Heroes of the Invincible Knight

Stone Hills is the place where dwarves live. The southern part of the kingdom has complex terrain. Apart from plains, there are also hills, mountains, swamps and other terrains. Humans occupy the largest plain area, and swamps are dominated by trolls and lizardmen. The principle of hills is a mixed area of ​​hills and plains. There are not only places where food can be grown, but also large and small mines, which are enough for dwarves to mine continuously.

The relationship between dwarves and humans is average. Humans also tried the idea of ​​the original mine veins of the stone hill at the beginning, but the dwarves are really difficult to deal with. These guys are natural hoplites. The height is generally around 1.4 to 1.5 meters, but the shoulders are generally They are thicker than human thighs, and basically grow horizontally. The strength of dwarves is even stronger than that of orcs. The dwarves who hold a warhammer and wear solid armor are stronger in individual combat than orcs, and there is not much difference between men and women. Both men and women can wear armor. In battle, more than one million dwarves dispatched half a million armored soldiers, armed like hedgehogs.

The key point is that the birth rate of dwarves is not high, the population has always remained within a stable range, and there is not much expansion ambition. There is not much conflict with humans. The communication is mainly based on transactions. After a long time, the two sides will acquiesce in the existence of the other party.

The dwarves need the fine wine and some commodities supplied by the human world, while the human needs the ore from the Stone Hills and the armor and weapons made by the dwarves. There are occasional conflicts, but for a long time, peace is the main priority. With these foundations, Paley this time Only then did they send people with some gifts, trying to win over the dwarves as a force against the orcs.

The main forces of the three major southern corps were all transferred to the north. In addition to the garrison, only the private army of the nobles remained in the area. Apart from the armed forces under Paley, the garrison corps in the major cities still had some combat effectiveness. Apart from constantly strengthening the strength of his own men, Paley In addition, it also hopes to increase the strength against orcs by wooing races like dwarves. It's just that the dwarf still had some doubts for a while, and didn't respond to Paley's kindness for the time being.

At this moment, in Stone Hills, the court of the dwarves is discussing the news received from the human messenger.

This royal court is completely in a mountain range, and the sound is inexplicably amplified here. Coupled with the unique loud voice of the dwarves, their speech is almost like a quarrel.

"King! If what humans say is true, maybe we still need to cooperate with humans!"

"Hmph! These human beings are very cunning. If you cooperate with them, you are afraid of being deceived."

"I think these humans are pretty good, and the wine they sent is pretty good!"

"Gulu Gulu..."

Another big gulp of wine, it is amazing that this group of dwarves can drink in such a serious occasion as the royal court meeting.

"Brown! Save some for me!"

"Okay, what does it look like, I want to drink after talking about it!"

After chatting a few words below, the dwarf king couldn't stand it anymore, he patted the chair and stopped the few patriarchs who were still drinking.

The government of the dwarves is quite strange. Although there is a dwarf king, they are divided into seven clans.

The dwarf king was elected among the patriarchs of the seven major clans. The current dwarf king, Norton, was the patriarch of the Blackstone clan before. The reason why he was elected as the dwarf king is also very simple. When I don't drink.

In such a chaotic political system, the dwarves have not experienced any major civil strife, which can be regarded as the benefit of this ethnic group being relatively ignorant. On weekdays, when the patriarchs of various clans had a meeting and had a drink, he would turn a blind eye and close his eyes. After all, he himself was greedy, but now when discussing such an important matter, this group of people also drank, which made Norton a little angry .

After realizing that Norton was really angry, the following dwarf patriarchs calmed down a little and turned their energy back to the meeting.

"King, I think we don't need to pay attention to humans. Regardless of whether the orcs are coming, it has nothing to do with us dwarves even if they drive away humans and become the masters outside. Ask if the warhammer in our hand agrees!"

"That's right! King, let humans and orcs fight, it's nothing to do with dwarves."

"At most, at most, for the sake of these wines, we will give them some weapons and armor."

The forging ability of dwarves is higher than that of human beings. They are almost all natural blacksmiths. Their thick arms are much more advantageous than human beings when they swing a sledgehammer. In addition to their more exquisite skills, they also master certain metal formulas. The sharper weapons and stronger armor made by dwarves are very popular among humans.

"Thinking about it carefully, the orcs may not be as easy to talk to as humans. The orcs are not only enemies with humans. Five hundred years ago, the orcs were also enemies with the dwarves. If the orcs came, our dwarves' life would definitely be more difficult than it is now. "

"Does the king still know what happened five hundred years ago? What happened five hundred years ago?"

"Five hundred years ago, the people living outside Stone Hills were not humans, but a group of orcs. At that time, the dwarves not only had to build weapons and equipment for the orcs for free, but also handed over food to the orcs. The worst thing was that even the brewed The wine must also be handed over."

More than 500 years ago, before Aragorn was born, the Orc Kingdom was at its peak. The population was four or five times that of the current one. It received a large amount of elf inheritance, and treated many races, including humans and dwarves, as vassals. After all, in the period of low demons, a race like orcs, who are able to reproduce and be strong, has a great advantage. If humans don't have an Aragorn who is open, the orcs can continue to be shy.

"What, the brewed wine has to be handed over, this is too much!"

"That's right, we don't even have enough wine for ourselves!"

"There is such a thing, beat him!"

It was the dwarves who were not interested in it at first, but when they heard the end, they suddenly became angry, as if they were going to fight the orcs desperately.

Only Norton frowned and looked at the speechless look below. He really wanted to make a rule that no dwarves were allowed to drink during the royal court's meeting in the future.

"I have temporarily sent the human messenger back. What I mean is, if we don't want the orcs to defeat humans, then we must be ready to send troops."

"But, Wang, without Wang Dun, the armies of the seven major clans cannot leave Stone Hill."

After talking for a long time, a sober dwarf finally thought of the key to the problem. This is a secret that only the upper echelon of the dwarves knew. Original, otherwise the entire race will encounter disaster.

"I've thought about it for so long, and I always feel that the elves lied to us about this matter. The elves want us dwarves to stay in Stone Hills to make weapons for them."

"You can't talk nonsense. My Axe Clan has passed down this rule from my ancestors... my father's generation. There is absolutely no falsehood."

"That's right, the armies of the seven major clans cannot leave Stone Hills unless the real king who takes up the king's shield appears."

"For so many years, the only record of picking up the king's shield is the elves, and now the elves are all extinct..."

Norton is a little higher than the other dwarves. He has faintly realized that the dwarves seem to be deceived by the elves. Although he has not responded to Paley's emissary for the time being, he is actually inclined to send troops to cooperate with humans. Now he is Do work for other dwarf chieftains.

But the purer the race, the greater the reverence for tradition. Like these dwarf patriarchs, they didn't even think about why only elves picked up the dwarf king's shield. They only knew that tradition means that tradition cannot be violated, Norton said. Other things are fine, as soon as the soldiers are raised, everyone shakes their heads like a rattle.

Norton had no choice but to ask the clans to build more equipment suitable for human sizes, hoping that humans could stand in front of the orcs for a while longer.

Paley, who was still sending envoys to persuade the dwarves to send troops, didn't know that his plan was blocked by an inexplicable tradition...