Chapter 1525: Chapter 950: Planar Expansion (IV): Thunderbolt’s Past (Part 2)
Of course, the vast majority of magic items were also destroyed due to material failure, but these intact arrays and runes are indeed a precious treasure!
Because their existence means that players can completely replicate the effects of various magic items, thereby directly absorbing the magic techniques once controlled by the Thunder Clan!
Realizing this, the technical players quickly became excited, and the pioneering players also became excited.
The former is because of the possibly lost magic skills in this world, and the latter... is because, despite having a huge "treasure," this world doesn’t even have a single monster!
Even the defensive arrays and constructed puppets in the ruins had long lost power due to the lack of magic power.
What does this mean? It means this world is absolutely safe; it’s just a matter of who is quick enough and lucky enough to grab some good stuff.
Soon, the players transformed into Elf Scavengers and started crazily picking up trash from the ground, with some almost fighting over a few pieces of scrap metal...
The embarrassing scene made the optimistic ones in the control room, like Li Mu, twitch at the corners of their mouths, and they couldn’t help but look at the expressions of Alice and other accompanying NPCs.
Luckily, Alice and the others were still immersed in the sadness of the Thunder Clan’s destruction and didn’t notice what these dog-like Elf Chosen Ones were doing.
And as the players further explored, they discovered more and more things, such as various magic guidebooks, surviving ancient texts, design diagrams of some magic devices, and all could be found in the city’s ruins!
Moreover...some players even discovered what seemed like the design blueprint for a small magic energy core!
So they became even more excited.
Until a player discovered a familiar-looking building in the ruins of the largest city...
"This... this is..."
"Is this the Life Temple? Is that the statue of the Goddess?"
"No... that symbol is not the mark of the staff."
In front of a majestic temple, several players looked up at the building that was eighty percent similar to the Life Temple in Feilengcui, Segis World, slightly stunned.
Looking at the statue in the temple that’s very similar to the Goddess but had lost its head, and the symbol above the temple that looked like a sketch of a tree, they glanced at each other.
"Wait... isn’t this the tree symbol the Goddess used before?"
Suddenly, an old player recognized the symbol on the temple.
Soon, other players also realized, their eyes lit up:
"Yes! It’s the tree sign from before!"
"Then... this really is the Goddess’s temple! But... it should be called the Natural Temple rather than the Life Temple!"
"Such a big temple... could it have been the church center of the Thunder Clan?"
"Search well! Maybe you’ll find something good!"
"Wait... our president and vice president already said, if you’re digging the temple, cut off the video first, because Alice is watching from the Floating City!"
"Makes sense, makes sense! Cut the video to prevent lowering favorability!"
Exploring players chatted amongst themselves.
Click, the screen went blank.
Alice:...
Her gaze withdrew from the projection of the control room screen, and then... she looked expressionlessly at Li Mu, Little Xian Miao, and others in the control room.
Little Xian Miao and others awkwardly turned their heads away, pretending to look at the scenery.
Demacia even started whistling.
Alice:...
[Ding——]
[Alice Wind’s favorability towards you decreased by 5 points...]
Little Xian Miao:...
Gugu Bird:...
Li Mu:...
Demacia:...
...
Not mentioning the collective drop in favorability of the high-level players in the control room, the players who found the Central Temple in the city ruins quickly began exploring this grand building.
However, they were somewhat disappointed that the temple appears to be a place where intense battles broke out, with many things broken and terrifying battle scars filling the walls, most unusable.
Fortunately, perhaps because it was once the center of battle, there were many buried pieces of equipment on the ground, all preserved quite well!
Especially the human equipment, it seems... the humans who fought here were wiped out by a special force in an instant.
As players competed to salvage in the temple, suddenly... a player’s cry came from deep within the temple.
Upon hearing the cry, other players paused their collection of "artifacts" and followed the voice.
They soon entered a grander hall, possibly a council chamber.
The player who cried out was sitting paralyzed at the entrance of the hall, looking somewhat dazed.
The other players didn’t pay him much attention, instead focusing on the hall.
The hall seemed to have been affected by some shockwave, messy, radiating outward.
At the center of the radiation stood the skeleton of an elf.
It seemed to be the center of everything; even as a skeleton, it stood proudly.
However, unlike other elf skeletons in the ruins, its bones were golden.
Of course, the players’ gazes quickly passed over the elf’s skeleton, focusing on the equipment it wore.
Having participated in many pioneering ventures, they possessed enough identification skill to instantly recognize upon seeing the gear... they were all divine artifacts!
The players were delighted, exchanged glances, and simultaneously rushed towards the elf’s skeleton!
One of the exploration rules, first-come, first-served.
However, just as they were about to approach it, they suddenly felt a mysterious power push them away.
The players exclaimed in surprise, flying under the mysterious force, landing beside the first player...
The first player glanced at them, chuckling, the humorous look seemingly saying "serves you right."
A group of people rubbed their bottoms as they stood from the ground, gradually calming down as they looked at the skeleton in the hall.
"Whose skeleton is this? Why can’t we approach it?"
"Adorned in divine gear, it must have been a big figure in the Thunder Clan..."
"Try again!"
They exchanged glances, advancing towards the skeleton once more, but at a much slower pace.
However, when they got close to within ten meters of the skeleton, they couldn’t proceed further.
An invisible force was blocking them.
Unconvinced, they all showed their skills, casting Mage’s Hand from spells, some wielded hooks to try to pull down the divine gear from the skeleton, but... none of them succeeded.
Just as they contemplated using more forceful means, a soft sigh came from behind them:
"Stop it. No matter how violent your methods, you cannot get close to Him. A demigod’s skeleton often carries the residual will of the demigod from when alive; without recognition from them, you can’t approach."
Hearing the strangely familiar voice, the players’ hearts skipped a beat.
They turned, slightly stunned:
"Cyber?!"
Arriving was none other than Cyber, the player who once saved the Frost Elves.
"Demigod? How do you know this is a demigod’s skeleton?"
A player couldn’t help but ask.
Cyber glanced at him:
"I am a friend of Aurora."
All players:...
They showed expressions of envy and jealousy.
In "Elf Kingdom," among nearly twenty million players, those who dare claim they are friends with the True God can probably be counted on one hand.
However, who wouldn’t want to save the Frost Elves?
Having a big leg to cling to means the amount of information you know is truly incomparable.
Cyber bypassed everyone, reaching the front of the skeleton.
Solemnly, he bowed respectfully to the skeleton and solemnly said:
"Demigod, I am the Divine Favored under the Mother Goddess, the Chosen Elf Cyber Shadow. My compatriots and I have come to bring the companions of the Thunder Clan home."
Having spoke, he took a deep breath and approached the skeleton.
Everyone’s eyes were fixed on him.
This time, the strange force did not appear.
