Volume 3 Kuroshio 87 Brute Hammer Dwarves
The dwarves called this land Hinterland.
When we first entered, we only heard of dwarves, but no one knew where they were. There are no roads, no sun, and the fallen leaves on the ground are thick enough! It's so thick that sometimes it won't hurt if you step on it and fall on a dog and chew. But this kind of place has a fatal drawback for us!
It's very, very much! Very! Not suitable for horseback riding! We've suffered a big loss!
It's our job to follow the orcs, really...... Yes! The fallen leaves of the forest rot, although it doesn't smell bad, but do you know how uncomfortable your skin is in this place where there is no sun?
Itchy! Very itchy! Soon we had allergies in our bodies, this itching...... You can't sleep at night! Many of us have scratched our skins. The mages are usually cute and clean, but now they are helpless, and the mages' spells have no effect on this environment.
And the spiders in that place are huge, you know! I hate spiders! Very nasty! But that place loves to grow spiders, and sometimes when I look up, my head touches a spider's web! I feel so uncomfortable......
More than 200 of us pursued the orcs in the forest, struggling in the rotting leaves that didn't reach our calves. There's bugs in there! In the end, we all tied our boots tightly with strips of cloth, and the insects in the leaves would not only hurt but also swell!
There was only one good thing about that place, and my only good impression was that we were there during that time...... It didn't rain!
Gee...... I never want to go to that place again in my life! Definitely won't go again!
So many orcs seemed to have disappeared at this time, they disappeared into the vast forest! This situation is really not a solution, but we have no more way at this point, I keep climbing trees, trying to find a high place, a hill or something, but the forest is the forest!
Scold...... We also slaughtered the griffin and tasted it, huh...... It's not delicious!
The meat is too chai! Stiff, not fragrant at all. We didn't finish that griffon, which we dozens of people shared. If it weren't for the person who attacked us, we wouldn't have wanted to kill it. We didn't dare to provoke the long, half-bear, half-owl guy, they were all a group of several of them, and we avoided them on the principle that more is better than less.
We divided into five teams, and finally one of them found the traces of the orcs, and we immediately surrounded them and told the large troops behind to hurry up and follow.
It's a lot of work!
And as we continued to look further along the trail, the happier we became, we found the corpses of the orcs and the battlefield that we hadn't had time to clean.
I touched the corpse and the blood around it, and I was dead for a day. I was overjoyed to see the corpses on the ground, and finally chased them out again, and after a long distance, an open mountain was revealed in front of my eyes! And the smoke from the mountains in the distance tells me that we have found the orcs!
The morale of the mad troops, who had been tormented for a few days in the woods, was not very high at this time, but when I reported the news, everyone was impatient, very impatient.
I can understand their state at the moment, but it's not a good situation for orcs, I told Lothar about my concerns, and he knows the situation but can only try to overcome it.
We were still looking for news in front of us, and I was really shocked when I saw the dwarven fortress. It is estimated that the construction of the fortress in this way is something inherited from their blood, and it cannot be changed. The fortress was built not only on the mountain, but also on the highest hill of that mountain range. Although there is no cold and snow in Danmorrow, I really don't understand why they want to run to that place, the road is difficult to walk, not to mention how they drink water and get food.
Maybe it's because you're short, so you want to live taller? That mountain, they called it Eagle's Nest Mountain.
I don't understand how the orcs think that they have to attack the mountain, don't they know that there are us behind them?
We were soon behind the orc troops, and the orcs attacked the mountain with little strategy, except for the spells and artillery of the warlocks. And the dwarves harness the griffins to fight bring us nothing but shock is shock.
Don't look at the dwarves who are short and fat, but their ability to control this beast is very superb, and the degree of flexibility is beyond imagination, much more flexible than the orc encountered in Nanhai Town to control the dragon. However, it is not known how they learned to control such a large bird of prey.
I saw that those dwarves were really riding on the griffins, and the griffins were also really energetic, and they could quickly rise and burrow into the clouds by flapping their wings, or they could retract their wings and dive vertically.
It's just that the number of dwarven griffins isn't particularly large, eh...... If you want to say it's amazing, at first glance it does look okay, mainly shock, but their attack method is too simple, basically diving and skimming, in my eyes this attack method is tantamount to suicide.
I don't know how to ride that kind of thing anyway, I prefer to stay on the ground.
When the orcs noticed that we were behind them, the group of orcs very consciously chose to retreat immediately. We didn't chase much either, and we didn't catch up.
In fact, neither the orcs nor the dwarves took advantage, and the dwarves actually paid a huge price in this battle for the defense of Eagle's Nest Mountain before we arrived.
Kudran Hammer is their leader, and they are surprised to see us. But at first they didn't see us as friends. I play a very important role here, and I can speak dwarven language. That's enough to impress those guys!
The dwarves were aware of the existence of humans, but they had never interacted with humans, so they expressed great surprise at our presence.
I told him about the atrocities of the orcs, and Kudran was shocked by what I had told of it, and he had no idea of what was going on in the outside world. It can also be said that these dwarves are isolated in this deep mountain.
In fact, in terms of the scale and grandeur of the building, Eagle's Nest Mountain is not at the same level as Ironforge Fort, and the top of that mountain is carved into the shape of a giant eagle, and that's it. I've been to Ironforge Fort, but I've seen a lot of Copperbeard Dwarve's strongholds before, and I've been to the land where the Hammer Dwarves once lived but have since been abandoned. It's much stronger than this Eagle's Nest Mountain.
When I told them that I had been to Grimbaatar, Kudran's eyes showed even more surprise, which is why I was treated more favorably than everyone else, including Lothar.
And when I told him that the orcs had probably captured Kazmodan, and that the Copperbeard tribe might be slaughtered by the orcs now, his hand trembled visibly. He stared into my eyes and wondered, saying that it was impossible.
Why did he say this, I guess he couldn't believe that the Copperbeard Dwarves had become so weak more than two hundred years after they left Grimbaatar. Maybe in the face of the orcs who had just retreated, they were a little unwilling to be there.
In fact, at that time, I was not particularly clear about the grievances and grievances between the dwarves, I only knew a rough idea. And after he had confirmed the situation of the Copperbeard tribe several times, he slapped the table so hard that it startled me, and the beer glass in front of him jumped with it.
He had words in his mouth, sometimes sighing with regret and sometimes gritting his teeth, and he asked me about the Black Iron Dwarves, which I said I didn't know, but it was very likely that they had colluded with the orcs.
I told him that I had infiltrated the territory of the Black Iron Dwarves to scout, but I had found that the Black Iron Dwarves and the Orcs seemed to have made some agreement, otherwise the Orcs would not have traversed the scorching land so easily. Without the help of the Black Iron Dwarves, it would never have been possible for the orcs to pass Lockmodan so quickly. The fortress of Ogaz alone could withstand the invasion of hundreds of thousands of troops. If the orcs don't pass through, they won't have the ability to cross the sea and reach our human territory directly.
At this time, Kudran was surprised and asked, "Didn't they pass the Saldo Bridge?" I said no.
At first, most of us thought that the orcs would attack the kingdom of Stormgard through the Saldo Bridge after the capture of Morder's fortress, and attack the human hinterland through the Arathi Heights. But the orcs unexpectedly came from the sea, and they also learned to harness the dragon.
Kudran was stunned for a moment, his eyes widening in disbelief. But then he felt impossible, he felt that I was lying, how could an orc control a dragon.
I told him I wasn't lying, that it would be impossible for the orcs to get out of the sea without the help of dragons, and that they had defeated our fleet with dragons. I told him about the many battles we had fought on the land of the humans south of their territory, and that we would not have pursued this place had we not defeated them once and for all.
Ha! The old fellow glared at us and asked, "So you drove them here!" ”
The tone was not questioning, it was a little angry.
To be honest, we were full of questions as to why the orcs plunged headlong into this place at that time.
I expressed our friendliness to him and wished to join forces with them to destroy this group of enemies. But he looked at the several lords around him and did not immediately agree to us.
After seeing this scene, Lothar explained to them that orcs would cause great threat and distress, and the expressions of these guys changed subtly after learning that Lothar was the only bloodline of the Stormwind Kingdom, especially Emperor Soladin.
This thing...... Tut......
Hum...... The previous leader of the Hammer Dwarves, Kadros, had been aided by King Fadil. At that time, Kudran was just a hairy boy.
After the dwarves abandoned their homeland, it was King Fadil who took them in, allowing them to pass through his kingdom and helping to pacify them, but ...... The end of the dwarven crossing...... King Fadil left Riptide with his subjects.
Do you know what I mean?