Chapter 306: Testing the Edge of Danger

The tunnel above his head was shaking, and countless rubble fell from above.

Edwards did not move, but no stone hit him.

His thief worm familiar used its tail to wrap Chude Osmar around and crawled out of the collapsed secret prison, following closely behind him. He looked at the glittering eyes of the dwarves behind the fork entrances around him, and suddenly felt absurd.

"Is this fate's punishment for me? Could it be a mistake?"

He had just made a wish.

Osmar had tried his best to shrink his body, but was still affected by the collapsed building. The depression in his chest was slowly squirming with the help of the fairyland power. He coughed up a mouthful of blood foam and waved his right hand: "Maybe you should consider your wish more carefully. You can make a few wishes."

Edwards just lit another finger on fire, just to prevent the stones from hitting him again.

He only has seven fingers now.

The black wizard glanced at his increasingly smaller hand, but his suspicious eyes did not dissipate.

"Why didn't my wish work?"

Even if using Osmar's power to fulfill a wish would bring bad luck, it should be similar to the black-hearted businessman taking advantage of the loopholes in the contract. What is happening now is the opposite of the wish.

"They are attacking me. This is a straightforward rebellion!"

"Recall your wish again." Osmar looked at him sarcastically, looking at this poor guy who didn't even dare to dream of becoming a king in the fairyland: "You want them to be attached to this country forever, but you are not the king, right? The new king of this country is a foreigner who came with me."

Even if Edwards is the real ruler of this country, in common sense, only the king is regarded as the owner of the country.

But Edwards has ruled here for hundreds of years. This common sense is not common sense only in this country. He has long regarded this country as his own possession, but he never thought that this would lead to the fall of the country.

He looked at Osmar and laughed, but there was no smile in his eyes: "So my country was taken away by that beggar who came from nowhere? These people are serving him now?"

"I think so."

While they were communicating, the dwarves did not rush up to attack them.

The dwarves were just waiting. The use of a large amount of alchemical explosives made the entire underground structure precarious. As long as they surrounded Edwards and waited for the structure above his head to collapse, their companions would detonate the second batch of explosives after hearing the noise, causing this layer to collapse to the depths.

As long as Edwards fell into the trap they had prepared long ago, it would be enough to decide everything. There was no need for them to risk being corrupted and fight him now.

Edwards glanced around indifferently and memorized the faces of all these traitors. Since these people were besieging him here, the country on the surface might have fallen.

He opened his arms. The narrow black body of the thief worm wrapped around his body, and then melted like ink. His skin began to turn black, and his limbs became narrow and long. The tail of the thief worm wrapped around Osmar was completely inherited by him, and his two legs disappeared. His current form was like a combination of man and snake.

"digolru——milisin"

The filthy language used to communicate with demons sounded slowly, and more noises came from the corridors in all directions, as if many bloated giant snakes were crawling on the stone walls with their bodies, and dragging something heavy at their tails.

The dwarves trembled subconsciously after hearing these sounds.

That was the evil "miner" wandering freely in the tunnel, also called "explorer", but now called "overseer's pet" by the dwarves.

There are more than one such evil creatures, they are people sentenced to "death" by Edwards, and some of them were even rebels among the Morrell people. They have a snake-like hindquarters, and the upper body is still human, but there are four hands on the chest, two of which are claws and two of which are like chisels.

The rebels have fought with these monsters more than once, and all ended in failure.

The explorer is almost invincible in the narrow passages underground. People standing in front of it can only attack its head, and the scales on its head are as hard as rocks.

Edwards loved the explorers and the thief worms, which were good at moving between rock cracks and tunnels. They helped him conquer the dwarves. He conquered them once before, and now he wanted to conquer them for the second time.

The twisted snake monsters squeezed out from the various wound-like cracks and fought with the dwarves holding pickaxes and hammers.

They tore the miners apart with minor injuries, and then swallowed their bodies to hinder recovery.

The situation was changing for the better, but Edwards was not interested in watching it. He found a new crack above his head and drilled in, dragging Osmar straight up.

Osmar's body had shrunk to the limit, like a seven or eight-year-old child, but it was still too wide compared to this passage. His whole body was cut by the blade-like gravel lines, and blood was flowing.

At the same time, he had another finger ignited.

"I want the new king of this country to be unable to fulfill his wish." Edwards's indifferent voice was like the buzzing of insects.

What surprised Clayton and the dwarves was that after Clayton's lip communication, Basham actually became interested.

A dwarf servant who was closer to him appeared in the picture displayed by the silver kite.

Clayton breathed a sigh of relief and made a series of body movements towards the observer in the kite.

He pointed first at the big pit, then at the castle, and shook his head. Then he pointed at the silver kite in the sky, made a lifting motion with his right hand, and let out a long sigh. He waved to the observers in the kite again, and finally opened his arms with a satisfied expression.

The image in the kite flickered, and suddenly the entire kite disappeared.

The dwarf team headed by Scarecrow Homer were very surprised.

"What on earth did you say to him?" the Scarecrow asked.

Creighton answered him calmly: "I told him that now that Edwards is under attack, the huge hole is the evidence. Although Basham has retained his position of power, he is nothing more than a marionette in front of Edwards. Now there's a way for him to gain your respect again, all he has to do is cut the thread above his head and join us, and we'll have complete assurance against Edwards."

"Well, we can't think of anything like that," sighed the Scarecrow.

Although the dwarves here do not want to reconcile with Basum, if the new king really convinces Basum, then they are not unable to accept the new situation.

At worst, we'll fight later.

As for Clayton, although he was relieved, he did not completely let down his guard.

"It depends on how Bassam responds. As long as your companions haven't dealt with Edwards, the initiative will still be with him."

"Your Highness! Your Highness! Their messenger has delivered new news."

The servant responsible for observing the enemy's situation hurriedly got out of the carriage and ran towards Bassem's position. The surrounding dwarf cavalry made way for him.

Bassem, a Morrel man who was so tall that he looked like a short human being, pulled the reins and stopped the donkey.

"What did he do?"

This trusted servant immediately acted out exactly what he saw. But the expressions and body movements he actually restored were not exactly like Cretton's, so Basham couldn't figure out what he wanted to express.

"What does this mean?" the prince asked another henchman next to him.

The dwarf thought for a moment, then suddenly trembled, and the beard on his face began to tremble.

This is a classic display of dwarf fear.

"Don't be afraid if you think of anything, just tell me."

"I'm afraid he's insulting you."

The dwarf knelt down half-kneeling, interpreting the meaning of Clayton's movements.

The actions of pointing at the pit and the castle successively were interpreted as: "Did you see that pit? That was what I did. Next, I will turn the castle into this, and no one can resist me."

There is no doubt that this is a provocative move.

Although Basham thought it was boring to send envoys to provoke, he had long-standing grudges with the underground people because of his attitude towards Edwards, and it was not unreasonable for them to send people to do such a thing.

"Then what does the next action mean?"

The upward pulling movement made him feel very strange. It was not like an action that ordinary people would do when provoking.

His cronies trembled again: "I think he means, 'You dwarf, I don't even need to find a tree to hang you, I just need to raise my hand to do it'."

There is no doubt that ordinary actions such as "opening arms" and "smiling" were given a negative color by the underground messengers.

This kind of insult is extremely malicious and simply a heinous crime.

Bassem was silent for a moment, and an angry voice came out of his beard: "Leave this man to me later, I will skin him with my own hands!"

Scarecrow looked at Clayton in surprise.

Louis looked at Clayton with relief.

Donna looked at Clayton adoringly.

But Clayton, who was under the spotlight, suddenly felt less wonderful, as if there was a chill running down his spine.

"I don't know why, but I always feel that the result may be different from what I imagined. Let's get ready for battle. I hope to have some command authority."

Upon hearing the failed hypothesis, the Scarecrow's expression immediately changed:

"If you fail, you should listen to us."

Clayton took another look at the rudimentary defense arrangements of these underground dwarves and sighed: "I wish I didn't have to think about anything, but your formation is not suitable for combat at all."

I don’t know when these dwarves entered Fairyland. Their military literacy was too low. They seemed to have never fought in a war, and they didn’t know what defensive facilities were.

"At least, we should enter the castle to defend it. This thing was built to resist the army."