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“I’ve never been to such a deep ancient site before, Brian.”

After catching his breath, Renault looked ahead, where Tennys was placing explosives into the pit they had dug.

"Tannis the Great Tinkerer, do you need any help?!"

Renault is eager to try.

"No need, I can handle this by myself... Oh, right, you guys find cover first! I'm not responsible if you get hurt by shrapnel if you're not concealed!"

As Tennys spoke, she connected the last cable. After confirming that everything was correct, she quickly ran behind a half-collapsed pillar, opened the mechanical assistant's control screen, and pressed the ignition button.

After tens of seconds of unbearable silence, the countdown of the directional explosive charge reached its final second. With the ignition of the trigger device, the entire explosive charge expanded toward the locked defensive line in a fraction of a second.

"boom!!!!"

————————————A dusty and dirty dividing line——————————————————

"Bah, pah!"

Although he was hiding behind cover, the hall was relatively sealed off, so when Brian tried to speak, he ended up with a mouthful of dust, which he had to spit out first.

"Haha, sorry, sorry, I forgot to remind you to wear masks."

Tennys, who had completely covered herself with her helmet, apologized with a forced laugh.

"It's nothing... I'm used to being covered in dust... Did the rock wall explode?"

"It's exploded. I'm trying to check if there's anything behind it... hmm?"

Tennys's expression turned strange again.

"Are there enemies behind us?"

Brian quickly placed his hand on the dwarf hand cannon behind him.

"Well... how should I put it? Let's go inside and take a look... you'll see what I found then..."

————————————Through the tunnel————————————————————

"OMG......"

"Incredible..."

"These...are all those clay sculptures?"

After passing through the tunnel, Brian and his companions were immediately drawn to the surrounding rock walls. What came into view were thousands of small square rooms arranged in a honeycomb pattern. In each room stood a clay sculpture with a similar appearance to the statues that had attacked them earlier. In the very center of the huge space surrounded by these rock walls, a huge machine sat quietly, covered with ash.

"It looks like this is the warehouse where those sculptures are stored."

Using instruments to scan and identify the sculpture placed in the rock wall, only the sculpture itself, Tannis, exhaled.

"But none of these sculptures look like they're moving."

Ellis also examined them carefully and keenly noticed that they were different from the sculptures that had attacked her group earlier.

"I reckon...they haven't gone through the final stage yet...Brian, what are you doing?!"

Tanis was terrified when she saw Brian, who had somehow gotten down there and was now touching the machines. Before she could rush down as well, a light source illuminated the entire cavern from the top of the rock wall, making it as bright as day. At the same time, a mechanical voice began to sound—

"The Earth Spirit Production Center has detected an intrusion and activated its defense system."

46. ​​Fierce Battle

Looking at the thin, elongated lines that lit up like flowing water on the surrounding walls, and the two metal pillars with several runes slowly rising from the ground with a rumbling sound, as well as the giant barrier that sealed off the surroundings from these things, Brian's mind went blank. Good heavens, he was just curious and casually touched the machine in front of him!

"Brian! I told you not to touch anything in the ruins!"

Despite her complaints, Tennyson acted swiftly, pulling out a large amount of equipment to set up a defensive line. Realizing things were going badly, the others also quickly entered battle mode, ready for action.

"Crunch, crunch—"

With the sound of gears turning, two large doors on the two fully raised metal pillars opened to the left and right, and two giants, a man and a woman, emerged from the pillars. The male giant carried a giant sword with raging flames on its blade, like an unrelenting avenger. The female giant gripped a staff tightly with both hands, the top of which was surrounded by ice, as if to freeze everything.

"You polluters, you will not be allowed to pollute these earth spirits that are in a standby state!"

Upon seeing Tannis and the others present, the male giant who had emerged completely from the pillar flashed a red light in his eyes, raised his greatsword high, and roared angrily.

"No, wait, I want to know what you mean by pollution? What is our relationship with these earth spirits?"

Hearing the giant's inexplicable words, Brian, feeling as if he had vaguely grasped something, disregarded the danger and climbed out of the defensive circle built by Tannis, waving his arms at it. However, the response he received was a fiery sword aura, and the air refracted slightly wherever the sword aura passed.

"Don't be reckless, Brian! These guys are impossible to communicate with!"

Just as Brian was about to be burned to a crisp by the fiery sword aura, Tannis controlled two drones carrying ice bombs to fly into the trajectory of the fiery sword aura, miraculously absorbing most of the damage. However, even so, the remaining gale still scorched part of Brian's beard.

"See that, Brian! These guys only follow simple procedures. They might have intelligence, but they won't step outside the box!! So, if you want the answer, you have to defeat them!"

While frantically trying to stop Brian from continuing his reckless actions, Tanis summoned a swarm of drones to rush towards the battle line. At the same time, Elise's nature magic and Finley's lightning magic were ready. Accompanied by the acrid smell of ionized air, a pale green compressed mass of nature energy and a highly concentrated ball of lightning simultaneously slammed into the female giant who was casting the spell.

However, before the two spells could even get close to the Female Titan, they scattered into basic energy in mid-air without warning, and the special bullets fired by Tannis's drones seemed to have all become defective, achieving nothing except for the crackling sounds of impact.

"This guy... has extremely high elemental resistance? No... it might be extreme energy resistance! Attacking him with energy-based damage is practically like tickling him!"

Realizing something was amiss, Tannis quickly activated the arcane mode of her engineering glasses to scan the Female Titan, obtaining some fragmented data. Through this data, she swiftly determined one of the Female Titan's characteristics.

"My *** poses absolutely no threat to that guy, Tennys!"

Just as Tannis was about to reload, Raynor's scream reached her ears. She turned her head and saw Raynor frantically firing a heavy machine gun at the male giant who was chasing Brian, who was wielding a flaming greatsword. The male giant completely ignored the special bullets fired from the heavy machine gun, which were enough to damage the armor of an Abyss Lord, and continued to single-mindedly pursue Brian, who was scrambling and crawling away in all sorts of undignified ways.

"This guy... his physical defense is completely nonexistent, and he might even have some special magical defense that can cushion his attacks!"

Tannis glanced at the male Titan with her glasses and immediately determined that the male Titan possessed the opposite special ability of the female Titan—almost absolute physical defense!

"Brian! Get closer to that female giant! Raynor! Switch targets! Iris! Finley! You guys switch targets to the other giant too! I'll handle this... Holy crap!!!"

Just as Tannis was outlining the tactics in her mind, a giant frost meteor appeared above their heads. At the same time, the male giant, unable to catch up with Brian, plunged his two-handed sword heavily into the ground, creating rings of fiery wreaths on the ground!

"Someone tell me what to do! This thing seems to be targeting me!"

Brian, who was running desperately, caught a glimpse of the icy meteor in the sky slowly changing direction out of the corner of his eye, and his soul trembled. At the same time, a wreath of flames exploded, and the powerful shockwave slammed him against the wall—just as he met Tennys and the others.

"Ice Defense Barrier! Ice Defense Barrier! Ice Defense Barrier!!!"

Unable to predict the damage from the ice meteorite, Tannis gritted her teeth, took out several small, pale blue crystals that emitted a faint chill, stuffed them into a small box in her Great Tinker armor, and quickly pressed a button. In the blink of an eye, three ice-blue barriers unfolded, firmly protecting the five of them within.

The moment the barrier was completed, the locked-on icy meteor, accompanied by a whistling wind, crashed into it. The first layer of the barrier was torn apart like tattered window paper, the second layer shattered like glass struck by a heavy blow, and the third layer, unable to withstand the pressure, dissipated after several flashes of light. The remaining icy fragments clattered to the ground, spreading out wisps of extremely cold mist.

"Cold... damn it! That ring of fire is coming!"

Seeing the approaching ring of fire, Tanis, for some unknown reason, had a sudden inspiration. Ignoring the cold, she reached out and grabbed a piece of ice and threw it. The moment the ice shard touched the ring of fire, it turned into a wisp of white smoke and vanished, and the flames of the ring of fire were extinguished in the white mist.

"I understand!"

Brian followed suit, grabbing a piece of ice and throwing it towards the distant ring of fire. Then... he clutched his hand and screamed in pain—the ice was so cold that his hand had turned a bluish-purple from frostbite.

However, Brian's pain didn't last long. Elise's healing spell easily healed his minor injury and cast a Rejuvenation spell on him. Encouraged, Brian quickly unleashed his hunter potential, accurately throwing the remaining unmelted ice shards on the ground near each fire ring. In less than half a minute, the fire rings on the field were completely extinguished.

"Threat level increased...Activate Level 1 defense..."

In the instant the last ring of fire extinguished, the male giant pulled his greatsword from the ground and slowly opened his mouth, while the female giant raised her staff, which was covered with runes.

"What's Level 1 defense? Okay... I get it..."

Watching the various earth spirits jump down from the wall and begin to move, their bodies inexplicably covered in armor, Brian swallowed the rest of his words.

"...A numbers contest...Give me two minutes! Remember! Male Titans are immune to physical attacks! Female Titans are immune to magical attacks!"

Realizing that things would only get worse if she didn't resolve the situation quickly, Tennys swiftly began operating her mechanical assistant. Behind her, mechanical parts began to float and assemble, outlining the shape of a large door.

"Roger that! Explorers team! Move out!"

Although he didn't know what Tanis was planning, Brian, sensing she was doing something amazing, drew his musket and roared as he ran, pulling the trigger at the female giant. Ellis, meanwhile, tossed countless seeds across the battlefield, creating a vast swarm of plants to hinder the earth elemental army's movements. Finley, spear in hand, hurled lightning bolts at the male giant, drawing his attention and forcing him to pursue him. Raynor abandoned his machine gun, instead launching bundles of explosives at earth elementals that got too close to his group. Thanks to their combined efforts, the battle reached a temporary stalemate.

However, everyone knew that this stalemate was the result of their relentless fighting, regardless of cost or expenditure. If Tennys's solution couldn't deliver the decisive blow...

"Tannis! It hasn't even been two minutes yet! I'm about to explode!"

Brian, his beard covered in ice shards, fled on all fours. Around him, bursts of ice bombs exploded relentlessly, constantly stripping him of his body heat. Undoubtedly, if this continued, Brian would become a dwarven ice sculpture, imperfectly merging with the earth spirit...

"I'm out of bombs!"

"The seeds are gone!"

"Finley can't run anymore!"

Just as Brian felt he couldn't hold on any longer, the other members of the Explorers' Guild were also in dire straits. At that moment, a huge mechanical arm extended from the doorway behind Tannis, which had risen to about five meters in height.

"Arcane Engine functioning normally, Harvesting System activated, Target... Ancient Relic..."

47. Gaboga's Grip, and the Ancient Literature Association

"This is... Geboga's Fist?"

Renault gasped as he saw the thick mechanical arm extending from the massive spatial portal behind Tannis. Although he was only a third-rate Tinker, that did not prevent him from recognizing the fact that this weapon, written in the Tinker's Handbook, was one of the strongest fighting methods for Tinkers!

"If used like this, it's called Gaebogar's Grip."

Tanis tapped a few times on the control panel of the mechanical assistant without expression. At her command, the huge mechanical hand opened its five fingers, which were swirling with arcane energy, and reached out to grab the female giant who was holding up her staff and guiding a group buff spell to the earth spirits.

With a sharp scraping sound, the regularly swirling blue aura around the Hand of Geboga collided violently with the defensive force field surrounding the Female Titan, unleashing rings of radiance. Earth spirits on the battlefield were swept away like leaves in a storm, shattering into pieces under the impact of these waves of light. The Male Titan roared, trying to help, but was also forced back by the energy aura. Even the cave walls and ceiling outside the barrier were affected, with tree-branch-like cracks spreading across them.

"This...this...this..."

Behind Tannis's force field shield, Renault, who had huddled into a ball as much as possible, could barely speak. He had never seen such a scene, as if the sky were falling, since he was born.

However, even in such a terrifying environment, Tannis remained calm, her hands transforming into streaks of lightning as she traversed the control panel of the mechanical assistant, sending command after command to Gaebogar's hand.

"Energy lock released! Power supply increased to 80%! Hydraulic system overloaded by 10%! External defense barrier rotation direction changed! Palm heating system activated! Coolant circulation initiated!"

As these commands were issued, part of the outer armor of the Hand of Gaeboga gradually turned red, and high-temperature steam spewed out wildly from all around it. The five fingers that gripped the giant female stone sculpture slowly but resolutely shrank inward.

finally.....

With a crisp click, the defensive barrier of the giant female stone sculpture finally reached its critical point. Its body could no longer withstand the pressure of Geboga's grip and collapsed into countless pieces of rubble in an instant.

The moment the female statue was crushed to pieces by Geboga's hand, the male giant statue also ceased all activity, the light in its eyes slowly dimmed, and as the two stone sculptures stopped operating, the fluorescent light spreading on the cave walls and wandering on the ground gradually went out, and the barrier sealing the entire hall disappeared without a trace.

"...Is it resolved?"

Looking at the chaotic battlefield, Brian could hardly believe his eyes. Two such large things—most likely guardians left behind by the Titans—had been crushed to death by Tannis with a single, thick mechanical arm.