Goddess Wanhua Mirror

If all goes well with the agricultural upgrade, Lude estimates that in the coming year, the agricultural output will be tripled and at the same time, about 500 laborers will be freed.

certainly!With such a small population, it is tantamount to wishing to develop industry, so Lude is also eyeing the upcoming Steel Whip Clan, which has tens of thousands of dwarves. He is going to trick that Gulig into joining the group.

Three days later, at noon, two light horses came from the south, galloped into the two barracks outside the village, and reported an important news to their lord.

The dwarves who have been waiting for many days, they are finally here!

Soon, Lu De also received the news, so he put down what he was doing, and took the whole family to go out to watch the excitement.

As soon as the group of people left the gate of the temple, they saw a large black area coming from the south, like a shadow cast by dark clouds on the ground.

Lude casually added a far-sighted spell to himself, and his eyes immediately saw the dwarves who were still two or three miles away.

The migratory team that stretched for several miles was led by a group of ram knights unique to the dwarves. The number was about a hundred. It looks quite erratic, it seems to be a unique optical camouflage.

Immediately behind these cavalrymen were dwarven hoplites lined up in a five-way column. Their armor was obviously thicker and heavier than that of the cavalry, but they did not have the halo of cavalry armor. Carrying a large shield on it, it looks like a miniature fortress that can move.

These well-equipped regular dwarves number about 800 people, and then they should be ordinary lovers. The messy team can vaguely distinguish the crowds of people and the endless caravans.

"More than 3 people, it looks like a lot!"

According to the situation passed on from before, the journey of the Steel Whip Clan is like a snowball, and the number of people has more than tripled compared to when they first left the capital.By the time they arrived in Pine Tree Village, the total number had reached more than 3, far more than the previous estimate of 5000.

And the dwarves in the entire Duran Kingdom add up to less than 5 people, and now more than half of them have gathered under the banner of the Steel Whip Clan.

This made Lude curious, how did this Gulig do it.

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Because he knew in advance that the dwarves were coming, Lude deliberately made up some relevant knowledge about this race, so as not to say the wrong thing after the meeting and cause unnecessary embarrassment.

As the most harmonious demi-human race with humans, dwarves are famous for their superb forging skills and metallurgical technology, and are recognized as a craftsman nation in the world. "Made by dwarves" is almost synonymous with quality and high-end, not relying on self-promotion And data falsification, but real skills.

Interestingly, the dwarves are good at forging iron, which is not only influenced by their own cultural atmosphere, but also related to their unique physique.

As the name suggests, the dwarves are indeed much shorter than other races. The average height of adult males is less than 1.3 meters, but their weight is a bit exaggerated. The average is more than three times that of humans. With thick limbs, wide waist and thick body, it looks like a wooden barrel that can walk.

Excessive physical density makes it impossible for dwarves to learn to swim, and the per capita depth bomb also endows them with a strong and durable physique, especially the two physical indicators of strength and endurance. Compared with humans, they have an overwhelming advantage, which can be called ruthless blacksmithing machine.

In addition to physical advantages, the average life span of dwarves is also much higher than that of humans.

The theoretical lifespan of pure-blooded humans in this world is about 80 to 100 years old, and some of them can live to be over a hundred years old if they are properly maintained, while a very small number of them are blessed with supernatural powers, and it is said that they can live beyond two hundred years old.But this kind of old monster is a rare case, and it is usually taken out and counted separately.

The dwarves are different. Although they can't survive the elves, their theoretical lifespan is more than [-], and it's easy to break through [-]!

A longer lifespan gave the dwarves more room for improvement and more time to hone their skills.If humans can live for such a long time, and with a unicorn arm that is not inferior to dwarves, they can also produce a lot of blacksmith masters.

Lude was thinking about the information about the dwarves. At this time, the large group of people on the opposite side had stopped a mile away from the village. Only a small group of goat knights came out, surrounded by the largest dwarf knight. Running towards the village, it should be Gulig, the patriarch of the Steel Whip Clan.

Considering the dwarf's solid weight, he wore a plate armor and carried a long halberd.This small half-ton lump of "iron-clad meat" straddles its back, and the big goat below can not only run and jump, but also chew its cud calmly. It looks like it's not an ordinary guy who can only cook hot pot.

"I have to find an opportunity to ask them if they can sell me two ends."

, this small group of knights soon came to Lude and the others. The armor of the leading knight was extraordinarily gorgeous. When he jumped off the goat, Lude found that he was nearly a head taller than the other dwarves around him, and his actual height was definitely more than 1.5 meters. Among the dwarves, this is already a great "giant man"!

At this time, the giant dwarf took off his helmet, revealing a mature and heroic face, with distinct facial features that looked like a human being in his 30s.Even by human standards, this handsome man is definitely a handsome man.

The handsome dwarf giant looked around, his eyes looked around, and finally fell on Lude's face.

"I am Gulig Steel Whip, the Viscount of the Kingdom, and I am leading my troops to receive the fief that His Majesty conferred on me. May I ask this Your Excellency, are you a high-ranking priest of the Medicine God Sect, Lord Lude?"

"It's my lord, when will Lord Viscount look for the old man?"

Seeing Gulig naming himself, Lu De immediately took a step forward and nodded to the other party with the ceremony of a priest.Gulig immediately responded with an impeccable knight's chest salute, and then said with a smile.

"I have long admired Your Excellency's name. I heard that you once participated in an expedition and visited the ancient city in the forest. Could you speak a little bit?"

Hearing Gulig mentioning the ancient city in the forest, Lu De knew that this man must want to ask him for some information.

The danger of the Void Forest is well known in the world. Since the establishment of the Duran Kingdom, although the past 50 years have been dispatched to the northern border almost every year, pioneers have been dispatched to the northern border. As far as I'm concerned, it's just rubbing off a little bit of skin.

This huge sea of ​​trees covering one-third of the continent contains endless treasures, but it is also full of dangers.Not only are there various kinds of poisonous insects and ferocious beasts, there are also terrifying monsters haunting the forest, even if they are as strong as a giant dragon, you have to be very careful in this place, otherwise there is still a possibility of overturning.

At Lude's active invitation, Gulig took only two of his men and went to the temple with him, while the migrating dwarves outside the village camped directly in place and did not rush into the woods.

After all, the notorious Void Forest is not a park. Even if the dwarves have per capita strange strength, an eight-year-old child can have the strength equivalent to that of an adult human. If you go deep without preparation, accidents are very likely.

Therefore, the plan of the dwarves is to let the old and weak women and children temporarily settle on the border for a period of time, and then organize an advance army to explore the road first, and explore a route suitable for road construction in advance.

Once the route is determined, the dwarves on the border will build the road against the advance army that has arrived in the ancient city, trying to repair the road before winter.

In front of Lu De, Gulig pushed out his original plan. After listening to Lu De, he suddenly found a problem.

You must know that it is already the end of June, and there are only four and a half months left before winter begins. No matter how fast the dwarven advance army moves, it only takes a few months to complete the route survey, and then start road construction. Four months No matter how you think about it, it is an impossible task to repair hundreds of miles, and to traverse this kind of virgin forest.

Unless these dwarves have some special road-building machines!

At this time, Hamilton, who had been listening, seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly asked Gulig with an excited face.

"Wait a minute! I heard a rumor a few years ago that your Steel Whip clan robbed graves... No, I mean archeology. I found two giant Koberi battle puppets made during the Taylor Dynasty. It can't be true, right? ?No way?"

Facing the bald old magician who suddenly posted up, Gulig, the dwarf patriarch, subconsciously hid back, while Lude quickly found relevant information about the Taylor Dynasty and the giant Koberi war partner from his mind.

The former was the last and most prosperous dynasty of the dwarf kingdom. It was destroyed during the war of gods. The country suffered heavy losses and the royal family was completely annihilated. This double blow caused this country that could not prosper to fall to its peak almost instantly.

The Koberi battle partner is the ultimate weapon put into the battlefield by the Taylor dynasty during the war of gods - a huge robot powered by magic!

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If we could turn back time and go back to the heyday of Zhuolu, the hero of the major races 300 years ago, I am afraid that no one would believe that human beings, a mediocre second-rate race, would one day counterattack and become the hegemon of the world, and let other people The race eventually became a minority, and they had to accept the obvious discriminatory collective term of "subhuman race".

In the world at that time, the Ratman was the well-deserved number one in the world. The territory of the empire spread over three continents, and the magic technology was shocking!And the only one that can compete with the Skaven Empire on a technical level is only a dwarf kingdom.

Before the official outbreak of the war of gods, there had been an arms race between the ratmen and the dwarves for many years. Both sides hoped to develop a decisive weapon, so the former tried to create a god, while the latter followed the last dwarf king Koberi Taylor. According to my personal preference, I started to tinker with the giant robot.

Perhaps because of the shortcoming in height, the dwarves have a group psychological inferiority complex, so these guys generally worship giants, and they like to make things as big as possible.Some fanatics even go crazy and expand this preference infinitely. No matter what they are building, no matter whether it is practical or not, just make it bigger and bolder!

It is no exaggeration to say that if it hadn't been for the outbreak of the war of gods later, which caused the dwarf kingdom to fall apart, this group of scumbags had developed smoothly to this day, maybe they would really have "mechanical ascension".

It's a pity that there is no such thing as reality. The once prosperous kingdom is gone, and the surviving dwarves have never been able to reintegrate together, and have become vassals of the rising star of mankind.Although the title of "craftsman race" has not been lost, due to the loss of a large number of technologies, their civilization has regressed by not a little compared to 300 years ago.

So in order to revive the glory of the past, the dwarves put their hope in archaeology, hoping to recover those ancient technologies that have been lost for many years, but are still very advanced.

Among the "earth digging party", Gulig and his steel whip clan undoubtedly belonged to the Emperor Ouhuang, and the "Golden Legend" was suddenly issued three years ago.

They accidentally dug a tomb of a dwarf prince. The owner of the tomb is the younger brother of the last dwarf king, Koberi. Therefore, among the many burial objects in the tomb, two giant war puppets suddenly appeared.

Gulig, who dug out the big treasure, didn't make any noise at first, and he also denied all the leaked news.Because the dwarf clan's entire set of technology related to the war partner has been lost, the dwarves of the Steel Whip clan neither know whether the two battle partners are well preserved, nor do they know how to activate them.

Therefore, Gulig was not dazzled by winning the big prize. He knew very well that these two battle partners were not enough to support him to come up with some "bold ideas".

When the war puppets were first created, the dwarves declared to the outside world that these steel giants had a terrifying combat power that was not inferior to the giant dragon.But not long after the awesome bragging, a group of red dragons came to the door, so the dwarf had to admit that he had engaged in false propaganda.

So in reality, the strength of these battle partners is indeed not weak, but they are far from being so strong that they are invincible.Their real advantage is that they can be mass-produced and win by virtue of quantity advantage.

It is said that after the outbreak of the Battle of the Gods, the Dwarf Kingdom built at least two hundred Koberi war puppets at full capacity, and used this powerful army of war puppets to challenge the gods of the opposing camp.Even if this battle ended in failure and all the 150 battle puppets put into the battlefield were destroyed, it still left a strong mark in the history of mythology!

After obtaining these two battle partners, Gulig blocked the news on the one hand, and on the other hand met King Duran alone, explained his situation and thoughts to the other party, and promised that after repairing the two battle partners, Dedicate the best of them all to the royal family.Relying on this set of proactive operations, Gulig successfully gained the trust and support of King Duran.

When they came to the northern border this time, the Steel Whip Clan brought their own Koberi battle partner, and planned to use this big treasure to build roads.When everyone present heard about this, they were all full of strong curiosity about this legendary ancient weapon that once challenged the gods.

And Gulig also saw what everyone was thinking. He said that his war partner was dismantled and transported, and it took two to three days for assembly and debugging before it could be started.Anyway, that thing is very big, and it will make a lot of noise when it really moves, and it will be hard for everyone not to notice it.

Lude could see that Gulig's attitude towards Pine Tree Village and the God of Medicine Sect was quite friendly, and his speech and behavior were very aristocratic, and his tone of speech was gentle and elegant, not at all like a dwarf with a naturally loud voice. Just opening your mouth in front of you can make your brain hurt!

Everyone sat and chatted for a while, when Gulig suddenly expressed his hope that he could go to the main hall of the temple to pay homage to the statue of the God of Medicine.

Lude couldn't help being a little puzzled when he saw this, because logically speaking, most dwarves believed in the Mother Earth Goddess. Although some young dwarves of the new generation who grew up in human society tried to switch to other sects, the number of such young dwarves was not large. Not too many, and generally regarded as deviant by the ethnic group.

However, this Gulig is different from his Steel Whip Clan. Gulig is probably the first dwarf clan patriarch in the world to stand up and declare "freedom of belief". He even said that the Steel Whip Clan welcomes All denominations come to preach on their side, giving people the impression that they really want to change their faith.

With this kind of doubt, Lu De led Gulig to the main hall of the temple. When the dwarf patriarch saw two different statues enshrined in the hall, he was as surprised as many first-timers, so Lu De He also explained why.

When Gulig heard about the two novel religious concepts of "Divine Domain" and "Pantheon", he couldn't help showing a thoughtful expression on his face.

"Master Priest, according to what you said, this God's Domain is the world of gods, and there are as many gods as there are mortals in this mortal world, right?"

"Yes, it is a promised land flowing with milk and honey. It is a pure land of bliss without any suffering. The supreme beings could have stayed there to enjoy eternal peace, but they answered the prayers of us mortals. and faith, resolutely left the realm of the gods, and became the god of mortals."

"This means that as long as we pray sincerely, there will be a corresponding god descending, does that mean?"

"Yes, but if we are not sincere and trustworthy, our mortal voices will not be able to reach the realm of the gods, unless... we use some other method."

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With regard to the "God's Domain", Lu De was not worried that Gulig would find out what was wrong.

Anyway, the gods of other sects in this world simply emphasize that they created everything in this world, but they are ambiguous about their own origins, so Luther made up such a set of settings, even Ural, who is the bishop of God of War It is not unacceptable to be present.

And Gulig looked thoughtful, as if he was thinking about something.

"It's an interesting statement. I will visit you again when I have time."

Bowing to the two goddess statues enshrined in the hall, Gulig casually took out a pink diamond the size of a pigeon egg and gave it to Lude in the name of donation. For reasons, leave the temple first and return to the dwarf camp.

Seeing this, the others also stepped forward to bid farewell to Lu De.After seeing off these guests in person, Lu De whispered instructions to the fallen leaves guarding the door.

"There may be visitors in these two nights, let him in."

In the next two days, tens of thousands of dwarves built a temporary camp on the south side of the village. When the villagers looked at it from a distance, almost without exception, their attention was attracted by a [-]-meter-high canvas fence.

The onlookers who didn't know the truth were very curious about what the dwarves were doing behind the wall. The wall was as tight as a chimney, and the black-painted canvas was completely opaque, and only occasionally some jingling sounds could be heard. Metal clanging.

Lude naturally knew what was inside the canvas wall, and even took the time to observe the scene, but Gulig did not refuse his request.

However, after actually seeing the real thing, Lude felt a little disappointed in his heart. The rumored Koberi battle partner is indeed very big. It is close to 30 meters high from head to toe. It has standard dwarven body characteristics and looks very stocky. And somewhat naive.

And the real slots are mainly concentrated on that huge ball head.The first time Lude saw this thing, he immediately thought of the Android robot as an enemy unit in "Neil's Butt Era". They all have a ball head directly embedded in the body, a pair of round His small blue eyes are full of "light of wisdom".

"How do you feel? My lord priest."

"Uh...it's huge and oppressive."

Feeling ashamed to complain about the appearance in front of Gulig, Lude responded with an awkward but polite smile, while Gulig was very proud, and introduced this machine representing the highest technology crystallization of the dwarves to Lude. Great work.

Over the past three years, the Steel Whip Clan has been conducting reverse engineering on the two war dolls they discovered. They found that 80.00% of the components can be imitated with existing technology, and the performance will even be better. Only as the core components The core of the fire, they still can't figure it out for a while.

The so-called furnace core is the power source of the entire battle partner. Its production process is beyond imagination. Many parts use extremely high-end enchanting process, and the raw materials used are extremely rare.

Perhaps because he didn't feel that the magic technology used by the dwarves could be understood at a human level, Gulig not only talked in front of Lude, but also allowed him to observe the internal structure of the war partner up close.

And Lude was indeed taken aback by the countless gears and transmission shafts inside the battle partner.Compared with the structure of this thing, the staggered road wheels of the tiger style that tortured the logistics mother three thousand times can be regarded as simple and capable.

After seeing the terrifying structure of the dwarf Koberi battle puppet, Lude completely gave up the idea of ​​"stealing the teacher" after being shocked. He has the time and energy to toss this thing, he might as well develop an adventure Gatling of Blue Fire.

It took four days before and after, the dwarves finally assembled this giant battle puppet, and drove it out for two steps in a showy manner.The tall and burly steel giant left a deep impression on the human side.

Aina's eyes lit up when she saw this thing, jumping up and down excitedly like a child, pulling Lude and shouting.

"Master, I want this!"

That evening, the uninvited visitor finally showed up.

The other party was wearing a black cloak, deliberately came to the entrance of the temple quietly after twelve o'clock in the morning, and then jumped directly into the courtyard over the wall.The visitor's skills are very good, and there are many magic props on his body. He climbed over the wall like a feather, and he didn't make any sound when he landed.

However, the guard at the gate of the temple is the envoy of the God of Thieves after all. Luo Ye immediately sensed the person coming, and immediately transformed into a strong man. .

After a brief silence, Luo Ye remembered Lu De's advice a few days ago, so she lowered her voice and asked in a low voice.

"Guest, who are you looking for?"

"Uh... I'm looking for your priests."

The visitor raised his hood, revealing the face of the dwarf patriarch Gulig.

Although Luo Ye didn't know why this guy didn't sleep at night and why he sneaked into the temple dressed like this, but since Lude told him to let him in if there were visitors at night, he didn't make things difficult for him.

Soon, Gulig saw Lude in the living room of the temple. The old priest seemed to have just been woken up, and he let out a breath as soon as he came.

"Patriarch Gulig, I suggest that you change the time slot next time. Whether it is earlier or later, it is more suitable than this time."

"Sorry, I'll keep an eye out."

"Tell me, which god do you want to invite to come?"

In front of Gulig, Lu De's tone at this time was like a staff member of a marriage agency who was asking a new client what type of blind date he would like.