Chapter 15: Medusa
"Not bad. Ryan, it can indeed be regarded as a thousand-year war, because in the past tens of thousands of years, these seven kings have fought many battles, each war lasted more than a thousand years, and the most tragic times even destroyed an entire plane!"
"Could it be that the demigod lich ......" "Maybe, we are not a demigod lich, so naturally we don't know why it is eyeing this plane, but it is conceivable that once the entire undead legion rules here, it will inevitably enter the other world again, maybe the demigod lich Cons will use hundreds of millions of creatures here to become the undead legion under its command, and with this power, it will become the eighth existence to be promoted to the king." ”
"Hey, I said that the lich's ambitions should be studied later, and I said that this metal is about to cool and solidify, so let's hurry up and make it into a finished product. The words of the dwarven king Reynolds rang out.
Ryan smiled at Reynolds and continued the manufacturing process, but now he didn't need the help of the Andrew Golem, who took the hammer and gently struck the entire plate-shaped metal, and Ryan also took the opportunity to appreciate the dwarf's craftsmanship.
If elves are good at crafts, such as the embroidery of clothing, such as the added magic of items, then the dwarves are good at forging heavy objects, such as swords and armor. The thrashing process, which should have been boring, became so pleasing to the eye in the hands of the dwarves, hundreds of kilograms of sledgehammer was used by Reynolds as a file to carve ivory, and with each swing of his hand, the part of the plate-shaped metal became more subtle, and it didn't take long for Ryan to make out that what Reynolds was making should be an object similar to a mask.
"Whew!" Reynolds finally finished his work, he let out a long sigh, and threw the sledgehammer in his hand on the ground, making a loud sound, and at this time, the ore that was melted by Ryan with the "Red Dragon Breath" also slowly cooled, and as its temperature dropped, the metal from the entire ore melted also fixed its own shape, and when Reynolds threw it into the pool of cold water, the mask was officially completed.
Reynolds took out the mask directly from the cold water with his hand, and then checked it repeatedly, and Adrian and the others also surrounded him at once, whispering something to each other, and seemed to be very satisfied with this work. After confirming that the work was completely flawless, Reynolds separated from the crowd and walked in front of Ryan and Freya.
"Thank you very much, you have done us a great favor. Reynolds said with some excitement: "I believe that with this mask, we don't have to worry about Medusa's gaze, this time we will definitely be able to get rid of it!"
"Medusa's gaze?" Ryan tilted his head to look at Freya, who explained to him, "Medusa's most terrifying ability is that its gaze can petrify everything in front of it, and it is an absolutely deadly attack, I guess Reynolds created this mask in the hope of using it to block Medusa's petrified gaze, right?"
"I see, I see. Well, Ray, Your Majesty Reynolds, I think my magic may be able to help you eradicate this hidden danger together, I don't know..."Ryan made up his mind in his heart, and simply helped the other party to kill the Medusa directly, so that it would not be easy for the other party to refuse if he asked for help.
Unexpectedly, Reynolds, who has a straightforward personality, opened his mouth almost without hesitation after listening to Ryan's words and said, "No!" Ryan immediately smiled bitterly in his heart, even if he has a straight personality, he doesn't have to refuse like this, a little tactful, isn't it okay to make himself feel better?
However, Reynolds's next words made Ryan laugh, he waved his arms vigorously, and said loudly: "Don't call me any Your Majesty, my name is Reynolds Stuttgart, and my good friends call me Reynolds." ”
After listening to Reynolds's words, Ryan immediately understood what the other party meant, and he re-spoke: "Reynolds, tomorrow the two of us will go and kill that Medusa!"
"That's right!" Reynolds grinned, but Freya spoke with a hint of displeasure, "Why not me?
"This ......" Reynoldston felt a little embarrassed, but as soon as his eyes rolled, he immediately thought of a solution, so he shirked his responsibility and said: "We dwarven women all listen to men, and it naturally depends on his will whether he takes you or not." After Reynolds finished speaking, he pointed his finger at Ryan, and easily pointed the finger at Freya.
Ryan scratched his head and said with some embarrassment, "Didn't you say that Medusa can petrify everything......?
A soft little hand was blocked on Ryan's mouth, and Freya looked at Ryan with a look on her face, and whispered, "Do you think I, or Faras, or Vivien, will abandon you for their own safety?"
Ryan shook his head slowly, Faras and the other girls were absolutely sincere in their feelings for him, which was also what Ryan was most proud of.
"If my strength is not good, I will naturally not cause trouble for you, but even if you are promoted to a legendary mage, you are not qualified to look down on the elf queen. Freya said solemnly: "If only Reynolds and them make a move, they will naturally need this mask to cover Medusa's gaze, because the dwarves are the best warriors in this continent, but they are a little lacking in magic." However, as a race that is good at magic, if I can't deal with even a small Medusa, then our elven race will have disappeared into the long river of history!"
"Okay!" Ryan didn't say much, he directly hugged Freya in his arms, and then said to Reynolds: "Okay, then tomorrow the three of us will go down together, I want to see how powerful that Medusa is!"
Ryan's words were full of pride, but he unconsciously compared himself with the elf queen and the dwarf king, but everyone present did not absolutely say that he was wrong, especially after experiencing the turmoil just now, almost all the dwarves present already understood how powerful this human magician was, and in the hearts of these people, they had completely put Ryan and Freya and Reynolds on the same level.
That night, in order to drink friends from afar, Reynolds naturally held a grand banquet according to the dwarves' custom, and several guards around Freya quickly got drunk under the wine attack of thousands of dwarves, but Ryan once again showed his "invincibility" Thousands of dwarves, including the dwarven king Reynolds, were put down, and then stood in the square full of drunken dwarves and sang loudly, although Ryan used almost cheating means to transfer all the spirits he drank to the storage pocket on his body, but unfortunately his alcohol was still too poor, even if he used spirits to rinse his mouth, it was still enough for him to become drunk.
When Ryan woke up the next day, he found that the dwarves, who had been drunk last night, were all in good spirits and engaged in their work, and the dwarven king Reynolds was already waiting for him and Freya in the king's hall. The only thing Ryan can explain for this situation is that the dwarves are really a natural alcoholic race, and even strong alcohol can only give them a good night's sleep, without any other side effects at all.
After enjoying the dwarven breakfast, the three of Ryan embarked on a journey to find Medusa, in fact, it is not appropriate to say that it is a journey, because that Medusa is at the foot of Ryan's life, there is a rich Mithril vein, even if it has been mined for hundreds of years, it is still not exhausted, but with the deepening of the excavation, it is inevitable that it will dig deeper and deeper, and the digging will get bigger and bigger, many places have been landfilled and abandoned, but it also leaves a lot of space, if a person has the intention to hide inside, without considering the supply, it is not easy to find it out。
Even as the king of the dwarves, Reynolds can't be said to be completely familiar with this lower space, because the place he has really been to is the part where the dwarves have been mining and digging in recent decades, fortunately, the last place where the Medusa appeared was near the most productive mine, so the search team of three people still has some clues.
Elves and dwarves both have the talent of dark vision, Ryan has been trained by Galib, and can only be said to have mastered some skills of dim vision, don't look at the difference between the two is only one word, it is definitely a world of different perception, the former can see everything in the field of vision in an absolutely dark environment, and the latter can only use the faint light to distinguish the object in front of him, so in order to keep up with Freya's footsteps, Ryan had to make a magic item on the spot that can constantly release illumination, and see the surrounding environment clearly with the help of the soft light it emits。
Due to the unfamiliarity with Medusa, everyone does not know how Medusa lives in this dark environment, so for the sake of insurance, Ryan is blessed with the "Magic Vision" all day long, monitoring the environment within a radius of several hundred meters at the cost of consuming magic power, coupled with the talents of elves and dwarves, the safety of their three-person team has been guaranteed to the greatest extent.
Going deeper along the way, Ryan also got all the information about the appearance of the Medusa from Reynolds, it turned out that the Medusa suddenly appeared near a high-yield Mithril mine cave of the dwarves, and was immediately discovered by the dwarven warriors in charge of guarding, but these warriors were naturally quickly petrified by Medusa's eyes, fortunately, they bought a lot of time for the dwarven miners in the mine to escape, which allowed the vast majority of dwarves to escape.
According to the description of the dwarven miner who escaped by chance, the upper body of Medusa is quite similar to that of a female human, but her lower body has no legs, just a long tail, and looks like a half-snake and half-human, but the real horror is Medusa's head, its hair is all poisonous snakes. When dealing with long-distance enemies, Medusa's bow and arrows are absolutely deadly, and once the enemy dares to approach it, it will immediately be turned into a pile of stone statues by Medusa with a terrible gaze, which is the real reason for the death of those brave dwarven warriors, and it is precisely because of this that Reynolds, who has concerns, will try his best to forge a mask that can cover his eyes, otherwise with the true strength of the dwarven warriors, he will never be afraid of any battle.