Chapter 628: Old and New Residents
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"The shelter we can provide to you is certainly much better than what you have here, spacious enough, not cold, and the food can be supplied to you indefinitely, enough for you to eat three meals a day, I just need you to change places. "This old guy's ability is good, the mental barrier is enough to block the invasion of his spiritual tentacles, although Edward can also forcibly exert pressure, but the other party's attitude is surprisingly gentle, and there is no stupid way to try to resist, so Edward is a little less irritable in his heart.
Slightly raised his hand to interrupt him, and he was upset and gave a tolerant enough condition: "You can leave through the portal, the place I gave you is close to the surface, you don't have to worry about any enemy invasion, as for the veins of this place, it will be contacted by the portal, so you can also mine as much as you like in the future." ”
"This condition is indeed generous enough, but we don't even know who you are, how can we trust you? You don't think we can let people we don't know each other take what they want, do you?"
"It's okay to be my subject. The Psychic Warlock snapped.
The spatial gap in this place is likely to be some kind of heritage of the ancient magic kingdom - the multi-directional space door built with the help of the natural spatial gap does not look like this group of newcomers and sparse number of gnomes can accomplish it.
With the help of this gap in space, he could move his goods, soldiers, or whatever he wanted—he still had a shipment of arms to deliver
Although he consumed divine energy, he should be able to open up new spatial gaps out of thin air, but the difficulty of building it himself would definitely be very high, and maybe he would not be able to open up a portal half the size of the door here after exhausting the divine energy at hand. Where is there such a straightforward way to transform it?
So, this group of gnomes must not stay here, and Edward has no interest in making a bunch of unwarranted guys to put near important facilities. The structure of the space magic communication plane is very fragile, and the results after failure are extremely terrifying, with a slight difference cuò, and the fatal consequences are all light. Leaving behind these half-toned gnomes, if one day these gnomes are bewitched or coerced, and then there is a rebellion or something, Edward is not interested in playing any dimensional space adventure-
Plus, there's the ancient magic city.
Although half of it was destroyed in a duel with two gods, it should still be of some use - not to mention the magic items that might still be left inside. Even if the half-old ancient city were to be put in order, it could at least become a shelter that could accommodate tens of thousands of people, of course, for Edward now, it may not be needed, but it can be used when he is busy. If you are prepared, you will be safe.
"Be your people, what are you kidding, why should we listen to you?" After a brief silence, several of the dwarf elders cried out almost simultaneously.
"You guy. Is it a madman?"
"Why are we going near the surface? What minerals are there?"
The dwarf elder named Hollow Roots slammed his fist on the table. He glared at Edward and spat out a series of aggressive questions: "Besides, why do you provide us with food? Why do we want you cunning and greedy humans to provide food? Isn't that equivalent to giving you the power of life and death of hundreds of people in the city to you?"
"Idiot!"
Glancing at the indifferent face of the telemagician beside her, Dahni sneered and took the initiative to take over the negotiation: ". Do you think, do you think that now your power of life and death is not in our hands? Believe it or not, I will call in hundreds of drow warriors with a single teleportation technique to trample down this small city of yours?"
"You!" the dwarf was furious, but opened his mouth. But he paused halfway through.
Drow's words undoubtedly hit their weakness right - such a portal to the dark region is definitely a battleground between elves and drow, no matter which side can let the enemy get so close to them, and sandwiched between drow and elves, the gnomes are destined to become a bridgehead between the two forces.
In fact, if it were a normal time, the gnomes would not choose such a dangerous place to build a city, but who let there be a large gem vein nearby? It is a large associated vein, not only high-quality sapphires, zircon, but also a lot of magic crystals, topaz and some rare gems, even in the dark region, such a large mine is once in a hundred years.
What could be more appealing to a dwarf than a gemstone?
Since it is inevitable to choose to build a city here, then it is impossible to be safer anywhere around than this portal, and the gnomes simply took advantage of the convenience of the portal to bring in some reinforcements from the surface elves as much as possible, and worked hard to expand the scale of the city, and even human mercenaries and the like were put into the city, hoping to build this place into the largest force nearby.
Their original plan was to expand this place as much as possible within a few months, as long as they could resist the attack of foreign forces, then the Drow should not be rash, after all, having a portal also means endless surface reinforcements, and it is impossible for the Drow to attack such a strong fortress with all their might.
But now, the city has not yet been built, and if the news spreads, it is absolutely impossible for the drows to let this hidden danger exist around them, according to the character of the drows.
"Well, if you're not idiots, you're going to open a city in a place like this? a portal to the surface, and something near the city of the elves, you think it's something you dwarfs can control?"
As her eyes wandered, noticing a hint of approval in the Psychmancer's eyes, Dahni narrowed her eyes and excitedly stuck out the tip of her tongue and licked the corners of her red lips.
Once upon a time, the priestess seemed to have become accustomed to this—when she was around the man, if she didn't need to be vigilant, all her attention was fixed on him, looking for an opportunity to express herself, as she did now. But in front of a being who can slaughter gods, such an opportunity is undoubtedly very difficult to find. That's why the priestess was so excited.
But she was full of charm, but she would not hide the colder voice: "Only with strength can you enjoy life, otherwise, death will enjoy you." ”
Drow's proverb caused the dwarf elder named Empty Tree Root to raise an eyebrow, and he couldn't help but reach out and touch the war hammer at his waist, but his hand was immediately grabbed by the purple-robed elder.
There was a terrible hissing sound that caused the dwarf to turn his head in shock, and then he couldn't help but freeze as he watched six hideous constructed snakeheads stretch out from under the drow priestess's cloak. The kind of sharp scream that came out to everyone also made everyone's pupils shrink and their bodies stiffen slightly.
Six snake whips?
The snake whip symbolizes the divine level of the Drow priest, and the Drow priest who can possess six snake whips is not comparable to the combat power of ordinary warriors - the women of Drow are favored by Rose. Even without using divine arts, the melee ability is not inferior to that of a warrior. And inject this side. Because it was just a meeting, several elders were not wearing armor, and the kind of snake whip that could automatically find a target was waved in such a narrow space, and they had to be asked for a few bites!
The snake whip is not a real living thing, but the venom produced in each snake head is more terrible than most poisons. Even the Drow warriors couldn't stand it, let alone the half-aged ones!
Kill him together?
Can it be done?
It's hard, it looks like they're amazing.
Try it, we have twice as many as them.
There are no fighters. Or do you want to delay the time!Secretly inform the followers and elves of Elistrad?
Several gnomes glanced at each other, and the elders gathered here, hundreds of years old, did not need to talk, their thoughts and information had already been transmitted in their eyes.
The Psychic Warlock smiled coldly. The dwarf, who seemed to unconsciously retreat into the hands of the dwarf behind everyone, burst into a faint colored light, although he had tried his best to hide his movements with the help of his companions, but the fluctuations of magic power could not be concealed from the eyes of the psychic warlock.
"You are a human lord, but what do we have to pay to become your lord?"
After doing this, Eddie, as the Great Elder, spoke, he slowed his voice, and several elders retreated according to his eyes: "There are two thousand three hundred inhabitants in the city of Graz, of which more than half are gnomes, and we will not need less food than the drows......
"You have 30,000 in Burgundy now, oh, there are almost 50,000 of your lords now, and you thousands of dwarfs can't be fed?
Miss Half-Elf casually interrupted his nonsense - these old guys looked quite funny with their childlike appearances, but it was unforgivable for delaying Miss Half-Elf's meal time in a wordy manner!"As for paying, you just need to pay taxes!"
"How much?"
"People in the city pay taxes on a quarter of the harvest, but you don't look like you can farm or build houses......"
Rolling her eyes, Miss Half-Elf suddenly grabbed an idea that sounded good: "I don't look like you don't look like you can farm, so let's use handicrafts to make up, we provide gemstones, you are responsible for grinding and making them, and everyone can symbolically hand over a few finished products every month!"
The corners of the Psychmancer's mouth curled silently.
It's hard to think of this in the little head of the 'Miss Eat, Sleep and Play' - in fact, this is also the direction of his thinking, for the dwarf, the work of polishing gems is almost the same as the craft of a human farmer weaving wicker baskets in his spare time, a dwarf can make a dozen or dozens of pieces if he goes all out in a month, and let them pay a few pieces as a tax burden, which is not a problem in their opinion.
However, in the surface world, the gemstone ornaments made by the gnomes are not comparable to baskets and other things—as long as they are hung up on this name, a piece of jewelry can be sold for two or three times the price of the rough stone! It is not a low-cost inferior product, but a high-end luxury product, and the huge profits generated are simply terrible! What's more, Edward also has a special channel to exchange the rough and other minerals from the dark region at a cheaper price?
"Inside the city, but we don't like to ...... with humans."
"Didn't you just say that the main body of the city is human beings, and it is built on the surface, but the place where you live is underground, and the space can be completely out of your small ruined city, and the houses and the like are provided for free, and you can build them if you want. And there are no enemies there, drow gray dwarves or anything else, and humans won't rob you of your things, or ores...... We have ore that has been gathered from all sides of the guò and can be handed over to you for processing. ”
"What good gem ore can humans have? It's all garbage from those above-ground layers......
"Didn't you say that the portal is left to allow you to come back to this neighborhood to mine?"
The two girls said a word to me, and in a few words, they called back the reasons one by one, so that several dwarf elders looked at each other, they thought that they could delay the time as much as possible to wait for rescue, but after a few questions. But they seemed to have finalized all the details, and for a while there was nothing to say!
"But it's too long to move from here to the surface......" Eventually, the Grand Elder named Eddie coughed and spoke, "And." Your territory must be quite far from the exit from the ground, right? We don't have much food in the city right now. It is impossible to withstand the long journey. ”
"You have a way to tell everyone in the city? Take all your possessions and assemble near the portal, and I'll use the portal to communicate directly with the territory and get you there. ”
"Huh?"
The black-robed human spoke again, and the unrefutable toughness in his tone startled the gnomes again.
Although the offer of this human is indeed tempting, they cannot really agree to it—the dwarf has a long life. More than twice as high as humans, how could these elders believe such unfounded empty words? What's more, the dwarfs are not practicing such a big thing as the human emperor system or militarized management methods. Even if the Council of Elders had made a decision, the civilians would still have objected.
But now, where is their retreat?
"I don't force you to go, except for you, those who don't want to leave can stay, but what problems they encounter next, it's their own choice. ”
Edward's calm tone made the grumpy dwarf elder open his mouth again, and it seemed that he wanted to ask "What can I meet?", but his lips opened and closed, and finally he didn't say anything.
There's no need for him to ask.
I didn't see any movement from the psychic warlock, and there were two muffled grunts at the door behind him...... The two drow elven warriors swooped out of the void without a sound, but they fell headlong to the ground and fell silent. Then, a bright blue light flashed, and a piercing crackling sound filled the aisle, and a dozen screams were in unison, but the noise was extremely short, but after a breath, there was silence!
But the human being, as if there was no such thing, stretched out a hand and pressed it weakly, and the thick cave wall of the council hall parted to both sides like a living thing, silently turning into a wide walkway that led to the street outside.
The gnomes looked at each other, and for a moment they all saw their own frightened faces in each other's eyes.
Although they didn't see it, they could hear the screams in the aisle clearly—there were at least ten or more people, who should have been the last armed force left in the city by Elisetri's followers, and one of the targets they asked for help. But judging by the silence without a groan, it was clear that the men were all dead.
And this qiē was born in an instant, without the glow of the spell or magic, as if it had nothing to do with the person in front of him. Only the passage that silently pierced through the thirty-foot wall seemed to be a clue to the reason for this qiē.
The power of this human being is by no means comparable to that of his own people.
If these befall you, then can you resist them?
This question is like a cold long sword, piercing straight into everyone's heart. Completely smash their little courage!
Therefore, it did not take too long to gather the gnomes in the city.
The gnome elders didn't actually make any announcement, and when they walked out of the council hall, the order had been passed out by a dozen gnomes, and more than a thousand gnomes in the six tunnels had gathered, and it was only after two hourglass scales, and even some of them had already taken all their belongings with them
- The dwarfs have never been very attentive to their belongings, and the poorest of them have only a pickaxe, a few clothes, and most importantly, precious stones, and all that is left is the miscellaneous goods for food and water.
And when the plane of space twisted in front of the portal, and another scene had been transformed in an instant, the last bit of resistance also disappeared.
Bathed in the dazzling and warm sunlight on the other side of the portal, several elders were surprised, and they couldn't help but secretly rejoice in their hearts that they didn't really have any dirt with the other party - that black-robed human being was able to arbitrarily change the destination of the spatial gap!
Although there are three or four of the several dwarf elders who have studied magic, with their highest magical attainments that have touched the six-ring magic net, let alone change...... They can't even be sure whether this kind of thing itself exists or not!
Criticism of the dwarfs trembling (to be continued......)