Chapter 332 Silvermine Family (5)
Once all of the negotiations were done, we were invited in for dinner.
We had arrived in the afternoon and after everything was taken care of, it was already getting dark.
Me and a group of my close confidants would be staying at the Silvermine Family manor, but the rest of them would be staying at an inn.
They could have stayed, but we couldn’t put our hosts out like this, so we insisted on sending the rest to an inn.
But for us, we were currently seated for a meal.
It was me, Haley, Cecilia, Shaka, Moon, and Veronica.
I had wanted to send Veronica to the inn with the rest, but she used the duke’s influence to threaten me in the end.
In front of the duke’s influence, I really couldn’t do anything.
So I had no choice but to let her come with us, though I did warn her about acting up. Even then, I could already see trouble coming…
But to my surprise, Veronica acted like a proper lady when meeting the Silvermines.
The one that I actually had to worry about was Moon.
As soon as Moon met with the Silvermine couple, the first thing that she said was, “It seems like you dirt dwellers are still doing alright.”
All of us couldn’t help looking at her in shock as we couldn’t believe the normally silent Moon would say something like this. After all, it was just too different from the usual personality that she demonstrated.
But the more important thing was seeing how the Silvermine couple would respond.
So I turned to look at them with an anxious look.
I was surprised to find that there was a smile that was on the faces of both Ivar and Nisa when they heard this.
They just looked right back at Moon and Ivar said, “So the tree hugger has finally decided to come out to their trees. It’ll do you some good not to be surrounded by leaves all day.”
The words that he said really didn’t match the smile on his face.
After all, these seemed like aggressive words that made it seem like he was picking a fight.
But once again, to my surprise, they suddenly shook hands with one another.
This situation was just too much for me, so I asked, “What’s going on here?”
Moon just calmly said, “I’m just greeting these dirt wrestlers.”
I winced when I heard this and carefully looked at the Silvermine couple, hoping that they weren’t offended by this.
But Ivar and Nisa both just gave nods with smiles on their faces.
Seeing the scared look on my face, Ivar explained, “This is just how we greet each other, so you don’t need to worry about anything.”
When I heard this, I couldn’t help revealing a confused look.
I didn’t understand the words that were coming out of his mouth, even though I did understand what he was saying.
Ivar revealed a smile as he said, “The dwarves and elves are long lived races with small populations. In this world filled with demons and humans, we had to find an ally, so we allied ourselves with the elves. While we do have an alliance, that doesn’t mean that there isn’t a difference in opinion between our two races. It isn’t as if we could force everyone to get along.”
Ivar turned to Moon and pointed at her as he said, “So things like tree hugger and long ears are just affectionate ways of teasing the elves that we dwarves have come up with through the ages.”
Moon nodded and pointed at Ivar to say, “Ore hugger and dirt dweller are the same way for us to describe the dwarves.”
Both of them nodded like it was a natural thing to them, but for us humans…we really thought that they would start fighting.
I wished that I knew about this earlier so I wouldn’t have almost had a heart attack just now.
However while we had been traveling together, both Rondo and Moon had done their own things and never interacted with each other. So we had no idea that this was how they would greet each other.
After a pause, Ivar suddenly added, “Of course, there are also those that don’t view us dwarves in a friendly manner and they have their own names for us. Those are the names that shouldn’t be said.”
Moon nodded before saying, “It’s the same for the dwarves, it isn’t as if everyone agreed to the alliance…”
Seeing the way that they acted, I just gave a nod in response.
It seemed like there was a complicated history between the elves and dwarves, though that was never explored in the game. The elf and dwarf quest lines were separate and had never intersected like this, so I actually didn’t know much about this history between them.
But as long as it didn’t start a war between elves and dwarves, I didn’t really care what they called each other.
It seemed like they were quite close, so I could at least let out a sigh of relief.
After sitting down at the table, we found that the meal brought out to us…was quite heavy…
There was a bunch of roasted meat and alcohol in front of us, with very few vegetables if any.
It seemed like dwarves really liked to eat hearty meals, but it couldn’t be blamed on them since they had quite muscular physiques.
It must have taken quite a bit of physical strength to do their forging, so it wasn’t strange that they would need a lot of hearty foods like this.
But of course, before we could start eating, there was still one more person that we were waiting for.
There was this little girl who suddenly came into the dining room and after looking around, she ran over to Rondo and said, “Big brother!”
Rondo revealed a happy smile and opened his arms out to her before picking her up in a hug.
But all I could see…was a middle aged man who needed to be taken down to the police station…𝑵𝑂𝚟𝑒𝔩𝓃𝑒xt.𝐂𝔬𝓂
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