Arcane Lord

After giving orders to Jabas, Shado sent a message to Jeff, the director of the Territory Development Department, asking him to try his best to meet Jabas' employment needs while maintaining the current development progress.

Fortunately, there are only a few days left in this month. If nothing else goes wrong, the fleet jointly organized by Hans and Flash Gold Chamber of Commerce will be back soon. By then, there will be at least 500 new citizens, enough for Jabas. used.

…

Hurrying back to the Tower of Time, Sha Duo plunged into the magic laboratory.

Once here, he no longer had to worry about anything wrong with the statue, but Xia Duo had a vague hunch in his heart that perhaps the statue's magic would no longer exist after the mysterious existence exploded.

The statue was taken out of the portable space and stood firmly in the center of the magic laboratory, almost close to the roof. In the limited space, this tall and ferocious statue seemed particularly oppressive.

After Jabas and others dug out the statue and moved it to the military camp, they did not perform a complete cleaning process and simply swept away the loose soil on the surface.

What Xia Duo needs to do now is to give the statue a thorough cleaning first. Maybe the details are hidden under the mud!

The cleaning process was lackluster. It was nothing more than Xia Duo using the [Water Control] awakened in his own bloodline to meticulously clean the entire statue.

As Xia Duo expected, the real surprise was hidden behind the cleaning!

There were layers of mud stains before. Although it can be seen that the entire statue is made of stone, the specific stone type cannot be determined!

After cleaning, even if Chateau was not a geological expert, it was obvious that the scaly creature with a human body and a snake's tail on the statue was not made of the same material as the stone pillar that served as the base of the statue.

Among them, the color of the scaly creatures is similar to ink, vaguely bluish, while the stone pillars are pure black, with white light clearly reflected in some smooth places.

Shado carefully inspected the connection between the scale creature and its coiled stone pillar. It may be a bit exaggerated to describe it as a clear boundary, but it is indeed the case.

At least, from the perspective of an ordinary person, from the surface, one can clearly see a dividing line following the direction of the scaly creature's form at the connection between the two.

"It seems that the scale creature and the base stone pillar were not made in the same batch!"

This is the simplest conclusion that Chateau has drawn based on the phenomena he has observed so far. Perhaps there is really just the right stone to create this statue with different materials for the main body and the base.

"By the way, there's also a docked tail!"

Xia Duo thought about the truncated tail. This statue seemed quite valuable. Although it had been "scratched" by the portable space, it was better not to destroy it if possible.

After all, this kind of statue only exists for the time being.

…

After cleaning, the tail is the same as the body of the scale creature, which is inky and slightly bluish, and even the broken section is the same color.

only--

Why does that fracture surface have an indescribable feeling? Could it be——

Xia Duo couldn't help being startled by his own thoughts. He took a few steps back and looked at the statue carefully. It had a human body and a snake's tail. The whole body was covered with scales. Needless to say, the snake's tail was no exception, even on the arms that looked similar to humans. .

There are also fine scales on other parts of the body, such as the chest, back, and head.

The more he looked at it, the more frightened Xia Duo became. Although he had never seen the true form of this kind of scaly creature, the statue really gave him the feeling of a living creature. It bared its teeth and claws, and almost threw the weapon in its hand. out.

Of course, all these feelings may be psychological suggestions, stemming from some strange features he found on the broken tail fracture surface, but since he already had this idea, he had to verify it no matter what.

…

With the truncated tail, Xia Duo came to the general laboratory nearby. Although the alchemy array has not been installed here, it is enough to have an experimental bench.

After fixing the severed tail, Xia Duo opened his right hand, and a fine gold knife with a faint blue luster appeared silently in his hand.

"Ding ding ding——"

The adamantine knife and the broken tail gently collided with each other, making a crisp sound. Xia Duo applied a little force, and soon a small piece of the broken tail section collapsed.

Seeing this scene, Xia Duo observed the new fracture surface, and then continued to hammer and chisel on the broken tail section. Just looking at his movements, he looked like a poor mason, but he didn't care, his In my eyes, I only see that cross-section, and what’s on the cross-section——

Muscle texture!

After a while, the experimental table was in a mess, with dark blue stone chips everywhere, large or small, while Xia Duo continued to hammer and chisel.

He didn't stop until he cut out a cylinder from the section of the broken tail.

Throwing the fine gold knife at the experimental table, Xia Duo couldn't help but complain: "If there is such a stone that perfectly fits the bones, muscles, skin, and scales, there will be something wrong!"

He had just cut off the tail and saw the muscle texture before, and then he kept chipping away, and the debris that flew out was broken along the muscle texture.

If this is all a coincidence, then is it also a coincidence that he, a novice with no carving experience, used stone to chisel out a thin-walled cylinder?

Xia Duo stretched out his hand and broke off the cylindrical wall where the tail was cut off, and a scale slightly larger than his fingernail was broken off.

Throwing away the scales, Xia Duo showed a wry smile, "It's true!"

He no longer wanted to continue to verify it. If nothing unexpected happened, he could see the internal organs of that creature inside just by cutting open the statue of the scale creature.

Xia Duo couldn't believe that anyone could be so boring, using the same material to reproduce a creature in extremely fine detail, even going deep into the body.

In this magical world, it is more likely that the statue is transformed from the biological body.

Some time ago, Jabas and his son were petrified!

Especially Jabas, who was completely petrified. If Shado gave up on him and buried him directly, would the people who dug up Jabas a few years later also be surprised by such a statue?

As for why the material of Jabas after he was petrified was different from that of the statue, perhaps it was due to the difference in the magic used during the transformation.

…

"An ancient time traveler, a prisoner being punished, an ordinary 'person' who encountered an accident, or is it simply some kind of statue decoration made of 'real people'?"

Sha Duo had already determined that this statue was transformed from a real creature. When he looked around the statue again, his feeling was completely different. He felt like he was talking to this creature through time and space.

Looking at the magic aura again, it was the same as what was observed in the military camp before. There was no obvious aura reaction, and it was no different from ordinary stones.

However, this statue had been "bitten" by the portable space before. It must have experienced some kind of change, but Sha Duo couldn't figure it out yet.

The only thing that was certain was that this statue looked "deteriorated" and he needed more statues like this!

After that, whether you feed it directly to the portable space or continue to study it, it is a very good sample!