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"Jenny Magic Weaving Shop." The king raised his head and read the name of the shop in Dwarven language. "Why is the common language name of the shop called Beautiful Girl Magic Weaving Shop?"
Flint: "Jenny didn't speak Common very well - at least not at the time, so she asked me to write the name of the store in Common. I played it as a joke on her, hoping that one day she would be able to find it when she was good enough at speaking Common. However, judging from the fact that the sign has not been changed, she probably hasn't found it yet."
Nini commented sharply: "You really act like a follower of Kailin."
Flint: "I wasn't then! I was a real dwarf then! I couldn't tap dance and I had no sense of humor."
Wang: "Really? I think it's quite humorous to call a bearded dwarf woman a beautiful girl."
"I really think he's beautiful. Damn it, I'm a dwarf! The more beards a woman has, the more beautiful she is in my eyes!"
Xiaobai: "You are so anxious!"
Flint sighed, "Well, it's a bit urgent. I actually persuaded Jenny to shave her beard and become as fair and clean as human beauties. In fact, after living with humans for a long time, some dwarf women no longer grow beards. I want Jenny to become one of them.
“That’s where the conflict starts.”
Wang: "Excuse me, are you married?"
Flint: "Yes, that's why I say it's a mistake made by youth."
Wang: “Do you have a child?”
"No! We dwarves have a very low fertility rate, and we don't get horny very often, unlike some short-lived races who are in heat all day long."
Xiao Bai: "We werewolves aren't in heat all the time. We've long been able to control our wildness."
Wang: “I think he’s talking about humans.”
Flint waved his hand: "Forget it, let's go in and take a look."
As he spoke, he opened the door.
The doorbell played a series of music box notes.
Flint stopped and said with a nostalgic look: "She still has this."
Wang: "You... didn't you last visit the Dwarven area of Minos ten years ago? Why didn't you come and take a look?"
Flint: "Of course, I haven't been here for almost a hundred years."
Nini gasped, "It's longer than my age."
As soon as the words fell, a dwarf woman came running down the stairs, shouting as she walked: "Coming, coming!"
She saw Wang first: "Oh, it's a human guest. Don't go this way. There is an entrance prepared for humans. Didn't you bump into each other when you entered?"
Wang: “Not bad!”
The dwarf woman saw the elves and Xiao Bai again: "Wow, so many rare visitors? What a beautiful elf, such enviable long legs, but it's a pity that there is not enough hair to decorate it. Oh, this cute little thing, but it's a pity that the hair is too thick."
Xiaobai hissed threateningly like a cat.
The dwarf woman laughed and looked at the last guest.
"Oh," her smile froze, "it's you."
(*) Wizards of the Coast originally had Elminster traveling to Earth and telling the story of Faerûn. This is a nod to that early setting. It just seems to have been written off now.
Chapter 126 The Youth of the Dwarf
Jenny: "It seems that you have found your own amazing team. Are you here to show off to me?"
Flint touched his beard awkwardly: "Well... actually..."
"I think it's good. There are elves and werewolves, but why are there no drow elves?"
Marika came out from behind Jenny and thrust the knife at her neck—but only cut off a small portion of her braided beard, then held the blade against the exposed neck.
"I'm here. What do you want from me?" the drow whispered in the female dwarf's ear.
Jenny was holding a pair of scissors in her hand, and she dropped them to the ground when she heard this: "Oh Carliss Newman! Find the Knights! There are evil drow elves here!"
King: "In fact, the drow are not necessarily evil. What I mean is that they may indeed act like evil people, but in the end they do good things. You see, the devils are also evil, but in the great war that ended the First Age, the devils chose to help the good camp because they hate demons more than good."
Jenny burst into tears: "There are demons in your team! How terrible! Are you here to destroy Minos? The White Tower disappeared a few days ago, as if it had never existed. At that time, many people said that Minos was finished and they were in a hurry to move away... But I have done too many things..."
Wang: "Well, there are no devils in our team. And we just killed a lich, so I guess we're still a pretty good team."
"You actually have a lich!" Jenny cried loudly.
Marika: "Can I kill him with a single blow?"
Jenny: "I'm dying, someone come quickly!"
Wang: "Wait a minute, she was crying and shouting like this, but no one came to save her? Is your dwarf community so cold and indifferent?"
Flint glared at the wizard. "What is the most indifferent calculating machine in the team talking about? Are you going to quantify and analyze Jenny's voice next?"
Jenny: "Quantitative analysis! I'm going to be quantitatively analyzed!"
Wang: "No, you don't need quantitative analysis. You have done quantitative analysis already. Your height, weight and other things are all accurate."
"I'm going to be quantified and sold by weight!" Jenny cried even harder.
Xiaobai patted Flint on the shoulder and said, "You are very brave to marry a wife like this."
Flint: "Don't look at me like that! Oh. She wasn't like this originally. When we were young, we always sat on the beams of the waterwheel mill by the river, watching the creaking and shaking of the waterwheel. She would laugh at my new songs."
Wang: "Wait a minute, is this laughter wrong?"
"We are dwarves! Both men and women have thick voices!" Flint said, "Listen to the song just now. Many female dwarves are singing. Did you hear the high notes? Huh? Are there any high notes?"
Wang recalled for a moment and was about to speak when Nini said, "There is a high voice. There is a high voice in the sky shouting 'silly~gua~'"
Wang: "That's my magical pet. Sorry. My current ability can only make it speak simple words."
Nini: "Your pet has been following us? No wonder, I always feel like there's a crow hovering around us, and it disappears occasionally."
Wang: "He went to forage for food. I can't control when my pet will forage for food. I probably won't be ambushed when he's in the sky."
Nini: “Maybe?”
Wang: "Yes, because I don't know. Although my teacher's crow pet is usually used to pass messages, the teacher can use it as a medium to cast many spells. I haven't mastered this skill yet."
"Everyone!" Marika said, "She's quieted down."
Wang: "You said that as if you had made her quiet down."
"No, I didn't do anything. And she didn't pass out."
In fact, Jenny was not dizzy at all. Her eyes were rolling around, and she looked like she was thinking of something evil.
Flint: "She is like this, always using clever tricks, always trying to get something for nothing, like a human being, but she just refuses to give up her beard! A lot of dwarf girls in the dwarf district don't want beards anymore!"
Jenny: "I need a beard because I'm married! I'm the housewife who runs the family! In fact, I'm the only person in the family, and I need a beard to look more reliable!"
Wang frowned and looked at Jenny: “Is this the idiot who just cried and yelled when others didn’t listen to him?”
Flint: "She is very clever, but as you can see, not as wise as you are. She is just a little clever. I have lived with her as my wife for fifty years, and she has increased my mental fatigue."
Xiao Bai was shocked: "Fifty seasons? You actually tolerated her for so long?"
Jenny said loudly, "Humph, who can tolerate whom? He could have been a craftsman like other dwarves, but he went to learn acting from a half-elf bard named Tanis!
"After he came back, he kept telling me that one day he would go on a spontaneous trip to regain his lost passion and youth."
Nini was shocked: "Dwarves also have youth?"
Flint: "Although we have beards since we were teenagers, yes, we have youth. My youth was spent sitting in a watermill telling adventure stories to an unromantic woman!"
Wang: "Didn't she understand romance at that time?"
Jenny: "I quite liked his adventure stories back then. But he hasn't changed in fifty years! They're all the same stories the bard in the nearby tavern would tell!"
"Humph," Flint pouted, "I'm different now. I really have an adventure to tell you! But I don't want to tell you anymore!"
Xiaobai: "Then tell me how you threw yourself out of the armor?"
"No!" Flint seemed determined to show the dwarf's stubbornness to the fullest.
Wang: "Forget it, it doesn't matter what happens. We are here to do business. Jenny won't stop doing business with us just because Flint is in our team, right?"
Jenny crossed her arms and said, "That depends on what the mission is."
Flint: "Of course she'll do business with us. That's just how she is. She's always looking for money!"
Wang took out a gold coin and asked, "Is this the kind of money?"
Jenny had squinted her eyes, but now she glared at them. “Isn’t that the gold coin that Langdon got? Their gold coins are made of very solid materials, and they don’t mix silver in to make up the number!”
King: "Yes, this is the gold coin of Landon Lord. We have a robe that needs to be repaired. It was scratched by Landon Lord's sword Pathfinder."
Jenny: "Sword? Is it that kind of powerful magical weapon? It just scratched, not cut. This robe is pretty powerful, isn't it?"
King: "The lich who used it said that it could resist the blows of swords."
The female dwarf pushed away the tip of the drow's knife from her neck, walked calmly towards the king, and took the fragment he took out of the dimensional bag.
"It is indeed a magic item, but it is used to defend against blows from blunt objects." Jenny said confidently.
The king suddenly realized: "Yes! The one wearing it is a lich! Liches are not afraid of sharp weapons. Even if you stick a long sword into the lich's sternum and smash it around, it won't hurt! Even if you cut the bones, these bones will find each other and connect back to each other!"
But smashing bones is different. Liches are afraid of blunt weapons, so they wear a robe that protects against blunt weapons!
Zhuo Er: "Then there was a mage who was stupidly chopping the lich with a sharp weapon!"
King: "I stopped him from casting the spell, otherwise you would all have been killed by the Banshee's Wail."
Xiaobai: "Is there anyone here who is not afraid of sharp weapons?"
Wang: "Never mind, put it on Elizabeth first. I have all kinds of spells to save my life, and Elizabeth can only use the scorching ray. So, Ms. Jenny, can this be repaired?"
Jenny nodded: "Yes. It's just the sleeve that's broken, right?"
Wang silently took out all the fragments.
Jenny gasped. "It can be fixed, but it will take about a week. Just to sew up that big gap, I'll have to work hard for three or four days. You cut it into too many pieces."
Wang: "The situation was urgent. The lich rushed directly into our face, and there was a zombie dragon hovering in the sky. We had no choice but to do this. We will leave tomorrow night. Since you can't repair it right away, I think we will meet again by chance..."
Jenny yelled, "Wait a minute! I can try to fix the gap tonight. Ignore the rest for now. Just treat the robe as a sleeveless version. Besides, humans are mainly afraid of blunt objects on the body, right?"
Flint: "See, I told you this guy is greedy for money, right?"