Chapter 116 Return to the City
This return trip was much faster. It took four days for the vanguard to arrive under Pilsen, and three more days for the rest of the army to catch up.
Kua brought Foster and Binglinghua, along with the dwarf tribe, to the northern mystic iron mine vein, providing them with initial supplies, including a month's worth of food and basic tools, as well as some fuel, allowing the dwarves to settle down in this mine vein.
The old dwarf, Nabba Chiselhands, shook his hands and inserted them into the coarse mining sand of the Xuan Tie mine. He dug hard, picked it up, and sniffed deeply in front of his nose, with tears streaming down. The other dwarves cheered, jumped for joy, and bought a large batch of grain and wine from Hart, starting a wild celebration that night.
Kua and other Dog Heads and humans left the mine, quietly leaving.
On the night of the revelry, Old Dwarf Nabar placed the stove with the magic stone in the most suitable position in the mine vein, recited the incantation, and continuously shouted the holy name of Moradin. With his voice, every dwarf echoed loudly with their thick chests. Soon, with the dwarves' fanatical faith, this piece of magic stone emitting heat gradually flashed, as if it were breathing, and soon emitted intense heat, like a hot iron plate.
The incantation grew more frenzied, the atmosphere more fevered, as Kragnir poured a cup of high-proof white liquor over the stone, and all the dwarves shouted with one voice: "Stone on high! Praise Moradin!"
Immediately, the stone burst into a loud noise and ignited a fierce flame. The surrounding dwarf craftsmen then placed pine oil, pine wood, and charcoal beside this stone.
From the flames, a small fire elemental emerged, stretched its arms and let out a yawn, then sat down on the magic stone with its legs crossed, picked up a piece of charcoal from the pine tree and started eating it like a chocolate bar.
"Old Na Ba, you look like you've had a hard time. But it's great, looks like you guys have finally gone legit."
"Haha, yes, Fu'er my old friend, this is really not easy, fortunately, we finally settled down." The smile on Nab's face also unfolded with the flames after the ceremony.
Huoyuan ate two sticks of wood charcoal and clicked his tongue, saying: "The pine oil is fresh, but the craftsmanship is not good. How can there be a dog-headed person's flavor? Hmm, Old Nabar, what are you going to name your newly established tribe?"
The old dwarf fell into deep thought, and finally said: "Here is a vein of mystic iron ore... In the future, the dwarven fortress we build will definitely be an iron fortress, so let's call ourselves the Iron Fortress Tribe!"
Upon hearing the dwarf lord's decision, the dwarves behind him all cheered: "Long live Ironfort! Long live Ironfort!"
After returning to Palesburg, Guagua also relaxed and went back to the second floor to take a bath. He arranged for the Dog Head people under Harte's guidance to clean up the spoils of war, and then he himself returned to his own nest and slept soundly.
After waking up, all the fatigue in her body had been completely eliminated. Walking to the crystal ball, after completing a few routine tasks, Guagua turned around and saw Foster telling stories to an ice giant child.
Gua was still in a daze, wondering if he hadn't woken up yet and was still dreaming. Suddenly, he remembered that this Frost Giant child was a magical pet brought back by Foster from the Frost Giant tribe with love.
He finally cracked a smile and laughed for a moment.
Kua put the magical materials he had exchanged from Hart into a small leather pouch. He shouted: "Foster, come over."
Foster said something to Ice Linghua and turned around to walk over.
"Elder, you called for me?" Foster asked respectfully.
Gua nodded and first handed over the small pouch of magical materials to him. Then, he again copied a "Tactics for Beginners" from the crystal ball into his mind.
"Refer to the tutorial in this book and make her, Hyorin, your magical pet as soon as possible." said Gookgwa.
Foster bit his lip and said, "Great Elder, I don't want her to be my demonic pet, I want her to be my partner."
That kind of extremely entangled and twisted sense of relief suddenly arose. Gua's fierce explosion of a chestnut hit Foster's head, and Foster, holding his own head, didn't dare to refute, his mouth sealed shut, with tears welling up in both eyes, on the verge of crying.
"Of course she's your partner if you treat her as one! You don't restrict her freedom, and she has her own freedom. Don't you understand? As for modifying this magic, wait until you have the ability to do so yourself!"
Foster nodded vaguely and said, "I understand! Our relationship depends on my attitude! As long as I treat her as my equal partner, she is my partner!"
Gua Bai shot him a glance, suppressing the tangled feeling in his heart, and urged impatiently: "Hurry up and sign the contract, lest she receive poor treatment in our tribe."
Foster nodded vigorously and happily went back, chattering with Binglinghua, mostly Foster speaking and Binglinghua listening, but both were very happy.
Before long, the two began to take steps to sign a contract with Mo Xiu. Naturally, it was Foster who took the lead, and the placement of the magic circuit and the recitation of the incantation were all flawless, apparently Foster still had some talent.
Next, the Frost Giant Linghua obviously accepted Foster's adoption as her magical pet and completed the main process of the ritual without any resistance. Linghua disappeared into the magic circuit on Foster's chest in an instant.
This silly kid... Suddenly, Gua felt a bit of a headache.
Next comes the 24-hour running-in period.
Gua Yu no longer paid attention to them and opened the crystal ball by himself to check on the situation over this period of time.
On the Northrend Alliance, under the castle of Westfall, a group of Frost Giants surrounded it. They ate, drank, urinated and slept under the castle, making the surrounding environment chaotic.
It seems that there were several clashes during this period, and on the battlefield, there were only damaged armor and weapons of humans, but no corpses. This suggests that the Frost Giants won more often.
This is because the Frost Giants love to eat human corpses and horse carcasses, but humans will not collect the bodies of the Frost Giants. Therefore, there are no bodies of Frost Giants on the battlefield, because they were collected by the Frost Giants themselves, and there are no human or horse corpses, indicating that they were all eaten by the Frost Giants.
There are several places on the Xihate Castle that have been severely damaged by giant rocks, but not seriously. The morale of the humans inside is not high, but it has not collapsed yet.
That is to say, under the castle of Xiha, they are still in a state of confrontation.
In the southern region of the Northern Alliance, there have been frequent incidents of Frost Giants attacking towns, and many people, carrying their meager belongings, fled to the Bloodstone Castle in the south, only to be blocked at a checkpoint, forming a massive refugee camp.
