Chapter 699: Abnormality
Translator: Shiraishi Editor: TheAlliance
Many precious materials and docunts were engraved in so of the buildings of the ruins in order to be preserved for a long ti, but the buildings themselves would suffer the greatest damage during excavation, causing a lot of it to be damaged beyond repair.
The Firerock Dwarves could unearth these valuable materials without causing any damage.
This was also why, in a few millennia, major forces were willing to bleed to hire a Firerock Dwarf to excavate ruins.
But these Firerock Dwarves weren’t without weaknesses. They were obsessed with blacksmithing and craftsmanship. Anything new could make a Firerock Dwarf crazy with desire.
Lin Yun still rembered the most famous occurrence of a Firerock Dwarf being swindled. An alchemist once had a sudden stroke of inspiration and fused a few kinds of materials by refining them to obtain a composite tal that didn’t actually look like a composite tal. It looked just like a common piece of magic tal.
That guy looked for a Firerock Dwarf to appraise it. Who would have thought that the Dwarf would appraise it as a never-before-seen magic tal and then hug it as if his life depended on it?
Then, that alchemist, who had just beco a Master Alchemist, did sothing even crazier. He used that piece of magic tal to deceive an entire clan of Firerock Dwarves.
The piece of fake magic tal was given to these Firerock Dwarves, but the price was to have their clan serve him for two centuries.
During the first hundred years, he used these Firerock Dwarves to crazily excavate ruins, raking in absurd amounts of wealth and resources. He then relied on these resources to reach the peak of the Artisan realm, and his strength also grew to the peak of the 9th Rank Archmage realm by taking advantage of all the valuable materials he got from the ruins.
But after a hundred years, that piece of tal he had given to the Firerock Dwarves was eventually discovered to be fake.
Ultimately, that guy was chased by the angry Dwarves through three planes before being turned into paste by the dwarven hamrs. His skull was hung at the entrance of the Firerock Dwarven Clan all year long.
“What should we do? The Firerock Dwarves are the strongest of the three races, they aren’t easy to talk to, and they are very irritable, slly, and forceful...” Elsa was worried. They were about to find what they were looking for, but the Firerock Dwarves were in the way. There was nothing more vexing than this.
Lin Yun waved his hand, not worried at all. Instead, he grinned as if he had heard sothing laughable. “It’s all right, it’s actually very easy to negotiate with Firerock Dwarves.”
After saying that, Lin Yun took out a few pieces of high-rank magic tal.
Enderfa glanced at them and his mouth twitched. “Although these magic tals are quite good, these Firerock Dwarves won’t be lacking in those. You plan on bribing the Firerock Dwarves with these? You are hoping for too much...”
Lin Yun remained silent and took out a refining table and used Flaming Hand to wrap the tals together.
Soon, the few pieces of tal lted together, and under Lin Yun’s control, these lting pieces of tal slowly flowed towards the center of the array on the refining table.
The array started shining as the liquid tal slowly fused within. As the last fla dissipated, the liquid tal quickly solidified, turning into a block of silvery-gray magic tal.
But the fluctuations coming from that piece of magic tal were those of a low-rank magic tal.
Enderfa was distracted as he looked at the piece of composite tal. “I hope you aren’t thinking of using this piece of tal to trick the Firerock Dwarves? They can’t be tricked...”
Lin Yun smiled as he held the tal up. “Who says that this is composite tal? This is a piece of unknown magic tal!”
Lin Yun knew of the Dwarves being cheated for a hundred years, so how could he not know what array was used? Although he couldn’t make a perfect fake at the mont, by using a few high-rank tals and discarding their effects, he created a composite piece of tal that could only be seen as a true low-rank magic tal. There was no problem.
Moreover, they were only here to enter the ruins and get the Incarnation, which wouldn’t take too long. He only needed to trick them for a bit; he certainly wouldn’t need a hundred years.
Elsa was stunned as she was dragged along by Lin Yun. Just as they approached the ruins, they were discovered by a few Firerock Dwarves.
“Who are you!?”
In an instant, a dozen hamr-wielding Firerock Dwarves rushed over and surrounded Lin Yun and Elsa.
“What are you up to?” a Firerock Dwarf loudly shouted, but then, his eyes were attracted by the piece of low-rank magic tal in Lin Yun’s hands, and the other Firerock Dwarves stared at it too.
“Hey, what’s that piece of tal in your hand?” A Firerock Dwarf apparently forgot to ask about their origins, his attention too focused on that tal.
Lin Yun smiled and raised his hand.
“You an this? I also don’t know, I unexpectedly obtained it while being chased by an Orachiss. I searched through all kinds of records, but I couldn’t find out what kind of tal this was, so I thought that the Firerock Dwarven Clan would definitely now. Thus, I ca to give it to you.”
Lin Yun threw the piece of tal, and all the eyes of all the Dwarves followed its path through the air.
“Gifting it to us? For real?”
After hurriedly catching the piece of tal, the leading Firerock Dwarf looked pleasantly surprised, but he then recalled sothing and hesitantly asked, “What are you after? Do you have your sight on these ruins?”
Though he was a bit wary, the Dwarf was still caressing the piece of tal as if it was a lover.
Lin Yun shook his head. “We have no interest in this ruins themselves, but a Magic Tool Incarnation of the Dark Elven Clan has escaped here. We wish to capture it and return it, but we don’t have any interest in what’s inside the ruins.”
Hearing this, how could the cheerful Dwarf still doubt them? He promptly agreed.
“Okay, you can go in, but you can only catch that Magic Tool Incarnation. Anything else has to remain in place.” He gestured to the others, and a few Firerock Dwarves hurriedly opened the entrance of the ruins, apparently afraid that Lin Yun would back out of this deal.
Enderfa was thoroughly stunned this ti.
Xiuban scratched his head, running off his mouth and asking, “It’s not such a good tal, is it?”
The leading Firerock tal disdainfully glanced at him. “How could a Beastman like you understand? This is an extrely rare first-rate magic tal!”
Xiuban opened his mouth but didn’t know what to say.
Enderfa had an ugly expression and mumbled after a while, “Just f*cking go...”
The group of Firerock Dwarves acted like hospitable hosts and urged Lin Yun’s group to enter the ruins, not even asking who they were.
The group seed to have lost all ability to reason. How could such a hastily made composite tal make these Firerock Dwarves act so brainlessly?
Lin Yun also felt that this was going smoothly... Too smoothly, as he hadn’t even gotten a chance to use all the eloquent words and explanations that he’d prepared.
They clearly weren’t a group of Dark Elves. Going in the ruins to capture a Dark Elven Clan’s Magic Tool Incarnation, who would believe such nonsense so easily?
Lin Yun had pulled Elsa with him to reveal her identity as a Dark Elven Princess, but these Firerock Dwarves didn’t even ask...
‘Isn’t this too careless? Firerock Dwarves are fanatical when encountering new and unknown materials, but it wouldn’t be to this extent, not to the point where they would let unknown people enter the ruins, right?’
Lin Yun turned to glance at those Firerock Dwarves and suddenly realized sothing was wrong.
These Firerock Dwarves had surprised him with their ready acceptance of the tal, which had almost made him overlook this detail.
The eyes of Firerock Dwarves were red, especially when they were emotional, which would make their eyes look like burning flas.
And what could make the Firerock Dwarves more emotional than discovering a new magic tal?
Nothing.
These Firerock Dwarves looked extrely excited, but their eyes weren’t red at all... It looked like blue flas were burning within.
“Sothing’s wrong! Everyone stop!” Lin Yun shouted in a low voice.
No one knew why Lin Yun was stopping them, but he was frowning while looking at the Firerock Dwarves. Sure enough, all the Firerock Dwarves seed to have blue flas flickering in their eyes, giving a completely different impression from normal Firerock Dwarves.
The leading Firerock Dwarf was startled by Lin Yun’s suddenly stop and quickly put the magic tal away.
“What? Why are you still here? Since you already gifted it to us, don’t think of taking it back!” one of the Firerock Dwarves loudly shouted.
“Go in! Quick, go in! Damnit, why are you still here?”
“They are definitely regretting! We can’t let them snatch this piece of magic tal!”
“Make them go in! No, they are definitely regretting, what should we do?”
“Kill them! Right, we can only kill them, and the magic tal will be ours!”
The blue flas in the eyes of the Firerock Dwarves were now flickering even more fiercely.
Lin Yun hadn’t said a word to them. He’d only stopped, yet those Firerock Dwarves now wanted to kill them. After the first Firerock Dwarf expressed his doubts, the rest approved imdiately.
“It’s no good, there is so abnormality with these Firerock Dwarves...”
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