Ride and Cut

"As expected of Li Cha, the answer is correct!" Liola snapped her fingers and laughed happily, "It's hard to imagine that I actually succeeded in deciphering a rune!"

"A remarkable achievement!" The lord applauded heartily.

He can fully imagine how difficult it would be to do reverse engineering based on the real thing when all the information is unclear.

This is equivalent to challenging the crystallization of wisdom of the entire civilization with one's own strength, and any little bit of progress is worth celebrating!

"Everything is a hundred times more difficult than I imagined at first." Liola rubbed her temples wearily and happily. "This rune has the simplest structure and the most complete information. But I didn't expect that even so, it took several months, and in the end it almost came out by chance."

"What does it do?" Li Cha couldn't help but ask.

This is the best way to get a glimpse of the rune technology of the ancient goblins back then. I am afraid that no one can control their curiosity.

"If you supply it with magic power—" Liola casually placed the metal component on a magic crystal.

An orange-red flame rose immediately from the surface of the silver-white rune, which was faint but extremely stable.

"It will burn, so this rune represents - fire." The goblin leaned back on the back of the wheelchair, "I have done experiments, and the amount of magic power supplied will only prolong or shorten the burning time, and cannot affect the intensity of the flame."

"It's insignificant, isn't it? To be honest, I think so too." Liola smiled happily, "It's hard to imagine that the entire floating fortress is driven by countless such insignificant gadgets!"

"Gather sand to form a tower." Li Cha was in awe.

The ancient goblin's accomplishments in large-scale magic machines are definitely worthy of worship by future generations.

"What's even more unbelievable is that this thing doesn't need any precious magical metals, and only uses five common metals, gold, silver, copper, iron, and tin, to form an alloy." The goblin removed the magic crystal, and the flame on the rune went out.

He carefully picked up the metal rune with tweezers, and the light in his eyes shone as if it contained the whole world. "The ancient wisdom that was completely covered up by the dust of history, after a lapse of thousands of years, will actually reopen a corner in my hands. What an honor!"

"Take care of yourself." The lord sat down opposite him, "Since the first one can be cracked, there will be more in the future. I hope you can see that day."

He never doubted the IQ of this goblin, as long as he was given enough time, he would be able to restore the entire rune system.

"Impossible." The light in Liola's eyes dimmed all of a sudden, "The rune system is too difficult and obscure, and it is God's blessing to gain a little bit. If you want to ask for more, you need to invest years of time to polish it slowly!"

Li Cha frowned and asked, "Is your body about to fail?"

"Yeah, I'm dying." Liola nodded helplessly, and suddenly laughed again, "However, I have nothing to regret if I can crack a rune, so don't feel sorry for me."

For a moment the atmosphere seemed to become a little heavy, and the two sat facing each other for a long time without making a sound.

In the end, this dry goblin was the first to break the silence, "I don't know if it's an illusion, but I always feel that you didn't come here for the runes."

"Nonsense, the news hasn't reached the Alpine Fortress yet." Li Cha was disturbed by the conversation, and almost forgot about the business of this trip, "I want to ask you, when will the Floating Fortress be activated?"

"It can be done at any time." Liola took a sip from the water glass on the table, and looked at him strangely, "But once it is activated, it will cause a volcanic eruption, and the forest above will be wiped out. You don't care about those natives?"

"Oh, don't mention it." The lord slapped his thigh and sighed, thinking about it, he went to court, pouring out the latest things to the goblin like beans in a bamboo tube.

"Anyway, seeing that we can't hide it, we simply relocated all the forest natives to the Alpine Fort, and then burned it clean to get the floating fort out."

"Aren't you a little too hasty and too anxious?" Liola's reed stick-like fingers tapped the armrest of the wheelchair once and for all.

"What's the meaning?"

"In terms of specific implementation, I still have to discuss it with the iron giant chief to finalize it." The goblin pursed his lips and thought for a while, "However, in my opinion, since Titan hasn't found any abnormality, it's the best choice to let him go to the royal court meeting."

"Why?" The lord almost asked him if he was confused, but after thinking about it, he decided not to humiliate himself, "For Titan, the Iron Giant is already a second-five kid who poached the wall, why do you have to go up to find excitement?"

"Of course it's because it's profitable." Liola raised her index finger and smiled mysteriously. "First of all, Titan wants to win over the Iron Giant again after so many years. There is a high probability that it will give some benefits."

"It's not worth taking the risk for a little profit." Li Cha shook his head like a rattle, and his attitude was very firm. "Besides, the Titan has already seen a half-dead tiger spirit, and asked the Iron Giant to bring a few to the royal court meeting by name. It will definitely be over by then."

"Why do you say that?" Liola tilted her head slightly and continued to seduce her step by step.

"Your understanding of magic is still not deep enough." The lord said as a matter of course, putting on an expert in the industry, "Titans are on the level there, and the strategy of semi-dead transformation may be okay to fool them through the messenger. Face to face, it must be seen that they are all alive!"

"Think about it—Titan was originally pleased that the Iron Giant started to drive the undead, but when they met, they found that they were all Sibei goods disguised as living creatures, and they didn't fully reveal their truth!"

"I still don't understand, what's wrong with revealing the truth."

Just as Li Cha was about to laugh at the stubborn goblin, a thought suddenly flashed through his mind

"Wait!" He vaguely touched a clue, but it was so fleeting that he couldn't catch it.

Li Cha knocked on his head hard, and asked with a straight face: "Don't be tricky, what do you mean?"

"Anyway, Titan doesn't know the real source of the semi-dead secret art, so he can make it up as he wants!" Liola rolled his eyes meanly, "For example, it can be said that when the iron giant tried to transform the undead, it accidentally produced a by-product, which is half-dead transformation."

"Wouldn't that make the Iron Giant particularly incompetent?"

"Please, lack of ability is never a fatal sin, but lack of loyalty is." The goblin spread his hands, "The iron giants have not been exposed to undead spells for a long time, but they still try their best to get closer to the Titan. Although it is a pity to make a mess in the end, isn't this loyalty worthy of praise?"