Dean City.
This was a public city directly managed by the Witch Council. It was also an important gateway to the Northern Lands.
As the Goblin Business Union that intended to expand their business channels in the Northern Lands, this was undoubtedly one of the places they focused on.
Flor returned with a Goblin Caravan.
Although the entire Northern Lands were considered safe, the Goblins were under the protection of the Crimson Family. No matter what, they were still subordinates of the Destiny Witches. Hence, they would be challenged by the Chilly Winter Witches during the war.
Hence, it was safer for the Goblins to follow the Goblin Caravans that were equipped with Magical Weapons.
With the Magic Badge of the Crimson Family, Flor successfully entered Dean City.
At the corner of the street, Flor waved goodbye to the Goblin Caravan's Father Tok. They crossed three streets in one go before arriving at the shop opened by the Goblin Business Union.
The main businesses of these shops were slave trading, cargo transportation, mining, and logging. They also secretly poached and sold firearms.
However, materials such as Magical Ray Guns, Magical Cannons, and Metal Magic Weapons were forbidden from being sold by the Northern Witches. Hence, in order to avoid angering the rulers, the Goblin merchants could only sell some Goblin firearms, Alchemy guns, and other ordinary weapons.
Currently, the great Goblin leader Kabi was in contact with the Witches of Dean City in an attempt to obtain the rights to sell Extraordinary items. However, the progress was not smooth. It seemed that the Witches intended to wait until the outcome of the Witch War was out before making a decision.
This undoubtedly drove Kabi crazy!
However, what made him even crazier was that the envoy he sent, Flor, brought back a piece of bad news.
The Goblin Loca, who had just advanced to become a Magic Machinist, had chosen to join the White Tower and become a contracted Wizard there. This was undoubtedly a huge blow to Kabi!
After hearing Flor's report, Kabi immediately paced around the house in frustration, loudly cursing the insensible Goblin "traitor".
As a Goblin, he did not help the Goblins expand their business, but instead ran to the Wizard Pagoda of the humans to eat and wait for death … He was truly the scum of the Goblins!
However, no matter how much he cursed, he could not change the cruel reality.
The current Gnome Trade Union was too little attractive to Magi with strength!
Up until now, the Goblin Trade Union had already set up contact points in more than thirty cities on the Sorcerer Continent. They had set up shops in more than a hundred cities, and had 127 goblin caravans of various sizes.
Roughly estimating, the armed forces under Kabi already reached over ten thousand, and the number of metal magic machines also reached six hundred.
However, the total number of sorcerers and apprentices it had was no more than 30. Ninety percent of them were Sorcerers Apprentices, and only two were real Sorcerers. Moreover, both of them were Initial Grade 1 Wandering Sorcerers.
The Goblin Trade Union was a subsidiary of the Crimson Family and could request protection from official Magi from the Crimson Family when they were in danger. However, this power did not belong to them, and distant water could not quench the present thirst. Most of the time, the gnome engineers sent to the depths of the Dark Forest to investigate the ore veins could only rely on cumbersome magical equipment to protect them.
This was undoubtedly a huge loss to the elites of the Gnome Commerce Alliance!
However, no matter how cruel and dangerous the situation was, the gnome Kabi did not give up on expanding his influence and his connections.
He travelled around the world, making contact with the local authorities, bribing and seducing them to their liking, hoping to obtain the rights to sell certain goods or special goods.
What Kabi could bring out were war slaves with the characteristics of other races.
Although most of the Faen Elves had fallen into the hands of the Magi of the family, Kabi still managed to obtain some defective goods through his own channels. Using them as stepping stones, Kabi successfully took down five northern Witch cities.
However, in the most important city of his business, Dean City, Kabi met with a Waterloo.
That damned rank 3 Witch of Death, after accepting three rank 2 Draconians, two male Faen Elves, and 100 strong Ogre slaves, still did not agree to the gnome's request.
Later on, Kabi used other channels to find out that this rank 3 Witch of Death was actually on good terms with the Austere Witches. It was no wonder that she had been dragging on the trade rights of the Gnome Commerce Alliance!
If not for the fact that the Gnome Commerce Alliance still had the golden signboard of the Witches of Destiny, the city lord would have already sent troops to capture them.
Now, Kabi was fuming, and Flor brought back another piece of bad news. It was no wonder that Kabi cursed and was unable to restrain his anger!
In fact, the current Gnome Commerce Alliance was not a single entity, but an alliance of four or five gnome organisations. Among them, there was the Blackwater Conglomerate that specialized in slave trading, the Venture Capital Corporation that specialized in mining and logging, and the Musen Merchant Group that liked to trade in firearms …
The reason why Kabi was able to win over these large Gnome corporations and merchant groups was because of his good personal relations with the various Magi of the Crimson Family. However, once he made an obvious mistake in a major business operation, the corporations and merchant group leaders that were eyeing him covetously would all be eager to replace him.
This was actually what worried Kabi the most, and what gave him the biggest headache!
He was so anxious to personally control a powerful Magus force that he wanted to intimidate these ambitious people who were ready to make trouble. It was a pity that his first step had failed!
… …
The Blazing Flame Monarch.
Alchemy laboratory.
Amidst a series of sizzling welding arcs, a basic outline of the exoskeleton combat support system made entirely of metal gradually formed.
From the outside, it looked like a giant metal armour. Due to the use of magic iron alloy, the armour flickered with a dark blue radiance. There was a long exhaust port at the back of the armour, continuously inhaling and exhaling white steam that could be seen with the naked eye.
The joints of the armour were densely covered with large metal gears and turntables that were tightly meshed together.
With every step the armour took, these gears and turntables would begin to spin frantically. There were force field generators placed all over the body that could open up an independent force field shield, and could also be integrated together to form a full-scale defensive force field.
There were weapons installed on the surface of the armour, such as energy ray guns that could fire extremely quickly, as well as magic cannons that had a large area of effect. Within the hollow walls of the armour was a mysterious three-dimensional spell formation. A sparkling and translucent elemental puppet crystal core was embedded in the spell formation's node.
In the past, a magic battery was the only source of power for an all-metal magic machine like this.
In the absence of a small-scale magic furnace, this type of magic machine would need to be replaced every half an hour of battle. This might not be a big problem in a low-intensity battle, but in a high-intensity battle, it would become the biggest obstacle to the use of Magic Machinery.
Now, Grim was trying to combine an elemental magic machine and a metal magic machine. This would allow the elemental magic machine to have a full metal shell to protect its fragile core, and it would also allow the metal magic machine to have an elemental heart that would never stop beating.
After a few initial tests, the theoretical idea was completely feasible.
However, the high-grade elemental magic machine that Grim had personally created was made of the best materials and resources, so the cost of a single one was staggering. If he wanted to mass-produce it, he would need to further improve and optimize the high magic alloy, energy effect, and wizard spirit technology.
Grimm personally controlled the Scorching Ray to weld the last core component of the elemental magic machine, and forcefully shut the metal cabin door below its chest. He took a few steps back, and after confirming with the A.I. Chip that there were no issues, he gave the command to activate the elemental magic machine.
[Beep. Elemental magic machine activation command issued …]
[Checking system …]
[Defensive force field is normal …]
[Elemental furnace has begun operation … Testing is good … Output is normal …]
[Magic energy transmission system is supplying energy to all functional components, feedback is good …]
[Mobile mech auxiliary system is online, signal is good … Beginning functional testing …]
As the complex and meticulous magic system began to operate, the two-metre-tall elemental magic machine slowly moved its body and stood up from the floor.
There seemed to be a huge fireball stuffed under its thick chest, spewing out scarlet flames and scorching heatwaves. Extremely pure fire energy flowed out of the Magic Puppet Essence Crystal, layer by layer lighting up the entire body of the elemental magic machine.
The magic iron alloy that had been glowing with a dark blue light became scalding hot under the powerful fire energy. It looked like a giant flaming man that had been fished out of a sea of lava.
Crack crack …
The elemental magic machine advanced with heavy steps under the control of the A.I. Chip. As it advanced, it raised the two Magic Ray Guns in its hands and fired rapidly.
Streaks of scarlet rays traversed close to a hundred meters, hitting the stone walls of the Wizard's Pagoda with crackling sounds. They left a finger-thick ten centimeter hole. It had to be known that the walls of the Wizard's Pagoda were protected by magical energy. Ordinary attacks would not be able to damage the walls unless they penetrated the magical barrier.
The Magic Ray Gun of this elemental magic machine could create a ten centimeter hole in the walls of the alchemy laboratory. In the outside world, it would be enough to penetrate all the armours of a human army.
The A.I. Chip calculated that with the Magic Puppet Essence Crystal, the power of this high-intensity Magic Ray Gun could reach 260 degrees. In a group of Magi, this was equivalent to a powerful attack from a Grade 2 Magus!
After testing the Magic Ray Gun, Grimm instructed the elemental magic machine to test the Magic Cannon on its back. The Elemental Magic Machine knelt down, and the Magic Cannon slid onto its shoulder and locked in place. After three flicks of its fingers, a dazzling red fireball shot out from inside, and a wall of the laboratory was charred black from the explosion.
420 degrees!
Seeing the A.I. Chip's feedback, Grimm finally revealed a smile.
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