I loaded the dream game

"I've wanted to ask since the very beginning..." Jibril reluctantly withdrew her gaze, and her eyes revealed a strong curiosity when she looked at Xia Zhi.

......... ........ ...

"In theory, the Ex-Machinas should act as a group in units of connected bodies, but the Ex-Machina next to you seems to be acting alone?"

"That is to say, she is a 'special individual' among the Ex-Machinas...right?"

I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but Xia Zhi always felt that when Jibril said these two sentences, her eyes seemed to be shining, as if she had seen some extremely precious and rare treasure.

Hubie seemed to sense some kind of crisis, and took a step back to hide... in front of Xia Zhi?

Silly girl, her target is you, not me.

Xia Zhi sighed, gently pressed Hubie's shoulders and pushed her behind him, then turned to look at Jibril and warned her: "Let me tell you in advance that you are not allowed to harass Hubie in the future, and you are not allowed to disobey her."

Jibril was stunned for a moment. She could understand the first one, but...

"Why should I listen to her?"

"Because she is your boss now, and subordinates cannot contradict their bosses. Isn't that natural?" Xia Zhi looked at her and replied.

Hubie nodded in agreement.

Jibril: “……?”

When did this happen? How come I don't know?

Chapter 157: The Seal of the Void Zero Protection

The former capital of the elves, Merrilen, was destroyed in the war. It had been completely abandoned by the elves, and there was no defense force left around it.

Correspondingly, nothing of value could be found.

More than ten years have passed since that war. During this period, whether it was the wreckage of the airborne battleship or the books in the library, anything valuable had already been looted by the elves, goblins, and other races.

In other words, apart from the flowers and plants that decorate the city like a courtyard, it is just a dead and empty city for Xia Zhi.

Just what he needed was an empty city.

With the remaining power of the Forest God, this place will not be polluted by the black ash falling from the sky. Because it was once the capital of the elves, many facilities are still intact. In addition, since it has no value anymore, few people from "983" will come to visit this land, and there are no forces entrenched around it. There is no need to worry about if something happens, it will affect someone and attract some unnecessary attention... Isn't this a perfect experimental place?

Just as Xia Zhi was thinking this in his heart and began to choose a suitable place to release the dragon that was still in his personal universe, Hubie's voice suddenly came to his ears.

"Xiazhi, look over there..." The girl pulled the corner of his clothes and pointed to the building in front of them, the only one that still retained its original shape among the completely burned ruins.

"It's very strange... Compared to the damage in the city... the damage here is very minor..."

In other words, during the war, this was the building that the elves prioritized in defending, right?

Xia Zhi turned around and looked at Jibril.

"I remember this seems to be... the library of the elves?" Jibril tapped her chin with her finger and answered after thinking for a moment.

As a Flügel, she should be able to recall any memory from the past immediately without thinking, so Xia Zhi could quickly determine that her hesitation and consideration was probably just an act.

As for why she pretended to be like this... maybe it was for fun?

After all, they were of different species, so Xia Zhi had no way of guessing what the Flügel girl was thinking. Moreover, compared to this, he was more concerned about another thing:

If, as Jibril said, this was really a library, then what kind of library would be worthy of the elves trying their best to protect it in a war to destroy the capital?

"..."

After trying hard to recall for a while, Xia Zhi finally remembered that such a place seemed to be mentioned in the original book.

And if you follow the description there...

"Let's go in and take a look." Xia Zhi thought about it and took the lead to walk forward.

Hubie followed without thinking twice, while Jibril looked at the building in front of him that was in sharp contrast with the surroundings for a while, with a look of doubt in her eyes. After standing there thinking for a moment, she finally shook her head and followed.

The architectural style of the elves is somewhat different from that of other races. There is no entrance that resembles a door in such a huge building. If one does not consider the convenient method of blasting open the outer wall with one shot, one can only slowly sneak into the interior along the gaps between the trees.

Even once you enter, the marvelous architectural style remains unchanged, and the interior furnishings are all items whose purpose is difficult to determine. The only things whose specific purpose can be recognized are the bookshelves scattered with some damaged books and scraps of paper.

Xia Zhi took a quick look and found that the text inside was filled with strange characters that looked like decorative patterns of plants, which was very consistent with the racial characteristics of the elves.

"Xia Zhi... can you understand the language of the elves?" Seeing that he was reading so seriously, Hubie asked in confusion.

“…I don’t understand.” Xia Zhi closed the book, looked at the Flügel girl beside him and said, “But there are people here who can understand it, right?”

Jibril, who once looted all the books from the Elf capital, couldn't understand the Elf language. That was impossible.

"Let me see." Jibril took the book from Xia Zhi and glanced at the contents: "I will teach you until you learn it... It's about 15 cooking methods of wild mushrooms... It's not very nutritious."

Nonsense, wild mushrooms are very nutritious...except the ones with red umbrellas and white stems.

After thinking about it, Xia Zhi decided to temporarily put this book, which he could not understand, into his personal universe.

"Xiazhi, this side..."

The girl's voice called out from the side.

When Xia Zhi looked over following the sound, she saw a sharp and piercing sound of rock being lifted and heavy iron blocks being twisted. Hubie forcibly pulled out an iron door that was almost ten times her height from the floor, and it slammed heavily onto the ground next to it, causing a violent shaking...

Summer Solstice: "..."

Even though he knew that this was nothing for a Mecha-Machina like Shuvi, he still felt a strong contrast when he saw the girl lifting such a large iron block easily with her petite figure.

"The underground... has been subjected to a complex camouflage spell..."

Noticing Xia Zhi's gaze, Hubie, who was standing in the center of the smoke, began to explain.

"I found a space below...it's a basement."

The girl said in a tone seeking praise.

The underground space covered by the complex camouflage spell of the elves can only be discovered by the Ex-Machinas who are good at analysis and observation, except for the upper races who are more sensitive to the perception of elves.

As Xia Zhi thought this, he gently rubbed the girl's head and turned to look at the dark and deep passage below the gap.

"I didn't expect that the elves would hide in such a secret basement?" Jibril also expressed her amazement.

What on earth is it that is worth them taking so much effort to hide?

Xia Zhi felt that he probably already knew it.

After briefly checking the life reactions around them, the three of them walked down the stairs.

After walking up a long flight of stairs, a wonderful scene appeared before them.

In the center of the spacious hall, there are several huge pillars standing side by side. These pillars are strangely twisted, and countless red patterns are carved on the surface.

"...One hundred and eighty-six..."

Soon, Hubie counted the number of such pillars in the underground hall.

"Those patterns are... the Divine Seals of Old Deus Cainas...?"

"……wrong……"

Hubie seemed to have encountered some difficulties while trying to figure out the truth behind these patterns, and tilted his head in confusion.

"And the information on the engraving techniques used by the elves... doesn't match...?"

"I see. Are those elves trying to be clever again and secretly compiling some new magic formula?"

Jibril snorted and looked towards Xia Zhi, but found that he was not paying attention to her. Instead, he was looking at a signboard under the strange pillars.

Following his line of sight, Jibril also noticed the signboard and the words written on it -

"... Void Zero Protection... Theoretical Verification Experimental Furnace?"

Chapter 158: Do you want to start it and give it a try?

……What's this?

The unfamiliar name of the technique aroused Jibril's curiosity, so she continued to read along with the text.

But the meaningful information ends here. What follows are some strange sentences composed of seemingly meaningless words, and no valuable information can be seen.

"These words... seem to have been encrypted." After hesitating for a moment, Jibril gave her own judgment.

"However, based on my experience, this position usually records the developers who are involved in the compilation of the technique."

In other words, even the information about the relevant developers has to be written in code...

What kind of technique is worthy of such careful treatment by the forest elves?

Jibril became even more curious.

"Of course it is the final magic that the elves originally prepared to use to end the war." Xia Zhi continued the conversation and 18 answered.

Even if you don't know the original plot, you can still deduce it easily from the perspective of hindsight based on the existing information.

From a strategic perspective, once a country's capital is destroyed or falls, it usually means that the country is not far from collapse or extinction.

But Melriron was different. It was voluntarily abandoned by the elves and used as bait to destroy the main fleet of the goblins.

Since it is a bait, the number of troops left behind to defend it will definitely not be too many.

So, with only the few remaining troops, what should the elves do to completely destroy an entire main fleet of the dwarves?

From this, we can infer that the elves at that time must have possessed the ultimate weapon in their hands that "could determine the final outcome of the war once it was launched."

"So, Jibril, you were wrong just now." Xia Zhi looked at Jibril and said, "It's not that the elves almost won, but that they had already won... when the Dwarfs were successfully lured into this trap."

The so-called success is not determined by what benefits have been gained, but by whether the original strategic goals have been achieved.

From the results, the main fleet of the Dwarfs was indeed wiped out, while the Elves only lost a few thousand people, the capital that they were originally preparing to abandon, and some "unimportant" books. There is no doubt that they won the final victory.

Even because of a certain Flügel girl's substitution, they did not even reveal the "Void Zero Protection" that they were originally going to use to destroy the Dwarf fleet and the capital, but kept it hidden and continued to serve as their unknown trump card.

From this perspective, the elves can be said to have won.

"In other words, your appearance did not change the final result, but only slightly changed the process." Xia Zhi concluded.

"But you didn't lose out, at least you got some 'rewards' from the elves, right?"

After hearing what he said, Jibril, who had been feeling a little depressed because she realized that she seemed to be "used" by the elves, suddenly felt much better.

If you think about it carefully, both parties actually benefited and achieved a "win-win" situation in the literal sense.

The elves achieved their strategic goal, and Jibril "gained" a lot of books as "rewards". Only the Dwarves got nothing except some trivial information, and even lost an entire main fleet.

——The world where only the Dwarves were hurt was completed.

"So, this is the spell they originally planned to use to destroy those fleets?"

Jibril raised her head and looked at the huge pillars engraved with red patterns in the spacious hall, her eyes gleaming with curiosity.

Judging from Xia Zhi's description alone, if this spell is really the ultimate 983 magic that the elves intend to use to destroy the Dwarfs and this city together, then its power should not be weaker than his own "Air Strike".

But, can those elves really do such a thing?

Jibril was not unaware of the effect of sophisticated rituals on increasing the power of magic, and it was precisely because she knew this that she expressed doubts about it.

Even though the elves' unique ability to multiply magic can multiply the effect of magic by several times, like "adding fuel to a flame", that kind of amplification is always limited. If the "base" power is too small, it will not become much stronger even if it is amplified.

Therefore, she was very skeptical. Could this spell alone really allow the elves, who had very little controllable Elemental Power, to release magic comparable to that of an air strike?

"If you're really curious...it's actually very simple."

Xia Zhi thought about it and suggested with a smile: "Just turn it on and try it, then you will know, right?"

Chapter 159: Conditions for Activating the "Void Zero Protection"

Any normal person with a little common sense would speak out to stop it if they heard someone casually activate the ultimate killing weapon of an entire race.

But unfortunately, no one present could be described as a “normal person”.

Hubie tilted his head, and looked at him quietly with his clear eyes that looked like they were made of glass, without objecting. Jibril happily nodded her head to show her agreement.

She didn't care what the consequences of doing this would be... She thought that at most it would just cause this place to be hit by another "sky strike", which was not a big deal.

That being said, as the most powerful weapon of the elves, "Void Zero Protection" is obviously not so easy to activate, not to mention that this is just a theoretical verification experiment.