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The gray dwarf actually came to Athens.

When Murphy heard the news, he suddenly felt a little headache. Gray dwarves are aliens who were driven out of their tribes by the dwarves. They mainly live in the Underdark. However, due to the outbreak of the elemental tide and the gradual erosion of the underground world by the power of death, it is no longer suitable for intelligent creatures to live. These gray dwarves also migrated to the surface world with the tide. Almost soon after the cavemen appeared, their traces began to move on the continent.

In the beginning, these creatures with a hint of cunning in their nature often pretended to be dark-skinned dwarves to commit fraud. However, after other races learned of their appearance, they simply turned into bandits and started a business that specializes in robbing!

Gray dwarves, like dwarves, are adept at making weapons.

An adult gray dwarf is about 4 feet tall and weighs about the same as an adult human (about 125-250 pounds, or 55-115 kilograms). Males are slightly taller and much heavier than females.

Most of the racial characteristics of gray dwarves are similar to that of dwarves, but they are also different from some. For example, they have dark vision of 120 feet (ordinary dwarves only have 60 feet), but because they live underground for a long time, they are afraid of bright lights and cannot stand in the scorching sun. Their vision will be affected.

Gray dwarves are very strong physically. Although they are not immune to common poisons, magic or alchemical poisons are difficult to affect them. In addition, they are highly resistant to effects such as paralysis, charm, petrification, etc. Gray dwarves are born with certain stealth abilities and good psychic abilities, which ordinary dwarves do not have.

Gray dwarves reach adulthood around 50 years old and can live to be over 400 years old.

These gray dwarves who ran out of the underground world are quite difficult to deal with. Not only are there a lot of them, but more importantly, their fighting power is a little stronger than ordinary dwarves. Because they were exiled to the Underdark, these gray dwarves frequently fought with other underground races, so their combat experience was very rich, much higher than that of ordinary warriors.

Although the dwarves are not tall, their bodies are very thick. Their arms are simply out of proportion to their bodies. The thickness of the arms of ordinary dwarf warriors is comparable to the thighs of many adults. Therefore, the dwarves have very powerful hand-to-hand combat capabilities, and the weapons they use are tomahawks and warhammers that are far heavier than ordinary cane growers.

In battle, they use overwhelming power to defeat their opponents!

A little bit of mythological information must be extended here, that is, in the era of the rule of the Golden Titans, the original dwarves were created by the Titans. The first batch of dwarves at that time were not as short as today's dwarves. Bai Fan was very tall, nearly six to seven meters tall, and could even have some of the bloodline of the giants.

The dwarves who appeared in the mythical age were not called dwarves. They were first called hill giants!

It is said that many of them have disappeared in the long river of the world. No one knows exactly why the dwarves became what they are now. It may be because they made some mistakes, or it may be because of the fall of their creator, the Titan, etc. . However, there have always been some powerful men with amazing talents among the dwarves. These powerful dwarves who inherit a certain node of the legendary giant's bloodline can acquire a bloodline ability called. After activating this ability, their size will become huge in a short time, with strength and resistance comparable to that of the Pong people. They can be immune to most spell damage, and at the same time use some special abilities inherited from the giants.

The chance of these dwarves reviving the blood of giants is not high, so dwarves with abilities are the kings of the tribe!

If we use the scientific terminology of the earth age, this is more similar to a phenomenon of ‘atavism’. This makes the rumor that the dwarves have giant blood a little more credible.

The dwarves are born. What makes them extraordinary is their strength and resistance to poison magic. Gray dwarves are more ferocious than ordinary dwarves, but they do not have inherited abilities. Unlike other dwarves who are generally more mentally retarded, some magicians will be born among the gray dwarves. Although the number is still very rare, at least there are one or two of them in a group.

This may be due to the duergar's evolution after being banished to the underworld.

Murphy doesn't know how many gray dwarves have migrated to the surface world, but the number should not be less than 10,000. After all, these wandering gray dwarves have robbed dwarves, human city-states, half-elves, and even The tauren tribe that appeared in the southern wilderness has become an underground species under the black dragon, and they dare to pull out their teeth to rob!

Since it is a robbery, the scale cannot be too large. After all, the actions of tens of thousands of people are too easy to be exposed.

That would not be robbery, but a race war!

Although the number of gray dwarves exceeds five digits, they still act in groups of about a few thousand people, plundering other races and collecting resources and food. Compared with the cavemen who are also robbing everywhere, the gray dwarves are slightly better, because although they are cunning, greedy and violent by nature, they are at least a civilized race and will not be cruel enough to include humans and other humanoid species. Among the recipes. Their robbery mainly focused on food and supplies, and did not cause too many massacres.

But cave people are different.

Once a town or village is captured by the cavemen, they will kill all living creatures and take them away as rations. These creatures, corroded by the dirty power of death underground, have now become like demonized beasts. There is no humanity left at all.

Second Age Era 377, early June.

But the gray dwarf tribes who came to the surface world, due to lack of food and supplies, had to engage in the business of "fighting the autumn wind". They first used the name of the dwarves to make a fortune, and after being discovered by other races, they simply used their signs to rob other species. These gray dwarves robbed all the races in the southern plains and surrounding areas. After arousing the vigilance of all the surrounding races, they had to start moving their positions.

Although the dwarves are born, the number of this race is not large. The population of gray dwarves is slightly smaller than that of the dwarves. Murphy estimates that there are only 30,000 to 50,000 at most.

Therefore, although their individual combat effectiveness is not bad, they cannot fight a frontal war. At best, they can only fight in the autumn wind.

After frequently arousing the vigilance of many surrounding races, it is not so easy for the gray dwarves to continue to rob. Because of the poor food harvest this year, many races have been affected, and the protection of food has naturally begun to increase. Some species that had experienced food shortages, after encountering gray dwarves who wanted to rob them, even broke out in a desperate fight and repelled the gray dwarf attacks several times.

Food is the foundation of everything and the guarantee for racial reproduction!

Without food, there is nothing!

Therefore, after these several robberies, the gray dwarf clan not only gained nothing, but also lost a lot of their population.

But there is no end to the road, and there is no way to continue living the day of robbery. The gray dwarves suddenly found out about a place called Athens from the mouths of some human captives!

It is said that it is a very prosperous and rich city.

Not only was there a large amount of supplies there, but there was also food that could feed hundreds of thousands of people. They couldn't finish the food no matter what, and the lords of Athens even built an extremely huge warehouse in order to store the excess food! In addition, Athens not only has a lot of grain, but is also good at using grain to make wine. Because there is so much grain there, they sell a large amount of spirits every month!

These spirits are like burning knives in your mouth.

According to the territory of barbarian humans, such a barrel of strong wine can be exchanged for a strong bull!

There are supplies, food, and spirits. When these three conditions are added together, even those gray dwarves who have heard about the strength of Athens and the powerful fighting power of the Spartan warriors can't help but start to feel excited. During the previous robberies, they had more or less fought against some of the elite troops of the Noble Council. It was expected that the Athenian army would not be too weak due to its reputation, but it would definitely not be that strong.

It’s okay if you don’t know.

Now that I know there is such a fat sheep, how can I be worthy of myself if I don't plunder it?

And since the underground world is often filled with the gray-purple death moss, the gray dwarves don't have much food in their hands. Many races have been robbed during this period, but due to the reduction in food production this year, these robbed races do not have much oil and water, so the gray dwarves are now relatively short of food. They neither cultivated the land, nor did they herd, fish or hunt. The income from robbery alone was really not enough for them.

Moreover, even their leader has not had strong liquor for a long time since he came to the surface world.

Making wine requires food and wastes food.

However, after the Jackal War, Orc War, and Lizard Man War, Athens' prestige has spread to other races in the southern plains and surrounding areas. One victory may be a fluke, but victory in all is real. Strength. Although the gray dwarves are not weak in individual combat capability, they do not dare to take it lightly, let alone directly confront the Athenian army.

The armies of Orcs and Lizardmen were defeated miserably by the Athenian army, and they asked themselves that they did not have much chance of winning.

But robbery is not war.

War is a real war, a clash of racial strengths. However, robbery is like fighting against the autumn wind. It should be done east and west, avoiding the enemy's main force and making sneak attacks on the enemy's rear. Gray dwarves have night vision and are good at sneak attacks at night. Moreover, they have good climbing ability. It is not difficult for them to climb over the Karazhan Mountains.

So after thinking about it, one or two gray dwarf groups began to cross the Karazhan Mountains towards Athens.

They are not stupid enough to all run to Athens.

Such a large number of people cannot be hidden at all. If too many people go, I am afraid that they will have a head-on battle with the Athenian army.

This is something they absolutely don't want to do!