The thick and spacious stone hall has only a few ventilation openings, and in the middle is a huge Zeke wood table with several brass candlesticks that have begun to turn green.

The candles covered with hard wax lumps flickered, adding a little light to the dark hall.

Brian and Hesiah stepped into the hall under the guidance of two gray dwarf guards.

He glanced around the empty hall casually, and finally fixed his gaze on a wall.

There were weapons hanging there, including steel shields, crossed swords, war hammers and adamantine battle axes, heavy swords and javelins.

Another wall is occupied by a huge fireplace.

Above the fireplace are a collection of game souvenirs - the heads of minotaurs and harthawks, their horns casting arrogant shadows on the grinning faces of swamp bearmen, basilisks and direclaws.

A taxidermied Ishi Ray and a dormant pseudo.

In the most conspicuous place, there is also a giant dragon's head, which is dyed the same gray-white color as the gray dwarf's skin, and the skull cavity is filled with dried fungal plants.

But the dragon's swept-back horns, the protruding nostrils at the snout, and the outline of the crown of thorns still allowed Brian to clearly determine that this was the head of a red dragon.

He looked at the red dragon's head carefully and guessed from the size that it was a red dragon that had reached adulthood.

This unexpected news further confirmed his suspicion about the relationship between red dragons and gray dwarves.

"That was killed by my father when he became the King of the Deep."

In the empty hall, a majestic gray dwarf took the initiative to speak while holding a glass of wine. He was fully armed and had a unique badge. Behind him stood two gray dwarf guards wearing black cloaks.

If you don't observe carefully, you may even think that these are just two shadows.

"This is an adult red dragon, according to the tradition of our Steel Shadow clan."

The gray dwarf said to Brian while stuffing a huge Zeke wood mushroom handle into the fireplace, "Only if he has the strength to challenge an adult red dragon, can he be qualified to become the Deep King of Aldus King City."

"A tradition that is enough to intimidate people." Brian turned around, looked at the gray dwarf warrior in front of him, and said with a smile, "Pay tribute to the King of the Deep who is both wise and brave."

He saw that the gray dwarf in front of him had a long walrus-like beard, a head as bald as a newborn baby's butt, and almost every piece of clothing was stained with wine stains.

Most gray dwarves, including female gray dwarves, have some uniform appearance characteristics: bald head, and gray-white skin.

The earthy brown clothing and simple-designed jewelry they wear not only reflect their rigorous and pragmatic style, but also allow them to blend in with the surrounding rock environment and remain unnoticed.

While observing the gray dwarves, Brian secretly used telepathy to tell the sword mage next to him to be more vigilant.

Hesiah nodded slightly, put his right hand unconsciously on his slender waist, and a pair of bright silver-gray cold eyes quietly locked on the two guards behind the gray dwarf warrior.

"Let me introduce myself, a human from the surface. I am Erdi Steel Shadow, the supreme commander of the Kavora Cavalry." The gray dwarf commander was also looking at Brian and the two, and he continued:

"Let me tell you first, surface people, you are nothing in King Aldus City. I can sell you two as slaves and let you work as the cheapest laborers."

"But..." The gray dwarf commander took a sip of his dark beer and added: "I think you two are quite interesting. Tell me, what can you do for your own freedom?"

Erdy Steelshadow, the only heir to the Deep King.

Brian recalled things about the gray dwarf prince.

Because the Deep King was affected by demonic corruption, the entire Aldus King City was in chaos.

Therefore, the gray dwarf prince wanted to imitate a certain death knight holding Frostmourne and perform a usurpation drama of "a loving father and a filial son".

The final result was of course a complete defeat.

After all, the backstage of the Deep King is the incarnation of the Demon Lord of the Bottomless Abyss, so how could a little gray dwarf like him be able to successfully challenge it?

However, that will only happen after three years.

At this time, in the royal city of Aldus, the demon lord's plan was still brewing, and most of the clans and derro dwarf rebels were still holding back. The gray dwarf prince and the king of the deep were still loving fathers and filial sons.

If what he expected was correct, the King of Deep Earth at this moment had been seduced by a succubus who turned into a gray dwarf, and was trapped in the Land of Gentleness from which he could not extricate himself.

He must help the gray dwarf prince in front of him to eliminate all the evil forces and demons in Aldus King City before the incarnation of the demon lord arrives.

"I can bring you rights and status." Brian smiled slightly and slowly spoke out amazing words, "Don't you want to become the new King of the Deep, Erdy Steel Shadow VII?"

Silence fell suddenly.

The candlelight kept jumping in the darkness, reflecting little bits of light in the crystal clear beer glass in the gray dwarf's hand, and the wax tears flowed on the candlestick like a small waterfall.

"Hahaha......."

After a long silence, Gray Dwarf Erdy's laughter seemed to tear down the roof, and even the dark beer he had just drank spurted out, causing him to cough and gasp for air.

After he finally recovered.

He raised his head and looked at Brian with mocking gray eyes, "Tall surface person, tell me honestly whether you hit your head when you just came in."

"I'm not kidding you." Brian replied calmly.

"Since you are not joking with me, then don't blame me for being rude, you arrogant surface person." The gray dwarf Erdy threw the glass wine glass in his hand towards the ground and shouted: "Do it!"

With a crisp sound of 'bang', more than thirty fully armed gray dwarf warriors appeared in the empty hall.

A duergar is as strong and stocky as his dwarf cousins.

In addition to their strong bodies, gray dwarves also have an extremely strong mind tempered by the enslavement of the illithids.

The Underdark is filled with powerful magic.

Since the days of being enslaved and imprisoned, gray dwarves have been continuously absorbing these strange magic powers, which eventually gave them some strange abilities.

They can increase their size in a short period of time and become a powerful warrior equivalent to the size of an orc. When facing powerful enemies or monitoring creatures invading their territory, they can also become invisible and move in the dark.

Because of this, the duergar's invisibility plays an important role in their society.

Invisible spies are everywhere, and the potential pressure they generate keeps the gray dwarves honest. It is precisely because of this invisible monitoring that slaves rarely try to disobey their masters in words or deeds.

Feeling the pressure brought by more than thirty powerful gray dwarf warriors, Brian stood calmly and watched like an outsider.

Almost as soon as the gray dwarf warrior appeared, Hesiah pulled out the rune sword from his waist, and the raging arcane flames suddenly engulfed the blade with crisscrossed arcane symbols.

——"Flame Wave Assault!"

The sword mage's beautiful face was reddened by the flames, with long reddish-brown hair flying, and cold silver-gray eyes locked on the enemy. His graceful figure turned into a ray of flame, and appeared behind Gray Dwarf Erdy at a dizzying speed.

Beside a guard wearing a black cloak.

The gray dwarf guards looked shocked and hurriedly prepared to draw their weapons to resist.

"Pfft!"

Unfortunately, it was too late. The rune sword wrapped in arcane flames in Hesiah's hand stabbed the gray dwarf guard's chest cleanly.

In the blink of an eye, raging flames burst from the chest of the screaming gray dwarf, mercilessly engulfing his struggling body in the sea of ​​fire.

The companions beside the gray dwarf guard looked at the sword mage with flying long hair in horror. He forced himself to stay calm and concentrate.

——"Psychic Any Door!"

Waves of psychic energy appeared in the air, and the gray dwarf guard quickly stepped into a translucent portal that happened to appear in front of him.

Looking at the fleeing guards, Hesiah lowered his eyes and sneered.

——"Lightning Hook!"

With a whisper, a crackling bolt of lightning suddenly appeared in her left hand and quickly shot into the disappearing portal.

"Zizzizi..."

The jumping lightning hook of the electric light ensnares the gray dwarf guard's entire body, and a white light connects to the caster's left palm.

Hesiah raised his left hand and pulled the white light. The guard caught in the lightning hook appeared uncontrollably from the portal that had just disappeared, hanging off the ground and struggling in mid-air.

His sparse strands of hair stood upright, twisting like the snake on Medusa's head, and his skinny body trembled convulsively.

As a wave of lightning surged out, the gray dwarf died in painful wails.

Hesiah dispelled the magic, raised the sword and retreated behind Brian, letting the body scorched by the explosive energy fall to the ground.

Brian nodded to the sword mage, and with an inadvertent movement, he took out the weapon that was ready for a last strike and put it back again.

Obviously, even he didn't expect that the other party would be able to complete the task he assigned her so well that she didn't even have a chance to gain experience from him.

He secretly whispered in his heart that he had found a treasure in the Underdark, and then looked at the stunned gray dwarf commander Erdy Steelshadow not far away with a cold expression.

"Now that our audience is no longer here, does that mean you should also end your performance?"

"How do you know they are the black-handled agents sent by my father to monitor me?" The gray dwarf Erdi looked shocked, and waved his hand with a look of disbelief on his face, signaling for all his men to retreat.

Brian didn't answer, but secretly mobilized a bit of spiritual energy, glanced at Erdy, and let him feel this unique spiritual energy fluctuation.

The duergar black-handled agents are psychic agents in the Deep King's secret army.

Their main purpose is to travel around with the gray dwarf merchants of Aldus King City, or appear in the families of major clans.

The true intention of these psychic agents is to carry out the work of supervisors and spies.

Because King Holga Steel Shadow VI of the Deep is a ruthless and shrewd ruler, in order to consolidate his powerful rule, he will hold secret talks with the council and clans in the city and make them suspicious of each other.

The existence of the black-handled agent means that his actions are unexpected and unprepared.

Even in order to consolidate the power of the kingdom, they will use middlemen at all costs to hire assassins from the "Empty Scabbard Killer" organization to deal with potential troublemakers.

Apparently, the gray dwarf prince had realized that he was being watched by his father.

Therefore, when Brian revealed his intention to come, although he was secretly happy, he could not express it directly because of the presence of the psychic agent.
To be continued...