Chapter 763 - Slow Advance
Chapter 763 Slow Advance
Earth elementals, ice elementals, stone elementals, lightning elementals, fire elementals…
As long as it was a cheap and inexpensive elementium lifeform, the alchemists didn’t mind summoning them from a distant otherworld to use as the cannon fodder for this scouting expedition.
At any rate, a single vial of low-grade elemental summoning potion was only worth three magical crystals. Trading them for explosive fireball traps worth twelve magical crystals was worth it, no matter how you looked at it!
The thirteen First Grade alchemist adepts took turns at their job, continually summoning all sorts of elementium lifeforms and ordering them to charge into the magma tunnels that led toward the lower levels. The continuous explosions and waves of searing heat turned this underground world upside down. Even the loose rocks and dust on the walls were falling from above.
The tunnels were filled with suffocating dust and the smell of fire and smoke!
“Enemy detected!”
Every summoned elementium lifeform had a fragile soul connection to the alchemist adepts who had summoned them. The adepts would be able to obtain some information about the enemy through the soul feedback when the elementals were destroyed.
The next second, two more goblin rockets shot into the ooze’s body and caused another round of explosions.
This time, the ooze could no longer expand its body any further to neutralize the energy shockwave. It simply exploded before the eyes of the alchemist adepts.
The entirety of the fifteen-meter-long tunnel was painted in a coat of sticky and pungent black acid. Countless animal bones and hide remnants were mixed in with the mess. The entire shaft started to melt under the effect of the acid, almost as if it had turned into the stomach of a horrifying magical creature. The suffocating stench of its acid filled the air.
The Archer that had been ordered to guard the corridor has also been splashed with acid. The surface of its metal body had been corroded into mud. Two thuds rang out; the metal arms of the Archer had been corroded and fell to its feet.
A short moment later, the Archer crumbled as sparks flew out from within its body. It had finally malfunctioned!
An adept-level ooze against an adept-level Archer magical machine ended with both of them defeated.
Of course, this had to do with the geography here as well.
If the Archer had been able to maneuver about and kite the enemy freely, it could probably have taken down this ooze with minimal damage. Unfortunately, there were no ifs in war.
Adept Singh finally managed to eke out a smile when he saw the metal golem defeated. Still, losing an adept-level summon caused his heart to bleed.
After all, an adept-level magical beast such as this easily went for a hundred magical crystals on the market. Losing it here like this made his heart hurt, even though he wasn’t strapped for money.
Just as his frown turned into a smile, a new Archer stepped out from the darkness on the other end of the tunnel. Its clanging footsteps were clear to all as it appeared in sight of the alchemist adepts.
Wew!
The next second, a small hole appeared in the machine’s chest as a thick stream of fire shot out, burning the entire tunnel.
The acid might be terrifyingly corrosive, but even it couldn’t endure such intense burning.
A short moment later, the magical machine stopped the flames, and the tunnel turned as hard as steel once again. However, the surface of the walls, made of volcanic rock, had become uneven and filled with craters, much like the surface of the moon when inspected at a close distance.
That wasn’t the end of it. A sort of odd firing device appeared from its back and started to shoot out round metal discs at various spots of the tunnel. These metal discs let out spikes upon landing and fixated themselves.
A layer of light shone over their smooth metal surfaces.
Goblin Landmines!
Having accomplished all this, the Archer squatted down and raised its thick metal arms, aiming at everything in the other end of the tunnel. As hot air was expelled from the vents on its back, the revolver rifles within its metal arms started to roar wildly.