Chapter 509 Pride and Prejudice
In the light mist, there were dense thumps and several increasingly heavy bangs.
The enemy was consistent with Gutierrez's judgment. It was a mechanical octopus that Ryan and his team had encountered before, plus a prototype and several teams of mechanical chocobo patrols.
With the information reported by Hiram, everyone in the team was prepared. Gutierrez and Alvin worked together to use their trump cards and attacked the most threatening mechanical octopus, while Garrett released electric shocks, causing most of the mechanical chocobos to fall into a state of freezing.
In less than two minutes, the team successfully killed the incoming enemy.
Seeing that the mechanical octopus was killed so smoothly, Alvin's mouth corners immediately curled up, his chin slightly raised, and said: "Hiram said in the report how difficult this mechanical octopus is to deal with. It seems that their strength is too weak."
"Well, it can't be said to be weak, but our combination is more targeted than theirs." Garrett nodded and said.
In Garrett's opinion, the mechanical creations in front of him were restrained by lightning magic, so it was quite easy for him to deal with them. Therefore, he was quite in agreement with what Alvin had just said.
"It seems that the difficulty of this floating city ruins may not be as high as Hiram said in the report. It is very likely that we will gain a lot this time." Alvin said with a smile.
"Your Highness Alvin, I agree with your opinion, but the problem now is that if we can't find the hole last time, how can we go down?" Garrett smiled and pointed to the ground.
Although several researchers were deafened, they quickly understood from Garrett's gestures and eyes that several His Highnesses were discussing how to go down.
Several people looked at each other, all of them looked like they were thinking hard.
Because they wanted to show something so that they could get a share of the next exploration. At least, their role should be mentioned in the subsequent exploration report.
Once Dean Hiram successfully enters the Dawn Wizard, then they will have the opportunity to go further with their performance in the exploration of the floating city ruins.
Suddenly, one of them had a bright look in his eyes, as if he had thought of something. He quickly bent down and touched the ground with his hand, which was emitting a light silver metallic luster, as if he was sensing something.
Soon, he looked up and said,
"My lords, I think I know the reason." "
There must be a reason why the Sword Saint Tirion did not use his sword to chop the metal ground at that time."
"Oh?" Hearing this, the Sword Saint Gutierrez's face was slightly relieved.
Although he had just killed the mechanical octopus quickly, his physical energy consumption was not small. In addition, he was also worried about the failure to cut the metal ground.
However, now that he heard that the Sword Saint Tirion had not tried to chop the metal ground, he felt much better.
"Speak to the point, otherwise the mechanical monster will come again later." Alvin hated this way of talking that kept people in suspense.
But unfortunately, Alvin forgot that these researchers had been deafened by him, so the researcher still spoke a lot.
".In addition to being solidified forever, the metal ground should also have some strange force between metal particles, similar to stress."
"So, at that time, the adults did not take action, but the Lord Ryan, who was a metal-based dawn wizard, cast some metal-based magic and slowly "corrupted" the metal ground."
This explanation was immediately recognized by the three people including Alvin.
No wonder it can't be cut!
That's it.
"What's the solution?" Garrett couldn't help asking, but he immediately realized that several researchers were deafened and immediately gestured again.
"Oh, sir, we brought a metal particle generator, which should be able to resist this stress in a certain area. By then, I think it will be cut." The researcher understood the gesture and said immediately.
"Then what are you waiting for, get moving." Alvin couldn't help but be angry. There is a way but he didn't act quickly. Is he going to delay until the second wave of mechanical octopuses?
Soon, several researchers took out a disc-like device from their bags and placed it at the four vertices of the square.
Then, Gutierrez jumped high again and performed sword moves.
This time, with the four black sword beams cutting into the metal ground, he didn't need to hit it hard anymore. The square cut surface began to slowly fall.
"It's true!"
"I said it, the young Dawn Wizard named Ryan couldn't be so strong! His Majesty Gutierrez couldn't cut it, but the other party could."
"Humph, it turns out that the other party was taking advantage of the situation." Alvin couldn't help but raise his chin with a little pride and snorted!
Seeing that the ground was successfully cut, the others naturally smiled.
Even Gutierrez's usually serious face showed a smile.
"Do we need to send someone to stay and guard it?" "No one
can stay on this floor. My followers just tried stealth and found that they would still be discovered." Alvin pointed to the petite leather armored woman next to him who only showed a pair of eyes, and said.
"My lords, don't worry. We have brought a lot of these particle generators."
A few minutes later.
As the team entered the negative first floor, Alvin couldn't help showing a greedy look in his eyes as he looked at the huge space with various gears and mechanical devices running automatically.
How great it would be if this floating city could be completely controlled by me!
Then I should become the strongest wizard in the entire federation.
However, Alvin suppressed his desire and said in a deep voice: "From Hiram's report, this floor is mainly to control the movement and protection of the ground floor. If we want to gain something, we must at least enter the negative second floor."
"Well, let's go directly to the negative second floor." Garrett also agreed.
Soon, relying on the particle generator to isolate the metal stress, Sword Saint Gutierrez successfully chopped the metal ground again, and the whole team entered the negative second floor.
"Hiram's report said that there was a violent explosion in the workshop area on the negative second floor. There should be no mechanical monsters in other areas of this floor except the prison."
"But this floor has been searched by Tirion's team. Your Majesty Gutierrez, Your Majesty Garrett, should we continue to the next floor?" Alvin said.
Although his face was calm, he had long been looking forward to the harvest on the third floor.
"Yes, we can."
"But according to the report, Ryan from the Empire has not explored the prison. Should we go there first?" Gatler said after thinking for a moment.
He came to participate in the exploration, and naturally he had some special requests.
However, Gatler also saw the prison area specially marked in Hiram's report, saying that it was very dangerous.
To be cautious, it is better to try the water in the prison area first.
"What does Your Majesty Gutierrez think?" Alvin frowned and said.
"Let's go to the prison first to see the situation. It's safer to proceed step by step."
"Since both of you agree, let's go to the prison first." Although Irvin was a little disappointed, he thought that if he could find the remains of some ancient prisoners in the prison, he would definitely gain something, so he stopped insisting.
A few minutes later.
"Wait, there is movement, from the front and the right, approaching us quickly." Gutierrez suddenly stopped, pointed to the front and the right, and said with a serious face.
"It should be the mechanical chocobo patrol?"
"No, at least from the sound, it's definitely not." Gutierrez shook his head.
Soon, there was no need for everyone to guess, a completely new mechanical monster appeared.
"Hey, this is... This is a mechanical velociraptor?" Garrett was surprised.
"But Hiram's report didn't say there was such a thing on this floor." Irvin looked at the mechanical velociraptor and was slightly startled.
And several researchers had never been to the negative second floor at all, and at this time, they also had a confused expression on their faces.
Two teams of raptors appeared on their left and in front of them. Each team had more than ten raptors, with an average height of more than three meters. They were controlled by goblin corpses. The raptor leading each team was obviously taller, about four and a half meters.
The hooked claws of these raptors were tens of centimeters long, shining with a metallic luster. They were extremely sharp at first glance. Their lower limbs were particularly thick compared to their bodies, and their hydraulic and gear devices were exposed.
If Hiram was there, he would have immediately judged that the opponent's structure indicated that they were extremely fast.
The battle started immediately!
Since there was no information, the speed and flexibility displayed by the mechanical raptors as soon as they fought surprised everyone present.
Compared with the mechanical chocobos, the difference between the two was like one was a security patrol and the other was an armed regular army.
A few minutes later, although the team quickly cleared the two teams of raptors, casualties occurred for the first time. One follower of Alvin and Garrett died.
"It's really tricky. No wonder that the empire's Ryan left after exploring for a while. However, for our team, this is not a big problem." Alvin raised his chin slightly, still with a slightly arrogant expression.
"If there are more, even we need to be careful."
"Wait! There is a hissing sound, it's the sound of cutting, and the noise is getting louder and louder." Suddenly, Gutierrez, who was in front of the team, stopped and said.
At this time, the other people in the team pointed in multiple directions.
"Look, mechanical raptors!"
"There are also here!"
"There are also behind!" The female archer at the back of the team also exclaimed.
Judging from the number, there are more than fifty, no, one hundred!
These mechanical velociraptors are like real velociraptors, able to organize large-scale hunting.
"Don't panic, defend where you are!" Alvin said in a deep voice.
In his opinion, these velociraptors may be a threat to his followers, but for a strong man like him who has reached the level of a Dawn Wizard, they are not a fatal threat, at most they are a problem.
When his two heavy knights heard the order, they leaped forward and raised their tower shields to block in front of Alvin.
Suddenly, the buzzing sound became louder and louder, and a high-speed rotating cutting disc with a radius of more than three meters emerged from the ground below. In an instant, it cut Alvin's two heavy knights holding tower shields in half.
Then, the disc flashed and split Alvin, who was performing the fire-type Dawn killing move behind the two knights, in half!
The speed was so fast that it was almost lightning!
"What!" Sword Saint Gutierrez and Garrett were stunned immediately!
Alvin is dead?
Such a Level 4 Dawn Wizard died just like that?
Actually, there was a bit of coincidence here. Since Alvin was performing the fire-type Dawn killing move, the casting time was long, and he did not expect the attack to appear from under the metal ground.
Finally, he trusted the combat power of the two heavy knights under his command too much. In fact, he did not even block the opponent for a moment, and had no time to dodge!
This led to the situation of being almost killed instantly.
At this time, the sound of the huge metal plate twisting, which made people feel teeth ache, began to come from below.
As the metal ground cracks were cut open, a huge metal dinosaur skull with a huge red glow squeezed out from the thick metal layer below.
The size of this metal head alone is comparable to that of a steam locomotive.
Zeta.
At this time, the half-day inspection of Zeta, the last stop of the Empire delegation in the Federation, also ended successfully.
The federal reception staff headed by Deputy Speaker Bertrand was seeing off the "Red Queen" Menia, Ryan and Reginald at the Zeta airship berth.
"Thank you, Mr. Vice Speaker, for your meticulous arrangements and hospitality during this period." Menia smiled.
"It is my honor, Your Highness Menia, I look forward to meeting you next time." Bertrand bowed slightly and said.
However, when Bertrand finished his last sentence and Menia began to turn around and board the boat, a servant with a serious expression suddenly came to Bertrand and whispered two words.
Although Bertrand just nodded and didn't say anything, Ryan could feel that the other person shook slightly, and the smile on his face suddenly became stiff.
Obviously, something serious must have happened.
After Menia, Ryan and other members of the imperial delegation boarded the airship, Bertrand's face suddenly fell, and he said to the attendants behind him in a deep voice:
"Notify Senator Nelson and Admiral Randall to hold a meeting immediately!"
"By the way, see if Hiram has left. If he hasn't left, notify him to attend the meeting."
The beautiful female Senator Terena frowned when she heard Bertrand's words, and asked softly: "Mr. Vice Speaker, what happened?"
Bertrand waved his hand, signaling the attendants and officials around him to leave, and sighed:
"Senator Terena, just now, during the exploration of the floating city ruins led by the military, His Majesty Alvin died on the spot, and Sword Saint Gutierrez returned to the camp with serious injuries. At present, only His Majesty Garrett and a few others survived."
"What!" Terena covered her mouth and exclaimed.
You know, the Federation has not lost two epic-level strongmen at once for a long time.
Half an hour later, a high-level secret meeting was held in a special meeting room in the Zetayan Administrative Hall.
After the situation was reported, the scene was completely silent!
After a long while, Trena spoke first: "I am deeply shocked and saddened to hear the news of the sacrifice of the two His Majesties!"
"But what I want to know is why the military's exploration operation was so fast this time. The operation was launched the day after our last meeting. May I ask Admiral Randall, have you done sufficient investigation and preparation for the operation?"
"The three Federation powerhouses have rich combat experience. In addition, they also read the report of Lord Hiram before officially entering the floating city ruins. Therefore, although entering the next day is a bit faster, I don't think there is any problem."
"But this happened. We have reason to believe that Lord Ryan of the Empire may have made some moves on the negative second floor." Admiral Randall said with a gloomy face.
The death of two Federation epic powerhouses with military backgrounds is a very heavy loss for the military faction.
He did not expect this situation to happen.
"That's impossible!"
Hiram, who was sitting at the bottom of the table, couldn't help but speak.
In this high-level meeting, it stands to reason that he couldn't speak freely at his level, but he couldn't help it.
"Mr. Ryan has clearly pointed out that we should not enter the prison at will. I also mentioned this in my report and highlighted it."
At this time, Nelson knocked on his pipe to interrupt Hiram's speech, squinting his eyes and said:
"This is where Mr. Ryan is smart. He deliberately reminded us of this because he knew that our Federation strongmen would take the initiative to explore later, so he reversely designed a trap for me to fall into."
"I totally disagree!" A mature female voice sounded.
"Then Mr. Nelson, according to what you said, if Mr. Ryan didn't remind us at that time, would it be considered as deliberately concealing it?"
"In that case, wouldn't it be wrong for Mr. Ryan to remind us, and it would be wrong not to remind us?"
Trena's words immediately made Nelson not know how to refute for a while.
"Obviously this is a problem caused by the military's impatience and recklessness. It's shameless to blame it on someone else's well-intentioned reminder." Hiram stood up and said angrily.
"In the eyes of those who are prejudiced, everything they see is prejudice!"
"Everyone, please excuse me for leaving. I have to return to Antu Hall to prepare for promotion. Goodbye!" Hiram turned and left immediately.
Admiral Randall's face turned pale at this time. He was about to scold Hiram, but when he heard the other party's last word "promotion matters", his lips stammered twice and he just said nothing.
Except for Bertrand who knew about it two days ago, the others present looked at the departing director of the Federal Mechanical Research Institute with surprise.
No force or faction wanted to offend a Dawn Wizard who was about to be promoted.
Especially, the other party was a well-known scientific research leader in the Federation.
(End of this chapter)
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