Long Live the Call of Heroes

Since they figured out the opponent's rules of action, there was no suspense in this battle. Except for a little magic and arrows, they did not have any casualties.

The surrender of those ogre was also very smooth. There are more than 3 teams in total, less than No. 40 big fat man, and now he has become Li Wei's subordinate.

Most of them are Tier 3 ogre bull fighters, occasionally mixed with a few Tier 4 mercenary veterans, including an elite ogre Leslie who uses fists as weapons.

If it is used as cannon fodder in the front row, it is definitely enough, at least their health and size are there.

But when he saw this number, Li Wei couldn't help being stunned for a moment. He thought about it a little bit. Before the war, the opponent's number was almost the same.

Good guy, didn't these guys catch fish all the time, and didn't die a few in total?
After accepting the other party, Li Wei took advantage of the opportunity to inquire about the other party's origin.

Sure enough, as Sonia said before, the other party was a wandering army named "Zadek Earth Spirit".

Under the leadership of the tauren shaman, they do nothing but rob everywhere, almost killing people and robbing villages when they see them.

Because their leader is a shaman with a bit of brains, they never go head-to-head with a large group of enemies, and only attack those villages with very weak defenses.

Due to their powerful strength and the leadership of hero units, no matter whether they are humans, green skins or dwarves, there is almost no difference in front of them, which makes them always play well.

It's just that after the ogres joined by coincidence, they felt that such an indiscriminate attack would not end well if they continued.

They had all worked as mercenaries in the Southern Kingdom, and Leslie got his name there. Whether it was experience or brains, it could be said that they were much better than ordinary beastmen.

They knew the power of gunpowder weapons and magic, and killed better than the Beastmen's axes.

So after seeing Li Wei's powerful magic, they had some thoughts, and immediately began to prepare a surrender plan, and finally joined Li Wei's team very smoothly.

The reason why they came out of their hometown was to work for others to make a living. It is definitely better to hang out with Li Wei and the others than to hang out with those beastmen.

After listening, not only Li Wei, everyone present could not help sighing, who said ogres have no brains?

However, the elite ogre who can make this plan may also have the potential to become a hero unit if they can be properly cultivated.

After leaving some people to clean up the battlefield, Li Wei directly entered the treasure house guarded by them.

Although Lilith said it was empty, he was really curious.

After actually entering, Li Wei found that the concept of "emptiness" seemed to be not exactly the same between the goddess and himself.

Because there are still many neat rows of metal ingots, stone and wood, etc. in front of him, as well as some processed dwarven armor and weapons, and even hundreds of muskets, five ballistas, and three trebuchets.

Naturally, Li Wei and his subordinates began to collect all the materials immediately, and even Sophia, Saifa and others were asked by him to join in the pursuit of efficiency.

Although the unit price of these things is very low, but the quantity is here, I dare not say if there are too many, there are still three or four thousand gold coins.

It seems that the dwarves here were really in a hurry when they were fleeing.

After working for a while, after collecting the things, the whole warehouse suddenly became empty.

By this time, Li Wei probably figured out why Lilith said that before.

Because in a certain corner, there are indeed at least a dozen treasure chests being opened, and there is a teleportation circle next to them.

Of course the dwarves can't use magic, but they can still do it by paying someone to set one up in case they escape at a critical moment.

If that's all it is, he's actually not very satisfied with the way he has traveled so fast and ran for hundreds of miles.

But he knows that this thing is at most a pre-dinner dessert, and the real big head lies in the two goddesses.

It is foreseeable that after the two goddesses have settled the mysterious vampire and the nine volumes of Nagash, he may get more.

Even though he didn't hear much because of the distance, judging from Yue Gong's performance, the vampire who was able to fight Malar for so long seemed to have something else hidden.
After finishing all this, Li Wei began to evacuate with his troops. He planned to find a place to rest in the surrounding villages first, and then send people to continue exploring the ruins here tomorrow and inquire about the information on the northern black iron mine.

Originally, Virginia planned for him to attack there with the wood elves, but now that the wood elves' reinforcements are gone, their own troops have not lost much, so you can also go and see.

Just thinking about it, before they could find a suitable place to stay, Virginia ran over with a happy face.

"Li Wei, I received the latest information. Just now, a large number of undead have withdrawn from the black iron mine. It is almost empty now!"

Although the attack plan failed to come true, she and the wood elves still maintained their reconnaissance operations there. Unexpectedly, such a big change happened now. This is almost an opportunity given to Li Wei by the gods!

Li Wei was also refreshed, and immediately thought of the two goddesses. Before leaving, he cast his gaze to the north.

Did they do something, or was it just a warning that played such a role?

Speaking of the courage of that Herman Gust, he was notoriously timid.

Because his enemies are all over the world, he had to keep his head down. Before such a big event happened in the Underdark Region, he didn't dare to show up in person.

As a legend, he is much worse than the vampire queen in this regard.

Speaking of the vampire queen, Li Wei felt that her final fate might not be particularly miserable.

She abducted a lot of knights from the Bator Kingdom at Silver Peak, and the first time she saw Lilith, she felt guilty and wanted to run away.

In this way, it is already obvious.

She had known Lilith's double identity for a long time, that's why she seemed so scared.

But until now, there doesn't seem to be any relevant information out of the world, which shows that her mouth is still very tight.

In other words, she may also want to use this in exchange for greater benefits.

With Lilith's wisdom, there are probably only three ways to deal with her.

Treat guests, behead them, and accept them as dogs!
With such a sigh, Li Wei hurried all the way to the black iron mine.

Occasionally, I would encounter scattered greenskins and beastmen on the road. I don’t know if they were scattered before or attracted by the excitement. After all, the battle between Malar and the vampire was a real earthquake. .

But Li Wei didn't bother to take care of them, and handed them over to Luna and the supervisor to deal with them.

They naturally have talents, but their level is still too low, and it is still difficult to use them when facing a real strong enemy. It is better to hurry up and become stronger.

Guided by Virginia and the wood elves, they chose the shortest and safest route.

After spending some time, a low castle in the distance appeared in their line of sight. It was the dwarf castle at the black iron mine.

From a distance, its area is much smaller than that of ordinary Novice Villages, and it may be good enough to accommodate two or three hundred people.

But it is not the case, the part of the castle buried underground is more than the part above the ground.

According to Virginia, who had been here before, the castle actually has four floors.

A long time ago, dwarves, like humans and elves, lived on the plains and in towns.

But later, because the main world was invaded by demons and devils, as well as green skins, beastmen, and ratmen, etc. continued to invade, they lost a large number of population and towns under the internal and external attacks.

In order to better continue their race, they chose to build this special castle for easy defense.

After the demons and demons were repulsed, the dwarves managed to recover, and when they wanted to get out of the castle, they found that the outside world had changed too much, and it was unrealistic for them to return to the plains.

One reason is that humans and other races have already developed and occupied a large area of ​​land.

The second is that most dwarves are used to and fall in love with the life of living in the castle.

The last reason is that when the dwarves are mining underground, they will inevitably be invaded by other underground races.

If it is an ordinary town, it will often be successfully invaded by the other party through hole-drilling and other methods. At that time, attacks, looting, and theft will all be possible.

But this kind of castle located in the underground part can help them better resist such enemies.

So now almost all dwarves live in this kind of castle.

The reason why it is said to be almost is because in the north where the Red Cloud Tribe was originally, those Chaos Dwarves lived not in ordinary castles, but in large military fortresses.

They enslave a large number of green skins, hobgoblins, and even real demons to serve them.

Coupled with their unique demonic power, and all kinds of weird and powerful war equipment, they are really not afraid of others' attack.

But there is still a problem now. Goddess Lilith said that some survivors escaped from the dwarves in the pit of pollution. It can also be seen from the magic circle in the treasure house that this is indeed the case.

So what if they claimed sovereignty over the black iron mine after they occupied it and wanted to take it back?

After much deliberation, Li Wei's eyes could not help but shifted to Shudun's body. It seems that he still needs to work hard on this matter.

The tolerance of dwarves to people of the same race is far greater than that of other races.
Sighing a little, Luna quickly brought back the latest news. The black iron mine is now a mess, with blood and broken limbs everywhere.

It even polluted a large lake on the east side, and one can tell at a glance that Gust did a lot of evil experiments here before.

There was still a faint breath of death in the castle, and there were even dozens of ghouls wandering around the door, but she did not notice any movement of large-scale undead.

After hearing the news, Li Wei was also in a good mood. There are ghouls at the door, which means that no one else has visited here.

Otherwise, those guys wouldn't care who came, they would just launch an indiscriminate attack on all living beings.

He immediately ordered an attack, but out of caution, the summoned object went first, and he deliberately chose the shadow element.

Let these guys go in. If there are still enemies inside, it's really hard to say who will ambush whom.

Facts have proved that Gust has indeed run away.

Because apart from a few ghouls, the shadow element and the guards searched together, but they didn't find any enemies. Instead, they took the lead in discovering some dwarf villagers imprisoned in prison.

In fact, for most undead, they don't like fighting dwarves very much.

Dwarves are born with magic resistance and are well equipped. Whether it is for low-level necromancers or ordinary zombies and skeleton soldiers, they are not easy to beat.

Secondly, the dwarves took revenge and defended their shortcomings, beat the young ones, and came the old ones, but they still had a particularly long life span.

If you offend them, if you don't kill them all, maybe tens of hundreds of years later, when you are lying at home, someone will come to your door to avenge a certain dead elder.

Finally, and most importantly, since dwarves are born with magic resistance, it is relatively difficult to transform into undead.

Moreover, they have short legs when they are alive, and when they die, they transform into zombies, which are even more difficult to use than human zombies.

As for the black knight and the like, let alone, it can't be transformed at all.

As for the weapons, armor and gold coins that the dwarves are proud of, most of the undead are not very interested.

For the undead who are accustomed to fighting to support war, the input and output of attacking dwarves are seriously disproportionate.

So generally speaking, they are unwilling to provoke dwarves, and they don't like to kill them. They belong to the category of not offending them as much as possible.

Breaking through towns and killing all residents is a great shame for dwarves, but hatred is also divided into levels.

The residents here are also considered lucky, not all of them were killed by Gost, who has always been cautious.

Gou Si Te, as expected, lived up to his surname, but he was quite good at "gou".

However, Li Wei didn't take care of them immediately, but went straight to the central hub of the castle. No matter what attitude the dwarves had in the future, he had to occupy this place first!

With a flash of light, Li Wei has a new territory under his command.

Li Wei took a quick look and found that it was indeed not as good as Thorn Town, but it was much better than Glory of Blood.

The entire castle is divided into four floors. The first floor is located on the surface and is the facade of the dwarves. Usually, the dwarves are used to receive foreigners, conduct military training, and so on.

In addition to the meeting hall and barracks, etc., there is also a special building here, the black iron rune gate.

When it is in good condition, it has 60 points of physical defense, 40 points of magic resistance, and up to 8000 points of health.

It can be said that if it is an ordinary low-level army, even if you let them fight, it is almost impossible to attack.

It's just that the gate is difficult to attack, but the stone buildings on both sides are relatively easy to destroy, and the gate is not completely sealed, and the dwarves behind the gate have no good resistance to magic such as stinking cloud.

Now the gate has fallen to the ground, and from the traces left on the surrounding ground, Li Wei can roughly infer what happened.

The dwarves must have been attacked by magic first, so they were so easily captured.

But in any case, as long as it can be restored and combined with a large number of arrow towers and defensive troops, it can still play a very strong role.

The basement floor is the commercial area and residential area, with taverns, houses, grocery stores, etc. It is also the largest area of ​​the castle, which can accommodate four to five hundred people.

There are also some barley fields, a barn and a hard rock bakery.

Although dwarves like to trade with humans, elves and gnomes in exchange for food and so on.

However, it is impossible for any mature race to completely rely on foreigners for food.

Although dwarves are not very good at this, they will try their best.

It's just that Li Wei absolutely doesn't want to try the bread they produce.

Hard stone bread is not just to describe their appearance and taste, it really has stones in it.
The second floor is the storage area, armory, blacksmith shop, gunpowder furnace and the second barracks.

Levi can recruit miners, dwarven crossbowmen, dwarven warriors, dwarven warriors and dwarven heavy bolters here.

Although their class is generally not high, based on the racial characteristics of the dwarves, whether they are miners or crossbowmen, their defense can be regarded as relatively good in the same class.

Especially crossbowmen, basically all of them have melee skills, and fighters of weaker races like goblins may not be able to beat them.

Of course, there are advantages and disadvantages. Their recruitment fee is much more expensive than goblins of the same level, and their weekly recruitment quota is relatively small.

This made the aborigine dwarves often have to face enemy troops several times their own at the same time when fighting, and they could only adopt elite tactics.

Since the blacksmith shop is located here, the dwarves even brought a stream of running water from a lake on the surface for quenching and so on.

The gunpowder furnace is where the dwarves specially manufacture ammunition for muskets and cannons. Due to the temporary lack of professional senior blacksmiths, they can only manufacture bullets for muskets and helicopters, not cannon shells.

But for Stump, it's sure to save a lot of money from here on out.

At the same time, there are several relatively hidden paths on these three floors, which are connected to each other and are almost only for one person to pass through.

Probably for the convenience of communication, and also for the convenience of important people to leave in case of emergency.

But if there are enemies who want to attack from these directions, just arrange a high-level dwarf warrior, and arrange a mage or priest to assist, which will definitely play the role of one man guarding the gate and ten thousand men being unable to open it.

As for the last layer, it is a semi-open area, where the dwarves are mining, and there are patches of black iron ore here.

To be honest, black iron ore is not particularly valuable, it is only a little higher than the most common iron ore and copper ore, but this is a large vein with abundant reserves.

The dwarves here don't know how many years they have been digging, and the minerals have not been dug out.

However, the surrounding underground has been hollowed out a lot. In order not to threaten the upper three floors, the dwarves have built a lot of defense facilities on this floor, even better than the surface defenses.

But even so, from Li Wei's point of view, because the area to be defended is too large, if a large number of enemies really invade, it may still be impossible to completely isolate the battle.

The dwarves probably knew this too, so they also set up multiple gates between the second and third basement floors.

It is estimated that they have made up their minds. If the war is unfavorable, they will close the door and give up for a while.

Anyway, apart from the dwarves, the ratmen and greenskins they encountered the most were not good at mining or forging, not to mention that there were so many black iron ores out there that it was impossible for the enemy to snatch them all.

All in all, the black iron mine seems to be small in scale, and in fact it is indeed not as good as towns such as Thorn Town and Ash Ridge Town, but it is more than enough to accommodate thousands of people.

And in the identification of the system, it is also at the town level.

That is, the future development of this place may be much worse than that of Bitao Village and the like.

Bitao Village has waterways, resources such as pearls, and a good location. It can develop marine trade in the future.

But the only resource in the black iron mine is black iron ore. For the aborigines of the dwarves, they can spend their entire lives without worrying about having no ore to dig.

But for Li Wei, it is just to make a little money, but it will involve a lot of energy.

After all, this place is too far away from Thorn Town and other territories of his own. In case of any accident, it is impossible to rescue him in time.

Even if according to the previous contract, the celestial creatures could send about a hundred defenders, but in a real battle, this number would not play a decisive role at all.

Another key question is, who will he send to manage the place?

The others are not fools either, they clearly occupied the new territory very smoothly, but now Li Wei is frowning, obviously there is something wrong.

Li Wei saw that the timing was almost there, so he sighed lightly and expressed his concerns.

For a while, everyone was thoughtful, and finally Shudun resolutely decided to take this responsibility on his own initiative.

"Brother Li Wei, with my current strength, it will not be of much use if I continue to follow you, so I will help you guard this place."

"Although my army is not strong, there are more than one dwarf clan nearby. With mutual support, we should be able to defend it."

Compared with elves and humans, or green skins and beastmen and other races, the total population of dwarves is much smaller.

The most important reason why they still stand in the main world, besides forging, gunpowder and the blessings of the dwarf gods, etc., is also one of their unity.

Among other things, the west of this place is the dwarves of Iron Peak Castle, and their strength is stronger than that of the Helhein clan near the colony.

But if it really helps much, that's not enough.

Because further west is the famous Bafeng Mountain.

It used to be the world's dwarves, the most important transportation hub, and the second largest military fortress, political center, and economic center.

But because of a certain war in the past, plus natural disasters such as earthquakes, the dwarves had to abandon it.

After that, dwarves, greenskins, goblins, ratmen and many other races all started to attack and rob there like crazy.

Not only because of the rich variety of mineral deposits there, and the superior geographical location, but also because the dwarves had sealed up a large number of weapons, armor, gunpowder weapons and other secrets when they evacuated.

Coupled with other miscellaneous aliens, the fight there was very lively.

There are a total of eight peaks, some of which are occupied by dwarves, and the rest are divided up by evil races, and more than one legendary hero is involved.

Even because they fought for too long in the process of fighting for the ownership of Bafeng Mountain, they even came up with several related titles.

What Bafeng Mountain God of War, Bafeng Mountain King, Bafeng Mountain Warlord, etc.
As a member of the dwarves, Tiefengbao is also trying its best to fight for Bafeng Mountain and eliminate many evil aliens entrenched there.

Of course, they don't seem to want to keep it for themselves, but like other dwarves around, they help their de jure master, Belgar Hammer from the Anglund clan, to take Eight Peaks together.

So even if the tree stump can win the trust of Iron Peak Castle, it's hard to say how much actual military support it can get.

But this has at least explained his attitude, Li Wei will go all out to help him guard the black iron mine!

So without saying a word, he directly handed over the position of deputy mayor to the other party.

As for the position of mayor, it was handed over to Luna.

Of course both he and Shudun knew it, and he also clearly told the other party that she was just a name. In fact, all the future affairs here would be decided by Shudun.

He was actually just for the leadership bonus that that title could provide.

Due to lack of leadership, many girl hunters and dryads are still under Li Wei's name for the time being, and cannot enjoy her battle bonus.

In this way, the problem is directly solved.

At this time, Virginia also offered to offer that their temple would help each other and send some priests to serve.

If it is said that a temple is to be built in the black iron mine, to be honest, with her identity and status, it is not possible for the time being, and the church is unlikely to agree.

Not so many people are one reason. More importantly, most of the residents of the black iron mine and nearby villages are dwarves, and it is almost impossible for the church to successfully spread the faith.

It is not impossible for dwarves to believe in alien gods, but it is very, very rare.

There are many ways to repay their kindness, and their temple will not use this most inefficient way to repay their kindness.

In fact, many powerful races are in a similar situation. Spreading beliefs across races, regardless of the harvest, will inevitably offend the gods of the other party.

The supervisor also scratched his head indiscriminately, and after discussing with a few tigress around him, he stood up with a little shyness, expressing that the tigress were also willing to do their part.

Since Virginia was around, he didn't say it too obviously, but Levi still quickly understood his subtext.

The Tigers were originally near the Temple of Su Lun, and wanted to use their opponent's strength to form an offensive and defensive alliance.

But now even Su Lun's temple itself was attacked, and the wood elves in the forest were almost wiped out, even their magic forest was burned.

In this case, how can tigers expect each other to take care of themselves?
Probably feeling that the supervisors were not straightforward enough, a few tigress quickly stood up and said that if Li Wei needed it, they could call more bears over.

The Bear God and the Tiger Goddess are siblings. Among the two tribes, the former is called Papa Bear, and the latter is called Mother Tiger. From the names, we can roughly see the close relationship between the two.

The reason why the nearby tiger men and bear men were not together was because the bear men like fishing and touching fish (in a double sense).

But next to the Khajiit village, there wasn't any lake, so they finally gave up on this idea.

Now there is a lake above the black iron mine, which is just suitable for the bears to migrate here, and the tigresses have enough confidence to complete this matter.

Just as the god of bears dotes on his sister goddess of tigers, the bears can't refuse most of the demands of the tigress.

Naturally, Li Wei would not refuse this kind of rushing good thing, although the bears are not particularly belligerent most of the time.

But if you think about it casually, you will know that they are bears after all, and no one can underestimate their fighting power when they really need it.

He immediately promised that once the other party really came and was willing to work hard to protect this place, he would definitely give him the same treatment as other dwarves or elves.

After hearing this, Virginia's complexion was somewhat ugly.

But there is no way, the church and the tigers have always been equal allies, and the church can't give the tigers enough shelter, so naturally there is no reason to stop each other, that will only shame the goddess.

After thinking about it for a while, Li Wei decided to send a letter from Mikaela, asking her to tell the crocodile people in Pigherd Town.

In most places around here, the environment is indeed not very good, and the swamp is full of filth.

But the lake near the black iron mine, as long as the evil power of the undead is purified, it is enough to feed some crocodile people.

Seeing them talking to each other, the discussion was in full swing, but Sonia and Saifa stayed silent for a while.

They wanted to help, but unfortunately they were really powerless.

The employment relationship between them and Virginia has indeed ended, and now they have regained their freedom, but there are only two of them, so what can they do?