The palace was unusually deserted. Other than a few guards in key positions, there was no one else.
After passing through another palace, Ouyang Shuo couldn't help but ask, "Kalia, are you the kingdom's princess?"
Kalia paused, turned around, and said, "I was before."
"Before?" Ouyang Shuo was puzzled.
"Half a year ago, my father passed away, and I succeeded the throne," Kalia said calmly.
"…"
Ouyang Shuo was speechless. So Kalia wasn't a princess, but the Queen of Atlantis.
"My condolences!" Ouyang Shuo said apologetically.
Kalia smiled. "Father passed away peacefully. It's a kind of relief!"
Ouyang Shuo was silent. In other words, the heavy burden of the Atlantis race was on the shoulders of this woman in front of him? No wonder Kalia's eyes were full of vicissitudes at such a young age.
The two of them walked in silence and finally arrived at a hall deep in the palace. They didn't know where Kalia pressed a mechanism, but the floor of the hall slowly descended, and then they entered an underground cave.
The cave was huge, and the end couldn't be seen. The dome was at least 20 meters high. The whole cave was dark and damp, and there was only a dazzling golden light in the center.
In the middle of the cave, there was a golden pool with a length and width of one meter. The pool was flowing with a viscous golden liquid. It looked like it was about to dry up. A fist-sized golden crystal was suspended above the pool. The shape of the crystal was exactly the same as the purple crystal hanging around Kalia's neck.
Just like the purple crystal, the golden crystal was also dim, as if it would fall into the water at any time. Even the corner of the light still illuminated the pool.
The golden crystal was surrounded by irregular stone shields. The surface of the shields was carved with lifelike human faces. They were like guards, loyally guarding the golden crystal.
Ouyang Shuo roughly counted. There were 12 shields of different sizes.
"That's the Golden Magnetite Stone, the energy source of our Atlantis civilization. Ten thousand years ago, a disaster suddenly came to the empire. It was the Magnetite Stone that formed an energy barrier and protected this corner of the land. It was buried in the depths of the sea with the ruins of the city, "Kalia explained." The Magnetite Stone is the lifeline of Atlantis. "
"Is it also hanging around your neck?" Ouyang Shuo asked.
"That's right." Caria nodded. "Magnetite can absorb sunlight and turn the energy of the universe into energy. From low to high, they could be divided into five grades: white, green, blue, purple, and gold. Low-grade Magnetite Stones are all derived from high-grade Magnetite Stones. "
"From the looks of it, the situation with the Golden Magnetic Ore isn't looking good?" Ouyang Shuo took the initiative to change the topic of the mission.
At this time, Zheng He was leading the ocean-going fleet to contend with the Spanish fleet. Every moment that Ouyang Shuo delayed meant that the ocean-going fleet would be in more danger.
Caria's eyes dimmed. "Not bad. The energy barrier formed by the Magnetite Ore consumes a lot of energy. After maintaining it for so long, no matter how strong the Magnetite Ore is, it can't hold on any longer. "
"What can I do?" Ouyang Shuo asked.
"Yes." Kariya nodded.
Right at this moment, the sound of the system notification entered Ouyang Shuo's ears.
"System Notification: Congratulations to player Don't Say You Don't Have Clothes. You have officially activated the S-rank large-scale storyline mission [The Lost Atlantis]. Mission Background: 10,000 years ago, a huge tsunami and earthquake suddenly destroyed the city of Atlantis, causing it to sink to the bottom of the sea. Surprisingly, a small number of people survived under the protection of the Golden Magnetic Ore.
Mission Requirement: Fill up the golden pool with golden liquid and recharge the Golden Magnetic Ore. Raise the disappeared city of Atlantis to the surface of the sea and reappear in the world.
Mission Reward: Unknown. Friendly Reminder: Players will receive different mission rewards if they choose different side missions. If the mission fails, there will be corresponding punishment. Please choose the side missions carefully.
"Side Mission 1: Complete the storyline mission alone. Upon completion, the reward will be one item of Atlantis' top technology, one purple crystal, fifty thousand achievement points, one hundred and fifty thousand reputation points, and other rewards.
"Side Mission 2: Share the storyline mission and invite other players to complete it together. Upon completion, the reward will be one item of Atlantis' intermediate technology, one blue crystal, ten thousand achievement points, and thirty thousand reputation points.
"Friendly Reminder: If players choose the first side mission, failure will result in a deduction of two hundred thousand gold coins, one hundred thousand achievement points, and three hundred thousand reputation points. If the deduction is insufficient, the corresponding real-life Achievement Points will be deducted. If the real-life Achievement Points are insufficient, the deduction will be negative until the deduction is completed.
"If players choose the second side mission, failure will not result in any mandatory punishment."
The difficulty of the two side missions was as different as heaven and earth. The mission rewards were also very different, and the punishment for failure was even more different.
The former was high risk and high reward, while the latter was low risk and had a considerable reward.
If one was not a crazy gambler, one would not choose the first side mission. It was obvious how difficult it was to complete an S-Grade storyline mission alone. It was almost impossible.
In his previous life, Bick had struggled for a long time. In the end, he gave up the temptation of the first side mission and chose the second side mission.
If Ouyang Shuo did not have the advantage of being reborn, he would not have chosen the first side mission, which was a risky option. Now, it was different. He had the confidence to complete this side mission alone.
"Choose the first side mission," Ouyang Shuo said without hesitation.
"System Notification: Mission side mission selection has been completed. It can no longer be changed."
As soon as the system notification ended, Caria continued as if he had received an instruction, "The golden liquid in the pool is actually made of refined gold. One gold coin can only produce five drops of golden liquid."
"Chi ~"
Even though Ouyang Shuo was mentally prepared, he could not help but draw a gasp.
According to standard titration, one liter of golden liquid contained ten thousand drops of golden liquid. It required two thousand gold coins to refine. The pool in front of him was a meter in length, width, and depth. It could hold a cubic meter, which was a thousand liters of golden liquid.
In other words, it would take two million gold coins to fill the pond. At this stage in the world, Ouyang Shuo was probably the only person who could fork out two million gold coins at once.
It had to be said that Bick's choice in his previous life was very wise. It was no wonder that this storyline mission in his previous life had involved hundreds of thousands of players. It was almost impossible to fill up the pond with one's own strength.
Ouyang Shuo wanted to make the impossible possible. He was confident that Gaia would not release a mission that would cause players to suffer losses. With such a harsh setting, the rewards after completion would definitely be very generous.
"Got it!"
Ouyang Shuo nodded as he took out his storage bag and aimed it at the pool. Gold coins flowed out of the storage bag like flowing water, converging into a golden trickle.
The moment the golden trickle entered the pool, it was refined into drops of golden liquid by a mysterious force. It began to flow at the bottom of the pool, glistening with golden light and exuding an oppressive sense of wealth.
When Caria saw this, his eyes lit up.
In fact, with Atlantis's wealth, it was impossible for the treasury to not have two million gold coins. Even if they did not have it, they could slowly gather it at the bottom of the sea in ten thousand years.
It was unknown how many shipwrecks were at the bottom of the vast sea, or how much wealth was buried with the shipwrecks in the depths of the seabed. No one cared about it.
The Atlanteans had underwater breathing apparatus. As long as they were patient, they could probably flip through the entire Mediterranean Sea, including the Red Sea, in ten thousand years.
Unfortunately, the gold coins of the natives were ineffective against the pool.
Gaia's setting was purely to give players a difficult problem.
If they chose Side Mission 2, not only would the participating players need to obtain an underwater breathing apparatus, they would also have to go through all sorts of trials to reach the Land of Survivors of Atlantis.
Once they reached the Land of Survivors, they would have to constantly complete daily missions and farm Atlantis' favorability points to obtain the permission to enter and exit the palace. Only then would the players be qualified to throw gold coins into the golden pool.
Gaia's setting was firstly to increase the players' participation in the storyline missions, and secondly to use this opportunity to publicize the vanished Atlantean civilization. At the same time, it was a warning to future generations.
After all, human civilization was a thing of the past to Earth.
Perhaps their generation would be the fifth generation of humans on Earth. After tens of thousands of years, when Earth's magma eruption was over and it cooled down, it would once again be filled with vitality.
When that time came, perhaps humans would once again appear on Earth and become the new rulers of Earth.
When that time came, the traces they left on Earth would be seen by the new generation of humans as an ancient civilization. It would become a myth and legend that could not be verified.
…
The golden trickle was endless, flowing without end.
Ouyang Shuo looked at the number of gold coins on the Attribute Panel. It kept increasing at an indiscernible speed, but he felt a rare sense of calm.
No matter how he tried to persuade him to stay, two million gold coins had to be spent.
In Friendship City, Ouyang Shuo had spent one million gold coins. In Atlantis, he had spent another two million gold coins. As such, there was only one million gold coins left in his storage bag.
It was as the saying goes: Money comes quickly, but it is also quickly spent.
Under the injection of massive amounts of gold coins, the golden liquid filled the pool at a speed visible to the naked eye. The water level kept rising, and waves of golden mist rose.
The golden Magnetite Ore above the pool immediately activated its Whale Swallowing Mode. Like a high-powered suction fan, it sucked in large amounts of golden mist.
The dim Magnetite Ore slowly emitted a dazzling luster, becoming more and more dazzling.
The shield surrounding the golden Magnetite Ore seemed to be pulled by some mysterious force. The patterns on its surface began to light up as it constantly rotated around the Magnetite Ore.
The further it went, the faster the shield rotated.
Towards the end, Ouyang Shuo could no longer see the shadow of the Magnetite Ore. All he could see was the increasingly dazzling golden light emitting from the center of the shield, shooting straight into the sky.
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