You call this a shield?

Sheld almost left his seat and stood up directly.

He, Stike and the others looked at each other, and their eyes were also full of shock and disbelief.After all, they just came back from there, how can they sink?

Could it be that the Sea God discovered something that caused the island to sink to the bottom?

As an insider, it's hard for Sheld not to think this way, after all, what if another fool lands on the island and unleashes another wave for the Kraken.Simply sink to the bottom of the sea.

"what's the situation?"

"I don't know." Heka shrugged: "My father sent people to investigate, but they returned without success."

"In the early hours of this morning, some people discovered that Storm Island had completely sunk, and even in the sea, the Naga people still couldn't get close to it, because a maelstrom formed around it."

"Perhaps, you should be careful about that place when you go out to sea again. The weather there is extremely abnormal now, and thunder is constantly raging on the sea... But, you generally don't go out to sea, haha."

……

Sheld didn't stay in the deep water port for too long, he was still holding the countdown of the king-level mission in his hand, and when the countdown started from more than 20 days to more than ten days, they had already returned to the vicinity of Molten Fire City.

Next, they will continue west, near the corner between the United Kingdom of Rovana and the Kingdom of the Dwarves.

I inquired with Heka and found that there was nothing special about the beach. If I had to say it, the white-gold sand was probably very beautiful, better than the sand elsewhere.

"The mine is full of guards now."

Stike followed Sheld a few steps, and said in a low voice after standing side by side.

"It's not just a mine, there are checkpoints on the way here."

Sheld complained: "But to be honest, if there is no professional, no matter how many checkpoints there are, it is useless. It would be good to report a letter."

In fact, what he wanted to say was that it was all because of these damned checkpoints, which made him travel a lot more. He couldn't stay on Dart's back all the time during checkpoint checks, how shameful it would be!You still have to save face, okay?And it was freezing cold for him to walk by himself, his legs and feet were not smooth, and it was difficult to walk a few steps.

After passing through the checkpoints, I tried to go back, but I couldn't go back, because when I got close to Molten Fire City and came to the road, there were more passers-by, and it was broad daylight.

"really……"

Sidi Ke nodded, and then analyzed in a low voice: "Generally speaking, either the people above don't pay attention to the life and death of the people below, and how many people died has nothing to do with him. A group of civilians are still working in the mine. civilians."

"But the lord of Molten Fire City is the well-known Bachat Greybeard of the dwarves. He is called the 'Patron Saint of the Dwarves', so even the entire Greybeard clan is very popular among the dwarves."

"Such a person, logically speaking, would not have such behavior. Is the information circulating in the market wrong, or..."

"Speak carefully, speak carefully."

Sheld glanced around, confirmed that there was almost no shadow from the last checkpoint, and there were only scattered passers-by at a distance, and then he said slowly: "For example, Bachat Graybeard has been controlled by someone. , or that Bachart Graybeard has fallen, or that Bachart Greybeard is dead and is now a stand-in or something? And all of this is probably the same as the ones we encountered before. man's guy."

Si Tike was stunned by this series of events, and after a while she whispered: "I haven't thought about these possibilities yet, you seem to know a lot about these behind-the-scenes things?"

"It's just the experience of the predecessors..."

To be more precise, it is the imagination of various web articles, TV dramas, and movies in the previous life, and the routine of the righteous side becoming the villain in the end is a rotten game.

A little more conspiracy theory, Sheld can even say that Almi is the real villain or something, guess what... Sometimes reality is actually illogical, more magical than magic.

"However, Bachat himself is a very powerful professional, and he is a veteran loyal to the dwarf king. The probability of these things happening is not high."

"Otherwise, Molten Fire City will not be handed over to him. This is one of the lifeblood cities of dwarves."

"Well... let's ignore these for now, let's get Dart's new weapon first."

Shield nodded in agreement with Stike's words, but he was thinking of something else.

After all, the lifeline city, the word lifeline, in Sheard's view, is a bargaining chip on the balance of danger... The more the lifeline, the more it needs to be protected, and the more protected it is, the more the enemy wants to destroy it.

And should I say it or not, it is actually very simple to tell if Bachat has a problem, just let him appear on his map panel, and the red dot will tell him who is the enemy and who is not.

"I hope the dwarf king can receive the letter from the village chief."

Sheld muttered to himself.

The number of dwarves on the avenue gradually increased.

The Molten Fire City was already close at hand, and there was no snow in front of the wide city gate. The temperature here was actually showing a slight warming trend, which made Shield feel relaxed and his hands and feet became much more agile.

Previously, Shield had passed Molten Fire City and went straight to the mine passage, but this time he was finally able to enter the city to have a look.

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Volume 152 Rising Storms: Chapter 50 Chapter [-] The Pride of the Eagle

The Molten Fire City is bigger than Sheld imagined. The part I saw before is just a part outside the mountain, and it also has a part inside the mountain.

The one at the entrance is a city gate made of pure steel. There are two huge stone towers beside it. It is said that there are switches for operating the gate. The race is also difficult to pull.

Normally, even dwarven city-states rarely have such a luxury to cast the entire city gate with steel, and generally speaking, there is no such condition.Only Molten Fire City is different. It is surrounded by rich mineral deposits, and the center of the city is a huge furnace. Some people say that the heat inside is maintained by the heart of the legendary creature lava monster.

It is also said that countless red dragons were sacrificed inside.

Others say that it is because the lava of the volcano was collected by the dwarves with special means.In short, there are various theories, but the dwarves did not give an accurate statement from the beginning to the end.

Maybe there is a special secret, or maybe, today's dwarves themselves don't know what drives this thing left by their ancestors.

But after entering Molten Fire City, before he had time to appreciate the magnificent melting pot, it made Sheld feel a little uncomfortable.

Let's talk about the deep water port. Although it is a city of dwarves, there are all kinds of people in the port. There are too many dwarves, so it looks good.

But in Molten Fire City, the proportion of dwarves is definitely much higher than the proportion of the total population. Although as a big city of dwarves, there are some people from other tribes, but they are basically a drop in the bucket, so that Shield and his party stood on the street and looked around. Go, the surroundings seem a little "empty".

But when he lowered his gaze a little, he found that there were crowds of people again. This feeling of standing out from the crowd made Sheld feel a stronger exposure than in the multi-door tavern.

In the previous life and a few years ago, it felt like a foreigner came to the town, probably so.

"Sorry, uncle, excuse me, where can I customize weapons around here?"

Shield asked a dwarf at random.

"Who are you calling uncle? I'm not yet an adult!"

The dwarf with a big beard and a ponytail said angrily.

"Sorry? My eyes are not very good, I misread..."

That's what he said, but Sheld has long complained in his heart, underage?In their entire team, isn't the 60-year-old Neveu more like a minor?

He himself was tender compared to the dwarf.

Dwarves aren't born with beards, are they?Sheld pondered with a bit of malice.

The dwarf was only angry for a while, and he didn't pursue it when he saw Sheld apologizing. After grunting twice, he pointed to the oval building standing in the distance.

"When you come to Molten Fire City, you should know that no matter what you want, weapons or armor, just go to the center of the city!"

"All the blacksmiths will be there."

center?Is it a melting pot?

Sheld thought for a while, and it seemed to be the same reason. The big melting pot is much more powerful than burning a stove alone in a shop. As a feature of this city, of course we should make more use of it.

"Is there a recommended shop? Or a blacksmith?"

"Are you rich?"

"Generally, if you have money, you can go to 'Lion's Heart'. If you don't have much money, you can go to 'House of Big Hammer'. If you are particularly rich, you can go to 'Dragon's Treasure'."

The dwarf wrenched his fingers and said, "Others are not bad, but I like these three."

"How is this money divided..."

"I don't know, I also heard from my father."

"...Okay, thank you."

After thanking them, Sheld took the three girls towards the center of the dwarves' city, and the further they went to the city center, the higher the temperature, and the full picture of the melting pot was gradually revealed.

The oval-shaped building I saw before was just a device that didn't know what to do. It continuously released heat to the surroundings and sprayed warm air.And below it is connected to a huge semi-circular wall-like building half buried in the ground. There are many houses hanging on this building, arranged neatly in a circle, and there are various kinds of buildings. Shop sign.

Looking at it from the side, it looks like a circle is placed on the semicircle.

"interesting."

Sheld could see clearly that those signboards were almost all the names of various blacksmith shops.

And one of the most conspicuous is the "House of Big Hammer".

And it seems that there are more than one. Sheld actually doesn't understand the consideration of opening multiple branches in the same location, but for now, it is very eye-catching, and Sheld can see it at a glance.

It's like "Yellow Braised Chicken and Rice" and "Shaxian Snacks".

"Dart, which one do you think we should go to, House of Hammer? Heart of the Lion, or Treasure of the Dragon?"

"Um……"

Dalt looked up at the signboards of those shops, and hesitated for a while: "That's it, the pride of the eagle?"

"???"

Good guy, out of the three options, I chose something else.

"Okay, then the pride of the eagle."

The choice of the parties is the most important, anyway, the weapon is not used by Sheld himself, but should I say it, the eagle head on the sign looks a bit like Shaw.

Perhaps it was for this reason that Dalt chose this shop.

As for other aspects...

The business of this store doesn't look very good, and the decoration is also a little worse, not as good as "Big Hammer House".

"This store is so broken."

Once inside the shop, Neveu switched on her Tell the Truth skill again.

"Let's talk about it after looking at it. Usually, the artifacts and the messy ones are all in this kind of dilapidated... oh no, aren't they in such a low-key place?"

Sheld pressed Neveu's head, at least not in front of the boss... huh?Where is the boss?

Looking around, there is nothing in the store except for some weapons racks with various weapons and a few erected armor displays.

None of the boss and clerks were seen, only a wooden door leading to the back creaked.I glanced at the map panel roughly, there should be other people nearby, but looking at the distance, I'm not sure whether it's the people next door or the people in the shop.

"This place is almost the same as Miss Stike's dilapidated place."

Another hand was on Neveu's head.

Si Tike "smiled" behind Neveu: "I'm sorry that the place is too poor."

With Stie cracking the head with a strong hand behind, Sheld didn't have to continue to use her own strength to pressurize, letting go of Neveu's head, Sheld walked towards the broken wooden door, and shouted inside: "Is anyone there? ?shopping!"

"Yes, yes, yes, here, here, here!"

There was a response from inside, and the voice sounded like an uncle, but with the lessons learned from before, Shield no longer judged the age of the dwarf.

"Clang! Clank! Crack!"

In some dim passages, various metal and wooden products clashed, and then, a figure hurriedly flashed out of the passage.

"Welcome to the Pride of the Eagle! May I ask what you want to buy? Weapons? Or armor? Everything!"

The person who came was a bit monkey-cheeked, shorter than ordinary dwarves, even a little miniature, and he didn't have the thick arms and legs of dwarves, only his head was bigger, like a child's body, with tender skin similar to a child's, but smaller than that of a dwarf. The child has a more "cartoon" feeling, because he has a pair of "Kazlan" big eyes.With a white goatee and a Mediterranean hairstyle, it's quite funny.

And there is something like goggles on his forehead.

"Dwarves... don't look like that?"

Sheld pursed his lips and asked tentatively, "Dwarfs?"

"Pig milk family? What kind of strange race is that?"

"No, I mean the dwarf..."

The little old man in front of him frowned, and tapped something that looked like a wrench in his hand: "I'm a Nome, have you decided what you want? I'm a little busy, if you need to look at it for a while, I'll go back to work first ?”

The second volume is surging: Chapter 153 Chapter 51 Industrial power?

"Name: Wendson Rank. Occupation: Unemployed. Level: 1. Strength: 7, Dexterity: 7, Intelligence: 10, Constitution: 7. Skill: None."

There is nothing special about the results of the investigation, except that what makes Sheld upset is that his physical attributes are the same as this little one.

"It is said that the Gnomes were originally a race outside of the Western Continent. Their ancestors traveled across the ocean and came here to avoid a catastrophe. They are few in number, have low fertility, and cannot intermarry with foreign races to reproduce."

"But they generally have smart heads, like to study, and there are many scholars and alchemists, and they have no ambitions, and they are happy with the situation, so they are still popular among all ethnic groups."

Si Di Ke is like a caring little assistant, actively popularizing science behind Sheld's back.