Chapter 692: Exiled Dwarven Kingdom
"The story of the wandering dwarven king of Tashayama is not heard of by all of Feron, but I am afraid that there are not many of them, and it has been more than three and a half centuries since they were driven out of the mines of their homeland, Tasyama, and their dream of restoration is only getting farther and farther away." Ms. Goseer knows everything about Jiharim.
Because the Tayser Yama Mine is so famous.
The Kingdom of Taysyama was once known as the Light of the Dwarves of the North, and the Great Rift Valley of the Golden Dwarf Kingdom of the Char Plains in the south is on the continent of Faeron.
The reason why this place is famous is not because there are as many dwarves living here as there are in the Great Rift Valley, but because it has the largest pure gold mine and the highest quality iron ore in the continent of Faeron, and at its peak, it and the Secret Silver Hall of the Northland controlled more than half of Faeron's Adamantite Mithril output, and the iron ore they produced accounted for half of the total use of the Santarin, Cormier, Vale and Sambia Kingdoms.
The fall of the Kingdom of Tasyama was not only a loss for the dwarves, but also a loss for the surrounding intelligent races.
Gavin, who had been in the Santarin Society for ten years in his previous life, had been exposed to some secrets that were not known to outsiders, and the fall of the Tayser Ama Kingdom was not as simple as being captured by monster forces.
At that time, the kingdom of Taisyama was very powerful, which was very detrimental to the rise of the Santarim Society, because this mine was located at the northern end of the Mokou Mountains, and the influence radiation power included the Dagger Valley, the Shadow Valley, the Misty Valley and part of the Moon Sea region, and most importantly, they blocked the way of the Santalim Society to enter the Enooc Desert, and refused to go along with the dark intelligence network.
After the fall of the Taysyama Kingdom, the Santarim Society immediately entered a period of rapid development, not only with sufficient wealth, but also in the Enoch Desert to expand the black road, across the entire Great Sand Sea, connecting the east and west ends of the desert, with this unique trade route, the Santarin Society completed the mid-term rise, so that more merchants joined this dark intelligence network, and in just a few decades, it grew into a tyrant organization that ruled the entire Moon Sea region.
Many things cannot be seen on the surface, but on the final winners, even if they are not behind the scenes, they cannot get out of it.
And the Santarim Society is the biggest beneficiary after the fall of the Taysyama Kingdom, but it is the monster army that destroyed this country, and since then, it has been nameless, just firmly entrenched in that huge underground kingdom, preventing their original owners from retaking it, no matter how it sounds, it sounds like being controlled by a tool.
"Anything is possible." Gavin's smile on his face at night was so meaningful.
Lady Gother felt that she had been struck by lightning, and a crazy thought spread wildly in his mind, and she couldn't help but lower her voice: "You came here this time, you don't want to sell the dream of restoration to these dwarves, right?" ”
The more I think about it, the more I feel that it is possible, which is very suitable for the other party's style of acting, and also for the god behind him.
"They already have the dream of recovering the country, so why do you need me to sell it? I just have some business to do with these dwarves. "This time Gavin didn't admit it directly, because there are more things involved, especially related to the Santarin Society, the fewer people who know a lot of things, the better, guessing is one thing, and admitting it in person is another.
"I see." Gose's mother is also a human spirit, and she understands it and doesn't continue to ask, and many things don't need to be said too clearly.
In the world, there are so many dwarves, and Gavin is not looking for anything else, but the exiled dwarven king who is looking for Tayser Ama for thousands of miles, isn't that the biggest problem?
Thundered!
Not far away, the gates of the manor fortress opened, and a group of sturdy figures walked out of it with unquenchable torches, walking slowly and heavily, for they were all heavily armoured, and from a distance, they looked like round iron barrels.
Dwarves are also one of the several intelligent races of Faeron, and like elves and gnomes, they are also long-lived species, with a lifespan of up to four or five centuries.
Elves are known as the sons of the forest, dwarves are known as the sons of the earth, and the legends about the dwarves can be said to be ubiquitous, not only because their footsteps are all over Faerun, but also because they have the top forging technology of Faeron.
Their personalities are also like stubborn stones, smelly and hard, and their philosophy of life lacks flexibility, and the nine cows can't pull back what they believe, which is a lingering racial label for dwarves.
Their castle fortresses, either deep in the mountains or underground, are usually associated with various pits and veins, and because of their collective life, few dwarves go out on adventures, and such beings are either outcasts of the clan or have the unique tasks of the clan.
As a result, there are not many opportunities to encounter dwarves in human cities, and when they do, they are usually the best blacksmiths in the area, with their own blacksmiths.
The dwarves resemble their namesake, and are short-looking humans, usually between 1.2 and 1.4 meters, but no one will ever confuse him with humans or gnomes.
Because dwarves have innate muscles, both men and women, their arms are as thick as their thighs, and as thick as they are from top to bottom, they lack vertical development, but they have an absolute advantage horizontally, and an adult dwarf of 1.3 meters usually weighs as much as a human adult of 1.8 meters - in this case, normal body size, not obesity or thinness.
All the dwarves' love for beards, even on the sharp axes in their hands, is integrated into their aesthetics, and it is said that the first thing dwarves see when choosing a mate is the beard.
A beardless dwarf is a very strange thing, and forcibly shaving off a dwarf's beard is the greatest humiliation for him, and this humiliation can only be washed away by blood.
At the forefront was a very standard dwarf, thick and strong, with no hair on his head, shining in the light of the inextinguishable torches, but with a thick beard, which dragged down to his stomach, these beards were carefully groomed, divided into five bundles, and tied with a large number of beard rings, but the traces of time could not be hidden, his beard was completely white, and his forehead was full of wrinkles, as if carved with a carving knife, deep enough to kill flies.
Just like most long-lived species, they stay in the youth and middle-aged stage for a long time, and the young stage is only slightly longer than that of humans, but the aging period is as short as that of humans, and when the aging characteristics are shown in them, it means that they are very old.
This is the case with the old dwarf in front of him, he is now like a ninety human old man, if Gavin is not mistaken, he only has ten years left to live, and he will die, for this kind of death, not to mention the resurrection of priests, there is no way to resurrect, even if the gods come in person, because this means that he has completed the reincarnation of this life, no matter how much entanglement, how much resentment, how much regret he has in life, it no longer has anything to do with him, and he must enter the kingdom of God or enter the cycle of life.
This person is none other than the last dwarven king of the Tashayama Kingdom, the son of Glarion, the wandering dwarf king, and the patriarch of the Iron Clan, Giharin, who is also one of the top blacksmiths in all of Faeron.
"General Gavin, the stars and moon I hope you are looking forward to are almost gone, good, good, good, the general is even more extraordinary than I imagined, come, come, come, hurry up inside, please." As soon as Giharin grabbed Gavin's hand, enthusiasm was about to flow down his face, and people who didn't know it thought that the two were old friends who hadn't seen each other for many years, and in his body, he couldn't feel the coldness and stubbornness of the dwarf at all.
Gavin and Giharin did meet for the first time, but the correspondence had begun months earlier, after Gavin had acquired a batch of Adamantite.
It's just that the letter at that time was like a stone sinking into the sea, and there was no response directly, and I don't know if the other party didn't receive it? still didn't take Gavin's hairy boy in his eyes at all.
I believe that the latter is more likely, after all, Gavin at that time was at best well-known in the rocks and valleys, and it was really unqualified to talk to Jiharin.
Although he was an exiled king who had lost his country's territory, his emaciated camel was bigger than a horse, and there were still thousands of dwarves loyal to him, and he would have raised an army at any time he wanted, and in 1364, five years later, the Iron Clan launched a counterattack against the Taysyama mines, forming an army of dwarves called the Legion of the Secret Silver in an attempt to reclaim his homeland, but unfortunately failed.
After that, the Iron Clan never launched any effective conquest against the Tayseyama Mine, and until the Arcane Catastrophe came, there was no such opportunity, because the Tayyamar Mine, along with most of the Mokou Mountains, was directly wiped out from the continent of Feren.
Even if he doesn't have this identity, he is also a legendary blacksmith, and the powerful and adventurers who want to visit him every day and entrust him to help him build equipment can break the threshold of his house, and it is impossible for him to meet them one by one, let alone this kind of letter, which is why Gavin knew his location for a long time, but did not visit rashly, people like him will not bend their waist for money, unless you are strong enough or powerful enough to let him see another possibility - to help him restore his country.
Clearly, Gavin was qualified to do so, and by the time he received Giharim's reply, Gavin had already led the army of conquerors to the shores of the Dragon.
This time, it was Gavin's turn not to be in a hurry, and he just kept the correspondence going, but he didn't come to visit for a long time.
Since the other party takes a fancy to his power, it is not too late to use the power in his hand to give birth to it to the extreme, and this delay is a month.
This month has not been in vain, if he had come a month ago, he would definitely not have enjoyed the current courtesy.
"It's really presumptuous to visit late at night, but during the day, I need to discuss the recovery of the rocks on the side of the Imperial City, and I really can't do away with it." Gavin found a reason at random, but everyone knew it, and they didn't want to expose the relationship between the two sides to the public for the time being.
Ji Harin looked unconcerned, "The door of our True Shield Trading Company will always be open for the general, go, go, go, I've already asked people to prepare a banquet, and today we won't get drunk." ”
"The banquet is gone, we still talk about business first, the time I can stay is very limited, we have to leave in the morning." Gavin didn't come here to eat and drink.
"I didn't expect that the adults were more anxious than us dwarves." Giharin couldn't help but glance at Ms. Gosser, and the implication was obvious, what they talked about next involved a lot of secrets, was she suitable to participate?
"We need a liaison between us, and Ms. Gosher will be carrying out a series of business activities on the side of the Cormier Kingdom, and some business operations that are not suitable for us will be handed over to her." Gavin brought Ms. Gother with him for a reason.
"The general's actions are as predictable as the legend goes, and he is worthy of being the chosen person of the strategist lady." Giharin didn't say more, because after so many years of wandering, he was well aware of the inconveniences caused by his sensitive status.
Although the Cormir Kingdom accommodated them to settle in the kingdom, it was also very wary of them, at least they were not allowed to press their family manor in the city of Arabe, nor did they allow them to keep too many armed forces, and there were countless war mages watching them in the shadows.
It is believed that the matter of Gavin's visit has now been sent to King Ahsan's desk as urgent information.
After all, they used to be a kingdom, not an ordinary power organization, so they would naturally be treated very differently.
If so, he represents the power of an old kingdom that is about to pass away.
Then, the young man in front of him represents an emerging, vigorous and energetic new force.
When the old and the new began to meet, it was not only Jiharim who trembled in their hearts, but also those competitors of the conquerors in the rocks.
In addition to the stubborn temperament of the dwarves, they are also known for their straightforwardness, he doesn't care if you are humble or not, since you say you don't need it, then he treats you as if you don't need it, and he won't give in a second time at all.
The same is true of Giharin, who led Gavin and Lady Gother directly into the depths of the manor's fortress, deep into the main hall underground, and after taking his seat, the wandering dwarf king pinched his gray beard and said, "Before we officially begin, I want to see the general's alchemy. ”
"Yes!" Gavin replied cheerfully.
Giharin clapped his hands, "Come in!" ”
Hearing this, the three dwarves walked in, each holding a glittering golden armor in their hands, as if printed out of a mold, exactly like the battle armor Gavin had just acquired at that time.
Pointing to the three pieces of armor, the Wandering Dwarf King explained: "This is the Adamantite Alloy Armor that I imitated according to the characteristics of the battle armor described by the General after receiving the letter from the General, but unfortunately, there is no way to reproduce 100% of the characteristics that the General said, I suspect that it is caused by faith, so I have abandoned some of the characteristics that the General said, focusing on mining the ability of the material itself, which is more convenient to cooperate with the Adamantia mentioned by the General, so they are only half-finished products now, and I want to fully tap their abilities." , you also need the general's fine gold to cooperate. ”
"The patriarch has a heart." Gavin's face was filled with joy, this was one of the purposes of his trip, to turn the precious metals he had accumulated into useful armor, but he didn't expect that this legendary blacksmith was even more powerful than he expected, and he hadn't seen the true appearance of the battle armor, and with just a few words of his letter, he could imitate it, and it was also tested with his own materials.
Gavin also knew that this was also a process of self-identification, both to prove that he was the supreme commander of the conqueror's army, the conqueror, and to prove that he was the one who corresponded with Jiharim, and there was no way to win the trust of the other party by simply introducing himself.
"As I said before, adamanticy is not my personal ability, but the ability that comes with one of my weapons, and I need to take it out." Gavin was worried that rashly taking out the war marauders would cause unnecessary misunderstandings, so he took precautions in advance.
"General, please." The Wandering Dwarf King showed plenty of self-confidence, and with only two people, even if they were full of top-notch equipment, they couldn't make waves in their manor fortress.
Gavin untied the War Marauder that hung from his waist like an ornament and controlled it to transform into a more comfortable medium warhammer state.
"Moradin's beard! Artifact! High-level artifact! ”
Jiharin jumped up and said with an incredulous screech.
High-level artifact?!
Everyone's eyes fell on the adamantite war hammer in Gavin's hand, the shock and greed in his eyes could not be concealed no matter what, every high-level artifact was a terrifying existence that could influence the situation of a war, many of Faeron's adventure legends revolved around a high-level artifact, or to prevent them from being reorganized, so that their powerful power could be used by evil forces, such as Clincinibon, that is, the shattered magic crystal, and for example, the Ciri Sutra that the god of conspiracy Shirek is making, etc.
It's just that every high-level artifact has a name and a surname, how come I've never heard of a high-level artifact with a similar shape?
But Tiharin is a legendary blacksmith, and in terms of weapons and equipment, it can be said that he stands at the pinnacle of the mundane, even if the gods want to forge some powerful and unique magic tools, they may ask him for advice and help, and he will never admit his mistake.
The wandering dwarf king couldn't help but rub his big thick hands, and asked a little embarrassedly, "Can you lend me this weapon?" ”
The moment he saw this weapon, Gavin's identity had been basically confirmed, how could a person holding a high-level artifact pretend to be someone else's identity? This also explains why Gavin the Conqueror was able to rise to the top and grow to his current level in less than a year.
"Please." Gavin happily handed over the War Marauder, because this was exactly what he wanted to do, he wanted Adamantium, but there was no need to hold the War Marauder in his hand, it would take effect just by hanging it on himself.
This naturally has a profound intention, not only to further prove one's identity, but also to prove one's strength, the stronger the strength you have, the easier and smoother it will be when you negotiate a deal with this group of dwarves in the future.
The dwarves' love trait for weapons and equipment is the best place to start.
"Wait a minute, bring water and holy oil." Ghishalin commanded again in a loud voice.
(End of chapter)