……

A month later.

"This... three, uncle."

After a month of intensive study, Carter's complexion was a little pale, and dark circles appeared under his eyes.

But his memory is much better than before, and his progress is quite gratifying, and he can already carry out uncomplicated conversations. As long as the dwarf who is talking to him doesn't speak too fast, he can understand half of it.

It would be even better if the other party is willing to write it out. His reading ability is much better than listening and speaking.

When he was carrying a few shopping bags and was about to go home, he saw two canned soldiers, armed to the teeth and wrapped in metal armor from head to toe, standing at the door waiting.

"It's not like guards, it's more like imperial guards. I just glanced at the palace where the legendary Valaya is from a distance, so I wouldn't send imperial guards to arrest me, right?"

Carter, who was a little surprised, walked up to them honestly.

"Mr. Catsur?"

One of the dwarf long-bearded guards, who couldn't hide the braids even though he was wearing a mask, asked.

Katsur is his own alias, Carter is the name, and Sur is the race. Although this alias is very funny to the elves, the cautious Carter still chooses to give himself an alias.

"Yes."

"Master Prophet invites you to a banquet, tomorrow night."

Perhaps because he heard that Carter's dwarf language was not very good, he spoke clearly every word, and then handed Carter an exquisite invitation letter.

"it is good!"

Carter, who only had two knives in dwarf language, took the invitation and nodded to the guard after confirming that the name on the face was 'Mother of the Dwarves, the Omniscient Prophet Valaya'.

After returning to the room, Carter opened the invitation letter and looked at it carefully.

The regular and neat dwarf characters greatly facilitated his writing

"Gui'an, Mr. Katsur... Greetings... I have long heard the name of Osu Anfu Cave, because many distinguished guests are specially invited to come, and the time is set for tomorrow night.

Varaya. "

I read it several times and didn't notice anything wrong.

"The invitation was sent not long after I learned the simple dwarf language. It seems that I have been observing me for a long time. It is very likely that I was watched as soon as I entered the city. With her identity and status, almost everyone in this city It's her eyeliner, no wonder I didn't notice the stalker. Also

I don't know what this mother of dwarves wants from me. "

Thinking like this, Carter put down his studies for the first time and started preparing for tomorrow's meeting instead.

Since he was invited, it was not too shabby to go to the banquet. Carter, who was short on time, hurried to a tailor shop with not much craftsmanship.

The shopkeeper is a female dwarf.

There are quite a few female dwarves in the city of Valaya. Although their appearance does not conform to Carter's aesthetics, they definitely don't grow beards, and they are generally attractive after a long time.

But most of them are married, and mothers of seven or eight children, quite fertile.

Therefore, those with newborn babies will often have dwarves who can't tell whether it is his father or brother to tease them.

This is also the characteristic of longevity species.

When Carter entered the tailor shop, he didn't even explain why he came here. The proprietress just saw the corner of the invitation letter in his pocket and understood everything. She waved her hand and started talking very familiarly. At the same time, she took a ruler to measure Carter's body.

Chapter 273 Dinner

Tailoring skills are not built, and the dwarves can maintain energy for a long time to do one thing, and the dress according to Carter's request was made in just half a day.

After paying ten golden maple leaves in pain, he took the bag and left the tailor shop.

For the long-lived species, a day is almost equivalent to blinking an eye.

In the evening of the second day, Carter, who was fully dressed, went out an hour earlier according to the time of the invitation letter.

As soon as the door was opened, two familiar guards were already standing at the door waiting.

Obviously they were here to lead the way, and Carter just bowed his head slightly to show respect, and walked all the way to the palace under the leadership of the two guards.

There were no carriages in the city of Valaya, and all the dwarves, without exception, mainly moved on foot. Carter, who followed the dwarf guards, understood their choice very well.

Although their legs are short, the frequency of their steps is frighteningly high. Even if the elves don't consciously speed up their steps, they can easily be thrown away.

This is just walking, the dwarves are not slow to trot, and coupled with their amazing physical strength, a small-scale dwarf caravan can march seventy to eighty kilometers in a straight line in a single day.

Large-scale ones can travel forty or fifty kilometers.

But now Carter is not what it used to be, and he has no trouble with them.

With a giant dragon living in his body, after more than a month of adaptation training and the nourishment of a large amount of food, the development of his body has reached a new level.

For the test, he even bought a standard steel ingot produced by the dwarf workshop, and it turned out that he was able to squeeze it flat with his bare hands, without using any magic or bonuses, relying solely on muscle strength.

Then he punched out a hole in the broken dwarven plate armor picked up in the garbage dump.

Although the dwarven plate armor is worn out, it is only according to dwarf standards. In fact, if it is sold to primitive human barbarians, they will still rush to get these armors that dwarves think are scrapped.

After those few tests, Carter, who had known his own strength, had to be careful not to accidentally kill someone due to emotional agitation.

Especially in the city of Valaya, if he had anything to do with the death of any dwarves, it would be enough to make all the dwarves in the city hate him.

Although the dwarves under Valaya's rule are already the most open group, they still can't change their small-bellied and picky nature.

This kind of extreme personality that must be counted clearly, no matter how big or small, Qiu En will record, will harm the lawful forces of this world in the future.

Just thinking of a protracted war with dwarves armed to the teeth in the future, Carter felt a dull pain in his head.

The main reason for the war between the elves and the dwarves is that one side refuses to let go of its arrogance and explain the matter clearly, while the other side is that the elf ambassador who was once the most trusted took advantage of his personality flaws to fight against the elves as a gunman for no reason. It was a muddled battle.

Of course, the competition for the interests of the colonies in the old continent also accounted for a large part of the reason, and Malekith was at best the catalyst.

【Meeting Valaya is an opportunity. Maybe I can replace Malekith as the 'dwarf's best elf friend' to avoid that war. "The race has taken a huge toll. 】

Walking all the way under the setting sun, hearty laughter and drinking can be heard from time to time in the two or three-story small buildings beside the road.

The dwarves who are tired all day either go home or eat and rest in the tavern.

In addition to various blacksmith shops and workshops, the entire city has the most taverns. No matter which alley you go to, you can see these two iconic dwarf buildings.

The noisy sound, the closer it was to the palace where Valaya was, the smaller it was until it completely disappeared.

There are not many beings who can make a dwarf willingly shut up, and Valaya is one of them.

There were many and high steps in front of Valaya's palace, which made Carter, who was wearing a uniform, a little helpless. He was only allowed to step on the steps after the guards confirmed that he was not carrying a weapon.

Seeing the two guards striding forward with short legs, thanks to Carter's ability to control his body recently, he managed to suppress the smile at the corner of his mouth. Otherwise, God knows if the two guards would be caught Remember to hate for a lifetime.

After finally following them to the top of the stairs, the real palace finally caught Carter's eyes.

Numerous heavy pillars carved in the shape of dwarves are quite majestic and magnificent, but except for a few faces that are also carved, the faces of other dwarf statues are blank.

The stone gate, which is more than 20 meters high, needs special mechanical assistance to open quickly.

Everything seemed exaggerated to Carter, but he still didn't show it.

After stepping through the gate ten times as high as him, Carter was handed over to a maid of Valaya, and under her leadership, he walked around the palace for 10 minutes, and finally came to the room of the dinner party.

The tables and chairs, which were clearly made according to Carter's figure, fit the size well after sitting on them, which made him no longer feel intimidated when eating in a dwarf tavern.

"Sir Valaya will be here soon, please wait for Mr. Katsur."

After talking, a few servants came with a dining cart and ordered a bunch of appetizers.

Obviously, they knew that Carter had a lot of food in advance, so they made special preparations.

Looking at all kinds of high-protein and high-calorie food tables, Carter raised his eyebrows and didn't start immediately. He just picked up the dwarven wine that he hadn't had the chance to taste all this time, and took a sip.

"Tsk, it's actually distilled high-grade liquor."

He took a sip of Carter's wine and stopped drinking. He is really not used to dwarf spirits. Although it is difficult, if he gets drunk, who knows what stupid things he will do. If he misses and kills, it will be funny. .

Just sitting there watching his nose, nose, nose, and heart and waiting for a while, the heavyweight who invited Carter made his debut under the protection of a team of imperial guards.

Unlike what Carter had imagined at the beginning, the legendary Valaya had many auras. He thought that the other party would wear gold belts and silver, or dress gorgeously and look extravagant.

As a result, Valaya, who was escorted into the room by the guards, was not fundamentally different from most of the dwarven women he had seen.But the combination of the aura that belongs to the leader alone and the gentleness of the mother, the combination of two completely different auras surprised him immediately.

"It's an honor to meet you, Lord Valaya."

Carter, who stood up, bowed slightly and waited.

"Your dwarf language has reached this point? You are really talented, Mr. Katsur"

"You're over-rewarded. At present, we can only communicate with each other in a simple way."

"That's pretty good too. The stone-headed gates I sent to communicate with other races couldn't carry out this level of simple communication after a few years, but those caravans learned faster."

Varaya, who sat on a special chair, could look at Carter even while sitting. This approach was quite in Carter's mind.

Those who have not experienced it will not understand that when a tall person communicates with a short person, the feeling of not looking up at each other all the time is really tiring.

"Don't just sit around, my chefs have put a lot of effort into hoping that these foods are to your liking."

The polite Valaya made Carter feel like returning to the dinner in his previous life, and he had to maintain a smirk and politeness on the surface.But in his heart, he wished that she would quickly reveal what was the reason for asking him to come.

When he was in Ulthuan, he didn't like his subordinates very much. When he was in the safe zone, he had a small banquet every three days and a big banquet every five days.

I didn't expect that it would still be the same when it came to the dwarves.

After using all the dwarf language in his stomach, Carter finally got to the theme part.

"...This time I invited Mr. Katsur, besides wanting to see what adventurers often say about the long ears, that is, what Azul (informed by Carter) looks like, there is one more thing I would like you to help identify. one time."

Although Valaya tried to use simple vocabulary throughout the dinner, Carter still often only understood two-thirds of it, and the rest depended on the meaning before and after the whole sentence.

But the last sentence needs my own help, which immediately lifted Carter's spirits.

"If you need any help, please tell Master Valaya directly."

At the same time, he thought to himself: "The main event is finally here."

Chapter 274 Divine Power Pointy Ears

After clapping their hands, two dwarf guards carried a stone slab into the room and put it on the bracket.

"I don't know if you are familiar with this pattern? I heard that you have been fighting these monsters for a long time."

Turning his head and glanced at the slate, Carter's pupils shrank slightly. He was very familiar with the content of the comic strips on the slate.

"Recently a powerful demon has been raging around the city, and many miners in the resource points have been attacked. Fortunately, it seems to be looking for something, and it did not cause too many casualties. When my guards went to hunt it down, in its I found this slate in hiding, but the content is quite abstract, I wonder if you can interpret it?"

Valaya, who was sitting opposite, didn't notice the change in Carter's eyes and continued to explain.

As one of the original ancestral gods, Valaya led the dwarves to fight against Chaos and finally expelled them from the legend of the Old World. Although Valaya has many abilities, she is not omniscient, and fighting is not her forte.

Her greatest contribution is to teach the dwarves how to use the wind of magic, and inject it into the unique runes of dwarves, becoming the cornerstone of the entire dwarf society. From combat, production to medical treatment, these runes integrated with the wind of magic strengthen all aspects The overall strength of the dwarves.

She was far inferior to her husband Grannie and his brother Grimnir in combat.

……

Listening to Valaya's explanation, Carter stared at the slate carefully.

On the far right is an abstract tall canyon with a fortress in the middle, and on the far left is a large group of ugly villains besieging a big bug lying on the ground.

But these are all backgrounds, the most conspicuous one is a tall red figure fighting with a much smaller villain in armor.

Carter, whose memory hadn't faded, knew that the battle in this painting depicted the assault that rescued Galroshi.

The red figure was none other than the Khorne demon "Bode the All-Slayer" who had fought against him once, a demon with a powerful physical projection.

[It seems that it wants to continue that duel... The trip to the subspace not only allowed me to become one with Galroshi, but also allowed it to discover my location.Hmph, it's not crazy enough to attack the city of Valaya. The whole city is covered by a complex and huge rune formation. The flesh is minced into a pate, no matter what the cost. 】

Carter, who had flashed through thousands of thoughts, looked away and looked at Varaya with a smile on his face again.

"This is a duel. The Chaos Demon wants to find the target of the duel, but it may not be strong enough to enter the city directly, so leave a message in this way."

"As expected of Asur, it's true that I asked you to interpret it. What does lack of strength mean?"

Through Carter's words, the smart Valaya had already guessed that the duel partner he was looking for was the elf in front of him, but he didn't rush to a showdown, but chose to continue to inquire about information.

"With the strength of this city, without the strength of at least one to three legions, there is no reason for this demon to come out alive. However, at this time, most of the demon legions are dragged in Luskia and Ulthuan, It probably won't be able to disobey the orders from above, and leave with a large number of troops, just to complete its own duel."

While talking, Carter straightened the dinner plate in front of him. It was full of bones that had been eaten and wiped clean. There was not even a shred of meat left. Even the hardest thigh bone was easily crushed by his tiger teeth, and the bone marrow inside was crushed. Wordy clean.

If it was at an elves' banquet, he might be ridiculed for eating like this, but Valaya didn't care at all. The dwarves' eating is much uglier than this, and Carter is relatively good, at least when he eats. It was loud and noisy, and there was no mouthful of food crumbs.

……

Valaya, who is very interested in other races in the world, continued to talk along the topic. Carter used all the words in his mind to barely explain the situation in Ulthuan at this time.

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