Starfall 835, April 21, early morning, in the basement warehouse of the Lord's Mansion of Moldavia in the North.
At the end of the dark underground corridor, dim pyroxene lamps flickered. Behind a heavy iron door that was ajar was the underground warehouse of the Radcliffe family, but it was different from what many adventurers imagined. This warehouse, which is rumored to be filled with gold, gems and all kinds of sparkling treasured magic equipment, is not as wide as the dragon's nest. In a sense, it is slightly narrow, only about twenty meters long and fifteen meters long. The width and height are also the standard three meters and two feet. A dragon can only curl up in a heap here, which is not commensurate with its owner's powerful name in the continent.
And this warehouse, which could not be called a small one, was filled with all kinds of sundries—metal boxes engraved with the holy emblem of the Church of the Seven Gods, scrolls with the royal coat of arms of the Far South Kingdom, obviously made of elven craftsmanship. There are also small boxes with the royal court's mark, as well as various gifts and rewards from various major forces. If you look at these things alone, their value is barely worthy of a legendary warrior. But in fact, these seemingly valuable items are mixed with wooden barrels, wooden boxes and many messy packages. Even the most skilled thief who comes here will have a hard time sorting out this mess. Pick out the target you want among the toys.
But now, there is a petite silver-haired girl who is working hard to sort them all neatly among the piles of debris and place them one by one according to type.
This is not an easy job - whether it is a metal box that looks extremely heavy or an alloy metal statue carved by a dwarf that is more than two meters high, it seems that she cannot move it, even if it is five or six years old. Even a tall and thick man might not be able to move them at all.
But the reality is always beyond expectations. The girl easily lifted these items that were measured in tons with one hand, and then placed them where she wanted without taking a breath.
—Not as heavy as Miss No. 3, except for this statue.
Soon after, Yingying finally finished tidying up and wiped the non-existent sweat on her head. She had been busy for a long time with a satisfied smile on her lips. Looking at the well-organized basement, she couldn't help but feel a sense of satisfaction in her heart.
Finally done, Firefly thought. After spending a whole night, she and No. 3 finally tidied up the basement and corridors that were messed up by the artificial intelligence girl's control of the metal body. There may also be a problem with Rin's random transportation of goods. This thing is not easy to do even with the extraordinary strength of the divine machine human body. Fortunately, there is magic in this world. A simple 'restore like new' spell can fix the damaged floor, but this Spells are of no use to the gifts from various countries that contain great magic power, and they can only be moved using physical methods.
It is precisely because of this that No. 3 ran away directly after sorting out the amethysts - she said she was going to perform her duties and patrol at night to monitor possible cultists and troublemaking adventurers, and then she simply left He left Hotaru alone in the messy basement.
Who are you lying to
The silver-haired girl thought angrily at this moment. It's been 835 years since the star fell. How could an adventurer who had eaten a dragon's heart dare to cause trouble in Moldavia, the territory of a legendary warrior? Not to mention cultists. According to reliable intelligence, the entire Northland has become an absolute restricted area in the dark world of Mycroft Continent. The 100% recognition rate has long made many demon believers and evil gods worship with lingering fear, and even the Ural Mountains dare not Crossing over, how could they have the courage to run to the center of the restricted area and die
Now, No. 3 must be at the center of the magic circle in the Lord's Mansion, taking the amethyst stone to add a plug-in magic circle to his body, right? Thinking of this, Firefly couldn't help but feel a little envious. You must know that since her body was advanced through the baptism of pure holy light in the Holy Mountain, the warrior had not oiled and maintained her for a long time.
Not breaking is not always a good thing either. Feeling that she had been neglected in this regard, the magical girl sighed slightly. She looked up again at the pile of neatly arranged goods in front of her, and couldn't help but subconsciously sigh: "There are so many things to buy. .”
There are at least several tons of fine amethyst stone, which is expected to last Miss No. 3 for several years. Two barrels of Gwell dwarf wine were bought by the owner to entertain guests, and there are at least dozens of different types. Small items properly placed in exquisite boxes and packages, such as jewelry and clothes bought for her, No. 3, and even Rin, even if they don't use them most of the time.
The owner has always been very generous, and even spends money lavishly.
Seeing these things, Yingying imitated a warrior and touched her smooth and delicate chin. The girl silently added in her heart - he didn't even know how much money he had, nor which chambers of commerce and family property belonged to him.
Thanks to myself and Rin taking care of it as master. Yingying thought with some satisfaction, the corners of her mouth raised slightly.
And perhaps it was the connection between the siblings. Just when the silver-haired girl was about to find out which gifts she planned to give to Rin, regular footsteps sounded in the corridor not far away.
"Hey, sister."
Hearing the familiar voice, Ying turned around and saw her brother opening the heavy iron door of the basement. The black-haired boy, whose hair was a little messy because he had not arranged it, did not greet his sister politely. He said directly: "Master is not here with you, right? ?”
Although the boy used the grammar of a question, his tone was indeed affirmative like a declarative sentence.
"Of course, didn't you see it clearly at a glance?" Yingying thought it was something important, but it turned out to be such an insignificant matter. She curled her lips and said angrily: "The master came back at midnight yesterday to ask for it. The magic book hasn’t come back since then. We all have sensory abilities. As for coming here to ask me..."
"So, sister, have you noticed?" Interrupting the silver-haired girl's complaint, Rin said in a calm tone that made Hotaru feel familiar: "Did Kuroya disappear suddenly in the middle of the night yesterday?"
Blinking, Yingying shook her head in confusion. Yesterday, she helped Joshua go to the study to get the Abyss Magic Book, and then came down to sort out the messy goods with No. 3. How could she have time to care about the black dragon? The girl's movements, not to mention Kuro's presence is not very high.
"Alas...my sister."
Seeing that Yingying hadn't reacted yet, Rin couldn't help but shook his head in disappointment: "Even if the master doesn't need to sleep, it doesn't mean he won't return to the lord's mansion, right?" After a pause, he affirmed with a questioning tone. The sentence said: "So, is there such a possibility that the master has left?"
In this sentence, the young man's tone of voice when he said the word 'gone' was very clever. It contained the meaning of affirmation, determination and determination, and it was impossible for anyone to refute it.
"Eh?" Yingying was still in a confused state. She didn't react, but Rin continued: "Look, Hei suddenly left the city in the middle of the night. Who can order her except the master? What's more..." The boy rambled on again. A lot of evidence, without exception, supports the fact that the soldiers actually left at midnight yesterday to do business, but did not take them with them.
"Impossible!" No matter how slow her reaction was, Firefly could still understand the meaning of her brother's words - so the girl went crazy in an instant. She came to the boy in an instant and grabbed him with all her strength. His shoulders shook: "We are the master's weapons - he will take us with him wherever he goes! How could he only take Hei and not us!"
"Didn't you take us with you when you went to the Abyss of Anos? You only brought No. 1 and Hei." The young man pointed out this point calmly, at the cost of being shaken even more violently. Rin looked more and more jealous because of Crazy Firefly shook her head: "Speaking of which, sister, you are becoming more and more like a human being."
"The same goes for Miss No. 3," he said.
After hearing these words, the silver-haired girl also stopped what she was doing. She snorted, and then said softly: "Seriously, brother, the fact that you can say this kind of emotion means that you feel the same way."
At the same time, in Moldavia in the north, the underground gathering place of dwarves.
This is a huge and narrow abyssal rift with unclear length and depth. It is located nearly a thousand meters deep underground. Frequent stratigraphic movements around the Great Ajax volcano cause pieces of the earth's crust to rise and fall from time to time. Although the dwarves have methods to stabilize the crust around where they gather, they have no way to control every corner of their long underground territory.
This huge abyssal rift with the red glow of lava at the bottom is located on the edge of the eastern dwarf mining area. It appeared during a small earthquake two days ago, tearing out a huge crack of nearly 200 meters in the ground. The moment it appeared, it devoured the lives of three dwarf miners and isolated nearly thirty dwarf miners on the other side of the abyss.
After the dwarves gathered at the gathering place to deal with various matters after the earthquake, they belatedly remembered that such a group of miners had not come back to report. By the time the rescue team set off, the dwarf miners who were short of water and food no longer had the strength to respond. Rescued.
There is not much water in the bodies of dwarves. Compared with ordinary creatures, they are indeed like rocks. But anyway, water is also the most important part of their body fluid circulation. After two days without water and food, it is boring to be in the high heat underground. Even a dwarf wouldn't be able to stand two days in the mines.
The two-hundred-meter-long abyss is actually nothing to these master craftsmen. They usually have ten thousand ways to cross this seemingly insurmountable barrier, but now, probably because of the underground magic chaos caused by the earthquake, many None of the spells can be used. Using engineering technology, the fastest method will take almost a day. For them, what they need now is not a method, but time. If they don't go quickly to rescue the dwarf miners, most of whom are in a coma, they may soon return to the embrace of the earth.
Logically speaking, these dwarves who are already easily irritable should be yelling anxiously now. After all, no matter what, there is absolutely not enough time. Their keen ears can hear the gradually weakening breathing and heartbeat of their own people on the other side of the abyss. This is really a great torture.
But in fact, none of the dwarves was restless. They all stood calmly, waiting for something to arrive.
And not long after.
Accompanied by violent and heavy footsteps, a huge and ferocious steel giant walked quickly from a distance and arrived at the edge of the abyss.
It looks like a huge humanoid armor. With a body of nearly thirty meters tall, it looks bigger than a giant dragon. After all, dragons only look huge with wings and tails, but the steel giant is bigger than them. The 'slender' body is a whole circle larger, and you can tell at a glance that it is not in the same weight class.
Every time the giant takes a step, it takes a second or two. This makes it look slow, but in fact it is very fast because the distance taken by one step is extremely long. Its fragile joints have been obviously reinforced. The traces of it can be seen as a commonly used craft by dwarves.
"No. 1! It's up to you this time!"
Before the Iron Giant came to the Abyss Rift, a bearded dwarf engineer laughed in his rough voice: "I can't wait to see that scene again!"
"Yes!" Other dwarf engineers and construction team members also shouted: "Let us see it!"
"Sizz, sizzle, sizzle." The steel giant's head in humanoid armor, shrouded in a dragon-headed helmet, made a dull sound of metal current, as if it was promising something, and it didn't continue to say anything. , the steel giant stood directly on the side of the abyss rift, and then his whole body began to violently deform.
Next, a surprising scene appeared - accompanied by harsh metal friction sounds, the huge steel giant turned into an amorphous ball of silver metal like plasticine. It was like a living creature, just like this. Extending towards the other side of the abyss, a thin but strong steel bridge was formed!
The dwarf rescue team and engineers were not idle either. They immediately began to reinforce the edge of the bridge, and dozens of rescuers also ran quickly to the dwarf miners who were almost unconscious in shock and quickly rescued them.
After a long time, all the miners were rescued, and dozens of dwarves withdrew to the other side of the rift. The steel bridge also transformed back into the original huge steel giant amidst bursts of violent metal friction. It stood in place, Accepting praise and compliments from many dwarves.
No. 1 listened to the noisy and sincere thanks in its ears, and a trace of joyful current passed through its metal-cast thinking core. But for some reason, it didn't have the intention to care about these compliments, but subconsciously raised its head,' Look' to the south in the distance.
There is no reason, no evidence, but the Iron Giant knows that his creator, his 'father', is located in that place.
At this time, he was heading to another abyss that was different from this abyss rift valley.
Ah, the display here is 11:57, but it was actually 3 a.m. the next day, and perfect attendance was gone again (tears)
(End of chapter)