Chapter 502: Blingden Stone City

Bringdenstone, this city is the main city of the underground gnomes and the most important residential area for the underground gnomes. There are about 12,000 underground gnomes living inside. This number may not sound like much, but in the Underdark, it can actually be called very exaggerated.

And this does not mean that Blingdenstone can only mobilize these 12,000 gnomes. In the past 2,000 years, almost every 100 years, there will be a small group of residents in the city who choose to move out of the city and establish another base in other parts of the Underdark. This is the reason why there are only a little over 10,000 gnomes in this city.

At the same time, never underestimate them because of their small number. The interior of Blingdenstone has sufficient defense facilities, legion structure, and is fully self-sufficient in food supply. It is an inviolable holy place in the hearts of underground gnomes.

But... in such a prosperous city, why did Noshier say that the rulers of the city might tolerate vampire spawn approaching this city?

There are many reasons for this, but the most important one is the trouble that Blingdenstone has encountered in recent days. In the world of the jungle in the Underdark, although the underground gnomes can be called one of the three major races in the Underdark along with the gray dwarves and the drow elves in terms of population composition, in fact, the living environment of the underground gnomes is actually very bad.

As a halfling race, the underground gnomes are born to be the main targets of oppression by the other two races because of their inherent disadvantages in size.

The underground gnomes are the most popular slave options in the Underdark, because almost every underground gnome is an excellent craftsman who masters the skills of gathering, forging, and manufacturing.

In the Underdark, this means great value, and such a valuable target is worth the gray dwarves or drow elves to spend a lot of effort to capture. As the most important city of underground gnomes and the largest population gathering place, Blingdenstone naturally bears more malicious eyes.

If you are familiar with the intricate roads in the Dark Hell, you will know that not far from Blingdenstone, the legendary Menzoberranzan stands there. That city is the main city of the drow elves, the famous Spider City, Slave City, and Death City. The straight-line distance between this city and Blingdenstone is less than a day.

And if the distance is further, but not too far, the distance to Glextug, the City of Blades, the forging city of the gray dwarves, built on the shore of the Black Lake, is not far away from them. Even if you count it all, it is only less than three days of straight-line distance.

So it can be said that the underground gnomes have never really spent a day in the Dark Realm with peace of mind and peace of mind. They are always worried about the dangers in the deep darkness.

Whether it is the sudden slave-hunting team of the gray dwarves or the drow elves, or the monsters that bypass the blind spots of the patrols and fly over the city walls from the air (don't worry about monsters digging through the city walls from the ground, the underground gnomes have sufficient defense means in this regard), they are capable of bringing continuous casualties and pain to the city.

Although the dwarves in Bryndenstone City often prove that they are capable of solving these external dangerous factors and let the invaders see the gunpowder and crossbows that the underground gnomes are best at, no one can guarantee that they can really solve every sudden crisis.

After all, in the history of this city, their city gates have been directly breached by the enemy several times, and they have almost faced complete destruction several times. Although in the end, due to the tenacious struggle of the underground gnomes and various coincidences, the city has persisted tenaciously to this day, but as I said, they dare not guarantee that Gerda Ironhand (the god of war of the dwarves) can always protect them.

Noshier felt that the city could have some changes to some extent, some changes that would make them better from now on, such as forming an alliance with a group of powerful, stable, and reliable vampire spawn?

Well, even Noshier himself did not believe his own adjectives about the spawn. After all, with the prejudice of the world against the vampire race (99% of them were not prejudice), unless they were crazy or were originally a mixed evil species that tended to be dark, it would be almost impossible for them to form an alliance with vampires.

Yes, that's right. Normally, as long as the rulers of Blingden Stone City had even a little bit of brains, they would not be willing to put nearly 7,000 vampire monsters into the city, but Noshier never wanted to let the spawn obtain citizenship in Blingden Stone City.

All they needed was a temporary safe haven, a slightly safe station, and most importantly, to provide sufficient food for a period of time to help the spawn survive the most critical and most difficult first few months.

After all, although the true strength of vampire spawn is far inferior to that of genuine vampires, they still have sharp fangs, strong regeneration ability, and strong strength and agility.

As long as the spawn are given some time to get familiar with the environment in the Underdark and their own strength, plus a relatively safe place to settle, and relatively abundant and key material support, they will be able to bring these advantages into play.

Let them be self-sufficient, and feed their stomachs by hunting countless monsters in the vast space of the Underdark in a team.

These are all things that will definitely happen in the future, because Noshier can't let the spawns rely on him all the time, and ask him to help solve everything. What Noshier wants is to help them build a good starting condition, and then develop steadily on this basis.

And what the spawns need is that only Blingden Stone City can help them find a safe place to stay in an abandoned mine outside the city wall, and provide them with materials to help them get through the difficult times in the early stage, including some necessary blood food, clothing, and even weapons. At the same time, as the price of obtaining these things, Noshier will also let the spawns take corresponding responsibilities.

During the time that the spawn are still attached to Bryndenstone, they will become a powerful external defense line, helping the deep gnomes solve most of the problems that they have difficulty solving or cannot solve at all. When slave-hunting teams of drow or gray dwarves try to invade them, the spawn will also help rescue their people and fight against external invaders and monsters.