"Hello Mr. Bahanger, I am Kang Kai Nino, a wondering ranger from the Rock Rabbit Creek. Nice to meet you." 

The tall and slender man outside the door had long brown hair flowing in the dusty wind.

"Kang Kai boy, why have you come here? Do you know that your presence disturbed one of the most sacred events in a dwarf's life?"

Bahanger looked up at the tall boy while clenching the hammer in his hand with an unhappy expression. 

Kang Kai didn't seem to notice the dwarf's foul mood at all, and without avoiding Bahanger's unwelcoming gaze, he smiled and elegantly performed a ranger's greeting, and then said seriously:

"Mr. Bahanger, please forgive me for refuting your point of view. The purpose of weapon forging is to protect innocent people, so One should not ignore People's suffering in the pursuit of good weapons. Now….." 

"That's enough. You actually disturbed me for a group of unimportant people? Weapon forging is to protect innocent people? Don't make me laugh. I forge weapons because of the excitement and not because of some childish reason." 

In his words, Bahanger bluntly expressed his ridicule by referring to Kang Kai's thoughts as childish. 

"Mr. Bahanger, your words don't match with your identity as the guardian of Dolez city, and also, it is not in line with the image of the kind and friendly dwarves." 

Kang Kai frowned slightly, and without giving up, continue to try and persuade Bahanger. 

"Ahaaa, this is the unreasonable part of your good camp. Even if someone says that they are not interested in doing something, you won't stop pestering. Do you know why the neutral gods are always stronger than the good gods? Because their followers are not a bunch of boring fools." 

Bahanger disdainfully looked at the ranger standing in front of him. He never had any good feelings toward these kinds of people, who liked to lecture people. And, as he said previously, he was simply not interested in the life and death of those refugees at all. He even held disdain toward the actions and ideals of the good camp.

"Are you serious?"

After Hearing Bahanger's answer, Kang Kai no longer had his previous smiling expression. Now his smile was replaced by anger and a little bit of helplessness that was hidden deep in his eyes.

"What, do you want to force me? Well, this Old me hasn't moved his muscles for two years. I wouldn't mind giving you a few slaps to let you know your place." 

Seeing Kang Kai lost his smile, Bahanger's disdain was even more apparent. He opened his eyes wide angrily, and his battle qi slowly wrapped around the huge dark brown hammer.

Kang Kai's slightly narrowed eyes also flashed with an angry brilliance, and a light but fierce battle qi covered his body. 

Two huge auras suddenly burst out and collided with each other, which caused an extremely heavy atmosphere to suddenly enveloped the humble blacksmith's hut. 

Kang Kai's aura was like an omnipresent blade, facing the weight of a vast mountain without flinching.

The air in the centre of Dolez city seemed to have frozen in an instant. Many servants in the nearby Castles couldn't stand such a terrifying aura and directly fainted. Many pedestrians on the street were suppressed by the sudden emergence of this momentum and squatted down on the ground, and started to tremble. Even the pets kept at home begun to howl, and the entire Dolez City was shrouded in an atmosphere of imminent disaster.

In the forging room, Kang Kai and Bahanger stared at each other intensely. A little bit of battle qi inadvertently spilt out, which then distorted the surrounding air. 

Kang Kai's eyes were filled with anger, and as he spoke, his voice was also no longer calm and gentle but was infused with traces of sadness and anger. 

"As the guardian of this city, can you really betray the trust and expectation of the people like this? Watch innocent children die while you could have easily saved them? Watch the plague ravaging the city and watching the innocent townsfolk lose family members?" 

"Yes, I wouldn't care about these irrelevant affairs. I am only responsible for protecting the Hyde family, so no matter how many other unrelated people die, I do not care."

Bahanger did not evade Kang kai's angry gaze at all, and he even had the urge to teach the person in front of him a lesson. Bahanger's patience was almost at its limit. If it weren't for the fact that it was too close to the castle of Gorat, with Bahanger's temperament, he would have already stricken his hammer. 

Seeing Bahanger's worsening attitude, Kang Kai did not continue to insist. As a ranger from the good camp, it was even more unacceptable for him to fight in the city centre than Bahanger. The momentum just now had already caused trouble for the residents, which made the kindhearted ranger to blame himself for that. 

Kang Kai slowly withdrew his aura and clearly expressed concession. 

Seeing this, Bahanger snorted and also retracted his aura, and the solidified air gradually resumed its normal flow.

"Mr. Bahanger, at least you should know that those cruel nobles are sucking the last bit of blood from these poor people. I hope you can tell the lord..."

Kang Kai's voice almost carried a pleading tone, but the dwarf warrior was still indifferent.

"As I said, I just want to forge my iron in peace, so don't bother me with those unrelated trifles, and don't forget to close the door behind you."

After speaking, Bahanger didn't look at Kang Kai anymore. He lifted the hammer and strode back to his forging table and continued to forge the pure and beautiful Mithril.

Kang Kai saw the action of Bahanger and knew that he could not persuade this stubborn dwarf to help; instead, he might infuriate the angry warrior if he insisted any longer. 

"Oh...Mr. Bahanger, I hope you can wake up, and I hope the Obad-hai, the god of nature, will give you guidance."

Kang Kai bowed slightly, then reluctantly left the forging room, and did not forget to close the door before leaving. 

"God Moradin may punish you for wasting my time."

The dwarf slammed a hammer on the Mithril and responded loudly.

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The refugees didn't know all the things that happened in Dolez. Instead, they suddenly discovered that the lack of food and clothing was not the worst thing that could happen, as now, there was a demon in the refugee camp that no one wanted to talk about- The plague. It appeared once again. 

Of course, the reason for this situation had something to do with the group of Ti Xiaer's followers who sneaked into the refugee camp.

Bilan and Dickie were still hiding in a tent located in a faraway corner of the camp. Although the priests had now announced that the plague spread through physical contact, people still instinctively stayed away from the infected Bilan.

The knight commander Casser provided high-quality bread to Bilan and Dickie as always, but the mood of the two was still becoming depressed day by day as Bilan's illness became more and more serious.

Although, as an apprentice-level mage, Bilan's resistance to the plague was beyond ordinary people, she was still inevitably suffering from the various symptoms. And now, she lost the ability to move by herself and even had to be careful when speaking.

Dickie caressed Bilan's hair blankly. Their love for each other grew rapidly in these days when they fought against the disease. This was almost the only thing that made them a little happy.

Not far from their tent, a team of soldiers carrying wooden sticks was searching for infected people. They would hit on everyone's leg with the wooden stick, and if someone's leg fractured, it would prove that the person was sick, and they would be killed immediately. Then they would be dragged to the incineration site for incineration and burial.

The refugees had to put forward the last bit of their money to satisfy these wolf-like soldiers as much as possible; otherwise, as long as they hit a little harder, the bones of the people who were not sick would also be broken.

Dickie watched numbly as a pretty weeping young girl was led towards the camp of the patrolling army by two soldiers. This scene happened many times in the past three days, but whether it was Bilan or Dickie, there was absolutely nothing they could do. 

Just as Bilan was desolately looking at the misery and sadness of the refugees, she suddenly felt an unabashedly terrifying wave of mana fluctuation approaching the camp at a terrifyingly fast speed. 

Bilan almost cried out. She was too familiar with this mana fluctuation. Even now, Bilan would still tremble after imagining those azure blue pupils. And those bloody scenes of shattered internal organs, painful wailing, and twisted souls once again surfaced in her mind. 

"Dickie, go inside the tent, hurry up."

Feeling the mana fluctuations that represented her living nightmare was getting closer, Bilan screamed.