The hammer soldiers were not the monsters Lu Yang was looking for. He was looking for Titan Dwarf Swordsmen, the Titan Dwarf King's royal guard. They were all level 90 elites, numbering around 5,000.
Normally, these Dwarven Swordsmen were supposed to guard the royal palace at all times. However, players in his previous life had discovered that the Titan Dwarf Swordsmen would periodically travel to a village outside the city to deliver letters.
According to the official lore, the Titan Dwarf King had once gone to the surface and abducted a princess, wanting to make her his woman. But the princess would rather die than submit. He wanted to take her back to the palace and slowly court her, but he was afraid his Dwarf Queen at home would lose her temper, so he sent the princess to a village not far from the royal city.
The Titan Dwarf King wrote a letter to the princess every day. Sometimes he disguised himself as a guard and delivered it personally, while other times he had his guards deliver it for him.
Whenever Lu Yang thought of this information, he could not help laughing. The Dwarf King's build was rather unique. He was only about five feet tall, but he grew sideways, making him look like a cube.
He was already ugly enough, but his wife was even uglier. If one had to describe her in a single sentence, she looked like a gas cylinder that had come to life—so fat it defied reason.
Bang.
A sudden, synchronized sound of arms striking beast-hide armor came from the entrance. Lu Yang looked up and saw a squad of twelve Titan Dwarf Swordsmen slowly approaching from afar. All the Dwarf hammer soldiers and archers guarding the entrance struck their breastplates with their right arms