The wizard starts by trimming the donkey's hooves

Chapter 496 Prototype

However, just two seconds later, the Swordmaster Tirion knew that the person sitting inside and controlling the prototype was not Hiram, or at least not the normal Hiram.

Because as soon as the prototype's two arms with thick cannon barrels saw them, they immediately raised up and aimed.

Suddenly, a metal storm appeared!
Dense metal bullets attacked the team like a torrential rain.

"Water snake whirl!"

Of course, Ryan's team could not be unprepared. Hernandez raised his hand and a high-speed stream of water, like a transparent giant snake, wrapped all of them.

I saw the spherical, red-hot metal bullets hitting the high-speed flowing water, splashing a lot of water, but the water quickly absorbed the kinetic energy of the bullets.

For a moment, the dense bullets seemed to hit thick cotton.

However, at this moment, Hernandez's expression suddenly changed, and he whispered, "Something is wrong. The power of my water magic has dropped by more than 30%."

"Just now I thought it was due to the influence of the magma area below, but the power can't be so different."

Hernandez, the Dawn Wizard, was extremely sensitive to changes in the power of his own witchcraft and noticed something was wrong as soon as he cast the spell.

"Hmm?" When Ryan heard this, he couldn't help but carefully feel the witchcraft Sawtooth Ring he had just cast, but he found abnormally that the metal energy particles here were strangely active.

The power of his witchcraft actually increased by 10%.

He used six sawtooth rings that were buzzing and spinning at high speed. As if they were in an empty space, they easily cut the dense flock of mechanical chocobos attacking from behind into pieces, turning them into a large pile of fragments on the spot.

"Sir Ryan, are you not affected?" Hernandez couldn't help but wonder as he looked at the amazing power of Ryan's Serrated Ring.

"It has not been affected at all. Instead, its power has been increased by about 10%." Ryan said bluntly.

"This"

Facing the prototype's attack, Swordmaster Tirion, as the team's spear sword, naturally launched a counterattack.

His figure flashed, leaving several afterimages, and he moved forward in a multi-segment zigzag manner, avoiding the dense bullets and rushing towards the opponent.

As if sensing the powerful threat posed by the Swordmaster Tirion, the six-barreled Gatling cannon in the center of the prototype suddenly surged with powerful energy waves.

"Be careful of the energy cannon!" Hernandez warned loudly.

"The prototype's arm cannons fire out solid bullets, but the six cannons in the center of its body fire out some kind of energy shells."

"After the prototype was discovered, it caused quite a stir in the Federation. Everyone, including me, has studied it carefully." Hernandez quickly explained to Ryan.

Ryan nodded and focused his attention on the prototype's chest gun barrel.

Sure enough, as the energy surges!

Baseball-sized energy balls bombarded the Sword Master Tirion like a torrent.

But after being reminded, Tirion was extremely fast and dodged it easily, and the pressure was put on Hernandez instead.

One after another, energy balls brushed past the Sword Master Tirion and hit the water snake's whirlpool, immediately causing a series of explosions.

This caused Hernandez, whose witchcraft power was significantly reduced, to immediately increase his mental output in order to maintain the stability of the water snake hood.

At this time, Ryan raised his hand, and the Six Paths, which had completely destroyed the three teams of mechanical chocobos, whizzed in front of him in the air and lined up neatly.

Hernandez glanced at the buzzing serrated metal ring with a little surprise. He could feel that the energy fluctuations surging in it had just reached the threshold of the fourth level of witchcraft.

But obviously, this should only be third-level witchcraft.

Lord Ryan not only possesses the rare blood of a dragon, but also has an extremely rare talent in metal.

No wonder the Federation had a very high opinion of Lord Ryan and tried hard to win him over, even involving him in the exploration of such an important ancient goblin ruins.

At this time, the Swordmaster Tirion had already swung more than ten silver sword lights towards the prototype.

"Plasma Shield! (Ancient Goblin)"

As a mechanical and slightly sharp sound rang out, two balls of light blue plasma suddenly shot out from the shoulders of the prototype, quickly enveloping its tall body and forming an energy shield.

The next moment, more than ten silver sword lights of Tirion bombarded this so-called plasma shield.

But the shield only had a small dent and formed a large number of electric arcs to resist. It didn't seem difficult to block the sword moves of the Sword Master Tirion.

Ryan’s eyes narrowed slightly at this scene!
The attack of a sword master, even if it is just a common sword move, is more powerful than the ordinary fourth-level dawn witchcraft, but it was easily blocked by the giant golem called "prototype" in front of him.

He somewhat understood why this golem attracted the attention of the Federation and was named Prototype No. 1.

This golem is completely different from the 'Destroyer' he obtained in the ruins of Valzig.

The Destroyer is more inclined towards close combat, of course, it also has certain long-range attack capabilities, and the prototype in front of us is obviously mainly based on long-range attacks.

"go with!"

Ryan raised his hand and the six serrated metal rings in his hand flew out in six beautiful arcs, came to the back of the prototype and launched an attack.

The metal ring was rotating at high speed, causing intense friction with the plasma shield of the prototype!

Although the six serrated metal rings could not break through the defense of the plasma shield, Ryan's purpose was not this. He wanted to create an opportunity for the Swordmaster Tirion.

The energy and arcs of the plasma shield began to gather towards the back of the prototype, and the blue shield in front became noticeably dimmer.

When the Swordmaster Tirion saw this scene, he naturally understood Ryan's intention. He immediately seized the opportunity, and after a short period of accumulation of strength, he slashed a cross of sword light at the prototype again.

It was his ultimate weapon, the 'Super Divine Cross Slash'!
"Hey!"

I saw a long silver sword light instantly cutting into the already weakened plasma shield in front of me. Then, the sword light did not stop and split the prototype into an X shape.

The six-barreled Gatling gun in the middle was directly shattered, and both arms were completely cut off, which completely destroyed the prototype's offensive capability.

However, it can be seen that Tirion deliberately avoided the control room of the prototype.

Obviously, he took into consideration that if Hiram was infested by black bugs, at least he could bring back his body.

The swordmaster Tirion flashed and instantly chopped off the shield of the control room, but what appeared inside was a shriveled goblin.

If there is any difference between this goblin and the previous goblin that controlled the mechanical chocobo, it is that this goblin has something similar to human military rank on his shoulders.

In other words, this is a goblin with a relatively high military rank.

But the other party also had empty eyes and it was obvious that communication was impossible.

"Bad luck!" Tirion split it into two and killed the black bug at the same time.

"Hiram isn't in there, which isn't a bad thing."

"Ok!"

"Let's go, hurry up." Ryan noticed that after Tirion performed the Super Divine Cross Slash, his forehead was slightly sweaty.

This time, five full minutes passed and no more mechanical monsters came to encircle and attack them.

However, everyone's attention was not on this matter at the moment. They were looking for traces of survivors.

"Hey, this should be the location, why is there no one here?" Sword Master Tirion recalled the location where he had seen the red flare before, and couldn't help but wonder.

"It was this position just now, but it may not be the same now. Your Majesty Tirion, don't forget that the ground here will move." Ryan thought for a moment and reminded.

"How do we find it? We can't just wait for them to fire the next flare, can we?"

Tirion frowned, and then, as if he had thought of something, he turned around and said, "Your Majesty Hernandez, please use the divination technique."

"I'm afraid that's difficult. My divination skills can only predict the approximate range of Hiram, but here, a difference of twenty meters may result in an error of an entire street." Hernandez shook his head and said.

"Let me do it. If I'm not mistaken, even if it has moved, it shouldn't be too far from here." Ryan took over the conversation, bent down, and gently touched the ground with his palm, which was emitting a rich dark silver light.

Tirion and Hernandez couldn't help but look at Ryan in surprise.

Because they all knew that Ryan was a metal wizard, but they had never heard of any metal wizardry that could find people.

But soon, they understood.

next second!
I saw a dark silver metal ripple centered on Ryan's palm, spreading out in all directions like a wave.

All of a sudden, the marble on the ground burst open, and short metal protrusions suddenly grew out from underneath.

Yes, bumps, not spikes!
This is a somewhat weakened version of the Territory Dawn's ultimate move, 'Iron Forest'.

Ryan reduced the power of the Iron Forest to the minimum, so the steel protrusions rising from the ground were only 20 to 30 centimeters high and extended outwards like waves.

Fifty meters!
One hundred meters!

One hundred and fifty meters!

"Boom!"

About 170 or 180 meters to the right front, a lot of human screams suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

"found it!"

Ryan's face lit up with joy!
Tirion and Hernandez naturally understood that they had found survivors.

However, compared to the joy of Ryan's team, everyone inside the shield was suddenly panicked and at a loss.

Many people were seen looking at the fleeting dark silver metal ripples on the ground, and then many people jumped up because metal bulges formed on the ground.

"Damn, did the flare I just released attract a monster?"

"But I failed to attract it so many times before. Why am I so unlucky this time?"

"This is clearly a metallic energy fluctuation. With such a large coverage area, it must be some kind of goblin technology within this site."

"Maybe the flare attracted a very large creature this time."

Even Hiram, the director of the Federal Mechanical Research Institute, couldn't help but change his expression when he saw the steel protrusions on the ground.

Before he could lament that the plan was not changing quickly, he cleared his throat and immediately shouted:

"Everyone prepare to fight!"

"We'll split up and break out from different directions later."

"As long as there is one person who can go out, submit the observation report as soon as possible."

Everyone looked grim after hearing Hiram's words, but no one backed down.

Because everyone knew that facing the goblin monster that had turned into a mummy, surrender was meaningless and the only option was to fight to the death.

However, as soon as everyone rushed out of the camp covered by the shield, everyone, including Hiram, stopped and stood there in a daze.

In his hands or in front of him, there were balls of witchcraft energy emitting colorful lights, but they seemed to be petrified and could not be swung out.

"Your Majesty Tirion!"

"His Majesty Hernandez"

Hiram was surprised and delighted!
As the dean of the Federal Mechanical Research Institute and a veteran third-level crystal wizard, he is actually about the same age as Hernandez, and is even a few years older than the swordmaster Tirion.

He naturally knew these two powerful men of the same period in the Federation.

However, soon his attention was attracted by a young man.

I saw the tall young man bending over and pressing a palm emitting a strong dark silver light on the ground.

Because Hiram noticed at the first moment that the metal energy fluctuations that just covered a wide area were emanating from the other party's palm.

Such a wide coverage! Domain-type witchcraft?
Even a metal wizard like me who has reached the peak of crystallization cannot do it!

Could the other party be the Dawn Wizard?
But does the Federation have such a young number one strong man?

"Haha, Hiram, I knew you were okay." Swordmaster Tirion laughed.

"I'm glad you're okay, old friend." Hernandez also smiled and nodded.

However, the two soon noticed Hiram's gaze and stared at Ryan in a daze. After looking at each other, they all laughed.

Tirion patted Hiram's shoulder heavily and joked, "This is Lord Ryan of the Empire, a rare metal-type dawn wizard. Look at you, you are so old, but you are still... Alas~"

"What! Lord Ryan of the Empire? But... didn't the intelligence say it was a crystallized wizard? How come..." However, Hiram, who had let the cat out of the bag, immediately fell silent.

At this time, Ryan slowly stood up, not minding what Hiram had just said accidentally, and said with a smile:
"It seems that Lord Hiram knows me very well."

"I'm sorry, Your Majesty Ryan, your amazing talent is well known to me even though I'm far away in the Federation."

Just as Hiram bowed slightly to Ryan and said compliments.

Suddenly, dull "bang bang" sounds began to be heard all around, and they were approaching quickly from both the front and back directions.

In addition, there are also dense clicking sounds.

"Oh no, it's those goblin mummies and mechanical monsters!"

"Your Majesties, please follow me in."

Hiram quickly waved his hand, and a mirror appeared in the empty air, revealing the small camp inside.

(End of this chapter)