Since they understood the opponent's movement pattern, there was no suspense in this battle. Apart from a little magic and arrows, they did not suffer any casualties.
The surrender of the ogres was also very smooth. There were more than 3 teams in total, and the fat man No. 40 had now become Levi's subordinates.
Most of them are level 3 ogre bull warriors, occasionally mixed with a few level 4 mercenary veterans, and among them is an elite ogre named Leslie who uses gloves as a weapon.
If they are used as cannon fodder in the front row, they are definitely enough. At least their health points and size are there.
But when he saw this number, Li Wei couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. He thought about it for a moment and realized that before the war started, the opponent's number was almost this.
Good guy, could it be that these guys were fishing all the way and not many died in total?
After accepting the other party, Li Wei took the opportunity to inquire about the other party's origins.
Sure enough, just as Sonia said before, the opponent was a wandering army named "Zadek Earth Spirit".
Under the leadership of the tauren shaman, they did nothing else all day but robbed everywhere, killing almost every person they saw and robbing every village they saw.
Because their leader is a shaman with some brains, they never confront large groups of enemies head-on, and only attack villages that are very weakly defended.
Due to their strong strength and the heroic units leading the team, no matter whether they are humans, greenskins or dwarves, they are almost indistinguishable in front of them, which allows them to always mix well.
It's just that after those ogres joined by chance, they felt that if they continued to attack like this indiscriminately, they might not end well.
They had all worked as mercenaries in the Southern Kingdom, where Leslie got his name. Whether it was experience or brains, it could be said that they were much better than ordinary beastmen.
They know the power of gunpowder weapons and magic, and can kill more people than the beastman's ax can.
So after seeing Li Wei's powerful magic, they, who were already somewhat thoughtful, immediately began to prepare a surrender plan, and finally joined Li Wei's team very smoothly.
The reason why they came out of their hometown was to work for others to make a living. Living with Li Wei and the others would definitely be much better than living with those beastmen.
After listening, not only Li Wei, but everyone present couldn't help but sigh, who said the ogre has no brains?
However, if the elite ogres who can make this plan can be properly cultivated, they may have the potential to become a heroic unit.
After leaving some people to clean the battlefield, Levi directly entered the treasure house that was previously guarded by them.
Although Lilith said it was empty, he was really curious.
After actually entering, Levi discovered that the goddess and himself did not seem to have exactly the same concept of "emptiness".
Because there are still many neat rows of metal ingots, stones, wood, etc. in front of you, as well as some processed dwarf armor and weapons, and even hundreds of muskets, five ballistae, and three trebuchets.
Naturally, Levi and his subordinates immediately started collecting all the materials. In order to pursue efficiency, he even asked Sofia, Sefa and others to join in.
Although the unit price of these things is very low, the quantity is here. I dare not say that there are more than three thousand or four thousand gold coins.
It seems that the dwarves here were really in a hurry when they were escaping.
After working for a long time and collecting the things, the whole warehouse suddenly felt empty.
By this time, Levi had probably figured out why Lilith said that before.
Because in a certain corner, there are indeed at least a dozen treasure boxes being opened, and there is a teleportation circle next to them.
Although the dwarves cannot use magic, they can still do it by hiring someone to set one up in case they escape at a critical moment.
If that was all, he was not very satisfied after running so fast for hundreds of miles.
But he knew that this thing could only be regarded as a pre-dinner dessert. The real highlight lies in the two goddesses.
It is foreseeable that after the two goddesses deal with the mysterious vampire and the nine volumes of Nagash, he may get more.
Even though he didn't hear much because of the distance, judging from Yue Gong's performance, the vampire who was able to fight with Ma La for so long seemed to have something hidden.
After finishing these things, Li Wei began to evacuate with his troops. He planned to find a place to rest in the surrounding villages first, and then send people to continue exploring the ruins here tomorrow and to find out information about the black iron mines in the north.
Virginia originally planned for him to attack there with the wood elves. Now, although the wood elves' reinforcements are gone, her own troops have not suffered much losses, so they can also go and have a look.
While they were thinking about it, before they could find a suitable place to stay, Virginia ran over with a face full of joy.
"Levi, I have received the latest information. Just now, a large number of undead have withdrawn from the black iron mines. The place is almost empty now!"
Although the attack plan failed to come true, she and the wood elves still maintained reconnaissance operations there. Unexpectedly, such a big change had happened now. This was almost an opportunity given to Li Wei by the gods!
Li Wei also became energetic, and then he immediately thought of the two goddesses. Before leaving, he cast his gaze towards the north.
Did they do something, or was it just a warning that had such an effect?
Speaking of which, Hermann Goost was notoriously timid.
Because he has enemies all over the world, he has to keep his head down and behave like a human being. When such a big event happened in the Dark Territory before, he didn't dare to show up in person.
Even though he is a legend, he is much worse than the Vampire Queen in this regard.
Speaking of the Vampire Queen, Levi felt that her final fate might not be particularly tragic.
She abducted many knights from the Kingdom of Bator in Silver Peak, and when she saw Lilith for the first time, she felt guilty and wanted to run away.
In this way, it is actually very obvious.
She had known about Lilith's dual identity for a long time, that's why she seemed so scared.
But so far, no relevant information seems to have leaked out to the world, indicating that she is still very tight-lipped.
In other words, she may also want to exchange it for greater benefits.
With Lilith's wisdom, there are probably only three ways to deal with her.
Treat him to a guest, behead him, and treat him like a dog!
With this sigh, Li Wei walked quickly and went straight to the black iron mine.
Occasionally, you will encounter scattered greenskins and beastmen on the road. I don’t know if they were dispersed before or attracted by the excitement. After all, the battle between Maura and the vampire was a real earthquake.
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But Li Wei had no intention of paying attention to them, and left them all to Luna and the supervisors to handle them on their behalf.
Naturally, they have talents, but their level is still too low. When facing a truly powerful enemy, it is still difficult to put them to use. They should seize the time to become stronger.
Thanks to the guidance of Virginia and the Wood Elf, they chose the shortest and safest journey.
After spending some time, a low castle in the distance appeared in their sight. It was the dwarf castle at the black iron mine.
From a distance, it appears to be much smaller than an ordinary novice village. It can probably accommodate two to three hundred people.
But this is not the case. There are more parts of this castle buried underground than above ground.
According to Virginia, who has been here before, this castle actually has four floors in total.
A long time ago, dwarves, like humans and elves, lived on the plains and in towns.
But later, because the main world was invaded by demons and demons, as well as greenskins, beasts, and ratmen, etc., they lost a large number of people and towns under internal and external attacks.
In order to better continue their race, they chose to build this special castle for easier defense.
After the demons and devils were repelled, the dwarves finally recovered and when they wanted to walk out of the castle, they found that the outside world had changed too much and it was no longer realistic for them to return to the plains.
Firstly, it is because humans and other races have already developed and occupied large areas of territory.
Secondly, most dwarves have become accustomed to and fall in love with the life of living in the castle.
Finally, because when dwarves mine underground, they will inevitably be invaded by other underground races.
If it is an ordinary town, it will often be successfully invaded by the other party by drilling holes. At that time, attacks, plunders, and thefts will likely occur.
But this kind of castle located underground can help them better resist such enemies.
So now almost all dwarves live in this kind of castle.
The reason why I say almost is because farther north than the original Red Cloud Tribe, those Chaos Dwarves do not live in ordinary castles, but in large military fortresses.
They enslave large numbers of greenskins, hobgoblins, and even real demons to serve them.
Coupled with their unique demonic power and various weird and powerful war instruments, they are really not afraid of others attacking them.
But there is still a problem. Goddess Lilith said that some survivors of the dwarves in the abyss of pollution have escaped. It can be seen from the magic circle in the treasure house that this is indeed the case.
So what if after they occupy the black iron mine, they claim sovereignty over it and want to take it back?
After thinking about it, Levi's eyes couldn't help but move to Tree Stump. It seemed that he needed to put some effort into this matter.
Dwarves are much more tolerant of their own race than those of other races.
After sighing a little, Luna quickly brought back the latest news. The black iron mine was now a mess, with blood and broken limbs everywhere.
It even polluted a large lake on the east side. It was obvious at a glance that Gou Site had done many evil experiments here before.
There was still a faint smell of death in the castle, and there were even dozens of ghouls wandering around the door, but she did not notice any movement of large-scale undead.
After hearing the news, Levi was also in a good mood. There were ghouls at the door, indicating that no one else had probably visited here yet.
Otherwise, those guys won't care who comes, they will just launch an indiscriminate attack on all living beings.
He immediately ordered an attack, but out of caution, he summoned the creature first, and he specifically chose the shadow element.
Let these guys go in. If there are enemies inside, it's hard to say who will ambush whom.
Facts have proved that Ghost has indeed run away.
Because except for some ghouls, Shadow Element, the supervisors and others searched together and found no enemies. Instead, they were the first to find some dwarf villagers imprisoned in prison.
In fact, for most undead, they don't like fighting dwarves.
Dwarves are born with magic resistance and are well-equipped. Whether it is low-level necromancers or ordinary zombies and skeletons, they are not easy to beat.
Secondly, the dwarves held grudges and defended their shortcomings, beating the younger ones, and then the older ones came, but their life spans were particularly long.
If you offend them, if you don't kill them all, maybe dozens of people will come to your door while you are lying at home, wanting to avenge a certain dead elder.
Finally, and most importantly, because dwarves are born with magic resistance, it is relatively difficult to transform into undead.
Moreover, they have short legs when they are alive. When they die, they transform into zombies, which are more difficult to use than human zombies.
As for the Black Knight and the like, let alone that, they can't be transformed at all.
As for the weapons, armor and gold coins that the dwarves are proud of, most undead are not very interested.
For the undead who are accustomed to fighting to support fighting, the input and output of attacking the dwarves are seriously disproportionate.
So generally speaking, they don't want to provoke dwarves, and they don't like to kill them. They try not to offend them as much as possible.
Capturing a town and killing all the residents is a great shame and humiliation for the dwarves, but hatred also has levels.
The residents here were lucky enough not to be killed by the always cautious Ghost.
Gouste, indeed lives up to her surname, is quite good at "gou".
However, Levi did not pay attention to them immediately, but went straight to the central hub of the castle. No matter what the dwarves' attitude was later, he had to occupy this place first!
As a glimmer of light flashed, a new territory was opened under Li Wei's command.
Li Wei took a quick look and found that this place was indeed not as good as Thorn Town, but it was much better than Blood Glory.
The entire castle is divided into four floors. The first floor is located on the ground and is the facade of the dwarves. It is usually used by the dwarves to receive foreigners, conduct military training, etc.
In addition to the meeting hall and military barracks, there is also a special building here, the black iron rune gate.
When in good condition, it has 60 points of physical defense, 40 points of magic resistance, and up to 8,000 points of health.
It can be said that if they were ordinary low-level troops, even if they were allowed to fight, it would be almost impossible to attack them.
However, although the gate is difficult to attack, the stone buildings on both sides are relatively easy to destroy, and the gate is not completely sealed. The dwarves behind the door have no good resistance to magic such as the Stinky Cloud Spell.
The gate has now fallen to the ground. Judging from the traces left on the surrounding ground, Levi can roughly deduce what happened.
The dwarves must have been attacked by magic first, so they were captured so easily.
But no matter what, as long as it can be repaired and combined with a large number of arrow towers and defensive troops, it can still play a strong role.
The underground level is a commercial and residential area, with pubs, residences, grocery stores, etc. It is also the largest area of the castle and can accommodate about four to five hundred people.
There are also some barley fields, barns and a hard stone bread factory.
Although the dwarves like to trade with humans, elves, and dwarves in exchange for food, etc.
But it is impossible for any mature race to completely rely on foreigners in terms of food.
Although dwarves are not very good at this, they will try their best.
It's just that Levi definitely doesn't want to try the bread they produce.
Hard rock bread doesn't just describe their appearance and taste, it actually has rocks inside.
The second floor is the storage area, armory, blacksmith shop, gunpowder furnace and the second barracks.
Livy can recruit miners, dwarf crossbowmen, dwarf warriors, dwarf warriors and dwarf heavy arrow crossbowmen here.
Although their class is generally not high, based on the racial characteristics of the dwarves, whether they are miners or crossbowmen, their defense power can be considered relatively outstanding among the same class.
Especially the crossbowmen, basically all of them have melee expert skills. Warriors from weak races like goblins may not necessarily be able to defeat them.
Of course, there are advantages and disadvantages. Their recruitment fee is much more expensive than that of goblins of the same level. At the same time, the weekly recruitment quota is relatively small.
This means that when the aboriginal dwarves fight, they often have to face enemy forces several times their own at the same time, and they can only adopt elite tactics.
Since the blacksmith shop is located here, the dwarves even brought a running water from a lake on the surface for quenching and other purposes.
The gunpowder furnace is a place where dwarves specialize in making ammunition for muskets and cannons. Due to the temporary lack of professional senior blacksmiths, they can only make bullets for muskets and helicopters, but not cannon shells.
But for tree stumps, you will definitely save a lot of money from now on.
At the same time, there are also several relatively secret paths on these three floors, which are connected to each other and are almost only accessible to one person.
Probably for the convenience of communication, and also to facilitate the departure of important people in an emergency.
But if an enemy wants to launch an attack from these directions, just arrange a high-level dwarf warrior, and then arrange a mage or priest to assist.
As for the last level, it is a semi-open area where the dwarves mine, and there are patches of black iron ore here.
To be honest, black iron ore is not a particularly valuable thing. It is only slightly more valuable than the most common iron ore and copper ore. However, this is a large ore vein with sufficient reserves.
The dwarves here don't know how many years they have been digging, but the minerals have still not been exhausted.
However, the surrounding underground has been hollowed out a lot. In order to prevent the above three floors from being threatened, the dwarves have built a large number of defense facilities on this floor, which are even better than the defenses on the surface.
But despite this, from Li Wei's point of view, because the area that needs to be defended is too large, if a large number of enemies really invade, it may not be possible to completely isolate the battle.
The dwarves probably knew this, so they also set up multiple gates between the second and third underground floors.
I guess I've made up my mind to close the door and give it a try if the war goes against me.
Anyway, except for the dwarves, the rat people and greenskins they encountered most were not good at mining or forging. What's more, there was so much black iron ore outside that it was impossible for them to be snatched away by the enemy.
All in all, the Black Iron Mine looks small in scale, and is actually not as large as Thorn Town, Ash Ridge Town and other towns. However, it is more than enough to accommodate thousands of people.
And in the identification of the system, it is also at the town level.
It's just that the future development prospects here may be much worse than those of Bitao Village and the like.
Bitao Village has waterways, pearls and other resources, and its location is also very good. It can develop maritime trade in the future.
But the only resource in the black iron mine is black iron ore. For the dwarf aboriginal people, they don't have to worry about running out of mines for their entire lives. Although the types of minerals are a bit single, it is still a good thing.
But for Levi, it was just a small amount of money, but it required a lot of energy.
After all, this place is too far away from Thorn Town and other territories. If any accident occurs, there is no way to rescue them in time.
Even if according to the previous contract, the heavenly creatures can send about a hundred defenders, in a real war, this number of people will not play a decisive role at all.
Another key question is, who will he put in charge of this place?
The others are not fools either. It is clear that their side has successfully occupied the new territory, but now Li Wei is frowning. There is obviously something going on.
Levi saw that the time was almost up, so he sighed softly and expressed his concerns.
Everyone was thoughtful for a while, and finally Shudun decided to take the initiative to take on this responsibility.
"Brother Li Wei, with my current strength, it won't be of much use if I continue to follow you, so I will help you guard this place."
"Although my troops are not strong, there are more than one dwarf clan nearby. With mutual support, we should be able to defend it."
Compared to various races such as elves and humans, or greenskins and beastmen, the total population of dwarves is much smaller.
The most important reason why they still stand in the overworld, in addition to forging, gunpowder and the blessings of the dwarf gods, is also one of their unity.
Apart from anything else, to the west of this place are the Iron Peak Castle dwarves, who are stronger than the Helhain clan near the colony.
But to say how helpful it really is, it's not that big of a deal.
Because further west is the famous Bafeng Mountain.
It was once the most important transportation hub for the dwarves in the world, as well as the second largest military fortress, political center and economic center.
However, due to a certain war and natural disasters such as earthquakes, the dwarves had to give up there.
After that, many races such as dwarves, greenskins, goblins, and ratmen began to attack and plunder the place like crazy.
Not only because of the rich mineral deposits and superior geographical location, but also because the dwarves had sealed up a large number of weapons, armor, gunpowder weapons and other secrets when they evacuated.
Coupled with other miscellaneous foreign races, the fighting there was very lively.
There are eight peaks in total, some of which are occupied by dwarves, and the others have been carved up by evil races, involving more than one legendary hero.
Even in the process of fighting for the ownership of Bafeng Mountain, the fight lasted too long and several related titles were created.
What about Bafeng Mountain God of War, Bafeng Mountain King, Bafeng Mountain War General, etc.
As a member of the dwarves, Tiefengbao is naturally also trying its best to fight for the Eight Peaks Mountain and eliminate the many evil alien races entrenched there.
Of course, it seems that they are not trying to take possession of it for themselves, but like other dwarves around them, they are helping their legal master, Belegar Ironhammer from the Angrond clan, to capture the Eight Peaks Mountain.
Therefore, even if Stump can win the trust of Tiefeng Castle, it is difficult to say how much actual military support it can get.
But this at least explains his attitude. Levi will go all out to help him guard the black iron mine!
So without saying a word, he directly handed over the position of deputy mayor to the other party.
As for the position of mayor, it was given to Luna.
Of course, both he and Shudun knew that, and he also told the other party clearly that she was just a name in name, and in fact, everything in the future here would be decided by Shudun.
He is actually just doing it for the leadership bonus it can provide.
Due to insufficient leadership, many female hunters and dryads are still under Li Wei's name for the time being and cannot enjoy her battle bonuses.
In this way, the problem is solved directly.
At this time, Virginia also took the initiative to propose that their temple would help each other and send some priests to serve.
If she wants to build a temple in a black iron mine, to be honest, given her identity and status, it is not possible for the time being, and it is unlikely that the church will agree.
One reason is that there are not so many manpower, and more importantly, most of the residents of the black iron mine and nearby villages are dwarves, so it is almost impossible for the church to successfully spread the faith.
It's not impossible for dwarves to believe in foreign gods, but it's really very rare.
There are many ways to repay a favor, and their temple will not use this most inefficient way to repay a favor.
In fact, many powerful races are in a similar situation. If they spread their faith across races, regardless of how much they gain, they will definitely offend the gods of the other party.
The supervisor also scratched his head indiscriminately, and after a few more discussions with the tigresses around him, he stood up a little shyly and expressed that the tiger people were also willing to do their part.
Since Virginia was by his side, he didn't make it too obvious, but Levi quickly understood his subtext.
The Tigers were originally near the Temple of Sullun and wanted to use each other's strength to form an offensive and defensive alliance.
But now even Sullun's temple itself has been attacked, the wood elves in the forest have been almost wiped out, and even their magic forest has been burned to the ground.
Under such circumstances, how can tiger people expect each other to take care of themselves?
Probably because they felt that the supervisors were not cheerful enough, a few tigresses quickly stepped forward and said that if Li Wei needed it, they could call more bears.
The Bear God and the Tiger Goddess are brother and sister. Among their two tribes, the former is called Father Bear and the latter is called Mother Tiger. From their names, we can roughly see the close relationship between the two.
Originally, the reason why the nearby tigers and bears were not together was because the bears liked fishing and fishing (in a double sense).
But there were no lakes near the Khajiit village, so they finally gave up the idea.
Now there is a lake above the black iron mine, which is just suitable for the bears to move here, and the tigresses are confident that they can complete this task.
Just like the bear-god dotes on his sister the tiger-goddess, the bears cannot refuse most of the tigress's requests.
Naturally, Levi would not refuse such a good thing, even though the bears were not particularly warlike most of the time.
But if you think about it, you will know that they are bears after all. When really needed, no one can underestimate their fighting power.
He immediately promised that once the other party really arrives and is willing to work hard to protect this place, he will definitely give him the same treatment as other dwarves or elves.
After hearing this, Virginia's face became somewhat ugly.
But there is no way, the church and the tiger people have always been equal allies, and the church cannot give the tiger people enough protection, so naturally there is no reason to stop the other party, which will only bring shame to the goddess.
After thinking for a while, Levi decided to send a message to Michaela and ask her to tell the crocodiles in Pigherd Town.
The environment in most places around here is indeed not very good, and the swamps are full of filth.
But the lake near the black iron mine is enough to support some crocodile people as long as the evil power of the undead is purified.
Seeing them talking to each other, the discussion was in full swing, but Sonia and Sefa were speechless for a while.
They wanted to help, but unfortunately they were really powerless.
The employment relationship between them and Virginia has indeed ended, and they are now free again, but there are only two of them, what can they do?