Chapter 709: Sanoba's Strategic Intelligence

"We'll talk about it in detail when the time comes." Gavin pretended.

Now that he has brought the wandering dwarf king, he can no longer take the young copper dragon Ivinsa, leaving her here to grind his teeth with his old enemy.

Before Gavin arrived at the City of the Colossus with Jiharin, he sent an order to Shanobah through the ghost messenger, making full preparations and hiding things that were not suitable for exposure to outsiders. Even the dwarf Kui Jinbao, the village chief of Ruose, also invited him.

"The Weeping Dwarf truly deserves its reputation. To produce such a masterpiece requires not only extraordinary casting skills, but also unique geography. This city is difficult to replicate."

Jiharin's face once again filled with unconcealable sadness, "We dwarves have created countless glorious cities, but they are either buried underground forever, or occupied by monsters and become their lairs. This is what we dwarves bear." The greatest curse.”

Due to his life experiences, this wandering dwarf king is far more sentimental than ordinary dwarves, especially when facing those once-lost dwarf cities.

It would be false for him not to have any feeling that these former dwarves would become the lairs of kobolds.

"The patriarch is too pessimistic. What I see is exactly the opposite of what you see. In my opinion, these ruins are witnesses of the dwarves' glory. If they have never been glorious, how can they leave such shocking ruins?"

Gavin expressed his opinion, "There is no race that has prospered for a long time in this world. Giants, dragons and elves all once stood at the top of history, but now they are in decline? On the contrary, dwarves have been silently creating It is the same for the giant dynasty and the dragon generation, it is the same for the era of elves, and it is still the same now. Throughout history, only the dwarves have this unique experience, and no one else has a semicolon. "

"Let me tell you that, I look at things too pessimistically." Jiharin laughed loudly, "What exactly did the General say before? Can you tell me now?"

"Before I talk, let me introduce you to someone first. This is the mayor of Jinbao Village. He comes from Querosai Village and is a top gem maker."

Gavin led Jihalin to a huge rock mural, where a dwarf with long arms and short legs was already waiting there.

Before he could introduce Jihalin’s identity.

Jin Bao, the head of the dwarf village, had already come forward and said with a smile on his face: "Old man, I didn't expect to see you here. When was the last time we met? Half a century ago? Or a century ago?"

"Do you know each other?" Gavin said in surprise.

"More than just knowing each other, three centuries ago, when we were young men, we took risks together." Jinbao said with a smile, "I just asked you to find a senior blacksmith, but I didn't expect that you actually hired a legendary Blacksmith, now that you have invited him here, I will be more confident about repairing the Heart of the Mountains."

"Repair the Heart of the Mountains, have you found the Heart of Regeneration?"

"All the noble trolls here have been killed by General Gavin. How can the Heart of Rebirth still escape?" Jinbao dragged Jiharin to the rock mural and said, "This is your dwarf rune. Help me interpret it and compare it." , see if my interpretation is correct..."

"Your interpretation seems correct on the surface, but in fact it is ridiculously wrong. How could the dwarves openly imprint the method of making an artifact on the wall? Even if it is, it is definitely misleading or has the nature of a riddle. This is It is a three-layered rune, and at least two other runes are needed to fuse them together to interpret the meaning correctly. "

"I see. No wonder I always feel that this thing is a bit too simple. There is always something missing in it. The reason is here. Let's go, I will take you to see other murals. When did you dwarves become so cunning and play this game? One hand."

"How do you call this cunning? This is just the most normal way of keeping secrets. I'm afraid that if the three-layer runes are cracked later, what I get will only be encrypted code words. There must be corresponding code words annotations."

"Isn't this the secret code annotation you mentioned?"

"Yes, this is the code comment. Where does it come from?"

"Of course it's the heart of rebirth, it's engraved on it."

"That's right, it must be."

"So, the keys are in our hands, all that's left is to find the treasure."

Since the two were acquaintances, Gavin saved the trouble and there was no need for him to introduce the situation at all. Village Chief Jinbao dragged Jiharin to explain the whole incident clearly.

The biggest treasure of this dwarf city, the Heart of the Mountains, is a magical treasure forged by dwarves. Even if he, a dwarf, holds the most critical Heart of Regeneration, it is not that difficult to restore it. With the help of the dwarf blacksmith The difficulty will be greatly reduced.

Seeing that the two were caught up in the exchange of restoration techniques, Gavin took the opportunity to deal with his own affairs and asked Shanobah, who had returned, "Is it possible?"

What he was asking was whether Shanobah's dragon breath could be used to make a dragon breath flutter bomb. After all, he had just guessed before, and the specific results still needed field testing.

"Okay." Shanoba said happily, "In this way, we have another effective defense and offense method. It is a perfect match with my Black Wing Guards and can carry out aerial bombing."

"The Black Wing Guards are not the best choice for aerial bombing. Their size itself is not prepared for flight. There is no advantage in flying speed in the air, let alone carrying a large number of bulky Dragon's Breath flutter bombs. They are more suitable as air escorts, used to protect air combat units that are less capable of flying.

The ones that are truly suitable as aerial bombing units are those that are super huge and can carry a large number of Dragon's Breath Flutter Bombs and corresponding air combat units to carry out large-scale aerial bombing beyond the enemy's restricted airspace. "

Gavin, who has seen the development pattern of air combat on Earth, is absolutely forward-looking in this regard.

It's just that he didn't consider developing fighter jets. The technical content of that thing was too high, and it was not easy to use. After all, it was the ultimate use of objects, and the operator himself was not strong.

The enemy only needs a control magic to use this powerful combat tool for his own use and turn it against him.

This is something he's been doing a lot lately.

Faerûn has many choices of its own, and the dragons are just one of them.

All forbidden air magic, including the powerful Mystery Barrier, has a covering range, and most of them are hemispherical with the core point.

As long as it is outside the envelope of forbidden air magic, it will not be affected in any way, which provides the possibility of high-altitude bombing.

Of course, this situation is temporary.

This mode originally appeared purely because air combat in Faerûn was generally used as an auxiliary means for raids, or at medium and short ranges, and aerial bombings rarely occurred.

Once this war model reveals its ferocious face, all kinds of defense methods will definitely spring up like mushrooms after a rain.

Although war has many shortcomings, one thing is generally recognized, that is, it will promote the development of a world's science and technology, whether it is creative or destructive, whether it is physical technology or magical technology.

But if you take the lead in a certain aspect, you will definitely get a lot of benefits. During World War II on Earth, Germany didn't just get the benefits of tank technology first, which laid a solid foundation for their blitzkrieg. It took just a few months to lay the foundation. half of Europe.

Gavin and the others now have the absolute upper hand in flutter bombs. Based on this alone, it would be unthinkable to capture half of Faerûn. But if they can rely on their advantage in this aspect, they can defeat Tukan's nomadic army. It is absolutely possible to shine and win glorious military exploits.

After all, the strength of Tukan's nomadic army lies mainly in the terrifying number of prairie cavalry on the ground, not in the air.

Forming a powerful air force will be what he needs to do in the next few months, and the City of Colossus is an important part. The mutual aid capabilities of the kobold queen of Xanoba and the dragon dog are shining brightly.

Her ability in this area is already well-known.

There was no need for her to go out and take the initiative to gather them. The ownerless kobolds from the Troll Mountains, Giant Plains, Giant Running Mountains and Snowflake Mountains were all rushing here with their families, and there was no way to stop them.

The kobolds are willing to serve the dragons and swear allegiance to them, isn't it just to gain more power and tap the dragon blood in their bodies?

When you take refuge in the dragon, change is real, it just takes time to accumulate, and it often takes several generations of kobolds to see it.

Shanoba's mutual aid between dragons and dogs is immediate. As long as the kobolds themselves have a certain potential, as long as they come to the City of Colossus and join a mutual aid synchronization here, they will have a chance to awaken the dragon vein and dragon blood template. Maybe even dragon transformation.

In addition, the rule here is more benevolent and relaxed than that of most metal dragons.

Why don't those kobolds flock to them?

In just two months, the number of kobolds in Colossus City has increased tenfold. They are all busy inside and outside, and their barks are everywhere.

The iron ore here has not only begun to produce, but is already several times that of the Black Well. It won't be long before it will increase several times on this basis.

The mine at Heijing is completely self-operated, and everything needs to be built by yourself.

Here in Colossus City, we eat ready-made food.

Although there is no automated iron-making production line here, there are abandoned dwarf railway tracks, and the mines are numerous and large enough to accommodate tens of thousands of kobolds mining at the same time. Coupled with the large-scale use of flutter bombs, The output is naturally amazing.

Because of the cooperation agreement reached between Gavin and Raymond, the mayor of Shwetavon City, the iron ore here has no worries about sales.

Now the outside of Colossus City is lined with heavy trucks waiting to be loaded with iron ore. When the front feet leave the mine, the back feet will be pulled away.

The section between Colossus City and Ritawen City has become the busiest on the entire Conqueror's Road, and this will also be the section that will be constructed with the highest priority using paving technology.

With limited manpower, construction will naturally be prioritized wherever needed.

After listening to Gavin's description, Shanobah's eyes suddenly lit up, and she quickly said: "After hearing what the lord said, I thought of a suitable partner. When I went to the Giant's Run Mountains to gather the kobolds, I used to go to the Giant's Run Mountains to collect the kobolds. I encountered a cloud ray on the plain.

It is said that it calls the Giant Plains home and uses the beasts here as its main food source. We can try to capture it and use it as our aerial carrying platform. "

"Cloud Ray!" When Gavin heard the name, a unique image of a huge creature suddenly appeared in his mind.

This creature is one of the most majestic flying creatures in Faerûn. When they reach adulthood, they have bodies larger than ancient golden dragons, starting at least twenty meters tall.

If it doesn't swoop down to hunt, it looks like a cloud floating in the sky from the ground, and its shape is a bit like a ray wandering in the sea, hence its name.

When they reach adulthood, they are invincible in the air, except for the adult dragons. Large flying creatures such as rhinoceros, hippogriff, Pegasus, spiny tailed lion, griffin, etc. will all become its food.

Most of the time, they still prey on the beasts on the ground. After all, their size is too large, which makes them very slow. As long as those flying creatures do not seek their own death, the cloud rays cannot catch up with them.

This super-giant magical beast is a perfect match for the dragon's breath flutter bomb. It can be transformed into an aerial bombing platform to carry out indiscriminate bombardment on the ground.

"Very good, very good, very good." Gavin excitedly hugged Shanobah and said, "You are responsible for sending someone to track that cloud ray and find out everything about it. Is it just one? Or is it a single one?" There is a family group? I am responsible for formulating a battle plan to capture and control it.”

There are not many of these special magical beasts in Faerûn, and they are often hard to come by.

Now that you've encountered it, you can't let it go.

"Also, I discovered a group of flying dragons in the Troll Mountains. I want to try to use my flying dragon transformation ability to capture them for our use.

It's just that there is a powerful flying dragon king among them. Every time I show up, he will lead the flying dragon group to chase and expel me. This matter requires the assistance of the lord. "

Shanoba's two lines of Ren and Governor were completely opened in the City of the Colossus, and she completely understood her precise positioning.

In terms of ground combat capabilities, no matter how the kobolds develop, it is impossible to compare with the hobgoblins of Blood Gorge City.

Even with the auxiliary ability that the kobolds are best at, they have no advantage over the Dragon Oak Leader.

The flying unit was a big gap in Gavin's hands, and she was directly targeting this direction.

Therefore, in recent times, she has spared no effort to explore the potential of kobolds in this area, and is also trying her best to search for wild resources in this area, and Feilong is undoubtedly her best target.

"Then collect all their information together, and wait until the next time we come to fight against the cloud rays, we will take them down together." Gavin didn't get too excited, and took Shanoba to find trouble with those flying dragons. went.

Bombing and capturing are two completely different concepts, and special strategies and capture methods must be prepared.

Capturing them is just the beginning. How to tame them and use them for your own use is the ultimate goal.

But both cloud rays and flying dragons are unruly creatures.

Especially the latter, who is famous for his short temper, sometimes even better than the colorful dragon. After all, the dragon is a highly intelligent creature, and even the evil dragon can negotiate.

Flying dragons are somewhere between intelligent creatures and beasts.

You say they are beasts, they possess the cunning and arrogance of intelligent creatures.

You say they are intelligent creatures, but they are as reckless and aggressive as wild beasts, and are easily fooled by some tricks.

It is not that there are no flying dragon mounts in Faerûn, but the number is very small. They are usually domesticated from eggs or cubs, and a lot of energy and blood are spent in the process.

Neither Gavin nor Shanoba planned to spend more than ten years cultivating and domesticating the flying dragon, but planned to directly operate on the adult one.

If you can't figure them out with ordinary methods, use magic.

If magic can't handle it, then start with special abilities.

They now have many options to master, such as the Dragon Oak Mother Tree, and don't forget how Gavin controlled the young red dragon Roderick and the black dragon girl Shanoba.

It is estimated that this method was what Shanoba thought of before she set her sights on the flying dragons.

"In order to welcome the Lord's arrival, we have specially prepared a dragon-raising ceremony for all. Lord, would you like to join in?" Shanobah invited.

"You just proceed as usual. If necessary, I will naturally join in." Gavin did not hide Colossus City's Dragon Ascension Ceremony from Chief Jinbao Village and Chief Jihalin.

Instead, they were directly invited to the highest point of Colossus City to watch this event, because this was the best opportunity to show off their strength.

Especially Jihalin, the stronger he is, the closer the two parties will be, and the greater the possibility of cooperation.

"Dragon Ascension Ceremony?" Every wrinkle on Jiharin's face showed deep doubts. "Do kobolds still have such customs?"

The probability of dwarves encountering little things like kobolds is much higher than that of ordinary people. After all, the living areas of the two sides are highly overlapping.

Although kobolds don't naturally hate dwarves like they hate dwarves, the relationship between the two parties is definitely not good.

Dwarves have a deep prejudice against kobolds, because after many dwarf cities were abandoned, they were occupied by these little things.

Therefore, their understanding of such little things is far higher than ordinary people.

"This is unique to Colossus City. Wait a minute, and you will see the unique dog barking and dragon dance." Village Chief Jinbao had a complex look on his face. He had obviously seen this kind of scene more than once. I was shocked every time.

He has witnessed the growth of Colossus City with his own eyes, and looking back now, it is a bit incredible.

Compared to goblins, the number of kobolds is relatively small. Even for dwarves whose living areas overlap with theirs, the chance of seeing kobolds is not high.

But when they arrived at Colossus City, they came in an endless stream, with new faces joining every day.

Especially when the kobolds found that their safety on the Conqueror's Road was absolutely guaranteed, this road directly became a river of kobolds. All the kobolds around gathered here and then flowed along it, and Colossus City was their destination.

At this rate, the kobolds in the surrounding mountains will all run here, and it will be very easy to break through 100,000 in just a few years.

Even 100,000 rats will be a terrifying existence, not to mention 100,000 kobolds. This will become the largest kobold city in Faerun.

For dwarves who are naturally hated by kobolds, entering and leaving such a city is definitely not a good experience.

At best, Sanobar can suppress the kobolds from attacking them, but she cannot completely change this innate hostility, because it comes from their racial god.

"Let's start!" Gavin nodded to Shanoba beside him.