While the meat was stewing, Dara suddenly remembered that in his world, special drilling machines were used to dig tunnels.
- Idea!
Pulling out the cartilage of an ancient snake, he attached magical stones of fire, earth, wind and a white crystal of control to it. By activating the magic through the clock transformed all this magic instrument.
But the only thing missing was the "Breaking Dawn" crystal itself.
If it were, then the new tool would be able to find the same elements in the rock! But so far they had nothing. From the multicooker, fragrant odors came out that spread throughout the mountain. Poor scouts, they dripped sweat, drooling from the smell of food.
Dara, decided to help them by connecting his device to the development of the tunnel, otherwise the scouts were able to dig only 20 centimeters! In 2 days! In the other place.
A little girl of about 5, reeling from hunger, stumbled into the darkness of the mine and rolled down the slope. She fell into a small stream. Hit her head, knee ... Inside the mine, two kids worked, a gnome, a thin boy and an even thinner girl.
They were in the deepest part of the mine, with hoops with burning candles on their heads. Hot wax dripped onto their skin, causing pain. But they are resigned to it.
The children were trying to find something valuable, the remains of the breed in the dumps. Some ore that could be exchanged for food. In the village they were awaited, brothers and sisters were even smaller in age, a mother and grandmother who were sick from hunger, and two aunts.
And the men from their house went in search of food in the mountains, like a week ago. But this has not come yet. They were their family's only hope. Once a week, a gnome merchant came to the village and exchanged food for root vegetables and some flour from grain crops.
Money in the village, having lost the ability to openly go out into the world, has lost its value. The boy managed to find one egg a day ago and eat it, he was so hungry that he could not leave a half for his little sister.
The girl had not eaten for a long time, she was reeling from hunger. They had been in the cave-mine for three long days! In the other place.
The merchant, half a dwarf, half a man, agreed with the adventurers to tell about the secret village of the gnomes, if they would allow him to live in the city and give him a reward of 100 gold coins. For a long time he entered into the trust of the dwarfs, traded at a loss, in order to finally betray and become rich. It was dangerous to live outside the city walls.
Monsters and people often plundered his supplies, sometimes brutally beat him.
Adventurers gathered forces, mages, tanks, thieves, assassins, wizards and city guards, gathered in the square in front of the city gates.
There were 600 of them. It took two days to reach the mountain village of the outcast gnomes. The fate of the gnomes was not enviable or death or slavery. In the other place. People, monsters from both sides attacked the elf forest, crowding long-eared warriors.
Burning trees. In the other place. Dara, launched a snake with crystals, the skeleton began to spin like a drill, gnawing into the rock, it began to crumble quickly, cracks apart, and immediately a glow came out of the drill.
It fixed the tunnel trunk with an unknown light, which then turned into a smooth surface. He was even tougher than the rock itself. A particularly durable type of magic concrete with a barrier function.
Dara did not even know about these properties, he was not particularly familiar with construction, geology, and even more so the properties of magic stones, spirit stones, cores, and even more ancient bones, which were tens and hundreds of thousands, and sometimes even millions of years old. The bones contained a huge amount of magical power, which the other world had long forgotten.
If ten strong scouts in two days with difficulty pierced 20 centimeters of rock, then the ridge of the snake, in half a minute, made a hole 5 meters in diameter and 10 meters deep. The scouts were shocked and overwhelmed! Why, they had to make so much effort to get the fat man's tool to solve the problem in half a minute! This fat man was exactly the same maniac, there was no need to delude himself that he was peace-loving.
No, now they probably knew that he liked to show off the vanquished! He was not easy! Of course, the scouts could not say all this. They realized one thing that it is impossible to anger this fat man, never, in any case!
The fat man, besides being a maniac, he lacked common sense! He was also a tyrant !!! Moreover, a powerful tyrant! They still had to find out if he was their friend, ally or enemy! If he was an enemy, it would mean the end of the whole world. Since against him, no one would have been able to withstand, to act in this other world !!!
In the other place. The head was dizzy from hunger, the girl fainted in hunger. The boy did not pay attention to this, he staggered in the other direction. Feverishly continuing to search for ore or crystals. After a while, the girl opened her eyes, from a breath of fresh wind and the enchanting aroma of some kind of food! This aroma hovered around her, filling the body with life-giving energy. Through a nap, she heard voices:
"We have already made a hole of 1000 meters ... there is nothing here!"