Chapter 513: King!

Su Sheng naturally didn't know that the two rivals were preparing to team up and cause trouble.

At this moment Su Sheng had already arrived smoothly at the dwarf camp.

The once‑abandoned mine now looks fully formed; compared with when Su Sheng last inspected it, it resembles a village town even more.

It has rather solid walls and some miniature demonic‑rune cannons.

Even in the middle—could that be a magic‑energy cannon? Though scaled down, the patterns are hidden inside; it's truly the same kind of magic‑energy cannon that lines the Main City walls.

Damn, dwarves really live up to their name; they can even make this thing.

If it could be moved to my own base…

Once the village is built, a wave of monster siege will come.

But the base's starter blueprint only offers a regular Bed Crossbow design; that can't compare to a cannon.

Tsk…

This craftsmanship.

If these dwarves could help at my base now, why would I need any NPC craftsmen?

At the same time, some players come and go here.

Not many, since mainstream players have basically reached the Main City stage.

Some late‑coming players initially head to Wutong Town.

Because here holds, so far, the only fixed Dungeon.

But after level fifteen, they gradually leave.

There is no level‑40 Training Spot here.

Back then, Zheng Dazhuang and Lu Zhe didn't level up in Wutong Town.

Su Sheng entered without any obstruction.

…

"Explorer, it's you."

The Tie Chui Airen still remembers Su Sheng; these named NPCs have decent intelligence and a memory system.

"Iron Hammer Grandmaster, long time no see," Su Sheng greets with a smile.

"Hehe, long time no see, is the weapon in your hand still handy?" the Tie Chui Airen looks at the Divine Thunder Magic Light in Su Sheng's hand.

"Quite good, it helps me a lot," Su Sheng waves his spear.

"Explorer, you came to see me—what's up? Did you find good materials again, needing my forging help?"

The Tie Chui Airen looks at Su Sheng with a hint of expectation.

After all, after his promotion to Grandmaster, he still relied on the materials Su Sheng supplied to forge the Three-colored Divine Artifact now in Su Sheng's hand.

"Not really, I have another matter and would like your help."

Su Sheng answers with a smile.

"Is that so?" the Tie Chui Airen's expression shows clear disappointment, yet he steels himself and looks at Su Sheng.

"I wonder what you, Explorer, need me to help with now?"

"Here's the thing: my guild obtained a development order and secured a base. I know the Dwarf Race's talents, so I'd like to ask Iron Hammer Grandmaster to help construct the base," Su Sheng says. These named NPCs are highly intelligent, and Su Sheng treats them as ordinary people rather than game NPCs.

"Build a base?" the Tie Chui Airen is startled.

"This…" the Tie Chui Airen clearly hesitates.

"Explorer, it's not that I don't want to help you; although I'm now a Grandmaster‑level forger, the only ones I can command are my few apprentices."

"But building a base requires manpower; a handful of us is clearly insufficient, and we are forgers, not craftsmen," the Tie Chui Airen says helplessly.

"You Dwarf Race must have great craftsmen, right?" Su Sheng asks puzzled. "Your camp…"

"We do have a Master Craftsman among us, but I can't command that fellow. This is our habitat; establishing a camp is natural, yet I can't make him assist you, Explorer."

"Unless our king intervenes, professionals above Master level have absolute freedom."

"Unfortunately, our king perished when the Dwarf Kingdom fell, dying together with a Demon Race champion; the king's token was lost in Demon territory, and without the token, no new king can be born."

"Many of our dwarves now wander everywhere, seeing no future," the Tie Chui Airen says forlornly.

Now the Tie Chui Airen is a Grandmaster‑level professional; traditionally in the former Dwarf Kingdom, such a person could become a city ruler and hope to inherit the throne.

The Dwarf King isn't hereditary, so the Dwarf Race has no princes; rather, every Grandmaster‑level professional is a "prince."

He also wishes to lead the dwarves to a new path, but with the king's token lost, a Grandmaster‑level professional can never be king.

"I wonder if the token you mentioned, Iron Hammer Grandmaster, is this."

At this moment Su Sheng produced the Dwarf King's Ring.

"Hmm?" the Tie Chui Airen blinks, then his large, bell‑like eyes widen again.

"This is....?? King Ring!!!"

Swish~

【62】 The Tie Chui Airen darts to Su Sheng in an instant, eyes fixed on the ring in Su Sheng's hand.

Tie Chui Airen almost instantly appeared before Su Sheng, his eyes locked onto the ring on Su Sheng's hand.

Much more excited than when he saw the three‑colored tree core last time.

At the same time, the once‑bustling mine fell silent; the dwarves who were working stopped and turned to look here.

Su Sheng, without hesitation, handed the Dwarf King's Ring to the Tie Chui Airen.

The Tie Chui Airen carefully took the ring.

"It really is.... the King Ring!"

Swish~

The Tie Chui Airen drew a dagger and slashed his own hand.

Then he let the blood drip onto the Dwarf King's Ring.

"When the previous king fell, the King Ring automatically entered a sealed state; to break the seal, we need the blood of a master from our dwarf bloodline!" Tie Chui Airen explained while dripping blood onto the King Ring.

Su Sheng nodded slightly; the Dwarf King Ring is a five-colored Divine Artifact, a sealed five-colored Divine Artifact.

All the Dwarves in the entire mine stared intently as Tie Chui Airen's blood dripped onto the King Ring.

They have been lost enough for a long time; they need a new king!

Swish~

As Tie Chui Airen's blood dripped.

Instantly!

The Dwarf King Ring emitted dazzling five-colored light!

"King Ring! Revived!"

Tie Chui Airen, trembling slightly, lifted the Dwarf King Ring high.

Swish swish~

The surrounding Dwarves simultaneously swish swish half‑kneel, one hand on their chest.

Swish swish~

At the same time, a horde of Dwarves rushed in from outside, and upon seeing the scene, all performed the same action.

"King!"

"King! King!"

The whole mine echoed with the Dwarves' excited and orderly shouts.

Tie Chui Airen then carefully placed the ring on his hand.

The Dwarf Kingdom has been fallen for so many years, the king also perished, and among the Dwarf Race there is an implicit agreement: the first master who finds the King Ring becomes the new king.

But as time passed, the dwarf masters who fled the Dwarf Kingdom successively died of old age.

The new generation of Dwarves, because of the Dwarf Kingdom's fall, received no proper training, and almost no dwarf masters were born.

Masters are as rare as phoenix feathers.

There are no masters, let alone finding the King Ring.

Precisely because of this, after Tie Chui Airen attains masterhood, he can gather some Dwarves, but he is still not a king.

Now Tie Chui Airen has obtained the King Ring, and with his own master's blood has unsealed the Dwarf King Ring; naturally, Tie Chui Airen is the new Dwarf King!