Unfortunate Hero's Retirement Life

Thanks to the three little girls, King William and Alexa were welcomed by the dwarves.

The three little girls and the five dwarves led the group through the wide passage while King William, Alexa, and Heero followed them from behind.

"They are dwarves?" King William whispered as low as possible.

"Mnn… But…" Heero looked to the front, making sure the five dwarves did not hear their conversation.

"Don't call them dwarf in front of them, don't do it," Heero warned King William and Alexa.

Heero's warning confused them. They were dwarves but they were not allowed to call them with that. It was totally weird for them.

"But why?" Alexa was the one who asked.

"They hate it! We save that story for later. For now, just be friends with them. On another note, they are food," Heero winked his eyes at the two.

"Look, we arrived!" Then he pointed his finger forward. They reached the way out of the passage.

"Woaw!" Alexa subconsciously exclaimed in a shock. She was stunned speechless with her eyes wide open. She could not believe what she saw.

"This… This… This…" King William himself stuttered at the sight in front of him.

The five dwarves heard this, it could be seen from their ears which was excitedly twitching. The five dwarves turned around with a wide grin on their faces.

"Amazing, isn't it?" The hostile dwarf asked proudly.

"Yes, this is so amazing," Alexa nodded her head.

Fifty meters below them, a big city unfolded before them. The city was surrounded by a black wall, towers were placed here and there. It was like a fortress.

In the center of the big city, there was a big and tall castle. The castle was built well. But the thing that made the city was amazing was the crystal on the ceiling.

Yes, there was a big crystal right on top of the castle. The crystal let out a bright light that illuminated the city. That was the thing that amazed the couple.

"Huhu… Your wife has amazing taste," The dwarf with a thick mustache commended Alexa for praising their city.

Heero secretly gave Alexa a thumb up. She was doing good to get close to these people.

King William looked around, he was wondering how this whole city was built? Huge pillars were built to hold the ceiling, maybe? King William was truly amazed, beyond amazed.

Then he started wondering why did Heero bring him here. Based on the dwarves' reaction, they did not like to interact with others.

So Heero brought them here without the dwarves' consent.

'Ah, I remember he said I was their new client,'

'What did it mean?'

While King William's thoughts were wandering around, the group stopped in front of an obsidian black gate. The gate was huge, twenty meters tall, and nine meters wide.

'With their tiny bodies, how could they build such a huge tall,'

He could not stop being amazed the more he got closer to enter the city.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

One of the dwarves banged the gate thrice and a small door opened.

A dwarf with brown plate armor came out. King William could not see the face of the new dwarf as his face was covered with a brown helmet too.

The new dwarf had an ax with a doubled size of his body resting on his shoulder. As soon as their eyes met, the new dwarf's eyes turned bloodshot, staring at him menacingly.

However, different from the five dwarves, the new dwarf did not immediately show an aggressive stance against him. The new dwarf stared at the five dwarves. He looked at them one by one.

The armored dwarf asked for an explanation from the five dwarves since they brought the stranger to the city.

"It's not us, but him!" The thick mustache dwarf pointed his short and thicc finger toward Heero.

With a big smile, he waved his hand toward the armored dwarf with a big smile on his face, "Hello there, they are safe,"

As Heero said that, he sent an okay gesture to the armored dwarf, indicating King William and Alexa were friends and safe.

Heero approached the armored dwarf and whispered, "Food, you can exchange a lot of food with them and build a new base under their kingdom. He's a King of a kingdom and she's the Queen,"

"Can we trust them?" The armored dwarf replied with a whisper.

"I showed them a dragon, we can trust them I guess and…" Heero whispered what happened to the last king of the Regal Kingdom with a voice that could only be heard by the armored dwarf.

"Good, so do you want to bring them to meet our King?" The armored dwarf asked Heero.

"Mnnn, unless you want to be the one who does the talking?"

"Nope, you can go in then, but I don't allow them to run around the city!"

"Good, good, you can escort us if you want to,"

Just like that, Heero and his group entered the city under the armored dwarf's escort. The city's road was well paved and most of the houses were square-shaped.

The armored dwarf treated King William and Alexa coldly but he treated the three little girls well, so well, that made Alexa envious of the three girls.

"What do you want me to do with them? They look unfriendly to us, how am I supposed to talk with them if they don't want to talk to us?" King William asked in a whisper.

Before Heero could answer King William, Miao Miao interrupted them, "Daddy, I want to go play with them, is it okay?"

She pointed her index finger toward the five dwarves who guided them to the city. The little girls were familiar with the five dwarves.

"Hmm, you can play with them but you have to go back to the castle in an hour, okay?" Heero nodded as he pointed at the big castle that was not far away from their location.

"Good~!" The three little girls replied simultaneously.

Then they went with the five dwarves happily. The cold armored dwarf also happily bid farewell to the five dwarves and the three little girls.

Heero's group then continued their trip to the castle.

"Don't worry, the King of these people is fair-minded,"

As the group went to the castle, King William and Alexa met more dwarves. He got more hostile gazes and it made both uncomfortable.

He began thinking he should not be here. However, that thought changed after he met the King.

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"Huah…" King William let out a relieved breath as soon as he came out of the secret passage.

His face was bright with a big smile on his face. Then he turned toward Heero and gave his hand forward for a handshake.

"Thank you, the device will help us a lot,"

"No problem, helping you is also helping me," Heero reached the hand.

The device they were talking about was a device to detect the specters. A device to detect Dark Ki.

"But I hope you only share this device with the person you trusted the most, the people you trusted the most, or the device would be useless!"

King William nodded his head with a solemn look on his face.

"But what did the King mean earlier? He said he was a dwarf but he preferred me not to call him dwarf?"

King William had a strange look on his face as he asked.

"They are a dwarf for sure but they don't like being called a dwarf. They have a bloodline of the dwarf but because of their voice, they were isolated by the "real" dwarf!" Heero made a quote gesture with his finger when he said "real" dwarf.

"The "real" dwarf?" Alexa blurted as she got even more confused by Heero's words.

"Yes, as you already knew, they have a cute voice, right? The "real" dwarf has a deep and rough voice. That's the reason why they don't like being called a dwarf. They were isolated by their kind,"

"So they choose to be called Tiniman because of that?" King William nodded. It was normal to be isolated because they were different. It happened here as well, the mutant was the best example.

Yes, the King of the underground city introduced himself as Tiniman. The King also emphasized to not call them with a strong tone, at that.

"Mnn… I hope you treat them well," Heero nodded.

"You don't have to worry about that. They are our helpers, a big help. I will certainly treat them extremely well," King William hugged Heero and tapped his back. He was truly grateful to Heero.

Just like that, the trip to the underground city was over.