Chapter 458 Ice Stone City

Although Hess led his men to leave the Tower of Truth and fled directly to the War Committee.

But this does not mean that Hess and his group have really withdrawn from the Soul School and left the Tower of Truth. In fact, Hess and the others who fled with him are still spellcasters of the Tower of Truth and still belong to the Soul School.

Most of them had no real intention of joining the war council, and even their coming to Donnar was done secretly and without fanfare.

Hayes just found an excuse to go out and collect materials, and came to the War Committee to avoid the limelight.

As for why this ridiculous reason was approved, the reason is very simple. As a senior member of the Soul School, Hess applied for it himself and got it approved himself.

Except for Sophia and her mother who really planned to settle down in Donnar, Hess and the others had no intention of staying in Donnar for a long time. They would return to Sinnar after the political situation in the Silver Empire stabilized and the thunderstorm in the Tower of Truth ended.

Under such circumstances, although Roland accepted them, that was all, and he did not come to welcome them in person.

If Hayes came to join the War Committee, as the first high-level transcendent to join the War Committee, Roland would definitely make time to come over no matter how busy he was.

But if they just come here to stay temporarily and avoid the limelight, then it is not Roland’s turn to come forward, so let the dean of the college entertain them on Roland’s behalf.

Just as the dean of Apocalypse College was entertaining Hess and others, in the Dragon Ridge Mountains in the north, as a space wave swept through the open space of the Far North Gate outpost camp, Roland and Hela arrived here.

“Chairman! Commissioner Hela.”

In the open space, the explorers and legion soldiers saluted and greeted Roland and Hela in unison.

Roland returned the greeting, looked around at the people, and said.

“Thank you for your hard work, citizens.”

After briefly greeting the explorers and legionnaires, Roland got straight to the point.

With the full support of the committee and the continuous efforts of the explorers, the Dragon Spine Passage leading from the Far North Gate deep into the mountains has been successfully opened.

In order to block the passage, the frost dwarves set up various obstacles and traps, which were also broken one by one thanks to the explorers’ successive efforts.

Different from the experience of digging for dwarven ruins in Donnar, the Dragon Spine Mountains in Donnar are either the legacy left by the clan states, or the unowned territory after all the people died in the civil war.

After all, the former is left for future generations and can be opened safely as long as the right method is found. As for the latter, it is an ownerless territory and the dwarves during the civil war still have to live there themselves. How could they really install a lot of obstacles and traps in their own homes? What they really hinder are the cave creatures occupying the ownerless territory.

But the situation on the Far North Gate side was different. The Frost Dwarves completely abandoned the Far North Gate. When the clan states collapsed and the dwarf clans started a civil war, the Frost Clan made a decision that went against their ancestors.

The Frost Clan, who controlled the entire North, had abundant resources and spent a huge amount of money to block the Dragon Spine Passage connecting to the Far North Gate and filled it with various dangerous traps.

Even the committee’s most elite explorers, in order to open up this passage, had more than 200 sets of strange armor destroyed and nearly 100 people died, not to mention the consumption of supplies, even with the protection of strange armor.

If the most important personnel had not been resurrected, the War Council would have suffered a huge loss this time.

Of course, after consuming so many materials and manpower, the committee is definitely still losing money now, and there is absolutely no possibility of making a profit.

The Dragon’s Back Mountains where the Frost Dwarves live are only a short section, and the benefits they can obtain are very limited. As for the dwarven heritage in their hands? To put it bluntly, it’s nothing. The committee has officially accepted the heritage left by the clan countries.

Could the legacy left behind by a small local clan be better than the legacy carefully prepared and left behind by the clan state that rules over most of the Dragon’s Back Mountains?
As for the population, with such a small space, it would be good if the Frost Dwarfs could have a population of over ten thousand.

If the cold disaster had not been caused by them, Roland would not have wanted to waste so much manpower and resources here.

In the Dragon Spine Passage of the Far North Gate, a large number of strange machines are installed around the passage, illuminating the entire Dragon Spine Passage.

Led by an elite explorer, Roland and Hela were advancing into the ruins of the Dragon Ridge Passage.

Although a passage was cleared, it was only one passage. Since there were too many traps set by the Frost Dwarves, it was only opened at present.

The passage still has many dangers. Even elite explorers cannot guarantee a 100% safe passage, not to mention a large-scale military advance, which is not possible at present.

Therefore, at present, the committee can only send a small number of elite explorers to explore deep places.

Although as long as there is time, the explorers will sooner or later be able to find out the situation of the Frost Dwarves and clear the Dragon Spine Passage. Then the army can take the explorers’ information and march directly to crush the Frost Dwarves and end the cold disaster.

But considering that because of his existence, the development of this world has become very different from the development of the game plot in his memory, in order to avoid risks and end the cold disaster as soon as possible, Roland came here in person.

With this skilled explorer leading the way and two high-level transcendents, Roland and Hela, accompanying them, the three of them smoothly passed through the Dragon Ridge Passage opened up by the explorers.

Walking out of the Dragon Ridge Passage, Hela stood on the high ground at the exit of the passage and looked down at the vast dark underground space in front of her.

Although the underground space was very vast, through night vision, Hela could see that it was all deserted, lifeless ruins and wasteland.

Behind Hela, Roland reminded the elite explorer to be careful. After watching him turn around and return to the Dragon Ridge Passage, Roland turned around and walked to Hela’s side.

“What’s next?”

Hela took the initiative to hug Roland’s left hand and spoke close to him.

Roland looked into the dark cave, stretched out his right hand, and a detailed spell model emerged.

Seventh-ring prophecy spell—Fate Guidance.

As the spell took effect, Roland saw a huge building in the distance. Without taking a closer look at the building, Roland simply locked onto its location.

At the same time, through the power of prophecy spells, the process of finding the road to the building was skipped, and a perfect route was directly obtained.

Roland clenched his right fist, and the spell model quietly dissipated. He looked at the three passages in the darkness, pointed to the one on the left, and said.

“This way.”

The two men took off into the air, passing directly over the buildings below and flying towards the passage.

“Calvin?”

The dwarf guard at the city gate looked up and down at the dwarf in front of him, then looked at the dwarves following him, and said.

“You said you are the new village chief?” “Yes, yes.”

Calvin, who was standing in front of the dwarf guard, said with a smile on his face, slightly revealing some extraordinary aura, and at the same time, he stuffed a silver coin into his hand from the blind spot.

The dwarf guard pinched the silver coin, sensing Calvin’s extraordinary aura in front of him, and probably knew what was going on.

A transcendent killed the chief of a village and took his position.

Although in principle this kind of thing is not allowed, the situation is so chaotic now that the dwarf guards are too lazy to care. Even the big shots above can’t do anything about it, so why should he care about it?

There is no need to make enemies with a supernatural being over such a small matter, the dwarf guard put away the silver coins, waved his hand and said.

“go in.”

Calvin was overjoyed and quickly called the dwarves behind him to enter the dwarf city in front of them.

After entering the city, Calvin waved to a dwarf in the team. Seeing this, the dwarf hurried over.

“Neil, I heard from others that you were in charge of all the business in the village that came to the city.”

Neil nodded quickly and said.

“Yes.”

“Well, then you take them with you. This is my first time here, so I need to have a good look around. Wait for me here when you’re done.”

Calvin raised his head and looked at the old and short buildings around him and said.

“clear.”

Neil nodded, then led the villagers in the team and walked towards the commercial area in the city with the goods they brought in.

After Neil and his group left, several dwarves who had hidden in the team also came up to Calvin.

“Is this also called a city?”

A dwarf looked around and said with some difficulty.

Rather than calling it a city, in their opinion, this place can only be considered a small town at most. The entire town is extremely small, and the buildings are old and short. It is estimated that the small town with a population of only a few hundred people has become the ruling center of this area.

“Well, it’s not like you haven’t seen the environment here. There are so many unusable wastelands, and the frost dwarves can’t even support humans. With so much productivity, this place is already an improvement compared to the villages living in caves.”

Calvin shook his head and said.

“The elite of the Frost Dwarves are all concentrated in their capital. It’s normal for the marginal areas here to lag behind a little. We should hurry up and spread out to gather intelligence.”

“The chairman has come here in person. We don’t need to worry about the capital. Our current mission is to find out where the frost dwarves live in various places and gather their population. According to the chairman’s order, we must gather as many people as possible and prepare for their transfer.”

“Let’s first find out the situation of this town. If the force is not strong, we will take this place first. Although the conditions are a bit worse, it is better than nothing.”

After hearing Calvin’s instructions, the other dwarves who had also sneaked in nodded and responded.

“it is good.”

Afterwards, the dwarves dispersed and began to collect information about the situation in the town.

After discovering that the strongest extraordinary person in this small town was only a second-ring extraordinary person and that the garrison consisted of only some militiamen, Calvin and his team launched an attack without any hesitation.

The entire town was quickly taken control with zero casualties.

After occupying the town, Calvin and his crew took the town as the center, took the town’s registration records, and began to recruit the scattered dwarf villages scattered throughout the wilderness.

In other marginal areas of the Frost Dwarves, exploration teams, like Calvin, began to occupy the marginal areas that controlled the Frost Clan.

Except for the capital, there are only a few elderly transcendents in other places of the Frost Clan. As for the soldiers, most of them are just apprentices who have had contact with transcendents.

The explorers, all of whom are extraordinary and equipped with a full set of strange weapons, even if they are equipped with exploration-type strange machine armor, are like gods descending from heaven and sweeping through the weakened Frost Clan directly.

Moreover, since the committee sent only dwarves, since they were of the same race, the explorers easily gained the loyalty of the frost dwarves.

While the explorers were sweeping around and absorbing the Frost Dwarves, in the Frost Clan’s capital, Icestone City, Roland and Hela were disguising themselves as dwarves and hiding their identities in the city.

Compared to the ruins, desolation, earthen villages and dilapidated towns the two saw along the way, Ice Stone City seemed to still retain some of the prosperity of the period of the Kingdom of Clans.

Deep in the darkness underground, a city built by dwarves stands like a towering mountain in the wilderness. The walls and buildings of the city are all made of ice stone, a local specialty. Special crystal lamps are inlaid everywhere, shining on the ice stone, reflecting a faint blue luster.

On the ice stone wall carved with intricate patterns, elite dwarf soldiers patrolled the wall. However, the atmosphere among the dwarf soldiers on the wall was a bit weird. The wall was divided into several areas, and the dwarf soldiers in those areas did not interact with each other, forming clear camps.

The city made of ice and stone continuously released cold air in all directions. Even before entering the city, Roland and Hela could feel the chill coming towards them.

However, the Frost Dwarves had long been accustomed to this kind of cold. At the city gate, the dwarves wore thin clothes and spoke in low voices, making the atmosphere seem a bit depressing.

Roland and Hela, who were disguised as dwarf companions, did not pay much attention to this and slowly moved forward along with the flow of people.

Perhaps because something happened inside Icestone City, the dwarf guards at the city gate were led by a three-ring transcendent, and they searched every dwarf entering the city very strictly.

It was also because of the strict search that the speed of entering the city was very slow, which resulted in people having to queue up to enter the city. Otherwise, with the total population of the Frost Clan, there would be no need to queue up at all.

Fortunately, there weren’t too many dwarves in line, and soon it was Roland and Hela’s turn.

In order to avoid trouble, Roland and Hela not only made adjustments to their appearance when they disguised themselves as dwarves, but also suppressed their extraordinary nature to avoid the influence of their high status as high-level extraordinary beings.

Low-level life forms will naturally have a yearning and desire for high-level life forms. Therefore, if their extraordinary essence is not suppressed, even if Roland and Hela’s appearance is adjusted to be ordinary, they are still full of temptation in the eyes of ordinary dwarves.

Hela, disguised as a dwarf, faced the dwarf guards holding weapons at the city gate. She hugged Roland’s right hand with some fear, stuck to Roland’s body, and half-huddled behind him.

(End of this chapter)