Chapter 708: The hidden danger lurking in Colossus City
In this regard, it turned out that it was Giharin, who was known for his stubbornness, that broke the deadlock and directly shifted the topic to what they were good at: "We have found the production method of the Heart of the Mountains, I will take this work, we will restore it according to the ancient method, forge its auxiliary materials, and completely come from our Iron Clan." ”
"I don't know what the patriarch wants?" There is no free lunch in the world, and since the other party has offered such generous conditions, he must have something to ask for.
"Pre-emptive right to purchase recycled rings." No one can refuse a regeneration ring, not even the legendary blacksmith Giharim.
This ring, which has super regenerative and healing powers, is a perfect match for their dwarven heavy armor warriors.
They will become the strongest rocks on the battlefield, unable to kick or crush, dragging the enemy to death.
"The right of first refusal can be given, but I don't want money, I want equipment, a lot of good equipment." The other party also had what Gavin wanted in his hand.
In order to restore the country, the Iron Clan will definitely hoard a large amount of equipment, and it is the best kind, and it will not be easily sold for sale.
Don't say it's empty white teeth, even if you take money, the other party won't sell it.
It's like you can't buy recycled rings in your own hands with money, because they are not only commodities, but also a bargaining chip.
"Yes." Giharin nodded without hesitation and said, "I will take as many regeneration rings as you take, and I will take as many fine equipment as you want, from high-quality to +3 magic equipment, you can choose." ”
Gavin met a wealthy master today, who had just communicated with his ring processor, and he should have a little bit of a clue about how many recycled rings he had mastered.
As a result, the other party directly showed the posture that he could eat it all.
In other words, the other party has at least more than 20 million worth of sophisticated equipment, and it may even be several times, after all, the other party is a country first, and then a trading company, and must keep enough inventory for itself.
"Okay, let's settle this matter, and we'll talk about it in detail after I count the list of equipment we need." Gavin now has more troops at his disposal and must consider which armies to equip first.
Gavin took the vaccination in advance and said: "Some of my army has a special composition, can you provide tailor-made services?" ”
"Yes, but it requires lead times."
"It's nature."
"The forging of the heart of the mountains needs to be carried out in the statue city, there is a sealed dark region tunnel that you have not yet discovered, you can go straight down to the center of the earth, the last forging was carried out here, if you want to repair it 100%, you have to go back to the old way, I suspect, it needs to be combined with the special laws here."
What Jiharin made was not so much a request as a suggestion.
The implication is obvious, even if Gavin doesn't agree, the Heart of the Mountains can be repaired, but there is a flaw in his ability, but it is none of his business.
"Why was that Dark Realm Tunnel sealed?" Gavin instantly grasped the point.
In Faerun, sealing is not a good word.
Whenever this word is used, it means trouble, a lot of trouble.
Because the parties have no way to solve this trouble, they can only delay the time through this method and leave it to future generations to solve.
This is the case with the Ancient Evil Beast Demon Realm faced by the Spring Bud Forest.
Can it be less troublesome for a dwarf to build a city of dwarf statues of thousands of kilometers and only be able to adopt the sealing method?
If it was small, Patriarch Jiharin would not have to take it out solemnly.
"In the dark region below, there is the old enemy of the dwarves here, a group of fallen undead stone giants, who formed the Council of Death Chiefs, skilled in necromancy, who originally lived in the Giant Run Mountains, and were defeated by the dwarves here.
They opened the path to this place and launched an attack from underground.
The dwarves paid a great deal of casualties to seal the passage.
But they themselves inevitably fell into decline, and eventually went into decline. ”
Giharin did not hide any information from the decipherment, "Although this is thousands of years old, those are giants that have been transformed into an immortal state, and there is no way to measure them by their normal lifespan.
There's a good chance they're still underground, and once we break the seal, we'll have an undead army of giants waiting for us.
Who knows, they just hate the dwarves here? Even the successors who live in the city are hateful. ”
Sure enough, it was them.
Gavin wasn't too surprised by this, as they had this information when they had been looking for news about the trolls living here.
It's just that I didn't expect that those undead giants had directly pushed the soldiers from the ground to this dwarven city.
Gavin not only knew that those undead Golems still existed, and their forces were still very strong, but they were not very active, and under normal circumstances, they would not easily send their own undead army if they did not provoke them.
There is no way to share this message with Jiharin, after all, it is difficult to explain its origin.
"Can the patriarch break this seal?" Gavin asked.
"It's not difficult to break, but once it is broken, I don't have the ability to reseal it, and once those undead stone giants are still there, you can only find another way to face them." Giharin reminded solemnly.
"Patriarch, can you deduce the general attributes of the Heart of the Mountains after it is repaired?" Gavin had to weigh whether the magical equipment was worth the risk.
"It's not easy to say specifically, but there are two things that can be determined, one is the powerful regeneration and self-healing ability, and the other is the manipulation of soil and stone, especially things related to the mountains, I suspect that the reason why this city was built into the way it is now has a lot to do with this equipment, and it is very likely that it will affect this aspect of ability at that time, and the specific level is also difficult to determine, but it is definitely not an ordinary magic item, at least a secondary artifact."
Giharin's answer was vague and could only be inferred from the properties of the Heart of Regeneration itself, with the rest very dependent on the casting process.
Different casting processes will create different properties.
"Understood, Patriarch, you just need to prepare the materials for repairing the Heart of the Mountains, and I'll take care of the rest." Gavin already has a belly case.
If it has to do with earth and rock, it is worth taking the risk, after all, he is ready to march towards the priesthood in this area.
If you simply go down to cast, the difficulty may not be as high as you think, after all, they have a surprise and can sneak over.
The trouble is that after the seal is lifted, there may be subsequent conflicts between the two sides.
Golem is not a natural underground race, so what if they want to go back to life on the surface?
However, there is another way, which is not to lift the seal of the Colossus, but to take a detour in other directions.
Since the undead Golem can fight here, there must be a dark region leading here.
It's just that in this way, the variables of the casting team are too great, and walking through the dark region, no one knows what they will encounter in the next second?
Here, ghosts are not terrible beings.
The intelligent beings such as the Drow Elves and the Mind Flayer are the most terrifying, and once they fall into their hands, life will be worse than death.
Gavin's dislike for the Dark Regions is still above the Shadow Plane.
In the Shadow Plane, if you encounter an enemy you can't fight, you can at least run.
In the dark area, even if you can't run, you can't run into a trap, and if you are not careful, you will run headlong into a trap, this is simply a paradise of traps, natural, unnatural, magical, and biological...... There is only what you can't think of, and there is nothing that you don't have here.
All in all, Gavin's memories of the Dark Regions are all terrible, and the rare beauty is when he harvested the treasure from here.
It's just that a deal that seemed good in the previous life doesn't look good in this life.
Gavin left without waiting for the Dragon Ascending Ceremony in Colossus to end, and since this was the first time that the two sides had linked, there was a big gap on both sides.
The kobolds on this side of the Colossus lack the nourishment of the life force of the Dragon Oak Mother Tree.
The kobold on the side of the dragon oak mother tree lacks the supplement of other elements in their bodies, and their strength is also uneven, so they need to be supplemented.
Even the Dragon Oak Mother Tree, which seems to be just blindly giving, is reaping the benefits.
The soul imprints of these more than 40,000 kobolds are to be engraved on the Dragon Oak Dream, although they are very weak, not as good as the real soul, but they can't hold up the number of them, enough to harvest a little dream divinity and the power of thousands of dreams.
Absorbed through the dragon hunting ritual, the elements that those kobolds can't digest in the end will not be wasted, and will eventually be stuffed by the dragon oak mother tree and used as their own nutrients.
All in all, this dragon hunting ceremony lasted for an unexpectedly long time, more than twelve hours.
The harvest is also huge.
On the side of the dragon oak mother tree, except for those underage kobolds, all the adult kobolds have entered the dragon vein, and the proportion of dragon blood and dragon transformation is also amazing, basically reaching one-tenth of the previous type.
That is, one dragon blood out of ten dragon vein kobolds, and one dragon in ten dragon blood.
Although the Colossus City is not so extreme, the number of dragon vein kobolds also exceeds five thousand, there are more than two thousand dragon blood, and the dragonization has reached five hundred, after all, there are a large number of kobolds gathered here, and there are a lot of strong people in the original tribe.
Unlike the Dragon Oak Mother Tree, those who stayed there to take care of the family breeding were all selected from the remaining service personnel, and the original elites were all taken away.
With the newly opened spell-like abilities, they will no longer be substitutes, but will be added to the front line one after another, replacing those who need to be adjusted or who are not adaptable, which is considered an internal rotation system.
Staying in the Dragon Oak Mother Tree may seem like a blessing, but in fact, it comes in exchange for rapid growth.
The kobolds who follow Gavin to build infrastructure all over the world, many bloodline powers may not be opened, but most of the professional levels are opened, and they are not low.
When they have time, they will have an advantage in coming back and accepting Shanoba's dragon dog mutual aid, and some things will fall into place.
Gavin had already begun to arrange for Shanoba to go to Black Well, the Land of Three Rivers, a place where the Dragon Oak Mother Tree could not radiate for the time being, to open a special session for those kobolds.
There is a trip between the two places every 10 days, and it is not troublesome to transmit it.
For this task, Shanoba was too late to be happy, how could he refuse?
After returning Giharin to the kingdom of Cormyr, Gavin sent the remaining three Little Wilderness Kobolds to the Land of Three Rivers and the City of Faith, respectively.
Shanopa, a pseudo-dragonborn, has succeeded, not to mention these real half-black drakemen in Thun Swamp, and the whole process is very easy.
And Gavin's prestige here was when it was in full swing, and all those half-black dragon lizardmen obediently cooperated, and none of them dared to say anything.
The amount of dragon breath that a half-black dragon lizardman can produce is not much, and the same as their constitution adjustment value, usually four or five, but it can't withstand the large number of half-black dragon lizardmen.
The number of Dragon's Breath Tremor Bombs here is staggering, two hundred a day.
The flaw is that, like Shanoba, they have a relatively small dragon breath power, and the power of the flutter bombs produced varies from 4D8 to 8D8, and they are not even as powerful as the dragon flutter bombs produced by the Dragon Oak Mother Tree.
However, their advantage is that, in addition to dragon breath, the alchemy materials that need to be used are one-tenth of that of normal flutter bombs, which means that the cost is lower - Gavin's price for these half-black dragon lizardmen is also per 10 gold coins, not only do they not have any displeasure, but they are happy, after all, they have never made such a good money since they were born.
The low price makes them more advantageous in civilian use.
It didn't take much effort to make a deal with the lizard queen Kurgol.
This once arrogant black dragon queen has been tossed by her greedy appetite in a half-madness, and when she is summoned, the first thing is to gnaw two mouthfuls of soil first, and then say, she is not picky about eating now, as long as it is eaten.
As soon as he heard Gavin say that he would exchange food for dragon breath, he nodded and agreed without hesitation.
Her same food worth ten gold coins in exchange for a dragon's breath, although cheap, is better than nothing.
Her dragon breath is more interesting.
There are two kinds of flutter bombs produced by her, one is the black dragon strong acid dragon breath flutter bomb, the lethality is 19D8, and the other is the negative energy dragon breath flutter bomb generated by the state of the ghost dragon, this dragon breath will produce an energy absorption effect, and the creatures within the explosion range must be reflex evasion check, once it fails, it will get five negative levels, even if it succeeds, it will get half of it.
Once the creature's negative level is below zero, death on the spot is light, and it may be infused with negative energy, or transformed into zombies, or transformed into wraiths.
This kind of negative energy dragon breath tremor bomb is simply a battlefield cleaning miscellaneous soldier artifact, cannon fodder miscellaneous soldiers like goblins, one goes down, can kill a large area, and it is rare for goblins with more than five life dice.
Even in the army of conquerors, those with more than five life dice belong to the elite, the backbone of the entire army.
The Lizard Queen can produce as many as twenty-one Dragon's Breath Flutter Bombs per day, mainly producing negative energy Dragon's Breath Flutter Bombs.
Gavin wasn't going to feed the lizard queen with any good things, this guy ate purely for addiction, not just for the body, anyway, he ate everything, all kinds of rotten food and city garbage were all disposed of to her.
It's a pity that in the era of scarcity of materials, there is very little domestic garbage, and the most is biological excrement, which can be fattened, and she can't catch it, and occasionally give her some excess catches, which is the greatest mercy Gavin gives her.
After dealing with this matter, the intuitive benefits brought by the Dragon Oak Mother Tree's upgrade this time have only been dealt with, and as for the invisible benefits, it will take time to dig slowly.
All in all, the completion of the Dragon Oak Mother Tree upgrade will have an impact on Gavin's subsequent development, and even on top of the Ascension of the Strategy Lady, many plans must be adjusted on a large scale.
Gavin then secretly returned to the Cormir Kingdom, where he needed to clean up the matter.
At the top of the list is naturally the Aroshi, the land of tree spirits who sent an envoy to the King's Forest.
Although he represents the Kingdom of Cormier, he is a secret envoy in nature - otherwise, it will not be his turn.
King Yasan's intention was obvious, that is, to avoid conflict within the Cormir kingdom in the face of the catastrophe of the invasion of the Tucan nomads.
Gavin, who has a close relationship with the natural races, is responsible for pacifying these nature spirits and letting them honestly take them in the King's Forest, just like before.
Just as Gavin was reluctant to fight against the gods of nature, so was the kingdom of Cormir unwilling to fight against these spirits of nature.
Throughout the history of Faerun, there was not much benefit from going to war with them, but the commotion was all over the body, and the subsequent development was hindered everywhere, and all kinds of natural disasters were as many as cow hair.
Which country can withstand this toss, it will not be long before it becomes a thing of the past.
"That's it, let me go." Gavin casually gestured to a glade.
"This is the land of the Treants, Aroshi?" Half Moon Ju looked left and right suspiciously, she was also an out-and-out spirit of nature, very sensitive to the breath of nature, no matter how you look here, it was just an ordinary glade, not like a gathering place for a large number of tree spirits.
"If Aloris had been so easy to find, they wouldn't have been hidden in the King's Forest for thousands of years, and now they are only exposed, when she had a brief exchange with their queen before, she knew the name of the Dragon Oak Dream Realm, and I have reason to suspect that this country of treants is not a simple kingdom of the material plane, but a kingdom of the inter-plane, the kind where the material plane and the fairy wilderness are divided separately."
Gavin speculated, "So, it's a hassle for us to find them, and it's the right thing to do to get the word out that I'm coming and let them come to me." ”
"How do I get the message out there?" The half-moon foal seems to understand whether he understands or not.
"Integrate into nature, blend into the forest, and the news will naturally be transmitted, and every plant and tree here is their eyes and ears, but it takes time." Gavin replied with a smile, "Just take the opportunity to feel the new abilities I just acquired, this will help me put it away." ”
As he spoke, he had already taken off the Howard convenience bag from his back and threw it to the Half Moon Pony.
Although he already has a portable dimensional bag, he has never left this space equipment.
Picking things out of the portable dimension bag is somewhat troublesome and delays time in battle.
Some instant replacement equipment and consumables are kept in a convenience bag for easy access at any time.
And the two space equipment cannot accommodate each other, once the Howard convenience bag is stuffed into the portable dimensional bag, it is easy to cause the dimensional explosion and blow up all your treasures into the major dimensions.
The bits and pieces of equipment on his body were quickly taken off by him, and all of them were stuffed into a portable dimensional bag, and then he threw them to Half Moon Horse, leaving only the battle armor and the dragon rubber staff on his body.
"It's been a long time since it's been this easy." Gavin couldn't help but move his muscles, feeling like his speed had gone up a notch.
After all, the equipment on his body, Yaya forked, must have twenty or thirty kilograms.
(End of chapter)