Dwarves are passionate, stubborn creatures who love to dig, forge, drink, and fight, and they love their families and clans immensely, and are never afraid to fight for their people. The dwarves are convinced that they can overcome all odds if they stick together.

But not this time.

William sighed. "O top of Mora, the most brilliant jewel of the dwarven kingdom! When the dwarven god instructed the dwarves to settle there first, everyone simply thought that it was because of the rich mineral deposits and the difficult terrain to defend. Yes, these two reasons are not wrong in the first place, but they are not sufficient. I used to cross the mountains all the way to the west, where there were better areas of veins than the Walls Mountains and the Top of Mora. ”

"Be sure to tell me where it is," Siegel interjected, "and go on." ”

"The god of the dwarves is incomparably familiar with mountains and rocks, and he should have discovered a secret of the Walled Mountains very early on. The dwarves dug down there for years and finally found the barrier of the world. Just in the deepest part of Mora's Peak, the crystal wall barrier leading to another world can be seen with the naked eye. ”

Siegel knocked his teeth against each other twice, and then took a breath of cold air, this is big news! Except for archmages, only a small number of people who specialize in the multiverse know what a crystal wall is. To put it simply, a crystal wall is an eggshell that encloses a world inside. The world can be big, with thousands of stars, or it can be just one planet or even just one continent.

It is not very difficult for the archmage to travel through the worlds, the only difficulty is to determine the location of the worlds. Different worlds are surrounded by their own crystal walls. Some of the crystal walls are solid. Others are just invisible rules and energies. And before the crossing. It is difficult to know the internal properties of the crystal wall from its appearance. There are worlds where the crystal walls are inherently insulated from magic, and if Siegel uses a spell to walk through, it will most likely be a one-way trip.

In other words, it is simple to start from the world you are in and enter another world, you only need to follow the rules of the starting point, but you need to look at the "other person's face" on the return trip. Mages see traversing the crystal wall, or simply "traversing", as a dangerous action. There is also the saying "crossing is risky, and being chopped needs to be cautious".

I'm afraid no one knows how many worlds are surrounded by crystal walls. Even if it is the power of a god, it cannot be used in every crystal wall system. Most gods do not place their bodies in the crystal wall system, but in the more stable outer planes. The sum of all the crystal wall systems is called the main material plane, and beyond this is the outer plane, which is characterized by the fact that each outer plane has a fixed tendency, such as the Heavenly Mountain where goodness and order rule, where only good and orderly creatures are born, and only creatures with these two qualities can live a completely normal life here.

The devil dwells in the orderly and wicked Hell of Barto. Demons inhabit the endless abyss of chaos and evil, and the Demon Tomb Erdu was born in the mechanical realm. It was a place where the power of order was at its peak. The reason why Erdu left the mechanical realm was because he had a "malfunction", and he was no longer completely orderly, so he naturally felt "out of place" and was eventually excluded from the world.

That's all for the popularization of knowledge (if you expand it in detail, you can say tens of thousands of words). The Nakuth skeletons that Siegel encountered were a scavenging race that usually hid in the void, ready to return to the shell of the crystal wall system at any time, and then eat the dead world.

Divine power can't go beyond the rules of the crystal wall, so putting the real body in the crystal wall system is a self-binding and long-term behavior. Generally speaking, "throwing" the next Sage is the limit, just like Chanem or the Elven Sage.

"The crystal wall systems are generally very far apart, and it is rare to encounter such close crystal walls. William said with a sigh. "Normally, such a thing should be discussed by mages, priests, and all beings who understand the principle of the crystal wall before deciding how to do it, after all, it concerns all living beings in a world, but this time the dwarves did not do so. The news I received at the top of Mora was that the Dwarven Patronus had issued a clear oracle asking the Dwarves to use all their strength to break through the crystal barrier and then move to the opposite world. ”

"Why is that? It's like abandoning the ship. ”

"I didn't figure it out either. If there is danger in this world and everyone needs to flee, then there should always be a warning. Elves, orcs, kobolds, and dwarfs, except for humans, these racial gods can't have no news at all, only the dwarves themselves know, right?" William also expressed his doubts: "The dwarves, under the command of the gods, first sealed off the entire city wall mountain range, and then began their journey of conquering the crystal wall. After I managed to enter the top of Mora, I was controlled by the dwarven sage as soon as possible, and I was locked in the anti-magic area and couldn't get out, so I didn't know much about the situation on the front line. All I know is a goblin world on the other side, and they are very strong in combat, able to suppress the legions of dwarves with ranged weapons, and have the ability to cast meteorstorm-level spells. But the dwarves were prepared and quickly established a beachhead fortress and basically controlled the situation, but at this moment other gods intervened. ”

"A large number of gum monsters appeared in the Walled Mountains, attacking the rear of the dwarves, cutting off the top of Mora from the beachhead fortress, causing the situation to take a turn for the worse. Gum monsters are rarely clever and tactical, using their adaptability in cave environments to strike around and make dwarves tired. In the end, the dwarven conquest was defeated by the gelatinous monsters, and a large number of dwarves were killed in battle, and the beachhead fortress was lost. In order to prevent the goblins from counterattacking, the Dwarven Sage sacrificed himself and blocked the tunnel of the crystal wall system, so that the opposite side could not penetrate. ”

Siegel shook his head: "It's heroic, but it's also stupid!"

"It's stupid. Dwarven runes don't work well when it comes to multi-dimensional crystal barriers, and are far weaker than mage spells. I found an opportunity, destroyed the anti-magic area, and got out of there. As a traveler, how can you not go and look at the other side?"

"To be on the safe side, I used the re-projection of the astral projection as a pathfinder and passed through the crystal barrier. Fortunately, there are still four elements and magical powers on the opposite side, although the spell has been weakened. But it still barely works. The goblins on the other side have only rudimentary magic. But there have been great developments in machinery and metallurgy. The machines they build are at the level of constructing creatures. Although the defense was insufficient, the offensive force was far exceeded. They also thought that there was a dwarven world on the other side, and were preparing to organize a large army to launch a retaliatory expedition. The passage was blocked by the Dwarven Sages, who were about to force it open with some very powerful explosive device. ”

"I don't think the same way they do. Since the two crystal walls have one point of contact, it is difficult to guarantee that there is no second. I cast a spell in the goblin world, and sure enough, I found three other weak crystal walls. ”

At this, William paused for a moment and sighed. "The dwarves have already shed the first drop of blood from the goblins, and it's hard to end well. Once the news of contact with another crystal wall system spreads, it is difficult to guarantee that no other careerist wants to conquer it except the dwarves. While I may be weaker in other things, no one in this world dares to say that I am stronger than me when it comes to fast travel and finding certain things!, so I want to locate those three weak points before everyone else, and preferably shut them off forever. ”

"Shut it down, why close it?" Siegel was puzzled, "If you say that you are reinforcing or unilaterally preventing them from crossing over, I can understand that. But do you have to turn it off completely?"

William stood up abruptly and looked at Siegel with a wary gaze. With a solemn face: "You can't be one of the ambitious people too, right?"

"Don't worry, listen to me. Siegel waved his hand and motioned for William to sit down first. "From a purely mage's point of view, the benefits of closing the crystal wall channel outweigh the disadvantages. The opposite side is not a magical world, and since both worlds have been dragged into a state of war by the dwarves, there is nothing wrong with your approach in order to avoid further escalation and expansion of the conflict. But I just want to ask: what if the kind of explosive device made by the goblins can really break through the barriers set up by the dwarven sages?"

Siegel thought of Red's prophecy, could the volcano exploding from the ground be the work of the goblins?and, who said that the passage had been sealed, what happened to the corpses that floated out of the city walls?

So he told William about it, and the latter became silent when he heard it. If the goblins had found a way to invade through the barrier, the situation was a different story. As a person in this world, you must take all the channels into your own hands, so that you can obtain the "geographical advantage". In the state of confrontation of the crystal wall system, geographical advantage is extremely important.

"Now our only advantage is knowing that there are three locations, and my advice is to find them, hide them, and use them secretly. I'm not interested in attacking the world of goblins, but that's no reason to tie yourself up and not prepare. ”

William pointed out the window: "Is the Federation's spaceship also an action you are preparing for?"

"Yes, but I didn't know about the Crystal Wall at the time, I just saw a lot of dwarven corpses. If we really face a world, the ship is just a drop in the bucket, and we need more and stronger things. ”

"Preparing more swords will only make war easier!Countless lives will die, and the victors will only get a land full of dead bodies, and most of the time there will be no victors at all!" William exclaimed, "Do you also choose to drag the world into a fight?"

"The dwarves have already done that!" Siegel slapped the table, the plates rattling. "I am also an archmage, and I can learn the Otherworldly Gate spell when I find the Mage Guild, and then I can take my family to the outer plane. Count on your fingers: Xanadu, Elysium, except for a few worlds that are too extreme, where can you not settle down? Is it difficult for you and me to cross the road? Then what about the people who remain in this world? Block the road, and then tell them: You are safe, rest assured. William, are you at ease?"

William was silent. In this world, he has his own means, but he doesn't dare to say that others can't crack his methods. It was Siegel in front of him, if he used the power of the elemental tide level, it was enough to break all his spell enchantments. What's more, although there are no mages seen in the goblin world, there is no guarantee that they cannot reach the same height of strength with the power of machinery. Goblins attacking from their world have a rule advantage, which any sane mage can imagine, and William can't fool himself.

"Bastards, these impulsive, stubborn, ignorant dwarves!" shouted William. Although he didn't explicitly say that he no longer closed the crystal wall junction, he had changed his mind.

"To say a thousand things and ten thousand, you still need to know where those three locations are. Siegel pouted, "Then decide on your next move." And the top of Mora has been defeated, can the shoulders of the Federation carry this burden, just rely on you and me, the two archmages?"

"When Alexander asked me to go to the top of Mora to crack the Adamantite Gate, I had a premonition that this was a broken errand!" William sighed helplessly: "I missed the Elven War, lost the Three-Peak Tower, and brought the news of the World War, what kind of fate do I call it?!"

"It's said that black wings bring black bad news, who called you a master of the transformation system?" (To be continued.) )