The wizard starts by trimming the donkey's hooves

Chapter 509 Pride and Prejudice

In the light mist, there were dense thumping sounds and several increasingly heavy banging sounds.

The enemy was consistent with Gutierrez's judgment, a mechanical octopus that Ryan and his team had encountered before, plus a prototype and several teams of mechanical chocobo patrols.

Thanks to the information reported by Hiram, everyone in the team was prepared. Gutierrez and Alvin worked together to use their trump cards and attacked the most threatening mechanical octopus, while Garrett released electric shocks, causing most of the mechanical chocobos to fall into a state of stiffness.

In less than two minutes, the team successfully killed the attacking enemy.

Seeing that the mechanical octopus was killed so smoothly, Alvin's mouth curled up immediately, and he raised his chin slightly and said, "Hiram said in the report how difficult this mechanical octopus is to deal with. It seems that they are too weak."

"Well, we can't say we are weak, but our combination is more targeted than theirs." Garrett nodded and said.

In Garrett's opinion, the mechanical creations in front of him were just restrained by lightning magic, so it was quite easy for him to deal with them. Therefore, he agreed with what Alvin had just said.

"It seems that the difficulty of this floating city ruins may not be as high as Hiram said in the report. It is very likely that we will gain a lot this time." Alvin said with a smile.

"Your Majesty Alvin, I agree with your opinion. However, the problem now is that if we can't find the entrance to the cave we found last time, how do we get down?" Garrett smiled and pointed to the ground.

Although several researchers were deafened, they quickly understood from Garrett's gestures and eyes that the His Majesties were discussing how to proceed.

Several people looked at each other, all of them looking like they were deep in thought.

Because they want to make a difference so that they can get a share of the pie in the subsequent exploration. At the very least, their role should be mentioned in the subsequent exploration report.

Once Dean Hiram successfully enters the Dawn Wizard, they will have the opportunity to go further based on their performance in the exploration of the floating city ruins.

Suddenly, one of them's eyes lit up, as if he had thought of something. He quickly bent down and touched the ground with his hand that was emitting a light silver metallic luster, as if he was sensing something.

Soon, he looked up and said:
"My Lords, I think I know the reason."

"There must be a reason why Swordmaster Tirion did not use his sword to chop the metal ground at that time."

"Oh?" Upon hearing this, Sword Saint Gutierrez's expression eased a little.

Although he had just quickly killed the mechanical octopus, he had consumed a lot of energy. In addition, he was also worried about his failure to cut through the metal ground.

However, now that he heard that the Swordmaster Tirion had never tried to split the metal ground, he felt much better.

"Get to the point, otherwise the mechanical monster will come again later." Alvin hated this way of talking that kept people in suspense.

But unfortunately, Alvin forgot that he had made these researchers deaf, so the researcher continued to speak eloquently.

".In addition to being permanently solidified, the metal ground should also have some strange force between the metal particles, similar to stress."

"So, none of the adults took action at that time. Instead, it was Lord Ryan, the metal-based Dawn Wizard, who cast some metal-based magic and slowly 'corrupted' the metal ground."

This explanation was immediately recognized by the three people including Alvin.

No wonder it can’t be cut!
It turned out to be the case.

"What's the solution?" Garrett couldn't help but ask, but he quickly realized that several researchers had been rendered deaf and immediately made hand gestures.

"Oh, sir, we brought a metal particle generator, which should be able to resist this stress within a certain area. Then, we should be able to cut it open." The researcher understood the gesture and said immediately.

"Then what are you waiting for? Move quickly." Alvin couldn't help but feel angry. There was a way but he didn't move quickly. Was he going to delay until the second wave of mechanical octopuses arrived?
Soon, several researchers took out disc-like devices from their bags and placed them at the four vertices of a square.

Immediately afterwards, Gutierrez jumped high again and performed sword moves.

This time, as four black sword beams cut in, he didn't need to punch the metal ground hard anymore. Instead, the square cut surface began to slowly descend.

"Sure enough!"

"I knew it. That young Dawn Wizard named Ryan couldn't be this strong! Even His Majesty Gutierrez couldn't cut it open, but the other party was able to open it."

"Humph, it turns out the other party is taking advantage of the situation." Alvin couldn't help but raise his chin slightly arrogantly and snorted!
Seeing that the ground was cut successfully, everyone else naturally smiled.

Even Gutierrez's usually serious face showed a hint of a smile.

"Do we need to send someone to stay and guard it?"

"No one can stay on this floor. My followers just tried stealth and found that they would still be discovered." Alvin pointed to the petite girl wearing leather armor next to him, who only revealed a pair of eyes.

"Don't worry, my lords. We have brought a lot of these particle generators."

A few minutes later.

As the team entered the underground first floor, Alvin couldn't help but reveal a hint of greed in his eyes as he looked at the huge space in front of him with various large and small gears and mechanical devices operating automatically.

How great it would be if I could completely control this floating city!
Then I should become the strongest wizard in the entire federation by then.

However, Alvin immediately suppressed his desire and said in a deep voice: "From Hiram's report, this floor is mainly used to control the movement and protection of the ground floor. If we want to gain something, we must at least enter the negative second floor."

"Well, let's go directly to the underground second floor." Garrett agreed.

Soon, relying on the particle generator to isolate the metal stress, Sword Saint Gutierrez successfully chopped the metal ground again, and the entire team entered the negative second floor.

"Hiram's report said that a violent explosion occurred in the workshop area on the negative second floor. Apart from the prison, there should be no mechanical monsters in other areas of this floor."

"But this floor has been searched by Tirion's team. Your Majesty Gutierrez, Your Majesty Garrett, should we continue to the next floor?" Alvin said.

Although his face was calm, he was already looking forward to the rewards of the third level.

"Yes, yes."

"However, according to the report, Ryan from the Empire has not yet completed his exploration of the prison. Should we go there and take a look first?" Gatler said after thinking for a moment.

He came to participate in the exploration, so naturally he had some special requests.

However, Gatler also saw prison areas that were specially marked in Hiram's report as being very dangerous.

To be on the safe side, it would be better to test the waters in the prison area first.

"What is His Majesty Gutierrez's opinion?" Alvin frowned and asked.

"Let's go to the prison first and take a look at the situation. It's safer to proceed step by step."

"Since both of you agree, let's go to the prison and take a look first." Although Alvin was a little disappointed, he no longer insisted when he thought that if he could find the remains of some ancient prisoners in the prison, he would surely gain something.

A few minutes later.

"Wait, there is movement, approaching us quickly from the front and the right." Gutierrez suddenly stopped, pointed to the front and the right, and said with a serious face.

"It should be the Mechanostrider patrol, right?"

"No, at least from the sound of it, definitely not." Gutierrez shook his head.

Soon, without any need for anyone to guess, a completely new mechanical monster appeared.

"Hey, this is... this is a mechanical velociraptor?" Garrett looked surprised.

"But Hiram's report didn't mention anything about this thing on this floor." Alvin was slightly startled when he saw the mechanical velociraptor appear, and said.

Several researchers had never been to the negative second floor, and at this moment, they all looked confused.

Two teams of velociraptors appeared on their left and in front of them. Each team had more than ten velociraptors, with an average height of more than three meters, controlled by goblin mummies. The velociraptor leading each team was obviously taller, about four and a half meters.

These velociraptors have hooked claws that are tens of centimeters long and gleam with a metallic luster. They look extremely sharp at first glance. Their lower limbs are particularly thick compared to their bodies, and their hydraulic and gear devices are exposed.

If Hiram were present, he would surely be able to immediately determine that the opponent's structure indicated that the speed was extremely fast.

The battle started immediately! Since there was no information, the speed and flexibility displayed by the mechanical velociraptor as soon as they started fighting surprised everyone present.

Compared with the mechanical chocobo, the difference between the two is like that between a security patrol and an armed regular army.

A few minutes later, although the team quickly cleared out the two teams of velociraptors, casualties occurred for the first time, with one follower each of Irvin and Garrett dying.

"It's indeed tricky. No wonder Ryan from the Empire left after exploring for a while. However, for our team, this is not a big problem." Alvin raised his chin slightly, still with a slightly arrogant expression.

“If the number is any higher, even we will need to be careful.”

"Wait! There's a hissing sound, it's the sound of cutting, and the noise is getting louder and louder." Suddenly, Gutierrez, who was at the front of the team, stopped and said.

At this time, other people in the team pointed in multiple directions.

"Look! A mechanical velociraptor!"

"There's some here too!"

"There are also some behind!" the female archer at the back of the team also exclaimed.

Judging from the number, there are more than fifty, no, one hundred!

These mechanical velociraptors are just like real velociraptors and can conduct large-scale hunting in an organized manner.

"Don't panic, defend where you are!" Alvin said in a deep voice.

In his opinion, these velociraptors might be a threat to his followers, but for a strong man like him whose strength has reached the level of a Dawn Wizard, they do not pose a fatal threat and can only be considered a troublesome hazard at best.

When his two heavy knights heard the order, they leaped forward, raised their tower shields, and blocked in front of Alvin.

Suddenly, the buzzing sound became louder and louder, and a high-speed rotating cutting disk with a radius of more than three meters emerged from under the ground. In an instant, it cut Alvin's two heavily armored knights holding tower shields into two halves.

Then, the disc flashed and split Alvin, who was performing the fire-type dawn killing move behind the two knights, into two!
The speed is so fast, almost like lightning!
"What!" Sword Master Gutierrez and Garrett were stunned immediately!
Alvin is dead?
Such a fourth-level Dawn Wizard just died like this?

In fact, there was a bit of coincidence here, because Alvin was performing the fire-type dawn killing move, which took a long time to cast, and he never expected that the attack would appear from under the metal ground.

Lastly, he trusted too much in the combat capability of his two heavily armored knights. In fact, he couldn't even stop the opponent for a moment and had no time to dodge at all!

This resulted in the current situation where he was almost killed instantly.

At this time, the teeth-grinding sound of huge metal plates twisting began to come from below.

As the metal ground crack was cut open, a huge metal dinosaur skull that was flashing a huge red light squeezed out from the thick metal layer below.

The size of this metal head alone is comparable to that of a steam locomotive.

Zetaia.

At this time, the Imperial delegation's half-day inspection of Zetaia, the last stop in the Federation, also ended successfully.

The federal reception staff, led by Deputy Speaker Bertrand, was at the Zetaia airship berth to see off the Red Queen Menia, Ryan, Reginald and their entourage.

"Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for your meticulous arrangements and hospitality during this period." Menia said with a smile.

"It is my honor, Your Highness Menia, and I look forward to meeting you next time." Bertrand bowed slightly and said.

However, when Bertrand finished his last sentence and Menia began to turn around and board the boat, a servant with a serious expression suddenly came to Bertrand and whispered two words.

Although Bertrand just nodded and didn't say anything, Ryan on the side could feel that the other person swayed slightly, and the smile on his face suddenly became stiff.

Obviously, something quite big must have happened.

After Menia, Ryan and other members of the imperial delegation boarded the airship, Bertrand's face suddenly fell, and he said in a deep voice to the attendant behind him:

"Notify Congressman Nelson and Admiral Randall to hold a meeting immediately!"

"By the way, check to see if Hiram has left. If he hasn't left, notify him to attend the meeting."

The beautiful congresswoman Trena frowned when she heard Bertrand's words and asked softly, "Mr. Vice Speaker, what happened?"

Bertrand waved his hand, signaling the attendants and officials around him to leave, and sighed:
"Senator Trena, just now, during the military-led exploration of the floating city ruins, His Majesty Alvin died on the spot, and Sword Saint Gutierrez died of his injuries after returning to the camp. Currently, only His Majesty Garrett and a few others survived."

"What!" Treina covered her mouth and exclaimed.

You know, it has been a long time since the Federation lost two epic-level strongmen at one time.

Half an hour later, a high-level secret meeting was held in a special meeting room in the Zetaia Executive Hall.

After the situation was reported, the scene fell into complete silence!

After a long while, Trena spoke first: "I am deeply shocked and saddened to hear the news of the sacrifice of the two Your Majesties!"

"But what I want to know is why the military's exploration operation was so fast this time. The operation was launched the day after our last meeting. Admiral Randall, have you done sufficient investigation and preparation for the operation?"

"The three Federation warriors all have rich combat experience. In addition, they also read the report of Lord Hiram before officially entering the floating city ruins. Therefore, although it is a bit fast to enter the next day, I don't think there is any problem."

"But after something like this happened, we have reason to believe that Lord Ryan of the Empire may have done something on the negative second floor." Admiral Randall said with a gloomy face.

The deaths of two epic-level federal warriors with military backgrounds was an extremely heavy loss for the military faction.

He had never expected this situation to occur.

"This is impossible!"

Hiram, who was sitting at the last seat, couldn't help but speak.

In this high-level meeting, he should not be able to speak freely at his level, but he really couldn't help it.

"Mr. Ryan has clearly pointed out that you should not enter the prison at will. I have also mentioned this in my report and highlighted it."

At this moment, Nelson interrupted Hiram's speech by tapping his pipe and squinting his eyes:

"This is where Mr. Ryan is smart. He deliberately reminded us of this because he knew that our Federation strongmen would take the initiative to explore later. So, he designed a trap for me to fall into."

"I totally disagree!" a mature female voice sounded.

"Then may I ask Sir Nelson, according to what you said, if Sir Ryan did not remind us at that time, would it be considered as deliberate concealment?"

"In that case, doesn't it mean that it's wrong for Lord Ryan to remind you, and it's also wrong not to remind you?"

Trena's words immediately made Nelson at a loss for how to refute.

"Obviously this is a problem caused by the military's impetuousness and recklessness. It's shameless to blame it on other people's well-intentioned reminders." Hiram stood up and said angrily.

"In the eyes of a prejudiced person, everything he sees is prejudice!"

"Everyone, please excuse me while I leave. I have to return to Antuhor to prepare for my promotion. Goodbye!" Hiram turned around and left immediately.

Admiral Randall's face turned pale at this point, and he was about to scold Hiram, but when he heard the other party's last words "promotion matters", he stammered twice and said nothing.

Except for Bertrand who knew about it two days ago, the others present looked at the departing director of the Federal Institute of Mechanical Research with surprise.

No force or faction wants to offend a Dawn Wizard who is about to be promoted.

In particular, the other party is a scientific research leader renowned in the federation.

(End of this chapter)