My Wife and I Became Sages in Another World
Chapter 269: The Dwarven King

Chapter 269: The Dwarven King

After Dulmar guided us through Rockvalley, we arrived at the king’s castle, which was the most humble palace we had seen.

It’s not that it was small, but the others were so expansive that it made this one look tiny.

The guide asked me to raise my dwarven coin in front of the gates, and they opened up magically like the stone doors to the underground tunnels.

In the very first room, we found ourselves in front of an empty throne as we waited for a few minutes for the king to show up.

"King Skadan III" (the third). Exclaimed Dulmar as the dwarven king walked into the room.

The dwarf had a long, white beard and wore a resplendent crown, probably the shiniest I had ever seen.

Even though he was one of the oldest-looking dwarves I had seen, his bodybuild looked healthy and robust.

I mean, all dwarves were pretty buffed since they had to do so much physical labor from a very young age, but I wouldn’t have expected an old king to look so strong.

We introduced ourselves to the king and stated the purpose of our visit, telling him that we needed to check the secret weapon.

Skadan was indifferent to our request as he kept staring at our group, then raised a hand to make me stop talking.

"I’ve had scores o’ folks come here asking me the same thing. What sets yer story apart from the rest?" the king asked us.

"We can read the scriptures..." I replied, making the king widen his eyes with interest.

"Is that right?" he said, snapping his fingers and making a servant rush to his side with a piece of papyrus in hand.

Standing up from his throne with the paper in hand, he came down the stairs that led to his throne and gave us the note.

"It’s a poem...?" I said as I read it.

"In a mountain’s heart where forges gleam,

Beneath the stone, a dwarven’s dream.

Hammer’s song, an ancestral call,

Craftsman true, they stand so tall."

As soon as I finished reading the poem, I looked at the king, and he was staring at me with his eyes ultimately widened in shock.

He explained that the note he gave me was the only one that had been translated into their language thousands of years ago, and it was meant to be a test to see if people could genuinely read the ancient scriptures.

Even when the dwarves tried using that translated poem as a means to uncover all of the English language, they were never able to do it.

Suddenly, the king got excited and clenched his fists, stating that he wanted to come with us.

I chuckled a little. "Well, you are the king, so I don’t see how I can say no," I said in a playful tone.

The king of dwarves was just as friendly and funny as the rest, making the atmosphere around us quite comfortable.

"Enough dawdlin’, then. Let’s not squander another moment!" the king exclaimed, making his way out of the castle with confidence.

Since the dwarven kingdom was impenetrable by outside forces, the king never had a reason to keep security with him at all times.

In any other country, almost all of the nobles would go out to the streets with security around them. Except for Eldariel, as the elves were in a position similar to the dwarves.

Now, our large group of 7 people rose up to 9 for the time being, as King Skadan and our guide Dulmar joined us in the expedition to see the secret weapon.

The king said it could take a few days of walking on Rockvalley before reaching the foot of the mountain, so we decided to fly and carry the two dwarves with us, the same way we had been doing with Nessa all this time.

It still took us a few hours to get there, so we had to stop at one moment to rest and eat before continuing.

As we got closer to the mountains where the giant robot-looking weapon sat in between, the king told us to descend.

At the foot of the White Ring mountains, one of the robot’s feet was stuck to it as if it were part of the hill itself.

’I’m calling this thing a robot because that’s kind of what it looks like, but I don’t think that’s exactly what it is...’ I thought as I inspected the massive foot in front of us.

It was at least 300 meters long, so the scale of this thing was almost indescribable to me. It was big enough that it could wipe out End Town by simply stepping on it.

Using our "inspect" spell gave us nothing as if it was a thing that the spell didn’t recognize, which was extremely weird.

The giant humanoid-weapon was made with a brown and grey metal that I had never seen before, and Skadan told me that they called it "core-metal" as it could only be found very deep underground.

I was about to start flying up to look at the robot’s face closer, but the king stopped me and said that we should use the official path.

As we walked to the back of the heel of the giant’s foot, the king asked me to show my dwarven coin, and it made an opening for us to enter.

"What the...?" I pondered out loud.

When we got inside, it was pretty dark, so we used light magic to light up the inside of the robot for us and found a set of stairs that went up its leg.

The king said that there were three entrances to the inside of the weapon—one on its left foot, one on its chest, and one on its head. However, it was much easier for them to use the one that was on ground level.

It would take us a bit of time to look at everything inside the weapon as it was literally the size of a mountain, so I was already feeling tired just by looking at the set of thousands of stairs.

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