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Molting the Mortal Coil - Chapter 178

Published at 29th of March 2024 06:32:47 AM


Chapter 178: Metal Jungle

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Chapter 178: Metal Jungle

Even though he was thinking about treasures, the truth was, he had little way to bring them out. The only way he was going to get any loot out of this place was if he approached Song Lu Tian or one of the other geniuses and either hitched a ride or convinced them to take his insect along. There was a single storage ring around the Charming Lance Beetles leg, but the chances of him smuggling it out were quite small.

Leaving the problem for later, the ant colony was now large enough to do its own hunting. He left the Charming Lance Beetle there to watch over the ants, while the Twin Soul was now free to start exploring. The first task was to check up on Song Lu Tian again. Hed been watching the mans progress the whole time. Normally such a thing wouldnt be possible, but Sage had modified the Beast Bag for just such a use, long ago. He added an extra array to the bag that made a small gem on the outside of the bag into essentially a magical surveillance camera. There was a small hole between a few of the floor mats inside the Beast Bag, by looking into it, you could get a hundred and eighty degree view of the outside world through a panoramic lens type of view. Beast Bags were connected to the outside world so energy, air, and sound could enter and exit it. Normally, sounds would be dampened, but Sage made sure to amplify them next to the view hole and made it so he could make out most of what happened outside.

The Twin Soul rapidly flew off in the direction that Song Lu Tian had headed towards a few hours earlier. This metal jungle was quite large and Song Lu Tian was quite fast, so it took a few more hours before the Twin Soul caught up to him. At this point, the man was cleaning out another one of the groves filled with Double Flowered Ice Camellia. Pleased at his perfect timing, Sage was glad to see the mission he requested would be completed perfectly. The only problem was that he came to a decision point. Should he keep his watch over Song Lu Tian, and back him up if needed? Or should he use the Twin Soul as an advance scout for the insect army?

Impatient as I am to explore this place its best to protect my investment.

The only unexplored areas were those the furthest in, so he moved quickly, traversing the hundreds of miles down the bridge at high speed. He got into a few big battles along the way, the most violent and powerful beasts were living the closest to the Thunder Mountain. Huge bulls with metallic silver plating on their bodies and copper colored horns were slain by the dozens. He even used a herd of them as a shield to avoid a tiger that looked like its fur was literally a layer of crackling electricity. He was smaller, faster, and also didnt contain any of that delicious lightning Qi that the Tiger liked, so it didnt bother to chase.

Eventually, he fought his way to one of the unexplored regions and ended up in a deadly confrontation. He had hopped into a large crack on the ground and entered the underground layer of the bridge. The sound of battle immediately rang out. The Twin Soul quickly flew in to observe and what Sage saw was astounding. It looked like they had found a warehouse area. It was a long narrow room with rows of huge shelves from floor to ceiling. On the shelves were many metallic and polymer crates and drums. Sage couldnt recognize the material they were made from, nor the style. It was merely his guess given the outer shapes and patterns of indentation on them. They looked like the sorts of shapes that were used to add structural support to plastic boxes or metal tins. Just like an I beam, or a sword fuller, they seemed more than just decorative.

The sounds of battle werent an illusion, Song Lu Tian was actually engaged in battle with what Sage could only describe as robots. They looked like large crabs made out of black metal, with large sliding parallel clamps instead of pincers and legs that could extend to lift them up into the air. They also had an assortment of lenses and lights on their faces instead of a mouth and eye stalks like a crab would. On their backs were things that looked very much like some sort of cannon, firing out brilliant flashes of energy. Song Lu Tian had left marks on them with his Sword Formation, and even sliced off a few of their pincer clamps, but none of them seemed even slowed down by the damage. They didnt actually move terribly fast, but there were already four of them gathered around Song Lu Tian and Sage could see at least a dozen more shuffling over from the other side of the warehouse.

I wonder whats in the boxes? Maybe these ones wont self destruct like the ones in the Hidden Domain.




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