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"Be gentle, be gentle again, don't break things." An elf soldier captain yelled loudly. Under her command, the elf soldiers were like baby nannies, handling and putting them down bit by bit.

Move the dirt and rocks away.

After careful sorting, the outer layer was finally taken off, and the ruins of a building that was so dilapidated that it could barely be seen as a ruin appeared in front of us.

"Your Majesty, Your Highness, the situation seems a little bad." She entered the entrance first and took a few glances inside. Amrudina frowned slightly.

"Look, these burn marks are still new. They should have been destroyed by the hellfire given to the dwarf wizard." As she said this, she pointed to some fragmentary sections.

"These should have been destroyed by the dwarf's knife."

"Why are you destroying it like this?" I felt nervous after hearing this, for fear that all the useful information had been destroyed by those damn dwarfs.

"I guess I didn't get what I wanted, so I became angry and angry. If this is really the place where the replica metal body is sealed." Artoria answered the question in one sentence.

"Search carefully, don't miss even a single stone." Amrudina yelled, and joined in the search. Since it was my first time to see the magic ruins, I went to join in the fun out of curiosity.

, touch here and there.

It is full of broken marks. There is almost no intact thing. There are some glass shards scattered on the ground, which are completely broken. You can hardly even find anything as big as a thumb (the bigger ones have been picked up by the dwarf wizard).

Looking at it, the only complete one is probably the test bench in the middle, because it is too strong to be destroyed. Unfortunately, there is no information we are looking for on it.

Half an hour later, the ruins had been cleaned up, but nothing useful was still found. Those soldiers, who were as sharp as archaeologists, finally pieced together a vertical trough that was as high as one person from the broken pieces. There were still sticks on it.

There were some broken glass. Obviously, this vertical trough originally contained something, but unfortunately it was broken. We guessed that this was the container that contained the replica metal body.

Unfortunately, this doesn't help us.

A few hours later, the ruins, which were not that big, had been completely cleaned up. They even dug three feet into the ground.

We found a few things that seemed useful, a few boxes that were still complete, and the huge container that was pieced together.

Because the box is protected by a magic circle, it cannot be opened and inspected immediately, which is fortunately the case. If it were not protected by a magic circle, after hundreds of thousands of years of wasted time, we really can't imagine what the contents inside would have become.

After checking that there was nothing missing, we carefully put away these boxes and stuffed the broken large container into the inventory, intending to take it back and study it carefully.

Returning to the border town, these things searched from the ruins were quickly brought to the mage research institute in the Elf King City. With those magicians here, I believe the results will not make us wait too long. The only question is, what exactly

Is it good news or bad news.

"It's so quiet. Why is there no news about metal creatures?" In the tent, I crossed my legs and yawned in boredom.

Because the war is fierce, Amrudina has temporarily returned to the town of Lalula to take command. I can also relax casually, and there is no need to act like a prince all the time.

"Since the battle with me, it has never appeared again. I was careless. I should have caught it decisively." Artoria sipped the tea gently and said, "Whether my king is

At all times, her posture is so elegant and calm. This innate nobility is really a bit enviable.

Imagine if I were as calm and noble as her... Well, actually, I don't think there's anything wrong with showing off my integrity.

"What do you think that guy is doing when he is hiding now?" I asked casually out of boredom. Anyway, with my Queen's serious character, no matter how useless my question is, she will answer it meticulously.

"She should be still increasing her strength, I guess." Sure enough, Artoria showed a thoughtful expression, and after a while, she said slowly.

"Assuming that the other party is really copying metal, starting from the analysis when he escaped, he first appeared as a metal dwarf wizard. This dwarf wizard is most likely the one who destroyed the ruins in the first place.

"Then, it continued to change, but it did not become more powerful. It should be gradually adapting and exploring its own abilities. After all, it was endowed with a certain amount of wisdom, just like a baby, it needs a growth process."

"Then, after mastering its own abilities, the replicating metal body began to impatiently increase its strength and tried its best to copy the strong man until it met you. That's why it suddenly became powerful in a short period of time, right?"

I took Artoria's words and looked at her with admiration. Just because I asked a boring question and thought about it for a while, I was able to come up with such a convincing explanation. It was really amazing.

"Well, now, it is dormant. I am afraid that it was frightened by the encounter with me. It felt that its strength was not enough. It was afraid that it would meet me again and be caught, so it hid again to improve its strength." Artoria nodded.

road.

"Although I'm a little worried, I'm not optimistic about that guy." I put down the tea cup and showed a gloating smile.

"I have searched the nearby areas for hundreds of miles. The most powerful is just an intermediate-level monster. If you copy it, it is far from your opponent, unless the copied metal body can go deeper into the forest.

We need to look for more powerful monsters in other places."

Saying this, I took the tea cup that Carole carefully refilled for me, and said with a smile: "But, after entering the depths of the forest thousands of miles deep, can it really come back? I doubt it. Maybe from now on.

From now on, I can only hide in a corner of the deep forest."

"If this really happens, we'll be in trouble."

As if imagining the scene I described, the replica metal body lying pitifully in a tree hole deep in the forest to take shelter from the rain, a faint smile appeared on Artoria's majestic and pretty face.

"Yeah. We can't just sit here and wait until we're sure it can't come back to the border before we go back."

I nodded: "It's better to clean it up quickly and be caught by us honestly. If it is obedient, it doesn't matter if it is spared. Maybe it will be of some use in the future."

At this moment, a soldier's announcement came from outside the door. There was a result in the Elf King City.

We immediately got up and rushed forward, and found that beside the messenger was a pet knight who secretly loved to act coquettishly towards me - Amrudina.

To get here, you have to pass through the teleportation array in Lalula Town. It seems that the messenger was discovered by her when he came, so he followed him. Is the battle in Lalula Town no longer a problem?

From the courier, we got a stack of information.

This should be the last clue. Thinking about the journey of literary youth from the beginning to the present, I was quite impressed, and I looked at these materials much more carefully.

First of all, the first research report showed that the vertical trough container with a height of one person did not do anything for our current task. However, its structure and the trace of green liquid remaining inside aroused the interest of the research mages.

Will continue to study it as a ** project.

After all, it was something hundreds of thousands of years ago. The magical civilization at that time was even more prosperous than it is now. Even an ordinary container was regarded as a research object. Let's not mention it for now, it has nothing to do with us.

Another report is crucial. Regarding the contents of those boxes, after cracking the magic circle, they finally got them out. Most of the contents in the boxes have become waste due to the erosion of time.

There is only one handbook of unknown material, which is very strong and is still quite complete. And the content in this handbook happens to be what we need, some information about replicating metal bodies.

The origin and ability of replicating metal bodies are generally not much different from the information we found in the Royal Library, as well as the guesses based on the information. With this manuscript, we have basically been able to determine that this paragraph

The metallic creature that appeared in time is the culprit.

In addition, there are other detailed abilities of replicating metal bodies, such as the determination of the strength of replicating metal bodies that is not mentioned in the book.

Back then, the Lily Lolita female mage named Aisalima carved tens of thousands of energy magic arrays into the replica metal body. This reminded me of the Emperor Sword made by Farah. It seemed to have the same effect. Of course,

The level of sophistication and technical content between the two is completely incomparable.

After reading this part of the information, we finally breathed a sigh of relief.

As mentioned above, tens of thousands of energy magic arrays are only enough to copy the power of a metal body to the peak of the domain. Although it is vaguely mentioned in the handbook, Aisalima seems to want to go one step further and elevate it to the realm of world power.

After all, in that era where strong men were everywhere, the power at the pinnacle level in the field was impossible to wield.

But unfortunately, before she could complete this goal, she was noticed by Elufacia-chan, causing the maximum copying power of the copied metal body to stop at the peak level of the field.

In addition, one of the more annoying settings of the replicating metal body is that when the replicating metal body is in its prototype, it cannot exert its power. It must copy other creatures before it can exert the response of the replicating target.

Strength, as I said just now, the maximum limit is the peak of the field. No matter how strong the goal is, it cannot be copied, or if copied, it can only display part of the strength.

No wonder, the replicating metal body obviously possesses the energy at the peak of the field, but when it first turned into a dwarf wizard and other biological monsters, its strength was not strong. It turned out to be limited by this deceptive setting.

I don’t know what Aisalima was thinking about adding such a setting. Doesn’t this mean adding a huge weakness to her work? Or is it done out of necessity?

Looking further down, I seem to understand.

The last part mentioned the weaknesses of replicating metal bodies.

When in the copying form, the copying metal body is invincible... No. It is not appropriate to say this. It should be said that it is invincible, just like the reborn demon Selson back then.

Only when it is beaten back to its original shape can it be destroyed. When it changes back to its original shape, the copied metal body cannot exert any power at all. The body also becomes extremely fragile. It is almost the weakest projection of the fallen demon.

Get rid of it properly.

One is long and the other is short. After having such a powerful immortal body, it also has an unexpected huge weakness. This setting is also appropriate, otherwise it is not invincible?

After reading the thin stack of information, the four of us breathed a sigh of relief.

I have been worried about the replicating metal body. If I get a replica of the world power realm, the border will be unsafe again. Now I have come to a clear conclusion that the opponent's strength can only reach the peak realm of the domain. This is really

What a wonderful message.

The four people in the tent, except for Amrudina, whether it’s me, Artoria, or Kaluge, it’s no problem to single out an enemy at the top of their field, let alone the three of us now.

Standing together, I'm afraid just appearing in front of each other will scare them to the point of peeing.

The most worrying question now is whether the replicating metal body will really run deep into the forest to find a more powerful target like I said, after experiencing an encounter with Artoria and realizing that its own strength is not enough.

We will never return, which makes our work in vain.

"Amrudina, pass the order and ask the soldiers to pay more attention to the movements of metal creatures. If they are discovered, do not attack them and run away if you can." Artoria thought that she had the same idea as me.

He turned around and gave this order to the knight captain.

After Amrudina took the order and left, we sat down again and discussed various possibilities and countermeasures based on this information.

Not long after, there was a sudden noise and commotion outside, followed by a violent explosion that made the earth tremble.

"What's going on?" We immediately left the tent, and there were already soldiers coming to inform us.

"Oh no, a metal creature has appeared!"
To be continued...