After three years, the village of the dwarfs has been upgraded into a dungeon. The patriarch and elders are not in the village, and they must protect it. The dwarfs are afraid of death, but they must fight the humans. The narrator tells us that the narrator drank too much the night before, and his head hurts. He asks the narrator to come have tea. He tells the narrator that he agreed with his arrangement for him, that if he were to become a judge, it would make it easier for him to track the whereabouts of his brothers. He also tells him that it is extremely difficult to get admitted to the academy, and that it would take him at least a month to learn everything. He says that he has done experiments on the arrangement of magic, but he did not tell the narrator about them. He feels that he is wasting his talents on martial arts, and he wants to go in disguise. He is afraid that the scent empire has forged the book, and the fourth prince has decided to go back to the village again. The entire mercenary forces have set out to attack the dwarves village