After taking a quick glance at the surface of the coffee table, Dorothy first picked up an old-looking biography, then flipped through it and read it carefully.
The name of this biography is "The City of Mountain Hearth. Part 1". It records the historical evolution of the dwarves before the Third Era. According to the narration of its unknown author, this biography is an archaeological document translated to the Third Era Empire period. In other words, it is a work of archaeology, a work of archaeology based on the archaeological research of the Fourth Era and the archaeological achievements of the Third Era.
In this biography, a dwarf city named "Guho Debho" is mainly recorded. It was discovered by a group of archaeologists from the Empire in the Third Age in the northern part of the present-day Dwarf Continent. It is a magnificent underground city excavated inside the Great Snow Mountain. The original author of this biography in the Third Age gave a relatively detailed introduction to the archaeological process of this city, from how it was discovered, to the initial exploration, to the in-depth exploration process and the difficulties encountered.
The first group of archaeological teams in the Third Age discovered that the name of this ancient dwarf city was "Guho Debuho" during their exploration. It was one of the important cities of the Dwarf Kingdom in the Second Age. Its main function was to continuously mine the rich mineral deposits underground. The mountain part contained the palaces, temples and living areas of the dwarves, while the underground part under the mountain was the mining area that continued to go deeper underground. The main thing recorded in this legend was the record of the exploration inside the mountain.
'Are there any archaeological records of dwarven cities in the Second Age? Interesting... According to previous information, the Second Age was an era in which multiple intelligent races existed, and dwarves should have been a relatively prosperous one. In this case, dwarves should have been active in the north of the Earth Continent in the Second Age. According to the author's description, there are remains of other intelligent creatures in the Earth Continent. In addition to dwarven creatures, there should have been other non-human intelligent creatures in the Earth Continent in the Second Age.
"In contrast, the main sphere of influence of the human race in the Second Era seemed to be the First Dynasty of Beiwu. The name of the First Dynasty also came from the name given by archaeologists during the Third Era Empire. It seemed that this was the first dynasty established by the human race, the first powerful power. The First Dynasty was founded in Beiwu and coexisted with other intelligent beings in the world of the Second Era."
Looking at the archaeological document in her hand, Dorothy couldn't help but think in her heart. After reading almost all of it, she began to extract the spirituality from it, and finally obtained 5 "Stones" and 2 "Inspirations".
Afterwards, Dorothy put down the biography in her hand and picked up the second oldest ancient book. The binding of this biography was very similar to the previous one, but it was much thinner. After Dorothy opened it and took a careful look, she found that this biography was the sequel to the previous one, named "City of Mountain Hearth·Part 2".
"City of Mountain Hearth: Part 2" simply continues the content of the previous part, and mainly tells the story of an archaeological expedition team in the Third Age who, after almost completing the exploration of the mountain part of the ancient dwarf city, began to continue exploring the dwarf mining area at the foot of the mountain. In the records of this book, they found a way into the mining area through continuous exploration, and after a long period of preparation, they continued to explore the ancient city in depth, all the way down in the mining area.
According to archaeological documents, the dwarven mining area under the ancient city is very complicated, with various mining roads crisscrossing and interconnected. If you are not careful, you will lose your way and cause small-scale collapse.
In the document, as this expedition team went all the way down, the most common thing they encountered was traces of dwarven mining. In addition to the mining traces, there were also many scattered weapons and armors, which were things used in wars and conflicts. The deeper they went, the higher the proportion of weapons they found. In some large caves, there were even tens of thousands of scattered weapons and armors. The walls of these caves had countless traces of being hit by sharp blades and blunt objects, and even bombarded by explosions. It can be seen that these large caves were once fierce battlefields!
The Empire's archaeological team conducted extensive research and analysis on these ancient battlefields in the underground mines. They found that the size of these weapons and armors were smaller than those of ordinary humans. It was obvious that these were not equipment made by the dwarves for themselves. They had fought fierce battles with unknown enemies in the underground mines they dug, and left these traces.
The imperial archaeological team confirmed that this ancient battlefield was left by the dwarves, but the strange thing was that they did not find any dwarf corpses in this battlefield. Not only did the dwarf corpses disappear, but the corpses of the mysterious opponents who fought against them were also completely missing. In addition to the dwarf equipment and traces of fierce battles, everything else in these underground ancient battlefields disappeared, leaving these imperial archaeological teams in the Third Era with deep doubts. And this legend came to an abrupt end amid these doubts.
Why are there so many traces of fierce fighting in the underground mines of the dwarves? Who are they fighting against? Why are the battles concentrated in the underground mines? Could it be that their enemies come from here?
"This second volume brings up far more questions than the first volume. Judging from the title on the cover, this biography should have a second volume. At the end of the second volume, the archaeological team seemed to say that they wanted to explore the underground mining area more deeply. Could the second volume record the corresponding content?"
Dorothy thought about this, and then she began to look through the other biographies on the table, trying to find the second volume of "The City of Mountain Hearth" to read directly. Unfortunately, she couldn't find it after searching for a long time. The second volume did not exist in the batch of biographies that Beverly sold her. Dorothy had no choice but to extract the spirituality of the middle volume and began to read other biographies.
Since this second volume has relatively little content, Dorothy was given 3 points of "Stone" and 1 point of "Inspiration" as accumulation.
After putting down the middle volume of "The City of Mountain Hearth", Dorothy picked up a thin biography with a dark green cover and loose binding and began to read it. The name of this biography was "A Record of the Exploration of the Voodoo Forest". It was also the result of an archaeological translation of the archaeological results of the Third Age in the Fourth Age. The original author was also an archaeologist from the Third Age Empire period.
The area that this archaeologist led the team to investigate was a vast rainforest area in the present-day Nanwu region, a vast area of lush rainforest filled with miasma. This area is now the place where the Filthy Order is active. Dorothy had seen a similar place in the legend "given" by Lue, the leader of the Eucharist in Igwynt.
According to the original author of the third era of this legend, in the rainforest of South Umaoton, there also exists an ancient non-human intelligent race from the second era, the elves. These elves worship nature and life, and worship a deity named "Mother Earth". Legend has it that the incarnation of this deity is the towering World Tree, and this elf race is also called "elves".
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