Chapter Twenty-Three: Gnomes and Dwarves

"Hey, wake up!" In the haze, Donner felt a pair of hands shaking him.

When he opened his eyes again, he saw the face of a beautiful woman growing on the body of a child, Donner remembered what happened before he fell unconscious, and hurriedly stepped back with his hands and feet, "You are still Nina?"

"No, I'm Natia Vida. "The woman spoke very softly and had a nice voice.

"You're the banshee?"

"Natia, are you sure this is the smart boy, I think he looks like a fool?"

It was an even stranger man who spoke, with a rugged face full of beards, but who, like the women around him, were only seven or eight years old.

The woman glared at the short man and continued to say to Donner, "I'm not a banshee, I'm a dwarf from the north. When we found you, you were stumbling into the forest, and it didn't look normal.

"Thank you for your help, I seem to have a strange dream......"

"There's something wrong with this forest, it seems that something was trying to confuse me just now, and I was scared back by my vindictiveness. The elf's voice was puffing.

"Do you see my companions?" Donner, worried that Richard would not find him.

"See, don't worry, it's already dawn, they'll be fine. Natia Vida replied.

"May I venture to ask, are you and your father here to hunt down tree rats?"

"Haha, listen to it! Natia, he said I was your father! Haha, that's funny! I like this idiot!"

Natia Vida had to glare at the dwarf again, "Oh, Donner, you're mistaken, Adarua is a dwarf, I'm a dwarf, we're not a race, in fact, I'm older than him. ”

"Why do you know my name?" said Donner.

"Of course we know your name, we have come from Dorne City, and we have managed to reach your camp, and there is only a hunter and his granddaughter who know nothing, and if we hadn't run fast, you would have been lost in the forest. You did the burning guys on the road, right?The little guy is pretty skilled......" The dwarf Idarua always grabbed words, but after listening to him, Donner at least knew that Nina hadn't had an accident.

"Don't get me wrong, we first heard about you from that strange patterned swordfight, and then more than half a month ago, I saw your paper, which is the one on synthetic metals. Natia Vida replied, her voice always unhurried and infectious.

"Why do you want to come to me when you see a paper, shouldn't you go to Professor Victor?"

"Donner, you're the one who came up with the idea of the experiment, aren't you? and when it comes to the Thousand Forged Sword, we can certainly conclude that these are your thoughts. ”

"Then you came to me in such a hurry to ......"

"Don't you know the relationship between the Dwarven Kingdom and humans?" asked Natia Vida, confused.

Then, the geographical knowledge that Donner heard from the dwarf woman solved his long-standing doubts about the knight to the north and the mage to the south.

"The world is a slope ......" in the gentle and soothing female voice, a strange map seems to unfold in front of Donner.

The world is a huge slope, sloping all the way from the Southern Heavenly Kingdom to the Northern Hell, and the Helse Continent is located in the center of the slope, and there are several much larger continents in the east and west directions of the Helse Continent, on the same slope as the Helse Continent. These continents, located in the middle of the slope, are collectively known as Middle-earth.

To the south of the Huls Continent, beyond the Forgotten Sea, is the Magic Continent, where the magic element is rich, it is an area where elves, monsters and humans live, and it is also the location of the Seven Magic Sacred Houses. Further south of the Magic Continent is the Land of the Dragon, and it is said that beyond the Land of the Dragon is the Kingdom of Heaven.

And to the north of the Huls continent is the Human Federation known as the Land of Chaos, where there are no kings and no nobles, because the magic element is thin and magicians are very rare, so the Human Federation of the Land of Chaos is also called the Knight Federation.

Further north along the slopes, past the Nottis Mountains, is the land of dwarves and gnomes, the land of filth in the mouth of men, the land of the far north as the dwarves call it. The environment in the Far North is extremely harsh, and there are no magical elements. But, as the gods or the devil joked, it was the region with the richest resources of magic crystals, and in fact, it was the only place where magic crystals could still be mined.

It is said that tens of thousands of years ago, there was no kingdom of dwarves, and it was humans who enslaved the dwarves and drove them all to the so-called filthy land to mine, because only dwarves could endure the harsh environment there. And the dwarfs are also affected because they are as short as the dwarves. For tens of thousands of years, dwarves and gnomes continued to penetrate the north, and finally established their own kingdom in the far north, which ordinary humans could not reach. The Far North cannot grow food, but they have magic crystals that can be obtained through trade. In addition, the dwarves are also good at crafting weapons, and there are a large number of engineering geniuses among the gnomes. As a result, in the trade with humans, blades, armor, and various instruments gradually replaced magic crystals and became an important resource in the Far North.

Further north of the country of the extreme north is the legendary place of practice of paladins Courage Desert, which is a place that only knights of the Holy Order can reach, and for tens of thousands of years, no more than ten people have been to that mysterious place.

As for the desert of courage further north, it should be the hell where the legendary devil haunts, no one has ever reached it, and no one knows what the devil is like.

"The world is a slope, so why doesn't the sea flow down the slope to the north?"

"No one knows why, some say it's because it's blocked by Middle-earth. ”

"Is Middle-earth a whole continent? Isn't there a sea in the east and west directions of the Hulse continent?"

"Why do you talk so much, you kid, how can there be so many seas, and there are bathing lands between the continents of Salk, Femon, and Doron!" The dwarf Aida was already listening a little impatiently, and he couldn't quite understand why Natia Vader was talking so much nonsense to this kid.

"Okay. So, you came to me to stop me from making good enough weapons and equipment in Middle-earth?"

"Hey, Natia, this kid isn't stupid!"

"Well, Downer, I'm glad you understand where we stand. ”

"Let me betray the human race?" Donner's tone was calm, and no emotion could be heard.

"Donner, millions of years ago, during the time of day and night chaos and the Great Flood, humans, dwarves, gnomes, and elves were all equal, and it was the cooperation of our various races that allowed us to survive in that environment......"

"I think now we're still equal. Downer said without hesitation, saying that in his opinion, racial equality was something that did not need to be thought about.

"Okay! Okay! It's great that you think that! I think we can have a good talk. Natia's tone changed in a rare way.

The dwarf Idarua also put away his impatient expression, and looked at Donna with a different emotion.

(The pit in the forest of whispers will be filled in later in the book, not for the sake of pretense.) As a hint, there is indeed a mysterious magic academy in the forest...... Continue to ask for recommendations and collections, thank you!)