Endless Silver Machine

Walking down the stairs from the high platform, you will find a dark space where it is easy to lose your sense of direction.

Runes that emit faint fluorescence are spread all over the walls of the entire space, becoming the only source of light in the entire space.

As everyone's footsteps entered, the runes burst out with more intense light, completely driving away the darkness.

"Do you feel that your body has become a little heavier? This is a safe built with the light core of the gods. The runes on the wall are the essence of the light core. Its main function is to inhibit the flow of magic power. After all, this kind of danger Magical weapons operate through magic power, so we naturally put a lot of effort into defensive measures."

"Eh...is that so..."

Wei Xi blinked her big eyes and quickly scanned the people around her. She didn't feel that her body was heavy because her magic power was suppressed, but she didn't know whether to cooperate with everyone else's feelings.

"Classmate Wei Xi, don't you feel the discomfort of having your magic power suppressed?"

"That's... it's because of that, I ate a lot for breakfast... ah ah, I said it wrong, it's not that! Ugh..."

"Haha, Teacher Letika, you should know that Wei Xi is a genius! This level of hindrance is nothing to her!"

Aika hurriedly intervened between Instructor Letika, who had noticed Ni Duan, and Wei Xi, who was struggling to explain, and used a very relaxed tone to help Wei Xi, who had a special physique, be fooled.

Inhibiting the flow of magic power is equivalent to inhibiting the breathing of creatures. This is only true for creatures that need to absorb magic power from the air.

As another form of magic costume, Wei Xi has a strong magic power reserve within her body. As long as the magic pathways in Wei Xi's body are not directly blocked through special means, there will be no obvious impact on her in a short period of time.

Feili, who was walking in front, laughed cheerfully and seemed not to regard Wei Xi's special physique as a problem that required concern.

"People as powerful as Sister Wei Xi shouldn't be common in reality, right? So it doesn't mean that this precaution is useless!"

Not only is it uncommon, she may be the only one in the entire continent with such a special status. Aika complained secretly in her heart.

The corners of Wei Xi's mouth twitched and she tried to force out a smile, matching the well-informed Feili's casual joke. In fact, she was very afraid that Feili would change the subject and suddenly expose her identity.

"These are all smuggled goods that I seized. The problem that puzzles us now is that this kind of magical props that can exert almost magical capabilities seems to be able to be mass-produced. It is neither a vampire technology nor a god clan technology. The core of optical fiber. So we haven’t analyzed it until now, so we can only pile it all here.”

"The captain has roughly counted more than fifty pieces of smuggled goods seized in the past two years, which seems to be more than real magic equipment."

"More than fifty pieces? There are twenty-four cases of magic equipment recorded in the Bisi Empire Library across the continent. Of course, there are other unrecorded magic equipment." Lan Ming carefully recalled the items he had investigated. Magic equipment information, "In addition to the mimicry magic equipment captured by Feili, there must be several times more mimicry magic equipment leaked to the outside world. In comparison, it can indeed be regarded as mass production."

As the fluorescence of the surrounding runes lit up step by step as everyone went deeper, the full picture of the space was revealed in front of everyone.

Centrally placed here are cylindrical glass tanks that resemble culture tanks. The surface of the glass tank is also engraved with the same runes as the four walls. The appearance of a magical device floats in a waterless and airless glass tank.

Looking around, the colorful runes bring a different feeling to this monotonous and even somewhat eerie space.

Aika approached one of the glass troughs. Because of the influence of the runes and the fact that the mimicry magic equipment was not activated, he did not feel the magic power fluctuation unique to the magic equipment.

All the mimicry magic equipment displayed in the glass tanks here are sleeping under the inhibitory effect of the runes.

"Magic equipment is a miracle that appeared during cross-border wars. The reality of its use as a weapon has not changed so far. Magic equipment should have inheritance, but mimic magic equipment does not. As long as people who know how to use magic can get it, they can easily use."

"Then the life force will be sucked out of you until you die?"

"The side effects are not that severe. As long as you stop using it, it will not continue to have an impact on your body. But it's not the side effects that are scary." Feili touched the runes on the glass tank with her hand. "I have used the Mimic Magic Equipment." Most people are basically aware of this side effect, but they have not given up the idea of ​​using mimicry magic equipment. I think that feeling may be similar to our blood-sucking impulse, and it is an addictive behavior."

In other words, once you get your hands on the mimicry magic outfit, you can no longer get rid of it, and the only way is for it to eat all your flesh and blood.

"We have met many people who could have been saved..." Ruby clasped her young hands in front of her chest and said in a very unwilling voice, "Originally they finally wanted to give up resistance, but in the end they seemed to have lost their Reason is like using up all its power to attack us, obviously there is no need to go to that point..."

Probably recalling the horrific scene, Ruby's eyes gradually lost their luster as her tone was about to cry.

Teacher Letika didn't know exactly what Ruby went through during her stay at Frost Moon Academy. But it can be easily guessed that Ruby has seen too many things that she doesn't want to see, and she is no longer a child who knows nothing about the world.

The only thing that Teacher Letika can do now to fulfill her responsibility as a sister is to gently hug Ruby's trembling body from behind, using herself as Ruby's physical and mental support.

In front of another glass tank, Wei Xi looked up at the mimicry demon costume suspended inside.

Aika walked to her side and looked up into the glass trough with her.

"Wei Xi, do you feel anything special?"

Wei Xi continued to stare at the glass trough for a while, then closed her eyes and shook her head slightly.

She then looked at the blazing eyes on Aika's wrist, and Aika followed her gaze to look at the silver wrist.

Wei Xi has forgotten a lot about the memory and knowledge of magic equipment. The only ones who can explain the existence of magic costumes are them, who are also magic costumes.

Ling also summoned the Light Flame Sword. She took the light flame sword and made a few casual gestures in front of the mimicry magic suit in the glass tank, and then put away the light flame sword without finding anything.

"It's useless. I've tried it before."

Feili, who was standing behind Ling, patted her shoulder lightly as if she understood Ling's disappointment.

If you think about it for a moment, you will know that the Mimicry Magic Equipment will certainly not have any unexpected reactions. In order to verify the resonance between the mimicry magic costume and the magic costume, Feili, who was the first to get the "test object", must have tried it like this.

"It only resonates with our magic equipment when it is used by others. At other times, it is like an ordinary magic item. Therefore, it is very safe as smuggled goods, and it is difficult for ordinary surveillance to detect this disguise."

"If someone is really walking around with something so dangerous, and you can't find it until he suddenly does something weird...it's scary to think about it."

"The mimic magic equipment originally started to flow out from the Gods to other places, but when I first wanted to analyze it, I found that these things were completely different from the technology we know. I originally wanted to refer to the magic equipment made by humans, but even the light of the Gods The researchers at Xu Core only have a partial understanding of human magic technology, so they have been left here."

"In that case, let me take a look."

Coincidentally, among the people present now was a "top student" from Shuoyue Academy who specialized in magic mechanics.

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Later, Feili took out a piece of mimicry magic equipment and gave it to the divine researchers, asking them to assist Aika in analyzing the mimicry magic equipment and deal with various unexpected situations that may suddenly arise during the analysis process.

After studying for more than half a day in the Protoss Research Institute, Aika finally lived up to expectations and got a preliminary conclusion.

"...The above is the answer that I can 100% guarantee now. The technology used by the mimic magic equipment is the magic technology developed by humans. Although the molecular power furnace as the core of magic technology has been changed from the inside out, it is based on magic machinery. The concept of learning has not changed. In other words, this is a technology that flows from humans, not a product of the gods."

"But the gods and humans no longer interacted after the cross-border war, and the mimicry magic equipment spread from the territory of the gods..."

After the cross-border war, communication between various races was lost, and technology within races was never shared.

"Creating an illusion, this is another purpose of theirs. Let us mistakenly think that the mimicry magic equipment is a product of the gods, and it is difficult to imagine that it has anything to do with humans."

"Teacher Letika, are there other humans besides us in the Gods' territory?"

"For decades after the war, no humans have come to the Protoss territory. Although our entry and exit are not strictly monitored, we will not treat the movements of other races in the Protoss territory lightly. But this is just my original view of the Protoss territory. In the past two years since I was away..."

"There hasn't been much change in the past two years. It's just that friends on the Sea Mist Fleet occasionally go to the street when they go ashore, but only occasionally. Our God Clan territory is protected by the barrier of the Guangxu Core Center. If you don’t have guidance, you won’t be able to find this place easily from the outside. In the past two years, we have had little interaction with other races.”

Ruby explained to Teacher Letika the two-year gap during her absence.

"Although it is definitely magic technology, it is decisively different from the magic technology I have mastered, which is the molecular power furnace." Aika's expression became a little bitter, "In short, the principle of magic tools cannot be used Let’s explore the Mimic Magic Equipment. Only by finding the person who made the Mimic Magic Equipment can we fundamentally solve the problem.”

"The magic technology of the Tebiri Kingdom has developed very slowly. I think it is even more unlikely that they have created weapons that surpass the magic technology. This incident does not rule out the possibility of having some connection with the Bisi Empire..."

Lan Ming didn't say it to others, he just said it to himself with certainty. Seeing this, Feili raised her lips.

"So didn't I ask you this morning if you need a big event? In fact, even if it has nothing to do with humans, I still want to see if you are willing to investigate this smuggling group with us during this period. We usually Sniping their smuggling fleet in the sea, there are relatively few opportunities to return to the Protoss territory for investigation. Moreover, I think their home base should be somewhere in the Protoss territory, and the sea is just their outflow channel. Fortunately, they are worried too much It’s conspicuous and not airlifted, otherwise even the airspace would need to be monitored at the same time.”

The most important problem that Aika and the others need to solve now is to help Lan Ming establish his prestige and voice in the mainland, find the Nemesis Society and take back Lolo, rather than investigating some smuggling group here.

However, Feili seemed to have anticipated Aika's thoughts. While agreeing to provide assistance to Lan Ming, she also made Aika and the others agree on the condition of completing the trial questions.

Although I felt like I was being deceived by Feili, Ruby's suggestion was reasonable. If this smuggling group can be destroyed for the Protoss, it will be a great help for Lan Ming to take the first step.

"If the mimicry magic equipment is indeed leaked from the Bis Empire, then we should ask you to provide full assistance. Please let us cooperate in the investigation."

Lan Ming, who never mentioned his thoughts during the discussion between Aika and Feili, expressed his attitude when Aika hesitated.

Aika was a little surprised, not because Lan Ming expressed his willingness to assist in the investigation, but because he did not expect that Lan Ming was still acting with the Bes Empire as his own belief during this period.

If it is just a simple sense of responsibility, and he is still persecuted and then puts this argument out, in Aika's view, it is the so-called foolish loyalty.

What Lan Ming should do now is not to clean up the mess on behalf of the Bisi Empire, but to regain the position that should belong to him.

Lan Ming himself should know this very well. But in today's meeting, when she talked about the war between the two human beings and the remarks of the radicals in the Senate, her state of mind returned to the beginning.

Back to the beginning, I firmly believed that I should throw myself into the trap calmly if I was innocent, and then wait for the gods that I didn’t even know existed to clarify for myself.

Aika wanted to end the meeting as soon as possible in the morning and end the topic of the empire's rebellion, just to get Lan Ming out of an environment involving such topics as soon as possible. However, when talking about the leakage of the Mimicry Magic Equipment, she was brought back again.

Fortunately, Aika mentioned in the meeting that everyone should enjoy life in the Protoss territory, and this proposal came into effect.

The time for the joint investigation operation has not been determined and will be postponed at least for a while.

Because not only the Protoss represented by Teacher Letika, but also the Sea Mist Fleet led by Feili also had to sort out information about the smuggling group. So I have two days of leisure time that can be said to be long or short.

"Now is the time for our festival celebrations here. It is rare for other races to participate together, which should add a lot of color to the celebration."

When disbanding, Teacher Letika said to everyone with a smile.

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