Chapter 742: Gray Dwarf City

"I was afraid that getting too close to this city would attract the enemy's attention if my whereabouts were exposed. Therefore, after establishing a safe base, I immediately chose to come back and report to the Lord, and did not further investigate the city."

The spirit naga explained, "But one thing is certain. This city is not small in size and has no less than a thousand gray dwarves. The undead stone giants attach great importance to this place. They not only set up a large number of traps around the city, but also There is an undead army stationed there, including a large number of giant undead."

"You've done a good job. The enemy's covertness is our biggest advantage. If we were to alert the enemy just for a little information, it would be more than worth the gain." Gavin nodded with satisfaction, "Having this information is enough for us to formulate a strategic plan. "

"Lord, what do you need me to do next?"

"First you take me to establish an anchor point, and then you lead the task force to investigate along this gray dwarf city, trying to find all the passages connected to the undead stone giant city. The most important thing is to maintain your own The secret must not let the enemy notice your existence, let alone let them understand your intentions. "

"Lord, don't worry. The entire Shadow Wing task force is ready to die for your lord. We would rather die than let ourselves fall into the hands of the enemy."

"Very well, let's establish the anchor first."

The anchor point Gavin mentioned is very simple, that is, the spirit naga will take him and teleport to the safe stronghold they established in the underdark area. Then after Gavin leaves his own soul mark here, he can accurately control the place. Teleported.

The safe base chosen by the Shadow Wing task force is very hidden. It is a stone cave the size of a basketball court. It is located on a fork in the road without any water source or light. It is a dead end. Not even mushrooms grow, let alone living things.

Even in the Underdark, it is a place where birds do not poop.

Those dark monsters in the Underdark who are good at ambushes usually choose to lie dormant on the main roads where there are more creatures coming and going, instead of such dead ends. Here, the chance of prey coming to the door on their own is too low.

After determining the safety factor here, Gavin returned to the ground to mobilize his troops.

The first thing to do is to drag all the other two voters of Ms. Strategy over. In a small and airtight environment like the Underdark, the ability to dispatch troops and generals for large-scale teleportation is really too monstrous. .

Whether attacking or retreating, you have absolute initiative.

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

With the expansion of roads and the establishment of road statues, communication has become more convenient. If the equipment can be mass-produced, it will only take two or three days to be shipped to them.

"The Underdark is different from ground combat. It is difficult to gain an advantage in terms of numbers here. When it comes to army selection, it is better to choose more troops than more expensive ones. Those with dark vision will be given priority."

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

"Once Colossus City chooses to capture this gray dwarf city, it is inevitable to turn against the Council of Death Chiefs. Since all the passages are to be destroyed, we might as well do something more extreme and come to a encirclement point for reinforcements to trap their army. Kill some of them in the Underdark Passage to reduce the pressure for the subsequent war."

"This coincides with me, but if you want to encircle the point and provide reinforcements, you need more accurate intelligence support. Therefore, I want to personally sneak into the gray dwarf city below to obtain first-hand intelligence."

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

"There is no more suitable candidate than me. My super state transformation allows me to use my transformation ability to infiltrate. Even if I am exposed, with my own ability, as long as I am not crushed by that kind of absolute strength, I can also destroy this place." The city is in turmoil, not to mention you guys outside to support me."

"General Gavin's ability is indeed very suitable for secret infiltration. When necessary, he can also use his ultimate move to combine inside and outside. This can be our core tactic this time."

"Then this matter is settled. I will order Veranika and Shanoba to fully cooperate with you two to strive for a quick victory and win this gray dwarf city at once."

Three cobblers can still stand up to Zhuge Liang, let alone three strategist ladies. The voters gathered together and came up with a bunch of strategies and tactics in minutes.

After setting the general direction, Gavin waved his hand and left the work of organizing the army and dispatching troops to Catherine and Zalanda. He ran to the front line and started to sneak in secretly.

Because there really is no more suitable candidate than him.

His ability to metamorphose gives him the ability to deceive most living creatures.

And the ability to call upon the power of shadow from the Immortal Wezeme Manor allows him to deceive the undead creatures' perception of living creatures.

Needless to say, there is no need to mention the means of saving lives. Even in a city full of enemies, it is still unknown who will attack whom.

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

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

They must prevent the enemy from jumping over the wall in a hurry. When they find that they cannot defend the city, they are not willing to take advantage of the enemy and directly destroy this device.

If it were pure destruction, it would be fine. At most, the loss would be to the smelting and forging city that has not yet been recovered. Once a big explosion occurs.

It’s a lot of fun.

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

They also want to eliminate another possibility - there is a teleportation gate or teleportation circle built in this city.

If the opponent had the ability to directly send large-scale troops to the gray dwarf city, their tactic of encircling the point and calling for reinforcements would become a joke.

Under the leadership of the spirit naga, Gavin sneaked near the gray dwarf city without any danger.

That is to say, because the strength of one person and one snake is extraordinary, ordinary creatures in the underdark area can't even find them if they cause trouble to them.

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

It is unknown how deep this gray dwarf city is located under the City of Colossus. What is known is that it has become an out-and-out three-dimensional forging city.

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

The use of flame geothermal energy has been taken to an extreme here. There are devices and pipes similar to huge steam boilers everywhere around the city. The steampunk style is as rich as it can be.

There are neither idle buildings nor idle people in the entire city. All gray dwarves walking on the streets have gloomy faces and hurried expressions.

In terms of body shape, gray dwarves are very similar to dwarves, and are even a little shorter. The average height is about 1.3 meters. The word "stout" flows from all over the body. The arms are as thick as the thighs, and the muscles on them are like rocks. of solidity.

Compared with ordinary dwarves, gray dwarves have two racial characteristics of their own. They have gray-white skin that looks like blood loss. This is caused by living in the dark areas of the middle and lower classes for many years. Many of them will never see the sun in their entire lives. , which is also the origin of their gray dwarf nickname.

Another characteristic is baldness, which is true for both men and women. They are born without a single hair. This is the sequelae left by their former masters, the mind flayers, who have enslaved and manipulated their minds for a long time, which means that they will be permanently affected. changes.

The similar appearance and the same dress make these gray dwarves very similar to both men and women. The most obvious distinguishing feature is probably their beards. Women do not have beards.

They retained the dwarves' love for beards and styled them into different shapes to show outsiders their dark mood and uniqueness.

This gray dwarf city is named Dwarf Tomb. You don’t need to ask to know that it must have been named by the giants. This is a mockery of their former enemies.

The dwarf tomb is clearly divided into two parts. One is a huge palace fortress high above the sky. It is filled with a strong sense of luxury inside and out. The ground is paved with blue-gray iron ingots, and the walls are made of fine steel. Yes, rows of four-and-a-half-meter-long steel puppets surrounded the place.

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

This is where the stone giant, the master of the city, lives.

The people who rule here are not the undead stone giant chiefs, but the living stone giants. In fact, the same is true over at Cainheim Village. Both the undead stone giant chief Dokon and his council of death chiefs are hidden behind the scenes. , apparently ruled by a stone giant chief.

It is not difficult to understand that this situation occurs. After all, the undead have no ability to reproduce, and giants do not dominate the world. If they want to continue to develop, they must rely on living stone giants.

Only when their bodies begin to weaken will they be allowed to join the ranks of the undead stone giants.

Compared to the undead, the living stone giants still have emotions and desires, and are more suitable for managing slave cities like the Dwarf Tombs.

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

The stone giants did not put shackles on these gray dwarf slaves, nor did they use mind magic to control them. They just used mystical locks to block all teleportation capabilities, and sent heavy-armored giant undead to control all entrances and exits.

The roar of machinery and steam in the city below the dwarf tomb shook the sky, but once they stepped inside the giant palace in the upper city, all those sounds disappeared, leaving only the crisp sound of hammers hitting stone chisels.

That was the sound of the stone giant carving.

The Giant's Palace is more appropriately described as a huge exhibition room than a palace.

It is filled with various sculptures, including benevolent and loving angels, ferocious and terrifying demons, and various deformed monsters, grotesque but lifelike.

Every stone giant is an excellent sculptor. Most of them have spell-like abilities such as stone shaping, but they rarely use them. They believe that statues made by this method have no spirituality. .

Only by using hammers and stone chisels to carve the stones according to their own characteristics can the most perfect and moving works of art be produced.

Yuriu had no way to distinguish the beauty of this sculpture. Every time he entered the hall of giant statues, he always felt extremely depressed, as if these weird statues would really wake up in the next second.

Especially those statues of humanoid creatures with mouths like octopus tentacles. Every time he saw them, Yuriu felt extremely uncomfortable and angry. He wanted to rush up and smash them to pieces with a hammer.

Because they were the statues of the gray dwarves' biggest enemy, the former master, the mind flayer.

Although Yuriu had never seen any mind flayer since he was born, it did not prevent him from having a deep anger and contempt for them.

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

[Stone Giant]

There was rage in his heart, but his face was as gloomy as ever, and there was no sign of anything.

All the gray dwarves are masters of controlling emotions. The expressions on their faces are like stone carvings. They rarely reveal their true thoughts. This is an instinct developed by being slaves for many years.

No matter which creature enslaves them, I am afraid they will not act according to their expressions.

On the contrary, extra emotions can easily bring them fatal disasters.

It was not until the last sucker of the octopus tentacle was carved out that the stone giant nodded with satisfaction. He looked down at the gray dwarf chieftain who was not even as tall as his calf and asked: "Chief Yuliu, this month is almost half over, and the goods you delivered are less than one-third of the stipulated amount.

For this, I was severely reprimanded by the parliament. If my task is not fully completed in the next few months, I am afraid that the dwarf tomb will have to be managed by someone else.

Believe me, there is no more merciful manager than me in the entire tribe. Your life will hardly be as easy and free as in the past thirty years."

Even when talking about extremely unfavorable news to himself, the stone giant manager did not show any anger. There was only endless calmness on the rock-gray face, as if this matter had nothing to do with him.

Stone giants are the most gentle giants among all giants. They are natural sculptors. Many of them are obsessed with carving and live a peaceful and quiet secluded life.

Coming here to manage these gray dwarves is not a task that the stone giant manager wants, but a forced arrangement by the Council of Death Chiefs. He has to accept it.

Even if he is dismissed for poor performance, it will not have much impact on him. He will just be reprimanded after returning to the village and be imprisoned for a few years or even decades. It will not have much impact on him who is obsessed with carving.

The ones who are really affected are probably the gray dwarves in the dwarf tomb.

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

But once the Council of Death Chiefs believes that living people are no longer competent for this job and sends undead stone giant managers, then this place will really become a dwarf tomb.

Although the Undead Stone Giants were transformed from Stone Giants, they are not the same species at all. They no longer have any feelings, even towards their former family members and tribesmen, not to mention the slave races. In their eyes, there are only tasks and the unattainable dream of restoring the country.

Even the dream of restoring the country is not their own, but instilled in them by the Undead Stone Giant Chieftain Duokong.

"Honorable Sculptor, I have reminded and explained this to you five years ago. The main body of the iron ore here is above our heads. What we are mining now is tailings, which is difficult to mine and inefficient. Moreover, after so many years of uncontrolled mining, the iron ore here has been mined out.

To maintain production here, we must either find new sources of ore or find a way to remove the seal of the ore vein above our heads so that we can mine upwards."

The meaning of the Gray Dwarf Chief Yuriu is very clear. It is not that we are not working hard to produce, but that there is no ore to mine. No matter how advanced their mining and forging technology is, it is useless.

"If the seal of this vein could be lifted, we would have done it long ago. Why would we wait until now?"

The stone giant manager frowned deeply because he did remember this matter. However, he was obsessed with carving and did not take it to heart at all. After all, these gray dwarves have repeatedly mentioned this matter for a hundred years. They have been producing it all the time, and the output has increased several times over the years.

Both these managers and the Council of the Chief of Death believed that this was a means for the gray dwarves to use their professional knowledge to exaggerate and let the council take the initiative to reduce the output here.

But who would have thought that this would really happen, and it would happen during his term of office.

Although Domingo had no nostalgia for the position of manager, being judged as dereliction of duty by the Council of the Chief of Death was not the same as poor supervision.

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

This crime was unique to the stone giant tribe.

This is related to their racial nature. They are famous giant artists. Many of them have innate artistic talents, which are not limited to stone carving. They are also very good at music, painting, jewelry making, etc.

However, they are the best and most famous in stone carving. Eighty percent of the giant civilization buildings that remain in the world are from their hands, including the Giant Stairs and Giant Palaces in the Giant Running Mountains. Domingo is a leader in this field, a leader among the younger generation, second only to several stone giant elders in the tribe.

But when you are obsessed with one thing, you tend to forget another, such as your job.

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