Hearing Ma Wen's words, the vampire was still confused.
It was obvious that this guy had never heard of a K-series metal.
Ma Wen didn't care. Gerwen was probably scared by the Hand of Paleness now. The only thing the vampire wanted to do was to leave this place as soon as possible, return to the light party's base camp, and report to Grand Duke William.
It was better this way. The less he cared about the treasure, the better. After all, Saluha was such a big place, and there might not be enough K-metals.
Ma Wen thought about this and immediately said, "Wait for me here, it will only take 15 minutes at most."
"15 minutes later, I will bring you to the secret exit."
Gerwen nodded slightly.
Ma Wen activated stealth and strode towards the small warehouse.
Although the warehouse looked dilapidated, it was surrounded by a dense concentration of automatons.
However, the current Ma Wen was no longer the same as before. With 200 points in stealth, he could even avoid the detection spells of legendary wizards, let alone these little automatons.
He directly passed through the automatons, and there was no movement at all.
He repeatedly searched around the low building, and the main and side doors were sealed, as if there was no way to enter.
Helpless, Ma Wen could only jump up to the roof and finally found a skylight.
"Luckily, the skylight is not locked. If I opened it by force, I'm afraid I would attract a lot of automatons, and it would also alarm that madman who only knows how to kill!"
Ma Wen's light body steadily landed inside the warehouse.
Indistinctly, there were countless faint voices beside Ma Wen's ears.
Waves of cries, as if from ancient times, were so real, directly entered Ma Wen's brain!
"The legend is true, the K-series metal has amazing sound absorption ability."
"These sounds are probably the cries of the ancient goblins when they were in trouble."
"What happened back then?"
Ma Wen's expression was solemn, and he couldn't help but let his imagination run wild.
Even with his understanding of Fernand, he did not know much about the history of ancient times.
After all, there was only so much information provided by the government, and what he explored himself was after the Cataclysm.
The Great Cataclysm had destroyed a lot of things, so there wasn't much information left about the ancient era. Occasionally, a few Goblin ruins would be excavated, but they could only provide some information about the Goblins' scales. If he really wanted to get to the bottom of this, he would have to make a trip to the academy.
However, ever since Ma Wen had transmigrated to another world, he had never heard of a player who could enter a school city and obtain the knowledge they wanted. Even the players who swore to be scholars for life were the same. Their levels were too low, so they didn't have the authority to find out anything.
…
The destruction of the Ancient Goblins was naturally very shocking.
However, Ma Wen's will had become firmer after being enhanced by the [Demon Spirit Armband].
In just a few seconds, the voices faded from his ears.
His eyes scanned the entire warehouse.
Although the warehouse was not big, it was filled with small boxes of raw materials!
Ma Wen knew that this place was where the Ancient Goblins stored the peerless mineral [K-Metal] that they dug out from the ground.
There were no signs outside the warehouse. Apart from the K-Metal, every warehouse was marked with the words "Stored Items Inside".
K-Metal was not a type of metal, but a series of them.
It was said that in the ancient times, the Night Lord had just led Fernand's creatures to fight a bloody path and defeat the monsters in the chaotic wilderness. The remaining creatures began to divide their territories, and the weakest Ancient Goblins asked the Night Lord for the coast of the Vast Sea, the desolate land.
The other races were very surprised by the choice of the Ancient Goblins, but at that time, there was a very powerful figure among the Goblins, who was at least a Great Prophet. This was his will, and the Goblins were very obedient.
They found countless mineral deposits here, and the Great Prophet used his wisdom to make full use of the talents of his people. Soon, an unprecedented country was built on the coast of the Vast Sea.
That was the end of the Chaos Cycle of the First Era of Fernand!
The power of the Goblin Empire could be seen from the ruins they left behind.
In many mysterious missions to excavate the Ancient Goblin Empire, people gradually learned that the scourge of the Goblin Empire began with a type of metal.
This story was quite strange. When it was exposed on the player's forum, it was called one of the most strange unsolved cases in Fernand's history.
The content of the story was that in the later years of the Goblin Empire, the Great Prophet was about to pass away, and at this time, they found a mysterious mineral deposit at the bottom of the Vast Sea. At that time, the Goblin Empire was so powerful that they could even build things like submarines.
They built a mining platform at the bottom of the sea and wanted to dig deeper.
But this time, the excavation was not very successful. It was said that many Goblins died in the establishment of the platform. Although the Goblin Empire kept investing in brilliant engineers, it was difficult to stabilize the platform.
Later, although the underwater platform was settled, there were many inexplicable accidents.
The Great Prophet was about to pass away and didn't want to care about these things.
But with so many brilliant engineers dying, he had no choice but to drag his sickly body to take a look.
When he saw the mysterious metal that had been excavated, his expression immediately changed.
He immediately gave the order to stop this project and not allow the Goblins to excavate this mysterious metal.
Even though this metal series did indeed have miraculous abilities.
Although the higher-ups of the Goblin Empire were shocked, the old prophet was still around, and the project was hastily ended.
But the greedy Goblins easily forgot the lessons of their ancestors. Around 50 years after the Great Prophet passed away, they restarted this project and began to excavate this metal in the sea.
It was just that they didn't expect that it was this metal that brought about their destruction.
Yes, this metal was the K-series metal that Ma Wen wanted.
It was said that this metal had a curse attached to it. This curse wasn't just aimed at individuals, but at the entire greedy Goblin Empire.
At the end of the Chaos Era, communication between the major races was extremely underdeveloped.
By the time the High Elves established their own civilization and began to travel around, they were shocked to discover that the once mighty Goblin Empire had been destroyed at some point in time.
And not many people knew about the legendary K-metal.
As a transmigrator, Ma Wen was naturally one of them.
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Ma Wen didn't know much about the secrets of the K-metal. But from the players who completed the secret mission of the Goblin Empire's destruction, he knew that the destruction of the Goblin Empire was related to this metal. But it wasn't purely because of the metal's curse. Instead, it was because some creatures were afraid of this metal.
The destruction of the ancient Goblin Empire in a single night wasn't something that these so-called curses could do. Ma Wen didn't believe in curses. He had survived 12 curses, so why would he be afraid of the K-metal?
He only knew that in the game, the K-series metal was divided into three types. The players simply named them K1, K2, and K3. These three types of metals were different from normal metals. They had very natural properties, namely, [Magic Breaker], [Godly Prohibition], and [Indestructible].
When refining a weapon, as long as a small amount of K-metal was added to the weapon, the weapon would automatically have these three enchantments!
After all, it was extremely difficult to add these attributes to a weapon through ordinary enchantments.
In the whole of Fernand, there were very few weapons with the Magic Breaker attribute. Godly Prohibition was even rarer. As for the Indestructible attribute, it was almost non-existent.
Only a true enchantment grandmaster could spend a lifetime to create a weapon with the Magic Breaker attribute or Godly Prohibition attribute.
Otherwise, Ma Wen wouldn't have been so excited when he got the pair of [Green Leaves].
It had both the Magic Breaker and Godly Prohibition attributes, and the blade was as thin as a cicada's wing. There was absolutely no K-metal added. It was purely a powerful alchemy effect. Only a super grandmaster could create such a weapon.
Ordinary people wouldn't be able to obtain such a godly weapon in their lifetime.
However, such common sense was broken in front of the Pearl Tower's scholars, K-metal, a godly object that was called [Forbidden Metal].
Ma Wen knew very well what kind of storm this K-metal would cause if it were to appear in the world.
This was his trump card!
After the Cataclysm, chaos magic ran rampant in the world of Fernand. Many wizards couldn't pass the Will Appraisal and became walking corpses with magic power.
The gods would also send their subordinates into the world of Fernand.
Witchcraft and divine arts would become the mainstream power in the future.
K-metal was their nemesis.
It was one of Ma Wen's trump cards to deal with the chaos monsters and gods!
…
Ma Wen recalled the power of K-metal as he began to plunder.
Most of the boxes in the warehouse were empty. It seemed like most of the K-metal had been used up.
Luckily, Ma Wen still found some in the corner.
He roughly counted and found a total of eight boxes of K-metal. Three of them were K1 and K2, which had the effect of breaking magic and divine prohibition respectively.
K3, on the other hand, only had two boxes with the effect of [Indestructible].
Each box only had K-metal the size of a fist, but Ma Wen was already very satisfied.
This was because the K-metal had been purified and was very pure. It could be used to secretly smelt weapons. If used at a critical moment, it would definitely surprise the enemies in the future!
…
Fifteen minutes later, Ma Wen sneaked out of the small warehouse as promised.
Gewen let out a sigh of relief.
He wasn't curious about what was in the warehouse at all. He only urged Ma Wen to take him away from Saruja.
Without hesitation, Marvin circled around the munitions factory, avoiding the patrols of a few automatons, and finally opened the manhole cover of a sewer.
"This is the secret passage you were talking about?"
Ge Wen furrowed his brows tightly, looking disgusted.
Ma Wen couldn't help but roll his eyes. "Is it more important to escape or to be clean?"
After saying that, he ignored Gwen and jumped down from the manhole cover.
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