Chapter 7: Rigorous Training (3)
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Nelson Plains, inside Darla's training camp.
Everyone looked at Dara in amazement, and the new team that Darla had brought back, a small detachment of 20 gnomes, a noisy, quarrelsome, and hectic squad of gnomes with all kinds of instruments.
Dara didn't seem to notice the strange stares of the crowd, and as soon as he arrived at the training camp, he hurriedly said to the guards, "Tell Mike to come out and settle them." After gesturing at the group of gnomes behind her, Dara rushed straight to the cabin where Miyali was, completely unaware of the unhappy expression of the other delicate girl next to him, Lina.
In front of the wooden house, there are several large trees that are rarely seen on the plains. This is what Darla and Mike mean together, because they know that elves love the forest and the beauty and tranquility of being with nature. In the Nelson Plains, however, there is no dense grass or verdant fields, but there is no wooded forest. So, when they settled in the training camp for the time being, Darla and Mike chose this place to build Miyali around the same time.
"Miyali!" Dara shouted, knocking lightly on the door, but there was no response.
The last time he left, Miyali was seriously injured, what happened to her?Dara was worried, although when he first came out of the gnome's crypt, Dara had already sent a quick message to Mike, telling Mike that he would lead Lina and the newly recruited soldiers back to the training camp, and also learned from Mike's reply that Miyali had recovered, but after arriving at the training camp at this time, he still couldn't wait to see Miyali and see for himself how far she had recovered.
"Brother Darla!" With an excited and joyful voice, the delicate and warm little body of a little girl had already quickly thrown into the arms of Dara who had just turned around.
"Jiaony, you've grown taller. Where's Miarie?
Jenny looked up and gently broke free from Darla's arms. The little face was slightly red, and said, "She went to the Elven Peninsula and will be back soon." ”
"Oh. Dara was disappointed, "What is she doing on the Elven Peninsula?"
"Brother Darra......" Jenny looked at Dara quietly. Bite one's tongue.
Darla was staring at the cabin with a wistful look in her eyes, not noticing the strange look on her face.
At this moment, Mike had already settled the gnomes and came to find Darla.
"Jenny," Mike shouted from afar. "Look, who's back?"
Jenny absentmindedly looked at the pretty woman beside Mike, recognizing it as Lina, but did not show much excitement and joy, at this time she was most concerned about Dara in front of him, if he knew that his only relative in the world, his brother had become a victim of the blood curse...... Jenny didn't dare to think about it anymore.
"Darla, those gnomes you brought......" Mike didn't finish his words, just looked at Dara inquiringly. Lina had already briefly told him about Dara and her experiences in the gnome crypt, and how Dara had persuaded the gnomes to send a technical team to join their team and provide them with technical support for the upcoming new round of training.
"That's right," Darla explained to Mike, coming back to her senses, "and this time in the gnomes' crypt, I saw a lot of new inventions made by the gnomes, and it gave me a new idea. That is, if we can combine these inventions of the gnomes. If it is effectively applied to combat readiness, then the strength of our army will be greatly enhanced in a short period of time!"
"Darla, are you okay?" Mike couldn't help but ask. What did Dara discover? would believe the dwarf's unreliable inventions.
Just now. As he settled the noisy little ones, Mike smelled a very familiar smell that he had used to smell in the alchemist Nichol's laboratory, and he became alert as he remembered that it was an explosive powdery substance, and looked at the amount of the gnomes had brought. It was enough to blow up their training camp.
So, after telling the gnomes to stay where they are and wait for him to make further arrangements, Mike hurried over to find Dara and raised his question, but he didn't expect Dara to say such a surprise to him. This gave him reason to wonder if Dara had been kicked in the head by some hoofed animal.
Darla looked at the expression on Mike's face and knew that the other party still had doubts, so she simply said, "Let's go and see first." ”
"Think about it, if we can control this substance well and detonate it when it needs to be detonated, then the energy they burst out is equivalent to the magic fireball emitted by a magician?
Mike was a little surprised and a little jealous, and he had to admit that Darla's ideas, when you think about it, are not without possibilities. As long as they can improve the dwarf's technology and apply these seemingly boring inventions to the actual battlefield, the results will be amazing.
Mike looked at Dara and felt how different the young man in front of him was compared to Dara when he first met, but they were clearly the same person, because Darra's kind nature had not changed. He also did these things for the various races living on the Tuya continent.
But at the same time, Mike has to admit that he himself is now very different from when he first met Darla. If it was before, he would only laugh at Darla's unfounded worries, in fact, at the beginning of the formation of the team, he did laugh at Darla, and even had a faint expectation and desire to watch the joke coldly on the sidelines. But now, whether he wants it or not, he finds himself infected by the charisma of his rival and is beginning to admire Darla.
"However, these technologies are not mature at the moment. I'm afraid ......," Mike said, raising his doubts.
"So we need to continue to study and improve it. Dara intercepted.
"It will take time. ”
"There's still time. But how has the recruitment and training of new recruits been in the training camp recently?"
"I was about to tell you this. We're running out of food. ”
"Hurry up and buy it. ”
"But we're running out of money. ”
"No money?" said Darrah, surprised.
Now there are thousands of soldiers in the training camp, and they need huge expenses every day, and once there is no money, these soldiers who have been recruited with great difficulty are likely to be scattered. Then the army he worked so hard to build had just begun, and it was over. This is something that Dara cannot accept in any way.
"What about the King's financial backing?" asked Darrah.
"It was stopped a few days ago, I don't know what the reason is. ”
Dara was silent. He had long known that Stanley XIV would not maintain his enthusiasm for the "River of Time" for long, and that once this enthusiasm cooled down, he would stop supplying them to Darla. It's just that he didn't expect it. The enthusiasm of the other party will disappear so quickly. I'm afraid that Stanley XIV has already known about the movement here, and has not asked them about the crime, which is considered lucky.
In fact, Dara did not intend to rely on Stanley XIV for long, as early as when he left the City of Morning Light. He had his own plan, which was why he split up and asked the dwarves to take the other team to the distant city of the rock for secret training.
In his opinion, the territory of the human empire is not a place to stay for a long time, not only because of the complexity of the court, which makes it possible for him to be charged with building an army without permission and attempting to rebel at any time, but also because he cannot effectively train the soldiers of the army here, and once something happens, the people's hearts are easily dissipated. If it's in Rock Bottom City. It's a different story. The isolation and the presence of monsters all around it helped the soldiers to train and help each other.
The reason why he has been stranded in Nelson is because he has indeed searched for traces of the "River of Time" here, and on the other hand, because the warriors here are brave and good at fighting, and they are famous in the entire Tuya continent. And, all the time. There were also such and such things that made him unable to realize his original plan, and when the number of people here reached 2,000, he led the people out of here. Head to Rock Bottom City to meet the dwarves.
And now, he had to stay here for another day or two, in order to wait for Miyali, and also to train the team for a short period of rigour, so that they could prepare for the dangers ahead.
But what if you don't have money? They can't hold on for even one more day. Darla's brow furrowed, and for a moment, he looked at Lina with some reluctance.
It's not that Lina didn't hear Mike's conversation with Darla, and it's not that she has no intention of helping Darla, but she can't help Dara at the moment.
Her organization has just recovered from her breath, and in order to be with Darla, she has handed over all the internal affairs of the organization to Dominic, and she does not now hand over the profits from the organization to Dara to expand the armament.
Dara saw Lina's helpless eyes, and knew that she couldn't come up with a workable solution from here.
When everyone was at a loss, the dwarf Pixiu suddenly said, "We may be able to help." He is also one of the members of the dwarf team that participated in the "Carry Forward the Technical Civilization of Gnomes". It is a great honor for the gnomes to be appreciated and applied for their inventions. And whoever gives them glory will be regarded by the dwarf as a very good friend.
Like the dwarves, the gnomes are very enthusiastic about their friends. For the gnomes living in the dwarfs, they lack nothing, the only thing they lack is human respect and understanding for their inventions and technologies.
And Dara gave them such respect and understanding very rarely, and even planned to use their skills in the army he had formed himself to fight against the common enemy in the future. The dwarf was so moved that he decided to do everything in his power to help Darla. Therefore, the dwarf king happily sent a technical team, which was full of the gnomes' top engineers, and also brought a lot of materials for their research, and of course, beautiful stones that the gnomes could not live without everywhere.
Dara looked at the dwarf, a little surprised.
Pixiu continued: "I know that you humans are very interested in our beautiful stones, which can be exchanged for gold coins and food, right?"
Lina was quite surprised, these gnomes usually had to work hard to deceive their trust when they usually negotiated with her, and made some amazing profits from it, and Dara easily gained the collective trust and help of the gnomes, and was even willing to sell the gnomes' favorite hedron and gems for the sake of Darra's army.
Darla, what kind of person are you? Sometimes you seem so stupid, so persistent, so idealistic, but yet so likable that people can't help but trust you, help you, and rely on you? Darla, what kind of person are you?
"Not bad. Darla replied briefly, "It couldn't be better that you could help." He didn't shirk, the team did need the help of the gnomes right now. He did not see it as a shame to accept the help of the gnomes.
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