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The so-called rune mage is actually a special kind of spellcaster. They do not cast spells through spells or rituals, but make spells into runes in advance, and then use magic to stimulate the runes to cast the desired spells.

Compared with ordinary spellcasters, rune mages are more flexible and quick to cast spells, but they also need more agile skills and stronger bodies - in order to carry the power of spells, the materials used to make runes are generally quite solid. "Solid" and "heavy" are roughly twin brothers. People who can carry a large number of runes must be rare strongmen, even if they are not strong.

Apart from other things, for a small body like Palin, if he is given ten or eight runes, he will almost have difficulty walking. If he is given twenty or thirty runes, he may be crushed to death.

Therefore, rune mages are generally strong men, and because they need to cast spells, they also need to have strong magic. There are not many spellcasters who have both of these points, but they are quite common in some races.

For example, the dwarves.

The dwarves were created by the God of Earth and the Goddess of Earth. Originally, they wanted to create a race that was both powerful and flexible, with a relatively smart mind and good magic talent. However, when they actually created it, they found that these advantages could not be taken into account at all - or, in other words, the power of these two gods was not enough to create a race that took these advantages into account.

In desperation, they later made a compromise and finally created this race that was slightly shorter than humans, with abnormally strong limbs, great strength, good magic talent, and a fairly flexible mind.

In general, dwarves are a relatively powerful race. But they also have their own shortcomings. I don't know if it's because the creator is the God of Earth, the dwarves' way of thinking is more stubborn, not stupid, but stubborn.

For example, a dwarf goes to a restaurant to eat, he wants to eat "Fish-flavored Shredded Pork", and then when the food comes, he will most likely entangle with the waiter about the question "Where's the fish? Where is the fish?", and he will entangle for a long time. It is almost impossible to convince him to admit that "there is no fish in the fish-flavored pork shreds". Only if you really get a fish or some fish soup and make a new dish, he will nod his head in approval - of course, he will never deny it. Dwarves are creatures of the lawful camp, and denying it conflicts with their values.

If this is only a minor shortcoming, then another shortcoming is a bit bigger - the fertility of the dwarves is a little bit bad.

It is said that the dwarves did not have this shortcoming originally, but after the fall of the God of Earth Element, their fertility was like high diving, and they fell from a "high fertility race" to a "low fertility race". It is said that when the situation was the worst, there was not even a dwarf baby born in the world for 20 years.

This problem is of course very serious. The Earth Goddess thought of several ways and finally solved part of it, so that the fertility of the dwarves recovered to the point where they would not be exterminated because of this. But for this, the dwarves had to pay a huge price - although they still had good magic qualifications, their ability to control the subtleties of magic became very poor, so it was difficult for them to produce excellent spellcasters.

As the saying goes, when you are poor, you must change, and you will find a way. The dwarves are not low in intelligence, so they will naturally find a way. After thinking about it, the current dwarf rune god finally came up with a solution. This dwarf, who was only a casting master at the time, took a different approach and engraved runes representing magic on a solid metal plate. When it was time to cast a spell, as long as the magic power was injected into the rune, the magic could be stimulated.

This way of casting quickly became popular among the dwarves, and was also introduced to other races, and even in turn affected the elves, who were the mainstream spellcasters. Among the various magic props now, many contain rune technology.

However, not everyone who can cast spells with runes is a rune mage. Only those who can make runes by themselves can be considered a qualified rune mage.

Sui Xiong is looking for such talents.

And the place he went to was not the kingdom of the dwarves in the Broken Cloud Mountains, but the kingdom of the dwarf gods.

It is not easy to discuss with the dwarves. It is better to discuss directly with the dwarf gods.

After all, he is also a god, and he is a well-known figure among the gods. If he visits in person, the dwarf gods will give him some face...

Sui Xiong thought so, and soon he came to the kingdom of the dwarf gods.

The kingdom of the dwarf gods is called "Eternal Mountain". The overall structure is roughly an extremely majestic mountain, surrounded by low mountains, surrounded by hills, and then plains - there is no forest, because dwarves don't like forests; there is no ocean, because dwarves hate the ocean.

The dead dwarf believers live in this vast kingdom of God. Some of them live on the plains, some live in the hills, and many live in the mountains. But only those who have made great contributions or outstanding achievements and are recognized by the dwarf gods can live in the central mountain.

Well, live in the mountains.

The dwarven gods and their best followers all live in the mountains.

When Sui Xiong visited, the dwarven gods also received him in a hall in the belly of the mountain.

The dwarven gods were surprised and somewhat uneasy about his visit. The Void Mask was well-known for his ability to fight, his warlike nature, his strange personality, and his unconventional ways of doing things... In short, his reputation was not necessarily very good.

In the eyes of the evil gods, this guy was a super demon who had killed hundreds of evil gods, and even the God of Fear, who was almost the leader of the evil gods.

In the eyes of the good gods, this guy was a perverse person who used necromancy without any psychological pressure, enslaved the dead to work for him, and did not think that this behavior was wrong at all.

The dwarves were not in the evil camp, nor were they particularly determined to be in the good camp, so they could at least welcome Sui Xiong's visit and would not turn him away.

... Of course, even if they did not welcome him, they would not dare to do so.

After three rounds of wine and five dishes, Sui Xiong explained his purpose.

"I want to recruit some rune mages," he said. "The reward is absolutely satisfactory."

The dwarf gods looked at each other, and finally the God of Runes spoke up, wondering, "Is it just for this?"

"Isn't this important?" Sui Xiong asked back.

The God of Runes was silent for a while, and said, "I don't quite understand your thinking, but if you want to find a rune mage, then I'll go with you."

"To be honest, I'm curious about why you came here specifically to recruit people..."