"I was afraid that getting too close to the city would attract the enemy's attention if my whereabouts were exposed. Therefore, after establishing a safe base, I immediately chose to come back and report to the Lord, and did not further investigate the city."
The spirit naga explained, "But one thing is certain. This city is not small in size and has no less than a thousand gray dwarves. The undead stone giants attach great importance to this place. They not only set up a large number of traps around the city, but also There is an undead army stationed there, including a large number of giant undead."
"You've done a good job. The enemy's covertness is our biggest advantage. If we were to alert the enemy just for a little information, it would be more than worth the gain." Gavin nodded with satisfaction, "Having this information is enough for us to formulate a strategic plan. "
"Lord, what do you need me to do next?"
"First you take me to establish an anchor point, and then you lead the task force to investigate along this gray dwarf city, trying to find all the passages connected to the undead stone giant city. The most important thing is to maintain your own The confidentiality must not let the enemy notice your existence, let alone let them understand your intentions."
"Lord, don't worry. The entire Shadow Wing task force is ready to die for your lord. We would rather die than let ourselves fall into the hands of the enemy."
"Very well, let's establish the anchor first."
The anchor point Gavin mentioned is very simple, that is, the spirit naga will take him and teleport to the safe stronghold they established in the underdark area. Then after Gavin leaves his own soul mark here, he can accurately control the place. Teleported.
The safe base chosen by the Shadow Wing Task Force is very secluded. It is a stone cave the size of a basketball court. It is located on a side road without any water source or light. It is a dead end. Not even mushrooms grow, let alone living things.
Even in the Underdark, it is a place where birds do not poop.
Those dark monsters in the Underdark who are good at ambushes usually choose to lie dormant on the main roads where there are more creatures coming and going, instead of such dead ends. Here, the chance of prey coming to the door on their own is too low.
After determining the safety factor here, Gavin returned to the ground to mobilize his troops.
The first thing to do is to drag all the other two voters of Ms. Strategy over. In a small and airtight environment like the Underdark, the ability to dispatch troops and generals for large-scale teleportation is really too monstrous. .
Whether attacking or retreating, you have absolute initiative.
They couldn't refuse this kind of thing. After all, they could also benefit indirectly. Colossus City happened to be located in the middle of Gavin's City of Faith, Zaranda's Darauma and Catherine's Strategic Battle Fortress.
With the expansion of roads and the establishment of road statues, communication has become more convenient. If the equipment can be mass-produced, it will only take two or three days to be shipped to them.
"The Underdark is different from ground combat. It is difficult to gain an advantage in terms of numbers here. When it comes to army selection, it is better to choose more troops than more expensive ones. Those with dark vision will be given priority."
"The fact that the giant undead can be accommodated there means that many of the passages are relatively tall and wide. Some of our special forces can be sent in, such as the Crimson Marauders Chapter, the Goliath Chapter and the Great Goblin Giant Chapter."
"Once Colossus City chooses to capture this gray dwarf city, it is inevitable to turn against the Council of Death Chiefs. Since all the passages are to be destroyed, we might as well do something more extreme and come to a encirclement point for reinforcements to trap their army. Kill some of them in the Underdark passage to reduce the pressure for the subsequent war."
"This coincides with me, but if you want to encircle the point and provide reinforcements, you need more accurate intelligence support. Therefore, I want to personally sneak into the gray dwarf city below to obtain first-hand intelligence."
"As the supreme commander of the conqueror's army, I'm afraid it's not appropriate for you to go deep into the front lines to investigate intelligence."
"There is no more suitable candidate than me. My super transformation allows me to use my transformation ability to infiltrate. Even if I am exposed, with my own ability, as long as I am not crushed by that kind of absolute strength, I can also destroy this place." The city is turned upside down, not to mention that you are still outside to support me."
"General Gavin's ability is indeed very suitable for secret infiltration. When necessary, he can also use his ultimate move to combine inside and outside. This can be our core tactic this time."
"Then this matter is settled. I will order Veranika and Shanoba to fully cooperate with you two to strive for a quick victory and capture this gray dwarf city in one fell swoop."
Three cobblers can still stand up to Zhuge Liang, let alone three strategist ladies. The voters gathered together and came up with a bunch of strategies and tactics in minutes.
After setting the general direction, Gavin waved his hand and left the work of organizing the army and dispatching troops to Catherine and Zalanda. He ran to the front line and started to sneak in secretly.
Because there really is no more suitable candidate than him.
His ability to metamorphose gives him the ability to deceive most living creatures.
And the ability to call upon the power of shadow from the Immortal Wezeme Manor allows him to deceive the undead creatures' perception of living creatures.
Needless to say, there is no need to mention the means of saving lives. Even in a city full of enemies, it is still unknown who will attack whom.
In fact, there is another reason that everyone knows very well and has to do this.
They mainly went for the smelting and forging capabilities of the gray dwarf city, and such a city would inevitably have a huge elemental reactor and the like. This equipment was not only quite sophisticated, but also contained huge energy.
They must prevent the enemy from jumping over the wall in a hurry. When they find that they cannot defend the city, they are not willing to take advantage of the enemy and directly destroy this device.
If it were pure destruction, it would be fine. At most, the loss would be to the smelting and forging city that has not yet been recovered. Once a big explosion occurs.
It’s a lot of fun.
Don't forget, their Colossus City is directly above.
They also want to eliminate another possibility - there is a teleportation gate or teleportation circle built in this city.
If the opponent had the ability to directly send large-scale troops to the gray dwarf city, their tactic of encircling the point and calling for reinforcements would become a joke.
Under the leadership of the spirit naga, Gavin sneaked near the gray dwarf city without any danger.
That is to say, because the strength of one person and one snake is extraordinary, ordinary creatures in the underdark area can't even find them if they cause trouble to them.
In this dark and dim environment, it is the home of the Shadow Cloak. By walking through the shadows, you can avoid most of the monsters in the dark area and avoid most of the traps.
It is unknown how deep this gray dwarf city is located under the City of Colossus. What is known is that it has become an out-and-out three-dimensional forging city.
The rhythmic sound of jets and forging roars can be clearly heard even from several kilometers away.
The use of flame geothermal energy has been taken to an extreme here. There are devices and pipes similar to huge steam boilers everywhere around the city. The steampunk style is as rich as it can be.
There are neither idle buildings nor idle people in the entire city. All gray dwarves walking on the streets have gloomy faces and hurried expressions.
In terms of body shape, gray dwarves are very similar to dwarves, and are even a little shorter. The average height is about 1.3 meters. The word "stout" flows from all over the body. The arms are as thick as the thighs, and the muscles on them are like rocks. of solidity.
Compared with ordinary dwarves, gray dwarves have two racial characteristics of their own. They have gray-white skin that looks like blood loss. This is caused by living in the dark areas of the middle and lower classes for many years. Many of them will never see the sun in their entire lives. , which is also the origin of their gray dwarf nickname.
Another characteristic is baldness, which is true for both men and women. They are born without a single hair. This is the sequelae left by their former masters, the mind flayers, who have enslaved and manipulated their minds for a long time, which means that they will be permanently affected. changes.
The similar appearance and the same dress make these gray dwarves very similar to both men and women. The most obvious distinguishing feature is probably their beards. Women do not have beards.
They retained the dwarves' love for beards and styled them into different shapes to show outsiders their dark mood and uniqueness.
This gray dwarf city is named Dwarf Tomb. You don’t need to ask to know that it must have been named by the giants. This is a mockery of their former enemies.
The dwarf tomb is clearly divided into two parts. One is a huge palace fortress high above the sky. It is filled with a strong sense of luxury inside and out. The ground is paved with blue-gray iron ingots, and the walls are made of fine steel. Yes, rows of four-and-a-half-meter-long steel puppets surrounded the place.
However, those who know a little bit about necromancy will know that they are not steel golems or golem armors, but undead wearing heavy armor - giant undead.
This is where the stone giant, the master of the city, lives.
The people who rule here are not the undead stone giant chiefs, but the living stone giants. In fact, the same is true over at Cainheim Village. Both the undead stone giant chief Dokon and his council of death chiefs are hidden behind the scenes. , apparently ruled by a stone giant chief.
It is not difficult to understand that this situation occurs. After all, the undead have no ability to reproduce, and giants do not dominate the world. If they want to continue to develop, they must rely on living stone giants.
Only when their bodies begin to weaken will they be allowed to join the ranks of the undead stone giants.
Compared to the undead, the living stone giants still have emotions and desires, and are more suitable for managing slave cities like the Dwarf Tombs.
Underneath the giant's palace is where the gray dwarves work and live.
The stone giants did not put shackles on these gray dwarf slaves, nor did they use mental magic to control them. They just used mystical locks to block all teleportation capabilities, and sent heavy-armored giant undead to control all entrances and exits.
The roar of machinery and steam in the city below the dwarf tomb shook the sky, but once they stepped inside the giant palace in the upper city, all those sounds disappeared, leaving only the crisp sound of hammers hitting stone chisels.
That was the sound of the stone giant carving.
The Giant's Palace is more appropriately described as a huge exhibition room than a palace.
It is filled with various sculptures, including benevolent and loving angels, ferocious and terrifying demons, and various deformed monsters, grotesque but lifelike.
Every stone giant is an excellent sculptor. Most of them have spell-like abilities such as stone shaping, but they rarely use them. They believe that statues made by this method have no spirituality. .
Only by using hammers and stone chisels to carve the stones according to their own characteristics can the most perfect and moving works of art be produced.
Yuriu couldn't distinguish the beauty of this carving. Every time he entered the hall of giant statues, he always felt extremely depressed, as if these weird statues would really wake up in the next second.
Especially those statues of humanoid creatures with mouths like octopus tentacles. Every time he saw them, Yuriu felt extremely uncomfortable and angry. He wanted to rush up and smash them to pieces with a hammer.
Because they are the statues of the gray dwarves' greatest enemy, their former master the mind flayer.
Although Yuriu has never seen any mind flayers since he was born, it does not prevent him from feeling anger and contempt for them from the bottom of his heart.
What makes Yuriu even more angry is that the owner of this palace is carving this disgusting creature again, which is bigger than any before. Even the six-meter-high stone giant has to use the help of A huge stone serves as a step.
【Stone Giant】
Fury surged in his heart, but his face remained as gloomy as ever, with no sign of it.
All gray dwarves are masters at controlling their emotions. The expressions on their faces are like those carved in stone. They rarely reveal their true thoughts. This is an instinct developed as slaves for many years.
No matter which creature enslaves them, I'm afraid they won't act based on their faces.
On the contrary, extra emotions can easily lead to death for them.
It wasn't until the last suction cup of the octopus tentacle was carved out that the stone giant nodded with satisfaction. He looked condescendingly at the gray dwarf leader, who was no taller than his calf, and asked: "Chief Yuriu, almost half of this month has passed. You delivered less than one-third of the required quantity.
For this reason, I received a severe rebuke from the council. If my tasks are not fully completed in the next few months, I am afraid that the dwarf tomb will have to be managed by someone else.
Believe me, there is no more benevolent administrator in the entire tribe than me, and your life will hardly be as easy and free as it has been for the past thirty years. "
Even when he talked about the extremely unfavorable news for himself, the stone giant manager did not show any anger. There was only endless calm on his slate gray face, as if this matter had nothing to do with him.
Stone giants are considered to be the gentlest giants among all giants. They are natural sculptors. Many of them are addicted to sculpture and live a peaceful and quiet secluded life.
Coming here to manage these gray dwarves is not a task that the stone giant manager wants, but is a task forcibly arranged by the Death Chiefs Council, and it is impossible to accept it.
Even if he was dismissed due to poor performance of the task, the impact on him would not be too great. It would be nothing more than a scolding after returning to the village, followed by several years or even decades of confinement, which would have no impact on him who was obsessed with carving. , does not have much impact.
The only ones who are really affected are the gray dwarves in the dwarf graveyard.
If the next manager is a living stone giant like himself, even if it is strict, it will be relatively limited.
But once the Council of Death Chiefs believes that living people are no longer qualified for the job and sends out undead stone giant managers, then this place will really become a dwarf tomb.
Although the immortal stone giants were transformed from stone giants, they are not the same species at all. They no longer have any feelings, even for their former family members and tribesmen, let alone those slave races. In his eyes, there are only tasks and the distant dream of rejuvenating the country.
Even the dream of national restoration is not their own, but was instilled in them by the immortal stone giant chief Dokong.
"Dear sculptor, I have reminded and explained this to you five years ago. The main body of the iron ore here is above our heads. What we are mining now are tailings, which is difficult to mine and inefficient. And after so many years of uncontrolled mining, the iron ore here has been exhausted.
If you want to maintain production here, you must either find new mineral sources, or find a way to lift the seal of the mineral veins above your head and mine upwards. "
The meaning of Yuriu, the leader of the gray dwarves, is very clear. It's not that we don't work hard to produce, but that there is no ore to mine. No matter how brilliant their mining and forging technology is, it is in vain.
"If the seal of this mineral vein could be lifted, we would have done so long ago. Are we still waiting until now?"
The stone giant manager's profound brows furrowed involuntarily, because he did think of this matter, but he was obsessed with carving and did not take it to heart at all. After all, these gray dwarves have mentioned this matter repeatedly. It has been in production for over a hundred years, and production has increased several times over the years.
Both the managers and the Council of Death Chiefs believe that this is a way for the gray dwarves to use their professional knowledge to scaremonger the council to proactively reduce the production here.
But who would have thought that this thing would really happen and happen during his term of office.
Although Domingo has no nostalgia for this manager's position, being judged as dereliction of duty by the Dead Chiefs Council is not the same as poor supervision.
Neglect of duty is one of the most serious crimes in their tribe, second only to treason.
This crime is unique to the Stone Giant tribe.
This is related to their racial nature. They are famous giant artists. Many of them have innate artistic talents, which are not limited to stone carving, music, painting, jewelry making, etc. They are very good at it. OK.
However, they are the most outstanding and famous in terms of stone carving. Eighty percent of the remaining giant civilization buildings in the world were made by them, including the Giant Stairs and the Giant Palace in the Giants Run Mountains. Domingo is the leader in this aspect. He is the leader of the younger generation, second only to several stone giant elders in the clan.
But if you are obsessed with one thing, it is easy to forget other things, such as your job.
In order to develop, the tribe can only use serious crimes to urge these stone giants to serve their tribe loyally.
(End of chapter)
