Starfall 835, April 21, early morning, Northland Moldavian Lord's House, basement warehouse.

At the end of the dark corridor underground, the dim pyroxene lamp flickered, and behind a heavy iron door was the underground warehouse of the Radcliffe family, but it was not the same as many adventurers imagined, this was rumored to be full of gold, gems and all kinds of glittering and precious magic equipment The warehouse was not as wide as the dragon's nest, in a sense, it was slightly narrow, only about twenty meters long, fifteen meters wide, and the height was also the standard three meters and two feet, and a dragon could only be coiled into a lump here, It doesn't match the name of its owner, Megatron.

And in this warehouse, which is not actually small, it is full of all kinds of miscellaneous items—metal boxes engraved with the emblem of the Church of the Seven Gods, scrolls painted with the royal coat of arms of the Far South Kingdom, obviously elven craftsmanship, small boxes with royal court seals, and all kinds of gifts and rewards from major powers, if you look at these things alone, their value is barely worthy of a legendary warrior. In reality, however, these seemingly valuable objects are mixed with barrels, crates, and a jumble of parcels, making it difficult for even the most skilled thieves to pick out what they want from the jumbled mess.

But now, there is a petite silver-haired girl, who is laboriously sorting them all neatly in this pile of miscellaneous items, and arranging them one by one according to the type.

It wasn't an easy task—neither the metal crates that looked unusually heavy, nor the dwarven carved alloy metal statues more than two meters tall, seemed to be beyond her control, and even five or six men of five or three thick might not be able to move them in the slightest.

But the truth is always unexpected, and the girl easily lifted these things that were to be counted by the ton with one hand, and then placed them in the position she wanted to put without breathing.

- Not as heavy as Miss No. 3, except for this statue.

Soon after, Hotaru wiped a handful of sweat that didn't exist on her head, and after working for a long time, she had a satisfied smile on the corner of her mouth, looking at the already well-organized basement, and couldn't help but feel a sense of satisfaction in her heart.

It's finally done, Hotaru thought, and after a whole night's work, she and Number 3 were finally tidying up the basement and hallway that the AI girl had manipulated her metal body to mess up, and perhaps Rin was also dealing with the goods indiscriminately. This is not easy to do even with the superhuman strength of the human form, and thanks to the existence of magic in this world, a simple 'restore as new' spell can fix the damaged floor, but this spell has no use for those congratulatory gifts of various countries that contain great magic in themselves, and can only be moved by physical methods.

Because of this, after sorting out the amethysts, No. 3 ran away - she said that she was going to perform her duty, patrolling at night to monitor possible cultists and troublemakers, and then simply leaving Hotaru alone in the messy basement.

Fool whom.

The silver-haired girl thought with some resentment at this time. Now that the stars have fallen for 835 years, where did the adventurer eat the dragon's heart and dare to make trouble in Moldavia, the territory of a legendary warrior? Not to mention the cultists, according to reliable intelligence, the entire Northland has become an absolute forbidden area in the dark world of the Mycrov Continent, and the 100% recognition rate has long made many demon believers and evil god worshippers feel uneasy, and they don't even dare to cross the Ural Mountains, where did they have the courage to dare to run to the center of the forbidden area to die?

Now, No. 3 must be in the center of the circle of the Lord's Mansion, holding the amethyst stone to add a plug-in circle to his body, right? Thinking of this, Hotaru couldn't help but feel a little envious, you know, since her body was baptized by pure holy light in the Holy Mountain and advanced, the warrior hadn't oiled and maintained her for a long time.

It won't break, and it's not always a good thing. The girl who felt that she had been neglected in this regard sighed slightly, and she looked up again at the large pile of neatly placed goods in front of her, and couldn't help but subconsciously sigh: "There are so many things to buy." ”

At least a few tons of fine amethyst, estimated to last Miss No. 3 for years, two barrels of Gvern dwarven wine, which the host bought to entertain guests, and at least dozens of different kinds of small items that were properly placed in delicate boxes and packages, such as jewelry and clothing for her, for No. 3 and even for Rin, even if they didn't need them most of the time.

The host has always been generous, one could even say that he spends lavishly.

Seeing these things, Hotaru imitated the warrior and touched her smooth and delicate chin, and the girl silently added in her heart - he didn't even know how much money he had, and he didn't know which chambers of commerce and family property belonged to him.

Thanks to having myself and Rin take care of the owner. Hotaru thought a little smugly, and the corners of her mouth curled slightly.

And maybe it's the heart between the siblings, and as the silver-haired girl just wanted to find out which gifts she was going to give to Rin, regular footsteps sounded in the corridor not far away.

"Hey, sister."

Hearing the familiar voice, Hotaru turned around and saw his younger brother opening the heavy iron door in the basement, and the black-haired boy whose hair was a little messy because he was not tidy did not be polite to his sister, and he said directly, "The master is not here with you, is he?" ”

Although the teenager uses the grammar of interrogative sentences, the tone is indeed a general affirmation of declarative sentences.

"Of course, don't you see it at a glance?" Hotaru thought it was something important, but it turned out to be such an inconsequential little thing, the corners of her mouth twitched, and she said angrily: "The master came back in the middle of the night last night and asked for the magic guide book and hasn't come back, we all have the ability to sense, as for the special ran over to ask me ......"

"So, sister, have you noticed?" Interrupting the silver-haired girl's complaints, Rin said in a calm tone that Hotaru felt familiar, "Did Kuro suddenly disappear in the middle of the night last night?" ”

Blinking, Hotaru shook her head a little confused, she helped Joshua go to the study yesterday to get the Abyss Magic Guide Book, and then came down to sort out this messy pile of goods with No. 3, how could she have time to care about the movements of the black dragon girl, not to mention that Hei's original sense of existence was not very high.

"Alas...... My sister. ”

Seeing that Hotaru hadn't reacted yet, Rin couldn't help but shake her head a little disappointed: "Even if the master doesn't need to sleep, it won't be that he won't go back to the lord's mansion, right?" After a pause, he said in an affirmative sentence full of questioning: "So, is there such a possibility that the master is gone?" ”

In this sentence, the boy uses a very clever tone when saying the word 'gone', which contains the meaning of affirmation, certainty and certainty, which cannot be refuted at all.

"Huh?" Hotaru was still in a state of confusion, and she was a little unresponsive, and Rin continued, "You see, Kuro suddenly left the city in the middle of the night, who can order her except the master?" What's more......" The young man babbled on a lot of evidence, all of which corroborated the fact that the soldiers had actually left the office in the middle of the night last night, but did not take them with them.

"Impossible!" No matter how slow the reaction was, Hotaru could still understand the meaning of her brother's words - so the girl went crazy in an instant, she came to the boy in an instant, and then grabbed his shoulder and shook it hard: "We are the master's weapons - he will take us with him wherever he goes!" How is it possible to only bring black and not us! ”

"Didn't you take us with you when you went to the Abyss of Anos, only the first number and the black?" The boy calmly pointed this out, and the price was that he was shaken more violently, Rin looked at Hotaru, who was becoming more and more frantic because of jealousy, and shook his head: "Speaking of which, sister, you are becoming more and more like a human." ”

"It's the same with Miss Three." He said.

Hearing this, the silver-haired girl also stopped what she was doing, she snorted, and then said softly: "Seriously, brother, if you can say this kind of emotion, it means that you are the same." ”

And at the same time, Northland Moldavia, an underground gathering place for dwarves.

It is a large, narrow abyssal rift that is impossible to see how long and deep, it is located nearly a thousand meters underground, and the frequent stratigraphic movements around the Great Ajax Volcano cause the crust to rise and fall from time to time, and although the dwarves have the means to stabilize the crust around their gathering place, they have no way to control every corner of their long underground territory.

The huge abyssal rift at the bottom, glowing with lava red, was located at the edge of the eastern dwarven mining area, and it appeared during a small earthquake two days ago, tearing a huge rift of nearly two hundred meters into the ground, and the moment it appeared, it swallowed the lives of three dwarven miners, and nearly thirty dwarven miners were isolated on the other side of the abyss.

When the dwarven gathering place dealt with all kinds of matters after the earthquake, they belatedly remembered that there was such a team of miners who did not come back to report, and by the time the rescue team set off, those dwarven miners who were short of water and food had no strength to respond to the rescue.

Dwarves don't have much water inside their bodies, and compared to ordinary creatures, they are indeed like rocks, but in any case, water is also the most important part of their bodily fluid circulation, and even dwarves can't stand two days without water and food, and spend two days in a dreary mining area with high heat underground.

The two-hundred-meter-long abyss is actually nothing to these master craftsmen, usually they have 10,000 ways to cross this seemingly insurmountable barrier, but now it is probably because of the underground magic caused by the earthquake, many kinds of spells cannot be used, and with engineering technology, the fastest method will take almost a day. For them, what is needed now is not method, but time, and if they don't hurry up to the rescue of the dwarven miners, most of whom have fallen into a coma, they may soon return to the bosom of the earth.

It stands to reason that these dwarves, who were already easily impatient, should be scolding anxiously now, after all, there is absolutely not enough time anyway, and their keen ears can hear the weakening breathing and heartbeat of their own people on the other side of the abyss, which is really a great torment.

But in reality, none of the dwarves were restless, they all stood calmly in place, waiting for something to arrive.

And not long after.

With the sound of violent and heavy footsteps, a huge and hideous steel giant strode briskly from afar, reaching the edge of the abyss.

It looked like a huge humanoid armor, and its nearly thirty-meter-tall body made it look even bigger than a dragon, after all, dragons have wings and tails to show their size, while the Iron Giants are a full circle larger than their 'slender' bodies, and they are not a heavyweight class at a glance.

Each step the giant takes a second or two, which makes it seem slow, but in fact it is very fast because of the extremely long distance it takes, and its fragile joints are clearly reinforced, which can be seen to be a common technique of dwarves.

"The first number! It's up to you this time! ”

Before the Iron Giant reached the Abyssal Rift, a bearded dwarven engineer laughed in his gruff voice, "I can't wait to see that scene again!" ”

"yes!" The other dwarven engineers and construction team members also shouted, "Let's see and see!" ”

"Zizi, zizizi." The head of the humanoid armor, the steel giant shrouded in a dragon's head helmet emitted a dull metallic electric sound, as if it was promising something, and it didn't continue to speak, the steel giant stood directly on the side of the abyssal rift, and then began to deform violently up and down.

Then, an amazing scene appeared - with a piercing sound of metal grinding, the huge steel giant turned into an amorphous mass of silver metal like plasticine, it seemed to be a living creature, and it stretched all the way to the other side of the abyss, and then formed a thin but strong steel bridge!

The dwarven rescue team and engineers were not idle, they immediately began to reinforce the edge of the bridge, and dozens of rescuers also rushed to the dwarven miners who were almost in shock and unconscious, and rushed to rescue them.

After a long time, all the miners had been rescued, dozens of dwarves had withdrawn to the other side of the rift, and the steel bridge had reverted back to its original giant steel giant in a violent metal grind, standing in place, receiving praise and praise from many dwarves.

The first horn listened to the noisy and sincere thanks in its ears, and it couldn't help but pass a trace of excitement in the core of its metal casting mind, but for some reason, it didn't care about these compliments, but subconsciously raised its head and 'looked' into the distance to the south.

There is no reason, no evidence, but the Iron Giant can know that his creator, his 'father', is in that place.

At this time, he was heading to another abyss that was different from this abyssal rift.