Chapter 0509: Toxic Aura
Two days later, the first poison spirit seed was finally born.
Thus, the insect wizard Bilis became the first wizard to leave the team.
The main force continued to advance towards Anweimar, the capital of the Goblin Empire, while Bilis turned south with the poison spirit seeds. The task assigned to it by Grimm was to soak the poison spirit seeds in the wells or water sources of every goblin village, town and city for a quarter of an hour.
Such a task is neither difficult nor easy.
First of all, it requires the task executor to have a means of concealment, otherwise a foreigner will travel through the territory of the Goblin Empire and need to be close to the water source on which they depend for survival. This is a big challenge in itself!
However, with the invisible insect body of the insect wizard Bilis, this difficulty is nothing at all.
Based on the intelligence obtained in these days, Grimm has drawn a topographic map of the entire territory of the Goblin plane, in which the capital Anweimar is located in the central area of the entire plane. Surrounded by mountains and steep terrain, it is a place that is difficult for ordinary creatures to set foot on and is easy to defend and difficult to attack.
So the goblins relied on their powerful engineering machinery capabilities to build a metal city - the Iron City in the most rugged place of the mountains.
There are 120,000 high-level goblins living there all year round. It is also a city of science and technology and a city of miracles where goblin engineers, inventors, and alchemists gather.
In the past thousands of years, in order to inject endless power into mechanical civilization, the goblins almost emptied the belly of the mountain below the Iron City, and used a large amount of coal and steam power to support the operation of the Iron City.
Now with the emergence of magic power, the goblins have built a huge ten-story space furnace in the belly of the mountain, and then used the magic energy absorbed by the space furnace to push the goblin civilization towards large-scale magic power application.
For these contents, the goblins do not seem to have any sense of confidentiality. Instead, they are promoting the advantages and benefits of magic power on a large scale within the tribe, and calling on more goblin engineers and alchemists to seriously understand and study magic power.
It's a pity that the Goblin Empire's research on goblin runes is still too superficial and crude, and the research on the miniaturization and micro-scale of space furnaces is progressing slowly. Otherwise, if each combat magic machine is equipped with a micro-space furnace, they can get rid of the shackles of magic batteries and become a combat machine that never stops killing.
So far, the Goblin Empire can only place space furnaces on large magic machines such as floating giant ships. Use them as the power source for small and micro magic machines, supporting the continuous fighting and killing of the magic machine army.
However, with the quasi-witch physical fitness of the goblin mechanics, whether they can withstand such continuous fighting is still a question. After all, there are still a few individuals like Tigule who have crossed the threshold of transcendence. Most goblin mechanics are still flesh and blood, needing to eat, drink, excrete, and sleep.
Even after experiencing a bloody battle, most goblin mechanics will have additional psychological burdens. This is inevitable even for Tigule, a first-level goblin mechanic. Who said it has an extraordinary body, but no spirit and soul to match it.
So the 1st level Tigule can only barely exert the strength of the pseudo 2nd level when driving the 2nd level metal goblin!
Grimm is not optimistic about the goblin city, the Iron City, which the Goblin Empire has worked hard to build. There is only one reason, that is... these idiots actually built the space furnace under the Iron City. This... doesn't this mean that the most elite group of high-level goblins in the entire Goblin Empire live on a super huge barrel?
Moreover, they are still filling this barrel day and night!
Of course, as a native goblin, they may be able to find thousands of reasons to do so. After all, the entire goblin plane is trembling under the rule of goblin muskets and goblin cannons, and there is no enemy in the plane that can threaten the ruling order of the Goblin Empire.
Moreover, if the huge Iron City wants to operate for tens of millions of years, finding a clean, pollution-free, and continuous energy source nearby is the top priority to ensure the continuation of goblin civilization.
Therefore, in the absence of internal and external troubles, and in urgent need of energy, it is not too incredible for the rulers of the Goblin Empire to make such a choice. But now that Grimm and others have come, any hidden dangers and defects on the seemingly huge body of the Goblin Empire will be used by wizards and become the first domino to overthrow the Goblin civilization!
And the thing Grimm wants to do most at this moment is to sneak into the steel city and throw a fireball into the super space furnace carefully built by the goblins. Presumably, it will be a huge fireworks show that shakes the entire plane!
However, to achieve this goal, there are still very difficult tasks to be done step by step.
So at present, the only thing Grimm can do is to desperately spread the seeds of the plague and poison spirits to the entire goblin plane, and add a little bargaining chip to the later negotiations.
There is no way, Grimm can't use a lose-lose method to obtain this goblin plane, otherwise a large number of plagues will be spread, and the creatures that can survive in this plane will be one in ten steps.
By then, perhaps this plane has lost its resistance, but also its basic strength. If Grimm wants to deeply develop the resources in this plane, where can he find so much free labor?
Go to the wizard world to buy cheap alien slaves? To develop a plane, it is not necessary to have hundreds or thousands of basic laborers, but tens of thousands of adult slaves with strong physical strength, and the plane also needs a mature social system to feed the larger population derived from it.
If you want to obtain a large amount of rare metals, you must organize a large number of laborers to dig metal ores underground and then transport them to the surface. And that's not all, you also need to screen and filter the coarse ore, and then smelt the high-quality ore into metal ingots.
In this process, it is usually accompanied by the extraction and purification of rare metals.
Therefore, if you want to develop metal mines and some rare resources in the plane on a large scale, you must rely on the existing social system to complete it.
If the natives of this plane are all killed by the plague, and then let Grimm create a social system from scratch to complete the development of the plane resources, then... it will not be possible without hundreds of years!
It is for this reason that Grimm plans to have a strictly controlled plague in the goblin plane. It not only dealt a heavy blow to the Goblin Empire, but also prevented the power of the entire plane from being overturned.
Seriously speaking, such an idea is easier said than done.
However, for the ideals and beliefs in his heart, Grimm could only try his best!
Fortunately, this Goblin plane does not belong to him yet, so he can toss as much as he wants. If the ruler of the Goblin Empire still insists on it after the super space furnace is detonated, Grimm does not mind turning the entire Goblin plane into a dead place.
After all, only the benefits in hand are his. If he can't take the whole shop away, Grimm doesn't mind smashing the whole shop to pieces.
Even if the meat is rotten, it must be rotten in his own pot!
Two days later, after the second poison spirit seed appeared, Mary also left the team and rushed to the west of the Goblin Continent alone.
However, on the second day after Mary left, Grimm and the other two were caught up by the swarming magic machine army in a wilderness.
But the magic machine army came quickly and retreated quickly!
The reason why the other side was willing to give up the enemy they had been tracking for 6 days was because a terrifying wizard who was unbearable for them appeared in Grimm's team - Poisonous Lady Endor.
After 6 days of absence, Grimm and others were finally caught up again. Hundreds of combat magic machines from the magic machine army who heard the news launched a battle charge towards them from all directions like a swarm of bees.
And what greeted them was the poisonous halo of Poisonous Lady Endor!
Poisonous Lady Endor set up a small altar in the wilderness, and used this altar to enhance the coverage of her poisonous halo, allowing it to spread from the original 100 meters to the current 500 meters.
So, the combat magic machines that rushed into the poisonous halo were almost caught without noticing.
When Poisonous Lady Endor activated the poisonous rune, the instantly erupted poisonous damage destroyed nearly 100 combat magic machines on the scene in one fell swoop.
For a time, combat magic machines fell like rain in the sky.
They plunged into the ground and there was no more movement.
The pervasive poison penetrated through the vents on the surface of the battle magic machine and directly poisoned the goblin mechanics inside. No matter how powerful the battle magic machine is, without the control of the mechanic, it is just a cold iron lump.
Therefore, in front of the poisonous woman Endor, as long as the goblin mechanics still need to breathe, they have no hope of survival!
Grimm and others are of course well aware of such witchcraft principles, but the attacking magic machine army knows nothing about it.
The leader of the magic machine army is still urging his men to join the battle group quickly and not let the evil wizards run away. But who would have thought that the ugly and evil old witch on the other side just flashed a green light in her hand, and nearly a hundred battle magic machines on the other side fell to the ground like a lost soul and were motionless.
No matter how the leader of the magic machine army called out, he could not get any response from those battle magic machines. The subsequent few magic machines that were sent in also fell to the ground without any signs not long after entering the battle circle, and could no longer be contacted.
Faced with such a strange scene, the head of the magic machine army almost went crazy!
It can understand sacrifice in fierce battles. It can also understand death in harsh natural environments.
But... like what happened before, everything was fine before, and the opponent just flashed a green light in his hand, and all the members of his side died in battle. Such a thing is simply unacceptable to its poor brain!
So, the head of the magic machine army, frightened by the unknown fear, could only order a retreat!
Most of the hundreds of combat magic machines that had covered the sky before were destroyed in the blink of an eye, and less than two hands were able to escape far away. Such tragic casualties made the goblins heartbroken, and they only dared to wait until the wizards were far away before secretly returning to the scene to take away a few magic machines.
After the goblin doctor's examination, it was discovered that all the goblin mechanics died of poison.
Only then did the goblins realize that there was such a terrible loophole in the battle magic machine! chapter;