Wizard Bloodline

"Boom——"

The hemispherical building was torn apart from the inside by a force of violence, and a huge human-shaped hole was knocked out of the thick metal wall. A huge and burly figure strode out of the darkness.

This is a metal puppet that is more than ten meters tall. It has no head, and there are traces of rust and fracture on its neck. Its two hands are holding a black giant hammer that is almost larger than its body.

It was obviously chasing Dodor III. After quickly locking the position of Dodor III, without saying a word, it directly hit Ronan's head with a hammer.

"Huh-crack!"

The terrifying giant hammer exploded layers of air, making a series of terrifying, detailed explosions.

At the moment when the giant hammer was swung, traces of many rune light paths suddenly appeared on the huge headless puppet. Before the giant hammer fell completely, a dim yellow halo emanated from the surface of the hammer, suddenly covering Ronan and his knees. The surrounding Dodor III is shrouded in it.

Ronan suddenly felt his body sink, as if his whole figure suddenly sank a few inches, and the extremely solid metal ground under his feet also creaked under the weight.

"Gravity field?!"

"Boom! Bang!"

The terrifying giant hammer with a diameter of nearly eight meters hit the ground hard. A large piece of metal exploded directly, setting off a huge wave of dust mixed with countless metal debris. The street was lifted up layer by layer, and the ground shook violently. Shaking as if experiencing a miniature earthquake.

Ronan's figure, wrapped in armor, appeared in another location not far away. Dodor III was at his feet, looking like he was following suit.

Under the mask with countless silver-white flowing complex and mysterious patterns, Ronan's eyes flashed slightly.

The power of the metal puppet introduced by Dodor III just now is no less powerful than the spells released by ordinary second-level late-stage wizards.

Coupled with the gravity field halo on the hammer and the hammer swing attack that does not require much guidance, it is really difficult for ordinary late-level wizards to deal with this move.

This is the result of the opponent's long period of erosion in the ruins of the Heart of Machinery. The puppet's body is rusted and damaged, and the power of the rune array in the body is weakened. If it were in its heyday, the strength of this metal puppet might be comparable to A third-level wizard, or even higher.

"No wonder Kirsty said that the metal spell puppets in the entire south come from the inheritance of the Heart of Machinery. The dwarves' research on metal puppet technology has indeed reached a very high level. Coupled with their powerful forging skills, it is even more powerful.

I don’t know if I got any advice from Spiert.”

"And such a powerful mechanical civilization has actually fallen. Is there any powerful existence in the south that even the hearts of machines feared?"

Ronan then thought of the ancient Court of Mirrors that had moved away, and wondered whether the disappearance of these two major forces was due to the same reason.

These thoughts only flashed through Ronan's mind, because after the hammer hit to no avail, the huge metal puppet had grabbed the giant hammer and turned around to rush towards him again.

A huge crater full of cracks appeared directly where it had just been hit by the hammer.

Facing the metal puppet that was approaching in large strides, Ronan had no intention of getting entangled with it and faced it head-on.

Two metal figures, one large and one small, silver and black, approached rapidly. The moment the latter raised the giant hammer in his hand again, the silver and white figures suddenly disappeared.

The next moment, a huge black humanoid appeared behind him, and without any pause, he rushed straight into the broken hemispherical metal building.

"Shua——"

Ronan rushed into the building, and the first thing he saw was an extremely huge blacksmith's forging platform. It was covered with dust, but there was a place that looked very clean. The place where the forging hammer should be placed was in the hands of the metal puppet outside. The black giant hammer he was holding.

A dwarf's home may not have a bathroom, but it must not have a blacksmith stove.

Ronan's mind flashed over the information he had seen in the wizard's book. He looked around the room and quickly found a dark spherical object among the piles of debris. Then, amid the sharp sound of breaking through the air quickly approaching behind him, He left here in a blink of an eye.

Ronan, who was wrapped in living silver, was holding Dodor III in one hand and holding something he had just found in an abandoned building in the other, walking quickly from building to building like a ghost.

He waited until the heavy footsteps could no longer be heard before he stopped.

Putting down Dodor III, Ronan casually dropped the spherical object in his arms on the ground.

"Bang--"

The black ball-shaped object, whose surface has been so corroded that it is almost impossible to recognize its original appearance, should be the fallen head of the headless metal puppet before, if Ronan guessed correctly.

Looking at the metal puppet head in front of him, Ronan's eyes flashed slightly, his lips moved, and he quickly spit out weird and awkward syllables one after another. With a few specific gestures, a large amount of mental power surged out of his mind, and violent spell fluctuations were released. , there are also large areas of metal free energy particles gathering around.

"#￥!!@!"

As Ronan uttered the last syllable of the spell, a large number of metal energy particles gathered around him swarmed towards the metal head on the ground, turning into a dense black vortex, instantly surrounding it.

After a moment, the vortex converged like smoke, and a black humanoid figure more than ten meters tall appeared.

It is almost the same as the metal puppet that chased Ronan before, except that this black figure has a rusty head that is completely unrecognizable, and its body is in a semi-illusory state, and it does not have the iconic black hammer in its hand.

[Mirror Soul] spell!

According to the breath provided by the magic medium, it can simulate and reproduce the prototype of the medium to a certain extent.

This spell was cast for the first time after Ronan came out of retreat.

Ronan looked at the magic puppet summoned by the [Mirror Soul] spell in front of him, thought about it, and made some further modifications to it.

He raised his right hand lightly, and the metal on the surrounding streets and buildings immediately peeled off and gathered towards the black figure. After a while, a real puppet body was formed.

Even the weapon hammer in the hand of the original puppet was reproduced one by one. Although the quality is definitely different, it can at least increase its lethality.

"Boom!"

Ronan commanded the puppet to attack, and the latter smashed a hole in the ground with a hammer.

It was almost equivalent to the strength of an ordinary second-level wizard, and Ronan was quite satisfied.

In the mechanical heart where metal was everywhere and the concentration of metal-based free energy particles was extremely high, summoning a metal-based magic puppet to drive was undoubtedly the most appropriate choice.

Although the strength of this thing was average, it was convenient to summon, and it would not be a pity if it was damaged, anyway, there were metals everywhere that were suitable for acting as a medium.

The spell summoned by the [Mirror Soul] spell was a one-time summon, but it would not disappear until the spell medium was exhausted.

Ronan could even consider temporarily forming a magic puppet army in the mechanical heart.

Of course, this was just an exaggeration. Even if he could do it, Ronan did not have that much energy. At most, forming a puppet team was great, which was enough.

After ordering the metal magic puppet to guard on the side, Ronan had time to check the metal box found by Dodor III.

It looked almost identical to the magic box that Costi had given him. It must be the surprise magic box of Spierte.

Even Ronan had not expected it to be so smooth. He found one without much effort, and he was slightly looking forward to it.

He picked up the magic box and looked at it carefully.

Costi had told him how to open the magic box, saying that he needed to crack the "lock" on it first.

The lock was not complicated, but the most difficult part was getting the magic box.

Ronan stared at the countless rotating gears on the magic box for a while, then stretched out his fingers and gently moved a few of them.

"Click, click--"

After a series of mechanical sounds, all the gears on the black metal magic box stopped rotating at the same time, and a faint white light came out of it, and then the whole magic box opened in all directions like a flower bud.

A thumb-long crystal potion bottle lay quietly in the box.

Ronan picked up the bottle, and through the crystal clear bottle body, he could clearly see the fingerprints on his fingertips.

"Empty?"

Ronan frowned slightly, picked up the bottle and shook it gently, only to find that there was a potion inside, but the potion was too transparent and too clear, so that at first glance it looked like an empty bottle.

Ronan hesitated for a moment, but decided to open the potion bottle.

He pressed the mouth of the bottle with his thumb and turned the crystal bottle slightly, so that a little bit of the potion inside was stained on the tip of his thumb.

The moment the potion touched the tip of his thumb, Ronan's thumb disappeared.

"Invisibility potion?!"

Ronan blinked his eyes, and after repeated attempts, he found that this was indeed a special potion that could make objects invisible, but it was much more powerful than ordinary invisibility potions. Not only could it perfectly hide the body, but also the smell, body temperature, soul breath, and mental fluctuations could be perfectly hidden.

"Good stuff."

Ronan's eyes showed a slight joy. This kind of potion, who knows when it will come in handy.

He estimated that this bottle of "invisibility potion" could be used by him two or three times. If the requirement for concealment was not so high, it could be used more than ten times after diluting it.

As for the duration of the drug effect

At least after Ronan had finished the preliminary analysis of the drug effect, his disappeared thumb had not reappeared.

"Here you go."

Ronan threw the first golden gear to Dodor III, who made a cheerful "baa" sound and then ate the golden gear in a few bites like eating a biscuit.

Ronan had explored the material of the golden gear. The material was quite ordinary, even worse than the nightmare tungsten steel and Neman alloy in his hand, but there was a strange magic power added to it, making it extraordinary.

It was just like the effect of [Silverization].

It had certain research value, but the metal itself was not of much value. Now he had another magic box in his hand, so it didn't matter if he threw the gear to Dodor III to satisfy his craving.

Ronan fed Dodor III some other metals.

"Go on."

Ronan no longer needed to use the mutual sensing function of the magic box. He completely relied on the native Dodor III and used him as a "search dog".

Dodor III was also happy to be driven by Ronan, and his four short legs spread out and ran very fast.

Two days later.

"Kacha--"

The metal magic box opened layer by layer in front of Ronan like a flower, and the white light inside dissipated, and a dark green foul-smelling gas quickly rushed out of it.

"Bang!"

Ronan spread his mental power, squeezing the air, breaking up the gas that had just been released in an instant, and the strong wind blew, sweeping away the smell in an instant.

After doing all this, he looked at the magic box again, and it was empty. It seemed that the box was originally filled with that disgusting stinking gas.

Ronan looked calm, and casually threw a golden gear and a few pieces of metal to Dodor III. He couldn't say whether he was disappointed or not.

In the past two days, through Dodor III, he found a total of seven magic boxes, which can be regarded as a deeper understanding of the meaning of the word "surprise" in the surprise magic box.

In addition to the magic box in front of him that sealed an unknown stinking gas, he also saw the dried feces of unknown creatures, unknown insect monster specimens, and even completely empty magic boxes in the opened magic box.

In comparison, the "invisibility potion" in the first magic box was the most valuable harvest.

Then there were a few runes of low grade, a low-level prophecy spell named [Mystical Divination].

Ronan spent a day and a half to successfully master the spell, and the effect after casting it was to condense the free energy particles in the air into abstract symbols of unknown meaning.

I haven't felt any effect yet, maybe there will be new changes after I become more proficient.

"These magic boxes...are actually divided into grades?"

Ronan didn't rush Dodor III to continue searching, but lined up all the opened magic boxes in his hand in front of him.

Carefully observing the appearance of these magic boxes, you can detect some subtle differences.

For example, the number of gears on it, the way the gears are arranged and assembled, and even the size of the magic box.

Just want to classify the magic boxes based on these subtle differences, the number of samples is still too small.

Ronan thought about it and turned to have an in-depth "communication" with Dodor III.

"Big... the appearance should be as luxurious and exquisite as possible."

Ronan didn't know whether Dodor III's little goat head could understand what he meant, and the target he set for Dodor III was just a very subjective and rough judgment of the grade of the magic box. Dodor III had eaten Ronan's "metal feed" for a few days and had been raised quite well by him.

After receiving the order, he made a "bleating" sound and rushed out quickly.

Ronan exhaled a foul breath and followed him patiently.

His communication with Dodor III seemed to be effective. This time, Dodor III ran for a long time and showed no intention of stopping.

The reddish-brown metal fog above the ruined city-state gradually dissipated, and soon Ronan saw the outline of an extremely huge building in the distance.

——

It was a metal statue that was about a thousand meters high.

The statue looked like a dwarf with strong limbs and a majestic appearance, holding an axe in one hand and a hammer in the other, with a thick beard hanging directly over his feet.

The statue seemed to be made entirely of gold. Although the luster of the whole body seemed a little dim under the erosion of time, it was still shocking and visually impactful.

Ronan stared at the statue so intently that he forgot to track down Dodor III.

He simply didn't bother to look for him, because that guy would come back to find him after finding the magic box.

Ronan looked down and saw a huge metal square under the statue, with many metal square towers standing on the square.

He followed Dodor III to wander in the abandoned city-state of the Mechanical Heart for two days. The Mechanical Heart was too big, but now he seemed to be close to the real center of this majestic city-state.

There were many metal elemental life wandering in this area, and the reddish-brown thick clouds that gathered but did not disperse could be seen everywhere.

However, after a few days, Ronan also figured out the habits of these metal elemental life. Generally speaking, the range of their wandering was not large. As long as you don't break into their "territory", you won't be attacked by them.

In general, the danger level of the Mechanical Heart Ruins is not high. The first headless metal puppet holding a hammer that he encountered during his exploration was the most "dangerous" opponent he had ever encountered.

Ronan's eyes flickered slightly, and the metal magic puppets summoned by the [Mirror Soul] spell behind him scattered around.

He was wrapped in the [Living Steel] armor, using the effect of [Space Silverization], flashing forward, and quickly walked towards the golden dwarf statue and the square.

In the past two days, in addition to several surprise magic boxes, Ronan's biggest gain was a large amount of rare metal media.

For a metal wizard, the Mechanical Heart is a treasure trove of materials everywhere, and there are too many metal forgings left by the dwarves.

Although most of them have been corroded by time, even Dodor III disdains to take a bite, but as long as you are willing to spend some time, you can still analyze some alloys and metals of decent grade from those rusted wastes.

Ronan collected a lot of them one after another, and selected some to mix into the original nightmare tungsten steel and Neman alloy, so that the metal knight armor formed after activation was directly two sizes larger, and the body height was nearly three meters, becoming more and more majestic, and the style was quite harmonious with the surrounding environment.

In fact, before this, Ronan had already felt that the grade of the two metal media, nightmare tungsten steel and Neman alloy, could not keep up with his current combat needs.

With the promotion to the third-level wizard imminent, the upgrade of the metal magic medium is also an urgent matter, both in terms of quality and quantity.

Now it can only be said that it is temporarily used.

Soon, Ronan entered the metal square under the golden dwarf statue without any danger.

As soon as he landed, he saw Dodor III sticking his butt out and wondering what was bulging under the golden dwarf statue, and half of his body was buried in the ground.

Ronan didn't bother to care about it. While it was looking for the magic box, he looked at the metal obelisk towers standing in the square one by one.

There are some rough-lined pictures engraved on the obelisk tower, and the contents of the pictures seem to record something.

Ronan saw a picture on an obelisk tower filled with bearded dwarves, guarding a dwarf wearing a crown and holding a scepter.

The content on the next obelisk tower changed. It was still the same group of dwarves, but they were kneeling on the ground, including the dwarf wearing a crown, who seemed to be worshiping something.

"Is it some kind of sacrificial ceremony? So this is a square used for sacrificial rituals?"

Ronan was thoughtful, looking up at the huge golden dwarf statue beside him, searching for information about the dwarf god in his mind.

Dodor III has disappeared, leaving only a big hole where the previous arch was.

Ronan withdrew his gaze and continued reading.

According to the picture content displayed on the obelisk tower this time, the sacrifice seems to have ended.

Oh no, Ronan looked at the contents of the next obelisk tower and found that the sacrificial ceremony should have officially begun.

On the screen, every dwarf is sweating profusely in front of his own blacksmith's forging bench, as if he is working hard to forge something.

Immediately afterwards, the collective forging activity ended.

Every dwarf participating in the forging raised his hands high, holding something like a staff, sword, crown, etc. on his hands.

Everything glows and seems to be magic equipment containing the power of runes.

Then the equipment began to collide with each other, some shattered and fell to the ground, while some were still shining brightly.

The process of the collision of magic tools and equipment was extremely tedious and long. Ronan quickly browsed through the obelisk towers one by one and walked through most of the square before he saw a hammer-like weapon that shattered all the forged objects and achieved the final victory. .

The dwarves used an entire obelisk tower to describe the power of this piece of equipment. It was a huge square hammer with patterns of lightning and flames carved around it, as well as countless ripples representing the fragmentation of space.

"Hey, do you want Thor's hammer?"

Ronan stretched out his hand to touch the texture of the hammer pattern and murmured.

The pattern on the next obelisk tower shows that the winning Hammer Forger dwarf is awarded the crown dwarf, and there are countless dwarves below raising their hands and cheering.

Ronan understood clearly. This seemed to be an ancient and unique tradition of the dwarves. They held a forging conference to worship the craftsmen and forging gods they believed in.

Looking at the next picture, Ronan's eyes instantly burst with intense light, and he rushed to the obelisk tower in an instant.

"Magic box!"

Ronan's eyes were fixed on the picture on the obelisk tower. He saw the dwarf wearing a crown carefully putting the hammer surrounded by thunder and flames and countless broken ripples into a square metal box. inside.

And that box looks like "Spirter's Magic Box of Surprise"!

"The powerful hammer instrument is put into the magic box"

Ronan continued to browse with burning eyes, and saw that the content of the picture turned into a conversation between the crown dwarf and several dwarves. There were magic boxes containing hammer weapons beside them.

Ronan looked at several patterns in succession and found that the crown dwarf and several other dwarves had always existed in the picture, but images of legendary creatures such as goblins, winged dragons, and one-eyed giants kept appearing around them.

"Are you worried that goblins, dragons and Cyclops will come to snatch or steal the box?"

Ronan's eyes flickered, guessing from what was shown on the screen.

If you think about it carefully, these legendary creatures do seem to have a penchant for collecting treasures.

It seems that after the hammer was sealed in the magic box, the crown dwarf still felt that it was not safe, so he was discussing better ways to preserve it with a few confidants.

"What solution did you come up with in the end?"

"Buzz-"

Just as Ronan was about to move to the next obelisk tower, he suddenly felt the sound of the ground shaking under his feet.

He subconsciously turned around and looked in the direction of the golden dwarf statue behind him, but at this time the vibration stopped again.

After waiting for a while, there was no more noise.

Ronan shook his head and continued his exploration.

Human figures began to appear on the next obelisk tower.

He is a human wizard wearing a robe and whose face cannot be seen clearly.

Under his guidance, the entire dwarf tribe began to collectively forge the same type of boxes.

"Is this Spierte?!"

Ronan stood in front of several obelisk towers, and his expression became extremely exciting for a moment.

"So it is said that the dwarves created countless magic boxes of surprise under the guidance of Spierte? The purpose is to cover up the real magic box that hides the hammer of thunder and fire?!"

Ronan thought he had found the truth.

Because this kind of "bad idea" is indeed very much like the work of Shibiorte.

"So where was the last magic box with the hammer hidden?"

"Yes, how could such a top-secret matter be engraved directly on the obelisk tower?"

But it is undeniable that the pictures engraved on these obelisk towers are very valuable, and they may contain important clues to the only magic box.

Ronan glanced at the many square towers left on the square, thought about it, and simply began to collect these square towers into his space ring.

He didn't know why the truth about the magic box on the square tower had not been spread out. Perhaps no one noticed it, or perhaps the wizards who came in to explore before didn't find this central area at all.

This is actually very reasonable, because if it weren't for Dodor III's guidance, he would probably be wandering around in a corner of the abandoned city-state now.

The mechanical heart is really too big.

Ronan stepped forward and tried to move the square tower. The terrifying power brought by the [Unsullied Body] and the blood of the ancient frost hydra was exerted to a certain extreme, but the square tower was still rooted and motionless.

There seemed to be a rune array inside it, and the bottom was connected to the base of the square.

Using [Living Steel], it should be possible to partially activate the square stele tower and take it away, but the clues contained in the picture on it may disappear.

Just when Ronan was considering whether to do this.

"Boom!"

The vibration sound that had occurred once before sounded again, and this time the noise was more than a hundred times louder.

The entire metal square was shaking violently, cracking, and large areas of the ground collapsed.

Ronan soared into the air in doubt, and picked up several square stele towers that collapsed due to the collapse of the square and put them into the space ring.

Before he could continue, he sensed a gray shadow "whoosh" into his arms at an extremely fast speed.

Ronan didn't have time to check whether Dodor III was carrying the magic box he wanted, and then he saw. A shocking scene that he would never forget in his life-

On the violently collapsing square, the thousand-meter-high golden dwarf statue in the center of the square was also collapsing rapidly.

As the golden statue collapsed, a giant metal box hidden inside the statue, which was almost as big as a small mountain, quickly appeared.

The box was connected to the two thick legs of the golden dwarf statue. In the huge roar of the collapse, this huge metal box seemed like a living thing.

"Kacha--"

It stood up from the ground with two golden thick legs.

A strange creature with a black metal box body but two golden dwarf legs.

It looked indescribably funny and weird.

Ronan couldn't laugh at all.

He stared blankly at the giant magic box in front of him, which was walking towards him with two golden giant short legs.

He subconsciously lowered his head and met the pair of sheep eyes of Dodor III in his arms.

"Mee~~"

Dodor III made a happy cry to Ronan, and his silly sheep face was full of smugness and praise.

As if he was saying to Ronan -

"Is this box big? Is it big?!"

"Praise me, praise me!!"