Sky Steel Stone was known as the most worthless, yet the most valuable stone. That kind of stone had a natural resistance to mana. It could be said that it was one of the few things that couldn't be penetrated by elements and was completely immune to spells.
Moreover, that kind of thing was terrifyingly hard. After being immune to elemental power, no Sword Saint under the Heaven Rank would be able to destroy that thing. Only pure power could destroy Sky Steel Stone.
That kind of thing was very rare, and mining it was very difficult. It was the best material used to build city walls and fortresses. It was very rare in Noscent, and during the 3rd Dynasty, only the walls of places like the Imperial City could be made of Sky Steel Stone.
There was no need to think about it to know that such a huge piece of Sky Steel Stone had been mined by Bill George's puppet army.
Lin Yun didn't need to try to know that apart from Xiuban, who had pure physical strength, no one else had the qualifications to leave a mark on that Sky Steel Stone.
"The path has already been sealed. No matter who the opponent is, he doesn't want us to escape. The way back is sealed by that huge piece of Sky Steel Stone, and we have no chance of opening it. We can only go forward and find the mechanism here."
Suddenly, a bolt of lightning flashed in Lin Yun's mind, and his pupils suddenly shrank. He then rapidly crouched down and started observing the slowly dissipating array.
Seeing the runes and patterns slowly dissipating, as if they had never been there, Lin Yun took a deep breath.
As he recalled his previous encounter, it was more than similar to what had happened on the Intrepid.
It also felt as if all their actions were being monitored, but they couldn't figure out how. In the end, they came to the conclusion that the monster had already taken control of the Intrepid.
And from the moment they entered, everything seemed to be against them. Even the mechanical arms used to polish the puppet parts would suddenly attack them.
Several hundred spikes with Magic Penetration Runes would rush out of the walls without any warning, and they would be ambushed by a group of puppets at an intersection.
There was only one possibility for all of this!
Lin Yun finally thought of the only possibility!
He finally understood why there were methods he couldn't discover. If there were such methods, then only Heaven Rank powerhouses could do it. But the attacks they encountered were all sudden and didn't have the power to completely suppress them.
Because this kind of surveillance method meant that everything around them was a means to monitor them. Everything here, the floor under their feet, the walls beside them, any traces they left behind, were all a means to monitor them.
Because the entire base was watching them! This was the reason why he couldn't discover it. Every time a trap appeared, there would be no warning, but Lin Yun couldn't find any traces of traps or mechanisms.
The entire base was a puppet!
Lin Yun took a deep breath. There was still a trace of shock in his eyes.
"If I'm not wrong, this base itself is a huge puppet!"
As soon as Lin Yun said this, everyone was dumbfounded.
"Merlin, are you joking?"
Anderfa stammered.
On the side, Wagner was so scared that he turned pale.
"Lord Merlin, this … This joke isn't funny …"
Lin Yun didn't have the slightest hint of a smile on his face as he spoke very seriously.
"It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that the original master of this base had unprecedented achievements in the field of puppets. Before the 3rd Dynasty, after the 3rd Dynasty, the number of people that could compare to him could be counted on one's fingers.
"Turning the entire underground base into a puppet isn't impossible with that person's strength. On the contrary, this is the only explanation that can explain everything."
They were now inside the body of that huge puppet, and their every move was clearly understood by that puppet. It had even calculated their route and the time they needed to move, set up an ambush ahead of time, and displayed the greatest power in a targeted manner.
There was no other explanation besides the fact that the entire base was a puppet.
Let alone Wagner, even Enderfa had a look of disbelief on his face.
But Lin Yun knew that this was possible. Although he hadn't seen such a huge puppet at the end of the magic era, he had seen records of it in the decaying library.
At the peak of Noscent's development, there was a force called Puppet City that specialized in puppets. Their fortress was a huge puppet, and their puppet army and that puppet city swept through countless planes, even attacking the Undead Plane.
And their puppet city was lost in the Undead Plane. It was destroyed after conquering more than half of the Undead Plane.
Bill George had stayed in the Raging Flame Plane for so long, and he might have even been in the Radiant Fort the entire time.
It was completely understandable that the entire base was a masterpiece of a puppet.
A true Puppeteer Grandmaster! No wonder countless people were thinking about Bill George's ruins during the peak of Noscent.
In the end, they didn't find Bill George's ruins, but they recorded it and put it in the decaying library.
Moreover, what made Lin Yun certain was the question that had been puzzling him from the start.
When he first came in, all the machines and puppets on the assembly line were unexpectedly exhausted, and it looked like they had been out of energy for a long time.
But those puppets had enough energy, so where did the rest of the energy go?
After all, the Radiant Fort had extracted a huge amount of Abyssal power from the array. Even if only a small part of it was poured into the ground, it would still be an astronomical amount.
That much power couldn't even guarantee the supply of energy to those puppets, so where did the rest of the power go?
Now, there was an explanation …
Most of that energy was used to supply the entire base, or to supply that incomparably huge puppet!
All of this energy was used to provide priority to the largest puppet, allowing the base to keep operating. The reason why the puppet-making assembly line had stopped was probably due to the lack of raw materials.
No one had come here for many years, and the base didn't have the materials to manufacture puppets, so it could only stop.
"Everyone, be careful, don't get separated. We are facing the entire base, danger could appear at any time."
Lin Yun instructed everyone before waving his hand to summon a few Rock Puppets to scout ahead.
"Merlin, why didn't you choose the left or right path?"
Enderfa asked with a bit of doubt.
Lin Yun looked at the pitch-black passage ahead.
"We can only hope to leave if we find the base's core. The entire base is a puppet, it has an inexhaustible supply of energy. If we can't find the base's core, we won't be able to leave even if we spend a few hundred years here. Do you think we can forcibly break out of the masterpiece of a Peak Heaven Rank Alchemist?"
Lin Yun's words made Wagner, who had been about to say something, shut his mouth.
A Peak Heaven Rank Mage that was especially proficient in puppeteering … This was the same as saying that if they wanted to force their way out, they would need to have the power of the Heaven Rank.
Wagner especially regretted coming with them. If he was careless, he might die here. Moreover, he could only follow Merlin. He didn't dare to retort, because he might really die if he was careless.
Lin Yun led his group into the passage, and they hadn't even taken a few steps when a rumbling sound echoed above their heads.
Square, eight-meter-thick Sky Steel Rocks fell from the sky. These Sky Steel Rocks were tightly stuck to the walls on both sides, not leaving a single gap. Each one weighed at least two to three hundred thousand kilograms. Xiuban couldn't even support that kind of weight, let alone the others. This was the purest form of crushing!
Lin Yun's expression slightly changed. His Magic Array instantly calculated that there were no less than fifteen of these Sky Steel Rocks. In other words, they had to rush a hundred and thirty meters before these Sky Steel Rocks hit the ground.
And it definitely wouldn't take more than two seconds for these Sky Steel Rocks to hit the ground!
Lin Yun unhesitantly used Fire Elemental Incarnation, and a huge wheel shadow appeared behind him. Boundless flames spurted out and turned into a flaming passage spreading forward. While the flames were still moving forward, Lin Yun had already started using Flame Flash to move forward.
After three consecutive Flashes, Lin Yun appeared a hundred and thirty meters away from the flaming passage.
Just as he appeared, Lin Yun turned towards the passage and cast. Four yellow vortexes instantly appeared, and five-meter-tall Rock Giants walked out of the vortexes. These Rock Giants raised their arms and fiercely propped up the falling Sky Steel Rocks.
In an instant, half of the Rock Giants were crushed by the impact of the Sky Steel Rocks, and even more Rock Giants walked out to slow down the falling Sky Steel Rocks.
In the passage, Xiuban suddenly stomped on the ground and his body shot out like an artillery shell, crossing a hundred and thirty meters. Reina glanced at Lin Yun before opening her mouth to spit out an Ice Waterfall and using three Ice Flashes to escape.
Anderfa's method was exactly the same as the puppet's. They both cast their most powerful spells behind them and then let the impact of the spells send them flying back a hundred and thirty meters.
After over a second, the few of them managed to escape. Only Wagner was the slowest. He copied Lin Yun and used Fire Elemental Incarnation before using the flaming passage Lin Yun had created to escape with a Flame Flash.
But his Fire Elemental Incarnation wasn't that good. A Flame Flash could only cover a dozen meters, and in two seconds, he had only managed to escape seventy meters. There was still half the distance.
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