Chapter 376 Silver Forge

The Silver Forge was the last batch of forges built by the Clan Kingdom. Therefore, the Silver Forge was much younger than its predecessors.

When the clan states still existed, the clan states that had not experienced any discontinuity naturally did not become more powerful as they aged. The resources and technologies of the clan states that were in the development stage were constantly increasing.

Therefore, although the Silver Forge was built a little later, it is still better than its predecessor.

As a product of the connection between the Kingdom of Clans and the Central Kingdom of Donnar, the Silver Forge creatively combined the dwarven runes with the spell runes popular in Donnar at the time, becoming the only forge in the Kingdom of Clans that combined human wisdom with dwarven wisdom.

Moreover, the silver forge was built at the peak of the most powerful period of the Clan Kingdom. Therefore, the wealthy Clan Kingdom used a large amount of mithril and various rare metals when building the silver forge.

Sparing no expense and consuming a large amount of mithril, the appearance of the Silver Forge presents the brilliant silver color of mithril. It is for this reason that it is named the Silver Forge.

However, strictly speaking, its official name in the Kingdom of Clans is actually the Mithril Forge. However, when the Central Kingdom was communicating with the Kingdom of Clans, the spellcasters who remained in Donnar could not imagine the wealth of the Kingdom of Clans at that time, and translated the Mithril Forge into the Silver Forge.

Later, with the exchanges between the two countries, due to translation problems, the people created a third name for better communication, which is the Silver Forge. Compared with the Mithril Forge and the Silver Forge, the Silver Forge is easier to distinguish, so it has gradually become the common name of the Silver Forge.

Although it is called the Silver Forge, in fact, the Silver Forge is not just a forge, but an entire large-scale industrial area. The 31st to 35th underground floors of the Silver Gate, a total of five floors of underground space, all added up to make up the complete Silver Forge.

Roland and Hela slowly went deeper into the ground along the stairs of the Silver Gate.

In fact, the dwarf territory has a mechanical device similar to an elevator for rapid movement. After all, due to the excavation of the Kingdom of Clans, the underground space of the dwarf land is very wide. If there is no such elevator-like transfer device, and only stairs are relied upon, it will take a lot of time to go up and down each time.

However, after the collapse of the Clan Kingdom and the bloody civil war, these mechanical devices were basically all scrapped due to lack of maintenance.

Especially in the Silver Gate, when the Silver Clan lived in the Silver Gate before, they mainly lived on the surface and the underground level. They did not need the help of mechanical devices, and the stairs were enough for their daily activities.

Therefore, over the years, they never thought about repairing the mechanism and it just remained like this.

As for the committee, although the committee has considered the issue of repairs, since the committee's control over the Silver Gate is currently limited to a few underground floors, there is not much demand for these mechanical devices.

In addition, the committee really does not have the resources and manpower to waste here, so the committee simply puts this project on the waiting list and plans to consider the repair issue only when there are extra resources and manpower in the future.

Therefore, there is no elevator available at the Silver Gate. If Roland wants to go to the 31st underground floor and open the silver forge, he can only walk down by himself.

Although the thirty-first floor was not very deep and was no problem for extraordinary beings like Roland and Hela, what prevented Roland from going deeper was not the distance but the broken and collapsed stairs.

Due to years of lack of maintenance, as well as the trauma, destruction, and time of the Dwarven Civil War, most of the stairs leading underground are in poor condition.

Of course, for a wizard like Roland, this is not a problem at all. If there is no road, he can create one himself.

Therefore, these collapsed stairs only took Rolando a dozen minutes.

On the broken staircase in front of the entrance to the thirty-first floor underground of the Silver Gate, Roland stood on a broken mud brick floating in mid-air, his magic power fixing and supporting the mud brick.

Next to Roland, Hela was floating beside him. Behind her, her virtual black wings were gently waving.

Roland looked at the broken platform in front of the door to the thirty-first floor, raised his right hand, and snapped his fingers.

Using the broken platform in front of him as raw material, Roland reshaped a brand new platform.

The broken soil and bricks fell off completely. Under the influence of magic, the fallen soil and bricks mixed together. Under the influence of magic, they merged and re-formed a hard and flat platform.

Then, under Roland's control, the door to the thirty-first floor of the newly formed platform moved closer, stuck to the wall, and glued together again.

After reshaping the platform, Roland also jumped lightly and landed slowly on the platform, while Hela also flapped her wings and followed.

Compared to the broken platform, the door to the 31st underground floor in front of him was still intact. There was nothing wrong with the metal door except for some dust.

As Roland and Hela approached, bright ancient dwarf runes appeared on the gate.

Roland glanced at the ancient dwarf runes on the gate. To be honest, they were not more complicated than the runes in the treasure house before. If Roland wanted to crack them by brute force, it was not impossible.

However, the silver forge is a large entity. It would be troublesome to crack it violently and perfectly control it while causing damage to it.

Even if Roland came, he estimated that it would take him at least several months, or even several years to slowly erode it to achieve this step. After all, this was the collective wisdom of the clan countries, and it was not so easy to crack.

Therefore, it is more convenient to use permission tokens.

Roland took out the Silver Forge authority token he got from the library from his space bracelet and pressed it against the authentication gap on the Silver Forge door.

After the token completed the authentication, several ancient dwarf runes appeared on the door, and then the metal door in front of Roland slowly opened.

After the door opened, Roland collected the permission token that popped up and walked into the silver forge with Hela.

After entering the silver forge, Roland and Hela saw countless huge dormant metal structures. Among them, the most eye-catching was the giant silver-white pillar in the distance that connected the ceiling and the ground.

That is the silver forge that runs through and connects the absolute core of the five-layer underground space. All the remaining metal creations in the five-layer underground space are basically derivative products born around it.

If you must say, the Silver Forge can also refer to this core alone.

Looking at the core in the distance, Roland and Hela did not waste any time. They ignored the peripheral derivatives and ran straight towards the core.

However, as Roland and Hela flew over, they also silently observed the situation inside the forge.

The interior of the Silver Forge was not intact, as some of the metal buildings had collapsed. At the same time, from what the two could sense, they could see bones and dark gray weapons and equipment everywhere in the streets and ruins. As one of the most important legacies of the Clan Kingdom, the Silver Forge was very important both in terms of political value and practical value.

Therefore, when the clan states collapsed and the dwarves fell into civil war, the dwarven warlords near the Silver Gate went crazy in order to fight for control of the Silver Forge.

According to the records of the Silver Clan, there were more than twenty dwarf warlords recorded in the Silver Gate. The powerful ones occupied more than ten to twenty underground floors, and the weaker ones occupied seven or eight floors.

However, there was no winner in this dwarf civil war. All the warlords disappeared underground. Only the dwarves who fled to the surface and away from the civil war survived, and they eventually formed the Silver Clan that has been passed down to this day.

The damage to the outermost layer of the silver forge was not very deep, but as one went deeper, the damage became more and more serious. There was even an area that was completely reduced to ruins, with nearly a thousand corpses buried in the ruins.

However, after crossing the ruined middle zone and going deeper into the core zone, the extent of damage decreased again.

Perhaps because they all knew the value of the core area, the dwarf soldiers concentrated their fighting on the streets and rarely caused damage to the buildings.

As he went deeper into the core area, he could already see the pillars that ran through the five underground floors. Roland also perceived an extremely bloody battlefield.

On the metal bridge connecting the floor and the pillars, thousands of corpses were laid out in a mess. Compared to the dwarf soldiers on the periphery, these dwarf soldiers were obviously elite, and their weapons and equipment even had a trace of weak power left.

There were even a few corpses that still retained extraordinary powers. The fact that they could still retain their powers after so many years of death, in addition to the fact that the silver forge was an enclosed space, also showed that they were more powerful than other dwarf soldiers when they were alive.

Although they still had a tiny bit of strength left, they were completely dead.

They were roughly divided into two factions, fighting each other madly on this metal bridge until they died.

It was impossible to tell who won or lost, as the number of corpses on both sides was roughly the same. Roland and Hela could only see a red bloody road leading to the core area.

Maybe a lot of stories happened when they were fighting, but dust returns to dust, earth returns to earth, and everything has disappeared in time.

Roland took a quick glance, then flew past them and directly into the core.

At the end of the bridge, the metal door of the core was open. Roland and Hela landed in front of the metal door and looked into the dark interior of the core.

Although there were some obstructions inside the core, Roland's perception was still able to overcome the obstacles and reach inside smoothly.

After confirming that it was safe, Roland pulled Hela into the core.

Following the core corridor and blood trail, the two arrived at the core's control room.

Pushing open the door and walking into the control room, Roland and Hela saw the control room stained with blood.

On the right wall of the control room, a dwarf was nailed to the wall by a long sword. His face was ferocious and he was holding the long sword with both hands, staining the sword red. Below him, there was a pool of red blood.

On the floor of the control room, there was a corpse with its chest wide open. There were some obvious metal fragments on the dry chest. In addition, his brain was also out of control, and half of his brain was flying away.

In addition, there was a headless corpse leaning against the gate, with his entire head missing.

It seems that after achieving the final victory, the dwarves who came to the control room broke out in a final internal fight, and these three dwarves who died tragically were undoubtedly the losers of this civil war.

However, since these dwarves have left obvious corpses until now, they must be at least mid-level transcendents.

Roland raised his eyebrows slightly and looked towards the console. In front of the console, the final winner of the civil war was sitting on a chair. However, he had lost all signs of life and was completely dead.

Roland and Hela did not feel any discomfort at the blood-stained control room in front of them, and walked in calmly.

Roland and Hela had seen so many scenes before that this little scene could not scare them at all. In the previous wars with the Green Tide, which war was not countless times bloodier than the one in this control room?
Roland walked to the control console and saw the dwarf extraordinary sitting in the seat with wounds all over his body and an unwilling look on his face.

Roland glanced at the token that he had crushed on his right hand, but didn't care. He took out his authority token from the space bracelet and put it into the groove of the console in front of him.

As the authority token entered the groove, the console in front of him began to operate. A glimmer of light appeared on the console, and then the entire silver forge, which was the model of the fifth underground floor, appeared in front of Roland.

The core of the model that runs through five layers in the center begins to turn blue first, emitting a faint light that spreads downward from the top of the head.

Soon, the entire core was activated. However, there was also some reddish light within the blue core. Then, the derivative buildings of the silver forge also began to glow. The blue and red lights intertwined together, illuminating the entire model.

No, why are there so many errors?
Looking at the model in front of him, Roland was speechless.

He originally thought that the Silver Forge would become a new growth point for the committee, but it turned out that if he wanted to reuse the Silver Forge, he would have to consume resources to repair and rebuild it.

Roland sighed, shook his head, and began to operate. Although the operation method of the console was a bit retro, Roland was still able to understand and operate the ancient dwarf rune structure inside the console.

After a brief understanding, Roland started the operation directly, cutting off and closing all the areas that reported errors and emitted red light.

Soon, the red light on the model dimmed and disappeared.

After closing all the error areas, Roland also confirmed the partial area of ​​the silver forge that could currently be used normally. Looking at the area that was less than one percent of the original, Roland raised his eyebrows slightly.

All I can say is, it’s better to have something than nothing.

　99 words now, almost a million words, where is the promise of becoming a god after a million words?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)