stjorthotic Chapter 276 Ancient Epic
Chapter 276 Ancient Epic
Chapter 280 Ancient Epic
The buildings inside the Shadow Camp are very simple, mostly low houses made of rough stones, with a whole fire crystal embedded in the wall for lighting.
In the center stands a round tower over ten meters high, and in the room atop the tower is a treasure chest.
Richard stepped forward and lifted the lid of the box; inside were three items.
A dark sword, an old book with a worn cover, and a bone key.
The key is made entirely of a non-reflective bone material and is shaped like a flattened skull.
The moment Richard reached out to pick it up, a system notification sounded in his mind.
[Tip: The seal on the Skull Cave has been broken. You can now open a portal to the Skull Cave at any time within the farm area.]
It's finally open!
Apart from the resources in the magma layer, other copper, iron, silver, and gold ingots have been almost entirely consumed during the construction of the inner city and the creation of the legion's armed forces.
Now that the Skeleton Cave is open, all mineral resources have been refreshed, providing a new source of resources.
At this moment, Karl picked up the old book from the box, frowning as he examined it from all angles.
The cover features a line of intricate and exquisite silver foil lettering.
"These black-clad bastards can actually read?"
Being able to understand books indicates a certain level of wisdom, yet after fighting for a full forty floors, they showed no intention of communicating.
How strange!
Richard took the old book from him, and his eyes lit up when he recognized the words on the cover!
One [The Lost Book]
There's this thing in the game; it contains some settings and interesting facts.
He had only glanced at it briefly when he played it before, and he couldn't remember the specific details very well.
Richard slowly turned the pages, his gaze sweeping over the lines of text, his brows gradually furrowing.
The dwarves call themselves Smoluanu, which translates to "sky people." Isn't that a strange name for a group of people living deep underground?
I believe that dwarves were survivors of a highly advanced civilization in the past.
Long ago, their interstellar vehicle crashed on this planet, and the spaceship began drilling into the ground, all the way down to the deepest part of the earth.
Over time, the dwarves adapted to their new underground living environment.
Why don't they come to the ground?
Perhaps their previous planets had thick atmospheres that protected them from star radiation, making it impossible for them to survive in our sunlight now.
This explains why they only appear on the ground at night to take what they need from our house.
Closing the book, Richard sighed inwardly. The contents of this lost book were exactly the same as the text in the game; it was simply...
He suddenly jolted awake.
wrong!
Is it possible that the ancient dwarf ancestors of the Huanxing Continent were actually aliens?
Space...
Impact...
Suddenly, his thoughts drifted uncontrollably to the rocky forest. The first time he went there, he found the terrain extremely strange.
The area was littered with strangely shaped boulders, the broken edges and arrangement of which did not appear to be naturally formed.
It's as if a continuous mountain range was crushed by some terrifying external force, and the fragments scattered and piled up, eventually forming the rugged stone forest we see today over a long period of time.
He had guessed at the time:
The Arctic Ocean surged, and towering waves carrying iceberg fragments crashed against the coastal mountains, carving out the relatively flat Chiffon Wasteland we see today.
The rocky forest was located at the very end of the impact zone, leaving behind a large accumulation of rubble.
But what if it wasn't a tsunami, but a massive impact?
A spaceship that fell from the sea of stars streaked across the sky, leaving a burning trail, and crashed into the northern shore of the wasteland at a violent speed.
The shockwave from the impact shattered the coastal mountains, and the resulting tsunami surged back inland, washing away the exposed seabed silt into a mudflat.
The rocky forest wasn't destroyed by the waves; it was shattered by the aftershocks of the impact!
At the time, he was puzzled that there was a recessed area of sea covering more than ten square kilometers along the coast of the rocky forest, which was also considered as legal land.
That might be the point of impact!
After the spaceship crashed into the ground, it began drilling into the earth. Then, a racial war broke out between the survivors and the Shadow Clan underground, which lasted for thousands of years, leading to the near extinction of the dwarves.
During those war-torn years, some of the scattered dwarves had to migrate to other places, such as the present-day Dwarf Valley.
Then they degenerate and reproduce generation after generation.
They have become the race we know today, famous for their forging and spirits, but who have long forgotten where they came from!
By the way...
The remains at the bottom of the pool on the twentieth level of the mine, and the broken brick that Carl retrieved, which appeared to be a circuit board.
Perhaps, it wasn't the remains of an ancient dwarven dungeon at all, but rather the wreckage of an alien spaceship!
Carl had never seen a spaceship, so he assumed it was architectural ruins. If that's the case, everything makes sense!
Richard stood there, holding the yellowed old book, stunned, goosebumps rising on his arms.
This feeling is wonderful.
It wasn't fear, but a mixture of excitement at discovering a great secret and awe at glimpsing ancient history!
Is this an epic Easter egg discovered?!
Wow!
As expected of the last level of the mine, the harvest was indeed enormous!
"Sir?" Karl asked tentatively when Richard remained silent for a while. "What does it say?"
Richard snapped out of his daze, glanced at Carl's bewildered face, and then looked down at the old book in his hand.
Finally, he shook his head.
He wouldn't understand even if I explained it to him.
Outer space, aliens, atmosphere, interstellar spaceship—Karl knew all of these words when broken down.
But if they were together, he would probably just think that the lord was talking nonsense.
"Back to the ground."
Richard turned and headed towards the stairs, his steps much lighter than when he came up.
I have enough iridium ingots, enough void essence, and enough wood. The materials for the space-based dragon-slaying cannon are finally gathered.
It was already afternoon when we got back to the ground.
Richard did not land, but flew straight to the lord's mansion, hovering at the highest point of the entire Chiffon City.
His consciousness sank into the system panel and switched to the magnificent building interface.
The blueprint for the Space-Based Dragon-Slaying Cannon has already been drawn up, and all the materials are neatly piled up in the warehouse, just waiting for this moment.
Should we construct the space-based dragon-slaying cannon?
【Yes】
The moment it was confirmed, the numbers in the system's materials panel began to jump rapidly.
Gold coins plummeted, stone and wood each decreased by millions of units, and iridium ingots and void essence were also rapidly depleted.
Meanwhile, in the near-Earth orbit of a planet invisible to the naked eye, something is condensing and taking shape.
That's a craft that ordinary people can't understand.
Although he had no means of observation, Richard could sense that countless materials were emerging from the void.
The keel frame, cast from star core alloy, unfolds silently in a vacuum.
The menacing cannon barrels, stretching for thousands of meters, slowly converged, while the massive solar energy collection array bloomed like flower petals.
These metal components, which surpassed the limits of understanding of the entire era, were all assembled in an instant.
Finally, when the last alloy protective plate was perfectly fitted into the cannon barrel, a faint blue halo lit up at the bottom of the muzzle of the entire space-based dragon-slaying cannon.
The halo was extremely faint, so small against the backdrop of the vast expanse of space that it was almost negligible.
However, the appearance of this ring of eerie blue light indicates that this near-Earth orbit strike weapon has been officially deployed and is now ready for deployment.
A new building entry has been highlighted on the system panel:
[Building: Space-Based Dragon Slayer Cannon]
[Permissions: Richard Chiffon]
Location: Near Earth orbit, circumpolar zone
[Status: 100% charged]
[Efficiency: 3.33% per day (absorbing solar energy, approximately 30 days to fully recharge)]
[Accelerate: Can consume Iridium crops for active acceleration charging, increasing by 1% for every 100 crops]
[Cooling: Requires 24 hours to cool down after each launch]
[Attack: Heavy Particle Annihilation Cannon]
[Scope: Global coverage, precise strike at any coordinate on the Earth's surface]
[Damage radius: Annihilates all matter within a one-kilometer diameter of the target's surface area]
[Secondary Range: Within a 10-kilometer diameter of the target area, it will trigger an ultra-high temperature thermal explosion and shock wave.]
Richard slowly opened his eyes and looked up at the clear autumn sky.
Above the clouds, in the deep space beyond the reach of the naked eye, a cannon barrel several kilometers long is slowly adjusting its angle as the planet rotates.
This continent has never lacked wars, but from today onwards, Qi Feng has the means to end all wars!
Now...
Time to go home and grill some steak!
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