Chapter Twenty-Nine: Grimbaatar
Xu Mo began to pace in place, carefully thinking about the information he had obtained, and comparing it with the original historical plot in his conjecture. When Brigitte and Wen Leisha saw his appearance, they immediately dispersed obediently, quietly looking for the real door of the treasure house, not disturbing Xu Mo's train of thought.
Xu Mo guessed that in the original historical plot, Luo Ning and Wen Leisha may have also received help from the dwarves and borrowed flying griffins. It's just that the dwarves who followed were definitely not Amira, but other dwarves, or maybe Kogan himself led the team at all.
Xu Mo's speculation was well-founded, and the Flamebeard patrol battalion led by Kogan Flamebeard was stationed in the Twilight Heights, the eastern part of the Gribato Mountains. Both in terms of itinerary and combat objectives, it is aimed at Grimbaatar's Dragonthroat Clan, so as long as they know that Ronin is conducting a reconnaissance mission in Grimbaatar, then they will definitely help.
With the help of Kogan and Deathwing, Ronin will be able to reach Grimbaatar and enter a secret passage, most likely this treasure vault. But after Xu Mo, the reincarnation, intervened, things are now a little different. The dwarf who was with the team was Amira, not the battle-experienced Kogan.
If it was Kegan who led the team, then whether Luo Ning and the others would enter the treasure house through the secret passage, the answer was no.
The secret passage is still this secret passage, but Kogan will definitely not lead the team into the vault, because the vault, although it is located in the core area of Grimbaatar, it is not the most critical area for carrying out the mission. So I'm afraid that Kogan will change his route in the middle of the secret passage and go directly to Necrus or the imprisoned Red Dragon Queen Alexstasa.
Thinking of this, Xu Mo smiled bitterly, Luo Ning, a legendary hero, is really powerful. Even if he told him a thousand times, Luo Ning still changed his route halfway, this is simply the template of the protagonist, and he is not affected by this external factor at all.
According to this protagonist template and historical inertia, Xu Mo can be sure that Luo Ning and Amira are already closer to Necrus or the Red Dragon Queen than the three of them, and the three of them have to hurry. But before that, Xu Mo had one last question that someone needed to answer.
"Wen Lesa, you said earlier that the Mage Council of Kenrito asked the High Elves to escort Ronin on this reconnaissance mission. So which member of the Mage Council sent to ask for help, is it the Grand Crassus~ Mage? Xu Mo turned back to the Elven Ranger and asked.
"How do you know?" Wen Leisha blinked her eyes, and her lovely big sky blue eyes looked at Xu Mo in surprise.
After so many days of getting along, she slowly felt the strength of this fellow stalker, his clever stealth skills, his mature combat skills, and his rich experience as a team leader. In addition, what surprised the elven ranger the most was that in his eyes, there was often that kind of mysterious wisdom light, and Wen Leisha had only seen this kind of penetrating wisdom in some of the older elf elders in the clan.
Xu Mo didn't answer her question, but just showed a mysterious smile that tickled the elf's teeth, as if he was like an innocent child.
"Alright, let's go! Before Necrus escapes, we must find this orc warlock, snatch the 'Demon Soul', and free Alexstrasa, the Red Dragon Queen. Xu Mo said confidently.
The gates of the Dwarven Treasury are two heavy stone doors, on the left side of which there is a palm-sized square hole that can be seen from the outside of the treasure house, and on the right is a thick metal rod.
The square hole is supposed to be used by the treasure house guards to observe the safety of the treasure house, and the metal rod is the opening mechanism of the gate. However, now there are no orc guards outside the treasure house, and think about it, since the orcs of the Dragonthroat Clan have already carried out the dragon eggs in the treasure house, they will naturally not send people to guard this empty warehouse, not to mention that they are evacuating Grimbaatar.
"I'll go out stealthily to observe the surrounding situation first, you guys are waiting for me here!" Xu Mo gave an instruction to the two companions, and his figure slowly disappeared in place.
"Click!" With the sound of the machine, the door to the vault slid to both sides, and Bridget and Winresa quickly hid behind the portal. There was no one outside the treasure house, and Xu Mo had just stepped out of the treasure house, and immediately stood in place.
"This is the city of the Brute Hammer Tribe, Grimbaatar!" Xu Mo muttered in a low voice, his eyes full of shock.
In front of Xu Mo, there was a super huge and deep cave, or a city-level cave. The cave was an irregular cylinder, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, and Xu Mo's current position was about one-third of the upper third of the bottom of the cave, and from him he could see that the opposite side of the cave was a full thousand meters.
The walls of the cave are full of rooms and warehouses, and the walls of the cave are divided into countless floors by wide stone steps, which are both corridors and platforms. The existence of these stairs and platforms makes the entire cave narrow at the top and wide at the bottom in the shape of an anti-staircase.
In the center of the cave there are numerous wooden and stone bridges and arm-thick iron chains, which are either aerial bridges connecting the two sides of the cave, or mechanical elevators. At the bottom of the cave is a huge square, surrounded by stone buildings, and in the center is a large black pit.
There are countless pitch-black stone pits and stone platforms around the big pit, Xu Mo knows in his heart that these pitch-black stone pits should have been iron-making furnaces, and there are anvils placed on the stone platforms, and the big pit in the center is probably the largest furnace.
These furnaces were forged by the dwarves and provided the energy needed for the entire city, and dried the wilderness wetlands into the groundwater of Grimbaatar, making the hollowed-out mountain city stronger and more durable from collapse.
The dwarves are indeed masters of construction and blacksmithing, and this dwarven city deep in the middle of the mountains is so majestic and magnificent. Xu Mo shook his head in admiration, although the world of Azeroth did not have the modern technology of the earth, but just a dwarf city could see that the civilization created by these indigenous races was no less than the civilization of the earth.
"You can come out!" Xu Mo recovered from the shock and beckoned to the two companions who were still in the treasure house.
"Wow!" After coming out of the treasure house, the two beauties are equally amazed by the wonders of Grimbaato's city.
"Now what are we going to do, it looks like Grim Baatar has been scrapped by Necruz!" Bridgit said in frustration.
"No, Necruz wasn't that fast, didn't you forget that they just brought the dragon eggs out of the treasure vault more than half an hour ago?" Xu Mo pondered for a while before saying, "This city is narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, and the real entrance and exit are at the top of the cave, that is, the top of the Gribato Mountains, and our position is at least two-thirds of the height from the top of the mountain!" ”
"You're saying that Necrus only abandoned the bottom floor of Grimbaatar, and the orcs above are not visible from our position?" Bridget asked curiously.
"Well, it's still about two hours before dawn, and the vast majority of orcs are still asleep in their rooms, and the whole city hasn't woken up yet. The orcs who carried the dragon eggs just now should be the elite guards of Necruz, and I estimate that by dawn, the dragonthroat clan of the entire city will start to migrate! Xu Mo said slowly.
"But even if we follow all the way, I'm afraid we will be discovered by the orcs, but I'm afraid there is not much chance of finding Necruz, let alone snatching the 'Demon Soul'!" Wen Leisha frowned.
"Who said we were going up!" Xu Mo smiled and said, "Let's go down to the bottom of Grimbaatar!" ”
"Why?" Bridget and Winresa looked at each other and asked in surprise.
"You'll soon find out!" Xu Mo's face had that hateful smile on his face that made the two beauties feel itchy teeth.