glass. A full barrel of wine was completely empty after filling nine wine glasses, showing the size of the dwarf wine glasses. The rich aroma of the wine filled the entire king's hall, and the guards were gutting. Bamore held a golden cup and said to the elders, "For the furnace!"
"For the furnace!" The elders swallowed and the guards' throats rolled.
Richard's heart suddenly moved. If it was poisoned in the wine, wouldn't it be possible to wipe out the power of Furnace Stronghold's top management? However, he immediately gave up this unrealistic idea. The dwarves are known for their physique and strong anti-drug ability. Each of the eight elders has the strength of Saint Realm and above. Bamore himself is as high as Level 18, which is also Saint Realm level in Norland. . If you drink some poison, you may not be able to make these dwarves diarrhea. And the furnace is a kingdom with hundreds of thousands of people. Nine dwarf leaders have died, and nine more will be selected soon.
Bamore is still unfinished, and he glanced at the remaining three barrels of wine before looking at Richard,
The decoration of the four barrels of wine delivered by Richard is different, and it is clear that the style of the barrel can be distinguished from the quality. Bamore directly opened the best barrel of wine, and the remaining three barrels did not move.
Bamore suddenly whispered to an elder next to him, "What is this man called?"
The elder was very careful and said, "Richard."
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