Chapter 48 Part4 (1/2)
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Lee s.h.i.+n Woo was barely able to get Dana to part with the Dryads by promising to introduce her to the spirits on the surface. Then, he and his party left the wine factory and traveled to the Metal Army's base.
If he hadn't acquired the administrator seal and been to their base before, then he wouldn't have been able to lead them into the chaos; and if that happened, he would've had to work that much harder to lower the Imperial Army and the Anti-Skull's forces.
”Moreover, it's because of that that we got ourselves such a nice facility.”
”That's really not the way a human being thinks.”
”Wow. I didn't know you could use golems like this...”
”I'm really satisfied.”
”It's quite vast. To think they built and operated a hidden facility like this...”
They had taken the golem train and arrived at the Metal Army's base. While the younger generation of heroes looked around, as if fascinated, Seira and Dana were absolutely speechless.
Of course, they realized by now that Arema Steelworker was a spy from the surface, but they hadn't expected such an expansive facility being run under the entire Empire in the past; even when the Underground Empire was still thriving.
”It's because of this that they were able to move so covertly.”
”I'm surprised you were able to recreate that seal or what not, Hero. It's not easy to do, even for a magician.”
The Empire had the Archmage, Feotane Von Seldin, but even he wasn't able to find this base. This base had existed for far too long for him to blame it on them becoming undead. Lee s.h.i.+n Woo just shrugged his shoulders.
”Now that you mention it, I feel like it's because of my innate ability. Ah, using Bone Reinforcement on the golems helped too, since it lets me look at them closely.”
”I see. It's a combination of your talent and your disposition.”
”Makes sense. Let's take a look, starting from the outside.”
They pa.s.sed the golem train terminal and first encountered a long, outside corridor. There were a few huge rooms and warehouses, but all of them were empty.
He a.s.sumed that they were originally filled with his troops: level 6 golems. They were, of course, in his Chi Pauls' bellies now.
”But this shouldn't be all there is.”
”They should have a golem manufacturing facility somewhere.”
He was well aware of this, as he'd killed some of them. There were, of course, golems that had been created dozens of years ago, but there had also been golems with recent production numbers among them.
While spying on the Underground Empire, Arema Steelworker had also been increasing his forces. His party had finished looking through the outer corridors, and then went towards the inner facilities, which couldn't be accessed without the Steelworker seal; they were really excited, and...
”Ooooooh!”
”Oh, it's over there.”
Kratia's yell resounded as if sounding fanfare. The party soon entered a huge room filled with devices and mysterious crystals. Above all, both walls were adorned with vaults filled with level 6 Original Cores. Once she saw the cores, she couldn't contain her excitement.
”Kratia, is this...”
”Yeah.”
Kratia nodded her head enthusiastically as if deeply moved. Whenever she was introduced to a new, unknown magical technique, she tended to get really excited.
”A manufacturing facility that produces a large quant.i.ty of Original Cores... It really did exist. The surface's magic engineering is amazing!”
”Kratia, you seem a bit different.”
”Uooooh!”
Kratia completely ignored Prince and uttered a sound, as if she were a human power plant, and rushed over to the magical device and began to observe it.
He would feel bad if he interrupted her since she was concentrating so hard. Lee s.h.i.+n Woo decided to leave this entire facility to Kratia and looked through the other facilities. He looked through the golems' weapon storehouse, the material storehouse, the golem production facility, as well as the repair facility... Even Lee s.h.i.+n Woo had gotten excited from looking through these storehouses that remained intact for dozens of years.
”I should be able to expand the golem squad significantly!”
”Oh G.o.d.”
”G.o.d'll like it too. Probably.”
By the time he'd gone through about 80% of the inner facilities, Lee s.h.i.+n Woo found one of the things he was looking for. It was the golem terminal that remotely controlled the railroad.
”Jin, do you remember what that Steelworker b.a.s.t.a.r.d told us last time? It was when we still had to get their permission to use the golem trains.”
”Did they even say anything important regarding the trains?”
”They did. It was incredibly important info at that. They definitely told us that they had a line that went directly to the capital.”
”The capital!? Oh my G.o.d!”
”There's a line that goes directly to the capital!?”
Dana and Seira, who'd both been quietly listening in, yelled in astonishment. They should know exactly what this meant! Lee s.h.i.+n Woo nodded his head and added.
”I'm pretty sure it was Guillotine. He said that 'In the process of escaping the capital, we completely destroyed the pa.s.sageway and the road was closed.'”
”He must've been lying.”
”He was lying.”
They had been fighting like prep.u.b.escent girls before, but now they were agreeing with each other. Lee s.h.i.+n Woo felt that their relations.h.i.+p was really entertaining and nodded his head.
”It's obviously a lie. If that line was discovered, then whether they closed the road or not wouldn't have mattered; the Imperial Army would've gotten through. At the time, I didn't know what high level individuals could do, so I a.s.sumed they were telling the truth and let it go, but now that I'm level 8, I know. Their line was never discovered after escaping the capital. And that's why they were able to continue using this base.”
”Impossible... It's preposterous...”