Magical girl? She got tricked into this!

Anten Meiko had also been eroded before, and now the demonic ether was still lurking in her body, but it had been tamed and turned into a wild dog that could only wag its tail at Anten Meiko.

Using the corrosive properties of the magic ether to amplify one's own negative emotions, thereby putting one's mind in a semi-evil state, and maximizing one's strength while retaining sanity, this is the essence of Magical Girl Ruby's Eclipse Form.

However, although the situation was explained, Meiko Anten did not change her decision and still chose to take only Melinda and herself with her to follow Orn.

The main reason why she told the girls her conjecture and investigation process was to remind them that they should never let their guard down while staying in the rear of the Dwarf Kingdom.

After the girls finished their lunch at noon, Melinda followed Comor to the prison to remove the curse for all the remaining dwarves, while Anten Meizi was summoned by Ornn to have lunch together before lunch.

The food for lunch was actually similar to yesterday's dinner. Since the dwarves didn't have professional chefs and all they did was physical labor, all the meals consisted of meat dishes that were high in oil and salt, with something like mashed potatoes as a side dish.

Aoun did not have the reserve of a king, and Anten Meizi did not have the reserve of a lady. As soon as the meal time came and the dishes were served, they grabbed the meat on the table and stuffed it into their mouths in big mouthfuls.

After finishing lunch as quickly as possible and waiting for the dwarves to clean up everything and set up a new table, Anten Meiko and Orn started this meeting with only two people on the spot.

Just in case, Meiko Anten recounted the entire process of her exploration and told everyone the characteristics of those things. The only thing she concealed was that she was not from this world.

She could tell her companions who had been through thick and thin with her openly, but no matter how good the Dwarf King was to her, she might not have the chance to meet him again in the future, so there was no need to let him know so much about some things.

"We dwarves have used all available holy metals to create life-saving magical devices for our warriors. When we dispatch our troops, we will bypass the infected areas and seek justice from the humans."

The Dwarf King seemed to be a little upset about this matter, so when he said this, his face showed a bit more anger.

Volume 7: A Strange Journey to Another World: Chapter 209: Dispatching Troops

"Your Majesty, it's up to you to decide. We are only here to support you and solve the sewer problem. Once that is done, we will leave here to deal with important matters."

An Teng Meizi's words were already hinting to the other party that it was okay for her to help the dwarves, and it was also okay for her to take action against the humans, but don't forget that they will not stay in the dwarf tribe for long. If they want to seek justice for their territory, they must consider the consequences after they are gone.

Ornn pondered for a moment, then nodded slowly. "Don't worry about that. I know my limits and won't actually engage in a fight with the humans. It's just that some military deterrence is necessary. After all, they've done this kind of thing, harming others for their own benefit, more than once or twice."

An Teng Meizi leaned back in her chair and closed her eyes to give her tired eyes a short rest: "Just be sensible, but I'm a little curious now. This black fog is so dangerous, why do you plan to send troops if we just go?"

With the soldiers' resistance, even if they are dwarves whose physical fitness is many times stronger than that of humans, they will definitely not be able to resist the erosion of the magic ether.

If they were to deploy high-end combat power, Anten Meiko could understand a little, but why bring even soldiers who wouldn't be of much use here? Could there be some place where they could be of use?

"To show off their national strength in front of us dwarves, we dwarves are not petty people. If they want to show off, we naturally cannot be timid. Otherwise, if our momentum weakens, we may attract the covetousness of others."

In the final analysis, it is the same old story. The individual strength of the dwarves is not weak, but there are too few people in this tribe. Once the humans who want to obtain the dwarf resources unite, even with the dwarf king, they will not be able to resist the human army.

An Teng Meizi was silent for a moment, then asked in confusion, "Don't you dwarves plan to migrate? Why do you insist on defending this land surrounded by human forces on all sides?"

A trace of unwillingness and anger appeared on Ornn's face, as if he had thought of something exciting. He slammed his palm heavily on the table, and the entire stone table was instantly shattered into pieces and turned into powder on the ground.

"We, the dwarves, were born here and lived here. It was this group of shameless humans who occupied this place and surrounded our peaceful paradise. They constantly used various methods to put pressure on us, generation after generation, until the situation was passed down to me."

"Sorry, I got a little excited just now."

"It's okay." An Teng Meizi shrugged and didn't continue with the topic. It was not appropriate for him to interfere in other people's national affairs. All he could do was sympathize.

The meeting between the two ended in a hurry. Ornn left the room in a hurry again, not knowing what to deal with, while Anten Meiko sat here quietly without moving, as if she was thinking.

As an inexplicable sense of tension spread in everyone's hearts, although everyone was doing their own thing, they always seemed a little uncontrollable and impetuous in the eyes of others.

In this torment of living day by day, the time finally came for the Dwarf Kingdom to send troops. A group of soldiers wearing silver armor stood on the repaired square.

Their weapons and equipment were all made by themselves, so they were not all the same. Some held short-handled axes with both hands, some held long-handled axes, and some held heavy hammers. When they stood side by side, it was impossible to find a second identical person.

Although they looked like a ragtag army, the aura emanating from each dwarf meant that no one would be foolish enough to underestimate these elite troops armed to the teeth.

Before the march, Ornn didn't say much to inspire the troops, but simply raised his short-handled battle axe to the sky and let out a deafening war cry.

What responded to him was a uniform wave of voices. Even though Ando Meiko was standing in a corner, she could still feel the fighting spirit coming from the dwarf, which was as tangible as a substance. It turned out that the dwarf was not just talking about being belligerent.

Although there are only 500 people here, they are definitely elite. Facing the weak mortal bodies of the human race, unless those super armies come, ordinary armies will have to pay a huge price to take down these 500 people.

"Let's go!" Following the order from the Dwarf King, all the dwarves stopped moving. Although their equipment was different, their movements were in unison.

Meiko Anten and Melinda looked at each other, and at the same time grabbed the hat behind the robe and covered their heads with it, just like believers of the Church, completely hiding their faces and bodies inside the robe.

They marched in a mighty procession through the square, and left the Dwarf Kingdom together with the troops at the forefront. They meandered around in those transit caves, and it took them a lot of time just to get out of the small door.

Among the human race, it was lunch time at noon, and a group of more than a dozen soldiers were eating dry food around a newly lit campfire where hot porridge was being cooked.

"Do you think the dwarves will come?" Some human asked this question, and then they started discussing this topic as a side dish.

"How could they come? These cowards just hide underground every day. We can scare them just by hiding." Another soldier quickly took over the topic and began to brag.

"That's right. The only skill of the dwarves is blacksmithing. If we really fight with the Dwarf Kingdom, I can beat seven or eight of them by myself." Another soldier began to brag, not to be outdone.

In fact, these soldiers had only seen dwarves a few times. Their impression of dwarves was what they heard from others: they were rough people who lived in human cities and spent all day in their own workshops working as iron because they were not welcomed.

"And the dwarves are quite cowardly. I heard from our leader that every time they negotiate with the dwarven nation, they always choose to give in and don't even think of resisting."

"Is that so? I really don't know why the Dwarf Country has been able to survive for so long surrounded by our human country." An honest soldier expressed his opinion as he listened and suddenly realized something. (Six)〓⑴崎引〖尔巴俬?死⑧月异.

At this moment, the ground suddenly began to shake slightly. The soldiers ate their dry food two or three times a day, picked up their weapons, and carefully stared at the magic barriers not far away that were resisting the black fog in the ditch.

Soon they discovered that the noise was not coming from the ditch. They carefully identified the direction of the sound and looked over there. All the human beings were stunned.

What was reflected in their disbelieving eyes was an army of dwarves armed to the teeth approaching with heavy steps.

Volume 7: Strange Journey to Another World: Chapter 210: Roaring

"This...are these really the dwarves you just talked about..." The honest soldier swallowed his saliva and stretched out his trembling hand to point at the oncoming dwarf army, which had only a few hundred people but was extremely powerful.

Those guys who had just boasted the most about being able to beat ten people alone were all silent. They were hesitating between nodding and shaking their heads, but they still couldn't make up their minds.

Is this really a dwarf?

Not only that honest soldier, but all the soldiers from other countries' armies were filled with this question in their hearts after seeing this scene.

Are these really the cowardly dwarves who only know how to forge iron and always choose to make concessions in diplomacy?

At this moment, no one dared to say this. After observing in amazement for a while, they finally understood where the earthquake, which still had not dissipated, came from.

It was created by the dwarves step by step, and they did not do it just to show off their power to people from other countries.

Because with every step they took, the black ground in the Dwarf Kingdom that had been eroded and spread for several days quickly receded like a tide, and the earth seemed to be purified and returned to its original state as they moved.

"This, this is impossible..." I don't know who suddenly said this. Maybe it was just unintentional, but it expressed the voice that everyone wanted to shout out in their hearts.

This is impossible. The black fog is an evil spirit that will corrode the mind if touched by even a little bit. With the strength of each country, they need to mobilize most of their troops to build a magic barrier to barely maintain the situation. How can these dwarves force back the black fog?

Why them? Why them? How could they know how to deal with the Black Mist but not share it with their own leaders? Are the dwarves desperately trying to rebel in a land surrounded by humans?

You should know that there are also infected soldiers or adventurers on the human side, but these people are like half-crazy and cannot be cured or caught. Except for some weak ones, the slightly stronger ones were surrounded and killed by everyone after a massacre.

However, even if people were brought back, they were ultimately judged as hopeless and were dealt with directly outside the city. Therefore, in the erosion of the black fog, not only did they fail to save a single life, but their morale was even affected by this depressing atmosphere.

The situation did not improve slightly until the kings of various countries ordered people to raise the magic barrier to block the approaching black fog.

But the things that I can't handle at all are easily solved by the people I look down upon. The unbalanced mentality spreads to everyone's heart like a prairie fire.

The human soldiers roared in their hearts, but they did not dare to say what they were thinking at all, because after seeing the momentum of the Dwarf Kingdom, no one dared to be the first to speak out.

Soon the dwarf army arrived in front of the ditch facing them. The black matter spreading on the ground shrank back, and more of it turned into black mist and blew upwards.

The Dwarf King casually dropped a square box that looked like a dice. After landing on the ground, the box quickly unfolded to form a complex magic circle.

As the nine unfolded surfaces were superimposed together, the folded patterns were laid out into a flat surface again, and the magic circle lines engraved on different surfaces were immediately connected, absorbing magic power, transforming magic power, and circulating magic power. Soon, the magic circle began to operate automatically.

As a platinum-colored magic barrier rose up, all the approaching black fog began to evaporate quickly like boiling water poured on a red-hot iron.

The black fog, which was supposed to have no intelligence, seemed to have encountered something extremely terrifying. It quickly moved away from the platinum magic barrier and squeezed in other directions.

The increase in the concentration of black fog itself made it very difficult to maintain the barrier, which led to magicians from various countries having to start injecting more magic power into the magic circle to prevent the erosion of the black fog.

It was not until such a sudden event happened that the human race began to react. The unusual movement of the magic circle made them unable to care about the shock of the appearance of the dwarves, and all the troops fell into panic for a while.

"Damn it, what are you dwarves doing?" A man wearing golden armor, who looked several levels higher than the surrounding soldiers, walked out. They stood outside the territory of the Dwarf Kingdom and shouted at this side using magic to amplify their voices.

The dwarf king just glanced at the soldier who was speaking, then stood there and closed his eyes, turning a deaf ear to everything he said.

"Do you know what you have done? You have angered our human race. Do you dwarves no longer want to live here?"

The Dwarf King still ignored the shouting soldier and maintained his normal standing posture. With his armor and strong muscles, he looked like a lifelike statue of the god of war.

"Hurry up and remove your magic barrier!" Seeing that the Dwarf King had not responded for a long time, the human race thought that he was scared, and gradually shouted more and more fiercely. In the end, he didn't even make excuses or say anything else, and started to give orders directly.

"Shut up." The Dwarf King's eyes, which had just been closed, suddenly opened and glared at the person who was shouting. His whole body was filled with the majesty of a furious King Kong.

The person he glared at was clearly hundreds of meters away across a ditch, but he was still frightened by the chill rising in his heart and took several steps back.

"Damn it..." Being stared at by his own soldiers around him, the soldier's face suddenly turned red with anger. When he gathered his strength and glared back, he found that the other party had left his original position and was walking towards one of the places along the ditch.

Orn did not come alone. Following Orn was Anten Meiko, who was wearing a black robe that covered her entire body. Her appearance could not be seen at all and it was impossible to tell whether she was a man or a woman.

At the destination, there stood the largest tent in the field. Seeing the Dwarf King approaching aggressively, the soldiers who had received orders did not dare to stop him and made way for him to pass by freely.

Perhaps it was because there were also guards inside, so when the soldiers saw An Teng Meizi following behind Ornn, although they were more cautious, they did not say anything to stop her.

Soon they passed the heavy encirclement of soldiers and entered the tent. Meiko Anten still kept her head down. She didn't need to use her eyes to see at all. The detection magic had already clearly transmitted the image within a kilometer diameter around her into her mind.

So before entering here, Meiko Anten had already grasped some of the information here.

Volume 7: Strange Journey to Another World: Chapter 211: Risk

Hidden in the shadows of various places in the tent were several people holding weapons and ready to attack, but at this time they perfectly restrained their breath and hid in the darkness.

If she didn't have some understanding of dark magic and the detection of the slacking radar, even with her current perception, she would not be able to detect the existence of these assassins.

"Calling people to a meeting, what are they trying to do? Are they trying to protect themselves or plot a conspiracy?"

Meiko Ando quickly thought in her mind, and did not forget to use magic to send a message to Ornn, reminding him of the current situation and the location of the assassin that needed attention.

When Ornn heard what Ando Meiko said, his steps wavered slightly, but his facial expression did not change at all, and his movements remained the same.

When the two of them walked into the tent, it was already filled with military generals from various countries. The only place left for Ornn was a wooden chair placed in the corner.

Moreover, the chair looked fine on the surface, but someone had tampered with it inside. Not to mention Ornn, a strong man in armor, even a thinner woman would make it collapse if she sat on it.

How could Ornn not see through this little trick? However, he did not make any move. He walked to the empty stool and sat down directly. What stunned the generals who were waiting to see the joke was that the chair was still strong and did not collapse.

Ando Meiko's face, hidden in the shadow of the hood, raised slightly. She slowly withdrew her fingers from outside the robe, placed them on the side of her thigh, and closed her eyes.

"Now that everyone is here, let's start this discussion." The person sitting in the main seat spoke. Although this group of people were just generals, they knew that the person who came was the Dwarf King but still did not give him due respect.

Ando Meiko could understand that the dwarves were not liked by humans, but she did not expect the situation to be so bad. The king of a country would be ignored or even treated coldly by the military generals of other countries. This was simply unacceptable.

Meiko Ando thought that the Dwarf Kingdom had not invaded human territory or killed people without blinking an eye like the Demons did. Why were these people so bitter and vengeful? Could it be that Ornn was hiding something from her?

Soon, Meiko Ando abandoned this idea. After all, she was helping Ornn now, and the most taboo thing between partners was mutual suspicion. No matter what, she had to get through this difficult time first.

"The black mist coming out of the trench will erode the earth. If left unchecked, it will eventually spread outward. No country around us will be spared, so we must unite to fundamentally solve the trench problem."

"Since this matter is so urgent, why not contact people from the superpower?" A legion commander asked his question in confusion. Judging from his position at the back, although he is a legion commander like the others, his status here is not high.

"We've already contacted them, but Lance is too far away. I don't know what the Potters are doing with their army. The Theocracy is frantically searching for people while launching an invasion war against Star."

The general sitting on his right nodded solemnly and said, "Although we explained the interests involved when we contacted each other, the four superpowers even used the recent movements of the demons as an excuse to blame us."

The situation does not seem optimistic. If the four superpowers do not send people to help, the countries around the ditch can only rely on themselves to solve this problem.

Just when everyone's spirits were getting a little low, the most senior general to the left of the commander-in-chief spoke up to comfort them, "Don't worry. We've figured out a way to combat the black fog. We just need to send our men down into the trenches to find its source and then break it down. Isn't that enough to solve the problem at its root?"

As soon as this was said, a general immediately asked hurriedly: "Oh? I wonder what the solution is? Oh, it's already this late, don't keep us in suspense."

"Don't be impatient, I will tell you now." After saying this, he did not say anything else, and immediately told everyone about his discovery.

"During our exploration and research of the black fog, we discovered that it seems to be a special curse. Therefore, light, fire, and holiness all have a restraining effect on it."

Although it was just a simple explanation, others immediately understood the leaders' thoughts. They actually wanted to use light, fire or holy magic to create a barrier to isolate the black fog, and then let their own combat forces sneak into the ditch?

Although as long as there are enough magicians, they can indeed create a barrier to isolate the black fog like the outside, and walking inside is not a problem as long as there is enough magic power.

Of course, Anten Meiko had thought of this a long time ago and had already planned to implement it, but she didn't expect that the other party's idea was exactly the same as hers.

Their idea was correct, but it was not realistic, because among the people present, she was the only one who knew the magic ether best, and she also knew that as the concentration of magic ether became stronger, the magic power required to resist it would also become stronger.

To move or even fight in the black fog, a soldier must be paired with at least three or more magicians to maintain normal activities under the high concentration of magic ether.

"We're considering selecting magicians with light and fire attributes, along with a few vanguards for protection, to explore the trench. It would be best to find out what's inside before making any further plans."

He is worthy of being a talented general. All his decisions are correct. Even other people, not even An Teng Meizi who knows about magic ether, can't find any fault with him.

"But isn't this too risky? We have no idea what the environment is like inside. If something unexpected happens that we can't control, everyone inside will be finished." When there are ideas, there will naturally be people who question them, so someone soon raised the risks.

"It's indeed a huge risk, but if we do nothing and just watch the things coming out of the ditch, how many lives will we have to lose?"

"That's right. Considering the possible disasters that might happen in the future, we can take the risk now. Besides, the Adventurer's Guild has already issued the relevant quests, and adventurers will come to help when the time comes."