When night fell, Frost Axe came to Nolan on the ground from the city of the underground dwarves after finishing the day's work.
"Elder, today I'm going to drink these guys down, take one step first!"
"Don't talk nonsense, get out."
Frost Axe stared at the young dwarves, watching their figures disappear into the corner of Nolan's street, he touched his gray beard and let out a sigh.
He is even older than the city of Nolan. He is one of the dwarves who first discovered the underground ruins, the pioneer of the underground ruins, and the founder and builder of the city of Nolan!
From Nolan just a small village where spellcasters gathered to now the most prosperous city in the world, Frost Axe has gone through too many troubles that make him blow his beard and stare.
But times have changed, and even a dwarf will suffer from senescence no matter how long he lives, even if he is the Great Elder of the Frostaxe clan.
With Frost Axe's old body now, he can no longer be like those young dwarves, holding beer in a big wooden cup in the tavern, and after drinking to the fullest, he will wrestle his arms with bare arms.
The older a person is, the more he likes to look for excitement, and this principle applies to dwarves as well.
What Frost Axe likes to do in recent years is to walk the streets of Nolan and see the changes that have taken place in the city he built himself.
The recent preparations for the World Expo have brought many new faces to Nolan. Every time Frost Axe comes to a street, he can see several new shops, although most of them sell clothes worn by girls, or those troublesome spellcasters. thing.
And today he found a tavern on Commercial Street, a tavern called Hearthstone.
Dwarves have a unique tavern culture. All dwarves heard their mothers shouting when they were young, "You motherfucker is what I lost when I was fighting in the tavern!"
Frost Axe, who is almost a hundred years old, is no longer interested in those noisy taverns, but this tavern called Hearthstone is unexpectedly clean.
It is a compliment to describe it as clean. When Frost Axe walked into it, only one or two people were found inside.
"Welcome... Please find a seat."
Heading towards Frost Axe was a little girl...or a little boy
Frost Axe looked at the human with wooden-framed glasses.
It doesn't matter if it's male or female.
Anyway, in his eyes, these races that are a few heads taller than him are really ugly. The key is their ugly figure. The most beautiful figure of a dwarf woman should be like a wooden barrel!
Frost Axe really likes this kind of quiet tavern.
He followed the guidance of the human and walked into the tavern to sit down.
The light armor on Frost Axe and his weight made the ground make a heavy sound the moment he sat down.
"Need... something?"
Ino glanced at the old dwarf in front of him. The work in the tavern was his job, but he was not paid so well for running errands before. He had a place to live and read books. Dayton has been pretty good.
So after returning from school, Ino volunteered to be the clerk of this tavern.
"Do you have any wine from the Great Xia Kingdom here?"
Frost Axe didn't look at the menu. The drinks in the tavern were nothing more than the types of ale, inferior ale and non-inferior ale, as well as Biskel's highest-quality rye, the country of steel, as well as the red wine that the nobles who were too hypocritical.
These wines are already tasteless to Frost Axe. He recently fell in love with a wine from the Great Xia Kingdom. The color is transparent. Drinking a bottle is like his throat is on fire.
"some."
Ino nodded and ran to the back of the bar immediately. One of the wine suppliers that Marlina talked to was from Daxia, and of course they provided this special wine.
"I want the best!"
Frost Axe opened his voice and shouted, and his voice echoed throughout the tavern, but another voice soon replaced his rough voice.
"Sorry, my magic will tear you to shreds."
what happened? ! This tavern even has a spell caster
Hearing the voice, Frost Axe glanced at the other side of the tavern curiously, and found that there were two strange figures in the corner of the tavern, but what really caught Frost Axe's eyes was... Their tables would glow!
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"I... WIN! Four mana fireballs!"
Ciri held a card face made of projections in his hand, with the words "Fireball: Deal 6 Damage" written on it.
Joshua, who was sitting opposite Ciri, shrugged, and could only watch the character he controlled. Garrosh Hellscream, a warrior, shattered into pieces with a fireball suffocating his face.
Qiao Xiu was testing the gameplay of the arcade version with Ciri, and in front of Qiao Xiu was the only finished machine, and the Hearthstone inside was the original version.
There is no card editor, only two professional fighters and mages can use, the deck is also edited by Qiao Xiu in advance, this machine is only used by Qiao Xiu for testing.
The arcade version of the Hearthstone display is a transparent screen, a bit like a table-sized tablet, and Joshua also uses the projection function of Hurland's magic machine to make the hand cards appear in front of the player, but this Just a very vassal function.
The real gameplay is to click and drag on a transparent plane.
Joshua and Ciri tested a total of twelve rounds. From the afternoon to the present, after Ciri was defeated by Joshua in eleven consecutive rounds, this clever female magician finally gradually mastered the skills, plus a little luck, finally Just beat Joshua just now.
"Quick! It's time for you to fulfill your promise."
Ciri couldn't describe the feeling she felt when she won.
Joshua also specifically instructed "Sorry must be shouted before fireball beheading", "Sorry must be shouted before using Pyroblast beheading", etc. This made Ciri realize the importance of the word sorry to mages.
If it wasn't for Ciri, a believer of the God of Order, who didn't know how to use fireball, she might follow this rule when she used fireball in the future.
"I'm willing to admit defeat."
Before Joshua started this test with Ciri, he made a bet with Ciri. As long as Ciri could win against Joshua within fifteen rounds, Joshua would agree to a not-too-excessive condition.
If it fails, Ciri will obediently return to the alchemy workshop in Helland and finish all the remaining original paintings.
"Have you written the latter part of "The Devil Is Not Too Cold"?"
The conditions that Ciri put forward surprised Joshua a little, because "not too much" also includes letting Ciri be free.
But I didn't expect that the female magician seemed to have forgotten her status as a prisoner, and was more concerned about the script that Joshua showed Ciri the day before, the initial script of "This Devil Is Not Too Cold".
"It's not written yet. When I finish the production of Hearthstone, it's time to officially shoot the film."
Joshua had been typing code these days, and the script was just written on a whim, only to be discovered by Ciri, who lived under the same roof.
Following "Beauty and the Devil", Ciri has once again become a glorious pusher.
"Make... The original painting you gave me is still more than a hundred pieces, but the basic cards have been completed, give me a few days."
Ciri's work efficiency is really nothing to say. After Joshua drew the line draft in advance, she directly filled in the details and colored it.
Ciri is not in a hurry, as long as she follows Qiao Xiu, sooner or later she will be able to read the script of "This Devil Is Not Too Cold", and she can also participate in the filming of the scene!
This is what Ciri is looking forward to the most.
"It just so happens that the test is almost finished."
When Qiao Xiu was about to stop sending magic power to this magic machine, Qiao Xiu felt a slight vibration on the ground.
A dwarf had stood beside the magic machinery for some unknown time. He stared at the picture on the screen with wide eyes, as if thinking about what it was.
This scene reminded Qiao Xiu of the first time he went to the arcade hall, he had been standing in the back watching others play, and it took a long time before he dared to play in person.
"Want to try it?" Joshua asked, looking at the old dwarf who seemed to be very old.