At the mountain pass into the Dwarven Kingdom, there is a huge stone monument. The words on the stele have been exposed to wind and sun for many years, and they have long been indistinguishable.

The mountain road is fairly wide and smooth, and the tamped road is paved with thick black gravel, which is repeatedly rammed.

Along the mountain road, in the rolling hills, there are dwarven wheat fields, orchards, vegetable fields. According to the dwarves' habit of drinking, there are too few of these wheat fields. To feed millions of people, the wheat fields here alone are barely enough, and this is still the time when the weather is good.

In front of me came a group of dwarves in light armor and sitting on bighorn argali.

Seeing that Evan was wearing heavy armor in the style of a dwarf, he was in awe, the dwarves admired the strong, and their mountain patrol team was a reserve force, and the heavy armor was not equipped with them. Only the most powerful dwarven warriors can be equipped with heavy armor.

Elves and dwarves have always been friendly. Most of the fruits that the dwarves like come from the Endless Forest, and some of the food comes from the elves.

They enthusiastically showed the way to Evan and told them that one day they would see Ironforge City. The two sides waved goodbye and embarked on a long journey.

Evan was a little puzzled in his heart, the dwarven master Blackbeard Steel Hammer said that he had been gone for three months! Evan and the others walked around the forest for more than a month. I don't know how the master walks, short legs? Or did you go the wrong way halfway? Or maybe get drunk halfway through? The Master's words can't be taken seriously, especially the dwarves!

The black gravel road, undulating along the hills, looking at the lush mountains on both sides, the mountains here are undulating and are no longer suitable for farmland.

Towering mountains have appeared in front of them, and the Iron Furnace City has also shown its majestic form. This group of crazy dwarves directly carved the entire stone mountain into the entrance and city wall of the city. I don't know how high the city wall is a few hundred meters, but the gate can be twenty meters high.

Tens of millions of tons of gravel left behind by the excavation of the mountain paved the huge square outside the city gate. All this was just the beginning of the establishment of the Iron Furnace City, and the dwarves continued to dig and dig in the mountain. Over thousands of years, they dug through mountain after rocky mountain and filled in several deep valleys with gravel.

Now even the dwarves themselves don't know how many mines have been dug. The reclaimed valley is now a ore transit site, and only the dwarves who work nearby know where each mine is going. Four or five transit yards, each with several ore lanes.

The Evan team came to the main square of Iron Furnace City, which was also too big, more than ten square kilometers, and was paved with huge thick stone slabs. You can't look up at the city wall, your neck is too hard. Dwarves are not tall, and nothing that can be built is small.

The square used to be a moat twenty meters wide, and a suspension bridge more than ten meters wide, connected by iron chains the thickness of an arm. The twenty-meter-high city gate, a steel city gate more than ten meters wide and half a foot thick, relies on mechanical transmission.

Evan thinks that everything here is big except for the small people!

Enter the city gate, walk more than ten meters, keep the mountain in the middle, several meters wide passage is divided into left and right sides, the passage is a little low, only three or four meters high, so suitable for defense. There are several iron gates in the passage, which can be lowered at any time to block the enemy. Walking through the passage of dozens of meters, a huge hall more than 20 meters high appears in front of you, with hundreds of huge stone pillars in the middle to ensure the structural strength of the hall.

After Evan asks the dwarves, he comes to the artisan quarter, where Blackbeard and Big Mouth should be. After asking all the way again, Evan and his party came to a blacksmith shop. The stone pavement is written with crooked words, and the black beard boutique. As soon as Ivan entered, a young dwarf greeted him. One question and one answer, knowing that Evan was here to deliver the letter.

Evan and the others sat in the shop and waited, and the young dwarf went inside and called for someone. After a while, a bearded, drunken old dwarf came out, hammer in one hand.

"Are you a black-bearded mouth? Here are the letters from the Elven Kingdom. ”

Evan took out the letter and handed it to the old dwarf, who dropped the hammer and took it.

"Elven kingdom? I don't know any elves! ”

The old dwarf opened the letter with his stubby fingers, and looked at it as he spoke. After reading the letter, he jumped up and slapped his head.

"Damn, I actually forgot to send black iron and some materials, it's been more than fifty years? Oh my God, the hammer won't burn my beard! ”

The old dwarf looked at the young dwarf beside him and commanded.

"Go inside and call someone, your uncle's steel hammer has run out of materials, it's been more than fifty years, why don't you damn people remind me!"

After a while, six or seven dwarves came out one after another, two of them were older, and the others were young people.

"Help this elf customize weapons and heavy armor, and you are not allowed to charge a copper coin. Go to the Kingdom Metal Vault to buy a batch of Black Iron Bars and Demon Steel Bars, and take all the gold coins. ”

After speaking, he opened his mouth and laughed, and couldn't help licking his saliva a few times like a fat dog.

"Big Brother Blackbeard Steel Hammer has a collection of a hundred barrels of Elven spirits, at least fifty years old. Twenty barrels were given to us, and the rest was given as money for black iron ingots and magic steel. We can drink at least eighty barrels, oh no, ninety barrels, and the remaining ten barrels will be sold for gold coins, and the shop will still be running! ”

There was a sound of licking saliva, and the fat dog on the side also wondered, there was no food!

"Second brother, can we buy these ten barrels with our own private money?"

"That's right, it's still a little brother's brain."

"Yes, there are more than 50 years of aging, and what do you need to do with private money."

For the wine, several dwarves hit it off, and they didn't sell a single barrel, and drank it all by themselves.

Evan told several dwarves about his request for weapons and heavy armor, and the dwarves told him to pick up the goods in three days.

Evan and his party went to visit Iron Furnace City, and the blacksmith shop almost got into a fight over who was going to deliver black iron. Whoever goes first is who drinks the aging first. I'm afraid that if I go to drink alone, I will drink all the wine. The last three black-bearded old men went, and the young men guarded the shop. The three old men are powerful, and this time they are ready to sit in argali. The gift of Blackbeard brought by Evan was a few bottles of elven spirits. A few young men divided a bottle, and the rest was occupied by three old men.

After walking around here in Iron Furnace City for a long time, I bought a knife for Liya, the dwarf's handicraft really does not meet the aesthetics of the elves, it is thick and bulky. Liya was tired of walking, and Evan found a dwarf inn and left the fat dog, Lisa, and Liya at the inn.

Evan needs to ask for some routes, unfamiliar with the road to the human country here, and the dwarves tell them to go to the government hall in the middle, where there are maps and passage maps.

Ivan looked carefully at the large map on the wall, and there was a road in the eastern part of the dwarven kingdom that led to the vicinity of the Abbes. The waterway is not suitable for boating, and the current is too fast. The dwarven raft can only float down freely, and it is too dangerous to sit on people, and no dwarf will go.

On the other side, when looking at the passage map, Ivan was a little surprised that these damn dwarves had actually dug into the western swamp of Depero's territory. They dug through the entire snowy mountain, maybe they can go home here.

Ivan was about to inquire, when there was a commotion in the government affairs hall, as if the price of purchased food had been increased a lot again. A few dwarves were yelling and slapping the table.

Evan inquired and found out that the dwarves were facing a food crisis, and if they didn't brew a drop of wine, they would still be lacking. The Black Rose Merchant Group, one of the three major trading houses in the mainland, united with the Abel nobles, doubled the price of grain, and lowered the purchase price of steel ingots, weapons and armor by 30%. One in and one out, the dwarves suffered a big loss.

Although Ivan was wearing heavy armor, he did not wear a helmet, and the dwarves recognized him as an elf. The elves have a small population and a small amount of food, they do not grow too much, and only a small amount of grain is sold to the dwarves.

Ivan told them to stop arguing, pointed to the passage map, and asked if they had reached the passage of Depero's territory and explored it east.

Several dwarves also wondered and asked what this was for. Out of friendship between the two races, the dwarves replied anyway.

"To the east of there is a swamp and wetland, where it sinks without heavy armor. Further east are volcanoes, woods, where there is no one. ”

"When was that explored?"

"Two hundred years ago, the last record of the use of this passage was more than a hundred years ago. I remember the former chief of administration saying that this is the last passage used by an elf. Later, he never came back, and the passage was sealed. ”

"To the east of here, there is human settlement, which was established decades ago, and there is no problem with food for 10,000 or 20,000 people. But how do you get it back? ”

Ivan pointed to the map and said that he knew that Depero had cheap food and that there was a large area of farmland to the south. He didn't go back for a few years, and he didn't dare to boast.

"As long as there is more food, we will build a road directly in the swamp, and there will be a lot of slag and gravel in the valley, and it will not be a problem to fill in the swamp."

"You open the passage and let a few dwarves come with me to see what is going on, and then they come back and report on the food. What do you think! ”