The mage arrives

The owner of the voice slowly came out from the dark corner, and with the sound of clanging metal footsteps, Gordon and Faliya gradually saw the big guy in front of them clearly.

This is a tall humanoid machine, with two thick legs that are as tall as a person.It has a total of eight upper limbs, the smallest pair of which are completely modeled on human arms. The five fingers are flexible and slender, and can perform various fine tasks.The other six arms are equipped with tools such as saws, hammers, and pliers.

Although this machine has some metal rust on the outside, but the overall operation is in good condition, it is not a structural life.Because it has no soul of its own.It is controlled by a small creature sitting in the space of the chest cavity.His height should be only half of the standard human height, but he has two heads so rare that Faliya blurted out the term "two-headed ogre" after seeing it for the first time.

"Little girl! It's very rude to misidentify someone's race! You must apologize, apologize!" On the shoulder of the creature controlling the humanoid machine, the head with disheveled white hair on the left showed an extremely angry expression. expression.His body danced, and at the same time, it also drove the eight arms of the humanoid machine to make the same movements.

"I'm really sorry, respectful Mr. Halfling. My companion just couldn't see clearly because the light was too dark." Gordon said hastily.It is better to leave this kind of negotiation to him.

Although a halfling with two heads is really beyond imagination, but since the facts are in front of him, Gordon can only regard it as another unusual creation in this wonderful world, and Treat it with a normal heart.

"It's okay, my brother is a stupid racist, ignore him." The halfling said physically.Said with a big bald head on the right.

It should be him just now, sending greetings to Gordon who entered this basement.The half-ling man sitting on the humanoid machine in front of him was wearing a white long gown. He had a stooped and thin body. His two heads and faces were covered with grooves and wrinkles left by the years, and he didn't know how old he was.

"I'm not racist, I just think halflings are smarter and more civilized than other races!" the younger brother argued.

"That's racist..." Gordon murmured secretly.

The bald-headed elder brother showed an apologetic expression, and said to Gordon: "Please forgive me. This is his temper."

"You are such a soft jelly monster, brother, why do you apologize to this human being who has nothing but height? Oh, I forgot, I am now controlling Essabri [-]. Worse than this human High, ahahaha!"

"If I'm a softie. Then you're a hopeless idiot! We need their help. Go beat that guy, understand? I'll see what you do if he gets mad!" Enraged, he not only cursed, but also slammed into him with a bang.

Watching a body where two heads are arguing and fighting.It's really an interesting thing.

Gordon and Faria were not angry, they just watched the two brothers with two heads with interest.

Within the race of halflings, there are three sub-races.The first is the lightfoot halfling most commonly found in cities of other races.Their brisk steps carry them wherever they wish to travel.They are good at socializing.He is well-informed, flexible, and likes to do business and perform.Longing for a more exciting life, a lightfoot halfling often chooses to become a rogue and join an adventuring party.Gordon's lucky coin for the previous adventure, the wanderer Sour Pear in the team, is a light-footed halfling.

Compared with the light-footed halflings who live in no fixed place and will move in a year or two at most, another subspecies of strong-hearted halflings are more inclined to form an orderly and disciplined settlement and live together.Strongheart halflings are stronger and more determined than lightfoot halflings.Facing a wolf, light-footed halflings would probably choose to run away with their agility, while strong-hearted halflings would take up weapons and resolutely fight back.In addition, the rate of spellcasters born among strongheart halflings is also the highest among the three halfling subspecies.

As for the third subspecies, the deep rock halflings, they are quite mysterious.They usually live in remote hills or mountainous areas, and use the caves they dug as their dwellings, forming compact small settlements with at most a dozen or twenty households.They are devoted to the research of metal smelting and machinery manufacturing technologies lost in ancient times, and rarely deal with the outside world except for necessary trade exchanges.

In front of this strange halfling with two heads, based on Gordon's solid ethnic knowledge, his elder brother should be a halfling with a strong heart, while his younger brother should be a halfling with a deep rock.

The descendants of halflings are different from humans, and there will be no mixed blood.If two halflings of different subraces marry and have children, their offspring can only be of either parent's subrace.A couple of a Deep Rock halfling and a Strongheart halfling may have two children who are both Deep Rock halflings, or both Strongheart halflings, or a Deep Rock halfling and a Strongheart halfling.

So even if the races of the two brothers are different, Gordon will not doubt that their father is a successor.

"Oh, by the way, we haven't made a formal introduction yet after talking for so long. I'm Harford Baggins, and this is my eccentric brother, Farohyde Baggins." Said the bald head on the right, "A young mage of the adult race, how about you?"

Gordon noticed that the other party called himself "adult race", which was what halflings called humans a long time ago.It seems that the other party is really old, even enough to be regarded as a living fossil of linguistic evolution.

"My name is Gordon Freeman. This beautiful lady is called Faria Frostheart Antello. As for the girl who is still sleeping on Tan Sen's floating disc, it is my sister Xiona Freeman. "

After the two sides greeted each other, the halfling brothers who used the same body controlled the huge humanoid machinery and led Gordon and Faliya to another passage.

Gordon could feel that the huge machine driven by the other party was exuding active arcane energy.This should be an outstanding work created by the combination of mechanical engineering and magic.It is much more complicated than ordinary golems and other constructed creatures.Ordinary mages would never be able to do this kind of thing.

This halfling, or these two halflings, is not simple.

"We need help." Brother Harford said to Gordon amidst the "clang clang" of the mechanical movement: "I will show you something later, and then talk about the details slowly."

"What help do you need? Why did you come to us? Can you explain a little bit more clearly?" Faliya couldn't help asking.Ever since meeting the eccentric pair of halfling brothers, she's been at a loss.

"I think the matter should indeed be fully explained," Gordon agreed.

"Hey, did that damned white-bearded mage lead you here without explaining anything clearly?" the fiery younger brother Falohide said angrily, shaking his disheveled white hair.

The elder brother bumped his younger brother hard with his bald head: "Pay attention to your tone, show some respect to Master Cyprus Ding, stupid brother!"

"Brother bastard, if you hit me with that hard bald head again, I will..."

"How about you?"

"I..." The younger brother fell silent.Apparently, he felt that he was no match for his brother in the head-to-shell exchange of brotherhood.

"Hmph!" The younger brother, Falohide, simply snorted, and then turned his head away from looking at his older brother.

Brother Harford continued to say to Gordon: "Master Cyprus Ding has important things to do, so he can't tell you the ins and outs of the matter in detail, and now I will answer your questions. , the mage of the adult race."

"Let me explain my identity first. My younger brother and I are both court mages of the Kingdom of Sedin, and also the ordnance officer of the Apulos Leixi Guard. During the battle of the Black Spider Cave..." The place name "Black Spider Cave" was mentioned Suddenly, the body shared by the two brothers visibly trembled, and the whole humanoid machine also trembled.

The Black Spider Cave is not a scary place.The frightening thing is that the most tragic battle on the entire ancient road took place here.Gordon has read about this period of history in books, so he can understand why the halfling brothers have a lingering feeling when they recall the Black Spider Cave.

"During that battle, the black dragon Timodaros led the pursuers of the Dorag Kingdom to fight to the death with the broken troops led by the silver dragon Donabelis. Except for the two of us, no one else , including the entire Apulos Leixi guards, were killed. We defeated the black dragon and completely shattered the other party's plan to hunt down the last blood of the Kingdom of Sedin, but before the black dragon died, with its own heart as the core, with Using my own body as the material for the spell, I cast a self-created legendary spell 'Seed of Life of Timodaros'..."

Hearing this, Gordon couldn't help frowning.The legendary black dragon is scary enough.What's even more frightening is that this legendary black dragon is also a legendary mage!

Harford controlled the humanoid machine and walked ahead.Without noticing Gordon's expression, he continued: "This spell destroyed Timodaros's body, but his soul was preserved. Note that it did not turn into an undead, but just a bodyless form. The special life form is alive. What's more frightening is that the black dragon's heart is still intact, and through the power of magic, it can absorb the flesh and blood of living beings, and then use the heart as a seed to re-grow an intact black dragon body!" (unfinished to be continued..)