Ryan and the others followed Lombard through the dwarven underground passage for four days. In these 4 days, they finally saw the dwarves' digging skills, which opened Ryan's eyes, if they didn't see it with their own eyes, Ryan didn't believe that the dwarves could turn the entire underground into a traffic channel in all directions, if there was no guide from someone who was familiar with the road, I am afraid that even if they could get in, they would get lost in the passage like a spider's web.

Along the way, Ryan also curiously asked Lombard how long he was away from Black Rock, and the latter, after looking at him, pointed to his feet and said, "This is it!" After explaining, Ryan realized that the so-called Black Rock City is actually all the space dug by the entire dwarves underground, so to speak, where the dwarves dig, where is the territory of Black Rock City, and the rock fortress is actually just an entrance to the entire Black Rock City.

After understanding this truth, Ryan shook his head and said to Freya, "What kind of Black Rock City is this, it simply belongs to the country of dwarves. If over time, the dwarves have dug through the ground of the entire continent, then all the dwarves will belong to the dwarves under the ground. ”

Freya didn't speak, but Lombard gave Ryan a roll of his eyes and said to him, "Do you think there are no enemies underneath the ground? And it's not something that can be dug anywhere, for example, the Wyvern Desert on the other side of the Hengduan Mountains, and the Giant Wilderness further south of the Silent Forest, we will never go over, and your human Fernando City probably doesn't want us to dig a city within a city underground, right?

Ryan was robbed of a few words by Lombard, but he just smiled wryly, and he was not angry, but a few guards around him glared at Lombard fiercely, if he hadn't received the master's order, maybe he would have pulled out his long sword to vent his anger for Ryan. These guards are basically warriors who have been trained by Ryan, Elendo, and Seres in turn, and are familiar with how to protect a mage and various combat techniques, and they are from the three families of Cassano, which is another expression of Ryan's closeness and trust to Emilio and other families.

By the evening of the fourth day, in fact, Ryan and the others had gone deep into the ground, and they could not see the sunrise and sunset outside at all, just based on the number of meals and rests each day, Lombard finally took Ryan and them to a spacious place, which was the central area of Black Rock City, where the dwarven king lived.

Compared with the Rock Fortress, the traffic passage here is much spacious, even if there are 4 carriages running side by side, it is more than enough, and there are many dwarves coming and going here, and the passages are full of caves on both sides, Ryan watched countless dwarves walking in and out here, and then looking at the wooden signs hanging at the entrance of the caves, it is obvious that this is most likely the dwarven shop.

The dwarves are about two-thirds the height of humans, but since the lowest passage dug by the dwarves is 3 meters high, Ryan and the others did not feel oppressed along the way. It's just that when Ryan and Freya are in the middle of a large group of dwarves, their height becomes the best marker, and many dwarven boys follow closely behind Ryan, staring at this group of visitors who obviously look different from themselves with curious eyes.

Lombard led Ryan and Freya into a large cave that extended in all directions, and when Ryan just stepped in, he immediately felt a heat on his skin, and when he looked closely, he immediately understood the origin of the heat: there were hundreds of anvils in this large cave, and it was obvious that this was the place where the dwarves forged.

Ryan looked at the flying sparks and iron filings, frowned slightly, and then gently pulled Freya towards him, and then held up a faint magic shield beside the two of them, although Freya looked weak and docile on the outside, but as the elven queen, how could she not even have such a little ability to protect herself? Not to mention anything else, she casually used the few demigods on her body, not to mention this bit of iron sparks, even if a level 8 magic smashed over, she would not want to hurt Freya's cold hair, but this elf queen saw that Ryan cared about her from Ryan's subtle movements, she smiled sweetly, leaned her head on Ryan's shoulder, and walked side by side with him.

The cave is getting deeper and deeper, and the anvils inside are becoming more and more scarce, but Ryan has experience forging magical items in the imperial capital and Cassano, and it can be seen that the further you go to the cave, the better the quality of the anvils in the cave, and the stronger the dwarves who are crafting items. By the time they reached the innermost point, there was no longer the entrance to the cave where they had entered, and in this corner there was only a huge anvil, and two strong dwarves were taking turns to pound a red-burned thing with a sledgehammer.

The two dwarves were bare-chested, one wearing black trousers and the other red shorts, and next to them, another dwarf was holding the lump with iron tongs, positioning it as well as possible so that they could thrash it with all their strength. Ryan looked at it for a while, but found that no matter how hard the two dwarves tried, they couldn't change the slightest bit of that thing, which immediately aroused his great interest, but it was at this time that Freya suddenly put her small mouth to Ryan's ear and whispered: "The dwarf in red is the dwarf king Reynolds III, Reynolds Stuart." ”

"Zizi!" The two dwarves seemed to give up and continue to thrash, and threw the red-hot lump into the bucket, Ryan looked at the sound and the white mist that rose, and suddenly understood in his heart that the temperature of this lump was definitely not low, and looking at the way the two dwarves tried hard, but still could not change its appearance even a little bit, obviously this must be some rare material.

"Damn, can this thing really be used to forge weapons? It's been three days, but we can't make it soften, I say Reynolds, you can't be mistaken, right?" the dwarf in the black trousers grumbled dejectedly.

"No, Adrian, I can promise in my honor that I will not be mistaken, but I believe there must be something in this that we have not yet done, let me think about it again. After saying this, the dwarven king Reynolds III fell into deep thought, although he also had some frustrated expressions on his face, but he still tried to think of a way, according to the dwarves handed down for tens of thousands of years, even if it was an artifact, it was not unforged, but he couldn't help this inconspicuous little thing in front of him, but now he had to use this thing to make a very important item, which made Reynolds feel extremely distressed.

Ryan, who was standing on the side, saw some clues, he had made magic items many times in the Imperial Capital Magic Guild and Cassano, and many times Ryan had to stand in front of the anvil, instructing those blacksmiths how to forge the shape, and even melt the material himself, the inconspicuous ore was so hard that it immediately aroused Ryan's interest.

"Let me give it a try. Ryan couldn't help but stand up: "Maybe I can melt it." ”

"You?" the dwarven king Reynolds and his companions turned around at the sound of the voice, and looked at Ryan in unison, but they quickly abandoned their hands and strode towards Ryan, for they saw Freya snuggled in Ryan's arms.

"Ah, Your Majesty, it is an honor for you to be here in Blackstone!" said the Dwarven King Reynolds III with a smile on his face, "When was the last time you came?

Facing the dwarven king, Freya was naturally embarrassed to continue to snuggle in Ryan's arms, she stood up straight and replied with a smile: "Yes, Reynolds, we haven't seen each other for ten years, and it seems that everything is fine with you?

"Hehe, she's still in bed, our fourth son has just been born, and that little guy drank half a bowl of spirits on the first day of his birth, and he must be as strong as me when he grows up!"

Seeing Freya and Reynolds chatting with them, Ryan simply ignored them and walked directly to the anvil, he took the iron tongs placed aside, and grabbed the lump of unknown things, trying to clamp it, but he never thought that this thing did not look very big, but it was extremely heavy, and Ryan couldn't hold it with one hand.

"I say, don't move your little white face, that thing is heavy, be careful to knock your feet down!" Adrian, the dwarf who had just forged with Reynolds, couldn't help but speak when he saw that Ryan wanted to take the lump of things out of his own hands.

Of course, Freya knew Reynolds, a companion who had played since childhood, but when she saw him insulting her sweetheart, she was also a little unhappy in her heart, and she kept smiling on her face, but she said in a very light tone: "Ah, Reynolds, Adrian, I forgot to introduce you, he is my husband, the human magician Ryan." ”

Adrian's face suddenly turned red, and Reynolds was about to say a few words to express his apology, but Ryan's voice rang out: "What are you going to do with this thing? Is it directly burned and hammered, or is it melted to cast? Or do you dwarves have a special craft?"

"We're going to make a shield out of this, so the craftsmanship doesn't matter, the point is that we can't change its shape at all!" Adrian couldn't help but speak: "Damn, we can melt even black iron, but we can't melt this thing, it's really frustrating!"

"I see, I see. Ryan held the clump of ore with his hands and placed it on top of the anvil, and after looking up and down for a long time, he suddenly said, "This anvil is strong, isn't it?"