"I was afraid that getting too close to the city would attract the attention of the enemy once my whereabouts were exposed, so after establishing a safe base, I chose to come back and report to the lord as soon as possible, and did not investigate the city further."

"But one thing is certain, the city is not small, with no less than a thousand gray dwarves, and the undead Golem takes it very seriously, not only has a large number of traps around the city, but also has an undead army stationed in it, including a large number of giant undead. ”

"You have done a good job, the enemy is our biggest advantage, if it is for a little intelligence, it will be more than worth the loss." Gavin nodded with satisfaction, "This information is enough for us to make a strategic plan." ”

"My lord, what do you need me to do next?"

"You take me to set up an anchor point first, and then you lead the task force to investigate along this gray dwarf city, trying to find out all the passages connected to the undead stone giant city, and the most important thing is to maintain your own secrecy, and never let the enemy be aware of your existence, let alone let them know your intentions."

"Rest assured, Lord Lord, the entire Shadow Wing Task Force is ready to die for Lord Lord, we would rather die than let ourselves fall into the hands of the enemy."

"Very well, let's set up the anchor first."

The anchor point that Gavin is talking about is very simple, that is, the spirit Naga will teleport with him to the safe base they have established in the dark region, and then Gavin can accurately teleport here after leaving his own soul mark here.

The safe base chosen by Task Force Shadowwings was a secluded cave the size of a basketball court, located on a fork in the road, devoid of any water or light, a dead end, and not even mushrooms, let alone creatures.

Even in the dark area, it is a place where birds don't poop.

Dark monsters in the Dark Regions who are good at ambushes usually choose to lie dormant in the main roads where there are more creatures, rather than this kind of dead end, where the chance of the prey being delivered to the door by itself is too low.

Once the safety factor was determined, Gavin returned to the ground to deploy his troops.

The first thing is to drag all the other two voters of the Lady of Strategy, and the ability to mobilize troops to carry out large-scale teleportation in the small, confined environment of the dark region is really too demonic.

Whether it is attacking or retreating, they all have the absolute initiative.

They couldn't refuse this kind of thing, after all, they could also benefit indirectly, and the Colossus happened to be located in the middle of Gavin's City of Faith, Zalanda's Dalauma, and Catherine's Strategic Battle Fortress.

With the expansion of the road and the establishment of the road god statue, the connection can be called convenient, and if the equipment can be mass-produced, it only takes two or three days to be transported to them.

"The dark region is different from ground warfare, it is difficult to have an advantage in numbers here, and in terms of army selection, there are not many expensive elites, and those armies with dark vision are preferred."

"The fact that the giant undead can be accommodated there means that many of the passages are relatively tall and wide, and some of our special forces can be sent in, such as the Crimson Marauder Warband, the Goliath Warband, and the Goblin Giant Warband."

"Once the Colossus chooses to take this gray dwarf city, it is inevitable to fight with the Council of the Chiefs of Death, since we want to destroy all the passages, we will simply do a little more desperately, come to a siege point to send reinforcements, and kill part of their army in the dark regional passages, so as to relieve the pressure for the subsequent war."

"This coincides with me, but if you want to surround the point and send reinforcements, you need more accurate intelligence support, so I want to infiltrate the gray dwarf city below in person to get first-hand information."

"As the supreme commander of the conqueror's army, I'm afraid it's not appropriate for you to go deep into the front line to investigate intelligence."

"There is no more suitable person than me, my supernormal change allows me to use my transformation ability to infiltrate, even if it is exposed, with my own ability, as long as it is not the kind of absolute strength that rolls over, I can also turn this city upside down, not to mention that you are outside to pick me up."

"General Gavin's ability is indeed very suitable for secret infiltration, and when necessary, he can also open a big move to come to an inside-outside combination, which can be used as our core tactic this time."

"Then this matter is decided, I will order Veranika and Shanoba to fully cooperate with the two of them, and strive for a quick victory, and take this gray dwarf city at once."

The three stinkers can still stand up to Zhuge Liang, not to mention the voters of the three strategist ladies gathered together and came up with a bunch of strategies and tactics in minutes.

After formulating the general direction, Gavin threw away the work of reorganizing the army and dispatching troops to Catherine and Zaranda, ran to the front line himself, and played a secret sneak.

Because there really is no better candidate than him.

His ability to change paramorphism gives him the vision to deceive most creatures.

And the ability to invoke the power of the shadow from the Manor of the undead divinity, Vizeme, allowed him to deceive the undead creatures' perception of living things.

Needless to say, even in a city full of enemies, it is unknown who will besiege whom.

In fact, there is another reason that everyone knows and has to do this.

They mainly went for the smelting and forging ability of the gray dwarf city, and such a city would inevitably have a huge elemental reactor or something, this kind of equipment was not only quite sophisticated, but also contained huge energy.

They must prevent the enemy from jumping over the wall in a hurry, and when they find that they can't hold the city, they don't want to cheap the enemy, so they directly destroy this device.

If it is a simple destruction, it is better to say, at most, it is a smelting and forging city that has not yet been lost, once a big explosion occurs.

It's a lot of fun.

Don't forget, their Colossus City is right above.

They also had to put an end to the possibility of a portal or teleportation circle in the city.

If the other party has the ability to directly send troops to the city of the gray dwarves on a large scale, their siege tactics will become a joke.

Led by the spirit Naga, Gavin sneaked around the city of the Grey Dwarves without any danger.

That is, because the strength of one person and one snake is extraordinary, ordinary creatures in the dark region will not be able to find them, let alone causing them trouble.

In this dark, dim environment, it is the home of the Shadow Cloak, and walking through the shadows can avoid most of the monsters in the dark area, as well as most of the traps.

It is unknown how deep this gray dwarf city is beneath the Colossus, but it is known that it has become an out-and-out three-dimensional forging city.

The rhythmic sound of jets and the roar of forging can be heard clearly even from kilometers away.

The use of flaming geothermal heat is taken to the extreme, and the city is surrounded by devices and pipes that resemble giant steam boilers, and the steampunk style is as rich as it gets.

There were no idle buildings or idle people in the whole city, and all the gray dwarves who walked in the streets had gloomy faces and hurried expressions.

In terms of body size, the gray dwarf is very similar to the dwarf, and even shorter, with an average height of about one meter three, the whole body is full of the word stout, the arms are as thick as the thighs, and the muscles on them are as strong as rocks.

Compared with ordinary dwarves, gray dwarves have two racial characteristics of their own, a little blood-losing gray-white skin, which is caused by living in the dark areas of the middle and lower classes all year round, and many of them will never see the sun in their lifetime, which is also the origin of their gray dwarf nickname.

Another trait is baldness, which is true for both men and women, born without a single hair, which is the after-effect of their former masters, the Mind Flayers, who have been enslaving and manipulating their minds for a long time, representing a permanent change in them.

The similar appearance and the same dress make these gray dwarves very similar to both men and women, and the most significant distinguishing feature is probably their beards, women have no beards.

They retain the dwarves' love of beards, and shape them into different shapes, revealing to outsiders their dark state of mind and being different.

This gray dwarf city is called the Dwarven Grave, and you don't need to ask to know that it must have been made by those giants, which is a mockery of the old enemy.

The dwarven tomb is divided into two parts, one is a huge palace fortress high above, full of luxury inside and out, the ground is paved with blue-gray iron ingots, the walls are made of stainless steel, and rows of steel golems of four and a half meters are surrounded by water.

However, those who know a little about necromancy will know that they are not steel golems or golem armor, but heavily armored undead - giant undead.

This is where the master of the city, Golem, lived.

It's not the undead Golem Chieftain who rules here, but the living Golem, and in fact, the same is true in the village of Cairnheim, where both the Undead Golem Chief and his Council of Death Chiefs are hidden behind the scenes, and on the surface, they are ruled by a Golem Chieftain.

This is not difficult to understand, after all, the undead do not have the ability to reproduce, and the giants do not dominate the world, and if they want to continue to develop, they must rely on the living stone giants.

When their bodies begin to weaken, they will be allowed to join the ranks of the undead Golem.

Compared to the undead, the living Golem has seven emotions and six desires, and is more suitable for managing a slave city like the dwarven tomb.

Below the giant's palace is where the gray dwarves work and live.

Golem did not shackle these gray dwarf slaves or anything like that, nor did he use psychic magic to manipulate them, but only used the Mystery Lock to block all teleportation abilities, and sent the heavy armored giant undead to control all the passages in and out.

The roar of machinery and steam in the lower part of the dwarven tomb shook the sky, but once you set foot inside the giant's palace in the upper city, all those sounds disappeared, except for the crisp sound of iron hammers hitting stone chisels.

It was the sound of Golem carving.

The Palace of the Giants is more appropriate than a palace and a huge exhibition room.

It is filled with all kinds of carvings, including angels of charity and benevolence, hideous and terrifying demons, and all kinds of deformed monsters, strange but vivid.

Each Golem was a good sculptor, and most of them possessed magical abilities such as Stone Sculpting, but they rarely used it, believing that statues created in this way were spiritual.

Only by using hammers and stone chisels, carved according to the characteristics of those stones, can the most perfect and moving works of art be produced.

Yuriu couldn't tell the beauty of this carving, every time he entered the temple of giant statues, he always felt extremely depressed, as if the next second, these strange statues seemed to really wake up.

In particular, the statues of humanoids with mouths like octopus tentacles, every time they saw them, Yuriu was extremely uncomfortable and angry, and he wanted to rush up and smash them to pieces with a hammer.

Because they are the statues of the Grey Dwarves' worst enemies, the former master of the Mind Flayer.

Although Yuriu had not seen any Mind Flayer since he was born, that didn't stop him from feeling angry and disgusting about them.

What made Yuriu even more angry was that the owner of the palace was carving this disgusting creature again, which was bigger than anything before, and even the six-meter-tall stone giant had to use a huge stone as a step.

【Golem】

There was fury surging in his heart, but his face was as gloomy as ever, and he couldn't see the slightest thing.

All the grey dwarves are masters of controlling their emotions, and the expressions on their faces are like those carved out of stone, and they rarely reveal their true thoughts, an instinct that has been cultivated as slaves for many years.

No matter which creature enslaves them, I am afraid that they will not look at their faces.

On the contrary, extra emotions can easily lead to death for them.

It wasn't until the last suction cup of the octopus tentacles was carved out that the stone giant nodded with satisfaction, looked condescendingly at the gray dwarf patriarch who was no taller than his calf, and asked, "Patriarch Yuriu, almost half of this month has passed, and the goods you have delivered are less than one-third of the required amount.

I have been severely reprimanded by the Council for this, and if my mission is not fully completed in the next few months, I am afraid that the dwarven grave will be replaced.

Believe me, there is no more benevolent ruler in the entire tribe than I am, and your life will hardly be as easy and free as it has been for the past thirty years. ”

Even when he talked about the news that was extremely unfavorable to him, the Golem manager did not show any irritation, and there was only endless calm on his slate-gray face, as if this matter had nothing to do with him.

Golems are the most gentle of all giants, they are natural sculptors, and many of them are addicted to carving and live a peaceful and quiet secluded life.

Coming here to manage these gray dwarves is not the task that the golem manager wants himself, but the kind that the Council of Death Chiefs forcibly arranged, and it is not acceptable.

Even if the task was not carried out effectively and was dismissed, the impact on him was not too great, it was nothing more than that after returning to the village, he was reprimanded and locked up for several years or even decades, which did not have much impact on him who was obsessed with carving.

The only ones who are really affected are these gray dwarves in the dwarven graves.

If the next manager is a living stone giant like himself, even if he is strict, he is relatively limited.

But once the Council of Death Chiefs decides that the living are no longer up to the job and sends out the undead golem administrators, then this place will really become a dwarven grave.

Although the undead Golem was transformed from the Golem, the two are not the same species at all, and they no longer have any feelings, even for their former family members and clansmen, not to mention those slave races, in their eyes, there is only a mission and an unattainable dream of recovering the country.

Even the dream of recovering the country was not their own, but was instilled in them by the undead Golem chief Taku.

"Venerable sculptor, I have reminded and explained to you about this matter five years ago, the main body of iron ore here is above our heads, and what we are mining now is tailings, which is difficult to mine and inefficient, and after so many years of uncontrolled mining, the iron ore here has been exhausted.

If you want to maintain production here, you either need to find a new source of ore, or you can find a way to break the seal on the veins above your head and mine upwards. ”

The meaning of the gray dwarf patriarch Yuriu is obvious, it's not that we don't work hard to produce, but that there are no mines to recover, and no matter how clever their mining and forging skills are, they are in vain.

"If the vein seal could be lifted, we would have done so a long time ago, and would we have waited until now?"

The deep brows of the golem manager furrowed involuntarily, because he did remember this matter, but he was obsessed with carving, and he didn't take this matter to heart at all, after all, these gray dwarves have been repeatedly mentioning this matter for a hundred years, and they have not been producing it all the time, and the output has increased several times over the years.

Both the Administrators and the Council of Death Chiefs believe that this is a way for the Grey Dwarves to use their expertise to make alarmists and get the Council to take the initiative to reduce production here.

But who would have thought that this thing would really happen, and it would happen during his tenure.

Although Domingo did not have any nostalgia for the position of administrator, the fact that he was judged to be derelict in his duties by the Council of Dead Chiefs is not the same as poor supervision.

Dereliction of duty is one of the most serious crimes of their tribe, second only to treason.

This crime is unique to the Golem tribe.

This has to do with their racial nature, they are famous giant artists, and many of them have an innate artistic talent, not limited to stone carving, but also music, painting, jewelry making, etc., they are very good at it.

However, it is the most outstanding and famous in stone carving, and eighty percent of the buildings of the giant civilization that remain in the world are from them, including the giant staircase and the giant palace in the Giant Running Mountain Range, and Domingo is the leader in this regard, the leader of the younger generation, second only to several stone giant elders in the clan.

But when you are obsessed with one thing, it is easy to forget another, such as your own position.

In order to develop, the tribe can only use felony methods to urge these stone giants to serve their tribe loyally.

(End of chapter)