Fire Bronze Dwarves

Fire Bronze Dwarves were renowned smiths of the Bronze Age and Iron Age. The weapons they made were exquisite and exceptional, and even now, they remained a famous Dwarf Great Clan.

But as society advanced and the Magic Rune Era arrived, some Dwarves lost the means by which they made their living.

Bronze Age.

Iron Age.

Steel Age.

Magic Rune Era.

During the first three eras, Dwarves only needed to master the craft of forging. With their racial gifts—naturally great strength and short stature—

They could mine, smelt, forge, and sell arms in one complete operation.

Just like racial talents.

Every race had its own period of strength. The Dragon Race, Elves, and Dwarves were powerful early on, but gradually weakened later due to their populations.

Though Dwarves did not have Fertility Rates as low as Elves or the Dragon Race, they lived in the mountains, where food was limited. Naturally, their population could not grow.

Orcs and Demi-humans were strong during the middle period because they had the advantage of numbers.

Humans were complete weaklings when it came to physical ability. Someone who had never trained could even be pinned down by a Goblin.

But humans were an intelligent race, even though other races constantly called them hypocritical, scheming, cunning, greedy, arrogant, and conceited.

That was because, in the eyes of those foolish creatures, they simply could not understand the human mind or humanity's clever way of thinking.

Take those powerful members of the Dragon Race. In human eyes, they were a bunch of idiots. They clearly possessed such immense power and had a group of Dragonkin eager to become part of the Dragon Race, yet because they looked down on Dragonkin and other races, the world they had unified was ultimately overthrown by Various Races.

If the Dragon Race had understood what Subordinate countries and vassal states were, the world would definitely still belong to them.

It was only in the past few centuries that the Dragon Race produced two Loli Dragon Kings, who established a nation and took in Subordinate countries. Only then did the Dragon Race no longer need to worry about dragon-slaying heroes raiding their homes.

At the same time, after abandoning their primitive cave-dwelling lifestyle, it was said that many new dragons had been born in the past few centuries.

And those two Loli Dragon Kings were praised to the heavens.

Humans had been using that system for tens of thousands of years already!

The same was true for the other races.

Magic Runes originated with the Demon Race and were brought to their full potential by humans.

Things that had existed since the Bronze Age could no longer make weapons stronger once the Steel Age arrived. So humans began researching what could strengthen armor and weapons, then brought Magic Runes to their full potential.

In Lynn's eyes, this development occurred during humanity's Middle Ages, when magic sent this world down a path completely different from Blue Star's.

On Blue Star, firearms gradually appeared during the era of hand-forged steel to counter increasingly powerful shields. Then came the Industrial Revolution. Muskets and cannons became stronger than shields, making humanity even more determined to pursue industrialization.

But what if magic existed?

Magic depended on bloodlines. Noble lords truly had powerful lineage, so commoner rebellions could hardly succeed.

The development of firearms also required time. Even Blue Star's humans spent several centuries on it, and in this world, no one thought of stuffing gunpowder into a tube and firing it.

There was no need, nor was it necessary.

Magic and Battle Qi came first. Geniuses all cultivated magic and Battle Qi, naturally developing Magitech and neatly avoiding the Industrial Revolution altogether.

Just like Native Americans: because they had no beasts of burden to haul goods, they had no wheels. Combined with the ease of hunting, they did not vigorously develop agriculture. Because agriculture was not vigorously developed, their population could not rise. Without domesticated livestock, they did not invent wheels, and because productivity was low, the Iron Age never developed.

With magic available, all geniuses went to cultivate magic, and all resources were piled into magic.

The enemy's armor was too strong? Then we would use runes to strengthen our weapons and break their shields!

The enemy's swords were too strong? Then we would use runes to strengthen armor and shields!

Damn it, I need to farm, but human labor is too inefficient and exhausting. What should I do?

We can Level up magical beasts!

What about transporting supplies?

Raise more high-level magical beasts!

And that created this world's unusual path of development.

If humans did not develop industry, would the arrogant Dragon Race do so?

Elves were even a bunch of Laborers, wishing they could return to primitive times and live in primeval forests.

The Demon Race was a group that worshipped the Demon God. They wished to enslave the world, sacrifice other people's infants, and destroy civilization.

During the Dragon Race's rule, the Demon Race had taken advantage of the Dragon Race mobilizing its main forces to fight humans. They rebelled, slaughtered every other race in that territory, and carried out a Blood Sacrifice. Naturally, dragons were among the victims.

In the end, the enraged Dragon Race hunted the Demon Race across the world, forcing them to wander for a long time.

Then, when the Dragon Race suffered a great calamity, with most dragons dying after being infected by disease and Various Races rebelling as the Dragon Race retreated, the Demon Race caused another massacre that shocked the world.

Legend said that Living Beings were devastated and corpses lay everywhere.

Then the entire world entered the period of Demon Race rule, enduring four hundred years of inhumane oppression. During that time, vast amounts of writing and books were destroyed, and dragons were slaughtered across the world.