Chapter 437 (2/2)

“I’m not being accepting. I’m just using whatever tools I have at hand.” Y’zaks smiled. “I don’t need everyone to think like me, I just need their strength to be useful to me. Those who can fight, let them fight; those who can explore, let them scour the land; those who can research, let them do so. Lamadenor is your standard demon, so I just let him do what a standard demon does best. Since he isn’t receptive of the future I’ve planned, he’s free to go as he wishes.”

Vivian still had some questions to ask but Y’zaks did not seem to want to dwell on the topic any further. He looked at Y’lisabet, “That’s enough. Lets talk about the city, how did you solve the propulsion system issue?”

The little demon immediately puffed her chest up. “I did! We found a source of energy in the alternate dimension. It is in the power generator powering the city. Papa, you want to have a look?”

Y’zaks broke into a wide smile. “Of course. You guys wanna come along?”

The question was rather moot. How could Hao Ren and the rest miss out of this and the party was excited. Even Lil Pea was happily mumbling, “Kam Along! Kam Along!”

The group then departed for the power generator area inside Helcrown. It was right beneath the castle and Y’lisabet led the way. Hao Ren and the group circled the castle for a bit, going through winding corridors and security checkpoints before reaching a circular hall. The hall itself was rather different, and did not had any decorative items adorning the hall. The walls were however carved with series of crystalline and metallic leylines, almost as if they were runes. The mysterious runes glowed as it was driven by demonic energies. The lights seems to resonate with each other and there was a continuous hum of energy in the background.

Y’lisabet motioned everyone to stand in the obsidian platform in the middle of the hall and made a a series of weird motions towards the crystal above the hall. The obsidian platform shook for a bit and started descending.

So it was an elevator…

As the elevator descended, the group ended the most important place within Helcrown. Hao Ren realised he was descending through a long, translucent crystalline tube. Through the tube, they could see the inner working of Helcrown unknown to others. A massive, steam pipe of dwarven desgin snaked through the place. Thick bronze machinery chugged as it was powered by dwarven steam engines, providing the city above power. Beneath the steam piping was a dark red crystalline and silver grid. This grid was the buffer zone of the power generation zone. Further down was even more bizzare looking items, a series of dark green crystalline matrix with intricate spells and a forest-like metal structure. Heaven knows how long did Y’zaks took to modify the place to that it is today. Looking at the ungodly mixture of technology, magic, alchemy, demonic energies and steam-powered contraptions, Hao Ren now understood why the Allied Army could not take down the city.

This was as high tech as one could get here…

After a long descend, the platform finally came to a stop. The group had arrived in the deep area of Helcrown.

Y’lisabet led the group through a series of staircase and into a ring shaped corridor. The inner ring of the corridor were lined with rows upon rows of window arcs. Lily poked her head through one of the arcs and realised that the ring corridor was probably surrounding the power furnace.

The furnace was build directly using obsidian and the inner part was a giant circular hall. The staircase of the hall spiralled downwards and the circular rings made the place looked almost like the Colosseum. You could see countless glowing runes and silver circuits along every level of the steps. All of them were connected to the centre of the hall. In there a device made out of a few metal concentric rings were spinning rapidly, and in the middle of the device was a mysterious item had glowed in dark red.

On the steps above the power furnace, scores of workers were busy performing their duties. Aside from demons, there were blue skinned Ethereals and stout dwarfs, looking almost walk walking beer barrels as well.

Y’lisabet proudly introduced the place, “This is Helcrown’s Demonic Furnace!”

Hao Ren stared at the device for a good while before turning towards Y’zaks. “… Now I know the other reason of why everyone in the world wanted a piece of you.”

Y’zaks, “What?”

“You stick out like a bloody sore thumb everywhere you go!”