Vared and his group continued to head north. Although the carriage was gone, the road ahead was even harder, but Vared and others were not fragile greenhouse flowers. In addition, the magical anti-cold spells, so despite the increasing wind and snow, they still persisted.

Walking further, there was no attack along the way. After three days of rushing, I met with the patrol troops sent by the Northern Defense Zone and received supplies. The crowd was a little excited. On the morning of the fourth day, I arrived at Titila, where the command center of the Northern Defense Zone was located. A large fortress renovated with a abandoned city in the Dwarf Kingdom.

This fortress is nearly 100 kilometers eastward, which is the territory of the Nirakochi family. This time they also sent personnel to negotiate. Because Kastein's side was an earl, the Nirakochi family took the Titila Fortress as the negotiation site and took the initiative to come here in order to show respect.

"In front, there is one of the largest fortresses in the northern border of the territory, Titila. Tens of thousands of years ago, the dwarves were built in their heyday. They were captured by the green-skinned army two thousand years ago, and then occupied by us and transformed into a fortress. It has been until now."

Next to Vared, the vampire officer who came to greet him pointed at the mountain that had been completely fortified and introduced it. Vared followed the direction of his finger and opened the witchcraft vision and looked over.

I saw a mountain fortress that was thousands of meters high and could not be distinguished from the mountain. The entire mountain had no sound at the height of 200 meters, which was a natural city wall. Two hundred meters upwards were the city. Looking at the easy-to-climb places in the mountain, the easy-to-climb parts were cut into ninety degrees. Several slightly protruding places were reinforced and enlarged by the civil and wood brick structure. Shooting towers extended from the mountain.

This huge city can only pass eight mountain roads, east, south, northeast, northwest, northeast, southeast, and southwest. The mountain roads are extremely steep. From a distance, it looks like a ladder entering the clouds. There are ambushings on the mountain roads. There are blocks everywhere. The ones are as solid as a soup!

Seeing the mountain fortress, Vared gasped and turned to face the vampire officer: "This kind of strong city is unheard of. How could the Greenskin Army defeat such a city back then?"

The vampire officer saw the shock on Valed's face and felt proud in his heart. He continued to explain:

"Before this fortress was originally a settlement, and its defense was not as strict as it is now. Many of the defensive measures now were built by us in Silvania. Also, I heard that Greenskin attacked Titela for a few years, and the dwarves in the city were gone. In addition, Greenskin was lucky, and found a passage leading directly to Titela from the underground dwarf tunnel. Attacked from the underground, so that Titela was knocked down."

"So that's it." Vared nodded and then asked, "So has the problem of underground tunnel been solved? Or does this fortress still have such shortcomings?"

"Of course it has been solved, Count." The vampire officer replied: "It took us decades to seal all the tunnels around the fortress. At the same time, we also have enough means to monitor the movements around us. If the enemy wants to dig the tunnels and attack the fortress, we can know it immediately and take corresponding measures."

"I'll feel relieved if this happens. It seems that we do have a very reliable fortress. Of course, there is another big reason for this, because we have a group of officers as reliable as you." Vared nodded, and at the same time praised the officer with no slight or seriousness.

"Thank you for your praise." The officer responded immediately.

In this way, I ran to the mountain and died. Although I could see the fortress from afar, the time I really arrived was in the afternoon. After walking for most of the day, even Valed felt a little tired.

The other three girls were even more drowsy. Especially Maya, who was riding a horse for the first time, almost fell down after getting off the horse's back, and her legs seemed to be no longer her own. The only exception was Anne. She was better in her mental state than Vared. She is worthy of being a vampire knight who has been training for many years.

The mountain road entering the fortress is even more difficult to walk. Fortunately, the nightmare war horses of the Blood Holy Grail Knight are also well-trained undead creatures. Otherwise, if the ordinary war horses of living creatures are replaced, this ladder-like mountain road will definitely not be able to go up. At this point, Vared's evaluation of Titilla's defense has increased again.

It is difficult to walk on the mountain road, but the undead can take steps like a mechanical one. Vared and his party even blessed a floating technique and it would be fine.

After rising more than 200 meters and passing several levels, I saw a hole. Because vampires have night vision, the same is true for the undead. So the cave is pitch black and there is no light source or lighting equipment at all.

Vared and his group arrived here, and the undead army was led by another officer to the military area. Vared looked at the cave again and found that the traces of artificial excavation were very obvious. The four walls of the cave were covered with traces of cutting and axe. I think it was not easy for dwarves to carve such a cave on the huge mountain.

The cave was not very deep, and it reached the bottom in just over twenty meters. Vared and his party were wondering why it was just that. The vampire officer who led them pointed at them. Vared and his party looked over and saw an upward stone staircase. After asking again, they knew what it was.

What Vared had always imagined was wrong to hollow out the entire mountain and look like an empty shell. In fact, the houses - or caves - of this mountain fortress were almost so big.

Every section of the rock on the mountain, the dwarves emptied a cave to connect the caves with stone stairs, forming a mountain network similar to the tunnel network they built underground. Usually the two networks are connected to each other and together form the living scope of the dwarf society. The place where Vared and the others just entered, the stone chamber was just an entrance.

However, whether it is a mountain network or an underground network, for novices like Valed, it seems like a maze. Coupled with the dim and dull environment and the narrow, depressing space, Valed, who has always been used to life on the surface, feels very uncomfortable.

Fortunately, he was not alone. The vampires who occupied this place hundreds of years ago were also not used to it, so they drilled through many mountains and built exposed arrow tower fortresses. In this way, they lived in it and could breathe in the air without leaving the fortress.

"It's like a groundhog or a rabbit."

Finally, Vared, who had almost lost his sense of direction, and could not help but sigh. Then he heard a sharp ear, and there seemed to be a groundhog or a rabbit in front of him. He had a loud voice and was very rude. His accent didn't look like a human or a vampire. Because the southern common language the other party said would take a lot of effort to understand.

Confronting this sound are the other two sounds that sound normal. However, it is obvious that the two sounds are not as loud as the first one.

"Dwarf?" Vared turned his head and looked at the vampire officer who was leading them.

"Yes, it's a dwarf..." the officer said a little helplessly: "The envoy of the Dwarf Kingdom who came a few days ago pestered General Rana every day, saying that we would let the rich mining area on the border beside us."

"As mentioned in the information, these damn dwarves." Vared snorted secretly. Looking at the girls around him, they all seemed to be dissatisfied.

"But you don't need to worry about him for the time being. You are tired from the journey. Please take a break first and wait until tomorrow to participate in the meeting." The vampire officer said to Vared.

"I'm grateful for my kindness. But I'm just so idle." Vared snorted and said, "Take me to the conference room. I want to see what this unreasonable dwarf messenger looks like."

The vampire officer looked at Vared's indifference with anger, as if he could burst out at any time. He was afraid that the count would be young and energetic and messed up the matter, so he wanted to persuade him again. However, Vared took action himself. He listened to the voice and walked over. The vampire officer complained secretly in his heart. He had no choice but to follow him.

So in a moment, the door of the conference room, which was in fierce debate, suddenly opened. Vared, with a bad face, stepped in, first nodded to several fellow tribes in the room, and then looked at the squid with a long beard.

"Are you the messenger sent by the Dwarf Kingdom?" Vared asked.

"It's me, Tasorio Okalatta, the messenger of the supreme king of the dwarf, Thorin Grubild. Who are you?!" The dwarf looked at Valed and shouted loudly without being outdone.

"Count Valed von Castein Castein is also the object of your negotiations - but before we talk, I have something I want to ask you clearly!"

"What's the matter?!" Seeing the bad appearance of Valed's visitor, the dwarf who claimed to be Tasorio also lowered his voice and seemed to have become much more cautious.

"That's it!" Vared roared, and took out the scales of two large pangolins in his subspace: "I encountered an attack from dwarves on the way here, with more than 500 fully armed dwarf soldiers, and two giant pangolins! I want you to explain this matter clearly, otherwise I will not rule out the possibility that I will use force to solve this matter!" (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!