Extraordinary Voyage-Chapter 744 - 640: Individual Gains and the Chirping of Insects

Boom——!

Accompanied by a deafening roar, the ground shook and the mountains trembled.

A giant Wind God Winged Dragon with a wingspan of over sixteen meters wailed as it crashed heavily to the ground. Its neck and wings were twisted into a horrifying shape, and bright red blood flowed profusely, soaking the earth beneath it.

Anita, neither flushed nor out of breath, leisurely jumped down from the dragon beast's already sunken skull.

She clapped her clean hands.

"Job's done."

At this moment, all around her lay a circle of various giant beasts, all possessing "Dragon Vein."

These dragon beasts, no smaller than elephants, had slightly sunken dainty fist marks on their foreheads. Externally, they looked peaceful, yet their brains had turned into mush.

Clearly, they were all crushed to death by Anita's seemingly slender, delicate hands.

Walking calmly to the center of the valley, which seemed like a prehistoric world, she raised her long and powerful right leg and delivered a side kick.

Boom!

Driven by an abrupt burst of Combat Qi, the fierce leg's strength acted like a matchless sharp guillotine, easily slicing through a stone pillar that required two people to embrace.

A potion bottle containing unknown Pure-blooded Giant Dragon blood, enveloped in a misty blue light, fell from the top of the pillar and was caught steadily by Anita.

Glancing at the blue dragon blood, which raged and roared like an enraged giant beast inside the bottle, and the crystal that resembled an eyeball immersed within, the girl couldn't help but sigh:

"At least a thousand years have passed and it still maintains such strong vitality—the sorcery inherited by the 'Clock Tower School' is truly miraculous! Aiven was right, sorcery is indeed the primary productive force in this world."

She stored the dragon blood in her waist pouch and then lifted her combat boot to crush a large arthropod creature, which had just emerged from the soil at her feet with numerous legs.

Feeling the slippery fluid of the bug under her feet, Anita slightly frowned.

Having been influenced by Aiven's side, she wasn't too unfamiliar with his field of biological engineering. In the current environment with particularly high oxygen levels, it's not surprising that insects grow very large.

However, such incessantly rustling creatures everywhere do indeed make one feel a bit disgusted.

...

"Armament!"

Unlike Aiven, who was already an Upper-Rank Wizard, Olivia, essentially only a Tier 2, had already unfolded her newly upgraded Gemstone Armament as soon as she entered the [Clock Tower].

A petite sapphire crown, teardrop-shaped moonstone earrings, a pleated skirt, form-fitting stockings, crystal high heels...

The magic book "Gem Dictionary" floated in front of her, this massive twenty-kilogram tome, with clusters of stunning gemstone crystals naturally growing on its pure gold cover.

Surrounded by a dozen ruby elves that shone like stars, creating a mobile [Position Orbit·Star Moon], allowing the girl's crystalline toes to lightly leave the ground, seemingly unaffected by gravity.

In her Spiritual Vision, splendid and dazzling bands of light like a galaxy encircled her.

Not to mention the unique sorcery processes for which both the "Gem School" and "Vitalist School" are known, embedded in this body of equipment. Just the value of the raw materials themselves could equip the Kingdom Navy with a small battleship fleet without a problem.

Olivia sped along the interconnected underground tunnels.

In the past, the dazzling array of natural gemstones found here could have turned her into a little hamster named "Uncomfortable Without Searching," but now she couldn't even be bothered to look at them.

Boom! Boom! Boom!...

The ruby elves fired scorching lines of fire, blasting apart the giant spiders, composed entirely of various minerals, large enough to block half a mine tunnel.

[Gem Witchcraft: Aurora Cannon]

This is also the combat style most fitting the "Gem School's" ethos.

With full firepower, no Burrow Guard could delay her for even a moment, and in just a few minutes, she had fought her way to the deepest part of the cave.

In a nest filled with webs, she found a super blue diamond "Steep Slope Mountain," weighing at least eight hundred carats, artfully carved in the shape of a rose, placed in a box.

A line of fine print was etched onto the bottom of the radiant gold box:

"Whoever possesses it, shall possess the whole world. Whoever possesses it, must endure the disaster it brings. Only a deity or a woman whose wealth matches it shall own it without suffering any punishment."

Evidently, this is a [Cursed Jewelry] dazzling enough to dazzle any woman.

...

Slash——

The sharp longsword, shaped like a clock hand, randomly flashed in a complex labyrinth, easily sparking on the heavy white stone walls.

Milan, moving through it, didn't even need to activate his [Witchcraft Shield], as if divinely assisted, he always managed to narrowly evade the longswords attacking him.

Yet in this intricate maze, the danger is far from over.

Woof woof woof...

Although it emitted what sounded like barking and broadly resembled the form of a canine, it had a lizard-like long tail and spinal spikes. Its head split open like petals into six parts, exposing a long, mucus-covered red tongue.

This was a creature originally from the Lower Realm, known as the "Dalos Dog Demon," which naturally possessed the ability to traverse space. In the maze, every angle smaller than 120 degrees was a springboard for them to appear out of thin air.

However.

The highly acute [Psychic Warning] of the seasoned "Prophet" enabled Milan to predict the timing of the "Dalos Dog Demon"'s appearance in advance.

Holding a Spirit Pendulum in his left hand to guide the way, Milan fired consecutively with the Black Steel revolver in his right hand.

Bang! Bang! Bang!...

Not only could this dangerous demon be precisely shot dead with a single bullet to the head, but even the maze walls behind them would burst into a whirl of flying stone chips.

Utilizing the abilities of the "Prophet" and powerful firepower assurance, Milan advanced confidently all the way through.

Evidently, at least the first hurdle of the [Clock Tower] did not pose much hindrance to the adventure team members whose abilities had long since transformed.

But when Milan reached the exit of the maze and saw that object placed there, he was incredulous, rubbing his eyes involuntarily: "This kind of thing is here? Could there be a mistake?"

...

The blazing flame before Aiven gradually dissipated, and with those bizarre existences disappeared almost an entire swath of pitch-dark forest.

No matter what kind of danger once existed in this forest, or how cunning those demons were, it was completely irrelevant to Aiven.

This also reaffirmed the correctness of his firepower clearing tactic!

Since establishing this epoch-making tactical concept, the research work on high-energy explosives had been assigned to the "Vulcan Metals Company," where a majority of the "Mechanical Immortality School" Wizards and Wizard Apprentices now worked.

Aiven gave them a straightforward idea.

To analyze the principle of explosions, utilize the means of science combined with witchcraft to prepare the necessary explosive ingredients, and to create bombs with faster detonation speed, greater power, and stronger destructive capacity!

Since powerful explosives like Black Gold, Octogen, CL-20, and others are nitrogen-based, they belong to "nitrogen explosives."

Most polynitrogen compounds are typically very unstable.

Because the degradation of polynitrogen compounds having nitrogen-nitrogen single or double bonds to tri-bond nitrogen molecules releases vast amounts of energy, nitrogen compounds thus become "energy-containing materials," mainly directed in the field of explosive research.

The explosive power comes from the energy produced by the breaking of chemical bonds between molecules. Whether it's the atomic composition that forms the molecules or the form of the molecular structure affects the explosive's power.

So, if the nitrogen content is higher, doesn't it mean the explosive power would be greater?

The answer is affirmative.

In Aiven's memory, under extreme high temperature and high pressure conditions, at least reaching 170GPa and 8000K, nitrogen molecules dissociate, then polymerize into [Metallic Nitrogen].

Its energy density is over ten times that of TNT explosives, meaning it's ten times more formidable than TNT.

Beyond this is [Metallic Hydrogen].

The explosive power is equivalent to 25-36.3 times the same mass of TNT explosives, and the manufacturing conditions are even more demanding. It requires transforming hydrogen gas into solid crystals under ultra-high pressure conditions.

Once the conversion is complete, metallic hydrogen can be stored conveniently under normal pressure and room temperature, making it incredibly handy to use.

If successfully manufactured in the future, it would be a completely clean, pollution-free Mushroom Bomb. At that time, even if Aiven claimed the title of "Nuclear Peace Sword Saint," it would not be unreasonable!

However.

Now he stands at the center of the almost entirely white-blared "Banshee Forest," dumbstruck, staring at the treasure in his palm that created this eerie Secret Realm.

Perhaps, placed on any great scholar or Great Wizard of this era, they would rack their brains in vain and certainly not recognize what this thing is.

But Aiven is the exception.

Incomplete copper-clad circuit boards, burnt silicon wafers, transistors... Despite over half of the material having turned into glossy black chitin from insect-like creatures, obviously polluted by some unknown existence.

And the structure is quite primitive and simple, crudely made.

But various traits are enough for Aiven to determine that this is an [Integrated Circuit], belonging to a civilization that had developed at least to the electrical era, once part of some simple electronic device!

It is conceivable how massive an impact this has on Aiven from a similar era, as his eyes slightly flicker, a series of questions popped out of his mind:

"Is this a technological product from before the Era? An ancient creation preserved like the Ancient Gods?

Did civilization on this world reach the electrical age how many years ago? Is this just a plaything from that time or representative of the overall social development level?

Was this the pinnacle of their technological advancement before the Era's change completely destroyed the civilization?"

Just then, the scene was already quietly changing again.

Chirp chirp chirp...

"Hmm? Again the sound of bugs?"