Chapter 67: The Mechanical City of Miluz
"Brush Brush Brush ......" Tataño quickly wrote "The Moon Represents My Heart" in a slender and elegant font on the parchment, and then looked at the score several times, and then satisfied with the small bag he carried in his carry-on bag.
"I can't imagine that in such a small village that lacks an artistic atmosphere, I, Tataño, would be so lucky to encounter such a beautiful and novel song, even if I would like to repeat the pain on the way." Tataño sighed, he raised his head and looked directly at Yi Hui and said, "I don't know Your Excellency's honorific name, can you give me advice?" ”
"Just call me Yi Hui." Yi Hui said.
"Oh? Your Excellency, who is so erudite, are you not from a noble background? Why don't you just have your first name and not your last name? Tatanio asked, surprised.
In this world, people who can spend a lot of time in the fields of music, fine arts, and other arts, if they are not of noble birth or wealthy families, are afraid of starvation. So Tataño was surprised by Yi Hui's civilian status. Yi Hui's name was short and ordinary, not like the names of those who came from famous families, and there was a long and gorgeous surname dragged behind to represent their noble origin, so Tataño mistakenly thought that he didn't report his surname, and ordinary civilians have a surname, but it doesn't make much sense to report it.
"Last name? Yi is my last name. Yi Hui said, he had heard a little about the rules of this world these days, and he understood why Tataño was strange. Our clansmen's surnames are all put in front, and the names are relatively short. As for the status of nobility, I am just a mercenary, not a nobleman. ”
"So your Excellency is a mercenary?" Tataño came to his senses, and he avoided the previous topic for fear that Yi Hui would have an idea.
"Allow me to introduce myself again, my full name is Tataño Benjamin Lester George, my grandfather Creon Lester George was also a viscount of a city in the north, but later lost his territory due to war and fell in my generation, I have nothing but love music and have traveled across the continent to become a bard." Tataño told Yi Hui all about his background, and in his mind, the person who can have such a deep passion for music should be a kind and reliable person.
When he had nothing to do, Yi Hui chatted with Tataño, and also gave him a rough account of his experience in the mercenary group, and they talked happily back and forth.
Yi Hui learned from the conversation that the bard did not belong to any of the combat class system, but there were also bards on the continent. A bard is a secondary class, and as a bard you can be a warrior or a mage, just as Argent is a thief and a leatherman. In addition to his role as a bard, Tataño was also a half-hung mage, a half-hung sword warrior, and a half-hung archer, all of which were cultivated by his early family. If Tataño was not as good as he is now, he plunged headlong into the pit of music and couldn't extricate himself, so he only learned half of everything else, but his passion for music has never been reduced by half a point.
"My greatest ambition in life is to be the greatest bard, just like the great bard Julio, who witnessed the decisive battle of the First Continental War, he recorded that battle, and wrote the long epic poem "Blood and Fire - The Final Chapter of Chaos", and I must see a vast and magnificent scene in this life and this life, and I must also be like the sage Julio to be passed down for eternity." Tataño couldn't help but get excited when he talked about what he was talking about as a troubadour, and he and Yi Hui shifted the place of conversation from the table to the bar, and glass after glass of honey liqueur entered his mouth.
Yi Hui listened quietly, sipped a glass of wine, and expressed some of his opinions from time to time. With him as an audience, Tataño, who originally relied on talking and eating, talked even more, but fortunately, although he talked a lot, he still had something to say about the customs and customs of various places, and Yi Hui also benefited a lot.
I don't know how many glasses he drank, and with a "tom", Tataño, who was too drunk, threw himself on the bar and snored loudly, Yi Hui ordered the innkeeper to open a room for him, and arranged for a few strong men to carry him in. Yi Hui stuffed a note and a hundred gold coins into Tataño's bag, and if he saved some money, Tataño could have relied on the money to get to Grenoble and find a mercenary union to connect with his own organization, so that he didn't have to go to the streets to sing after Yi Hui left.
Loaded with full supplies, Yi Hui boarded the Bolt and continued to march towards Miluz, passing by Pumpkin Village, which was already a road carved out by his predecessors, and along the way, Yi Hui could see a team of three or five people patrolling along the road, which may have been a mercenary who received the patrol team. Presumably, it's not far from Miluz.
The speeding Bolt caused people along the way to turn back, because it was almost to the border of Miluz, a big city where the dwarf race gathered, so although people were surprised by the speed of the Bolt, they did not panic, after all, those short gnomes made strange things are not enough?
"Hey, you see, this speeding iron thing gnomes call them mechs, and there was a large group of gnomes passing by last month, and I stopped one and asked, but this one is very large." The stationmaster of the roadside management post station proudly explained the origin of the bolt number to a few subordinates, and all his subordinates were dumbfounded, and even more cleverly quickly seized the opportunity to make a big slap, boasting that the stationmaster was really well-informed.
After galloping for a few more days, Yi Hui could already see Miluse, the dwarf city built on the mountain, in the distance. Originally a hill not very high, the gnomes have lived in this generation for generations, and after years of transformation, from a distance, Miluz has been transformed by these mechanically proficient gnomes like a large steamed bun with bolts, nuts and rivets that exudes the smell of steel.
Gilgi used to say that in this city of gnomes, everything that can be solved by machinery is solved by machinery, and there are inventions and creations of gnomes everywhere. Gnomes have been in the city since they were born, and none of them have been dealing with the machinery and equipment that their predecessors have arranged here and there since they were young, and it is difficult to think of them in less than twenty years.
At the heart of the city is a giant Magic Ore Mine, which supplies the entire city with an endless supply of energy. Over the past few hundred years, the ore output in this pit has gradually decreased, and if this continues, the mechanical city will have no energy supply. Without energy, the city is dead.
The gnomes can't sit idly by, and they can't give up the city that has been standing for a thousand years, after all, Miluz is their homeland, and they can't let the situation worsen. The only way is to obtain magic ore from the outside world to supplement the needs of the city, but due to their weak body and low combat effectiveness, they cannot go to the field to read and mine ore. So under the discussion of the elders, a compromise solution was born, that is, to sign a cooperation contract with other races with strong combat power to jointly open the mine.
Magic ore is generally associated with other ordinary ores, and only the gnomes who have been mining magic ore for many years can completely mine the magic ore without touching the energy explosion in the magic energy ore, and other races have no technology to mine magic ore at all.
The first condition for the gnomes to cooperate with other races in mining is to demand all the magic ore and a small part of the income from other ores, coupled with the fact that the dwarf race is inherently lacking in strong combat power and is not aggressive and only keen on the mechanical field, the mine owners of almost all races like to cooperate with the gnomes.
With the continuous replenishment of magic ore from the outside world, the depleted Mine of Miluz has been transformed into a warehouse of magic ore, and the mechanical city has been reborn with the input of these magic ores and other types of ores.
Yi Hui has always had a good impression of the gnomes who are good at the mechanical field, after all, he also came to this Vino continent from a scientific and technological world that has experienced several industrial revolutions, and he has an indescribable sense of intimacy with the dwarfs who are also committed to the development of science and technology with the characteristics of the Vino continent. He learned from textbooks that it was not easy to develop science and technology, and it was especially difficult in the early stage of scientific development.
The closer you get to Miluz, the smoother and smoother the road becomes, until later the gnomes paved it with bricks made directly from ore waste. Walking closer, Yi Hui was not only shocked by the peak architectural style of Miluz, which resembles a beehive, but also felt the vicissitudes of life from the metal urban shell that has experienced thousands of years. Countless gnomes sat on the landing gear outside the city walls, doing maintenance work or remodeling work on the entire city's shell, and the electric sparks of welding flew everywhere like festive flowers, accompanied by the sharp whistle of the cutting machine.
The gate to enter the city is a long tunnel, which Yi Hui has already seen in the gnome gathering place of Silverspring Valley, and it is not so much that Miluz is like an enlarged gnome gathering place in Silverspring Valley, but that the settlement of Silverspring Valley is a shrunken Miruz. These dwarfs really repair their homes wherever they go.
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