Chapter 157: The cowardly Dwarves (1/2)

”Well this is interesting, a camouflage spell is it. Combined with the silence spell no less.”

Tyler said chuckling as he watched the hazy and translucent figures of the five dwarves slowly try to crawl away from him in amusement, and of course, his interest in this bunch had shot up a notch.

He didn't have any skills that would allow him to see through invisibility but the dwarves had not used the |invisibility| spell and had only used a combination of camouflage, with the |silence| spell. Naturally, this spell would not be very effected against high level opponents especially if the person was originally staring at you.

That said, there was no way the dwarfs would fail to understand this. That simply meant their minds were also disoriented from the life threatening experience that had just gone through.

Taking a better look at the group, they didn't have much with them but one of them clung desperately to a fancy looking pickax which Tyler had originally thought was a magic item and now thought it was responsible for the camouflage spell.

Tyler didn't want to scare the poor creatures any longer so he returned his weapon back to his storage and although he had contemplated sending Nadine to talk to them so they would more easily lower their guard, he hurriedly changed his mind as he realized she may not have fully recovered yet.

He walked closer to the painfully slow retreating dwarves and called out to them.

”Hey, what you doin?”

Hiiieeee!!!!!”

The five dwarves dressed as minwrs wailed like they were about to die as they turned to face him like a bunch of scared kids.

However, their beards were long — there was no longer any doubts that tgey belonged to the infamous Dwarven race.

”Wow wow calm down, I won't hurt you. The more you scream the more you hurt my fleeings, I'm quite the sensitive guy you know.”

The moment Tyler said the word hurt, Madine had immediately glared at the five and shifted into a fighting Stance. However, Tyler didn't have the time to worry about that for now and just had to deal with the issue before him. However, when she had heard his complete sentence, she returned to normal and nodded her head with a smile as though she was agreeing with him.

The dwarves finally calmed down a bit and despite Nadine's rude actions, Tyler's calming tone must've had an effect on them as the bald one in the middle with the magic pockax hesitantly spoke for the group. It would seem like he was the leader of the group.

”Are, are you a Demon? What are you doing here?”

Tyler sighed inwardly in relief as he answered the dwarf's question. ”Well, I guess. We were just monster hunting in this place when we accidentally discovered this mine and decided to explore it.”

”Oh I see... That makes sense. We were told this place was unexplored so it's quite alarming to find so many people here in such a short amount of time. How, how many people did you bring?”

”Huh, oh it's just the two of us.”

”WHAT! You came into an unexplored mine with just two people, are you out of your mind! You have no idea how dangerous this place is, you can lose your lives suddenly of you're not careful.”

Tyler was speechless. What was this dwarf saying to his face. As he recalled, they were the ones that had fallen into an obvious monsters trap not him. However, he needed to ask them a few questions so he tried to be nice.

”Is that so.”

”Yes indeed. You remember that scary spider monster you somehow killed earlier?”

”Yeah.”

”Well this place is crawling with them and other even more terrifying monsters live here. It's best if you turn around and leave this moment, we were just about to do the same.”

”I see...”

Although Tyler didn't feel flattered by the dwarfs words, he was still glad he had made some progress in communication with actual dwarfs. The dwarf then shifted his body wiggly and with the spell still active, their footsteps would not makeany sounds but Tyler still followed him with his eyes.

”Sure enough. It seems you really can see us, I don't know why we had thought that would work but I guess not.”

Saying that, the dwarf then lowered his pickax and the former translucent dwarves became fully visible again.

”Let's start afresh, I am L-I I mean Ty, this here is Nadine. Don't mind her eyes she's just tense from being underground.”

”Naturally we understand. It took us a while as well to get use to this place. But don't worry, you'll get used to it soon. Oh, pardon us, I am Ragdek Mighthold of the Dwarven Vineyard Kingdom. Pleased to meet you. These here are my workers and friends, Bernir Galnik, Darren Drollayam, Hulnyl Hardfall and Gerl Ralvol.”

Ragdek introduced the other dwarves to Tyler while they all nodded at him with a bit of caution in their eyes.

Tyler extended a hand. Ragdek seemed to pick up on the meaning of the gesture and wiped off his own dirt-stained hand before shaking.

”So, where are you lots headed?”

”Back to the exit, as I said, this place is extremely dangerous and is best if you leave too.”

”I see. You all seem like miners but why are dwarves mining an unexplored mine in the demon continent?”

”Huh, oh that... well, never mind that, we should leave before more of that monster comes.”