I became a vampire princess and then a dragon girl?

The ruins under their feet were more than three hundred meters long, nearly fifty meters wide at the widest point, and about fifty meters high. It was definitely a huge existence. And she didn't know if it was Eve's illusion, but she always felt that this thing looked a bit like a ship?

Judging from the size of the ruins, it would probably take them quite a while to fully explore the interior.

And considering the completeness of the ruins, how to find the entrance becomes the primary problem. After all, complete ruins are rare, so it is better to avoid violent intrusion if possible.

"Anyway, let's dig this thing out first. I'll mark the area, and Tina can use Obliterate to clean off the dirt on top. Be careful not to affect the ruins themselves to avoid any accidents."

In order to prevent any accidents from happening when moving the ruins, Eve finally decided to use the method of on-site excavation first. She and Istina worked together to excavate the entire ruins, and then try to find the entrance to explore. After confirming that there were no problems, they packed up the entire ruins and took them away.

As for the safety issues during the exploration, she was not particularly worried. Needless to say, if it were not for the protection of the ruins, she would probably have blown the place up directly. And Istina could at least protect herself with the magic of annihilation.

After all, the magic of annihilation is not only good at attacking, its ability to destroy matter and energy it touches also makes the defense formed by it difficult to break through. To put it simply, even without using defensive magic and anti-magic, Istina only needs to continuously release the magic of annihilation and squat in place with her head in her hands to give many people a headache.

And when looking for the entrance and exploring the interior, Butterfly can also help a lot. After all, there are enough of them, so it is no problem to search inch by inch.

"Okay, then I'll go and mark the area first."

As she spoke, Eve flew up lightly, summoned the holy sword above the rainforest, and then swung four swords at the abandoned area.

"Sword Skill: Rock Piercing"

As the sword light sank into the ground, the area where the ruins were located was cut out neatly, and the feathered serpent on the other side of the rainforest was frightened, thinking that the other party had changed its mind and wanted to deal with her, but Eve and the others had no way of knowing.

"Okay, now it's up to Tina."

"Don't worry, my hero."

As she spoke, Istina gathered magic power in her hands and compressed it into a thin layer, clearing away the dirt attached to the ruins layer by layer. Eve was not idle either, and began to clean up from the other side bit by bit.

By the evening, thanks to their efforts, the cleaning of the entire ruins was basically completed, revealing its original appearance.

From the appearance, Eve felt that this relic looked like a ship, but considering that it might be a creation from the mythological era, it was hard to say what it was used for.

I hope that while exploring, there won’t be some wild, ancient monster quietly waiting for intruders in the dark, waiting for an opportunity to drag them into the darkness and eat them. This would be a good horror movie plot.

If it really dares to play this trick, Eve will have to explain to it what firepower is justice and smash its head.

However, to be on the safe side, Eve did not plan to enter the ruins directly to start exploring tonight. Instead, she asked Dier to stay and hide aside to observe the situation of the ruins and notify her at any time if there was any abnormality. She and Istina returned to the demiplane tonight to rest and wait to enter in a fully prepared condition tomorrow.

Just like that, starting tomorrow, the Rainforest Survival column will once again become a ruins exploration documentary.

§ 95 Magic Furnace

The next morning, in front of the ruins.

Today, Eve paused her morning class with Istina, and after breakfast, she brought a few people directly to the ruins.

There was no unusual report from Dier last night, and after the ruins were excavated, at least on the surface there was no problem.

"Then, everyone, split up and search for the entrance. If you notice anything unusual, immediately activate defensive magic and send a signal to gather. Never attempt to contact it alone. If Tina, bring Dier along just in case. If you find a suspected entrance, don't go in alone. Make a judgment after thoroughly exploring it."

Eve glanced at everyone and announced the start of the action after confirming that they had nothing to say.

Although acting separately is a taboo according to the rules of horror movies, among the people present, Eve can perform a physical exorcism directly even if you throw her a real horror movie scene; the two weapon elves can teleport back to Eve at any time, have their own flash, and their own combat power is not weak at all; Dier, who has a thousand faces, can restore the disappeared small individuals as long as she has magic power. The only one who provides magic is Eve, a nuclear power plant, and is basically immortal.

The only one who might get into trouble, Istina, also had a butterfly with her so that Eve could observe Tina's situation at any time through the butterfly beside her.

In the final analysis, Eve's preparations were actually a bit too cautious. After all, based on the experience of excavating and exploring past ruins, it would not matter if they just went straight into such an ancient ruin. After all, those scholars were far less powerful than Eve and the others.

It didn't take too long to explore the surface of the ruins, because the outside of the ruins was basically the same as the area when Istina discovered it, made of unknown metal materials without any gaps.

There were three suspected entrance locations, but after trying them one by one, they found that only the entrance in the middle of the ruins was the correct entrance. At this time, everyone gathered here and prepared to explore the interior.

The entrance to the ruins was quite wide, enough for four or five people to walk side by side. However, the interior was completely dark as it had long lost its energy.

The pitch-black entrance seemed like the entrance to a bottomless abyss, about to devour everything that entered… If this were a horror movie commentary, the narration would probably be like this.

Looking at the deep and dark entrance to the ruins, Eve frowned slightly. Then, based on the principle that light source can dispel the sense of terror, she simply threw small light balls all the way inside for lighting. The passage instantly became as bright as day, and the sense of terror evaporated on the spot. Under the light, the silver-gray corridor changed its style and looked full of technology.

So why do the protagonists of those horror games and movies not want to buy a professional flashlight? It can obviously greatly reduce the danger level when exploring.

Eve herself strongly recommends that the protagonists each carry a flashlight with 100,000 lumens, and turn it on at full power so that the ghosts will think it is daybreak.

"Master Brave?"

Seeing Eve waving her hands and throwing countless balls of light into the ruins and then not moving again, Istina pulled her with some confusion.

"Ahem, I was distracted just now. Let's go in and see what this ruin is like."

Several people in the ruins were exploring in a formation with Eve in front, Ilvia and Arcana on the left and right, Istina in the middle, and Dier at the back.

If they encountered a fork in the road, Dier would split into several individuals to continue exploring, while everyone else continued to move forward on the main road. Along the way, they also encountered some places blocked by doors, but because there was no energy to drive them, they could not open them.

At this moment, good news suddenly came from Die'er.

"Master, I think I've found the power source for this ruin. Going there should allow us to restore the facilities within."

"Did you encounter any accidents along the way, or did you find any traces of living creatures?"

'No, everything is normal, and there is no sign of life.'

"Okay, then I'll ask you to lead the way."

So the few of them followed Dier and began to circle around the ruins. Since everything looked exactly the same, Eve wondered several times if she had taken the same path twice.

To be honest, this kind of passage that looks exactly the same and has no signs is absolutely disgusting. I don’t know how the people who built the ruins designed it.

Finally, after circling for more than ten minutes, they finally arrived at the power source of the ruins.

"Ah, it's the magic furnace."

Eve was not unfamiliar with the power source in front of her. This thing had appeared in other ruins, but it was rare to see one so big and complete.

This thing is a facility used to store large amounts of magic power for energy supply. It can be said to be a magical version of a reactor or generator. The only problem is that it is a bit time-consuming and labor-intensive to charge. It requires a dozen magicians to take turns pouring magic power into it for several days before it is filled up.

How long it can last after an infusion depends on the amount of magic equipment it needs to power, which feels like an alien version of a magic generator.

Unfortunately, the method of making the magic furnace was lost during the Dark Ages. Later generations did think about dismantling it and doing reverse engineering, but they would explode every time they took it apart. Even if they wanted to explore the internal structure through magic, they would not be able to obtain any information due to its ability to absorb and store magic.

The civilization of this world has developed for so long but it still has a medieval style. It can be said that this is largely caused by the Dark Ages.

Apart from anything else, judging from these relics before the Dark Ages, the world should have had some technological routes at the end of the mythological era, or at least had a prototype. Viewing magic as electricity is almost like the trend in Eve's previous life.

Then this technology tree was directly razed by the Dark Age, and even the Abyss Tide came to make up for it later, and eventually the entire technology line disappeared completely.

Now the abyssal waves on the Far West Front are constantly threatening the survival of the continent. Naturally, no one will have enough time and resources to study these things. After all, everything must be based on supplying the needs of the front as the top priority, followed by cultivating strong people, and research can only be put at the back of the mind.

Unlike the situation in the previous life where individuals were weak and had to rely on external objects to make the group stronger, on this continent it is difficult for the group to surpass the top individuals, which has led to the research not being taken seriously by most people.

Take the situation between the human race and the vampire race as an example. Why did the human race never dare to lead a surprise attack during the day to break through the Fallen Plain? Of course, it was because even if they broke through here, they would still be completely helpless against Elizabeth, who surpassed all the cutting-edge combat power of the human race.

No matter how much territory you conquer from the lower levels, once Elizabeth has dealt with the human race's high-level combat forces and has freed up her hands, destroying the army will be a matter of just waving her hand.

Eve had previously thought about restoring some items from her previous life, but due to similar reasons and not fully understanding the principles, she temporarily postponed it. After all, you are a self-propelled nuclear bomb, so you don't have that much time to think about how to restore a pistol, especially when you have magic as a substitute.

In short, this is the dilemma faced by the mainland's technological route.

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§ 96 Reincarnation Mystery

"Hmm...that's where the magic power is injected."

After checking whether the magic furnace was intact and preparing to run away immediately if the magic furnace exploded, Eve placed her hand on the magic furnace and began to infuse magic power.

As a large amount of magic power was injected, the originally dim furnace core gradually began to glow.

"Hmm, it really consumes a lot of magic power."

Feeling the speed at which her magic power was being lost, Eve sighed slightly, and then increased the speed at which she injected her magic power.

No wonder this thing normally requires a dozen magicians to take turns to charge it. It really is a big magic consumer.

Finally, as the feeling of being unable to continue injecting energy came, the charging work of the magic furnace was declared over. At this time, the core of the furnace took on a shining crystal shape, and as Eve let go, a layer of magic barrier automatically formed on the outside to block external interference factors. Bits of light began to flow along the magic furnace to various places inside the ruins, and the ruins that had been silent for a long time slowly began to operate again.

At this time, the silver-gray corridors in the ruins began to emit a certain amount of light for illumination. Black text also appeared on the walls at each fork in the road, indicating the direction to which it led. In some places, floor plans of the facilities also appeared.

Eve was speechless as she looked at the interior of the ruins, which had become much more normal after the magic supply was restored. So, when these people were designing it, didn't they consider that if the magic furnace was damaged or temporarily unable to supply magic, the entire ruins would come to a complete standstill?

Not only is it pitch black, but the passages all look like they were carved from the same mold, and the road signs all rely on magic. Once the magic is broken, how can you walk through the maze?

However, a new problem soon emerged before Eve - although signposts had appeared in the corridor with the restoration of the magic supply, the embarrassing thing was that she could not understand the words on them.

Well, there is a big difference between ancient characters and modern ones. At least Eve, who didn't know much about this, couldn't understand what was written on it at all. Needless to say, Istina, the two of them looked at each other in confusion.

If someone could read it out to her, Eve might be able to guess some of the meaning. After all, there are some similarities in the pronunciation of some words, and she could guess some of it based on the context.

"Oh, by the way, Dier?"

"Well, what's wrong, my Lord?"

But the good news is that this time she has someone by her side who might be able to understand some ancient characters.

Although it is a monster, considering that Dier also lived in that era and is extremely intelligent, maybe she can understand something.

"Can you understand the words here? You can guess."

"I'll give it a try, my Lord."

"Well, please."

……

After studying the instruction map for a while, Dier said uncertainly.

"My Lord, this seems to be a refuge, but it is not officially in use."

"Did Die'er see any places like the control room or the archives room?"

'Yes, please follow me.'

As she spoke, Dier flew ahead to lead the way for Eve and the others.

During this period, they also opened some rooms that had not been opened before to check the interior conditions. Most of them were equipped with beds and tables. Since they had not yet been officially put into use, no other items were seen.

The door of the room can be locked from the inside. It seems that it will automatically enter the locked state when the magic supply is interrupted. This is why Eve and the others could not open the door from the outside before.

After walking around for a while, a door that was obviously much more special appeared in front of Eve.

"Master, this is the control room."

Dier's voice also sounded at the right time.

"Well, let's go in and see if there are any clues."

With that, Eve pushed open the door and led everyone inside.

Some magic circles in the control room were continuously emitting faint light, but most of the magic circles had completely dimmed, as if they were damaged or could not be used normally due to some other reasons.

The space in the control room is not too small, but since a lot of it is occupied by metal products engraved with magic circles, the space available for movement is relatively limited.

The raw materials of these metal products seem to be different from those of the exterior of the ruins and the corridors. Due to the large number of magic circles engraved on them, they look extremely rough. If they are magnified a little, it is estimated that they will cause discomfort to people with trypophobia.

In order to prevent further damage, Eve did not touch these metal products, but instead observed the magic circle that was still functioning. Seeing her actions, the others also began to look for clues.

"Hmm... Is this a magic circle for recording, Mr. Hero?"

After a while, Istina was the first to discover some clues.

"Huh? Let me take a look."

Hearing her voice, Eve went over to check.

"Well, although the exterior is a little different, the core is similar, so it should be correct."

After observing the core structure of the magic circle, Eve confirmed Istina's speculation.

Modern magic often differs slightly from previous magic, such as the contract magic that Dier showed Eve before. There are many reasons for the changes, such as simplification, improvement, etc., but in most cases the core part of the magic will not change.

Therefore, we can infer the function of ancient magic by comparing the core parts of magic. As for which one is better, it depends on the actual situation.

The magic circle that Istina discovered at the moment was a magic for recording and playback. It was often used to pass messages or record some things.