After agreeing to Solam's deal, the dwarf took command of the artillery position on his own initiative. This infuriated the gnoll adjutant, but since Solam had permitted it, no matter how unwilling he was, he could only swallow his resentment.
"Why? Don't we need to break into the city as quickly as possible?" Thus, while the dwarf spoke at length, the adjutant indignantly argued back.
To his surprise, the dwarf merely shot him a disdainful glance before continuing to Solam, "Yeenoghu's City rests atop several enormous stone rollers. In other words, its overall structure is suspended in the air. As long as we destroy its load-bearing points, we can bring down the entire city in one stroke. This is our dwarven Hooke's Rebound Law. By destroying just a few points, we can use the least force to destroy the largest object!"
Hooke's Rebound Law was a highly practical engineering principle, and one first discovered by dwarves. It meant this: on a stone wall, if one chiseled several holes at specific locations, the wall would crack and collapse with the lightest push. Those special locations where the holes had to be chiseled were known as "Hooke Blind Spots." However, Hooke Blind Spots were notoriously elusive, and randomly chiseling away was useless. Dwarves possessed an innate talent for quickly locating Hooke Blind Spots in mineral veins and stone. They used this law to bore through mountains and carve through rock, and nothing could stand in their way.
It was also because of this principle that dwarves could hollow out entire mountains to build towering underground cities. If they simply dug at random, never mind whether they could build an underground city—they would work themselves to death first. For this reason, dwarves who mastered this principle treated it as the foundation of their