Chapter 455: First Impression of Stone Castle

"A city built in the mountains."

This is the thought that all people who see Stone Castle for the first time will subconsciously have.

Starting from Mount Gerela at the foot of the Frostfire Plateau, the strong dwarves used their forging hammers and stone chisels to hollow out the interior of the mountain and dug out a huge cave.

In the dwarven language, Gerela means "burning heart".

The history of Stone Castle may be traced back to before the New Huili era.

Because before the evil gods from the void invaded this world, the huge cave inside Mount Gerela already existed.

At that time, the reason why the dwarves gathered here was that they needed to use the hot magma gushing out from the inside of the mountain to smelt and forge various metal minerals.

Deep in the body of Mount Gerela is a magma lake that is said to go straight to the center of the earth. No one knows how the ancestors of the dwarves did it. In short, they successfully completed the drainage of the magma lake. Since then, the dwarves have an inexhaustible super energy source.

Later, when the monster red tide appeared, in order to take refuge and further develop the huge cave inside Grela, the dwarves cast an extremely thick, tens of meters wide and hundreds of meters high magnificent wall with steel and iron on the outside of the mountain!

The wall is called "Edelson's Wall" to commemorate Edson, the first dwarf leader of the stone fort.

This wall is firmly combined with the solid mountain and has become the most powerful safety barrier for the dwarves during the monster red tide.

To some extent.

The protective ability of Edson's Wall is even more exaggerated than the divine barrier of [Past Glory].

After all, there will be no holes or gaps in this high steel wall.

Monsters of level 3 and below can't hurt it even if they crash themselves to death under this iron wall shield.

The way to enter the dwarf stone fort is very unique.

There is no traditional gate or entrance here.

Edson's Wall is solid, integrated from top to bottom, ensuring its super strong defense that makes monsters despair.

For those land caravans, guests or dwarves returning home from the Spirit Wing Wetlands, the unified way to enter the Stone Castle is to use the "Big Elevator".

The "Big Elevator" is actually a square platform with guardrails, also made of alloy.

It is connected to the axle by thick and strong cables.

It is a purely human-powered operation.

The dwarves, who are born with divine power and covered with muscles, use their power to pull the big elevator up to a height of 100 meters, enter the city, and then smoothly lower it back to the ground, repeating the cycle.

People and goods enter and exit the city in this way.

The big elevator rises and descends once an hour, and the stay time is 20 minutes.

When the Golden Tide Windbreaker flew to the Edson Wall, Pete had already seen the ant-sized people, horses and goods on the ground gathered together, queuing up to wait for the arrival of the next big elevator.

The goblin airship belongs to the air transport route, and there is no need to queue up with people arriving by land when entering the Stone Castle.

Ronald drove the modified Golden Tide Windbreaker through the more than 20-meter-high Edson Wall, and drove straight into the Stone Castle to dock at the airship dock.

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"Hot!"

"So hot!"

As soon as he entered the Stone Castle, Pete immediately felt sweat coming out of his long-sleeved jacket.

The temperature has risen significantly!

It is obviously late autumn outside, and the weather is so cold that you will shiver even if you wear thin clothes.

The Stone Castle is as hot as a steamer.

Ronald, who was driving the airship, held up the horn and shouted:

"Those who haven't changed their clothes should change them quickly, or stay in the cabin and don't go on the deck!"

"We are about to pass the Great Furnace, which is built above the magma lake. It is the hottest place in the whole Stone Castle!"

The Great Furnace-a magnificent wonder built by the dwarves themselves.

Standing above the magma lake, a huge furnace tens of meters high.

To be precise, the lower part of this furnace has actually penetrated deep into the magma lake, pouring the hot lava from the magma lake into the bottom continuously, providing sufficient fire and heat for smelting and forging.

The bellows never stop, the sound of the anvil and the forging hammer colliding one after another, the gurgling sound of the magma, the sizzling sound of quenching, and the crisp sound of metal colliding with metal, all elements mixed together to form a rhythmic melody unique to the stone fortress.

The shape of the entire stone fortress is roughly like an irregular cylinder.

At the bottom is the bright magma lake that emits endless heat. With the big furnace as the center, layers of circular city platforms are built around it.

The dwarves dug their "houses" at the end of these "rings" near the mountain wall.

They rest and live in caves.

They usually trade, entertain or do other activities on various circular platforms.

The different levels of the rings are also carried up and down by elevators. If you are in a hurry, you can also choose to walk on the steep "steps" carved on the mountain wall.

Even when the Golden Tide Windbreaker was still dozens of meters away from the Great Furnace when it passed by, you can still feel the hot breath coming towards you.

Squatting on the deck of the airship, the owner of "Dwarf Seiko", Maren, looked at the Great Furnace from afar with fiery eyes, and drooled at the corners of his mouth without knowing it.

"Hiss...hiss, the Great Furnace, hehe, if only I could have a forge of my own in the Great Furnace!"

His look was no different from the look on his face when he saw a young girl.

Noticing the strange looks from the people around him, Malen wiped the saliva from his mouth and said confidently: "Look what I'm doing! Do you know what a great honor it is for dwarves to have their own exclusive forge in the melting pot? ?”

“The lower the terrain goes, the closer to the bottom of the furnace, the higher the temperature will be, and the better the quality of the smelted metals and forged weapons and equipment will be, but only the dwarves with the best and most exquisite forging skills can obtain this. The honor is to have the qualification to go to the lower level of the melting pot.”

"The forge in the middle of the melting pot also requires dwarves to prove their superb skills and ability to forge truly high-quality equipment before they are eligible to receive a forge exclusive to them."

"As for other people, they can only use the public forges on the upper floors of the melting pot. The effect is worse than the bottom and middle floors. Not to mention, you still have to queue and wait."

"The lower the position of his forge, the higher his reputation and status among the dwarves!"

"My body contains a quarter of dwarf blood, and mixed-race dwarves are also considered dwarves!"

"My grandmother once owned a middle-level forge that belonged to her. I inherited her bloodline. Why can't I gain the honor and respect of the dwarves?"

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There are 4 more updates in the evening, so there should be no more updates today, just take a break every day.