Huck Conglomerate, a dwarf who once served the third generation of Viscount Surrey.
Back then, the grandfather of Robert Surrey, now Viscount Surrey, rescued a dwarf who almost died in an accident, and then the two parties established a deep friendship in the process of opening up new territories.
In the next two generations, the Surrey family and the dwarf got along very well, and the dwarf naturally became an important partner of the Surrey family.
As a member of the Conglomerate family among dwarves who are good at various buildings, Huck Conglomerate also participated in many constructions related to this noble territory after becoming a retainer of the Viscount Surrey family, so the construction of this city
Naturally, it also has many dwarf-specific architectural styles.
To give the simplest example, after entering the building of the Viscount's Mansion, the interior space of the mansion that appeared in front of Lawrence looked much larger than the outside.
After careful observation, he discovered that this was not the use of some rare space magic, but a large amount of space directly carved out of the mountain behind the building.
"This Viscount's Mansion, including the entire city outside, took three generations to build." Viscount Surrey introduced with pride.
"Not just the Viscount's Palace, but in fact most of the entire city's space is hidden in the mountains. The area of the stone buildings outside is only a very small part of the entire building.
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"This should be the style of the dwarves." Saphiel commented in a low voice as he looked at some sculptures in the room that looked a bit rough but revealed a certain kind of special beauty.
"I once visited an underground city built by dwarves when I was studying abroad in Britton. The buildings you built here look very similar to the architectural style of that underground city."
"The construction of the entire city indeed adopted a lot of the construction techniques of our dwarves." Huck Conglomerate, who was sitting on the side and smoking a hookah, had a proud look on his face.
"After all, the temperature in this place is too low. Rather than building buildings with thick walls to keep warm, it is obviously more reasonable to dig holes in the local rocks."
"More importantly, there were some natural spaces inside the mountain where we are now. And as long as we open some artificial passages, we can easily obtain some solid usable spaces inside the mountain.
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Having said this, the dwarf showed a very proud expression on his face.
"You know, for us dwarves, these rocks are like our homes. We can easily use the characteristics of these different rocks to follow the trend, and finally achieve our goals easily."
"The entire city can be seen as a fortress buried deep in the mountain, but from another perspective, the space in the mountain far exceeds our needs." Isabella, who was sitting on the soft sofa, said.
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"I was really shocked when I first came here, because the entire underground city can accommodate at least 30,000 to 50,000 people, and now most of the space is empty."
"Are you going to leave such a space completely empty?" After hearing what Isabella said, Lawrence turned his head and looked at Viscount Surrey and asked in confusion.
"You see it's so cold in the wild in your place, and there aren't many areas that can stay above freezing on a daily basis. So why is there such a large vacant space in the city that's not being used?"
"This is mainly because my territory is too large, and not everyone lives near this city." Viscount Surrey shook his head and said.
“With the discovery of coal mines, almost all the former fishermen in my territory chose to work in the coal mines for safety reasons instead of continuing to engage in dangerous and hard fishing work, but the herdsmen are still engaged in their own work.
Doing simple jobs that have been done for generations.”
"Compared to fishermen or coal miners, the work of traditional reindeer herders is obviously more attractive." Isabella quickly added.
"Therefore, there are now at least more than 2,000 reindeer domestication herders and almost the same number of venison and deer skin processors on the territory."
"But you know, the number of animals that can be raised on this land is much smaller than in other places. Therefore, these herders are naturally scattered throughout the territory.
"For them, even if they know that this place has a warm space to live in, they will not travel more than 20 kilometers a day just to live in the city."
"On the one hand, the herders have no energy to waste time on the road. On the other hand, if the reindeer herds run such long distances every day, various problems will occur, which will seriously affect the health of these reindeer.
output."
"But I think it's safer here." Saphiel looked at the thick stones that made up the ceiling and walls of this room and said, "It's difficult for settlements in the wild to resist the attacks of most wilderness races -"
"But there aren't many wilderness races here." Dwarf Hack said with a shrug, "At least I haven't seen several large-scale wilderness race attacks in this place for so many years. The worst one was just one.
A white dragon in its prime attacked this place once."
"What's going on?" Saphire subconsciously turned his head and looked at Lawrence and asked.
"Whether they are wilderness races or beasts, they basically need to eat." After being told this, Lawrence reacted immediately.
"It's not like you can find food everywhere like on our island, which naturally limits the number of monsters."
"Yes, that's it." Dwarf Huck slapped his thigh fiercely, then pointed at Lawrence and said. "The main threats in this place are some groups of jackals and wolves led by winter wolves."
"However, the number of these existing groups usually does not exceed 30, because the excessively large population size is not suitable for survival in this cold and barren land."
"It's indeed different from ours." Saphiel smiled and said. "The goblins on our island are in groups, and they can even organize tens of thousands of goblins to charge towards us."
"Actually, the safety of this place was not that high before." Viscount Surrey scratched his hair and said. "Although the wolves headed by the winter wolf are more accustomed to moving further north, those jackals are also
It is not a problem that ordinary people can solve."
"However, with the popularization of various gunpowder weapons and the construction of a large number of wild bunker buildings, gnolls have gradually ceased to be the formidable enemies of the herdsmen."
What Viscount Surrey said is indeed a fact, although in the cold weapon era those jackals were more powerful than ordinary humans in wars, and they also destroyed many human settlements in the early years.
But after entering the industrial age, humans, who had a large number of cheap gunpowder weapons, quickly evened the physical fitness gap between themselves and this group of jackals.
According to custom, jackals often choose to attack that group of intelligent races at night. However, when facing rooms that are specially fortified and guarded by seven or eight gunmen with simple training, these jackals basically
It was impossible to successfully capture those double-story temporary garrison points built with stones.
Especially in this era when various industrial products have become cheaper due to industrial development, those temporary camps not only have walls with a thickness of more than 70cm made of solid stone and steel, but also have similar installations at the only entrances and exits.
Are doors and windows made of steel.
For those jackals who rely on digging with their feet and claws to attack fortified areas without using torches, it is basically impossible for them to break through this kind of fortress-like settlement. Especially in this place where there are not even a big tree, the jackals want to make a breakthrough.