Angor didn't go to his lab right away. Instead, he opened the door to the material warehouse.
The material warehouse was still empty. There were no materials in it.
The only difference from before was that there was an additional coated wooden house with two small white clouds floating on top of the artificial lake.
This wooden house was where Balba and the others lived in the real world.
Angor came to the material vault to look for Balba.
Regina would be arriving soon. Meanwhile, Angor's lab was still filled with all kinds of items that needed to be cleaned up. Because it involved a lot of Transcendent tools, it was obviously not good to use spells to clean it up rashly. It was easy to damage the equipment, so someone had to carefully clean it up.
Balba used to work at Prome's Alchemy Shop for a long time, so he was familiar with all kinds of lab tools.
Angor went to the wooden house and checked Balba's condition through the Dream Gate. Balba was currently on an airship heading to the new city.
Since Balba wasn't in danger, Angor woke him up from his sleep.
When Balba opened his eyes, he immediately became alert. This was not the first time he had left the dream wasteland, but this time, he was forced to leave by the outside world. He was worried that something might have happened in the outside world.
However, his surroundings did not change as he had imagined. It was as calm as ever.
When he sensed Angor's presence outside the wooden house, he finally realized what was going on and calmed himself down.
Angor must have summoned him from the dream wasteland.
Balba didn't know why Angor woke him up from his dream wasteland, but he knew there must be something important.
Balba quickly came out of the wooden house.
"Sir." Balba bowed to Angor respectfully.
Angor nodded. He didn't tell Balba why he was here right away. Instead, he asked about Balba's condition in the dream wasteland.
"I've memorized most of the blueprints for the new city. I'm on my way there now." Balba paused and said hesitantly, "However, there are some buildings in Mr. Chown's blueprints that I might not be able to handle. It's just too hard to understand …"
Balba opened his mouth. He wanted to describe the buildings, but when the words reached his mouth, he didn't know what to say.
The transparent buildings in the blueprint, the steam fortresses floating in the sky, and the shops with light screens and strange 'neon' signs, were already difficult for him to understand and describe by himself, not to mention doing it.
Angor saw Balba's blueprints before, so he knew what Balba was trying to do.
After all, when Jon designed the blueprint, he combined the architecture of Earth with his own understanding of the wizarding civilization. Even if the design, safety, appearance, and function were all self-consistent to a certain extent, it was still difficult for an "architect" like Balba, who only knew how to do things step by step through the magic scrolls.
To solve this problem, Angor needed more manpower. He also needed someone who could manage everything.
This person had to have the ability to control the situation, understand the design principles and concepts behind Jon's blueprint, and have a deep understanding of wizardry. Lastly, they had to understand the properties of different materials.
Angor believed he was the best candidate for this job. However, the construction of the new city would take too long, and he had too many things to do right now.
He considered for a moment and decided to ask Freud for help.
Since Freud had spent a lot of time with Jon, he had gradually accepted some of Jon's ideas. Since Freud was the one who had spent the most time with the blueprint other than Jon, he definitely had a deep understanding of the concept behind the blueprint.
The only thing Freud lacked was knowledge about the properties of materials. But that wasn't a problem.
Angor could ask Rein to send some wizards who were familiar with the properties of materials to help Freud. If Rein wanted Brute Cavern to gain the upper hand in the Dream Wasteland, he would definitely pay extra attention to the city, which was likely to house a large number of wizards in the future.
"Just do as Freud said. Do what you can and put aside the ones you don't understand or can't do. It won't be long before someone comes to take over. "
While chatting with Balba for a while, Angor noticed that Balba seemed to be more relaxed compared to when he was in Brute Cavern.
The atmosphere in First Heart City was very relaxed, and Jon was a gentle person. Balba's pent-up anger slowly dissipated in this environment.
This was a good thing.
Balba's mind was the complete opposite of his boorish appearance. He was a meticulous man who easily suppressed his emotions. Once he lost control of his emotions, he would easily deny himself. Being able to relax in the dream wasteland before going back to Brute Cavern was not a bad thing for him.
Apart from Balba's change of attitude, there was something else that Angor was interested in as well.
It was Balba's change of attitude toward the two Kukukas.
In the beginning, Balba didn't care much about Papaya and Kudodo, who were both "little" people. Balba wasn't the kind of person who was willing to accept other people's feelings.
At first, Balba thought he wouldn't get to know these two until the end of his mission.
However, something changed.
In the morning two days ago, Jon and his small team had developed a very simple chatting tool.
Using the Mother Tree Network, they didn't need to search for each other's location. Instead, they could use a paper-like dialog box to chat with each other.
Jon named the tool "Tree Groups".
Tree Groups were also divided into two categories: small tree groups and big tree groups. There was also a "Tree Groups" that could be used to chat in real time.
Jon had pulled his team into a small cluster of trees. Balba had accepted Jon's construction mission as well, so he was pulled in as well.
In the group chat, Balba discovered many things that were completely different from what he knew before.
Kudodo looked like an honest man, but he was always joking around in the small tree group. Some of his words were so funny that Balba couldn't help but chuckle.
Papaya usually trained in silence and didn't talk much. However, in the small tree group, she would often type puzzled words, "Why?" non-stop. She was simply like a chatterbox.
Jon was gentle and knowledgeable as usual, while Bobota didn't like talking.
In the beginning, Balba did not know what to say in the group chat. Later, when Chown was teaching in the group chat, Balba asked some questions about the construction of buildings. At first, the answers were normal, but then Kudodou suddenly started to go off topic and asked Balba about the shapes of buildings. Balba was not happy at first, so he corrected Kudodou's question. However, Kudodou's question only got worse, and even Chown joined the battle. Balba didn't want to be left behind. The small tree group became lively again.
After that, Balba felt that he didn't have to worry about talking in the small tree group like he used to.
Balba spoke in the group from time to time, and Kudodo and Papaya were willing to talk to him.
Thus, some of the things that Balba thought were impossible began to change.
Balba didn't talk to Kudodo Papaya face to face yet, but he was able to build up some emotional connection with her through the tree chats.
Of course, Balba didn't tell Angor the whole story. Still, Angor managed to deduce the whole story from the small details.
Angor was glad to see Balba's change in attitude.
But what surprised him the most was the tree group.
He did not expect that Jon's development of the mother tree network would really take shape with the characteristics of the 'tree civilization'. It was still a long way to go before the "blossoming of flowers" era recorded in the hologram tablet. However, the first step was the most difficult. Once the first step was taken, the development of the Mother Tree Network would go on like a geyser.
For now, it was just a "group of trees". Angor was looking forward to seeing what the Mother Tree Network would bring in the future.
Even Sunders would be surprised. After all, he wasn't optimistic about the development of the Mother Tree Network.
…
After finishing his conversation with Balba, Angor finally told him why he came here.
Cleaning up the lab wasn't difficult. It only took time and effort. The construction of the new city didn't need to be rushed. Freud still needed to do a final survey, which meant Balba had plenty of free time.
Therefore, Balba accepted the task without hesitation.
Regina would arrive in two days. Time was of the essence, so Balba followed Angor to the lab next door.
As soon as he entered the lab, he saw Sunders standing on a workbench. On top of the workbench was a metal tool that looked like a ball. It released a beam of light through a special observation membrane and focused on a tentacle placed on the workbench.
Angor quickly realized that Sunders was studying the Distorted Seed.
Angor looked at the severed tentacle and began to worry about the Distorted Seed. The Distorted Seed he brought out from Bewildering Corridor was only a "spawn" that was severely malnourished. Now that the tentacle was severed, he wondered if it would be dangerous.
But when he saw the main body of the Distorted Seed, he was surprised.
The Distorted Seed was now placed in a transparent box. The box was locked with a special magic pattern, but it did not become uncomfortable because of the confinement. Instead, it appeared to be comfortable, like a happy otter —
A large number of tentacles were wrapped around a black stone, which made it look like it was floating in the air.
It didn't look like a severed tentacle at all.
Angor quickly realized why the Distorted Seed was behaving like this. It turned out that the stone in its arms was a Nightmare Stone with an extremely pure aura.
The aura of the stone was almost the same as Angor's nightmare aura. Nightmare aura could replenish the Distorted Seed's lost energy. No wonder the Distorted Seed looked like it was enjoying itself.
With the nightmare stone here, the Distorted Seed would be fine. Angor no longer worried about it.
He asked Balba to clean up the other rooms while he walked to Sunders' side.
"Professor," Angor greeted without asking about Sunders' research. He had only been studying for less than a day. It was hard for him to find anything useful.
As expected, Sunders began to tell Angor about his research.
Not only that, he didn't even have a clue.
First, there were the mushrooms. Angor already explained the effects of the mushrooms, but he still needed to wait for the mushrooms to mature.
For example, Armon's Mushroom could perform short-to-medium-distance teleportation between objects of the same origin. However, there were two limitations. First, the "same origin" of the mushroom meant that the main body of the mushroom would split into larvae of the same origin and grow them into Armon's Mushroom. However, the Armon's Mushroom had to reach maturity before it could split into larvae.
Second, there was the teleportation mechanism. Armon's Mushroom needed to swallow someone into its mouth, which meant it would grow bigger when it matured, just like the Bone Chewing Mushroom Angor found in the spirit garden.
How could Armon's Mushroom swallow a person when it was not even as big as a palm?
Since the mushrooms only worked when they were mature, Sunders couldn't do any specific research on them. He wasn't an expert in mushroom research anyway, so he had to put the mushrooms aside and focus on the Distorted Seed first.
However, his research on the Distorted Seed was also stuck. He tried so hard to cut off the tentacles, but there was nothing special about them. They were only used to trap or glue things together. In other words, the so-called buff effect of the Distorted Seed must come from the spherical core. However, Sunders couldn't dissect it since it was only a "child", and the only one.
He spent half a day studying it, but it turned out to be a complete waste of time.
Sunders also knew it was a waste of time to continue the research. After chatting with Angor for a while, he returned the mushrooms and Distorted Seed to Angor.
Sunders said, "The Distorted Seed is a" child ". You won't find anything even if you dissect it. I suggest you use it as soon as you find a suitable one. It'll help you a bit. "
Angor nodded. That was why he brought the Distorted Seed out of the cave.
As long as he kept supplying nightmare aura to the Distorted Seed, it would provide him with a powerful and loyal puppet. And the thing he didn't lack the least was nightmare aura.
However, the Distorted Seed itself didn't have much power. He had to find a creature that could be possessed by it.
He had no target yet, so he had to keep the Distorted Seed for now and wait until he found one.
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