Chapter 9: Entrance and Initial Exploration

Standing on the shady side of the dunes, looking at the small and slightly raised mound in front of him, the blue dragon found the entrance to the ruins left by Patu, the rattle-tailed dragon.

"It's still too small, the body of the blue dragon can't enter, even if it's just an ordinary juvenile dragon, it's a bit cramped."

Quest didn't intend to tear down the slightly smaller entrance to the ruins, but instead used spell mimicry to transform himself into a human. Due to his age, the magic mimicry displayed was only the appearance of a 7-8 year old child, but extremely tall and as strong as an adult.

Magical mimicry can't conjure clothes out of thin air, so after casting this spell, Quest Fetan becomes a bare-ass child. Dragons don't have the shame of being naked, but unlike them, no one with the mind of a nearly thirty-year-old on Earth can explore the ruins naked.

"It's good to think about this in advance and be prepared. ”

When burying those lizardmen marauders, Quest took off the clean-looking leather armor and used the "water creation technique" to communicate with the water elemental plane and wash the leather armor clean.

So after the magic mimic, he quickly put on the armor that had been pulped and washed.

"The depth of the crypt that the rattletail dragon said is not too deep, you can briefly explore it today. If you can't finish it, after you come out, you will deal with the hole and guess again. The young man in the form of the blue dragon, dressed in slightly tight leather armor, held a scythe-bladed sword that had been somewhat melted by the heat and then condensed into a wavy shape, and strode forward through the cover of the cave at the entrance of the ruins.

"Caves, ruins, treasures...... How can you feel like you've traveled to a tomb robbery novel? Haha, I'm afraid I'll need to light a candle in the southeast corner of the bottom for a while. "If the blue dragon boy was walking in this kind of cave by himself in his previous life, he would definitely not have the courage to think so much.

The blue dragon's magical mimicry only turned his body into a human, but in essence, he was still a juvenile dragon with a level of not inferior to the average young dragon. Powerful power flowed through the muscles, and the sharp claws and sharp teeth only changed their appearance. Under the seemingly fragile skin, there are scaly dark lines, and more importantly, the familiar magic can be used at will.

"Hehe, I feel that even if a big dumpling suddenly pops out, I won't be afraid. ”

These boring thoughts didn't last long.

Rattletail dragons are master burrowers, and have applied the spell of "turning sand into stone" on each load-bearing node of the passage, forming a sturdy scaffolding-like structure, and the reinforced passage goes deep into the ground at a slightly steep angle, although it is dangerous for the average human explorer to walk at such an inclined angle, but it is not an obstacle for creatures such as rattletail dragons or blue dragons.

From time to time, Quest jumped, taking advantage of the vertical drop to increase his travel speed slightly. Soon, the blue dragon was at the very bottom of the tunnel, where the rattletail dragon had carefully arranged several fork-in caves to confuse creatures who might have entered by chance. There are also quicksand traps in the fork in the road, and if you accidentally enter it, if you don't have the ability to dig through the ground, it is easy to lose your life.

"That's a pretty good setup," the blue dragon has the same dark vision as the rattletail, and can survive underground without carrying lighting.

Quest carefully examined the fork traps left behind by Patou, and they were all professionally set up, even much better than he had imagined, and it was impossible to tell which path was a trap and which was the real path from the excavation marks from the outside.

"Well, it's almost easy, if there's someone who can use prophecy magic, it's easy to find the right path here. Quest thought about it for a moment and decided to prepare some lead powder when he came back later, as long as the lead powder was mixed into the sand at the fork in the road, it should be able to interfere with some simple prophecy magic.

"This is the maximum amount of concealment that can be achieved at present, and powerful spellcasters can master more spells, even if they do more, they can achieve the final goal.

It can only be to guard against some adventurers who accidentally break in and are not very capable. ”

Pattu, who had told Quiz that the path was the right path, walked into the second inconspicuous pit on the left. The winding road was probably less than two hundred centimeters, that is, less than 30 meters or so, and Quest found the place where the rattle-tailed dragon had found the lead-acid batteries left behind by ancient civilizations.

It was a huge warehouse-like ruin, and in Quiss's estimation, it was the size of a creature that could quickly become an extremely old dragon like Salota.

The warehouse has a regular rectangular structure, which is clearly a sign of artificiality. The passage through which the blue dragon Quis came in was excavated from the arc-shaped broken cracks of such a huge landfill pit.

Quest fingered deep, disarming a small portion of the magical mimicry, and stroking the wall into the cave of the ruins with his sharp nails.

"A cement-like material is used to build the walls of this landfill pit," Quismo said, picking at a large chunk of cement as he picked off a large chunk of cement as he found the metal strips used to reinforce the structure.

The blue dragon, with its dark vision, spotted the rattletail dragon crawling down the wall of the warehouse below.

There are some fragments of wooden crates on the floor of the warehouse, which are scratched by sharp claws, and it is estimated that they were the crates that Patu had opened before.

Quest jumped down from the hole, but instead of landing vertically, he stepped on the hole left by the Rattletail Dragon's claws when he climbed the wall, and landed lightly on the ground in a few places.

The air was a little stuffy, and maybe there might have been vents in this "warehouse" before, but after all these years, the yellow sand is estimated to have buried the ventilation pipes.

For his own safety, the blue dragon uses a magic that resists the harsh environment, which allows him to avoid worrying about oxygen consumption for a certain period of time.

With his ability to see objects in the dark, Blue Dragon Quest carefully examined some of the original goods in this "warehouse".

Most of the goods were packed in crates that originally had some labels with similar instructions, but due to time, most of the paint had evaporated, and only some black pigment remained, leaving a smudge-like color residue.

It's still the arcane vision that has been used a lot lately to check, and there is no magic aura. Quies broke open several crates and found several identical lead-acid batteries.

"These lead-acid batteries are likely to form battery packs, is it possible that the ancient civilization also vigorously advocated green energy?

According to the owner of the Dragon's Lair, the legendary dragon Salotta, who had previously excavated the ruins, that ancient civilization must have been a land of great magic. If you need electricity, there must be a solution that can use magic, so why do you need to make these lead-acid battery packs?"