Chapter Twenty-Four: The Gift of an Alien

Heavy, square stone stoves form a neat array. Dwarves have an incredible talent for working with stone. Without the need for tools such as a ruler, with a chisel and a hammer, Barot could turn a variety of rough stones into boxy standard stones. The neat stone stoves look exactly the same, and the scientific arrangement of the space gives the facilities prepared for boiling sake lees and distilling and purifying them look like open-air factories.

André had carefully studied the dwarven stonemasonry's craft and found that it was almost impossible to replicate it, even if it was intentionally imitated. The difficulty was not only due to Ballot's skillful craftsmanship and practical experience, but also to the fact that the dwarves could repair the scars and imperfections of the rough stone with the help of a magical earth rune that used the rubble as concrete. Some strangely shaped stones can be forcibly formed into a quasi-standard quadrant, but in practice, this can only be said to be a reluctance to use this technique. But with this miraculous method, the dwarven stonemasons have a more flexible operating space for the processing of stones.

The Children of the Abyss have tried to implement this "magic concrete" themselves, but the actual effect is barely up to the level of a dwarven stonemason. André theorized that this was due to the fact that the dwarves were far more comfortable with the magic of the rock and the earth than he was, just as he had far more control over the magic of the shadows than the others. If his guess is correct, the "Perception" in the status attribute can increase one's perception of magic and elements, while "Spirit" corresponds to the ability to manipulate magic, which means that in addition to the natural bloodline, perception and spirit should be the "core attributes" of a spellcaster. Andrei's ability to barely imitate the dwarves is due to his perception and mental attributes that forcibly make up for his rustiness and lack of experience in the control of the earth element.

It would be a waste of resources to have the Children of the Abyss, who are good at shadow spells, and the Fire Demon, who are good at fire spells, to imitate the dwarves' talent for working with stone. Therefore, professional work should still be handed over to professional people.

"It's nothing, it's just the old business of our Greystone Clan. The elves' ability in carpentry is also more than a little worse than that of us dwarves!" The solid-eyed dwarve, as soon as he received the enthusiastic praise of the children of the abyss, accidentally betrayed his close allies for hundreds of years.

It doesn't take much scheming to deal with such people, as long as you are honest with them, they will also know everything about you.

"You said that your Limestone Clan doesn't have enough iron utensils in the house, why don't the elves seem to have any interest in Andrari's clay pots?

"That's because they don't like meat very much, and it's okay to eat a little meat with grilled meat once in a while. Their staple food is a variety of fruits and dried fruits, which can be eaten after washing, and of course they don't need these things. But where is the food in Thorn Leaf Village so refreshing with your roast meat! It's so good to eat every day, I think I've gotten heavier recently......"

"Well, you're right. But it's not the harvest season yet, what else can we eat besides meat?" Andre naturally understood the importance of eating a balanced diet, "What do the elves eat at this time of year?"

"They have their own secret method to keep fruit trees bearing fruit all year round, and that's as magical as their carpentry!"

The Children of the Abyss nodded thoughtfully, it seems that Garandia is richer and more civilized than the Demon Realm, and their strange race, culture, and talent are also not shallow and complementary.

In fact, the demon race also has its own peculiarities, but it does not need to reproduce, only the pursuit of a unique culture that is strong for individuals only makes the survival competition of the demon world extremely fierce, and it is not conducive to the peaceful development and inheritance of civilization.

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The konjac harvested by the cowards was smashed into pieces by the powerful dwarves with stone hammers, and then thrown into an iron pot with far better thermal conductivity than crude clay pots. After boiling into a paste, it is placed in a sealed clay pot where it undergoes a fermentation process that lasts for 10 days. After fermentation, the juice is leached and concentrated for distillation and purification. A small part of the remaining sake lees will be retained as cultures, and most of the rest will be dry residues.

At first, the dwarves who waited for the wine to be brewed would be bored with some wine-scented lees to satisfy their cravings, and when they got used to the low-alcohol and less desirable taste, and Andrari's rich food, they threw it aside.

Some bored dwarves were surprised to find that the camp's moor, whose feet were not yet fully domesticated, were very interested in these lees.

As a result, the dwarves laughed and fed the marsh birds when they were bored.

"You flat-haired animals like to drink too, don't you?" said the dwarves, cheerfully, and as long as they didn't need the precious wine, they didn't hesitate to share their preferences with strangers, even if it was just two big fools.

What is surprising is that the two big birds who "eat high" gradually lost their previous vigilance. They begin to become less fearful of people, and will sometimes ask dwarves and cowards for food. Finding out about this situation, Andrei decisively decided to put a certain amount of cooked meat on two large birds that had been in captivity for a long time, and had already wilted a little. In the last few days, the two big birds have begun to get close to the cowardly Kulani who is in charge of feeding, and it is estimated that it will not be long before the cowardly can try to release the two big birds with the help of others. They are accustomed to the nests that the cowards lay for them out of hay, and they don't seem too nervous when they see strange demons and dwarves.

Three short-haired black dogs were running around the camp, and the mischievous ones were almost as big as their neighbors, the grey geese. Curious by nature, they did not show any inappropriate aggression towards the children of the neighbor couple who followed their parents while barking, and of course they may have been frightened by the hard beaks of the gray goose couple. It's just that sometimes they don't have a long eye to provoke those dwarves who are immersed in their work, and then they bite the leather boots as an imaginary enemy, and they will "whine" and accept the lessons of the grumpy beards.

The cowardly demon Lothar, who is in charge of dog breeding, naturally reluctantly wants his "children" to be bullied by "outsiders", but when he privately complains to the children of the abyss, he is ruthlessly attacked by his great leader.

"It's okay in this way, they don't know how to get into trouble everywhere, let them take a lesson, and they will understand what they can do and what they can't do. "Andre doesn't want to breed the only material at hand to be a fun dog that can be used to entertain people, and in a place like the Demon Realm, alert guard dogs or hunting dogs are more in line with the needs of the tribe.

Charlotte, the succubus who successfully weaned the black-haired demon dogs, grew up with a belly when she looked at it, and Lothar didn't know who the child's father was. He had also asked His Highness Andrew, who knew almost everything, curiously. However, the Venerable Son of the Abyss told him that what he should know will naturally be told to him, and what he should not know, you will ask in vain. As for what he shouldn't know, he has to slowly understand it.

Andre had already had this guess when the succubus was in charge of the puppies' milk, and when he inadvertently mentioned Charlotte's child's father to Livia, the succubus's unspoken appearance made him open-minded and didn't ask for these details. Perhaps there are some hidden secrets about the child's father.

For Andrei, who has never seen the abyssal blood pool again, the imminent increase in the population of the clan can only be a good thing. Anyway, the child's mother had no special relationship with him, and the children of the abyss were happy to be a good person, let Charlotte take charge of the easiest work, and give her the best food and other supplies.

Although the tribe has nothing but food, it is just at hand.

Everything is going according to plan, and the demons of Andrarui are busy brewing fine wine and enriching the tribe's supplies. The dwarves gave them their aid while looking forward to the completion of the first wines. Outside the camp, Alex, a ranger hiding in the shadows, faithfully carried out the teacher's orders, monitoring Andrari's every move.

And near the long-abandoned camp of Andrarui on the outskirts of the swamp, the warriors of the original conquest tribe who stayed behind had become accustomed to the abundant food resources around the swamp, but they did not yet know that those primitive and barbaric eating habits had basically doomed them to a tragic end. They were not aware of the dangers that lurked beneath the swamp's cursed "bad name", but they wondered why no other powerful tribes had come to live in such a fertile land. So they gladly obeyed the orders of the new chieftain, the usurper Banuma who had killed the conquests, and left them at the edge of the swamp to wait for the possible exiles.

Canor Scales, Livia Caro, and the succubus they sheltered, the slut Charlotte, a lowly female who might well be pregnant with the blood of a conquest.

They all have to die!

As the victor, Banuma will not leave his enemies a chance!