Chapter 14: Ruins
Elaini is seriously injured, and it will take at least 5 days to recover, and during this time, she can go to the ruins of Modan with the dwarven boss, which is the former dwarven city.
"Come, come, drink! How can a man who stands up to the sky not drink? Ahahahaha! Longbottom clutched a roast pork leg in one hand and an oversized wine glass filled with beer, and the rugged dwarf ate most of the whole roast pig and drank two kegs of beer in one gulp.
"I'm a thief, and when I drink, my dagger will be crooked." Taking a sip of juice, Karel looked at the messy table helplessly, originally said that he was going to leave in the afternoon, but at noon Longbottom called Karel to eat, and the sun was about to go down like this! The devil knows why this dwarf was able to eat so much.
Finally, by the time the dwarves had drunk enough, it was already dark, but fortunately, the city of Delaneh was not strict about the entry and exit of the city, perhaps because most of the people in the city were adventurers, so they accommodated a little.
Longbottom's soul mount is a tall and sturdy sheep with silver-gray hair and thick, sharp horns, which looks very lethal.
Karel summoned the swift panther of Zulian as before, and the leopard lay on the ground and stretched out like a cat, its claws stretched straight, and grabbed the collar around the panther's neck, and Karel stepped on.
Seeing the appearance of the panther, Longbottom's goat shook its body uneasily, and then was stopped by the dwarf, "The mount is good. Looking at Karel's panther, Longbottom said with a little envy.
"That's right, it's said that this guy is still a descendant of the gods, and it took me a lot of effort to get it." Karel scratched the panther's chin, and the panther snorted in comfort.
Didn't say much, the two went directly to the road, the black iron dwarf had been stored before the establishment of the city of Delane, after the city was built, the two sides were still in contact with each other, so, in the middle, there was an official road connected, in addition, this official road also had some forks leading to other cities, after the city of the black iron dwarf was destroyed, the road to the ruins was abandoned, but it was only a small section.
"We can get to the outskirts of the city around the hours of the morning, and if we're lucky, we might have time to get some rest." The goat's hooves didn't make much noise when they stepped on the soft dirt, and Longbottom whispered.
"Oh, why do you have to speak so quietly?" Seeing that Longbottom looked nervous, and even spoke carefully, Carel also responded in a low voice.
"It's cavemen, and those guys have very good ears."
"Oh, okay" Hearing this, Karel broke out in a sweat, and originally planned to start the QÌ Roadfighter all the way over, if he really did that, he would definitely be surrounded by cavemen.
The two of them rode their mounts, carefully avoiding the cavemen wandering around, these guys are nocturnal, their sense of hearing and smell is very strong, and their vision is relatively poor, it is said that the cavemen can directly see the heat, so when you are chased by the cavemen, hiding by the fire can make them lose their target, but there is a problem, the cavemen especially hate the fire, and as soon as the fire appears in sight, they will try to extinguish it.
As the two went deeper, there was less and less dirt on the ground, and hard stones began to appear.
"Approach, get off the mount, and we'll walk by." Longbottom recalled his goats, and on such stony ground, the "aggressive" sound of goats' hooves could be heard far, far away.
Longbottom rummaged through his backpack and pulled out a sledgehammer that, in Carrel's opinion, was almost half the size of Longbottom's body, and was covered in smoke and fire.
"I said, dude, this can't be your blacksmith's hammer, is it?" Karel asked curiously.
"Of course, I am both a dwarven blacksmith and a dwarven warrior." Grabbing the hammer in one hand, Longbottom stood on tiptoe and weaved his way through the shadows of the rubble and stones, and although it looked like a groundhog, the creature managed to avoid all the cavemen.
Karel is much simpler, using stealth, walking straight over, in fact, as long as you don't stand in front of the caveman with your face attached, you can barely spot Karel.
Following Longbottom for a while, the two came to the outside of a house full of dwarf style, half buried by mud and stones, the so-called dwarf style, that is, you look outside the house, this is an ordinary small house, one story high, and then go in and take a look, Nima, it's so big inside! The main body is actually all underground. Are all dwarves earth-rats?
The two carefully searched the house, and found that there were no cavemen mixed in, and there were no strange holes in the walls and floors.
Nothing happened overnight.
"Purr~Purr~" The dwarven boss was lying on his bed snoring comfortably, dreaming of squandering equipment with endless materials, when Karel shattered his dream with a kick.
"Phew!" With a loud bang, the wooden bed kicked the dwarf on top of it against the wall, and the wooden bed, which was not very strong, was directly broken into three.
"Ahhh The dwarf who was suddenly attacked instantly blasted at Karel with a sledgehammer, and in the face of this, who would be stupid enough to block hard? So, as a matter of course, Karel stepped aside, and Longbottom smashed through the wall with the hammer and rolled into another room.
"Ahem!" With a violent cough, the dwarf's words came from the other side of the wall, "I have lived for one hundred and thirty years, and today is the most exciting wake-up in my life, you better give an explanation, or I will let you know what happened to disturb a dwarf's forging dream!" ”
"Explain your sister! You yourself said that you would enter the city early in the morning, and now it's almost noon! "After a few days of living in the other world, Karel was finally cured of his bedriddenness, and it was his turn to treat others first.
"Oh, didn't you eat too much yesterday and rush so much, you know how tired it is."
"Is that my fault?"
After tossing and turning for a while, the two of them finally got ready, and although it was not as exaggerated as Karel said that it was close to noon, it was not too early, because they had to withdraw before the night came, or they would be torn to pieces by the troglodytes all over the city!
"You see, I actually slept that late on purpose, no, the cavemen have all gone back to the cave." Walking on the cracked road, Longbottom was drinking wine with a water bladder, muttering in general, hugging for his dreams.
Ignoring the dwarves chattering alone, Karel's attention was all focused on his surroundings, which were distinctly hilly, but now the area was very dilapidated, the earth twisted and cracked, with very obvious faults, rising and falling. Now, Karel and the others were standing at the foot of a mountain, but the mountain was useless from halfway up the mountain, leaving a trail like a crater.
"I remember it was at night, when I was a child, and my father was teaching me the basics of ironmaking, and it was almost over, and I was very, very tired, very much like sleeping, and then the earth began to tremble." Spotting Karel observing the surroundings, Longbottom stood on a piece of gravel, with his back to Karel, looking at the half-missing mountain, and muttered, "The earth is shaking so much that it is almost impossible to stand, everyone is running, making a mess, and I am also running, I don't know where to go, just run and run, until I faint." Longbottom picked up a rock and threw it out, his voice starting to choke a little.
"When I woke up, my parents were gone, and there were only a few people I didn't know, and there was no way but I could only follow them, and then we walked and walked, and we met more and more people, and in the end there were about thousands, you know? Our Black Iron Clan had a population of 100,000 before that earthquake! After that night, there were only a few thousand left! Parents are gone, relatives are gone, and those friends who played with them are gone! I miss them ......"
"Are you okay?"
"Well, it's okay, let's move on." With a sniffle and a wipe of his eyes, Longbottom reverted to the heroic dwarven blacksmith and strode into the ruins of the city.
The so-called dwarf city of Mordaner, is this group of black iron dwarves hollowed out a whole mountain, and then integrated it into a completely three-dimensional city, now, the earthquake has destroyed this place, the original breathtaking architectural miracle has become a ruin, and most of this mountain is composed of hard granite, the fragmentation is not complete, many are super large overall stones, so, there are many gaps between the ruins can be passed, of course, this is also thanks to Karel is an elf, slim, Longbottom is a dwarf, It's relatively short, and if you change to a minotaur, you will definitely get stuck in it.
Sneak attack-chokehold, Karel instantly put a wandering caveman, dragged the body into a crack, beckoned to the back, Longbottom looked around cautiously, came behind Karel, took out the map and looked at it, compared the surrounding environment, and then whispered: "We should be very close, almost less than a hundred meters in a straight line." ”
"100 meters? Or is it a straight-line distance? Is this kind of environment used in a straight line? Looking at the crooked ruins, Karel said with an ugly face.
But complaining is complaining, the road still has to go, and the comparison has come to this point, and it is only a little bit away from the end.
After dealing with a few wandering cavemen and petrified lizards, the two finally arrived at the door of the so-called warehouse, and the distance of only a hundred meters in a straight line made Karel and the two go around a maze in circles and circles.
"By the way, how did you get in?" Carefully cutting the crystal cluster from the petrified lizard's body, Karel suddenly remembered that the old boy had been here by himself, and couldn't help but ask curiously.
"Me? Hehe......" Longbottom couldn't help but laugh twice when he heard Karel say this, "I came to worship my parents, and then I was discovered by the cavemen, and they chased me, and I couldn't beat them, so I kept running away, drilling through cracks, and running around like this, and then I came here for some reason." ”
Putting away the crystal cluster in his hand, Karel patted Longbottom on the shoulder, "It seems that your parents know that you need good materials to complete your creation, and they bless you for coming here, let's go, don't let them down." ”
"Hmm!" Hearing Karel say this, Longbottom's hand holding the hammer tightened a little more.