Xiao Chen met the dwarven king Manios a day later, but the meeting place was not in the palace, but in the White Leaf Family, one of the six major families. Most of the dwarves of the White Leaf Family are potions and healing mages, and they have a relatively harmonious relationship with all parties, which is a safer meeting place for Xiao Chen than the palace.

The dwarven king's beard was white, his face was covered with vicissitudes of life, and his forehead and cheeks were covered with obvious age spots, and he looked very old. He was already over three hundred years old. Even among the dwarves who live longer than humans, they are real old men.

When Xiao Chen, Luo Ling, Umeda Tian, and Ansaldo came to the White Leaf Family together, the patriarch of the White Leaf Family accompanied them to the reception room, but the dwarf king was sitting on a chair pondering something at this time.

"I've seen His Majesty the King. "The White Leaf Patriarch Avasolo and Ansaldo knelt down on one knee to salute the king. Then briefly introduced Xiao Chen and the three of them, Xiao Chen did not use the pseudonym Ji Yijun used when applying for the entry permit, but used his real identity.

The king stood up and looked at Xiao Chen and the others with somewhat cloudy eyes, bowed his chin and said: "I am really surprised that the head of the Tower of China will come to my country in person, it was my negligence a few days ago, I didn't realize that there was such a guest, but it is not too late, we finally meet today." ”

Xiao Chen saw that the other party did not break the matter of him impersonating Ji Yijun, and realized that the other party should be releasing kindness, he also smiled and said: "What I want to do involves the whole world, including the safety of the dwarf kingdom, and trying to keep a low profile is also to avoid being mastered by the enemy. Originally, I was going to visit His Majesty after I had finished dealing with the affairs of the temple. I didn't expect things to turn out in a big way. ”

King Manios' breathing became a little heavy: "I already know about the temple. If Your Excellency had communicated with me first, I am afraid that things would not have come to this point, and perhaps there would have been some other turnaround. ”

"What does it mean to turn around?"

"The monster that claims to be the god of forging may not have invaded the temple and caused this tragedy. The king said.

"You knew about the existence of this thing before, but you didn't tell the rest of the kingdom?" Xiao Chen heard from the king's words.

The king's gaze shifted to the other side, and he nodded, "This thing has been around for a long time. In the past, it had been hidden in ruins, and no one knew about its existence. I guess it's been gathering strength there, I don't know how many years.

Or maybe someone knows it exists, but is dead. It wasn't uncommon for someone to go missing from the ruins of the gods before, and it was generally thought that they were punished for not solving the mystery left by their ancestors, but now it seems that they may have died at the hands of this thing.

But it was true that no one had seen it before me, and it returned to the kingdom alive. ”

"Have you seen it?" Xiao Chen said.

"Yes, I entered the Relics of the Gods in the second year after I ascended the throne and became king, hoping to find something useful in it. At that time, the dwarven kingdom had just experienced a war, and the losses were very large, and the treasury was barely very rich. In the past, when the dwarven kings were financially rich, they would hide some supplies in the relics of the gods, which was the last guarantee of the dwarven kingdom. So I wanted to go in and find these supplies, and then take them out and rebuild the dwarven kingdom.

I entered it with almost ten royals, and it was at that time that we met this monster. ”

"Did it claim to be the god of forging at that time, what was it like back then?" Xiao Chen asked.

"Yes, it's a mist, red, with light flickering in it. It should be the same as what you encountered in the temple. No one could tell what it was, but we all heard it talking to us, that it was the god of forging.

It's okay to deceive ordinary foolish people with this kind of talk, and naturally no one in the people I brought will believe the monster's nonsense.

The ruins of the gods were originally a small world with a lot of magic. At the time, we guessed that it was some kind of energy creature that had sneaked into this world.

At that time, I brought two royal master-level masters, as well as two high-level mages. The rest of the people are not bad, so we want to subdue or destroy it, after all, this is the place where the most important materials are stored in the dwarven kingdom, and such monsters cannot be allowed to roam in it.

But the power of that monster is so weird and terrifying that he actually manipulated two weaker people in our team at some point, and then attacked the two masters in our team from behind.

This kind of attack from teammates is the most difficult to defend against, and when the two masters are killed and one is injured, our team is in chaos, and the power of the red mist itself is also very strong. We had to fight and flee, but one by one we fell into the hands of the monsters, and if it weren't for my cousin's final death for me, I'm afraid even I would have died inside.

After coming out of the ruins of the gods, I actually sent a team to investigate the situation, but this team did not come back either. So, I hurriedly sealed it, and even the original tradition of the Great Forger entering the ruins was stopped by me. ”

Xiao Chen was puzzled: "Why are you keeping this news a secret?"

The kingdom sighed and said, "You must know that the royal masters I brought in twice account for half of the number of royal family members who support me. At that time, the situation in the country was not peaceful, and if some people knew that my loss was so great, I might not even be able to sit on the throne. I arranged a series of pretenses to make it look like I had been assigned to a very distant place to carry out a mission, and I kept it a secret. But then the other nobles still felt that they had disappeared one after another in a short period of time, and although they didn't know the specific reason, they still felt that they could take advantage of me, so they launched a rebellion after that. ”

"You should have other troubles, right?" Xiao Chen looked at the king, feeling that he still had something to say.

The king hesitated for a moment before saying, "The other thing is that no one can tell what God is. What if there were any dwarves who recognized him as the god of forging, some believed him, some didn't, and it would tear apart the kingdom that was already fragile, and I couldn't take that risk. ”

Xiao Chen said, "But in addition to the royal family, there should be a way for the high priest of the Forging Temple to enter there, right?"