Volume 2 Spread Wings Chapter 67: Traces of the Chaos Dwarves
Just as elves can be divided into many subspecies such as High Elves, Wood Elves, Dark Elves, Drow Elves belonging to different factions, Grassland Elves that have been gradually discovered by the chosen heroes, and even Sea Elves, there are also many subspecies of dwarves.
Ordinary dwarves like Stump, whether mountain dwarves or hill dwarves, are generally kindhearted natural dwarves. However, those who spend their days fighting for territory with drow elves, troggs, etc. in the Underdark are cold-hearted, cruel, and much more evil dark dwarves.
As for the Chaos Dwarves belonging to the Chaos system, their methods are even more cruel than those of the Gray Dwarves. In terms of evil alone, they may not be much inferior to real demons.
Because in addition to the conventional slavery and killing, they also use coercion, inducement and other means to capture creatures of various races, and then transform them using evil magic, alchemy, and mechanization. The scope of this capture even includes real demons.
Yes, you read that correctly, they catch demons.
It is said that it is precisely because of the capture of demons and the many research results that the Chaos Dwarves became the only dwarf tribe in the world who can directly use magic, although it is basically only fire magic, and although they also paid an extremely cruel price for it.
The hobgoblins are their most loyal subordinates, specializing in capturing and guarding slaves from various races for them.
Apart from the Dark Elves, the Chaos Dwarves are probably the race in this world that likes to capture slaves the most. And compared to the former who simply need slaves to work and be used for sacrifice, the latter will do more, which is to use them for all kinds of cruel and bloody experiments.
Many thoughts flashed through Levi's mind quickly, but he didn't show much on the surface, just smiled.
"Ordinary hobgoblin wolf cavalry are level 2 soldiers, and the elite wolf bosses can reach level 3. Moreover, even ordinary level 1 hobgoblins are difficult to deal with after forming an army formation. I wonder how many you have found?"
Seeing how knowledgeable Levi was, Qian Ce and the others immediately dispelled their doubts. After all, as far as they knew, the earth elves and wolf riders had only appeared here. Since Levi knew so much about it, he must have obviously done a lot of homework in advance.
Qian Thief gestured with his hand: "Each patrol team has thirty first-level hobgoblin soldiers and five hobgoblin wolf cavalrymen. Among them is the wolf boss you mentioned, and there are also several hobgoblin sergeants as squad leaders. There are three such patrol teams in total, and they guard the camp together."
"The most important thing is that if we can't resolve the battle quickly, the hobgoblin called Wolf Boss will send a signal, and the other two patrols will come to support us immediately."
"In this case, we can't go to that camp and rescue the priests of the goddess of justice, Valenca, who are trapped there. We can't even get close to the camp to see if there are other enemies inside."
Levi narrowed his eyes slightly: "So, the key to the battle is to prevent Boss Wolf from sending out a signal?"
He felt a sense of déjà vu. It was a similar situation when he rescued those Sigmar priests from the hands of the gnolls. The only difference was that the number of gnolls was very small at that time, but there were more enemies this time.
As for the goddess of justice, Valencia, he had some impression of this name. This goddess was also in the lawful neutral and good camp, which was exactly the same as the camp of the high elves including Levi, but her strength seemed not that strong.
According to the information currently known, the gods can be divided into strong divine power, medium divine power, weak divine power and faint divine power from weak to strong, and then there are demigods, descendants of gods, and so on.
Sigmar, the god of war of the Sigmar Empire, is a medium-level divine power, Ursun, the bear god of Kislev, is a weak-level divine power, and the goddess of justice, Verena, has only weak divine power.
But even the weakest level of gods are far beyond the reach of mortals. The most obvious characteristic of gods is that their power is too strong, so strong that their true bodies cannot come to the main world in person, and they will only be completely killed by more powerful gods.
The Druid Greek Bear said in a rather depressed tone, "Yes, but that guy is not only strong, but also very cunning. He can throw a net. Once caught in the net, the other wolf riders will rush over and hack the unlucky guy to death."
He originally brought with him a really cool grizzly bear, and that was also his strongest fighting force besides his animal partner, the crocodile. Unexpectedly, he was defeated by the opponent at the first encounter.
Although all bear soldiers are thick-skinned and strong and can withstand a lot of beatings, the Earth Wolf Cavalry are all level 2 soldiers. Once they charge, they can easily deal dozens of points of damage. Even grizzly bears cannot withstand it, let alone other soldiers.
Levi couldn't help but turn his head to look at Donna. Although he had never fought against the Earth Wolf Cavalry, based on the level 3 Snake Cult Warriors and their previous battles with the Gnolls, there was a high probability that the health of the level 3 Wolf Boss would exceed 100 points.
Then he saw the other party nodded affirmatively. Although there was no word, the tacit understanding they had gained from fighting side by side for many days had already made him understand what the other party meant.
It's just a level 3 wolf boss, and it can be dealt with with just two consecutive arrows!
He immediately smiled: "Maybe, we can try again."
Qian Qian glanced at the Amazon, who looked very tough with his face covered in grease, and then he nodded vigorously: "Since you are here, we should try again."
"If it still doesn't work, we don't want to waste too much time here. After all, the guys heading to the Stoney Highlands are getting stronger every moment, and we can't fall too far behind!"
All of them were straightforward people. Having made the decision, they did not hesitate any longer. After discussing the countermeasures roughly, they began to act.
Levi also learned from Qianqie that since the swamp gradually dried up, the Gronn frogmen have gradually become irritable. After all, they are amphibians like frogs. If they cannot see water for a long time, there will be only one end.
Moreover, they are also in a hostile state with the hobgoblins under the Chaos Dwarves. Even though the average strength of both sides is not at the same level, once the two sides encounter each other, the Gronn frogs will still bravely and actively attack the hobgoblins.
It is not known whether they are indiscriminately attacking all outsiders or have realized part of the truth.
It was precisely because of this that Qian Ce and his friends had previously thought about joining forces with the Grond Frogmen, or at least borrowing some of their power to fight against the earth elves together.
Although everyone belongs to different camps, the enemy of my enemy can sometimes become a temporary comrade-in-arms.
Unfortunately, even though there was a druid in the team who was good at communicating with animals and humanoids, their action ultimately ended in failure.
The furious Grond Frogs refused any communication and interaction. They only wanted to fight and kill. What followed was the scene Levi had seen before.
Levi thought about it and felt that this matter was still closely related to their camp and race.
Chaos Dwarves and Hobgoblins are both Lawful Evil, and the Gronks themselves are not good people either. They are all Neutral Evil, and even when faced with threats, they are unlikely to cooperate with the Lawful Neutral to Good High Elves and Humans.
But if the bad guys coming this time are dark elves, undead, etc., maybe the Grond frogmen will be willing to cooperate.
Of course, this is just a possibility guessed by Levi. If some vampires really came, they probably would not save the trapped priests inside.
