Chapter 27: The Earthfire Fort
The orcs came much faster than Arthur had expected.
When the morning sun was slightly exposed, a rapid alarm sounded in the dwarven copper gate fortress, and one by one the dwarves quickly rushed to the city wall.
I saw that nearly a thousand winged orcs were densely gathered in the air in front of the fortress, almost obscuring half of the sky.
The dwarven warriors on the walls raised the muzzles of their muskets, and the dwarven cannons on the hills on either side also turned their muzzles.
A middle-aged orc in a white robe and a high red crown flew close to the city wall, "Which general is on duty in the fortress now?"
"It turned out to be the Patriarch of Cangyu Kong, and recently it was my Guru who was in charge of guarding the Copper Gate Fortress. β
"Then General Gruul, my daughter is locked up in your dwarven fortress?"
The Gruul knew this orc, who was the patriarch of the Holy Spirit Crane clan, but he didn't expect that the female orc Arthur captured yesterday turned out to be his daughter.
"Yesterday it was true that a few Terrans brought a female orc to the Coppergate Fortress, but this matter has nothing to do with the dwarves. β
"Where are those Terrans and my daughter now?"
"Wait, I'll find someone to take them up the wall. β
In fact, there is no need for the Gruul to look for it, when the alarm in the fortress sounded, Arthur guessed what was happening, and at this time he had already escorted Lingyu to the city.
When Arthur escorted Lingyu to the city wall, he saw the handcuffs and shackles on his daughter's body, and Cang Yukong immediately fell into a rage, and three long swords as thin as wings instantly appeared in front of him, "Bastard, I'm going to tear you apart!"
Arthur put the short knife under Lingyu's neck, and said lightly into the air: "If you don't want it, I can return the body to you now!"
"Don't do it!" Cang Yukong immediately regained his composure.
"What about the ransom I wanted, don't tell me you're bringing so many people here to rob them?"
Cang Yu Kongchong waved his hand behind his back, and two winged warriors flew to the city with a box, and flew away immediately after putting the box down.
The lid of the box was lifted, revealing a neat stack of crystal cards inside, and there were 300 crystal cards worth a thousand gold coins.
Joan stepped forward to examine the crystal cards one by one, and nodded to Arthur.
Arthur removed the dagger from under Lingyu's neck, used the darkness to corrode the handcuffs and shackles, and helped her put the space bracelet back on, "Let's go." β
Lingyu froze in place and didn't move.
"Reluctant to go?"
Lingyu glanced at Arthur again, spread his wings and flew into the air.
Cang Yukong stepped forward to hold his daughter's hand and looked at it carefully, "They didn't hurt you, did they?"
Ling Yu shook his head.
"That's good, go to your uncle's side, and leave the rest to your father. β
Cang Yukong's gaze moved to Arthur's body again, "Boy, you got my daughter's ransom, now you can die!" Cang Yu waved his empty hand, and the three long swords in front of him shot at Arthur like three long rainbows.
Arthur stood still.
When the three Changhong were about to die, the Guru beside Arthur suddenly made a move, and with a swing of the hammer in his hand, a small mountain-like hammer shadow was blasted, directly blasting the three sword rainbows away.
"Do you dwarves want to get involved in this?" asked Cang Yukong, staring at the dwarf.
"We dwarves don't participate in the grievances of you humans and beasts, but Arthur is now a guest of our dwarves. The attitude of our dwarven king is that we don't care about the affairs of the dwarven realm, but if someone attacks our guests in the dwarven realm, we dwarves will see it as a declaration of war against us. β
Cang Yukong was stunned for a moment, and declared war on the dwarf kingdom, the patriarch of one of his tribes did not have the courage to do so.
Cang Yukong pointed at Arthur with one hand, "Unless you hide in the Dwarven Kingdom forever, you don't want to get out of the death hunting zone alive." β
Cang Yukong turned around and flew away after speaking.
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The Bronze Gate Fortress is only the border entrance to the Dwarven Kingdom, and the Kingdom's national capital, the Furnace Fort, is still eight hundred miles away from here.
The Guru enthusiastically sent Arthur out of the fortress himself, and the road behind was naturally led by Toru.
On the way, Joan couldn't help but ask with curiosity in her heart: "Who is that Turutuk, the dwarf king did not hesitate to go to war with the orcs to help us?"
"Turutuk is the younger brother of the Dwarven King, but isn't it because of the relationship between the Dwarf King and the Gruul that Turutuk is related to us?"
"What's the reason for that?"
"Because of the money! Yesterday at the banquet I told the Gruul that I would give the king a gift of 200,000 gold coins as long as the dwarven kingdom could protect us. Money can make ghosts grind, let alone dwarves?"
"200,000, the price of a piece of space equipment, you are really willing to do it!"
Arthur sighed softly, "We have nowhere to stay now, and if we want to stay in the dwarven kingdom for a while, we will always have to pay some accommodation fees to live in peace of mind." β
Spence, who walked at the back of the line, smiled knowingly, and Arthur's every move along the way fell into his eyes. Arthur first took the risk of extorting 300,000 ransom from the orcs, and then gave 200,000 to the dwarves, this little guy knows the rules of survival in the continent. Although hunted down by some of the strongest forces on the continent, Spence believes that as long as he is given time to grow, Arthur will definitely become the most survivable.
The dwarf Toren led Arthur and them through the mountains for another two days, then entered through the entrance to a large heavily guarded cave, and spent the next three days in the underworld.
Along the way, Toren began to talk to Arthur and them, and Arthur and they really began to understand the underground world under ToruΕ's introduction, which is by no means only dirt and rocks as imagined, and there are dark rivers, volcanoes, cliffs, all kinds of plants and many lives that they could not imagine before.
If it weren't for Torun as a guide, people of other races would probably be lost in this vast underground world.
The further he went underground, the more excited ToruΕ's mood became, as home grew closer. Three days later, they entered the interior of an underground lava volcano.
Underneath the volcano is a huge lava lake that is barely as far as the eye can see, and fiery red magma is churning. More than 100 meters away from the lava lake, the surrounding hard mountains are carved upwards in a circle, and various buildings, sculptures and caves are built, and the caves are connected to each other and extend in all directions.
The fiery red lava underground, as if all the buildings around the mountain are a layer of red, beautiful and dreamy, here is one of the eight wonders of the mainland, the earth fire furnace fort.
The orc royal court Tugangdra is a golden city, the human imperial capital of Arantis is a silver city, and the dwarven royal city of Earth Furnace Fort is naturally a red city!
As Arthur and the others looked at the city of miracles, a loud voice suddenly sounded, "Terran friends, welcome to the Earthfire Fort!"