Chapter 610: Letter from Vanilla Archon
Three months had passed since Elsa's return, and it was the beginning of winter.
Rand once again received important news from the Elf Forest at Crescent Moon Harbor.
The Vanilla Archon has officially declared war on the Elf Royal Court and the third faction of the Renaissance in the name of fighting for the throne.
After vanilla lays the foundation in a step by step pattern the first domination mods supporting their elven towns.
Vanilla will soon spread this pattern around the elven towns and even cities.
Just one year.
Vanilla has already controlled more than 10 cities of varying sizes in the surrounding area.
Today’s reformists are still weaker than the other two factions, and on the surface they don’t even have 1/10 of their strength, but their potential has undoubtedly been demonstrated.
Apparently Rand Nicholas's plan for the Elven Forest was successful.
Now the reputation of Vanilla Archon has spread throughout the Elf Forest.
"Archon Vanilla hopes that you will go to the Elf Forest again. She has many questions and needs your assistance regarding the current situation." Olenna handed the letter to Rand.
Rand opened the letter.
The content is: Your Majesty, help, they are disturbing me when I am on vacation, I can’t stand it anymore, I strongly suggest to strictly implement the system of separating working time and rest time.
And then nothing more.
In short, Rand needs to go to the Elf Forest to help Vanilla solve the dilemma of working all day and plan her working hours.
Of course, there is no such thing as an 8-hour workday in the world, and Vanilla didn't expect to be able to work only 8 hours a day, but she really needed Rand's help now.
Vanilla didn't write more in the letter, but Rand could easily guess something that was not written in the letter.
Anyway, it's time to set off again.
There is no need to rush the journey this time, as Rand can still take care of some other matters of the kingdom.
There are indeed some urgent kingdom affairs that need to be attended to now.
The King and Queen of the Dwarven Kingdom are coming to visit today.
Since Rand had used their eldest son to do a lot of hard labor, he felt a little guilty and came to greet them early today.
Of course, there is nothing inappropriate for him, a king, to welcome the king of another kingdom.
The dwarven ships came ashore.
Dwarves are skilled in forging and have relatively outstanding research in engineering. This is their nature born from living among the hard stones.
There are many bare mountains in the dwarf kingdom. Dwarves are good at forging and use hot metal to open up their living space. If they want to mine ore, some suitable machinery is also indispensable.
Over a long period of time, they have excelled in metallurgy and machinery, which has formed the current stereotype of dwarves.
Although there are more stereotypes about dwarves than these, for example, dwarves like and are good at brewing beer.
The reason is very easy to understand. Physical labor such as mining, metallurgy and forging will cause fatigue and damage to the body. At this time, alcohol is needed to heal such injuries. Otherwise, the sore body may cause poor sleep quality.
Why ale and not wine? Of course, if the dwarves want to make wine, they need to overcome their height problem to pick grapes from the vines.
In fact, the dwarves have also tried to make wine, but in the dwarven language, wine means tall traps, because the dwarves broke more ladders while picking raw materials than brewed wine.
The Dwarf King and Queen disembarked and saluted Rand.
He had no choice but to bend down and nod to the dwarf king and queen.
Ellie, the Queen of the Moon Kingdom beside Rand, also nodded in greeting.
The port was specially decorated to welcome the Dwarf King and Queen. After all, it was the monarch of a country who came to visit, so the highest standards must be met.
Rand even had people collect some small flowers that only bloom in winter and place them nearby to show his importance.
"Your Majesties, would you like to rest in Crescent Moon Harbor first, or go directly to the industrial area to meet His Royal Highness the Prince?" Rand said with a smile.
This time, the King and Queen of the Dwarf Kingdom came here to bring the Dwarf Prince home.
Of course, Rand had no reason to keep the heir to the throne of his country in his own territory as the chief of engineering and metallurgy.
Now that the dwarf prince has been captured, the impact on Rand will not be too great.
Of course it would be best to have this genius dwarf prince conducting scientific research in the territory, but if that is not possible... In fact, the Moon Kingdom and the Dwarf Kingdom have gradually established friendly relations.
When the first ocean-going ship was sent to the Dwarf Kingdom, the Dwarf Kingdom was only represented by a northern human lord who wanted to obtain some Dwarf craftsmen.
At that time, Rand's status in the Frostmoon Kingdom was already quite high, but to the king of a dwarf kingdom far across the ocean, he was just a duke of another country.
Things are completely different now. The Dwarf Prince has come to the Moon Kingdom to work, and many Dwarf craftsmen have also come here to exchange and learn. The Dwarf King has realized the difference between this place and other human territories.
Now the two sides have the basis for real cooperation. It is not charity from one side to the other, but real cooperation.
Of course, Rand also covets the ancient technology of the Elf Forest, but Rand will never let go of the development route that he has laid the foundation for his own territory.
Otherwise, a situation might occur where primitive people use muskets as walking sticks.
The dwarf king and queen looked up at Rand and said, "Your Majesty, we will not hang around any longer. Let's go and see that good-for-nothing son of ours."
In fact, the dwarf prince is very capable, but he is not very interested in the throne. It was when he came to the sanctuary to report on his work from time to time and saw Rand's bored look that he became more determined in his previous choice.
The dwarf king and queen got on the centaur carriage.
Both of them already knew some of the characteristics of the Moon Kingdom, so they were not particularly surprised to see the Centaur pulling the chariot. After all, there were creatures in the world that were taller than them, such as humans, so they were not too surprised by this.
The Centaur carriage drove across the smooth brick and stone road and arrived at the Burning Land, the industrial center of the Moon Kingdom, in less than half a day.
The dwarf prince was already waiting here. The reason he didn't go to the port to greet them was that he was afraid that he would be captured and taken home directly by the dwarf king and queen who had just disembarked.
The dwarf king twirled his beautiful beard and said, "Dwarf engineering master, could you please tell us two old people about your achievements during this period?"
Rand complained in his heart, it turns out that dwarves can also be sarcastic.
The prince scratched his face in embarrassment, and his stone-hard skin was sunken a little.
He also needs to speak. If he really goes back to visit his relatives, he might be imprisoned in the dwarf kingdom and never be able to escape. The risk is too high.
So the dwarf prince pretended not to hear the sarcasm in his father's mouth: "Let me introduce the cooperation project we agreed on before, alchemy."
"Father, father, are you listening to me?" the dwarf prince called out.
Only then did the Dwarf King come back to his senses, his eyes just now attracted by the industrial form of the Burning Land.
The industrial buildings in the Burning Land are quite barbaric, with many towering chimneys and buildings that look like furnaces densely clustered together. Dwarf and human craftsmen use forging hammers to bombard the newly produced metal embryos.
In the distance, you can vaguely see the coal sorting and washing equipment that provides energy.
The Dwarf King had never seen such a high level of industrial integration anywhere else except the capital of the Dwarf Kingdom.
The experienced dwarf king could clearly see that this place would gradually be built into an industrial center integrating mining, metallurgy, forging and engineering.
The products here can then be shipped to Crescent Moon Port, and then sold to various human countries by water, or consumed internally via internal roads.
This was undoubtedly amazing. The Dwarf King had already learned about the form of industry in the Burning Land from Rand's introduction, and seeing it with his own eyes still attracted his attention for a long time.
"I heard it. Hasn't alchemy already been formed and has a specific system?" asked the Dwarf King.
"That's right, but in the past, alchemy was more inclined towards the making of potions and magic props, and had little involvement in equipment, weapons for war, and even siege equipment." The dwarf prince spoke eloquently, "Dwarves are more inclined towards metallurgy, mechanical structure, and forging technology, and have also rarely involved in the study of magic."
"Before that, His Majesty Rand commissioned me to research the staff, and I have achieved results after cooperating with the Alchemy Workshop in the Sanctuary." The Dwarf Prince introduced his masterpiece to the Dwarf King. "This is a standard staff. Although it is far inferior to those extraordinary staffs that can be called magic items, it is cheap. It is cheap enough that it can even be equipped to the mage army."
"But there are very few spellcasters among us dwarves, and we may not need such things much." The Dwarf King said thoughtfully.
Of course, if cooperation in this area is carried out, the Dwarf Kingdom can also create some special things to sell to humans or elves, but if the dwarves themselves cannot use them and enhance their national strength, then such things that only increase the strength of other races may not be worth spending a lot of money to research and develop.
"That's not what I mean. What I mean is that by using the dwarven technology and magical alchemy for collaborative research, we can create many things that are both practical and have development potential, so that even us dwarves who don't have magical talent can use them." The dwarf prince began to introduce his second work.
"For example, this piece of equipment, the Rune Axe."
In front of everyone was an ancient battle axe.
There are mysterious magical patterns on it.
"We still have no way to create a device or tool that can store energy, but there are actually quite a few things in this world that naturally contain energy. For example, the magic ores buried in the ground and the organs of some powerful monsters have been used to make magic items or refine potions in the past."
"If we incorporate these materials into weapons in a special form, does that mean we can get weapons that can have magical effects a limited number of times?"
To put it simply, it is a degraded version of those magic weapons.
Magic weapons that can be used permanently are often created by master craftsmen who consume a large amount of materials and then forge them with exquisite craftsmanship.
For example, those legendary artifacts.
These equipment can produce effects in difficult to understand ways, such as Olenna's swift sword Dawnbreak, which can break magic, and Bolan's artifact Ocean Abyss, which can store water.
Some magic equipment can also increase the wearer's speed, or enhance resistance to certain attributes.
For example, Elsa's King of Killers can improve the user's physical fitness to a certain extent in a short period of time.
So far, no one has been able to allow Elsa to use the power of this artifact.
Whether it is these artifacts or magical equipment with much weaker effects, these things are expensive and extremely rare.
These magical equipment are even rarer and more expensive than those non-standard custom-made staffs.
But what if these permanently used equipment could be degraded so that they could be used occasionally, producing unexpected effects at critical moments?
This is what Rand hopes to do next with the Dwarven Kingdom.
The current research is still in its early stages. It has taken a lot of effort to produce this sample rune axe, and the materials currently used are not much less than those used to make a real magic equipment.
But Rand has seen the promise of this kind of thing.
The power of the world's strong is quite limited.
There is only one life in this world.
Even if these degraded equipment can only be used once in a lifetime, as long as they can be equipped and used once at a critical moment, they can defeat many difficult-to-defeat enemies or determine the direction of a war.
Often, the fate of many people changes at a certain turning point.
The dwarf king took up the rune axe.
Olenna took a half step forward, a little closer to Rand.
Olenna wasn't actually worried about Rand's safety, nor did she think that the dwarf king would suddenly explode and chop Rand down, but these actions were somewhat subconscious.
The king was also a master of forging and a combat expert in the past. Although he has become a little less skilled after becoming king, there are still many skills engraved in his instincts.
Soon the dwarf king mastered the trick. When he swung the weapon, the rune axe flashed with lightning, and in an instant the plain-looking axe became gorgeous.
The lightning quickly disappeared.
The dwarf king shook his charred palm and said, "Can this thing electrocute itself?"
The dwarf prince explained somewhat awkwardly: "The product still has many technical defects, and this is the best it can do at the moment."
This kind of magic equipment with a limited number of uses should only be used by dwarves in the early stages. Dwarves are born with a certain degree of resistance to magic and various attributes, which can prevent themselves from being hurt when using weapons.
(End of this chapter)
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