"Very well, Richard. This cask is one of the best I've tasted in one hundred and thirty years. While humans know that dwarves love spirits, only the one you bring is the best. Barmor pointed to the remaining three barrels and asked, "Is there any difference between them?"

Richard raised his hand and said, "Why don't you try them all?"

"Good!" Bamore immediately told the guards to open the three barrels of wine, and the elders drank the barrels in three rounds. These three barrels are indeed worse than the original one, and each barrel is lighter than the other.

Bamore thought of something, and looked at Richard's eyes much brighter. He stroked his thick beard and said, "Are these the things you are going to trade with us?"

Richard smiled and said, "These four barrels are of four grades: superb, superior, medium and ordinary. Descendants of the Great Anvil, what do you think of the most ordinary wine?"

Bamore and several elders exchanged glances, and one of them said rudely, "Actually, it's very good." This is the taste of the best wine that humans have sold us in the past. ”

Richard smiled even more charmingly: "It's this ordinary wine, if it's such a barrel, the price I give is five gold coins a barrel." ”

"What!?" Five or six of the eight elders jumped up from their seats. In the past, such a barrel of wine was sold to the dwarven kingdom for fifty gold coins. Richard's price is completely indistinguishable from a fire sale.

Barmore was also extremely surprised, but remained silent. If this is the price of ordinary wines, then the prices of the other three grades do not need to be asked. After the elders were amazed for a while, Barmor asked in a deep voice, "And how much wine did you bring?"

Richard smiled lightly and said, "In my logistics convoy, there are 20,000 barrels of ordinary grade wine. ”

"20,000 barrels!" was a figure that even Bamore was moved. This batch of wine could last all the dwarves of Crucible for a week.

But Richard went on to say: "There are five thousand barrels of fine and medium wine combined. But there are only ten barrels of the best spirits, which is considered a bonus. ”

Barmore's chest rose and fell sharply, and he was shocked by the amount of wine, and exclaimed, "Very well, Richard! What do you bring with you besides wine?"

This time Richard was even more simply: "Grain." Barley, wheat, oats and corn, totaling three thousand tons. This is just the first batch. ”

This time, Bamore jumped straight from the throne, and his voice echoed through the king's hall like thunder: "Is it grain?"

"Grain. Richard was calm.

"Why grain?" Bamore's eyes were like lightning!

"Why can't it be food?" said Richard, who had a beard, and his smile was particularly charming.

Bamore strode down the stairs, stood in front of Richard, and suddenly stretched out his arms! Richard bent down and hugged Bamore.

The embrace of the king is a sign. At this moment, Richard was truly accepted by the dwarves of the Crucible Kingdom.

The Crucible was large enough to hold four or five hundred thousand dwarves, but now this is the dwarven population of the entire Crucible Kingdom. Dwarves are sparsely populated and constrained mainly by food. The Pale Highlands have a very cold climate, and only part of the valley can produce food. Food has been the biggest problem for dwarves since they were driven from the plains to the barren highlands by humans. It wasn't until the dwarves dug deep underground and discovered large natural underground caverns that they found an edible mushroom that grew on the heat of molten slurry, that the food problem was partially solved. But even if all the available caverns were filled with mushrooms, they would only be able to feed so many dwarves as they currently were.

The embrace of a true sanctuary, heavy as a mountain, made Richard almost breathless. Eventually, Barmore let go of his arms and said, "Richard, my friend, what do you want from the Forge Dwarves?"

Richard was also prepared for this question, saying: "I need metal, ore, weapons and equipment from the dwarves, muskets, and of course, gunpowder." ”

Bamore's eyes flashed, and he laughed, and said, "Richard, you have a really big appetite." But, this is what you deserve, and with the friendship of the Forge Dwarves, you won't be disappointed!"

The nobles were overjoyed, and almost every word of Bamore's promise was worth boxes of gold coins.

At the beginning of the Second Vertical Line War, these nobles were puzzled by Richard's willingness to let the logistics troops bring so much wine and food as a bargain. Wine is a traditional trade between humans and dwarves, and a weapon used to exploit dwarves. The dwarves could barely resist the fine wine made by humans. But food is different, it is bulky, difficult to transport and store, and of limited value. A lot of people can't figure out what this thing can get in exchange. But this scene in front of them made the aristocratic representatives understand the meaning of food. It is exchanged for the true friendship of the dwarves.

Richard could feel the joyful, envious, and admiring gazes of the nobles behind him. This is not that Richard was very far-sighted, and any patient and meticulous person, after investigating hundreds of dwarven slaves from the Pale Highlands, would have an idea of the living conditions of the dwarves in this land. There are many dwarven slaves in the human realm, and the bloodstained lands have a large number of dwarven slaves captured from the Pale Heights.

It's not hard to get information, but it's rare to get it.

Next, Barmore held a lavish dinner to welcome Richard and his followers. The specific details of the trade, such as the price and quantity of the traded goods, naturally had Orar and the representatives of the nobles who were proficient in this way to negotiate with the dwarven elders separately.

That night, Richard and Quicksand stayed in Bamore's royal palace. After a night without incident, the next morning, Quicksand proposed to Bamor that he wanted to visit the temple where the dwarves worshiped their ancestors, so as to see and learn about the glorious deeds of the dwarven ancestors. Of course, this request was agreed to by Barmore, and there have been more than a dozen heroes in the history of the Crucible Kingdom, each with their own good deeds. Bamore was deeply proud of his ancestors, and was willing to let the prestige of his ancestors spread among his friends of other races.

The dwarven temple is buried deep in the belly of the mountain, a magnificent complex of buildings, the main hall is fifty meters high, and in the center is a huge furnace, from the mouth of which is constantly pouring hot molten iron. Molten iron was poured into the casting pool in the middle of the main hall, and no matter how much molten iron was poured in, the molten iron in the casting pool was never too much or too little. Around the furnace, there are more than a dozen dwarf statues, all of which are of different shapes. Even Richard could sense the faint aura floating on the surface of the statues, indicating that the dwarven ancestors represented by these statues had all reached the level of Heroic Spirits. Any statue that is moved back can be sacrificed individually.

Next to the furnace, there is a raised platform. The dwarf statue on the pedestal, much taller than the others, was hammering an unformed weapon on an anvil. This statue was so lifelike that when Richard's eyes fell on it, he suddenly felt that the statue seemed to come to life, and his eyes rolled and his gaze fell on him! Richard's consciousness immediately buzzed, as if he had been hit by a hammer, and immediately crumbled.

Quicksand immediately blessed Richard with a soul guard, and Bamore took a few steps to block Richard, and Weng Sheng said: "Great anvil, standing in front of you is not an enemy of the dwarves, but a friend!

On the high platform is the statue of Doro Anvil, who founded the Crucible. As if receiving Bamore's words, Richard felt the weight of his soul slowly disappear. However, only a statue with a trace of a soul attached to it was erected here, and the real temple was still deeper underground.

"It's all right, Richard!" Barmore grabbed Richard's hand apologetically and shook it vigorously. Then he pointed to the statue of Doro Anvil and said, "My friend, you see, the forging hammer in the hand of the great Doro Anvil and the anvil in front of him are the artifacts he used in those days, and they have incredible power. Whenever we get rare materials in our Crucible Kingdom and are ready to craft a legendary item, we need to use them to succeed. Over the centuries, at least ten legendary items have been born on that anvil!"

Richard's gaze fell on the hammer and anvil, and this time he looked closely, and he could see the obscure fluctuations of power on the two artifacts. Richard's heart moved, and he asked, "Your Majesty, these two artifacts should require very strong strength and superb forging skills to use. Are there any masters in the kingdom who can fully exert their power?"

Barmore proudly replied, "Of course there is! And there is more than one." In addition to me, the Elder Crushed Stone, who was in charge of forging, was also able to fully exert their power. ”

Richard was overjoyed, and said, "This is wonderful! I have a rare shadow diamond in my hand, and I am trying to set it in something, but I cannot find a master who can work with it." I think you or the Elder of Broken Rock should be able to set it. ”

Bamore's face turned stern and he said, "Shadow Diamond? But since that's your request, then Broken Rock and I can try our best. ”

Metal and inlays have always been the areas where master blacksmiths, especially dwarven blacksmiths, excel. For most of the next half month, except for a few forbidden places that he could not enter, Richard traveled all over Forge. During this time, Barmore and Shatterstone barely slept, using the artifacts left behind by the anvil several times, and finally succeeded in setting the two shadow diamonds that Richard and Quicksand had taken out on a silver metal box. This box is only the size of a brick, with a black base and silver edges, and is beautifully crafted. It is made of the finest forged obsidian iron throughout, mixed with a large amount of Mithril, and even spares no effort to make the Mithril base and components. This makes the chest extremely sturdy and at the same time has an excellent magical affinity. Two shadow diamonds are set at the bottom of the box, perfectly set and almost integrated into the entire box.