Chapter 329

Everyone knew that dwarves had a War God chessboard. This was a very magical ruin built by the God of Forging, possessing various abilities to simulate war. It was a ruin used to simulate battlefield situations and deduce the direction of war.

Everyone who entered the ruins, if they were injured or killed, the war chess would end, and they would immediately be unharmed. Besides accumulating combat experience, war chess also had a replay function. By watching the replay to summarize experience and gains and losses, one could grow rapidly.

This was a divine artifact for any commander and leader, capable of accumulating experience at a low cost. If one had to rely on actual combat to accumulate experience, the costs and consequences were uncontrollable, and many talented commanders died on the battlefield before they could grow up.

However, everyone didn't know that the War God chessboard couldn't be started.

"Starting from a thousand years ago, the War God chessboard couldn't be started. At that time, my grandfather was still in power, and he took my father into the War God chessboard. By the time I grew up, the War God chessboard couldn't be started. I have never seen a replay," Copper Hammer said in a muffled voice while leading the way.

Ang and Anthony followed behind him, and behind the three of them was a team of twelve Thunder Guards. This was the Royal Guard of the Dwarf King.

Ang looked at them curiously. Because of those dwarven drunkards, Ang now had a basic understanding of dwarves.

Compared to Copper Beard, these Thunder Guards were much taller, each reaching 1.6 meters, about the same as Copper Beard after going berserk.

According to Copper Beard's description, dwarves needed to awaken their bloodline to grow taller. Clearly, these Thunder Guards had all awakened their bloodline power.

But compared to their size, their equipment was even richer: solid and heavy armor, two-handed axes carried on their backs, round shields on their arms, unknown equipment and small hand axes at their waists, top horns on their helmets, collision horns on their shoulders, and faintly visible buffer pads—simply armed to the teeth.

The full set of equipment probably weighed two or three hundred jin, even more than the dwarf's own weight, but they moved lightly and flexibly, completely unaffected.

Besides this equipment, a 'Thunder' was embedded in the position of their chest armor, slowly emitting light, occasionally flashing a trace of small electric sparks. On it, Ang could feel a... 'fertile' smell.

In the wilderness, whenever there was lightning, the air would be filled with a smell. Although Ang couldn't smell it, he could feel that there were some different things in the air. When they fell into the farmland, the crops could grow stronger.

If it was planting beans, the roots of the beans would also consolidate them in the soil, and other crops planted in the coming year could also be stronger. This was the 'fertile' smell.

Seeing Ang staring at those 'Thunders', Copper Hammer said: "Is Lord Ang interested in the Heart of Thunder? Someone, show it to Lord Ang."

The name of Ascetic Ang had already spread throughout the plane during the disaster relief for the believers of the Goddess of Harvest, and all the elite were curious about this powerful ascetic who had suddenly emerged.

Unfortunately, the ascetic system was independent of the entire Light Church, and no one could have more information, including Gu Li Guli Guli Anni. The Church had no list of ascetics at all.

But this was reasonable. The shepherd of God only needed the recognition of God. Did he still need to register at the Shepherd Guild?

The pure holy power on Ang was the best proof, and even Gu Li Guli Guli Anni couldn't doubt it, especially this recent time, hand-making bread to appease disaster victims, and then using the Sin Shackles to judge some instigators, Ascetic Ang was no longer just a simple ascetic, but fully qualified to be mentioned alongside Anthony, Dai Sen, etc., and compete for the candidate for the next Pope.

All the information that could be collected had long been placed on Copper Hammer's table. In order to build a good relationship with this mysterious ascetic, Copper Hammer was very happy to show off the Heart of Thunder that dwarves were most proud of.

This was a magic piece of equipment forged by the God of Forging, possessing powerful thunder power.

The leading Thunder Guard was seen patting the Heart of Thunder hard, and with a crack, the Heart of Thunder shone brightly.

The guard who activated the Heart of Thunder kicked hard, and electric sparks erupted from his soles, pushing him into the air like a booster. He jumped into the air and pulled out his two-handed axe with a backhand.

Electric sparks flashed on his body, and the thunder power was directed to the two-handed axe. He was seen swinging it first, and a bolt of lightning struck down, hitting a statue on the side of the road.

Immediately after, the guard swung the two-handed axe, descended from the sky, causing countless electric sparks to converge on the axe head, and slashed down at the statue, like a big hammer made of thunder and lightning, smashing the statue into powder.

"Clap clap clap." Anthony hurriedly applauded to show support, and Ang tilted his head.

Copper Hammer trotted over, kicked the Thunder Guard who was still maintaining a cool posture on the butt, and roared: "I let you show off, why are you smashing the statue! This statue has a history of several hundred years and the carving is so good! Also, why are you smashing my statue?! Are you dissatisfied with me!"

The dwarven race had many occupations like forgers and stonemasons, so along the way, there were statues on both sides of the road, basically all of past Dwarf Kings and dwarven heroes. The one smashed by the Thunder Guard happened to be Copper Hammer's statue.

The Thunder Guard was kicked and ran away holding his head.

Na Nai Nai Nai Ge Li Si, projected onto Ang, had never dared to speak, but it understood. This Heart of Thunder should be a type of amplifier with thunder power. After activation, attacks on enemies would have thunder damage, and could even be released to cause long-range damage.

It was still quite practical. The strength of the Thunder Guards themselves was already not weak, and they could probably all go berserk. Plus the amplification of thunder power, they might be able to fight Lu Se one-on-one.

There were twelve Thunder Guards here. If each of them had Lu Se's strength, that would be twelve High-Rank Sword Saints, a strength not to be underestimated.

After beating up the dwarf who was smashing things, Copper Hammer took everyone into the War God chessboard.

As soon as he entered the War God chessboard, Ang immediately had a familiar feeling.

"How does it feel a bit like an enlarged version of the illusion simulation array?" Na Nai Nai Nai Ge Li Si said quietly.

It really was a bit like it. Ang had bought several simulation arrays from Au Ben Li, one of which was placed in the Palace of Rest, and he could play with it by reaching in.

Ang first simulated in the array, and after success, planted it for real, then used the Instant Death Aura to accelerate growth, then imported the growth data into the array, and then simulated again.

In this rotation, the data update speed in the simulation array was very fast. Those druids at the Star Fall Academy accumulated data in years, while he used days, and the targeting was stronger.

He was already simulating the growth environment of God Wood, elven beans, and God flowers in the array, and had new discoveries: God Wood dried and ground into powder, mixed in small amounts into the fungus carpet, could make the yield of holy mushrooms explode.

The War God chessboard in front of him was like a large illusion simulation array. The flat ground was divided into squares by lines. According to the situation of the simulation array, after activation, various terrain ratio maps would appear here.

Copper Hammer didn't know that Ang had seen through the situation of the War God chessboard at a glance, just assuming they had never seen it, and took the initiative to introduce: "This is the War God chessboard. Here you can choose different terrains, different climatic environments, and different troop strengths to conduct war chess deduction. You can deduce alone, or you can fight on both sides, or you can conduct it in teams."

He also pointed to some circular arrays on the edge and said: "Stand there and you can enter the battlefield."

After the introduction, Copper Hammer sighed: "But starting from 1,100 years ago, the War God chessboard could no longer be started. At that time, my grandfather was still in power, and he sent out the most outstanding dwarven craftsmen, and even invited human alchemists and gnome craftsmen to study it, but none could find the reason."

"So, Your Majesty Copper Hammer, you have never started the War God chessboard, right?" Anthony asked.

"Yes, if you have a way to start it, I will be very happy," Copper Hammer said.

"Well then, we need to study it first," Anthony said depressedly.

Honestly, Anthony felt he had lost. These dwarves were not straightforward at all, especially this Copper Hammer, who actually used something they couldn't start to exchange for several carts of fine wine.

After this thing was started, he still had to watch it with them, which meant they didn't pay anything, got fine wine for nothing, and might see replay records that they couldn't see before.

Ku Ba Da, shouldn't they be the ones paying money?

If dwarves invited people to repair the War God chessboard, they had to pay. Regardless of whether it could be repaired or not, if people came, they had to pay. Food expenses, travel expenses, and dismantling fees all had to be paid once. If they also brought assistants, they had to pay for two people's money.

Now it was fine, it was the other way around. They spent money and fine wine to repair things for the dwarves, worked hard, and spent money. Lost everything.

The work he made an appointment for, he had to try even if he cried. Anthony pulled Ang aside and discussed it with Na Nai Nai Nai Ge Li Si and Du Luo Ken, who were projected onto Ang.

"How is it? Do you understand? Are you sure you can repair it?" Anthony asked.

Na Nai Nai Nai Ge Li Si didn't speak. Du Luo Ken was the professional for this kind of thing. Before Du Luo Ken, it dared to say a few words, anyway, no one knew if it was wrong. Now it didn't dare, it would be slapped in the face on the spot.

"This is too simple. Isn't it just an illusion array? I can build a new one if I have materials. Let's go to the core and see," Du Luo Ken said.

For an alchemist who built the World Transit Station and the Palace of Rest, the War God chessboard was indeed not a difficult problem. After looking at the core, he knew the reason.

"The drive core is missing," Du Luo Ken said.

"Drive core?" Anthony was surprised, turned his head and asked Copper Hammer in the distance: "Your Majesty Copper Hammer, where did the drive core go?"

Copper Hammer was holding the head of the Thunder Guard who had smashed his statue before, twisting his finger joints on his forehead, and replied without looking back: "I don't know what you are talking about. Everything is in its original place."

Well, it seems there is no hope of getting help from the dwarves. Let's rely on ourselves.

Du Luo Ken studied the empty core position for a while and said: "Any construct, magic building, teleportation array, etc., needs an energy source. This energy source is the drive core."

"For the World Transit Station, I set up several drive methods, namely magic crystals, soul crystals, or directly soul energy. So they have several cores for redundancy. If one is broken, it can still be driven in other ways."

"This illusion array is not so advanced. A single drive core, a single energy source. If it loses its only energy source, it cannot be started. I looked at these divine patterns and energy circuits. What should drive it is the power of belief, that is, divine power, faith primordial power, and so on."

Na Nai Nai Nai Ge Li Si was also observing, and said: "This should be the forging divine pattern, the divine pattern of the God of Forging."

"Hey, do you recognize the forging divine pattern? I can only roughly see that it is some kind of divine pattern, but I can't recognize who it belongs to," Du Luo Ken was surprised.

"Small matter. As long as it is a well-known god, there is no divine pattern I don't recognize. But you are even more amazing, seeing the problem at a glance."

"Small matter, small matter. It's too far from the level of the World Transit Station. You are still amazing."

After a wave of commercial mutual blowing, Du Luo Ken was in a difficult position: "If you use other drive methods, it is easy to start it, but it is troublesome to use divine patterns. We must find someone with the divine power of the God of Forging."

Anthony hurriedly turned his head: "Your Majesty Copper Hammer, can you find believers of the God of Forging?"

Copper Hammer was arm-wrestling with his Thunder Guards, and replied: "Looked for them, no, can't start it."

Du Luo Ken understood as soon as he heard it: "Divine power is too weak. This kind of drive core cannot be carried out by too many people at the same time. It's not impossible. If there is the elemental synergy ability of the Mage Corps, it is also possible."

Operating such a large array, one or two people are definitely not enough, unless it is like Ang who can directly use soul flames.

If the ability is not enough, use the number of people to make up for it, but when making up for the number of people, one must face the problem of synergy. The strength of each divine art practitioner is uneven. To coordinate them to the same level requires long-term strict training.

Without a well-trained batch of divine art practitioners, one can only find a single believer of the God of Forging.

"Ku Ba Da, no wonder the dwarves can't start it. What believer can drive such a large array alone?" Na Nai Nai Nai Ge Li Si said.

"Yeah, actually, it's an illusion array. It makes no sense to make it so big. Just make it the size of a chessboard. Save effort, and it doesn't affect the deduction..."

"Are you talking about this kind?"

"Uh, why do you have everything?" Du Luo Ken was puzzled.

"Then what should we do now? We can't ask the God of Forging to drive it himself. We don't even know if the God of Forging is still alive. How about tearing it down and rebuilding one?"

"Rebuilding one is possible, but there is no record. How about taking the previous half-piece of blank godhood, engraving the divine pattern of the God of Forging into it, and pretending to be the God of Forging?" Du Luo Ken said.

The godhood that Ang planted dissipated halfway, starting the Witch's Palace. After the energy reached balance, the godhood didn't continue to dissipate, and half was left.

"Can it work?"

"Try it."

This was an unprecedented assumption, because there had never been any blank godhood before. However, the result was very smooth, and it succeeded once.

Putting in the godhood, the entire War God chessboard started to operate.

Copper Hammer stopped arm-wrestling, ran over, and asked in shock: "Really started? How did you do it?"

Anthony said mysteriously: "The great power of light, Your Majesty Copper Hammer. This involves the secrets of our Light Gods. After watching, we will take away the things inside."

Copper Hammer was regretful and reluctant, but nodded in agreement.

"Come, come, come, start the replay, the last God War record, start." Copper Hammer started the array according to the ancestral method, stumbling. A flash of light flashed, and countless virtual shadows appeared within the range of the squares.

The War God wearing War God armor and the God of Forging holding a forging hammer appeared in the field. Opposite them, two Light Gods emitting holy light confronted them.

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