Felitt yawned and hit the ass of the woman lying in his arms. “I have to go out now, baby.”
The woman got up and picked up her dress, and was silent without anything to ask while wearing them back on.
Felitt explained without being asked, “That idiot Andy. Whatever he was told to do, he just does it straight, he can’t use his brain a little. The lord told him to look for that person, and he earnestly looked! It doesn’t matter if that person is found or not. You get it, right?”
After putting on her clothes back on, the servant performed a greeting to Felitt. “Lord, may you have a safe journey.”
Felitt leaned on the bed and groaned,”I don’t wanna go… To the land of the barbarians, too. My god, those barbarians might catch me and roast me over open fire! Whenever I think of that I get so scared my whole body trembles. Are you really not going to miss me, even a little bit, baby?”
Maid: “I will pray for you.”
“How about you come with me? Baby, you and I, we can rise a kingdom of our own in that barbaric lands, I will be king and you will be my queen.”
The maid bowed another greeting before leaving without a second glance.
“Ah! Baby, How can you be so cruel every time?!” Felitt leaped up from the bed naked and chased after the maid, but she closed the door on him, and it almost broke his tall nose.
“Fine, fine. You never believe my love to you, heaven knows how much I do love you.” Felitt grumbled as he fell back to the bed. He really didn’t want to go to the other side of the mountain!
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Yan Mo started to feel tired and sleepy after blessing two people. At that time, a warrior came to report that Lord Chief asked him to go to the outer moat.
“What happened?” With his current condition, there’s no way Yuan Zhan will make people call him if it’s a minor problem.
The reporting warrior answered, “Small grey green people appeared near the river, they’re this small.”
His hand gestured beside his hips, “They’re gathered around the river doing something, Leader Meng said they seem to be hunting.”
Yan Mo asked again but couldn’t get anything more from this warrior. The snow outside of the inner city hadn’t melted but Yuan Zhan had people clear out everything on the road of the western gate.
Currently, the area of the whole city is 36 km² if you count from the outer city wall. With the inner moat acting as a line, the inner city had a 12 km² area with a 2 km radius.
If you draw a line from the stone stele that was in the middle of the inner city to the western gate, it’ll be less than 3.5 km long. If there’s nothing wrong with the road and you walk on foot, you will usually get there within an hour.
The road was much easier to go through when there’s no snow covering the ground. the four guards carried the chair and ran quickly but still careful with the chair.
Some warriors came down the wall to receive them.
The outer city wall can’t be called “city wall” yet, it can only be called a tall pile of earth, it’s not very effective as a guard post.
Once he was on the top of the pile, he could see the situation on the outer moat clearly.
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Yuan Zhan went up to Yan Mo while Yan Mo had a slightly puzzled expression.
Those little dwarves was completely grey green, with beast clothing to match. But, what are they doing there?
If Yan Mo didn’t see wrong, they seem to be hunting near the river, they had even made fire right on site.
Aside from the hunting group, a good chunk of them were guarding the periphery with wooden spears.
Just as they’d noticed the dwarves, the dwarves had also noticed them.
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On the riverbank.
Several dwarves leaned to each other and whispered among themselves.
“Did you see it?”
“I see it! A bunch of big fools!”
“But those big fools had made a wide river in just one winter, there was nothing here before.”
“Are the big fools gonna eat us? Aaah! They’re looking at me!”
“Shut up Derde! Stop screaming!”
“Let’s go back… Those big fools look so scary, they’re two times ta… no, the biggest one is two and half taller than us!”
“What’re you scared of? Can they dig burrows like us? They can’t get into our burrows, they’re too big!”
“Uhh… I just hope those big fools don’t eat people. Let’s head back after we take down something, Gerge, Everyone’s still waiting for us.”
“Just leaving like this? I think this place is really nice, it’s a good place to settle down.”
“No matter how good the big fools already claimed it, we have to look for another place.”
“My god, they’re coming over again! They’re coming out of the mountain! Let’s run!”
When Yan Mo and Yuan Zhan arrived to the place with their entourage, what they saw was a wide open space with snuffed out campfire and none of the dwarves. They fell into a long silence.
“Meng said that it’s the same thing when he comes over with people, they searched the place for a long time but there’s no sign where the small grey green people ran off to. But after they head back the small people would always come back out.” Yuan Zhan ordered the warriors to stab into the ground with their spears.
If the dwarves had run away, their grey green bodies would be stark contrast to the snowy field around. However, there was no trace of the on the surface at all, clearly the small guys had other methods to flee and hide themselves.
Yan Mo made the guards lower the chair to the ground and asked Yuan Zhan, “You didn’t try talking with them?”
“We shouted at them from up the walls but they either don’t understand the language or it was too far away, they didn’t say anything back, just watched us with vigilance.” Yuan Zhan looked back to Meng who was on the tall pile of earth.
Meng made a gesture with his hand.
Yuan Zhan smirked, “Those little men drilled a hole on the ground, I’ll throw them out.”
“Wait!” Yan Mo gestured to one of his guards to pick up something on the nearby snow and give it to him.
The guard handed the thing over to Yan Mo and Yan Mo took it, carefully avoiding contact with the guard’s hand.
Yuan Zhan moved his head closer to see, “What is it?”
“…Comb.” Yan Mo looked at the small exquisite comb and the first thought he had was admiration for the delicate craftsmanship, immediately followed with, why didn’t I ever think to make a comb?
“Comb? For what?”
“Comb hair.” When he was looking down from the western wall, Yan Mo had thought that there was something different about the dwarves‘ hair. Now that he thought back to it, isn’t it because they had combed and had little braids on their hairs!
Yuan Zhan got the comb from Yan Mo and played with it with his hand, he had also noticed what’s special about this thing. “It’s… pretty. It’s more elaborate than the woodwork Meng had done, there were even small birds carved into it.”
Underground, Derde felt his own hair and cried out, “Ah! That’s my comb! Now it’s in the big fools’ hands!”
“You birdbrain, always forgetting your stuff everywhere. Why can’t you forget to take yourself home too?” Gerge mocked him.
“Alright, stop there. Do you want the big fools to hear us?”
Back above ground, Yan Mo kept looking at the wooden comb, immersed in thoughts.
“Jiu Feng told me no humans lived in his territory, except for the A’wu clan. Where do these dwarves come from?”
“Maybe Jiu Feng didn’t notice them because they’re too small?” Before Yuan Zhan finished saying this, he already knew that it was a fool’s answer. Jiu Feng’s sharp eyes would never miss out anything, no matter how small.
“Or for Jiu Feng, they don’t count as human? Like the merpeople.”
“Maybe. Did you notice their skin colour?”
“Grey green. So?”
Yan Mo voiced his thoughts, “We can usually tell the environment that a species lives in based on their skin colour or other outer characteristic. Suppose Jiu Feng rarely can see these dwarves around, and they appear to not have gone through a long journey to get here, isn’t it possible that they were originally living in the dark forest near us? Their grey green skin is the best colour to protect themselves in that forest.”
There were merpeople in the lake, it’d be strange if there were no other clans or intelligent creatures in such a big forest.
Yan Mo had thought he wanted to go search the forest, but it was not a good time to leave. Who’d expect that they before they can step into the forest, the beings living in the forest had come running out?
Yuan Zhan felt that Yan Mo’s analysis sounded about right, he even thought deeper into it, “Those small monsters that attacked A’wu people.”
“Hm?”
“Where did they come from? Where did they go?”
“You mean they might have originally been living in the dark forest?
“No, I thought they might have come from a place far from here. I asked the merpeople, and they had never seen the small monsters. Those dwarves used to live in the dark forest, but they’ve come out now… you think it could be connected to the small monsters?”
No matter if it was connected or not, the appearance of the dwarves at this time will certainly affect the tribe they’re building. It’s just not clear if they are friend or foe at this moment.
“Watch what they plan to do for now, don’t chase them out forcefully yet.” Yan Mo suggested.
“You think they may become like the merpeople to us?”
“It’s possible.”
They failed to make first contact. Yuan Zhan didn’t use his ability to force the dwarves out of the underground. If those dwarves run far away and no one can tell where they hid themselves in later, Yuan Zhan’s ability might not be able to do anything about them.
That very day, Yuan Zhan reinforced the outside part of the outer moat’s riverbank. It’s easy to dig out holes on soft soil, but what if it’s hard as rock?
The dwarves can walk freely under the ground, but it won’t be so easy to dig through the river he made. After all, he was the only one with this ability around here.
Yuan Zhan also went to the merpeople and told them about the dwarves, so they would swim around the river if they were idle.
Either because the dwarves sensed that the “big fools” didn’t have strong hostility to them, or was confident in their own ability, over time, the dwarves and Jiuyuan people got into a long guerrilla war.
They would often appear on random place near the river, either in the morning or evening, to hunt. The abundant water source attracted many animals who came over to drink, and they cut down the time and danger of going out to search for prey.
At first Jiuyuan people was very unhappy about someone coming to steal their food. Many warriors complained directly to Meng, saying they wanted to expel the small men from their lands.
But not long after they found out that the dwarves were not the strongest hunters. Their best move was to dig a hole on the ground and leave a thin layer of dirt on it. When an animal passed through and fell in, they will pounce and stab it with their spears.
They don’t even dare to hunt the meat-eaters, only moving against the grass-eaters.
When Meng burst in fuming with rage and said the dwarves kept digging around the riverbank and made it full of holes, Yuan Zhan rubbed his chin and smiled coldly. Then he went out with a strut. After all this time, he knew just what the dwarves can and can’t do.
If it wasn’t because the punishment Mo would get when he kills and slaughters, those rats that dared to steal from the lion would be in bloody pieces long ago!
Thank you for the chapter!
Thanks for the chapter
This world have many thing like merpeople dwarf i think maybe they also have dragon too? Or half snake and half human
Lol are they like gnomes?? That’s hilarious.
Thanks for the chapter!!
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Thank you for the chapter
I’m so happy you picked this up, I was losing my mind trying to read it in MTL 🥲
Man, what a cool maid!