There's a skeleton dungeon connected to my basement.

Chapter 293, The Silver Dragon
Ultimately, they couldn't escape the Consul's Building.

Through the vague introduction by the self-proclaimed librarian, Xiao Yang learned the origin of this stone wall.

It was donated to the Clock Tower City Library in the name of the entire city by the twenty-third governor of Clock Tower City, and the place of origin was the Clock Tower City Governor's Building.

I've come here again.

The destroyed construct knight still lay quietly in the same spot.

A while has passed, so the chances of encountering the messenger of the evil god upon entering the Governor's Building should not be so high now.

There are still risks, but it's worth taking some risks for the sake of the Silver Crossbow blueprints.

This governor's building is indeed quite extraordinary; there are almost no corrupt individuals within it.

The tall building was empty, except for the mana constructs that had been damaged along the way.

Xiao Yang was determined to climb all the way to the top floor.

The room was still empty, and a bad feeling crept over me.

There is something hidden ahead.

As he climbed the stairs, Xiao Yang muttered to himself.

We've reached the very top of the Consul's Building.

Having someone search for locations in advance isn't all bad.

The evil god's messenger who arrived even earlier than Xiao Yang uncovered and dismantled all those messy methods and hidden schemes.

In the empty office area at the top of the Consul's Building, there is a twisted and deformed silver table, and a dark hole exposed by the twisting and deforming of the table.

The hidden passage has been found.

At the twisted edge of the long table, Xiao Yang found some scattered documents.

The city is declining, and I must do something.

What are the "silver cult" hiding?

The decline of the city is not solely my responsibility; the most important factor is the silver blood flowing beneath the ground.

[The bank refused to provide the fixed quota]

The restart of the Magic Workshop will take time.

[We just need to get through this most dangerous period.]

I need more Silver Blood.

This city will never decline because of me.

I need a new pope, a pope who is ruthless enough to exhaust all resources.

[It went very smoothly, unexpectedly smoothly. This Silver Cult is indeed corrupt to an extreme degree.]

The Silver Tree is withering away; this is truly astonishing. Can even a great god die?

[We just need to get through this period; the opening of the Magic Energy Workshop went smoothly.]

To drive this massive transformation, we must feed these greedy nobles; they crave more silver blood.

To drive this massive transformation, I must win the support of the city's residents and give them more holy anointing.

Let's hold another flower competition, one that uses fresh flowers.

Great Silver Tree, please hold on a little longer. Just hold on a little longer and you'll be alright.

From this pile of scattered documents, Xiao Yang pieced together these jumbled words.

A story has been pieced together in large part.

There are still two gaps: one is what exactly the plague rat swarm wants to do, and the other is why the Silver Tree is willing to end such a long period of bloodsucking.

Putting away the documents in his hand, he continued to explore downwards through the exposed, pitch-black hole.

The underground of the governor's building was a hidden world, where Xiao Yang saw many astonishing things.

However, the most outrageous one has to be the one in front of us.

Silver Dragon (Demigod)
Quality: Legend

Type: Biological Armor Mech

Limited: Magic Rune Construct Bloodline

Warning: Core components are missing; incompleteness poses unknown risks.

Synopsis: The creation of a group of mad geniuses, nearing success, falls short at the last moment—a dangerous weapon that could go out of control at any moment.
I won't tell you to pry open the third steel plate on its back and dig out the first groove inside. I won't tell you that you absolutely mustn't do that. 】 A rotting tree spirit, suspended high in a transparent glass pool, had been fitted with all sorts of mechanical parts, shedding its rotten state, and actually looked a bit like a complete silver dragon.

At this moment, Xiao Yang slowly opened his mouth.

He was genuinely a little surprised.

No? Even if life finds its own way, what the hell is it that you guys silently built a demigod-level bio-mechanical construct right under this Governor's building?

Can this thing also be hand-rubbed?

I'm saying, sentence by sentence in the document above, how can you be so certain that as long as the Magic Workshop can be opened, the entire Clock Tower City can be saved?

It turns out that bringing out this demigod-level magical construct mecha dragon has made everything perfectly fine!
There was silence for a while.

Facing this truly astonishing thing in front of him, Xiao Yang silently uttered these words.

"Great!"

Sure enough, those who can survive and thrive in the Rotten Lands are all, to some extent, ruthless.

And it has to be said that this line of thinking is actually quite possible to succeed.

If we can really forge this exaggerated silver dragon before the silver tree is killed.

Undoubtedly, even without the protection of the Silver Tree, Bell Tower City will continue to exist smoothly, and may even be more prosperous than before.

Unfortunately, the plague rats had their sights set on them long ago, and a sudden calamity of corruption and the arrival of an evil god's messenger rendered all of this futile.

Xiao Yang suddenly realized that he might have missed a very strange development.

If he can get here before the messenger of the plague rats, then perhaps he can become the pilot of this silver dragon.

Pilot this silver dragon and become a true dragon knight.

I feel like I've missed out on so much.

He has the key!
But upon closer reflection, it seems that the magic rune construct had no effect on him.

"Um……."

With a change in expression, Xiao Yang arrived in front of a corpse nailed to the side of the Silver Dragon.

Wearing a white lab coat, with blond hair, his face was full of fear and resentment, and his gaze was fixed on the name tag on his chest.

【Caroline】

This is probably the city lord of Clock Tower City.

Xiao Yang really missed out on a lot.

"But what's done is done."

Even after the arrival of the plague rat horde, the half-finished silver dragon couldn't do anything to it after it jumped into the huge glass pool. However, it's true that this thing can't be considered completely dead or a failure.

If the commotion is too great and it wakes up, that would be a disaster, and the messenger wouldn't dare to act recklessly.

Lying on the edge of the glass pool, I lowered my head and got closer, and a rich sense of life appeared.

"Is this entire pool filled with the sap of the Tree of Life?"

Xiao Yang's words were even more surprising.

Unfortunately, this batch of Tree of Life sap has been contaminated by this unfinished Silver Dragon.

After the core was removed, the silver dragon underwent some changes, with many branches swimming in the pool emerging from the large hole in its chest.

This is indeed a semi-finished product, but that's exactly what we need. Xiao Yang can't handle the real finished product yet.

Grab a branch that wanders into your hand, crush it, and a blue material appears.

Unnamed branches

Quality: Excellent

Description: An unidentified branch that has undergone special treatment.

It's time for Xiao Gu's divine power to be unleashed.

The little guy appeared, and Xiao Yang rubbed its head. It grabbed at the twig that had stopped moving, and in an instant, something golden with seven colors appeared in front of Xiao Yang.

[Silver Crossbow Design Blueprints (2)]

Xiao Yang is now only missing the last piece of the puzzle.

(End of this chapter)