Chapter 630: The Great Labyrinth of Haunting
Although the zombie knight behaved in a rigid manner, he could still feel that he still had a certain amount of intelligence. After confirming the emblem on Goron's body, the zombie warrior answered all questions and requests to Golon, but because of his low intelligence, it was not too easy for the little ogre to understand what he was talking about.
After a long while, Goron finally knew that the ghost thing in front of him was the Brahadley family's use of the super magic technology decoded from the Great Labyrinth, and it was transformed by living humans, and it was a living weapon in a state of "neither life nor death". It's called "Puppet Warriors".
Demon puppet soldiers don't need to eat or drink, they don't need to rest and don't feel any pain, they completely rely on the magic crystals implanted in their bodies to provide power activities, although they can only maintain nearly eighty percent of their strength before death, but because the body is almost immortal, and there is no possibility of low morale and sudden betrayal, and they are not harmed by similar spiritual magic, and the physical defense and magic resistance have been improved, so the actual combat effect is probably stronger than before death. The zombie warrior in front of him was a peak warrior king before he was transformed.
At this time, Goron had been brought into another corridor by the zombie warriors, and unlike Fang Cai, this place was obviously specially built by someone in the later period, and its scale and structure were obviously far from the original building labyrinth.
But on both sides of the corridor, there were human warriors standing like sculptures, their faces as pale as zombie warriors, but their eyes were closed and they didn't move.
"These are the puppet warriors that the Brahadley family has accumulated over a hundred years of secret transformation. ”
Hearing this, Goron couldn't help but be secretly frightened, although this transformation technology seems to be somewhat similar to necromancy, and because the transformation material must also be a humanoid creature that is still alive, not a corpse, it seems to be more troublesome than necromancy, and the efficiency is extremely poor.
But if you think about it carefully, although undead magic is very convenient to transform a large number of corpses into "undead", nearly ninety percent of them are skeletons and walking corpses with low combat effectiveness, and these two undead creatures do not even have the slightest intelligence, and the remaining one is likely to give birth to ghosts, vampires and other high-level undead creatures with real intelligence. As for the birth conditions of the corpse witch and the undead knight, it is even more harsh, and the undead knight can only be successfully transformed by His Majesty Allah Dalemond himself.
Thinking about it this way, if you want to form a high-quality army and use the puppet warrior transformation technology, as long as the materials are sufficient, this method of using living people to transform is obviously more efficient, and it is easier to maintain and preserve.
And most importantly, for the Brahadley family, who are in charge of the Imperial Royal Prison, the necessary material of "humanity" is the last thing they lack, and you can roughly calculate how many prisoners die in the prison every year for various reasons.
The prisoners who can be held in the royal prison are either nobles who get into trouble or civilian officers and generals with good strength, and ordinary people really can't get into this place. With such unique conditions, and the Brahadley family is obviously still a very patient family, it is not surprising that there will be an accumulation of this scale in front of them.
After a rough count, there are no less than a thousand puppet soldiers who have been transformed here, but have not yet been activated.
In the core area of the imperial capital, there is such a terrifying armed force hidden, this is far more sensational than the death of a few members of the royal family, to say that the Brahadley family has no ideas, even the ogre of Goron will not believe it.
However, what surprised Goron even more was yet to come......
"These are Puppeteers that have been transformed and can be activated and put into use at any time. After that, there is a batch of semi-finished products that have stopped being transformed due to lack of raw materials, and then there is a batch of newly obtained raw materials that have not yet had time to be transformed. ”
Goron forcibly suppressed the shock in his heart, and followed the guidance of the zombie warrior, he saw that the puppets at both ends of the corridor were a little abnormal, most of them did not have the ability to stand on their own, they were hung on the wall like that, their chests and skulls were lifted, and the colorful organs and brains were directly exposed, so Goron was also able to initially peek into some secrets of the puppet warriors, most of their internal organs were no longer original, and were replaced by various special organs composed of artificial materials such as metal and glass. In what was supposed to be the heart, now only a small metal pedestal remains, with an empty slot on it, which seems to have been used to inlay something.
"Wouldn't that be the place to plant the magic crystal?" asked Goron without understanding, and the zombie warrior didn't seem to doubt the "ignorance" of his "master" at all, and immediately replied: "Yes, master, ordinary puppet warriors can be driven by ordinary magic crystals, and puppets above the fourth order must use a different number of Eizhe redstones." In particular, Eiger redstone is the most urgently needed material at present. In the last twelve years, you've sent here an overabundance of high-quality materials, most of which have been remodeled, but most of them are in a semi-finished state due to the limited number of Edger Redstone. ”
Hearing this, Goron faintly seemed to think of something in his heart, he suddenly stopped the zombie warrior, and said urgently: "Did you just say that you just got a batch of high-quality 'materials' recently, are they human, or subhuman, for example...... Ogre or something?"
"Yes master, the vast majority of these high-quality materials that I have recently acquired are ogres. ”
“…… So what are you waiting for, take me over there!"
"Obey the master. ”
It didn't take long for Goron to see the so-called materials, which were the black-handed ogres who were firmly locked in cages. Among them, there were already two ogres, like the other "half-finished" humans, who had been disemboweled, hanging on the wall, with a large number of strange parts stuffed into their heads and stomachs, but they were lifeless, and their bodies were beginning to show signs of decay.
Luckily, most of the ogres are still alive by now, but they're all lying on the ground unconscious, looking like they're dying.
Goron glanced at several familiar faces, and he took two deep breaths, trying to slow down the rate of his heart, forcibly suppressing the urge to transform into a frenzy and tear apart everything that had to do with Brahadley.
"Since the transformation technology deciphered from the Great Labyrinth was limited to the transformation of humans, the development of a modification operation for the ogre system did not go smoothly, and so far only these two bodies have actually been modified, and both have failed, resulting in the death of the body. Due to the high cost of ogre materials, this project has been temporarily frozen. ”
Goron silently thought about it countless times in his heart, these things had nothing to do with the puppet puppet in front of him, they were just "tools", and he still needed them. And the guy who makes and uses them is his real enemy.
After thinking about it like this for a long time, the little ogre finally regained his composure.
At this time, Goron's mind was unusually clear, and he finally confirmed why this labyrinth made him feel inexplicably familiar, because the environment here was unusually similar to the haunted gold mine of Seastone Harbor.
I remember that the reason why the gold mine was named "haunted" was precisely because in the process of digging gold, an ancient ruin was accidentally dug up, and then strange things continued to happen in the gold mine, and there were major casualties in a row, resulting in the end becoming a "haunted gold mine" that no one dared to take over.
Although the name of this gold mine is not very good, for the Black Hand Ogre, it not only provides a safe and hidden hiding place, but also causes the body of the ogre that lives there to undergo strange mutations. Not only is there a large number of "atavists" among male ogres, but the newborn ogres are either one-eyed or two-headed, and each has the potential to become an "ogre hero" or "sacrifice".
And that's not all, even the "trolls", female ogres that exist almost exclusively in legends, abound among the newborn ogres of the haunted gold mines.
It can be said that the Haunted Gold Mine has truly and radically changed the Black Hand Ogre, giving it unlimited potential comparable to that of the Demon Dragons.
And after seeing these black-handed ogres, Goron suddenly had a crazy guess in his mind, this big labyrinth in front of him could not be connected to the haunted gold mine of Seastone Harbor......