Chapter Eighty-Six, The Remains of the Snake Man Empire

Dwarves are a very magical race.

Elves, humans, and dwarves are known as the iron triangle of fantasy, and any similar work cannot do without them.

However, unlike the warhammer that Aaron is familiar with, there are actually only five native races in the kingdom that belong to this world, whether they are dwarves or elves, they are all alien species.

In more detail, dwarves and elves are both aliens.

The elves came to the kingdom very early, and it is mentioned in the Cormier history books that Aaron Cha mentioned that the elves first appeared in the kingdom earlier than the year before the valley calendar, and the elves at that time were powerful interstellar civilizations, very powerful.

At this time, the empire established by the mysterious Saruk Witch has fallen apart and returned to dust, and the other founding races have been violently beaten by the dragons, the overlord race of the time, whether it is the spirit race, the bird race, the fish, or the once glorious giants, all of them are defeated by the dragons.

Until the elves appear.

As soon as the elves appeared, they made the world bigger, and in the face of the aggressive dragons, the elves united and released a high-level magic "Dragon Maniac Lock", which covered the whole world and caused some dragons to fall into unconscious destruction and madness, making it difficult for them to unite again, and instead fell apart and killed each other.

This is the end of the age of dragons, and the age of elves that has lasted for thousands of years has begun.

The influence of elves on the kingdom is so deep that the history books of any country can not talk about the founder race, can not talk about several major disasters, and can selectively hide some black history, but they will all mention the role played by the elves.

This is the same as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Aaron's previous life, you can hate Britain, you can laugh at Britain for declining now, you can turn over the black history of Britain and say how many bad things they have done, but if the history book does not talk about the industrial revolution, the steam engine, and the glorious era when the sun never sets, then it can only be said that the compilation of this history book is completely unqualified.

Compared to the elves, the appearance of the dwarves is somewhat obscure, and Cormier's history books only say that the first group of dwarves appeared in the far north of the world about the year before the Vale calendar, claiming to have "emerged from the heart of the world", although all kinds of evidence suggest that they are "aliens" like the elves.

The history of the Dwarves is blank after that, and only mentions that the Dwarves established some powerful kingdoms in the Northlands over the next few thousand years.

The next big event for dwarves to appear in the history books is the "Battle of the Orc Gate" in 1076 BC in the Vale calendar, where the rebellious wizards of the human kingdom of Mulholland opened the portal of the ancient Yin Maska Empire, and as a result, thousands of orcs directly flooded the kingdom, and even worse, the orc god king Geush also came to the kingdom through the portal manifestation.

The incarnation of the orc god king Guush directly killed the god Mulholland and the sun god Ra, which was the first god incarnation in history to fall in the god war.

Although the orcs were repelled in the end, this is not the point, the point is that since then, the orcs in the country have begun to appear in large numbers, and the orc gods have also noticed this world and began to frequently bestow divine graces.

….

In the past, although there were occasional orcs in the kingdom, they had never been so large-scale, and they had never attracted orc gods.

After the Battle of the Orc Gate, the orcs appeared in droves in the kingdom, and the dwarves became the biggest losers, and their northern kingdoms were conquered by the orcs one after another, and since then they have fallen into a long decline.

Until a few decades ago, the dwarf god king Moradin imposed a "thundering blessing" on the dwarves, which made every pregnant female dwarf give birth to twins or even multiple births per child, and the population of the dwarves has surged, so in recent years, the strength of the dwarves has recovered rapidly, and there is a faint resurgence of the image, and some young dwarves choose to leave their homes to seek a living elsewhere.

The dwarven buddy wasn't very friendly, but Aaron decided to get in touch with it more.

Good craftsmen are scarce everywhere, especially dwarves who can match elves in their blacksmithing skills.

Compared to the elves who are naturally inclined to chaos and goodness, the dwarves are naturally inclined to order, and the dwarves praise fairness, emphasize contracts, value commitments, and of course, can hold grudges for hundreds of years

They may have a bad temper, but as long as a contract is concluded and a consensus is reached, the dwarves will always fulfill their responsibilities, which is completely different from the elves.

"The friendly elves of your imagination will always exist only in the bard's poetry."

- Kingdom jokes

Unlike elves who "pretend to be polite", dwarves are the epitome of "pretending to be rude".

Unlike the elves of the Appearance Guild, the dwarves are members of the Brotherhood, and they value strength and friendship.

Despite the laughter outside, Aaron lifted the thick blanket of animal skins at the door of the blacksmith's shop and entered the courtyard.

What an ugly guy!

At the first glance of the dwarven blacksmith, Aaron complained in his heart.

This dwarf is less than 5 feet tall, and his age should not be more than 50 years old, which is considered young among dwarves, but his appearance is really ugly, his brain is already completely bald, and the bald part is not smooth and bright like some human nobles, but has ugly prickly heat and acne, a pair of eyes are big and small, a red nose, but the mouth is large, the corners of the mouth are about to extend to the ears, and the beard is messily tangled, like a demon.

This guy is going to frighten kids, Aaron thought.

Cormier is greatly influenced by the elves here, and naturally he is also biased towards the appearance association, and the dwarves are already very attractive, so if they are so ugly...... With such a bad temper, it's no wonder that he was ostracized.

The dwarven craftsman, dressed in an ugly apron and hammered the anvil, glanced at Aaron, who was expressionless, and the dirty words that had been held in his mouth swirled around his lips a few times, but he swallowed: "What do you want? Human, I'm busy."

"I want a good leather armor." Aaron nodded.

Aaron needs a good piece of leather armor, he is currently lacking armor in his extraordinary equipment, and too heavy armor will affect his spellcasting, so leather armor is the best choice for now.

Don't despise artisans, it's a custom in the realm, any artisan is an out-and-out middle class in most areas, and a skilled craftsman who can't make transcendent weapons can find a job anywhere in Susar earning a gold lion a day.

….

In addition, one of the characteristics of craftsmen is that they are well-connected.

"Leather armor?" The dwarven craftsman didn't even look up, "There's on the wall over there."

"Dude, if I wanted to buy that kind of leather armor, do you think I'd come here specifically?" Aaron said in a spurt, "You don't just have something to deal with goblins here, right?"

That's a very unkind thing to say.

But the dwarven craftsman thought it sounded pleasant.

"So, you're trying to build something extraordinary?" For the first time, the dwarf stopped what he was doing, and his eyes, one large and one small, turned in circles and looked at Aaron, "Are you ready for the money?" Humans?"

"I ask you, can you do it?" Aaron also said unceremoniously, "You can do it to me so that I can prepare the money."

"Can you do it?" The dwarf looked at him again, his hands on his hips, and he only felt the anger come up, "You ask a master craftsman, one of the best blacksmiths in Neverwinter, and a noble master of Fujar, who can drink 13 barrels of ale at a time, if he can make extraordinary equipment? Mankind? You'd better be okay!"

"I can tell you, I've seen all the blacksmiths in this place, and none of them are higher than mine!" The dwarf chattered, "If there is material, of course I can do it, and I can do it better than anyone else!"

Aaron understood.

Fogjar Wilham, from Neverwinter, most likely committed something.

When communicating with the dwarves, you don't pay attention to what they emphasize, but pay attention to the parts they say, unlike the elves.

Dwarves are the only race that can compete with elves in the forging process, elves value art, dwarves value practicality, elves value quality, and dwarves value quantity.

Master Blacksmiths are the best blacksmiths Aaron can find at the moment, as Legendary Blacksmiths tend to be Legendary Professionals.

A legendary pro who puts down what he's doing to build gear for you? How much does it cost?

"So, Susar's best blacksmith, Master Fujar, who can drink 13 barrels of ale at a time, if I can give you the materials, can you make me a transcendent piece of equipment?" Aaron asked tentatively.

Dwarves like to brag, and dwarves like to listen to praise, and the best praise is to repeat the words of the dwarves.

Sure enough, Fujar reached out and touched his beard, he lifted his chin and looked at Aaron again: "Of course, it's definitely okay to have materials, but ......"

"But ......"

"But before you do that, you must show your sincerity, Aaron Salion." The dwarven craftsman's eyes rolled, clearly thinking of something bad.

"You know me?"

"Your name has been appearing all day long with the flames in the bellows." The dwarf nodded, he put down the hammer, put the longsword he had built into the water to cool, and finally made up a few processes, and a beautiful standard longsword was ready.

Seiko longsword, dwarf is showing his strength, as long as he can create Seiko items, then he has the ability to create extraordinary equipment.

Without further ado, Fojar took out a pen and paper and wrote a row of things on it: "Help me buy these materials first, show your sincerity, humanity."

Aaron took the paper and looked at it, it was densely filled with a large number of various tools and raw materials needed by the blacksmith, and about hundreds of gold lion coins were needed.

….

He just wanted to say you won't buy it yourself? The dwarf took the heavy bag of money and put it in front of him, "This is the fee, hurry up, I am in a hurry to use it."

Aaron understood instantly.

Good fellow, this dwarf is using me!

"Hurry up, do you want to build an extraordinary gear?" Fogjar looked at him coldly.

"Aren't you afraid that I'll take the money and run away?" Aaron said casually.

The dwarf didn't speak, and continued to stare at him, leaving Aaron bored with himself.

"Okay." Aaron eventually agreed to the dwarf's request.

So for the rest of the day, Aaron ran errands for all the tedious things that the dwarves had to buy, and carts were pushed to the blacksmith's shop, filled with tools, ores, and materials.

The dwarf kept making inches, once if it was not enough, a second time, twice and a third time, until his yard was almost full, and then he finally said contentedly, "Say, human, what kind of extraordinary leather armor do you want to make?"

"The extraordinary leather armor of the white dragon skin must at least resist punctures and slashes." Aaron sat in the courtyard and made his own request: "It would be better if there was magic resistance."

"Piercing-resistant, slash-resistant, at least rare-level extraordinary equipment." After listening to Aaron's request, the dwarf frowned, "You also ask for magic resistance, which is extremely rare."

"Yes." Aaron nodded, pretending to be confused, "So, can you do it?"

"Absolutely." Fojar waved impatiently, "I need some time to prepare, though, and, human, are you sure you have a white dragon skin?"

"Yes, but it will take some time." Aaron nodded.

Charlotte had good news: Alice Searle had heard from the blacksmith of the Purple Dragon Order that he wanted to create a set of dragon skin armor, so she planned to give him a piece of white dragon skin from the royal treasury.

The value of this white dragon skin is as high as tens of thousands of gold lion coins, and there is no market.

The princess regent was so good to herself that she had nothing to say, and Aaron was a little touched in his heart.

I love you, Your Highness Alice Serre!

"With your height, the white dragon skin needs to be at least 10 feet long to make a full body armor, and considering some wear and tear, human, you have to give me at least a 12-foot white dragon skin, and I need a processing fee of 5,000 gold lion coins." When the dwarf saw that Aaron really had a white dragon skin, a greedy look immediately appeared on his face: "In the name of Moradin, no less will work!"

"I'll do it when I've given enough materials, and I can swear in the name of Moradin that you're satisfied."

Aaron's face changed slightly.

This dwarf? Take me as ***?

When I didn't ask the blacksmith of the Order, did you?

"That's enough to make me not only one, but also a dragonskin half-body armor for you, right?" Aaron replied calmly.

"If you love to do it, if you don't do it, get out!" Fujar snorted coldly, and the dwarven craftsman raised his chin: "If you don't want to do it, don't do it, find another craftsman."

This can be regarded as a disguised admission.

What a greedy dwarf.

However, the power of the female gan wonder can bring more than magic to Aaron, and the Viscount soon realized that perhaps the strength of this dwarven craftsman is really extraordinary!

….

Aaron's height is about 6 feet 2 inches, according to the material requirements given by the blacksmith of the Purple Dragon Knights, he needs at least 9 feet of white dragon skin to make a full-body leather armor, this greedy dwarven craftsman directly raised the material to 12 feet, obviously intending to covet his 3 feet of dragon skin, not only that, but he also needs a processing fee of 5,000 gold lion coins.

Normal people can only see the greed of dwarves.

But the female ganqi power saw that the dwarf was unusual: 3 feet of dragon skin was definitely not enough to make a half-body armor for the dwarf himself.

In this way, he was willing to swear to the dwarven god king Moradin, which showed that the dwarf had absolute confidence: he could make a full-body armor that satisfied Aaron with far less material than the purple dragon blacksmith required, and at the same time coveted a half-body armor for himself.

What does this mean?

This shows that this dwarven craftsman may not be bragging, he may really be the best craftsman in the whole of Susar, and seeing that he has such good skills before he is fifty years old, it is not impossible to become a legendary craftsman in the future!

This is the logic of female ganqi.

Establishing a good relationship with a dwarven craftsman with legendary potential is definitely not a loss under any circumstances, so Aaron hesitated in the face of the conditions proposed by the dwarves.

And what the dwarven craftsman wanted was his hesitation, and seeing that Aaron was silent, the big mouth under Fujar's beard was slightly upturned.

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"I have another proposal, human."

Aaron raised his hand.

"There's a secret, east of Susar, deep in the Stormhorn Mountains, there's a relic of the Serpent Empire." The dwarven craftsman said deceitfully, "Only I know where that place is, and I will give you another choice."

"I want the skins and scales of the sleeping snake people in the ruins, the more the better."

"If you're willing to do me a favor, I'll make you your dragon skin full-body armor for free, and I'll make as many leftover materials as you want, how about it?"

"All I need is snake skins and scales, and the rest is yours."

Aaron's eyes moved slightly.

Snake People Empire Ruins?!

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