Chapter 1,694 True Colors Revealed
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"Be gentle, be gentle again, don't break things." An elf soldier captain shouted loudly. Under her command, the elf soldiers were like baby nannies, handling them gently, bit by bit. Move the dirt and rocks away.
After careful sorting, the coat was finally taken off, and the ruins of a building that was so dilapidated that it could barely be seen as a ruin appeared in front of us.
"Your Majesty, Your Highness, the situation seems a little bad." She entered the entrance first and took a few glances inside. Amrudina frowned slightly.
"Look, these burn marks are still new. They should have been destroyed by the hellfire given to the dwarf wizard." As she said this, she pointed to some fragmentary sections.
"These must have been destroyed by the dwarf's knife."
"Why are you destroying it like this?" I felt nervous after hearing this, for fear that all the useful information had been destroyed by those damn dwarfs.
"It must be that I didn't get what I wanted, so I became angry and angry. If this is really the place where the replica metal body is sealed." Artoria answered the question in one sentence.
"Search carefully, don't miss even a single stone." Amrudina shouted, and joined the groping process herself. Since it was my first time to see magic ruins, I went to join in the fun out of curiosity and poke around here and there.
Full of broken marks. There was almost no intact thing, and some glass shards were scattered everywhere on the ground, which was completely broken. Almost no one as big as a thumb can be found (the bigger ones were all picked up by the dwarf wizard).
Looking at it, the only complete one is probably the test bench in the middle, because it is too strong to be destroyed. Unfortunately, there is no information we are looking for on it.
Half an hour later, the ruins had been cleaned up, but nothing useful was still found. Those soldiers, who were as sharp as archaeologists, finally used the broken pieces to piece together a vertical trough that was as high as one person. There are still some broken glass stuck on it. Obviously, this vertical trough originally contained something, but unfortunately it was broken. We guess that this is the container that holds the replica metal body.
Unfortunately, this doesn't help us.
A few hours later, the not-so-large ruins had been completely cleaned up. Even digging three feet into the ground.
We found a few things that seemed to be useful, a few boxes that were still complete, and the huge container that was pieced together.
Because the box is protected by a magic circle, it cannot be opened and inspected immediately. Fortunately, this is the case. Without the protection of the magic circle, we really have no way of imagining what the contents inside would have become after hundreds of thousands of years.
After checking that there was nothing missing, we carefully put away these boxes and stuffed the broken large container into the inventory, intending to take it back and study it carefully.
Returning to the border town, these things searched from the ruins were quickly brought to the mage research institute in the Elf King City. With those magicians here, I believe the results will not make us wait too long. The only question is, what exactly? Is it good news or bad news.
"It's so quiet. Why is there no news about metal creatures?" In the tent, I crossed my legs and yawned in boredom.
Because the war is fierce, Amrudina has temporarily returned to the town of Lalula to take command. I can also relax casually. There is no need to act like a prince all the time.
"Since the battle with me, it has never appeared again. I was careless. I should have caught it decisively." Artoria sipped the tea gently and said, "No matter what my king is, At all times, her posture is so elegant and calm. This innate nobility is really a bit enviable.
Imagine if I were as calm and noble as her... Well, actually, I think there is nothing wrong with selling one's integrity.
"What do you think that guy is doing when he is hiding now?" I asked casually out of boredom. Anyway, with my Queen's serious character, no matter how useless my question is, she will answer it meticulously.
"It should be still increasing its strength, I guess." Sure enough, Artoria showed a thoughtful expression, and after a while, she said slowly.
"Assuming that the other party really copied metal, starting from the analysis when he escaped, he first appeared as a metal dwarf wizard. This dwarf wizard was probably the one who destroyed the ruins in the first place.
"Then, it continued to change, but it did not become more powerful. It should be gradually adapting and exploring its own abilities. After all, it was endowed with a certain amount of wisdom. Just like a baby, it needs a growth process."
"Then, the replicating metal body that has mastered its own abilities will begin to impatiently increase its strength and try its best to replicate the strong person until it meets you, so it will suddenly become stronger in a short period of time, right?"
I took Artoria's words and looked at her with admiration. Just because I asked a boring question and thought about it for a while, I was able to come up with such a convincing explanation. It was really amazing.
"Well, now, it is dormant. I'm afraid it was frightened by the encounter with me. It felt that its strength was not enough. It was afraid that it would encounter me again and be caught, so it hid again to improve its strength." Artoria nodded. road.
"Although I'm a little worried, I'm not optimistic about that guy." I put down the tea cup and showed a gloating smile.
"I have searched the nearby areas for hundreds of miles. The most powerful one is just an intermediate-level monster. If you copy it, it is far from your opponent. Unless the copied metal body can go deeper into the forest. We need to look for more powerful monsters in other places."
Saying this, I took the teacup that Carole carefully refilled for me, and said with a smile: "But, after entering the depths of the forest thousands of miles deep, can it really come back? I doubt it. Maybe from now on. From now on, I can only hide in a corner of the deep forest."
"If this really happens, we'll be in trouble."
It seems that he imagined what I described. Copying the scene of the metal body lying pitifully in a tree hole deep in the forest to take shelter from the rain, a faint smile appeared on Artoria's majestic and pretty face.
"Yes. We can't just sit here and wait until we are sure it can't come back to the border before we go back."
I nodded: "It's better to clean it up quickly and be caught by us honestly. If it is obedient, it doesn't matter if it is spared. Maybe it will be of some use in the future."
At this moment, a soldier's announcement came from outside the door. There are results in the Elf King City.
We immediately stood up and rushed forward, and found that beside the messenger was a pet knight who secretly loved to act coquettishly towards me - Amrudina.
To get here, you have to pass through the teleportation array in Lalula Town on the way. It seems that the messenger was discovered by her when he came, so he followed him. Is the battle in Lalula Town no longer a problem?
from the messenger. We were given a stack of information.
This should be the last clue. Thinking about the journey of literary youth from the beginning to the present, I sighed, and I looked at these materials much more carefully.
First of all, the first research report shows that the vertical trough container is as tall as a person. It has indeed done nothing for our current mission, but its structure and the trace of green liquid remaining in it have aroused the interest of the research mages, and will continue to be studied as a special project.
After all, it was something from hundreds of thousands of years ago. The magical civilization at that time was even more prosperous than it is now. Even an ordinary container was regarded as an object of research. Let’s not mention it for now, it has nothing to do with us.
Another report is crucial. Regarding the contents of those boxes, after cracking the magic circle, they finally got them out. Most of the contents of the boxes have become waste due to the erosion of time.
There is only one handbook of unknown material, which is particularly strong and is still quite intact. The content in this handbook happens to be what we need, some information about replicating metal bodies.
The origins and abilities of replicating metal bodies are not much different from the information we found in the Royal Library, as well as the guesses based on the information. With this manuscript, we have basically been able to determine that this paragraph The metallic creature that appeared in time is the culprit.
In addition, there are other detailed abilities of copying metal bodies, such as the determination of the strength of copying metal bodies that are not mentioned in the book.
Back then, the lily-loli-controlling female mage named Aisalima carved tens of thousands of energy magic arrays into the replica metal body. This reminded me of the Emperor Wu Sword made by old man Farah. It seemed to have the same effect. Of course, The level of sophistication and technical content between the two is completely incomparable.
After reading this part of the information, we finally breathed a sigh of relief.
As mentioned above, tens of thousands of energy magic arrays are only enough to copy the power of a metal body to the peak of the domain. Although it is vaguely mentioned in the handbook, Aisalima seems to want to go one step further and elevate it to the realm of world power. After all, in that era where powerful people were everywhere, the power at the pinnacle level in the field was impossible to wield.
But unfortunately, before she could complete this goal, she was noticed by Erufasia-chan, which caused the maximum copying power of the copied metal body to stop at the peak level of the field.
In addition, one of the more annoying settings of the replicating metal body is that when the replicating metal body is in its prototype, it cannot exert its power. It must copy other creatures before it can exert the response of the replicating target. Strength, as I said just now, the maximum limit is the peak of the field. No matter how strong the goal is, it cannot be copied, or if copied, it can only display part of the strength.
No wonder, the replicating metal body obviously possesses the energy at the peak of the field, but when it first turned into a dwarf wizard and other biological monsters, its strength was not strong. It turned out to be limited by this deceptive setting.
I don’t know what Aissa Lima was thinking about adding such a setting. Doesn’t this mean adding a huge weakness to your work? Or is it a last resort?
Looking further down, I seem to understand.
The last part mentioned the weaknesses of replicating metal bodies.
When in the copy form, the copy metal body is invincible... No. It's not appropriate to say this. It should be said that he can't be killed, just like the reborn demon Selson back then.
Only when you beat it back to its original shape. In order to destroy it, when it returns to its original form, the copied metal body cannot exert any power at all. The body has also become extremely fragile, and even the weakest projection of the Sinking Demon can be killed properly.
One is long and the other is short. After having such a powerful immortal body, it also has unexpected huge weaknesses. This setting is also appropriate, otherwise it is not invincible?
After reading the thin stack of information, the four of us breathed a sigh of relief.
I have been worried about the replica metal body. If a duplicate form of the World Power realm is obtained, the border will be unsettled again. Now we have come to a clear conclusion that the opponent's maximum strength can only reach the peak realm of the domain. This is really wonderful information.
Among the four people in the tent, apart from Amrudina, it was me. It's no problem for Arturia or Carole to single out an enemy at the top of a field, let alone the three of us standing together now, I'm afraid just appearing in front of each other. It can scare him to the point of peeing.
The most worrying question now is whether the replicating metal body will really run deep into the forest to find a more powerful target like I said, after experiencing an encounter with Artoria and realizing that its own strength is not enough. We will never return, so our work has been in vain.
"Amrudina, please pass on the order and ask the soldiers to pay more attention to the movements of metal creatures. If you find any, do not attack them and run away if you can." Arturia thought that she had the same idea as me. He turned around and ordered the knight captain.
After Amrudina took the order and left, we sat down again and discussed various possibilities and countermeasures based on this information.
Not long after, there was a sudden noise and commotion outside, followed by a violent explosion that made the earth tremble.
"What's going on?" We immediately left the tent, and there were already soldiers coming to inform us.
"Oh no, a metal creature has appeared!"
"What?"
Unexpectedly, when Cao Cao arrived, we were all stunned for a moment.
"Captain Amrudina happened to be at the scene and blocked the opponent's attack. The opponent was very fast. After a sneak attack, he ran away immediately. Captain Amrudina chased after him..."
Hearing this, we could no longer calm down and immediately rushed towards the explosion.
The outskirts of the town were already in a mess. A large crater created by the energy collision appeared in front of us. Under the violent explosion, half of the city wall collapsed.
Fortunately, Amrudina was present and stopped the opponent in time. No sacrifices were caused, but hundreds of soldiers were affected and suffered some damage.
"Unforgivable." Artoria glanced around. She had already held the translucent sword of victory in her hand. Her usually gentle, calm, and majestic gaze became sharp after her eyebrows were raised angrily. Incomparably, it is like a simple and thick emperor's sword, the moment it is unsheathed.
"The captain chased us in that direction!" A soldier pointed in front of us and shouted.
"Let's chase." Needless to say, three figures had already flew out in that direction.
"Just say it and it comes."
"One strike and away, can this behavior be regarded as provoking us?"
"Maybe he was beaten so badly by you last time that he wants to regain his place. I can't tell, but this guy has quite a high self-esteem."
"If this is the case, the other party came prepared and must have the corresponding strength to deal with me. Amrudina is no match for the other party. Let's speed up and catch up. Don't let anything happen."
"Don't worry, although her strength is definitely not as good as the other's, Amrudina will not be defeated so easily." I said quite confidently.
"Fan seems to know Amrudina's strength better than we do?"
"Well... By the way, didn't I say that last time? I have given the shield made of one of the two dragon bone equipments made by Rukogas to Amrudina, knowing that she has the dragon bone The protection of the shield is so decisive." I explained quickly.
Hey, this is strange, why should I explain in such a hurry?
Arturia obviously had a gentle smile on her face, but she just asked in a very plain tone, why do I feel a chill?
I glanced at Caroline and found that she was smiling with her lips pursed. Sensing my doubts, she gave me a meaningful look in return, which made me even more confused.
Could it be that... Artoria is jealous? No, no, no, this is impossible. How could such a noble and beautiful king be jealous over such a trivial matter? It must be because I feel too good about myself recently.
Suppressing the doubts in our hearts, we accelerated our speed, and it didn't take long before we spotted a figure in front of us.
"Amrudina, are you okay?" After recognizing the other person's breath, we rushed over, landed next to her, and asked with concern.
"I'm fine, my subordinates." There were traces of battle on the armor, but Amrudina saw no big problem and shook her head in frustration.
"I just didn't catch up and let the enemy run away."
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Once the weekend comes, I relax again. There are only 28 days in the month, right? Plus there are no updates for a few days. I really doubt how much I can get in royalties. Should I take advantage of the weekend to update one or two more chapters?