Chapter 238: Tactical Insertion in Poverty, Firepower Coverage in Wealth

The roaring sound of digging lasted for about three hours, and Thorin quickly drove the construct to open up a crypt for the newcomers to live in.

The intelligence of the constructs was somewhat weak in judging the rock structure. Karl was worried that their unauthorized excavation would cause collapse, so he only asked Thorin, who had corresponding experience, to be responsible for this matter.

After the fire genasi and drow who had traveled for three or four days fell asleep in the crypt, Karl summoned everyone to discuss what to do with them.

"Those fire genasi should have a good talent for smelting. Thorin, they will work with you first. For the remaining drow, you can see who needs others."

After a period of hard work, Carl and the others have formed several working groups: scout team, logistics supply, metal smelting, parts assembly and magic pattern drawing.

The two spellcasters, Carl and Carrie Ann, are the only two members of the magic pattern painting team.

Hope, on the other hand, took several drows to take charge of the food and cooking for everyone.

The addition of these new members actually does not help the overall efficiency much. After all, what currently limits the speed of construct construction is mainly Karl's efficiency.

Jiali'an's magic pattern drawing speed can only be regarded as better than nothing.

"I'm fine!"

After hearing what Karl said, Thorin immediately raised his hand.

He had actually wanted to ask for help a long time ago, but he felt that the drow were clumsy at smelting and forging, so he never mentioned it.

"Do you want to allocate some weapons to those drow? I always feel that if we fight with the fire dwarves or the elemental monsters in the tunnel, they can also help."

At this moment, Bain on the side expressed his opinion.

As the leader of the scout team and the escort team, Bain actually has no other colleagues except Scorpion.

Carl assigned all the crude constructs he had created to him to control.

No matter how you look at it, 50 all-terrain construction tanks are quite intimidating.

But for now, it seems that Bain wants to recruit a few drow to work for him.

"Well, that's okay. You can discuss it among yourselves. However, Hope's logistics and Shadow's assembly team must be allocated first. When there are more people, priority must be given to ensuring food supply and weapon production."

Nodding, Karl simply let them discuss it themselves.

Early the next morning, the appointment of new members was announced.

Everyone is shining in their own positions, and everyone is working hard to get out of this hellish place.

But just when things were going smoothly, an accident happened.

…

"Lord Carl! The scout team discovered a team heading here. They are all drow who have taken refuge in the elf and the warlock."

In the underground arms workshop, Karl had just completed the soul fusion and magic pattern drawing of another construct when he heard a not-so-good news.

Jialian on the side trembled subconsciously. The half-drawn magic pattern quickly dissipated as the magic power was interrupted, and he could only redraw it.

The corners of Karl's mouth twitched slightly, and then he asked the member of the scout team who came to report:

"Where are they now?"

Bowing his head respectfully, the drow continued to report:

"We'll be here in about half an hour."

This distance is actually quite close, but in order not to attract attention, Karl and the others did not build a higher observation tower for reconnaissance, and the observation distance was limited.

But what puzzled Karl was how these people came here.

‘Could it be based on the traces left by this guy and the marks of the truck? Can't? How many days have passed? Those lava rivers should have made these traces disappear! ’

Seeing Karl looking at him, Jialian also thought of his original behavior, and quickly stood up and explained:

"They may be a team that came to check on the situation in the Fire Dwarf Fortress and bring back the escaped slaves.

There were a lot of drow and fire genasi who escaped twice before. Since they didn't escape for so long, the city probably thought that the fire dwarves were hiding them. "

After hearing Jialian's explanation, a light suddenly flashed in Karl's mind.

"Wait! Is that team any different from you in appearance or other aspects?"

If there was no difference, Karl felt that people like him might be able to use this information gap to deceive the door of the fortress.

Because judging from the current situation, there is no direct channel for information exchange between the Fire Dwarf Fortress and Obsidian City.

The situation that he was initially worried about, "attacking the fortress without authorization may attract the fire djinn" did not happen.

In fact, this kind of thing should have been asked to Jialian and the others, but they were not of high rank within Obsidian City, and apart from the city's defense map, they had no valuable strategic intelligence.

After hearing what Karl meant, Jialian thought about it carefully and found that in terms of appearance alone, these ordinary drow were no different from the drow who were about to come nearby.

At most, their equipment is better, and they all ride phantom horses.

"It's no different. If you can destroy them, we can try to deceive them..."

Just as he was about to show his loyalty, Karl, who was sitting next to the machine tool, had already iterated on his previous idea.

‘Since those fire dwarves can’t call for reinforcements from the fire dwarves, why should we be careful here? Just run over! The secret passage has now been dug near the fortress. As long as you are properly prepared, you can break into the fortress from there! ’

With a "bang", Karl slapped the machine tool next to him, making Zhuoer and Jialian, who came to report, tremble.

"Go and inform Bain to kill all the drow attached to the efreet, and hand all their equipment to Gallian!

Gallian, after you get the equipment, take the appropriate number of drow to the fortress to check the specific defense map of the fire dwarves!

After you finish the investigation, we will destroy the fortress directly! "

"Yes!"*2

Standing straight, the two drow turned and left.

As they informed Bain, the half-orc took his wife and construct troops and lurked in the surrounding hills and ravines.

…

Some distance away from Bain's ambush, a team of 12 drow were riding phantom ponies made by magic props, heading towards the fire dwarf's fortress.

The two groups that escaped some time ago have not yet returned to Obsidian City. This made the fire giant who had originally planned several of them to become his slaves dissatisfied, so he sent people to check.

When they reached the hilly area, the twelve drow dismounted one after another, intending to rest here for a while to replenish their physical strength.

The terrain around Obsidian City is always changing, because the flow of lava may change in three or four days.

One of the drow in the team had been here before. At that time, there were no hills here, just a flat lava wasteland.

"Hey! Look around here. If someone ambushes a group of people here, it only takes one volley, and we will probably die here!"

With a slightly teasing tone, a drow pointed to the place where Bain was lying in ambush and joked.

Bain, who was hiding nearby with the help of Melt into Stone, was shocked when he heard this, and then suddenly walked out of the stone where he was hiding.

"Who!"

This sudden change immediately aroused the vigilance of all the drow, but when they picked up their weapons and prepared to take action, Bain suddenly ran away in the direction they came from.

Just when these drow were about to summon the phantom pony to catch up, a bunch of things wrapped in white mist suddenly fell from the sky.

That's nitrogen that's been compressed and frozen into a solid state.

When these things are fired from the muzzle of the construct, they begin to absorb the surrounding heat crazily.

The alert Drow first felt a little cool, and then noticed a strong wind blowing around him.

It was a violent wind formed by the intersection of hot and cold air currents, and along with it, there was more solid nitrogen.

"Crack!"

A piece of solid nitrogen hit a drow's gauntlet. When it hit the drow, it was shattered into a mixture of gas and liquid, and then quickly dissipated.

The drow didn't feel any pain at all, but when she was about to raise her arm to block something falling from the sky, she found that her arm was numb.

She tried her best to raise her hand, and then, with a cracking sound, her arm broke from the place where it had just been hit.

The arm seemed to be not flesh and blood, but some kind of special stone statue.

The emotion of fear rolled in the drow's chest, and she tried to scream, but more solid nitrogen fell from the air one after another.

I don’t know how much time passed before the shelling stopped.

The lava wilderness that was originally glowing with reddish light had completely dimmed at this time.

Part of the lava underground seemed to have been blocked by the suddenly cooling earth, so it began to change its position in the direction where it could continue to flow.

This causes a nearby ground to gradually rise. Soon, it should erupt with magma, and then gradually transform into a small active volcano.

When the white mist gradually dissipated in the hot surrounding environment, Bain, who had run away before, came back.

"One, two, three...twelve, well, it seems that none of them escaped. I originally thought that one or two of these guys might be able to escape, so I went to cut their way out, but the whole army was wiped out?"

Counting the bodies and equipment on the ground, Bain muttered to himself with a pity look on his face.

He originally thought how powerful these drow were, but didn't expect this?

"Okay! Take off all the equipment before it thaws! I don't want to make myself bloody."

On the other side, Xie put his hands on his hips and scolded his husband.

However, her technique is quite deft, and she looks like she often does similar things.

Taking away all the twelve sets of armors of Obsidian City's senior soldiers as well as the reins for summoning the phantom pony, Xie simply buried these fellow soldiers and then followed Bain back to the temporary base.

That afternoon, a twelve-man drow team ran towards the fire dwarf base in the distance.