Chapter 575
Chapter 575 Dragonborn Routed
Cherkes felt like he was at the brink of death!
His flexible body was covered with layers of wind barriers that helped dissipate the damage of the energy beams as he dodged and retaliated with short bursts of dragon’s breaths.
Even so, his lean body still had to endure the corrosion of the powerful energy ripples.
A rain of one hundred energy attacks, each above a hundred points in power.
The collision and refraction of the energy pillars in mid-air made it increasingly harder for Cherkes to dodge. There were many times when such chaotic ricochets and refractions hit him.
The wind barrier around his body could effectively disrupt the trajectory of most of the attacks. If there were only two or three such energy attacks, the wind dragon’s swift figure would allow him to escape the line of fire with a single beat of his wings.
Sadly, Cherkes now faced the barrage of a hundred energy light pillars. The opponent clearly intended to use this area bombardment to leave him with no space to dodge or run.
Dragonborn Commander Bino let out a furious roar, and the last surviving thirty dragonborn roared along with him as they let out their most powerful attack– Tornado Vortex. Several small vortices merged and stopped the enemy from advancing. It was only now that the dragonborn dragged their battered bodies off of the battlefield, quickly vanishing into the distant forest.
When the last dragonborn’s desolate silhouette disappeared, the bloody battlefield instantly fell silent again. Only the moans of dying dragonborn remained.
The magical machines quickly changed roles as well, turning into an army of servants and janitors as they cleaned up the battlefield.
They were incredibly detailed and serious in their work. The machines not only sent their damaged companions back into the body of the metal monster, but they also retrieved lost parts and components. Gazlowe even sent out construction machines to shovel up the blood, flesh, and corpses of the dragonborn in the end.
Apart from the basic magical machine factory, Gazlowe had also brought with him the smelting factory this time. The severely damaged magical machines could all be sent into the furnace and reforged. At the very least, he would be able to recycle large amounts of metal and some rare resources.
Gazlowe also made sure to retrieve all of the dragonborn, dead or alive.
He had unexpectedly obtained some techniques from Billis with which to create flesh golems. If Gazlowe cooperated with the bug adept in combining the corpses of the dragonborn with the robotic bodies of the magical machines, there was a high possibility they could create a unique flesh magical machine.
Even though the combat power of a flesh magical-machine couldn’t possibly compare to a magical machine made of pure metal, it could significantly alleviate the lack of metal ores that they were currently dealing with.
The dragonborn had been routed after fifteen minutes of battle, leaving behind seventy of their companions as they did so. Over a hundred magical machines had been destroyed in exchange.
The ratio of casualties was fair evidence that the dragonborn were still individually much more powerful than the magical machines.
However, it took a lot to cultivate the dragonborn, from birth to their growth into eligible warriors. On the other hand, magical machines could walk off the assembly line as long as there were sufficient metal resources.
If one were to look at it from this perspective, the magical machines were far more cost-effective compared to the dragonborn.
Still, it was probably time to put some thought into the weapons used by the magical machines!
With the dragon lord and his dragonborn army expelled, there was no longer anything stopping the metal monster from obtaining the metal veins it sought.
The metal monster continued digging downward, only stopping once it was two hundred meters away from the veins of ore.
It then used its own unique methods to dig out an underground space of one square kilometer.
The metal monster could finally spread out its body with this space. It transformed into the foundations, walls, and ceilings of the new metal base, turning into a vague framework for what was to come.
Then it formed the ore crushing workshop, the ore filtering workshop, smelting workshop, the construction and repairs workshop, and the magical machine factory. All sorts of individual factories and workshops were haphazardly placed all over the new fortress, taking up every corner of the underground area.
Several construction machines charged out of the fortress, like busy bees. They immediately started mining. Large amounts of unscreened metal ores were removed from the mineral deposits with the use of the drills and alchemical explosives before being transported into the factories.
The magic generator furnace that Gazlowe lived in also turned into the power core of the new metal fortress. It continually sent magic energy to every facility and supported their constant activity through a thick energy pipe.
The loud clanging of the work echoed throughout every corner of this underground world.