Chapter 72: The Relic’s Changes

Chapter 72 – Relic Alteration
“How did it shrink so much?!”

As the synthesizing furnace opened, the figure that stepped out from it caused Owen to be shocked.

It wasn’t that the lady with a broad chest had turned into a soft and cute loli, but the demon armor had seriously shrunk, from the original cold and hard full-body heavy armor of the Demon King’s style to the kind of style worn by female characters in a third-rate online game where the lesser the area, the higher the defense, with the limbs covered in full armor but the body hated to be resolved by a horizontal and a vertical two-barred kind of thing, so that Owen, who had his eyes wide open, didn’t even know for a while whether he should ask for the situation first, or to look around a little more.

Regardless, Owen’s approach still played a role in the effect, although the pupils turned yellow, two sheep’s horns grew on his head, an extra pair of bat wings not much bigger than a chicken’s wing, and a slender tail with a heart shaped end, Dale did maintain his original sanity, only compared to the previous soft and docile nature, now there are more than a few points of greed and longing for him, which in simple terms means to crave for his body.

This is not surprising, Dale’s chimera bloodline has not disappeared, but was suppressed and eroded by the power contained in the Demon Armor, forced to pledge allegiance to Owen, but the demon which is so good to subdue, although it can’t be actively harmed, but there are a lot of passive methods, and it just so happens that chimera is very good at this set of things.

“Can you still change back?!” Owen asked with some concern.

Although Dale’s current appearance was indeed quite exciting, but thinking about his own thin little body, the original version couldn’t even be subdued, let alone the abyssally strengthened version.

Owen decided that it was better to stabilize a hand first, don’t rush to find excitement, in case he passed away trying, he was definitely the most humiliating crosser who died.

“Master can do it~” Dale reached out and grabbed the naughty little tail, slowly wrapping it around his middle finger, then pinched the tip of the peachy tail that was still trying to struggle, humming softly and chuckling in a tone with a bit of honeyed tail, almost laughing so hard that Owen’s heart rhythms went out of whack.

After Dale changed back to her original form, magically the armor disappeared as well, magical you say, Owen no longer had to struggle through the canyon abyss to find a trace of his beloved Demon Armor.

But in the end, Owen still didn’t escape trying, but at least he managed to come out alive, it simply made him cry with joy, the demon really deserves to be a demon, even if it’s just a bloodline it’s not something that humans can withstand.

When Owen sat paralyzed on a chair in the hall waiting for Dale to simmer the tonic soup, Maya also came, that anti-gravity floating burgundy hair, coupled with a pair of pupils with magical power, made Owen understand that she was similarly affected and had become stronger.

But why did both of them become stronger, but he was weak? Was this targeting him?

Although he was indignant in his heart, Owen knew that the most important thing now was to find the source of the mutation and at the same time see if the territory had been affected.

If the root cause of the mutation is not solved, the trouble will never stop. Although Owen is weak, at least his brain is not affected, and he still knows the importance of the matter,

In fact, there is no need to guess, it must be a problem with the relics.

As expected, it didn’t take long for the Kobold General to let the owls send a letter over.

“The relics really have a problem, when the kobolds dug to the second layer, they touched something, and as a result, a special fluctuation erupted, causing the tribe’s kobolds to mutate, and even affecting the entire Magic Horn Forest.” Owen frowned and said.

Hearing this news, Dell who never cared about the territory’s affairs was at a loss, on the contrary, Maya’s expression didn’t change much, because ever since she knew about the relics, she had made quite a few related plans, which included fighting against the demons and undead that emerged from the relics, lifting the curses and poisons, and even relocating and escaping the scenarios.

Thankfully, the situation wasn’t that bad, at least the territory was hardly affected except for a few livestock mutations. Moreover, the mutations are still benign, and the livestock have become bigger and stronger, which is very suitable for breeding, and used to improve the genes of the livestock in the territory.

But everything has to have a degree, for example, the Magic Horn Forest has become the hardest hit area, because it is the closest to the source of the mutation, resulting in a large number of plants and animals mutating, some benign, some malignant, but no matter what kind, the mutation will consume energy, and in order to replenish their energy when no one feeds them, no matter what kind of creatures they are, they all fell into a frenzy of foraging for food.

Herbivores are fine, at most they can gnaw on the bark of trees, but carnivores and magic horn kobolds are in trouble.

The kobold general was caught off guard at the beginning, and has now transferred all his troops and heavy puppets back to the tribe, relying on the wooden wall for defense, it can still hold up in a short period of time, but it’s hard to say after a long period of time.

Because the kobold tribe is too close to the remains of the source of the mutation, the surrounding magic horn trees are affected by the beginning of activation, fortunately, the super farmland is more unreasonable, unless the magic horn trees are able to detach from the earth, or else how to mutate, only to be drained of the life force into the fuel of the share.

However, although the kobold tribe can still hold out, but Owen can’t sit still.

The magic horn tree forest is irreplaceable to the territory’s current development, no matter wood, fuel or food, all need to rely on this place to provide, not to mention the mysterious relics.

Owen couldn’t risk losing control of his territory by continuing to wait, so he immediately mobilized his troops and prepared to head to the Magic Horn Tree Forest.

While Owen was busy mobilizing his troops, he didn’t know that he had underestimated this mutation, plus neither Dale nor Maya was a true Law Profession, so he overlooked the issue of the spreading range of the mutation’s fluctuations.

For people, a month’s journey was already very far, but for certain fluctuations, it was just a matter of the twinkling of an eye.

Adding to the openness of the north, the fluctuations spread faster and wider, at least at the border of the empire, the fluctuations generated by the mutation could still be clearly felt.

Although the source of the fluctuations could not be determined, it also drew some people’s attention to places further north in advance, leaving Owen little time.

At this time, Owen who is still unaware of the situation is preparing to send troops to clean up the hidden dangers of the relics, but he does not know that the troubles are waiting for him at the back that.

Considering that the place where the battle will take place is the forest, Owen only mobilized the longsword soldiers and crossbowmen of the territory, who are more suitable for fighting in the complicated environment, and let the lancers and spear throwers stay in the territory.

Fifty longswordsmen and fifty crossbowmen were already half of the territory’s troops, worrying that the chaos caused by the mutation would continue to expand, even if there were still hidden means, Owen still chose to send 200 peasants to the barracks as additional troops, what the ratio of soldiers to civilians was no longer a concern now, let’s first tide over the current difficulties.

Of course, the transfer of so many peasants will greatly reduce the production and development speed of the territory, but compared to the chaos caused by the mutation, it is still worth it. Besides, the progress value is already thirty, he can exchange it at any time, and then use the recovered progress value to convert serfs, to fill the vacancies generated by the labor force, so he is not panicking.

(End of chapter)