590.Chapter 588: 587 The Kings of the Brass Fortress for “Not Eating Fish

Chapter 588 587. The Kings of the Brass Fortress – For the “Little Lager Who Doesn’t Eat Fish” brother [2930].

While the Jackals were forming a battle force, something similar was also happening in the Brass Fortress.

This is not to say that there is some wise man in this dwarven city who predicted the main battlefield of the Black Plague in advance, but it is purely because an outsider with a special identity has created some waves here that caught people off guard.

The Brass Fortress was not just a military fortress for the dwarves to defend the Dark Mountains, it was also the main city of the Brass Dwarves.

According to the dwarves’ always rough naming style, this place should be called the Brass Fort more suitable, but considering the important military mission that this place shoulders, calling it a fortress can emphasize its importance even more.

When Murphy traveled to the Hungry Mountain before, he had seen this mountain fortress from afar, and it was like a wall between the Dark Mountains and the Genoa Peninsula, blocking the possibility of the Black Plague spreading.

Although this road was not the only road from the Dark Mountain Range to the peninsula, besides it there were many paths that could cross the mountains, back then when Tris roamed the world she had traveled those paths, but since it was called a path, it was definitely not suitable for large-scale marching.

“In the first four Black Plagues, there were small groups of jackals who tried to infiltrate the peninsula along the middle of the mountain to do some damage, but the dwarves built other small fortresses in this mountain, and they made full use of the nature of the dwarves to turn this mountain into a place of guardianship under the blessing of the Mother Goddess of the Earth.

As far as I know, the halflings of Port Chardonnay have an alias for the Brass Fortress, which they would hyperbolically refer to as ‘The Protector’.”

In one of the sentry towers at the highest point of the Brass Fortress, Venerable Lord Paying, who was wearing a long robe and a matching blood-colored cloak, slowly and methodically introduced the building at his feet to the people beside him.

The Brass Fortress, the highest point of the fortress group, was at an altitude of over two thousand meters above sea level, and from here one could see snow-capped peaks in all directions, and the temperature here was rightfully much lower than that of the plains, and even colder than Transylvania, which was experiencing the second snowfall of the current year at the moment.

Beside Venerable Lord Paying, Hogg, who was wearing a hood to cover his torso, was freezing.

But it didn’t dare to show any undignified behavior in front of His Holiness.

His Excellency the “Sage Wolf” knew very well that the only reason he could enter the Dwarves’ fortress without being hacked to death was because of the shelter of His Excellency beside him.

Facing His Excellency Pa Ying as he introduced it to the features of the Brass Fortress, Hogg shivered his body to warm himself up while sneezing and said:
“This fortress is awesome, it’s almost like a creation of the gods, but it looks a bit dangerous.”

“Of course it’s dangerous.”

The Venerable Lord who was very much an artist letting his long black hair fall over his shoulders shook his head and said:
“Danger means power, and power can be used to do many things, to save or undo many things.”

“No, no, no, Your Holiness, by danger I do not mean the fortress itself.”

Hogg huffed and shivered as he explained:
“If the Genoa Peninsula is protected only by this mountain, then once the Brass Fortress is breached, wouldn’t it mean that that prosperous peninsula would no longer be in danger? It would be reduced to a looted hell overnight, and I’ve heard that the Halflings are a bunch of pacifists who don’t have the least knowledge about war.

That’s terrible, Your Holiness.

The halflings haven’t experienced the poison of the Four Black Plagues, and their knowledge of the Jackals comes from stories and history, and if things go to the worst, the halflings may even be exterminated as a result.

I never doubted the zeal of my brutish compatriots in this matter.”

“Well, indeed.”

Venerable Lord Paying nodded.

His deep gaze looked out at the faint outline of the peninsula in the distance, and after a few seconds, he said:

“They are like protected flowers, radiant and delicate, without a minimum knowledge of the cruelty of the world, and the halflings feel that as long as they can keep producing weapons to support other races that are threatened by war, they will be able to enjoy peace.

Take for example the great matter we have come here to decide, in which the halfling steam lords have no interest whatsoever.

They may be able to understand its importance, yet unfortunately the little men apparently do not think that an evil god born from afar will affect them.”

“It is not a bad thing, Your Holiness.”

Hogg looked around and whispered:
“It means that you have little responsibility for them once things start to go bad.

They don’t want to give, so naturally they don’t get anything in return. When they’re beaten and crying, they’ll come forward and beg you, and then they’ll become sensible, which is better than your hard persuasion and being treated as a nonsensical joke.

The kindness of the honored ones is heavy and precious, and they will have to bear the price themselves if they don’t know how to cherish it.”

This persuasion and hidden horse’s ass made Venerable Lord Paying dumbfounded.

Apparently, the vampire’s millennial venerable lord never imagined that he would someday be consoled by a jackal, he shook his head and fumbled for a pocket watch so delicate that it could never have been in the style it should have been in this day and age, and after confirming the time, the venerable lord turned back to Hogg and said:
“Come along, the Kings’ communications should be set up by now, remember the ones I’ve emphasized to you over the past few days? I can only give you the platform for this conversation today, it is up to you to convince the wavering chieftains.

Just because they trust me doesn’t mean they trust you.

It’s going to be hard, Hogg, and you may need several difficult conversations to convince them.”

“No, Your Holiness, it’s not hard.”

Hogg followed behind His Holiness, and thoughtfully helped him lift the trailing tail of his scarlet cloak lest the delicate thing get dusty, as he walked forward in the posture of a squire:

“I learned a lot of persuasion techniques from Lord Murphy, I know how to persuade others, especially strangers in the absence of human relations interfering, I don’t even need to pay attention to their changing moods.

It’s straightforward to strike out from the benefit side, hiding what they will lose and magnifying what they will gain.

Whether they trust me or not is not the main issue in this matter, their willingness to continue to endure the black plague determines whether they will take our advice or not.

The trouble that the first four Black Plagues have caused the world leaves me in no doubt that this solution will work today, the threat is there, it won’t go away just because they don’t trust me, and what we are offering is a way to potentially neutralize it.

Even if it’s just ‘possible’, it’s worth a million dollars to the rulers.”

“Murphy tells me that you have been enhanced by the Creator’s wisdom, I used to think that it might just be a boost to your psychic perception, but now it seems that the Creator has indeed given you superior wisdom, and the best part is that it is an ability that you already had would no longer take time to learn to harness.”

His Holiness appreciated:
“You are a breath of fresh air to talk to, Hoggle, if you weren’t a jackal, you’d be the best diplomat on this continent and a friend to every great man.”

“Well, Your Holiness, please don’t say that, I should be glad I’m a Jackal.”

Hogg let out a strange laugh as it said:

“Otherwise I wouldn’t be qualified to participate in a process so important that it would directly change history, Professor Malcolm would be proud of me, and I would be one of his finest students . . one of them.”

“Well, that’s true.”

His Holiness nodded and stopped talking.

The two of them walked forward and backward into the tower guarded by the dwarven guards in front of them, where they boarded the “elevator” made of engineering machinery, and with the clacking of the large gears, they followed a straight up and down patio from the peak of this high place to the center of the Brass Fortress.

Although the fortress itself is a mountain, the Brass Fortress does not refer to a specific building, but rather a series of fortress clusters generated around the main body of the fortress.

Even if the dwarves were powerful, they couldn’t completely hollow out a mountain, so the main body of the Brass Fortress was actually divided into seven floors, each with different responsibilities, the lower four floors to the ground were all military zones, while the upper three floors were the Throne Hall of the Supreme Lord of the Brass Dwarves, the Mineral Company of the Brass Dwarves with the residential and commercial zones of their people.

The numbers of the three major clans of dwarves are not large, the brass dwarves are already the largest clan, but their numbers do not exceed two million, all the dwarves together number about five and a half million, and the total number of humans has exceeded two hundred million compared to the human race is an uncompromisingly small number of races.

Of course, the humans in the center of the continent are far from that many.

More than half of this 200 million population belongs to the side of people’s prosperous ancient country of Calum, and that thousand year old empire usually obviously does not bother to play with the dirt bags in the center of the continent.

Half of the population of the Brass Dwarves live in the Brass Fortress and the nearby mountains, mainly because their mines are distributed in the vicinity, so it can be said that the Brass Fortress is the most densely populated area on the continent.

When Lord Pa Ying and Hogg walked out from the elevator, they saw Bannock Earth Power, one of the six defense generals of the Brass Fortress, guarding the front with his elite guards, using them to escort the two “honored guests” to the vicinity of the Throne Room.

Said escort, but see those dwarves fierce gaze, Hogg know these guys are rushing to himself.

It has no doubt that every dwarf in this city wants to strangle himself, but they can not do it, and these elite soldiers in front of them have to honestly act as their own guards, lest they really out of danger here. “Follow me!”

Bannock Earthforce, who used the trademark Dwarven beard, was a highly decorated general and sincere priest of Gaia, though the man had the odd fiery red beard that made him look very conspicuous.

He paid his respects to his honored lord first, but chortled coldly at Hogg, and with their escort, the doors to the Throne Room slowly opened, and Hadran Earthshaker, the supreme lord of the Brass Dwarves, was waiting for them atop that warm throne.

This Dwarf’s supreme lord was holding a two-handed war hammer full of Dwarf’s style, that is the holy relic of Brass Dwarf “Gaia’s power”, it is said to be a holy relic that can directly mobilize the power of the earth, in the past four black plagues, this war hammer killed at least 100,000 jackals, so when Hogg looked at it, he would feel shock and pressure directly into the soul. pressure.

However, this war hammer and its owner were not the focus of today.

On the four temporary seats beside the Supreme Lord, the spiritual energy projections fine-tuned by the Earth Priests were already in place, from left to right, they were King Quirion of the Elves, Pharaoh Ptolemy XIX of the Songhai Empire, King Louis IX of the Kingdom of Canary Blossom, and His Majesty the “Wolf Woman” of the Kingdom of Nordstorf.

In addition, behind the High Lord of the Brass Dwarves, there was the High Lord of the Silver Dwarves, Ovorg Silverheart, and the temporary High Lord of the Frost Dwarves, Baader Frostwind.

In this kind of occasion where the kings were present, the three dwarven clans obviously appeared as a common force.

Together with His Excellency the Vampire Thousand-Year Venerable Lord Paying, who was the presiding officer, the people in this throne room were already a handful of figures at the top of the power pyramid of this continent.

Even our Lord Murphy and Grand Duke Tris are not qualified to enter here, and even if they do blend in it is estimated that they can be a tea server beside the Exalted Lord, and they don’t even deserve a chair of their own.

But Hogg did!

Not only did this skinny jackal enter here, he was even allowed to have a ridiculously small matzah, obviously, it was the dwarves’ careful eyes at work.

The relationship between them and the jackal is really a “blood feud”.

The kings and lords in the throne room stared at Hogg, no one said anything, but the pressure of silence made the always confident Hogg feel a little nervous.

But Lord Payeng did not give it more time to prepare, after all, their Majesties are very busy every day, and can coordinate a time to get together at this time, which is really thanks to Lord Payeng’s overly powerful “face fruit”.

“I believe that all of you have already read the secret letter that I sent to you, and being able to attend today represents your interest in that matter.”

Venerable Lord Paying was direct:
“This Jackal in front of you is the ‘Sage Wolf’ that Lord Murphy and I have chosen, there is no need to doubt its identity, it holds the Jackal’s civilization tablet in its hands, and it already belongs to the Jackal’s civilization spokesperson in the Creator’s Sequence.

This is something that His Majesty Ptolemy should know well.”

“Hmm.”

The Pharaoh King in the psychic projection wore a heavy golden Sky Eagle Crown and held the Twin Serpent Scepter in his hand looking full of majesty, but there was undisguised fatigue in the eyes of this tall, blue-skinned old man, it seemed that managing the Sanghai Empire wasn’t a beautiful thing either.

In a low voice, he said in the human language common to the continent:
“I can confirm Mr. Hogg’s identity and status, and from the majesty of the Creator Sequence alone, it is indeed qualified to appear here and speak to us on behalf of the Jackal civilization.”

“Just status without power is proof that every word Mr. Hogg utters lacks strength to back it up.”

Today’s King Louis could not see the kind and pleasant colors he had when talking with Marshal Loren, he opened his mouth and went straight to the point, pointing out Hogg’s awkward situation at this moment, he scrutinized the skinny Jackal and said:

“My marshal told me that you and the Governor of Transylvania are very close, so can I understand that Mr. Hogg, you appear here on behalf of that governor?

And that plan, did you produce it yourself, or did it come from the hand of Lord Murphy?”

“I’m curious about that as well.”

Her Majesty, the Wolf Woman, spoke her thoughts immediately afterward.

She was really young!

And she didn’t hide her youth, she didn’t hide her shortcomings by dressing up in an old-fashioned manner like her stupid O’DouDou, on the contrary, the young queen with long blue-white hair as elegant as ice crystals had an aura that made it possible for people to completely ignore the issue of her age.

Those gray-blue eyes carried a certain sharp light, and even from a distance of ten thousand miles, Hogg could still feel the breathtaking majesty of this young queen.

She was the same as King Louis, who’s power was like the sun that made it unavoidable to respect, but the wolf woman was a cold wind that blew without mercy.

You could hate her, but you had to fear and respect her.

“If you have no claim of your own, if this is all a plot by His Excellency Murphy, then why don’t we speak directly to that governor?”

Wolf Girl said nonchalantly:

“He is my appointed administrator, and he owes allegiance to his queen, does he not?”

“Ahem.”

King Louie coughed, changed his stance in the projection, and said:
“His Excellency Murphy is also the Governor of Transylvania appointed by the Kingdom of Goldfinch, Your Majesty Angelina, he can’t serve two kings at the same time can he?”

“Swish.”

Seeing the signs of a quarrel between King Louis and the Wolf Girl, the other lords and kings focused their attention on them, and even the majestic and silent Elf King glanced at them.

This made Hogg lose his focus for a moment.

But the Sage Wolf knew he couldn’t go on like this, he had come here on a mission!
So in the next instant, Hogg stood up from his ridiculously small pony, opened his paws and said loudly:
“Your Majesties, please listen to me! Whether or not I lack power right now is not the core of the issue, the problem described in that secret letter sent by Venerable Lord Paying is the trouble that needs to be solved urgently.

A soon-to-be-born Evil God will bring terrible reinforcement to the Jackals, and now the armies of the Fifth Black Plague have departed.

Admittedly, this time there is no King of Biting Bones to command them, but that doesn’t mean you can take it lightly, and even if the civilized camp wins yet another victory this time around it will only delay the war by a dozen years.

The tides of psychic energy in the Dark Mountain Range do not shift according to one’s will, and the Sixth Black Plague will happen just as soon as the Jackals cannot survive.

Then the seventh, and the eighth until the day comes when the Jackals are extinguished or you lose your own thrones!

This is a war with no end in sight, and it is harmful to this continent.

That’s what we’re talking about, and that’s what Master Murphy’s been thinking about, and with all due respect, gentlemen, you’re not even close to being lords of a wasteland in this regard.

All Lord Murphy and Venerable Lord Paying and I want is to end the Black Plague and integrate the Jackal civilization into this world instead of continuing to destroy it.

You may of course think that this is nonsense, but we came up with a plan!
If you guys thought that scenario was pointless, you wouldn’t have left your state affairs behind to show up here, so let’s be pragmatic and settle the issue of the Lord of the Hunt first, and then let the honorable kings decide the future fate of the Jackals.

This is victory.

It is the complete victory that you and your fathers have been seeking!
The Black Plague that has plagued the continent for almost six hundred years will end in your hands, and everyone present will go down in history. And without the threat of the Black Plague, all of you will be better able to unleash the power in your hands that you used against the Jackals to ensure the mutual destruction of each other in the civilization’s civil war”

Hogg habitually used a sentence of Murphy’s comment about the kingdoms at this moment, and this sentence with full of sarcasm made all the kings present dumbfounded.

Even the aloof Wolf Girl’s eyes widened.

“You jackals are somewhat interesting! I admit I underestimated you.”

And the local host, Hadran, Supreme Lord of the Brass Dwarves, laughed even more, emphasizing the dwarves’ big hearts in this regard, as he stood up and said:
“Well, then, ye kings of self-styled civilization, ye wouldn’t want to be laughed at by a wise jackal, would ye? Put away your mutual malice, our Venerable Lord Paying has frowned, and it is clear that the ‘Uncrowned King’ of the vampires has lost patience with our tugging at each other’s throats.

If you do not wish to confront the angry Thousand-Year Venerable Lord in his chambers tonight, then it is time for us to get down to business.

Regardless of what you guys think, I can’t beat him anyway, so regarding the crusade against the Evil God .
I’ll express my attitude first, and I’ll participate in it!
This is Gaia’s decree.”

(End of chapter)