There was no doubt that this surprise attack launched by the Elf and the Dragon was completely unexpected by the Dwarf. This was an attack that did not at all conform to the strategic intentions of the Elf alliance that they had calculated. As a result, the city, which only had the Dwarf's force, had no possibility of a successful counterattack.
And there was also no doubt that the Elf alliance's action, which came without any warning and had no strategic value, was precisely to cover Su'er's plan, or to put it more bluntly, it was for Lenny and Credo to successfully infiltrate this Dwarf city.
From this perspective, even Lenny himself felt that they were already worth it.
This Dwarf city was just located on a crucial node. This was not a coincidence. The Dwarf built this city because the Elf concentration here was much higher than in other places. The divine fire furnace of the God of Forge could not extend to the surface, so if they wanted to forge some things quickly and conveniently that did not require the divine fire furnace, they needed a large amount of Elves to cooperate, including melting materials and such. The furnaces that spewed fluorescent green flames were created for this purpose.
Likewise, for this very reason, this city became a thorn in Su'er's side. Well, that might be a bit too arrogant to say, but there was absolutely no problem in saying that it was a point that Su'er had to break through.
Although it sounds easy to find the main nodes where the Spirit Corridor manifests in the present world, the reality is that such places are very few and far between. After the other easier-to-handle nodes had been opened up and become sea of spirit, he turned his attention to this Dwarf city.
However, from a certain perspective, acting on this city had an advantage in terms of hidden reasons that no other place could compare to. After all... do the Elf need a reason to fight the Dwarf?
The only problem might be that this opportunity was only available once. If they failed this time, the Dwarf alliance would definitely station heavy troops in this city. At that time, it would be almost impossible to open up a connection with the Spirit Corridor here again.
Judging from the current situation, Su'er absolutely did not want to see the opposing parties fighting with large-scale troops at this time. That could easily cause the intensity of the war to escalate uncontrollably. And whenever this happened, Su'er would always be grateful for the existence of the God of War. That Old Deus single-handedly intimidated both the Dwarf alliance and the Elf alliance, forcing the two sides to maintain a state where they had to unite to be able to subtly resist Him.
An Old Deus whose concept was war had, in a way, become a suppressor that eliminated war, which was quite ironic.
And one more point that Su'er and Think could not ignore was that it had been almost ten years since the Dwarf began to research weapons using Divine Cores as raw materials. Even though Think, who called herself a genius, always despised those groundhogs, she would never underestimate or ignore the abilities of those groundhogs in her heart.
Did that guy named Lóni succeed?
With the talent given by the God of Forge that was enough to make everyone go crazy with jealousy, had he, after such a long time, created the weapon that could end the war?
This was a question and a worry that simultaneously hung in the hearts of both Think and Su'er, but there was no need for everyone else to know about it.
For Lenny and Credo at this moment, the goal was to take advantage of the opportunity where the Elf who came in a surprise attack had drawn away all the Dwarf in the city, infiltrate the city, and then place the last fragment of the Phantasma's core in the location that was closest to the Spirit Corridor in terms of magic—if they could really find that place as quickly as possible.
Without wasting time in the buildings on the surface, they, who had already infiltrated, had roughly judged with the brilliance stone that the node was not on the surface. They quickly ran to a steel wall that they had already observed, where the Dwarf went underground. Lenny took out a steel cube from the bag on his back and pressed it hard against the wall.
Unlike the green marks that were unique to the Elf's incantations, this was a very Dwarf-style steel with bright yellow magical marks. The symbols and words of the Dwarf also extended from the four sides of the cube. Except for a slight pause at the very beginning of the incantation's expansion, they soon expanded with an incredibly smooth speed, covering the entire surface of the steel wall.
After a subtle tremor, this gate leading to the underground opened.
'I didn't expect Miss Think to be so proficient in the Dwarf's magic. She's really amazing~,' Lenny couldn't help but sigh in his heart as he was satisfied to see the Dwarf's creation open up for him. However, the very next second, he was startled by another voice that sounded in his mind.
[If Think knew you said that about her, you'd definitely get a beating.]
'I was wrong.'
[Be extra careful. The Dwarf don't build passages that are convenient for Imanity to walk through. Just leave the item in the closest place you can, and evacuate early.]
'Ah, I know... Speaking of which, if we had chosen this place as our starting point, would we not have to send it to the closest place now because of the core's consumption?' Lenny regretted in his mind as he quickly climbed down.
[Don't talk nonsense. If we had chosen this place from the beginning, it would have been a disaster if we had failed and the item was taken.]
'Okay, okay. By the way, how are you doing, Su'er?'
He asked this last question in his mind, but this time Lenny did not get a response.
Not minding Su'er's disconnection, Lenny just took out the disc made of brilliance stone and obsidian from his pocket and carefully examined it. Descending was always extremely fast and effortless. They didn't even know how deep they had descended. The place they stepped on was a wide steel platform. Lenny guessed that this was a location that served the airships. Looking around, he could see many steel buildings that they could climb over. The only problem was that with a limited amount of time, which direction should they search in?
"That's so weird? Brother Lenny?" Credo, who was confused, poked Lenny's arm and held out the disc with the brilliance stone in his hand in front of Lenny. "I think my brilliance stone is broken. Why does it keep pointing upwards?"
"Ah, yours is also pointing upwards," Credo, who had leaned over to look, continued without waiting for Lenny's answer. And what he said was correct. When Lenny retracted his gaze, he could see that the brilliance stone pointer in his hand, which had just been glowing and pointing downwards, was now strangely pointing upwards toward the place they had just come from.
"Yeah~, what's going on?"
A voice that came from behind them. The language it used was not that of Imanity, but the language of the Elf. It was very fluent, as if the person speaking was a real Elf.