From Wild Mage to Wizard King.

Chapter 447: The Gate to the Far North
In this cold world, the top of the snow-capped mountain seems to be within reach, yet out of reach. The cold wind is like a knife, blowing across the exposed rocks, rolling up waves of snow, as if the ruthless years are carving their own traces.

"boom."

As trekking poles were inserted into the exposed rocks, this snow-capped mountain, which had not been visited for who knows how many years, welcomed its first group of visitors.

An exploration team consisting of dwarves and goblins is climbing up the snow-capped mountains.

Each member is equipped with special mechanical armor made by the committee, which greatly improves the flexibility, survivability and sustainability of the mechanical armor at the cost of weakening its defense.

However, as an exploration team that was going to be exploring outside for a long time, the supplies they could carry were relatively limited. Therefore, when faced with the falling snowflakes, they did not activate their shields, but allowed the snowflakes to cover their strange armor.

A goblin explorer patted the snow that was already several centimeters thick on his shoulder. The heating array inside the armor was providing warmth.

It is only with the support of the strange mechanical armor that the exploration teams have been able to hold on until now.

Calvin looked firmly toward the peak. With one hand he stroked the rough rocks, feeling the pulse of the mountain, and with the other hand he tightly grasped the trekking pole, moving forward continuously.

In the vast Dragon Spine Mountains, there are more than a dozen exploration teams similar to theirs. They are exploring separately, looking for the dwarf entrance to the northern section of the Dragon Spine Mountains.

On the snowy mountain, there was no other sound except the sound of the wind and the creaking of the footsteps. Each step seemed extremely heavy, and the footprints on the snow were quickly filled up.

As they climbed, the exploration team came to a natural platform on the mountainside. At Calvin's call, the team cleaned up the platform and rested on the spot.

Due to limited conditions, the members of the exploration team wore strange devices and sat on the ground. They took out compressed energy bars from their backpacks, then activated the energy cores. While keeping out the wind, snow and cold around them, they opened their helmets and threw the energy bars into their mouths.

After biting the energy bar, they closed their helmets and turned off the energy core again.

Calvin stood on the edge of the platform, chewing a tasteless energy bar and looking out at the vast mountains before him.

Dwarven Territory: The Gate to the Far North, where is it?

He took out the strange device issued by the committee from his backpack. It was a metal plate wrapped in glass, and a green diamond-shaped pointer was pointing to the front of the mountain.

According to the committee, the pointer points to the direction of the Frost Dwarves. The only problem is that these Frost Dwarves seem to live inside the Dragon's Back Mountains.

It seemed that they wanted to avoid the bloody civil war after the collapse of the clan states, so they took the initiative to scrap the Far North Gate and cut off contact with the outside world in order to avoid being involved in the bloody civil war.

Their plan was largely successful. In the Silver Gate's records of the civil war, there was no mention of the existence of the Frost Clan. After the civil war, the Silver Gate lost a lot of information and didn't even know that there was a section of the Dragon Ridge Mountains in the north that had been developed by the clan nations, let alone the Frost Clan there.

They were successful, but the committee was in trouble.

Although the location of the Frost Dwarves can be locked through the magic machine, the northernmost gate to the Dragon Spine Mountains cannot be found, and the committee cannot enter the Dragon Spine Mountains. We can't ask the committee to dig another passage leading to the interior of the mountains in this section of the Dragon Spine Mountains, right?
This is not impossible, but the cost of breaking ground in the Dragon's Back Mountains is too high. Even for the clan states, it took countless years to slowly dig out the surface dwarf territory.

Moreover, even if the committee dug out a passage, it would be of little use unless the committee increased its investment and established a new surface dwarf territory based on the dug passage. Otherwise, it could only be used as an ordinary passage, and the cost-effectiveness was too low.

Therefore, the committee decided to send an exploration team to wander around the Dragon's Back Mountains and try their luck. It would be best if they could find the Far North Gate. If not, Roland would wait until the committee conquered the north and then take the time to come here in person.

Calvin bit the energy bar, raised his right hand, activated the armored terminal on his right hand, and enabled the built-in scanning function of the terminal.

According to speculation within the committee, the scrapped Far North Gate is most likely buried in ice and snow. Although the exact location is unknown, through the dwarf map and the efforts of the exploration team, the committee has roughly locked down the scope of the Far North Gate.

The terminal began to scan the area in front of it. The terminal raised the screen, penetrated the ice and snow, and displayed the true appearance of the Dragon Ridge Mountains on the screen.

Calvin looked at the snowy mountain structure on the screen, looking for signs of man-made buildings or something unnatural.

He first scanned the bottom of the mountain range, and everything he saw was not much different from what he had seen before. It was all very common natural terrain in this section of the Dragon Ridge Mountains, and he didn't see anything worthy of attention.

After checking below, Calvin also raised his right hand and began to check the situation above the Dragon Ridge Mountains bit by bit.

Calvin, who had been exploring the Dragon Ridge Mountains for several months, stared at the snow mountain structure displayed on the screen with some numbness.

Just as Calvin was checking numbly as usual, he saw a noteworthy piece of terrain.

This seemed to be a concave pit, with a circular mountain wall surrounding the pit, ice and snow filling the entire pit, and below the pit, there were some uneven things.

This was not the first time he had found such a noteworthy terrain. He had discovered similar places several times before. He was very excited at first, but after digging several times and finding that they were just natural pits, he was no longer so excited.

Of course, we still have to go dig and find out.

Calvin marked the suspicious location on the terminal and continued scanning.

After scanning all areas of vision and confirming that there were no other locations worthy of attention, Calvin also sent the marked locations to all members of the exploration team.

As the marked location was entered into their terminal devices, the exploration team members who were resting behind Calvin stood up one by one.

They brushed off the snow on their bodies and walked behind Calvin one by one.

Afterwards, the exploration team members' wings unfolded on the backs of their strange armors.

"Set off."

After Calvin finished speaking, he activated the shield core and jumped off the platform first. The members of the exploration team followed closely and jumped down one by one.

In the ice and snow of the Dragon's Back Mountains, the exploration team members activated the shield core. Under the protection of the shield, the explorers unfolded their wing suits and flew quickly through the blizzard.

Relying on the mobility and flexibility provided by the wing suit, Calvin and the exploration team reached the target destination in less than ten minutes.

They landed on thick ice and snow, looking down, all they could see was endless ice and snow.

After putting away their wing suits, the explorers reopened the terminal and scanned the terrain below in detail. After confirming the location of the protrusion, the exploration team members took out their tools and began to dig downwards. The explorers dug a one-meter-radius passage through the ice and snow, and used the magic array built into the strange armor to reinforce the ice wall on both sides of the passage to prevent collapse.

Although the ice became harder the further they went down and the more they dug, it was still just ordinary ice and snow, and no matter how solid it was, it could not stop the explorers.

Soon, in less than half an hour, the explorers arrived under the ice and snow.

Calvin dug a shovel into the ground, and when he shoveled out the ice and snow, he also found a bluish-white stone.

"Ok?"

Calvin stretched out his right hand and grabbed the stone that was shoveled out. As he rubbed the stone with his right hand, Calvin's eyes lit up.

This stone has obvious traces of human intervention and is not a natural mineral.

Although Calvin was not a clan dwarf who grew up in the Silver Gate, but a free dwarf who lived with his parents in the human town of Donnar, Calvin had a relatively good understanding of dwarven craftsmanship thanks to his parents' education and inheritance.

In addition, although he prefers adventure and exploration to blacksmithing, he has also studied a lot of relevant knowledge in order to join the committee's official exploration team.

He already had a certain foundation, coupled with his studies during the committee period and his experience exploring the Dragon's Back Mountains. Although Calvin was not a professional dwarf craftsman, his understanding of dwarven craftsmanship was deeper than many dwarf craftsmen.

Taking catering as an example, Calvin can’t cook, but he can eat, and he can tell the ingredients and cooking methods used in the meal.

Based on the experience he had accumulated over the past few years in exploring dwarven ruins in the Dragon's Back Mountains, he knew at the first touch that this thing was a dwarven artifact from the period of the Kingdom of Clans.

Although this is not necessarily the northernmost gate into the Dragonspine Mountains, this is the first time the committee has discovered traces of dwarven artifacts in the Dragonspine Mountains in the north.

Given the harsh natural environment of the Dragon Ridge Mountains in the north, even the clan countries could not build too many buildings on the ground, so there was a high probability that this was the gate to the far north.

Thinking of this, Calvin's eyes lit up and he quickly called on the members of the exploration team to speed up the excavation.

The exploration team quickly cleared the building under their feet. After clearing the ice and snow on both sides of the building, what came into the eyes of the explorers was a city wall in the classic style of ancient dwarves.

Seeing the appearance of the city wall, the members of the exploration team were overjoyed. According to the custom of the clan countries, a place that could build a city wall of this style would be a very important place even if it was not a dwarf territory.

After exploring for several months and digging in countless suspicious locations, we finally unearthed real dwarf ruins.

While the other explorers continued to dig, Calvin flew out of the passage and turned on the communication device on the snow.

After turning on the communication device and finding that the signal was not very good, Calvin did not hesitate and directly activated the strong connection mode, greatly improving the signal connection at the cost of increasing energy consumption.

After the signal was connected, Calvin Science sent all the news and coordinates of the discovery of the dwarf ruins to the committee, and then maintained a strong connection mode, waiting for the committee's response.

After waiting for a few minutes, Calvin also received a response from the committee's exploration headquarters.

Decide whether to dig and send follow-up support.

After receiving the response, Calvin also replied, and he released the strong connection mode. He first used local materials and used ice and snow to create a large tower mark on the snow.

Afterwards, after replacing a new energy crystal for the communication device, Calvin jumped back into the passage and followed his teammates to dig the ruins under his feet.

As members who were sent by the committee to explore the North, the exploration team had at least five years of experience in ruins exploration, so the experienced exploration team quickly came down from the wall and groped their way to the floor.

Then, through the terminal's scanning, the explorers' perception and their rich exploration experience, the explorers saw through the floor and confirmed the existence of the underground layer.

Calvin took out a special alchemical potion and mithril tools from his backpack. He squatted on the floor and used the mithril tools to simply set up a magic circle on the floor. Then, he opened the alchemical potion and poured it into the center of the magic circle.

The floor was rapidly corroded by the alchemical potion. Calvin took out a folding stick from his backpack and activated it. The whole stick became hot.

Calvin then used a stick to poke the areas where the potion had corroded, heating it up to make it more effective.

After a series of operations, Calvin finally poked through the floor. He pulled out the stick and folded it up again. He stretched out his senses and observed the situation on the underground floor through the small hole.

Compared to the dwarf ruins Calvin had explored before, this underground floor was not only empty, but also very clean. It seemed that the frost dwarves had time to clean it before leaving.

Calvin thought about it, then took out a bottle of silver-white potion from his backpack and poured all the silver-white liquid into the basement through the small hole.

The silvery-white liquid fell onto the ground through the small hole, and then it was activated. The liquid began to gather and form a small silver-white metal spider.

Under Calvin's control, Spider-Man began to scan and explore the underground levels, checking for various traps and dwarven runes commonly found in dwarven ruins.

While Calvin was controlling the little spider, the other explorers began to carefully expand the cave.

After spending most of the day, the explorers finally found a small passage that allowed them to enter the underground level. At the same time, the little spider controlled by Calvin had also gone deep into the underground level and found a mark on the underground level.

The Gate to the Far North.

Through the little spider, Calvin saw the extremely blurry ancient dwarven text on the stone pillar.

Although the text is very blurry, if you match it with the Far North Gate in the ancient dwarven text, the remaining traces do match.

I actually found it.

Calvin put away the terminal, sighed inwardly, then followed the explorer and jumped into the underground floor through the passage.

(End of this chapter)