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The actions of the Hanbag team suddenly reminded me.

Although I don’t know anyone in the Demon Fortress, I am an alliance elder. At this time, it shouldn’t be an exaggeration to use my status to do something.

I didn't think of this before, thinking that little King Arthur knew the specific location of the second test and didn't need to spend energy to find it. He subconsciously formed an inertial thinking and even forgot to find helpers.

After awakening to this point, the next step will be easier. Naturally, I will not stupidly climb up and call myself a so-and-so card elder with boundless magic and endless harem. That is too stupid, and there is a certain chance that I will be defeated by the demon fortress.

The adventurers looked like idiots jumping up and down.

If you want to make better use of your elder status, of course you have to go to the person in charge here, that is, the owner of the Tianzihao blacksmith shop in the Demon Fortress, Uncle Mario who once helped me a lot in the Little Black Carbon incident... right?

?Well, the name is not the point.

I have been to Uncle Ma Daou's blacksmith shop many times, so it was easy to find it. After a while, I found the shiny signboard. The steam was steaming inside, and the sound of tinkling knocking could be heard endlessly. It was like a group of demons.

The fortress, this cold steel city, forms a wonderful echo, as if this is the strong beating heart of the steel city.

As soon as I saw this formation, I knew that Uncle Mario, who was obsessed with blacksmith skills and had no intention of being a good leader of the alliance, was in the shop. Fortunately, his craftsmanship was indeed one of the best in the Demon Fortress, and his price was reasonable, among adventurers.

His word-of-mouth reputation is very high, and what he says can convince the public. Otherwise, with his unprofessional attitude, Akala would have fired him in anger. Of course, this may be a good thing for Uncle Ma Daou. Compared with the person in charge, he

I would rather be a pure blacksmith.

Not disturbing the blacksmith at work is common sense that every adventurer who enters the blacksmith shop must follow. I stood at the door for a while. Finally, I waited until the clanging sound stopped. Without waiting for his next move, I immediately took a big step.

Step into.

"Uncle Ma Daou, I'm here to see you."

"I'm sorry. There is no one named Ma Daou here." A middle-aged man with a stubble who hadn't shaved for an unknown number of days turned around from the iron stove and shouted angrily.

.

"Sorry, sorry, then...Uncle Mario?"

"You bastard, you did it on purpose, you came here specifically to make me angry, right?" Greo couldn't bear it and threw down the red hammer. He turned around and yelled at me angrily. Not to mention, he was like this

The messy hair that hasn't been taken care of for a long time really looks like a cock's comb.

I suppressed my laughter and said seriously: "The name is just a code name, Uncle Glio, why is your temper still as hot as a furnace?"

"Isn't it all because of you!!!" Greo muttered angrily, scratching his head, and suddenly iron pins rained down from his head, which was even more exaggerated than his scalp.

"I think... you'd better wash your hair first. How many days have you been staying next to the stove for how many days?" I was stunned. Did this guy come out of the volcanic ash?

"I don't know, I can't stop the hammer once I hold it." Greo pointed to a huge wooden box next to the stove, which was filled with a dazzling array of equipment, various armors, and weapons, at least seven or eight pieces.

A blacksmith's work efficiency has nothing to do with skills. If he wants to make some crude equipment randomly, then there is no problem in making five or six pieces of equipment a day.

However, if you want to carve it carefully, then any blacksmith will need to spend at least a full day's work to create a piece of equipment that you are satisfied with. If it is a large piece of equipment like heavy armor, it will take at least two days.

Therefore, these seven or eight pieces of equipment are likely to represent the results of a blacksmith in nearly ten days, maybe about half a month. In other words, Uncle Mario possessed by the blacksmith's soul can do a lot of things besides eating, drinking, and defecating.

He may have been wandering between the forging table and the furnace for more than ten days.

Seeing Uncle Ma Daou yawning as he walked towards the back room of the shop, I was really worried that he would fall asleep directly in the bathroom. If the alliance has an award for the best blacksmith of the year, then it must be awarded to him.

For a while, just when I thought my worries were about to become a reality, Uncle Mario finally came out, got a haircut and shaved, and he felt much more refreshed. If he was willing to take some time to take care of himself, then

He is definitely a handsome middle-aged uncle.

"Uncle Mario..."

"It's Glio, Glio!!!" As a result, the hair that was finally straightened stood up straight again.

"Don't be impatient, be impatient, Uncle Glio, have you become much more tempered recently? How sad would Little Heitan be if she saw you like this?"

"You still have the nerve to say that you haven't brought Little Black Carbon to see me after such a long time." Glio looked bitter. After the Little Black Carbon incident, he seemed to have acquired a trace of daughter-in-law from me.

Attributes, apart from the blacksmith career, what else in the world is he most concerned about, then it is probably the little black carbon that made him quite healed back then.

"Didn't you go to the camp to see her? Don't say that you, the leader of the alliance, can't go back." I gave him a helpless look. It would be much easier for you to go back to see her than bringing Little Heitan here to see you.

Uncle?

"Well...it's not that I don't want to go back, it's just that as soon as I go back, I will be nagged by Great Elder Akara, especially since she has a lot of free time recently. Once she starts nagging, she can't stop at all. How can she have time to see the little one?

Black carbon." Glio scratched his head and said painfully.

That's right. I feel the same way about Akara's recent changes. Her nagging skills have more than doubled.

But when it comes to talking, I can't agree like this. After all, the current relationship between Akara and I can be regarded as a den of snakes and rats. We work together.

"Who told you, Uncle Greo, to neglect your duties and not take care of the Demon Fortress at all?"

"Everyone is no longer a child, so there is no need to manage anything. Besides, I don't want to be the person in charge." Glio complained.

"If you want to complain, go to Grandma Akara. It's no use telling me this."

"Forget it, I know none of you elders are sympathetic." Grio lowered his head in frustration. He was a little afraid of Akela and asked him to go and say these things to Akela in person. He didn't have the courage.

"Okay, okay. At worst, I will bring Little Heitan to visit you next time. She has been too involved in training recently. It's time to let her rest for a while. Just think of it as bringing her here to relax."

"Really?" Greo was overjoyed.

"Of course it's true. Can I lie to you about such a small thing? But before that, Uncle Glio, you have to do me a little favor." I smiled like a little fox.

"Sure enough, there is no such thing as a free lunch." Greo curled his lips and said predictably, as if he had already classified me into the same category as Akara.

Seeing that Glio agreed, I couldn't wait to tell him what happened.

"So it's this kind of thing. Why didn't you tell me earlier? You were so secretive. I thought it was something shameful." When Glio heard that he was going to save the Elf Queen, he suddenly became serious, and he felt a bit responsible for the alliance.

Looks like a human being.

"King Arthur is really here? Where is he?" This momentum did not last for a few seconds before it was replaced by curiosity. He looked around, wanting to see the man who ruled the Dark Continent hundreds of thousands of years ago, and whose prestige still exists today.

The king of.

"Unfortunately, she has no interest in Uncle Beard and went to visit the Demon Fortress with some of my other friends."

I shrugged helplessly. The little king was also very curious. When he heard that I was coming to a boring place like the blacksmith shop, he decisively abandoned my [loyal] mount and ordered Kaluge and Alius to go shopping with her.

Went there. She seemed to like the Demon Fortress, a place full of military style and a strong atmosphere of killing. She was indeed the King Arthur who killed the Dark Continent three times.

"That's such a pity." Greo said with regret on his face.

"It's no need to be a pity. I'll just wait until Artoria is rescued so that you can see enough of her. I'm afraid you will be disappointed. The King Arthur looks like now is not the same as before."

"When you say that, doesn't it make me want to meet him even more?" Greo rolled his eyes, then rolled his eyes, as if he had thought of some bad idea.

"I have helped you with this, but, dear elder, you also know that adventurers are very independent. Unless it is an important mission related to the alliance or the entire Dark Continent, we cannot force them to participate.

Of course, saving the Elf Queen is also a major event, but the Elf Queen is your wife after all, and this major event is somewhat mixed with some private matters..."

Seeing that Greo was talking about him, but refused to mention the topic, I became anxious: "Uncle Mario, if you have anything to say, just say it directly, don't beat around the bush."

"It's not Mario, it's Greo!!!"

After coughing a few times, Greo said the key point with a worldly look: "What I mean is, admittedly, this mission is of great importance, and it makes sense even to involve the adventurers from the entire Demon Fortress, but

Well, maybe not everyone is willing in their heart, there must be something that makes them excited in order to turn it into motivation."

As he said this, Greo made a circle with his thumb and index finger. The meaning was clear, and he wanted me to understand it with [profit].

"I see, it makes sense." When I heard this, I compared my feelings with my own and felt that what Glio said was right. He asked me to help for nothing. If there was a good reason, I might help, but if there were some rewards or something, it wouldn't be a good idea.

Are you more motivated?

"Okay, it's decided. Uncle Greo, could you please tell me, whoever can find the place first, I will reward him with a perfect gem."

"Okay, okay, a perfect gem, right?" Greo nodded with a sly smile and wrote it down. It took him a few seconds to react.

"Wait, you mean the perfect gem?!!"

"Yeah, is there something wrong?" I looked confused.

"Tell me, who are you? It can't be Elder Wu Fan. How can that stingy guy come up with such a good thing?" Greo shouted and raised the hammer in his hand high.

"..."

It turns out...it turns out that I, Roger, the third stingiest person, have long been famous for being stingy. In this case, it is not surprising that Glio had such a reaction.

"Uncle Greo, I am a bit stingy, but I can also be divided into targets. The person I want to save now is my wife, Her Majesty the Queen of the elves. If I just give it away with some cheap rewards, it will not look like a dignified elf.

Is the queen’s life worth only this little thing?”

"It makes sense." Greo thought about it carefully, and finally slowly eliminated his doubts. He slowly put down the hammer in his hand.

"So either no reward will be given, or the reward will be given to the big one, even if it is just to maintain the face of the elves."

"Your Royal Highness, you have done your best."

"Where, where. I'm just doing my best." I laughed dryly. In the eyes of others, perfect gems are very precious things, and their value is not inferior to high-level runes or essence-level dark gold and green equipment, but I have

Microwave oven. It can be synthesized directly, but its value will be discounted.

Of course, a perfect gem requires nine flawless gems to synthesize. It is also a big price for me. It is definitely not something that can be obtained casually. For the sake of my king, I can be considered as spending my old capital.

Already.
To be continued...