Chapter 104: The Identity of the Old Dwarf

“Report, Captain, the Ruins square in front has been converted into a Castle by people. There are people guarding inside. The motive is unknown!” The scout reported anxiously.

“What? There is such a thing?” Kukoc was immediately shocked, and cold sweat was about to come down his forehead. One had to know, this was the only water supply point within a radius of a thousand miles. If this was preemptively occupied by his opponents, then his group would die of thirst. So he did not dare to neglect and hurriedly turned his horse to run back. He came to the Dwarf team behind and said to the captain inside, “Captain Cass, we are in trouble!”

Cass was a power ful Level 6 Dwarf Warrior. Although he was short in full steel Armor, he also looked extremely majestic. This time he was specifically responsible for escorting important figures in the Kingdom to the Griffin Kingdom. The responsibility on his shoulders was heavy. Hearing Kukoc’s alarm, he was also immediately shocked and hurriedly asked, “What happened?”

“My scouts reported back that the Ruins square in front has been built into a Castle, and there are people guarding it. These people control the only water source here. I am afraid they will be detrimental to us!” Kukoc said worriedly.

“How can there be such a thing?” Cass was also startled when he heard this. He naturally knew the seriousness of the matter and hurriedly asked, “Do you know who they are?”

“I don’t know, but they are definitely not people from the surrounding major powers, because we all had a tacit understanding that no one can occupy this intermediate zone. So I suspect that this sudden group of rash guys is likely to be ignorant Robbers!” Kukoc said distressedly, “The so-called ignorant are fearless. The more such ignorant idiots, the more troublesome they are!”

“En, you are right!” Cass nodded, then frowned and said, “But don’t worry, let’s go and see before we talk! Maybe things are not as bad as we imagined.”

“Okay!” Kukoc agreed. Just as the two were about to go to the front to see the situation, an old voice came from behind.

“Wait a minute, I want to go and see too!” A very Old Dwarf rode a giant pangolin beast over and said. This Old Dwarf had a face full of wrinkles and looked lifeless, but the occasional gleam in the corners of his eyes gave people a chilling feeling. He didn’t have any refined steel Armor on him, but wore a rare gray leather robe, which faintly emitted magic fluctuations. Obviously, this was a very expensive Magic Item.

After seeing the old man, Cass and Kukoc immediately and respectfully saluted, “Greetings, Master!”

“Don’t talk about these empty courtesies. Let’s go and see who is so bold to break the peace of this place!” The Old Dwarf said, and then walked forward first. Cass and Kukoc hurriedly followed behind.

Subsequently, the group came to the periphery of the Ruins square. The identity of the Old Dwarf was obviously very high. He was always followed closely by a bunch of Guards behind him. Even Kukoc did not dare to neglect and hurriedly transferred some of the family’s most powerful experts to follow him to protect the Old Dwarf together, for fear that the other party would have a little accident. So, they saw more than 300 people coming to the main gate of the Castle with great fanfare.

Actually, calling it a main gate was just a wooden gate temporarily built with cut-down trees. Fortunately, this was originally a street intersection, with tall and majestic buildings on both sides, and the street in the middle was only a few dozen meters wide, so the project was not very big. With the help of the Cyclops, the construction looked decent. The five-meter-high gate tower was all built with giant logs. Below was a gate assembled from thick wood, and there was a walkway above for people to pass. At this time, Old Xie, who had used a mask to transform into another appearance, was sitting on the simple gate tower, holding a glass of wine in his hand and drinking unhurriedly. Behind him was the masked Krishchen.

One had to know, the people below were the Caravan of the Augustus Family of the Griffin Kingdom. Old Xie didn’t want to reveal his identity, so naturally, he had to change his appearance. As his steward, Krishchen was no exception; anyway, he couldn’t be seen by others. On the entire gate tower, only Old Xie and Krishchen could be seen. Others were hidden, ready to attack at any time.

The Old Dwarf and his group stopped more than 50 meters away from Old Xie. Actually, this distance had already entered the range of bows and arrows, but they didn’t see such dangerous things above, so they deliberately walked a little closer. After standing still, the Old Dwarf nodded slightly to Cass.

Cass immediately nodded to show that he understood, then urged his mount forward two steps and shouted, “Hey, Your Excellency, may I ask what your purpose is in building a Castle here and occupying the only water source around?”

“Of course it’s to collect tolls!” Old Xie said unhurriedly and directly.

“What?” Hearing Old Xie’s naked and shameless statement, everyone couldn’t help being half-dead with anger.

Cass even directly shouted angrily, “This was originally ownerless land. Why do you just build some broken fences and want to collect tolls?”

“Since you know that it was ownerless land before, then you should understand that I occupied this place, so it is mine. Since it is my territory, naturally I have the final say, right?” Old Xie said with a smile.

“You, you are completely unreasonable!” Cass said angrily.

“Reason? You actually have the nerve to say I’m unreasonable? Haha, it’s really ridiculous.” Old Xie then sneered, “The territory of your Kingdom of Dwarves was also ownerless land tens of thousands of years ago, and now it has become yours. Who did you say hello to? Why can you occupy such a large place, but I can’t occupy such a small piece of land? You tell me, which one of us is being unreasonable?”

“This~” Cass was immediately stumped by Old Xie’s question. His face turned red from holding back, and he couldn’t say a single word.

“Haha!” At this time, the Old Dwarf suddenly laughed, “Interesting, interesting. Not bad, what you said is right. The Dwarf Plateau tens of thousands of years ago was also ownerless, but now it has become our territory. But!”

The Old Dwarf’s face suddenly became solemn. He then said in a deep voice, “For that land, we don’t know how many clansmen we sacrificed. It can be said that on every inch of our land, there is a Soul of a Dwarf Warrior guarding it. They exchanged the price of their lives for today’s Kingdom for us. Young man, I don’t know, are you prepared to sacrifice for the land in front of you?”

“Haha!” Old Xie immediately laughed, “Of course I am prepared to sacrifice. It’s just that I only want you to sacrifice! Now, you only have two choices. Either, obediently take out the toll money, or, wait to die of thirst!”

“Arrogant!” Cass couldn’t help cursing, “Kid, don’t be too happy too early. Perhaps we have a third choice, for example, to kill you directly!”

“You can try!” Old Xie laughed nonchalantly. As he spoke, he provocatively took a sip of wine.

“You!” Cass was furious and was about to rush over. But he was stopped by the Old Dwarf reaching out his hand.

The Old Dwarf looked up at Old Xie with interest, then smiled and said, “Young man, I don’t know if your Castle has a name?”

“Of course! I can show you!” Old Xie said, gently raising his arm.

Then, a majestic sound of drums suddenly rang out from the Castle, startling the people outside. They thought Old Xie was going to attack, and they all prepared for defense. But they didn’t expect that this was just a flag-raising ceremony held by Old Xie. Accompanied by the gradually exciting drums, a flag slowly rose and finally stayed at the top of the highest building of the Castle. This big flag was pitch black all over, with a vivid five-clawed golden dragon in the center. Near the flagpole, there were also several large characters embroidered, ‘Wuwei Castle’! Obviously, Old Xie was using his own courtesy name to name the Castle.

“‘Wuwei’?” The Old Dwarf murmured, then smiled, “I’ve heard a saying, ‘The ignorant are fearless.’ Now it seems, young man, this saying seems to be specially prepared for you!”

“Haha!” Old Xie couldn’t help laughing immediately, “Old guy, you are dead wrong!”

“Oh, why do you say that? I’m willing to hear the details!” The Old Dwarf immediately asked curiously.

“Hehe!” Old Xie then laughed, “Let me ask you, are you the only Grandmaster Smith and Saint Domain Expert in the Dwarf Race, Piritz?”

“En?” The Old Dwarf was first startled, then immediately became solemn and said, “How do you know?” Obviously, he admitted it.

“Very simple!” Old Xie laughed, “First of all, your guard specifications are too high. In the Kingdom of Dwarves, the total number of Pangolin Knights is no more than three thousand, and almost all of them are battle-hardened elites. There are no more than ten people worthy of being protected by such a group of experts in the Dwarf Race!”

“Well said!” The Old Dwarf said with interest, “Continue!”

“Secondly, I can feel that your strength is very strong, at least in the Saint Domain!” Old Xie laughed, “In the Dwarf Race, among those ten people who are worthy of being protected, only three are Saint Domain Experts, so you must be one of them, right?”

“Haha!” The Old Dwarf Piritz immediately laughed, “Well said, you don’t need to continue! I already know. Old Parker and Ricks are both very conspicuous figures. One has red hair but never covers it up, and the other likes to wander around with a shiny bald head. Obviously, I am not as weird as them, so I can only be Piritz, right?”