Chapter Seventy-Four: In front of the gate of the Iron Furnace Castle

Riding on the smooth mountain road carved out in the middle of the mountainside, I saw that the surrounding area was reddish-brown mountain rocks, and there were no plants at all. The monotonous scenery made Vane and the others a little refreshed, and the initial excitement had completely passed, leaving only a lethargic appearance.

If you want to say that this mountain is indeed very high, not to mention the rest, just because the top of the mountain is already snow-capped, you can know how high this mountain is. Here Vane has to admire the dwarven race, they can actually dig mountain tunnels in such a completely hard mountain under extremely backward production conditions, so as to facilitate access to the wetlands. That is, dwarves like to dig, and it is absolutely impossible to do such a big project with a different race.

Time flies, passing through town after town. In the process of Vane's and their change of sheep cart again and again, more than 20 days passed in a flash.

Now, the four of them were standing at the foot of an even taller peak, looking up at the halfway point of the tall peak, a huge steel gate was wide open. In front of the gate was a huge mountain platform, which seemed to be a mountain that had been cut off by the waist, leaving only the lower half. A wide avenue leads to the foot of the mountain. Vane: They are now at the beginning of this path.

"See? How's that, isn't it shocking? This is the gate of the Ironforge Castle, and the Ironforge Castle is inside the mountain. Walker proudly introduced the three of them to Vane at this time.

Vane had known that the gates of Ironforge were huge, but he still felt a shock when he looked at them from a distance. Such a tall and majestic gate was indeed the first time Vane had seen it. Coupled with the rugged style peculiar to the dwarves, the two add up to make the gate even more majestic.

At this time, Kalia was also stunned to look at the gate halfway up the mountain, and was speechless at all. A few of them were so far away from this gate that she could still feel the enormity of the gate, what would it be like if they were to get to this gate?

"This is really amazing, how high is this gate?" Barka stood aside, equally shocked. He looked at the door and asked Walker.

Hearing Barka's question, Walker suddenly felt a little embarrassed and scratched the back of his head, because he didn't know this question, after all, it was a commonplace thing in life, and Walker didn't pay attention to this: "I don't know much about this, I only know that the height and width are more than 100 meters." If you want to know the specifics, just ask someone when you get to Ironforge. ”

However, Walker's embarrassment of Wayne the three of them did not notice. At this time, Vain, who came back to his senses, frowned, looked at the pedestrians on the road in front of him, and asked, "Why is this road all up and down on foot?" Don't have a car to carry your guests? ”

Hearing Vane's question, Walker secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, he knew this question very well: "This is because the slope of this road is too large, if you use a sheep cart, it is easy to say when you go up, but you can't stand the car at all when you go down, and the carriage behind you runs faster than the sheep in front, and it is easy to have an accident, because there have been several accidents, so the king personally ordered that no cars are allowed to drive on this road, and if you want to enter the Ironforge Castle, you can only walk up the mountain." ”

Vane frowned and turned to Walker to ask, "I remember you said that Ironforge is the place where the Copperbeard Dwarves have the highest forging skills, right?" Isn't there a workshop for the production of weapons and equipment in Ironforge? If this road is not open to traffic, it will be too troublesome to transport these weapons and equipment to the outside world, right? ”

"Well, do you see the platform in front of the gate of Ironforge Castle?" Walker didn't answer Vane's question immediately, but asked in the direction of the gates of Ironforge.

"See, it's clear." Vane nodded in reply.

"On the other side of the platform there is a large lift, which is specifically designed to transport things. There is also a small town there, which developed because of the trade of various goods. So none of what you're saying is a problem. Walker said in the other direction. These things are common sense, and every dwarf here knows them. Only Vane and the others who are here for the first time would ask that.

"Let's go, let's go up the mountain." After Walker finished speaking, he waved his hand and led the three of Vane towards the gate of Ironforge Castle halfway up the mountain.

"Walker, why are there all dwarves here, why don't I see people of other races." Kalia asked, following Walker, turning her head to look around as she walked.

"Of course, this is Ironforge Fort, the capital of our copperbeard dwarves, of course, all dwarves." Walker replied as a matter of course, "If you want to talk about other races, you can see dwarfs often. After all, our two tribes live in the same area. They are very closely related to each other. With the exception of gnomes, only humans occasionally appear in Ironforge, but those are the high-ranking human nobility who come here to buy large quantities of sophisticated weapons and equipment. ”

"Aren't there blacksmiths in humans? Why do you have to come all the way to Ironforge to buy it? Barka asked.

"How can the weapons forged by human blacksmiths be compared to us dwarves, in our opinion, what forged by human blacksmiths is simply unqualified things." As soon as Walker heard Barka's words, he immediately shook his head disdainfully and said, "You must know that the things forged by our dwarves will not be a problem even if they can be used for a lifetime. But what humans have forged by themselves can't be used after only a few years of hard work, so how can that kind of tatter be compared to what we dwarves forged? ”

"That's right, but you don't have to come to Ironforge to buy it, right? Isn't it just a border town? There's also a lot of weapons and equipment traded. Barka thought of what they had seen at the market in the border town where they had bought Teddy, and spoke.

"The things there can only be said to be qualified, but they are only forged by young dwarven craftsmen, and they are far from being sophisticated." Walker Yaoyao said to Barka, "You must know that good weapons are not easy to obtain, both the materials used in forging and the craftsmen who forge them are extremely good. If the strength is not enough, the craftsman is not qualified to come to the Ironforge Castle at all. ”

"Old Todd's strength is not good, too?" Vane heard Walker's words and immediately asked.

"No, Todd's strength is sufficient, he was sent here in Minethil Harbor to manage the blacksmith shop here." Walker explained to Vane.

Vane suddenly realized that it was no wonder that Todd didn't care about the merits of the new musket, because he didn't need it at all.