587. Dwarves and Hammers (3000 words)
The Tower of Purity is 100 floors high, the lower floors belong to the public space, and the upper floors are exclusive to the legends, and many of the Emperor's closest relatives and high-ranking disciples have exclusive rooms and even floors in the tower.
Sherman, as a legendary dwarf, has no interest in building his own magic tower, except for the Forge Hall of the Salt Iron Division, which strikes iron in the rooms of the Tower of Purity.
Ben Kaul led Rand to the door of Sherman's room, but the high-ranking dwarf Rozin Iron stopped him.
The dwarf's face was full of sincerity, and he spoke very politely: "Lord Rand, Your Excellency has been very busy lately, and he has an important order forging, so he really doesn't have the energy to receive you. Rand, who was shut up, was not angry, he smiled and said to the high-ranking dwarf: "My lord, I know that the last accident in the furnace hall was caused by someone behind the back of His Excellency Sherman, whether it was Your Excellency or the Salt and Iron Division, they were all victims. I'm here to talk to you about something else, and I'd like you to let you know. The high-ranking dwarf looked at Rand's expression and understood that he was not here to go through the old accounts, so he reluctantly entered the gate, and only came out after half an hour to come out and reply: "My lord, my teacher agrees that you will go in, but he is indeed striking iron, and the temperature of his blacksmith furnace is too high, you may not be able to eat it, otherwise you can tell him outside the room?" ”
"Absolutely!" Rand nodded. Sherman's room is very large, and there are about 3-4 floors up and down, and Rand feels that it may be because of Sherman's ethnicity, dividing the 2 10-meter-high floors into 3 floors.
The top floor is a rest area, a restaurant, a bar, a reception room, etc., the second floor is a study, a cultivation room, a storage room, a wine storage room, and the third floor is a forging room, a workshop, and a material warehouse.
According to Rozin, on the third floor there is a door that is constant to one of the doors in the Salt Iron Division building, allowing Sherman to move between the two buildings.
When he arrived at the door of the forging room on the third floor, Rozin didn't let Rand go in again, so he could only wait at the door to talk to the house, and as for whether Sherman could hear it, it could only depend on luck.
The sound of striking iron came from the room, and each sound was full of power.
"Your Excellency Sherman, I'm Rand Galloping Horse, and it's so presumptuous not to report before I came this time!" Rand began with an apology.
"Rand, you're so kind!" The dwarf in the room replied, and his voice was mixed with the sound of the iron bell,
"I've been too busy here lately, Your Majesty asked me to make something, I really don't have time to see you! If you want to talk about the magic furnace order, you can talk to Luo Jin! Seeing that the dwarf was so perfunctory, Ben Kaul smiled and said: "Lanter, I advise you not to bother, Lord Sherman is a real man, if he doesn't want to see you, he definitely doesn't want to cause trouble, absolutely nothing else." Ben's words didn't elicit any response from Sherman, and behind the door of the forge room, there was still the sound of striking iron.
After listening to the legend's words, Rand probably understood that the dwarf didn't want to see him, I am afraid that it was not only a problem of the failure of the installation of the magic furnace last time, but also the concerns of various factional struggles.
"Your Excellency Sherman, I'm really just here to talk about business, although the search for the leylines in the industrial area was not smooth before, but we want to purchase some equipment for the Salt and Iron Division, and we also hope to customize a batch of salt cooking cauldrons from here." As soon as Rand finished speaking, Sherman stopped doing it, and said impatiently, "What are you doing when I am a salt and iron division, your blacksmith shop?" Our Salt and Iron Division is the official institution of the empire, directly under the leadership of His Majesty the God Emperor, if you want to buy equipment and cauldrons, who should you go to! ”
"Don't be Master," Rand smiled, taking out a delicate box from the spatial ring,
"I'm here for you, when I saw Queen Tania two days ago, I specifically said that His Excellency Sherman especially supports our Night Kir City, and I also asked him to make a ...... for you."
The word "hammer", Rand barely pronounces it, but only lip-shapes.
After a loud "clang", the inside of the forge room fell silent, followed by the sound of heavy footsteps, which were especially slow, and the higher you entered the door, the slower it became.
The huge dwarf appeared at the door of the forge room, looked at Rand in a daze, pointed to the box and asked, "......What did you just say?"
"That's right!"
"This dwarf can hear everything!" Rand, who was secretly happy in his heart, opened the lid of the box, and it was the hammer that Tenia had transformed.
Sherman took a big step in front of Rand, his eyes fixed on the hammer, and was about to touch it, when he suddenly stopped.
"Rozin!" Sherman roared.
"Yes, master!" The high-ranking dwarf quickly responded. At this moment, Rozin Iron's eyes were also focused on the vicinity of the magic hammer, the dwarven clan's barrier to the magic net came from the bloodline, and all the artifacts that could make them close to the magic net would fascinate them.
If Sherman hadn't been here, maybe this Rozin would have reached out.
"I can't just get a gift from His Majesty Tenya," Sherman twisted his head towards Rozin and ordered, "Rozin hurry up and prepare hot water and aromatherapy, and bring my dress"
"Yes, Master"
"And call Sir Lawrence, we have business to talk to the Marquis of Rand!" Sherman said as he ran upstairs, referring to Lawrence Bernard as the permanent secretary of the Salt and Iron Division.
Seeing Sherman rushing upstairs, he said sourly: "You kid, what's wrong with learning from nobles, you have to learn to give gifts to dwarves!" ”…… Half an hour later, Rozin took Rand and Ben Kaul to the legendary lover's parlor with Alexei and Lawrence Bernard.
Looking at the hammer Rand was holding, Ben and Alexei began to taunt each other in turn. Alexei smiled and said, "Count Lante, you sent the creation of the Queen of the Demon Net to His Excellency Sherman today, I am afraid that tomorrow the legend of the entire dwarf race will arrive at the gate of Night Qi City!" ”
"That's right, if you don't know the various departments of the imperial capital, they will also take turns looking for you to ask for it!" Ben is not to be outdone.
"Your Excellency, allow me to correct you, the lords of the Prancing Horse Plains have come to regain their foothold in their homeland. His willingness to work directly with the Imperial Salt and Iron Division and bring peace and prosperity to the entire region is nothing more than a symbol of our cooperation," said Lawrence Bernard.
"Yes, Sir!" Rand was very cooperative with the permanent secretary's serious nonsense, and Sherman, who had changed into a bright red and gold decorative dress, finally appeared at the door of the meeting room, the large shawl with magic runes would float gently as soon as it moved, the braid on the dwarf's head was lost again, the golden beard on his chin fell to the ground, and the six-meter-like boulder-like figure looked like a fire truck from a distance.
Under everyone's gaze, the dwarf solemnly walked up to Rand and took a deep breath before taking the hammer.
......The moment he grasped the handle of the hammer, Sherman's body suddenly seemed to be about to burn, a large number of magic patterns on his body burst into golden light, and the dwarf's eyes, nose, and mouth were all emitting a light rich in magic.
"It's not going to be a sudden collapse." Ben Kaul muttered a sentence of rolling tears from his face, and two white plumes evaporated in the golden light, and it took a long time for a sentence to pop out: "So this is what it feels like to be connected to the magic web." ”
"Let me see what's different about this magic......," muttered to the dwarf as he prepared to move to his forge room.
At this time, Lawrence Bernard spoke moderately: "Your Excellency, should we first finalize the content of the cooperation with the Galloping Horse Plains?" ”
"You're right," the dwarf nodded, and said to Rand,
"You come with me." Watching Sherman take Rand to his office, Ben Kaul asked Alexei, "How much blood do you think this dwarf will produce?" ”…… In his office, Sherman found a large stack of drawings, placed the hammer on the table, and did not want to leave it for a moment with his left hand, and said to Rand with his right hand as he flipped through it.
"The Galloping Horse Plain is a good place, surrounded by mountains, for example, there are salt mines and leylines in the easternmost part of the plain, and there are actually coal mines and coal crystal mines in the mountains to the north, since the ebb and flow of the goblin civilization, coal crystal mines have become cheap ores that will be broken after storing energy once, but in the goblin era, these coal crystal mines can be turned into real magic energy storage crystals through the magic circle, but no matter whether dwarves, elves or humans will not do it now" When it comes to exploration and minerals, dwarves are much more reliable, The map in his hand was marked with dense marks, and his short and thick fingers could tell a mineral information on each side of a mark.
The northernmost part of your Night Qi City is the Blue Moon Lake, and there are large swaths of cryolite at the bottom of the Moon Lake, which can store a huge amount of ice-based magic.
On the west side of the Iowa Pass, there is a remnant of a huge leyline on the southern slope, with magma more than 200 meters underground, and hot springs and flame ore upwards.
About 5-10 kilometers to the north, there is also a gem mine, and about 50 kilometers to the north, there is a silver vein, which, according to the distribution of the leylines, must be accompanied by mythril. "From north to south, from east to west, after reading the map of the entire plain, as well as the local geological map of each vein, when the dwarf took the rand to thoroughly comb through the mineral resources, it was time to talk about sharing the spoils.
"Lord Earl, what are you going to do with these minerals in the future?" Lan said without hesitation: "Since you explored it back then, of course I will directly do business with the Imperial Capital Salt and Iron Division!" ”
"Good! Joyfully! "The dwarves are very satisfied, although they covet Rand's artifact, but Sherman, as the chief of the Salt and Iron Division of the Empire, really values being able to cross the agents of the Dragon Kingdom and trade directly with the masters on the Prancing Horse Plains, so as to ensure that the Blue Dragon Family will not occupy too much share.
"Rozin!" Hearing Sherman's words, Rozin hurried in, and the dwarf threw out a golden medallion and said casually: "You take my token and take Count Rand to the warehouse, he can do whatever he wants, no problem if he wants!" It was the first time Rand and Rozin had heard Sherman be so bold about something other than drinking, and it was a bit of a surprise to both of them.
Luo Jin looked at the legend, then at Rand, and said with some embarrassment: "Teacher, that is the warehouse of the Salt and Iron Division." The legend picked up the hammer nonchalantly, touched the hammer head, and said: "What is that, with this hammer, I won't be able to make those rags in 3 days" Luo Jin nodded and asked more: "Okay, then are you going to the forge room at night?" ”
"What kind of forging room to go, I'm going to find the High King, I want him to know what the real legendary weapon is" got the new toy and was about to show off, hoping that the legends of the imperial capital would not feel ashamed, and when Rand left the office, he wished the dwarf a happy return home.