This Lich Requests More Remuneration-Chapter 229 - 210 Seeing Alchemy City Again
Chapter 229: Chapter 210: Seeing Alchemy City Again
Chapter 229 -210: Seeing Alchemy City Again
To ensure the success of the plan, Amberser specifically ran tests at the edge of the swamp.
The two of them couldn’t fly out of this plot of land with the Flight Spell, but they could exchange materials with other plots by throwing, leading Amberser to guess that it must be related to speed.
The speed of the Flight Spell was too slow to break through this limitation.
Amberser casually picked up a stone and threw it towards the distant Chaos.
The dual-core drive of the Mana Power Furnace and Dark Magic Power gave this mechanical body an astonishingly great strength, making a whistling sound as he threw the stone with enough force to break the sound barrier.
The stone slowed down after flying four or five hundred meters outside of the swamp, but eventually it still flew out.
“Indeed, if the speed is fast enough, it can escape the plot’s gravitational pull, but this speed far exceeds the limit of the Flight Spell,” he confirmed.
Amberser’s mechanical body could be augmented with a cannon barrel, but Katherine couldn’t play around like that, a blast in the barrel and she would turn into Katherine paste.
However, the plan could proceed.
Amberser began to modify the Iron Puppet on the spot, this cobbled-together thing could barely walk, and even if it was a prop it had to look real; he added some paint to make it look like it was made of Mithril, then crafted a roughly human-like puppet for Katherine to use as a prop, and finally covered it with an illusion to adjust the details.
Perfect, even if the Thrashtoads attacked these two puppets, they should not easily see through the deception.
Amberser said to Katherine, “Okay, that’s almost it, we need to go and lure the Thrashtoads over.”
The biggest problem with illusions is that they can’t mimic Katherine’s unreasonable charm, so she needs to perform well in the scene upfront, and when it’s time to “break away,” switch to the puppet, and there should be no flaws then.
Amberser had thought through the details carefully and even discussed with Katherine where to start luring the pursuers, where to start pulling away, and then where at the edge of the swamp to make the switch to ensure that nothing unexpected happened when deceiving them.
While listening, Katherine took out a notebook and started jotting everything down.
This was far more refined than the make-believe family roles she had created for herself. Amberser had even anticipated the Thrashtoads’ emotional changes and guessed at what point in the chase they would become more frenzied in their attacks.
“You really are very good at deceiving people, no wonder the Lady of Mist said you were destined to help her,” Katherine said with a hint of admiration.
“What am I good at? I have no talent for this; it’s all accumulated experience. Anyone who has been a bottom-tier adventurer for hundreds of years like me could develop such skills,” Amberser replied modestly.
A real talented deceiver should be the kind with silver-tongue and an eye as sharp as a passive thought detection effect.
Amberser simply had seen many people and had drawn lessons from those experiences.
“That’s still very impressive. When will I be able to do like you?” Katherine asked, envious.
“It’s simple, have a few deep relationships with close friends, and then watch them die in accidents one by one; that should about do it. I’ve said it a thousand times, but it’s not as profound as seeing a friend die before your eyes,” he said calmly.
Katherine felt a deep chill on hearing Amberser’s light words; if that was what it took to learn, she preferred never to acquire such skills in her lifetime.
“Alright, we’ve prepared enough, remember the part you need to play, and now…” Amberser was about to continue when he suddenly looked up at the sky.
Katherine curiously followed his gaze.
In the unclear Chaos of the sky, a bizarre black cloud appeared. As the cloud churned, a dilapidated city emerged from it and flew out.
Katherine exclaimed in surprise, “Another new floating plane? So that’s how these floating planes appear.”
As Amberser watched the city, he remained silent for a long time until Katherine remarked, “Uh, that city is ugly, look at those towers in the middle, so conspicuously abstract and different in style from the surrounding buildings.”
Amberser nodded and said, “Yeah, my teacher’s taste was indeed terrible.”
“Teacher? You mean the God of Alchemy? Wait… you’re not saying this city is Alchemy City?!”
Katherine had never seen Alchemy City. As a hikikomori who never ventured out, by the time she left the Silvermoon Tribunal, Alchemy City was long gone. She had read descriptions of it in books, where the God of Alchemy built seven ugly towers in the city of those mad alchemists as a punishment.
Isn’t this exactly seven towers?!
“But how could Alchemy City be here?” Katherine had no clear understanding of the inner workings behind the city’s disappearance and could only guess that some serious accident must have occurred due to the alchemists’ experiment failing.
Amberser also lamented that his Dice of Destiny still couldn’t align the time to the precise point he wanted.
He had a hunch about this place; this chaos was probably the very expanse where the deities banished things, slicing away regions afflicted by something cancerous to the world and tossing them into this chaos.
Thrashtoad was one such cancerous entity. In Alchemy City, there was a lunatic alchemist who aspired to godhood, and it was likely that the other severed regions were similar, surely filled with things that could destroy the world.
This was the deities’ junkyard, designated for confining hazardous materials.
“Change of plan!” Amberser said to Katherine.
“Ah? No more acting?” Katherine felt a bit disappointed, she had just been taking things seriously.
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Amberser, however, said resolutely, “Plans can’t keep up with changes. We don’t need to go through the trouble of waiting for an unreliable space-linking ceremony. There’s something more suitable in the city above us.”
Although the one in Alchemy City was a lunatic, he was also a demi-deity, and seeking help from the guild leader to leave this place seemed more reliable.
“But flying out is impossible. The flight spell can’t break through the barrier of this region,” Katherine said.
“It doesn’t matter, I have a way to fly over. You can hide in my private space, and once I am inside, I’ll let you out,” Amberser proposed.
“Oh, you certainly have many tricks up your sleeve…” Katherine remarked, pausing suddenly to ask in surprise, “If I can hide in your private space, why did we bother sneaking into the depths of the swamp earlier? Couldn’t you have gone by yourself?”
Amberser replied in a tone of feigned shock, “Huh? What are you talking about? Katherine, you work for me; would you really be comfortable with the idea of your boss taking the risk alone while you hide out in my private space? We were dealing with Thrashtoad. How could I possibly go in alone? At critical moments, there might not even be a chance to take you out for assistance. Of course, I had to drag you along with me.”
Katherine: …
That lich wouldn’t let himself be at a disadvantage, not even slightly.
Although seething internally, Katherine still resigned herself to her role as an employee and decided not to ask any more questions from that moment on.
Amberser placed Katherine into his private space, then cobbled together a Magic Conduction Cannon using some leftover materials.
As usual, he measured the distance, adjusted the angle of the cannon barrel, then hid inside a specially made Mithril Shell, and fired towards Alchemy City in the sky.
With a thunderous boom, the Mithril Shell spun as it soared towards the heavens.
After traveling several hundred meters, the Mithril Shell encountered noticeable resistance, but it only slowed a bit and then successfully broke through the swamp’s barrier, entering the chaos beyond.
This chaos was akin to the conditions of space, without any air resistance; the shell, propelled by its momentum, continued toward Alchemy City.
Yet as it neared Alchemy City, the shell faced resistance once again.
Each separated region seemed to have its own special barrier, presenting obstacles to both entry and exit.
Luckily, Amberser had anticipated this and had thus enhanced the power of the cannon; the Mithril Shell was strong enough to penetrate the barrier twice.
Even though the shell nearly came to a halt after piercing the barrier,
one penetrating the barrier, the shell fell under the gravitation pull of Alchemy City, plummeting towards the ground in free fall.
Amberser climbed out from the shell, his mechanical body completely undamaged.
Amberser opened his private space, yet he did not release Katherine; instead, he reverted to his lich form.
At this moment, Amberser had just hoodwinked the guild leader and could not let him realize that he had traveled back from the future.
Katherine was even less able to make an appearance; the guild leader was shrewd, not some naïve sweetheart cooped up at home for centuries. He would surely suspect much upon seeing the Elf Queen.
Assuming he was fully prepared, Amberser made his way toward the sewer where the guild leader once ascended to godhood.
But this time, the guild leader would probably not be so easily fooled.
