Chapter 296: Weird Machines, Plants, and Undead
Based on the brief contact between Roland and Hamar, Roland did not think that Hamar would recognize him.

As the current patriarch of the Silver Clan, Hamar is basically unlikely to accept Roland's claim to be the legitimate leader of the Silver Gate.

Even if Roland obtained the Black Crystal and actually controlled the Silver Gate, Hamar would never accept it.

After all, if he accepted it, it would mean that he would have to give up his position and become an ordinary silver dwarf, which was absolutely unacceptable to Hamar.

Moreover, ordinary silver dwarves might not necessarily accept Roland, a human, claiming the orthodox status.

Roland shook his head. Although the silver dwarves led by Hamar chose to flee, even if they were hostile to Roland, Roland would not care at all. However, considering the situation of the dwarves within the committee, Roland thought it would be better not to expose the existence of the black crystal for the time being.

As for whether it would be illegal to occupy the Silver Gate and excavate the dwarven heritage without exposing the existence of the Black Crystal, that doesn't matter.

Roland was not the only one who had occupied the dwarven territory and excavated the heritage. Other forces had done it as well.

Moreover, compared with other forces, Roland's attempt to dig for the inheritance was recognized by the silver dwarf elders.

How can digging ruins to obtain resources to fight the green tide be called stealing and robbing?

Roland put the black crystal into the inner pocket of his robe and looked towards other parts of the warehouse.

There are still many places in this warehouse that Roland has not seen yet, and there may be good things hidden there.

Roland and Hela began to check other areas in the warehouse.

Following the faint elemental fluctuations, Roland walked all the way to the warehouse where the spellcaster's equipment was stored.

The various equipment in front of him could only be said to be in line with Roland's stereotype of dwarves. Whether it was the magic book or the robe, almost all of them were made of various metals.

Roland glanced at the equipment displayed outside and silently recorded all the numbers. At the same time, he and Hela walked into the deepest part together.

Deep inside, Roland saw the equipment placed in the center.

A silver-white mithril hammer and a set of silver-white mithril armor, and nearly a hundred sets of slightly inferior weapons and equipment beside him.

This is probably prepared for the dwarf leader who opens the treasure house.

If Roland guessed correctly, in the previous life, the Silver Clan's patriarch and his personal guards seemed to have used the weapons and equipment in front of him.

However, they belong to Roland now. If he takes them all back, they will be enough for Roland to form an elite dwarf team of a thousand men.

Roland thought about it, waved his hand, and put everything into his space bracelet.

Afterwards, Roland and Hela visited other parts of the warehouse.

In addition to discovering a variety of mineral materials, Roland and Hela also found a large number of rune guns, large casting equipment, and an area filled with various books.

After seeing tens of thousands of rune firearms and countless books piled up like mountains, Roland was certain that this treasure house was most likely a backup plan prepared by the clan countries, otherwise the things would not be so complete.

After confirming what was stored in the treasury, Roland also decided on all the things he wanted to take away first.

Among them, Roland and Hela collected all the smaller high-value items first, mainly mithril, elemental gems and various high-level weapons and equipment.

After collecting all these things, Roland and Hela also left the treasure house and prepared to call the people waiting on the stairs to come and count the warehouse.

Since they were already here, Roland and Hela did not take any more detours on the way back.

Roland directly opened all the ruins along the stairs to the treasure house.

Although the things in these ruins are not as valuable as those in the treasure house, and the quantity is not large, it is better to have them than nothing.

Soon, Roland and Hela returned to the stairs.

Afterwards, Roland led them into the third underground floor and told everyone the area he had cleared, asking them to stay within that area.

Finally, Roland asked them to start counting the total amount of resources in all the ruins and warehouses in the area.

Faced with the amazing resources and wealth in the treasury, the spellcasters and silver dwarf soldiers were a little stunned, but with Roland's reminder, they quickly got into work mode.

Except for a few spellcasters who were responsible for statistical calculations, the silver dwarves all began the work of moving, carefully moving all the resources and wealth to the area designated by Roland.

After all the green-skinned orcs have been cleared out, we will organize people to move all these resources and wealth back to the committee.

This wealth is enough to support the rapid development of the committee.

While the silver dwarves were busy, Roland took the remaining spellcasters to a random area and began to teach them how to crack the rune array on the ruins.

There are still many ruins on the Silver Gate side. This time, for the black crystal, Roland will go there in person. However, in the future, Roland will not have so much time to waste here.

Therefore, the remaining work of deciphering the ruins can only be handled by other spellcasters on the committee.

Although the remaining ruins are certainly not as valuable as the treasure house that Roland opened at the beginning, the accumulation of a little bit still makes for a considerable figure.

While Roland and his team were busy on the third underground floor, the soldiers on the surface were not idle either. Even without Roland's command, they were still working tirelessly to clear out the green-skinned orcs at the Silver Gate.

Since most of the green-skinned orcs are active on the surface, at most there are a few green-skinned orcs active on the underground level.

Therefore, some Silver Dwarves who fled deeper underground managed to survive.

Since the Silver Dwarves had been hiding deeper underground for several years and lacked food, they often needed to send people to the surface to collect food. Therefore, they also encountered the Dwarf soldiers who were clearing out the Greenskin Orcs.

Since they were all silver dwarves, the dwarf soldiers easily gained their trust.

After learning about their situation, Roland ordered the army to distribute food to them to prevent them from starving to death. He also sent some silver dwarf soldiers to go deep underground along the stairs to see if they could find as many silver dwarves hiding underground as they could.

Roland stayed in the Silver Gate for nearly a month. In addition to completely clearing out all the green-skinned orcs in the Silver Gate and teaching spellcasters how to crack the dwarf runes, Roland also rescued nearly 30,000 silver dwarves from underground, as well as a large number of tattered silver dwarf corpses.

After persuasion by the Silver Dwarf soldiers, nearly 30,000 Silver Dwarves successfully joined the War Council, while most of the Silver Dwarves who died underground for various reasons were secretly cremated and buried.

Only a few bodies of the Silver Dwarves who died of starvation or were killed by green-skinned orcs were carried out openly, and after undergoing the traditional dwarf funeral, they were all cremated and buried.

When Roland left the Silver Gate, although the spellcasters and half of the human soldiers remained at the Silver Gate, there were nearly 30,000 more Silver Dwarf refugees in his group.

When Roland led his men back to the committee, he also maintained contact with the executive committee and mobilized the prepared soldiers and laborers to build a complete freight channel between the Silver Gate and the city at the foot of the mountain. At the same time, he dispatched an engineering team to maintain and strengthen the road up the mountain.

The endless wealth hidden beneath the ground of the Silver Gate will be unsealed by spellcasters and will reappear in the world. Through this freight channel, it will continuously flow into the War Council and become the fuel for the War Council's continued rapid development.

If the excavation of the Silver Gate goes smoothly, coupled with the stable food exports of the War Council, the War Council will most likely not have to worry about fuel shortages for several years to come.

A few years was enough for the War Committee to develop new sources of income. Various mineral materials in the treasury were transported to the War Committee through this channel. After obtaining sufficient materials, the War Committee's industrial zone began large-scale armament production.

Nearly 20,000 rune firearms were transported out of the treasury. Several hundred were taken out for research, and the rest were all handed over to the military. The military recruited dwarves to form a new legion, the Dwarf Firearms Legion.

In addition, the same applies to various weapons and equipment in the treasury. All of them were sampled for research, and the rest were all delivered to the military, which carried out unified distribution and arming. The large amount of weapons and equipment flowing into the military also greatly alleviated the serious shortage of weapons and equipment in the army.

In addition to the gains in materials, knowledge, and wealth, the population gains of this trip were also very gratifying.

The arrival of 30,000 Silver Dwarf refugees not only soothed and improved the mood and morale of the dwarves within the committee, but also undoubtedly injected a shot of stimulant into the development of the committee's industrial zone.

Even though the Silver Dwarves are still in the Dark Ages, most Silver Dwarves are still excellent craftsmen.

Moreover, the dwarves in the Dark Ages, like the gnomes, turned to the path of strange machines.

Although the development direction of the dwarves' magic weapons is somewhat different from that of the gnomes, it is still magic weapons after all. After all, there are still some common contents, which is better than those who have never learned magic weapons.

Gnomes seek safety and universality. Gnomish artifice is the oldest artifice of artifice, and it prides itself on practical solutions.

Gnomish mechanics are generally considered the safest, but also the most dependent on experimental papers, hypotheses, and empirical evidence. For gnomes, mechanics is a very important science, and every step requires precise preparation and calculation.

The dwarves, on the other hand, are more focused on the creation of large-scale contraptions. Dwarven contraptions are a new type of contraptions that pursues more innovation and uniqueness.

Dwarven machinism is considered a combination and extension of traditional engineering and dwarven runeology, a unique craft that ingeniously blends magic and technology. It relies heavily on the level of dwarven craftsmen and machinists, and is known for being difficult to replicate and widely produced.

The two different development paths of gnomes and dwarves are both born out of their respective situations.

The dwarves live on the North Sea Islands and have limited resources at their disposal. They have no resources to squander or waste, so they pay more attention to preparation and calculation to ensure the success rate of their strange machine experiments and reduce the consumption of manpower and resources.

At the same time, the main reason why the dwarves developed strange machines was to strengthen the strength of their people and prepare for a possible return to their homeland in the future. Therefore, the dwarves prefer cheap and replicable strange machine products, and they care more about the breadth and practicality of strange machines.

But it is different for the dwarves. Although the dwarves fell into the Dark Ages after the collapse of the Clan Kingdom, they are still able to live in the Dragonspine Mountains and maintain a relatively wealthy life by mining and forging.

Not to mention the heritage buried deep within the various dwarven lands.

Therefore, the dwarves are not as poor as the gnomes. Moreover, before the goblins rose from the Dragonspine Mountains, the dwarves did not have any powerful enemies in the Dragonspine Mountains. Therefore, the dwarves were able to pursue innovation and unscrupulously invest resources in the research of various strange machines.

Moreover, due to part of the heritage of the Kingdom of Clans, dwarven craftsmen tried to recreate the miraculous engineering of the Kingdom of Clans with the technology of strange machines, thus, dwarven strange machines have come to the path they are today.

In addition to these two kinds of magical arts, there are currently two other kinds of magical arts in this world.

Kobold Mechanics: Focuses on physical transformation, originating from the Kobolds' desire for the perfect form of dragons.

Goblin Machine Skill: Focuses on quantity and cheapness. It is the most dangerous machine skill and will often explode during use. However, for the goblins, this is not important. What is important is that it can be used.

The committee currently does not have these two types of magical devices.

The kobolds all live in Sinar and rarely go outside, so there are no kobolds on the war council.

As for the goblins, although the committee accepted them because some goblins had lived in Donnar, as goblins living in Donnar, they did not receive the heritage of the Kingdom of Clans and did not develop goblin mechanical arts.

Now, it should be that only the goblins living in the Dragon's Back Mountains may know goblin mechanization.

These two kinds of magical arts are not very suitable for the current war committee. The most suitable ones for the war committee are still the dwarf and goblin magical arts currently available.

However, considering the future fame of goblin mechanical arts, Roland promoted some smart goblins from the committee to the industrial zone and let them learn mechanical arts.

After all, after entering the mechanical version in the later stage of the game, the mechanical arts of the four major races learned and integrated with each other, and the mechanical arts of the goblin kingdom also got rid of the stereotype of traditional goblin mechanical arts and became a little more reliable.

This shows that goblins still have the talent to learn other mechanical arts.

Thanks to the large amount of magical knowledge and theories provided by Roland, after the dwarf magical masters learned and digested them, the current magical technology level of the War Council can meet the requirements of the final plan.

Currently, the biggest problem facing the industrial zone is not the insufficient level of strange machines, but the insufficient number of strange machine masters and craftsmen.

However, with a large number of apprentices entering industrial areas to learn, the quantity problem can be solved in three years at the latest.

Of course, the war committee chaired by Roland did not focus solely on the field of mechanics.

In the two major categories of botany and necromancy, the War Council also touched upon them with the knowledge and advice provided by Roland.

The War Council also set aside an area to build a plant research institute, which was mainly staffed by half-elves and halflings to study the possibilities of various plant technologies.

Thanks to the information provided by Roland, the results of the Botanical Research Institute are quite remarkable, and various functional vegetation have been successfully produced.

A special fruit tree that can absorb sewage and polluted air, separate substances, and gather the extracted and separated substances into one fruit.

The breadfruit tree imitates the art of making bread, and can absorb nutrients from the soil, producing nutritious breadfruit fruits every day.

The body is empty and the temperature is maintained at a low level. It can be opened and closed, acting as a refrigerator. It can survive for a month when pulled out of the soil. As long as it is placed back in the soil within a month, it can continue to absorb nutrients to sustain life. It is a special plant.

Various types of metal trees have the ability to move and like to take root and grow in soil with a high specific metal content. They can not only be used to find mineral veins, but also to absorb scattered metal components in the land. The metal trees will purify them and bear metal fruits that are easy to refine.

Various types of vegetation have been successfully developed by the Botanical Research Institute. The only problem is that the current number is still a bit small and they need to continue to be cultivated and reproduced.

When it comes to necromancy, the War Council is relatively low-key.

Since the dead are not suitable to appear in public, the study and exploration of necromancy is all limited to burial sites in various deep mountains and forests.

The main people responsible for the research are the necromancers trained by Roland. Most of these necromancers are humans, with a few halflings and goblins.

Due to the dangers of necromancy, Roland only allowed them to study how to better control the undead, how to modify the undead to make them more suitable for basic work such as mining, farming, and transportation, and how to better control and command the undead to do their work.

Of course, a group of low-level necromancers could not study these things, so most of them were learning the various necromancy knowledge that Roland gave them, and imitating it to produce various props for controlling the undead.

These props allow an ordinary adult with normally developed mental power to give rough and simple command to about a hundred ordinary undead.

Thanks to their efforts, the undead mines across the War Council can be said to be thriving, with a large number of undead working diligently and continuously contributing to the prosperity of the Council.

If ordinary people in the War Committee were not still unable to accept the existence of the undead, directly publicizing the existence of the undead would easily lead to internal turmoil in the War Committee and doubts about the War Committee from the outside world. Otherwise, Roland would have wanted to directly use the undead to replace all the repetitive and simple labor of the committee.

However, Roland was still rational. It was already difficult for the War Committee to deal with the Green Tide. If the Undead were to be used on a large scale, the United Army in the south and the Silver Empire in the west might become enemies with the committee.

The United Army and the Silver Empire don't need to declare war on the War Council. As long as they completely cut off business ties with the Council, it will make the War Council very uncomfortable.

(End of this chapter)