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"Taken away might not be accurate. It's more accurate to say that a new, completely different dwarven body was constructed within the petrified dwarven body. Then, like a cocoon emerging from its stone shell, it broke free. This is also where the stone fragments came from."

This also explains why there are so few Dwarven strangers. Their birthplace is in an underground cave of unknown depth. Leaving it all depends on luck, and in the dark and lonely environment...

Those strangers who can persevere are worthy of admiration.

"Indeed, although I am old, my memory is good. I naturally pay special attention to races like dwarves who can forge artifacts. I even use my precognitive abilities. I know each dwarf's appearance to some extent."

"The dwarf stranger's face is completely unfamiliar."

"That's because strangers can pinch their faces." Marika interjected. This was because many strangers often stared at her face, saying that they wanted to record the data of her face and pinch one for themselves.

That was no joke, because before long, strangers who looked somewhat similar to her began to appear.

"The second question is how the Dwarven Strangers overcame the curse of the Dwarves being petrified by the sun. This curse was born with the Dwarves and is a characteristic of the Dwarven race."

"You could even say that if a dwarf is not petrified by the sun, he is not a dwarf." Odin shook two fingers with a frivolous expression but serious eyes.

"You have to find the answer to this question."

"I--" Blaze's expression froze. He held his breath, waiting for Odin to reveal the shocking secret, but then Odin did this.

But he also knew that Odin did not mean it, and the stranger would not reveal such important information casually.

Odin curled his lips at the dwarf workshop opposite. The dwarf strangers who used to compete with endangered animals came to this dwarf workshop every day.

As an ordinary fruit vendor, he couldn't get anything out of him, but it was different with Blaze.

"I have a guess, but it might affect what you're doing, so it's best for you to find out the correct answer yourself."

Blaze's expression froze. What was he doing?

Einherjar? Fortress of Destruction?

Also said to be the Sun Chariot.

Chapter 1828 Optional Races

Dwarves are one of the few races, including elves, that originated from the Age of Gods, and therefore they are called the ancient races.

It is precisely because of these ancient races that the distant Age of Gods has left some traces in today's world.

However, compared to the elves who have left a significant mark in history as bards and guardians of the golden forest, the dwarves are somewhat low-key.

Part of the reason is the racial curse of the dwarves.

They cannot move in sunlight, as it turns them to stone.

Therefore, dwarves can only move on the ground at night, and spend most of the rest of the time underground. Only those blacksmiths who are determined to find new heights in forging can find dwarves in the dark.

It can be said that if the weapons forged by the dwarves were not extremely powerful and circulated on the market, the dwarf race would have been forgotten long ago because of its racial characteristics.

However, the dwarf race is actually dead in name only.

I don't know about other places, but at least in Blazer's memory, the only dwarf he saw with his own eyes was Marika's mother. At other times, let alone seeing dwarves, he had never even heard of any news about dwarves.

Even Master Had, who learned from a dwarf, only met his master once in a mountain range and never saw him again after he inherited his master's skills.

Even if we go back and look for it, we can only find a cave with traces of dwarves who once lived there.

Under this premise, it is worth pondering how the first dwarf stranger appeared.

In the words of the strangers, they can choose which race to be, but only if that race is an optional race.

For example, before the liberation of Arcadia, strangers might be able to choose Arcadia as their starting location, but they could not become Arcadian in terms of race.

There are many conditions for becoming an optional race, and they need to be classified according to the situation.

One is a race that everyone can choose, such as the Arcadian people. In this case, the Arcadian race needs to be recognized by the world and cannot be used as a hostile unit.

Before the curse was lifted by the Fairy Kingdom, the orcs were completely hostile units, and were often in a feral state due to the influence of the Beast God's curse.

Later, the curse was lifted, the orcs gained reason, and were no longer in a state of uncontrolled savagery. The orc race was also opened to outsiders.

The other situation is extremely special. Only those who meet special conditions can choose it, and it cannot be chosen at the beginning before entering this world.

For example, dragon people. Only strangers who have defeated the ancient dragon, bathed in dragon blood, and have the dragon's mark knocked on their souls can choose to immediately change their race to dragon people, or choose to become dragon people when creating a second body.

In the second case, there are no complex requirements like in the first case, such as the need for the race itself to be recognized by the world. The reincarnated person is a unique individual, and there is no such thing as a race.

Another exception is the cyborgs from the Age of Gods. Any race can undergo cyborg surgery and cover the original race.

The dwarves obviously belong to the first case. Considering that there were no dwarf strangers at the beginning, it means that the dwarves, like the orcs and Arcadian people, were liberated by subsequent strangers after completing some tasks.

But dwarves are different from orcs and Arcadians. Dwarves did not become a selectable race at the beginning of creation like these two did. Instead, it was very natural. The dwarf strangers just appeared like that.

In the past, he was just a country boy who didn’t know much. His first reaction when he saw the dwarf strangers was, “Oh, it turns out to be just like the legend, a square race.”

But with Odin's reminder, he had a broader vision and realized that there was something strange about it. At least it was very strange that the dwarf strangers could bask in the sun so casually.

If you want to know the situation, you have to ask the person involved directly.

Blaze calmed down and entered the dwarf workshop from the back door. In this special workshop that can enhance the forging effect, there were several foreigners forging.

The workshop was bustling with activity, and the sound of the forging hammers was like the fetal movement of a nascent life.

But unfortunately, there are no dwarves or half-dwarves among them.

Odin asked him to ask the person involved, but unfortunately, there was no one in the dwarf workshop. This is also the result of stereotyped thinking. Who says that the person forging weapons in the dwarf workshop must be a dwarf?

Although dwarven blood can indeed greatly improve the efficiency of weapon forging, most foreigners who can persist in the boring forging process are very individualistic and will not deliberately choose dwarven blood to [cheat].

This put Blazer in a difficult position. After careful consideration, he decided to contact Greenland.

Among all the foreigners, Greenland was considered to be among the best. This ranking was the result of a comprehensive consideration of not only strength, but also experience, intelligence acquisition capabilities, and so on.

Although Greenland seems a little crazy and out of touch, he has a lot of things in his head, basically an encyclopedia, and the part about calculating damage multiplication area is particularly advanced.

Just like when he was looking for the tomb in the city of Lycaon before, Greenland complained while he found the mechanism and cracked it open.

The most important thing is that Greenland is professional. She once said that she tried all races and finally chose to be a cat orc. This final decision does not prevent her from trying newly opened races.

Greenland, who lost her silver blood in the Great Red Dragon incident, acted as a silver-haired lolita Arcadian for a period of time.

In addition to the Arcadian Greenland, Blaze has also seen the Elf Greenland, the Giens Greenland, and the Dragon Greenland, which is so rare that it can be called a unique profession.

Among the races Greenland experimented with were necessarily dwarves and half-dwarves.

After Blaze asked Snake to use [Shuttle Z] to bring Greenland, he did not sit idle. He was distractedly studying the materials found in the Five Elements Organ Space.

If it is particularly rare, it will be given to Greenland as a reward.

Of course, the most suitable reward is undoubtedly to invite Greenland to join the mission of finding the Sun Chariot, but this requires the consent of Lupin XIII, and it is not easy for him to make this decision on his own.

After the sound of hammers in the forge rang twelve times, the tall figure of the snake appeared in front of Blaze, holding Greenland with a confused look on his face and a fish in his mouth.

Obviously, the snake did not invite Greenland over, but caught it directly.

Chapter 1829 The Dwarf's Special Ointment

"Hoho~ Is that what's going on?"

Greenland stroked his furry chin with his furry cat paw and listened to Blaze's request.

Her expression was a little complicated. How come Blaze was better at finding quests than her, a former professional player? And all the quests he found were world-class quests with no upper limit on difficulty.

Thinking back to the day not long ago when she and Blaze formed a deep comradeship, her first thought was to often invite Blaze to be a teammate to take on difficult tasks in the future.

Watching the battles between BOSSes is also something that players must experience.

But looking at the present, counting the time from those years ago to the present year and a half, it was Blaze who asked her to do missions together, and she did not participate in the plot that triggered the mission at all.

Instead, she seemed like an NPC who helped in the battle.

It's not that this is a bad thing. NPCs will actively come to you for help because of their favorability. Providing special tasks is a major feature of "Godlock", which encourages players to enter the lives of NPCs.

It’s just that the dignity of former professional players has been somewhat hurt.

She wasted her time running around the world, changing races, just to find special tasks and obtain special props, but Blaze just acted normally, and world-class tasks came to her.

This is simply God’s gift!

Oh, no, that's the player's perspective. This might be a horror story for Blaze. He has bad luck and is cursed. Every two steps he takes could lead to a world-class crisis, and the sky falls when he eats or drinks.

"Looking for the Sun Chariot~" Greenland clasped his paws together, his heart beating hard.

To be honest, her gaming style is more suitable for small-scale missions. The small here does not refer to the difficulty, but the number of participants.

Battles like the Nemean Giants, the Descent of Apophis, the Themis-Kalisa Battle, the Ouroboros Giants Battle, and the Tiamat Battle a few days ago are all super-large missions that require the participation and collaboration of a large number of players to pass.

She is essentially a socially anxious person. You can let her hunt other players and participate in team battles, but she cannot participate in super large team battles. She will uncontrollably feel insignificant.

The mission to find the Sun Chariot was just right. The last treasure hunt mission was to find the Fountain of Youth. She was quite satisfied with it that time, especially when facing the army of players in the Knight Ranking. She was extremely satisfied.

As for whether she could get Lupin XIII's consent to participate in this mission, she was not worried at all. She also knew something about this player with a strange aesthetic. If that didn't work out, they could just exchange interests.

"Ahem, a dwarf, right? I played it too, no, I was reincarnated." Greenland sat next to Blaze, stretched his legs, and lay back with his hands on the ground.

"Let me think about it~ Oh, no need to think about it, dwarves are one of the most difficult races to start with."

"The birthplace is in an underground cave, and there is no guarantee of an exit. It is very easy to be trapped to death." Blaze nodded, indicating that he knew something.

"That's right. You know how unlucky I am. I've been reincarnated more than a dozen times, and every time I was stuck in a cave I couldn't get out of. By then, I was completely exhausted."

"That's why I got into a fight with the dwarves. I had to give it a try. Well, my luck was so bad it turned out to be a complete reversal. Not only was my birthplace a cave with an exit, but it also contained equipment left behind by other dwarves. The amount I was so greedy about was worth half a year's worth of effort from my original cat-orc self."

Blaze hesitated for a moment and stated Odin's speculation that the dwarf stranger had strictly taken away the original petrified dwarf's body.

Regardless of whether the petrified dwarf is alive or not, and whether the petrification can be undone, it cannot change the fact that the appearance of the Dwarf Stranger will [destroy] a dwarf.

He wondered if strangers would react to this...

"Oh, well, it's quite strange. I was wondering what the stone pieces around here were. That dwarf stranger should be considered a chest-broken alien. Really good." Greenland said without mercy, even with interest.

Blazer scratched his head. He had almost forgotten that the moral standards of strangers fluctuated. Not to mention breaking out of a petrified dwarf's body, even if he broke out of a living dwarf's chest...

He would probably still feel uncomfortable, but Greenland, who was sitting next to him, wouldn't feel anything.

"In short, the dwarf race is very discouraging. Even if you're lucky enough to explode in a cave with an exit, you'll still have to face an endless natural underground dark maze."

"And there's no guarantee that there will be exports."

After Blazer put himself in the scene, his scalp went numb. It was really terrifying.

The reason why it has become like this is probably related to the changes in terrain caused by the earth-shaking changes.

Dwarves cannot survive under the sun, so they can only live in underground caves like moles. Perhaps the dwarves can dig and create an underground cave kingdom, but the underground structure is quite unstable.

Natural earthquakes, the movement of giant monsters, the walking and running of Titan evil gods, and the upheaval of the world, all these factors resulted in the dwarfs' cave kingdom being shattered and the exits and passages being blocked.

"But the racial talents of dwarves are still incredible. Basically, like the little giants, they possess extremely high basic strength and fire resistance, and..." Greenland lowered his voice and whispered, "They come with a special mission. I think you must be curious about why dwarf strangers can move in the sun."

"Well, that's what I mainly want to know."

"I'll tell you, but you mustn't tell anyone else, especially not other strangers," Greenland whispered. "Of course, I'm not being secretive, but the starting difficulty of the dwarf is simply too high. Even a professional like me almost collapsed from the pressure. The luck factor is just too high."

Blaze nodded in agreement, and Greenland then told him about the special mission that the dwarves came with.

"That's more of a list of materials than a special mission. By following the list and collecting the materials found only underground, you can create a special ointment."

"As long as you apply the ointment on your body, you will gain short-term immunity to sunlight."

Blaze was about to say, "That's it? Isn't it just the same sunscreen that a stranger mixes?"

But unfortunately, he had just heard of a similar thing not long ago, which was also immune to sunlight and even immune to the sun's high temperature, and could drive the solar chariot.

Holy Anointing.

"Do you still have that special ointment?"

Chapter 1830 Substitute Materials

Greenland shrugged and said no. She used her dwarf body to successfully get through the perverted and hellish starting level that was exclusive to dwarves. She walked out of the underground and saw the sun. After proving that she was not a coward, she said goodbye to her dwarf body neatly and cursing.

It's really annoying.

Of course, after she calmed down, with a rigorous and exploratory mindset, she went back to experience the dwarf's power, otherwise all her suffering would have been in vain.

Without prejudice, I still don’t recommend experiencing Greenland.

The setting that dwarves can be petrified by sunlight has been ignored in many works, but it is restored very well here, which leads to a result that once the special ointment applied all over the body loses its effect, they will be directly petrified.

The good news is that the dwarf player will not die, but the bad news is that he will not be resurrected immediately. The petrified dwarf player will enter a state of dying. The player can log off and change characters, but the dwarf character will remain petrified there.