Chapter 119 44. Cool
"How's your egg?" Daxus felt a headache when he heard the word "great cause". The pancake seemed a little big and uncomfortable, so he changed the subject.
"Ah? It seems to be activated? I can feel life growing in the egg." Alyssa was also caught off guard by this question.
"Would you like to try it next to this star monument? See if you can do it like in the Papagos Observatory?"
It would have been fine if she hadn't said this, but once she did, Alyssa's face changed slightly. While her soul had been strengthened by that out-of-body experience, if Mazdamudi hadn't backed her up, she would have perished by now. But then again, she was a Druki sorceress. During her twelve trials in the Tower of Destruction, every one of them was a struggle to face death.
Alyssa took a deep breath, nodded, and carefully carried the Spring Fruit Egg to the side of the Star Monument.
"Don't worry, the three Shilan are still outside."
The atmosphere was quite solemn, but in the end nothing happened and the expected adventure did not happen.
Alyssa was almost holding the Spring Fruit Egg above her head and dancing with the lizards.
"Come on, Lizardmen, carry it away! Carry it away!" Dacus couldn't bear to watch any longer and quickly waved his hand, ordering the Lizardmen to move the Star Stele. He had a feeling that something was missing from the plaza beneath the pyramid of the ancient Saint Ichi Temple since entering the city. This Star Stele must have been moved there during the city's crisis.
After making the arrangements, Daxus no longer cared about this place. He brought the Druzis to the foundry. The three Slann were still looking at the stone slab with serious expressions.
"Three respected Shilan lords, how are things going?"
The three Slann did not respond to Daquus. He jumped onto Mazdamudi's carriage and began to study the stone tablet carefully again.
The Druzis were no longer surprised by Dakus's strange behavior, and they didn't ask any questions. Instead, they walked to the furnace at the edge of the foundry and started talking in low voices, as if they knew how to get the furnace working again.
"We still have to restart the casting room first, then forge the lens system, and then come back to restart the lens device."
Dacus thought for a while, shook his head and jumped off the carriage.
"Let's go and take a look at the mine!"
Soon, Dacus brought the Druzis to the mine again.
"Walter, is there one?" Dacus shouted from the stairs.
"Yes! Sir, they are all in whole pieces." Walter's voice came from far away in the mine.
"Get to work! Get to work!" Daxus pulled a sheepskin notebook from the bosom of his noble robe and was about to check the parameters of the lens device under the illumination of the glowing crystal. The moment he opened the notebook, he put it back into his pocket. Suddenly, he felt a little redundant and ordered, "Start with the big one!"
The big guy's old friend had removed the combat platform on his back and was walking slowly with the crystal on his shoulder under the guidance of Daquus. Soon he returned to the foundry.
There was no scene where Druzy, the Skinks, and the Giant Lizards, under the command of Daquus, carefully lifted the crystal down using the roller skates on the dome.
The three Shi Lans had now finished their communication and had come back to their senses.
Mazdamuddi waved his hand and the crystal floated up and landed on the forge. The lizard priests next to it were still chatting with the authoritative meteorite technicians.
The authoritative meteorite technician had already put on the reflective eyepiece and kept nodding his head.
"Oh my goodness, it suddenly became cyber-powered and even put on the reflective goggles?"
Looking at the situation, Daxus nodded to Mazdamuddi, then took Druzy and other unrelated lizardmen out of the foundry.
After Dakus left the foundry, the three Slann began to cast spells at the same time, chanting in low, deep and endless voices.
A scorching light instantly burst out from the casting room, and Daquus could feel the power and brightness of the magic even in the passage.
Dacus even imagined that the little girl who sold the atomic bomb ignited the atomic bomb with a match, and everyone in the town saw the little girl's grandmother on Christmas Day.
"Or I can discuss it with Lord Mazdamuddi and you can learn from him during this period of time?" Daxus said to Alyssa, covering his eyes with his hands.
“Sir, is this really possible?” Alyssa’s tone was full of surprise.
This was a Slann! Alisa had seen a Slann cast a calamity-level spell in Taraxlan, and it seemed effortless. Druzy's side needed the energy and sacrifice of an entire sorceress to barely cast it. At that moment, Baine's arm had regrown before her at a visible speed, and that Slann wasn't even the strongest. While it might be impossible to teach her to control Gilen and Gul's Wind, it would be helpful to teach her to understand and apply magic.
"It should be no problem. I'll discuss it later when I'm free." Dacus nodded confidently. Umak still had some face.
As they were still talking, the murals in the passage began to emit light in the opposite direction, just like the power was turned on in an underground air-raid shelter, and the rows of lights in the passage began to light up one by one in an orderly manner.
There were knocking sounds coming from the foundry, which should be the authoritative meteorite iron technicians starting to work.
"Let's go and meet up with Elmir. We don't have anything to do here for now."
Soon the team arrived outside the silent room again. Just as Daxus had expected, the holes on the wall of the room began to emit rows of dense light energy, blocking the team's steps like an automatic defense device.
"Go in and try it, it should be fine." Daxus said to a skin lizard leader next to him.
"Is this the will of the ancient saints? Respected Umak?" The lizard leader looked at Dacus with suspicion and asked. The color of the crown kept changing. After hesitating for a while, he walked in and stretched out his trembling hand to the light energy. After all, Dacus was Umak.
After a moment, the lizard leader looked at his hand with surprise, and then began to jump, his hand constantly waving on the light energy. It seems that there is nothing wrong?
Before Daxus called out his name, a family tamer volunteered to go in. He first swung the dragon tendon whip at the light energy. The tamer retracted the dragon tendon whip to confirm that there was no mark left on it, then took a deep breath and reached out his hand. Nothing happened either.
"It seems that this room is used to prevent things from the underground sea from coming ashore."
Dacus thought for a moment and then led his team through.
Elmir and his family's Black Ark pirates looked at the underground sea vigilantly with weapons in hand, observing the surrounding terrain. Some Black Ark pirates were measuring something.
"Master, we didn't encounter the corpse you mentioned on the way here, and we searched for it several times but couldn't find it." Elmir knelt on one knee and said to Daquus with a serious face.
This matter was both significant and insignificant. But after witnessing Darkus's power along the way, Elmir had to take it seriously. She didn't want Darkus to have any influence on the Lengyan and Takia families she represented because of these things.
"Get up, it seems something came up again last night. Can we build a dock here to park the Black Ark?" Daxus nodded casually. In his opinion, those poor weird fish-headed monsters were nothing, and the port was important.
Perhaps things had changed today. The passageway behind was glowing. A tower-lamp-like device on a pillar in the underground sea slowly rotated, emitting a light that dispersed and illuminated the surrounding underground sea. A group of Druzis and lizardmen stood around Daquus again, and he had a clue. Yesterday's feeling of holding the glowing crystal in the dark was truly unpleasant. The suffocating and claustrophobic feeling overwhelmed him, as if it would consume him in the next second.
"Master, it's possible. I just found a few spots and tried them out. There should be deep water around them, which can accommodate the black ark."
"That's right, let's go. It's time to go back and eat." Daquus stopped and watched for a moment, then took out his pocket watch to check the time and nodded.
Daquus had little to do after that. The city and the underground tunnels had to be cleaned and operated simultaneously, and the wreckage of war equipment in the defense towers was constantly being excavated. With Genevieve by his side, he began to learn to assemble and repair the engines in his spare time. All he needed was a cup of tea and a pack of cigarettes. A single Engine of the Gods took a day to repair.
Only Franes and Baigne stayed by Dacus's side, and when they had nothing to do, they would practice with each other. They had no interest in repairing this pile of junk, although they knew that these devices would have great power after being repaired.
Some of the Druzis had tasks to do, like Ryan, who was responsible for surveying the entire tunnel, a massive undertaking. Watt, like an overseer, stayed in the mines, weighing gold and gems, and occasionally arranging for the lizardmen and behemoths to carry the excavated crystals out of the foundry.
As for the other Druzis, Dacus gave them a day off. These restless Druzis had only one destination: the mines. Under the guise of assisting Walter, they began selecting gems without interfering with the normal excavation. They then allowed Walter to sort the gems they had chosen. If there was a share for them, they would take theirs.
As for keeping it privately? No Druzy would do that. The risk was too great, and they would be beheaded. They all knew of Dacus's generosity, and they firmly believed that Dacus would reward them with a portion.
Ryan found the massive energy storage chamber. Three of them were stacked tightly together, like a row of batteries. Five floors of them were filled with densely packed crystal energy storage devices, which slowly began to charge under the magical power of the three Shilan.
Once the crystals are fully charged, the stored energy should last the city for a long time, at least enough to last through the nearly six-month rainy season, barring special circumstances like a major invasion. Daquus searched but couldn't find any equipment like dischargers, and could only sigh at the marvels of the ancient sages' technology.
The gap dug by the digging spider was also found, but it has not been repaired because the lens transmission system connecting the channel was dug up, and the lens system of the entire upper level of the city could not function due to the damage to this node.
As for the hatching pool, it's behind the energy storage room. The original builders weren't stupid enough to put it in front. It's now operational, and the hatching pool cleaners are feeding the tadpoles and cleaning up the debris every day.
Usually one of the three Shilan will be in the forging room to reverse charge the lens device, while the other two Shilan will take turns to rest, commonly known as three shifts.
The expert technicians of the Lizard Meteorite were also working in three shifts to produce lenses.
During breaks, Mazdamuddin would teach Alyssa the techniques and insights she'd gained from using magic. But he clearly wasn't a good teacher, or perhaps Alyssa wasn't the legendary genius she'd always been. The material he taught was obscure and profound to Alyssa, clearly on a completely different level. It was like suddenly encountering advanced mathematics while studying first-grade math.
But Alyssa still benefited greatly from it. Although the examples used mathematics, the principles of magic in this world were not mathematical. Some knowledge continued to inspire her. While studying, she discovered that Mazdamuddi could translate telepathically into the Elvish language that she could understand.
What was that strange language that Lord Darkus and the Lizardmen usually spoke? Never mind; that wasn't something she could inquire about. Curiosity had only sprouted in her heart, but she smothered it.
Dacus visited the hatcheries several times, and found that the various tanks were filled with tadpoles. He followed the hatchery cleaners in feeding the tadpoles, just as he would feed fish in a tank.
"What's in this pool?" Dacus asked curiously while feeding the food.
"Praise the ancient saints! Respected Umak, the ones in this hatching pond are spirit lizards and some accompanying giant lizards." The manager of the hatching pond said respectfully.
“How long will it take to be ready for slaughter?”
The hatchery manager tilted his head and looked at Daquus in confusion.
"How long will it take for these tadpoles to get out of the pond?"
"It will take another eleven months." The incubator manager understood this time and said respectfully.
"Seems pretty good?"
Inefficient mining began at the mine, and with it came a bunch of worthless minerals, such as gold, rare metals, rubies, sapphires and other worthless things. Except for the lack of oceanite, there was everything else.
Darkus was negotiating with Mazdamundi about a 60/40 split of the gold and gems in the mine, but Mazdamundi, possessed by his wealth, immediately reversed the offer, suggesting a 90/10 split.
Gold and gemstones weren't considered precious to the Slann, usually essential for decoration and war equipment. These "worthless things" were plentiful on Lustria, seemingly resetting and refreshing at midnight. Instead, Osinite Stone was more valuable, but there wasn't any in the mines.
The final result was 80-20, of course Dacus was 80.
One night, when the wind and rain seemed to be passing by a typhoon, Daquus took out the Aurora-style Taiyin waist pendant in his tent and asked Genevieve about its origin.
Genevieve was studying the Taiyin waist pendant carefully when she was caught off guard and was hugged from behind by Daquus.
It was late, the rain was heavy, and Genevieve stayed in Daquus's tent.
That night, Dacus always felt a little bit chilly. Could it be because of the weather?
Five months passed in a flash.
(Taiyin waist pendant, dragon slaying technical outline, which chapter to obtain, please elaborate~)
Now we begin a strict investigation.
I missed an item yesterday, the Ogham Stone Fragment, which is mainly used to reduce corrosion and stack magic resistance. For specific attributes, you can refer to the one of Nakai in the game.
There is another important thing I forgot to mention, the blessing of the three elven gods protected the soul of the protagonist, a foreigner.