MC's career as foreign lord

Of course, this wasn't coercion or enticement, but a spontaneous action by the dwarves. Zhou Ren was very relieved.

This group of dwarves, who loved smelting, forging, and doing other strange things, seemed to love the situation here. Even if there was a possibility of special monsters attacking at any time, they still enjoyed it.

In the words of their chieftain, Moradin, they would accept dying on the path of forging. Not to mention that they possessed more advanced and powerful weapons and tools than usual.

In this situation, they actually had many advantages. Those monsters would find it difficult to move in front of the walls they forged, and they could solve most of the risks by surrounding themselves with a circle of lava pools.

The lava pool here was much more powerful than the one in the main world, whether in terms of world attributes or anything else. Even smelting weapons here was several times faster than in other places.

However, all of this would have to wait until the dwarf chieftain returned and brought his race over. As for now, Zhou Ren's eyes flickered slightly. He suddenly didn't want to enter this space so much. What if he encountered something that was difficult to deal with?

The Nether environment didn't just have Nether monsters, but also some monsters that he had never encountered before, but that did exist. Those monsters hadn't appeared yet, but since there were already traces of them in the main world, how could they not exist in the Nether?

His party gradually walked into this black building and saw Piglin Brutes rushing towards them. Even such monsters were directly defeated by the continuous crossbow bolts.

As the most powerful protectors of this area, Piglin Brutes possessed terrifying strength far exceeding other well-known creatures. Even under the fire of crossbows, they didn't retreat. You should know that even those legendary creatures in the main world would retreat under the fire of crossbows.

But now the skeletons were using standard Tinker's Construct crossbow bolts. These crossbow bolts even had the strongest setting to directly knock down a main world creature with one shot. How could they be hindered by mere Piglins?

Tinker's Construct never lacked the strongest monsters and creatures, only the strongest attacks. So, several Piglin Brutes that looked slightly ferocious were turned into experience orbs under continuous crossbow fire.

The biggest difference between them and ordinary Piglins was that they would drop golden axes and could drop very high experience values, and they wouldn't be attracted to golden items.

This 'not being attracted to golden items' actually needs to be explained, because ordinary Piglins won't attack creatures wearing gold.

So, if you have a piece of golden armor or a golden helmet, you can feel free to roam this world, and most creatures won't attack you.

However, Piglin Brutes will actively attack players within 16 blocks. As a creature that actively attacks, its attack power is much higher than imagined, but of course, that's all.

Soon, all the Piglin Brutes in the entire area were eliminated, and he came to the bridge of the bastion remnant, found some creations on it, and naturally there was also a well-hidden loot chest.

I have to say, these loot chests are often one of the best things in here. This Nether exploration of his was much more rewarding than mining gold for a long time in the past. The gold that was originally scarce has now become abundant all of a sudden.

Moreover, he also harvested a lot of gilded blackstone, special spectral arrows, and a little enchanted equipment.

With the help of the clustered skeleton archers, most creatures were actually not a threat, and then he stepped into the treasure room of the bastion remnant.

Compared to the Netherite or strange creations on the spire of the bastion remnant, the treasure room of the bastion remnant clearly gave better things.

There were groups of Piglins inside, and of course, there were also patches of gold blocks and iron blocks. Of course, there was no shortage of various diamond equipment.

Diamonds, which were scarce on weekdays, appeared in groups here. He even obtained some magma cream and ancient debris. This time, it could be said that he had truly gained a lot.

He didn't take the skeletons and leave like this, but stayed here and mined all the minerals and products here before taking his people on the road back.

He even harvested a lot of golden apples and enchanted golden apples in the box. These items, which require a lot of gold to consume, were one of the main purposes of his coming here.

The Nether trip should come to an end. He obtained everything he needed, and even obtained a lot of Netherite scraps, at least enough to make two sets of powerful Netherite equipment.

And there were even more cobalt and aditite ore, enough to fill their entire smelting furnace. They had mined all the ore from an entire area, and now there was a void hole there.

This adventure could be considered to have come to an end. Zhou Ren took the skeletons and embarked on the return journey contentedly. After going back, he would plant Nether wart and smelt potions.

The production of potions will consume a lot of items, but this is not a reason for scarcity. He even plans to make some potion arrows and then use them in unexpected ways in ordinary battles or life.

What's more, even ordinary foods with only a little effect, that is, mushroom stew and its derivatives, can already restore the body, heal diseases, and strengthen the soul.

Under his preparation, what kind of changes will occur with potions that last for several minutes or even longer?

I wonder if Mo Sa's life traces will change after drinking a whole bottle of healing potion?

The group re-embarked on the return journey and then came to a crimson warped forest. The reason for coming here was because he heard some familiar sounds.

"You guys are really here!" Looking at the 10 skeletons standing next to the tree, patrolling with crossbows in their hands, while the two elf elders had already climbed onto those trees made of fungi, starting their own experiments.

As druids, they were very interested in this plant that could live in extremely hot environments. If they could really develop this plant.

This would mean that the elves' living area would expand again, and those hot areas and deserts that they could not reach would become future footholds.

So, the two druid elders were very excited, even fanatical, staring at this area without blinking, as if there was a great treasure attracting them here.

Zhou Ren was helpless, "Two elders, you have been up there for several days, aren't you going to come down soon?"

He hadn't expected that he would obediently sit here for two days just waiting for the two elves; the tea he brought was almost finished!

A group of skeletons, led by Jim, were already cutting down the plants here, making various wooden tools, and then building a small wooden house in a green environment that wasn't too hot.

Zhou Ren didn't expect that a wooden house could even appear in the Nether. He thought for a while, created a Soul Campfire, and placed it in front of the wooden house. The ghostly blue flames burned, giving people a rather underworldly feeling.

But he rather enjoyed this feeling; after all, it was a unique experience, wasn't it?

Red Crimson Fungus and green Strange Fungus were the native plants of this world. Together with the Weeping Vines that fell from the sky, they adorned this world.

They could also occasionally cut down some huge plants; these giant fungi also occupied a large area in this forest.

The red fungus forest was full of Hoglins. These terrifying monsters seemed to be constantly attacking the defenses Zhou Ren had set up, and then turning into pieces of jerky, becoming their food source.

The two Druid elders had some green mushrooms stuffed in their mouths, which looked quite strange, but they felt very energetic eating them.

That's right! The elven druids had discovered some edible fungus plants, which was an unexpected surprise for them. Although those fungi didn't look very good, as long as they could be eaten, it meant they could live here safely.

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Zhou Ren didn't expect that he would wait so long and get such a result. In addition to the dwarves, the elves also wanted to station a force of their own in these forests, and then rely on a large number of mushrooms to survive here.

"There's no problem with you wanting to live here. Anyway, you're also expanding territory for me, but you can't live in the Crimson Forest. The Crimson Forest can only be a place for you to obtain food. Touching the piglins inside is a major event for the entire Nether!"

He was easy to talk to about some things, but some things he had to stick to his original will. Compared to the Warped Forest, which only had Endermen, the Crimson Forest had a large number of terrifying monsters. If they were touched, it would cause hostility throughout the entire Nether.

The elven elders just wanted to obtain the right to live in this area. As for where to live and how to live, they didn't care. Anyway, only some elven soldiers and research personnel like them were coming.

Even if Zhou Ren agreed to their living here, it wouldn't be simple right now. Like the dwarves before, they would have to go back and get permission from their own people, and collect a lot of supplies before they could settle down here again.

So, after stagnating for a few days, they continued to move forward and soon came to a stone city that was already quite large. Some dwarves were holding sticks in their hands, pushing zombie piglins little by little, pushing them out of their city.

A large number of zombie piglins were piled up outside their door. If these monsters hadn't not taken any offensive actions, Zhou Ren would have even thought that monsters were attacking the city somewhere!

When they pushed away these zombie piglins and walked into the city, they also saw many dwarves with vigilant faces and a dozen skeletons standing on the city wall guarding.

"You've finally come, Lord!" The dwarves seemed to have seen a savior, and their faces even flashed with some light, which made Zhou Ren a little confused. What was going on?

Then Moradin came forward to explain, and let him know the situation here.

Because the dwarves were very straightforward, they deeply remembered Zhou Ren's reminder, and knew that if they were careless, they would bring the entire race into a dangerous situation, so all the dwarves were very careful in managing the things in their territory.

But once a stone city wall was built, no matter how it was built, zombie piglins would keep spawning in this area. They had no way to attack, so they could only push all these zombie piglins outside in a shoving manner, which became the appearance they had just arrived at.

This situation had been happening all the time. Even when they were forging in the lava sea, they couldn't live in peace, so they urgently wanted a perfect solution that would allow them to get rid of the troubles of these strange zombies.

"Um... Not all complete blocks can solve this trouble, but there definitely can't be leaves here, otherwise the lava will directly ignite the leaves. How about this, you go back and dig a little more sand, and then make a glass roof here!" Zhou Ren said.

"These city walls don't actually need to be dismantled. Anyway, you don't usually use them much. Just build another one with glass, and then cover all the areas inside with lower slabs, and you can solve the problem of monsters spawning inside!" Zhou Ren said.

At the beginning, most races couldn't understand the concept of so-called monster spawning until they saw monsters appearing around them like this, and they slowly understood.

This was a special concept of existence that could directly create some non-existent creatures, making them sigh at the power of nature.

After solving the dwarves' doubts, now that these dwarves already had their own place to live, they had even made a simple tunnel through the Crimson Forest for hunting operations.

Although those hoglins usually looked very fierce, each of them could drop 2-4 raw pork chops. If the sword in their hand was enchanted with looting, the maximum could even be 7 raw pork chops from one pig.

Seeing that their determination to live here was very firm, Zhou Ren didn't say much, and handed over most of the blackstone in his hand to them.

Next time, if these people still wanted it, they could move the Tinker's Construct smeltery here and have the dwarves operate it. Perhaps in such a hot environment, they would smelt even more extraordinary minerals?

After all, the basic minerals in this environment were only gold, cobalt, and ardite. Even if all the tools were made of cobalt and all the weapons were made of Manyullyn, Zhou Ren wouldn't lose out.

Next time, if someone wanted to attack his territory, maybe he could pull out a terrifying dwarven forging legion from the Nether area at any time?

But not everyone liked it here. Some dwarves couldn't stand the Nether environment and took the initiative to follow him back, so they only had the Soul Sand Valley left to return to.