A month later, Grote Island has changed dramatically. Various buildings began to spring up on the island. Near the port, they even built a new dockyard, where Jerez and his brothers began to resume their old business.

On this day, Xiao Chen and Luo Ling came to the dock again, and under his gaze, the tattered Xingtian sailed into the dock with great difficulty. One of its masts was broken, half of the sail was missing, and the iron sheet wrapped around the ship was damaged.

Jerez looked at the ship with distress, the battleship he had personally helped to transform, and now looked like a poor creature that had been beaten up, and was hobbling to the hospital bed.

Xiao Chen saw his regretful expression and said, "This is still my problem, if it weren't for my insistence on stopping the space stabilizer and testing the strength of the ship itself, the Xingtian would not be so miserable." ”

Jerez shook his head and said, "No, Chairman Xiao, you are right, on the sea, we never know what will happen." And no one knows exactly how those two artifacts work, if at some point, they stop working. The only thing we can rely on is the two ships themselves.

With the magic shield on board, we had already achieved good results that day, sailing in the true furious sea for almost an hour. If it weren't for the failure of the shield generator later, the ship would still be intact. ”

Luo Ling frowned and looked at the broken mast, and said with some concern: "From the disappearance of the shield to the opening of the space stabilizer, there is only about ten minutes in between, and there is also the shield protection of us magicians, this ship has become like this, which shows that the current design is still very insufficient." ”

"The main reason is that our ship is too big," Jerez said. The shield you wield can't cover the entire ship. ”

Xiao Chen said: "No, it's still our strength is not enough, when the people of the Source Tower fled to the Western Continent, there was more than one Sage. That's why they were able to get the boat safely to the other side. Our strength is not as good as theirs, so naturally we have to find another way. This ship has to be changed again!"

Jerez was puzzled: "The current modification has been done to the extreme on the basis of the original two ships. After all, these two ships are wooden ships, and if they want to make them stronger, they will probably have to be made of new materials. I've read a lot of your shipbuilding materials, but we don't have the tools to build that kind of steel ship, and no one has that kind of experience, so I'm afraid it can't be done in a short time. ”

"yes. Maybe I'm overcautious, we should choose to trust He Xiaoxi's spatial stabilizer. Xiao Chen said.

Luo Ling said: "If you want to hurry, you can't reach it." Perhaps we should choose to go north first instead of going west, and find the traces of the Forge Tower first, and maybe we can get a better way to strengthen the ship. ”

Xiao Chen nodded and said, "The things of the Tower of Origin may be more important than the Tower of Forging, but you are right, this may really be a solution, I should let Farrell and Sinclair talk about it." ”

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Three days later, Xiao Chen met Farrell and Sinclair in the conference room on Grote Island.

Along with them were the alchemist Morey, five dwarven craftsmen, and a whole battalion of dwarven infantry.

"Xiao Chen, are you going to go to the Dwarven Kingdom to find the Forge Tower first?" Farrell asked loudly, "You called me to this island to fulfill your promise to go to the Dwarf Kingdom together?"

"Yes. I promised you a chance to return to the Dwarven Kingdom when I had a meeting last two months. Allowing you to use the forging techniques we have developed here to teach a lesson to those who drove you away in the first place. Xiao Chen looked at Farrell and said.

"Yes, yes, I have never forgotten it! I will not let them go easily after the short-sighted fellows kicked me out of my hometown and left my wife die young. I want the old guys to know that I'm on the right path. After all these years of experience in the Tower of China, I believe that even my sons are much better than those old guys. ”

Xiao Chen said: "You will get your wish, but you have to remember that our most important purpose is to find the Forging Tower, but there is almost no way for humans to infiltrate the dwarf kingdom, and our understanding of that side is only some hearsay, so this matter still needs your help." I think you still have some friends there, right?"

"Friend? Farrell's voice lowered, "But all those years have passed. I don't know what they've become now. Still, as soon as I get back there, I'll always think of a way. ”

Xiao Chen looked at Sinclair again, and he said, "Dwarves are now a very important force in our Chinese Tower. With the exception of the Farrells, the other dwarves are from your villages. I promised you last time, and many of you should want to go back and have a look. ”

Sinclair's thick eyebrows furrowed together, and he thought for a while and said, "Chairman Xiao, to be honest, our dwarven fathers are all poor people who were betrayed by the dwarven nobles, and now the generation that has seen the dwarven kingdom has passed away. I, or the dwarves younger than me, have little feeling for the Dwarven Kingdom except for disgust and hatred, and you must know that our homeland was originally in that valley, and now it is in the territory of the Tower of China. But I'm sure if you give them this opportunity, there are still a lot of curious people who will want to check it out. But everything will be based on your orders, and I'm sure you called us here because there are places that need our dwarven status, and whatever it is, we'll do it for you. ”

Xiao Chen looked at Sinclair with relief and said, "I don't know what will happen there, and I don't have a clear plan. But I always had a hunch that taking you there would be the right choice.

The Xingtian is still under repair, and we will take the Houyi to the north the day after tomorrow, and I will replace most of the human marines with a dwarven battalion. My planned destination is Crowell, the southern port of the Dwarven Kingdom, Uncle Farrell, what do you think of this location?"

"This port is the main trading port for dwarves and humans, but I'm afraid that our ship will cause a stir when it passes. ”

"Is it a sensation? That's not necessarily a bad thing. Xiao Chen said with a smile.