Chapter 115 40. As lonely as you
The strange energy even made a vibration in the air, and a shudder passed through Daquus's soul and over his head. The energy infusion lasted for about three minutes, and then the strange energy dissipated instantly, as if it had never appeared.
To Daquus, these three minutes seemed like an eternity. He felt like he was really about to collapse. His body was severely shaken, and symptoms such as confusion, headache, nausea and difficulty breathing followed one after another. His body could no longer support him. Genevieve, who was standing behind him, stepped forward to support him after seeing the energy dissipate.
"Water!" Daquus sat on the ground to recover for a moment. He felt his brain boiling, as if a greenskin shaman had cast a brain-exploding spell on him. His throat trembled, and he struggled to utter a single word.
Genevieve quickly untied the sea dragon skin water bottle from Daquus's waist.
After drinking the water, Dacus calmed down a little. He felt that there seemed to be some more inexplicable things and knowledge in his mind.
"Have I changed in any way?" After a long pause, Dacus, who had recovered, suddenly asked a strange question.
Genevieve was also puzzled by this question. She looked at Daquus carefully in the light emitted by the glowing crystal and the star monument. After a moment, she shook her head.
With Genevieve's help, Daquus struggled to his feet and began to look for an exit around this strange hall. After a moment, he found a trigger mechanism that looked like a recessed part on a wall.
Daxus's intuition told him that this trigger mechanism was the exit to the outside of the room and that there was no danger. He pressed it without hesitation.
The door began to vibrate and slowly opened, revealing a similar passage in front of Daquus and Genevieve, but this passage was much cleaner, without any disgusting mucus or other strange things.
"Please come in, my respected lady." Daquus made a very perfunctory aristocratic salute to Genevieve who was supporting him.
"This is the second time I've seen you perform a noble ceremony, my lord."
"Don't worry, there will be a lot to do in the old world later. By the way, you won't turn into a bat and fly around, right?" Daxus shrugged indifferently.
"Turning into a bat requires magical talent, but unfortunately I don't have any." Genevieve said calmly, as if not having magical talent was nothing to her.
Darkus seemed to have thought of something and suddenly laughed, then said.
"Speaking of which, two years ago, I met Tatlin in Bretonnia. It seems she couldn't turn into a bat either. After being reported, she fled on a boat. When she got off my boat, she swam to the shore."
"I think I've heard of her?" Genevieve said uncertainly, frowning.
"Chandanek!" Dacus suddenly became mysterious.
When Genevieve heard the name Chandagnec, she became nervous because she was transformed from Chandagnec, although the relationship between the two was not very friendly.
A Duruchi noble and a Midnight noble walked and talked to the end of the passage.
Daxus held up the glowing crystal and looked at the device in front of him in silence.
"Shouldn't this thing be on the other side of the door?"
There is a pattern of nine ancient saints divided into a diamond shape on the wall, and there is a note next to it: Loneliness is a kind of desire.
"The people the Ancient Saints trust are those who can do math problems. A lonely pattern like yours is the answer you are looking for." Dacus began to complain, and then pressed the only single one of the nine Ancient Saint patterns.
The door to the passage began to vibrate again and slowly opened.
"Damn, this is not right! I can suddenly understand the words of the ancient saints?" Daxus suddenly reacted.
The next point wasn't a passage, but an enormous casting chamber? The space was so vast that the luminous crystal could only illuminate a small area around Daquus. He glanced back at the wall and saw that there was indeed the same Ancient Saint decryption device on this side. He took Genevieve's hand.
This cold-blooded beast, the ancient holy god Ichi, was a little unconventional. He could have explored it step by step, but he insisted on teleporting Daquus directly in.
"Shh!" Daxus made a silencing gesture to Genevieve with the hand holding the glowing crystal, then hid the glowing crystal in his noble robe to cover it up. He began to use the elf's good night vision to carefully observe and listen to the movements around him. He was worried that there was an Arachnari giant spider in this ghost place. According to normal routine, it was normal for such a thing to exist in this ghost place.
He waited for five minutes, but apart from the sound of their breathing, Daxus heard no other movement. However, there were three rays of light faintly visible in the corner of the wall in the distance, and something on the other side attracted him.
"It should be safe here?" Genevieve muttered uncertainly.
"Do you see this mark? If there is any problem, just press it to go back to the other side of the passage..." Daxus took out the glowing crystal again to illuminate the wall mechanism behind him. Before he finished speaking, Genevieve snatched the glowing crystal away.
"I'll go take a look," Genevieve said, and began to use her agile body to shuttle and jump back and forth in the large cave.
"Pay attention to the dome!" Dacus reminded.
Genevieve circled the large chamber and returned to the center, throwing the luminous crystal onto the dome. From the dome hung a huge hexagonal lens, an exquisite device that seemed to be made of transparent crystal. Next to the lens were some special metal rods, forming a magical suspension device.
"Safety!"
Daxus took the glowing crystal and began to wander around the large cavern. He had been right; this was indeed the foundry. The cavern was filled with a mysterious aura and incredible power. There were enormous furnaces, forges, and all sorts of strange hammers, sledgehammers, and forging tools. The evacuation must have been hasty, and much was scattered across the floor.
"What a dreamy place," Genevieve exclaimed.
Dakwus could imagine it: a properly functioning lens system would emit sunlight, illuminating the entire foundry. The light transmitted through the lens system would activate the forge below. Within the foundry, the Skink forgers, sweating, their faces focused, crafted all sorts of wondrous weapons and equipment under the guidance of the Old Ones.
"Sir, look!" While Daquus was stunned, Genevieve held up two lizard-style halberds in her left and right hands at the same time and showed them off to Daquus.
"This? Isn't it heavy?" Dacus asked in astonishment.
"No." Genevieve said and threw the halberd in her right hand towards Daquus.
There was no scene where he caught the spear and was knocked over by the weight of the spear.
Daxus caught it steadily and looked at the halberd with a little surprise.
Because this halberd is similar in shape to Marshal Ku's spear of the goddess Taranksla, but Marshal Ku's spear is said to be the artifact of the ancient holy goddess Taranksla.
This halberd is obviously a standard weapon. There are also two mysterious floating spheres on the halberd blade, suspended within the frame. The two spheres are slowly rotating in the opposite direction.
Daxus couldn't figure out what material the halberd blade was made of, but the weight in his hand was just right. The halberd had an indescribable power transmitted to him.
"Could this halberd's weight be adjusted according to the user's strength? Otherwise, why would the lizardmen have such a lightweight weapon?"
During his stay in Hexota, Daxus visited the weaponsmith market. The weapons crafted by the Skink craftsmen for the Saurus were heavier than the last. He could only lift them with great effort, let alone wheel them. The weapons prepared for the Hyperi were even heavier, making it difficult for ordinary Saurus to use them.
The halberd's blade reflected a golden glow under the illumination of the glowing crystal. The blade was also engraved with the inscription of the ancient holy god of war, Quetli, and three emeralds were inlaid at the key nodes of the inscription.
Dacuus, carrying his Quetli halberd, wandered through the foundry until he came upon a point that caught his eye. A pile of stone slabs lay on the ground, like red bricks, stacked in rows, seemingly worthless. He casually pulled out a slab and read it by the light of the glowing crystal. It described the method for crafting a piece of war equipment.
"It seems to be the Engine of the Gods? So, I can actually read the stone tablets and even sense their locations? It seems I've taken another step forward on my fellow forum members' upgrade path, becoming a Skink Oracle?"
Dacus flipped through a few more stone tablets. The contents recorded on them were continuous and all about the method of making the Engine of the Gods. This technology was obviously more complicated than the Eternal Radiance Hengtian Instrument and the Poisonous Blood Image. He remembered that there were only a few stone tablets found in the ancient sanctuary of Papagos and the pyramid secret chamber.
"I'm impressed too. No wonder this technique has been lost. The recording method is so damn backward. They even have to use stone tablets. It's just like the immortal on the Star Monument can only touch me."
Unconvinced, Dacus turned over a few more stone tablets, which were engraved with instructions for using the lens system in the casting room and how to make the lens device.
"Then the question is, how do you use a lens system without the help of a lens system and build a lens system? Why is this like a tongue twister?"
Daxus shook his head and put the stone slab back. After all, the thing had been here for thousands of years, so a little while wouldn't make a difference. The stone slab couldn't grow legs and run away anyway.
The most urgent thing is to go back and reunite with my companions.
"Let's go, let's go back and reunite first. They should be crazy now."
The Druki were frantic, like madmen, and even Chupakoko, who was following them, was frightened by them. Under the command and urging of Franais, the Druki attacked desperately. The team of Druki, Lizardmen, and Skink Monitors had already cleared several large caverns. Countless giant cave digging spiders twitched on the ground, and they continued to advance into the passage.
As Daxus expected, there was indeed an Arachnari giant spider lurking here and blocking the team.
Under the command of Chupakoko, the giant lizard Kami swung a huge hammer and smashed it at the giant spider.
Led by Elmir, the Black Ark pirates of the Lengyan Family jumped onto the giant spider's back and attacked it continuously. However, the giant spider's back shell was as hard as plate armor, and the stabbing and slashing of the serrated sword could only produce sparks.
Led by Kaleen, the beast trainers of the Hell's Disaster Family kept looking for opportunities to use harpoon crossbows to shoot at the giant spider's abdomen. However, they were careless when entering the passage this time. They did not carry the tools needed to deal with the large beast. Who could have imagined that there was such a big thing in the mountains?
Chupakoko and Akadan kept manipulating the Wind of Aegir, summoning powerful lightning balls to throw at the giant spider. Alyssa also overloaded and summoned the Amber Spear to attack the giant spider.
It seemed that Tiga was very unhappy about stealing his limelight in Tarax Lambene last time. At this moment, he was enduring the venom spewed by the giant spider and kept swinging the obsidian stick in front of the giant spider to attack the giant spider's eyes.
Without the coordination of a combat system, a single giant beast is like a dish of food in front of a group of coordinated attackers. Of course, the nearly demigod existence of the Gargantuza Tyrannosaurus and the specific terrain are another matter.
The giant spider quickly wavered. It had no more venom to spit, and the spider brothers next to it were also knocked down at the beginning. It seemed to feel that if it held on, it would be doomed. It began to try to control its incomplete spider legs and slowly retreat to the back of the passage.
The attacking team did not give the giant spider a chance to escape. They followed the giant spider in the passage and kept attacking it. Finally, the giant spider could not hold on any longer and was beaten to death in a large cave.
Daxus knew nothing about the fierce battle above the passage. At this moment, he and Genevieve were standing at the exit of the passage below, looking at the underground sea that was constantly ebbing and flowing. The underground sea was deep in the distance, giving people a claustrophobic feeling.
"Wow, there should be an underground sea passage leading here. If there's a dock built in this damn place, it could even dock a small black ark."
"Let's turn around and go back. I don't feel comfortable here. I always feel like there's something in the distant sea watching us." Genevieve suddenly said with some uneasiness.
After hearing what Genevieve said, Daquus came to his senses. He also had this vaguely strange feeling, and he felt like he was about to suffer from claustrophobia.
"Turn around! Go back!" Daxus said decisively. He didn't want to face any weird things in this ghost place.
The monitor lizard Kami continued to lead the way in front of the team. He suddenly stopped while running and stared at a deep and dark fork in the road. He felt as if something was calling him there. The monitor lizards following him also seemed to sense it later and stopped to look at the fork in the road.
Chupakoko was standing on the shoulder of the monitor lizard Kami. He almost didn't react the moment the monitor lizard Kami stopped. Fortunately, he suddenly grabbed it, otherwise he would have fallen down.
"Why did you stop suddenly?" Chupakoko said angrily.
"There, there, there is something, it seems to be calling, calling us." The giant lizard Kami said naively, holding a huge hammer in his left hand and scratching his head with his right hand.
The team stopped at this time. The two Takia brothers came to the giant lizard Kami. Ryan began to act as a translator and coordinate. Franais kept remembering what Daquus said.
"I can't control other Duruchi, but we are partners with the Lizardmen now. We need to gain their trust. They may become our powerful political and military allies in the future. They will be a strong helper and guarantee for our great cause!" This was what Dacus said casually to Franais when he was in Hesiota.
Although Flannais didn't know what the great cause that Dacuus was talking about was, he had always believed in it and firmly believed that the great cause belonged to him and the Takaia family. Although he was extremely anxious at the moment, he still patiently listened to his brother's translation.
"In that case, let's split up! There can't be two giant spiders in this mountain at the same time!"
