Witch, Fireball and Steam Evil God

Chapter 108 The Call of Another Dimension
Before dawn, fear enveloped Gear City, and officers of the Kingdom Army issued a ban, immediately requiring that all people entering the city would be subject to the strictest screening.

This was the first case of an evil creature breaking into human territory in the empire in nearly a hundred years. Although the twisted creature was quickly knocked down by muskets and crossbows, the officers of the Gear City Kingdom Army garrison realized the seriousness of the problem - especially at this delicate time point. One day after the Knight Commander died at the border of the empire, signs of evil creature activities appeared in Gear City.

He read the internal briefing. The death of the Knight Commander was too... horrific. Even a veteran like him who had fought on the battlefield for many years was frightened. The knights who managed to escape back to the Temple of Netheril later sent a briefing, saying that they encountered flesh giants as tall as mountains that night. These flesh giants could sneak underground and move at high speed, destroying the surface wherever they went, but other than that, they were unable to obtain any more information.

To make matters worse, the gunmen and mercenaries who escaped from the Heywood Mine brought bad news.

A contaminated area appeared inside the mine, and they suspected that someone had used the rioting miners to perform a sacrificial ritual on evil gods, turning the place into a hell on earth.

They saw a kind of red ice. Once frozen by it, the body would melt into a sticky liquid, and then be twisted into a hideous monster.

When they retreated, the Chamber of Commerce President Talon had already been infected, and more than twenty people witnessed Talon's transformation.

This reminded the officer of the strange scene he saw before dawn.

The evil creature that attacked the Gear City did not attack them. It raised its wriggling tentacles and shouted in an incomprehensible language.

His voice was clearly heard from a distance, but it reached everyone's ears clearly.

"Go, tell the people at the shelter that the monster is most likely the Chamber of Commerce President Talon."

The officer instructed his adjutant with a gloomy look.

He had a vague feeling that the death of the Knight Commander was just the beginning, which meant that this era was about to be thrown into chaos.

On the other hand, the consortium and the Imperial Military Industry were also caught off guard by this sudden bad news.

At first, everyone thought it was just a miners' riot. The manpower that Talon brought was more than enough. The Chamber of Commerce had even arranged a grand celebration banquet and prepared invitations. They planned to invite all the important people in Gear City in the name of the president's triumphant return. The most important guest was none other than Young Master Aesok.

Many people can't wait to establish a good relationship with the future ruler of the imperial military industry.

Such bad news came before the invitations were sent out.

The celebrities who were jealous of Talon and eager to help quell the rebellion all gave up and hid in their own mansions, fearing that they could not avoid him.

Those who were more informed had already learned about the dire situation in the Heywood Mine from the returning mercenaries. Even contaminated areas had appeared, indicating that the place was completely hopeless.

Are you kidding? Even the Knight Commander is dead, who can suppress the evil god?

……

Just as the people of Gear City were worried, Winter (in human form) was standing curiously in front of the strange object hatched by red ice, raised his hand, and gently poked the object's head with his index finger.

It's cold and hard, like the touch of some metal.

This is also a sequelae of being a cat for a long time. Ethan noticed that when encountering something he had never seen before, Winter would scratch it with his "claws" like a cat to test its authenticity.

This was far from what Winter had imagined. She had thought Ethan would hatch a curious creature full of Bazatos' personal style. However, this little metal man did not look heavy at all, and even looked a bit cute after looking at it for a long time.

The little man's left hand is a miner's pickaxe, and his right hand has been changed into a large basket. He has a serious expression and does not resist even if you poke him.

"This is the Collection Butler Type I."

Ethan introduced, "It does not have the ability to think independently. After it is activated, the only thing it can do is search for nearby energy storage crystals, like this."

He input some magic power and the metal man started to move. He walked towards a mineral vein with clumsy movements, and hammered on it with his left hand in the form of a miner's pickaxe. After getting the raw stones, he put them into the large basket in his right hand.

"As long as you supply it with magic power regularly, it will automatically collect energy crystals and store them."

The news of the contaminated area in the Heywood Mine should have been reported back to Gear City. Before the Confinement Bureau completely purifies this area, no one will be sent here. "We just need to let Rowena build a simple magic teleportation array between the warehouse and the mine, and she can come and take away the raw stones directly every once in a while."

Ethan expected Teacher Mao Mao's reaction. Although the teacher was knowledgeable, the concept of robots was still a little ahead of its time for people of that era.

Energy storage crystals can solve the most troublesome energy problem. As long as he finds a way to replace electricity with magic power, many modern technologies will emerge.

Winter's eyes widened wider and wider. She saw Ethan take out a huge energy-storing crystal stone, inject magic power into it, and place the stone into the groove behind the metal man. Even the movements of the metal man became faster.

The consortium must be willing to pay a huge price for it. This time, Winter did not poke the metal man, but stretched out his "claw" to Ethan's forehead and poked it a few times, "Where do all these strange ideas of yours come from? Did you secretly hide the banned book behind my back?"

"There was a similar idea in the craftsman's manual that Ivy bought from Hearth Bay."

Ethan answered fluently. As early as the beginning of the establishment of the empire, the scholar had proposed a set of "puppet application theory". He believed that with the development of magic technology, puppets would shine in many fields.

Teacher Maomao knew nothing about robots. The most difficult part was "how to make the metal figures automatically search for energy-storage crystal stones". There were no programs or artificial intelligence in this world. When the ice element transformed, he suddenly had an idea and utilized the resources in the mine.

In fact, the Gathering Butler Type I is transformed from an energy storage crystal. The upgraded ice element has endowed it with some biological instincts - looking for its own kind and then gathering them together.

Winter did not stop gently poking Ethan's forehead, she still had many questions in her mind.

"What about your ice magic? When did you complete the upgrade?"

"Just now."

"Just now?"

Ethan nodded.

When he had the thought that "Holy Light cannot save the empire", he felt another kind of restless energy and heard a call that seemed to come from another world, which was probably related to Bazatos's glance.

Compared to the previous attempt to upgrade the Fireball Technique, this time it was much smoother. There was no need to drink a wake-up potion, and everything happened naturally.

The panel of Frost Arrow has changed, and even the last few dozen points of proficiency have been replenished.

"Frost Arrow (Demon), Proficiency: ∞, The whispers from another dimension are calling you"

And Bazatos's Glance disappeared after the ice element was upgraded, as if the two skills in the panel were merged into one.

"Is it related to Bazatos?"

Winter thought for a moment and then asked.

This was knowledge she had never touched upon, and she couldn't offer Ethan any good advice.

But she knew that in addition to collecting the Butler Type I, Ethan also distorted another thing.

"Ah."

Ethan didn't intend to hide it and admitted it openly. In his opinion, Bazatos's ability to distort and reconstruct things had infinite possibilities, but he just wanted to use it to create abstract art.

It wasn't difficult to warp the human body, but that was the least important part.

"I just made Talon into what he really is."

Ethan felt that there seemed to be something wrong with the division of camps in this world. The executioner of the exploiters should not be classified into the camp of light. The servant of the evil god was more in line with his identity.

"This is dangerous."

Winter stopped poking Ethan's forehead and held Ethan's face with both hands. As an elemental shaper, she did not intend to stop Ethan or comment on the upgraded ice element. But as a teacher and girlfriend, there were some things she had to remind him, "Bazatos's aesthetics are very problematic. You can study his power, but never be assimilated by his aesthetics."

"What?"

Ethan froze. He watched Teacher Mao Mao getting closer and closer to him, until the tips of their noses were almost touching.

She looked very serious, staring at him straight without blinking.

"Even for me, I find it a little hard to accept the appearance of octopus faces and paw pads..."

Then, she took a deep breath, as if she had mustered up a lot of courage, and said, "If, I mean if one day, you take that path, you must tell me in advance. I need some time to prepare myself mentally."

(End of this chapter)