Chapter 740: Uninvited
First-time offenders will be sentenced to garrison the periphery, away from the entire Golem community.
This punishment is somewhat difficult for many people who do not know Golem to understand.
But for Golem itself, this is a very serious punishment, Golem, especially the young Golem is a very fun-loving, very social creature, but they play games that are not acceptable to ordinary creatures, such as stone-throwing competitions or stone-catching games - that is, throwing hundreds of kilograms of boulders around or catching.
Spiritual loneliness is the most terrible torture.
Domingo is one of them, who was thrown into the dwarven grave because of the serious dereliction of duty in his last mission, and was with these gray dwarves who were boring, had no enthusiasm for life, had lost their creative passion, and only knew how to work as coolies.
The Council of Death Chiefs, which instituted such a means of punishment, only considered the punitive effect of this method and the ease of scheduling of tasks.
Completely unconsidered, for those who were punished, when they had no way to get spiritual comfort from their own kind, they could only devote their energy to the art they were obsessed with, thus causing a second or third dereliction of duty.
However, there are also some Golems who suspect that it is not that the undead chiefs of the Council of Death of the Chiefs do not know this truth, but that they do it on purpose.
If they didn't, how could they justifiably let Golem join them - Golem who had been punished three times for dereliction of duty would be deemed by the Council of Chiefs of Death to be no longer of value to the Golem tribe, at least while alive, and would be transformed into a more valuable undead being.
When transformed into an immortal state, even the most basic feelings are gone, where does the creative passion come from, when have you heard that there will be artists among the dead?
There are just horrors and killings!
There is a good reason for this, giants are also immortal species, and even the shortest life force of the hill giants has the same lifespan as the dwarves, with a lifespan of three or four hundred years.
Golems are neither long nor short, and without any accidents, they can live for eight to ten centuries.
Wait until Golem naturally ages and then transforms into an immortal state, how slow is the development of the Council of the Chiefs of Death?
But if there is a crime of dereliction of duty that is in line with the nature of the stone giants, the number of stone giants who have been transformed into the ranks of the undead stone giants has increased significantly, and the remaining ones are all for the conscientious and dedicated duties of the tribe.
Domingo felt a serious crisis, because he was guilty of dereliction of duty not once, but twice, and if he added one more, he would have been reported in the immortal category.
He was just two hundred years old, which was the best age in his life, but he didn't want to join the ranks of the emotionless immortals, so he asked with a solemn expression: "You are also dwarves, and there is nothing you can do to lift this seal?" ”
When this guy used to talk to himself, did he have ears? With a brain?
I seem to have answered this question more than ten times?
No wonder he was sent to the dwarven grave, he was not simply derelict in his duties, he had not paid attention to his work for a minute, at least not before.
The tribe of Yuriu had been enslaved by the Council of Dead Chiefs for nearly a thousand years, and naturally knew them well from top to bottom.
The degree of understanding of the stone giant's temperament, even above himself, forcibly pressed the inner complaint, and once again replied that he didn't know how many times he repeated, "Those remnants of the Supreme Shan Nata have expected you to use their furnaces, so they use not ordinary seals, but unique ore vein sealing techniques.
They have made the entire main body of the vein merge with their city, and this vein can only be mined from the city where they are located, and it is indestructible when excavated from other directions.
If you want to lift this seal, you must be in the dwarf city above, by the descendants of the Supreme Shatana of pure blood, holding the seal key, three conditions, all of which are indispensable. ”
The seal of the Colossus City is not just a matter of hiding and blocking the passage to the Dark Realm.
If this is the case, after thousands of years, the gray dwarves from the bottom up have already opened a new passage, even if they have not dug through the veins.
Hearing the three conditions, Domingo was immediately discouraged, and they only met half of the three conditions.
It is true that the gray dwarves are the people of Shatana, but they are not the Supreme Shatana, they have been captured by the Mind Flayer before the establishment of the Supreme Shatana, not to mention the mutated bloodline, and it is unknown whether it is a dwarf bloodline.
As for the seal key, who knows what?
It could be a tailor-made key, it could be a gemstone, it could be a stone.
A seal key is just a reference to an item.
As for the dwarven cities on the surface, it may be something that can be done for the Council of Death Chiefs, but for him, he is afraid that he will not be able to do it.
I heard that a group of trolls as tall and intelligent as their Golem had taken over the area and established a vast kingdom of trolls.
"Looking for new veins?" Domingo retreated and looked elsewhere for a way.
At the mention of this incident, Yuriu became even more resentful, gritting his teeth and said: "The search for new ore veins is not an overnight thing, especially since we are now four thousand meters underground, surrounded by thick hot dry rock formations, if there is no protection from the city's heat extraction device, we will be roasted in minutes."
When we open mines, we can only do it after we have treated the geothermal heat in the rocks.
Two centuries ago, I proposed the exploration of new veins to the Samingo administrators, a century ago, I proposed it to the Arana administrators, and I also proposed it when you first took office.
But you either ignore it or you don't listen to it at all.
Exploring new veins now is as unrealistic as trying to extinguish the fire here with the waters of the Endless Sea. ”
After listening to the two names mentioned by Julius, Domingo was suddenly enveloped in a heavy sense of powerlessness, no wonder the city was nicknamed the Giant's Grave in the Golem tribe, and taking up office here was tantamount to stepping into the ranks of the undead.
Both were notorious convicts of dereliction of duty, and they kept the mess until it exploded on themselves.
Domingo blamed his two predecessors for nothing, and he had been in the office for three decades, and he had been derelict in his duties.
Leave the affairs of this place to Yuriou, and leave them alone as long as they do not attempt to escape, and pay the goods prescribed by the Council of Chiefs of Death on a monthly basis.
Well, for this question, Yuriu seems to have looked for himself more than once or twice, but several times in a row, as long as they ignore them, they will try to make up for the production, after all, they don't want an undead stone giant without any feelings to come and squeeze them.
Domingo didn't care anymore, but this time the gap was too big.
Even if he was negligent in his duties, he noticed it.
Domingo involuntarily lowered his profile and asked, "Is there no other way to think of it?" Let's deal with this month first, and then I'll go back to the clan to think of a way? ”
Yuriu shook his head without hesitation and said: "There is no way to think about it, now we are doing our best to produce it, the quality of the ore is there, the grade has dropped from forty-three percent to thirteen, and we are already looking for iron and stone from the pile of stones."
Unless there is a higher grade ore, it can only be produced now. ”
Domingo's gaze fell on his giant palace, and suddenly lit up, and he said on a whim: "If this palace is demolished and integrated into iron ore, can it be possible to top up a part of the production?" ”
Rao is Yuriu has a deep temperament, and at this moment he has to look at Domingo dumbfounded, and can't help but suspect that his brain is also made of stone, he has been here for thirty years, doesn't he know anything about the situation here?
The reason why this palace is cast in steel is not to show the performance of the city, but to carry the necessities of the city, where the key equipment is located.
If it were to be dismantled, it wouldn't be long before it turned into a melting pot that was over hundreds of degrees Celsius, steaming all creatures that were not immune to fire.
After staring at Yuriu's strange gaze for a while, Domingo finally remembered the difference of this gray dwarf city, and his blue-gray face involuntarily flushed, and he seemed to have another stupid idea.
But for a while, there was no other trick to think of.
I really can't do it, go back to the Council of Death Chiefs and think of a way?
See if you can make sense of them?
After all, the depletion of iron ore resources on this side of the dwarven grave is something beyond the reach of manpower, and he has reported it a few years late at most.
It's not entirely your responsibility, it's not.
"I have a proposal, I don't know if you two want to hear it." A voice rang out out of thin air.
"Who's there?"
"Come out!"
Whether it is Domingo, the manager of the stone giant, or Yuriu, the patriarch of the gray dwarves, they were taken aback, and looked around vigilantly, especially Domingo couldn't help but clench the carving hammer and stone chisel, although they are not specialized weapons, but their size is amazing enough, and for most creatures, their lethality is still considerable.
Like most cities in the Dark Regions, the Dwarven Grave is a militarized, extremely closed city, not to mention strangers, even insiders, who cannot appear in places they shouldn't be in for a non-specified time.
The steel fortress was off-limits, and without Domingo's permission, even Juliu couldn't get the undead guards of the heavily armored giants who didn't know what the workaround was.
"Don't get excited, don't get excited, if I wanted to hurt you, you would have died a long time ago, and you wouldn't have waited until now."
Less than ten meters away from the two of them, a human statue came to life, and as he approached, the blue-gray of the stone was fading into a vibrant complexion.
A statue comes to life?
The statue you carved has a life of its own?
Wrong.
Although the carving process is good, it has not yet reached the ability to give life to the statue.
Although Domingo is confused in managing the dwarven graves, he is not confused at all when it comes to carving, and he has carved a total of two hundred and three statues of humanoids such as humans and elves over the years.
He didn't dare to say that he remembered the physical signs and appearance of each statue clearly, at least he saw it again, and he could recognize them at a glance from the many similar statues.
This one didn't belong to any of them, but he hadn't paid attention to it before, after all, he wouldn't have imagined that someone would use his camouflage ability to blend into his statue.
How the hell did this guy get in?
How long has it been since you got involved?
How come the heavily armored giant undead guards in the palace are completely unresponsive?
And what about this ability to transform into a statue?
Morph transformation?
No, shapeshifters only have the ability to transform into humanoids, and I haven't heard of anything like a statue.
Could it be that the mage changes everything?
"Hypermorphosis, you are a psychic warlock, a changeling." Yuriu recognized the other party's ability at a glance, and his face was as deep as water.
The reason why they were once enslaved by psychic manipulation spells by psionic monsters is that the gray dwarves have an extreme lack of affection for people and creatures with psychic spell abilities.
More precisely, there are fears and fears that come from the heart, and that's why they study them to prevent them from repeating them.
Gavin grinned and said with a toothy smile at the stone giant, who was slowly moving towards the gate of the palace, "Don't waste your efforts, Administrator Domingo, your heavily armored giant undead guards are no longer yours, they have all been infused by me with the power of shadows and become my people." ”
Maybe it's because the enemies I've faced during this period of time are a little unusual, and many monsters have to put an unusual ultimate, or an unusual origin when they fight to the end.
For example, Ivanaso's necromancer turned out to be an evil beast ghost disguised, and behind him stood the devil's Grand Duke Maman.
Another example is that the trolls of the Troll Kingdom turned out to be a cultist of the Lord of the Abyss, the two-headed baboon, who almost wiped out Dimo Gogan.
Not to mention the ascension battle of the goblin border wilderness, everyone has their own hole cards.
This will be Gavin, to see which opponent, it is as if there are several hands hidden behind his back, with 100% caution, and this time the same is true for infiltrating the gray dwarf city.
It turns out that things are much simpler than he imagined.
He lurked in the Grey Dwarf Tavern, listening to them complain about the heavy work and the harder and harder iron ore to mine, but no one could detect his presence.
He drilled into their iron-making, steel-making, and forging workshops and observed for himself how the city worked, as if no one was there.
He manipulated the power of the Shadow into the bodies of the undead guards of the heavily armored giants, turning them into puppets of the Vizeme Manor, and then watched from the sidelines as the Golems indulged in carving, unbeknownst to him.
This situation arises, that is, because Gavin's current methods are extraordinary, whether it is the ghost cloak or the ability of supernatural change, they are all extraordinary means, and it is difficult to detect him without restraint ability.
The power of the shadow that can manipulate the undead and replace them is not available to everyone, this already belongs to the category of divine power.
The main thing is that this place has been peaceful for too long, and all the monster forces around have been swept away by them, they are the most powerful existence, it would be good if they didn't hunt those monsters, no monsters dared to harass here.
The heavily armored giant undead guards led by the Golem Administrator are not so much to defend against foreign enemies as to guard the gray dwarves, and it is more appropriate to supervise their mining and forging.
After discovering that the Golem administrator was not as evil as he had imagined, and that the gray dwarf city was in trouble, Gavin immediately adjusted his conquest strategy in a timely manner.
If you can take over the city by relatively peaceful means, it is better not to declare war against a group of monster tribes that have existed for thousands of years.
The Gray Dwarf City is easy to take, which does not mean that the Council of Death Chiefs headed by the Immortal Golem Chief Duokong is easy to provoke, which is vividly demonstrated by the hundred heavily armored giant undead guards stationed here.
These heavy-armored giant undead guards are not made from the corpse of the Golem, all real giants, as long as they have pure blood, and when they reach adulthood, they must be at least five meters tall.
These heavy-armored giant undead guards are only more than four meters tall and less than five meters tall, although they can be classified as giant species, but like trolls and goblin giants, they are all pseudo-giants.
They were all made from the gigantic corpses of the monster race on the Plains of the Giants, neither skeletons nor zombies, but somewhat similar to mummies, and the armor on their bodies was the shroud.
This is the use of undead means, imitating the armor of the Golem.
A group of steel monsters with transcendent life dice, no pain and no sense, no fear is what, but with extraordinary combat consciousness, is definitely a disaster on the battlefield.
And such soldiers, those who manipulated the situation in the Giants Plains behind the scenes, the Council of Dead Chiefs for I don't know how many years, do not know how much they have accumulated.
Gavin used the power of the shadow to manipulate them, purely to take advantage of the sneak attack, and when they arrived on the battlefield, when they launched a charge in groups, this method could not be used, and they could only resist head-on.
And the real core of them is the undead Golem.
Giants are a transcendent race, even the weakest hill giants, as long as they are adults, they are born with ten life dice, and the stone giants who are far above them are born with fourteen life dice, and with a little effort, they can enter the ranks of quasi-legends, and after transforming into an immortal state, they will make them stronger.
Not to mention the successive Immortal Golem Chieftains, especially the first Immortal Golem Chieftain Duokong, who has transformed himself into an immortal state for thousands of years.
Gavin had reason to suspect that he was not an ordinary undead creature, but rather a lich, a high-ranking lich with at least thirty life dice.
Gavin's kind reminder, not only did not make Domingo give up, but twisted the oversized ring in his hand more often, and said in a loud voice: "Come in, all come in, there are intruders." ”
At the same time, he shook off his footsteps and ran towards the gate of the giant's palace.
Even if he has a body shape and terrifying strength that is nearly three times taller than the opponent, if he is forced to do so, Domingo will not easily enter close combat, let those heavily armored giant undead guards drag the opponent, and use his innate ability to smash the enemy with his innate ability to throw stones is the king.
(End of chapter)