Chapter 569: 569
When I indicated that I could help out slightly before I left, at least helping to train some warriors, the Blackrock dark dwarf tribe became even friendlier towards me .
Not only did they voluntarily tell me about their teleportation portal, they even brought out some magical gems as payment . I felt rather awkward about their generosity .
Unlike their relatives, the gray dwarves who lived in the Underground, these dark dwarves were truly simple-minded . Still, it was quite easy to understand why . The gray dwarves had been exiled because they were too evil, while the dark dwarves had been exiled because they loved warfare too much .
But from what I could tell, no matter what their ancestors were like, these current dark dwarves weren't warmongers at all . At the very least, they no longer wanted to fight against everything now that they were in the Chaos Abyss .
A group of young dark dwarves were waving metal weapons around on a platform in this fortress . Their stances seemed good, but I could tell that they all lacked practical combat experience . This was quite rare in the Chaos Abyss .
I asked Morr about this and learned that these young dwarves were mostly smiths and miners in their tribe . Since the dark dwarves' current situation was dangerous, even these inexperienced young ones needed to start training for war .
"…There's even a cook among them? That's how much you lack people?"
Dwarves would be proud of being able to wield a hammer in the left hand and an axe in the right hand . However, I instead saw a dwarf wielding a ladle in the left hand and an iron pot in the right hand, along with a small oven on his back . He attacked with his ladle and defended with his pot, and sometimes even threw his pot for a projectile attack . This was such a wondrous scene that I dared not even look .
"Alaiton? Damn it, you secretly sneaked in here again! Go cook for us! If you burn the bread again, the boss will kill you!"
Alright, so it turned out that he really was a dwarven cook . I did my best to hold in my laughter as I watched him run back with his pot on his back .
The dwarves were foundationally quite skilled at fighting . They were able to properly use the martial arts techniques that they already knew . Time was limited, so it would be impossible to teach them something brand new . It would seem that I could only set aside my Chinese martial arts manual .
Only their elite warriors who had reached bottlenecks would be able to benefit from my advice in such a short period of time . And even for them, cultivating always required time as well as luck to accumulate the foundation . The lizardmen likely wouldn't give them much time to cultivate before attacking .
While I did have methods to forcefully improve power level, there would always be losses with every gain . Those methods had severe side effects . If the dark dwarves' strongest warriors suddenly died off in large numbers, it was likely that this entire dark dwarf tribe would die after I left even if they defeated the lizardmen .
I felt good intentions towards these honest dwarves, as honesty was so rare to come by in the Chaos Abyss . Since they didn't try to scam or make me suffer in any way, I no longer intended to make them lose too much .
"I have an idea . "
I did my best to come up with an idea which would help the dark dwarves improve their overall power level, and actually found a method that might work . Although the success rate might not be high, there would be no harm in trying .
"Hey, you guys… Have you heard of something called Law?"
Dwarves were quite disciplined as an overall species already . The dark dwarves were a militaristic society and adhered to discipline even more strictly . Since dark dwarves were still originally an Order species, logically they should be perfectly capable of using the power of Law .
"You're spreading the power of Law down here in the Chaos Abyss? You're spreading a power of Order in the land of Chaos? Are you certain about this?" Harloys couldn't help but ask me this .
"Let's try it . There's no harm done even if it fails . "
Surprisingly, my experiment was actually a tremendous success . As the dark dwarves were highly accustomed to their military discipline of obeying orders, Law seemed just like another type of military discipline to them . It only took me twenty minutes of teaching to successfully have Morr access the beginner-level power of Law and enter the job class of Justice Knight .
This was a good thing, but it caused me to sink into deep contemplation .
Although Hell's successful establishment and independence allowed the power of Law to break free from the Source of Order's control, it wouldn't change so quickly to become a power of Hell, as it was still foundationally a power of Order . And, this was the Chaos Abyss, where all powers of Order would be at their weakest .
A newcomer to any power of Order would always have to start by summoning their own new power of Order . This would typically take many failures before the first success . Yet, Morr managed to succeed on the third try .
It might have been more understandable if this had been the more powerful Concept of Holy Light instead of Law as belief in Holy Light had already spread to all the planes . But, the power of Law was still a relatively new power of Order, yet a resident of the Chaos Abyss was actually successful in being able to use it…
"…Either the power of Law has been increasing in strength far more than what we anticipated, or the Chaos Abyss itself is greatly weakening . "
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