Another hour passed, and the team was still moving forward in the ever-extending corridors and passages.

The scale of this millennium facility has exceeded Gao Wen's imagination.

Even in the "Spark Age" when Gondor was in full swing, the empire rarely established facilities of this size - even if it had the functions of military fortresses and scientific research facilities, its scale was much beyond Gao Wen's expectations. It seemed that it had indeed hollowed out a mountain, and with more and more downward ramps and steps, Gao Wen even suspected that it had hollowed out more than just a mountain.

The magic reaction was still coming steadily, and it was still quite weak. Since she encountered too many forks and corridors, Herty's guidance was no longer reliable. She could only judge the general direction and judge which fork should be taken through divination spells such as spiritual summoning. But even so, the team still took several detours and found many dead ends.

Although the Byron Knights have been setting marks along the way and Hetty uses magic marks to outline the Taoist marks, the soldiers are still a little uneasy when advancing in an ancient ruin. After noticing this uneasy, the Byron Knights come to Gowen: "Sir, if you continue to go deeper, you may be lost in it - everyone's sense of direction is completely disorganized."

Gao Wen frowned. In fact, he had considered the issue of getting lost, but he was more confident than everyone. The satellite spirit's superb memory was at work. He recorded almost every detail of every fork along the way, and even had a rough map in his mind. However, these abilities were not easy to say, or even if they were said, they would not make everyone feel at ease.

After all, this place is too big.

It would be great if Amber was there...at least she could throw it out and explore the way, and she could run around from the shadow world and be good at sliding doors and picking locks. She would definitely not be as easy to be trapped in the remains like ordinary people - she has proved this in the ancestral grave of Cecil's family.

This time Gao Wen was considering this matter very seriously.

Unfortunately, Amber is not here now, Gao Wen can only shake his head: "Your concern makes sense - then let's go for a while, make a few more marks, and then return first, and come again next time, no matter whether you find it or not."

Although the lord did not order a return immediately, Gao Wen's ambiguous statement still relieved the soldiers, as if he had received some guarantee, and the team once again mustered up the courage to move forward.

After a downward staircase, there is another hall ahead, which has more things than before: some huge obsidian rectangles are arranged neatly around the hall, like stone tablets placed against the wall, and under the cube, many metal conduits or "tracks" extend out of them, all gathered in the center of the hall, where there is a strange hemispherical device.

Gao Wen frowned, came to the hemispherical device, rubbed it with his hands wearing iron gloves for a few times. Some of the black ash and oxides on the surface of the device were scraped off, revealing the silver-white metal below.

"What is this?" Hetty came over curiously. The facilities in the room were obviously "fixed installations" that could not be taken away. This was rare in this ruins. The obsidian and metal connections gave her a trace of weird intuition related to magic.

"The Magic Energy Focus Array - Although I really want to call it a magic capacitor," Gao Wen said, with knowledge that no one knows in this era, and mixed with some more inexplicable words. "These obsidians connect the magic wells in the facility, and this hemisphere can focus powerful energy, create a short-lasting but extremely strong energy flow, and then pass through this main conduit-"

Gao Wen pointed to a thick conduit that extended from the hemispherical device and eventually buried in the wall.

“…Transfer energy to places where it is needed.”

Herty's eyes widened slightly. As a mage, seeing this ancient magic device from a thousand years ago made her excited: "Focus on the powerful energy? So is this a weapon?"

"No, this is an auxiliary energy source for research facilities, which is usually used to provide instantaneous 'ignition' to those devices that consume energy, such as iridescent lenses," Gao Wen shrugged. "In the age of Gondor, magic was not just used for fighting - although it was indeed one of its important functions, magic can do many things at the same time. In fact, in my opinion, what mages really should do is to use their knowledge and magic in this kind of research."

"Study..." Hetty muttered incredibly.

She is no stranger to the word research. Mages have always been synonymous with researchers. They study the mysteries of magic and analyze the rules of runes is their most proud work. However, no matter what research it is, the ultimate goal will be attributed to how to improve the casting ability. Mages who cannot improve their own casting ability will be regarded as poor researchers.

Hetty instinctively felt that the "research" mentioned by Gao Wen was probably not the same thing as the research he was familiar with.

This ancestor seemed to be accustomed to looking at a very far and wide angle. He always mentioned "popularity" and "mass production", and the research of the mages specializing in themselves and even deliberately isolated from each other seems to be contrary to his ideas.

Hurtie shook his head and threw the irrelevant thoughts in her mind aside. She heard the Byron Knight asking, "Madam, did the magic reaction come from this place?"

Hetty concentrated on feeling it, shook his head: "No, but it's very close."

"Remember this place," Gao Wen said, "this ancient device has been completely scrapped and no need to consider repairs-but it can dismantle at least half a ton of mitril silver and seven or eight tons of obsidian, as well as a lot of pure gold and copper and purple steel."

"Wait a minute..." Hetty suddenly shuddered and stared at Gao Wen, "Ancestor... are you planning to dismantle this valuable ancient magic device?!"

"Otherwise?" Gao Wen glanced at her, "This thing requires super-purity magic to 'ignite'. Now it has no corresponding magic purification technology. And even if there is energy, this thing has been left here for a thousand years, and the structure inside it has long been rotten. It is no easier to build than to build one."

Hetty was stunned, with a strange expression: "You may not feel that you have come from seven hundred years ago, but this thing is an antique..."

Gao Wen shook his face: "This thing was also an antique before I died - but we have to start from practical value. It has no value here. Only when it is melted can it be reborn."

Hearing Gao Wen's words, Hetty realized that nothing was useful, so he had to nod his head with aches on his face.

It is said that it doesn’t hurt to sell the land of the master, but it doesn’t seem to hurt to see it when I sell the land by myself…

The discovery of the magic focus device means that it is very close to the deep research facility. When it comes to the magic reaction that Hetty sensed before, the target is most likely a working research device.

Gao Wen calmly activated the Knight's "Danger Sensing" skill to be guarded against possible magic traps or ancient radiations here at any time.

On the way forward, he asked Hetty casually: "By the way, I heard they call you a lady rather than a lady or a lady- are you married? Where is your husband?"

He had been curious about this question for a long time, but he never found the opportunity to ask about it.

Hetty was stunned for a moment, but it was normal for his ancestors to care about his marriage, so he replied: "I am not married, but when I was an adult, I converted to the magic goddess Milmina, and gave up my inheritance right by faith conversion, so that the inheritance right would be left to Rebecca's father. According to the law of the nobles, women who gave up their inheritance right by faith conversion and adult women were regarded as married, that is, to devote themselves to their faith. Originally, I could still retain the title of aristocratic and become an unhereditary baron, but that year the territory was difficult, so I sold this title... u to a merchant..."

Gao Wen nodded, "Oh" and expressed his understanding, and at the same time, the message of the magic goddess Milmina also came to his heart.

The magic goddess Milmina, also known as the God of All Things, and the Lady of Mystery, is believed to be dominated by the power of magic and is the mentor of the first giant dragon and the first elves in the world - so the legendary dragon-word magic and the existing elves magic were also created by her. Unlike other gods, Milmina is not a "strong belief in God", but more like a "symbolic god".

She can say that there is no formal religious and belief system, and almost all spell casting professions are her "shallow believers", but less than one percent of the mages will convert to this deity in the form of formal believers, which is probably related to the general preference of spellcasters to explore mysteries and lack of awe of God.

And many of those 100 believers were converted like Hetty, who simply made a renunciation of inheritance or similar purposes.

The conversion of Princess Veronica from the Ansu royal family to the God of Holy Light was also a similar form, but the princess was not as destitute as the descendants of the Cecil family to the point where she had to sell her aristocratic status at a low price, so she can still be called a princess (or corresponding priesthood status).

After answering, Hetty was a little nervous. She was mainly worried about two things: one is that Cecil was embarrassed and his descendants were to sell the title of nobles to make a living, would it make the ancestor angry? The other is that he was so old and would not get married, especially the second one - what if Gao Wen turned around and said, "Why are you not getting married yet? When are you planning to get married? Look at what xxx is like?" What should I do if I urge my marriage to the third company?

Mom, my ancestors urged marriage seven hundred years ago, which is much more stressful than parents urging them to get married!

This even made Hetty not worried that he would be beaten if he sold his title as a noble...

As a result, Gao Wen really asked casually, and there was no further information after the end.
Chapter completed!