Chapter 745 Peaceful Resolution

Both the gray dwarf chieftain and the stone giant manager had a faint glow in their eyes, which was a sign of dark vision.

Even for ordinary people, it would be hard for their eyes to suddenly go from darkness to light.

Not to mention the creatures of the Underdark who had never left the ground for years or even their entire lives. It was difficult for them to adapt to the sunlight on the surface in a short period of time. Even if it did not permanently burn their eyes and make them blind, it would be like being half blind, and their vision would be limited.

Just like most surface residents would be seriously affected when they entered the Underdark.

The ghost eye towel showed good effects in this regard. The shadow power in it could perfectly neutralize the light that hurt their eyes. Although it had the defects of dimming their vision (black and white) and being partially restricted, it was better than resisting it head-on.

Gavin did not lead the two to perform teleportation. This place was covered by the strange stones he had secretly placed, prohibiting teleportation and detection spells, including his own.

Later, he will use a more powerful mist barrier to hide this place, and only the Colossus City on the surface can be entered and exited.

Gavin cast the flying spell for Yuriu and Domingo respectively, spread his dragon wings, and flew up along the cage shaft that had just been opened.

"Where are the manager and the clan leader going? Who is the person next to them? No matter the size or the style of the armor on his body, he doesn't look like our Durga people, but more like the surface elves."

"An outsider who looks like a surface elf, the mine seal is lifted and the channel collapses and is destroyed. I'm afraid it's not a coincidence?"

"Could it be that the manager and the clan leader were kidnapped by him?"

"Both the manager and the clan leader have quasi-legendary strength. It's not an easy thing to kidnap them at the same time!"

"Anyway, follow them and see, it's always right."

"Where is the caster? Where is the caster who can cast the flying spell? Cast the spell quickly and follow them and see."

The three people who took off at the same time were very conspicuous, and it was hard for the gray dwarves below not to notice them.

Since the surrounding area is full of hot dry rocks, glowing red, this city is not as dark as other dark areas. Although it is not as dark as the daytime on the ground, it is almost the same as the city with full moon and bright lights.

Many gray dwarf spellcasters instinctively cast flying spells for themselves and the powerful gray dwarf warriors around them.

Although the gray dwarves have the racial label of suspicious and selfishness, this refers to when dealing with foreigners. After all, they are dwarves. The slavery of the mind flayers has not only not changed their collective living habits, but on the contrary made them closer.

Because they know deeply that in this dangerous world, their personal strength is extremely weak, and other gray dwarves are the only ones worthy of their trust. Only by uniting firmly together can they survive in this malicious world.

In Faerun, you may see dwarves who leave their tribes and travel alone, but you will never see such gray dwarves. If you meet them, there is only one possibility, that they are sold as slaves. Once they are free, finding their own tribe members will be their first goal.

Dozens of gray dwarves followed Gavin and his men and soared into the air.

Gavin ignored them and focused his attention on the cage shaft.

It was located directly above the Giant's Palace. The two were originally one, but the dwarves cut it off artificially in order to perform the vein sealing technique, just like a skylight on the dome.

It looked inconspicuous at first glance, but when you fly closer, you will find that its size is quite amazing. It was not made for dwarves at all, but was built according to the size of giants.

The dwarves of the Supreme Shanatar did not regard height as beauty, but they enslaved a large number of giant slaves during their peak period.

All things must naturally be carried out according to the size standards of giants to facilitate their work, and the same is true for the mining area.

The fire giants built this smelting and forging plant. Only they who are immune to fire can dig and work in the dry hot rock layer without any heat reduction treatment.

This place should not be called the dwarf tomb, but the giant tomb, because a large number of fire giant corpses are buried here.

This makes the proportion of the gray dwarves here very large. At least one-third of them are taller than Goliath, close to large size, but the degree of sturdiness is incomparable, because they still retain the characteristics of the dwarves, such as big head, short neck, short legs, and thick arms.

In order to operate the super-large equipment here, gray dwarves occasionally use the giantization technique to make their bodies larger again - many of the equipment here are built according to the size of giants.

As for the gray dwarves' giantization technique, it is not a spell, but an innate ability. In addition, all gray dwarves have the ability to be invisible.

These two abilities are more like psychic powers than spell-like abilities, which are also trained by the long-term enslavement of the mind flayer.

Thanks to this ability, they are far more powerful than ordinary races, including the drow elves. Adult gray dwarves have at least four life dice. A well-equipped four-person first-level adventure team may not be able to defeat an adult gray dwarf. These giant gray dwarves are naturally stronger.

This huge shaft, like the giant palace below, is made entirely of fine steel, with huge, thick and rough devices inlaid on it, especially those steel pipes that are large enough to accommodate adults walking through them, which are full of the strong dwarven forging style, exactly the same as the smelting and forging style below.

Even after a thousand years, there is not only no sign of rust here, but it is still shining with oil, as if it has just been maintained by humans.

Like all dwarves, when the Supreme Shatana performed the vein sealing technique, he left a hand for his descendants, giving them the opportunity to restore the glory of the dwarves here.

During the sealing period, the time in the vein is constant.

It is precisely because of this habit of the dwarves that all intelligent races flock to the ruins of the dwarf city, because once they are lucky enough to open the treasure left by a dwarf kingdom for their descendants, they are not just nouveau riche. It is not uncommon to use it to expand territory and establish a city and a country.

The steel sealed pipes in the shaft are used to contain high-pressure steam from the smelting and forging plants below.

It must be mentioned that the use of steam heat here has reached an incredible level, even far exceeding the earth. After all, for the earth, hot dry rock is a new energy source. It has not only been developed and used here, but it has been unknown for how many years.

Hot dry rock is actually a rock layer directly connected to the magma. The hot temperature of the magma turns the entire rock layer into a high-temperature stone layer, so it is called hot dry rock.

Theoretically, hot dry rock is available in all underground places, but the depth of burial varies.

The hot dry rock on the side of the Colossus City is buried shallowly.

The entire gray dwarf city is a huge heat-absorbing device, which contains both the dwarves' forging skills and the peak application of rune magic, perfectly integrating magic with the physical kinetic energy brought by steam.

This shaft cage will definitely be driven by the high-pressure steam below in the future. It can not only be used to carry people, but also to transport goods.

The energy alone can cut the cost of smelting and forging in half.

If it is simply used as a lifting cage device, this high-pressure steam pipeline is a bit too thick. Its function must be to transport high-pressure steam upwards to drive more devices.

The dwarves of Supreme Shatana have already semi-automated smelting and forging. It is impossible for them to keep their mining at the level of using a pickaxe. They will definitely use high-pressure steam in their mining process, at least semi-mechanized.

As expected, as the shaft kept rising, at least eight huge steel gates appeared along the way, each with a slightly smaller branch pipe.

This means that there is at least one branch mine behind the steel gate.

As for what is behind the iron gate, even if Gavin is knowledgeable and imaginative, he can't fully imagine it.

After all, many things in the gray dwarf city have exceeded his imagination and cognition.

And this is what is most worth looking forward to.

The length of the shaft cage is quite amazing, a full 3,400 meters, and there are hundreds of densely packed safety devices along the way.

This means that the gray dwarf city is located four kilometers below the ground.

"The Lord has come up, bringing a stone giant and a gray dwarf, no, there is a group of gray dwarves behind him, line up, line up, line up."

"The Lord is mighty, not only can he enter and exit a city freely by himself, but he also brought back two captives."

"Prepare the lighting spell, release!"

There is also a huge metal warehouse directly above the cage shaft.

That's right.

The so-called giant palace below is also a dwarf warehouse, but it has been transformed into its own palace by the stone giant managers.

Their real function is to connect the upper and lower parts and to transfer and transport materials.

The Colossus City was well prepared. Seeing that Gavin, who was emitting a blazing white light from Zhou Shen, was about to come up, more than a dozen lighting spells were launched at the same time, illuminating the newly unsealed metal warehouse as bright as day.

The main warehouse connected to the cage shaft alone is no less than a football field, and its height is as amazing as ever, at 15 or 16 meters. Even cloud giants and storm giants don't need to bow their heads when they come here.

The gray dwarf chief and stone giant manager wearing ghost eye masks were not flashed by the illumination spell, but were shocked by the scene in front of them.

There is a mixed army waiting for them here.

The 100-man phalanx facing the cage shaft not only has an average height of more than 4 meters, but the dozen in the front row have sturdy four arms, and the weapons in their hands are very uniform, with a large spiral wooden shield in one hand, a large flail in one hand, a large short spear in one hand, and a large one-handed sword in one hand. It can be said that it combines defense, armor breaking, piercing and slashing in one, and can attack and defend.

On their left and right sides, there are two 100-man phalanxes, whose height is slightly inferior, between 3.5 and 4 meters, and they are all giant earth elves with green faces and fangs.

Whether in height or equipment, they were very different. Most of them wore leather armor. Although they were all equipped with large two-handed or large one-handed weapons, they were not uniform.

Whether it was the gray dwarf chief Yuriu or the stone giant manager Domingo, they all paid more attention to these four large hobgoblin giant phalanxes, because there was a deeper intention behind this.

This means that the other party controls at least 10,000 or 20,000 hobgoblins in the Giant Plains, so they can gather so many specialties of the Giant Plains.

As for whether the other party is the giant hobgoblin who has grown huge by the Giant Transformation Spell and is bluffing them, it is not difficult to tell.

People who cast the Giant Transformation Spell or the Shrink Spell will have a magical aura on their bodies. Ordinary people cannot tell it, but they can tell it at a glance.

Thousands of small and large dog-headed people are gathered around the periphery, looking at the gray dwarves and stone giants with curiosity.

"Ahhh..."

Short screams came from behind Gavin and the others.

The gray dwarves who followed them did not have the ghost eye towels that Gavin had prepared in advance. One by one, their eyes were burned by the strong light of the Illumination Spell and fell into a state of temporary blindness.

Yuriu hurriedly ordered: "Everyone, don't act rashly, gather around me, they are not enemies."

Most of the gray dwarves who followed were spellcasters. They cast a spell to remove blindness on themselves at the first time. After this round of buffering, they were much better. After squinting their eyes to see the surrounding situation clearly, they couldn't help but take a breath. Even if they were given ten times the courage, they would not dare to fight an enemy that was ten times their number.

At this time, Gavin answered Chief Yuriu's previous question, "No matter how powerful the Death Chief Council is, it is not easy to cross the entire Giant Plain to defeat us. After all, their main force is the undead, and they are at a disadvantage when operating on the ground.

Since we dare to lift the seal of the mineral vein, it means that we are fully prepared.

Even if the Death Chief Council really leads troops to kill us, we will be the first to stand in front.

If we are destroyed by the Death Chief Council, the worst you can do is to return to their arms with the mineral veins that have just been unsealed.

At that time, not only will you not be punished, but on the contrary, you will be given greater attention, and the mineral vein depletion crisis you talked about before will be solved.

But I hope that before they come, you can cooperate with us sincerely and don't make small moves behind my back. If this happens, don't blame me for being cruel."

Gavin didn't expect the other party to throw himself into his arms wholeheartedly as soon as he got started.

In the short term, he only needed the other party not to resist him and help him operate the smelting and forging plant below.

"Now that we've come to this, we have no reason to refuse. We have only one request, that is, you can guarantee our food supply. As for the smelting and forging output, one is determined by the mining speed, and the other is determined by the production line's own capacity. We will do our best to operate, but I hope that the conditions you set will not be too demanding, beyond these two categories." The gray dwarf chief Yuriu said without hesitation.

They have no choice in this matter.

The situation of the Dwarf Tomb is just like its name, an isolated city buried deep underground.

Without food supplies from the outside world, it won't take long for most of the gray dwarves to starve to death and thirst, and only a few can survive by using spells such as water making and grain making.

They were originally a group of slaves whose personal freedom was restricted. It didn't make much difference who they produced forging equipment for.

Gavin responded with a smile: "It's useless to simply promise many things. You will know my character after spending some time with me. I am absolutely fair, just and reasonable. As long as you have no second thoughts, I will treat you the same way as I treat my subjects.

From now on, you are the manager of the Colossus Dungeon. The name of the Dwarf Tomb is too ugly. Don't use it anymore. If there is a problem with the dungeon, I will be the first to hold you accountable."

The Gray Dwarf City already has its own mature operating model.

At that time, I only need to formulate a relatively reasonable salary system to ensure a good supply of materials.

This is a large smelting and forging plant. All the gray dwarves are my employees. There is no need to intervene too much.

"Thank you for your appreciation." The answer of the gray dwarf chief was obviously perfunctory and calm.

"How are you going to deal with me? Can you please not destroy my sculptures?" The stone giant Domingo asked.

There was not much fear in his words, but more curiosity.

Before the other party completely broke with the Council of Death Chiefs, his life was not in danger.

Compared with the heavily armored giant undead guards controlled by Gavin, he is more concerned about the statues in the giant's palace, which are his thirty years of hard work.

"Before we officially contact the Council of the Chieftains of Death, I hope that the master can stay in the Colossus City for a while. You can continue to do your favorite carving work. I will send someone to collect the stone you need for you."

Gavin suggested, "The master is the most skilled carver I have ever seen. It is a waste of resources for your statues to stay underground.

If the master is willing, I can send people to transport these statues to big cities such as Baldur's Gate or Waterdeep for exhibition and sale.

I believe that many knowledgeable businessmen and spellcasters will be very interested and willing to pay a high price for it."

These words are not just compliments. Even Gavin, who knows little about the art of carving, can feel an extraordinary spirituality from the carving of this stone giant. There will definitely be many people willing to spend a lot of money to buy it.

As an art ornament, it is just the most common way to use it.

In the hands of those capable spellcasters, these statues can be revitalized by magic and made into stone golems. They can be used as works of art and as guards, and are very popular among those noble merchants.

"That's of course the best..." Stone Giant Domingo blurted out.

Compared to admiring oneself, how can there be more sense of achievement than having more people appreciate and recognize one's own sculpture art.

This thing was something he had dreamed of before.

But unfortunately, the undead stone giant chiefs of the Council of Death Chiefs completely deviated from the nature of the stone giants the moment they transformed themselves into immortality. In their eyes, the stone giants' innate artistic cells and abilities are the culprits that hinder their revival. Even if they are not completely eliminated, they should be suppressed and controlled, so there is a crime of dereliction of duty.

He is obsessed with sculpture, which is not allowed in the Council of Death Chiefs. It is dereliction of duty, not to mention holding a sculpture art exhibition. People will be sent to smash all his sculptures in a minute.

The fear of being dominated by the Council of Death Chiefs had penetrated deep into the soul of the stone giant, and he could not help but say awkwardly: "We can discuss this matter later. As long as you don't destroy my statues, the dwarf tombs, no, the things in the Colossus Dungeon are none of my business."