Magic Tech’s Lair

Cao Yan still remembers the moment when Gutell found the base and saw the World Tree for the first time.

It carried out the sacrificial ceremony that belonged exclusively to the tree shepherd with a devout face, chanted the sacrificial rites in a language that did not belong to humans, and then kissed the trunk of the World Tree.

After the arrival of the tree shepherd, the World Tree also experienced abnormalities.

A leaf fell off quietly and landed between the eyebrows of the tree shepherd Gutel, turning into a leaf-shaped emerald green mark.

Gutell was overjoyed and seemed very excited, like a decadent young man who had been unemployed at home for a long time, finally found a job, and has since become a decent person with a radiant face.

When he knew that Cao Yan had cultivated this world tree, Gutell began to follow his attendants to call Cao Yan the boss.

However, it does not obey Cao Yan's orders, and is only responsible for serving the World Tree.

Those "ancient tree spirits" running around the base are the unique abilities of the tree shepherds. Guter stood under the World Tree and sang "folk songs" every morning, spitting out the tones of the mantra.

The function of it singing folk songs is that in the following period of time, it summoned many younger brothers from the jungle one after another, that is, the ancient tree spirits who were carrying things in the base at this time.

After they arrived, they were responsible for assisting the tree shepherd Gutel to cultivate some trees around the base.

Gutell would occasionally pick young branches from the World Tree and give them to these ancient tree spirits, who would chant strange magic spells and integrate the branches into some ancient trees around the base.

The ancient trees that have accepted the branches of the world tree will gradually grow thorny fruits on their crowns, and finally completely change the shape of the tree and become an ancient tree of magic war.

At present, in the four directions around the base, an ancient war tree was spawned by the tree shepherds, rustling in the wind.

There are many thorn balls on the tree, exuding a green-brown luster.

As for the many monsters coming in and out of the base, they were captured by those ancient tree spirits, which are equivalent to free laborers recruited for the World Tree, and have the responsibility of guarding the World Tree.

At this time, Cao Yan came to the base and walked towards a metal building next to the World Tree.

"What's changed in the base in the past two days?" Cao Yan asked the two servants who followed him.

"The people of the tribe of elves came to spy again,

We followed the boss's order and didn't kill anyone, but drove them away. said Oher.

In the past two years, the base has flourished and expanded continuously, and it is impossible to hide it all the time.

About half a year ago, Cao Yan simply presented the base openly, but when necessary, he would let the base hide the existence of the world tree with the ability of simulation.

The emergence of the base was first discovered by the elf tribe.

In recent months, the elves have frequently inspected the base, and they even tried to attack the base.

They regard the jungle as their home, and are very disgusted and repelled by the sudden appearance of a metal city with a strong sense of technology in the jungle.

As time went by, the friction between the two sides increased, and the number of times the elves came to do things became more and more intensive.

However, the strength of the attendants has improved rapidly in the past two years, and it is very easy to deal with the incoming elves.

Since Auch came back from the Abyss Fault Plane two years ago, after absorbing the cave-eye demonic energy gushing out from the ground, and after nearly two years of precipitation, he has condensed the real body of the demon, and is rushing towards the evolution path of the Demon King.

The other attendants also have their own diligence.

"If there are elves coming again, we will change our strategy and arrest them and imprison them." Cao Yan ordered.

Auch and Curse agreed in unison.

While the three were talking, they walked into the domed building ahead one after another.

This building was forged from the red gold and fiery copper extracted from the depths of the submarine volcano. As soon as it entered, there was a heat wave blowing in the face, and the air was filled with a strong smell of sulfur.

There is a huge furnace inside the building, the whole body is red and cylindrical, with a diameter of more than 30 meters. It looks like the legendary sun god pillar, which goes straight to the top wall of the building. There are no air holes in the whole body, and the interior is like an independent flame world.

Around the furnace are four pools of molten lava boiling and blazing.

After Cao Yan came in, the magma in one of the flame pools stirred, and a creature poked its head out of it.

The creature's body was like solidified magma, burning with blazing flames, but it was the Balrog King captured after being defeated by abalone more than two years ago, and has been imprisoned and restricted by Cao Yan with a symbol matrix since then.

About a year ago, when Cao Yan came to the base one time, he received a reminder from the core of the base: the base's smelting factory continued to evolve, and it needed to guard the fire-type creatures in the flame pool, and sensed that there were suitable creatures on the host.

Since then, the Balrog has become a laborer at the base, with a life-long job and no salary.

It needs to guard the firepower of the furnace, which is equivalent to the boiler worker of the base. If you pass the work, you will be rewarded, absorb heat in the molten pool, and improve yourself.

In addition to the Balrog, Cao Yan's collection of element fragments has also been integrated into the base and absorbed by the base.

The function is to promote the base to gather various elemental forces more quickly, form a power source, and accelerate the evolution of the base.

At this time, Cao Yan took out the box containing rare metals and poured out the metals in it.

These rare metal coefficients were taken over by Balrog and sent into the core furnace.

The Balrog touched some flame element symbols on the furnace wall one after another, driving the furnace's firepower to rise and refine the metal.

In a short while, a gap appeared under the furnace, and red metal slurry flowed out. After entering the surrounding molten pool, it flowed and transmitted to other directions in the city, using molten metal as the main material to form a new base building.

"These metal solutions, together with previous reserves, are enough to complete the thirty-sixth energy tower of the base." Cao Yan counted with his fingers.

"According to the construction drawings of Jungle City provided by the base, this is the construction of the last energy tower at this stage. Once the tower is formed, the energy system of the base can be fully circulated, integrating offense and defense, and will evolve a special function... "Cao Yan thought with some expectation.

The last energy tower of the base has a complicated construction process and takes six to ten hours to complete.

Of course Cao Yan would not stay in the base and wait foolishly, he was going to return to the city of God's Domain.

But just before he left, a gust of wind blew up in the direction of the World Tree, and a dark purple python protruded from a branch in the middle of the trunk, swallowing a letter like a horse.

The next moment, the boa constrictor flew up from the World Tree, rushed into the jungle outside the base, and hurried away.

Sands and rocks were flying in the places where it passed, and the grass and trees were low, and the momentum was quite astonishing.

This boa constrictor was attracted by the ancient aura exuded by the World Tree, and finally defeated many surrounding monsters who wanted to inhabit the World Tree, and was able to occupy below the middle of the trunk, becoming the guardian beast of the World Tree at this stage.

It goes out to feed.

In the past two years, World Tree has attracted countless monsters.

These monsters are like competing for the gold belt of the boxing champion in a ring. The masters are constantly changing. The python defeated the last master, Tui Shan Yuan, and was able to occupy the world tree. It only took three days in total.

At present, the record for the longest challenger to occupy the world tree is half a month.

These ring masters are all high-level monsters, quite intelligent, and they don't interfere with Cao Yan and others.

Cao Yan often wonders whether there will be legendary creatures in the future who will be attracted by the World Tree and become the lifelong champion of the World Tree.

The World Tree is psychic, and it is obviously dissatisfied with the current 'lords', so these monsters can only climb the middle of the trunk at most, but cannot enter the crown of the top.

Cao Yan had a feeling that besides calling the tree shepherd, the World Tree seemed to issue another call, calling for an existence in the deepest part of the jungle.

That is likely to be some ancient mysterious creature, the real guardian chosen by World Tree for itself.

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The city of God's Domain.

In the afternoon, the streets were full of pedestrians, bustling as before.

Cao Yan returned to the residence of the association headquarters from the base, and then, followed by Pandas and other guards, left the association, walked among the pedestrians on the street, and arrived in front of a shop after more than 20 minutes.

More than two years ago, when Cao Yan was shopping in a famous snack shop in the city, he was attacked by members of the church.

The owner of the shop was a lurker of the church. After being killed, the shop could not operate. When he was about to close, Cao Yan took over the shop and maintained the operation of the shop.

Wang Li likes to eat snacks, so Cao Yan took over the shop and gave it to his daughter-in-law.

When Wang Li comes to God's Domain City occasionally, he always comes to this shop.

Cao Yan and Wang Li made an appointment to meet here today.

At this time, before he even entered the shop, he heard Wang Li's voice coming from the shop: "This kind of fruity crisp was brought back by Cao Yan's people to study in the Central Domain last year. It is said that it has a history of more than 600 years. , the taste is very good, you guys try it."

Cao Yan opened the door and approached the store. The first thing he saw was a light yellow dress with a palm-width white belt around his waist, which made Wang Li look more slim-waisted and long-legged.

She sat at a dining table in the store, and introduced the snacks in the store to Feng Qiwu and another girl opposite, pointing to several special snacks with slender and white fingers, giving people an unusual sense of delicateness and refinement.

There were a few old men waiting to buy things in the store, their eyes were almost glued to Wang Li.

When Cao Yan came in, the girl on Wang Li's left was the first to notice, beckoning and saying, "Brother-in-law."

Wang Li raised her head when she heard the words, revealing her face that was covered by her beautiful hair, but she saw that Cao Yan did not come over, but walked up to the old men who were staring at Wang Li, and said something in a low voice. When I heard the words, my expression changed drastically, and I retreated in a panic, not even buying anything.

Only then did Cao Yan come over and sit beside Wang Li.

Feng Qiwu asked curiously: "What did you say to those people, it made them pale with fright."

Cao Yan proudly said: "I said that the beautiful woman over there is the woman of the cruelest boss in the city. Anyone who stares at her will have their eyes gouged out afterwards. Pandas and the others are responsible for gouging out the eyes." The executioner asked them if they dared to leave their names, and they would have their eyes gouged out afterwards. They ran away."

Feng Qiwu and the girl on the other side laughed coquettishly, and Wang Li couldn't help showing a smile.

"Cao Yan, so you define yourself as the cruelest boss in the city, giggling, it's really ridiculous."