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After receiving Sui Xiong's affirmative answer, the God of Runes left in a hurry, looking like he was going back to the "Eternal Mountain", the kingdom of the dwarven gods, to discuss cooperation with the other gods.

This was a show of sincerity, and Sui Xiong was very happy.

But he thought about it again and felt a little puzzled - what is the value of this armor that can resist the Great Disintegration? Is it worth it for the dwarven gods to jump out and cooperate with him at this cusp?

As the saying goes, if you are undecided about domestic affairs, ask Baidu, and if you are undecided about foreign affairs, ask Google. Sui Xiong now has neither Baidu nor Google, but he knows some knowledgeable friends.

The one who has lived long and seen a lot is the God of Water Element; the one who has many friends and is knowledgeable is the God of Pleasure.

This matter seems to have nothing to do with history, so naturally he should find the God of Pleasure, Weiye, who has many friends and a wide range of connections.

Weiye listened carefully to Sui Xiong's narration, and even asked about some details. He nodded while listening, and finally laughed.

"No problem." He said, "My friend, the sincerity of the dwarves is unquestionable, and their need for your new armor is also unquestionable."

"But why?"

"That's a long story." Weiye smiled and conjured up tables, chairs and wine glasses, filling each other's glasses with wine, "We can drink and talk."

The thing is: as a brave and warlike race, the dwarves are very powerful. But because of their poor talent in magic control, this race has always been very lacking in the field of spellcasters. As we all know, spellcasters are indispensable in wars, especially large-scale wars. To put it more seriously, an army that lacks enough spellcasters to assist will be hit with fatal flaws when encountering a high-intensity war.

In order to solve this problem, the dwarves proposed an interesting idea-we can't let a large number of spellcasters emerge among our people, so let's study how to fight against spellcasters!

Based on this idea, they finally developed a special type of soldier, the dwarf spellbreaker.

This is a type of rune mage. They wear heavy armor, which has been specially processed and has strong resistance to spells. They also have certain spellcasting abilities. At critical moments, they can rely on runes to cast several of the most important spells, which is basically enough to deal with various situations.

With the help of rune spells, once the dwarf spellbreakers are put into the battlefield, they will rush into the enemy formation with the momentum of a tiger descending from the mountain, disrupting the enemy's formation. Or they will directly attack the enemy's spellcaster troops, so that even if the spellcasters escape by chance, they will not be able to provide help to their comrades, thus dragging each other into a situation of "no spell assistance".

In this case, the dwarves are not afraid of any enemy!

But the dwarf spellbreakers also have their fatal flaws, that is, they cannot resist the Great Disintegration.

Admittedly, the Great Disintegration is a high-level spell, and those who can cast this spell are at least high-level mages. In low- and medium-level battles, there is no need to worry about this.

But... there is no need to send out dwarf spellbreakers in low- and medium-level battles. Once this rare type of troops, whose number is only counted as "ten", is deployed, it will definitely be a crucial battle.

In such a crucial battle, it is definitely not difficult for the enemy to gather a few high-level mages and cast the Great Disintegration Spell ten times.

The Great Disintegration Spell can be used on a single unit to enhance its power, or it can be used on a range to form a powerful spell area. For the magic breakers wearing heavy magic armor, being directly hit by a Great Disintegration Spell will naturally kill them directly. Even if they only stay in the range of the Great Disintegration Spell for a few seconds, it will be a huge loss - they can probably resist the damage of the Great Disintegration Spell with their strong physique and divine protection, because this spell does not cause much damage to creatures, but their armor cannot. The specially made armor that can resist most spells will be completely damaged and disintegrate.

The dwarf magic breakers without armor are nothing more than a group of powerful warriors who have also practiced rune mages. What's worse is that they will be unarmed, and both runes and weapons will be destroyed by the Great Disintegration Spell.

The Dwarf Kingdom is located in the middle of the Broken Cloud Mountains, bordering the Eagle Kingdom, the Griffin Principality, the Kingdom of Thousand Springs, and the Ancient Forest. In the past, they fought against the elves, and then the elves declined, and they fought against the humans who came later. In all the wars, the dwarf lawbreakers made outstanding contributions, but also suffered heavy losses. After each attack, only one in ten could come back alive.

What's worse is that with the improvement of magic technology, the difficulty of performing the Great Disintegration is also decreasing. In the past, only wizards close to the legendary level could perform this spell. Now, due to the needs of war, this spell is constantly being studied. In the Kingdom of Thousand Springs, there has been a method that allows wizards who have just entered the high-level realm to perform this spell smoothly through special magic arrays and magic tools.

With the "popularization" of the Great Disintegration, the Dwarf Kingdom has been defeated on the high-end battlefield. Their warriors are brave and are not afraid of the enemy or sacrifice, but courage alone is not enough. Over the past hundreds of years, a lot of the Dwarf Kingdom's territory has been occupied by the Kingdom of Thousand Springs, and countless Dwarf warriors have sacrificed their lives as a result.

Shortly before Sui Xiong landed, the Dwarf Kingdom had a fierce battle with the Kingdom of Thousand Springs. The dwarves were defeated, and even the contemporary dwarf king died on the battlefield - he himself was a dwarf spellbreaker. At the most critical moment of the battle, he led more than 20 spellbreakers to charge together, trying to defeat the Kingdom of Thousand Springs. The mage group died under the Great Disintegration Technique.

In fact, if it hadn't been for the turmoil in the main plane in recent years, the Kingdom of Thousand Springs would have launched another attack on the Duanyun Mountain Range.

Anyway, their expansion goals are in two directions, either the Duanyun Mountains or the Ancient Forest. The former requires fighting dwarves, and the latter requires fighting elves. For humans, it's the same.

The dwarf gods were naturally worried about this, but they had nothing to do. It is true that they can bestow more divine grace and promote more priests and paladins, but the talents of the dwarves are there, and it is absolutely impossible for a team of spellcasters to beat humans.

They could also try to roll up their sleeves and end up personally, but then they would have to face the human gods. Apart from anything else, facing the former God of Vengeance and now the Lord of Glory, no one of them was sure they could withstand it.

In this way, the last option left for the dwarf gods is to leave the main plane with the people who believe in them and migrate to other worlds. It would be a good idea to follow the example of many races that lost the battle for hegemony in the main plane and find a world far away from the main plane to settle down, silently licking their wounds like a wounded beast.

However, that means that their people will lose the favorable conditions of the main plane - among other things, research has already proved that if the main plane race settles in other planes, not only will the fertility be greatly reduced, but the population will also be reduced. Will slowly deteriorate.

In other words, moving away is tantamount to chronic suicide.

Of course, the situation in the Dwarf Kingdom has not yet reached its most critical moment. Relying on the favorable location of the Duanyun Mountains, they can still be entangled with the Kingdom of Thousand Springs for a while, maybe hundreds of years, maybe thousands of years... However, they cannot fight against the great power. If the problem of lysis cannot be solved, it will be nothing more than death early and late.

Perhaps the dwarves could also learn from the gnomes, abandon their country, and spread their tribes throughout the main plane. But that is inconsistent with their culture, their traditions, and their values. They are unwilling to do this until they are at the end of their rope.

"In this case, they saw your special armor." Veyer drank the wine in the glass and picked up the bottle, only to find that the bottle was empty. He had to sigh regretfully. "It can be imagined how much they will attach great importance to this kind of armor that can resist the Great Disintegration Technique, make up for the last shortcomings of the dwarf spellbreakers, and enable the dwarf kingdom to resist the invasion of the Kingdom of Thousand Springs!"

"If you ask me, the Rune God only talks about 'cooperation', which is obviously a bit conservative. Maybe next, the dwarf gods will discuss the design and manufacturing of this armor with you in detail, and finally complete some samples... When the samples are completed, the performance will be confirmed After that, it’s time for them to really make a big bet!”

Wei Ye stood up with a smile: "When the time comes, I'm afraid it won't be as simple as 'cooperation'. I guess it might be 'alliance'."

Sui Xiong thought for a while and couldn't help but frowned.

The dwarves and humans are at war. The Kingdom of Thousand Springs is attacking the Broken Cloud Mountains, and the human gods are clearly behind it.

Do I really want to support the dwarf gods and go against the human gods?

He hesitated.

After bidding farewell to Weiye who had run out of wine and conversation, Sui Xiong fell into deep thought.

He thought, weighed, and wondered what he should do.

But he could never make up his mind.

After careful consideration, he decided to gather the core members of the church together to discuss the matter.

Group discussion may not be a particularly good method, but at least it won't be particularly bad.

After receiving Sui Xiong's oracle, the senior leaders of the Church of the Void Mask quickly gathered together and held this impromptu meeting.

At the meeting, Sui Xiong explained the causes and consequences of the incident in detail, and then asked everyone for their opinions.

"It's not worth it." Chief Priest Leon Igor shook his head first, "The dwarf gods obviously can't beat the human gods. It's unwise to offend the human gods in order to win over them."

"Actually, it's not a bad idea." Knight Commander Gerald said, "Your Majesty's power is enough to bridge the gap between the dwarf gods and human gods, and with the addition of His Majesty's allies...this way the advantages and disadvantages are reversed."

"But that will cost a lot." Rhodes, who is already gray-haired and so old that his movements are somewhat slow, said, "It will be a big price!"

Chief Mage Satan smiled: "The price is not the issue, the question is, is the friendship and alliance of the dwarves worth the price we pay?"

"Actually, it's not so bad. Although His Majesty is very powerful, our Church of the Mask of the Void and the Northwest Republic lack sufficient deterrence. If we can take this opportunity to show our deterrence, there will be fewer in the future. A lot of trouble." said Palin, who succeeded Satan as the leader of the mage group because he was in retreat.

This statement made many people's eyes light up, and Steele, the head of the medical team, immediately expressed support. She bluntly said that to show strength is to fight, and fighting not only kills people, but also causes a lot of damage. If you have to fight anyway, instead of fighting in front of your own house, it is better to go to someone else's house to fight. Even if you break something, it won't make people feel bad.

Felix, the Grand Consul of the Republic, also agreed with this view. In order to show his strength, he had to find an opponent to fight with. Going to the Duanyun Mountains to fight against the Kingdom of Thousand Springs will put a lot of pressure on logistics, but at least it will not damage the infrastructure of the Republic.

East, the spy chief instructor who just joined the inner circle, considered the problem from another angle. He said: "Our Republic is a country that promotes enlightenment and tolerance. This makes the race of the residents of our country very confusing, whether they are orcs or Humans, dwarves or dwarves, even robots from other worlds, or even Warcraft... As long as they have good intentions, we welcome them to join our country and become our brothers and sisters. This is a national policy, and the human race and the dwarf race. , and even the guiding ideology of every race on the continent is in conflict, so I think we should help those relatively weak races to shape our positive image. As for those powerful races... conflicts with each other are inevitable anyway. Now that we have compromised, are we really going to change our national policies to cater to their preferences in the future?”

This statement made many people fall into deep thought. Even Sui Xiong did not consider this aspect. For a while, everyone was thinking silently.

After a while, Leon sighed and said: "Helping the weak to fight against the strong will cost a lot, really, a big price. I admit that you are right, even if we don't help the dwarves, as time goes by The human pantheon will gradually form a hegemony and will threaten the Republic sooner or later. But... no matter what, at least there are still the orcs at the front!"

"Now is a good time," East said. "If you pay the price now, it will be relatively small."

"You guys have been talking for a long time, but I don't understand it very well." The most beautiful woman on the East Coast, who is privately called "Vase" by many people, and the Lord of Gars City, Kashali Riley, asked distressedly, "In general, , you are going to help the dwarves fight against the Kingdom of Thousand Springs, right? Then I want to ask, I will not say anything bad about losing, but what will we win if we win? ”

There is a lot of discussion about this issue and there is no consensus.

At this time, Gerald stood up.

"What can you get? In my opinion, the most important thing is to get kindness and justice!" Sui Xiong's first believer said seriously, "We all know what His Majesty is like. If He is really If he is a god who only cares about profit, then most of us will never have the chance to live until now, nor will we have the chance to sit here."

"Help the weak and resist aggression. As the beneficiaries of His Majesty's various kind and just actions, what position do we have to question this?"

He turned to look at Sui Xiong, clenched his right hand into a fist and placed it on his chest at the position of his heart.

"Your Majesty! Please give the order. For your glory, the Knights will be fearless!"