The place where Salin and the others rested was actually the passageway of the magic tower. Between the two doors, there was a staircase leading to the upper floor. After destroying the magic array here, the path to the upper floor was not completely open. If they went up the stairs, there might be new magic arrays waiting for them. However, these stairs were for apprentices. Mages usually set up small teleportation arrays or individual stairs in their own magic towers.
This kind of magic tower with two layers inside and outside was extremely sturdy. The tower was more than three meters thick. Even a magic catapult wouldn't collapse.
When Salin woke up, he saw Rex standing on the left side of the building, looking up. Neris was lying beside him, still fast asleep. Sicca was sitting on the ground, using her boomerang to cut a piece of black bread.
"Salin, you're awake!" Sicca was relieved to see Salin wake up. Neris lifted one eyelid, glanced at him, and continued to sleep.
"Yes, I'm awake." Salin rubbed the muscles behind his neck, stood up, and stretched his body. He thought Rex would take him to the first floor. He didn't expect her to wait for him to wake up in this mezzanine.
Salin put away the badge quietly. The family badge had already established a faint connection with him. This connection was like the soul contract between him and Neris. It couldn't be described with words.
Salin could only feel that the badge contained a huge amount of energy. This energy wouldn't hurt him, but it couldn't be used either. Even with his strong mental power, he still couldn't explore the secrets inside the badge.
"Rex," Salin called. Rex turned back and smiled. Salin was a level lower than her now, but he was also an archmage. According to Qin Yin's habit, the two became equal. Salin and the others were no weaker than a level-five mage now. When Salin finished learning level-four and level-five spells, their combat power might be close to that of a level-six mage.
"Let's go in. I can't wait." Rex pointed at the door to the first floor.
Sicca hurriedly stuffed the black bread into her mouth, clapped her hands, and said vaguely, "Salin, let's go."
Neris opened her eyes reluctantly and got up. It was rare for her to have a good rest, and now she had to fight again. She didn't believe that this floor was safe. Setting up a second trap after the first one was the Imp's favorite thing to do.
Rex came to the door. The door was much smaller now. She reached out to push it, and the door was pushed open gently. It felt a little heavy. It was pitch-black inside, but Rex was relieved. She cast an illumination spell to illuminate the first floor of the magic tower.
The first floor was larger than expected. It was a hexagonal hall, each side nearly 20 meters wide. In the middle of the hall was a metal machine. This metal machine was about 12 meters tall and connected to the top of the tower on the first floor. In the middle of the metal machine was a bronze pillar with a diameter of less than two meters. The bronze pillar was covered with magic patterns. Around the pillar was a ring-shaped alchemy table on the ground.
The bronze pillar acted as the main body and extended six mechanical arms in all directions. The mechanical arm had three joints and could be twisted at will. Above them were all kinds of hollow metal cabinets of various sizes. If a Magician controlled these mechanical arms, they could access the items in the cabinets from the alchemy table.
There were many Magicians who built alchemy labs on the first floor of a magic tower, but no one had ever built alchemy machines on the entire floor.
Rex cast Illumination continuously. He raised his head, only to see that the bronze metal pillar had branches that looked like trees at an altitude of about six meters. On those branches, there were platforms. There were enclosed rooms of different sizes on the platforms. All the rooms were transparent and inlaid with huge crystals. There were small alchemy platforms inside.
These rooms of different sizes took up more than six meters of space. Salin was surprised to think of a term — mechanical alchemy tree.
This was a common device in the Second Dynasty. It could allow multiple Magicians to cooperate with each other to conduct large-scale alchemy experiments. However, this kind of mechanical alchemy tree had very strict operating requirements. Every Magician had to be at least a Magic Shooter. Standing in this empty alchemy lab, one could imagine how lively the first floor of the magic tower had been back then.
At least dozens of Magic Shooters worked here, conducting daunting alchemy experiments.
There were six-meter-tall crystal cabinets on the four walls. The compartments in the crystal cabinets did not seem to follow any pattern, but Salin knew that this was a more complicated magic formula. These compartments could, in fact, be moved between each other.
The entire first floor of the magic tower was a fully mechanical alchemy lab.
There were all kinds of magic materials and alchemy products in the crystal cabinets. Salin even saw a three-meter-tall construct puppet. Construct puppets were the truly dangerous ones. Compared to Battle Puppets, the construction cost of construct puppets was hundreds or thousands of times higher. Their combat power was more like the difference between a low-level Swordsman and a Great Swordsman.
Most importantly, construct puppets didn't need Magicians to command them. As long as a Magician put a magic imprint on the target, the construct puppet would automatically attack the person with the special magic imprint.
Construct puppets could set up magic arrays in their bodies. Through the magic cores embedded in the arrays, they could even release magic attacks. Magic cores below level-seven couldn't control these monsters at all. In the entire continent, only the Cloud Flow Empire still had some of them, and they were all hidden in the palace.
The entire first floor of the magic tower could be said to be a treasure house. All kinds of expensive materials were placed in different categories in the crystal cabinets, making people's eyes sting.
There seemed to be no danger. Nelis's mental strength was also very strong. She explored the entire floor and found that the magic arrays in the magic tower had stopped working. The magic cores in the core had long been consumed.
"It's safe." Rex also heaved a sigh of relief. She didn't look at the various magic materials and alchemy products in the crystal cabinets. Instead, she stared at the mechanical alchemy tree in the middle.
If this thing could be moved to the Myers Continent, she could create another Alchemy City. The materials used to make the mechanical alchemy tree had long been extinct on the Myers Continent. It was a material between metal and plants. It only grew in certain planes. It was difficult to collect, and it was even more difficult to refine.
Tens of thousands of years ago, humans had collected a lot of it from other planes and wanted to cultivate it on the Myers Continent. Unfortunately, it would wither in a dozen years at most. It wouldn't blossom or bear fruit, and the seeds couldn't be obtained.
The plant used to refine this material was only the size of a finger. To make such a large mechanical alchemy tree, the materials needed were a huge number.
The God Sieve Ring could definitely store this huge thing, but the use of spatial equipment had certain limitations. Unless Rex could disassemble this mechanical alchemy tree, it would be impossible to store it in the God Sieve Ring bit by bit.
Disassemble the mechanical alchemy tree? Even a level-9 Magic Shooter like Rex couldn't do it.
Salin was also regretful. The space of his Bestowal Ring and the Demon Ring was relatively small. Nelis's bracelet had a large space, but it couldn't take away everything here.
Those crystals were clearly non-attribute crystals, and their value was not lower than the collection in the cabinet. But the huge crystal cabinet and the mechanical alchemy tree couldn't be directly stored in spatial equipment. The cabinet was too big. If it was broken and taken away, its value would decrease again.
What was more uncomfortable than seeing a treasure but not being able to take it away?
Salin took a deep breath and said to Rex, "Do we go up, or do we divide the things here first?" He tried to stay calm. The crystal cabinet and the mechanical alchemy tree would be left here first, but the materials and alchemy products in the cabinet could be divided first. Salin constantly warned himself in his heart that he should be satisfied with such a harvest. Generally speaking, there would rarely be such a situation in the ruins.
There wouldn't be too many high-value items in most ruins. Just those construction puppets now were already a considerable fortune.
"Let's divide the things first." Rex also calmed his mind. Even if he couldn't take away the whole mechanical alchemy tree, he could cut it into small pieces and store them in the God Sieve Ring. Maybe he wouldn't be able to replicate this set of alchemy equipment after returning to the Myer Continent, but the value of these materials had already exceeded the value of a duchy.
"How do we divide it?" Salin didn't beat around the bush. He was the one who opened the magic tower, so he naturally couldn't let Rex take the biggest share.
"Four people, one for each of us." Rex was decisive. Anyway, he couldn't take away the most precious things, but he might be able to get the rest in the Myer Continent.
Salin saw that Rex was magnanimous. He rubbed his fingers and said, "Qin Yin is fighting a war. I only need two of these construction puppets. If you can figure out the manufacturing method, you can share the rest with me."
Salin knew that construction puppets were more useful than Sword Saints on the battlefield. There were 12 construction puppets here. He could only control one, and Nelis could also control one. There was no point in controlling more.
"Okay, thank you." Rex didn't say much. Everyone started to move the items in the crystal cabinet, categorized them, and piled them together.
Rex put away the ten construct puppets first. Nelis also took out the magical beast skin from her bracelet and threw it away. Then, she kept the other two construction puppets. Although the space in her bracelet was big, it couldn't compare to the God Sieve Ring. This beast skin was obviously not as precious as the items in the magic tower. Nelis was very petty and refused to lose out.
Rex smiled and said, "Don't throw this away. The material is not bad." As she spoke, she took off a bracelet on her hand and gave it to Nelis. "You can use this."
Nelis glanced at Salin, and Salin nodded. According to the distribution rules, he could get nine construction puppets, but in fact, he was giving seven to Rex. Putting aside the cost of this thing, its research value was very high. Rex had 10 construction puppets in his hands. As long as he wasn't too unlucky, he could at most dismantle five, and that would be enough for research.
Seeing Salin nod, Nelis happily took the aquamarine bracelet and put it on her wrist. This bracelet was carved from an unknown Tremolite. The value of the Tremolite, which could be used to make spatial equipment, was no less than those 10 construction puppets.
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