The prisoner suddenly fell into a frenzy: "That scepter contains the power of the great Mother of Monsters! It can activate the Fetal Movement Palace and continuously produce the children of the Mother of Monsters! It will even grant gifts to random people!"
The dragon tilted its head: "Gift? Are you talking about those monsters?"
"It's a gift!" the caveman said, screaming sharply at the dragon, "That's undoubtedly a gift!"
The dragon pressed it to the ground with its front paws, and scratched the back of its head with its sharp nails, causing black blood to flow out, but Lamashtu's ability allowed the wound to heal quickly.
Although it has healed, the pain is real.
Dragon: "It's a monster, an ugly monster."
Prisoner: "Maybe it seems like this to you..."
The dragon scratched the back of its head again.
"It's a monster!" the prisoner shouted, "It's a monster! It's blind and deaf, and it can only squirm on the ground. There is no doubt that it is a monster!"
The giant dragon retracted its front paws: "It seems to be very reasonable."
The elf frowned and looked at the giant dragon: "Before I came out, I only knew that black dragons are evil creatures. I didn't know that a black dragon transformed from a human could be so evil. What's the difference between you and a cat playing with prey just now?"
Dragon: "So you mean cats that play with their prey are evil creatures?"
Nini was speechless for a moment.
Elizabeth smoothed things over: "This is also to obtain information. Now we know that the cavemen regarded the monster as a gift from Lamashtu."
Marika asked the captive: "How many more monsters are there?"
Prisoner: "I have used them all to attack you, even those who have not grown up. The Fetal Movement Palace will release a new wave of cavemen tomorrow, and only then will there be new gifts - monsters!"
Dragon: "Do the cavemen have no troops now?"
"Of course there are, but most of them are at the shallow level to contain the human mercenaries and adventurers who are coming in."
Julong: "I see, I thought you mobilized the troops at a shallow level, and I also wanted to say that your social organizational structure is quite good, and you can send orders and dispatch quickly. It turns out that it is not the case."
Elizabeth was very nervous: "Doesn't that mean there are a lot of cavemen in the shallow layer? We have to hurry up!"
"Don't worry, wait until I understand this scepter. What he just said about Lamashtu's artifact is all nonsense, and I have to come and authenticate it."
As he spoke, the dragon stretched out its front paws, pinched the scepter in the forest elf's hand with three fingers, and looked closely at it with its eyes.
Xiaobai: "You look like you're going to swallow that thing in one gulp."
The dragon ignored the druid at all and concentrated on studying the scepter. He wanted to turn the scepter in one direction, but his three fingers couldn't hold it firmly, and the scepter suddenly slipped out from his fingertips.
Nini caught the scepter, climbed up to the dragon's neck in three or two steps, held the dragon's scales with one hand, and put the scepter in front of the dragon's eyes with the other hand.
"Thank you." The dragon said, "But this one is a bit biased. Put it where my eyes focus, right, right here."
It watched for a few seconds, then drew a circle with its little paws in the air: "Turn around, turn around slowly."
Nini slowly turned the scepter.
After watching it for a while, the dragon muttered: "It's strange. This thing... although it has the holy symbol of Lamashtu, it looks... just the magical energy core of the ancient Cyclops Empire fixed on a metal rod.
.”
The prisoner shouted: "Impossible! This is Lamashtu's sacred object! The elder has personally identified it!"
"There are two possibilities," the dragon said while continuing to look at the elf's rotating scepter. "First, your elder is too bad to recognize this thing at all. Second, he said this deliberately to deceive you. I always
I think two things may have happened: your elders didn’t recognize this thing, but made up a random story about the Lamashtu sacred object. After all, you see, there are dwarf murals in the passage into this place.”
Elizabeth looked up at the giant dragon and asked: "With such poor eyesight, can cavemen see the murals?"
Dragon: "They can use touch. The cavemen are very capable in this regard. If this temple was discovered before 270,000 water drops dripped from the stalagmites, there is reason to believe that the caveman elders have already used touch to read
I understand the content of the mural."
Prisoner: "Impossible! The elder did talk about the content of the mural, but... no, it's impossible! This must be a holy object made by the lich and dwarves who stole the power of Lamashtu. Otherwise, how can you explain it?
Where are the people and gifts that continue to appear in the Fetus Palace?"
The dragon flapped its wings: "There are many possibilities. Some planes use this method to mass-produce residents. A powerful lich is likely to be a planeswalker like my teacher, and often travels across planes, collecting
Knowledge and rare spellcasting materials. It’s normal for it to acquire technologies from other planes.”
The dragon paused for a moment: "By the way, you are wrong to think that the people in the Fetal Movement Hall are constantly appearing. This energy core is almost out of energy. Its remaining energy can hardly even maintain its glow."
As soon as she finished speaking, the light of the scepter in Nini's hand gradually weakened, and finally disappeared completely.
As the light went out, the huge hemispherical fetal hall let out a long roar, which sounded like the roar of a dwarf's steam machinery letting go of the steam in the cylinder before stopping.
Then the entire Fetal Movement Hall became quiet, and all the lights illuminating the interior were extinguished.
Dragon: "It turns out that the energy core is also responsible for the lighting inside the Fetal Movement Hall. No wonder it went out much faster than I expected."
The prisoner couldn't see what was happening in the Fetal Movement Hall. He could only shout in panic: "What happened? Did something happen to the Fetal Movement Hall? The sound of the movement stopped! What was that scream just now?"
Dragon: "The thing you thought was the scepter artifact has used up its last energy."
The prisoner screamed: "Impossible! My palm can still emit holy light, Lamashtu has not abandoned me!"
Elizabeth frowned and asked the dragon: "So what's going on? I don't understand very well. There is no artifact of Lamashtu?"
"Yes," the dragon replied affirmatively, "I guess the ancient dwarves were deceived by the lich. In fact, the lich took an energy core from the ancient Cyclops Empire and used the energy inside to create a core that could 'produce' dwarves in batches.
It’s a huge mechanical device. But this is just my guess. We won’t know until we go in and take a look.”
Flint looked at the door of the hemispherical Fetus Palace: "It's completely dark inside. Unless your scepter is used as lighting, you can't see it at all. But the scepter merged with you after you transformed.
You have to cancel the transformation first."
The dragon tilted its head and looked at the dwarf: "What are you talking about? I am a dragon now, and I also have dark vision."
Saying that, the dragon began to walk towards the Fetal Movement Hall.
Marika asked: "What to do with the captives?"
"Kill him. Do you expect a caveman to change his ways? I think they may not even understand what they found." The dragon replied nonchalantly.
The drow asked again: "Do you have any objection if I kill the white-skinned elf lady I captured?"
Nini replied: "I have no problem with killing evil creatures."
Although the forest elves are a kind race, their closeness to art gives them a certain tendency towards chaos. They do not have the rigid concept of good and evil like the paladins, nor do they pursue procedural justice.
Entering the fetal movement hall, the dragon first looked around.
"It looks very much like the biology laboratory in the mage's tower." it commented.
The forest elf hanging around its neck asked curiously: "What is biology?"
"A borrowed word from a certain plane in the multiverse." The dragon came to the "sarcophagus" on the entire wall and took a closer look. "Artificial womb."
Then it walked towards the only pillar in the middle of the huge fetal movement hall.
There is a transparent gelatinous body in the middle of the pillar, with a skeleton floating inside.
"The skeleton of the caveman seems to be the unlucky caveman who was swallowed in the first place. It is a very clever design. The ooze monster is modified to analyze the target organism, and then produces something similar in the artificial womb.
"But this system should consume raw materials. I didn't see the feeding port, and the prisoner just now didn't mention the need for feeding materials."
The giant dragon was talking to himself while looking around the entire fetal movement hall.
At this time, the lighting outside the Fetal Movement Hall also disappeared, leaving the entire cave in darkness.
**
Outside the cave, on the platform, Elizabeth was startled by the sudden darkness. She immediately approached Marika and grabbed her hand tightly: "What should I do? Is the enemy about to attack?"
Marika reassured: "It's probably not the case. You see, Xiaobai didn't even hear the caveman's movements. I guess the lighting energy of this facility has been used up."
The next moment, a subtle light appeared in the darkness.
Gotrick took out the fire folder and gently opened the lid, revealing the weak fire inside.
The dwarf took off the torch from his back: "Sure enough, it is not correct to store everything in the mage's dimensional bag."
After the torch is lit, the light is only enough to illuminate the nearby area, and the distance further away is completely dark.
Elizabeth: "I'm a little scared, how about we go find the king!"
Xiaobai laughed again: "Bastard! In Eastern languages, this means turtle. Don't say this in front of the monks, they will laugh to death. Hahahaha!"
Flint looked around warily: "Be careful, when the cavemen attack, Marika and I are the only ones capable of fighting."
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 because of the light outside! There's no way it's safe to stay with the dragon at this time!"
**
In the Fetal Movement Hall, the giant dragon didn't care about the changes in the light outside. It concentrated on studying the device made by the ancient lich using the dwarves. While studying it, he muttered: "Could it be using some kind of conjuration spell that is permanently attached to the object?
Continuously creating raw materials? Is it possible for a spell to be constant and still effective for such a long time?"
Suddenly, the dragon's keen vision discovered a unique brick that seemed independent of the decorative painting on the wall and was incompatible with all the elements in the painting.
The dragon stretched out the tip of its claws and lightly poked the brick.
The next moment, a finger of death hit the dragon, and was resisted by the mage's immune-death ring.
The escaping magic energy stimulated the elf hanging on the dragon's neck. She accidentally slipped off the dragon's body and rolled a bit when she landed on the ground before she stabilized her body and stood up again.
The elf only has dim vision. In this basically lightless environment, her vision is far less sharp than that of the drow and dwarves.
But the next moment, the light of a torch appeared outside the cave. Although it was far away, it was enough for the elves.
Nini turned her head and cast a grateful look at the entrance of the cave, even though she knew no one would notice this look.
With the light of distant torches, the elf climbed onto the dragon's neck again.
Just at this time, the dragon poked the brick again.
This time there was no finger of death, the bricks sank into the wall, and then the sound of mechanical operation came.
A huge boulder covered with patterns rises upward under the action of a mechanical mechanism.
As the stone rose, a shit-yellow light emerged.
Even though the boulder was already huge, the dragon still couldn't get through the opened door and could only bend its neck from the outside to look in.
Nini quickly jumped into the cave, watching out for traps as she walked towards the light source.
Dragon: "That looks like Lamashtu's holy symbol?"
Suddenly, Nini stepped on a trap - although she had been very careful, rangers were not experts in trap elimination like rogues.
Arrows shot out from the holes in the wall, but the elf quickly dodged them.
The elf simply gave up looking for traps and rushed directly towards the light source, using his agility to deal with various triggered traps.
For a moment, the narrow tunnel was filled with the sound of automatic crossbows firing, and the elves seemed to be dancing, dodging arrows shot from all directions.
The dragon at the entrance of the cave was dumbfounded. It even used its superb eyesight to see the elf's second sex moving, and it swung it between the two arrows!
Dragon: "Is it so soft?"
Finally, the elf came to the shit-yellow light source.
The traps all fell silent.
Nini: "It's a Lamashtu Holy Emblem, and some other props. There's also a small stone tablet with dragon language engraved on it."
Elves are very interested in magic and art, so most elves can speak Draconic, a language that has deep roots in magic.
Nini read out the dragon language on the stone tablet: "Congratulations on coming here. To get here, you have probably obtained the energy source of the device I made. I guess there was not much energy left when you found it.
.Although you can find ways to charge it yourself and use it for other purposes, I doubt if you will still find craftsmen who can process the Cyclops energy core in your time.
"As for the shit yellow holy symbol in front of you, I made it after stealing part of Lamashtu's power. This is an exaggerated statement on my part. In fact, I suspect that this evil god actively shared the power. Holding it will
Become unlucky, and Lamashtu's power will slowly corrode your body, causing you to grow bird-like feathers and possibly scales.
"The initial symptoms can be restored through the restoration spell, but as long as you hold it, sooner or later the changes in your body will be recognized by the restoration spell as your original appearance, so you can never recover. Of course, if you are a lich - like me
Same, then you can hold this thing as you like.
"Corruption is a slow process that may take three to five years. Ordinary dimensional bags cannot isolate this effect, unless you have the legendary infinite dimensional bag.
"By the way, I just said to hold it. In fact, this is not accurate. It will be corrupted around it. With such huge side effects, this thing has no positive effect and can only be used to create strange creatures.
I channeled this power and added a series of mechanisms that allowed me to control the process of creating monsters.
"So I can make monsters that look like dwarves, but they are just monsters that look like dwarves. The dwarves will discover this sooner or later, but before that they will be destroyed by the continuous production of monsters. Now I lie to them and say
This is just a technical problem and it will be solved with adjustments.
"The dwarves must not have imagined that my goal is actually to steal their treasure. Of course, studying stealing the authority of gods is also a very interesting thing.
"Many legendary mages, driven by curiosity, are obsessed with traveling around and collecting never-before-seen knowledge. I understand them, after all, I was once one of them. But now, I long for true eternity - yes
Yes, only God is truly eternal.
"Some academic mages believe that as long as they master the lowest principles of the multiverse, they can gain power beyond God. I think that is their beautiful wish.
"I, Elzam Malcolm seek true eternity!"
The dragon listened to the elf outside, and when the elf paused, he asked: "Is this the end?"
Nini: "No. I took a breath, I read too much at once. There are more below.
"Dear adventurer, I'm sorry that you got something that has huge side effects but no benefits. My suggestion is to throw this thing away and don't take it with you, otherwise you will regret it.
"As an alternative, I have prepared items for you that are suitable as the final reward of the adventure. First, it is my commonly used magic book. The mages in your team must like it very much."
Dragon: "Oh, damn, don't give me the spell book, I can only sell it for money."
Nini continued to read: "Second, a glove, your warriors will like it.
"Third, a spoon, 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 pot of delicious hot soup. I can't drink the soup anymore, because the lich has no
stomach, but I still like this spoon very much. It has brought me many memories.
"You will know that it is a good thing to have delicious hot soup at any time during the adventure. So, with that, Elzam Malcolm wishes you a happy journey.
"Oh, by the way, I have prepared a little surprise for you. After you take these gifts, it will start. If you don't want to be frightened, don't take these things."