Industrial Revolution of the Mage Lords

Chapter 310 The Dwarfs' Wish
The breath of the southern hills, the underground city.

The cave dwarf Copper Hammer, codenamed "Frost Giant" on the forum, was sitting in front of the magic brain instrument, rubbing his hands and pointing at the crystal screen of the instrument, smiling and asking for credit from his brother.

"Noli, look! The war between the Union and the Church of the God of Light in Saint Valen and Daeus has made us a fortune. Humph, those magic stone merchants who are nominally affiliated with the Union don't dare to be as shameless as usual when facing us."

The bushy-bearded dwarf leader, Noli, pondered for a moment and asked hesitantly, "Why should the Federation give us some of its points instead of directly exchanging them for real money or the supplies our tribe has always been in short supply?"

He suddenly remembered something, his eyes widened, and he complained angrily, "You're not going to use all the points we worked so hard to accumulate to draw cards in the Magic Tower adventure game, are you? Copper Hammer, these are public property! They're not toy chips for you to use in magic games!"

Tongchui rolled his eyes and muttered, "The points I used to draw cards were all earned through forum information transactions. As for the points from Magic Network consignment and material transactions, I didn't use a single cent without permission..."

Seeing his brother's puzzled look, he said with some pride, "Although we chose to stand on the Federation's side in the forum referendum...how can we not let them pay a little bit to repay our support? This is not just a false promise, we actually demolished the scattered churches and monasteries in the city..."

As the leader of the dwarves, Noli is busy with all kinds of affairs. He is not like Tongchui who can spend a long time in the forum and have relationships with members of other ethnic groups. Naturally, he is not sensitive to trivial information in the forum except for important events.

But Copper Hammer is different. He is one of the few "high-level intellectuals" among the dwarves of the Cave City who has studied abroad in the magical capital of Alayeh. Naturally, he has many private networks of relationships. In addition, he has a secret relationship with the elves in the "Southern Minority Alliance". In the forum, he has netizens all over the world and is doing very well.

"The reason I'm exchanging magic stone orders for the public points of those federation members is because I recently received a rumor from the core group of the forum... The forum is about to open up access again! Noli, our chance to squeeze in more people has come again!"

The dwarf leader was stunned for a moment, then asked in disbelief, "Really? Is this news true? Which core members leaked it? Was it those legendary lords?"

Tongchui wore a mysterious expression and whispered, "Mr. Legend? Humph, I only heard about him by chance from Mr. Kel'Thuzad! What's a legend on the forum? Can he even compare to being the forum's sole agent?"

The two brothers looked at each other, and at the same time, they turned on their magic brain devices and began to quickly calculate the number of points they currently had.

For a long time in the past, the amount of points that could be obtained by exchanging knowledge and information in the forum in a personal name through Tongchui was very limited, which led to the fact that anyone who wanted to "join the group" with Lanoli had to choose to buy points with money. However, as the forum's trading section business gradually became more diverse, various anonymous consignments and bulk material delivery were launched online, and the points wallets of the only two cave dwarves in the forum gradually became fatter.

But who knew that the forum would later establish the "Magic Encyclopedia", which could be regarded as a treasure trove of magic network knowledge. The dwarves, who had always suffered from racial discrimination and academic oppression, regarded it as a treasure trove. They immediately invested a large amount of points to obtain human magic knowledge that they had never been able to access before. They also began to organize young talents in the tribe who had spellcasting talents but were not qualified to go to the human kingdom to receive magic education to study together.

"I also secretly leaked the news of the forum's recruitment to the elves... Noli, you should understand my intention. Every time the forum recruits new members, both our tribes must seize the opportunity to send people in. This is not a goal that can be achieved in a year or two, but as time goes by, we will eventually gather a force within the forum that can barely compete with those human spellcasters who are already disunited..."

The dwarf leader nodded solemnly. He fully understood what the grand goal of his seemingly unfocused brother really wanted to achieve - once their group of "spellcasters from ethnic minorities in the southern region" had a certain scale of voting rights in the forum, they could definitely seek an opportunity... to seek the mysterious organization behind the forum to follow the founding purpose - the principles of freedom, openness, inclusiveness, and anonymity, so that humans who had held the power of magical knowledge for thousands of years would abandon racial prejudice, open up academic exchanges, and allow all alien spellcasters in the southern region who yearned for peace and truth to freely go to the human kingdom and receive equal and fair magical education like human spellcasters!

"The elves will also gather enough points this time to place a high-level mage on the forum... We don't need to be too aggressive; we can just keep the same number of people as them."

Tongchui closed the crystal panel of the magic brain instrument, took out a letter from the desk drawer that had obviously been opened but still retained traces of the magic seal, and handed it to his brother Noli.

"I plan to proceed in two steps. First, we'll recruit people from the forum. Second... I want to select a group of young children from my tribe and send them to Mr. Kel'Thuzad. His spellcaster territory can withstand even a combined attack from the church and the nobility. It must be massive and powerful, and its security goes without saying. The key is to establish a close working relationship with this forum agent in real life!"

Nuoli took the letter doubtfully and muttered, "They're on such a hot streak with the Union, why would they accept our unwarranted overtures? Sending someone over would seem like we're trying to steal their magical knowledge... How could they possibly agree to this?"

Tongchui chuckled and said mysteriously, "A long time ago, I had a deep conversation with him on the forum. He asked me about an ancient legend about... the source of magic power. As you know, besides me, no one else on the forum knows more about these magical deposits buried deep in the earth."

"The source of magic? You mean..." Nori asked in surprise. "Are you talking about the source of magic in the entire real world, which has been repeatedly mentioned in the ancient texts passed down from generation to generation by my people? Bronze Hammer, my people were born and raised underground, and we have long known that it is just a legend our ancestors used to fool children. Mr. Kel'Thuzad may have been deceived by a fabricated rumor in some obscure biography. Don't you know that this is nonsense?"

As early as the ancient Magic Council, countless legendary geniuses have proven beyond a doubt that the source of magic comes from the energy leakage of the magic net in another dimension. If a spellcaster wants to obtain magic manipulation techniques, he must learn meditation guidance and draw magic energy from the magic net through the space barrier for his own use.

The magic stone is nothing more than a concrete mineral creation formed after the magic network energy invades the real world. It is not created out of thin air, but it also has no so-called real source.

Tongchui shook his head and sighed softly, "But that Mr. Kel'Thuzad... told me personally that he unearthed ancient magical relics deep beneath the Divine Spine Mountains... Those aren't traces of dwarven activity. We can't dig through a mountain as massive and solid as the Divine Spine Mountains... This suggests that those ancient magicians were also searching for something. But apart from the magic stone veins and the legendary source of magic power deep underground, what else could possibly attract them?"

"So he's looking to you for answers and clues? To crack this ancient rumor and secret?"

"Yes, he recently sent me a formal invitation personally, Noli. This agent doesn't discriminate against our alien status. He said he's established a brand new magic academy in his territory and asked if I'd be interested... in sending some dwarven children there to learn magic. This is the first time in my life that a high-level human spellcaster has offered to teach us magic... How could I possibly refuse?"

You have to know that the reason why Bronze Hammer was able to get the opportunity to go to Alayeh as an alien to study magic was because the former leader of the dwarves, who was also their biological father, led the warriors of the tribe to participate in the brutal battle to assist humans in fighting against the demons. He paid the price of nearly 90% of the warriors of the tribe being killed in exchange for an admission quota that the other party condescended to give him.

(End of this chapter)