After receiving Sui Xiong's affirmative reply, the Rune God hurried away happily. It seemed that he was rushing back to the "Mountain of Eternity", the kingdom of the dwarf gods, to discuss cooperation issues with the other gods.
This was a sign of sincerity, and Sui Xiong was very happy.
But then he thought about it and felt a little confused - what is the value of this armor that can resist the Great Disintegration Technique? Is it worth it for the dwarf gods to jump out on the cusp of this storm and cooperate with him
As the saying goes, you should ask Baidu for internal affairs and Google for foreign affairs. Sui Xiong now has neither Baidu nor Google, but he has some well-informed friends.
If you live a long life and see a lot, you are the god of water; if you have many friends and you know a lot, you are the god of pleasure.
This matter seems to have nothing to do with history, so naturally it is time to find Veeye, the god of pleasure who has many friends.
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, there is no doubt about the sincerity of the dwarves, and there is no doubt about their need for your new type of armor."
"But why?"
"That's a long story." Weiye smiled and conjured up tables, chairs and drinking utensils, and filled each other's glasses with wine. "We can drink and talk at the same time."
Here's the thing: As a race of warriors and warriors, dwarves are very powerful. However, due to their poor talent in magic control, this family always has a big shortcoming in the field of spellcasters. As we all know, in wars, especially large-scale wars, spellcasters are indispensable. To put it more seriously, an army that lacks sufficient support from spellcasters will suffer fatal flaws when encountering a high-intensity war.
In order to solve this problem, the dwarves came up with an interesting idea - we can't make a large number of spellcasters emerge among the tribe, so let's study how to fight against spellcasters!
Based on this idea, they finally developed a special unit, the dwarf spellbreaker.
This is a type of rune mage. They wear heavy armor. The armor has been specially processed and has strong resistance to spells. Moreover, they also have certain spell-casting abilities. At critical moments, they can rely on runes to cast several spells. The most important spell is basically enough to deal with various situations.
With the help of rune spells, once the dwarf spellbreakers enter the battlefield, they will roar into the enemy's formation like a tiger descending from the mountain, disrupting the enemy's formation. Or they will directly attack the enemy's spell caster troops, so that even if the casters are lucky enough to escape, they will never be able to help their comrades, thereby dragging each other into a "without spell assistance" situation.
In this case, the dwarves have no enemies to fear!
But the dwarf spellbreakers also have their fatal flaw, which is that they cannot resist the Great Disintegration.
It is true that the Great Disintegration is a high-level spell. Those who can cast this spell are at least high-level mages. In mid-to-low-level battles, there is no need to worry about this.
But... in low- and mid-level battles, there is no need to dispatch dwarf spellbreakers. Once this rare unit, whose number is only counted in "ten", is dispatched, it will definitely be a critical battle.
In such a critical battle, it is absolutely not difficult for the enemy to gather a few high-level mages and perform a dozen or so great disintegration spells.
The Great Disintegration can be used on a single target to increase its power, or it can be used on an area to form a powerful spell area. For a spellbreaker wearing heavy magic armor, if he is directly hit by a big disintegration spell, he will die immediately. Even if he only stays within the range of the big disintegration spell for a few seconds, it will be a huge loss. -They themselves can probably resist the damage of the Great Disintegration spell with their strong physique and divine blessing, because this spell is not very harmful to living creatures, but their armor cannot, the kind of armor that is specially made to resist most spells. , will be completely damaged and fall apart.
Without the armor, the dwarf spellbreakers are nothing more than a group of powerful warriors who are also trained as rune mages. What's even worse is that they will be unarmed, and both their runes and weapons will be destroyed by the Great Disintegration.
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 had a series of battles with the elves. Later, after the decline of the elves, they fought again with the humans who came from behind. In previous wars, the dwarf spellbreakers have made outstanding achievements, but they have also suffered heavy losses. After every attack, only one out of ten can come back alive.
What's worse is that as magic technology improves, the difficulty of performing the Great Disintegration is also decreasing. In the past, this spell could only be cast by magicians close to the legendary level. Now due to the needs of war, this spell has been continuously studied specially. In the country of thousands of springs, special magic circles and magic weapons have been used to allow those who have just entered the high-level realm. The mage can also successfully cast this spell.
With the "popularization" of the Great Disintegration Technique, the dwarf kingdom has been losing ground on high-end battlefields. Their warriors are brave and are not afraid of the enemy or sacrifice, but courage alone is not enough. In the past hundreds of years, a lot of the territory of the Dwarf Kingdom has been captured by the Kingdom of Thousand Springs, and the dwarf clan has sacrificed as a result. There are countless warriors.
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 mage of the Kingdom of Thousand Springs. group, but died under the Great Disintegration Technique.
In fact, if it weren't 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, they are all 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 the spellcasting team 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 Deteriorates slowly.
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 resist the Great Disintegration. If the technical problem 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... After the samples are completed and the performance is confirmed , is when they 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 cause and effect 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 leader 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... the advantages and disadvantages will be reversed."
"But that will cost a lot." Rhodes, who is already gray-haired and so old that his movements are a little 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 Void Mask Church 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. 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 national policy is different from the human race and the dwarf race. Even the guiding ideology of any 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, even if we are now After compromising and giving in, are we really going to change our national policy in the future to cater to their preferences?"
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 is gradually forming hegemony, and sooner or later it will pose a threat to the Republic. But... no matter what, at least there are orcs standing in front of us! We don’t need to pay the price in such a hurry!"
"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 quite understand it." The most beautiful woman on the East Coast, who is privately called "the 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 if we win, what can we win? Be specific. .”
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 disciple 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 would have no chance to live until now, nor would 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 have nothing to fear!"