Chapter 743 Uninvited

First-time offenders will be sentenced to station in marginal areas, away from the entire stone giant community.

This punishment is somewhat difficult to understand for many people who do not know the stone giants.

But for the stone giants themselves, this is a very serious punishment. Stone giants, especially young stone giants, are very playful and sociable creatures, but the games they play are not acceptable to ordinary creatures, such as stone throwing competitions or stone catching games - that is, throwing or catching hundreds of kilograms of boulders.

Spiritual loneliness is the most terrible torture.

Domingo is one of them. Because of the serious dereliction of duty in the last mission, he was thrown into the dwarf tomb, together with these boring, completely without any enthusiasm for life, lost the passion for creation, and only knew how to do hard labor.

The Death Chief Council, which formulated this punishment method, only considered the punishment effect brought by this method and the convenience of task arrangement.

There was no consideration at all. For those stone giants who were punished, when they could not get spiritual comfort from their own people, they could only devote their energy to the art they loved, resulting in the second or third dereliction of duty.

However, some stone giants suspected that it was not that the undead chiefs of the Council of Death Chiefs did not know this truth, but that they did it intentionally.

If they did not do this, how could they let the stone giants join their ranks in a legitimate way? The stone giants who were punished for dereliction of duty three times would be determined by the Council of Death Chiefs as no longer valuable to the stone giant tribe, at least not when they were alive, and would be transformed into more valuable undead existences.

When they were transformed into an undead state, they no longer had even the most basic emotions, so where did the creative passion come from? When have you ever heard that there are artists among the undead?

There is only terror and killing!

There is a good reason for doing this. Giants are also immortal species. Even the hill giants with the shortest lifespan have a lifespan of three or four hundred years, just like dwarves.

Stone giants are neither long nor short. If there are no accidents, they can live for eight to ten centuries.

When the stone giants naturally age and then transform into the undead state, how slow will the development of the Council of the Chiefs of Death be?

But if there is a dereliction of duty crime that matches the nature of the stone giants, the number of stone giants transformed into the ranks of the undead stone giants will increase significantly, and the remaining ones are all diligent and dedicated to their duties for the tribe.

Domingo felt a serious crisis, because he was charged with dereliction of duty not once, but twice. If he added one more, he would be reported in the undead category.

He was just 200 years old, which was the best age of life. He didn't want to join the ranks of the undead without emotions. He asked solemnly: "You are also dwarves, and you have no way to remove this seal?"

When this guy talked to me before, 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 dwarf graveyard. It was not just a simple dereliction of duty. He never put his mind on work for a minute, at least not before.

Yuriu's tribe has been enslaved by the Council of Death Chiefs for nearly a thousand years, so naturally they are well understood from top to bottom.

His understanding of the nature of the stone giants is even better than his own. He forced himself to suppress his inner complaints and repeated the answer he had repeated countless times, "The remnants of the Supreme Shanatar have already anticipated that you will use their furnace, so they are not using ordinary seals, but unique vein sealing techniques.

They have integrated the entire vein with their city. This vein can only be mined from their city, and it is indestructible when mined from other directions.

To lift this seal, it must be done in the dwarf city above, by the descendants of the Supreme Shatana with pure blood, holding the seal key. Three conditions are indispensable."

The seal of the Colossus City is not just as simple as hiding and blocking the passage to the Underdark.

If this is true, even if the gray dwarves from bottom to top have not dug through the vein for thousands of years, they have already opened up a new passage.

Domingo was discouraged when he heard the three conditions. 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 people of Supreme Shatana. Before Supreme Shatana was established, they were abducted by the Mind Flayer, not to mention that their mutated blood is still unknown whether it is dwarf blood.

As for the seal key, who knows what it is?

It may be a tailor-made key, a gem, or a stone.

The seal key is just a reference to a certain item.

As for going to the dwarf city on the surface, it may be something that the Council of Death Chiefs can do, but for him, I am afraid it is beyond his ability.

It is said that a group of trolls as tall and intelligent as their stone giants occupied there and established a huge troll kingdom.

"Looking for new mineral veins?" Domingo retreated to the second best and looked for methods from other directions.

Speaking of this, Yuriu became even more resentful, and gritted his teeth and said, "Finding new mineral veins is not a matter of one day or one night, especially since we are now four thousand meters underground and surrounded by thick layers of dry hot rock. If there is no protection from the city's heat extraction device, we will be roasted in minutes.

When we open a mine, we have to deal with the geothermal heat in the rock before we can proceed.

Two centuries ago, I proposed to Manager Samingo to explore new veins. A century ago, I also proposed to Manager Arana, and when you just took office, I also proposed it.

But you either ignored it or didn't listen to it at all.

Exploring new veins now is just like trying to use the water from the Endless Sea to put out the fire here. It is a completely unrealistic thing. "

After hearing the two names mentioned by Yuriu, Domingo was suddenly enveloped by a heavy feeling of powerlessness. No wonder this city is nicknamed the Giant's Tomb in the Stone Giant Tribe. To serve here is to step into the ranks of the undead.

These two are notorious criminals for dereliction of duty. They have kept this mess until now, until it exploded on themselves.

When Domingo attributed the crime to his two predecessors, he did not consider at all that he had been in office here for thirty years, and he had been derelict in his duty all the time.

Leaving the big and small affairs here to Yuriu, as long as As long as they don't try to escape and pay the goods required by the Council of Death Chiefs on a monthly basis, they will no longer be bothered with them.

Well, Yuriu seems to have come to me more than once or twice for this problem. However, if I ignore them for several consecutive times, they will find ways to make up for the production. After all, they don't want an undead stone giant without any feelings to come and exploit them.

Domingo no longer cares about it, but the gap this time is too big.

Even if he neglects his duties again, he will notice it.

Domingo can't help but lower his posture and ask: "Is there no other way to think about it? First deal with this month, and I will go back to the tribe to think of a solution?"

Yuriu shook his head without hesitation and said: "There is no way to think about it. Now we are doing our best to produce. The quality of the ore is there. The grade has dropped from 43% to 13%. We are already looking for iron stones from the pile of stones.

Unless there is a higher grade ore, it can only be the current production. "

Domingo's eyes fell on his giant palace, and suddenly he brightened up, and suddenly he said: "If this palace is dismantled and integrated into the iron ore, can it replace part of the production? "

Even though Yuriu was a deep-minded person, he had to stare at Domingo in amazement at this moment. He couldn't help but suspect that his brain was also made of stone. He had been here for thirty years. Could it be that he didn't know the situation here at all?

The reason why this palace was cast with steel was not to show the performance of the city, but to carry the necessities of the city and the key devices.

If it is demolished, it will soon become a melting furnace with a temperature of more than hundreds of degrees, steaming all creatures that are not immune to fire.

After being stared at by Yuriu's weird eyes for a while, Domingo finally remembered the difference of this gray dwarf city. A blush appeared on his blue-gray face involuntarily. He seemed to have come up with another stupid idea.

But for a while, there was no other trick to think of.

If it doesn't work, go back to the Council of Death Chiefs to think of a way?

See if you can convince them?

After all, the exhaustion of iron ore resources in the dwarf tomb is beyond human power. At most, I reported it a few years late.

This is not entirely my responsibility.

"I have a suggestion. I wonder if you two want to listen to it. "A voice rang out of thin air.

"Who's there?"

"Come out!"

Both the stone giant manager Domingo and the gray dwarf chief Yuriu were startled and looked around vigilantly. Domingo, in particular, couldn't help but hold the carving hammer and stone chisel tightly. Although they were not special weapons, their size was amazing enough, and their lethality to most creatures was still considerable.

Like most cities in the Underdark, the Dwarf Tomb is a militarized and extremely closed city. Not to mention strangers, even internal personnel cannot appear in places where they should not appear during non-specified times.

This steel fortress is a restricted area. Without Domingo's permission, even Yuriu couldn't let those heavy armored giant undead guards who didn't know what flexibility was let in.

"Don't get excited, don't get excited. If I wanted to hurt you, you would have died long ago, and you wouldn't have waited until now. ”

Just less than ten meters away from the two men, a human statue came to life. As he walked closer, the blue-gray color of the stone was fading and turning into a vibrant skin color.

A statue came to life?

The statue he carved has its own life?

No.

Although his carving skills are good, he is not yet able to give life to the statue.

Although Domingo is confused about managing the dwarf tomb, he is not confused at all about carving. He has carved a total of 203 statues of human beings, elves and other humanoid creatures over the years.

I dare not say that he remembers the physical features and appearance of each statue clearly, but at least when he sees them again, he can recognize them from many similar statues at a glance.

This one does not belong to any of them, but he did not pay attention to it before. After all, Domingo would never have thought that someone would use camouflage to mix into his statue.

How did this guy get in?

How long has he been here?

Why didn't the heavily armored giant undead guards in the palace react at all?

What about this ability to transform into a statue?

The transformation of the shapeshifter?

No, the shapeshifter can only transform into humanoid creatures. I have never heard of it transforming into a statue or something like that.

Could it be the magician's transformation of everything?

"Super-transformation, you are a psychic, a shapeshifter." Yuriu recognized the other party's ability at a glance, his face as deep as water.

Because they were once enslaved by the mind sucker with the mind manipulation spell, the gray dwarves have an extreme lack of favor for people and creatures with the ability of mind spells.

To be more precise, there is a fear and fear from the heart, so they will study them to prevent repeating the same mistakes.

Gavin smiled at the stone giant who was slowly moving towards the palace gate and said, "Manager Domingo, don't waste your energy. Your heavy armor giant undead guards are no longer yours. I have infused them with shadow power and made them mine."

Maybe it was because the enemies he faced during this period were a bit unusual. Many monsters had to use unusual big moves or unusual origins in the end.

For example, the necromancer of Avanso turned out to be a demon beast ghost in disguise, and the devil Grand Duke Maman stood behind him.

For example, the trolls in the Troll Kingdom turned out to be cultists of the Lord of the Abyss, the two-headed baboon, and almost tricked Demogorgon.

Not to mention the battle of ascension in the Goblin Border, everyone has their own trump cards.

This made Gavin look at any opponent, as if he had several tricks behind him, and he was 100% careful. This was also the case when he infiltrated the gray dwarf city this time.

In the end, he found that things were much simpler than he thought.

He hid in the gray dwarf tavern, listening to them complain about the heavy workload and the increasing difficulty of mining iron ore, but no one could detect his presence.

He went into their iron smelting, steel smelting, and forging workshops, and observed the operation of the city with his own eyes, as if he was in a no-man's land.

He manipulated the power of shadows to inject into the bodies of those heavily armored giant undead guards, replacing them as puppets of the Vizeme Manor, and then watched the stone giants obsessed with carving next to him, and he was completely unaware.

This situation occurred because Gavin's current means were extraordinary. Whether it was the ghost cloak or the ability of super-state transformation, they were all extraordinary means. Without restraint, it would be difficult to discover him.

The power of shadows that can manipulate the undead and replace them is not possessed by everyone. This has already belonged to the category of divine power. It is calculated without intention, and it is accurate every time.

The main reason 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 is good that they do not hunt those monsters. No monster dares to harass here.

The heavy armored giant undead guards led by the stone giant manager are more suitable for guarding the gray dwarves and supervising their mining and forging than defending against foreign enemies.

When Gavin found that the stone giant manager was not as evil as imagined, and the predicament of the gray dwarf city, he immediately adjusted the conquest strategy in time.

If it is possible to take over this city in a relatively peaceful way, it is better not to declare war on a group of monster tribes that have existed for thousands of years.

The gray dwarf city is easy to take, but it does not mean that the Death Chief Council headed by the undead stone giant chief Duokong is easy to provoke. This is vividly demonstrated by the hundreds of heavy armored giant undead guards stationed here.

These heavy armored giant undead guards are not made of stone giant corpses. All real giants, as long as they are of pure blood, have a height of at least five meters when they grow up.

These heavily armored giant undead guards are only more than four meters and less than five meters tall. Although they can be classified as giants, they are pseudo-giants like trolls and hobgoblins.

They are all made of the giant corpses of the monster races on the Giant Plains. They are neither skeletons nor zombies, but are somewhat similar to mummies. The armor on their bodies is a shroud.

This is a method used by the undead to imitate the golem armor.

A group of steel monsters with life dice above extraordinary, painless and insensible, and who do not know what fear is, but have extraordinary combat awareness, are definitely a disaster on the battlefield.

And such soldiers, the Council of Death Chiefs who have been manipulating the situation in the Giant Plains for many years behind the scenes, have accumulated countless of them.

Gavin used the power of shadows to manipulate them, purely taking advantage of sneak attacks and plots. When they were on the battlefield, when they launched a charge in groups, this method could not be used, and they could only fight head-on.

And the real core of them is the undead stone giant.

Giants are a supernatural race. Even the weakest hill giants, as long as they reach adulthood, have ten life dice. Stone giants, who rank far above them, have fourteen life dice. With a little effort, they can enter the ranks of quasi-legends. After transforming into an undead state, they will become even more powerful.

Not to mention the successive undead stone giant chieftains, especially the first undead stone giant chieftain Duokong, who has transformed himself into an undead state for thousands of years.

Gavin has reason to suspect that he is not an ordinary undead creature, but a lich, a high-level lich with at least thirty life dice.

Gavin's kind reminder not only did not make Domingo give up, but instead twisted the super-large ring in his hand more frequently, saying repeatedly: "Come in, come in, there are intruders."

At the same time, he ran towards the entrance of the giant's palace.

Even though he was nearly three times taller and stronger than the other party and had terrifying strength, Domingo would not easily engage in close combat if he had to. He would let those heavily armored giant undead guards hold the other party back while he used his innate ability to throw stones to smash the enemy.