Age of Adepts

Outer ring, Byron family site.

In a small secluded room away from the banquet hall, Goblin Kabi is manipulating with enthusiasm.

In front of him, a simple magic machine held up a white light screen, and the self-styled Duke of Gazruwi, the greatest chief inventor, engineer and face-to-face merchant of the Energetic Empire, was wearing high multiples of single-glasses and a spilling roar.

“No, never...” Gazruvi waved a green arm with heavy hair: “Less than 17 magic crystals to avoid talking... I won't let you vampires take advantage of me any more... and we've known each other for so long and you've never gotten anything of value... you... you're not a qualified businessman, you deserve to be a corrupt goblin who picks up garbage...”

The other party's cynicism obviously also deeply stimulated Goblin Kabi, and any insult to his “businessman" dreams would provoke extreme anger.

“You're just a coward hiding behind a light screen every day. The conveyor you gave me was a piece of shit. It can only deliver items weighing no more than 500 grams, and there is bound to be a transmission error once every three or four transfers. Do you know where you randomly dumped the treasure that you sent me into the multiverse? Do I have to bear the damage caused by your machine? ”

“Bastard, you unculturally foolish goblin, you have no idea how terrible energy is needed to transmit through two different facades. You don't have an energy furnace, you don't have a reaction pool, you don't have an energy room... you lowly goblin with nothing, just some low-coloured energy crystal to get a large and stable space passage? Don't tell me the Great Empire doesn't have this kind of technology, which I'm afraid the wizard behind you can't do either! ”

“What should we do? Who is to bear the damage caused by always making such a fuss and pointing to an unreliable conveyor to start trading items? ”

“If you can get some wizard supplies or strange energy treasures that are useful to me, I can afford the loss of cargo caused by space depletion and space turbulence. ”

“Huh, don't think I'm cheating because I don't know anything. Your machine is too unreliable to carry out a large number of facade transactions, almost all of which are one-time. You get the samples, and you don't need a subsequent transaction after the parsing is successful. And I spent so much effort searching for resources for you, I only got a few rewards. I won't do anything stupid like that again! ”

“Er...” Gazruvi pushed the clip glasses on his push face across the screen and again carefully measured the small sperm in front of him.

Unexpectedly, truly unexpectedly, a little goblin who lived under the slavery and softness of a terrible wizard, without half the knowledge of scientific and technological civilization, could actually figure out such a complicated logic. It had to impress him with Cubbie.

“All right, all right, little Cubby! Now that we all need something in each other's hands, show some sincerity. I can raise a little price appropriately, and you... are about to come up with something that really helps!” The green face of Gazruvi's wrinkled face is full of sincerity.

“Is my presence really valuable to you and to the earth?” Cubbie asked puzzled.

“Of course!” Gazruwi pushed again: “You know, you're in a world of witches, a huge surface of the famous multiverse, vastly larger than the one where our geo-regional empire is located. I accidentally throw the transmitter into space turbulence, and it could appear in any corner of the multiverse as space drifts. And if you let me open a new passage to the world of wizards, the power of the Great Empire of Earth cannot be done, nor can it be done. After all, a wizard is a very scary, very aggressive creature in legend! ”

“What do you mean, we can only rely on this shitty machine deal? ”

“Yes!”

“What is there to pay special attention to using this conveyor? ”

“First of all, if the transmitter wants to work steadily, you'd better be able to find a powerful energy source for it. ”

“Like what? ”

“such as the energy pool...”

“Do you think my little goblin has access to the energy pool in the Wizard's Tower? Next..."

“Natural places where elements converge, such as large storm core areas, underground volcanoes...”

“Are you sincere or not? Aren't you going to die in those places with my strength? ”

“Or some high-order energy crystal, at least ten times more powerful than the magic crystal you're using right now, is likely to stabilize the conveyor. ”

“Advanced Energy Crystal? What the hell is that? Could you be a little more careful...” Cubbie flipped her belly bag troubled as she mumbled. Later, as a hassle, it simply poured out everything in its lumbar bag, leaving it to cover the entire desktop.

“Wait… wait…” Gazruwi's urgent voice suddenly appeared on the light screen: “What is that silver and white metal object? ”

“Hmm?” Kabi pulled a heavy metal sphere out of the messy pile of items as Gazruwi suggested.

This is a metallic sphere that looks like silver carved out of silver, but doesn't have the soft touch of silver. The spherical surface is uneven and full of strange patterns and grooves that cannot be detected. Though it doesn't perceive any energy, it is the mechanical heart of a tunnel.

Mechanical Heart, the alchemically activated heart created by the Puppeteer for high-end puppets or statues, is the most core part of a witchcraft puppet. It can be said that the Puppet Knight is capable of such a powerful battle power that, in addition to the hard shells stacked with countless rare resources, it is the presence of the mechanical heart that revives this icy, hard-boiled metal creature.

And when that Luno puppeteer merged the soul of a second-degree knight, the ability of this machine heart developed dramatically. Just give it a good metal body and it will bring it back to life again as a powerful metal fighter.

Such a powerful mechanical heart cannot, of course, be the property of the Goblin Kabi, but a trophy seized by its master Grimm.

After thoroughly analyzing the secrets, Grimm also thought about whether to retain the heart of the machine and build himself an indestructible steel guard, but unfortunately he could not hear the news of the puppet talisman.

Without the puppet talisman, it means that to truly build a huge steel guard, Grimm, like those low-ranking Orthodox wizards, can only run around the world with a goose on top of the sky. The fighters are strong, but not portable is enough to condemn them to death.

It's nice to throw this stuff at the home guard portal when Grimm has his own place or the Wizard Tower in the future. But now... with it, it's better to bring a few more high-end demon puppets!

So Grimm, who intended to use it in exchange for some high-order elemental nucleus, threw it at Kabby at will. Anyway, Kabi is also aspiring to be a goblin merchant, and it does the right thing to welcome her.

At this moment, Kabi held the heart of the machine with her hands and looked at the light screen in confusion.

“Does this mechanical heart work for you? ”

“Of course it worked. If I'm not mistaken, it should be a magical mechanical control core acquired by witches using witchcraft methods, and the kind with super high intelligence. Our great empire follows a magical mechanical route, and although it can create a similar magical mechanical core, it has never been possible to find the means to integrate the soul of life into it. ”

“So you can sell a lot of money?” Cabbie tossed the metal ball gently with a smile on his face.

“Uh...” Gazruwi silenced.

“Go ahead, hurry up, what price would you be willing to pay for this machine heart? Don't fool me with the bad stuff like rocket boots and parachutes... and this mechanical heart is seriously overloaded, are you sure it can be transmitted through your conveyor? ”

“ …… ”

After a long period of silence, Gazruwi seemed finally to understand that the green and greasy face once again had a glowing smile.

“Dear Kabi, I hereby solemnly present to you the greatest war machine of the Empire, the Magical Armor. With it, you will no longer have to fear your enemies. It will be your most loyal and powerful warrior, destroying all enemies in its sight! ”

“Oh, you mean the kind of horrible metallic guy as big as a hill? I'm not setting up a construction team. You give me this mutant logging robot. What can I do with it? I'm afraid it takes me hundreds of years just to collect the metals and parts I need to build it. Does that mean anything to me?” Cabbie's IQ today has apparently exploded, and he is no longer the little goblin of the past who can fool around and growl angrily at the light screen.

“Don't be angry, dear Kabby, then I recommend you a super terrible assault weapon - the Magic Artillery. With it, you'll be able to flourish. No enemy can resist its horrible blow! ”

“No, no, no... I'm a peace-loving goblin merchant. You should sell what you kill! I just need some advanced elemental core, which is what the owner himself ordered to collect, and the more, the better...”

“Okay, well, Element Core is Element Core, at what price do you intend to trade? ”

“The Magical Energy Armor manufacturing method and finished product of the Evil Energy Artillery, plus 100 + Elemental Crystal Cores! ”

“Bullshit!” Gazlovy jumps three feet high right now: “Why don't you go rob it? Your mechanical heart is not worth the price! ”

“How much can you pay? ”

Gazruwi immediately stretched out three fingers, but hesitated and then bit his teeth into four.

“4 second-order elemental crystal cores, that's all you need! ”

“You fart...” This time it's Kabi's turn to jump three feet high: “You're a robbery... you're a robbery of the red... you're the greediest, most shameless, least exasperated goblin I've ever seen... such a price is a robbery...”

Both geodesies of the same race are obviously infiltrated with petty and obscene spirits, but they are also greedy and shameless. So across a ragged light screen, the two guys from time to time refer to the screaming of the heavens and earth, but not for long, the two will come together, the muzzle bargaining.

So, as the night darkened, a strange, cross-cutting deal was reached!