Of course, Laing didn't know what was going on in the cabin, and he didn't want to know either. He just wanted to sneak out and avoid the battlefield. He didn't want to be involved, and he didn't want to be a judge.
This didn't mean that Laing was a scumbag, but the relationship between the Lake Goddess and the Lake Goddess Witch was master and servant. All of the Lake Goddess Witch's power came from the Lake Goddess Witch, so it was natural and legal for Lilith to control Morgiana. And because of this relationship and the previous agreement of the turkey banquet, Laing felt that the Lake Goddess Witch and the Lake Goddess Fairy wouldn't really fight. At most, it would just be a dispute of words.
The deck of the passenger ship wasn't very spacious, and there weren't many people on it. Several sailors of the Red Sea Army who were familiar with the route were adjusting the sails. The captain was an experienced Sea God Knight. Laing greeted them and learned that it would take at least a week to reach Lone Dragon City, and this was with the detailed navigation chart and compass provided by the Dwarves of Lone Dragon City.
Then, Laing noticed that the eldest son of Belegar's first wife, Little Solgrin Ironhammer, and his good friend, Jed Sincere, the son of Master Rune Craftsman Stroud Sincere, were carrying dwarven muskets on their backs and looking at the scenery of the sea with binoculars.
"Oh, it's His Majesty Laing!" Little Solgrin looked at the sea and the coast with a large amount of floating ice in the distance with his binoculars. "Look at His Majesty Laing, there's a Minotaur sleeping on the shore."
"Minotaur biss, I'm the War God of Pure Love, where is it?" Laing also took out his binoculars. He soon saw a large Minotaur sleeping on the beach after eating and drinking to its heart's content.
"There, there!" Little Solgrin took out bullets and stuffed them into his long-barreled musket. After aiming for a while, he put it down again. "No, it's too far. Oh Grimnir, my musket can't shoot that far."
"Let me try." Laing put down his binoculars. Knight King began to condense his psionic power.
Oh, I'm a little weak! Laing suddenly felt a sense of emptiness in his body. A feeling of emptiness spread throughout his body. Gray Knight's geno prototype thought this was the same feeling as when the king sat on the golden throne for a long time.
After spending quite a bit of time, Ryan finally condensed a silver spear that was completely silver-white in color.
"Go!" The spear turned into a silver meteor and sped along the sea plain, gradually splitting into eight psionic light spears in the air and directly attacking eight parts of the minotaur's body. Amidst the lightning and vortex of psionic light, the minotaur was pierced by the psionic light spears and died in its sleep with a scream.
"Aha, His Majesty Laing is still so accurate." Little Solgrin and Jed clapped their hands excitedly. Although the two of them were about the same age as Laing (in fact, they were a few years older), they instinctively admired and respected Laing.
Dwarves were not so stubborn when they were young. They were willing to accept new things and were interested in everything. They were often brave enough to try new ideas and develop new technology. However, the dwarven rune craftsmen's association and dwarven engineer's association were often controlled by a large group of old, white-bearded dwarves. Those old, white-bearded dwarves were stubborn, conservative, and hated to be flexible and aggressive. Generally speaking, all kinds of ideas and technological innovations of the little bearded engineers were stopped. Of course, technological innovations and new ideas were dangerous and explosive, but more often than not, the dwarves were resistant to change.
There were only two reasons for dwarven technological progress and innovation. The first was the need of the dwarves. This need could be a military necessity due to great external pressure, or an administrative order from the dwarven king or even the Supreme King. It could also be the need for economic development or territorial expansion.
The second reason was that the news of some powerful technology or technology developed by the human kingdoms or the elves reached the dwarves. The old, white-bearded dwarves could not bear the humiliation and immediately began to make breakthroughs and surpass the dwarven technology until it was proven that dwarven technology was the best technology.
Basically, the little bearded dwarves had nothing to do. They were always suppressed by something called protection, or protection called suppression.
Little Solgrin was different. This little bearded dwarf had been wandering around with Belega. The things he had seen, the things he had seen, and the things he had seen might not have been seen in his entire life. Little Solgrin's rich experience allowed him to have a deeper understanding of the current situation of the dwarves and the Old World, just like how the Supreme King Old Solgrin – The Grudge had once traveled to the Old World.
Belega had probably considered this point and simply let his son follow Laing. On one hand, he could train and increase his experience, and on the other hand, it was safer.
"His Majesty Laing, why did you think of negotiating with the dwarves of Lone Dragon City?" Little Solgrin put his gun back on his back and said with uncertainty, "To be honest, these dwarves might not be easy to communicate with. You should be prepared to be tested by them."
"Test?" Laing was interested, "Little Solgrin, how much do you know about Lone Dragon City?"
"Lone Dragon City's dwarves?" Little Solgrin thought for a bit and said hesitantly, "You should have heard from His Majesty the Supreme King and Father. Umm … I can say that when the Supreme King invited the dwarves to return to the Old World, the dwarves of Lone Dragon City refused because of economic reasons, namely the rich mineral veins in the Noska Mountain Range. Senior Monarch Tolgarde – Crimson also made a request."
"What request?" Laing was interested.
"One in the north and one in the south, the Supreme King and the Supreme King." Little Solgrin sighed, "How could that be possible? Senior Monarch Tolgarde only agreed to take a step back in terms of seniority and call the Supreme King Solgrin 'Uncle'."
"Pfff …" Laing almost spat out blood.
Indeed, according to these conditions, it would be strange for both sides to be able to negotiate.
The origin of the dwarves of Lone Dragon City had already been explained, so there was no need to repeat it here. Here, I just want to emphasize that most of the dwarves of Lone Dragon City were descendants of those who followed the three Dwarven Gods, Granny, Grimnir, and Valaya on an expedition to the Wasteland of Chaos. After finding rich mineral veins in the Noska Mountain Range, many dwarven expeditions chose to stay here and settle down. During the later Chaos invasion, thanks to Granny's timely messengers, the dwarves of Lone Dragon City made enough preparations and survived. They also did not have to go through the Battle of Long Beard and the following cataclysm, which ensured that the dwarves of Lone Dragon City did not suffer a devastating blow.
However, just as Little Solgrin said, the dwarves of Lone Dragon City were used to being independent for thousands of years. They did not want to return to the system of Karak Angor (the Dwarven Mountain Kingdom), which meant that they would have to be controlled by the Supreme King.
Who would want to be controlled by a superior for no reason?
Besides, the dwarves of Lone Dragon City could not deny the legitimacy of the Supreme King. Was there any need to explain how powerful the legitimacy of the Eternity Peak was? The first Supreme King was the eldest son of the Dwarven Gods, Granny and Valaya, Snorri Whitebeard. After that, every Supreme King passed down the throne strictly according to the bloodline of the closest descendant, which was the highest legitimacy.
More importantly, the dwarves were different from humans and elves. Not to mention the Dark Elves and Wood Elves of the Eternity Peak, even the High Elves and the Empire, who had the most aristocratic status, had some Phoenix King who came from a humble background. The Empire also had some country bumpkins who came from the countryside of Nur. Even the Knight King Kingdom, which paid the most attention to bloodline and legitimacy, had small nobles like the Rose Knight Tayloff and the Sledgehammer Knight Laing as their kings.
But the dwarves did not have such a thing. To the dwarves, nobles, generals, and ministers really had the guts. This was not a joke. Dwarves were a race that was stubborn and conservative to the point of being abnormal. In their dictionary, nepotism, nepotism, and class rigidity were not derogatory terms, but were actually positive. For example, if Laing explained to Little Solgrin why he was a member of the Zhao family and why he was the rising tide, Little Solgrin would not find it ironic. Instead, he would proudly boast that he was a member of the Zhao family.
But this world was helpless because the dwarves' classification was actually reasonable. To give a simple example, all dwarven rune craftsmen had to have the bloodline of Granny, or they would not be able to control the power of runes. Therefore, the Rune Craftsmen Association was more of an alliance of clans than an organization.
Therefore, there was also a class conflict among the dwarves. Otherwise, there would not be so many dwarves migrating to the Empire and all over the world. Otherwise, the great engineer Jarek Grimm from Sea Gate would not have chosen to run to the new world to start a new one. It was just that the dwarves were in a difficult situation with enemies everywhere, so this was only a secondary conflict. Moreover, the dwarves' stubbornness and stubbornness were similar to the Brittany knights. Whenever they encountered difficulties or enemies, the dwarven royal family and the knights would always personally charge at the front, and the commoners had nothing to say about it.
Normally, the dwarves enjoyed a high status and all kinds of privileges, but in times of war, they let the commoners and temporary conscripts fight while they hid in their fortresses.
Laing chatted with Little Sol Green and Jed for a while and found that they were indeed deeply influenced by the outside world, especially Little Sol Green, who had a lot of new ideas in his mind. Little Sol Green also believed that the Noska Mountains were no longer the same as before. It was dangerous and full of uncertainty, and the dwarves should unite.
"Is there any news from the Belega brothers?" Laing and Little Sol Green chatted for a while. Knowing that the dwarves in Lone Dragon City would definitely encounter some trials, the Knight King also felt relieved. "Speaking of which, it's been a few years since the Eight Peaks Expedition."
"It's only been a few years, what news can father send?" Little Sol Green felt that Laing was really impatient, but Little Iron Hammer didn't care. "It's already good enough that father can settle the interior of Eight Peaks Mountain and resume production in such a short time. His Majesty Laing, don't be so impatient. Patience is a virtue. Father spent over a hundred years to recover Eight Peaks Mountain."
"…" Laing thought that he had almost forgotten that dwarves had a different concept of time. Ordinary dwarves had a lifespan of three to four hundred years, and a Dwarf King like Belega could easily live up to a thousand years. For Little Sol Green, he had only been out adventuring for a short while, so why was he in such a hurry to send a message?
"But speaking of which, His Majesty Laing did send a message from Sea Gate Pass." Little Sol Green took out a letter from his bosom. Little Sol Green was a bit embarrassed. "It just arrived. It's from the Dwarven Engineers Association of Sea Gate Pass, saying that the second ironclad you ordered has been completed."
"Oh! The second ironclad has been completed? " Laing's eyes lit up. Knight King looked at the ocean surface of Kislöw Bay and fell into deep thought. The second ironclad would greatly increase Brittany's naval strength. This steel monster would become a powerful guarantee for the safety of the Kurona- Örengrád trade route.
What should he name this ironclad?
The Radiant? The Richelieu? The Belfast?
Or the Augen Prince or the Hood? The Dreadnought sounds good too.
How about the White Trumpet Snowflake? Laing thought mischievously.
'Kua won't do, it's too silly.'
"Oh, by the way, Your Majesty, something else has also arrived. I forgot to tell you." Little Sol Green was still a little bearded and wasn't reliable enough. He suddenly slapped his head. "It came from the Eternity Peak. The Supreme King specially sent a team of Eternity Guards to escort it. It just arrived yesterday. I felt that it wasn't reliable to leave it in Örengrád, so I brought it to the ship. Sorry, His Majesty Laing, I drank too much last night and forgot about it."
"Then I'll punish you with 30 squats." Laing squinted. "Even Valaya wouldn't forgive such a low-level mistake."
"Understood!" Little Sol Green immediately straightened his chest to show that he understood. Little Sol Green held his head in his hands and squatted. For dwarves, squatting was indeed quite troublesome. It wasn't a joke punishment.
"Where's the thing?" Laing turned his head to ask Jed Sincere, who was watching the show and helping to count. This rune master's son especially liked to use all kinds of firearms and dwarven helicopters. It was quite interesting. It seemed that he wanted to be a master engineer more than a master craftsman.
After talking to the two little bearded dwarves, Laing went to see the Brittany tycoon Otto Bagley. This tycoon was originally one of the richest men in Brittany, but was gradually overtaken by the Hadrian and Oliver Conglomerates. However, he was still the representative of the Brittany merchants. Laing thought that after Oliver controlled the wood elven trade and Hadrian controlled the overseas trade of Ruthia, the local merchants should also get some scraps. Thus, he let Otto come along. Some details and the specific distribution of goods were still to be discussed with the professional merchants.
Unfortunately, this poor guy had caught a cold. He could only hide in his room, wrapped in a quilt and warming himself with snot running down his nose. Laing saw him like this and didn't say much. He just told him to get better. We still need a week to reach Lone Dragon City.
After wandering outside for two whole hours, Laing finally returned to his room. The Knight King was holding a huge box with both hands. On it was the personal mark of Granny and the personal mark of the chief runemaster Clark Harsh, the president of the Dwarven Runemasters Association of Eternity Peak. This meant that this box was his work.
This box was more expensive than a farm or manor.
The Lake Fairy, who was in high spirits, and the Lake Goddess Witch, whose face was suspiciously red as she pressed down on her dress, immediately surrounded Leon when they saw him walk in.
"What's this, my dear?" The Lake Fairy asked curiously when she saw Laing put the big box on the ground.
"Laing, what were you doing outside? Why … why did you come back so late?" Morgiana didn't look strange on the surface, but the way she walked was a little strange. Her face was very red, and she almost subconsciously grabbed Laing's arm and half hid behind him as if she was looking for a safe haven.
"This is what I ordered from the Supreme King last time. It's finally done." Laing put down the big box and took out the key to open it.
"This is?!" A dazzling light came out from the gap of the box.
The Lake Fairy and the Lake Goddess Witch's attention was instantly attracted by the big box.
On top of the thick silk and velvet, there were 11 short staffs about 50 centimeters long and 3.5 centimeters in diameter.
These 11 staffs were all made of vibranium, mithril, gold, diamonds, and all kinds of gemstones. The craftsmanship was exquisite, and the dwarven runes on the staffs shone brightly. The powerful runes were a gift from the Eternity Peak and a symbol of friendship. At the same time, it also had the effect of protecting and greatly enhancing the user's abilities.
The two ends of the staffs were decorated with reliefs, and there were dozens of reliefs of irises in the middle. One end was a lion sculpture made of vibranium, and the other end was a relief sculpture of a king's crown.
"This is the Brittany Marshal's Scepter that I ordered from the Eternity Peak." Laing picked up a scepter, and the king couldn't help but play with it.
"When this matter is over and I return to the country, I will officially confer the title of one of the ten marshals of Brittany!"
"This is the list of marshals that I have in mind. Now, Madam, Morgiana, let us take a look."
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