“...... Among the tribes driven out of their homes by the dragons is a convoy of exiles heading east, hoping to find a new home in the mountains of the east without the dragon's gaze. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The convoy of more than 300 men had arrived at its destination with less than forty men, most of whom were dwarves and a few elves, halflings, and savage slaves. However, it was the descendants of these people who established a powerful dwarven kingdom in the eastern mountains, and finally ended the dragons' rule over the continent of Kemorra, and ushered in the second era, the Seventy-Seven Empire, also known as the Dwarven Empire. ”

—Excerpt from "The Hammer and the Spark", by the Dwarven History Editing Society of Wuerde City

A pair of olive oil-coated sisters slowly twist their young and elastic bodies on stage in a seductive posture to tease the frantic audience. Dressed not so much in short skirts as strips of cloth with bare tops, the waitresses shuttled between the drinkers and prostitutes in the store with all kinds of drinks, and some of the anxious guests even hugged these waitresses directly into their arms and stroked them wantonly, and these women did not resist but giggled while cooperating with the anxious red-eyed man. In the dimly lit private rooms away from the stage, the men either hold the girls on their laps and enjoy their intimate service, or press them to the crotch to enjoy their sweet little mouths. Unlike the Wooldes and other brothels of the Middle Avenue, there are no soft beds made of expensive silk or private rooms bypassed by incense, but the guests who come here are not as fussy as those on the Central Avenue, even if there is only an empty room, a broken bed, and a curtain, but a fresh and seductive body is enough to satisfy the most primitive desires of men.

Haredith walked through the room, where men cursed excitedly and women moaned sluttly, to a stairwell in the back, and up the stairs was a narrow hallway at the end of which was a cheesy golden-red door. Hareddick's cloak that enveloped almost his entire body and his blinding mask immediately alerted the longsword warriors who were leaning against the fence of the corridor and watching the dance downstairs, and they glanced at each other, put away their original hip-hop smiles, and pressed their hands on the hilt of the sword at their waists to form a semicircle to stop each other. A samurai who looked like a leader touched the stubble on his chin and said to Haredik, "Have fun going down there, this is not the place for you." ”

Haredith lifted his mask slightly and said, "Get out of the way, your boss is looking for me." ”

The warrior leader named Burke narrowed his eyes and measured Hareddick carefully, "Quinn, did you really come back alive from Manuka?!" and waved his hand to his men to stand down.

"It's none of your business, get out of the way. ”

"Okay, okay, it's me meddling, hey, welcome back to Azonica, you damn black carbon ball. Burke chuckled, and then knocked on the golden-red door behind him, and just after the knock sounded, a rude roar that almost shattered the eardrums came from behind the door: "What are you doing!!!!!!?"

Burke slammed into the door and said, "Boss, Quinn is here. ”

The rude voice rang out again: "Then let him in!!Oh my God!!Do you want me to teach you everything?You imbecile bastard who was pulled out of her asshole by your own sister!!"

Burke smiled at Hareddick unappetly and said, "Go in, he's been waiting for you for a long time." ”

Hareddick took off the mask on his face and pushed the door in, and behind the tacky door was a large room large enough to accommodate a carriage, littered with wine bottles, food, and clothes that had not been put on by the owner, and the air was filled with the smell of hallucinogenic incense and the smell of men and women when they intercourse. In the upper left corner of the room lay a tall middle-aged man in a luxurious soft chair, his muscles slack and bloated from lack of exercise, and more chilling than his menacing face, the muscles on the right half of the man's right side cracked like dry earth, and his right foot, which had completely lost his entire calf. Two halfling doctors in linen robes were cleaning his necrotic muscle tissue with red-hot pliers and herbs, while an orc shaman pressed his glowing left hand to the man's chest to heal his wounds. ...,

The man saw Haredith raise his left hand and make a hug motion, and shouted enthusiastically, "Oh, Harley, you damn son of a bitch, you're back!"

Haredith took off his cloak and threw it casually on a couch, smiling and saying, "How have you been doing lately?" ”

Alistal Tepeni was the head of the Bandit Guild in the southwest of the Middle Avenue, and owned a large underground force and private property in the Urd and Dragon Bridge domains. However, eight years ago, the Knights of Longqiao, which had been the umbrella of the underground kingdom of Tepeni, lost ground in the political battle against the Holy Knights, and those interests attached to the Knights of Longqiao were bloodily purged by the Holy Knights.

Under Haredik's guidance, the exile team successfully evaded the pursuit of the Holy Knights, but when they entered the Blackwater Valley, they accidentally woke up an adult Frosttooth Dragon. Although they managed to escape from the Frosttooth Dragon's minions with great difficulty, they lost all the belongings they had with them and more than half of their men, and Tepenny himself was hit by the Dragon's Breath, resulting in the forced amputation of his right leg and the complete paralysis of the right half of his body.

When they finally arrived at Azonica, Tepeni had almost nothing but Burke and three other loyal men, let alone the payment he had promised to pay Haredik. However, Hareddik took a fancy to Tepenny's courage and scheming, and introduced him to the dwarf chamber of commerce with whom he had worked before, as a half-local, and more generously lent him 1,000 dolls for start-up capital. With the help of Gustavo and Haradidik, it took only eight years for Tepeni to gain a foothold in this alien city as a human being, and he became one of the most powerful forces in the underground city of Azonica. Although Haredith and Tepeni are not friends, they have gained mutual trust and respect after several collaborations that live and die together.

"How's I doing? ha! I'm fucking alive!hahaha!" Tepeni laughed as he cracked his mouth open to reveal two rows of sallow teeth. After saying that, he said to the two halflings who were still cleaning his wounds like a fly: "Get out of here, I'm going to talk to my brother about business, you two damn toothpick birds, get out of here, don't fucking try to find today's dinner from me!"

The two halflings did not dare to complain, quickly cleaned up their tools, and ran out of the room in a puff of smoke, while the orc shaman, who was treating Tepenny's wounds, frowned, withdrew his hand from his body, and turned to leave.

Then Tepenny exclaimed, "Oh! I just let those two little dwarfs out, but I didn't say anything about you, my dear shaman. ”

The orc shaman just gave Tepenny a cold look, and was about to leave without saying a word, only to find that Haredik was in front of him, looking at him with a wicked smile.

"Drow ......," the orc shaman's voice seemed to come out of his throat, and he said in a low voice, "How dare a despicable creature stand in my way. ”

"I'm sorry, Shaman-sama, I just wanted to know my friend's health. Haredith lowered his head slightly, and said respectfully.

The orc shaman turned his head and glanced at Tepenny, who was lying on the soft chair, and said, "He, the dragon's breath is still completely unable to dissolve and constantly erode his body, but he keeps smoking incense every day, drinking alcohol that can intoxicate ten giant elephants, and engaging in sexual acts without the slightest moderation, if he can live to be fifty years old, hmph, may the ancestors bless him." ”...,

Haredith smiled with satisfaction and took out a twin silver coin and said to the shaman, "That's what I want to hear, please give this to the children in the academy as a thank you gift." ”

The orc shaman glared at Hareddic viciously and roared, "Take away your drow-stained silver coins, don't think that you can stand on the land of Azonica and start thinking about yourself, this is the greatest tolerance that Mother Earth has for you, if you still know a trace of shame, you should honestly go back to your filthy cave and end your despicable life, Drow!"

"Oh, what a spicy shaman, he has broken your dark heart. Tepenny joked with a hint of comfort.

"Shut up, I don't want to listen to a 'halfling' taunt. Haredith put away the coins, found a clean soft chair, swept away the clothes and bottles, sat down, and continued, "What's the matter with your room?

"Don't mention it, I originally found a few bitches to have fun, but I forgot to make an appointment with the shaman for treatment today. You should really look at the look on the shaman's face as he pushes open the door, if you can see it again, it will be worth cutting off my other foot. ”

Haredith didn't say anything, but picked up an unopened wine bottle, bit the cork, and poured a few bites, then grabbed a piece of fatty barbecue with his hand and ate it into his stomach three times and two times. Looking at Haredik who was gobbling up, Tepeni sneered rather disdainfully, and Haredik glanced at him and said, "What's the matter? You tried to ride a horse in the desert for two days from Manuka. ”

Tepeni didn't answer, he picked up a pear on the plate next to him and bit one, chewed the pear meat slowly, looked at Haredith who was sweeping the food there like a whirlwind cloud, and said directly to the point: "Harley, I want you to do me a favor." ”

Haredith looked up, shook his head dryly, and said, "No." ”

"What do you mean by not doing it??!!," Tepeni said, looking at the Drow Elf in a daze.

Haredith chewed the pieces of meat in his mouth a few times and swallowed them into his stomach, and said rather leisurely, "Why? Don't you understand the lingua franca? "Fuck you!" Tepeni immediately scolded back, "You don't even know what I'm looking for you for, so you tell me 'don't do it'??!"

"Yes, I didn't intend to come here to help you with any business. ”

"Then what are you doing in my nest??!!"

"What are you kidding, I've been hungry for two whole days, is there any other place in Azonica besides you where I can eat for free?"

"You son of a bitch!!" Tepenny said angrily, slamming the pear he had bitten into into the drow sitting across from him, Haredith deftly dodged the flying pear and shrugged his shoulders indifferently, then grabbed a cutlet and stuffed it into his mouth.

Tepenny shook his head and raised his left hand, stretched out his index finger and said angrily, "Listen Harley, you have to help me this time! ”

Haredith shook his head dryly and said, "I'm sorry, Tepenny, I can't really help you, I have something that I need to do right away." ”

Hearing this, Tepeni regained his composure and said, "You have something to do? and right away?!"

"Yes. ”

"Well, let's make a deal, whatever you're going to do, I'll do it for you, and in return you'll help me this time. ”

"No, you can't help me, it's just my business. ”...,

"What's ??!?"

"I can't tell you, it's my private matter. ”

Tepeni scratched his head hard and continued, "Okay, then you tell me where you're going!?"

Haredith tilted his head and thought for a moment and said his destination: "Yaru." ”

"Yaru, you're going to the eastern mountains??! "Tepeni's brow, which was about to furrow, immediately expanded when he saw this sentence.

"Yes. ”

"Then you're going to pass through the Middle Avenue, right?!"

Halledik thought for a moment and said, "I originally planned to cross the Hope Corridor in the Southern Forest, but it's not impossible to take the Middle Way the way you humans travel. ”

Tepenny continued: "If you take Middle Avenue, you're going to pass the Woods, right?!"

"Ulder??hmm...... yes, I'll pass through there, um, you reminded me that I really should go to the Woods. It occurred to Haredith that not only did he not know what the Celestial Giver named El Lee looked like, but he also knew nothing about him. But if you go to Ulder, the capital of the Middle Way, even if you can't enter the small lighthouse that is the headquarters of the wizards' guild, you can still get a lot of useful information from the Ulder's vast information network. Thinking of this, Hareddik glanced at Tepeni and said, "Are you going to the Ulder ??!?"

Tepeni cracked his mouth again and laughed, "It's not me, but someone is going there, we can work together?!" said as he held out his left hand to Haredith.

"I think it should be fine. Haredith reached out and wiped all the grease on Tepeni's big hand.

Tepenny, who was in a good mood, didn't care about the oil stain on Hareddieck's hands, he wiped his hands on his expensive clothes casually and said: "It's a very simple deal, I have a convoy from the Southern Forest here that wants to go to the Woods, but they lack a guide, and you, Haredith can walk to the Birds with his eyes closed, is the perfect person." How's that for a simple thing, right?"

Haredith glanced at Tepenny and chuckled, "yes, it's really easy, just give me a broken leg and a frostbitten egg, and I'll be on my way in no time." ”

"Shut your mouth for me, isn't every drow as underwhelmed as you ???!!"

"I don't know, do you want to see it? I can give you a one-way ticket to Taresia. ”

Tepeni ignored Haredith's ramblings and continued, "You're fine with going to the Woods, right?"

"How much does it cost?" asked Haredith, cutting straight to the core.

"200 Doyles, pay half of it first, and then pay the other half later. ”

"What about security, do you need me to draw my sword?"

"No, no, they have plenty of men, all you have to do is bring them to the Woods. ”

"Hmm...... Sounds good. Who are they??"

"Why are you asking this??" Tepeni asked, tilting his head, as if puzzled.

"Don't pretend to be a halfling for me, you know my rules, I don't want to be sold into a circus in the northern wastelands or slaughtered with a knife and my head for drink. ”

Tepeni, who had been talking endlessly just now, grinned and frowned a little embarrassed, Haredith looked at the prostitute owner who was hesitating there, sat up straight, and said with wide eyes: "You damn son of a bitch, you don't want to sell me to the holy guys??!!

"What? no, no, no!" Tepeni said, waving his hand, "how could I do such a thing, don't forget that I have a settling point with those bastards." ”...,

"And who the hell is the other one?" Haredith continued.

"Hmm...... They are the family and retinue of a lord of the Southern Forest, and you know I used to have a lot of dealings with the nobles of the Southern Forest. ”

"What else?"

"There is also a small order of a dozen or so guards, but I can assure you that they are not of the holy line. ”

Hareddiek made a gesture to continue, and Tepeni looked embarrassed again, and it took a long time to say, "There is one more ...... in the team at the end Well...... Warlock. ”

"A Warlock!" Haredith stared at Tepenny as if he was going to eat him, "A Warlock! You bastard bastard with only one egg left, you might as well sell me directly to the Holy Knights, so I can die a happy death!"

"Harley......

Before Tepeni could finish speaking, Haredith raised his hands and said loudly and contrivedly towards the ceiling, "Oh! Wise Dushnita, please tell me who loves us the most in all of Morkelen??? three answers, the money-starved prostitute, the newly-debuted night hunter, and the fucking warlock!!" As he said the last sentence, Haredith almost snarled at Tepeni.

"Listen to Harley. Tepeni pressed his hand to calm him down.

"Nothing to hear, forget about this business, I'm definitely not going to do it. Do you know how many drows are slaughtered by the warlocks every year as sacrifices or for making magic weapons? I still have a lot of good life to live, and I have no interest in being a guinea pig. ”

Tepenny looked at the drow who was losing his temper and said, "I'll give you double the price." ”

"No, I don't. Haredith refused without even thinking about it.

"Triple as much. ”

"No, I don't. ”

"Quadruple. ”

"Fuck, I said I wouldn't do it! Did you get your damn ears bitten off by the Frosttooth Dragon?!"

"One price, one thousand doals. ”

Hareddik tilted his head and looked at Tepeni steadily, looked up and down as if he had met him for the first time, and then said, "Ha, I knew it wasn't that simple this time, and this whole thing is related to you, right?"

Tepenny cracked his mouth open to reveal his sallow, ugly teeth and laughed, "You know me too well." ”

Haredith slouched back in his soft chair, picked up a bottle of wine and shook it and said to Tepeni, "Tell me what the hell is going on." A leisurely tone, completely devoid of the anger just now.

Tepeni shifted his increasingly fat body and put on a more comfortable position and said, "You won't be interested in these things, the only thing you have to do is bring them to the Woods, and I'll pay you a full 1,000 dolls." ”

"If you don't make this clear, I will never take this deal. The more information you have, the greater your chances of survival, and that's how I've been here for more than 100 years. Harradidick said in a non-negotiable tone.

"Do you really want to know?" said Tepeni with a rare sigh.

"Hey, there's nothing more heartwarming than drinking wine and listening to an old friend's chatter. Hareddik smirked.