Chapter 1149 - The Mountain Plane
Chapter 1149 The Mountain Plane
The Mountain Plane.
It was a bland world, with only rising and falling stretches of mountains, and mountains alone.
There were no plains of grass to be seen, nor green stretches of forests or flowing rivers.
The Mountain Plane lived up to its name.
The entire plane was a strange world made entirely out of loose back dirt and tough gray stone. Even the air was filled with an odd chalky smell.
There was no water, no clean air, and no vegetation. Naturally, there was no way that any living creatures could be born in such a place.
As such, it was a cold and lonely world!
“God bloody dammit, the environment here is horrible!” Captain Taz quickly put the mask on his face. His muffled voice came from behind the mask, “Hurry up…take control of the high ground here. Beta, take the magic energy cannon the to high ground. Jena, establish firing points around the ships. Hansen, you and I will guard Sir Justin.”
“Understood, cap!”
“Leave it to me.”
“Yessir!”
His subordinates acknowledged their orders and hurried to their respective positions.
Justin, who climbed down the ship from a rope with some difficulty, was holding several things in his hands. He had a pickaxe and a magic energy spectrometer given out by the geology headquarters. He looked around as he stood in the shadow of the ship and decided on a direction.
“Over there!”
The three-person party headed out without any hesitation!
It was a nervous journey the whole way.
These goblins were only half a meter tall; they were like ants to the gigantic stone elementals. It wouldn’t even be a fight. All the stone elementals had to do was step on them, and most goblins would be dead.
As such, the two goblins in charge of protecting Justin made sure to cover him in front and behind. They piloted their two-meter-tall magical machines and slowly walked through this uneven terrain.
Geologist Justin quickly forgot the danger of the place. He occasionally lifted his pickaxe and broke off pieces of the rock before scanning them with the spectrometer. There were many times when he would rush forward joyously when he found something unusual. He would then mine with his pickaxe fervently as if he had completely forgotten they were in a dangerous new world.
The two bodyguards could only follow behind with all their effort with a leader who was as indulgent in his work as this. The magic energy rifles in their hands were always pointed at the places where danger was most likely to appear.
As he made his examinations, Justin’s joyous cheering became louder and louder.
The howling of the spectrometer might be incomprehensible to others, but he could identify the many rare metals that made up the composition of the rocks here. Moreover, the ratio of precious metals only increased as they advanced.
Justin was sure that an invaluable vein of metal could be found nearby!
Finally, he stopped in front of an unusual mountain. He raised his pickaxe and started beating down on a massive boulder that was five meters tall.
As the surface rocks of the boulder peeled off, a purple gemstone the size of a fist could be seen within. Several grains of metal glowing with silver light could be seen around the gem.
Purple agate and star ore.
The three goblins couldn’t help but be overjoyed at the sight of this. They almost wanted to dance on the spot.
However, just as they rejoiced, the mountain in front of them started trembling and shaking. Rocks the size of wheels fell from above like a tumultuous downpour, turning everything within five kilometers into a mess of dust and rubble.
The three goblins couldn’t be bothered to celebrate any longer. They cried out in terror and fled towards the outside.
They finally looked back when they were several hundred meters away. To their horror, the massive mountain had now turned into a towering stone giant, slowly climbing out of the earth.
All sorts of pretty gemstones and valuable metal ores could be seen all over its massive body.
“Dammit, dammit, dammit! Go back to the camp, quick! This stone giant is at least Third Grade. We can’t fight against it at all. Retreat, retreat, retreat!”
A short moment later, all the goblins had fled back to their ships. They took to the skies and flew back to camp without turning back. It was then that the stone giant finally managed to stand up. It looked around, trying to find the damned bugs that had just disturbed its sleep.