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Da-da-da-

Familiar footsteps were approaching, and Blaze knew it was Marika without even looking up. He was too familiar with her footsteps.

They had been having a [quarrel] recently, and he didn't expect her to come to him on her own initiative.

Blaze subconsciously hid the copied paper behind him, but unfortunately, given Marika's height, this action was meaningless and made him look a little guilty.

Lupin XIII whistled and used his stealth skills to reduce his presence, then squatted aside to read gossip.

"Let me see." Marika spread her hands towards Blaze.

"Nothing to see." Blaze turned his head away and muttered, not wanting to give Marika the copy he had made from the Sun Gem.

Marika just put her hands there, as if she wanted to stalemate with him to the end.

"acid……"

Blazer subconsciously placed the rubbing paper in Marika's hand. By the time he realized that Marika, a master of gunmanship, would not let her hand get sore from holding it up, it was too late.

"Isn't this a bit cunning?" Blazer curled the corners of his mouth. This big girl who was much taller than him used this trick of acting coquettishly, which was a surprise attack from a blind angle.

"Humph~"

Marika snorted softly and flicked away the thing in her hand that Blaze was trying to hide from her. The words on it made her look confused.

Blaze's heart skipped a beat. Marika was a very decisive person. If she didn't know someone, she wouldn't hesitate at all. Bewilderment was a rare expression for Marika.

This meant that Marika was somewhat familiar with the text, but she didn't know where she knew it from.

It turned out like this.

Blaze covered his face and turned his head away. When Odin showed up, the dwarf was already on the edge of the Sun Chariot incident and was ready to enter the scene at any time.

But the connection between the Sun Chariot and the dwarves is a bit far-fetched, like two fragments that happened to be put together by coincidence, similar to shooting an arrow first and then drawing the target.

But as time went on, the dwarves' presence in this incident became more and more obvious.

There is still no definitive evidence that the dwarves are related to the events in the Magic Kingdom, but they are getting closer and closer.

All that's missing is one key piece of evidence to connect those scattered clues together and reveal the truth.

This crucial evidence may appear during the exploration of the underground caves of Somado, or it may be in the texts that Marika feels familiar with now.

Those ancient races did not rely on language and writing to pass on their culture, but on bloodline. They were like gods who were born mature. They inherited the knowledge in their blood at birth, but needed acquired enlightenment to fully master it.

"I don't recognize these broken words, but I feel like I've seen them somewhere. They seem familiar." Marika shook her head and handed the rubbing paper back to Blaze.

Blaze moved his lips, took the rubbing paper but said nothing.

His mind was in a mess, and he instinctively wanted to keep Marika out of danger, but he immediately reacted. This was the machismo he had when he took care of Marika as a child, which he recovered after he gained power.

Marika is very strong now and can stand on her own.

He also thought that the dwarves, including Marika's mother, were probably doing something very dangerous, and the number of dwarves involved might be so large that it symbolized that the entire dwarf race was doing this.

Will Marika be criticized again because of her ancestry, or will she feel inferior because of her ancestry again?

But could this be making a decision for Marika? Marika has grown up in a place unknown to him, a place he can't see, and has her own mature ideas...

His thoughts were like threads, intertwining and turning into a shadow covering his face.

That was the blank light and shadow that he and Marika had when they were growing up without each other. The crack torn out by his cowardice and inferiority was the haze in his heart that he deliberately avoided thinking about.

"What's wrong?" Marika bent down, supported her knees with her hands and looked at Blaze with her face tilted.

"I'm hiding something from you. It's some bad things, some bad emotions." Blaze lowered his head and spoke in a low voice.

"Yeah, me too." Marika leaned forward and her forehead touched Blaze's.

"Let's talk about it together someday."

"Ah."

Chapter 1858 Bloodline Stain

"It is said that this happened..."

Greenland enthusiastically recounted the scene that Lupin XIII saw, and by the way, posted the scene of Marika and Blaze touching foreheads in the group chat.

Out of courtesy between players and to prevent Lupin XIII from thinking that she was stealing missions, she contacted Lupin XIII privately, added him as a friend, and shared mission progress every once in a while.

Unexpectedly, there was an unexpected surprise.

People who saw the photo had different expressions. Some grunted in humiliation, while others snorted and sent elbow emojis.

Even [Somado] is not a monolithic entity. It is better to say that there has always been a state of division among the various factions regarding Blaze's female relationships.

Among them, the Herbie faction and the Audrey faction often stand on the same front, forming small teams to gain numerical advantage and deceive others.

Greenland has the most resolute stance and is a true Hebbi. There is no other way around it. His adoptive parents are more important than anything else. He uses this to occupy the moral high ground and criticize others for having problematic stances.

However, she would occasionally be speechless when she was counterattacked by words like "What if Hebi prefers to be the woman behind the scenes?" Whenever this happened, the forger would become her backup.

[Don't look at Hebi's appearance. The more determined they are, the more certain they will never waver in their identity, and the more determined they are to watch over the happiness of others from afar, the more likely they are to engage in NTR.]

On the topic of NTR, the forger's words are quite valuable.

However, there is one person who seems out of place in the topic: the Tailor. This ruthless strategy player is obsessed with completing tasks and is indifferent to interpersonal relationships.

But unexpectedly, the tailor has a good reputation among the civilians in the Third Kingdom. Other knights at the top of the ranking choose high-yield contribution tasks as much as possible, but the tailor has no scruples and accepts all tasks, at most using his secondary trumpet to take them.

Although the tailor always has a cold face and does not communicate at all except for the most basic conversations to understand the task, he has gained the favor of a large number of civilian NPCs because of his super high efficiency in completing tasks.

The image of the grim knight gradually changed to that of a pragmatic young man.

Greenland felt that [Somado] was lacking such talents. The guild's discipline was too loose and free. What was needed was not a tough leader, but an ascetic who would continue to advance the mission alone even when others were having fun.

This way, everyone will somewhat restrain their playful nature out of guilt.

Just like now, when the group chat was heatedly discussing Blaze's affairs, the tailor was exploring in front with a lantern made of glowing magic stone.

It's a bit out of place, but this kind of incompatibility is not so abrupt in [Somado]. In the guild, everyone is either very friendly or equally aloof, so there is no need to worry at all.

"What do you think Blaze is hiding about Marika?" Greenland said to the tailor.

"It's most likely about the dwarves. If I remember correctly, the Giant Kingdom Alliance, out of a strong sense of responsibility towards the people, has very strict requirements for the clean background of those in high positions."

"Those with family stains will not be adopted. Those with major mistakes in their growth history will not be adopted. Also..." The tailor turned his head to look at Greenland, who was two meters tall, muscular, with a big beard tied into two pigtails, and whispered.

"Bloodline, bloodline with an evil nature will not be adopted."

There is an old saying that goes, a dragon gives birth to a dragon, a phoenix gives birth to a phoenix, a mouse's son will dig holes, and the child of a murderer is not necessarily a murderer, but for a race that likes killing to produce a peace-loving offspring is simply a mutation of the level of bloodline blasphemy.

Greenland could understand the Giant Kingdom Alliance's strict requirements on bloodline. Genetic instinct is not a sense of responsibility, and it cannot be suppressed by education during the growth period.

Just like a dog, even if it is taught not to dig holes or even kept indoors, as soon as it touches the soil, it will start digging holes as if it were familiar with it.

In the character background of the Red Dragon Marika, she was blessed at the age of 14, and then joined the army. It took only five years for her to become the leader of the Royal Knights. In addition to Marika's terrifying achievements, Marika's background is very clean, and the Giant Royal Family can confidently give her the opportunity for promotion.

At that time, and until now, dwarven ancestry is always a plus. Even players who have played many games subconsciously regard dwarves as simple and honest people, not to mention the worldview in which dwarves are extremely rare.

The people here have a very good impression of the dwarves. They are a legendary ancient race with powerful forging skills. Like masters with quirks, they will pass on their skills to those they like. Sometimes they will even forge weapons and give them away generously like a bard who composes a poem casually.

But they knew that if "Godlock" was truly faithful to the setting of the original Norse classic, then the dwarf race probably concealed an incredible greed, the kind of greed that far exceeded their own capacity and would bring destruction to themselves.

It was greed that could be described as a curse flowing in blood.

If the greedy nature of the dwarf race is exposed, no matter how optimistic the Giant Royal Family is about Marika, and even if Marika has not made any mistakes, Marika's positions as the leader of the Royal Knights and Lord Fast will be over.

Don't ask them why they are so sure, because there are many precedents and many major events in the kingdom related to it.

The good news is that there is currently nothing that can prove that greed is in the dwarven bloodline. The bad news is that it may be discovered soon, and it is related to the infamous Magic Kingdom.

She hoped from the bottom of her heart that at least this matter regarding the Magic Kingdom was just the personal behavior of some dwarves and would not escalate to the entire dwarf race.

"Why have things become so troublesome?" Greenland covered his face and sighed heavily.

"All quests involving races are like this. The quests involving the Orc race aren't what everyone thinks. Just defeating the Beast God is not enough. In the early stages, there were dozens of major events involving various Orc tribes."

"It's said that the people of the Fairy Kingdom were tortured into reading all sorts of political books, and only then did they manage to cope. Even so, after defeating the Beast God, they still had to act as intermediaries to resolve the thousand-year-old feud between orcs and humans."

"Wow, my scalp tingles just listening to it. I'm not good at this type of thing." Greenland is good at using his brain, but not good at thinking.

"President, I think we are lucky."

The tailor took out a torch and approached the dead end in front of him. When the flame approached the wall, it fluttered and was attracted by the cracks in the wall.

"There's a huge space at the back, we..."

boom--

Before the tailor could finish his words, Greenland struck him with a fierce headbutt, breaking through the dead end and revealing a huge space.

Chapter 1859 Cultivation Room

"This is really... all for nothing? Another ruin."

The scene that Greenland was looking forward to was an extremely shocking underground dwarf kingdom behind her wall, preferably one that was so shocking that she could not even imagine it.

It doesn’t matter whether there are dwarves active in it or not; what matters is that the magic of the underground kingdom is shown.

"Godlock" has given her many such surprises and shocks, and she hopes to continue to do so.

Unfortunately, the reality is a bit bleak. No matter how sophisticated the underground dwarf kingdom is, it cannot change the reality that the underground world is prone to collapse due to crustal movements. Even if the dwarves are willing to forge magical props to support it... I'm afraid it won't be enough and cannot cover the entire dwarf kingdom.

There are still ruins in front of us. From some traces, we can see that there were traces of civilization here, but they were all destroyed in the collapse caused by the earthquake.

The most important thing is that there is no light source here except for the faint glow brought by the luminous moss. It is completely dark, so dark that you can't see your hand in front of you.

Although the underground caves and the bright and spacious places filled with colorful lights in other games look fake, the one in front of me is too realistic, similar to the environment of underground horror themes.

The tailor held the torch and looked around; the flame was still swaying slightly.

"There is a very weak wind. This is not a dead end. There is an exit. We are not in the wrong place." The tailor waved the torch looking for the next exit.

Greenland searched the surroundings, or more precisely, she was looking for fragments of the dwarf.

This is quite difficult, as gravel is the most abundant thing underground, and dwarves will turn into complete stone after being petrified. Even if identification is used, only stone statues can be identified.

"If only the forger came, he would be able to find it quickly." Greenland muttered, then suddenly widened his eyes, concentrating all his energy on observation, and his eyes scanned every stone at high speed.

Observation is a basic skill that a professional player must have, and practicing basic skills to the extreme is the basis for becoming a professional player on the list.

"Found it, found it..."

Greenland quickly picked out a stone that looked like rubble from the rubble, and then put them together to form a huge palm.

In addition to this palm, she also found many fragments of different dwarf stone statues. After a rough search, she came to a conclusion.

"This is probably a living area for dwarves, with about a hundred dwarves living here." Greenland tossed a hammer in his hand.

"However, it seems that there is a clear class distinction among the dwarves. Dwarves with higher forging skills have independent residences, while some ordinary ones live in groups."

"I'm afraid it's more than that."

The tailor's voice was heard, and he stopped in the rubble, his expression changing with the torch in his hand.

"President, are the games you play heavy?"

Greenland didn't answer, but walked over directly. After seeing the scene in front of her, she understood why the seamstress asked this question.

In front of me was a complete stone statue of a dwarf, a pregnant dwarf at that. Her belly was so huge that it was almost transparent, and six or seven fetuses were making instinctive struggling gestures.

Because it is a stone statue, it looks like the fetus inside is about to break out of the shell.

"This is not only a gathering place, but also a breeding room." The tailor moved the torch away and buried the miserable dwarf in darkness.

"The dwarves are frantically increasing their numbers."

This is unreasonable. Dwarves belong to an ancient race, and ancient races have extremely long lifespans and extraordinary strength. This kind of race rarely has the desire to reproduce.

Take the elves for example, they have lost the desire to reproduce and are more inclined towards spiritual chaos.

This is the instinct of living things. Unless the population of a species reaches a point where it is difficult to continue, powerful species will not think about reproducing offspring.

Species that are particularly powerful and have a long lifespan have surpassed this stage. Unless they themselves have the idea of ​​reproducing, they will not have the idea of ​​reproducing even if their race is about to become extinct.

Dwarves are an ancient race that can be classified into this category. Even if the race is about to become extinct, according to the racial characteristics of the dwarves, they will not adopt such extreme reproduction methods. The real solution is to forge a treasure to solve the problem.

However, in the past, the wisdom of the dwarves was locked by the second-generation One-Eyed Balder, and they were unable to create such treasures, so they could only use this method to increase the number of races.

But judging from the number of dwarf stone statues they found in the caves they passed by, the situation of the dwarf race should not have reached the point of genocide.

"It seems that the number of dwarves has dropped rapidly due to some unnatural factors. Perhaps the Dwarf Kingdom is conducting some cruel experiment that requires consuming dwarves." The tailor fiddled with the torch and looked for the exit.