Chapter 462 Combat
In Icestone City, the elders’ garrison was in a state of chaos, with dwarves busying around as they shuttled back and forth.

No one knew what had happened, but the Royal Faction suddenly launched an all-out attack on the Elder Faction. The Elder Faction was caught off guard, and several workshops were destroyed, causing them to go bankrupt and suffer heavy losses.

In order to counter the attack of the royal faction, the Elders had to work overtime and organize forces to fight the attack.

While the dwarves were busy outside the base, the dwarf elders were meeting inside the base and having a heated discussion.

The radicals who advocate counterattack and the conservatives who advocate defense are engaged in a fierce argument.

“He has already attacked us. Are we just going to stand there and watch? We must fight back! The soldiers are ready. We can start now.”

A dwarf elder became more and more excited and shouted loudly, while a dwarf elder opposite him retorted with a frown.

“Isn’t this too hasty? We only have four Rune Mechs. We can’t match them in numbers. Moreover, the only King-class is still in his hands. We haven’t found the location of the arsenal yet.”

Hearing what the dwarf elder opposite said, he slammed the table, stood up, and shouted excitedly.

“Are we going to die here if we don’t have enough strength? He has already put the knife on our necks, what are you still hesitating about!”

“sit down.”

The first elder of the dwarves sat in the main seat and spoke in a calm tone.

After hearing what the first elder said, he still looked a little annoyed, but he restrained his temper. After snorting at the elder opposite him, he sat down with an unhappy look on his face.

After the first elder spoke, the other elders who were arguing with each other calmed down, looked at him one by one, and the meeting room gradually became quiet.

The first elder calmly glanced at every elder in the conference room, and every elder who faced the first elder bowed his head slightly to show his submission.

After all the elders bowed their heads, the first elder opened his mouth and issued one order after another in a calm tone.

Following the First Elder’s instructions, the elders followed suit and walked out of the meeting room to carry out the First Elder’s orders.

Soon, there was only one person left in the meeting room, and that was the elder representing the radical faction who had just slammed the table.

After the other elders left the meeting room, the first elder also looked at him.

Facing the gaze of the First Elder, he couldn’t help but complain after just listening to all the orders of the First Elder.

“Are we just going to put up with this? They won’t calm down just because we give in. It will only make them more arrogant.”

The First Elder’s orders were extremely conservative and were formulated entirely based on conservative ideas. The First Elder did not accept any of the radical measures he proposed.

Looking at the complaining elders in front of him, the first elder also revealed a kind smile, shook his head, and said in a helpless tone.

“Come with me, and you’ll understand when you see it.”

“what did you see?”

The elders were a little confused, but the first elder did not answer and walked out of the meeting room with a smile on his face. After hesitating for a while, the elders finally chose to follow the first elder.

The two men walked along the passage towards the depths of the base. As they went deeper, there were fewer and fewer dwarf passers-by in the corridor. Although the number of dwarf guards was also decreasing, they were becoming more and more elite, and their defenses were becoming more and more strict.

After passing through layer after layer of defense, the first elder opened the mechanism, and a staircase leading underground appeared in front of the two.

The elder looked at the bottomless underground stairs, then turned his gaze to the first elder and asked.

“This is?”

The first elder shook his head and did not answer his question. He walked towards the basement and spoke.

“Let’s go, you’ll know soon.”

Looking at the underground opening that looked like a huge open mouth, the elder frowned slightly and hesitated, but after the first elder walked into the darkness and disappeared from his sight, he gritted his teeth and chose to follow him, running down quickly, trying to catch up with the first elder.

At the same time, as the first elder’s order was passed on, all the elders of the sect began to move and began to work together to resist the attack of the royal faction.

However, because the First Elder adopted a conservative defensive policy, facing the royal attack, the Elders could only passively defend and were unable to take the initiative.

Faced with the conservative defense of the Presbyterians, the royal family indeed chose to increase the intensity of the attack, launching a double blow from the administrative and commercial aspects of the various industries under the Presbyterians.

“boom.”

Several dwarf guards broke into a shop. The leading dwarf guard glanced murderously at all the customers in the shop and shouted at the front desk.

“Someone reported you for selling inferior products and selling illegal products privately. Call everyone in your store out and come with me.”

Hearing the words of the dwarf guard, the dwarf at the front desk hurried over and said with a smile.

“Sir, you must be mistaken. We are a legitimate store. How dare we sell inferior and illegal products?”

“So much nonsense. Don’t you understand what I’m saying? Call everyone in your store out and come with us.”

The dwarf guard glanced at him, put his right hand on the weapon at his waist, and said in a dangerous tone.

“Do you want to resist?”

“Don’t dare.”

The dwarf at the front desk watched his movements, swallowed, and spoke tremblingly.

Hearing his words, the dwarf guard glared at him and cursed.

“Why don’t you go and call someone!”

Under the scolding of the dwarf guard, the dwarf at the front desk crawled into the store.

Even if the shop owner came out and tried to argue with the dwarf guards, due to their tough attitude, they had no choice but to close the shop, and everyone was taken away by the dwarf guards.

After the dwarf guard took the people away, a masked dwarf ran out from the corner. He quickly removed the lock of the shop, kicked the door open and rushed in.

Then, more dwarves ran out from the corner and rushed into the shop. After so many people rushed in, some civilian dwarves on the street also rushed in.

The entire store was quickly looted, no matter whether it was merchandise or raw materials, even cabinets and tables were left out, everything was snatched away.

At the same time, similar things were happening constantly. One shop after another was looted. Not only the Presbyterian shops, but also many royal shops were looted.

Although on the surface both families suffered heavy losses, the royal family that led this incident actually did not suffer much loss. Except for those things that were snatched away by civilians, most of the things were simply transferred from the left hand to the right hand.

After the store was looted, the Dwarf King immediately expressed his anger, declared martial law, searched the entire city, and was determined to strike hard at the mastermind behind the looting.

So, the dwarf guards loyal to the king surrounded a courtyard.

Inside the yard, the owner of the yard was glaring at the dwarf guard in front of him with an angry look on his face.

The dwarf guard in front of him gave a polite smile and said politely, “Sir, this is just a routine inspection.”

“Oh, routine check.”

The dwarf sneered and glanced around. There were twenty dwarf guards guarding the yard alone.

It was just a routine check-up, and if he really believed it, then he would be a fool, but he was not panicking.

After all, there is nothing in his yard that cannot be seen.
“Report! Stolen goods found!”

At the back of the yard, as a dwarf’s voice sounded, several dwarves came out together carrying a box.

The box was open, and a large amount of bright rare metals packaged in various stores were piled in the box.

Looking at the box, the owner of the yard frowned and looked at the dwarf guard in front of him.

Just as he was about to scold them, the dwarf guard stopped smiling and punched him in the stomach, knocking him out without giving him a chance to speak.

After knocking the man unconscious, the dwarf guard gave instructions nonchalantly.

“Come here, bring back the prisoner and the stolen goods.”

“Yes!”

Under the curious gazes of some dwarven civilians around, the dwarf guards openly captured the unconscious dwarf and deliberately displayed the stolen goods along the way.

On the way to the palace, the dwarf guards sternly expressed the king’s zero-tolerance attitude towards evil forces. Even if they were extraordinary people, they could not plunder the private property of the citizens at will.

After cracking down on the industry, the royal family also intensified its efforts to win over the Presbyterians, sending people to win over and threaten members of the Presbyterian sect, using money, extraordinary knowledge and various threats to force members of the Presbyterian sect to give up their support for the Presbyterian sect and choose to remain neutral or join the royal family.

As for the few hard-line elements among them, the royal family used this as an excuse to throw the stolen goods into their residences, and detained and imprisoned them one by one under the pretext of cracking down on evil forces. At the same time, the royal family also intensified the purge of the military and struck hard at the reformist officers among them.

However, the military’s suppression was not as loud, and the reformist officers discovered by the royal family were basically wiped out.

The luckier ones were merely transferred out of Ice Stone City, but those who were unlucky were directly captured by the royal family on the pretext of something and deprived of their military power at the speed of light.

Faced with the fierce attack from the royal family, the Elders, who adopted a passive defense and dared not fight back, were defeated step by step, and the power under their command was constantly shrinking.

While the elders of the Elders’ Sect were extremely anxious, the First Elder was calm and composed. After giving a few simple instructions, he stayed deep in the base most of the time, except for coming out every day to calm people’s hearts.

With everything going so smoothly, the royal family naturally noticed something unusual.

Inside the palace, the dwarf king looked up at the dwarf portrait in front of him.

The dwarf in the portrait before him was the one who, hundreds of years ago, had acted as a pioneer of reform, declared war on the corrupt Elder Council, overthrew the corrupt Elder Council, established centralized power, and relied on tough measures to prolong the life of the Frost Clan. He was his ancestor.

The dwarf king looked at the portrait of his confident and extraordinary ancestor and muttered to himself.

Ancestors, where is our future, the future of the Frost Clan?

He closed his eyes and spoke calmly.

“Is there still no movement over there?”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

A dwarf guard came up behind him at some point, half-knelt on the ground, and answered in a low voice.

“According to spies, apart from coming out every morning to calm people down, he spends most of his time inside the camp. Due to the tight security, spies are unable to enter, so we don’t know the specific situation.”

“What on earth was he thinking?”

After listening to the report from the dwarf guards, the dwarf king looked up at his ancestors and spoke to himself.

Behind him, the dwarf guard lowered his head and said nothing. He knew that the dwarf king was not asking him.

The Dwarf King took the Drop of Tear from his arms, pinched it between two fingers, held it up, and looked at it.

After a moment’s silence, the dwarf king spoke calmly.

“Have you confirmed the location of their arsenal?”

“According to the information obtained from the driver, the location of the enemy’s armory has been confirmed. It can be confirmed that all the rune mechas are currently in the armory.”

The dwarf guard replied in a low voice.

The Dwarf King held the Tear Drop in his right hand. The tough skin was easily scraped open and the bright red blood quickly soaked the entire Tear Drop. The entire Tear Drop was completely dyed red, releasing an evil red light.

He put down his right hand holding the tear drop, and bright red blood was dripping onto the ground. Ignoring the pain in his hand, the Dwarf King spoke calmly.

“Whatever they are planning to do, they will need military support. Without the Rune Mecha, I wonder how they can stand against me.”

The dwarf king paused, and the blood-red teardrop on his right hand emitted a brighter red light. He frowned and put it back into his arms, turned to look at the dwarf guard, and gave an order.

“Check the mechas, gather the pilots, and prepare in the shortest possible time. We can’t delay any longer. We must suppress them immediately.”

“In addition, be prepared to wake up the Ice Guards. If there is any accident during the suppression, wake them up immediately. Even if it costs half of Ice Stone City, we must stop them.”

Hearing the words of the Dwarf King, the Dwarf Guard raised his head, his almost unchanged face became a little surprised, and he said with some surprise.

“Your Majesty, are you sure? They are just a bunch of unknown guys. Do you still want to wake up the Ice Guards? There are not many resources left in the treasury.”

The dwarf king nodded, placed his bleeding right hand over his heart, and whispered.

“Well, I always have a bad feeling. I’d better be prepared to be awakened. This is a necessary price.”

“Yes.”

Seeing that the dwarf king was determined in his idea, the dwarf guard gritted his teeth and nodded in response.

“Go, act quickly, this time will determine our fate.”

The dwarf king waved his hand and said.

The dwarf guard stood up, nodded slightly, then turned and left. After he left, the dwarf king turned around again and looked up at the portrait of his ancestor in front of him.

And above the portrait of his ancestors in front of him, the gray crow that was monitoring the dwarf king was floating high in the sky. After listening to the entire conversation between the two, the gray crow tilted its head slightly and caught what they mentioned for the first time.

Ice Guard? What is that?
At this time, there are still 7 days before the committee opens the channel.

(End of this chapter)