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Silent City.
Teleportation Hall.
"Hurry, hurry, hurry! Hurry up!" A high-pitched voice with strong excitement was shouting loudly. The voice was loud and a little harsh. The loud voice was like a loudspeaker, vibrating back and forth in the transmission hall.
The teleportation hall was now completely open. The space within, layered and stacked, expanded into a vast expanse. The voice was from a humanoid creature, approximately three meters tall. Its limbs and torso were disproportionate, and it wore what looked like shoddy plate armor. Beside it, others of the same species, their faces beaming with joy, echoing the voice of the former.
Nine Realms Dwarves!
Ever since their homeworld was contaminated by the Abyss and they were exiled to the Void, their modest tribe dispersed across the reorganized Nine Realms. A very small number settled in other places like Vanaheim, remaining secluded from the world. The majority of the remaining, those who valued rules and contracts, adhered to the protection and trade agreements they had previously made with Odin, the Asgardian God-King, and re-established their settlements within Asgard, within the areas designated for them by Odin.
The other group consisted of dwarves who had previously come into contact with Luke and had settled in the Silent City. They believed that Luke and Odin, King of the Nine Realms, were allies, so their joining Luke's forces was no different from crafting equipment and weapons for Asgard. After all, Luke had never restricted them from crafting equipment for the Asgardians.
In fact, before the ban was issued, the dwarves of Silent City were extremely free! They could forge equipment and weapons for anyone who came to Silent City to find them, and their business was booming.
Compared to those tribesmen who focus on rules and contracts, although this group of people also attach great importance to contracts, they have higher pursuits in forging skills and more knowledge of alien materials.
Odin, the King of the Nine Realms, was a wealthy and generous leader, but not as much as Luke could give them! At least they had quicker access to alien materials, equipment, forging techniques, and even forging tools and equipment than their own people who had settled in Asgard.
Of course, there are many technologies and materials that they consider relatively backward or even not worth mentioning, but there are always some that make their eyes light up, even exceed their imagination, and are regarded by them as the highest ideal technology and tools.
The original dwarven forges were destroyed along with their home planet, but Silent City soon found replicas for them. Even with the dwarven's unreserved communication, Heberon, who had mastered the dwarven forge technology, could customize them to suit their needs.
Large factories, small miniatures. All kinds.
Coupled with the dwarves' fame and forging technology, as well as the customer traffic in Silent City, it can be said that every dwarf in Silent City has endless orders. It is absolutely correct to say that they are rich and belong to the wealthy group in Silent City.
In addition to buying the psychic wine invented and brewed by Quiet, the dwarves of the Silent City gave most of the new currency they earned to Heberon.
Compared to Asgard, which still uses the same forging furnace, the dwarves who have made a fortune in Silent City dream of getting a customized furnace of their own.
After all, they were different from the people of Asgard. The people of Asgard only needed to serve Asgard. So they had no problem with sharing the furnace, and they had been doing so for thousands of years.
But they were different. They faced a wide variety of customers, from various cosmic races and even dimensional races. Their requirements were also diverse, and the materials they brought were also bizarre. At this time, the processing of some materials and the forging of equipment placed extremely high demands on the furnace!
The Dwarven Old Forge was once a perfect forging system. It could fully supply energy to craft a single artifact, or it could forge batches of standardized equipment like an assembly line factory. This was fine when working solely for a single faction, without worrying about conflicting tasks or other issues. However, as customers from different factions increased, and the equipment they crafted became more demanding, the Old Forge's set of forging rules became less practical.
Public furnaces are public, so if someone else is using them, you'll need to wait in line. It also takes time to debug the furnace until you're satisfied with it and can forge the equipment your customers require.
Even though Heberon had upgraded the furnace several times and optimized many of the steps and processes, the dwarves still found it somewhat inconvenient. So, after the first dwarf took the plunge and asked Heberon to customize a separate furnace for him, the rest of the dwarves suddenly realized the solution and began to pool their savings to place orders with Heberon.
The dwarves were even clever enough to, after some discussion, differentiate their custom-made furnaces from those of other dwarves. For example, one faction of dwarves might be better at forging a certain type of equipment, while another might be better at forging a different type. They tacitly differentiated their purchased furnaces, using this differentiation to reduce their workload while also distinguishing between different customer groups. Furthermore, the customized furnaces could be more refined and user-friendly, tailored to their needs.
For the dwarves of Silent City, their greatest hobby, besides researching forging techniques, is constantly upgrading their furnaces. It's even become so common that the level of their furnaces is almost equivalent to the level of their forging techniques.
This isn't 100% accurate, of course. After all, upgrading a furnace requires significant savings, which in turn is tied to the volume of orders and customer demand. Either small profits but quick turnover, with assembly-line production, or customized, one-on-one service. However, dwarves with superior forging skills do gradually build a reputation among their customers. This in turn creates a greater demand, ability, and financial resources for upgrading their own furnaces.
They also have their own set of criteria for evaluating custom furnaces from Hebron. For example, the Dwarven Furnace, and its upgraded and modified counterparts, are considered the first type of furnace and the most common. Their best use is for forging artifacts.
Higher-level furnaces, however, could not only forge equipment and other items, but could also forge life and other strange and mysterious objects. Having seen these furnaces in Heybollen's technical customization, they were envious. They saw this as a higher level of forging technology, something even beyond the realm of dwarven craftsmanship. It was something that would expand their horizons and the limits of their skills, allowing them to reach higher levels.
Expensive?
That's not a problem! As long as there are customers who come to them to help them build things, they will have a constant flow of new currency. They are simply richer and more affluent than their fellow Asgardians.
But what makes them less successful than their Asgardian counterparts is that they're incredibly busy and competitive. Busy in terms of orders, but competitive isn't about orders, but about technology. If you spend a period of time working in isolation, without sharing insights with your peers, you'll be in a state of relative uncertainty for a while.
There was no shortage of orders. Even if they couldn't take the best ones, they would still have a vast supply of standard orders. For example, orders from the Time Administration, S.H.I.E.L.D., and other organizations were endless. But for any aspiring dwarf master craftsman, not being able to keep up with the thinking and technology of their peers was a torment.
Just like a new set of manufacturing equipment in human society requires a set of supporting operating methods and a certain amount of operating knowledge to learn, a new furnace naturally requires learning new supporting knowledge in order to fully master it, utilize it, and use it.
For example, forging life? They might be able to forge some strange life that meets their imaginations based on their accumulated experience and knowledge, but this would not bring out the maximum effectiveness of the new furnace.
For example, the new furnace in the Hebron Pavilion, called the Furnace of Origin, could, in the hands of a skilled user, forge powerful god-level beings like Asgard. But in your hands, you could only forge deformed species with numerous advantages and disadvantages and unstable life forms, relying on its powerful effects. You couldn't even consistently forge a colony of life.
Therefore, the dwarves of the Silent City are now busy and fulfilled all day long, taking orders to build equipment, earning new currency, upgrading their furnaces, and learning more knowledge to expand their forging field.
Among the dwarves, whose status and identity were determined by forging craftsmanship and skill, the former Dwarf King Eitri was undoubtedly a pioneer. He handed over the throne to a dwarf from Asgard and joined the Silent City as a craftsman. He was one of the first dwarves to come into contact with the Silent City. For him, beyond the continuation of his race, his own identity and status were of little concern. He preferred living in the Silent City to Asgard, where, at least, he could occasionally drink with old Luke and discuss their respective skills.
After conquering the world of Azeroth and obtaining the Titan's Forge of Origin there, he brought it back for analysis and reconstruction, and after thoroughly understanding the internal technology, he made a replica of the Forge of Origin. Then, Aicrui took the lead in taking out a loan to buy a new furnace, and using the dwarves of Azeroth as a template, he used the Hebron version of the Forge of Origin to create several sturdy but short dwarves.
Inheriting the dwarven forging talent, they easily master all forging-related tasks. They even possess their own thoughts and auras, offering various forms of attentive assistance to the Dwarven Mastersmith during forging. While they are not adept at combat, they possess incredible strength and possess a high tolerance for various energies. Overall, while not mythically powerful, they are a highly suitable helper species for the Dwarven Mastersmith.
Although the brain is not very good, it is considerate and useful enough!
This was the unanimous evaluation of all the dwarves after experiencing these little dwarves! They even solved many of their problems, such as insufficient manpower and clumsy apprentices. After a period of training, the dwarves could even hand over some less important and demanding quests to these little dwarves, freeing up their own time.
Aitre's dwarves made all the dwarves who had experienced them envious. They almost couldn't wait to place orders with Aitre, hoping that he would forge more new dwarven life and trade them with them. Many of them even wanted to order the Origin Furnace like Aitre did, and forge lifeforms that could rival the dwarves.
Unfortunately, with the exception of Aitri, they all failed the Origin Forge purchase qualification exam and were eliminated. Aitri, who had passed the exam earlier, felt somewhat helpless in the face of the dwarf's order, as the dwarf's appearance was based on a variety of coincidences. While the template reference reduced the difficulty significantly, recreating it would still take time to sort it out.
However, the dwarf has been included in the list of "Life Forging Equations" in Hei Bolun, and he just needs to organize all the furnace data and submit it as a patent.
The dwarves' biggest dream now was to upgrade their furnaces to Origin Furnaces by purchasing qualifications. But today, they received even better news. Heberon revealed a higher-level furnace.
The world furnace that can forge the world!
Aitri knew of Heberon's plan to build a world furnace. He had even visited the prototype furnace under the guidance of Luke, an elderly man with a hunched figure resembling a short old man. In his words, the furnace could forge worlds, but mass production would be difficult.
Today, a World Forge capable of forging universes wholesale has appeared in a new world and is about to be relocated. Imagine that once Hybolon mastered the technology of this furnace and integrated it with Hybolon's World Forge, it would become the pinnacle of all furnaces. It would also be the ultimate furnace that these dwarves have always dreamed of!
Of course, this timeframe might be quite distant. Just mastering and upgrading the Forge of Origin would take them a lifetime to pursue and learn. But this didn't hinder their pursuit of and faith in higher forges. Only dwarves like them would be particularly excited and thrilled by this news.
So at this moment, they spontaneously showed amazing organization, busy preparing everything in the teleportation hall to respond to and receive the arrival of the world furnace.
They didn't even know if the furnace actually existed. After all, neither the Dwarven Forge nor the Forge of Origin had much in common with furnaces in the human sense. They weren't even sure if it had any physical form, but that didn't hinder their imagination or their joy.
A blazing halo of light stretched across the sky. The dimensional rainbow bridge in the teleportation hall was activated at full power, and vast energy filled every inch of the surrounding space. A large, oppressive object seemed to be struggling to cross the boundary.