mage's dating rules

Chapter 98 A Message from the Distant Past
The captive suddenly fell into a frenzy: "The scepter contains the power of the great mother of monsters! It can activate the fetal movement hall, and continuously produce the children of the mother of monsters! It even bestows gifts on random people!"

The dragon tilted his head: "Gift? Are you talking about those monsters?"

"It's a gift!" The caveman said, screaming sharply at the dragon, "It is undoubtedly a gift!"

The dragon pressed it to the ground with its front paws, and scratched the back of its head with its sharp nails, causing black blood to flow out, but Lamashtu's ability allowed the wound to heal quickly.

Although healed, the pain was real.

Dragon: "It's a monster, an ugly monster."

Captive: "Maybe it looks like this to you..."

The dragon scratched the back of his head again.

"It's a monster!" the prisoner shouted. "It's a monster! Blind and deaf, and wriggling on the ground, there is no doubt that it is a monster!"

The dragon withdrew its front paws: "It seems that it makes sense."

The elf frowned and looked at the dragon: "Before I came out, I only knew that black dragons are evil creatures. I didn't know that black dragons transformed from humans would be so evil. What's the difference between you and a cat playing with your prey just now?"

Dragon: "Then you mean cats that play with their prey are evil creatures?"

Nini was momentarily at a loss for words.

Elizabeth smoothed things over: "This is also to obtain information. Now we know that the caveman regarded the monster as a gift from Lamashtu."

Marika asked the captive: "How many monsters are there?"

Prisoner: "It's all been used to attack you, even the ones who haven't grown up together. A new wave of cavemen will be released tomorrow in the fetal movement hall, and then there will be a new gift-monster!"

Dragon: "Don't the cavemen have no troops now?"

"Of course there are, but most of them are in the shallow containment of the human mercenaries and adventurers who came in."

Julong: "So that's it. I thought you mobilized shallow troops. I also wanted to say that your social organization structure is quite good, and the order and dispatch are very fast. The result is not."

Elizabeth was very nervous: "Doesn't that mean there are a lot of cavemen in the shallow layer? Let's hurry up!"

"Don't worry, wait until I understand this scepter. What he just said about Lamashtu's artifact is nonsense, and I need to identify it."

As he spoke, the dragon stretched out its front paws, pinched the scepter in the forest elf's hand with three fingers, and looked closely at it with its eyes.

Xiaobai: "You look like you're going to swallow that thing in one gulp."

The dragon didn't care about the druid at all, and concentrated on studying the scepter.He wanted to turn the scepter in one direction, but the three fingers couldn't hold it firmly, and the scepter slipped out of his fingertips.

Nini grabbed the scepter and climbed up to the dragon's neck in twos and threes, pulling the dragon's scales with one hand, and brought the scepter in front of the dragon's eyes with the other hand.

"Thank you." The dragon said, "But you are a little bit off, put it where my eyes focus, right, here."

It watched for a few seconds, and the little paw drew a circle in the air: "Turn around, turn slowly."

Nini slowly turned the scepter.

After looking at it for a while, the dragon muttered: "It's strange. This thing...although it has the holy emblem of Lamashtu, it looks like... just the magic energy core of the ancient Cyclops empire fixed on a metal rod .”

The captive shouted: "Impossible! This is a sacred object of Lamashtu! The elder has personally identified it!"

"There are two possibilities," the dragon said while continuing to look at the spinning scepter of the elf, "first, your elder is too bad to recognize this thing at all. Second, he deliberately lied to you by saying this. I always Thought it might have been both: your elders didn't know the thing, but made up a random story about the Lamashtu relic. After all, you see, there are murals of dwarves in the passageway into this place."

Elizabeth looked up at the dragon and asked, "Cavemen have such poor eyesight, can they see the murals?"

Dragon: "They can use touch. The cavemen are very capable in this regard. If this temple was discovered before 27 water droplets fell from the stalagmites, there is reason to believe that the caveman elders have used touch to read. Understand the content of the mural."

Captive: "Impossible! The elder did explain the content of the mural, but... no, it's impossible! This must be a sacred object made by the lich and dwarves who stole the power of Lamashtu. Otherwise, how would you explain it? What about the people and gifts that continue to appear in the Hall of Fetal Movement?"

The dragon flapped its wings: "There are many possibilities, and some planes mass-produce residents in this way. A powerful lich is likely to be a planeswalker like my teacher, and often travels across planes, collecting Knowledge and rare spell-casting materials. It is normal for it to get the technology of other planes."

The giant dragon paused: "By the way, you are wrong to think that people in the fetal movement hall keep appearing continuously. This energy core is almost out of energy. Its remaining energy is barely enough to maintain its light."

As soon as the words fell, the light of the scepter in Nini's hand gradually weakened, and finally disappeared completely.

As the light went out, the huge hemispherical fetal movement hall let out a long hiss, which sounded like the howling sound formed by the dwarf's steam machine letting off the steam in the cylinder before it stopped working.

Then the Hall of Fetal Movement fell silent, and all the lights illuminating the inside were also extinguished.

Giant Dragon: "It turns out that the energy core is also responsible for the lighting inside the fetal movement hall. No wonder it went out much faster than I expected."

The prisoner couldn't see what happened in the fetal movement hall, so he could only shout in panic: "What happened? Did something happen to the fetal movement hall? The sound of running stopped! What was that scream just now?"

Giant Dragon: "The thing you thought was a scepter artifact has used up its last energy."

The captive screamed: "Impossible! My palm can still emit holy light, Lamashtu has not abandoned me!"

Elizabeth frowned and asked the dragon: "So what's going on? I don't quite understand, there is no artifact of Lamashtu?"

"Yes," the dragon replied affirmatively, "It is estimated that the ancient dwarves were deceived by the lich. In fact, the lich took an energy core from the ancient Cyclops empire and used the energy inside to create a dwarf that can be mass-produced." It’s a huge mechanical device. But this is just my guess, and I’ll have to go in and see how it works.”

Flint looked at the gate of the hemispherical fetal movement hall: "It's completely dark inside, unless you have your scepter as a light, you can't see at all. But the scepter merged with you after you transformed, You have to cancel the transformation first."

The dragon tilted his head and looked at the dwarf: "What are you talking about? I am a dragon now, and I also have dark vision."

Said that the dragon started to walk, and walked towards the Hall of Fetal Movement.

Malika asked, "What about the captives?"

"Kill it, is it possible that you expect a caveman to turn his back on his evil ways? I think they may not understand what this thing they discovered at all." The dragon replied indifferently.

The drow asked again: "Is it okay for me to kill the fair-skinned lady Elf?"

Nini replied: "I have no problem with killing evil creatures."

Although the forest elves are a kind race, their closeness to art makes them have a certain tendency to chaos. They don't have the rigid concept of good and evil like paladins, and they don't pursue procedural justice.

Entering the Hall of Fetal Movement, the dragon first looked around.

"It looks like a biological laboratory in a mage's tower." It commented.

The forest elf hanging around its neck asked curiously, "What is biology?"

"An imported word from a certain plane of the multiverse." The giant dragon came to the "sarcophagus" with an entire wall and examined it carefully. "Artificial womb."

Then it walked to the only pillar in the middle of the huge fetal movement hall.

There is a transparent jelly body in the middle of the pillar, and a skeleton is floating in it.

"The caveman's skeleton, it seems that this is the unlucky caveman who was swallowed at first. Very clever design, transforming the ooze monster to achieve the analysis of the target organism, and then producing similar things in the artificial womb.

"However, this system should consume raw materials. I didn't see the feeding port, and the captive just didn't mention the need for feeding."

While talking to himself, the giant dragon looked around the entire fetal movement hall.

At this time, the lighting outside the fetal movement hall also disappeared, so the whole cave was dark.

**
Outside the cave, on the platform, Elizabeth was startled by the sudden darkness. She immediately approached Malika and grabbed her hand firmly: "What should I do? Is the enemy about to attack?"

Malika reassured: "Probably not. You see, Xiaobai didn't even hear the cavemen. It is estimated that the lighting energy of this facility has run out."

The next moment, a faint light appeared in the darkness.

Gotrek took out the torch, gently opened the lid, revealing the faint fire inside.

The dwarf took the torch from his back: "Sure enough, it's not correct to store everything in the mage's dimensional bag."

After the torch is lit, the light is only enough to illuminate the vicinity, and the farther place is pitch black.

Elizabeth: "I'm a little scared, why don't we go to the king!"

Xiaobai laughed again: "Bastard! In the oriental language, this means tortoise. Don't say this in front of monks, they will laugh to death. Hahahaha!"

Flint looked around alertly: "Be careful, when the cavemen attack, only Malika and I are fighting."

Xiaobai: "Me too."

As she spoke she became a big wolf, whose eyes glowed green in the darkness.

Elizabeth: "We shouldn't have seen the light outside and went in with the dragon! How can it be safe to stay beside the dragon at this time!"

**
In the Hall of Fetal Movement, the giant dragon didn't care about the changes in the light outside. It concentrated on studying the device made by the ancient lich using the dwarves. Continuous creation of raw materials? Is it possible to have a spell that has been constant for so long and is still in effect?"

Suddenly, the dragon's keen vision found a maverick brick, which seemed independent of the decorative painting on the wall, and was incompatible with all the elements in the painting.

The dragon stretched out its claws and poked the brick lightly.

The next moment, a finger of death hit the dragon, and was resisted by the death-immune headband on the mage.

The dissipated magic energy stimulated the elf hanging on the dragon's neck. She slipped off the dragon's body by mistake, and rolled a bit when she landed before stabilizing her figure and standing up again.

The elf only has low-light vision. In this basically dark environment, her vision is far less sharp than that of drow and dwarves.

But the next moment, the light of the torch appeared outside the cave. Although it was far away, it was enough for the elves.

Nini turned her head and cast a grateful gaze at the hole, although she knew that no one would notice it.

With the light of the torch in the distance, the elf climbed up the dragon's neck again.

Just at this time, the dragon poked the brick again.

This time there was no Finger of Death, and the bricks sank into the wall, followed by the sound of machinery running.

A huge boulder covered with patterns rose up under the action of mechanical mechanisms.

As the stone rises, a feces-yellow light is revealed.

Although the boulder is already very large, the dragon still cannot enter the opened door, and can only bend its neck to look in from the outside.

Nini jumped into the cave nimbly, walking towards the light source while being careful of the trap.

Dragon: "That looks like the holy symbol of Lamashtu?"

Suddenly, Nini stepped on a trap—even though she was very careful, rangers were not experts in trap removal like rogues.

The arrow shot out from the hole in the wall, but the elf swiftly dodged it.

The elf simply gave up looking for traps, rushed directly to the light source, and used agile agility to deal with various triggered traps.

For a while, the narrow tunnel was filled with the sound of automatic crossbow shooting, and the elves seemed to be dancing, dodging arrows from all directions.

The dragon at the entrance of the cave was stunned. It even saw the elf's second sex requisition shaking with its superb eyesight, and it swung between the two arrows in a daze!
Dragon: "Is it so soft?"

Finally, the elf came to the shit-yellow light source.

The traps were also all quiet.

Nini: "It's a holy symbol of Lamashtu, and some other props. There is also a small stone tablet with dragon language engraved on it."

Elves are very interested in magic and art, so most elves can speak Draconic, a language that has a deep connection with magic.

Nini read out the dragon language on the stone tablet: "Congratulations on coming here. To get here, you have probably obtained the energy source of the device I made. I guess you don't have much energy left when you find it. .While you can find ways to recharge it yourself for other uses, I doubt if you will find a craftsman who can process the Cyclops core in your day.

"As for the shit-yellow holy emblem in front of you, I made it after I stole part of Lamashtu's power. This is my exaggerated statement. In fact, I suspect that this evil god took the initiative to share the power. Holding it will Become unlucky, and the power of Lamashtu will slowly corrode your body, causing you to grow feathers and possibly scales like a bird.

"The initial symptoms can be recovered through the restoration technique, but as long as you hold it, sooner or later the changes in your body will be recognized by the restoration technique as your original appearance, so you can no longer recover. Of course, if you are a lich—like me Same, then you can hold this thing at will.

"Corruption is a slow process that may take three to five years. Ordinary dimensional bags cannot isolate this effect, unless you have the legendary infinite dimensional bag.

"By the way, I just said that it is possessed. In fact, this is not accurate. It will be corrupted around it. With such a large side effect, this thing has no positive effect and can only be used to create strange creatures. I exported this power and added a series of mechanisms to allow me to control the process of creating monsters.

"So I can make monsters that look like dwarves, but it's just monsters that look like dwarves. The dwarves will find this out sooner or later, but before that they'll be destroyed by the monsters that keep producing. I'm lying to them now, saying It's just a technical issue, and tweaking will always fix it.

"The dwarves must not have imagined that my goal is actually to steal their treasures. Of course, it is also very interesting to study the authority of stealing gods.

"Many legendary mages, driven by curiosity, are obsessed with traveling and collecting knowledge that has never been seen before. I understand them, after all, I was one of them. But now, I long for true eternity—— Yes, only God is truly eternal.

"Some academic mages believe that as long as they master the lowest principles of the multiverse, they can gain power beyond gods. I think that is their good wish.

"I, Erzam Malcolm, pursue true eternity!"

The giant dragon listened to the elf's words outside, and when the elf paused, he asked, "Is this the end?"

Nini: "No. I took a breath, I read too much at once. There are more to come.

"Dear adventurer, I'm sorry that you got something with huge side effects but no benefits. My suggestion is to throw this thing away and don't take it with you, or you will regret it later.

"Instead, I have prepared items for you that are suitable as the final reward of the big adventure. First, it is my commonly used magic book. The mages in your team must like it very much."

Giant Dragon: "Oh, shit, don't give the spell book, I can only sell it for money."

Nini continued to read: "Second, a glove, your soldiers will like it.

"Thirdly, a spoon, just throw it into a container with a capacity no larger than three liters, and fill it with any water, and you will get a pot of delicious hot soup. I can't drink soup anymore, because the Lich has no Stomach, but I still like this soup spoon very much. It used to bring me many memories.

"You will know that it is a good thing to have delicious hot soup at any time during your adventures. So, then, Erzam Malcolm wishes you a pleasant journey.

"Oh, by the way, I also prepared a little surprise for you. It will start after you take these gifts. If you don't want to be frightened, don't take these things."

(End of this chapter)