The plain of the stone hill is a place where dwarves live, the southern terrain of the kingdom is complex, in addition to the plains, there are hills, mountains, swamps and other terrains, humans occupy the largest area of the plains, and the swamps are the world of trolls and lizardmen, and the principle of stone hills belongs to a mixed area of hills and plains, not only where you can grow food, but also large and small mines, enough for dwarves to continue to mine.

The relationship between dwarves and humans is average, and humans have also fought the idea of the original ore veins of the stone mound at the beginning, but the dwarves are really difficult to deal with, these guys are natural hoplites, and their height is generally about one meter four to one meter five, but their shoulders are generally thicker than human thighs, and they are basically horizontally long, and the strength of the dwarves is even stronger than that of the orcs, and the dwarves who are armed with war hammers and strong armor are stronger than the orcs in individual combat, and there is little difference between men and women, they can all go into battle in armor, more than a million dwarves have sent out 500,000 soldiers in armor, Armed like hedgehogs.

The fertility rate of the key dwarves is not high, the population has always remained in a stable range, there are not too many expansion ambitions, there is not much conflict with humans, exchanges are mainly transactions, and after a long time, the two sides will acquiesce to each other's existence.

The dwarves need the wine supplied by the human world, and some goods, and the humans need the ores of the stone mound and the armor and weapons made by the dwarves.

The main forces of the three major armies in the south were all transferred to the north, and in addition to the garrison, there were only the private armies of the nobles left, in addition to the armament under Pare, the garrison corps of the major cities still had some combat effectiveness, and Paley in addition to constantly strengthening the strength of his own subordinates, he also hoped to enhance the strength against the orcs by attracting races like the dwarves. It's just that the dwarf still has some doubts for a while, and he doesn't respond to Pare's kindness for the time being.

At this time, in the plain of the stone hills, the royal court of the dwarves was discussing the news obtained from the human messenger.

The royal court was completely in the middle of a mountain range, and the voices were inexplicably amplified here, and with the characteristic loud voices of the dwarves, they spoke almost like a quarrel.

"King! If humanity is true, we may need to cooperate with humanity! ”

"Humph! These humans are very cunning, and if you cooperate with them, you are afraid of being deceived. ”

"I think these humans are very good, they give me good wine!"

"Gollum..."

Another big sip of wine, it is strange that this group of dwarves can drink on such a serious occasion as a royal court meeting.

"Brown! You leave some for Lao Tzu! ”

"Okay, what is it like, you have to drink it after you finish drinking!"

After chatting a few words below, the dwarf king really couldn't stand it, and patted the chair to stop the several patriarchs who were still drinking.

The dwarven political system is rather strange, although there is a dwarf king, but it is divided into seven clans.

The dwarf king was elected among the patriarchs of the seven major clans, and the current dwarf king Norton, who was the patriarch of the Blackstone clan before, was also the reason why he was elected as the dwarf king is also very simple, this person is quite reliable, at least he won't drink alcohol during meetings.

With such a chaotic political system, the dwarves have not had any major civil strife, which can be regarded as a relatively brainless benefit of this race. On weekdays, the patriarchs of various clans have a meeting to drink, and he turns a blind eye, after all, he himself is greedy, but now when discussing such an important matter, this group of people also drinks, which makes Norton a little angry.

After realizing that Norton was really a little angry, the following dwarven patriarchs restrained themselves a little and turned their energy back to the meeting.

"Wang, I don't think we need to pay attention to the humans, whether it is true that the orcs are coming, even if they drive away the humans and become the masters outside, it has nothing to do with us dwarves, if they dare to fight the idea of the stone mound plain, they must ask us if the war hammer in our hands agrees!"

"That's it! King, let the humans and orcs fight, it's none of the dwarves' business. ”

"At most, for the sake of the wine, we'll give them some weapons and armor."

Dwarves are more capable of forging than humans, they are almost all natural forgers, and their thick arms have a much advantage over humans when they pick up sledgehammers, and in addition to their more skilled skills, they also have certain metal recipes, which makes the weapons created by dwarves sharper and their armor stronger, which is very popular with humans.

"If you think about it carefully, orcs are not necessarily as good at talking as humans, orcs are not only enemies of humans, five hundred years ago, orcs were enemies of dwarves, if orcs come, our dwarves' life must be more difficult than now."

"Does the king know what happened five hundred years ago? What happened five hundred years ago? ”

"Five hundred years ago, it was not humans living outside the Plains of the Stone Mounds, but a group of orcs, and at that time, the dwarves not only had to build weapons and equipment for the orcs for free, but also handed over food to the orcs, and most excessively, even the brewed wine."

More than five hundred years ago, before Aragorn was born, it was when the orc kingdom was at its peak, the population was four or five times that of now, it received a large amount of elven heritage, and treated many races, including humans and dwarves, as vassals.

"What, the brewed wine also has to be handed in, it's too much!"

"yes, we don't have enough wine of our own!"

"And this kind of thing, beat him!"

Originally, the dwarves who were still lacking in interest suddenly became angry when they heard the end, and they looked like they were going to fight the orcs.

Only Norton frowned, looking at the speechless look below, he really wanted to make a rule, no dwarves were allowed to drink during the royal court meeting in the future.

"I've sent the human messenger back for the time being, I mean, if we don't want the orcs to defeat the humans, then be ready to send troops."

"But, Wang, without Wang Dun, the armies of the Seven Great Clans would not be able to leave the Stone Hill Plain."

After talking for a long time, finally a sober dwarf thought of the key to the problem, this is a secret that the dwarves only know at the top, the dwarves were cursed by the elves, and before no one picks up the dwarf king's shield, the dwarven army cannot leave the stone mound plain, otherwise the entire race will suffer a disaster.

"I've thought about it for so long, and I always feel that the elves lied to us about this, and the elves want us dwarves to stay in the stone mound to build weapons for them."

"You can't talk nonsense, my axe and hammer clan has been ancestor... This rule has been circulating since the beginning of the fathers, and there will never be a fake. ”

"Yes, the armies of the Seven Great Clans cannot leave the Plains of the Stone Hill without the appearance of the True King who has taken up the royal shield."

"Over the years, the only one who has a record of picking up the royal shield is the elves, and now the elves are extinct..."

Norton is a little taller than the other dwarves, he has vaguely realized that the dwarves seem to have let the elves deceive, although he has not replied to Parley's messenger for the time being, but in his heart he is actually inclined to send troops to cooperate with humans, and now he is doing work for the other dwarven patriarchs.

But the more pure the race, the greater the awe of tradition, like these dwarf patriarchs, they didn't think about why only the elves picked up the dwarf king shield at all, they only knew that tradition is tradition and can't be illegal, Norton said that everything else was okay, and as soon as he raised the soldiers, his head shook like a rattle.

Norton can't, and can only ask the clans to build more equipment that is suitable for the size of humans, hoping that humans can support the orcs for a while longer.

Parley, who continues to send emissaries to convince the dwarves to send troops, doesn't know that his plan has been given to him by an inexplicable tradition...