In dwarven legends, when a dwarf dies in battle, if he does not choose to return to the arms of Mother Earth, but chooses to continue to fight for the dwarves, the dwarven god Muradin will give the dwarf glory and make him a great dwarven hero, guarding the dwarves for thousands of years.

And the dwarves will build stone statues for these heroic spirits who are willing to protect the race for the rest of their lives. These lifelike stone statues are the chroniclers of history and the guardians of the dwarven clans, and they are stored in a hall called Valhalla.

Although after becoming a dwarven Heroic Spirit, the combat power of these Heroic Spirits will increase a lot, and they are not afraid of physical attacks. However, as spirits, they also have a fatal weakness, which is that the power of magic can make them appear vulnerable, and when the stone statues they perch on are damaged, the dwarven spirits will quickly die out under the erosion of time.

When the dragon Alexianco attacked the city of Kuskes, almost all of the Dwarven Spirits fought to the death for the dwarves. After all, the dragon flame breath of the demon dragon is like a poison to the dwarven heroic spirit. Many Heroic Spirits were melted by Dragon Blaze before they came into contact with the dragon Alexianko.

When Karl first arrived in the city of Anko, Moscow, and walked on the Königsboulevard, the statues he saw actually had dwarven spirits sleeping in them.

Few outsiders knew about the existence of the Dwarven Heroic Spirits, even the learned Amerigo, and the Dwarven King Xos believed that the statues of the Heroic Spirits in the original city of Kuskes were destroyed in the battle when the dragon attacked the city. This was not explained to Carl.

When Potter left the dwarf statue at his feet and jumped to another dwarf statue again, he suddenly felt that his body was light, as if something was missing. Potter looked back strangely and saw that his legs were still standing alone on the dwarven statue in front of him.

"How could my leg still be there. Potter couldn't believe what he was seeing, and slowly lowered his head to make sure that his legs were still on his body. At the moment of bowing his head, a sharp pain rushed from the base of his thigh to his head, and after Potter screamed, he fell directly to the ground, wailing in pain.

The members of the Greywater Mercenary Regiment who were following Potter also noticed the change in Potter for the first time, and Brooke shouted, "Potter, what's wrong with you. Then he hurried over.

But unexpectedly, after not running a few steps, Brooke felt a breeze blow on his waist. As a magic swordsman trained by the Greywater Mercenary Group, Brooke not only has superb fighting skills, but also has good magical attack ability, of course, Brooke's focus is still on martial arts, and his study of magic is not very deep.

Although most of the magic Brooke learned was offensive magic, he did learn some augmentation magic, and these augmentation magics that he had no intention of learning killed him at this moment.

A cyan breeze swirled between Brooke's legs, and just as Brooke felt the sudden breeze about to blow around his waist, Brooke had already relied on his swiftness to get out of the range of the breeze.

"Be careful, there are enemies here. Anke, unleash the malicious detection to the fullest!" Brooke commanded the crowd behind him as he retreated.

Although he was out of danger and was not attacked, Brooke couldn't help but curse himself, and at the same time glanced at Potter, who had fallen to the ground with blood flowing from the base of his thigh, and could never jump again, and cursed fiercely: "Damn Potter, I actually believe you." Damn, it almost killed us, it's really innocent!"

"Boss, what's going on, what's going on with Potter?" asked Brooke as Brooke approached Brooke as he returned to the team. "It's dead!" Brooke said angrily. "Huh, how could this be?" the magic swordsman named Yasac couldn't believe that Porter, the second only big ranger in this team, had died like this?

"Anko, how's it going? Did you find anything?" Brooke ignored his younger brother's surprise and asked Anko, the mage who was being protected by Tuantuan. "Nothing has been found!" Anko replied, shaking his head.

"How so. Brooke looked at Potter, who was silent not far away, with a solemn face, and lost his mind for a while. "Boss, what are we going to do next?" asked Yasak as he leaned over to Brooke's side. "You ask me, I'll ask whom. Brooke, annoyed by the situation, yelled at Yasaac.

In fact, it is no wonder that Brooke has such a reaction. Since separating from the regimental commander Colin, although he has walked cautiously all the way, there have been no accidents. Especially after the gray fog cleared, they also found some dwarven treasures on the way. I thought that before arriving at Rongjintai, it would be a relatively easy trip, but I didn't expect such a thing to happen now.

Moreover, it is not terrible to encounter enemies, what is terrible is that encountering enemies that you don't know where they are, and Anko's malicious reconnaissance does not have any reaction, these are the reasons for Brooke's irritability.

Just as Brooke was looking for clues to the enemy, Yasack, who was standing beside him, suddenly exclaimed, "Boss, look!" "What's going on?" Brooke looked impatiently in the direction of Yasak's finger and saw a scene that shocked him.

Potter, who had fallen to the ground without any breath, was now slowly crawling towards him on the ground, his severed legs still gurgling blood, pulling a blood-red path on the ground.

"Damn it, Anko, burn this monster away. Brooke hurriedly ordered. "Yes. Anke was also taken aback by the sight in front of him, but after all, he was an elite member of the Greywater Mercenary Regiment, and Anke recovered his shock very quickly, and a fireball shot out from the tip of the staff in Anko's hand as Anko's chanting ended. With a "bang", the fireball smashed into Potter's strange corpse, and it quickly burned.

"Everybody watch their breathing. Seeing that Potter's body was burning, Brooke feared that it would produce poisonous gas, so he told all the members to hold their breath, and then he worked with other magic swordsmen and mages to blow away the smoke from the burning.

Looking at the charred corpse, Brooke let out a long sigh of relief. But before Brooke could take a second breath, at the end of the Greywater Mercenary Regiment, there was a sudden exclamation.

"What's going on?" Brooke hurriedly looked behind him, and saw a familiar sight, one of the outermost warriors was cut off by the waist, and died in the same way as Potter.

"Boss, what should we do now?" the others were and saw the soldier's death, and for a moment the people of the Greywater Mercenary Regiment were nervous. "Don't panic just yet. Anko, using divine magic, is most likely the ghost of the dwarves lurking in this city of Kuskes. With Brooke's order, the three mages led by Anke immediately used their sacred spells to illuminate the stone path lined with stone statues nearby.

In the main plane, in addition to the priests of each god who have mastered some divine arts, magicians who can control any element can also use the power of the light element to launch divine spells similar to divine magic to fight ghosts.

I have to say that as a magic swordsman built with a lot of money from the Greywater Mercenary Group, Brooke did not have any problems commanding, but what he didn't expect was that he was facing not only ordinary dwarven spirits, but dwarven spirits infected and fallen by the Stormhammer.

Once a symbol of dwarven pride, they have given up on their honor and race, choosing to join the Stormhammer and become resentful spirits who hate the dwarves to the extreme.

Just when Brooke asked everyone to prepare for the defense and prepare to evacuate this stone statue forest, a strange change appeared, and the stone statue that was originally quiet and motionless began to shake, and the dust that had been deposited in the stone statue for thousands of years was shaken off, like a sleeping monster being awakened, and the stone statue regained his original killing nature.

Looking at the stone statue running towards him, waving the stone axe and stone hammer in his hand and smashing it at him, the people of the Greywater Mercenary Regiment were terrified. Brooke then made the decision to put the remaining ten warriors at the front, and then he and two other magic swordsmen acted as the main attack force to attract the attention of the statues, allowing the mages standing at the end to make the most of them.

"Everyone is quick and we can't afford to be delayed here for too long, otherwise we won't be able to escape. Brooke shouted to his teammates, and then led the way into the group of dwarven statues.

Originally thought that the battle with the dwarven stone statue would be a difficult battle, Brooke was ready to fight to the death. It's just that I didn't expect that when the long sword enchanted by the inscription in my hand slashed into the dwarf stone statue, something strange happened, and the magic sword in Brooke's hand came into contact with the dwarf stone statue, and the dwarf stone statue was like a sand sculpture on the seashore being scattered and collapsed by the sea, turning into a pile of broken sand.

"What's going on?" Brooke crouched down curiously to see what was going on. As a result, as soon as he squatted down, he heard Yasak shouting in a panic behind him: "Boss, be careful of the above." Brooke, who had been on guard, rolled on a donkey and dodged the attack from the top of his head, and Brooke, who was half-crouching, just wanted to swing the magic sword in his hand to attack the enemy, when he felt a sharp pain in his abdomen.

Slowly lowering his head, Brooke saw a dwarven ghost with an evil expression on his face grinning at him, and he disappeared in an instant, and in his abdomen, I don't know what weapon left the wound left by the attack, or black blood came out, accompanied by a foul smell.

"Run!" Brooke's consciousness became more and more blurred as the black blood flowed out, and he wanted to turn around and remind his teammates to flee the place of death. It's just that he was unconscious, and after saying the word run, Brooke's body fell heavily to the ground, and the moment before he closed his eyes, Brooke seemed to see his brother Yasak falling.

After searching for a long time, Carl and Vilia have gained quite a lot, mainly because after experiencing this series of things, Carl and Vilia are not too interested in finding treasures. So after searching around the stone chamber for a while, Carl returned to the stone chamber with Vilia.

Upon entering the stone chamber, Carl and Vilia saw that Colin the Bloody Hand and two of his men were already resting on the stones. And Amerigo, who had previously exhausted his physical strength due to sealing the spatial crack, seemed to have regained his strength, and was recording the contents of those murals on the stone wall with the veteran explorer Varys and the senior explorer Andre. It seems that Amerigo and his subordinates did not go out to hunt for treasures, but focused on the record of dwarven history.

"How's it going, son of Barnack?" Colin asked with a smile after glancing at Karl. "Just found some gold nuggets and a few still-preserved armor pairs. I wonder what the captain will gain?" Carl and Vilia replied after finding a random stone and sitting down on the spot.

"Didn't Barnack tell you not to ask your companions about their gains during the expedition?" Colin's smile widened, "and he's really a fledgling chick." "Colin is more like a typical mercenary character, cool, heroic, the same ruthless, unscrupulous, and Carl's exploration time is not very long, and under the influence of the dead ghost father, Carl's adventurous spirit has more of a classical beauty, closer to the Explorers Guild. If it weren't for the goal that the two had this time, I'm afraid that with Carl's character, he would never have cooperated with Colin.

"The head of the regiment has learned the right lesson. So Carl didn't dwell too much on Colin about it, but turned his head to look at what Amerigo was doing. Carl didn't know much about the Explorers' Guild. In my previous adventures, although I had some contact with the Explorers Association, I didn't know much about the spirit and core concepts of explorers. Now that he saw what Amerigo had done, Carl knew a little bit about it.

"As the son of Barnack, do you want to join the Explorers' Guild?" Colin couldn't help but say when he saw Carl staring intently at Amerigo and smearing the murals on the stone wall with a special pigment, "Don't you know the relationship between the Mercenary Guild and the Explorers' Guild? As the son of Banak, shouldn't you be on the side of the Mercenary Guild?"

"Daddy Dead has something to do with the Mercenary Guild?" Colin's words left Carl a little confused. It stands to reason that people who join the Explorers Guild, especially the senior members, will almost never choose to join the Mercenary Guild again, although the Explorers Guild does not prevent members from joining the Mercenary Guild at the same time, but the concept of the Explorers Guild is still very different from the Mercenary Guild.

As an organization determined to dig up the secrets of the unknown ruins and civilizations of the main plane, the Explorers Guild still looks down on the mercenary guild that is mercenary and fears that the world will not be chaotic.

As a senior member of the Explorers, could it be that after joining the Explorers Guild, he also joined the Mercenary Guild? Karl couldn't help but cast an inquiring glance at Amerigo.

"To be precise, Barnack should have joined the Mercenary Guild first, and then I was pulled into the Explorers Guild. Amerigo put the paint in his hand into the spatial ring, instructed Varys and André to paint the last remaining frescoes, and then sat down next to Carl.

He cleared his throat and looked at the curious glances of the group of people around him who were all looking at him, and couldn't help but smile, "I didn't expect that after the death of this old and unserious guy, Barnack, there are so many people who want to know his story, it's really enviable." ”

Immediately, Amerigo told the story of himself and Barnack.

"I met Barnack fifty years ago. At that time, I was already a senior member of the Explorers' Guild, and Barnack had set up a mercenary group called 'Dragons and Roses' on his own. Amerigo laughed at himself and continued, "At that time, I happened to be doing the final excavation work in a ruin. Unexpectedly, at this time, Banak actually entered the ruins with his own regiment. ”

"Barnack made a good impression on me at first sight. Silver-white hair, free and loose hoops, and a pair of sky-blue eyes seem to be able to attract everyone's attention. Just when Amerigo wanted to describe Barnack's appearance, Colin on the side couldn't stand Amerigo's tone, "Amerigo, please stop your description, I don't think this description is in line with your identity, after all, the words of the girl with spring are really unbearable for you to say." Carl, who was sitting across from him, also looked at Amerigo in amazement, and he really couldn't match the image of the messy old man with messy hair and cloudy eyes with the image of the male protagonist in the knight's novel. ”

"Ahem...... Cough...... Cough...... I'm sorry, I've been reading some miscellaneous books lately, so I didn't consciously use it here. Amerigo coughed a few times, then continued, "Barnack's first impression was that if I were to write a book, he would be the protagonist of that book. ”

"Master Amerigo, you should go on and tell me how you met my dead ghost daddy. Seeing that Amerigo seemed to be showing signs of shifting the topic, Carl hurriedly reminded him.

"Since the ruins are only being explored by the Guild, I wonder how Barnack managed to enter the ruins without being discovered by the guards, and directly to the main burial chamber. Upon questioning, I learned that Barnack had found a passage through an artifact in his possession, the Golden Compass, that the Guild had not discovered, and that this passage had led directly to the main burial chamber. ”

"In the course of the conversation that followed, I learned that Barnack and his companions had come here to find a large gold figure in the main burial chamber. Because the tomb has been carefully searched by the association several times, and the golden man that Barnack said has not been found, I thought that Banak had found the wrong ruins, but I didn't expect that there was a layer of burial chamber under this ruin, which had been repeatedly confirmed by the association. ”

"I got along very well with Barnack during this process. So I had the idea of pulling him into the association. But Barnack turned me down on the grounds that he still had companions. After that, we parted ways and didn't see each other for a long time. It wasn't until five years later that Barnack came to the Society to find me, and this time he offered to join the Society. ”

Amerigo glanced at Carl, "I don't know what happened to Barnack in those five years, but when he came to see me that day, he was in a terrible state, and his clothes were worn out like he hadn't changed in a long time. So if I'm talking about Barnack that's different from what you remember, then the reason should be within those five years. ”

Carl listened to Amerigo's words and fell silent. As a child, Carl had already sensed that his dead ghost father was hiding something from him, but he didn't tell himself once until he died. Carl understands that this is the unwillingness of Daddy Dead to impose his personal vendetta on himself, but in the current situation, things are not simple.