Boiling Beast Bloodline
Chapter 688 - 144 Cross-Strait Connection_2

Chapter 688: Chapter 144 Cross-Strait Connection_2

Only insiders knew that the lord was pushed to the brink by the harsh reality, his back against the wall.

It seems that the races skilled in forging have a special fondness for alcohol. The lily-scented wine that Liu Zhenhan brewed by soaking the Star-tailed turtle’s wine beads in water, had managed to construct a grand image of him in the minds of the Difeng Giants and the Antelope Men. Ever since the Goblin traders had left the Underground World over ten thousand years ago, alcohol ceased to exist. The primary reason being, the underground fern-like food and mossy grain would not ferment, making it impossible to brew wine. The denizens of the Underground World admired good wine, a luxury that had only existed in ancient times. After a taste, the chieftains of the Difeng Giant tribes in both Rolling Stone Valley and Scorching Flame Valley, despite not having much acquaintance with Liu Zhenhan, eagerly volunteered to help the lord.

Liu Zhenhan was perplexed. Unlike their flame skins, these Difeng Giants could drink water without restraint. They had a very low demand for water due to their natural repulsion towards it and could go half a year without a single drop. Why then were they so taken with good wine? Liu even started suspecting that without the charm of good wine, there would definitely have been a discount on the enthusiasm with which the strange denizens of the other two valleys were working for him.

The lord was also helplessly realizing that his dream of brewing good wine from the Star-tailed turtle beads to earn a fortune had been utterly shattered. The frequency with which the turtle beads could produce wine was just enough to cover the internal consumption.

The Difeng Giants of Lava Valley and the Drow Elf army were at a standoff, awaiting the resolution of their conflict. Not needing his intervention for the time being, the huge energy of the Difeng Giants of the four valleys was rapidly released. Thanks to the union of the Difeng Giants of the four great valleys, the production time of the first Mechanical Gao Cen, even with the constraints of both the repair of the Golden Figures and the forging of the third batch of standard weapons, would probably be much less than Yangkele’s original estimate. Initially, Liu Zhenhan hadn’t taken into account the Difeng Giants of the other two valleys, but this time he managed to grab a hold of them.

Liu Zhenhan, such a loser, was merely a horrible person who wished for an oil strike with every shovel he dug. He couldn’t wait to gather a hundred Gao Cen machines in a single day. For this, he especially set up a reward regulation. As long as these Difeng Giants could finish forging the first Mechanical Gao Cen within two months, he would certainly supply them with a one-time batch of good wine.

Before the bread was even baked, Liu Zhenhan had already planned out where the pit would be. As for the pilot of the Mechanical Gao Cen, he had his mind made up. The Goblin cockpit was very narrow, unsuitable for normal-sized people. By coincidence, the Hobbit Halfling Tribes from the White Ring Mountains were migrating to the Aegean Continent next year. Apart from their fear of only eating five meals a day, the Hobbit Halflings weren’t bothered by the struggles of the battlefield. The valiant image of the Halfling chefs who waved kitchen knives and fought in close-combat during the defense of the Aegean Continent made the lord fully aware of their fighting spirit.

Actually, even if it were just fifty Steel Gao Cens stomping on the Aegean Continent, the entire continent would shake. Forget about the Holy Vatican of Saint Paul launching a Holy War, even the leading Shaman and war factions inside the Bimon Temple would provoke Richard, the Star Robe Priest, to start an eastward campaign against Bimon.

The Difeng Giants didn’t let Liu Zhenhan down even slightly. They were truly worthy of being hailed as the grandmasters whom Goblin traders greatly admire. Unlike their peers, the Dwarf Blacksmiths who were skilled at finding high-quality ores and the Elves Blacksmiths who were adept at intricate craftsmanship, the Difeng Giants prided their work on sturdiness and durability, qualities which perfectly align with that of military products. This is evident in the fact that in the battle at Flame Mountain Valley, the Metal Totem Pole used by the Antelope Man was the only weapon that didn’t expend in the fire.

Such an advantage was an advantage indeed. Whether it was Daisy who had studied smelting technology at a human blacksmith’s or Ruona who had a profound knowledge of alchemy, or even the twelve Tauren blacksmiths trained by Daisy in Snowy City Razor Mountain, all fell short in the art of blacksmithing when compared to the Difeng Giants. Even the crude metal products made by Difeng Giants through mold control were barely inferior to the second-generation standard weapon of the Aegean Continent in terms of sturdiness.

Due to learning from human blacksmiths and alchemists, the one aspect of the Aegean Continent’s military products that could be boasted about, and the only aspect that Difeng Giants admired was their magical imprint on weapons, thanks to the accumulation of Magic Crystals and the occasionally unnatural shedding of fire crystal feathers.

What set the Difeng Giants apart from other excellent blacksmiths was their perfect innate conditions. They were simply a species born to forge. While other excellent blacksmiths needed to mine ores and then smelt them, Difeng Giants didn’t need to do that. The iron water flowing through the Earth’s Core Magma River was made up of many types of rare metals. With prolonged heat treatment in the high-temperature magma river, the quality of these materials was extraordinary. The inherently flame-immune bodies of the Difeng Giants allowed them to easily gather these elements to forge weapons of different styles according to their own wishes.