Chapter 434 (1/2)
Hao Ren did not know what the real “Throat of the World” and so-called core of the spatial bubble zone were. But judging from Y’zaks’ reaction, he knew it was something extraordinary. Scratching his chin with an unprecedented serious look on his face, Y’zaks asked, “Are the nature of this dimension and of those described in the manuscript consistent?”
“They match,” Zadamor nodded, “the gateway to the rest of the world, the unstable opening method, and the ever-changing mapping laws— all strikingly consistent with the manuscript’s predictions. But we didn’t manage to explore too deeply, that space wasn’t creature-friendly, there was no stars and solid planets, and only some strange celestial bodies which we could barely set our foot on. People could only survive with the deployment of a great barrier over the royal city, so we couldn’t send more people scouting out there.”
Y’zaks nodded slightly, he knew these things couldn’t be explained in a few words. “Well, please sort out what had happened for the past year and I will hear the details from you later.”
He then turned to his little daughter with a broad smile on his face. “The most important thing for me now is that my daughter is alive! Y’lisabet … I knew you would be fine, but this thing…” Y’zaks said, looking up to ‘himself’ which was on the throne, “What the hell is this?”
Y’lisabet’s face was still a mess after crying and laughing a while ago, but she had quickly calmed down. She held on to a finger of Y’zaks and said proudly, “That’s Papa III. I designed it with Uncle Hammer!”
Y’zaks was dumbfounded when he heard the name earlier. Hao Ren curiously came up to the throne and looked up, and found that the rough skin, the unique body armour were almost as identical as the genuine one—almost lifelike, only the flame and lava which were magic simulation had disappeared because the ‘demon doll’ was now in standby mode.
Hao Ren climbed up to the chest of the ‘demon doll’ and poked his head inside. He could see the compact alloy cockpit inside, but without the usual control sticks and buttons and stuff like that. Instead, there were some odd alloy cylinders and neatly-arranged rune slab panels, as well as a small seat. The control panel was glimmering with a faint light from time to time, and the complicated runes were occasionally projected out. Through the help of his translation plug-ins, Hao Ren could read them: pressure readings, power reactor, expression combinations, intelligence balance, skin camouflage, walking assistance control, running auxiliary control …
Suddenly, Hao Ren felt a furry thing squeezed itself past him next to his arm. It was Lily. “Let me have a look… whoa… this is a high-tech cockpit?”
“So you’ve been using this to impersonate me all this while?” Y’zaks looked at his genius daughter, half-cryingly and half-laughingly after he took a gander at the ‘demon doll’. “You’re real genius. No one spot the anomalies?”
Y’lisabet climbed up the demon’s legs and proudly exclaimed, “No one would spot the difference with occasional appearance to sooth the worries of the people.”
Then, the little girl lowered her head slightly, lamenting. “Unfortunately, it could only perform the most basic manoeuvers, and control is very troublesome. I’ve spent a long time fine-tuning its walking posture. Then I used posture-core of the obsidian colossus to stabilize it. But it still lacks combat capability, no magic ability, and hasn’t enough power…”
When the little girl talked, she babbled. Y’zaks touched her head affectionately and said, “Y’lisabet liked to study these things from an early age… She was physically weak but was clever, so I let her studied alchemy and astrology from the manuscript left behind by the old man.”
Hao Ren glanced at Y’lisabet, her physical build was obviously as different as day and night compared to the normal demon. How could Y’zaks at five-metres-tall have a one-meter daughter?
Lily who was beside Hao Ren was more blunt. “Are you sure she is your biological daughter?”
Y’zaks wasn’t offended at all as if he had long been expecting question like that. “Y’lisabet’s mother was a human.”
Everyone went silent. Lily, one of the most literary-loving in the crowd, couldn’t utter a word.
Hao Ren pattted the arms of Y’zaks and said, “I couldn’t believe that a rough guy like you could’ve actually gone down that road— why did you take a human as wife?”
Y’zaks smiled, showing a nostalgic look on his face as he leaned back in his throne and recalled slowly. “It was the beginning of the unification war. As usual, humans had thought that I was just another brainless demon king, many of the braves had come out to fight me in the hope of lifting their own prestige, and Y’lisabet ‘s mother was one of them who came to look for trouble.
They were all astonished. Vivian twitched her mouth as she looked at Y’zaks. “How more uncommon-sensical could you be?”