Chapter Fourteen: Elemental Furnace!
Modo City, Laboratory.
“Have you succeeded?”
Gloria slowly raised her head, holding a wondrous light cluster in her palm, adorned with countless mysterious lines that ultimately formed a special energy core.
This is the core structure related to the Tower Spirit, representing the part of intelligent life.
The alchemy level during the Arcane Empire sometimes far surpassed that of the interstellar era, especially in research related to artificial intelligence. Golem Puppets could at best serve as combat mechs, but Tower Spirits and high-level alchemical life forms were truly living, thinking intelligent beings. They have their own thoughts and behavioral guidelines, and more advanced Tower Spirits could even advance to special professions. They are artificially created lives, and a significant portion of high-level alchemical life forms possess their own souls.
Gloria was conducting a rather complex research task.
At this moment, she was dressed in a loose robe and wearing exquisite gold-rimmed glasses. If it weren’t for the slightly mismatched clothing, her serious expression and earnest attitude were no different from the beautiful and captivating female scientists of the interstellar era.
Intellectual and beautiful.
The entire experiment was quite complex; it couldn’t be summarized in just a few words.
In simple terms, Gloria was extracting the high-level magical armor sample from Soren, which had cut off the energy supply in the alchemy laboratory, and was trying to crack an important alchemical technology from the Arcane Empire by analyzing its energy core.
How to grant Golem Puppets specialized abilities!
Yes.
The Golem Puppets of the Arcane Empire were more powerful than those of today, akin to the difference between AI LV1 and AI LV5.
The Golems made now are just ordinary standard versions.
The Golems made during the Arcane Empire, however, could have more data input into their cores, enabling these Golem Puppets to master some simple combat specialties.
For example—defense in offense!
Recently, while cracking the Golem trophies collected from the Wizard Tower, Gloria discovered that a significant proportion of these Golems possessed one or two additional specialty abilities.
In fact, she was very surprised to find that one of the not-so-impressive clay Golems had the special ability of [Crafting Magical Preparations].
A clay Golem that mastered the specialty of [Crafting Magical Equipment].
Its role should be that of the Wizard Tower master’s assistant. This kind of technology is unimaginable in the current era, and Gloria was very likely to grasp how the Archmages achieved this.
“Mother?!”
Just as Gloria was staring blankly at the energy core in her palm, the figure of the Fallen Witch appeared outside the door.
She quickly came to her senses and turned to ask, “How is your research going?”
The mother and daughter actually resembled each other quite a bit.
Only Gloria seemed to be more composed, while the Fallen Witch appeared like one of those mad scientists with intense obsessions.
“A bit of a breakthrough.”
The Fallen Witch glanced curiously at the thing in Gloria’s palm, but didn’t ask too much. The two had different research directions. Gloria was currently focusing on the composition of the Tower Spirit, while the Fallen Witch was more concerned about those powerful forces. She had a purpose in coming here; after taking a quick look, she quietly said, “I’ve made some progress regarding the alchemical composition of that strange metal.”
“I’m planning to go to the Astral Realm in a couple of days.”
“I hope you can accompany me.”
The Astral Realm.
Even for Legendary-level Witches, the Astral Realm was still a place filled with danger.
Thus, the Fallen Witch intended to invite her daughter to go with her. If the two Legendary Witches teamed up, they would be able to retreat even if they encountered some challenge-level Astral beings.
“Hmm?”
Gloria frowned slightly upon hearing this. Then she quietly said, “I can go, but at the very least, we have to wait for three days.”
“I still have some research work I can’t put down.”
The Fallen Witch found no problem with this and prepared to leave once she confirmed her daughter’s agreement.
However.
At that moment, a spell light suddenly appeared, forming a teleportation marker in the laboratory, and Soren appeared beside it.
“Eh?”
“Perfect timing! Come with me now! There’s no time to explain!”
Soren’s figure appeared in the laboratory. He took a look at Gloria beside him and, without a second thought, wrapped his arm around the Fallen Witch’s waist, continuing, “The situation is urgent!”
“Come with me to teleport now! … It’s about to explode over there! …”
A burst of light appeared.
Soren grabbed the Fallen Witch and cast a teleportation spell again, leaving behind a slightly stunned Gloria.
She seldom saw Soren looking so anxious; could something have happened over there?
………………
An hour ago.
After Soren dealt with the Mother Bug, he began collecting other loot, such as the special crystals within the nest. These items still held strong radiation and magical energy and would definitely be useful for Gloria. The most potent radiation source was directly atop the Mother Bug, and after confirming that there was nothing else around, Soren dashed out of the ground.
This is where the problem occurred.
As soon as Soren rushed out, he found himself in an incredibly gigantic laboratory.
Or rather, not a laboratory, but a very large energy reaction device, surrounded by many special crystal glass domes, with a massive crystal structure in the center, cluttered with energy transfer pipelines. The intense energy radiation made it difficult for him to cast spells here.
A large-scale energy reactor.
An incomprehensible energy generation formula, yet he could sense massive magical energy being delivered to the ruins below.
It must have been operational for a long time.
What Soren needed to do now was to cut off the energy supply, causing all those Golem Puppets to stop operating.
Violent destruction would not work at all.
If he wasn’t careful, it could lead to a massive explosion, and Soren didn’t want to be blown to bits.
Fortunately, he could see some control devices here. After observing for quite a while, Soren finally identified a lever-like device that seemed to control the energy output here.
But an unexpected incident occurred.
Just as Soren touched the lever, it suddenly broke off.
What’s even more unsettling was that an urgent alarm began to blare, following which the energy reaction here started to fluctuate violently, causing many crystals to shatter and energy transfer pipes to spark with electric fire.
“d*mn it!”
“This thing doesn’t understand anything itself!”
Soren’s knowledge was insufficient, and his alchemical skills were also lacking. If it weren’t for someone who had specifically researched the knowledge of the Kingdom of Arc, it would be impossible to comprehend the function of these devices.
He could only rely on his ability to understand the written language to comprehend that the central core device was called the [Elemental Furnace]!
There was no other option.
At this moment, he could only call for help.
Undoubtedly, regarding knowledge about energy from the Arcane Empire, the Fallen Witch knew far more than anyone else.
Thus, Soren instantly connected to the teleportation marker of the Modo City laboratory and immediately hugged the Fallen Witch, teleporting over. Along with a flash of light, the two reappeared in the laboratory.
“This!!!……”
“Is this the [Elemental Furnace]?!……”
The Fallen Witch, being a Northern Witch who had conducted in-depth research, instantly recognized the massive device in the center, her expression slightly excited, “So big! … So big! … Bigger than what the Witch Council provided to me! …”
“We must bring it back! …”
Bringing it back.
No problem!
However, shouldn’t they first think about how to resolve the runaway energy?
Soren already sensed that many Golem Puppets were madly rushing over in this direction; it seemed he had triggered some defensive mechanism again.
“Shut this thing down first!”
At this moment, Soren couldn’t spare time to say much and could only urgently say, “This thing looks like it’s about to explode!”
A massive amount of energy.
Based on Soren’s estimates, the explosion of this thing would be akin to a small atomic bomb. He might not be in life-threatening danger, but this ancient ruin was bound to be destroyed.
He clearly did nothing; he merely pulled the lever to see if it could be shut down, yet it unexpectedly turned into this.
“Wait!”
“I need to see first to determine how to shut it off!”
The Fallen Witch also quickly calmed down, her gaze sweeping around as she spoke rapidly, “This device has been running for a long time, and many control parts are damaged.”
“We must cut off the energy core of the [Elemental Furnace].”
At that moment.
A wave of alarms echoed from outside, followed by a tremendous force crashing against the walls, and vague mechanical sounds of the Golem Puppets could be heard.
“Okay!”
Soren’s heart was also a bit tense at this moment, solemnly saying, “You try to shut it down here, while I deal with those Golem Puppets. If it’s really impossible, we’ll teleport out of here first.”
“We can always find useful things from somewhere else later.”
At this moment, as he looked at the Fallen Witch’s earnest expression, Soren was genuinely worried that she would refuse to leave and end up being blown up…
“No problem.”
“This [Elemental Furnace] is very similar to the one I used before; I can shut it down.”
The Fallen Witch looked up, her eyes gleaming with a strange light as she murmured, “I can definitely do it! … I knew you could bring me surprises! … Go stop those Golems! … The creator here must have left a defensive order! … Don’t let them get close, and definitely don’t let them damage the external pipelines! …”
d*mn it.
Why is everything here so unstable!
At this moment, Soren had no other choice but to rush out to block the Golem Puppets outside, hoping that the knowledge the Fallen Witch grasped could shut down this d*mn [Elemental Furnace].
……………… (To be continued ~^~)
