Chapter 004: A Shocking Change

After staying there for such a long time, these elves were able to understand some of Du Fan’s thoughts.
Hearing Hong’s words, Du Fan smiled. Soon, he showed a radiant smile befitting a saint, “If I really send a message to you, remember to come as quickly as possible! If you’re late, you might just have to collect my body instead.”
“Elder Du Fan really knows how to joke. A hero like him would never end up in such a situation!” Hong said with a laugh.
In the end, at everyone’s insistence, they gave them another hour before finally letting Hong, Huang, Lan, and Zi leave.
However, upon returning, bad news arrived immediately—the dwarves of Grass no longer agreed to let the elves and Du Fan stay in Grass.
“Get those foreigners out!” Many dwarves marched in the streets of Grass, shouting as they walked.
“It’s those foreigners who corrupted Lord Bashar!” More dwarves cried out.
People from shops on both sides of the street rushed out to watch.
Soon, some dwarves broke away from the group and started spreading the news among the dwarves inside the shops.
“You must already know! In this battle at the Divine Ruins, our dwarf race lost! Completely lost! Seven of our people died!” The dwarf shouting angrily waved his sturdy arms. His expression and movements were extremely vivid and passionate!
“Seven of us died! What about them?” the other dwarf asked eagerly.
“Not a single one of them died! Not one! Yet seven of us perished! Seven elites of our dwarf race died like this!” The dwarf said with a sad expression.
“Oh, poor fellow tribesmen. May you soon join the embrace of the Sun God,” the other dwarf lamented immediately.
The dwarf race worshipped the Sun God!
It was said that the Sun God was also one of the twelve major gods. If Du Fan were here, hearing this and recalling what Gaia had said, he would quickly realize that the dwarf race was almost certainly a intelligent race created by the Sun God!
“But you don’t know what really happened in the Divine Ruins,” the dwarf shouting said loudly.
“What happened?” the other dwarf asked right away.

“When we entered the Divine Ruins, there were twenty of us on our side and twenty on the side of the magical beasts. But when entering the Divine Ruins, our city lord, Lord Basha, was deceived by those despicable humans and elves. He abandoned our people and, ignoring our young master Karu, went into the Divine Ruins with those humans and elves!” the dwarf spreading the news said, spitting saliva. By then, a crowd of dwarves had gathered around him.

“That’s how our young master Karu was forced to lead seven of our people to fight against twenty experts among the magical beasts! Even under such circumstances, young master Karu never gave up! He fought bravely, battling the magical beasts fiercely!” The dwarf continued, gesturing wildly as if to emphasize Karu’s heroic valor.

Amidst the dwarves’ fear and awe, Karu’s image of fighting bravely to the death was vividly portrayed.

“In the end, with his body covered in wounds and using his last remaining strength, young master Karu had no choice but to jump alone into the Divine Ruins!” Amidst gasps of surprise, the dwarf adopted a heroic expression and gesture.

“What happened after that?” everyone asked eagerly, stunned.

The 95% mortality rate of the Divine Ruins was well-known, and everyone held their breath after hearing that Karu had jumped in.

“Initially, young master Karu thought that even if he were destroyed in the Divine Ruins, he wouldn’t let those magical beast minions kill him! He preferred to die rather than fall into the hands of those filthy creatures!” Instead of answering the dwarves’ urgent questions, the dwarf continued to exaggerate Karu’s glory.

“What exactly happened to young master Karu inside the Divine Ruins?” another dwarf asked.

“Our young master Karu, after going through countless hardships upon entering the Divine Ruins, finally became the first dwarf hero since the Dwarf King to emerge alive from it!” the dwarf proclaimed loudly.

“Young master Karu is so amazing!” the surrounding dwarves exclaimed in admiration.

“But didn’t Lord Basha also come out of the Divine Ruins?” another dwarf asked.

“Yes! Lord Basha also came out from inside, but they came out several hours later than Young Master Karu. Do you know why they came out a few hours later?” the dwarf propagandist suddenly said excitedly.
“Why?” the dwarves asked.
“Lord Basha and those damned foreigners! They came out several hours later than Young Master Karu! Cross, who is stationed at the Divine Ruins, can testify to this! They indeed came out a few hours later than Young Master Karu!” At this point, this rare propaganda expert among the dwarves presented a fact and then brought in a prominent figure as evidence.
“Lord Basha and those damned foreigners were able to come out because they hid behind Young Master Karu! Young Master Karu went through countless hardships along the way! Those foreigners just took advantage of the situation!” the propagandist dwarf said with anger.
“None of those foreigners are good! So this time, we must drive those foreigners away! We can’t let them corrupt our Lord Basha!” the propagandist dwarf shouted.
“Right! Drive those foreigners away!” The dwarves watching around were stirred up by this rare propaganda genius among their kind!
“Folk! Join us! Let’s channel our anger at those damned foreigners!” the propagandist dwarf shouted.
“Alright! We’ll all join in! We must drive those damned foreigners away together!” Many of the stirred-up dwarves joined the parade.
When Du Fan, Moses, Naixiu, Basha, and the three magicians returned to Glass, the streets were filled with protesters.
“Drive out the foreigners!” “Drive out the foreigners!” The loud cries came wave after wave.
At that moment, the group still stood on the platform about to descend the stairs—just dozens of meters below was the streets of Glass.
But this scene made Du Fan and his group stop in their tracks.
“Elder brother, third brother, what should we do?” Basha frowned deeply.
It was clear from the protesters’ words that they were targeting Moses, Du Fan, and the others!
For among their shouts were such words as well.

“Get those despicable humans and hypocritical elves away from Lord Basha! Our brave dwarf race doesn’t need those scheming fools!”
“Haha, Basha, it seems your people in Grasse aren’t very welcoming to us,” Du Fan said with a laugh.
“I’ll go talk to them!” Basha’s face turned red as he prepared to run downstairs.
“Wait, don’t go yet,” Du Fan quickly pulled Basha back.
“Then, third brother, what do you suggest?” Basha asked anxiously, looking at Du Fan.
“Hehe, I’m thinking that you dwarves are quite simple-minded. With such a big fuss today, there must be some force behind it. If you rush out like this without any preparation, you’ll surely suffer losses,” Du Fan said.
“But they’re driving away my brothers… I’m really in a dilemma,” Basha said sadly.
Dwarves and city lords actually rely entirely on their prestige.
As the son of the dwarf king, Basha was naturally highly respected by the dwarves in the city, but that didn’t mean they would obey him 100%!
These dwarves often acted based on their preferences and emotions. Now that they had been incited like this, Basha had no control over the situation!
“Second brother, wait. Just announce that we should withdraw from Grasse,” Du Fan said with a smile.
“No, no! If I do that, what kind of person would I be?” Basha shook his head frantically.
As if to prove himself, Basha suddenly jumped down.
Soon, he arrived on the street, standing right in front of a parade.
“Lord Basha! You’re back! It’s great you’re here; we were just looking for you,” the leader of the group said eagerly upon seeing Basha.
“What do you want from me?” Having been the city lord for so many years, Basha wasn’t someone who could be easily manipulated.
“Lord Basha, we strongly demand that those humans and elves be driven out of our city of Grasse! Our city of Grasse, the greatest dungeon in history! We don’t need those filthy humans and hypocritical elves!” the leader shouted loudly.
As this leader shouted, many others joined in.
“We strongly demand that those humans and elves be driven out of our city of Grasse! Our city of Grasse, the greatest dungeon in history! We don’t need those filthy humans and hypocritical elves!”

The sound suddenly turned into a wave of noise! It was so intense that even Basha could hardly breathe!
It was obvious that these people were well-organized and clearly didn’t take Basha, the city lord, seriously. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have shouted at him so loudly.
“They are all my guests! As the city lord, I have the right to keep them in Glass City!” Basha said firmly, his face turning cold suddenly.
“City lord, are you really willing to ignore the feelings of our own dwarf people for those filthy outsiders and hypocritical elves?” the leader shouted.
“Give me a reason! Give me a reason to let them go!” Basha also shouted back.
Hearing Du Fan’s words, the dwarves were stunned. Soon, the leader calmed down.
“City lord Basha, since you want a reason, I’ll explain it to you slowly,” the leader said after calming down, and began to list reasons one by one.
“Back then, you called on your people to join you at the Divine Ruins, but it took a long time with no one showing up, right?” the leader asked.
“That’s correct,” Basha replied, recalling the situation. Indeed, as the leader said, it had taken a long time before anyone showed up after he issued the call.