NOVEL NEXT Chapter 1147: The Mysterious Ruins
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Right after slaying that turtle, I quickly stored its entire body and dismantled it, giving me a variety of interesting materials, including its meat and bones, which we could probably eat ourselves.
This would certainly make my Eleanora happy, who become so cheerful after being able to experiment a physical body again within this virtual reality.
[You have defeated and stored the [Canyon Stone Turtle Mutant (Giant/Primary Type)] x1]
[The [Canyon Stone Turtle Mutant (Giant/Primary Type)] Corpse has been Dismantled!]
[You obtained the following items: [Canyon Stone Turtle Mutant Meat], [Canyon Stone Turtle Mutant Shell], [Canyon Stone Turtle Mutant Scales], [Canyon Stone Turtle Mutant Bones], [Sizable Mutant Core (Giant/Primary Type)]
After seeing the information within the system windows, I took out the core, it resembled a huge black colored jewel, perhaps something akin to an amethyst in shape and form, but deep black. I noticed something though, a small "mark" in the form of a burly being with large arms. Was this the Giant-type Mark or something? It was odd.
"Interesting, there's this core… What is this anyways?"
"That's a Mutant Core!" said Zack, he appeared right above me, having chased me down after I went to hunt a wild mutant.
"There's a chance to get one from a Mutant. It is the crystallization of their internal energies. You see, Mutants supposedly have some sort of electromagnetic energy inside of them, so this crystalizes it within them and help them regulate it. They're used as fuel for Machine Warriors and are primary ingredients for their batteries and other things as well."
A crystallization of their internal energies? And they used it to regulate… Huh, interesting, I wonder how are these internal energies anyways?
And if these are used as fuel, then aren't they similar to… Hmm, perhaps it's just my imagination.
Or not?
There could be a connection to them, but we'll see.
"I see, pretty interesting," I nodded. "I'll keep it for now. Let's go to the ruins now, I've satiated my curiosity."
"Alright!" Zack nodded. "Then let's going! The Ruins are full of Mutants, so that's why I told you to just save your bullets and energy until we get there."
"Okay then."
We flew around the canyons, evading the turtles that appeared every now and then, and also saw some other creatures, huge five-to-ten-meter desert lizards with red and orange colored scales, for example.
There were also flying mutans, large crow-like mutants with several heads and wings, and of the size of humans were one of them, but they weren't strong enough to take note about.
"Here we are."
Zack said, as he looked at the huge entrance to the ruins.
The enormous ruins were mostly made of metal, the oldest rusty metal was new, while the ancient metal that didn't rust, was much more valuable-looking.
The ruins resembled… I don't know how to explain it, but a lot of silver-colored metallic cubes assembled together like hives.
They were covered on sand, stone and blue crystals, which I noticed had a nice bright color to them. They were all the way on top of these ruins.
There were a lot of sand falls constantly pouring from the ruins' sides, and there was old, spires made of old metal and covered on blue circuits that seemed to state something.
"What are the blue crystals, Zack?" asked Eleanora.
"Ooh, a lot have grown up already… Last time I mined them I emptied most of the natural reserves," said Zack. "They're Electromagnetic Ores, they serve for a lot of purposes, fueling and also the making of machines, and more. Perhaps as much as the Mutant Cores if not a little bit more usefulness than that."
"Interesting," I nodded. "Shall we mine some then?"
We flew into the ceiling of the ruins, and using special giant pickaxes, we rapidly mined all of these resources, which I analyzed in fine detail.
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[Electromagnetic Ores]
An ore crystal that grows on top of Ancient Civilization Cities, the crystallization of Electromagnetic Energies stored within the ruins of ancient civilizations that remain active even after all these years.
By extracting it and purifying it, it can be used in a myriad of different and interesting ways, make sure to always try out new things with it! Especially good item for mechanics with a knack for mech creation.
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"Eleanora, did you read this?"
"Yep. It's literally like Neutonium Ore."
"But how is this possible? Neutonium grew so easily? So these were alive… Ugh."
"What's wrong? Are you feeling ok?"
Zack appeared by our side; he was worried. I guess we can't really chat about these things for now, or we would risk getting caught or something.
"Ah, nothing, let's go inside then. Did you get some ores?"
"Yeah, I got some, also got lucky and got some rare ores and red colored crystals every now and then," he said. "Don't worry, you'll get to have this lucky strike once…"
"Okay, whatever, let's go inside." I sighed, exasperated to enter.
Eleanora and Zack nodded, as we hovered above the shifting sands, reaching the old temple ruins, the interior of these weird hive-like metallic silver cubes was strange.
The interior of these cubes were riddled with destroyed, dead machines, some of the impossible to recover, while others seemed like they needed a little tap to function and work properly, but Zack said to not touch them as they were dangerous golems.
"Golems? So this place is actively being protected?" I wondered.
"Yeah, kind of," said Zack. "It's a bit complicated, but this place is infested by them. Unlike the mutants, the only way to beat these guys is by breaking their cores. But their materials are top notch man."
"Huh, I see… Well that sounds rather good," I said. "Did you make your mech out of their materials?"
"Hahaha! You guessed right!" he laughed. "Yeah, I harvested these golems for myself, one at a time because they were so damn hard…"
As I heard Zack's anecdotes while making our way inside of the ruins, suddenly…
"You…"
I heard something, a voice?
"You… Child of…"
That voice… isn't that voice…?
"Child of Ether…"
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