King from scratch

The increase in the number of the kingdom's subjects has caused the kingdom to slowly expand at an imperceptible speed, and it is difficult to detect such subtle changes in it.

But in fact, the oasis is constantly expanding outwards, covering more deserts and devouring the Land of God's Fall.

It's just that the vast area of ​​the Land of God's Fall makes this expansion seem like a small matter. Looking down at the Land of God's Fall from a higher place, the sense of existence of the oasis is still weak in the boundless yellow sand.

The natural barrier of the Land of God's Fall still effectively protects the kingdom... and the world outside the kingdom.

The world outside the kingdom is still recuperating for thousands of years, the ancient sacred covenant is in jeopardy, ambitious people poke their heads out from the shadows, but given the tacit peace of thousands of years, they have not yet shown their fangs to the world .

So the surface was calm, but the turbulent situation in the dark was maintained.

And the world within the kingdom changes three times a day.

With the fast-growing kingdom and the players who are not too serious about watching the excitement, everything is like a spring. Just as a new storm is set off, the next wave will slam the front wave to death on the beach.

For example, not long after the Novice Village appeared, the king's plan to build a new city had already spread among players and NPCs.

"Xincheng?" The closed beta player with an empty brain expressed no interest in this: "What does it have to do with us?"

"This kind of big project...should be very short of people, right?" The first reaction of Gandi, who had become obsessed with the task: "Is this a new large-scale task?"

"The new city is for the dwarves?" Gao Wan analyzed with reason.

"The group of dwarves never came out after entering the main city..."

The players who stayed outside the main city once again lamented how inconvenient it was not to have a chat channel, so that he and the players who stayed at other city gates could only rely on the most primitive "beacon" to transmit information.

After the players could only turn their eyes elsewhere because they couldn't upgrade, the power of the fourth natural disaster was really brought into play.

If it weren't for the objective rules to restrict them, there would be no players who would not dare to do it.

The built-in video recording and camera functions of the system are even better played by them. Although there is no live broadcast software connected to the earth, this does not prevent them from gaining a wave of popularity by editing and making videos—it can be said that holographic games directly or indirectly Supported several up masters.

Of course, His Majesty’s private messages and comments from relevant departments have long been flooded with suggestions from players. A hundred beta players can’t sum up such comprehensive game suggestions—but thousands of them are all fine. Dry onlookers can.

No way, why did His Majesty only release one hundred places for the internal test?

Others who want to play the game but don’t have to have to watch videos, photos, and posts over and over again to get relevant information. They seem to be more eager to perfect the game settings than the internal beta players, and they can’t wait to start the public beta tomorrow.

But at this time, they have no idea how far away this "tomorrow" is.

"I'm coming."

A lucky player who couldn't enter the main city because he didn't have permission, and could only stay outside the city, finally saw the moonlight when the clouds opened, and he squatted to the scene where the dwarves left the main city in a mighty manner.

"Tell the others to follow quickly."

He stretched out his hand to gather the haystack in front of him, and the side of the extremely high haystack was cleaned up, and a clearing was made. He carefully took out the flint and steel - a daily necessities produced in a dwarf factory, produced by some kind of The ore is the main body, plus a little indistinguishable liquid, just a wave of force, air friction and liquid reaction, can complete the ignition.

It's just that when you don't grasp the strength well, it's easy to burn yourself.

However, because there is no pain sensor in the game, this small flaw is not a problem for players.

The spark fell on the grass and burned quickly—another small flaw of the flint and steel is that it ignites a fire more powerful than that on the earth. As a special case, the players have more or less wasted the chance of resurrection because of this.

So after absorbing the lessons, the awareness of regulating the use of fire is deeply engraved in the hearts of the players.

The smoke from the fast-burning fire rose straight up, crossed the city wall, and reached the clouds. After staying for a few minutes, it slowly extinguished because the surrounding area was cleared in advance and lost combustible materials.

The bustling dwarves, who were heading towards the map given by His Majesty the King, turned their heads to look at the strange creature who was idle and playing with fire.

The dwarf, who had not been in contact with the players because he had been recuperating in the main city, had doubts.

"What is he doing?"

"Is he also a citizen of the kingdom?"

Adisseo King walked in the front, heard the question after another, and then looked at the players.

Adisseo King didn't know the "special features" of the players, but this didn't prevent him from learning about the heroic deeds of them killing several demons from the npc.

For this point, the players definitely belong to an extremely dangerous evil race.

He looked away, quickened his pace, and led the dwarves to continue towards their destination.

The players squatting at the gate of another city saw the blue smoke floating in the sky, and hurriedly got up and rushed towards the gate of another city.

By the time they met, the dwarf had long since disappeared.

But this is not enough to hinder the players' footsteps. After all, players lack everything, that is, players who have nothing to do.

They followed the traces left by the players closely behind the dwarf team all the way.

"Is the video turned on? Don't miss the shot."

"It's open, by the way, are the dwarves really going to build a new city?"

Another player pretended to be the host and said: "Next, I, the war reporter Wang Xiaoer, will broadcast the latest developments of the dwarves, about the location of the new city and the task of building the new city."

After Wang Xiaoer finished filming the recording material for editing, he turned his head and said to the other players behind him, "Hurry up, keep up."

Seven or eight players followed behind stealthily, it was hard to pretend not to see.

Some dwarves turned their heads to look at the players behind them, holding the most commonly used tool of dwarves - a big hammer, and stopped slowly.

"Dorona, hurry up and follow."

Dorona picked up his stopped footsteps again.

Except for this small episode, the dwarves arrived at the location set by His Majesty the King, then dispersed on the spot, and got busy.

The players watched from a distance for a while, and new doubts emerged: "What are they holding to draw on the ground?"

"This is where the new city will be built?"

"It's a bit far from Xinshou Village."

"Shh, who has the most resurrections? Go up and ask the dwarves if they can help you, and see if there are any tasks you can take."

After some dialogue, a certain player who had resurrected the most times because of fear of death left the player team and slowly approached the busy dwarves.

"Stop, what are you doing?" Dorona, who had been paying attention to the players, took the lead to stop the players from approaching.

Although the height of the dwarf only reached the player's waist, the opponent was solid, standing on the ground like a small cannonball.

The player is stiff all over: "Do you... need help?"

When Dorona heard this, he was furious: "Are you insulting the dwarves?"

"No, no, no! Excuse me, I'm leaving now." The player shuddered, and disappeared in front of Duo Longna.

Duo Longna was stunned for two seconds because of the opponent's too fast running posture.

"Dorona, why did he run away?" The dwarf passing by glanced at the rolling and crawling player, suspecting that the always bad-tempered Dorona threatened the other party: "Didn't I tell you to hold back your temper?" ? This is in the human kingdom."

Dorona, who was holding the hammer, said stiffly: "He actually thinks that the dwarves need their help! I think he looks down on us."

"What? Look down on the dwarves?" The dwarves on the side heard the key words, stood up straight one by one, stretched out their hands to hold the big hammer, and cast unfriendly glances at the players not far away.

Seeing that the conflict was inevitable, and it was even very likely to repeat the same mistakes as the demons, the appearance of another team directly prevented the conflict from happening.

Because there are really too many of them.

The players are also confused by the failure of communication.

"Why did you come back after you were rolling and crawling? Didn't talk well?"

The player who rolled and crawled back said: "The dwarf has a bad temper..."

"Isn't this normal?"

The cowardly player chose Congxin: "How about we run first? I think they are going to rush over."

Wang Xiaoer stroked his chin and raised a dangerous thought: "The dwarf...could it be a monster?"

Some players are eager to try: "Shall I go to the forum and shout out to start a group?"

Seeing that the players' thoughts were about to slip into the dangerous abyss, the sound of uniform footsteps interrupted them.

A team emerges from another direction.

Uniform animal clothes, uniform steps, vigorous footsteps, the style of the painting is so abrupt that it is incompatible with the entire game.

The familiar sense of sight made the players fall into thinking.

The dwarves visibly became vigilant.

"I seem to be dazzled..." The player tugged at the player beside him: "This is... an army?"

"It's normal for the kingdom to have an army, right?" Wang Xiaoer swallowed, trembling, not sure if he wanted to convince the other party or himself.

"But why do I feel that this queue, this marching pace, this uniform posture is a bit familiar... I seem to have seen it somewhere?"

"parade……"

"Cough, cough, cough," Wang Xiaoer interrupted the increasingly dangerous topic with a series of coughs, and forcefully said, "I didn't expect that the planner would directly arrange an army for the kingdom, ha-ha-ha, it's really creative. "

"This is an npc?" Another player didn't quite believe it: "Why do I feel like they are..."

"Of course it's an NPC." Wang Xiaoer said decisively: "There are only [-] places in the internal test, no matter how you look at it, this team has at least..."

He roughly estimated the number: "Five or six hundred? How could it be a player? Take a look at this uniform appearance, and look at this military posture..."

"Wait, this military posture looks familiar too."

"Planning to do something? The army settings are directly copied from the Huaguo army? I'm afraid you want to cancel the internal test directly?"

"No, isn't His Majesty the King directly in touch with the relevant departments? You should still have this kind of basic political sense, right?"

The players whispered to each other, and the group looked around, with the leading leader walking towards the dwarves.

"Hello, we are the 117th team responsible for this project."

Andy Su Jin looked up at the other party, and then at the neat team behind him, a little uncertain: "You are the free labor force that His Majesty the King said to help build the school?"

As Adisseo King said, he couldn't help but mutter—where did these people come from?

Andy Su King has witnessed the development of the kingdom from a small deserted village to its current scale, and he has watched the scene where the people of the kingdom appear out of thin air not once or twice.

But this team is different. If the people of the kingdom are born fighters, then they have become fighters with sharp blades-the style of order and prohibition makes them exceptionally different.

The dwarves, who didn't connect the appearance of these people with the batch of helmets that the factory had produced urgently before, couldn't draw a conclusion, put the problem behind them, and focused on their eyes.

"The building materials haven't arrived yet. We plan to plan the next project according to the king's drawings and divide it into different areas..." Andy Su Jin took out a thick roll of animal skin from his back basket and handed it to the other party: " Did the king tell you what to do?"

The team leader opened the hide, and a detailed and complicated design appeared in front of his eyes. In addition to the panoramic view of the school, there were also the specific styles of each area. It was so detailed that one could be sure that this design covering all areas of the school must be It took countless efforts and time of the designer.

Although it's just the system doing it at will.

He glanced at the animal hide, bent down and handed it back to the dwarf: "Your Majesty the King asked us to come and help."

Adisseo King thought for a few seconds: "Then don't move around, we will do what we say, understand?"

A task bar popped up in front of the team leader—that’s right, although the Special Investigation Bureau got a batch of internal test places through the back door and got the treatment of not logging in from Novice Village, but their essence as players has not changed at all. .

The team leader accepted the task, and in an instant, the standard standing team fell into pieces and mixed in with the dwarves.

If you observe carefully, you will find that even after being broken into parts, the team still has a certain pattern, and each dwarf is divided into two or three humans.

At first it was the dwarves who impatiently ordered the humans to lay hands, outline, and mark, but soon, unconsciously, everything became orderly.

The dwarves scattered in various areas gathered into a row without knowing when, and moved towards the other end in an orderly manner.

The dwarves didn't realize the problem at first, but as the area of ​​the division gradually expanded, the dwarves, who were immersed in tacit cooperation with humans, gradually realized that something was wrong.

During the whole process, no one opened their mouths to chat, nor did they have any complaints. The originally somewhat loose atmosphere unknowingly became solemn. In the end, the dwarves who had been chatting casually before all fell silent.

Until a certain time at noon, the humans who were working silently stopped their movements, lined up outside the work area in a uniform manner, sat down in place, took out dried meat from their animal skin pockets, and began to eat lunch.

The dwarves were stunned by their style of leaving and eating as soon as they said they wanted to, and while they were relieved, they got together and communicated in a low voice.

"Adisu...what's the situation with them?"

"Is this human?"

"This is definitely not human!"

Adisseo King also subconsciously took out the uniformly distributed jerky, gnawed a few mouthfuls thoughtfully, and suddenly said, "How did you think about the king's previous proposal?"

The dwarves took out the jerky one after another, started lunch time, and changed the topic in a few words.

"It's not good that there is no wine in this place. How can you have a meal without wine?"

"I think you are right. This kingdom is indeed amazing. Where did the human king conjure up such an army?"

"Although the number is a little less..."

"By the way, I have an idea about the effective use of black bloodstone..."

A dwarf was talking, and took out a charcoal pencil to draw on the ground: "This way of using energy is still too rough, I think we can find a more efficient and safer way... "

"Under the premise that the key raw materials are not enough, this way of using it is the best choice now..."

Adisseo King took a bite of the jerky, ignored the messy conversations of the others, and continued: "The king didn't force the dwarves to become his subjects, he provided another option."

Adisseo King looked around at the dwarves, and the dwarves got together, talking about their own topic in a low voice, and didn't respond to his words.

Adisseo King didn't respond to their indifference, and continued: "Relying on work in exchange for the right to stay in the kingdom..."

Finally, some dwarves responded. A dwarf took a sip of water and interrupted Adisseo King: "I think the human king's other proposal is also very good."

The other dwarves agreed.

"I agree, you will be the dwarf king and lead the dwarves to rebuild the dwarf kingdom!"

"The human king said that the civil strife of other races has nothing to do with him, but if it has anything to do with the kingdom's people, then he will stand by the kingdom's people."

"He will support you!"

After initially knowing the special features of the kingdom—especially the fact that the black blood stone can be used by them, the dwarves all acknowledged what Adisseo King said at the beginning that the human kingdom is full of miracles and is extremely powerful.

It's a hard thing to define, and it can be bad - a powerful and covetous state is the worst possible option for anyone but a kingdom.

It can also be a good thing - for the current status of dwarves.

In the long time since the split, the dwarf kingdom has gradually formed several major forces. There are many conflicts among them, and they have different ideas. Now that they are getting farther and farther away, the dwarves can hardly see a trace. These major forces will sit Come down for a handshake and the possibility of reunification.

With the help of external forces, forced unification has become a better choice.

But whether the external forces are trustworthy or not is another matter. How do you know if driving wolves into the house is not leading wolves into the house?

But this is not something that wandering dwarves will think about. After all, they are just a group of dwarves who choose to wander on their own because they are powerless. Their abilities are not enough for them to think deeply about more things behind this choice.

But Adisseo King thought about it and made a choice.

He never thought of becoming a dwarf king, let alone becoming a dwarf king after becoming a kingdom citizen.

Because he is very sure that this is the dwarf kingdom as the best spoils to give to the king.

This is the real betrayal.

At least at the moment, Adisseo King thought so, so he interrupted the dwarves.

"I won't be a dwarf king." Andy Su Jin gnawed on the dried meat and said vaguely, "I'm not suitable to be a king."

This is not the first time that the dwarves have been rejected, as early as when the human king made this proposal, they were firmly rejected by Adisseo King once.

That's why they didn't want to answer Adisseo King just now.

On this point, they disagreed with Adisseo King.

"Why is it not suitable?" Dorona gnawed on the dried meat and said, "If you don't want to be the dwarf king, how can you change the status quo?"

Adisseo King didn't pick up.

Another dwarf said: "However, Adisseo has been preaching about preparing for war, ready to launch a war or counter the attack of other kingdoms at any time..." He came back to his senses: "I didn't mention how to reunify the dwarf kingdom."

The dwarves stopped their movements and cast their gazes at Adisseo King.

Adisseo King said calmly: "No one would want to see the Qiuyuan tribe, the Dongnulie family, and the dwarf elders reunite to reunite the dwarf kingdom. They will use all means to prevent it from becoming a reality."

"I chose the kingdom because I hope that if the war starts, the dwarves will still have a final resting place, so that they will not become slaves and lose their freedom and homeland."

He chose to become a citizen of the kingdom, not because he embraced the idea of ​​unifying the dwarven kingdom through the power of the kingdom.

Adisseo King has been extremely pessimistic about the future of the dwarves and the upcoming war from the beginning.

So he is a staunch main fighter, because he is sure that compromise and hesitation will only make the future of the dwarves worse.

And what they have to do is to fight for a glimmer of life before everything starts and before the strong wind sweeps across the land.

"But we can also go beyond that."

Dorona puzzled: "The human kingdom is full of miracles, and the dwarves support you. Why don't you try to unify the dwarf kingdom?"

"Instead of leaving the last chance to linger, we should lead the war." The dwarves said one after another: "If other races try to stop them, then crush them!"

The dwarves are gradually weakening. The mechanical army that once attracted the attention of the entire continent has long since disappeared in the long river of history. Today, the dwarves have lost the kingdom to rely on, and have become irritable, stubborn, and naive due to the lack of collective education for a long time .

On the top of the towering church, Silence stands above the kingdom, overlooking everything that happens in this land.

Not long ago, Adisseo King felt that he had made the right choice, but now, he had self-doubt again.

Could it be that the prelude to the war was due to the choice of the dwarves?