Age of Adepts

Lance plane.

Within a huge metal fortress, all machines are running at maximum efficiency.

Hundreds of engineering machines are busy in dim tunnels in a metal vein close to a thousand metres underground. There are no human beings here, so there are no lighting fixtures, and all the machines are rushing in and out in the dark, carrying the mined ore into the hoistway.

Most of these newly mined ores are iron ore rich in metals and need to be transported to the crushing workshop to be crushed into finely shredded slag before being sent to the smelting workshop for initial metal refining and then to the refining workshop to be molten into metal ingots that are easier to transport and store…

A tightly connected in-workshop machine sounds, and the tracks are running constantly until a piece of metal ingot weighing up to a ton is transported to the warehouse. This fully automated metal mining, smelting and casting process is officially completed.

Ever since the brain monster Gazruwi commanded the metal fortress to lay its roots in the Stoneclaw Mountains, resource extraction and magic have never ceased. After only 35 years of kung fu, a vast mineral range stretching over hundreds of kilometres was dug up, the entire base of the Stoneclaw Mountains was dug up, and many areas were severely plunged and mountains collapsed.

Brain Monster Gazruwi gets up to 110,000 Magic Warrior protozoa.

Unfortunately, they are just prototypes of Magic Warriors, not fighters that activate the Intelligent Control Hub. It's not that Gazruwi doesn't want to activate them all, but... the energy supply of the metal fortress just doesn't keep up.

Each Magic Warrior needs 4—6 Magic Batteries to maintain normal activity throughout the day. Energy depletion is doubled in the face of intense fighting. The magic energy produced in a day by the full powered Magic Furnace of Brain Monster Gazruvi can also contain up to 800 Magic Batteries.

Moreover, besides the magic battery, which consumes a lot of energy, there are also many magic manufacturing and research workshops that require a lot of magic to maintain operation. With seven buckles and eight buckles, the Magic Furnace's ability to produce 500 magic batteries per day is already a limit.

To maximize magic energy savings, all Mechanical Warriors walking down the downstream line were kept in their native state, not activated, and then plunged into an empty mountain belly in batches. The Metal Fortress maintains a minimum of 150 Magic Warriors.

After years of rest and recuperation, Brain Monster Gazruwi finally managed to accumulate nearly a million magic batteries. It also means that the intolerant brain monster Gazruwi, for years, now finally has a material basis for a powerful outbreak.

A rare visitor arrived at the Metal Fortress while Gazruvimo silently figured out which dragon lord nearby should open his knife.

“Dear Ms. Alice, welcome to the Metal Fortress. Don't know what I can do for you?” Though Gazruvi is above Alice in rank, the brain monster who is bound by man knows his place. Therefore, it is also extremely charming and enthusiastic in the face of the woman who is most likely to become her own mother.

With a purple star robe, Alice, once again beautiful, stands alone in a huge, empty metal lobby, with nothing to see but silver and white metal floors. Gazrovi's magic furnace, which is now the magic energy fountain of the entire metal fortress, cannot leave the power compartment easily, so it can only communicate with Alice in a spiritual message.

Alice held a mysterious wand bigger than herself, her shoulder flying with Helen, the vibrant and moving magic elf, glanced around and asked softly, "Lord Gazrovi, did you not know the warning message from the Flame Throne the other day? ”

Soon afterwards, the empty metal lobby overflowed with spiritual fluctuations characteristic of Gazruvina.

“I have received and responded to their call by dispatching 200 Magic Warriors and 20,000 Magic Batteries. ”

“These are not enough to solve the crisis facing the Deep Red Throne!” Alice nailed the railroad.

“That's not my problem, beautiful lady!” Gazruwi hey, sneer: “My orders before the master left were to guard this metal fortress and provide a stable and secure position for the Deep Red family. As for what happens in the world of witches, it is not within my authority to administer them! ”

“But the Deep Red Throne means so much to your master that it should not be abandoned in this way in the hands of the enemy! ”

“I'm still the answer!” Gazruwi insisted: "This is not my problem. If you want me to pay more, get the master's orders. ”

Alice smiled slightly.

Although Grimm still has a weak line of communication with her, she is in danger and cannot be contacted at any time, so Gazruwi's insistence at hand is in fact only a conjecture.

It is clear that Gazruwi has regarded the entire metal fortress and its inner appendages as his own private property and is unwilling to dedicate more to ‘others' than his masters. While it does not mind cooperating with the other wizards of the Deep Red family, it is delusional to use the strength and resources of its men.

Alice was obviously prepared for this situation.

“Lord Gazrovi, you intend to take the psychopathic route! Don't know what you think about the way forward? ”

The hall was suddenly quiet.

Another moment later, Gazrovi's spiritual fluctuations re-emerged.

“I hear you are a great witch of destiny! Don't know what advice and guidance you have for my current development?” Curiously, there were some arrogant 3-step monsters who were particularly humble at this moment and particularly soft in their body.

“Not much advice and guidance, just some curiosity and interest in your current situation. Proud, smart people like you naturally have long-term planning and adjustments to their lives, but I need to remind you of a question… never underestimate the development of the source! ”

Another moment of silence was observed in the lobby.

“Are you saying that I'm a little off track now? ”

Alice smiled again.

“What do you think? ”

“… I was the Duke of the Earth's Magnificent Empire, and I managed to alienate my brain to its present form in order to break the yoke of life. To that end, I even completely abandoned my past geological identity and thought of myself as a brain monster. So... my soul should be... spiritual strength! ”

“Just so you know!” Alice grabbed Helen, flying in and out of her sight with her hands, and put her on her shoulder again, and went on to say: "Your soul originated in a psychomeric path characterized by the assimilation of heterogeneous metals that infused magical energy. This powerful power has become your most powerful tool, helping you build such a magnificent metal fortress. Without energy and resource constraints, it would be more than enough for you to build a steel capital by yourself...”

Listening to Alice's bragging, Gazruwi did not feel half happy, but waited quietly for a turnaround in the other person's conversation.

If not, Alice said what she didn't want to hear when she changed her tone.

“Unfortunately, such powerful powers bewitch you and make you forget your soul. Your origin is mental strength, not the forging of Fae magic. Creating so many Magic Warriors may give you a false illusion that you are becoming stronger, but... I would like to ask you again, have you really strengthened yourself since you chose to merge with Magic Furnace? ”

The metal hall was silenced again.

This time it was truly dead and silent, even the constant rumbling and the hidden vibrations at the feet suddenly stopped. This metallic city made entirely of heterogeneous metals has fallen into a real silence of death.

After a long time...

Gazrovi's spiritual fluctuations connected Alice again.

“It seems I've wasted all these years in vain, draining all my energy on the less meaningful Legion of Magic. If I can't find a path that really suits me, maybe my evolutionary path will stay in step 3 forever. This… this… is me… absolutely unbearable…"

“Don't think extreme all the time, your current behavior is not entirely wrong. At least you have the opportunity to consider the way forward if you are absolutely safe. You haven't really wasted all these years, at least you've built a legion of magic to protect your safety and become the body and the cornerstone of your will in the future. As long as you find the right direction, with the help of these Legions of Magic, your progress will be much faster...”

“But I'm confused... I really don't know how a true brain monster should be promoted? Let my brain split up a little more, or find a way to devour some other brain of intelligent life? I am confused and confused...”

“Perhaps I can provide you with a suitable way to gain knowledge of the brain monster promotion...”

“Really...”

Gazruvi's spiritual fluctuations were steep and the entire interior of the metal fortress rumbled back to its near-roaring spiritual ‘whisper’. Fortunately, Alice's machine blocked the spiritual passage between the two of them early, otherwise she would have to be stunned by a ‘mental shock wave' of a 3rd level brain monster.

“But my message was never free, and now it depends on how much you're willing to pay for it! ”

Then Alice and Gazrovi whispered in the metal lobby, and the voices of the two were getting lower and lower.

Finally, everyday ‘calm' is restored in the lobby again!