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Gilde looked at them with contempt and turned his head respectfully.

"Your Excellency Ji Chen, since we have finished the preliminary discussions, then I will not bother to say goodbye first, and wait until the next time I have time to visit with gifts."

"After all, the share of long-term cooperation is not a small amount, and I will go back immediately to complete the follow-up things as soon as possible and improve the cooperation between us as soon as possible."

Hearing this, the other merchants' eyes widened suddenly.

You're so greedy!

If one person eats forty percent of the share, isn't he afraid of choking to death?

It turns out that Gilde is really not afraid, he is not only extremely financially strong, but also has an extremely wide network, with the protection of the high-level of the Maple Grove Principality, black and white, and he is not afraid of you walking barefoot at all.

"That's fine, I'll stay here here on the Northern Continent for a while, and welcome His Excellency Gilder to visit again."

Gilde nodded, bowed again, and then turned and left, surrounded by a crowd of servants.

Knowing that Gilder had already completed the negotiation one step ahead of them, and snatched a full forty percent of the share, the rest of the merchants were all in their hearts, and looked at each other with a little hostility in their eyes.

It seems even more urgent.

Nowadays, any merchant in Maple Grove knows that as long as he obtains the weapons and equipment of the Crown of the Sea, and then transports them to the north, he will definitely make money.

The remaining sixty percent of the share, they must grab as much as possible.

If you don't grab it, someone else will grab it.

It's worse to let others make money than for them to lose money!

Inexplicably.

In the hall of only a dozen people, a burst of gunpowder smoke suddenly kicked off, and it became a little full of gunpowder.

After learning that Ji Chen was the real talker, they suddenly surrounded each other with smiles on their faces.

"Your Excellency Ji Chen, I am the president of the Xuelin Chamber of Commerce, and my funds are very abundant, so it is definitely right to choose me as a partner."

"Your Excellency, I have more than a dozen ocean-going ships under my command, and I have strong transportation capabilities, and I can transport goods directly from your territory..."

"I have a lot of connections, and I guarantee that your business will be unimpeded in Maple Grove Harbor..."

Seeing the flattering smiles on the faces of the businessmen, competing to speak, Ji Chen suddenly felt a lack of interest.

It just so happened that the previous negotiation with Gilder, coupled with the long journey, finally felt a little tired at this time.

So he waved his hand and beckoned Raymond over, and said loudly.

"I give you full authority to allocate the remaining share of weapons and equipment, and you will also be in charge of the crown of the sea in the future."

"I'll go up and rest first, and I'll just tell me the results tomorrow."

Raymond was stunned, a wave of surprise on his face.

Will he be given full authority to deal with such an important, tens of millions of gold worth of business?

What a trust!?

This is something that only the core members, no, henchmen, can do!

Ji Chen stood up and patted him on the shoulder: "Don't let me down." ”

Trying his best to suppress the excitement in his heart, Raymond looked grateful and serious, and said: "I will not disappoint your trust, and I will definitely complete this matter beautifully." ”

Ji Chen bowed slightly, walked away in full view of everyone, and disappeared at the end of the stairs.

After watching the whole process, the businessmen eagerly surrounded them.

Raymond was surrounded by many merchants, and his eyes were brighter than ever.

.....

A very desolate wilderness.

A rather small but extremely strong figure slowly stopped.

Around, dozens of desert waves with fierce faces and bodies the size of calves surrounded them.

Looking at the figures in front of them, the saliva in their mouths was constantly secreting, and hunger was vigorously attacking their senses.

The figure slowly raised its head, there was no trace of fear on the face of the rough beard under the cloak, and the giant wolf around him looked at the giant wolf without emotion in his eyes, and the giant hammer on his shoulder was also put down, and there was a very dull sound from smashing on the ground.

However, these could not scare the giant wolf who had been hungry for several days.

The heavy sound was like a stone, breaking the last string of the giant wolf's sanity.

Roar~

Dozens of desert wolves rushed up in unison, trying to tear the figure apart and fill their stomachs.

"A bunch of brutes."

Tomodo said coldly, picked up the giant hammer with one hand, as easily as holding a wooden stick, and with a slash of his hand, the head of the all-metal sharp hammer blasted the skull of a giant wolf, bursting with blood and brains.

Winter~

Winter~

With each blow, it's as if the giant wolf himself sent his body up.

The force of each blow is just right, the angle and precision are tighter than the machine, and not a single movement and a trace of force are superfluous.

The giant wolf rushed up one after another, and either his skull was blown out by a hammer, or he was directly smashed into the bones of his body by his waist and paralyzed to the ground.

Not even Tomodo's body could be touched.

In just a few minutes, most of the desert wolves, large enough to hunt a caravan, were killed and wounded, and the few remaining escaped with their tails between their legs.

Tomodo looked, did not chase and kill, casually carried the giant hammer on his shoulder, and continued to move forward, towards the depths of the wasteland.

Walk through barren hills, through rushing rivers, and through rocky beaches.

In a river valley, he finally stopped.

Distance.

A majestic, massive fortress nestled among the mountains.

If you don't count the gaps and breakages that are everywhere above, and the lifelessness and desolation that no matter how majestic it is, it can't hide.

Tomodo looked at it with a hint of shock and disbelief in his eyes.

"Black Iron Castle, how did it become like this... What has happened to the dwarves for thousands of years..."

In memory, the Black Iron Fort is made of countless rare metals as materials, smelted through the "Sun Furnace", weighing hundreds of tons, known as the fortress gate that cannot be broken from the outside - "Dwarven Shield", at this time, a large hole more than ten meters wide appeared on the door, and the edge of the big hole is a trace of melting.

Inside the fortress, the magnificent statues and temples of the past have been in ruins, and the hall that once held tens of thousands of people is also a mess, and the statue of the dwarven hammer, which symbolizes the unity of the dwarves, has been torn apart and scattered all over the ground.

Looking at everything, Tomodo's eyes were extremely complicated.

Walking through the corridors and halls with the help of his memory, he saw that it was desolate, and the marks of axes and machetes on the walls and ground seemed to indicate how fierce the battle had been.

- so fierce that even the united dwarves can't stop it.

In a nondescript side hall, Tomodor turned a dwarven sculpture that had broken in two, and with a rumbling sound, a passage entrance appeared on the rock wall.

Walk in.

Perhaps because of the relatively closed passage, there were still bones, dwarves and other races, but just a breeze at his feet blew them into a pile of powder.

Walking along the narrow passage to the end, there is a large dome space.

It was originally a place where the dwarves had piled up a mountain of treasure, but it was now empty, and it was apparently looted when the Black Iron Fortress was captured.

Tomodo paused for a moment, then walked to a corner, touched a stone brick, pressed it at a specific angle of force, and rotated it.

Click.

The side opens a passage that is only large enough for two people to pass side by side.

Inside the passage, there are no skeletons, and there are no traces of battle.

Seeing this, Tomodo perked up and some hope appeared in his eyes.

This is a secret that only a very small number of dwarves in the Black Iron Castle dwarves know, and they have agreed that if the Black Iron Castle encounters an irresistible attack and faces the danger of destruction, they will record everything that happened and store it in it for future generations to know.

In this, you may be able to know what happened to the dwarves back then.

The passage is long and narrow, winding as if it were going deep into the mountains.

But Tomodo did not hesitate and walked quietly.

Finally came to the end, and slowly pushed the last stone door open.

Behind the door was a small chamber with only a platform topped by a low stone pillar topped by a white crystal.

On the edge of the stone pillar, leaning on the skeleton of a dwarf with golden bones and dressed in fine clothes.

In the heart of his chest, a strangely shaped dagger was inserted, which dealt him a fatal blow.

Tomodo was stunned for a moment, looking sad.

He recognized the dwarven skeleton as it was...

"Claudio, have you fallen with you?"

Claudio Black Iron, one of the dwarven epic powerhouses of Black Iron Castle, is also his close friend, guarding Black Iron Castle and the Dwarves together.

The fact that the fatal heart was attacked, but still managed to come here, is enough to prove how sudden and violent things happened back then, and how powerful the enemy was.

Tomodo felt a huge sense of guilt in his heart.

If he had stayed in Black Iron Castle and not gone out, he wouldn't have been caught by the Great Lich Krees.

With so much of his epic combat power, will what happened here take a turn for the better, and the Black Iron Castle will not be breached?

With a lot of confusion in his heart, Tomodo finally calmed down, and his eyes gradually became firm.

"Claudio, did you stick to this place and keep the information?"

"What kind of enemy is it, even you can't match it, so you can only fall in this small secret room."

Tomodo stepped forward and gently touched the crystal.

A curtain of light was projected.

In the light curtain, a dwarf with an equally rugged image had a gray face and a dull look.

The dagger was stuck in his chest, and a terrible wound stretched across his lower abdomen to his right shoulder, and the white bones were faintly visible.

If ordinary people came, they would have been dead for I don't know how long, and only epic powerhouses could persist in living and come here to leave a message.

I saw Claudio in the light curtain. Black Iron said slowly:

"I am one of the three epic heroes of the Black Iron Castle, Claudio. Black Iron, if the big picture had been decided, I would have died. ”

But I didn't expect that the Black Iron Fortress would fall in this way, but with a single blow, our proud 'Dwarven Shield' was pierced, and in less than half a day, we were defeated and lost our outer defenses..."

Penetrated in an instant?

Tomodo's face was horrified, the 'Dwarven Shield' could not even be destroyed by an epic powerhouse in such a violent way, let alone with a single blow.

Moreover, there are countless fortifications on the periphery of the Black Iron Fort, powerful defensive equipment, relying on the dangerous terrain, and will not allow the enemy to attack wantonly, even if tens of millions of troops can be turned away.

It was breached in just half a day?

At the first thought, Tomodo didn't believe it, but remembering the way the door was broken and Claudio's appearance, he had to believe it with difficulty.

Claudio. Black Iron didn't pause for a moment, he was still talking, but his voice became much faster, and it was obvious that he knew that his life was short.

Answer the doubts in Tomodo's heart one by one, and tell the secrets buried back then.

“... The fraudster is responsible for the fall of the Black Iron Castle..."

Fraudster?

Tomodo's hole shrunk, but how could the fraudster's group of rats who had no belief in gods and lived in the sewers do something sneaky behind their backs, so how could they have the ability to capture the sturdy Black Iron Castle?

He breathed for a moment and continued to watch.

“... In the form of a large-scale sacrifice, the fraudster summoned an epic Hellfire Demon and made some kind of deal with him to attack the Black Iron Fortress together, and the Dwarven Shield was destroyed by this Flame Demon..."

“... In order to stop this terrifying fire demon, Deod Black Iron and I, another epic hero of Black Iron Castle, were seriously injured, and in the end, despite all means, we succeeded in dragging it out of the world and returning to hell.

But it also revealed a flaw, Deor Black Iron was killed by the epic heroes of the evil camp pulled by the fraudster,

I was also struck by a dagger tainted with the curse of the evil god's divine power that the fraudster found somewhere, and my body and soul were horribly cursed. ”

"I can't survive this curse, and the fall of the Black Iron Castle has become an irreversible fact, so I have come here to tell all this, hoping that the surviving dwarves will know what is happening here."

Speaking of which, Claudio. A hint of solemnity appeared on Black Iron's increasingly dark face.

"No matter how you come here to the dwarves or other races, remember, don't let the fraudsters know about you, or if you know what is happening here, or the madmen who hate all the gods, all the gods and the gods, will surely do everything in their conspiracies and means to kill you."

"Ahem... I'm pretty much done talking, I feel like my life has come to an end, ahem, ahem...."

"By the way, ahem, ahem... You may be able to secretly seek out Tomodo. Black Iron, he is the only dwarven epic hero in Black Iron Castle to survive this catastrophe, and he is a powerful combat force that you can rely on, and his forging skills are second only to me. ”

Claudio. Hei Tie showed a hint of sigh on his face, "At that time, I said that the three of us, Tomodo, the most stupid, but the dwarf with the best luck, must have survived to the end, I didn't expect it to be the case, it's really amazing......"

The light curtain closed at this moment, and the chamber fell into endless silence.

Long.

A voice slowly sounded in the secret room.

"Tomodo. In the name of Black Iron, I swear to the gods that I will avenge you and the Black Iron Castle and exterminate the fraudster! ”

"There's a good chance that the sewer rats of the fraudster will survive to this day... Ji Chen's kid has a very pure aura of gods, if he stays on an overseas island, he can still hide a thing or two, once he sets foot on the mainland, he will definitely attract their attention.

It's not good, I've heard before that he's going to go to the mainland in a while, and I have to hurry up and remind him so that he won't suffer. ”