The captives suddenly fell into a frenzy: "That scepter contains the power of the Great Mother of Monsters!" You can activate the Fetal Movement Temple, and a steady stream of people who produce the mother of monsters in the area! They even give gifts to random people! ”

The dragon tilted his head: "Gift? Do you mean those monsters? ”

"It's a gift!" The caveman said with a high-pitched howl at the dragon, "That's undoubtedly a gift!" ”

The dragon pressed it to the ground with its front paws, and the sharp nails scratched the back of its head, sending black blood pouring out, but Ramashtu's abilities allowed the wound to heal quickly.

Although it healed, the pain was real.

Dragon: "It's a monster, an ugly monster." ”

Captive: "It may seem ...... you so"

The dragon scratched the back of the head again.

"It's a monster!" The captives shouted, "It's a monster!" Blind and deaf, and can only squirm on the ground, there is no doubt that it is a monster! ”

The dragon retracted its front paws: "Looks like it makes sense." ”

The elf frowned and looked at the dragon: "Before I came out, I only knew that the black dragon was an evil creature, and I didn't know that the black dragon turned into a human would be so evil." What's the difference between you just playing with your prey with a cat? ”

Dragon: "So you mean cats that play with their prey are evil creatures?" ”

Nini was speechless for a moment.

Elizabeth played a round: "This is also to get information." Now we know that the cavemen took that monster for a gift from Ramashtu. ”

Marika questioned the captive, "How many monsters are there?" ”

Captive: "It's all been used against you, even before you grow up." A new wave of cavemen will be released tomorrow in the Fetal Movement Temple, and then there will be a new gift - monsters! ”

Dragon: "Don't the cavemen have no troops now?" ”

"Of course there are, but most of them are shallow containment of human mercenaries and adventurers."

Giant Dragon: "I see, I thought you had mobilized a shallow army, and I would like to say that your social organization structure is quite good, and you can give orders and dispatch quickly. It didn't turn out to be. ”

Elizabeth was very nervous: "Does that mean that there are still a lot of cavemen in the shallow depths?" We're going to hurry! ”

"Don't worry, wait until I understand this scepter. What he just said about the artifact of Ramashtu is all nonsense, and I have to identify it. ”

As he spoke, the dragon stretched out its front paws, pinched the scepter in the forest elf's hand with three fingers, and leaned closer to take a closer look.

Xiaobai: "You look like you're going to swallow that thing in one gulp." ”

The dragon didn't care about the druids at all, and focused on studying the scepter. He tried to turn the scepter in one direction, but the three fingers were so unsteady that the scepter slipped out of his fingertips.

Nini grabbed the scepter and climbed up to the dragon's neck in three or two steps, pulling the dragon's scales with one hand and bringing the scepter to the dragon's eyes with the other.

"Thank you." The dragon said, "But you're a little off the mark, put it where my eyes are focused, yes, yes, here." ”

It looked at it for a few seconds, and then its little paw drew a circle in the air: "Turn it, turn it slowly." ”

Nini slowly turned her scepter.

After looking at it for a while, the dragon muttered, "It's strange. This thing...... Although it has the emblem of Ramashtu, it looks ...... It's just an ancient cyclops empire's magic core, fixed to a metal rod. ”

The captives shouted: "Impossible! This is the holy relic of Ramashtu! The elders have personally examined it! ”

"There are two possibilities," the dragon said, continuing to gauge the elven's spinning scepter, "First, your elders are too bad to recognize this thing. Second, he deliberately deceives you by saying this. I always thought it might have been both: your elders didn't know about it, but they made up a story about the Ramashtu relics. After all, you see, there are frescoes of dwarves in the passages that enter this place. ”

Elizabeth looked up at the dragon and asked, "Can cavemen see frescoes with such poor eyesight?" ”

Dragon: "They can touch it, cavemen are very capable of this." If the temple was discovered before 270,000 drops of water fell from the stalagmites, there is reason to believe that the caveman elders had read the contents of the frescoes by touch. ”

Captive: "Impossible! The elder did talk about the contents of the mural, but ...... No! This must have been a relic made by the lich and the dwarves who stole the power of Ramashtu. How else would you explain the constant flow of people and gifts in the temple of fetal movement? ”

The dragon flapped its wings, "There are many possibilities, and some planes are mass-produced in this way. There's a good chance that a powerful lich is a traveling mage like my teacher, often traveling across planes to gather knowledge and rare spellcasting materials. It's also normal for it to get to other planes. ”

The dragon paused: "By the way, you think that the continuous appearance of people in the Fetal Movement Hall is wrong, this energy core is almost out of energy. The energy it had left was barely enough to keep it glowing. ”

As soon as she finished speaking, the light of the scepter in Nini's hand gradually faded, and finally disappeared completely.

As the light went out, the massive hemispherical fetal temple let out a long hiss, sounding like the whistling of a gnome's steam machine letting out the steam in its cylinders before it stopped.

Then the whole temple of the fetal movement fell silent, and all the light that illuminated it was extinguished.

Giant Dragon: "It turns out that the core is also responsible for the lighting inside the fetal movement hall, so it's no wonder it went out much faster than I expected." ”

The captive couldn't see what was happening in the Fetal Temple, so he could only shout in panic: "What's going on?" Is there an accident in the fetal temple? The sound of running has stopped! What was that scream just now? ”

Dragon: "What you thought was an artifact of the Scepter, you ran out of the last of its energy. ”

The captive screamed, "Impossible! My palms still shine with holy light, and Ramashtu has not abandoned me! ”

Elizabeth frowned and asked the dragon, "So what the hell is going on?" I don't understand too much, there is no Ramashtu artifact? ”

"Yes," replied the dragon in the affirmative, "I guess the ancient dwarves were deceived by the lich, but in fact, the lich took the energy core of an ancient cyclops empire and used the energy to create a huge mechanical device that could 'produce' dwarves in batches. But that's just my guess, and I'll have to go in and see how it goes. ”

Flint looked at the door of the hemispherical temple of fetal movement, "It's all dark inside, and you can't see it unless your scepter is used as a light." But the scepter fused with you after you transformed, and you had to undo it first. ”

The dragon tilted its head to look at the dwarf, "What are you talking about?" I'm a dragon now, and I also have dark vision. ”

As he spoke, the dragon began to walk towards the Fetal Movement Hall.

Marika asked, "What about the captives?" ”

"Kill it, can it be that you expect a caveman to change his ways? I don't think they even know what they found this thing. The dragon replied disappreciatively.

The Drow Elf asked again, "Is it okay for me to kill the white-skinned Elf Lady who captured the captive?" ”

Nini replied, "I have no problem with killing evil creatures. ”

Although the forest elves are a good race, their proximity to art gives them a certain tendency to chaos, they do not have the rigid concept of good and evil like the paladins, and they do not pursue procedural justice.

Entering the Fetal Movement Temple, the dragon first looked around.

"Looks like a biology lab in the Mage Tower." It commented.

The forest elf hanging around its neck asked curiously, "What is biology?" ”

"A foreign word, from a plane in the multiverse." The dragon came to a wall of "sarcophagus" and examined it carefully, "Artificial womb." ”

Then it walked to the only pillar in the middle of the great fetal hall.

In the middle of the column is a transparent colloidal body with a skeleton floating inside.

"The bones of the caveman, it looks like this is the hapless caveman who was swallowed in the first place. Very clever design, modifying the ooze monsters to resolve the target organism, and then producing something similar in an artificial womb.

"But this system should need to consume raw materials, I didn't see the feeding port, and the captive just now didn't mention that it needed to be fed."

The dragon muttered to himself as he looked around the entire fetal hall.

At this moment, the light outside the fetal temple also disappeared, and the whole cave was dark.

**

Outside the cave, on the platform, Elizabeth was startled by the sudden darkness, she immediately approached Marika and grabbed her hand: "What should I do?" Is the enemy going to attack? ”

Marika soothed: "It shouldn't be, you see that Xiaobai didn't hear the movement of the cavemen." It is estimated that the lighting energy of this facility has run out. ”

The next moment, a faint light appeared in the darkness.

Gao Trick took out the fire fold and gently opened the lid, revealing the faint fire inside.

The dwarf took the torch from behind his back, "Sure enough, it was right that you didn't store everything in the mage's dimensional bag. ”

After the torch was lit, the light was only enough to illuminate the vicinity, and further away it was pitch black.

Elizabeth: "I'm a little scared, or let's go to the king!" ”

Xiaobai laughed again: "Wang Ba! In the Oriental language, this is the meaning of turtle, don't say this in front of the monks, they will die of laughter. Hahahaha! ”

Flint looked around alertly: "Be careful, at this time, the cavemen attacked, and only Marika and I were the fighting force." ”

Xiaobai: "Me too." ”

As she spoke, she turned into a big wolf, and the wolf's eyes glowed green in the darkness.

Elizabeth: "We shouldn't have gone in with the dragon just now!" It's safe to stay with the dragon at such times! ”

**

In the Fetal Movement Hall, the dragon didn't care about the changes in the light outside, and it concentrated on studying the device made by the ancient lich using the dwarves inch by inch, muttering as it studied: "Could it be that it is some kind of spell system spell that is constant on the object, and continues to create raw materials?" Is it possible that there is a spell that has been constant for so long and is still in effect? ”

Suddenly, the dragon's keen vision spotted a maverick brick that appeared to be separate from the decorative painting on the wall, and was out of step with all the elements of the painting.

The dragon stretched out the tips of its claws and poked lightly at the bricks.

The next moment, a finger of death struck the dragon, and was then resisted by the mage's immunity to death.

The escaping spell energy stimulated the elf hanging from the dragon's neck, and she slipped off the dragon with her hands, rolling on the ground before settling her body and getting back to her feet.

Elves only have dim vision, and in this largely lightless environment, her eyesight is nowhere near as sharp as that of drow elves and dwarves.

But the next moment, the light of torches appeared outside the cave, and although it was far away, it was enough for the elves.

Nini turned her head to cast a grateful glance at the hole, even though she knew no one could notice it.

With the light of a torch in the distance, the elf climbed up the dragon's neck again.

Just then, the dragon poked the brick again.

This time there was no finger of death, and the bricks sank into the wall, followed by the sound of machinery running.

A large boulder with a pattern on its face rises upwards under the action of a mechanical mechanism.

As the stone rose, a yellow glow revealed.

Even though the boulder was already huge, the dragon could not enter the open door, and could only bend its neck outside to look inside.

Nini quickly jumped into the cavern, guarding the trap as she walked towards the light source.

Dragon: "That looks like the emblem of Ramashtu?" ”

Suddenly, Nini stepped on a trap - though she had been very careful, the Ranger was not an expert at trap-clearing like the Wanderer.

The arrow shot through a hole in the wall, but the elf was quick to dodge.

The elves simply gave up looking for traps and rushed directly to the light source, using their agility to deal with various triggered traps.

For a moment, the narrow tunnel was filled with the sound of automatic crossbow fire, and the elves seemed to be dancing, dodging arrows from all directions.

The dragon at the entrance of the cave was stunned, and it even saw the second sex of the elf shaking with its superb eyesight, and it was stunned to swing between the two arrows!

Dragon: "Is it so soft?" ”

Finally, the elf came to the yellow light source.

The traps were all quiet.

Nini: "It's a Ramashtu emblem, and a few other items. There is also a small stone plaque with the dragon language engraved on it. ”

Elves are very interested in both magic and art, so most elves speak dragon language, which has deep roots in magic.

Nini read out the dragon language on the stone tablet, "Congratulations on coming here." By this point, you've probably already gained the power source of the device I've built. I'm guessing you didn't have much energy left when you found it. While you can find your own way to recharge it for other purposes, I doubt you'll ever find a craftsman in your day who can process Cyclops cores.

"As for the yellow emblem in front of you, I made it after stealing some of the power of Ramashtu. This is my pompous statement, and in fact I suspect that this evil deity has taken the initiative to share in the power. Holding it will become unfortunate, and the power of Ramashtu will slowly corrode your body, leaving you with feathers and possibly scales like a bird.

"The initial symptoms can be recovered by the Restoration Technique, but as long as you hold it, sooner or later the changes in your body will be recognized by the Restoration Technique as your original appearance, and you will never be able to recover from it. Of course, if you're a lich, like me, then you can hold it as you please.

"Corruption is a slow process that can take three to five years. Ordinary Dimension Bags are not immune to this effect, unless you have the legendary Infinite Dimension Bag.

"By the way, I just said that it is held, but in fact this is not accurate, and it will be corrupted around it. With such a large side effect, this thing has no positive effect, and can only be used to create strange creatures. I took that power and added a series of mechanisms that allowed me to control the process of creating monsters.

"So I can make monsters look like dwarves, but they're just dwarf-like monsters. Sooner or later, the dwarves will find out, but before that they will be destroyed by the monsters that continue to produce. I'm now lying to them that it's just a technical issue and that tweaking it will always be solved.

"The dwarves must not have guessed that my goal was to steal their treasure. Of course, it is also interesting to study the stealing of God's authority.

"Driven by curiosity, many legendary mages indulge in traveling and gathering knowledge that they have never seen before. I understand them, after all, I was one of them. But now, I long for true eternity—yes, only God is truly eternal.

"Some pedantic mages believe that as long as they master the lowest principles of the multiverse, they can obtain power beyond the gods. I think that's their good wish.

"I, Elzam Malcolm, seek true eternity!"

The dragon listened to the elves outside, and when the elves paused, they asked, "Is this the end?" ”

Nini: "No. I caught my breath, thinking too much at once. There are many more below.

"Dear adventurer, I regret that you have obtained something with great side effects, but no benefit. My advice is to throw this thing away and don't take it with you, or you'll regret it.

"Instead, I've got you covered with items that are suitable as the ultimate reward for your adventure, the first is my usual magic book, which the mages in your team must love."

Dragon: "Oh,, don't give me a spell book, I can only sell it for money." ”

Nini continued, "Second, a glove, your warriors will like it.

"Thirdly, a spoonful, just throw it into a container with a capacity of no more than three liters, and fill it with any water, and you will get a delicious pot of hot soup. I can't drink the soup anymore because the lich doesn't have a stomach, but I still like this soup spoon very much, it brings me a lot of memories.

"You'll know that it's nice to have a delicious hot soup at any time of your adventure. So, that's it, Elzam Malcolm wishes you all a great trip.

"Oh yes, I've got a little surprise for you, and it will kick in as soon as you take the gifts. If you don't want to be frightened, don't take these things. ”

(End of chapter)