"Footsteps in the plural?"

"That's right! Trust me, I heard you right! ”

The little dwarf girl was very confident in her ears, and there was nothing wrong with her alertness, because outside the hall door after a few seconds—

The streets of the city center of Palomet City were now in line with the movement that Bellingis's ears could perceive, and a small army of gray dwarves had somehow formed a neat and orderly marching formation, forming a straight vertical line to the city street facing the main entrance of the town hall.

There were quite a few of them, about 300 of them, and the rest of the men remained in the barracks in the city gate area to stand by.

Although the number of these gray dwarves' armies is nothing in some of the largest epic battles in history, they are still quite imposing when they stand in the streets with their weapons in their discipline - after all, whether it is the surface world or the underground world, the three-digit manpower is actually a relatively considerable number in the overall social environment with limited productivity.

It is important to know that the salary settlement of the standing army costs regular money, the maintenance of the soldier's equipment costs money, and the cavalryman's mount fodder also costs money......

Therefore, in the territory of the Golden Empire, many small local lords below the rank of earl can maintain a standing army of no more than a few dozen for a long time in non-war times, and the main source of troops in war time is mainly from ordinary civilians who have been temporarily recruited by the lord's order, or mercenary groups who are willing to help one lord collect money to fight.

The same applies roughly to the surface of Castaño.

So they were so in such a position that the dwarf slaves in the city could be considered to know that something was wrong in the central area of the city!

The cave houses on both sides of the street had been ordered under martial law by a grey dwarf commander named Roordorf in this army, and the dwarf dwarves in the house closed their doors and windows so tightly that they did not dare to poke their heads out, lest the evil dwarves notice that they were peeking into their eyes, and then kicked open the door and carried themselves out and beheaded them on the spot.

They shrank in their houses, adults holding children, old men snuggling in corners, many of them trembling, believing that these gray dwarf soldiers under Roordorf would not hesitate to do such an abominable act.

Just like the oppression and tyranny they inflict on themselves on a daily basis!

The underground gnomes of the city are now deeply afraid of the grey dwarven warriors who have enslaved them.

And Rouldorf is Barende's most trusted deputy, not only the second-in-command figure in the gray dwarf army that occupies the city of Palomitte, but also as the deputy commander of the army and a senior warrior, he also has some magical powers, and is a part-time priest.

Armed with a large rectangular shield and a mace, he wore the same metal armor as the gray dwarven soldiers around him, the dark purple color of the armor proved that such armor was cast by Drow craftsmen, and had a very strong protection ability under the surface of the ground where the sun did not shine, and the corresponding price was also that once exposed to the sun, it would turn to ashes on the spot, and its signature appearance was characterized by a dark and gray complexion like a rock. The bare dwarven head on top of his head looked like a great stone around his neck from afar.

This "big stone" has a standard helmet with armor on it, and his bony square face and eyes are exposed under the eaves of the helmet, the angular gray and black nose looks like a stone carving, and the dark brown mustache is squeezed out of his chin and supported in front of the collar of the armor, and shakes with his open and closed mouth—

"Is the female drow and the few surface people she brought with her still inside? Also, how is Lord Barender? ”

He let go of the second iron handle on the inner surface of the shield, and the fingers of his deputy were raised to point to the gate of the town hall in front of the street, and his eyes turned his head at the same time to focus on the face of a gray dwarf soldier not far away.

The grey dwarf soldier was one of them who had escaped from the melee in the banquet hall not long ago, and when he hurried to the direction of the city gate at the first time, he also happened to meet Rouldorf, who had led the army from the barracks, and was brought back by Ruerdorf, and replied:

"They should still be inside, Lord Rouldorf."

The gray dwarf soldier who was questioned paused verbally and hesitated for two seconds, "But Lord Barend's safety ......"

"Dead? Or do you not know? ”

"Maybe it's still in there, so I don't know."

"Okay, I see."

Ruerdorf waved his hand to signal that the grey dwarf soldier needed no more, then turned his eyes to the door of the town hall, raised his mace and ordered the soldiers in several formations to go over and open the door.

Of course, the two closed doors had already been sealed by Abel, and the materials used to make them were the most common and easily accessible rocks in the underworld, and the few gray dwarven soldiers who had been ordered by Ruerdorf to open the doors tried to smash a few hammers on the doors but failed to complete their task.

For a relatively unlucky fellow, his hands were accidentally burned by the surface of the stone gate, and after a while, he had to turn back to the commander of the army and truthfully report: "Report to Lord Rouldorf, the main entrance to the town hall is locked, and the surface temperature is very high, and there may have been a fire in the hall inside!" ”

"Then divide two teams of fifty people and go around the entrances of the two back doors!" Rouldorf's brows furrowed slightly, and his calmer and more meticulous personality than Barend's personality made him not become irritable because of this, but immediately gave new instructions to the soldiers after thinking about it, "The rest of the people stay at the main gate with me - you, give the order to the back seats, and tell them to push the crash car over!" ”

"Yes!"

The soldier was ordered to do so.

Soon, the army of the gray dwarves split into two separate squads of fifty men from the neat flanks of the formation, and from the street at their feet, they each bypassed the edge of the town hall building, and a siege cart with two pairs of wheels was pushed in front of Ruldorf by several soldiers in the back of the army in unison.

The rammer, which is normally only used in siege warfare, was made of wood, with a large wooden stake protruding from the triangular canopy with a warhammer-like iron head at the top, swaying back and forth with the movement of the rollers.

Wood is hard to come by in the underworld without sunlight, and can only be purchased through trade from a few traveling merchants who travel between the surface and the underground, which shows how high the value of this war machine is for the gray dwarves who operate in the hive labyrinths - and the wood used to assemble the crash car and a lot of the military expenses used to maintain the soldier's equipment are also secretly provided by the dark elves who secretly support Barend behind the scenes.

Ruerdorf knew the value of this siege weapon, and also understood that once the hall gate of the town hall was locked, it would have to be broken down with such a thing, so when he heard the news from the barracks and led the army to arrive, he did not forget to take it carefully.

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