Still Loved Even In The New World
CHAPTER 159: The Underground City.

Here, this is what I'm looking for. There is certainty that there will be other ruins under the former lake. Instantly, the hope that had been almost extinguished, now I can hope it back.

From the time of 12 Billion years, I don't know if there will be anything left in those ruins, but there is at least a little hope. I just want to be able to see what kind of ruins can make a precious object like the Eclipse Cannon.

How could I possibly be willing to spend time waiting. Without a second thought, I immediately ran to the quarry along with Ephilias and a flying elf who was only ten centimeters tall. However, her petite body did not affect her speed as she flew through the air.

Her name is Leyfa. She was a moonlight fairy race. The moonlight elf race was a beautiful race, yet they were a race that was cursed to have a short lifespan, in contrast to the other fairy races. It was extremely difficult for the Moonlight Fairy Race to have a high Tier. That is because they are so short that they are no more than 50 years old. If they were unable to break through to tier one within that age, then they would soon die, yet if they could break through, they could double their lifespan and would continue like that.

Thus, with such a short age, they were rarely able to break through. And once it breaks through, it's proof that they're an extremely outstanding talent.

And Leyfa is one of those amazing talents. He was willing to follow me while running quests and ended up becoming one of the residents of Moon Palace. Right now he had already broken through to tier three, and it would not be far Samapi he broke through to tier four.

He is not a familiar or an NPC that I and my sisters made, but he has already given his oath of loyalty to Moon Palace and become a member of Moon Palace with his own wishes. Although he is not a strong fighter, but his skills are very helpful in terms of support, as well as he is very fond of learning about metallurgy and mineralogy.

Quickly, we arrived at the drilling site. This drilling place only has a hole diameter of several inches because it is only used to take soil samples at depth.

Philia:"Is there any other entrance besides us to dig it ourselves?."

In my opinion, there will definitely be an entrance to the depths. Otherwise, how could the inhabitants of this city find such a terrifying weapon. Except... Except that they got the gun some other way. But I prefer the first.

What reason?. No. It's because I want to believe that they got it from this place. In short, this is just a stubborn trust, ok?!.

Leyfa:"Hmm... There may be. After all, this place and its surroundings were rich in precious minerals, so there would probably be mines that headed into the depths of the ground."

That makes sense. There may indeed be a mine hole that they dug and accidentally opened a passageway to enter the underground interest, so they bus get weapons. This is possible, and even the possibility is quite large.

Filia:"Check the neighborhood in wider coverage, at least a thousand kilometers from the city, and find the remains of that mine or suspicious place."

Although it was from hundreds of thousands of years ago, but with Moon Palace's knowledge and technology, I was still confident to find a possible mine quarry. After all, mines with such depth will not disappear easily without a plate shift or a major disaster that makes the mine hole collapse completely.

It will not rule out the possibility that the mine will collapse and be completely buried without a trace due to the passage of time. But imagine, if they obtained such a valuable treasure as a powerful weapon within that excavation pit, would they make that mine pit extremely fragile and careless?. The answer is no. If I were to become them, I would strengthen the mine pit to prevent accidents and expand it for easier access and might be able to obtain other treasures.

Even the aqueduct has been strengthened using Panerite, shouldn't such a precious hole be strengthened with even better material?. With that in mind, I immediately gave the order that they start deploying drones that have detection devices and various sensors to search for the remains of the mine.

During the frantic search process, the activities in these ruins did not stop at all. Many found the remains of bones and various kinds of metal jewelry buried in this place at a depth of several meters in the ground.

Looking at the remains of bones that are irregular and in this deformed condition, it is estimated that in this city there has been a massacre.

Hundreds of thousands of years, bones still survive?. Of course, judging from the state of this bone, it was estimated that the owner had reached Tier three and above, so that his bones could still survive until now.

However, even though they used to be quite strong, but after death for a long time, their bones would also be degraded by the passage of time. So, these bones no longer can be used as material.

Philia:"So this city was forcibly abandoned, or all the people who lived here died for some reason?."

Efilias:"According to the data obtained and from abnormal death scars, it can be assumed so, Your Majesty."

Filia:"Further investigate the cause."

So many Tier three and above died in this place. The death of so many strong fighters must have been caused by a strong opponent as well. If that opponent is still alive to this day, then that is a serious threat to me and Moon Palace.

Ephilias:"Understood, Your Majesty."

.....

A few hours later, the drone tasked with combing the entrance into the ground had returned and successfully transmitted the relevant data.

There really. One of the drones found a network of underground passageways that had been buried at a depth of about 10m deep in the ground. The network of aisles was long and complicated, but the drone was only able to map part of it and was unable to take full pictures because its search radar waves were blocked by something.

But that's not a problem, as long as the area is found, I just need to mobilize the workforce to check it further.

The current manpower was not qualified, so I ordered that this excavation area be a fixed wormhole point. That way, the wormhole formed will be more stable and airships can travel back and forth from Moon Palace to the ruins without obstruction.

He had another airship arrived with a worker led by a Dwarf and another one led by a Beast from the rat tribe, precisely the mole rat tribe. These two races were indeed famous in mining jobs, so they were very suitable candidates.

The two ships were carrying about 500 workers. I can't deploy too many mining workers, other than because their numbers are limited, another reason is because most of the miners owned by Moon Palace have been allocated to old Gard to help him mine ore in the meadow. (Chapter 66)'s.

In addition to the manpower to mine, I also summoned more manpower to complete the excavation of these ruins. This ruin is wider than the city above it, therefore, I have to move many residents who live at the same time wake up a temporary shelter. It is not difficult to build temporary housing, what else around this city is available many resources in the form of wood.

The distance of the suspected mine hole is about a hundred kilometers from the excavation site. After arriving at the place, not much waste of time, the miners immediately took out their tools and immediately went to work.

After a while of digging, finally the mine hole was found. As I expected, although the mouth of the cave had collapsed, but the inside was strengthened.

The mouth of this mine has a clear human handprint with many support poles made of stone and metal. This stone is a type of mineral that is very strong and filled with strengthening magic runes. Nonetheless, due to the passage of time, traces of weathering also began to appear.

Idrin:"Your Majesty, please take a look at this."

Idrin from the rat race called out to me while looking at a stone pillar that was about eight meters tall. As I approached, I noticed four deep scratches on the pole.

Filia:"Here, the scratch marks?."

Idrin:"Right, Your Majesty."

After the discovery, more discoveries were made, including the remains of monsters and Animanids scattered around the cave. In this way, it can be concluded that this place has experienced a savage beast attack like in the city.

Many robots and small drones are inserted into the cave to map and explore every hallway in this cave. As first thought, this passage is very long and branched, also very complicated. It takes a little time to map out the entire passageway channel in this place.

Idrin:"Your Majesty, it looks like this part is blocked by something."

Judging from the camera attached to the drone, a large stone door blocked the passageway. In front of the stone door was a pile of dead monster and Animanid remains. There is a fight in this place.

Filia:"Destroy!."

Idrin:"Yes, Your Majesty."

Every drone and robot on this expedition has been equipped using small cannons and laser cutters for unexpected conditions. So, it was easy to cut the stone door.

The drone immediately executed the command from me and made a hole in the stone door using a laser weapon. After the hole was made, it turned out that the stone door was five centimeters thick and made of very dense stone, its density almost equal to that of diamonds on earth, but despite being very dense, it was very dense, in the face of the laser weapon from the drone, it was just like a soft tofu.

Behind that door was a long, very dark passageway. Many remains of the Animanids lay within it. The bodies died in various positions, some were lying on the floor, some were leaning against the cave wall. Since no monster corpses were found, it meant that these people died for another reason.

It seemed like they were hiding from the monster's attack and were trapped inside the cave until they died from oxygen and foodstuffs. In short, they starve to death.

The passageway was getting longer and further underground. Although it was winding, but I could feel that the passage was getting further and further into the ground.

Less than half an hour later, the drone had gone into a depth of one hundred and seventy-five meters and arrived at an extremely wide and bright hole. To my surprise, this hole is very bright and much grown by green plants, like a forest in a cave. Yes, green. The plants inside were green like normal plants, in contrast to the plants in the outside world that were purple or other dark colors.

The drone took pictures on the roof of the cave which was about 50m high and found a light source in the cave. It was a kind of huge rock that produced a golden yellow light like the sun.

Philia:"Come on the move to that place."

Seeing this scene, I immediately led the knights and a few others to go to the place while watching the drone monitor. The drone flew higher above the forest and saw that the forest was very, very vast.

But the main concern, in the middle of the forest there is a vast patch of empty land and there is a large city in the middle. The city had a ring-like circular black wall that surrounded the city with a height of about 13m and a thickness of 4-5m which was very strong and not too conspicuous as it was hidden among the huge trees that were it has a height of about twenty meters or more.

The drone moved towards the city, but in an instant, it suddenly lost its connection and the image on the screen turned into snowflakes.

Filia:"It looks like there's an energy barrier damaging the drone."

It's very interesting. The city that had been abandoned in that time could still supply energy for the city's protective shield to this day. I wonder what kind of energy they use.

Even Moon Palace did not have this kind of energy source that could last for so long. At least, the protective shield energy in Moon Palace must always be replaced every 10 years. And every replacement, it will at least cost $40,000 which really burns money.

Well, but given that the Moon Palace itself was vast and its protective shield was also very sophisticated, so losing that much energy was already among the most frugal. Yet even though the Moon Palace was only as vast as this city, it remained impossible to sustain energy until that long.

We finally arrived in front of this vast cave. All the bus I saw in front of my eyes were huge tree trunks. In addition to the dry leaves scattered on the forest floor, in this forest also seen many shrubs and various types of plants. Even at a glance, I can see several types of animals, it can be said that this underground forest has formed a complete and complex ecosystem. It is unimaginable that something like this would happen.

It's not that I've never seen anything like this in Alterion, but it's the first time I've found an environment like this in Helheim.

Philia:"Move!."

I took the lead and immediately entered the forest. There were other drones that would guide our way to the ruins, so I didn't have to worry about getting lost.

I don't want to risk walking among this dense forest trash. I was afraid that I might accidentally step on a venomous beast hidden among the dry foliage trash, So me and the knight just jumped among the tree branches to get to their destination.

Flyy?. Well, I thought about it, but I realized that in this forest has a ban on flying for alien living things. This system was similar to the one in Moon Palace, other than the one already registered, others would be banned from flying by the rules.

With the ban, I can only jump among these tall trees. Of course, with my agility and mental strength, it's very easy for me to do.

As I focused all my attention on running, suddenly a huge shadow crossed quickly towards me. My mental strength came out and I had noticed it from the beginning, but I didn't care about it.

However, before the huge shadow touched me, a silver blue glint flashed from my back.

Bang...!

A long spear flashed very quickly and directly pierced the beast. The black shadow was pierced and thrown along with the spear into a large tree trunk and made a very loud crash sound due to the inertial force caused by the speed of the spear's motion thrown.

The huge tree was destroyed along with splashes of blood and a terrifying echoing roar. After the dust settled, it was seen that a large tiger five meters or more in black with purple stripes was lying dead on a pile of wood chips with a blue spear in the middle of its body.

A blue knight immediately jumped onto the corpse of the beast and picked up the spear stuck on the corpse of the beast and came back into the line to continue on the journey. Along the way, there were several times monsters attacked, but without exception, all of them were killed by the knights escorting me behind.

Not long after, I led the army and arrived before the big gate of this underground city. Although the city has an energy protector, the energy protector in this city is only above the city to form a dome to protect the city from air attacks. Therefore, the bottom of the city was only protected by this sturdy city wall.

Philia:"Move the workers in the ruins to this city, and let them do their research."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

A knight responded to my orders and immediately turned around to relay my orders to the surface. Communication could not be opened in this basement, as if there was a shield protecting the transmission of communication signals from inside and outside the cave area.

Before the workers came, I entered the city through a large open gate. Many scratches and bumps on the two-meter-thick iron door, which proves that this door has been through a heavy fight.

When entering the city, many buildings and facilities in it have been damaged by being lifted by tree roots. However, even though many buildings were damaged, but I can still feel the majesty of this city.

I can be sure, that in his prime, this city must have been amazing...

Yeah, it's amazing...

(The end of this chapter)