Chapter 103: Breeding of Mercury Zombies
Far away in the depths of the desert, Herky Stone was lying on a huge golden chair.
This seemed to be a golden chair made for a giant. With a height of just over one meter, he couldn't even reach the handle of the chair.
This is a new area that has just been excavated.
The Desert Kingdom originally relied on digging graves to maintain its domestic economy, and even during the years of war, it never stopped digging underground buildings.
Hecky Stone was lucky. While digging downwards over the past two days, he happened to dig out a new passage, which revealed a huge underground city.
It also seems to be a city for giants to live in. Every object in it is oversized, including the gold products inside.
This civilization buried underground must have had an extremely glorious era, so a large number of gold products and magic props can generally be found in these underground cities.
Hecky Stone made a fortune this time, digging out a giant city with a large amount of gold inside.
This huge golden chair alone is estimated to be worth tens of millions of gold coins, not to mention the mountains of various gold utensils in the warehouse.
Just like most of the ruins that had been excavated before, everything in the city was still there, but no remains of any living organisms were found.
It was as if all the residents of the city suddenly disappeared, and then the entire civilization was covered by the desert.
Over the years, countless scholars have conducted in-depth research on this issue, but the research results can only be said to be controversial, and no one can provide conclusive evidence.
However, not knowing the reason does not hinder this utilitarian archaeology. After all, it's just digging graves. Wouldn't it be better if the owner of the grave is not lying in it?
Heki Stone agreed to Amber's two million information fee without thinking twice. It was only two million, and he was already a wealthy vampire.
Amberxiu didn't know what was happening in the distant desert, and naturally he didn't know that Heki Stone was rolling excitedly on the huge golden throne like a rolling dice.
But since the other party said that he had no shortage of money, Amber Xiu directly replied: [Then, just transfer the money first. ]
This was just a test, but Amberxiu didn't expect that Heki Stone would actually transfer the money directly. Not only that, even the top-end gargoyles that he owed before were delivered directly to him, and he didn't even ask Amberxiu for the shipping fee for the teleportation array.
That was a continental teleportation array that could transport large magical items, and the cost of this teleportation alone exceeded 10,000 gold coins.
Amberxiu couldn't understand it at first, but when he saw the gold that was teleported over, he roughly guessed the reason.
These are not gold coins, but gold utensils of various shapes. The weight is not skimped on, and the exquisite ancient patterns on the utensils add a lot of collection value to these gold utensils.
These golden utensils also made Amberxiu realize that Heki Stone had dug up a treasure. He must have dug up something good under the desert, so he suddenly became rich.
But why do the patterns on these golden utensils look a little familiar?
After recalling it, Amber Xiu couldn't remember much, so he just ignored it. Anyway, there was no problem with the purity of the gold, as long as it was real gold.
"I'm so envious. Why is there no ancient civilization under my house?"
Amber sighed, and then sent Heki Stone the information he knew: [The elves are installing magic-destroying weapons on a large scale, perhaps the plan of the Elf Queen. The magic contract I mentioned to you before should be related to the strategic plan of the elves. The lord who signed the contract will provide assistance to the elves' invasion after violating the contract...]
This time, Amber did not hide any of the inferred information. After all, the desert dwarves were at a disadvantage. If they did not help this big customer, they would not be able to afford the "hiring fee" for subsequent cooperation. Once the elves completed their strategic deployment, Amber would quickly fall into despair.
Heki Stone didn't quite believe it at first. After all, it was unrealistic to popularize enchanted weapons. The Alchemy City didn't have the ability to do so. But Amber's reason made sense. It was not impossible for the Elf Queen to be promoted to Legendary for the second time.
Herky Stone quickly reported this to Hoffman Ironfist, but faced with such a big thing, the Hand of the King simply replied that he knew about it and that was it, without asking Herky Stone to discuss countermeasures.
Although Hekis Tong felt a little strange, he did not ask any further questions. Although the two of them had a good personal relationship, they should try to avoid suspicion in such national affairs.
Amberxiu did not ask how the Golden Kingdom would deal with the elves' magic-breaking weapons. He was now busy decorating the castle, and he needed to choose a place to install the twenty obsidian gargoyles.
Strictly speaking, gargoyles are not living creatures, nor can they be considered undead, but rather puppets created by magic construction technology. These top-of-the-line gargoyles are made mainly of obsidian, with some high-grade materials such as fine gold and secret silver. The material cost alone is very high, and the carving of the gargoyle's appearance is related to the design of the internal magic array, which also requires the hand-kneading of experts to create.
These twenty obsidian gargoyles have more than a dozen special effects, the most basic and important of which is magic resistance.
The Obsidian Gargoyles are extremely resistant to all kinds of spells. If a spellcaster like Amberxiu does not use the power of the Golden Throne, he will have to consider running away when facing a group attack from five Obsidian Gargoyles.
The top-of-the-line obsidian gargoyle also has the ability to self-repair. As long as the damage does not exceed 30%, after being petrified into a sculpture state, it can be fully restored in a few days.
Then there is the fact that it has no weaknesses. If you want to destroy the Obsidian Gargoyle, you can only use a hammer to smash it. And there is no difference between smashing the head and smashing the feet. The head of this thing is just for show, and it does not rely on the head to sense the target.
The rest are auxiliary effects such as life sensing, wound tearing, flying, and shadow lurking. Once activated, they will bite the enemy relentlessly like a mad dog, and ordinary people will be torn to pieces after just two hits.
If there is any disadvantage, it is that the range of activities is limited.
The gargoyle is not a type of soldier that can move freely, but a defensive device that is equipped with a base. If it moves too far away from the base, it will quickly turn into a statue.
The maximum moving distance of Ambershu's obsidian gargoyles is only 500 meters. They are definitely more than enough to cover the castle, but it would be a bit difficult to take them out to bully others.
But this did not pose a problem for Amberxiu. He placed ten obsidian gargoyles in various corners of the castle to serve as guards, and the remaining ten were placed in his private space.
At the critical moment, open the space door and these gargoyles will become his helpers.
After installing these gargoyles, Amberxiu started to get down to business. He received the first batch of ore "hire fees" from Viscount Lightman. Although it was just simply processed iron ore, the quantity was quite large, filling up most of the castle warehouse.
Once the ore is delivered, the plan to breed mercury spirit figurines will begin.
After searching around the castle, Amber found the mercury zombie playing with his friends in the dungeon.
Behind the big silvery-white ball follows a group of sparkling little balls, as if they are playing hide-and-seek or dancing.
Those little balls were naturally the special undead that Amber had created before with sand and glass. By modifying the properties of the materials, they had become undead puppets similar to elemental creatures.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Because Amber did not restrict their intelligence, these little guys have a good ability to imitate.
Perhaps because the Mercury Zombie is the largest in size, the other little guys automatically recognize the Mercury Zombie as the boss.
The little ones didn't seem to notice Amber and were playing by themselves.
The mercury figurine squirmed and transformed, growing several arms to catch the elemental undead. The elemental undead fled in various ways. Some simply spread their bodies and turned into sand on the ground, then quickly rolled away; some twisted into a rope and twisted like a snake to avoid; some imitated the mercury figurine and condensed arms to wrestle with the boss, but were immediately pressed to the ground by the mercury figurine; some were even more outrageous and directly pushed down their friends and ran away...
The little guys had a lot of fun playing, and Amberxiu was also very happy to watch. The IQ of these little guys has been significantly improved. After a while, we can test the effectiveness of their kneeling and praying again. I hope they can achieve golden freedom as soon as possible.
After watching for a while, Amber found that they had no intention of stopping, so he had to play the role of a spoiled parent, took the mercury spirit away, and sent him to the warehouse where the ore was stored.
Amber touched the chubby little fellow and said to him, "You are already a mature mercury zombie. It's time for you to learn how to have children."
The mercury ghost understood what Ambershu said and crawled onto the ores.
With a puff, a severely corroded helmet fell out of the mercury spirit figurine. This was a replica of a divine weapon seized from the holy warriors of the Ryan Empire. After so many days of digestion, only the surface layer was eaten.
After spitting out the indigestible stuff, the mercury spirit figurine turned into silver water and began to swallow the ore in big gulps. The ore hill began to shrink at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The speed of devouring the artifact was very slow, but the speed of the mercury spirit figurine devouring ordinary metals was extremely fast. In just a few minutes, the hundred tons of ore were all eaten up, leaving only a pile of non-metallic slag.
But the size of the Mercury Zombie didn't change at all, and it even cried out to Amber, indicating that it was only eight-tenths full, which was not enough to get the energy needed to give birth to a child.
Amber Xiu was a little surprised. He thought he had miscalculated. It was not easy to feed the mercury spirit with ordinary metal ore.
Reluctantly, he took out some gold and fed it to the mercury spirit figurine, which made the little guy full. The shell of the mercury spirit figurine hardened quickly and began to enter the breeding state. When the silver shell broke, two mercury spirit figurines would come out from it.
During the first training, Amber was extremely careful. He stayed by the side of the Mercury Spirit Figurine the whole time and monitored the little guy's vital signs at all times.
After a day and a night, cracks finally appeared on the hard outer shell.
Silvery white liquid flowed out of the broken shell, and after falling to the ground, it quickly separated and turned into two identical balls of mercury. Although they were smaller than the previous mercury zombies, they were two complete lives.
"Success!" Amber said excitedly.
As a living being, maintaining activity is only the first element. If you really want to become a complete biological population, you need to acquire the ability to reproduce.
Two balls of mercury crawled to Amber's feet and rubbed his calves like clingy kittens.
Amber touched the two little guys who couldn't tell which was which, and said to them: "My children, you eat too much. Viscount Lightman alone may not be able to supply enough. It's time to go to other mining areas."
The appetite of the mercury zombie exceeded Ambershu's expectations. It was unrealistic to wait for Viscount Lightman to give the second batch of ore. It would be better to choose a suitable target and rob it directly. It would be a good opportunity to bring those elemental undead along and let them try actual combat. Hunting was the best way to improve wisdom.
Amber recalled and said to himself, "The last time I met someone on the road, they seemed to be followers of the Goddess of Pain. You guys are unlucky."
(End of this chapter)