Chapter 22: The Death of the Dwarves
In fact, after meeting the dwarf Chasi, Chriss wondered why other races such as elves, orcs, and goblins rarely appeared on the continent. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
After asking Chasi, I learned that Chasi actually ran away from his own tribe, and the life span of dwarves is three hundred to four hundred years old, and Chasi is now less than two hundred years old, so it can be said that he is still an authentic "young man".
Chasi's tribe was originally located in a large mountain near the empire, and with the rise of the human race, the living place of other races was slowly squeezed out, and then, the Chasi tribe also migrated far away, and they traveled all the way south, walking for many years, before settling in a large mountain far away from other races.
The dwarves chose to live in mines, and the mountain was surveyed by the patriarch and there was a large amount of fire crystal, so they settled here.
After 30 years, the quality of the mined igneous crystal has become higher and higher, and many excellent associated ores have been discovered.
The dwarves love heat and cold, and as they dig deeper, the caverns get hotter and hotter, but over the years they have become accustomed to it, and they don't notice anything wrong with it.
They woke up one morning to find a dwarven child killed in a cave near the depths, with broken skin, eyes gouged out, brains emptied, and blood gone.
Dwarves are straightforward, irritable, impulsive, and straightforward, and rarely come up with intrigues, but they are extremely protective of minors, and even the most irascible adult dwarves are unlikely to do such a thing to a dwarven child, so needless to say, it was done by outsiders!
All the dwarves mobilized and searched everywhere in the mine, the mine was originally their home, so they couldn't be more familiar, if there were outsiders, they would never be able to hide, but after searching for three whole days, they still didn't find outsiders.
But for three days, one or two people were killed every night, and among the dead were adult dwarves, and the death was exactly the same as before.
But how did outsiders get to the depths through the outer mines?
Dwarves are addicted to alcohol, and they don't have fun without alcohol, and it's normal to drink before going to bed, is it because everyone is asleep, so they don't notice it?
All the dwarves were furious and ran out of the mines to search everywhere, so many of the animals in the mountains fell into bad luck and were killed for no reason.
The dwarves comforted the people who had lost their family members, and plugged the mine early at night.
However, in the morning, the mutilated corpses of the tribesmen were found, and the people were so frightened that the tribesmen gathered everyone together to sleep, and for the dwarves, there was nothing that could not be slept on the rough and hard mine floor, and there were also people on the periphery who arranged a vigil.
Early the next morning, two more night watchmen were killed.
As a result, all the dwarves did not dare to drink anymore before going to bed, and the night watchmen were changed from four to eight.
That night, the dwarves were asleep, and at about four o'clock in the morning, one of the four night watchmen left for a short time and never reappeared, and the dwarves' impulsive and irascible personality led them to make a very wrong decision at that time, and the other three found that they did not come back to warn everyone, but went straight to the place where the dwarf had disappeared.
Had it not been for the sound of their heavy, messy footsteps that woke up a few people and immediately alerted them to their place, the disappearance of the four night watchmen would have been worthless.
The dwarves were awakened, and several young and strong dwarves roared in pursuit, followed by the rest of the men, who quickened their pace and pursued them all the way to the deepest part of the mine.
The first few dwarves saw that at the bottom of the cave they had dug, under a huge rock, there was a very inconspicuous hole, into which a very vague smoke-like object was rapidly burrowing into it.
The previous four night watchmen had all been killed around, probably because they were found in time, the four of them only had their eyes gouged out and their brains emptied, unlike the previous dead, and the blood was gone.
Then, the dwarf smashed the rock open, and the small hole was also dug wide, and something happened!
Many strange creatures came out of the hole, and carefully distinguished, there were mainly two kinds.
A creature, short in stature, the dwarf is already almost the shortest of the known species on the continent, but this creature is less than their waist, humanoid, with hands and feet, all facial features, dry and wrinkled skin, and arms that can almost drag the ground, they only have two fingers, but the fingers are scissor-shaped, sharp and sharp, the eyes shoot the kind of cruel gaze that does not have intelligence, but the mouth is small, small enough to sip into a sharp straw, it looks like a normal person has a mosquito's mouth, and there is an awl-like tail behind it。
On the other hand, the image is much more beautiful, their bodies are translucent, with one or more pairs of wings, they can fly in the air, their heads are blurred, like a black mess, except for two green pupils, they can't see whether they still have facial features other than eyes, no hands and feet, they are densely packed into a piece and fly in the sky, often like a black fog flying.
After the dwarves knew that these strange creatures were the murderers of their people, of course, they couldn't help but come forward to attack, the dwarf creatures were agile, very agile, extremely bouncing, and would make a "chirp" sound when attacking, and the dwarves soon knew that this kind of thing was not easy to mess with.
The winged monsters fly in the air, and most of the dwarven weapons don't work when they fall on them, as if they are sometimes immune to certain physical attacks.
The fierce battle was going on, but all the dwarves found themselves getting more and more sleepy, some dwarves in the end, they couldn't even grasp the weapons in their hands, and fell asleep, but as soon as they lay down, the two monsters would swarm desperately, and after the other dwarves stepped forward to drive away, they found that in less than three seconds, the fallen dwarves lost their eyes and brains, and what made people even more angry was that the kind of monsters with wings sucked in the brains of the fallen dwarves, and a translucent mist would be absorbed by them, and all the dwarves understood that it was the soul energy of the dead。
Anger made the dwarves into a frenzy, but the battle situation was still more and more unfavorable, although there were only forty or fifty monsters, less than one percent of the total number of dwarves, but the dwarves were not flexible, and the mines were obviously too narrow, and it was common to be injured by their own people, so more and more dwarves died, and the patriarch had to order a retreat.
After the heroic sacrifice of dozens of dwarves, it took the dwarves seven days to exit the mine and seal the entrance, but lost more than 300 of their clansmen in the battle.
The dwarves had tasted the suffering of the two monsters and were about to leave the land again, when a split arose within the tribe, with some impulsive people believing that they should continue to fight the monsters, some of them believing that they should find a more distant and rich mine to live in, and some of them believing that they should integrate into human society in order to seek human protection.
The patriarch didn't think he should continue to fight the monsters, because they were too powerful and unpredictable, and no one knew if even more terrifying monsters would emerge from the depths of the mine.
And for human beings, the patriarch also has no good impression, for him, human beings are insidious and cunning, cheating, abducting and stealing everything, and the patriarch who has suffered losses is absolutely unwilling to live with humans.
So, in the end, the dwarves were divided into three parties, and the patriarch and some of them continued to travel far away in search of the paradise in their hearts.
Some of them remained where they were, guarding the mines where the monsters might break out.
There are only a few dwarves willing to integrate into human society, and Chasi is one of them.