Chapter 12045. Lens City
The hard, plate-like shell of the Arachnari Giant Spider's back had been cut open by Skink Meteorite's master technicians using special tools, fashioned into shields as trophies and hung on the side of the behemoth's combat platform. The crates in the passage had also piled up, and after searching, they were found to contain only everyday items, with the occasional gem and trinkets, but no legendary treasures.
Over the past five months, Dacus had studied the slate manual and mastered the core principles of the God Engines. He had assembled two of them, but the others were missing parts and had to be recast. The complexity and tediousness of the cores and energy storage devices made his scalp tingle. As for the Sun Engine, only one was complete, and that one was still functional thanks to the core. The others sat there like exhibits in a military museum.
"It seems we still need to find the relevant stone tablets. The core of the Sun Engine and the core of the God Engine may seem the same, but they are actually two completely different things."
During this time, the breach dug by the Digger Spiders had been repaired, and the damaged lens transmission system had been repaired and activated. Following the instructions on the stone tablet, the Skink Priests trained a new group of Skink Murasaki. The reappearance of this sacred and noble profession thousands of years later seemed to foreshadow the restoration of the Lizardmen's glory under the guidance of Umaq.
The big guy now may have reached puberty. Although he smells bad, he is very smart. Unlike his stupid brothers, he can't even express a complete sentence.
But it's been a bit rebellious lately. Whenever Dacus rides on its back, it calls him "Little Bean Sprout," roaring excitedly and wagging its tail violently. Whenever it says that, Dacus repeatedly pummels its head. The blows, though barely noticeable to its thick skin, barely feel a tingle. It seems this has become a little game between it and Dacus, a friendly interaction.
One day, Dacus was riding on Big Guy to patrol the underground passage. The Druzis next to him saw Big Guy roaring softly and Dacus hitting Big Guy's head. This rather funny scene continued all the way.
"This number is useless." Daxus finally gave up. The harder he hit, the more cowardly the big guy acted, and he came to a conclusion.
"Wow! How did you get so big and white?"
Darkus hit the giant lizard Kami while hitting the big guy on the head.
At this time, the giant lizard Kami was carrying two huge stones on his back. Daxus looked at the giant lizards in the team behind the giant lizard Kami. This group of giant lizards gave him the feeling that they were a circle larger than the other giant lizards and their scales were much whiter. If the giant lizard carrying the Hesiota Sun Banner was not in the team, he would not be so sure.
"Hey, hey, respected Umak, water, drink water." The monitor lizard Kami said naively.
"What kind of water? The water in the city? The water in the incubation pool? Or the water in the underground sea?" Daquus asked patiently out of curiosity.
"Incubation pool!" The giant lizard Kami thought for a while and said firmly.
"What foot washing water?"
"Go, call the group of giant lizards from above to the hatching pool." Dakuus ordered the skin lizard priest who was following beside him.
"According to Chupakoko's math level, that's one thousand a year! One hundred thousand in ten years! Ten million in a hundred years! The revival of the Lizardmen is just around the corner!" Daxus looked at the hatchery pool. The tadpoles inside had already taken shape. He heard from the hatchery manager that they would be ready for market in half a year. There would be about a thousand of them, but half of them would be spirit lizards.
Fortunately, Chupacoco was in charge of the work in the city at the moment, otherwise he would have to count on his eight fingers for a long time to think about it, and when he came to his senses, he would definitely jump up and down and curse Daquus.
Several hatchery pool cleaners are carefully adjusting the lens device to illuminate the hatchery pool. They want to ensure that each hatchery pool receives light for a certain amount of time every day.
"Respected Umak, I have never seen the companion giant lizards in this hatching pool before. They must be blessed by the ancient saints!" The hatching pool manager was still hissing and talking excitedly.
Daxus threw food into the incubation pool and nodded continuously in response. Unfortunately, there was still half a year left, so he probably wouldn't be seen for the time being. In half a year, he should be in the south.
Several monitor lizards were called in, waiting blankly for the next instruction from the spirit lizard.
"Would you like some water?"
After thinking for a moment, several monitor lizards shook their heads at the same time.
"Go back." Daxus waved his hand lightly and said.
"It seems those monitor lizards must have drunk the first cup of wine, the essence stored in the incubation pool for thousands of years. Forget it, let's not worry about it."
After processing all the lenses needed for the city, the authoritative technicians of the Lizard Meteorite began to cast accessories according to the instructions on the stone tablet. When the rainy season was about to end, two other engines of the gods were repaired. As for the other accessories, they could only be used with new ones.
The new Engine of the Gods will take a long time to cast and assemble. The difficult part of casting is the core and energy storage device, and it can only be cast in the casting room underground in Spikazuma.
Construction began on Spikazuma's Blessed Cultivator, located in a cave next to the animal taming pen. Building it was far more complex than constructing the Engine of the Gods, primarily due to the complex mechanisms within the base, and the crystals required for the cultivation vessel, which could only be crafted in Spikazuma's foundry. The processing time and scrap rate were high, like a group of Level 2 workers trying to create something that only certain Level 8 workers could produce.
Dacus had inspected the Blessing Cultivator twice, and each time he'd had a headache. Mazdamundi had returned to Hexota once, and he'd activated the Blessing Cultivator in that city.
But a problem immediately arose: there weren't enough eggs to hatch, now that Hexotar's Behemoth Egg bounty hunters were out. He'd previously imagined setting up one in every temple city, exploding Behemoths like a whole army of dump trucks, but it seemed he'd been overthinking it.
"What the hell are we going to achieve? The road is long and winding, and there are many difficulties." Daxus sighed softly as he looked at the blueprint drawn by Ryan.
For the past few months, Ryan had been staying in the tunnel, carefully inspecting and re-checking it with the Skink Priests and Prophets. His ability to appease the Skink Priests into patiently following his search was quite a feat. He didn't want to be caught red-handed one day discovering another secret chamber, one whose existence or contents were extremely important. He would then be blamed, leaving Darkius with the impression of incompetence.
"Ryan, what do you think of building a foundry here?" Dacus studied the blueprint for a long time. The plan view was exactly as he had anticipated. The entire tunnel below was actually tilted, sloping continuously down to the underground sea. However, this wasn't noticeable to people walking in the tunnel, who generally assumed it was flat.
"Sir, I really don't understand these things. With the other two casting rooms operating at the same time, is the energy provided by the lens device sufficient?" Ryan did not answer immediately, but pondered for a long time and spoke carefully.
"You make sense. Energy is also a problem!" Daxus looked at the blueprint and nodded in affirmation. Suddenly, an idea occurred to him, and he decided to ask Mazdamuddi when he was free.
"By the way, does Drucci have anything like a railcar? How about building one?"
"My lord, I have asked the Skinks, and they have no recollection of such equipment. Furthermore, there are no railcars in Clar Karond, but there are certainly some in Hag Graef's marble mines and in Grond's gold mines."
"That's right. Go and ask the architects of the Spirit Lizard Temple to make copies of the blueprints into two stone slabs and store them in the secret room behind the foundry. This must be done before we set off!" Daxus handed the blueprints to Ryan and gave instructions. He didn't want the blueprints to suddenly turn into blank paper one day after leaving the range of the spirit vein network.
"Yes, sir!"
Darkus went to see Mazdamuddi again and asked about the story of the first Slanblotbova.
In the observatory of the great temple pyramid of Ichi, the Skink attendants were fanning Mazdamudi with huge cattail-leaf fans. When Umak mentioned the word Blotbowa, the yellow light in his eyes began to burn brightly.
The next second, Adoshi Tehega, also a second-generation Shilan, was teleported over.
Mazdamuddi ate a few dried Ehi grubs and began to narrate slowly.
During the Great Invasion, Brotbowa guarded the temple city of Vanabik. He unleashed the most powerful magic, surpassing even calamity-level magic, unleashing lightning, storms, ripples of light, and even traveling to other dimensions. With a single blow, he shattered all the Chaos Demons that invaded Vanabik!
The Chaos Demon was banished, but the energy began to destabilize. To avoid any contamination, Blotbois channeled all of the energy upwards, creating a pillar of light that reached the sky and stretched into the universe. However, he and Warnerbeek were ultimately destroyed by the energy. Everything near the energy center was vaporized, even buildings in the distance were razed to the ground.
The ruins of Huanabek are now buried beneath dense vegetation, the ruins of the pyramid temple indistinguishable from the surrounding jungle. The once bustling plaza is now reduced to a series of black craters, sporadically erupting. Thousands of years after the invasion, the shimmering energy of Blotbowa's soul still swirls in the sky above the craters, like a dazzling miniature sun.
"Is that ball of light his soul?" Daxus asked curiously.
The next second, a picture appeared in Daxus's mind, which was synchronized back from the vision of the Skin Lizard Prophet wandering around the Wanabik volcano.
"So bright! Can this venerable Lord Blotbois be resurrected?"
"Blotbowa's body has dissipated. Resurrection? Perhaps only Lord Kroka knows this." Adoshi-Tehega shook his head and said slowly.
"The production efficiency here is too low. The grand plan requires expanding here to include more foundries and a large number of high-level lizard technicians, but this requires a lot of energy! Perhaps Lord Blotbowa's soul can support it. Can you two make a device?" Daxus was worried that what he said was a bit rash, so he directly brought up the grand plan, but this was indeed part of the grand plan. The light ball was shaking in the volcano, so why not come here to shine and generate heat?
The two Shilan did not respond, as if they were communicating with each other telepathically.
"Respected Umak, this is part of a big plan! Blotbowa's soul has been wandering there for too long, we should bring him back. We can make a box to hold his soul, but this requires the help of Huini Aitankui and other Slann lords, but he is still unconscious now." Mazdamuddi said.
Shi Lan is Shi Lan. He thinks about things and has different perspectives. Perhaps it is the word "big plan" that passed Shi Lan's Turing test.
"My ancient saint, this is really a chain of events! Oh, and there's one more thing. These stone tablets about important buildings, spells, and war equipment need to be re-copied as backups and stored in various temple cities." Daxus leaned against the wall, shielding his eyes with his left hand and gently rubbing his temple. He felt a little anxious.
After a while of further communication, Dacus left.
The two Shilan had become much more familiar with each other recently. At this moment, they were looking at Daquus's back and communicating with each other telepathically.
The rainy season finally ended, and the long-awaited sun rose over the city of Spicazuma. While the city was still under repair, the overall lens system had been repaired, and all the lens systems had been reinstalled on the pyramids. The Skink Mori officers had been training for a long time, and they were eagerly awaiting this day.
Daquus got up early in the morning. He took Genevieve and Drucci to the mountain above the city, found the best observation position, and waited for the moment of dawn.
After a while, three Shi Lan were also teleported over.
All the lizardmen in the city, except those on guard and patrol, got up early today, and they seemed to know what day it was.
Dawn broke and the sun shone onto the lens system.
Instantly, the Spikazuma was bathed in sunlight, and the lenses on each pyramid refracted beams of light and connected with each other. One beam, guided by the Maori official, converged on the ancient Saint Ichi's star monument in the square, while other beams shone on the energy transmission nodes of each lens.
As the sun rose higher, the beams of light grew thicker, and even a rainbow appeared over the city.
Daquus closed his eyes, taking in all this. He could feel the Lens City beneath his feet come alive. He opened his eyes, and his arms slowly rose to embrace this great temple city.
Genevieve and the others looked at the scene in amazement, and there was a lot of discussion.
The lizardmen in the city below were also cheering, praising the ancient saints, Umak, Slan, and themselves for their hard work.
Daxus took out the Spicazuma horn, took a slow step forward with his right foot, and then gathered all his strength to blow the horn.
When the lizardmen heard the horn, they cheered even louder than before. The behemoths in the city sensed Dacus' joy and began to roar loudly.
Colorful and vibrant flocks of birds also flew by in the distance.
This is the story chapter of Dacus, this is his Lens City, this is the starting point and cornerstone of his great career!
"Ryan!"
