Don't call me evil god

Chapter 455: First Impression of Stone Castle

"A city built in the mountains."

This is the thought that everyone who sees the stone fort for the first time will subconsciously have.

Starting from Mount Gerela at the foot of the Frostfire Plateau, the strong dwarves used their hammers and stone chisels to hollow out the interior of the mountain and dug out a huge cave.

In Dwarven, Grela means "burning heart".

The history of the Stone Fort probably dates back to before the New Huili era.

Because before the evil god from the void invaded this world, the huge cave inside Mount Gerela already existed.

At that time, the reason why the dwarves gathered here was that they needed the help of the hot magma gushing out from the interior of the mountain to smelt and forge various metal minerals.

Deep inside Mount Gerela there is a magma lake that is said to go straight to the center of the earth. No one knows how the ancestors of the dwarves did it, but in short, they successfully drained the magma lake. Since then, the dwarves have had an inexhaustible supply of super energy.

Later, when the monster red tide appeared, in order to seek refuge and further develop the huge cave inside Gerela, the dwarves cast an extremely thick, tens of meters wide, and hundreds of meters high magnificent wall on the outside of the mountain with steel and iron!
The city wall is named "Edelson's Wall" in memory of Edson, the first dwarf leader of Stoneburg.

This wall is firmly integrated with the solid mountain, becoming the most powerful safety barrier for the dwarves during the monster red tide.

To some extent.

The protective ability of the Wall of Edson is even more exaggerated than the divine barrier of [Past Glory].

After all, there will be no holes or gaps in this high steel wall.

Monsters of level 3 and below cannot hurt it at all even if they smash themselves to death under this iron shield.

The way to enter the Dwarven Stone Keep is unique.

There are no gates or entrances in the traditional sense.

The Wall of Edson is solid, seamless from top to bottom, ensuring its super strong defense that makes monsters despair.

For caravans, guests, or returning dwarves who have traveled all the way from the Spiritwing Marshes, there is a unified way to enter the Stone Fort: using the "Big Elevator".

The "big elevator" is actually a square platform with guardrails, also made of alloy.

It is connected to the axle by thick and strong cables.

Purely human operation.

The dwarves, who were born with supernatural powers and covered in muscles, relied on their strength to pull the large elevator to a height of hundreds of meters, enter the city, and then lower it smoothly back to the ground, repeating the cycle over and over again.

This is how people and goods enter and leave the city.

The large elevator cycles up and down once an hour, with a stay time of 20 minutes.

When the Golden Windbreaker flew to the Edson Wall, Pete had already seen the ant-sized people, horses and cargo gathered on the ground, waiting in line for the arrival of the next large elevator.

The Goblin airship is an air transport route, so there is no need to queue with people arriving by land when entering the Stone Fortress.

Ronald drove the modified Golden Tide Windbreaker through the more than 20-meter-high Edson Wall, went straight into the stone fortress, and headed for the airship dock.

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"hot!"

"So hot!"

As soon as he entered the stone fort, Pete began to sweat in his long-sleeved jacket. The temperature had risen significantly!

It is clearly going to be late autumn outside soon and the weather is already so cold that even wearing thin clothes will make you shiver.

The stone fortress was as hot as a steamer.

Ronald, who was driving the airship, held up a megaphone and shouted:

"If you haven't changed your clothes yet, go change them now, or stay in the cabin and don't go on deck!"

"We are about to pass the Great Furnace, which is built above the lava lake. It is the hottest place in all of Stone Castle!"

The Crucible - a magnificent wonder built by the dwarves themselves.

A huge furnace tens of meters high stands above the magma lake.

To be precise, the lower part of the furnace has actually penetrated deep into the magma lake, continuously pouring the hot lava from the magma lake into the bottom, providing sufficient fire and heat for smelting and forging.

The bellows never stop working, the sound of the anvil and hammer colliding comes one after another, the gurgling of magma, the sizzling sound of quenching, and the crisp sound of metal colliding with metal, all the elements mixed together to form a rhythmic melody unique to the Stone Fortress.

The shape of the entire stone fortress is roughly like an irregular cylinder.

At the very bottom is a bright magma lake emitting endless heat. With the melting furnace as the center, layers of circular city platforms are built around it.

The dwarves carved out their own "houses" at the end of these "circles" near the mountain walls.

Rest and live in caves.

Usually, transactions, entertainment or other activities are carried out on various circle platforms.

The different levels of the ring are also accessed by elevator. If you are in a hurry, you can also choose to walk up the steep "steps" carved out of the mountain wall.

Even though the Jinchao Pofeng was still dozens of meters away from the furnace when it passed by, one could still feel the hot breath blowing towards them.

Maren, the boss of "Dwarf Precision" squatting on the deck of the airship, looked at the furnace from afar with fiery eyes, and drooled from the corners of his mouth without realizing it.

“Hiss…hiss, the Great Crucible. Hehe, if only I could have a forge of my own in the Great Crucible!”

His expression was no different from the expression of a perverted old man when he saw a young girl.

Noticing the strange looks from the people around him, Maren wiped his saliva and said confidently, "Why are you looking at me? Do you know how great an honor it is for a dwarf to have his own exclusive forge in the Great Furnace?"

"The deeper you go, the closer you get to the bottom of the furnace. The higher the temperature will be, and the better the quality of the smelted metal and forged weapons will be. But only those dwarves with the best and most sophisticated forging skills can receive this honor and be qualified to go to the lower level of the furnace."

"For the forges in the middle level of the Great Furnace, dwarves also need to prove their skills and be able to forge truly high-quality equipment before they are eligible to obtain a forge dedicated to them."

"As for the rest of us, we can only use the public forges on the upper level of the Great Furnace. Not only are the effects worse than those on the lower and middle levels, but we also have to queue and wait for every turn."

"The lower his forge is located, the higher his reputation and status among the dwarves will be!"

"I have a quarter of dwarf blood in my body. Half-blood dwarves are still dwarves!"

"My grandmother once owned a middle-level forge of her own. I inherited her bloodline. Why can't I gain the honor and respect of the dwarves?"

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There will be 4 more updates in the evening. There should be no additional updates today. I will take a day off after completing updates a day.

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