LORD OF THE SKY CITY

Chapter 583: Chapter 546: The Colossal Creature Chapter 583: Chapter 546: The Colossal Creature As Orton infused Magic Power into the Magic Circle in the hall, the entire hall’s Magic Circles were illuminated. Following that, a huge stone pillar rose from the center of the hall!

This stone pillar was over three meters tall, and so wide that even five people together could not embrace it fully. When the stone pillar had fully risen, the Arrays in the hall began to extinguish one by one.

“Teacher, what is this…?”

It was not until all the surrounding Arrays had gone out that Rocky and Karina regained their senses, then they both looked towards the towering stone pillar before them.

“This is the gate.”

As he spoke, Orton began to walk around the stone pillar, but he stopped halfway.

“Come and see this.”

Upon hearing this, Rocky and Karina immediately came over to his side. As they looked in the direction he was gazing, they couldn’t help but widen their eyes.

“Stairs?”

Following their sightline, one could see a spiral staircase within the stone pillar. Judging by the direction the staircase spiraled downwards, it evidently led underground!

That’s it!

Discovering the staircase leading underground, Rocky and Karina finally understood the situation. It turned out that the true core of the research institute was not in the building they were in, but underneath!

This made much more sense.

After finding the diary and reading its contents, Rocky had also harbored some doubts, feeling that this place did not resemble a research institute. Continuing research within a moving structure surrounded by Demons seemed far-fetched even to think about. But now, it appeared he had underestimated the people of the past; they had foreseen everything and arranged it all. The research institute they were in was just a decoy, perhaps even superfluous. The real core was underground!

And since the most important part of the research institute was underground, what kinds of treasures could be inside?

Thinking this, they both couldn’t help but get excited.

“Stop daydreaming. Let’s get going. It might just be a pile of scrap metal down there.”

Just as Rocky and Karina fantasized about finding treasures, Orton inconveniently threw cold water on their expectations and then urged them to follow him down the staircase upon the stone pillar.

As they descended the staircase, as expected, they walked for quite some time, indicating that the underground laboratory was indeed deep. Only after more than ten minutes did they finally reach the end.

As their feet finally touched the ground, a darkness appeared before the trio. Therefore, Rocky and Karina quickly turned on their Armor’s illumination system. From the forehead of the White Demon and the shoulders of the Valkyrie Armor, lights emerged; although not very strong, they were enough to let them see what was before them.

Looking along the light, they found that it was still pitch black before them. The light had not dispelled the darkness; they still had no idea what kind of place this was. Was it a research institute? Or a laboratory? They had no clue.

“What is this place?”

What place…

Place…

Place…

As Karina expressed her confusion, she was shocked to hear an echo, one after another!

Just a single sentence, and not a very loud one at that, had triggered such a series of lengthy echoes. What did it imply?

It suggested that the place they were in must be incredibly vast!

Just then, light suddenly appeared, initially only a point. But soon one point led to another, spreading into an area, and in an instant, all darkness was dispelled.

While the two were still confused, Orton had already located the Magic Energy Lamp, no, the magic lamp, and activated it using Magic Power.

And it was only when the magic lamps were all lit up that Rocky and his companions were finally able to make out the entirety of their surroundings.

The place they had come to was not a research institute, nor a laboratory; it was a gigantic factory hall!

The area here, without any exaggeration, spanned hundreds of meters—it was an immense factory hall, which was why their voices echoed when they spoke. However, the space was far from empty. On the contrary, it housed a massive being!

“What is… what is this thing!”

“My god…”

As the lights came on, Rocky and Karina first looked around, then their gaze was simultaneously captured by a colossal object placed in the center of the factory hall.

Following their line of sight, one could see a gigantic fortress, towering over ten meters high, so huge it resembled a small building. The fortress bristled with numerous cannons, the cannon barrels protruding out like the spines of a massive hedgehog—an extreme exaggeration.

The moment they saw the fortress, the two were dumbfounded. They had thought they would see the research of Wanzhong Kingdom here, but they hadn’t expected to encounter such a behemoth.

Could it be… that the research Wanzhong Kingdom had been pouring the efforts of the entire nation into… was this thing?

They had expended so much effort, only to produce this fortress?

While they stood agape, Orton had already approached the huge fortress. Seeing this, Rocky and Karina immediately flew over to join him at his side.

“Teacher, what is this thing?”

Looking up at the behemoth that was even larger than a battleship, Rocky couldn’t help but ask.

“This should be the research mentioned in the diary.”

“Just this thing? Wanzhong Kingdom’s research is on a fortress like this? What use could this thing possibly have!”

Hearing this, Karina couldn’t help but look towards Orton, her words betraying evident disappointment.

A fortress that looked like a hedgehog, what kind of invention was that!

“Not necessarily…”

But before she could finish her sentence, Orton shook his head and then pointed with his finger, “Look closely, this thing is made of iron.”

“What?”

Orton’s words made them look at the fortress more closely, and indeed, they found that it was not made of stone, but forged of steel!

“This is just too extravagant…”

Perhaps because they had lived in the skies for so many years, people had always considered mineral resources to be extraordinarily valuable. Therefore, the discovery that the fortress was constructed of steel made them both take a sharp breath, and they couldn’t help but remark that probably only people from the Land Era could afford such luxurious waste.

However, after their initial astonishment, disappointment crept in.

Clearly, this gargantuan object was the new invention that Wanzhong Kingdom was researching. They must have intended to use this steel-forged fortress to defend against the Demons, and this was exactly why it was so disappointing.

Because, even if the fortress were made of steel, it was, in the end, just a fortress. And history had already proven that Demons could not be stopped by fortresses, no fortress could hold them back.

Just as they were steeped in disappointment, Orton spoke up from the side, “Don’t be disappointed yet, take a look at this, what I found earlier.”

As he spoke, he casually handed a document to Rocky. Taking the document, both Rocky and Karina were taken aback, then they immediately looked down at it.

Both looked down at the same time and saw a few big characters on the document: “Moving Fortress Project.”

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