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Kazuma even tried to climb inside to see what was inside.
Several magical artifacts appeared in the middle, but Alice easily dealt with them all.
The fortress was quite spacious. They quickly arrived at the central room, opened the door, and saw a skeleton lying to one side. On the table in the center were a pile of documents, and in the very center of the documents was a brownish-yellow book, a notebook. Perhaps they could learn some secrets about this mobile fortress through it.
There were many items, but after a quick glance, Roya lost interest.
However, everyone excitedly crowded around, with Kazuma leading the way, holding a notebook and beginning to read: "A high-ranking official of the country has given me a difficult problem, actually asking me to manufacture mobile weapons with this budget. It's simply impossible." But protests were ignored; even crying apologies and pleading were useless.
Chapter 335 Corona Ore
She wanted to resign, but wouldn't accept my resignation. I tried pretending I'd lost my mind, running around in just my underwear, but the female researcher told me to take my underwear off too. This country is probably finished.
—October ×th. The deadline for the design drawings is today. What to do? I can't just admit it's still a blank page now. Who told me to get so drunk and drink all my deposit away? Just as I was fretting over the blank design drawings, a spider—the thing I hate most—suddenly appeared on the paper. I screamed and grabbed whatever was at hand and flattened it. The spider is now stuck to the drawing paper… The economy is so bad these days, and this high-quality paper is very expensive, but I don't have the money if the government asks me to pay compensation. Oh well, I'll just hand it in like this.
There was a lot of content, but it left everyone looking at each other in bewilderment, with Aqua and Kazuma even bursting out laughing at times.
In the journal, a high-ranking official assigns the protagonist the task of manufacturing mobile weapons, but the budget is severely insufficient. The protagonist tries various methods, including feigning madness and resigning, but none are accepted.
In his despair, he accidentally killed a spider, which unexpectedly became the inspiration for his design, leading to positive reviews, even though he wasn't actually involved in the design process.
Subsequently, fearing that the kingdom might actually create such a thing, he made a request that was impossible to fulfill: to use the legendary corona mineral as a power source.
However, to his surprise, the other party actually brought out the legendary ore. Thus, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and use the ore as the core to install it.
As expected, an accident still occurred. The motorized weapon went out of control and ran wildly, destroying everything in its path. However, because it was engraved with an extremely powerful array, it was impossible to destroy. The country was destroyed, and all the country's leaders and the king fled.
Ultimately, the protagonist decides to spend the rest of his life inside a mobile weapon, and lives out his remaining years in despair.
None of this concerned Roya, but in the middle, he found what he was looking for.
Roya stood in the corner, reached out, and used his thieving skill.
Roya was lucky, and his skills were also quite high. The next moment, a core that was heating up appeared in Roya's hand.
Corona ore, which is the core of the entire fortress.
That was none other than the treasure of the vanished kingdom, emanating an energy fluctuation. However, the magic within had dissipated, and the patterns on it had begun to show slight damage.
The dissipated magic was a minor matter; the key issue was that the thing was now constantly emitting light and heat, giving one a rather ominous feeling.
It seemed like it was about to explode at any moment.
After a mere 0.01 seconds of thought, Roya's magic instantly enveloped the entire ore. A purer and more decisive surge of magic directly enveloped the corona ore, suppressing it instantly.
Luo Ya played with the ore in his hand, pondering its potential use.
To be honest, this thing is quite good at transmitting magic power, and it can also store a lot of magic power. We can take it back and leave it to Paul and the others to deal with any possible emergencies.
Judging from its appearance, its stability is not very high.
However, this was not a difficult task for Roya. His magic could simulate any type of magic. He only needed to inject magic of the opposite nature into it to control the corona ore.
All I need to do is carve the patterns of that world onto it to form a complete array, and then inject magic into it to obtain a decent magical artifact. This level of magical artifact can even withstand Huihui's explosive magic and Alice's slash, which shows how terrifying it is.
However, corona ore is less of a magical artifact and more of an energy ore with a very high potential. Perhaps it can be made into something else than a magical artifact.
Luo Ya thought for a moment, then looked at the corona ore again.
The corona ore, which had been steaming and emitting a white light, stopped its violent behavior and cooled down instantly.
It seems like the problem isn't too serious.
Naturally, Roya will still keep this prop.
The power of the elements converged and quickly enveloped the slightly damaged crystal core. The quality of Roya's elements was far superior to that of ordinary people.
In almost no time, the tiny crystal core was plugged up. The hole was very small, so Luo Ya casually rubbed some mud into it, trying to seal the gap as a last resort.
The results were minimal; how could mud possibly fill the gap?
Luo Ya was amused by his own somewhat peculiar thought process.
Roya pondered for a moment, then looked at the outer shell of the mechanical fortress. The fortress's magical conductivity seemed to be quite good; otherwise, how could it allow magical energy to be conducted to all parts of the body to create a barrier?
Without a word, Roya reached out and forcefully pried off a portion of the massive fortress's outer shell. Then, using magic, he began to manipulate and repair it, and a small fragment was formed.
Roya enveloped the fragments in magic and began to manipulate them.
The effect was very good; after this injection of magic, there was no more overflow.
The transmission of magic felt a bit stiff, probably due to two different reasons.
However, this awkwardness is only slight and within an acceptable range.
As long as it works, that's fine. Roya didn't ask for too much. After filling it with magic power, he casually put it into his pocket.
This thing is somewhat useful, so it's better to keep it. After all, we've come all this way, how can we leave empty-handed without taking anything?
That's impossible; let's grab something before we leave.
This is quite suitable.
However, just as Roya was stuffing the corona ore into his bag, the flashing red lights and warning sounds above his head suddenly stopped, and everything returned to normal. Everyone was stunned for a moment, and they looked at each other, seemingly not quite understanding what had happened.
However, at this moment, Kazuma Sato narrowed his eyes slightly. He pretended to be deep in thought, and began to analyze with a serious expression: "Corona ore, corona ore, it must be the corona ore that caused this change."
He then looked around and realized that one person was clearly missing.
Luo Ya had already run away at some point.
"The alarm has stopped, does that mean the danger is over?" Huihui asked.
"I think so? Just to be safe, let's go down and wait a while to see," Sato Kazuma said, somewhat uncertainly.
"Ah."
The group didn't linger up there. They quickly descended to the ground and, after a few quick glances, spotted Roya.
Luo Ya was standing there leisurely. When he saw everyone coming down, he waved and greeted them, saying, "Oh, you guys came down?"
"Isn't this obvious?" Everyone was speechless.
Kazuma Sato didn't give Roya a chance to change the subject, and asked directly, "You, you didn't use any special methods to steal the corona ore, did you?"
Roya was quite honest and said, "Corona ore? That stuff explodes, so I figured out how to get rid of it."
"I knew it?" Sato Kazuma wasn't particularly surprised by Roya's answer, but since Roya admitted it so directly, it seemed that the thing was indeed quite dangerous.
"So what do we do next? Go back?" Kazuma Sato turned his gaze to Roya again.
Although Roya only gave everyone a general direction, in reality, Roya made most of the decisions.
Luo Ya pondered for a moment, his gaze shifted, and he took out the map to examine it.
This area is actually quite close to the Scarlet Devil Village.
The town wasn't far from the Crimson Demon Village, otherwise Megumin and Yuuyu wouldn't have appeared next to the town.
After a moment's thought, Roya decided to go to the Scarlet Devil Village to take a look and pick up some goods while he was there.
The more magical items one has, the better. In any case, Eris from this world isn't of much use to him; once it's taken out of this world, it becomes a pile of waste paper. Exchanging it for magical items is a good thing.
Besides taking some magical items, you can also visit the Demon King's castle.
That's right, the Demon King's Castle isn't actually that far from the Scarlet Demon Village.
The distance may be a bit far, but it won't take Roya too long to get there.
Legend has it that a great mage of the Crimson Demon Clan used some magical knowledge to create a telescope that could see very far away, and that place happened to be able to see a room in the Demon King's castle.
That room happened to be the bedroom of the Demon King's daughter.
In other words, people can use that watchtower to spy on the Demon King's daughter's bedroom.
That's not even the most outrageous part; the most outrageous part is yet to come.
Because they could see the legendary Demon King's castle, a group of Crimson Demons decided to develop the area into a tourist destination in order to make some money (many of them were genuinely poor).
As a result, a group of people would come every day and gather on the watchtower to spy on the area.
Although the distance between the two sides was still quite far, the Demon King's daughter naturally noticed this action.
Then, in order to destroy the watchtower that could spy on her bedroom, the Demon King's daughter led her subordinates to attack the Crimson Demon's Village. After destroying the watchtower, she stormed off.
Of course, the Demon King's daughter did want to wipe out the entire Crimson Demon Clan, but the problem was that these mages were very cunning and hid as soon as they sensed something was wrong.
She didn't dare to push too hard. After all, although the Crimson Demon Clan was mentally unstable, they had still produced many very famous great mages. Who knew if they might have some hidden tricks up their sleeves?
After destroying the watchtower, she merely warned everyone and then left.
However, since then, no one in the Crimson Demon Village has bothered with those kinds of things anymore.
Of course, these are things to follow.
Chapter 336 Heading to the Scarlet Devil Village
Right now, Roya is preparing to head to the Scarlet Devil Village to purchase goods.
Roya has always been the type to do whatever comes to mind. After sharing his idea with everyone, their expressions became quite interesting, but no one said anything. Alice looked at Roya with shining eyes; she never refused the opportunity to go out and have fun.
However, Kazuma Sato pointed to the fortress in front of them and asked somewhat strangely, "What about this? What will you do if you go to Scarlet Devil Village?"
"The bounty for the fortress is quite important, isn't it?" Aqua interjected at this moment.