Huiya successfully joined the team, and Maggie, not wanting to waste time, led everyone directly into the ruins.
The moment they entered, Maggie immediately ordered everyone to activate the defensive barrier.
A deafening explosion rang out, and smoke and dust instantly filled the entire enclosed space. Without the defensive barrier, everyone would probably have been blinded and unable to see the way ahead.
As the dust settled, several alchemical mechanical puppets appeared before Maggie's eyes, their bodies possessing a bronze-gold metallic texture, and the power furnaces on their chests radiating a captivating silver light.
Maggie immediately recognized the material used in these power furnaces; it was mithril, the material she desired most.
Without a second's hesitation, Maggie spoke up.
"Take apart these alchemical golems."
Huiya was still in awe of the wonders of alchemy, that it could still move after so many years.
The elf was still a little confused when he suddenly heard Maggie's command.
The moment Perkin received the message, he rushed forward and quickly dismantled the three alchemical golems to pieces, scattering parts all over the ground.
"Very good."
Maggie nodded in satisfaction, walked forward, picked up the power furnaces, and prepared to take them back to melt them down.
Although these alchemical golems are very useful, and some of them have even been lost to time, no alchemist can still make them.
But for someone like Maggie who has absolutely no life skills, it's more appropriate to 'waste her talents'.
However, the presence of alchemical golems in the ruins indicates that the owner of the ruins was a very powerful alchemist, otherwise they wouldn't have left so many to guard the tomb.
Maggie gathered up the useful parts and finally had time to carefully observe the interior of the ruins.
Although she had seen the 2D version in the comics, seeing it in person was a completely different experience.
It looks very typical of a mage's secluded dwelling. Given that this mage knows alchemy, it's no surprise that the storage rooms inside will be full of alchemical materials.
"There are many hidden alchemical golems here. Be careful not to be ambushed by them. The rest are some hidden traps and hidden weapons. Don't fall into their traps."
Based on her memory, Maggie marked several locations that had previously threatened the main characters to prevent them from falling into the same traps again.
No one found Maggie's orders strange, nor did anyone question why Maggie was so familiar with the tomb of a mage who had been dead for many years. Everyone simply carried out Maggie's orders in silence.
In the very center lies a special magic book, the culmination of the tomb owner's life's work. The tomb owner was a wood-type magician.
Maggie thought for a moment, then stepped forward and triggered the mechanism. Instantly, the surrounding magic stones lit up, illuminating the ruins as if it were daytime.
With a certain degree of blinding effect, Maggie was prepared and did not fall victim to it.
Because what follows is the magician's backup plan.
The terrifying plants grew wildly along the wall, spreading towards Maggie. Almost simultaneously, Harun drew his sword and chopped the plants to pieces.
However, the liquid oozing from the broken surface of the plant is highly corrosive and has a strong pungent odor.
The amount of liquid inside the cramped ruins was lethal.
Maggie frowned slightly. There should be a fire mage here, but there wasn't one in the party.
"Don't cut them, Nesser. Go and use vines to tie them up and hold them in place. Don't let them move yet."
The best way to deal with this kind of attack is to immobilize them.
"Perkin, go and destroy all the Philosopher's Stones to cut off the magic supply."
Another way is to wait until the magic power in the Philosopher's Stone is completely exhausted, at which point these magical creations will stop growing.
But Maggie couldn't wait.
It's actually a bit extravagant. The Philosopher's Stone is a special type of magic gem; it can only be used to store magic power and has no other function.
However, they can store magic for a long time with very little leakage. In addition, they are easy to carry and relatively inexpensive, making them very popular among magicians.
However, the quality of the magic stones here is very high, which shows that the tomb owner spent a lot of money during his lifetime and really did not want anyone to disturb his eternal rest.
Unfortunately, they encountered an unreasonable tomb raider like Maggie.
"Okay, sister!"
Nesser immediately agreed. His manipulation of the vines was almost godlike. Although it sounded difficult, it was still a piece of cake for him.
The wildly growing plants were tightly wrapped in a net of vines, surging and struggling inside but unable to break free.
As Perkin broke the Philosopher's Stones one by one, the plants finally returned to calm. By the time Nesser withdrew all the vines, the magical creations had already dissipated into the air as magic.
Now Maggie was finally able to approach the grimoire normally and hold it in her hand.
Then... she handed it to Nesser.
"Next, this is perfect for you to improve your magic right now. It contains some theoretical knowledge that you can't learn in the temple."
“Huiya is also a wood-type mage, so you can teach her.”
Maggie glanced at Huiya and added another sentence.
As the reincarnation of the Forest God, Nesser possesses an incredibly strong comprehension of wood magic, while Huiya is merely an ordinary elf.
If she insists on following me, she needs to be strong enough. Since we're both wood-type mages, it's perfect for Nesser to teach her.
Nesser's initial joy at receiving the book froze on his face, as if he was repeatedly trying to confirm whether Maggie was serious about asking him to teach Huiya.
But seeing that Maggie's face showed no sign of joking, he could only purse his lips and reluctantly agree.
"knew......"
Huiya, standing to the side, didn't dare to speak at all. The resentment emanating from Nesser could practically feed ten evil sword immortals.
I really don't know why Her Highness the Holy Maiden didn't seem to feel it at all; in her eyes, it was almost turning into tangible black mist.
She was caught in a dilemma: to refuse or not to refuse.
Huiya wanted to cry but had no tears.
"Finally, once we find the Blood of the Night, we'll retreat."
Maggie looked around and saw that after the ruins' defense mechanism was triggered, the wildly growing plants had brought out a lot of alchemical golems.
Harun had already cleared up most of the gaps in his schedule.
Even if we split up now, we won't encounter any danger.
Maggie also truly experienced the joy of tomb raiding. The owner of this ruin was a mage in his lifetime, even though many things had been eroded by time and were no longer usable.
It becomes weathered and decayed, and is scattered by the wind.
When Maggie found the dusty 'Blood of the Night', she was still picking through the various alchemical metals in the warehouse. Besides mithril, there were many other treasures.
Maggie's eyes lit up.
"Here you are, what you're looking for."
Ficklin held a teardrop-shaped pebble in his hand; it was dusty and looked completely unremarkable.
When he handed the 'Blood of the Night' to Maggie, he looked disgusted, as if he thought it was quite useless.
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