47 The Dwarf Faction (1/2)
Dwarf Leader - I am Grant leader of the Dwarf Faction.
Yu - I am Yu Leader of the Haven Faction, I've come today to request assistance from the Dwarf Faction.
Grant-? What kind of assistance could my faction provide you? While we may be a recluse faction we do have suitable information network to know that you are a powerful man with a mysterious background.
Yu - [So they know about us huh?]
Yu- I read past reports that mentioning how Dwarves were fast and skilled builders. What I'm here to request is to hire some builders to help my faction with some reconstruction.
Grant - I hear your request, but what I wish to know is why you need builders?
Yu - ...Recently there have been some changes within our faction's territory and due to certain complications, we need to rebuild most of our buildings.
I didn't want to tell them this information but I needed their help so I could only comply this time and speak honestly. Besides if spread this information to the public I don't mind wiping the Dwarf faction off the face of the planet since they'd become my enemy then. I don't want people knowing about Haven current status unless I want them to know, anyone who goes against this will be silenced.
However, I don't think that Grant would reveal anything that was mentioned in this meeting of ours. When we talked rather than probing intent I honestly felt curiosity in his voice, in addition to this I used one of my innate skill [World's Eye]. This was sort of a cheat-like skill that let me look at the flow of magic energy while also showing me the emotional state of a target.
The only downside of this was that it required a lot of mana to use so I try not to use it too often. When I looked at Grant with this skill the emotions he showed were that of vigilance and curiosity.
Grant - ... It is getting cold out here why don't we go inside and talk more in detail.
Yu - Lead the way.
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If I were to describe the interior of the Dwarf Faction compound it would be western style medieval theme with a mixture of modern-day architecture. The building in the area was designed like the buildings of the past, but different from those buildings I saw something different from a lantern lighting the area.
It looked like a lightbulb but I could feel magic energy from the lights. If my guess was right it had to be a magic item but these lights were different from singular light producing magic items. These magic items were connected through a giant rune formation like an electrical grid and were powered by mana.
In the past I tried to replicate something like this but because I was so busy with other things I've had to put that project on hold. Now that I'm seeing it up close my intuition of as a rune maker is telling me to study them in detail. In the past, this may not have caught my attention but with the sudden addition of my blacksmith, rune maker, and medicine refiner sub-jobs small details like this have caught my attention more often.
Yu - [I'll just ask if I can look at their formation techniques if the chance pops up.]
Deactivation [World's Eye] I continued to follow grant while also looking at the Dwarf Faction's inhabitants. Besides the few dwarves we saw at the entrance once we entered the compound hundreds of dwarves entered our sights.
Even though I knew that I now lived in a world where this was normal, what I saw in front of me still made me pause for a moment wondering if this was real. Dwarves were everywhere living their everyday life in peace, or what I thought was peace.
On the surface, I could see many dwarves smiling while children play in a nearby park, but if I look in more detail I can see some older dwarves showing expressions full of dissatisfaction. This made me wonder why they had these expressions but, right now I couldn't think about that too much because this isn't my faction.
No matter how much one wants to help people they must first help themselves and those around them before extending their reach towards others. Right now I have to think about the reconstruction of Haven and I don't really have the time nor manpower to do anything to help the Dwarf Faction.
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Grant lead our group from the front entrance towards the center of the compound, the walk took about 10 minutes and during our walk, I continued to view the surroundings with the assistance of my domain. Towards the dwarves, I was just simply looking at the surroundings, but only I knew that I was secretly mapping out the compounds infrastructure.
Or at least the parts my domain could reach, rather than being spread out in one simple plain like the Yokai Faction, the Dwarf Faction was structured in floors like a dungeon. Because of this, I could only map around 3 floors but I knew there was more I wasn't seeing.
Before long a castle-style building enters our view, the guards look at Grant leading us and don't even question us or anything. After we pass the front gate I suddenly felt a burst of earth energy enters the atmosphere.