Chapter 134: The Ruins That Can’t Be Figured Out

Chapter 132 – The Unexplained Ruins
Roger’s team hurried through the narrow passageway in a bit of a mess, but their weapons and armor were careful not to rub against the walls, obviously they were all skilled adventurers, even if it was just instinct, they would also pay attention to these details.

During this period of time there have been quite a number of adventurers entering Green Shade Town, and even entering the ruins, but Roger’s squad has never lost the advantage of first hand, after this period of familiarization, they have already entered the second floor of the ruins, and they have a notable reputation amongst the group of adventurers, and even have a notable discount on the purchase of equipment, potions, and supplies.

But all these came at a price, compared to the first floor of the ruins, which was used as a civilian residence, the second floor was more like a production area, such as the magical maiden cultivation site found earlier, and similarly, there were puppet factories, magical creature breeding centers, and so on.

The problem was that the residential area wasn’t much, the factory area was impossible without security and defense measures.

Moreover, there was no telling how the entire relic operated, many things had long since decayed, but some of the facilities still maintained a minimum level of operation, especially the defense mechanisms.

Unfortunately, Roger’s exploration activated some of the area’s defense mechanisms, and if not for most of the functionality being damaged, there was no chance of them coming back alive, but they also brought bad news.

Some of the Demon Horned Goblins, Black Gummy Worms, Black Backed Ratmen, Thorn Spiders, etc. that escaped into the second floor of the ruins before were captured by the Demon Breeding Center as escaped magical creatures, leading to the Demon Breeding Center being reactivated, and even worse, in the case of the defense mechanism being severely damaged, the defense mechanism that was operating in an unknown way forcibly activated the Demon Breeding Center along with the Puppet Project, and forcibly transformed a batch of magical creatures puppets to be used as part of the defense mechanism.

After getting the information submitted by Roger and the others from the Big Tree Cave Tavern, Owen controlled the Bowler Hat Puppet to keep looking through it, and the more he looked at it, the worse his mood became.

This relic didn’t know what kind of origin it was, it was obvious that it was still functioning after such a long time, and what was even more frightening was that the technology or magic on display made him unable to figure out what kind of world it was.

If you say that this world is advanced, the vast majority of places are still living a life similar to the Middle Ages, with the peasants being ignorant, the commoners being ignorant, and the nobles controlling everything.

But if you want to say that it is backward, well, wizards, mages, alchemists, demons, and a variety of systematic transcendent profession and power, a single person can destroy the city, not to mention that many places can be crushed by the technology of the previous world.

Especially this relics, obviously has been abandoned hundreds of thousands of years of appearance, but surprisingly can still function, if the previous human civilization, that still need thousands of years, a few decades will be able to become a global green form, you can not even find a lighter can be used.

Not to mention the magic culture, puppet transformation and other black technology level technology, simply let Owen eye-opening, are beginning to doubt what kind of hell is this world.

“It’s good that there are adventurers to help step on the mines, but we can’t be careless, and we can’t stop with the sub-bases, and it can’t be limited to the Northlands, the empire, the overseas, and the underground, all of them need to have sub-bases of Hydra.” Removing his glasses, Owen rubbed his temples that felt throbbing due to mental exertion, and in his heart, he was not optimistic about the future of the Northlands.

If it wasn’t for the fact that there had been no progress on the progress value cap, Owen was afraid that he would have immediately chosen to give up the Northlands, stay away from this relic that he couldn’t feel the bottom of, and choose some other place to build a more secluded deep-sea or even air base.

While Owen was thinking freely about opening sub-bases in the future, the Northlands faced more trouble than he had imagined, as he soon received bad news from Corinth.

Originally the Northland was facing nothing more than small and medium sized forces from the empire that crossed the border and came over ready to grab food, the threat was there, but it was not as big as imagined, and the impact on the Northland would not continue to spread, after all, those people’s aim was to take the lead and gain more benefits in the future, so they killed people, they grabbed land, but they wouldn’t completely disrupt the local order.
Because these people know very well that once the order is completely destroyed, I’m afraid that they won’t be able to stabilize it for ten years, and when it is stabilized there will be no one left, so their plans will fall through, and their investment will be in vain. The problem is that the situation inside the empire is far more complicated than Owen expected, the royal and noble forces are only on the surface, the adventurer’s guild, sorcerer’s sanctuary, mage alliance and so on is only a part of the whole empire, in addition to this, all kinds of dark forces are endless.

In the empire, because of all kinds of constraints, these forces although from time to time jump out to show the existence of the sense, but the damage caused is limited, because many parties have long formed a special balance.

But the Northland is different, this is a nearly blank area, the local nobility is simply an insult to the word nobility, said to hang the name of the nobility of the landlord is not too much, in this case, is obviously a good place to do whatever you want, otherwise the black hand will not be hand into this place.

Although the black hand is to do dirty work, but I have to say that they also belong to the order-keeping camp, after all, once the world is chaotic, their gang of thieves and killers instead of no use, because then everyone in the kill are robbing, that also need to hire people, this is not superfluous.

But in addition to the black hand, the empire messy forces more, after all, you can divide the interests and rights have long been divided by the big brother, the dregs are also divided to the underlings over the mouth, the later is the same as the acne, want to come out but there is no doorway, can only be hard to hold back.

What’s even more pathetic is that in the Empire they can’t do anything fancy at all, but in the nearly blank Northland, it’s just a massacre.

The warlock that Emilee encountered earlier was a member of an evil organization, known for its expertise in creating and spreading demon eggs.

Sounds scary, if Bella formed a regiment like that, she could easily win even against ten times the enemy.

Unfortunately, this is only theoretical, the reality is, even if an ordinary person swallows a demon egg and pays the price, the strength they can achieve is only at the level of a junior Dou Qi warrior, or that kind of rookie chicken who hasn’t mastered any combat skills.

If such a thing dares to mess around in the empire, who knows who will jump out from that corner of the knight, mage or adventurer or something like that handily destroy the other party, simply will not leave the other party the opportunity to grow.

Even without them, the armies of the local lords were not vegetarians, even a demonized elite like Bella couldn’t carry off the siege of hordes of elite soldiers.

But in the north, in addition to the place near the border of the empire is more densely populated, the strength of some of the other places in the north of the noble territories each other most of the distance of one or two days away from each other, a year to the end of the see less than a few times the face, even if they are massacred, not to mention ten days and a half months, a year and a half a year will not necessarily be found.

And in addition to the devil’s egg, there are all kinds of cultists who like to exchange blood sacrifice for power, in the empire need to risk all kinds of risks, but in the north, even if you want to die.

So the Northland is a big problem, maybe it will become a barren land before it develops.

(End of chapter)