Twenty Sided Dice

From the process of creating the "Root of Mora", Siegel has greatly expanded his ideas, and many good ideas for combining runes and spells have emerged in his mind. () The high manufacturing cost of magic items has traditionally made them a luxury only available to a select few. Weakening spells can reduce the cost of consumption, but have not solved the problem of continuity. The dwarf rune is a good choice, and combined with the dwarf's ring illusion, it forms a very good combination effect.

He would love to stay in the lab and immerse himself in the joy of inventing objects, but things in the territory need to be resolved urgently, and research on golems is also on the agenda. So after a short nap, he rode to Zebra Mountain with Feizak.

This time, instead of simply passing through the "Gold Mine Wall", he carefully inspected the construction of the Rune Arrow Tower. Each arrow tower is composed of one hundred and eight dwarf runes, which can be activated by themselves in the face of evil creatures, forming an enchantment to defend against evil and stimulate the courage to fight. The range is not large, it can only cover the city walls and arrow towers, but it is enough to form effective protection.

Each rune is clear and effective, a perfect combination of power and art. Siegel chanted a spell to enchant the runes, and felt it with his heart. The surrounding magical barrier is surging and powerful, it seems that the dwarves absolutely did not cut corners when building the rune arrow tower.

Siegel himself can make permanent runes, although not as skilled as the dwarves, but he can still reach a qualified level. He estimated the material cost of all the runes. An arrow tower would only cost 12,000 gold coins at most, and the runes embedded inside the city walls would cost about 10,000 gold coins. He only built three rune arrow towers in total, and it didn't cost more than 240,000 gold coins at all.

"Fizak, where are the dwarves now?"

"At the construction site of the passage in the City Wall Mountains. Lord Lord." Feizak replied: "They are trying to dig through the rock formation."

So the two walked down the arrow tower and entered the passage in the middle of the long wall. The passage is three meters wide, and the height above the head allows the cavalry to pass through. The dwarves designed an arched structure here, and reinforced the side walls with solid pillars. If you need to stack defensive machinery on the city walls, such as trebuchets or ballistas. The weight can be shared without affecting the structure of the channel.

There are also some throwing holes that open outwards on the walls, with ingeniously designed arcs, which can only allow people to throw out pitched jars, rough stones or javelins, and it is impossible to climb in. To avoid fire, the dwarves decorated the ceiling with glowing runes. As long as there is noise around, the entire passage will be illuminated.

The end of the city wall passage is the mountain, from which Siegel intends to build an underground road leading to the north. For the sake of safety, this passage is not connected to the Striped Mountain Gold Mine, and it bypasses Saint Ser Peak to the west, turning a corner before extending north. If not for the help of the Earth Elemental Rune Guard. It would take a long time to complete such a construction with the dwarves' own digging abilities alone.

There are no decorative lighting runes yet, so Siegel lit up with his wand, splattering pale colors in the passage. Tunnels in the rock meander, first down, then up. There are places where it is difficult to excavate, so there are many narrow roads that suddenly become steep and impassable.

As Fizzak got older, Siegel cast the levitating spell on him. Let him save some energy. They walked in the passage for half an hour, and finally heard the sound of stone chiseling in front of them. As it oscillates back and forth in the long and narrow channel, the monotonous clanging sound also becomes indistinct. Like a weird whisper.

After a while, they finally reunited with the dwarves. There are a total of four miners here, using a pickaxe to correct the passage excavated by the earth element. Large baskets of rocks and dirt are stacked on one side, and supplies are on the other. The dwarves saw Siegel, but didn't stop what they were doing, and continued to pry off the protruding rock. Make sounds of varying lengths.

In fact, these tasks do not need dwarves, the earth element can be done better. The elements just need to dig with their fingers and smooth with their palms. It can reach the standard of ordinary masons. The dwarves were doing useless work, and they didn't even sweat, and they didn't even look tired.

"Where is Locke Diamond?" Siegel asked.

The dwarf put down the pickaxe in his hand, wiped the dust on his face with his hand, and replied, "It's just ahead, we don't know."

"Take me to find it, I don't want to go the wrong way." Siegel snorted and said, "I can understand the signal from you knocking on the wall, so you should tell me directly where the secret passage is. "

The dwarf was stunned for a moment and had to laugh bitterly, so he could only say: "Lord Lord, wait a moment. Locke will explain the situation to you."

After a while, a shimmer of light followed their footsteps. Locke carried a covered oil lamp for lighting, and in the other hand held a warhammer, and the inlaid runes on it exuded gray-white light. Behind him, Dwarf Groth and Mendoc were holding shovels under their armpits, holding their crooked iron dome hats with their hands, and ran over with the sound of pounding footsteps.

Locke saw that Siegel had been sitting here, and the dwarf companion beside him kept winking at him. The tacit understanding formed over a long period of time made him immediately understand what was happening here. Locke looked at Siegel's face, very serious, but could not see other emotions. Look at the one-eyed old man Feizak again, with a nervous expression on his face.

"Where's the difference between 240,000 and 40,000?" Siegel asked.

He thought about it for a while, and then admitted generously: "Lord Lord, Mr. Feizak, you must have come for the gold coins spent on runes? We did use a lot of gold coins outside the Rune Arrow Tower. Originally I don't want to tell you. But since you've found out, there's no need for us to keep hiding it."

"We made a lot of runes, far more than what the arrow tower needs, and they were all used in this tunnel." Locke said: "But it involves a big secret of our dwarves, which cannot be easily told to outsiders."

"This is my territory, my gold coins, and I must know what they are for."

"Lord Lord, don't worry." Locke put down the warhammer in his hand, and the other dwarves also vacated their hands, indicating that they were not hostile. "We watched you climb Mora's Peak on the way to the top. This is the second time you've walked that way, did you feel any difference?"

"Does this relate to the answer I want to know?"

Locke nodded, and the other dwarves looked at Siegel with piercing eyes.

"It's harder than the first time." Siegel said, "On the one hand, I miscalculated the difficulty. I thought I could use magic, but I didn't expect that there was no elemental power on the way to the top. Except for the things on my back. In addition, the space bag and magic equipment are ineffective. So it is more difficult."

"In addition, during the climbing process, I was also attacked by ice," Siegel thought for a while, and suddenly realized: "Is this thing related to you?"

"Yes." Locke nodded: "We pray to the patron saint of dwarves, hoping to get enlightenment. We need to know whether it is right or wrong to go west."

"I don't know."

Locke looked at Fizzach. Then he said to Siegel: "This matter can only be said to the dwarves. You are a hero who has climbed to the top. Naturally, you can count as one, but this one-eyed old man can't."

"What I want to know is the purpose of gold coins. Not the secrets of dwarves." Siegel shook his head and said to Locke.

"I swear by the dwarf patron saint and bloodline descendants, and I will tell you everything you want to know," the dwarf insisted.

The other dwarves also nodded. Siegel's eyes swept across their resolute faces, and saw the traces left by the wind, frost and blood, those scars left by fighting with wild beasts and seeking a chance in the wilderness. These dwarves have a sense of honor and will not break their oath.

"Fizak, back away, I want to listen to them." Siegel stretched out his hand. He said to him, "You may go back first, and give me the ledger."

The old man carefully looked at these dwarves with his only one eye, and checked them with the observation skills that he had been training as a secret agent all the year round. Unless these dwarves' deception has reached its peak. To hide lies under such a sincere face.

He left the ledger, grabbed the covering lantern from Locke's hand, and walked back to the way he came by himself.

The dwarves took off the round hats on their heads, put them on the ground as benches, and sat down one by one. Seeing this, Siegel also sat with them, waiting for Locke to speak.

"Our Patronus struck the wall of the storm with a hammer. Presenting the New World to the world. We are the first to beneficiaries, and the top of Mora is the jewel on the dwarven throne."

Dwarves built their largest kingdom here. The seven major clans have all developed by leaps and bounds. Although the city wall mountains are majestic, they are compared to the New World. Just the border wall.

When they were on the old road, the dwarves liked to dig in the mountains and live in the mines, and they were once prosperous. The best weapons and armor are from our dwarves, and our soldiers are not afraid of any challenge.

But as time went on, humans spread their footprints across the continent and built prosperous kingdoms, and we dwarves remained in caves, just as elves never stepped out of the forest. But the end result of this is demise, disappearing from the world.

"We can't make the same mistakes in the New World," Locke said. "That's why we're going west."

Siegel nodded, "I can understand that, but what does Xijin have to do with me?"

"This involves the big project of the dwarves." Locke said: "The city wall mountains are very rich in minerals, and we are the best miners and craftsmen. Where have the treasures accumulated over hundreds of years gone?"

"The treasury on the top of Mora?"

"It's basically empty." Locke said: "The gems are all made into rune stones, and the metal is used to make large rune arrays. Hundreds of dwarf rune masters are working every day, turning the entire city wall mountain into a huge rune. Wen enchantment. According to the instructions of the patron saint of dwarves, even if the world perishes, the top of Mora can bless the dwarves to survive."

"This rune formation has been activated. Except for the west gate on the top of Mora, the dwarves cannot pass through the city wall mountains from the inside out. For us, this place has become a dilemma." Locke sighed long: "Originally, the dwarves in the Old World were too closed~www.readwn.com~ Now they have directly built a cage to lock themselves in. We not only want to save ourselves, but also want to go west to find the hope of development - stagnant will only bring Come down again!"

"So we are building a passage through the entire city wall and mountain range to connect to the wild continent. We need a lot of runes to hide ourselves, avoid being discovered by the great formation in the mountains, and at the same time prevent us from affecting the great formation."

"We prayed to the **** of dwarves, and the answer we got is that we must find a hero to reach the top to fulfill our wish, so we must let you climb the top of Mora again. Fortunately, after coming to Heimland, we learned that the peak of Saint Seir was There are dragons living there, so the rune barrier of the City Wall Mountains bypasses here, and we can break through!"

"And the Lord's Striped Mountain Gold Mine, and the underground passage you asked for, are a harbinger. Our work will not stop unless we reach the west of the mountain range, to a place full of challenges and opportunities."

"But we can only do it ourselves, and we can't let Mora Peak know. Therefore, we must purchase the required materials in the name of the lord." Locke said: "But we will compensate you in another way."

After he finished speaking, he took out a faded space bag from his arms and carefully untied the binding wire. (To be continued)