Many years ago, the dwarves of Mithril Hall were driven out of their homeland by the Shadow Dragon and came to live in the Dwarven Valley temporarily. Because right at the foot of the Cone of Kane, near Brynsander, the weapons and armor forged by the dwarves are very popular with humans. After recovering the Secret Silver Hall, the Dwarven King handed it over to his cousin. Although Silverstream is a separate family, they still use the Warhammer Clan's bubble wine glass emblem.

The dwarves here are supposed to have a good relationship with humans, but Thomas was expelled when he came to the neighborhood before.

"Is their cordon widened again? No, it looks like they're searching the wagon. ”

Thomas wears a cloak to provide camouflage, snow goggles with honeycomb nests to reduce reflections, and strips of white cloth on the lower part of his face and longbow to disrupt the outline. The obstacles around him were low, so he approached with his left hand on the ground, half-kneeling, and holding the bow in his arms with his right hand to avoid exposing the lines of the longbow too prominently.

As a scout, he is adept at moving in a variety of positions. It's a pity that there aren't enough spell slots right now, otherwise you can use spells to create a snow fog shrouded and walk upright without being detected.

Surrounding the vehicle was a priest, two experienced warriors, and a dwarven battle squad of four crossbowmen. As in battle, two warriors rushed up to search the cart for supplies, with the priest in the center and the crossbowmen armed with bursting crossbows far away.

"Are they really fighting among themselves?" After he was expelled last time, he was replaced by his dwarven friend Slorin to negotiate and was also kicked out. According to Sloring, there was an air of tension in the valley, which seemed to divide the eastern and western armies along the gorge, and outsiders were not very welcome to get a piece of the pie, even if they were also dwarves.

So after the old priest was upset about what had happened recently and asked Mina for help. At that time, Lorin proposed to pull her out as a banner, rely on the good reputation of the paladin to infiltrate the dwarf valley, and then find a way to get black ice.

For this reason, the dwarf Slorin even did not hesitate to use male color to bewitch Helda Silverstream, he had been in the big human city for a long time, and he was very lethal to the female dwarf in the urban-rural area who longed for the scenery of the human world.

Although he despised this kind of behavior, out of the psychology of the advanced stage of cancer in straight men, he felt that there seemed to be nothing bad about men-male dwarves.

After a careful observation for a while, although the two heavily armed dwarven warriors overturned a lot of things on the car, they did not attack the dwarven civilian couple in the end. (He notices that one of the dwarves has a shaved beard, presumably a female.) Presumably, Slorin will be bitter about this kind of mother-dwarf who does not abide by traditional virtues. )

Thomas lowered his bow and heard the two warriors explain to the priest, but he didn't understand anything else, except for the word Slorin had used to refer to "black ice."

It's about to check if there's any entrainment of black ice going out, he thought.

Quietly stepping back away from the distance, Thomas put on his clogs and slid quickly towards the convoy.

The conversation that had just been overheard had been saved by Cortana. It's just that because she hasn't read the dwarven grammar book and vocabulary book, Cortana can't do machine translation.

From afar, he saw Mina sitting in the car, smiling and talking to the poet he had always found to be non-mainstream.

Mina has a strong sense of self-esteem, and whenever he laughs at his height, he will punch him in the lower abdomen in an attempt to make him bend down and reverse his height, and when he uses spells to photocopy photos, he will also ask others to squat down or she find a small stool or wooden box to stand on.

He stayed for a while, waiting for the poet to leave before he appeared. After beckoning the dwarf to come over, Thomas pulled out his phone.

"Well, it seems that the valley has been divided into two factions, and they are fighting for the black ice. The dwarf said, pretending to know. "Divided into two factions, Stoke Silverstream and Berryco Hammerstone. ”

Looking at Mina's eyes, Thomas exclaimed in his heart: Big brother, you can act! Pretending to be as if he hadn't communicated with the mother dwarf in the past few days, Minai is not eyeless and brainless.

Mina blinked, feeling as if she understood what the dwarf meant, "Then we must help Silverstream!" She patted the dwarf on the shoulder, signaling that she would support him.

"I remember when the gold mines were still abundant, they didn't have such martial law. Lori Paladin, who was hundreds of years older, began to reminisce: "It seems that both sides value the resource of black ice. It may be difficult to get into, but in order to prevent the possible destructiveness of black ice, we need as many people as possible. ”

She snapped her fingers and began to calculate, "I've known Stoke Silverstream since he was younger, and I'm sure I'll be able to get in, but I don't know how many people I'll want to bring." In addition to the few of you, you need to find some more reliable people. ”

"Like the gray-haired poet?" Thomas twitched, "I rarely go back to Brinsander, but every time I see him, I see that the girl next to him has changed, so you have to be careful." ”

Mina looked up at him in surprise: "It's not like you to say bad things about people behind your back." ”

Thinking of something, she suddenly showed a sly smile: "His soul is still walking on the path of goodness at a glance, but I feel that there is already a darkness corrupting him...... Oh, the witch's evil power is so powerful!"

"What's the matter with Kuhl?" said Thomas, frowning, "he...... She also has a hard time!"

"One of our men, known as the king of bards, said, 'Those who are born rich and can do everything they want do not know what true happiness in life looks like.'" Just as only those who have clung to a few fragile planks in a stormy sea can appreciate how precious a clear sky is. ’”

"Do you know what kind of ordeal she's been through, and how hard she's worked?"

Mina snorted coldly and turned her head away.

I don't know how she is, but so what? I just need to know you.

The dwarfs of the "Thomas X Paladin" faction and the dwarves of the "Thomas X Harem" party looked at each other and spread their hands helplessly.

As the dwarven couple's vehicle approached, Mina, the female knight, and Helda Silverstream, the mother dwarf, met them.

"The situation is really not optimistic," said the mother dwarf with a sad face, "Now everyone is divided into two factions and face each other on both sides of the canyon, there have been several fights, and it is estimated that they are about to merge...... And there have been people missing in the valley lately, and some people have laid this charge on my uncle. ”

The dwarven Sloring's boyfriend took the mother dwarf hand and comforted him silently, and Thomas felt that he was about to be as brazen as the wet man.

After telling the dwarven couple who wanted to move to Brinsander to be careful on the road, the mother and Minai rode to the front of the convoy to negotiate.

Upon entering the dwarven canyon, the sound of the howling wind was replaced by the clanging of hammers and anvils echoing through the valley. Curiously, only a few stone staircases are carved into the edge of the cliff.

After telling the guards to report it, the she-dwarf explained to Thomas, "For safety and wind, the entrance to the tunnel is hidden behind a stone wall, which is a tradition of dwarven architecture. ”