The fortress occupied by the Trial of the Elements is called Plasburg.
This fortress is not as luxurious as the Yongjin Fort of the Wealth Co-Creation Association, but it has all the magic facilities needed for a magic fortress.
The Wizards Advancement Association has deployed magic forts here to resist the riots of lightning ghosts, as well as magic arrays that can cast large magic barriers.
With these two things in place, the safety of the magic research institution is guaranteed.
Members of the Elemental Trial such as Maeve Le, Betty, and Filia came to the Everlasting Tribulation through the portal and flying.
They didn't spend money on teleportation this time.
Balder's Gate is located on the westernmost side of Cahir Continent, two hundred kilometers west of the Everlasting Disaster.
The headquarters of the Elemental Judgment is Star City, the capital of the Ring of Unas.
The two are separated by at least 7,000 kilometers.
Unas Ring specially opened permanent portals in Star City and Balder's Gate.
Wizards can use the portal to quickly travel back and forth between the two places.
All members of the Magic Research Institute can enjoy a free teleportation service, which is much more convenient than studying aberrations in the Gathering City.
After Maeve Le led the team to settle in Pressburg, the first thing she did was to repair the magic facilities in the castle.
During this time, Dinah and Louisa came to visit.
Dinas handed Li Nuo's letter to Mevler, and explained Li Nuo's hiring of Louisa to help guard Plasburg.
Maeve Le happily accepted Li Nuo's arrangement.
After Dinah and Louisa settled in Pressburg, the two began to build a magical device of death for Maeve.
This device has one and only one purpose.
That is to transform the manic and unintelligent ghost creatures into controllable and restrained ghost creatures.
After the lightning ghost enters it, it will turn into a lightning ghost and come out.
Ghost creatures are easier to tame than ghost creatures.
As long as this step is completed, Mevle can try to transform the lightning ghost into a magic puppet.
While Dinas and Louisa were tinkering with the magic device, Li Nuo came back from outside.
The appearance of Plasburg is quite simple. It is a stone castle with mottled exterior walls and covered with vines, standing in the dense forest on the top of the mountain.
Li Nuo landed directly in the courtyard of the castle without relying on his flying spell.
Following the normal visit procedure, he landed outside the gate of the castle's vestibule, and used the magic doorbell on the door to call the elemental judge wizard in the castle.
The biggest feature of elemental wizards is that they have many elemental creatures.
In Convergence City, because the Alchemy Temple does not allow Elemental Trial to use too much magical power, Maeve Le is more "restrained".
But here in the Everlasting Tribulation Thunder Chasm, Maeve Le doesn't have this worry.
Her research team this time only has six of her own students, and all the remaining chores and backbreaking work are left to the elemental creatures from the elemental sub-plane.
The Earth Wind Crystal Cluster that opened the door and led the way for Li Nuo was a standard elemental creature.
Its main body is an elemental crystal with energy tentacles extending out, containing the energy of earth and wind elements.
The energy of the wind element gives it the characteristic of "constant suspension", and the energy of the earth element allows it to control energy tentacles and use cleaning tools.
These two advantages are superimposed, and the Earth Wind Crystal Cluster becomes the best helper for elemental wizards to perform at home.
Li Nuo stepped into the vestibule of the castle, walked through the cloister, passed by the small garden, and saw Maeve Le, Filia and Betty who were packing their luggage in the hall.
When she left Midas Island, Filia was a wizard of the third ring. Now she has just stepped into the fourth ring and is sprinting towards the fifth ring.
Betty is one level lower than Filia and is now a third level wizard.
This girl is quirky and can't hide her thoughts.
The first time he saw Li Nuo, he winked at him and looked him up and down, showing no fear at all.
Maeve Le has not yet completed her research mission and is still in the sixth ring.
When Li Nuo saw her, he immediately used the deconstruction technique to obtain fragments of her recent memory.
The memory fragments show that it was not Maeve Le who disclosed Li Nuo's whereabouts to the Pure Light Tribunal and the Wealth Co-Creation Association.
Li Nuo couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Even if there is a soul contract between him and the other party, he will inevitably worry about betrayal.
After all, among the many soul contract partners, only Maeve Le and him have not seen each other for a long time, and their relationship is somewhat estranged.
I have to consolidate it this time.
"Jarvis, you're here." Mafule held the notepad in her hand and looked at Li Nuo:
"Dinas said, you seem to have encountered a little trouble. Do you need me to communicate with the Wealth Co-Creation Association?"
Li Nuo shook his hand:
"No need for the moment, Mevle. Elder Lanjin made a mistake in the list of wizard criminals and VIPs, and has already apologized to me in person. He also gave me a magic contract to join the Wealth Co-Creation Association."
Betty and Filia have no idea about the threshold for "joining the Wealth Co-Creation Association".
Maeve Le knew it very well.
She was slightly startled and asked:
"Elder Lanjin invited you to join the Co-Creation Association? This... are you so rich now?"
"Rich?" Betty was stunned for a moment, her eyes widened, trying to see some clues related to "rich" from Li Nuo's simple attire.
Filia's emotional expression is relatively reserved.
Confusion flashed in her beautiful eyes, and she blinked at Li Nuo.
"I was lucky enough to find some useful dragon treasures in the Suman Islands."
Li Nuo grinned and laughed at himself:
"I made money relying on these treasures. I never thought that I would be targeted by the Wealth Co-creation Association as soon as I came to Cahir Continent."
Maeve was thoughtful.
She probably guessed why the Blue and Gold Elders deliberately made trouble for Li Nuo, and then asked him to sign a magic contract.
This is undoubtedly a common method used by local snakes to suppress wealthy foreign wizards.
The purpose is to force Li Nuo to pay money to join the co-creation association.
The best solution is undoubtedly to spend money to eliminate the disaster.
But how to say this kind of advice to persuade others to spend money... Mevle was a little embarrassed.
Li Nuo looked at Ma Fule who was hesitant to speak, waved his hand and said:
"I will solve this problem, you don't have to worry about me... I will help you build the death magic device first, and we will talk after you finish decorating the castle."
"Okay, Jarvis." Maeve Le pointed to the corridor beside the wall:
"Dinace and Louisa are right there."
Li Nuo waved his hand, said goodbye to the three of them, and stepped into the corridor.
In the magic laboratory on the first floor, Li Nuo found the two Dinas who were carving a magic circle.
While he was working on it, he launched the deconstruction technique on Louisa.
This time, his main goal of deconstruction is to obtain information related to the "Barren Stone Quarry".
He needs to know the layout of the mining site, the underground mine route map, the composition of the personnel, etc.
The most important thing is to master the basic information about underground monsters.
If possible, Li Nuo wanted to attribute the casualties in the future execution of the "counterattack plan" to the underground monsters.
In this way, the suspicion on himself can be cleared, and the attention of the Jingguang Court and the Wealth Co-creation Association can be diverted.
The prerequisite for this is to capture an underground monster alive, use deconstruction techniques on it, and then carefully lay out the plan of "Shark Borrower".
"Dinas, Louisa, I'm leaving for a while."
After Li Nuo read Louisa's decomposition results, he said hello to the other two, turned around and took off on the terrace.
During the flight, he activated his "soul induction" and told Dinas about his next actions.
Although Dinas was a little puzzled by Li Nuo's sudden visit to explore the quarry, she did not inquire further.
She obediently agreed to Li Nuo to help him teleport between the two places.
At the same time, Dinasi will help Li Nuo cover up his whereabouts.
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There are no ordinary people in the barren rock quarry.
All are wizards.
The wizards responsible for mining range in strength from the third ring to the fifth ring. They are all metal or geotechnical wizards and come from Creeping City.
The wizards who work as guards start at the fifth ring of strength and reach the top of the seventh ring. They are all wizards from the Wealth Co-creation Association and master metal magic.
The idea of casting geotechnical magic from underground and entering underground mine tunnels is not very realistic.
Li Nuo gave up without even thinking about it.
In order to prevent theft, the Wealth Co-creation Association has placed magic instruments to detect energy fluctuations and vibrations in the soil around the rock quarry.
It is unlikely that Li Nuo used geotechnical skills to bypass these magical instruments and enter the mine without anyone noticing.
But, he was looking for underground monsters, not magic materials in the mines.
Mine tunnels are roads paved specifically for mining ore.
Wherever mining is done, roads are paved.
Two or three thousand meters deep underground, in areas that have not yet been mined by quarries, there are no roads, and naturally there are no magic instruments to protect them.
It is precisely because of this that the wizards who built the mining tunnels for the mining sites were attacked by monsters two to three thousand meters underground.
The above information comes from Louisa's memory fragments.
He came to a place more than ten kilometers away from the waste rock quarry and carved the topographic map of the underground terrain on the spot.
"Um…
"The quarry generally extends vertically downward and is divided into five areas. These five areas are distributed along the central shaft pipe and extend in the horizontal direction. The entire quarry can be seen as an irregular barrel shape.
"Starting from where I am now, traveling vertically downward for 2,375 meters, I can reach the horizontal plane where the shaft pipe ends. From there, traveling horizontally 12 kilometers north, I can reach the deepest part of the quarry."
Li Nuo wrote and drew on his notepad, repeatedly deducing the process of moving underground.
The underground environment is not as good as the ground. There are mud, rock formations and cavities in all directions. If not done properly, serious house collapse will occur.
The underground environment is not as good as the ground. There are mud, rock formations and cavities in all directions. If not done properly, serious house collapse will occur.
Li Nuo will place "tracking markers" on the ground so that he doesn't worry about getting lost underground, but the magic instrument that detects fluctuations is always a hidden danger.
There is no specific location of these instruments in Louisa's memory fragments.
Li Nuo could only roughly guess their location and plan a route to avoid them in advance.
After half an hour of preparation, Li Nuo used the "Spirit of Rock" to summon a magic assistant to dig a hole in the ground.
The rock spirit, who was two heads taller than Li Nuo, waved his fist towards the ground, blasting away the soil under his feet, creating a crack in the ground that allowed him and his master to pass through.
A smooth stone wall appears on the ground crack, consolidating the shape of the ground crack and preventing it from collapsing in a short period of time.
The spirit of the rock opened its way downwards, waving its fists continuously and digging the tunnel with clanging sounds.
Li Nuo activates the "Breath of the Dead" and changes into a skeleton form that does not require breathing.
He jumped down from the ground, used the flying technique, and followed the spirit of the rock to move downward.
After their figures were swallowed up by the dark cracks in the ground, the soil on the ground quickly squirmed and sewed the ground together.
This was Li Nuo activating the rock and earth magic mastered by the Rock Spirit, smoothing the traces on the ground.
Time was spent in boring tunnel digging.
Li Nuo's careful planning before taking action worked.
He encountered no resistance as he dug vertically downward.
But when the depth approached 2,000 meters, an unexpected encounter forced him to press the pause button.
"Shashasha…"
"Kakaka..."
In the dark, closed and narrow space, Li Nuo and the rock spirit entered a state of motionlessness.
A kind of vague noise lingered in Li Nuo's ears.
It's a bit like the rustling of leaves in the evening breeze, and a bit like the sound of fingernails sliding on a blackboard.
The noise echoed in the cramped underground space, and Li Nuo couldn't tell from which direction the movement came.
He cast "Rock and Earth Shield" and used the secret text of the Pangola family to strengthen the defense of the shield.
He called up his personal panel in his mind and looked at the "status bar".
No negative effects occurred there.
"So, it's just a noise and not a spell?"
Li Nuo secretly speculated and considered whether to throw out a "Detect Rock and Soil Energy" to see what was causing trouble.
Since the fluctuation of the "Detect Rock and Soil Energy" spell itself would trigger an alarm on the magic instrument, Li Nuo had never used this spell during this journey.
At this time, the noise in his ears and the darkness in front of him gave Li Nuo a feeling of trepidation in his heart.
To be safe, he may have to risk being discovered by magic instruments and throw out "Detect Rock and Soil Energy".
Just when Li Nuo was hesitating, a very weak earthquake was felt on the ground beneath his feet.
"Swiss, swiss, swiss, swiss, swish, swiss, swiss, swiss, swiss, swiss, swish, swish, swish..."
The noise is amplified and becomes much clearer.
Li Nuo looked down and determined the source of the noise, which was coming from directly below.
"It seems like someone is doing the same thing as me."
Li Nuo's expression became a little strange.
He recognized it. Isn't this the sound of tunnel digging...
"Did I meet an underground mole man?"
Li Nuo rubbed his chin, and the information about this extraordinary creature came to his mind.
It is said that about 6 years ago, the wasteland quarry was still a mountainous area full of jungles.
An extraterrestrial pollution event broke out here 6 years ago, and only then did mineral veins rich in wild rocks appear, and the mole people who used wild rocks as their food.
In a sense, human wizards are competing with mole people for food.
Mole people eat waste rocks to reproduce and strengthen themselves.
Strengthening oneself is easy to understand. The more waste rocks a mole man eats, the more hard blocks he has on his body that act as external armor, making him more resistant to beatings.
As for reproduction…
This is very strange.
Wizards Forward research found:
Among the group of mole people, all the mole people who possess powerful spellcasting abilities and are very resistant to beatings are male.
After extensive research and dissection, the Wizarding Research Society finally concluded:
Moles are born "female".
Mole people who eat a lot of waste rocks can give birth to special physiological structures and evolve into "males". From then on, they enjoy the right to find mates.
Li Nuo was not very interested in the so-called "special physiological structure".
He just wanted to know whether the creature digging up from under him was the Mole Man.
Li Nuo activated "Life and Death Tracking" and looked down with wide eyes.
It was still pitch black, with no blood-red outlines appearing in the field of vision.
The dark yellow color that symbolizes corpses and the blue lines that symbolize undead have never been reflected in the magical field of vision.
Li Nuo's heart sank slightly, realizing that he might have encountered an extraordinary creature that was neither living nor undead.
It is likely to be magical creations such as magic servants and magic puppets.
If this is the case, it means that he is not the only wizard digging holes in this depressing underground area.
This wizard is probably hiding in an extremely remote place, controlling his magic puppet through a magic circle, and digging caves remotely.
After such an analysis, this person is most likely a member of the mining field, and he should be conducting preliminary reconnaissance work for the construction of the mine tunnel.
This is one of the situations Li Nuo least wants to see.
"This is troublesome. Deconstruction can't be cast across the soil. Before I see the true appearance of the thing below, I can't use deconstruction on it, so I have no way of knowing its origin..."
Li Nuo frowned and thought:
"Perhaps, I can cause an accident, trigger a landslide, trap that thing underground, and then while it is paralyzed, I can control the spirit of the rock to change its path..."
The more Li Nuo thought about it, the more he felt that this method was feasible. It was both concealable and convenient, and would not make all his previous excavation work go to waste.
He crouched down, raised his hand and brushed the Blood Nashu Array on the back of his left hand, and took out the Earth-Drilling Mechanical Spirit.
After Norin's modification, the drilling ability of the Earth-Drilling Mechanical Spirit is even better, and it can move forward at a speed of two meters per second underground.
Li Nuo placed it on the ground and pointed the drill bit downward.
He used "mind control" to control the earth-burrowing machine spirit to drill into the hard rock.
"Swiss, swiss, swiss, swiss, swiss, swish, swiss, swiss, swiss, swiss, swiss, swish, swish, swish..."
Perhaps the movement of the earth-burrowing machine spirit was detected by something directly below.
The noise coming from directly below was obviously much louder, and it was heading towards the direction of the earth-burrowing machine spirit.
Li Nuo calmed down and was ready to detonate the self-destruction array inside the earth-penetrating machine spirit at any time, causing a landslide.
"Swiss, swiss, swiss, swiss, swiss, swish, swiss, swiss, swiss, swiss, swiss, swish, swish, swish..."
The noise passed through the sound-absorbing array of the earth-burrowing machine spirit and reached Li Nuo's ears.
The source of the noise is about to meet the earth-burrowing machine spirit.
Although Li Nuo didn't need to breathe, he still held his breath subconsciously.
He stared hard at the magic vision and stared directly in front of the earth-burrowing machine spirit.
"Wow~~"
The drill bit of the Earth-Drilling Mechanical Spirit penetrated a layer of wall and entered a relatively vast underground space, successfully encountering the mysterious creature.
"What the hell... what are these things?! Could these be the underground monsters causing trouble in the quarry, right?"
Li Nuo's brows jumped and his heart screamed strangely.
I saw a dozen strange-looking monsters with strange outlines appearing in the magical field of vision.
They are not flesh and blood, nor are they the creation of metal and rock magic.
A thick, fluorescent black substance similar to petroleum forms their irregular bodies.
From time to time, there will be a few pale human faces protruding from the surface of their bodies.
These people's faces and mouths were rounded, and their expressions were painful, as if they were undergoing tremendous torture.
The noise Li Nuo heard before was caused by a human face opening its mouth.
And those monsters that trap human faces are like the shadows of chrysalis underground.
They were startled by the earth-burrowing mechanical spirit that suddenly appeared in front of them, and their thick black bodies twitched.
One of the monsters spat out a mouthful of black mucus and pounced on the Earth-Drilling Mechanical Spirit.
The perspective of the earth-burrowing machine spirit instantly fell into darkness.
The sound of corrosion came from everywhere on the Earth-Drilling Mechanical Spirit and penetrated into Li Nuo's ears.
A dark, crazy and sneaky will was transmitted from the earth-burrowing machine spirit to Li Nuo through "mind control".
Layers of noise played in Li Nuo's mind like a tweeter.
【warn! 】
[You are suffering from the psychic attack of "Shadow Chrysalis"! 】
[Please cut off your spiritual connection with the earth-burrowing mechanical spirit in time to avoid substantial spiritual damage! 】
Li Nuo has a "psychic shield" with him.
But when faced with warnings from the system, he always seeks stability.
Without saying a word, he terminated the "mind control" and abandoned the earth-burrowing machine spirit.
Of course, before terminating the spell, he did not forget to launch the Deconstruction Technique on the "Shadow Chrysalis".
But before he could check the decomposition results, a black wind mixed with a fishy smell floated out from the narrow hole under his feet.
"Huh~~~"
This wind made Li Nuo's heart tremble.
The shadow cocoons entrenched a hundred meters below seemed to be crawling along the passage drilled by the earth-burrowing machine spirit.
Li Nuo immediately issued an order to the Spirit of Rock:
"Block the passageway that the earth-burrowing machine spirit drilled out, hurry up!" (End of this chapter)
