Otome's Law of Ascension

However, the shortest road to the Dark Mountains (along the River Be through Lantcos City) has been controlled by the church members of Futespa, especially the nearest city of Seine has become the stronghold of the people on the other side.

So they avoided this road, followed the west wind, and took the Duobali ancient road.

The Duobali area is sparsely populated, with many lakes and swamps.

Before the sea god was angry and flooded a large area of ​​land, the Duobali area was the original birthplace of the human race.

There used to be large plains and gurgling streams here, and the sunshine here was just right.

Occasionally saw people hunting crocodiles.

There are basically no aliens here.

This is what Wanda the hunter told Lycia, he is a small captain of the crocodile hunting camp.

"Wars are everywhere now, and we have cut off business lines with most cities." He stirs with a wooden spoon in the small iron crock that is placed on the brazier stand. This is his lunch today.

"Fortunately, although there are no cities and towns in many miles, there are no strange beasts and no plagues." Wanda looked at the bubbling soup in the vat with relief, "Would you like some?"

Licia shook her head.

There are indeed no towns on the ground in Duobali, but there is one underground.

What she held in her hand was the scroll that Felindorna had given her, the scroll that could command the dwarves.

And in this dungeon, dwarves lived for generations.

It is recorded in the history books circulating in the world that the dwarves were slaughtered as early as in the Holy War. (Of course, the word massacre will not be used in history books)

The city of the dwarves, which is more than eight miles underground, retains the last strength of the dwarves.

It is not difficult to find the entrance to the city of dwarves. Dwarfs are afraid of the sun and like darkness.

There must be a large area of ​​shade at the entrance, preferably the ground is still a swamp.

"Are you sure you want to go to the Mengracoon Forest?" Wanda was sluggish after lunch, as if she was about to fall asleep.

But he still pulled himself together to show Licia the way.

After confirming the direction, Licia waved to Nunyu who was rolling and having fun in the swamp, and then patted Gies who was dozing on a wooden signboard used as a road sign.

The entrance to the city of dwarves is an extremely narrow passage, and the bubbling silt is directed elsewhere by a circle of grooves around the entrance.

There is a formation at the entrance of the passage, but it doesn't work against Licia who is holding a scroll.

Keith and Nunyu were waiting on the side of the big tree, and Licia entered the cave alone.

It's dark in here without any light.

Dwarves have night vision and they live underground without needing any light.

Selene's light was a little stronger, and Licia was able to observe clearly within tens of meters.

This passage did not meet a single dwarf.

Felindorna had reminded her that dwarves were good at hiding in the shadows.

So Licia was very cautious all the way.

She felt a little noise behind her, but she didn't look back, pretending not to notice, and continued to walk deep.

The slope of this road is not steep, and Licia walked very fast.

The sound behind is also becoming more and more obvious.

Until she felt the scroll hanging beside her be twitched.

Selene immediately returned to the defense, emitting a dazzling silver light.

A dwarf with gray-blue skin fell down on the ground. It had brown hair on its forehead and the tip of its nose. Its eyes were tightly closed, and its right hand with flexible knuckles was curled back.

Then, one after another, screams sounded from all directions.

It turned out that the dwarves had already ambushed around her and surrounded her.

Licia took out the scroll and unfolded it.

The screaming stopped immediately.

Immediately, countless dwarves appeared on the ground around her.

Their eyes showed fear, hatred and despair.

"Never think of using the trick of convincing people with virtue against the dwarves, at least not at the beginning." This is Felindorna's advice to Lycia.

"We need weapons." Licia walked forward with the scroll in her hand, and the densely packed dwarves automatically separated to make way for a path. Licia finally reached the center of the dwarf city along this road.

Yiwang underground spring, a larger underground cave.

She looked up and saw that the cave was full of holes all around, and each hole was crowded with dwarves.

It turns out that the number of dwarves is so huge.

"We need weapons." Lycia said loudly, standing next to the underground spring.

From the spring water, a round, gray-blue head popped out, his eyes were full of excitement, without any fear.

"Gold for gold, then." The brown hair on the dwarf's long nose clung wetly to his lips.

Licia took out the purse, which contained 100 gold coins.

"These are deposits," she said. "I need three thousand spears, and shields."

"After we get the weapon, I will pay you another two hundred gold coins."

"Not enough." The dwarf climbed out of the water and said, "You need better spears and shields."

Licia's expression was in a daze, after all, she basically had no experience in collecting weapons.

The dwarf took the money bag, "I'll take the deposit first, but you have to bring another five hundred gold coins."

"Five hundred!" Licia exclaimed. Since she left the Duke of Campbell's mansion, almost all the gold coins in her hand were borrowed from Flindonna. How could she have five hundred gold coins.

"Haffar Spear, Flindorna knows, the price is by no means expensive." The dwarf waved his hand, and immediately ran a dwarf who was taller than the other dwarves from the cave on the right.

He holds a simple spear in his hand.

"Is this the Haffar spear?" Licia asked, she picked up the simple spear, and immediately felt the difference.

This is not just a spear, but an enlarged version of the wand, and its spear tip continuously bursts with various elemental lights.

"But where can I find three thousand soldiers who are proficient in magic?" Licia murmured to herself.

"I'm Jin the dwarf." The dwarf in front of him stretched out his hand towards Licia.

Among dwarves, such a handshake can be regarded as shocking.

But Fulin Dona mentioned that the dwarf named Jin is the only real dwarf king who is not controlled by the scroll.

"Jin, I'm Licia." Licia held out her hand.

Dwarves and humans have finally embarked on the road of cooperation again.

"Herald bracelet," he said. "As long as you have gold coins, we can help you build the army you want."

Heraldry bracelet?

One of the ingredients Licia thought of for the heraldry stone was crocodile teeth from the Dobali region.

"Made of crocodile teeth?"

The dwarf on the opposite side showed an obviously stunned expression.

"That's right." He nodded, "but not quite."

Licia gritted her teeth and nodded in agreement: "So how many gold coins do you need?"

The dwarf held out eight fingers.

"Eight thousand."

Licia has already started planning to go back to the Campbell family's castle to search for coins.

For [-] gold coins, you can get [-] elite soldiers with the power of heraldry, which is by no means expensive.

"Of course, we will give away some things, some discounts." Dwarf Jin has completely controlled the rhythm of the transaction.

Licia asked, "What discount."

"Dwarven mercenaries," he said. "You can't possibly not need a dwarven mercenary that can go anywhere and get anything."

"Like the ones at Flindoner's?" Lycia frowned.

"No." Dwarf Jin pointed to the slightly burly dwarf standing beside him: "It's a dwarf warrior like Meng."