Although she didn't deliberately speed up, Aisha, who was not in a good mood, still maintained her vigilance, and it only took four days to rush to the outside of the dwarven city.

To her and Dio's relief, despite the apparent amount of damage, the dwarven city still stood strong, not conquered by demons or other underground races.

Probably because they had been attacked not long ago, the dwarven guards stationed on the city walls were very vigilant. As soon as Aisha appeared, she was noticed by a sharp-eyed dwarven guard.

"Whoosh!"

After firing an arrow at the ground in front of Aisha, the dwarven guard with a heavy crossbow shouted loudly, "Strange traveler, no matter what you are here for, you are not welcome in the current cast-iron fort!" ”

After frowning, Aisha didn't care about the rudeness of the dwarven guard, but after casting her magic, she said in a good voice: "Cast Iron Castle, can I meet your lord, I have very unfortunate news to tell you." ”

Under the influence of magic, Aisha's words were clearly transmitted to the ears of the dwarven guards on the city wall, which made the dwarven guard with a heavy crossbow hesitate.

After a low snort, the dwarven guards who had come up with the bull's temper immediately planned to drive Aisha away. But just as he raised the heavy crossbow in his hand, a dwarven guard not far away quickly walked over and punched him in the head without hesitation.

"Boom!"

After making a muffled sound, the dwarf guard pressed his somewhat dizzy head, looked at the dwarf guard behind him with a puzzled expression, and said, "Captain, why did you hit me!" ”

"Idiot!"

After glancing at the dwarven guards angrily, the captain of the dwarven guards shouted at the city gate: "Open the city gate, let the little girl outside come in quickly!" ”

It seemed that the prestige of the captain of the dwarven guards who beat people was not low, and after listening to his roar, the dwarven guards in charge of the city gate quickly opened the city gate.

After a moment's hesitation, Aisha walked quickly into the cast-iron castle.

The captain of the dwarven guards, who had already arrived at the city gate, looked Aisha up and down for a while: "Little girl from the surface, you are very courageous! Come, come with me, I'll take you to our lord, and I hope the news you bring won't be too bad. ”

Aisha opened her mouth, but did not speak, but silently followed behind the captain of the guard.

After walking around the city for a while, the captain of the guard led Aisha to a room that was a little taller than the others, pointed to the open door and said to Aisha, "Go in, our lord is inside." I had other things to do, so I'll go first. ”

"Thank you so much for your help!"

Aisha saluted the captain of the guard very sincerely.

The captain of the guard waved his hand indifferently, and returned the same way without looking back.

After no longer seeing the captain of the guards, Aisha, who turned to face the door, took a deep breath before stepping inside.

After passing through a hallway, Aisha came to a large hall where an old dwarf with a pipe sat in the main seat.

Although the old dwarf did not release his momentum, from the small details revealed between his gestures, Aisha still saw that this old dwarf was at least a legendary-level powerhouse.

It's no wonder that the captain of the dwarven guard is not worried about whether I have bad intentions, and with my current strength, I am not enough to pose a threat to this dwarven lord.

As this thought flashed through her mind, Aisha had already bowed respectfully to the old dwarf.

"Hmmm......"

After exhaling a smoke ring, the old dwarf squinted his eyes and looked at Aisha for a long time, especially after several glances at Dio, who had turned into an orange cat, before he said in a rough voice, "Little girl from the surface, what are you looking for me?" ”

"That's right, my lord."

Aisha replied with a well-behaved face, "On the way here, I passed through a battlefield, and all the dwarves who fell there were dwarves......"

"All? Have you counted the number of people? ”

After removing the pipe, the old dwarf asked with a serious face.

"Since many of those bodies were just stumps and severed arms, I really couldn't say exactly how many people there were."

Shaking her head, Aisha replied, "I can only make a rough estimate...... At least forty dwarven warriors fell there. ”

In fact, Aisha's eyesight alone could not estimate the approximate number of people, and this estimate was actually what Dio told her.

"Forty or so ......"

After a long sigh, the old dwarf said with some discouragement: "Looking at it this way, Matt and the others have probably been wiped out, so no one has come back to report the news." ”

Looking at such an old dwarf, Aisha hesitated slightly, but still asked the question she wanted to know the most: "Their injuries are strange, as if they have been stepped on several times by some kind of giant beast...... May I ask, what kind of creature did that? ”

The old dwarf frowned, and said a little strangely, "Why are you asking this?" ”

"Uh......"

Aisha, who hesitated again, finally decided to tell the truth: "Actually, I am one of the scouts sent by the United Kingdom of Malte to investigate the movements of the demons, so I want information about this kind of creature. ”

"Scouts? You? ”

The old dwarf's eyes widened in surprise: "If I'm not mistaken, based on the average growth rate of humans, you should still be just a child, right?" ”

"Because this time it's the demons to be investigated, ordinary scouts can't play a role, so all the magicians who are temporarily recruited as scouts are magicians with enough strength."

Aisha explained honestly: "Although I am a little younger and lack experience in detection, I still have the confidence to protect myself under the attack of the demons. ”

As Aisha said, because it is the demons to be investigated, in addition to the Rhine Holy Kingdom, which has been committed to fighting evil, can easily send several regular reconnaissance teams composed of paladins and priests, the United Kingdom of Malte and the Mantes Empire have to urgently recruit some elites to conduct reconnaissance.

The difference is that the Mantes Empire sends special forces that are good at conducting reconnaissance behind enemy lines, while the Maltes United Kingdom temporarily recruits elite magicians who are good at observation and are also good at self-preservation and escape.

It can be said that these scout troops improvised by the United Kingdom of Malte are probably the most amateurish of all the scouts today.

So after learning the news, the expression on the old dwarf's face was speechless except for surprise.

Isn't sending such young people to the front line to investigate really sending them to death?

After taking a puff of cigarette to suppress the shock, the old dwarf was silent for a moment, but slowly explained: "Seriously, you are the right person. If I'm not mistaken, Matt's corpse wasn't just like being trampled on several times by some behemoth, but it was completely smashed, right? ”

After listening to the old dwarf's words, Aisha nodded silently. In fact, ever since seeing that scene that was so tragic to the present, Aisha still has the illusion of wanting to vomit whenever she thinks of that image.

"That's right......"

The old dwarf sighed, and then said in a sullen voice, "Those guys, like the bastards who attacked the cast-iron fort before, should be sheep-headed monsters from the devil's lineage!" ”

"Sheepshead?!"

Aisha's eyes widened subconsciously.

Not noticing the clarity in Aisha's eyes, the old dwarf continued to himself, "You heard it right, it's not a demon, it's a group of monsters that belong to the devil. Although they are mid-level devils, those sheep-headed monsters are not good at trickery and intrigues, and rarely lure living beings into depravity, but are just as belligerent as demons. ”

"They are very bloodthirsty and use a sledgehammer. Once they taste the blood, these monsters will go completely crazy and smash all their enemies in a frenzy. If it weren't for the fact that they could still distinguish between friend and foe when they were crazy, these monsters might even fight their own people. ”

Hearing this, Aisha couldn't help but tug at the corners of her mouth. In fact, according to the research of some magicians, these sheep-headed monsters really fight their own demons when they go crazy! In addition to the same time, even if they encounter the devil in the upper position, these monsters with sheep's heads will not hesitate to pick up a sledgehammer and smash it!

So when the devils need to act collectively, for example, on the bloody battlefield, these sheep-headed monsters act alone. If it weren't for the strength of these sheep-headed monsters and their constant strength in fighting against demons, it is estimated that they would have been killed by other devils long ago.

A group of battle maniacs who even cut their own people when they went crazy asked if you were afraid?

After sighing, the old dwarf continued: "As early as half a month ago, these monsters suddenly appeared outside the cast-iron fort, and then attacked us once in three days, and the attack was still very fierce. ”

"Although we dwarves are also a strong fighting race, under the repeated attacks of these sheep-headed monsters, we are still about to reach our limit."

"We have no shortage of food and drinking water, and because we have enough ore in reserve, we can build all kinds of weapons and equipment by ourselves, but we can't solve the problem of troop resources alone."

Similar to the elves, the dwarves are also a fairly long-lived race, and they also take a long time to grow. Therefore, if the warriors who can go on the field lose too much, it will naturally be difficult for the dwarves to replenish their forces in a short period of time.

"So ......"

After exhaling a smoke ring again, the old dwarf said helplessly: "Some time ago, I was finally ready to pull down this old face and ask the gnomes for help, and it was for this reason that Matt and they were sent by me to ask for help. ”

Aisha, who was recalling all kinds of information about the sheep's head monster, suddenly frowned, and asked with some confusion, "But...... If I'm not mistaken, the place where I met Matt and them doesn't lead to the city of gnomes! ”

Although the underground passage is very complicated in all directions, Aisha, who has a good memory, remembers very well that the underground passage where she met Matt and the other dead led to the mine, and the underground passage to the dwarf city should take another fork.

"What?!"

Hearing Aisha say this, the old dwarf's eyes suddenly widened. After making sure that Aisha was not mistaken, the old dwarf, who had already drawn a simple map of the vicinity of the cast-iron fort, suddenly rubbed his head a little tiredly: "Now, it's really a big trouble." ”

"Matt them...... Didn't you flee there because you were being chased by the sheep-headed monsters? ”

Aisha, who was already a little uneasy in her heart, asked.

"No, those bloodthirsty sheep-headed monsters wouldn't do that."

The old dwarf waved his hand and dispersed the smoke that lingered around him before continuing, "Because such a chase is likely to cause some prey to escape, it is unlikely that the sheepshead who likes to kill them all will do so. They prefer to fence off their enemies and kill them all without leaving them all. ”

"There is only one plausible explanation for this. That is, behind these sheep-headed monsters, there is one or more high-ranking devils......"

The old dwarf who gave the answer looked quite solemn, and now Aisha could understand his thoughts.

If the enemy that the dwarves have to face is only the sheep's heads, as long as they continue to persevere, the sheep's heads who have suffered far more casualties than them will be unable to support them sooner or later due to the lack of siege tools. But if there is a superior devil behind the sheep's heads, then the situation is completely different.

While allowing the sheep-headed monsters to die casually, these unknown number of high-ranking devils must be preparing some kind of conspiracy.

"It's been a week since I sent Matt and them for help."

After knocking the soot off his pipe, the old dwarf stood up: "I thought the sheep heads had given up, and I regretted that the time to send them out didn't seem right, but now it seems ......"

The old dwarf who put away his pipe turned to look at Aisha and said very seriously: "Little girl from the surface, I am the lord of this cast-iron castle, Witt Cast-Iron. Thank you very much for this information, and you will gain the friendship of our dwarven clan. But for now, you'd better get out of here first! ”

Hearing this, Aisha shook her head very decisively: "As a scout, I must try to collect as much information as possible. So if you do anything, can you take me with you? I think my magic can still be of some use! ”

"Are you sure, little girl?"

After looking at Aisha again, Werther Cast Iron said in a deep voice, "The battlefield is a very dangerous place! My warriors may not be able to protect you! ”

"As I said, I have the ability to protect myself!"

Holding the staff in her hand, Aisha said confidently: "And it's not the first time I've stepped on the battlefield!" ”

Seeing that Aisha was not lying, Witt Cast Iron nodded with satisfaction: "That's good! Just come with me. ”

With that, Witt Cast Iron strode out of the hall, and Aisha followed.

From beginning to end, the orange cat that Dio turned into was honestly in front of a cat, watching all this coldly, letting Aisha play to her heart's content.