In the underground passage.

When Thorne led the crowd through a bright room exuding heat, he seemed to remember something, and immediately said to the crowd, "You wait here for a while, I have something to deal with when I go in."

After finishing speaking, he led Anderina into the forge room under the doubtful eyes of everyone.

In a bright room, the only source of light is a huge forging furnace in the center of the room. The beating flames in the room bring light to the room, and at the same time make the cold underground ruins look warm and pleasant.

Thorne, who entered the room, first glanced at the six rat-man apprentices he had already killed in the room, then turned his attention to the degraded metal objects that were piled up like a hill in the northwest corner, and scolded the shadowy corner: "Come out."

In Andrina's puzzled eyes, after a while, the shadow in the corner distorted, and a bald dwarf with a thin appearance, dark gray beard and skin, who looked like a despicable appearance, appeared strangely in the two in front of people.

"Respected Lord Thorne, as you think, the patriarch Barenda from the Dark Ash Dwarf clan has been guarding here, waiting for your arrival."

After noticing Thorne's figure, the gray dwarf hurriedly stepped forward, prostrate his entire body on the ground, and said respectfully.

Crawling before Thorne was a grey dwarf from the Underdark, and while these evil dwarves had less in common with their distant cousins ​​on the surface, they still retained the great craftsmanship and craftsmanship of dwarven culture.

Moreover, the gray dwarves also have the natural spell-like ability "grow big" and the "invisibility" that they just hid and cast, which their distant relatives on the surface do not have.

When Thorne broke into this room and killed all the six ratmen, he originally planned to kill them as well. Who would have thought that the dwarf who was greedy for life and fear of death would kneel down with a plop, expressing his willingness to surrender.

Thorne is naturally more aware of the evil characteristics of the gray dwarf race, so after he thought about it for a while, he thought it had no effect, and decided to keep it.

And before leaving, he signaled the other party not to walk around at will, and just wait for him here all the time.

Later, Thorne, who came again, took a try to see if the gray dwarf had escaped.

If he escaped, there would be no loss for him, but if he was still there, he might as well take advantage of it.

"Yes, seeing that you did not choose to escape, it shows that you are a trustworthy dwarf. If so, then you will live here in the future. As for your compatriots who are enslaved by the dark elves, I will find a way to help you. They were all rescued." Thorne looked at the gray dwarf kneeling on the ground and nodded with satisfaction.

"Don't worry, Lord Thorne, the leader of the Darkbone Clan, Barenda, swears allegiance to you to the death." The gray dwarf said with a slightly excited expression when he heard Thorne's promise.

The surface ranger in front of him can destroy most of the ratmen in the ratman camp and a drow priestess alone. He is naturally more convinced of this strength. If the other party can really save all his clansmen, he will be loyal to him. What's wrong with the other party.

After all, compared to the most evil and ferocious dark elves in the Underdark, of course, the rangers who are loyal to the surface are the most cost-effective, and he has also heard that most of the rangers on the surface have good hearts.

"Thorn, is this grey dwarf reliable?" At this moment, Andrina touched Thorne's arm and said worriedly.

"Anyway, he can't make any waves by himself." Thorne didn't care much and replied.

As for the promise to save the other party's clansmen, he didn't take it to heart. He just gave the other party an empty promise for the time being. If he was really strong, he might as well try it.

The reason why this gray dwarf was left behind was mainly because the other party discovered several hidden mineral veins in this underground ruins. What he really cared about was those minerals, which were the hidden wealth underground.

But the problem in front of him now is that he has almost no subordinates who can obey him, and workers who mine mines.

Thorne pondered for a while, then threw the problem to Andrina beside him, and asked her to help find a way. After all, her background was destined to be in contact with more fields than his low-level commoner.

"Actually...I don't know much about managing production or anything." Noticing Thorne's expectant gaze, Andrina's pretty face flashed a blush, and she whispered a little embarrassedly.

"I thought you knew everything. Forget it. When I have time, I'll go and ask Torvey for advice." Thorne was stunned for a while, seeing the change in Andrina's expression, he reached out and stroked her long hair. Hair, helpless smile.

As for Andrina's answer, he really did not expect it. This might be the difference in life level, which caused the gap between the rich girl he imagined in his mind and the real rich girl in front of him.

"Or... I'll let the old troll butler who stayed in Twilight Town come to the waterfall and go to town. He will definitely be able to take up these jobs perfectly."

Andrina allowed Thorne to stroke her long hair, looked at the other party's indifferent expression, hesitated for a moment, and finally said:

"Also, the race of the old housekeeper is still a troll, and it will be easy for him to recruit some troll subordinates in the wasteland.

However, although he will definitely come as soon as I say hello, I am worried that he is not sincere and willing to go. After all, his old man just wants to live a stable life, and I don't want to embarrass him. "

"Why don't you explain the situation here and let him make his own decision. For him, the only problem is the long journey from Twilight Town to Fallstown. If this problem can be solved, then whether he is in Which town lives, it's actually the same." Thorne pondered for a moment and analyzed to her:

"It just happened that the business road leading to Sept City was blocked, and the town of Waterfall and Horn Town allied together. As a result, the town of Waterfall and Twilight Town have been frequented recently. If he wants to, he will directly follow the town of Waterfall. The town's caravan can come here, and it's not too troublesome."

Now that he has made up his mind to completely build the wizard tower in the town of waterfalls, he must be prepared to fill this bottomless pit with money.

After all, a clay golem of the lowest level needs at least 20,000 gold coins, not to mention a stone golem, a steel golem, etc. of a higher level.

Without a source of income, they can't even form the Golem Legion, the most basic defensive force of the Wizard Tower, let alone talk about anything else.

As for this source of income, it is definitely not feasible to count on Andrina's small treasury, although he does not know how much private money is in the sorceress's small wallet, so he must prepare early and find other ways to make money. road.

Because he knows his character very well, letting him go to the wilderness to hunt monsters to protect the town or something is naturally the best for him.

It would be too embarrassing for him to think about how to make money with Fa'er. Unless he is strong enough to kill the black dragon in the underground ruins, he might even make a fortune.

Although with his barren knowledge, he didn't quite understand how versatile the housekeeper profession Andrina said was, but it was always right to have more trustworthy helpers.

"Well then, when there is a caravan in Twilight Town, I will ask them to send a message to the old butler and ask for his opinion." Andrina looked at Thorne, her eyes were moving He smiled, as if he had guessed what he was thinking.

Seeing Anderina smiling and nodding in agreement, Thorne rubbed her hair, turned and said to the gray dwarf who was still crawling on the ground and had not yet got up:

"Get up, you are temporarily living in this underground tunnel until your clansmen are rescued, there is no problem."

After talking with Andrina like this, Thorne immediately took the matter of saving the gray dwarf to heart, because he really lacked some more useful men now.

If you can tame these gray dwarves, in addition to helping him mine, you can also create various weapons and equipment.

Therefore, if there is a chance, he does plan to go to the Underdark to see if his clansmen can be rescued.

As for saying that the gray dwarves living in the Underdark are inherently evil races, he doesn't really care about that.

The gray dwarf race is a race with a relatively high degree of civilization, and it is obviously different from those almost uncivilized kobolds, goblins or ogres.

They must understand how to make a choice in the face of absolute strength. Otherwise, how could they prefer to be slaves under the dark elves, and not dare to resist in advance, in the final analysis, it is the reason for the suppression of strength.

As long as he has absolute strength and gives them a little bit of good news for 996, he won't be afraid of their dissent.

"No problem, esteemed Lord Thorne." The gray dwarf bowed again to salute Thorne, and then said hesitantly, "It's just..."

"Just what?" Thorne became curious when he saw the bald dwarf's twisted expression.

"I want to ask Lord Thorne if he has any alcohol on him." The gray dwarf gave Thorne a fearful look, and in the end, alcohol addiction took hold.

"..." Thorne smiled helplessly and turned his eyes to Andrina beside him, the meaning is self-evident.

"Before we set off, I specially prepared a lot of spirits such as the water of dwarves' madness for the Fulong beast." Andrina immediately understood, and first glanced at the Fulong beast, who was crawling on the ground and waving its tail boredly. Then he took out two large bottles of wine and handed them to Thorne.

"Take it." Thorne threw the two bottles of wine to the gray dwarf in front of him.

"Thanks to the gracious Lord Thorne! Thank you Mrs Thorne for her generosity!"

The gray dwarf took the water of madness that Thorne handed over, took a deep breath at the cork, and then crawled on the ground again, thanking him for winning streak.

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