in a land full of telling tree-like bones and rivers of blood and dark sand, any monster that walks this sunless land in one of the many canyons is a bloodthirsty one that will kill anything, a tell iron wall stands behind it is a village full of all kinds of races, from orcs to elves, and many more in one of it many tunnels stand a one-handed old dwarf who is now planting mushrooms in old bones and wood the dwarf was one of the best blacksmiths of his time but lost one of his hands to humans now he is a mushroom farmer he is the best farmer in this village if you can call it that, his name is Anvil van dark Iron one of the last dwarfs of the dark iron tribe and their last elder who uses Runes and makes the dark iron but blacksmithing need two hands and the rest of the tribe can't make good weapons or even forge
now the dwarfs from one of the best blacksmiths under the haven to simple farmers, from many to few from an empire to a single village, this is the price of the kindness to humans and one they will remember till the last one of their kin
for Anvil van darkIron today is a meeting day for the leaders from the races, and he needs to go to see some old friends
[ in the meeting room ]
Several people sat in the meeting room, and in the middle, there was a dragon and he was the village chief. The first to speak was the orcs
[the orc]: were is Anvil he is late and he never gets here late
before he can take more a voice was heard
[Anvil]: I'm here blood ax or are you happy you don't see me
[blood ax]: hahaha no old friend I was worried that you are dead by now from work you need to rest sometime
[Anvil]: will you don't need to keep a village of 589 fed all year and there the number is increasing so how is everyone
a goblin said
the goblin: I'm good just need to make more caves
an elf said
[the elf]: will can you plant us some trees Gobzen
a cat beastman said
[the cat beastman]: will our hunters can't find any tree for Gobzen to plant Eldire hi naga did you find anything new in the blood river or just more bonefish and blood worms
[the naga]: stop you know my name is Jker Mr claw and no just more blood worms and bonefish but we find some blood crabs and a mist snakes
[blood ax]: hahaha will me and my boys are bored from the guardian the wall so we hunted some bone worms and mole rats hi Anvil way do you look sad today
[Anvil]: seven young dwarfs were killed today by some bone ants attacking the farms and the good mushroom was stolen by some mist rats but we killed them and we lost half of the medical mushroom from a fire snake and it poisoned some of my farmers' before we kill it so all the coming food and medicine are now halved for the coming this month and we find some clear water in the Tunnels but we find some skin wolfs guardian it and we find a troll nest to so the miners came back
everyone was silent now after hearing Anvil but after some seconds the dragon Spoke
[dragon]: this is not the time today we are here because humans were seen at the border today
When the word human was spoken, everyone presents showed a bloody aura
[dragon]: stop this is not the time for anger this is a time of preparation to hide Anvil how many miners do You have
[Anvil]: 15 If we count the farmers the rest are poisoned or injured and need time
[dragon]: ok Gobzen you and your goblins will help Anvil blood ax and the rest will hunt all the food we need and clear the Tunnels too so we can hide in them before the humans find us now everyone the meeting is over
after the meeting, everyone was working harder so the humans will not find them if only they know then all they can do is run
[blood ax]: hi Anvil can I help you I have a hundred boys if you need any
[Anvil]: no need my friend if we survived in the end I will open the last bottle of my fire wine and slime Rum and drink together with everyone
[Gobzen]: I missed your slime Rum and a good mushroom to
[Jker]: if you opened the Rum I will get all the good fish
[claw]: then I will get all the good meat
[Eldire]: will we have some blood fruits wine hy blood you are the only one left to come on tell us
[blood ax]: hahaha will I Still have some beef it's good beef from a blooded bull from the bone forests
[dragon]: hihihi will this one will open his secret food store to
everyone was laughing as if nothing happened but this is their last week together
[ after two days ]
In the morning
[dragon]: everyone now go underground go to the Tunnels fast
[blood ax]: what is happing boss
[dragon]: the humans They have an army coming our way they will be here in an hour
[claw]: how are they this fast and our traps are all over the border
[dragon]: they are flying on Wyverns now go
[Anvil]: Chief go we can close the Tunnels so we will be the last
[blood ax]: no Anvil you have to go I will...
[Anvil]: stop blood ax I sed I will drink my Rum and wine with all of you so how can I die
blood ax grid his teeth and sed: you better not die on me Anvil
[Anvil]: I will not and I said I will drink before I die
after some time blood ax entered the Tunnels and after half an hour everyone entered the Tunnels only the dwarfs the ones who stayed
Anvil gets out a cup full of wine and drinks it and he looked at the human man flying on a sword he lets go of the cup and snips his fingers
in the empty caves and Tunnels, many Runes glowed, and after a sec all the Runes exploded
in the Tunnel, blood ax Shouted: NNNNNNOOOOOOO ANVIL YOU OLD FOOL WAY BOYS HELP ME MOVE THE ROCKS CLAW DRAGON HELP ME TO
[dragon]: stop blood ax the humans they have arrived he and his clan want to stop them
[blood ax]: NO HE SAID HE WILL DRINK WITH US TELL WE BASS OUT HE CAN'T LEAVE US LIKE THIS
[dragon]: he did drink
dragon but out a half-full bottle of wine and said: the rest is for us he said drinking and laughing are the best way I have drunk my fill of wine and Rum and life and it's our turn to drink our fill
dragon. was crying claw. Gobzen. Jker. Eldire to
blood ax looked at his friends and said: can you open the bottle of Rum
all looked at blood ax
[blood ax]: can you
[dragon]: yes have some
[claw]: hi give me some to
[Gobzen]: me too
[Jker]: don't forget me
[Eldire]: then I'm last, and hi blood ax do you still have the beef
[blood ax]: yes but not now, let's drink FOR ANVIL
[everyone]: FOR ANVIL
everyone was happy for some time, but they still have to go
back to the dwarfs, only Anvil is still alive barely in front of him was a human man looking at him
[the human]: is this all you can offer me dwarf will I'm Disappointed not even given me a good fight
[Anvil]: thanks no one like you too
the human kicks Anvil and said: disgusting you get your dirty blood on my robs
[Anvil]: can you tell me why humans betrayed us
[the human]: ha ha ha hahaha betrayed you, no we were never on your side from the start,now how shall I kill you
the man grabs Anvil by the neck, and Anvil smiles and said
[Anvil]: no, I will not die, but we will die
and Anvil's body and all the dwarfs start to glow, and then
BBBBBBBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMM
the canyon the village was in, has now disappeared, and when the human army arrived they looked in shock at the giant hole in the ground and the sword of their leader, or with is left of it
in a white room, Anvil wakes up and looks around, and he only sees a man in black looking at him, the man said
[Six]: hello, Mr. Anvil, my name is Six, and I'm here to offer you a new life
[END CHAPTER]