lizard lord

Chapter 233 The Walled City
The distance from Karak Solma to the Dragon's Cave Pass is not too short. Tang Zhao didn't take any air transportation such as horse eagles this time, so it took a few days to reach the vicinity of the Dragon's Cave Pass.

The law and order situation along the way is acceptable. After all, the organized hobgoblins and goblins mainly come from the north, which was blocked by Tang Zhao. There are only sporadic bandits and monsters on the road. It is a threat, but it cannot threaten the heavily armed troops and complete strongholds.

Tang Zhao didn't shrink in size, but took the lead to open the way at the front. Thanks to his size, he didn't encounter robbers and monsters that didn't open his eyes, and he arrived safely in the dwarf's territory.

It was the first time that Tang Zhao walked through the underground passage that remained from the golden age of dwarves on this road, which can only be said to have shocked him to a considerable extent.

Originally, he thought that it was at most something similar to the Lanxing Mountain Tunnel, but he never expected it to be of such a large scale—the relatively narrow branch roads were 30 meters wide and [-] meters high, and the main road was even light enough to The degree of easy running makes people doubt whether it will collapse in the next second, but it is said that these passages are embedded with a large number of dwarf rune stones and coated with a special material. As long as it is not a natural disaster such as a major earthquake, it will is no problem.

The original mode of traversing mountains and ridges, which can be called Western Paradise to learn Buddhist scriptures, changed drastically here. The speed of the crowd increased all of a sudden, passing through several small underground strongholds of dwarves, and they came to the Dragon's Cave Pass.

The scale here is even more exaggerated. The above-ground part is built on the canyon, firmly grasping the passage. The above-ground buildings are almost as high as the cliffs on both sides, not to mention the underground fortress that is countless times larger.

This super-large-scale single building was a miracle-level project in the previous life, and I didn't expect to see it in this world.However, while marveling, Tang Zhao couldn't help but slander slightly: among all races in the world, almost all dwarves have the most magnificent buildings and projects, but they are also the shortest in terms of height. This is probably a kind of supplementary self-esteem means.

While the envoy was negotiating with the officers stationed at the gate of the fort, Tang Zhao took a closer look at the fort's defense status, which could be considered as a reference for himself, but he found that it was not very useful.

The door is an extremely thick all-metal gate, inlaid with precious metals, gemstones, and a large number of rune stones. It is quite artistically assembled to look like the dwarf god of war Grimnir, and uses two huge winches to cooperate with rune technology switches.

The building as a whole is made of super large dark gray stones. Listening to Bourne who came here together, he gave an introduction like a few treasures, and also used some ancient technology, which is almost immune to the attacks of trebuchets and artillery, even special magic attacks. Can also be immune to a lot.

This is not a lazy way to grind the scales and mix them into the soil to paste the wall. They really spent a lot of effort to collect enough anti-magic metal and make nails into the wall to resist magic attacks.

Needless to say, the defensive weapons and various fortifications on the city walls are all done to the best of their ability, and they don't care about costs and expenses at all.

This can be regarded as a racial characteristic, and other races do not imitate it very well.

The envoy himself was from the Dragon's Cave Pass, so naturally there would be no problems. After a little effort, the defenders opened a small door and let Tang Zhao and others enter.

The dwarves guarding the city are also looking at Tang Zhao and others with curiosity and scrutiny, especially Tang Zhao who bears the brunt. They are very clear about the affairs of their neighbors in the north, and they also know that their main leader is not a dwarf, but a lizard .

It is not a contemptuous name for the descendants of the dragon race, but a pure and incomparable lizard. There are many records in the long history of the giant dragon occupying the city and building the city. There are also such examples now, but the purebred lizard is really a A rare thing.

"Who were you born?" is very important in this world. At least according to common sense, the descendants of lizards will definitely not have great potential, with the exception of Carlos.

This time, Tang Zhao specially put on a ceremonial full-body armor for himself, which integrated the characteristics of various races and had complicated and gorgeous decorations.Although the defensive power may not be as high as his scales, it still looks quite bluffing.
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The situation in the fortress was not much different from what he had imagined. After all, he had seen several abandoned dwarven fortresses before, and the main difference between Dragon's Cave Pass and these places was only in scale.

The city was not as lively as he had imagined, and it felt a bit deserted compared to the big human cities he had stayed in before.

The dwarf city is large in scale and small in population, and it cannot be filled with buildings, so it must look a little empty.

Compared with the city, Tang Zhao feels more like a fortress here. Occasionally, you can see dwarven warriors patrolling with live ammunition. Almost all passers-by are wearing thick plate armor. with weapons.

The prohibition of swords and armor does not exist among the dwarves. The dwarves are quite martial, and even used to hunt orc tribes and goblin tribes in the mountains as a recreational activity, which can be regarded as abundant martial arts.

Fortunately, due to the group life and the high-pressure living environment, the cohesion of the dwarves is generally relatively strong, and they consciously abide by the order. Generally, there will be no vicious incidents in the settlements, otherwise these weapons will still become a problem.

There are quite a few elves in Tang Zhao's team, which he did on purpose. When walking in the fortress, he could clearly feel that some unfriendly eyes were staring at them, to be precise, those elves in the team.

After all, the war that has lasted for centuries has almost caused the elves and dwarves to become feuds, and the dwarves are an extremely vengeful race. There is no problem at all if it lasts for several generations and lasts for thousands of years. Hatred is not so easy to eliminate.

All the way down the central axis avenue, they went deep into the ground, and after walking a certain distance, they came to a wide meeting hall, where Haiji and several dwarf elders were waiting for them.

Neither side likes nonsense. Tang Zhao clearly stated his needs from the very beginning: he hoped to buy a large number of weapons and equipment and sell them to the Oran people to supply them with future wars against hobgoblins and orcs.

Every tribe of the dwarves has a "Book of Hatred", which is a small book of hatred. It is one of the tasks of the patriarch of each dwarf tribe to avenge the enemies on it and cross out the contents. It is famous in the book, and it is also recorded in the book of hatred in front of the Supreme Throne. It is another enemy of the dwarves. It is easy to get the support of the dwarves by using troops against them, not to mention making money. The matter is not difficult. Haiji readily agreed.

Then he began to propose other matters, concerning the struggle for the throne of the High King of the Dwarves.

(End of this chapter)