Still Loved Even In The New World
CHAPTER 161: Exploration.

The ruins became even more messy because of the fight earlier. Many buildings and relics were destroyed or corroded by the blood of dead monsters.

Filia:"Break it a rest."

I asked them to rest this time after they fought with the monsters. Although such exhaustion was meaningless, but seeing how large the size of this city and forest should be explored, there was no way that the current labor force would be enough, so I also needed some time before the additional manpower arrived.

Until then, I better rest them so that they remain in the most perfect state while exploring. After all, these ancient ruins, I don't know what will be stored within them. Better to be careful than to lose.

Rubidea:"Gr... Your Majesty, am I a little exaggerated?."

Rubidea looked at the condition of the ruins that had been mostly ruffled by her fight and asked me in a slightly awkward voice.

Philia:"Given that it is you, this damage is very small."

Rubidea:"S, I understand. I'll hold back another time."

Filia:"Don't think about it. Right now, I want you to keep an eye around as long as the others rest. We'll never know what's going to happen in these ruins."

Rubidea:"Understand, Your Majesty."

Seeing the others resting and clearing out some of the remaining monsters that were still littering the site, I could only sit on the roof of a building and pay attention to their actions. I turned my head and saw the ring of these two cities that bounded the outer and inner parts of the city. I felt a slightly depressed feeling from that place, but I'm not sure what kind of pressure this is.

That's why I have to be very careful. I'm still waiting for the troops Arkne will bring in from above. The gate point that the airship would pass through was outside the mine, so it would take a while before they arrived.

Not that I don't want to make a point gate in this basement, but in this basement all forms of teleportation and gates are forbidden. So, I can't make a wormhole in this basement.

Not long after, the army led by Arkne had arrived. The army was an army with silver armor with gold ornaments. If you look closely, the troops are very different from the silver troops who usually guard the city.the design of their armor has a more complicated carving with the addition of red energy stones on the chest.

They were the Moon Profound Phoenix Legion, an army that was directly under the command of Arkne and the main force of Moon Palace. Among them were many strong commanders and were at Tier four.

The total number of troops Arkne had brought was only around a thousand, but their combat strength was enough to flatten Xuan Ming's entire army if I wanted to. Moreover, they were all supplied with the lowest Super Rare items, and some commanders were equipped with NPC-specific Epic Items that both me and the sisters had to spend a lot of money to buy.

That was why NPCs would evolve faster than players. In addition to their promotional challenges to the next tier more easily, various items from trash to Legendary were freely traded by NPC merchants. Of course for high-class items like rare and above it the supply is limited and the cheapest price alone could be worth with a Level 1 spacecraft fuel battery in the real world.

(About 100 points or equal to 100,000 USD)

Unlike the player who has to create or search for items through quests and Raid in dungeons. It also has to be at a very low drop rate. In short, as long as you spend money, you can equip your NPC with top-tier equipment.

Seeing the knights led by Arkne had lined up neatly, the, I just issued an order for them to help explore around the ruins and explore the forest to see how vast the forest was and to find out what was hidden behind the dense trees.

Everyone immediately went to their jobs and brought various equipment needed. Some people are assigned to clean up the remains of the monster carcass and look for the drop items they left behind.

Instead of getting tired of seeing those researchers who were busy with their respective jobs, I jumped off the roof of the building and came to the inner city that was separated by a high great wall.

For a while, I spied the wall to find the entrance. The entrance to the inner city was tightly sealed with a very heavy metal gate. After a long time left behind, this black metal gate still looks very new without the slightest trace of rust. This proves that the material used to make this door is not a careless material.

I walked towards the door and poured my power into the sword.

Swoss... Clang...!

Slashwas...

I slashed with all my might towards the gate with great force, but what I did not expect, my attack power was reflected back towards me. I felt a sharp, warm pain in my right arm. After I saw it, it turned out that my right hand was bleeding from being hit by my own slash. If I didn't have any quick reflexes, maybe the slash would hit right on my body.

Really, a strong defensive power...

It's a very good research material. I immediately instructed some people to research this meterial that might be of use to Moon Palace in the future.

I went back around the second ring city wall. On this wall, there are four exits facing each of the four winds. What I checked before was the south door, so now I'm heading towards the west door that's open.

This thick metal door had been torn apart and crushed into pieces of scrap metal. I can't imagine what kind of power destroyed it like this.

As I approached and looked at it more closely, I realized that the destruction at the door was caused by the clawing and lacing of the brute force. I can't confirm the strength of the monster that did this because I haven't set an upper limit on the power that this metal door can withstand.

Just let the others investigate this while I continue to enter the inner city to see his condition. The inner city was also very messy with many buildings that had been shattered into complete ruins. Even the main building in the middle of the city has collapsed due to unknown causes.

Many of the bones of monsters and humans on the ground were scattered with extremely miserable conditions, including the bones that still had extremely worn metal armor on his body with many battle marks that were still very clearly visible.

The number of Animanid bones in the city is far less than the population should have been. Perhaps the rest of the survivors had moved to other places or they had also died, just that they did not have enough strength, so their bones had become ashes due to age.

From the condition of the city and the remains of living creatures found in this place, it could already describe how ferocious the attacks of the Abyssal Demon had ever occurred in this place.

I kept walking towards the middle of the city. On one side of the city was an empty field with many craters and debris, indicating that this was a battlefield within the city. As I approached, there was an extremely terrifying and chaotic aura in this place. Which atmosphere around this field is very chaotic and mixed like mud water.

This kind of monstrous aura even exerts great pressure on my body, I suppose that it is because of this aura that many Demonic Beasts do not dare to approach the inner city.

I did not continue my exploration further. Not because I didn't want to know, but feeling this pressure, I knew that this was the battle area of the peak lords who were quite strong. I don't know how powerful the ruler of this city was in the past. But I am sure that the ruler of this city was not one to be provoked easily. So, if I were to recklessly explore in this place, maybe I would accidentally activate the defense mechanism in this city, so I better wait for an investigation from my subordinates first before continuing my exploration of this city.

While waiting for the exact results of the investigation from my subordinates, I went up to the city wall and looked at the state of affairs. As I thought at the beginning. Many former cannon fountains have been removed. Only a few broken cannons were left behind.

While I was still very curious about the walls of this city and exploring, I saw something very unusual. I saw a fairly large three-story building with a lot of damage to its walls.

What makes me very interested in the house is its design. The design of the house is very different from those around it.

I was really very curious, so I subconsciously stepped towards the building and looked around. The building has a very large courtyard and is surrounded by a fence that has been badly damaged. There was a large stone monument in the courtyard of the house.

I continued to approach and saw the stone monument covered in moss and dust. As I rubbed the moss covering, I could see some characters of letters engraved clearly on it.

This really surprised me. I've received many surprises after coming to this world, but I didn't expect that the current surprise to be so great. The surprise I was referring to was the inscription on this two-meter-high stone monument.

In these ruins, everything is carved using ancient letters, but this writing is written using modern alphabet letters, very much different from the original buildings of this city.

On it is written a sentence «Perfection» written vertically.

Perfection...

It's not just a word, but it's a name. Precisely it was the name of a super guild that ranked eighth out of the top hundred super guilds.

At first no one knew the guild, but one day, suddenly the name of the guild became very famous for fighting with the super guild «Aquila» ranked tenth and managed to win. Since then, the name perfection has become famous.

But it did not stop there, the perfection guild again fought with the ninth level guild and managed to win as well, although it was almost destroyed.

They were a guild that suddenly did not famous appear and shook the entire Alterion as they managed to shift one of the super guilds in the ranking list that had never changed.

Due to fighting over the governance rights of a dungeon, they also fought with eighth-ranked Guilds and made eighth-level guilds unable to gain any advantage in that war (series).

But one mistake they made and destroyed their vicious record, they got a mysterious black city that contained a fragment of a very scary and evil soul.

No one knew what the soul piece was, but clearly the soul piece was extremely powerful. Maybe the others don't know, but I know clearly what the soul piece is.

Since I did not say its usefulness and bid stubbornly, perhaps they suspected that the soul must have a certain very important use, so they rejected all the offers I proposed.

What can be done, me and the four sisters must be forced to move and dirty our hands to get the item.

As a result, the five-member Moon Palace and the Perfection who had guild members of over a hundred thousand had to fight.

In terms of the number of members, we did lose, but for a top-tier combat power, we far surpassed them. And don't forget, that Moon Palace has millions of NPCs and hundreds of high-level NPCs. So with the NPCs that Moon Palace has, we are directly superior in numbers and are very superior to top-tier fighters.

Although they had many members, they only had two Tier Anam, while me and the sisters were a bona fide Tier six, not to mention with the added five Tier six NPC Moon Palace. So, at least we have ten God Tier people.

That way you can imagine how tragic the fight is for those who are just up and coming. After all they were only guilds that were eighth, while Moon Palace was a guild that ranked third.

Of course the war we won and the soul fragment also managed to grab me. But we'll never stop there...

From that day on, we continued to hunt down all of their guild members either in the fields or in the safe city by hiring Dark Player. Of course killing for hundreds of thousands of such members was almost impossible for the five of us, so we put up a fugitive price for all of their guild members. Since then, many of their players have been desperate and either quit the guild or started new accounts to avoid hunting other players.

Although the hunt for the Perfection members was fierce, but we simply could not get rid of them all. And I was so amazed at them back then because even though we were trying to mow the lawn, they could still maintain their position on the eighth ranked list.

Now I know why they can go up so fast and so hard to grow. It was probably because they found this place that could be used to cultivate the power of the level then they kept it a secret so that they could monopolize this place...

Really crafty... Heh. but you're still over.

While reminiscing about the past, I continued walking forward and entered the three-story large building. Just like the exterior, the interior of this building has also been shattered, leaving only a messy building. But of course not just an empty house, however, this building used to be the main headquarters of a super guild.

I suspect that there is a guild warehouse in one of the places in this building, after all, this used to be one of the headquarters of the super guild. So, it was impossible for such a headquarters to be just an empty building. Moreover, this headquarters was a very important place for them. Without a second thought, I immediately called more people to search the entire building at each inch.

As expected, one of my men managed to find something in a basement. In the basement was a large metal door that was covered by runes and sealing formations.

As a rune expert, I can see that this rune formation is starting to weaken due to the many magic circuits it has broken.

Arkne:"Your Majesty, with the power of a formation like this, our people would at least take two or three days to open it."

Sally:"I know. I will stay in this place and join in breaking this protection formation."

Arkne:"Yes, Your Majesty."

In order to identify and break the formation of a seal formation like this I had to search for the gaps present in each of its magic circuits. This is the same as looking for bugs or flaws in a firewall program and utilizing it to infiltrate the virus into it so that it will damage the firewall and give us access to the device protected by firewalls.

Although it sounds easy, it will probably take a long time. Imagine, looking for a gap in a program among thousands of interrelated program data.

However with the help of the Runer Master Moon Palace, I am confident that I can break this formation array in no time.

.....

Two days have passed. With the help of the Runer Master to break this seal formation, I managed to identify it as well as break this seal.

Really, I did not expect that the guild had a Runer Master capable enough to set up a formation as complex as this.

Arkne:"Your Majesty, I will open it. Help you to keep your distance."

Phile:"I understand. Careful."

I saw Arkne nodding with his full body armor. Opening a guild's storage room was no simple matter. Such a sealing formation was only an initial hurdle, the real hurdle would only start once the door opened. It could be in the form of traps or triggering certain formations.

Arkne wrote down a long rune and shaped it into a circuit and then connected it with a series of sealing magic formations. A moment after, the entire formation began to glow with a flame-red color.

Filia:"Install a magic shield!."

I shouted and warned everyone. In just the blink of an eye after my warning, all the runes in the formation lit up very brightly, then...

Boom...!!

A huge explosion shook the ground and made the ruins of this guild crumble blown away by the shockwave and heat from the explosion.

After the smoke and dust settled, I opened my eyes and saw four knights who opened the magic shield and blocked right in front of me. Their shields cracked and some were even destroyed due to the impact of the explosion.

If not for this formation having weakened after billions of years had passed, then the impact of this explosion would have been enough to blow nearly half the city into flying dust.

After the explosion, the door opened and revealed a long, bright hallway behind it. Along the walls of the hallway it is decorated with reliefs of animals and various other creatures that are complicated and look like telling a certain event.

Arkne stepped first and entered into that passageway. Nothing happened after Arkne entered the passageway.

However, after everyone entered the hallway, the entire floor of the hall lit up with streaks of blue runes that were so bright that they almost blinded the eyes.

Unknowingly, I closed my eyes to dispel the blinding light. As soon as I opened my eyes, I and the others were already in a very wide circular space with bright lighting. This entire room was silver gray as if it was made of metal. Throughout the walls of this circular room decorated by the same relief as in the hall at the beginning.

Teleportation formation?. Nope, no. This was not teleportation, but a transformation of space. We were still in the same hallway, it was just that the shape of this hallway had turned into a very spacious circular room.

Arkne:"Your Majesty, take refuge behind me."

Arkne and the four knights set up a formation and wrapped me around the center. Each knight was two meters away in a very alert condition to any attacks that might appear at any time.

I saw the metal wall filled with reliefs begin to churn out small bubbles as if it were boiling water. A moment later, the wall melted and fell to the ground with a silver-gray viscous liquid.

The gray liquid was like a metal slime that was constantly twitching. The hundreds of wisps of liquid began to solidify and formed various figures of silver-gray knights three meters tall with various weapons.

Filia:"This is Nanite Fighter, watch out!."

"Yes!."

Nanite Fighter is a fighting robot composed of a large number of nano robots. They are very difficult to beat because even if they are cut or blown up, the nano robots will continue to reorder the nano fighters according to the program they have printed in their memory.

To destroy them is very difficult. We have to destroy the core that is inside his body. That core contains programs and also as an energy provider for nano-fighters. So, as long as that core is destroyed, then that nano robot will also self-destruct.

It's very troublesome...

(The end of this chapter)

Continue tomorrow.

Runer Master: Is a person who is an expert in runes and their application.

Rune: The letters are separate and can be arranged to form sentences.

Circuit: Which lines are formed using runes that have been arranged to form a sentence.

Formations: A combination of several or many circuits arranged and drawn in a particular shape and layout in a field to provide a specific function.