Hundreds of pounds of iron weight was lifted high by Laine, the Holy Grail Knight, attracting the attention and admiration of the citizens as he paraded down the street.
Laine knew well that with dwarves, you couldn't play tricks or take shortcuts. To gain their trust, there's no other way but to show them with honest and straightforward methods.
In many novels, the protagonist relies on tricks or cheats to face challenges, but often those are just the author's self-righteous cleverness, assuming that everyone else is a fool?
Dwarves don't buy that. They might not understand what methods humans use to cheat, but they know when humans are cheating. So even if humans fulfill their demands, they wouldn't gain their trust.
And just as Laine was striding past the stone-paved street, holding the iron weight, heading towards the end of the street, a hoarse voice was whispering with a younger voice in a dark velvet-draped carriage by the roadside: "Can you defeat him now?"
