Chapter 463 Prelude

On the top floor of the Frost Forge, a large number of spell runes are constantly flying.

Hela stood in front of the teardrop, and the magic book floated in front of her. The magic book absorbed the dense elements around it and transformed them into spell runes.

Under the transformation of the magic book, a large number of spell runes are constantly flying out of the magic book.

And Hela used her powerful control to control and direct these spell runes, placing them one by one in the appropriate position. At the same time, Hela also had to adjust the situation of the magic book forwarding spell runes according to the situation.

Under Hela's micro-control, the spell runes disappeared into the space on the top floor one by one, constantly filling the framework that Roland had built before.

Although Hela is already a high-level extraordinary person, and a high-level extraordinary person who has completed the second sublimation of both body and soul, theoretically speaking, Hela's progress is faster than Roland.

But the fact that Hela is faster than Roland in supernatural power does not mean that Hela has caught up with Roland in other aspects such as position construction, alchemy, and strange machinery.

In these aspects, Roland is still far ahead.

Therefore, Hela came to the Frost Forge mainly to assist Roland, and the main core framework was built by Roland himself.

While Hela was perfecting and filling the position framework at the top level, Roland shrank his body and went deep into the core of the Frost Forge to dismantle the bomb, that is, to clean up all the element ingots accumulated in the core, and at the same time repair the damaged places and loopholes.

The most critical part of the Frost Forge is the core. As long as the core does not explode, even if other places are blown up, it is within an acceptable range.

Therefore, after completing the main framework of the position, Roland threw the remaining work of the position to Hela, and began to carefully clean the element ingots in the core.

Roland stretched out his right hand and gently touched the element ingots accumulated on the parts in front of him, and his perception slowly extended into it.

Although the element ingots are dangerous, they are actually good things. Highly concentrated and materialized element ingots are also relatively rare extraordinary materials in this era.

Therefore, Roland would naturally not dissolve the element ingots directly.

His perception slowly extended, wrapped the element ingots in front of him, and after locking them, the space bracelet on his right hand flashed slightly, and all the element ingots in front of him were transferred to the space bracelet in one breath.

After all the element ingots were transferred, Roland also saw the parts that were severely damaged in his perception just now.

Under the erosion of time and elements, nearly one-third of the parts in front of him have disappeared, and large holes have appeared in the parts that were originally connected.

Looking at the parts that seemed to be reactivated, Roland lowered his head and looked at the energy pipeline connected to this part below. He stepped on his right foot, and magic power poured in, dismantling several dwarf runes below.

After these dwarf runes were kicked out, the energy channel that was still running was honestly suspended, and the parts that tried to re-operate also stopped because there was no energy.

To be honest, after Roland explored the core of the frost forge in depth, his scalp became more and more numb.

The Frost Dwarves have used the Frost Forge for so many years, so they naturally did not choose to use it in such a rotten way from the beginning.

Although the Frost Dwarves are now weak, the premise of weakness is after the glory, and the Frost Clan in the glorious period is naturally capable of maintaining the Frost Forge.

Due to the importance of the Frost Forge, even if it is weak, the Frost Clan has always insisted on maintaining the Frost Forge.

Therefore, at the core of the Frost Forge, there is not only the rune technology unified by the clan countries, but also various maintenance and transformations left by the Frost Clan for countless years.

The former is a neat and complete system, arranged neatly and beautifully, while the latter is just a pile.

Due to the ups and downs of the Frost Clan's sustainable decline and the birth and improvement of the Frost Rune technology, their maintenance and transformation are full of wild beauty, without any planning, as long as it can be used.

Looking at the runes they left behind, Roland recalled the time when he faced the Shit Mountain Rune of the Northern Wall before.

To be honest, Roland really wanted to just overwrite and rewrite the entire wall like he did with the northern wall, but after all, time was short and cleaning up the elemental ingots was the most important thing. Therefore, Roland could only endure the discomfort and go ahead with it.

While Hela was setting up the position and Roland was tortured by the runes left by the Frost Clan, the inside of the Frost Forge also underwent obvious changes as the two of them moved.

Since a large amount of overflowing elements were transformed into runes by Hela, the amount of overflowing elements absorbed by the Frost Forge from the Water Elemental Realm was no longer so exaggerated.

In the core, the elemental ingots that had been piled up for who knows how many years were also collected by Roland one by one into the space bracelet.

The main reasons for maintaining a high element concentration environment underground are these two, the elements that overflowed after absorbing the Water Elemental Realm and the elements that flowed out when the accumulated elemental ingots decomposed.

And now, due to the operation of Roland and Hela, the elements overflowing from the core of the Frost Forge into the underground space are getting less and less, and the vents of the Frost Forge can be kept running.

Therefore, when the input element amount decreased and the output element amount remained unchanged, the element concentration began to slowly decrease. The change in the high element concentration underground naturally brought about changes in the environment.

The frost dwarves underground were surprised to find that the underground temperature had dropped and the coverage of the thermal tower had increased significantly.

After realizing this change, the elders and royal family members underground all passed the news to Ice Stone City.

In the Ice Stone City Palace, the dwarf king was alone in the secret room with his eyes closed. He was talking to a voice inside his body.

"It must be your fault."

"No, this is not caused by us, but by your side. The amount of elements flowing into the material world on our side has not changed."

Hearing the voice, the dwarf king frowned slightly. He raised his head and opened his eyes to look at the blood-red teardrops in front of him. Looking at the unchanged teardrops, he frowned slightly.

Tell the truth.

If it wasn't them, then there is only one answer.

Those guys from the Presbyterian faction, did they prepare any trump cards in the Frost Forge?

The dwarf king clenched his fists.

"Need help?"

The voice rang in his body again. The dwarf king did not answer. He stood up directly, collected the blood-red tears in front of his eyes, and directly cut off contact with them.

The dwarf king took a deep breath and adjusted his mentality.

Then, he pushed open the secret room and walked quickly down the corridor. At the same time, the dwarf guards waiting outside the secret room quickly followed him.

The dwarf king said without looking back as he walked.

"How prepared are you?"

"The charioteers are ready and ready to go at any time, and the army is also ready. However, the Ice Guards still need time."

The dwarf guard ran quickly beside the dwarf king and whispered.

He looked at the dwarf king's face, stretched out his right hand, waved it downward, and suggested.

"How about we do it now?"

After hearing his words, the dwarf king shook his head and said.

"No, we have to wait for the Ice Guard to be ready. As long as the Ice Guard is ready, no matter how bad the outcome is, the clan's fire can be kept."

"clear."

The dwarf guard responded in a low voice, and then the two left the corridor here.

In a conference room inside the Presbyterian camp, the first elder was sitting on a chair with his eyes closed, listening to the noise of the elders in his ears, while also communicating with his inner voice.

After getting the same answer as the dwarf king from the voice emerging from his heart, the first elder immediately believed that the royal family was responsible for the current situation.

What a prudent person. As expected of a descendant of that person, he showed weakness like this. He had to prepare a backup plan in the Frost Forge before actually taking action.

While the first elder was thinking, the noisy voices in his ears gradually became quieter, and the eyes of the elders also fell on him.

What a hassle.

The first elder cursed in his heart, then he opened his eyes, showed a gentle smile, and said.

"Don't panic, we will win."

If the first elder is confident, the other elders present are obviously not trusting.

During this period, anyone who is not a fool can see the decline of the Presbyterian faction. Originally, the power of the Presbyterian faction was not as powerful as that of the royal family. Now that it is better, it is even less powerful. How can it still win now?

They couldn't see the possibility of victory anyway.

However, before other elders could raise any questions, the first elder said in a tone that left no room for doubt.

"At this point, there is no need to keep hiding it from you. Come with me, and I will show you our winning weapon.

When you see it, you will understand. "

After saying that, the first elder stood up, ignored the other elders, and walked out of the conference room.

In the conference room, other elders looked at each other.

Just when they were hesitating, the first elder was placed inside in advance. The seemingly independent elder stood up and spoke as he followed the first elder out of the conference room.

"Do we still have a choice? The royal family will not let go of this opportunity to catch us all. Since the First Elder is so confident, I want to see where his confidence comes from?"

After having the first one, the other dwarf elders looked at me and I looked at you. In the end, most of the elders followed the first elder.

Only a few elders hesitated and chose the opposite direction.

After the meeting ended, in less than a minute, the dwarf king received relevant information about the meeting.

He threw the information on the table and tapped the table with his right hand uneasily, muttering to himself.

A winning weapon? Was it really his fault at the Frost Forge? It seems that the troops will be deployed at the Frost Forge in advance.

No, no, he wouldn't be so stupid. Suddenly revealing his trump card before the war is not something he would do. Is this trump card just a cover to divide the troops?

what to do?

The dwarf king pulled off his beard one by one, using the pain to keep himself calm and thinking hard about countermeasures.

Just when the Presbyterians and the Royal Faction were worried about the changes in the underground environment of the Frost Forge, they were in the vast wasteland outside Ice Stone City, at the very edge of the Frost Clan's territory.

A bright lighthouse is standing at the highest point, spreading bright light all around. With the lighthouse as the center, the area with a radius of one kilometer is illuminated extremely brightly.

Under the lighthouse, under the command of the explorers, the frost dwarves built a large and neat camp with the lighthouse as the center.

The frost dwarves that the explorers conquered and gathered from the edge were brought to this large camp one by one for unified management to save manpower.

The explorers solved the material needs of the camp by using the spellcasters in the explorers to make pancakes through the meal making technique, while the priests in the explorers met the spiritual needs of the camp by spreading the Four Saints and One Faith, and solved the ideological problems of the frost dwarves.

It is undeniable that in the marginal areas that have almost degenerated to the primitive tribal era, religious beliefs are indeed useful. The rapid spread of the Four Saints and One Faith also allows explorers to better command and appease the gathered frost dwarves.

Compared with persuading the frost dwarves or forcing them by force, it is much easier to take the frost dwarves on a pilgrimage in the name of faith and salvation.

Compared with persuasion, which cannot be persuaded, and forcing them by force, which is reluctant, the enthusiasm of the frost dwarves in the name of pilgrimage is much stronger.

The former requires explorers to keep urging, while the latter frost dwarves on pilgrimage are more active than explorers.

Of course, the holy land described by the explorers to the frost dwarves is not exaggerated. It is just combined with the situation of the committee to describe a beautiful picture of food and drink as long as you are willing to work.

This is already a dream for the frost dwarves struggling on the edge.

After being abandoned by the Ice Stone City, the frost dwarves on the edge are struggling on the survival line. In order to alleviate the food problem and reduce the population, these frost dwarves have evolved various barbaric and bloody rituals when they converted to primitive beliefs and heretical dwarf beliefs.

Whenever the population exceeds the limit, they will hold a bloody ceremony to steadily consume the excess population.

Considering the possible outbreak of the cold disaster, in order to quickly transfer these frost dwarves away on the first day of the passage opening, Roland also acquiesced to the explorers' missionary work.

Calvin stood on the upper floor of the lighthouse, looking at the distance illuminated by the lighthouse. He saw the explorers leading the thin frost dwarves, who were short even among the dwarves, from the distant dark wilderness into the light of the lighthouse.

Below, under the leadership of the explorers who are part-time priests, a large number of frost dwarves are gathering in various open spaces in the camp, reciting the simplified doctrine of the Four Saints and One Church in unison.

This simplified version of the doctrine uses very concise language to formulate the dogma of behavioral norms and ethical morals, such as: wash hands before eating, drink warm water, wash on time, pay attention to cleanliness, love parents, love relatives...

As a doctrine prepared by the Four Saints and One Church for believers with low cultural level or illiteracy, the simplified version of the doctrine does not explain much why it is done.

Calvin looked at the communication device in his hand, which contained news from the Far North Gate.

There are only two days left before the committee opens the channel.