My Skill Bar is Full of Monster Skills-Chapter 212 - 151: I Didn’t Do Anything!

As for the reason.

It naturally lies in the geographic advantage of the Dark Furnace Bar.

It is just a wall away from the Inner City.

According to the Association’s records, the Dark Furnace Bar is the closest crowded spot to the Inner City.

Moreover, as the most famous bar in Dark Furnace City, many Gray Dwarves holding key positions in the Dark Furnace Clan often visit there.

And Raine has gained the ability of a Shapeshifter, allowing him to transform into someone else after observing and assessing them for a while, thus acquiring a reasonable identity to smoothly enter the Inner City.

As he and the cat walked forward.

In the dim view, the outline of Dark Furnace City, emitting a faint red glow, seemed to grow larger, resembling a giant beast lying down.

Raine couldn’t help but feel amazed; although the Gray Dwarves were enemies, as intelligent beings, they had developed a highly civilized society.

Recalling the descriptions within the Adventurer’s Association’s records.

Dark Furnace City.

The main city of the Gray Dwarves’ Dark Furnace Clan, which had a history spanning thousands of years since the Dark Furnace Clan became independent.

Its main area is situated above a massive cluster of geothermal hot springs.

Being of the same origin as Dwarves, a race proficient in and passionate about smithing, a region with exploitable geothermal energy and abundant water is a rare treasure.

"Someone’s approaching, it should be a patrol of Gray Dwarves."

Suddenly, Raine whispered to Sulfur Vine.

"(Dwarven Language) Halt!"

Sure enough, a fully armed patrol of five Gray Dwarf Warriors appeared in their line of sight.

However, the leading captain, upon seeing Raine’s standard Gray Dwarf appearance, waved his hand, signaling the soldiers to relax, and said:

"(Dwarven Language) The celebration has already started, why are you coming back now?"

"(Dwarven Language) Yeah, I encountered a Rust Monster, so I’m back late."

Raine replied skillfully.

"(Dwarven Language) A Rust Monster? No wonder! Come on into the city!"

Soon, the patrol passed by Raine.

On the way to the gate of Dark Furnace City, Raine and his companion encountered three patrols and a dark sentry, clearly showing the significance the Dark Furnace Clan placed on the celebration.

And this made Raine even more curious about the previous Adventurer Squad’s target.

What matter required infiltrating when the Gray Dwarves were so heavily guarded?

Could it be for the treasure that the Dark Furnace Clan only showcases during the celebration?

Or is it to assassinate a significant figure from the Dark Furnace Clan, who only leaves the Imperial Palace during the celebration?

As they drew closer, the towering gates of Dark Furnace City were now in sight.

Two statues, towering several tens of meters high, stood solemnly at the city gate; one depicted a Dwarf with a hammer and shield, cautiously defending, while the other wielded a Two-Handed Heavy Hammer, roaring angrily at the sky.

As Gray Dwarves, they seemed to continue the Dwarves’ tradition of preferring grandiose architecture; both the gate and the statues were extraordinarily magnificent.

Although Dark Furnace City prohibits human Adventurers from entering, it doesn’t disallow other Gray Dwarves Clans and intelligent beings from the Underdark to trade, so flows of Gray Dwarves and Deep Gnomes wove in and out.

In terms of city scale, Raine felt personally, it was no less than Dorne City.

Compared to Raine’s current disguised Gray Dwarf form, the black cat on his shoulder was quite eye-catching.

That’s not to say Dark Furnace City didn’t have cats and dogs, but such pets were luxuries for wealthy merchants and nobles among the Gray Dwarves.

In fact, many nobles among the Gray Dwarves would even raise colorful parrots, a clever-tongued species from the Sword Bay area of the central surface continent, to demonstrate their status.

For the majority of native Gray Dwarves, round-backed spiders and gray-skinned rats were the pets they could afford.

"(Dwarven Language) Hey~ brother, how much for that surface cat of yours? Selling it?" A Gray Dwarf dressed in silk, looking like a merchant, came forward to chat.

This immediately made Sulfur Vine realize she had chosen the wrong transformation target.

However....

After all, she was a maiden, and even as a Druid, there was some resistance in her heart to transforming into a rat.

"Just hide in my clothes for now."

"But when you scout, remember to transform into a rat."

Raine whispered, then tucked the black cat, which was Sulfur Vine in disguise, inside his robe next to his chest.

Feeling Raine’s skin and warmth.

Made Sulfur Vine’s face turn red.

Luckily, she was a black cat at this moment.

Otherwise, Raine would certainly have noticed the Druid Maiden’s face blushing like a red apple.

Strolling leisurely up the wide stone-paved road, the calls selling goods in Dwarven Language were endless along the street; the goods on sale were rarely seen on the surface, and an exotic atmosphere swept over Raine.

Flowers and lanterns arranged for the remembrance festival celebration were everywhere, Gray Dwarf women were dressed particularly colorfully, and the frequency of guards’ patrols was more intensive than outside the city.

Not long after, the sign of the Dark Furnace Bar came into view for Raine and the cat.

The sign was crafted with ironwork, vividly woven into a massive, diagonally positioned beer barrel, as if pouring out fine ale.

And bursts of noise were coming from inside.

"(Dwarven Language) What would the customer like to eat?"

A stout Gray Dwarf woman wearing a white apron came over and asked warmly.

"(Dwarven Language) Insect skewer, fungal cheese platter, cave fish soup, and a bottle of fire lichen strong liquor."

Raine pointed at the menu and selected a few relatively ’normal’ looking delicacies.

Though the menu also offered rat sashimi, even though he wasn’t particularly squeamish, the thought of rats still put him off a bit.