Gaining the Trust of the Gnomes

The shafts were interconnected and there were crushed rocks everywhere. There were also signs of this place being freshly mined. His guess was that the mine had just been opened recently.

He followed the passage and crawled into it.

It wasn't long before he could hear a conversation from inside.

"Robert, I say, we have so much ore at home. Why do they still want us to mine?"

"I heard from one of our clan members from the council that they are building a statue for our dead king, to obtain his inheritance!"

"I see, I wonder who can get the inheritance?!"

"Continue mining. I heard that the Elder will take the dragon's corpse out and cook it. If we return earlier we might get a few bites of dragon meat. I heard that the dragon meat could make us into even powerful beings. I'm drooling by just thinking about it."