Since the Battle of Yakou, the journey from the Far North to Fog City has become increasingly chaotic, and attacks on dwarven convoys have become more and more blatant. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The armies from the giant city-states were no longer too lazy to disguise themselves as bandits, and the large and small city-states along the way were also encouraged by them to join the robbery queue. As a result, only half of the supplies shipped from the Far North during the year made it to Fog City, and the rest disappeared along with the convoy.

However, in the face of such outright banditry, the Far North has shown incomprehensible endurance, and the dwarven king Grunada, who has always been known for protecting his shortcomings, has turned a blind eye to it, and even the son of the dwarf king, Gernada, who is often active in the Knight Federation, has disappeared.

Interestingly, the conflict between the giant city-states and the Far North took place almost exclusively on this single transportation route north of the continent of Huls. In other parts of the Knight Federation, the dwarves continue to transport magic crystals to Middle-earth, exchange them for food, and then distribute them to the knight city-states along the way, even in the face of giant city-states that have torn their skins.

In this situation, the vast majority of people thought that the conflict that took place in the western part of the Knight Federation would end with a compromise in the Far North.

Perhaps, the giant Jesse thinks so too.

It was in this atmosphere that in the autumn of 642 in the Faimon calendar, an envoy came to the town of Yakou and brought some of Jesse's conditions.

......

Inside the town hall of Misty Town, Donner leaned back in his chair and looked the emissary from the giant city-state up and down.

The messenger looked to be in his forties, a head shorter than Donner, with small eyes under a broad forehead, and was pointing his nostrils at Donald.

"I know who you are...... However, I have made it clear that I am here to meet Cynthia and Grunada, and if you do not meet them in time, you will be responsible for all the consequences. The messenger's tone was as arrogant as his expression, but the slightly twitching corners of his mouth betrayed him—after ten full days of captivity, he should have understood that his mission would not be accomplished.

"Do you believe it, Grunada will pinch you to death at the first sight of you?" asked Donner, smirking.

"Hmph, he's still a little sane......"

"Isn't he not coming to see you because he hasn't lost his mind yet?" said Donner, "Since you know who I am, you might as well tell Jesse what he meant, and see if there is any possibility of reconciliation." ”

"Can you call the name of the Giant City Lord?" the messenger suddenly snapped.

Donner glanced at him obliquely, shook his head slightly, and then picked one out of the pile of manuscript papers on the table, and began to write and draw as if no one was around.

The messenger was a little embarrassed for a moment, he glanced at the manuscript paper in Donner's hand, and saw an egg drawn on it, and the egg was surrounded by dense numbers, but he could not understand the relationship between these numbers and the egg.

I don't know how long it took, but the messenger snorted coldly, and when he saw that Donner ignored him, he snorted harder again.

Donner smiled, looked up and said, "What, what do you want to say now?"

"As long as the dwarves withdraw from the Huls continent, more than a thousand dwarven captives can be returned to you......"

Before the messenger could finish, Donner said, "This is impossible. ”

"I don't think you're qualified to make this decision for the Far North, are you?" the envoy sneered.

Donner ignored him, but tilted his head slightly, pondered for a moment, and said, "Well, I'll make a condition, you go back and tell Jesse, and let him send back those captives and the materials that you have taken, and this matter will be settled." ”

The messenger looked at Donner with the look of the madman and laughed, "That's it, do you know what you're talking about?"

Donner put down the pen and paper in his hand, crossed his fingers with his hands, stared into the messenger's eyes and said, "Since you know that this matter can't be settled like this, then what conditions do you come to talk about?!"

"That's because the Giant City Lord is too merciful!

Donner looked at the emissary's excited appearance, shook his head boredly, and said calmly: "Bring my conditions to Jesse, and you will naturally know in the future who is ready to give whom a way out." ”

......

The visit of the emissary of Giant's City was only a minor episode, and it did not leave any ripples in Donner's heart, nor did it affect the preparations for war in Misty Town.

The hot air balloon that appeared over Misty Town in early October caused quite a stir in Misty Town and Fog City, and even dwarves rushed to Misty Town from the bottom of Fog City just to catch a glimpse of this cloth bag that could fly in the air.

But by mid-October, no dwarves were doing so. Because this yellow-brown cloth bag actually floated north to the outside of the cliff, slowly descended along the streets of Fog City, and stopped steadily at a height of more than ten kilometers from the ground of the Knight Federation for several days, and then slowly rose and returned to Misty Town.

In this process, Downer naturally installed a gravimeter, anemometer and barometer on the hot air balloon to test its stability and handling methods at different altitudes and different gravitational accelerations.

While these experiments are being carried out, an even larger project is underway in the newly opened space next to Misty Town.

Since mid-October, a steady stream of fabrics of all kinds have been brought to Misty Town from all over the Empire, and hundreds of dwarf artisans have cut them into different shapes according to the drawings given by Donner, and then collaged and sewn them together.

The students of the Misty Chemical Engineering College also went out to repeatedly apply the mixed gum on the sewn fabric.

At the end of December, a huge cloth bag with a diameter of nearly 500 meters completely covered the clearing.

On the first day of the 643rd year of the Feimeng calendar, under the watchful eyes of the residents of the town, nearly a thousand dwarven warriors stood in a circle along the cloth bag, and then got under the cloth bag one by one, until it was evenly distributed to a radius of several hundred meters, and lifted the cloth bag together.

Donner bent down and got inside, walking through the center of the sack.

After a few minutes, the wrinkled sack gradually swelled, and most of the people standing around didn't know what was happening, except for Donner, the dwarven warrior holding the sack, who could hear Donner's raised hands in front of him, and the whirring wind was blowing towards the opening of the sack.

It took more than twenty minutes for Donner to fully air the large sack, and by this time the sack had finally taken on what it should be—an olive-sized ellipsoid with cables hanging from all over the place.

At this time, Gernada, along with several dwarven warriors, carried a large metal ingot to Donna's side, and then tied the cable hanging from his side to the metal ingot.

In front of the crowd, Wesley crossed his arms, looked at the huge tawny cloth bag full of gas, and said to himself, "Damn, this thing is a bit excessive, isn't it?" )