The fortress occupied by the Elemental Inquisition is called Fort Platah.

This fortress is not as lavish as the Fortune Co-Creation Society's Yongjin Castle, but it has all the magical facilities needed for a magical fortress.

The Wizard Advance Society has set up a magic turret to defend against the Lightning Ghost Riot, as well as a magic circle that can cast a large magic barrier.

With these two things, the safety of the magical research institute is guaranteed.

Members of the Elemental Judgment, such as Meevle, Betty, and Filia, came to the Eternal Thunder Trench through portals and flights.

They didn't pay for teleportation this time.

Bald's Gate is on the westernmost side of the continent of Cahill, two hundred kilometers west of the Eternal Calamity.

The headquarters of the Elemental Judgment is in Starlight City, the capital of Unas Ring.

There is at least 7,000 kilometers between the two.

Unas Ring has deliberately opened permanent portals in Starlight City and Balder's Gate.

Wizards can use portals to travel between the two places quickly.

All members of the Magical Research Institute can enjoy a free teleportation service, which is much more convenient than studying aberrations in the Convergence City.

After Mayfler led the team to Plasbourg, the first thing she did was to repair the magical facilities in the fort.

During this time, Dinas and Luisa came to visit.

Dinas handed Leno's letter to Mavere, and explained that Leno had hired Luisa to help protect Plasbourg.

Maefler gladly accepted Li Nuo's arrangement.

After Dinas and Luisa settle down in Platoburg, the two begin building a death magic device for Maeve Le.

This device has one and only one purpose.

That is to transform a manic, unintelligent ghost creature into a controllable, restrained ghost creature.

When the Lightning Ghost enters it, it will turn into a Lightning Ghost and come out.

Ghost creatures are easier to tame than ghost creatures.

Once this step is completed, Maeve will be able to attempt to transform the Lightning Ghost into a magic golem.

While Dinas and Louisa were tinkering with the magic device, Leno returned from outside.

The exterior of Plasbourg is quite quaint, a stone castle with a façade and vines, standing in the middle of a dense forest on the top of a hill.

Li Nuo did not rely on the flying spell and landed directly in the courtyard of the ancient castle.

Following the normal process of visiting, he landed outside the gate of the vestibule of the castle, and used the magic doorbell on the door to call the elemental judgment wizards inside the castle.

The most distinctive feature of elemental wizards is that they have a large number of elemental creatures.

In the Convergence City, since the Alchemy Sanctuary does not allow the Elemental Judgment to use too much magical power, Maeve is more "restrained".

But here in the Eternal Calamity, Maeve doesn't have that concern.

Her research team this time only had six of her own students, and the rest of the chores and tiring work were all handed over to the elemental creatures of the elemental plane.

The earth wind crystal clusters that opened the door and led the way to Li Nuo were standard elemental creatures.

Its main body is an elemental crystal with tentacles of energy, containing the energy of earth and wind.

Wind energy gives it the property of "constant levitation", and earth energy allows it to manipulate energy tentacles and use cleaning tools.

These two advantages are superimposed, and the Earth Wind Crystal Cluster has become the best helper for elemental wizards to perform at home.

Leno stepped into the castle vestibule, walked through the cloister, passed the small garden, and met Meevle, Filia, and Betty in the hall as they were packing their belongings.

When she left Dianjin Island, Filia was a wizard of the third ring, and now she has just stepped into the fourth ring and is sprinting to the fifth ring.

Betty is one ring lower than Filia and is now a three-ring wizard.

This girl is eccentric, and she can't hide her thoughts.

The first time he saw Li Nuo, he squeezed his eyebrows at him, looked up and down, and was not afraid at all.

Mefla has not yet completed its research mission, and it is still the Sixth Ring.

When Li Nuo saw her, he immediately threw out the deconstruction technique and obtained her recent memories.

Memory clips show that it was not Maevle who revealed Li Nuo's whereabouts to the Pure Light Court and the Wealth Co-creation Association.

Li Nuo couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Even if there is a soul contract between him and the other party, it is inevitable that there will be a betrayal.

After all, among the many soul contract objects, only Meevle and him have not seen him for a long time, and the relationship is a little estranged.

We'll have to consolidate it this time.

"Jarvis, you're here." Maeve held a notebook in her hand and looked at Li Nuo:

"Dinas said, you seem to be in a little trouble, do you need me to communicate with the Wealth Co-creation Association?"

Li Nuo shook his hand:

"Not yet, Mavere. Elder Blue Gold has made a mistake with the list of wizard criminals and VIPs, and has already apologized to me in person. He also gave me a magical contract to join the Wealth Co-Creation Association. ”

Betty and Filia have no idea about the threshold of "joining the Wealth Co-creation Association".

Maeve was clear.

She was slightly startled and asked:

"Elder Blue Gold invited you to join the Co-Creation Society? This... Are you so rich now? ”

"Rich?" Betty was stunned, her eyes widened, trying to see some clues related to "wealth" from Li Nuo's unpretentious attire.

Filia's emotional expression is more subtle.

Confusion flashed in her beautiful eyes, and she winked at Li Nuo.

"I had a bit of luck in the Suman Islands and happened to find some useful dragon treasures."

Li Nuo grinned and laughed at himself:

"I made money from these treasures, and I never thought that I would be targeted by the Wealth Co-creation Association when I first came to Cahill Continent."

Maeve was thoughtful.

She probably guessed why the Blue Gold Elder deliberately made trouble for Li Nuo, and then proposed to the other party to sign a magic contract.

This is undoubtedly a common method used by the landlord to suppress rich wizards from outside.

Its purpose is to force Li Nuo to pay money to join the co-creation association.

The best solution is undoubtedly to destroy the fortune and eliminate the disaster.

But how can you say this kind of advice to persuade others to spend money... Maeve was in a bit of a rut.

Li Nuo looked at Mei Fule, who wanted to speak and stopped, waved his hand and said:

"I'll fix this, you don't have to worry about me... I'll help you build a death magic device first, and we'll talk when you've set up your castle. ”

"Okay, Jarvis." Maeve pointed to the hallway by the wall:

"Dinas and Luisa are there."

Li Nuo shook his hand, said goodbye to the three of them, and stepped into the corridor.

In the magic laboratory on the first floor, Li Nuo found the two Dinas who were carving the magic array.

As he did it, he started a deconstruction technique on Luisa.

This time, the main goal of his deconstruction is to obtain information related to the "Wastestone Quarry".

He needs to know the layout of the quarry, the route map of the underground mine, the composition of the personnel, and so on.

The most important thing is to grasp the basic information of underground monsters.

If it is possible, Li Nuo wants to attribute the casualties of the "counter-attack plan" to the underground monsters.

In this way, you can clear your suspicions and divert the attention of the Pure Light Court and the Wealth Co-creation Association.

The premise of this is that you must capture an underground monster alive, deconstruct it, and then carefully plan to "borrow a knife shark".

"Dinas, Luisa, I'll leave for a while."

After reading the results of Luisa's solution, Li Nuo said hello to the other two and turned to the terrace to take off.

During the flight, he activated Soul Sensing and told Dinas about his next move.

Dinas was a little puzzled by Li's sudden visit to the quarry, but she didn't ask much about it.

She obediently promised Li Nuo to assist the other party in teleporting back and forth between the two places.

At the same time, Dinas will also help Li Nuo cover his whereabouts on the bright side.

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There are no ordinary people in the quarries.

All are wizards.

The wizards in charge of mining, ranging in strength from the third ring to the fifth ring, are all metal or geotechnical wizards, and come from Creeping City.

The wizard who serves as a guard, the strength of the five rings starts, the seven rings are capped, all of them are wizards of the Wealth Co-creation Association, mastering metal magic.

The idea of casting geotechnical spells from underground and entering underground tunnels is unrealistic.

Li Nuo gave up without even thinking about it.

In order to prevent theft, the Wealth Co-creation Association has placed magical instruments in the soil around the Wastestone Quarry to detect energy fluctuations and vibrations.

It is unlikely that Li Nuo used rock and soil spells to bypass these magical instruments and enter the mine without even noticing.

But, he's looking for underground monsters, not magic materials in the mines.

A tunnel is a road that is specially paved for ore mining.

Wherever the mine goes, the road is paved.

Two or three thousand meters underground, where it has not been mined by the quarry, there is no road, and naturally there is no magic instrument to protect it.

It is precisely because of this that the wizards who built the tunnels for the quarries will be attacked by monsters two or three kilometers underground.

The above information comes from Luisa's memories.

He came to a place more than ten kilometers near the barren stone quarry and carved a topographic map of the underground on the spot.

"Hmm...

"The quarry runs vertically downwards and is divided into five areas. These five areas are distributed along the central shaft pipes and extend horizontally. The entire quarry can be seen as an irregular barrel shape.

"From where I am now, I have to travel 2,375 meters vertically down to the level where the shaft pipe ends. From there, head 12 kilometres horizontally north to reach the deepest part of the quarry. ”

Li Nuo wrote and drew on a notepad, repeatedly deducing the process of going underground.

The underground environment is not as good as the aboveground, where there are mud, rock formations and cavities on all sides, and if you don't get it right, you will have a serious collapse.

The underground environment is not as good as the aboveground, where there are mud, rock formations and cavities on all sides, and if you don't get it right, you will have a serious collapse.

Li Nuo will arrange "tracking markers" on the ground, so he doesn't worry about getting lost underground, but detecting fluctuating magic instruments is always a hidden danger.

Luisa's memory fragments do not contain the exact location of these instruments.

Li Nuo could only roughly guess where they were, and planned a route to avoid them in advance.

After half an hour of preparation, Li Nuo casts the "Spirit of the Rock" and summons a magical assistant who digs a hole in the ground.

The Rock Spirit, two heads taller than Lino, swung its fist towards the ground, blasting open the soil beneath his feet, creating a crack in the ground that allowed him and his master to pass through.

A layer of smooth stone walls, which appears on the cracks in the ground, reinforces the shape of the cracks so that they do not collapse in a short time.

The Spirit of the Rock opened its way downward, waving its fists in succession, clattering through the tunnel.

Li Nuo activates the "breath of the dead" and transforms into a skeleton form that does not breathe.

He leapt from the ground and performed his flying spells, following the rock spirit downward.

After their figures were swallowed up by the dark cracks in the ground, the soil on the ground quickly squirmed, stitching the ground together.

It was Li Nuo who activated the rock and soil spell mastered by the Spirit of Rock, erasing the traces on the ground.

Time spent in boring tunnels.

Lenovo's careful planning before the action worked.

In the process of digging vertically downward, he encountered no resistance.

But when the depth was close to 2,000 meters, an unexpected chance encounter forced him to press the pause button.

"Rustle..."

"Click..."

In the dark, enclosed and narrow space, Li Nuo and the rock spirit entered a state of immobility.

A vague noise lingered in Li Nuo's ears.

It's a bit like the rustling of leaves in the evening breeze, and it's a bit like the sound of fingernails sliding on a blackboard.

The noise echoed in the cramped underground space, and Li Nuo couldn't tell from which direction the movement was coming from for a while.

He casts the "Geotechnical Shield" to strengthen the shield's defenses with the Pangula family's ciphertext.

He called up his dashboard in his mind and looked at the "status bar".

There were no negative effects there.

"So, is this just a noise, not some kind of spell?"

Li Nuo secretly speculated, considering whether to throw out a "Detect Geotechnical Energy" to see what was causing trouble.

Due to the fluctuation of the spell of "Detect Geotechnical Energy" itself, which will trigger the alarm of the magic instrument, Li Nuo has not used this spell along the way.

At this time, the noise in his ears and the darkness in front of him made Li Nuo feel like he was hairy.

To be on the safe side, he may have to risk being discovered by a magical device and throw out the "Detect Geotechnical Energy".

Just as Li Nuo hesitated, a very faint tremor came from the ground under his feet.

"Rustle... Click, click..."

The noise is a little louder, and it becomes much clearer.

Li Nuo looked down and determined the source of the noise, which was coming from directly below.

"It's like someone is doing the same thing as me."

Li Nuo's face became a little strange.

He recognized it, wasn't this the movement of digging tunnels...

"Did I meet the Underground Mole Man?"

Li Nuo rubbed his chin, and the information of this extraordinary creature came to his mind.

About six years ago, the quarry was still a mountainous area full of jungles.

Six years ago, an alien sky pollution incident broke out here, and only then did veins rich in barren rocks and mole people appear on barren rocks for food.

In a sense, the human wizard is competing with the Mole People for food.

The Mole People reproduce and strengthen themselves by eating wild rocks.

Strengthen yourself, this is easy to understand, the more wild rocks the mole people eat, the more hard pieces on their bodies that act as external armor, and the more resistant they can be.

As for reproduction...

That's weird.

The Wizard Forward will find:

In the group of mole people, all mole people who have strong spell casting ability and are very resistant to beating are all males.

After much research and dissection, the Wizarding Institute finally concluded:

Moles are born "female" when they are born.

Mole people who have eaten a lot of barren rocks can give birth to a special physiological structure and evolve into a "male", from which they have the right to find a mate.

Li Nuo was not very interested in the so-called "special physiological structure".

All he wanted to know was if the creature that was digging up from below him was the Mole Man.

Li Nuo activated "Life and Death Tracking" and looked down with wide eyes.

It was still pitch black, and no blood-red outline line appeared in view.

The dull yellow color that symbolized the corpses, and the blue lines that symbolized the undead, were not seen in the magical vision.

Li Nuo's heart sank slightly, and he realized that he might have encountered an extraordinary creature that was not a living creature or an undead spirit.

It's likely to be a magical creature like a magical servant or a magic golem.

If that's the case, it means that he's not the only wizard digging holes in this oppressive underground area.

The wizard is likely to be hiding in a very distant place, using a magic circle to manipulate his magic puppets and dig caves remotely.

After such an analysis, this person is most likely a member of the quarry, and he should be conducting preliminary reconnaissance work for the construction of the mine.

This is one of the last things that Li Nuo wants.

"It's a problem. Deconstruction cannot be cast across soil. I can't deconstruct it until I see what it really looks like, and I can't know where it came from..."

Li Nuo frowned and pondered:

"Perhaps, I can cause an accident, cause a landslide, trap the thing underground, and then manipulate the rock spirit to change its path while it is paralyzed..."

The more Li Nuo thought about it, the more he felt that this method was feasible, and it was both concealed and convenient, so that his previous excavation work would not be wasted.

He crouched down and raised his hand to brush the Blood Acceptance Array on the back of his left hand, and took out the Ground-Drilling Weapon Spirit from it.

Noreen's modification has made it even more capable of drilling, allowing it to travel at speeds of up to two meters per second underground.

Li Nuo placed it on the ground with the drill bit aimed underneath.

He wields "mind control" and manipulates the Driller to burrow into hard rock.

"Rustle... Click, click..."

Perhaps it's the movement of the burrowing machine, which is detected by something directly below.

The noise coming from directly below was noticeably louder, and it was heading in the direction of the Driller.

Li Nuo froze his mind and was ready to detonate the self-detonation array inside the Ground-Drilling Mechanical Spirit at any time and set off a collapse.

"Rustle... Click, click..."

The noise passed through the radio array of the Ground-Piercing Machine, and into Li Nuo's ears.

The source of the noise is about to meet the Drilling Robot.

Although Li Nuo didn't need to breathe, he still subconsciously held his breath.

He stared at the magical vision, staring directly in front of the Ground-Drilling Machine.

"Wow~~"

The drill bit of the Drill Robot penetrates a layer of walls and enters a relatively vast underground space, where it successfully encounters mysterious creatures.

"Damn... What are these things?! Isn't this the underground monster wreaking havoc in the quarry? ”

Li Nuo's brows jumped, and his heart screamed.

I saw that in the magical vision, more than a dozen strange-looking monsters with strange outlines appeared.

They are not flesh and blood, nor are they creatures of metal or geomagic.

A fluorescent black thickness similar to petroleum that makes up their irregular bodies.

Every now and then, several pale human faces protrude from the surface of their bodies.

These people had round faces and mouths, and their expressions were painful, as if they were suffering a great deal of torture.

The noise that Li Nuo heard before was made when the person's face opened his mouth wide.

And those monsters that trap people's faces are like the shadows of chrysalis in the ground.

They were startled by the sudden appearance of the ground-burrowing machine, and their thick black bodies twitched.

One of the monsters, with a snort, spat out a mouthful of jet-black slime and pounced on the Driller.

The Ground-Penetrating Mechanic's perspective was instantly plunged into darkness.

The sizzling sound of corrosion came from all over the body of the Drilling Mechanic, burrowing into Li Nuo's ears.

A dark, maddening sneaky will, through "mind control", was transmitted from the ground-burrowing machine spirit to Li Nuo's body.

Layers of noise looped through Li Nuo's mind like a tweeter.

【Warning! 】

[You are suffering from the psychic attack of the "Shadow Chrysalis Cocoon"! 】

[Please cut off your psychic connection with the Ground-Piercing Spirit in time to avoid substantial psychic damage!] 】

Li Nuo has a "psychic shield" by his side.

But in the face of warnings from the system, he has always sought stability.

Without saying a word, he terminated his "mind control" and abandoned the Ground-Penetrating Machine.

Of course, before terminating the spell, he didn't forget to launch a deconstruction spell on the "Shadow Chrysalis Cocoon".

But before he could check the results of the solution, a black yin wind wrapped in a fishy smell wafted out from the narrow hole under his feet.

"Whew~~~"

This wind blew Li Nuo's heart.

Those shadow chrysalis cocoons entrenched a hundred meters below seemed to be crawling along the passage drilled by the ground-drilling machine spirit.

Li Nuo immediately gave an order to the Spirit of the Rock:

"Plug the passage where the burrower came out, hurry up!" (End of chapter)