Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 91 Secret Research Room

When Lucia saw Lani, she was studying magic books in the large library in the center of the main hall.

It was a perfectly circular room with a diameter of more than 20 meters, surrounded by dozens of bookshelves more than ten meters high, a rotating shaft magic mechanism connecting the ground and the roof was in the center, and a magic shaft as thick as a tree trunk A thick mechanical arm is extended to the side, and a delicate and comfortable seat is placed on it, which can lift the user to reach books at any position in the library at any time.

At this moment, the seat was hovering close to the height of the roof, and Lani was leaning on it, holding a thick tome with a gilded spine in her hand, while studying, swinging her slender and graceful legs under the mage's robe leisurely, Humming an unknown song.

"Are you used to sitting at such a high position?" Lucia, who walked in from the door, looked up at the slender figure with his back facing him, and asked.

Suddenly there was a low cry of astonishment from the top of the library, followed by a series of hurried noises. Lani quickly straightened her sitting position, but the magic tome in her hand accidentally fell to the ground with a bang—after she used her magic power to smash the book When I grabbed it in my hand and turned around hastily while driving the seat, I only saw Lucia's uncontrollable smile.

"You guy——" Lani got angry, and threw the heavy dictionary-like book in her hand to Lucia's forehead, "Don't you know to knock on the door before you come in?"

Lucia reached out and grabbed the book, and said innocently: "I remember when you first entered the palace, your maid had already come to report to you, she was the one who brought me here just now."

Lani's expression froze. It seemed that this happened about 10 minutes ago, but she was immersed in the magic book at that time, so she only agreed and didn't hear what the maid said.
Now that she understands the cause and effect, a certain Princess of the Moon is suddenly embarrassed. Just as she was blushing and racking her brains to make an excuse, she saw Lucia wave her hand and apologize calmly: "But I think you are probably studying." I was too focused on reading, and I didn’t get back to my senses for a while, it’s really wrong for me to come in rashly, and I will pay attention to it next time.”

"I..." The expression on Lani's face changed several times, and finally she just turned her eyes away and stared at the corner beside her, and said in a small voice: "I understand, I will forgive you this time, and you must be careful next time!"

"Okay—" Lucia tried her best to hide her smile and agreed, "I'm here today because I want to ask you for help."

With a wave of her hand, Lani slowly floated down from the seat amidst the dots of magical light, took the book from Lucia's hand and said, "Tell me, what's the matter?"

"I want you to help me see how to awaken the magic power."

"Well——" Lani nodded and returned the magic tome in her hand to its original position according to the number. After realizing what Lucia said, she suddenly paused, "What did you say?"

She turned around and looked up and down at the ancient dragon in front of her, and even walked up to sniff it with her nose, and said with a puzzled face: "I feel that the magic affinity of your body is not bad. Still can't feel any magic power after the ceremony?"

"Magic Enlightenment Ceremony?" Lucia froze, "What is that?"

"It's an awakening ceremony that uses a piece of pyroxene with magical power as a medium to guide apprentices with magical talent to perceive the initial magical power!" Lani explained with her beautiful eyes wide open, but she stopped herself halfway through the sentence, covering her mouth. Rubbing his forehead helplessly, he said, "It's useless to tell you, come with me—"

Lucia followed her through the entire library and came to a large bookshelf at the other end of the room.

Lani gently pulled out an ordinary book in the corner of the third row, and suddenly there was a light click behind the bookshelf, and the whole book shrank back a foot, and then slowly turned ninety degrees, revealing a passage.

"It's a secret laboratory designed by myself," Lani introduced solemnly, then waved her little hand and said, "Let's go!"

The two passed through a long corridor, and the surrounding light was quite dim, except for the magic energy lamps installed a few steps apart on the walls on both sides, casting a few strands of dark blue light.

Lucia noticed that this long corridor led to the ground with an extremely slight slope, and after walking forward for nearly 10 minutes, a thick stone door carved with many runes finally appeared in front of him.

"These facilities... have been built in the past few days?" Lucia asked in surprise.

"Of course, I observed the structure of the entire palace the night I came here, and then I drew the design and handed it over to the royal craftsmen, and it was completed three or four days ago," Lani replied with a straight face, " It's a pity that the Rodel people's research on magic is still not deep enough, and they are much worse than my family in the processing of some permanent solidification circles, but they are barely usable."

She stretched out her palm and pressed the rune array in the center of the stone gate, injecting a stream of magic power into it, and the dark blue streamer spread rapidly along the magic power circuit, and the whole stone gate was like the magic power lifting that Lucia had seen in her previous life The ladder lights up.

A slit of light appeared in the center of the stone door, and the two heavy stone doors with a thickness of half a meter receded to the sides, revealing the scene inside the research room.

This is an underground space no less than the large library outside. Here, Lucia saw that the magic materials given by Queen Marika were sorted in various areas. In addition, the room was filled with a lot of books. Magic circles with unknown meanings, and many seemingly complicated magic creations.

"How is it, doesn't it look good?" Lani asked with a seemingly calm face, but the corners of her mouth couldn't help revealing a bit of complacency, like a little female dragon showing off her wealth and savings to outsiders.

Only now did Lucia recover from her astonishment, and she couldn't help but nodded and said, "It's amazing."

Looking at the scene in front of him, he was once again shocked by the powerful industrial capabilities of the Golden Dynasty, but thinking about the lakeside meeting place that went up almost overnight a few days ago, this level of palace renovation is very important to the group of royal craftsmen. I'm afraid it couldn't be simpler.

Although the Kalia Dynasty in the far west is weaker in terms of overall strength, it is still better than the Golden Dynasty in the magic industry. The magical defense system full of creativity is also enough to prove this point.

After the taboo war thousands of years ago, the ancient dragon dynasty came all the way from the hopeless situation of almost destroying the country, and it took countless painstaking efforts to recover to the current situation. In many fields, too much has been left unknowingly.

How many years will it take to make up for these shortcomings?

Lucia herself had no answer.

While he was pondering, he suddenly heard Lani snapping his fingers, and there was a thumping sound in the depths of the laboratory, and a tall, dark shadow appeared at the end of his field of vision, sliding from the floor at an extremely fast speed come.

The moment Lucia saw the outline of the shadow clearly, Lucia felt his hairs stand on end, and subconsciously took half a step forward to block Lani behind him, a dark red blazing thunder flashed from his palm!

"Iron Maiden?!" He exclaimed in his heart.

(End of this chapter)