Chapter 21: Roundabout

Ashu Rufate threw down the book in his hand.

His "study room" is really worthy of his name at this moment. At this moment, books are scattered on the ground and on the table on one side, all kinds of new and old books are even piled up into small hills. These are books about the dwarves he purchased from various places through the Silverfish Chamber of Commerce.

In fact, humans have a much better understanding of dwarves than other races, and there are countless related books. This is because humans and dwarves trade quite closely. Unlike elves who are closed to the country and trapped in civil wars. Humans and dwarves are allies in a certain way, because both sides are fighting against the invasion of green skins. In relatively few cases, in order to deal with green skins, both sides will even form an allied army. At the same time, because a small number of dwarves live in human cities, people do not need to run far if they want to understand the situation of dwarves.

In human cities, especially in big cities, if you meet a dwarf, it is completely normal. In most cases, both sides will take off their hats and say "Rising An". Dwarfs are generous and good at drinking. As long as they are invited to the tavern and pour a cup or two for them, they will tell you some things about their race in their entirety. Because these things are never thought of keeping them confidential. Due to sufficient information, a large number of scholars have written a lot of books about dwarfs.

"There's no chance." In my mind, Carrie made a remark.

There is no way for the dwarves to forget their hatred in these books. It seems that they are very good at living with hatred and pass on this hatred to their descendants. Blood debt and blood repayment is a deeply rooted concept of the dwarves, and any other method cannot solve the blood debt. What's worse, through these books, Ash Rufate learned that Prince Hoga, who was killed by him, was actually the son of the Supreme King, and was the noblest bloodline of the dwarves gods (of course, they claimed to be).

This hatred may not be resolved.

"It seems that a positive solution is completely unrealistic." Ashu Rufate replied in his mind. Now he knows that there are more than one book of hatred for the dwarves, but a considerable number of books. The one in the hands of the Supreme King is called the "Book of Great Hate", and all the crimes committed against the dwarves are recorded on it. The other kings and patriarchs also have a book of hatred related to their own tribes.

In the battle to conquer Karak-Grom, there were thousands of dwarves killed in battle. Ash Rufate didn't need to think about it and knew that many tribes must have been involved. Dwarves were guys who lost hundreds of gold coins in business and could record them in the Book of Hate, and even more so, they wouldn't ignore the death of several tribe members. Even if there were any means to use money to eliminate hatred, the price to pay was unbearable to Assh Rufate.

"Well, you can only use roundabout skills." Carrie agreed with this view. "Our goal is to delay for a while. In fact, it is basically no problem if the dwarves do not choose to be hostile to us within 20 years." She said. "But there seems to be no feasible way to delay."

Ashrufate picked up a book and flipped through a few pages. These pages happened to record a story about the Book of Hate and the Green Skin Warlord. It basically said that a Green Skin Warlord attacked many times and killed many dwarves, so his name was recorded in the Book of Hate. Then several dwarves kings united and defeated the Green Skin Warlord in a war, and finally cut off his head. The Green Skin Warlord finally paid off his debts to the Dwarves in this way.

"Wait, Carrie, I suddenly have a view...The book of hatred has a lot of content, which means that the dwarves should take revenge according to the records in the book, right?" Ashu Rufate suddenly thought of something.

"Master, you are wrong in your thinking." Carrie said helplessly. "The order is just for the convenience of recording. They will take action as soon as the time comes. I believe that although our affairs must be sorted back in the Book of Hate, once humans make the request to jointly fight vampires, the dwarves will definitely not miss this opportunity. All they have to pay is a group of engineers, and at most some excavators. This cost can be taken out by the dwarves at any time."

"But," Carrie paused suddenly. "Master, I suddenly had a good idea."

"What's the idea?"

"The book just now, just this one, pick it up and take a look at it, just the pages in the middle."

Ash Rufate picked up the book with some confusion and flipped through a few pages according to Carrie's instructions. This book is a hodgepodge, and it is used to record various legends and stories of the dwarves. The pages Ash Rufate flipped into tell the story of a dwarves hero.

The story tells the story of how a dwarf hero named Pomack avenges his relatives. The book tells how Pomack overcomes various adverse factors in order to avenge his unfortunate relatives, leading his army to pursue a scattered green-skinned robber, and finally wiped out it out. To be honest, Ashu Rufate can't see how different this story is from the legend of other dwarfs. The story of the dwarf is always full of various artistic exaggerations, and the same story is the same, from cutting off a river with an axe to cutting down a mountain with a fierce blow.

"Please pay attention to the last part." Carrie reminded.

At the end of this story, Pomack completed his vow of revenge and returned to his hometown gloriously. Some other kings regretted it because they were afraid of all the difficulties and obstacles along the way and did not participate in the expedition. They could only regretfully cross out the relevant records in the Book of Hate without receiving the glory of revenge.

"Is there anything special here?" Ashu Rufate read it carefully, but still found nothing.

"The Book of Hate will also conflict with each other," Carrie replied. "Did you notice that in this story, the crimes of the Green-skinned Bandits are recorded in the Book of Hate of multiple Dwarf tribes at the same time. But the problem is that there is only one group of Green-skinned Bandits..."

"Is there anything strange about this?" Ashu Rufat wondered. "Didn't every dwarf king have a book of hatred? These books of hatred record the crimes of their respective enemies. The Supreme King's hand is the 'Book of Great Hate', which records all the enemies. The green-skinned robbers attacked many different dwarf kingdoms and tribes, and will be recorded in multiple books of hatred."

"Yes, master, you're right." Carrie replied, "You see, the book records that Pomack was honored, while the other dwarf kings seemed very embarrassed, and could only regretfully cross out the relevant contents of the Book of Hate. The book said that this made them feel deeply ashamed... I think this example is enough to show the dwarfs' view of such things. There is a gap here for us to use."

"What gap?"

"That's the priority of revenge." Carrie replied. "Master, I already have an idea."

"What's the idea?" Ashu Rufate hadn't understood it yet.

"You can pretend to be a dwarf and mingle into their city. This is easy to do because you have a ready-made identity, the dwarf who died in the Dragon Slaying Battle and you are the only one who witnessed his death. What's even better is that he actually has the same name as you."

"Disguised as a dwarf?" Ashu Rufate asked. This proposal is not very wonderful. You must know that dwarfs and elves are different. When he disguised as an elves, he had no contact with the elves, and had no complaints in the past and no grudges in the past. It is precisely because of this as the basis that he reached a secret agreement with the Emerald Queen and finally obtained the identity of the prince.

Even when Gars launched a mutiny, Ashu Rufate once said that he had given way, he could leave safely. In the final analysis, it was because he had never made enemies with the elves.

But now, his name is written in the Book of Hate. As soon as his identity is revealed, he is sure that he will be chopped into pieces by the furious dwarves on the spot.

"Well, do you remember? Ashu Rufate is the only survivor of the Lava Tribe." Carrie said. "And this matter is still a secret. I guess no other dwarves know..."

"He has an older brother." Ashu Rufat immediately corrected Carrie's mistake.

"None is now," Carrie replied.

"What's going on?" Ashu Rufate asked in confusion, "I remember very clearly his last words..."

"Do you remember what happened before attacking Karak-Grom? At that time, when you held a meeting to make plans, your subordinates caught a dwarf spy, a captain of the ranger..."

"Oh, I remembered it. At that time, you suggested that I let him go and let him be a messenger, and make the last effort to defeat others without fighting." Ashu Rufate recalled hard.

"Yes, that one is Ashu Rufate's brother." Carrie replied. "Please trust my judgment."

"But I have accepted your advice and let him go."

"I'm sure he's dead." Carrie replied. "I sent the black-clad assassin of the Essin clan to kill him. He died with a black-clad assassin. But there were more than one assassin who assassined him, and the others rewarded the result."

"Why?" Ashu Rufate vaguely felt something wrong. "And you didn't tell me."

"Of course it's because he has to be punished." Carrie replied with a smile. "He failed to complete your mission and returned to the battlefield against you... Well, it's just news that the black-clad assassins brought back when they assassinated the dwarf officer. Some of them recognized that the dwarf was the one you released before."

This explanation sounds reasonable, and Ashu Rufate didn't ask again.

"Anyway, through our existing equipment, you can easily change your body and look and pretend to be a dwarf. Of course, it's all because we got the chip...hehe, otherwise it would be difficult to deal with. After you pretend to be a dwarf, you can make a request to the Supreme King of the Dwarfs, demanding priority for revenge."

Ashu Rufate finally understood what Carrie meant.

It is true. If the "dwarf Ashurufate" that does not exist in fact can get priority for revenge, then there is no need to worry about the dwarf's movements for at least decades. When the dwarfs find out that this "Ahurufate" does not exist, it may have changed. Besides, it is not easy for the dwarf to judge this, because the lava tribe did "once" existed, and the dwarf named Ashurufate did exist. He even had an older brother who served in the army and died in battle.

"But the question is why should the Supreme King give me priority to revenge? But if I were the Supreme King, then I would not give others such conditions easily. In the Battle of Carac-Grom, Prince Hoga, the Supreme King's son, was also dead. To be honest, the Supreme King should have the qualifications. Why did he give it to others?"

"The kings are all realistic." Carrie replied. "If you propose a condition that the Supreme King cannot refuse...for example...help the dwarves regain a lost homeland. This is the great achievement that the dwarves dream of, and it is also the goal that the Supreme King pursues tirelessly. Prince Hoga died for this goal."
Chapter completed!