Home of the Brave

After leaving the Dwarf Bazaar, the three walked towards the Warhammer Workshop.

Along the way, the female knight played with the gift she had just received, her face showing a lovely and happy expression. Looking at Xia Luwei's appearance, Dai Yang's mood was naturally not bad, but after thinking about it, he couldn't help but get a headache.

The silver mirror given to the female knight is worth eight hundred lien, which is almost the three-month turnover of the item shop. I bought it on impulse as a gift, and I regretted it, but I am afraid that this trip is destined to end in deficit. What's more troublesome is that the money was originally intended to be used to organize the equipment for the female knight. Now there is a huge deficit in the budget, and I don't know where to make up for it.

"Idiot, what are you thinking about?"

Just when Dai Yang couldn't help sighing, the witch who was walking in front stepped back and walked side by side with him. With a volume that the female knight couldn't hear, the two spoke up.

"I didn't think about anything..."

"A liar, even I can see that the silver mirror is very valuable, right?" Miranda pointed out.

"Ha...Haha, where, but only eight hundred lien, no...not much." Dai Yang replied rather hard.

"Baba Lynn?" Miranda couldn't help being taken aback. "Don't you usually yell about deficits and deficits? Why are you suddenly so generous today?"

"Huhu, man, he will only shoot when he should do it!" Dai Yang said proudly.

"...Then what are you doing with a sigh?"

The words of the Miko still hit the nail on the head like that, and someone's aura suddenly languished.

"Uh, that, it's just that the shot is a little heavier this time..."

"Idiot! I bought that luxury on impulse, but regretted it?" The witch whispered at him with a volume that could not be heard by the female knight. "Xia Luwei's character, even if you give her a bronze mirror, she will cherish it as a lifetime treasure. How can anyone spend money like you?"

"I don't want to be said by the eldest lady who has never worried about living expenses..." Perhaps due to the bleeding of the wallet, Dai Yang's voice lacked the usual vigor.

"I have never worried about living expenses, but I am not an idiot who has no money concept!" Miranda looked a little angry, and solemnly declared: "When I was fifteen years old, my father gave me the manor. Management, the amount of money coming in and out of every year is hundreds of thousands of lien, and when I leave the house, the assets of the manor have more than doubled...Although I am not clear about the values ​​of the common people, if you think of me as those If you are a stupid woman who only knows how to spend money, I won’t forgive you!"

"Is that so? That's really disrespectful..." Dai Yang couldn't help but stunned. Although he knew that the daughter of the Duke in front of him was also the talented daughter of the head of the academy, after hearing these words, he still couldn't help but feel admired. "But, did you come to me to talk about this kind of thing?"

"Huh? When...Of course not, idiot!" The face of the Duke's daughter suddenly blushed for some reason. "I... I have something for you too, take it."

Miranda squeezed a strip wrapped in cloth into Dai Yang's hand, and explained first: "Here, this is the scabbard for that dagger! It is made of special minerals and used with the dagger. There will be a lot of convenience. Originally, the scabbard and the dagger were a set, but Xia Luwei didn’t have enough money, so I bought it for her...Listen! I, this lady just doesn’t want her mind to be wasted, absolutely No other meaning! Also, don't tell Xia Luwei about this!"

"Uh..." Dai Yang dumbly looked at the thing in his hand, then looked at the witch, and it took him a long time to suffocate a word. "Then what, didn't you lose your wallet?"

"Ben, this lady has her own way..." Miranda who said this, as if to prove something, took out the Mithril wrist wheel and shook it in front of the man's eyes. "Besides, this is treated as a gift from you, I accepted it?"

"...That thing was originally for you, right?" Dai Yang looked at the behavior of the Duke's daughter in wonder.

What needs to be explained here is that the Mithril wrist wheel in Miranda's hand is actually the proof of the conqueror that the two people discovered when they were in distress in the Dragon Nest Labyrinth. Because it was too expensive to exchange for money, it was handed over to Miranda to keep it. Dai Yang didn't want to get the wrist wheel back, so he couldn't guess what the Duke's daughter meant to mention this matter again.

"Of course I know, it's just a reconfirmation, idiot." Miranda snorted, putting the wrist wheel on her hand as if showing off, and then chased after Xia Luwei in front.

The Duke’s daughter caught up with the female knight in a few steps. In the bustling underground street, the two girls were chatting hand in hand. The long cyan and golden hair were entangled in the wind. It looked like a fairy tale from behind. Beautiful picture.

Dai Yang blinked and moved his gaze to the scabbard in his hand, a little annoyed, then took out the black steel dagger from his arms and inserted it in. Hearing a soft sound of "click", the dagger and scabbard merged into one, and they were fastened tightly together, as if they were a whole body.

"Oh..." Dai Yang looked at the dagger in his hand, the expression on his face seemed like a wry smile and a sigh. "Really, raising two wives is not easy..."

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"Hammersmith", that is the honorary title of the craftsman with the highest skill in the dwarven race. Morton, the "hammer hammerer", is the leading forge master in Iron Rock Fort. Twenty years ago, at the Battle of the Gods of the Gulambel Kingdom, the "Sword Lord" holding the inscription sword made by Morton met with the kingdom's "Holy Sword" Tilfen, and the inscription sword was cut. Broken Holy Sword, this incident shocked the mainland for a while. Since then, the weapon engraved with Morton's exclusive Warhammer logo has become the dream weapon that countless fighters aspire to.

Every year, there are 8,000 warriors who come to Iron Rock Fort and want "hammer forgers" to build weapons for themselves. Among them, there are many famous adventurers and divine knights, but there are only a few people who can get what they want, and even most people want to see the hammer forgers. This is because Morton has set a test for all visitors, and only those who successfully pass the test can meet the hammersmith. Of course, as to whether Morton was willing to build weapons for him after the meeting, that was another matter.

"What kind of test?" Xia Luwei couldn't help showing an expression of interest when she heard Dai Yang's introduction.

"Well, seeing it is better than hearing it, you will know soon..." Dai Yanggan smiled and pointed to a laneway on the side of the street in front of him. "Here, go in from here to the Warhammer Workshop."

"Go in from here..." Miranda looked at the dark alleyway, frowning with deep suspicion.

Since the Tieyan Fort itself is a huge maze buried deep underground, the laneway was also excavated on the mountain wall. It is not so much a street, it is not closer to a tunnel. The laneway is about three meters wide and high, but its length is unknown. There are mineral lamps hung every ten meters or so, but the brightness is barely enough to serve as a road sign. From the outside, the dark roadways and gloomy street lamps, the cold wind and the strange sound mixed in the wind, the above elements constitute an extremely terrifying atmosphere, so that just standing in front of the roadway The two girls got goose bumps.

"...Do you really want to go in?" Miranda looked at Dai Yang anxiously.

"Ah, there is a road sign here..." Xia Luwei noticed a road sign standing up to the side of the lane, and tried to pronounce the words on it. "Warhammer Workshop is here... well, it should be right here. Wait, there is a row of words below... welcome to challenge, consequences... at your own risk? What does this mean?"

"Meaning, it's better to prepare the suicide note first and then challenge, the old guy's bad taste still hasn't changed..." Dai Yang waved his hand with a wry smile and motioned for the two girls to stand over. "Xia Luwei, Miranda, come here... Yes, stand side by side like this, look at me, and leave the alley behind."

"Yes..." The two girls stood side by side in accordance with Dai Yang's request, and then looked at the man with unknown expressions.

"Very well, that's it... Then, it's rude."

Dai Yang took a deep breath and suddenly squatted down with his hands open, hugged the legs of the two girls, and carried them on the shoulders of each side like a sandbag.

"Huh? Huh? Huh?" The world in the field of vision suddenly turned upside down, and the two girls exclaimed that they were confused.

"It will take about two minutes. It's better to close your eyes."

After saying this, Dai Yang stepped back a few steps, lowered his body slightly, and then shot out like an arrow from the string. The terrifying acceleration caused the two girls to have a brief loss of consciousness, but after recovering, they were already in the trap of hell-"Hammer forger" Morton is indeed a dwarf master who is known for forging magic weapons. , But at the same time an authority on maze construction, especially obsessed with organ traps.

The section of the roadway leading to the Warhammer Workshop was actually the test field where the old dwarves tested the new trap mechanism. In the one-kilometer lane, there are all kinds of mysterious and abnormal traps. It is said that if a challenger can pass through without incident, he will be able to obtain the magic weapon gifted by the hammer forge, so it attracts countless adventurers every year. Come to challenge. However, so far only the Dai family and his son have been able to achieve this condition.

Javelin Phalan...

Trapped in a dungeon...

Slime Critical Strike Array...

Fire Pond Hell Array...

The torrent of digestive juices...

...All kinds of traps that can be called and cannot be called, bloom in the narrow lanes like fireworks. One second, I was stunned at the wall of fire that was rushing towards my face. The next second, a sharp poisonous arrow flew past my nose, and when I was running, the ground suddenly collapsed, and when I recovered, I ran wildly on the ceiling. As... Being carried on the shoulders of the man, facing the dual stimulation of stomachache and dizziness, the two girls had no room to scream.

While recalling the unforgettable experience in the Dragon Nest Labyrinth, the witch turned her head to look at the female knight with difficulty. On the shoulder of the man on the other side, the female knight courageously accepted the fate's arrangement-closing her eyes tightly, completely ignoring the bursting traps in her ears, and letting the man run wildly on her back. Miranda felt that her choice was right, so she handed over herself in the same way.