As the residence and symbol of the Grand Duke of Hammer, the castle began to be built almost immediately after the succession of the Lion King. Legend has it that when the king was a prince, he left the kingdom for a long time because he longed for the wide world, and when he returned to the lion after completing his adventure, he had several good friends by his side.

Most of these companions simply returned to their homeland with the prince for a few days before leaving the remote kingdom, with only one powerful warrior remaining with the king, who was given the title of Hammer. At first, Grand Duke Hammer was just a new baron in the kingdom, and all the nobles of the kingdom just regarded this guy who did not attend any social occasions as a close confidant and favorite of the king.

However, with the invasion of the western nomads, the grey lion, who had just changed kings, soon fell into war. At that time, it was neither the Montenegrin family nor the once greatest military aristocracy that stood up for the young king to quell the war.

The Hammer Duke, who was still a baron, with two attendants and a hammer on his shoulder, marched west from the royal capital, gathering the remnants of the army along the way, and driving the marauders on horseback out of the kingdom with great strength and convincing commanding ability.

With this almost national salvation feat, the baron's status naturally rose in great strides. But perhaps there was an agreement a long time ago, just when everyone thought that this upstart would enter the center of power in the kingdom and even directly become the marshal of the kingdom, the king only gave him a task of reclamation and defense. And the land he reclaimed is now the Hammer Leader.

"A man who has carved out half a kingdom. Looking at the iron frescoes depicting the deeds of Grand Duke Hammer on the walls of Hammer Castle, the Raven said. If there was no problem with what he had heard from all sides before, then no matter how outrageous the rumors of Grand Duke Hammer himself were in various levels of the kingdom, this person had indeed increased the size of a duke to the land of the Greylion Kingdom. Moreover, these lands were still snatched from the hands of nomads.

"Strange, are there no servants in this castle?" Having confirmed that there was no room for the Grand Duke of the Hammer at the top of the main tower, the Raven followed the corridor and gradually walked towards the interior of the castle. But to the Spellcaster's bewilderment, although he had gone down quite a bit, the Raven had so far not touched a single servant working in the castle.

Of course, this is not an reasonable thing, generally speaking, the daily cleaning and maintenance work of a castle of this size will inevitably require a lot of manpower. This is unavoidable even in the Gray Tower, but the butler in the Gray Tower, Ah Fu, can incarnate into many individuals and work independently because of his racial talent, and where it is not enough, he can also drive other arcane creatures to make up for it, so there is no need to hire other minions. But a butler like Ah Fu doesn't show up in the town's job office, so are all the servants going to eat?

Shaking his head to dispel this unreliable speculation, the meal times of a large castle like this are relatively fixed, and the life and rest of the servants cannot be disrupted without emergencies. In the middle of the night, even if there are no servants to clean up, there will always be a lamplighter who patrols the night.

Tilting his head and thinking for a moment, the crow felt that it was better not to waste his time wandering around, and his eyes began to flash with magical power, with which he could ignore the walls and directly find the people living in the castle. But when the Raven began to use his magic, something interesting happened. What he saw in his vision was still an empty hallway.

"What's going on?" the sorcerer looked around in confusion, and he realized that the interior of the castle was no different from when he looked at it with his naked eye, no matter what angle it looked at.

Troubled, the crow hurried to the nearest window and looked out at the molten iron city, where there were no large houses and sporadic fires, only countless individuals flickering with the breath of life. This made the sorcerer even more confused as he made sure that there was nothing wrong with his magic. And the time he was haunted didn't last long.

"Crunch, crunch" With the sound of heavy footsteps and chains turning around the corner of the hallway, the Raven knew that his magic had succeeded in attracting the attention of the people in the castle. It's just that, judging by the shadow reflected on the wall, this thing that greeted him was not very friendly.

"So who can explain why there is a steel dummy in the castle of a kingdom duke?" looked at the thing that came out of the corner in a stiff position, and the cursed crow tilted his head in disbelief.

The thing that appeared in front of the sorcerer was about two meters tall, and it wasn't too big compared to the nearly three-meter corridor in the castle. Aside from its height, however, the rest of the humanoid creature made of steel was even more frightening, especially the dummy's left hand with a circular serrated blade and two rows of barbed iron cylinders in its abdomen. Although it seems that the cylinders have not yet begun to spin, the Raven believes that as long as something is stuffed into that place, the only fate that awaits it is to be crushed.

As the dummy turned the corner completely, its eyes studded with two blue ores aimed precisely at the crow. At the same time, the blades and iron cylinders on its body also spun rapidly, making a chilling sound of metal rubbing.

"Doesn't seem to have any intention of communicating with me. The sorcerer said and began to consciously step back, going toe-to-toe with an opponent like the Steel Dummy in a small place like a hallway, no different from suicide. Besides, he didn't want to go to war rashly.

For the cursed crow, this kind of puppet dummy without a will should be the most difficult opponent. The power of the curse is enough to terrify all living things, but the inanimate steel and rocks are inherently lifeless...... Of course, it's not that the crow is unaware of the shortcomings he encounters when facing this type of opponent, but after all, human energy is limited, and it is not easy to do everything.

However, the Raven's weakness did not affect the steel dummy, and the heavy golem still walked firmly towards the intruders who broke into the castle. The blade in its left hand inadvertently sliced through the golden menorah in the hallway, instantly slicing the entire upper part of the menorah into powder.

Under the threat of the dummy, the crow was soon forced to retreat to his original position. Seeing that there was no way out behind him, if the sorcerer didn't want to jump out of the window and run for his life, the battle seemed inevitable.