Wang drew the schematic diagram in just five minutes.
Old Louis' eyes widened when he saw the schematic diagram: "Holy crap! Is this really a hand-drawn diagram? This scale... this perspective structure... this is a diagram that can only be drawn by a master of engineering!"
Wang: "Huh? That's not true, it's just something I learned in the golem design class."
Old Louis: "Golem design class?"
Wang: "I even won the Best Creative Award."
At this time, other dwarves came over curiously, and even Flint squeezed in to watch together.
"Oh my god," he said, "I thought you were just going to draw something casually, but here's the scale, the perspective, and the detailed breakdown... Wow... Do you have a talent for engineering?"
Wang: "I shouldn't be considered talented, and it's called golem design. The professor who teaches it refuses to use the term 'backward plane that doesn't understand magic.' I definitely don't recognize a group of primitive people who don't understand magic." His understanding of engineering will exceed mine'.
"By the way, this professor said that he really likes to use engineering products from the 'primitive human plane', such as ergonomic chairs, engineering pillows..."
One of the few dwarves playing cards exclaimed: "What kind of magical plane is this? Can we go and see it?"
Wang: "It is said that the earth is a very boring plane. It has neither magic nor superpowers, nor even magnetic field rotation. Moreover, the technology is not developed, and there is not even a space elevator. The planeswalkers like to do one thing very much, Just write the story of the plane you came from, and then make a lot of money in this plane.
"This plane is unique only in its enjoyment." (*)
Dwarf: "Is there such a plane?"
Wang: "There are many wonders in the multiverse. Stop talking about this. The situation is urgent. Can this be built?"
"Yes." Old Louis nodded, "I originally thought I could only see a children's drawing, and then I had to rely on my own ability and imagination to realize it. With such a simple and clear design, I can directly create it!"
Flint: "I think the design is better than that one."
Old Louis: "Yeah, sure."
Wang: "How much deposit do I need to pay?"
Old Louis smiled evilly: "Let me give you 30,000 gold coins first."
Flint roared angrily: "You might as well go and rob! Isn't it just some iron nails and iron blocks that can be smelted?"
Old Louis: "Haha, let me do it..."
Wang turned the dimensional bag upside down, and the golden coins spilled out with a splash - this was either an adjective, or a splash, as if a flood had opened a floodgate.
The huge amount of gold coins directly submerged Old Louis' legs.
Seeing these gold coins, the dwarves' eyes widened, and one of them muttered: "I thought they would give the gold coins directly instead of a pledge certificate from a trading company, or a stub from a mint!"
In this plane, gold needs mints to be minted into the currencies of various countries. Over time, everyone will store gold at the mint, and let the mint mint gold coins if they need to use it in the future.
Over time, everyone discovered that mint stubs blessed by contract spells and guaranteed by the paladins of Typhon, the god of justice, could also play the same role as gold coins in transactions.
Then there are the major trading houses. They often use the reputation of the trading company and the guarantee of Typhon's paladins to turn gold coins into various bills. When making transactions, they only need to give the bills.
Originally, everyone was still thinking that if everyone came to demand payment of the bills at once, wouldn't it be over? Therefore, they would honestly store a large amount of gold coins at the headquarters of the trading company. Later, everyone discovered that there was no need to worry at all.
As a result, all commercial banks began to quietly issue more bills.
Over the years, one trading house has failed: its competitors collected all the bills on the market and paid them all at once. Then everyone found that the gold coins in the trading house could not be paid at all, so more people came to ask for payment - this trading house So bankrupt.
Since then, commercial banks have been very cautious, using spies to find out who is collecting their bills - it is impossible to issue less bills, which is equivalent to picking up money for free. How could the merchants not do it?
All in all, in Minos, a country with developed commerce and a prosperous economy, everyone was actually used to all kinds of bill transactions.
Wang just poured out 30,000 gold coins like this, which was simply a fool's errand. If Elizabeth had been awake, she would have paid with futures certificates or other equivalent instruments.
But the mage doesn't care. It's none of my business what kind of bills are not bills, what things are difficult to collect and cannot be collected.
Anyway, the 30,000 gold coins are here, just order them for yourself.
Wang: "My dimensional bag will accurately give me the amount of items I need. The gold coins should be 30,000. If you don't believe it, you can order some."
Old Louis looked down at the gold coins that buried his feet: "Uh... no need to order them. You can take back the 25,000 gold coins. You can build this thing with only 5,000 gold coins. This is because the orcs are besieging the city now and the iron is not good. Come on, it’s a premium.”
Wang opened the dimensional bag and shouted: "Twenty thousand five gold coins!"
The dimensional bag immediately erupted with strong suction, sucking back twenty-five thousand Jin Cancan on the ground.
Looking at the significantly reduced gold coins, Old Louis said: "Can you use a money order? This is very difficult."
A gray-bearded man among the dwarves playing cards said: "We will help you and make money together. But there were so many gold coins just now. To be honest, my soul was almost sucked out. I want to sing that song." "
The dwarf, whose beard was braided into a Y-shaped fork, began to beat time: "Far over the Misty Mountains cold~"
The other dwarves immediately joined in, singing the next words in deep voices.
The owner of the shop next door opened the door and came out. He didn't sing along, but he made a low roar from his mouth to harmonize.
Then there’s the shop next door——
All the shop doors opened, and the dwarves came out and joined in the low chorus.
The windows on the second floor were also opened one by one. The female dwarves touched their beards and looked at the chorus of men below.
Wang looked at this scene with a surprised expression.
Xiaobai climbed up on his back, hung on his neck and asked softly: "What's wrong with you?"
Wang: "I... seem to feel something. Is it tragedy? Or courage? Maybe both."
Tears welled up in the corners of Nini's eyes: "Yes, I feel it too. It turns out that dwarves are such a race, and the elders are very prejudiced."
At this time, the dwarves finished singing the last line, and someone cheered proudly: "Look, we dwarves made the long-legged elves cry!"
Nini: "Does this song have any allusions?"
King: "The current capital of the Mountain Kingdom is not the capital of the dwarves. The capital of the powerful kingdom that built the Shield Road in ancient times is under the eight peaks in the center of the World Mountain Range. The dwarves have always wanted to revive the royal family and return it to the old capital."
Old Louis: "You are wrong, Master. In the ancient mountain kingdom, the long-lived dwarves have already regarded it as a legend. We now have our own lives, and no one lives in the glory of the past."
"but……"
He stopped and took out his pipe, filling it with tobacco as he said: "But when we think about the once prosperous kingdom of our ancestors, we will feel melancholy."
Someone in the chorus said: "Is this something that humans who are on the way to prosperity cannot understand? Whether it is dwarves or elves, their former prosperity has declined. The protagonists of the Third Age are humans."
Another said: "I've always felt like this is our elegy to ourselves."
"yes."
"Um."
The dwarves nodded.
King: "Have none of you ever wanted to find the old capital of the dwarves?"
"Before this became a legend," Flint said, "that is, when my grandfather's grandfather was just born, there were still many dwarves who wanted to return to their old glory. But they were all gone forever. . Some people say that it has become a paradise for the Balor Fire Demon, others say that a group of evil dragons live there, and some say that it is now a city of mind flayers."
Wang's eyes shone: "The mind flayer's city?"
Flint was shocked: "No! I don't want to die! If it's really the mind flayer's city, I don't want to go! I'm not like you, who eats the Mighty God and acts like a normal person!"
Wang: "I'm just curious, where is this... dwarf capital? Under which one of the eight peaks?"
Old Louis: "Every one. That city is very big. There are underground passages under the entire eight peaks. There are eight branch cities in total, specializing in different responsibilities."
Xiaobai: "I heard the sound of him rubbing his hands together."
Wang: "How come, this is opposite to our travel direction. We should go to Yi Songzuo, a country in the river kingdoms, to catch the tail of that religious group! But you see, one of our former team members chose to travel through Shield Road, right? Then after we complete the rescue mission, it makes sense to go find her, right?"
Xiaobai was shocked: "Aren't you going to eat more?"
"It's all sticky down there, and it's from the sediment." Wang replied.
Xiaobai: "Yeah, that's okay. Let's go to Yi Songzuo, kill the cult, and then go in the opposite direction!"
Old Louis was shocked: "You want... to find Bafeng?"
Wang: "Looking for?"
Flint: "Because everyone who wanted to restore glory back then has died, so now we don't know where the Eight Peaks are or how to get in. We only know that it's down there."
King: "Don't you pass by Shield Road?"
"Passing by." Flint nodded, "But it's just a few tunnels and winding mountain roads. However, you can see the towering mountain fortress, but it is the defense facility of the Shield Road, and now there are also dwarf legions stationed there. But everything in the old kingdom It’s all deep underground.”
After the words fell, someone from the surrounding dwarves shouted: "Maybe the old capital has been submerged by magma. My grandfather said that the magma submerged everything. He swore that our ancestors were the old capital that was evacuated at that time."
Wang: "It's definitely possible. Anyway, I made a note of it first. Now that I've paid the deposit, let's start work!"
"Okay!" Old Louis turned around and handed the schematic diagram drawn by Wang to the other dwarves, "We want to build this thing, but we are short of manpower. Who has time to come and work on it?"
The dwarf who got the drawing unfolded it and looked at it: "Oh my god! This is a great drawing! When I saw such a good design, I wanted to build it. Count me in?"
"What kind of picture is this? It's so shocking. Let me take a look. Damn it! Come and take a look at this!"
"Idiot!"
After a while, the dwarves present unanimously decided to build this saddle together!
Wang: "You...you have so many people now, how long will it take to build it?"
"Just tonight!" Old Louis patted his chest.
Wang: "No, we don't have any spells tonight. It will be very troublesome to encounter the orc tracking troops after landing. Let's do it tomorrow night! You guys build first, Flint, if you don't want to see Anne, stay and supervise the work..."
"It's Jenny," Flint corrected, "No, I'd better go take a look. After all... let's not talk anymore, let's go!"
**
"Jenny's Magic Weaving Shop." Wang raised his head and read out the name of the shop in Dwarf language, "Why is the Common Language shop called Pretty Girl Magic Weaving Shop?"
Flint: "Jenny wasn't very good at Mandarin - at least not very well at the time, so she looked for the name of the Mandarin store I wrote. I made a joke to her, hoping that one day she would be good enough at Mandarin to find out. However, from The sign hasn’t been changed yet, so she probably hasn’t noticed it yet.”
Nini Rui commented: "What you are doing is really like a follower of Kailin."
Flint: "I wasn't then! I was a real dwarf back then! I couldn't tap dance and I had no sense of humor."
Wang: "Really? I think it's quite humorous to call a bearded dwarf woman a beautiful girl."
"I really think he's beautiful, damn, I'm a dwarf! Women with more beards are more beautiful in my eyes!"
Xiaobai: "I'm in a hurry, I'm in a hurry, you're in a hurry!"
Flint sighed: "Okay, I'm a little anxious. In fact, I persuaded Jenny to shave and become as fair and pure as a human beauty. In fact, after living among humans for a long time, there are also dwarf women who don't Grow a beard. I want Jenny to become one of them.
"That's where the conflict starts."
Wang: "Excuse me, are you married?"
Flint: "Yes, that's why I said it was a young mistake."
Wang: "Do you have any children?"
"No! We dwarves have a very low fertility rate, and we don't have much desire, unlike some short-lived races who are in heat all day long."
Xiaobai: "We werewolves don't go into heat all day long. We can control our wildness a long time ago."
Wang: "I think he's talking about humans."
Flint waved his hand: "That's all, let's go in and take a look."
As he spoke, he opened the door.
The doorbell emitted a string of music box notes.
Flint paused with a look of regret on his face: "She still keeps this."
King: "You... didn't you last visit the dwarf area of Minos ten years ago? Why, didn't you come and take a look?"
Flint: "Of course, I haven't been here in almost a hundred years."
Nini gasped: "It's older than me."
As soon as the words fell, a dwarf woman ran downstairs, shouting as she walked: "It's coming, it's coming!"
She first saw Wang: "Oh, they are actually human guests. Don't go this way. There is an entrance prepared for humans. Didn't you bump into each other when you entered?"
Wang: "Not bad!"
The dwarf woman saw the elf and Xiaobai again: "Wow, are there so many rare visitors? What a beautiful elf, these enviable long legs, but unfortunately there is no hair embellishment. Oh, this cute little one, it is a pity that the hair is missing Too exuberant.”
Xiaobai made a threatening sound like a cat.
The dwarf woman laughed and looked at the last guest.
"Oh," her smile froze, "it's you."
(*) The original setting of Wizards of the Coast was that Elminster traveled to Earth and told the story of Faerûn. Here's a nod to this early setting. But now I seem to be eating books.
(End of chapter)