The Forge Temple is a building very close to the River of Lava, and it is very typical of dwarven architecture, square and square, like a large box. However, in terms of scale, it is not inferior to the palace of human beings.

The columns of the dwarven buildings differed from those of humans, with few round pillars, and most of them were built with large square bricks. Here, the lava reflects a faint shimmer of bright red, giving the whole building a fiery feeling.

Xiao Chen stood in front of the eight pillars in front of the temple, and he still felt a very majestic momentum. Beside him were Luo Ling, Umedada, and Evelyn, as well as Ansaldo, who had brought them here.

A middle-aged priest opened the side door of the temple, and the dwarven priest who forged the temple wore a fiery red robe with a knee-length hem and no sleeves, revealing the dwarven's muscular arms. In contrast to the robes of the Temple of Nature, the priestly robes of the Forge Temple were more like short robes used for manual work. However, the gems set on the robe and the seven strands of the priest's beard fully illustrate the nobility of his status.

The middle-aged priest saw Ansaldo nodding and greeting him, "Ansaldo, is this your human friend?"

"Yes, Borat, they have been waiting in the royal capital for two days, and yesterday I received news from you that the high priest would like to see them and talk to them, so I sent them here. Ansaldo said.

"The high priest read your father's secret letter and asked me to inform you. He should have taken this matter very seriously, and even prepared an altar for it. Priest Borat said in a low voice.

"That is, he may have to ask for an oracle at any time?" Ansaldo's eyes widened.

"Hmm. The High Priest asked you to tell your father, who made a crucial choice. The actions after the temple still need the support of your family, so please prepare as soon as possible. ”

"Of course. Ansaldo said.

"Come with me. Priest Borat led the group into the side door, behind which was the courtyard of a temple. The courtyard was quite empty, and there were stone monuments set up around it, Xiao Chen glanced at it when he walked by, most of them were the names of believers who had made great contributions to the temple, but they were basically members of the royal family and the six major families.

Borat led everyone to the door of a large hall, glanced back at the elite dwarf team behind Xiao Chen and said, "There should not be too many people who see the high priest, and the limit is limited to three people." Others can stay in this yard and wait. ”

Ansaldo said: "Your Excellency Xiao Chen, I won't go in." Pick three of yourselves to go in with. ”

In the end, Xiao Chen, Luo Ling, and Umeda Tian followed the priest into the main hall as representatives, but everyone didn't notice that the one on Luo Ling's ear was actually another great magician, Glade. Evelyn and the elite dwarven warriors waited in the courtyard with Ansaldo.

Xiao Chen looked at the hall and found that most of it was embedded in the mountain wall, and the hall itself was still in a simple and neat dwarf style, but compared to the outside, various reliefs began to appear on the walls on both sides.

These reliefs are delicate and vividly depicted, telling the story of the history of the dwarves. In the first few reliefs, there are no gods, and in the first two reliefs the dwarves live a simple and primitive life, in the steppes and forests, they hunt with sticks, fight wild beasts with their bare hands, and gather fruit and grain on the ground, which seems very obscurant. In the third relief, there are many dwarves gathered together, they planted flags on the top of the hill, established a dwarven country, and one dwarf became king with a crown, and he led the dwarves to build a city, work together, live together, and defend against enemies together.

Later, two groups of people appeared in the kingdom of the dwarves, one group appeared noble and great in the picture, and the other group appeared short and vulgar, the former was naturally dwarven nobles, and the latter was commoners and slaves. The nobles began to use writing and build palaces, while the commoners and slaves worked hard to dedicate their possessions to the king and nobles.

Later in the reliefs, the dwarves began to tie up different beards, divided into classes by the number of wisps of the beards.

At this time, the dwarven kingdom was divided into more people, and in addition to kings, nobles, commoners, and slaves, there were soldiers with axes, craftsmen with hammers, and scholars with books.

But the dwarven kingdoms were still very weak at this time, they started later than other races, and their enemies always had more powerful weapons and more powerful magic. As a result, they were always defeated in wars with other races, and were slowly driven from the plains into the mountains.

The dwarves lived in worse and worse conditions, and in order to escape the pursuit of their enemies, they burrowed into caves and learned various skills in digging tunnels. But this does not give them the means to defeat the enemy.

At this time, a group of dwarves appeared praying to the heavens.

These people held their hammers high and prayed to the sky for the help of the gods. Finally, a deity answered their request. It was a large, vague figure, but he also held the same hammer in his hand as the dwarf. That's why he was called the god of forging by the dwarves.

In the reliefs after the appearance of the god of forging, the lives of the dwarves were greatly changed. The god of forging taught them how to mine veins, how to smelt hard metal, and then craft the best tools and weapons.

Given the knowledge of the god of forging, the dwarves began to arm themselves with sophisticated armor and weapons, and were finally able to defeat their enemies on the battlefield and protect the last remaining territories. From then on, they established a stable kingdom to the west of the continent.

And the god of forging became the only god worshiped by the dwarves.

When Xiao Chen and the others finished reading these reliefs, they had already unconsciously walked to the bottom of the front hall of the main hall.

"Is this set of reliefs meant to record how the god of forging taught the dwarves the art of blacksmithing?" Umeda stopped in front of the last relief. On the relief, a tall but vague figure is looking at a canyon from a high place, and countless dwarves are standing on both sides of the canyon with hammers held high.

"Yes. The great god of forging has led us dwarves out of ignorance and taught us how to master the power of iron and fire. "These reliefs are made so that those who enter this temple will not forget what the god of forging has done for us." Every year during the festival, the temple selects representatives from all walks of life to visit here, and at this time, we priests have to tell them about the history of the dwarves. ”

At this time, Xiao Chen stared at a relief of war and observed it carefully, and he asked, "Who are the enemies depicted in these wars?"