"True you are very lucky brat that they aren't the empire because if they were well let's just say even if you spilled everything from the get-go at best your fate would be to die in the mines as a slave."
Hammerfall said as his face morphed into a dark one from remembering just how cruel the elves can be to their prisoners of war.
My lord, do you think it's the truth what the others are saying about the humans that they came from heaven?"
Ragnar chipped in after finishing his breakfast which was made with the ingredients from the REAPER's onboard artificial farms that were enough to support the original crew and the dwarves for the time being and washing it down with his beer.
"Hmmm truthfully at first I didn't believe it but after what I saw and experienced I'm starting to believe it since it's the only explanation for how their airship descended from the sky and their strange appearance plus their Steamworks, alchemy, and spellcraft are just way too advanced even the empire doesn't hold a candle to them."
Hammerfall said with still visible fear on his face from remembering the exploding meteorites with which the short ears could easily obliterate their isles in one go even without sending in their soldiers and they wouldn't be able to do a thing about it just obediently die only for the camps sirens to start blaring again signaling that its time to head to work.
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"Prisoner 367!"
"I!"
Yolmir roared after hearing his number and stepped out from the crowd of dwarves who have marched here from the POW camp in a neat and disciplined colon made up of three rows and now were waiting for the engineers responsible for them to pick them up and lead to the building that they will be demolishing today.
As he did two fully geared-up MP soldiers came up to him and as they did he rolled up his right sleeve revealing a tattooed-out barcode on his forearms inside part.
The female soldier grabbed his hand and after her visor scanned the code and confirmed that he is who he is she released it.
"Come with us."
The female soldier whose armored vest had the writing Harper on her vest's front's upper part said as she motioned with her hand allowing Yolmir to easily understand what she meant even if he didn't understand her words but after a month he already did.
They quickly arrived at where Chief Mark wearing his space uniform and beret was waiting with his golem or as the humans liked to call it mech patched up into a working condition only that instead of a morning star and axe it now had a giant big ass steel hammer and a steel shovel which was being guarded by additional two fully geared up soldiers.
Seeing Yolmir Mark gave him the neural language translator which Yolmir glued to his temple the same way as Mark did.
"Good morning your highness Yolmir."
Mark said as he extended his hand which was another one of humans weird customs and shook it while returning his greeting.
"Good morning chief Mark any update on my request to allow some of us to come back to the isles and bring back a ransom?"
Yolmir asked as he released his hand causing Mark to sigh.
I'm sorry your highness but our Captain is still in a coma and the XO is still waiting until the Captain wakes up so that he can decide for himself.""
Mark said as he spread his hands.
"I see..."
Yolmir answered because although even if they were currently living even better than some commoners in Gaia he was still a POW so he couldn't wait to come back to the isles to see his father and sister.
Seeing Yolmirs moody state Mark decided to give him so hope.
"But the big guy says that the Captain should wake up pretty soon so just wait for a little bit and I am sure that once the Captain adjusts to our current situation he will be more than happy to establish diplomatic ties with the isles."
"Thank you, chief Mark, also could you please put in a good word to his majesty then he wakes up."
The grateful Yolmir said only to see Mark start laughing his ass off.
"Hahaha, his rank is the Captain, not a king but I wouldn't mind if he became a king one day his the perfect monarch material."
Mark said as he looked at the completely black castle which was currently being reconstructed and renovated by the engineers with the help of drones that they manufactured with the help of REAPERs onboard 3D printers just like everything else that they didn't bring on the ship with them who did most of the heavy lifting.
"Anyways its time to start working after all time is money."
Mark said after seeing the rest of the dwarves assigned to him that were the elite amongst elites among dwarves get escorted to him by MPs.
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"Haaa..."
Hammerfall shouted out as he exhaled all the air in his lungs as he swung his steel hammer at an abandoned building stone wall and punched a large hole with ease.
Phew...
Hammerfall wiped off the sweat from his forehead as he raised the hammer and placed it on his right shoulder to catch his breath as sweat trickled down his topless muscular and ripped top.
Only to see Yolmir completely demolish another building with his mechs hammer and feet in seconds and after he was done gave out a loud cry as its exhaust pipes opened up releasing the built-up extra steam.
"Tch! What a show-off!"
Hammerfall murmured under his breath but deep down his opinion about the hair had made a complete 360 change after he saw him kill that giant zombie with ease plus thanks to the balanced food and lifting weights the heir was starting to look more and more like a proper dwarf the stinky brat even started growing out his hair and beard which he used to keep short and shaved all the time.
Only for a black fountain with a loud bang to shoot out from under the rubble where Yolmirs mech was standing.
The force was strong enough that the mech almost overturned but thankfully Yolmir quickly controlled his mech and prevented it from collapsing.
"Huh, what's that?"
Hammerfall thought out loud only for Ragnar to chip in.
"My lord it looks like the black water that once ignited will never stop burning."
Ragnar said as he carried his hammer and walked closer to Hammerfall.
"Black water what's that?"
The curious Hammerfall asked as he placed his hammer on the ground and crossed his muscular arms with thumping blood vessels clearly visible under his skin.
"I encountered it on my first raid then my old jarls airship got lost in the storm and had to land on an uninhabited island."
"One of the jarl's drunk warriors accidentally fell into a pool of black water and once he came out of it he went to sit next to a campfire but an ember from the fire landed on him and in an instant, his whole body got covered in flames."
"We tried to extinguish it but no matter what we tried it didn't work the poor sodes dead body continued to burn through the whole night until there was nothing left of him even the ground under him continued to burn for a while."
Ragnar said causing Hammerfall to grimace.
Only to hear chief Mark who after hearing about what happened ran over to inspect it only to start shouting at top of his lungs while he jumped in a place like a little kid.
"EUREKA!"
"Huh? What is chief Mark so excited about?"
The curious Hammerfall asked.
"Don't know my lord but I suspect that they know how to use the black water to their advantage so it might be a precious resource for them."
Ragnar said as he squinted his eyes.