Chapter 368: The Second Team
The dwarven procession, which numbered in the hundreds, finally arrived outside the city of Denzel that night.
In order not to cause chaos or panic, Char specially sent a cavalry team of 100 people to monitor this dwarven team along the way, leading them into the city, and at the same time clearing the road, so as not to cause any chaos because there are too many onlookers.
The dwarves can be said to be one of the most special races on this continent, first of all, the relationship between the dwarves and humans is not very good, and it can even be said that it is a little bad. Dwarves live in the Blue Basin of the Wildfire Plains, and they don't like to interact with humans, so in general, humans are not able to enter or even approach the Blue Basin. Although the Dwarves are naturally excellent craftsmen, and the weapons and armor they create have always been expensive treasures on the continent, the difficulty of getting a piece of equipment made by the Dwarves is enough to discourage nine out of ten people.
Dwarves are xenophobic by nature and are hostile to any other race that enters their territory. Anyone who dares to enter dwarven territory will be attacked by the dwarves.
And the combat effectiveness of this race is also amazing, the dwarf race is naturally powerful, even the dwarf women, old people and underage dwarfs, the strength is far better than a strong human youth. These powerful and stout creatures, accustomed to using hammers as weapons, ordinary human warriors, can hardly even resist the hammer of a dwarf.
According to legend, in the human world, only a very small number of chambers of commerce that have been recognized by the dwarves or have established a relationship of trust with the dwarves can enter the territory of the dwarves at certain times and conduct some extremely limited transactions with the dwarves. This also makes it easy for any piece of handmade by the dwarves to sell for a sky-high price on the mainland.
Not to mention anything else, it's just that Hasting's three-edged war spear is the best weapon produced by the dwarves! When this dwarven team entered the city, Char also ran outside the city to watch.
From a distance, this team of hundreds of people has more than two hundred carts, and the shape of these dwarven carts is very different from that of human carriages.
These dwarven carts were low, with wheels at most one-third the height of the wheels of a normal carriage, but they were wider and longer, and each had at least eight wheels.
It was not a mule or horse that pulled the cart, but a special animal bred by the dwarves, called the "earthwalker"0
The appearance of this earth-walking beast is somewhat similar to that of a dragon" Of course, Dora expressed great dissatisfaction and protest against Char's feelings. In Dora's view, associating a lowly creature like the Earth Walking Dragon with a noble dragon is a blasphemy against the dragons.
But Char still felt that she was right.
This earth-walking beast really looks a little like a dragon, but it is much smaller than a dragon, without wings, with a slightly shorter neck, and thicker and shorter legs.
Because its legs are so short, this earthwalker can run very slowly, and even an ordinary human can run faster than this kind of thing as long as it runs faster.
But although the speed is not fast, this kind of earth-walking beast has an extremely strong characteristic, and its weight-bearing capacity is extremely excellent! The weight-bearing capacity of an earth-walking beast can reach thousands of catties! This is absolutely beyond the reach of horses.
Humans are not unaware of the animal's excellent weight-bearing ability, but unfortunately, so far, no race other than the dwarves has been able to successfully domesticate this earthwalker.
I don't know how the dwarves domesticated this kind of thing, and the ten earthly beasts seem docile, but in fact, they are very irritable, and only under the drive of the dwarf race, they are as docile as sheep.
However, any truly experienced demon hunter in the wildfire field knows the terrifying nature of this thing—this earth-walking beast has an innate earth-based magic ability, which can gather enough JL elements on the surface of its body, so that its body can become as hard as a rock in a short time, and the sword is difficult to hurt. Even the fighting spirit of an intermediate samurai would be difficult to penetrate the body of such a thing. But this tenon was docile and obedient in the hands of the dwarves.
Looking at this team, there are more than 200 earthwalkers pulling carts in two hundred carts, "These low-level demonic beasts with gray or black skins have huge iron rings around their necks, and they are hooked with iron locks on both sides and the carts behind them, and then the carts that pull the carts are full of carts and slowly move forward step by step, and some earthwalkers still raise their heads from time to time when they walk, and let out a cry of "Angang". Char was more interested in the dwarves in these teams than in these landwalkers.
In Char's opinion, these guys are really short, and most of the dwarves are not much taller than goblins, "even slightly shorter." But dwarves are much thicker than goblins!
There were at least four hundred dwarves in this group, and almost all of them were unusually strong, small in stature, but all of them had broad shoulders, thick drives, and thick arms and legs like tree trunks!
All dwarves have the same characteristic that they all have long beards, and most of them can drag their beards almost to their waists, and a few can even drag down to their toes. Their long beards are braided into a variety of fancy braids, just like the hair of a human woman. But there are many dwarves whose heads are bare.
They were all wearing black iron armor, which looked black and swarthy, and even had a rough feeling, which made Char a little disappointed, he thought that since the dwarves were the best craftsmen in the legend, then the armor they made for themselves should be of the best quality, "Why are these guys wearing all those black and inconspicuous things?
But he noticed one thing: the armor on these dwarves was thick iron armor, and such iron armor was not light! And almost every dwarf carried a strange sledgehammer, and the tip of these hammers was like a sharp spear tip. "What do you think they're going to be in these carts?" asked Dora with a smile in her mind. Char pursed the corners of his lips 1 "How do I know ......"
"I haven't seen a few dwarves either. But I've heard that the dwarves are very strange...... Even their women have long beards and speak in a rough voice like a man. Char's face suddenly became a little strange, a woman with a long beard?
After this group of hundreds of dwarves came to the outside of the city, they stopped, making it a little difficult for the cavalry escorting them along the way.
Seeing that the procession stopped outside the city and did not leave, Char immediately led people to ride up to meet them. I saw the cavalry captain who was responsible for escorting these dwarves and quickly rode in front of him to report. My lord...... These dwarves refused to enter the city, they insisted on seeing you seer-0" "Refused to enter the city?" Char frowned: "Why?"
The cavalry captain was also at a loss, and Char wanted to say something, but Dora in his mind spoke: "Ah! I know...... Well, little Char, you don't have to speculate, these dwarves really won't enter the city. Is this a tradition of their dwarven race, or rather, a "rule?"
Well, one by one, one by one, one is the rule. Dora's voice seemed to be a little peculiar = "Since a great war in ancient times, various races and humans have fallen out...... Among them, the dwarves and humans have some grievances, and the ancestors of the dwarves have left to obey...... No dwarf is allowed to enter a human city. Dwarves are a race of great respect for tradition, so they will not violate this ancient rule. ”
...... Such. Char touched her nose, "Then ...... Let them live outside the city, well, let them live outside the barracks, isn't the old camp in our new military city empty? Char said and passed the order to the cavalry captain.
Then Char pondered for a while before frowning and said, "Okay, let's go too...... Meet the dwarves and see what they're up to...... To be honest, Char was also very curious.
The dwarves showed great cooperation, and they soon moved into the old barracks outside the city under the guidance of the cavalry.
This veteran barracks was built on the basis of the barracks of the garrison army, which was burned down during the first siege of the Odin and later renovated to train new recruits. After Char established the new army half a month ago, the First Corps was established, and the army was pulled to the newly established corps camp, and it was empty.
Frankly, the conditions here are very poor, and there are only a few empty barracks left, most of which are still built by Xiaotu for the wall.
But the dwarves did not seem to express the slightest dissatisfaction with these rudimentary conditions. After they simply moved in, they parked two hundred carts at the gate of the camp, and then divided a third of the people, untied the earthwalkers who pulled the carts, and then drove these earthwalkers to graze everywhere in the camp, many dwarves also carried a huge cloth bag from the cart, and poured out a bunch of feed made of unknown things from it, and fed these groundwalkers, and some dwarves took some strange big brushes to brush the bodies of these earthwalkers, and those earthwalkers seemed to enjoy this brushing action, and many of them rolled comfortably on the ground。
When Char came here, the dwarves had already occupied the positions of several checkpoints in this old camp, and looking at Char's arrival, many dwarves had some wary looks on their faces, and their eyes were definitely not friendly, and even faintly hostile. "I am the leader of Denzel City, and I have the leader of your team come to me. Char stood at the gate of the camp and did not go in.
Probably understood Char's words, and soon, the dwarven leader of this team came to Char.
The dwarf standing in front of Char was only taller than Char's navel at most, but this dwarf was wearing a tall iron helmet, barely reaching the position of Char's chest. However, the little short legs were also wearing a pair of long leather boots, and it looked like the cuffs of the leather boots were almost reaching the base of their thighs, which was really ridiculous.
Char noticed that the dwarf's body was short, but it was extremely stout! its skin was as dry and thick as the bark of an old tree, full of wrinkles, but the muscles on its chest and arms were high and bulging, and the lines were clear, and its beard was also the longest in the whole dwarven ranks, and it dragged down to his toes, and the long beard, with two beautiful round knots, and more than a dozen twisted braids scattered and erected. These dwarves looked dark and dirty, but they didn't expect to be so careful about burying their beards. "My name is Rock, and I have been commissioned by the Almighty and Great King Greybeard to deliver gifts to the great Lord Merlin. ”
The dwarf leader looked at Char, his voice was a little dry, and his tone was a little arrogant, but these dwarves spoke in such a loud voice, and the sound they said was like thunder, rumbling. Rock?, a strange name.
It seems that Char has heard a lot of legends, as if there are always some names called "rocks" or "hammers" in the dwarves. It's like the common names "Tom" and "Jack" in human names.
"On behalf of Lord Merlin, I welcome you. Char's voice was also a little arrogant, he was this kind of character, since this dwarf didn't speak in a polite tone, then Char didn't need to show any kindness, "But Lord Merlin can't see you now." So you can explain your intentions, and then you can explain anything to me. ”
"No, no, no......" Yan Tian shook his head again and again: "I brought a precious gift from the Graybeard King to Lord Merlin, I must hand it over to me, but I can't let others collect it on my behalf." Char rolled her eyelids......
Want to see Merlin? That's not the way to go...... Merlin shut himself up in the backyard and hung a sign outside the door; Hmph, whoever has the guts will go in, okay, one by one, Lao Tzu won't go in anyway.
Char frowned, "Lord Merlin doesn't have time to see you right now, if you don't want to hand it over, then just wait here" After a pause, Char said, "Who do you say you are here on?"
"King Greybeard is the king of kings of the dwarves, His Majesty the Supreme of the Dwarves, and the leader of all the dwarves...... The bravest and most heroic dwarf brave ......" This rock suddenly became as excited as chicken blood, "Okay......" Char waved his hand and looked at this frothing guy......
Well, it looks like you can call Tataro to receive these guys. When the dwarf spoke of them as the Graybeard King, he was full of horses, and he was a little like the one from the one who had been Tataro, and if they had been together, they would have had a common language.
Seeing that the words were not speculative, Char took people away, and before leaving, he was still very curious to look at the camp and see that the two hundred carts were tightly covered, and he didn't know what kind of treasures they were.
Just as Char had brought people back from the old camp and was walking back, there were already a few horsemen galloping in the distance, and they could see clearly from a distance that it was a team of scout cavalry under his command. "My lord, Char-sama, emergency military intelligence!!
Hearing the shouts from afar, Char's expression immediately froze, but then these cavalry rushed in front of him, and the man on the horse shouted: "My lord!
"What are you panicking about, what are they about!" Char grimaced.
As a scout, one of the most necessary qualities is to be unfazed, if you are panicked at every turn, how can you be a scout?!
But immediately, the words of this scout cavalry immediately explained the reason for his panic!
"Those guys...... They came from the sky! A dozen big birds! They all rode from above, and they came from the east! They were already less than three miles from here......
Bird riding?man?!
Char's eyes immediately widened.
In her mind, Dora suddenly shouted, "It's an elf! It's an elf!"