Abel followed Bernie through a teleportation circle and arrived at a short-range teleportation circle. This was probably a secret place of the Goff family.
Teleportation circles and short-range teleportation circles wouldn't expose the location of this place. This was how most important places were kept secret.
Abel arrived at an underground area. The light came from the tens of underground fires that were drawn out from the ground, and the whole place was illuminated with a fiery red color.
The underground area was very big, and it was surrounded by stone walls. Abel could see chiseled marks on the walls. He was shocked to discover that this underground area might have been directly dug out by the dwarves.
This underground area was dozens of meters high and hundreds of meters wide. It was a room that looked like a hall. There were even more rooms on the side.
"Abel, this is a secret research place of our family!" Bernie smiled and introduced to Abel.
He could see the shock in Abel's eyes. This made him very proud. The dwarves had always only shown their surface structures to the public. They had never shown their underground caverns to the public.
These caverns were the foundation of the dwarves. As long as these caverns existed, the dwarves would not go extinct.
The ores and materials of the dwarves were obtained from these caverns. It was because of countless years of digging that the dwarves had mastered how to build solid caverns in the mountains.
"Bernie, the Sky Ship is being researched here. Why don't I see anyone?" Abel looked around and didn't see any other dwarves. It seemed like this place was just an abandoned cavern.
"This place has been sealed. The materials for the Sky Ship are all prepared, but the metallurgy materials for the main magic circle are missing. Everything is empty. This place has become the material storage for the Sky Ship!" Bernie explained.
"You called me here to help you make the metallurgy materials for the main magic circle?" Abel asked back.
"Abel, follow me!" Bernie nodded and said as he led the way.
Abel followed Bernie to the other end of the hall. There was a three-meter-tall, black-grey stone embedded in the wall. There were some ancient words and patterns carved on it.
Abel noticed that the most eye-catching part of the pattern was a ship-shaped house under a giant airbag. Next to the pattern were detailed diagrams of every part.
He quickly memorized the entire structure of the Sky Ship. He also found the metallurgy method for the main magic circle that needed his help.
There were as many as 88 different materials and hundreds of metallurgical refining processes. The difficulty was many times more complicated than any other metallurgical material he had seen.
"Abel, this is what we found when we were digging underground. After we found the method to build the Sky Ship, our family sealed this place up and made it into a material storage for the Sky Ship. We were just waiting for the day when we could fly!" Bernie said as he gently touched the black-grey stone in front of him.
"The metallurgy materials for the main magic circle are very troublesome. I'm not 100% sure!" Abel said in a deep voice as he carefully looked at the metallurgy method for the main magic circle.
From the metallurgical method, he saw 88 kinds of materials, most of which were very precious. Even he, a Blacksmith Grand Master, had never heard of some of them. Although he had heard of some of them, he had only read about them in books and had never seen them in person.
The amount of manpower and material resources needed to gather all 88 materials would be astronomical.
And with eighty-eight materials and several hundred processes, not a single mistake could be made. This would make any alchemist despair.
Even Abel, who never made mistakes, couldn't guarantee that he would succeed in one try. There were just too many unknown materials.
"Abel, the most precious material in the entire Sky Ship is the metallurgy material for the main magic circle. We dwarves have only collected 10 of the 88 materials in countless years!" Bernie said.
Bernie also knew how difficult it was to make the main magic circle. He knew that if Abel couldn't make the metallurgy material for the main magic circle, no other master alchemist could.
Abel couldn't help but hesitate when he heard that they had only collected 10 sets of materials. Even if all 10 sets of materials were completed, they could only make 10 Sky Ships at most.
What was the use of 10 Sky Ships? If they wanted to build a transportation network, they would need far more Sky Ships than 10 Sky Ships could provide.
"Don't worry, Abel. It's okay if you fail. If you can't succeed 1 out of 10 times, we'll just have to wait for a few more decades at most." Bernie saw Abel's hesitation and thought he was worried about failure, so he tried to persuade him.
Abel couldn't help but be stunned. What was going on? Wasn't the requirement to succeed 10 times? Looking at Bernie, he would be satisfied with 1 out of 10 sets of metallurgy material for the main magic circle!
"Ok, I'll try my best!" Abel said with a smile.
At that moment, he noticed that most of the space on the surface of the black stone was taken up by how to make a Sky Ship. The other half was a relatively simple object.
It was a blueprint of a weapon that looked like a cannon on earth. From the description, it was an extremely powerful long-range weapon.
"Bernie, did you guys make this?" Abel pointed at the blueprint and asked.
"Abel, this is a mana cannon. A cannon that uses mana gems as its raw material. The master alchemist in the family has already researched it. This might have been a very powerful long-range weapon in ancient times, but it's impossible to make one now. Even if we could, no one would use it!" Bernie said with a bitter smile.
Abel asked curiously, "Why is that? I read the description of this cannon. There's almost nothing that can block this cannon's power. Also, its power varies according to the level of the gems. If you put a top-level gem inside this cannon, who would be able to survive?"
"Abel, did you see that the entire cannon is made with master alchemy material? Let's not talk about how hard it is to get these materials. Even the usage of this cannon is problematic. According to the master alchemist in the family, after one shot, the entire cannon would be destroyed. This means it is a one-time use weapon!" Bernie shook his head.
Abel couldn't help but take in a breath of cold air. Were the ancient race crazy? How could they set a mana cannon that was made with master metallurgy materials to only have one shot? Could it be that there were a lot of master metallurgists in the ancient times, and materials were everywhere?
"Commander spirit, do you know about this mana cannon?" Abel's heart skipped a beat. He remembered the commander spirit on him was the spirit of that era. He could ask it.
"Headmaster majesty, the mana cannon was forbidden in ancient times. It was forbidden to use in any battle, but many families would use it as a last resort to protect themselves." The commander spirit explained through Abel's power of the will.
By this point, Abel finally knew what a mana cannon was. It was like an atomic bomb. It was powerful, but it could only be used once. It was forbidden in ancient times.
However, there was one thing he was sure of. If this mana cannon was powered by a perfect gem, it would be a lot more powerful than the super exploding ball. This was because one was the explosion of the cannon itself, and the other was the magic circle engraved on the cannon to increase the explosive power of the perfect gem. After that, the explosion would be concentrated in one direction.
"Too bad!" Abel couldn't help but let out a sigh. If this mana cannon was not a one-time use item, he could spend a lot of money to make one. It could be another trump card of his.
"Abel, if you are interested, I can make the decision. We have collected a complete set of materials for this mana cannon. It is still here. If you want, I can give it to you. We have no use for it anyway!" Bernie saw that Abel was quite interested in the mana cannon, so he smiled.
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