Walking out of this main road, Xiao Chen finally followed Ansaldo to the dwarven royal capital.

"This is our royal capital: the great lava city of Ravapolis. "Ansaldo has been here countless times, but the first time he has brought a human here, there is still pride in his voice.

In front of Xiao Chen's eyes was a magnificent fiery red canyon, and they were standing at the top of the canyon at this time, the canyon stretched out meanderingly, like a new world unfolding in front of them. The canyon is deep and long, with a faint mist evaporating up from below, and at the deepest bottom, a red river splits the canyon in half. The cliffs on both sides of the canyon have been carved by the dwarves like terraced rice fields, and on each step there are many rock-made houses scattered on top of each other. Occasionally, the wind blows, and it carries a warm breath. There is also the sound of beating from a distant place, which has a strange rhythm, like countless hammers beating on the iron felt, but the rhythm does not make people irritated at all, but like a drum beating in the heart, giving people a feeling of blood boiling.

People who came here for the first time, both humans and dwarves, were blown away by the sight. And Farrell, who had been away from this place for a long time, looked at the familiar scenes that appeared in countless dreams in a daze, and couldn't help but burst into tears.

He fell to his knees, kissed the rocks beneath his feet, and then tapped his hand to the ground with the sound of a hammer in the distance.

His two sons followed from behind, doing the same as him.

The rough singing voice sounded from here:

"The river of lava, boiling and tumbling,

The flames danced, forging my soul.

The Valley of Ten Thousand Hammers, the sound of ups and downs

Steel fights, forging my fundamental ......"

The dwarves brought by Xiao Chen were quickly infected by this song and sang this song together.

Later, even Ansaldo's bodyguards sang along.

After singing a hammer song, Farrell wiped his face with his sleeve and stood up from the ground, and said to Xiao Chen: "I'm sorry, I can't control myself a little. I think it's been here for too long. ”

Xiao Chen said: "If I go back to my hometown for so long, I will definitely do the same thing as you." ”

Ansaldo said, "Farrell, you're not the only one singing the hammer carol here. I've seen this a few times. Wherever we dwarves go, our roots are here. ”

"I just wanted to come in quietly, but when I saw the river of lava and heard the sound of the Valley of Ten Thousand Hammers, I just, I wanted to kiss the fast ground. Farrell said.

"There's a river of magma down there, the river of lava you said, right?" Umeda asked, even though she had traveled through dozens of worlds, she had never been here. These dwarves have been ignored in many battles in the past.

"Yes. That is the river of lava, the mother river of the dwarves. You can feel her scorching breath standing here, and when a dwarf dies, no matter where he is, his last wish must be to throw his body into the river of lava. Farrell said.

He stretched out his hand and pointed in the distant direction of the valley, where the sound of hammers seemed to be heard, "Beyond this canyon, behind that turning cliff, is the Valley of Ten Thousand Hammers, where countless workshops are making all sorts of things every day, and where I used to work. It's a nice sound. ”

Xiao Chen said: "In the next few days, we still need to wait for the arrangement of the Governor of Ansaldo, and you should have time to walk around." When the time comes, you can go back to your own family and have a look. ”

"Before I came here, all I could think about was how to color those old guys. Now that I see my hometown again, I suddenly just want to go back to my family. ”

Ansaldo led Xiao Chen and his party along a road to the bottom of the canyon, and they were able to see the situation inside the dwarven royal capital more clearly. From the river of lava upwards, the houses on both sides become more dilapidated and low the higher they go, and the taller they go. The grandest of the houses are a few hundred meters from the lava river. However, both the palace and the bungalows in the valley are made of light red stones, which blends in with the color of the canyon itself, and it seems to be very harmonious.

"For the dwarves, the closer they get to the river of lava, the more hopeful they are of being blessed by the god of forging. Therefore, the nobles were given a position close to the lava river according to their rank. The Royal Palace and the Forge Temple are naturally the two buildings closest to the River of Lava. The second is the house of the six major families. Some of the top are all kinds of public buildings, such as arenas, libraries, supply warehouses, and so on. Above are the houses of the minor nobles, and further up are the houses of soldiers, merchants, and craftsmen, and at the top are the houses of farmers and slaves. ”

"Is there a farmer in the royal capital, but what can be planted underground?" Xiao Chen asked.

"At the top of the canyon, there are fields planted with a crop called rock rice. It grows without sunlight, sucks heat from the air and rocks, and it tastes bad, but it's enough to feed the commoners and slaves, and the nobles eat from outside. ”

As the group spoke, they walked down the road, and Xiao Chen found that the light source of the entire dwarf royal capital, in addition to the light emitted by the lava river and the surrounding reflections, there were also many lights from the illuminated spars inlaid on the layers of rock walls, and the white light emitted by those spars and the red light of the lava river were intertwined, forming the hue of the entire royal capital.

Walking down a little bit, Xiao Chen found that although he was getting closer and closer to the lava river, the temperature around him had not risen much. He looked around and found a number of circles carved into the rocks, which could keep out the heat and absorb it as some kind of energy source.

Dwarves are not heat-tolerant races, at least they are also carbon-based creatures, and their basic body structure follows the same standards as humans. So to survive in such a position, these circles are essential.

Xiao Chen carefully observed the lines of those magic circles and found that some of them had become the energy source of the lighting crystals. Other threads lead into the house, and he guesses they can provide energy for certain tools in the room.

It is no accident that the dwarves lived here, and that they actually used geothermal energy to build their kingdom. And it's not an exaggeration to call the lava river their mother river. I'm afraid that there are many places in their lives where they will use the energy of the lava river.