novelraw Chapter 413-1: Coleman Workshop, A Lawful Good Apostle (1)
Chapter 413-1: Coleman Workshop, A Lawful Good Apostle (1)
[The knowledge scholars have long since left. You do not know where the Direct Vision School Branch Association is located, so you can only search within the ruins, trying to obtain clues…]
[…]
[You search for a long time, but you gain nothing.]
Lin Xun narrowed his eyes and clicked an extra skill.
[A tall, gaunt, shadowy figure appears behind you. Gray-white deathly aura coils around the staff. It raises the short staff high and silently chants an obscure, profound incantation…]
[As the incantation is recited, pale skeletal arms break out of the ground one after another. The dead who have been gone for many years answer the Corrupted Calamity Lich’s call and return from the Underworld to the human realm.]
[Driven by you, the vast undead army digs through the rubble of the ruins. They strictly follow your orders, determined to find relevant clues even if they have to dig three feet into the ground…]
[…]
[After a long while, a Skeleton Warrior makes a discovery. You follow its steps and arrive deep within the ruins.]
[You see that the piled broken walls and rubble have been dug away by more than half, revealing several metal cages beneath, used to imprison slave girls.][No corpses of slave girls are seen nearby. They should have already been rescued by the scholars.]
[What the Skeleton Warrior found is not that, but a small refined copper device abandoned beside the cages.]
[This device is very similar to your Time Prison trap device. The Book Containing Illusion inside has been taken away. The entire device seems to have run out of energy, amounting to an empty shell, so it was abandoned here.]
[You guess that the knowledge scholars interrogated the slave girls, confirming that none were heretics who had secretly defected to the Polar Star Society, before rescuing them all.]
[You carefully examine the device. In the corner of the refined copper casing, you find two lines of tiny engraved text: Produced by Master Coleman, premium guaranteed!]
[If you need to go to Coleman Workshop to place an order, please silently recite the following incantation: Muggle-Repelling Charm!]
[You feel puzzled and take out the refined copper trap device you obtained from the Polar Star Society branch, observing the corner at the same position…]
[There are obvious scrape marks, as if some text had been deliberately erased. The length and size of the scrape marks match exactly the position of those two lines of text.]
[You immediately understand. The refined copper devices used in the Polar Star Society branch were most likely also ordered from Coleman Workshop.]
[Do you want to silently recite the incantation?]
Lin Xun froze for a moment, then was overjoyed.
This Coleman Workshop was a place that manufactured all kinds of refined copper devices. Whether it was the Direct Vision Association or the Polar Star Society, both ordered refined copper devices from here.
If he went to Coleman Workshop, there was a good chance he could obtain the exact coordinates of the Direct Vision School Branch Association. After all, the school association was not like the Polar Star Society, hiding in the darkness.
Lin Xun cursed the Direct Vision Association with his mouth, but his body was honest.
If he could rely on the identity of a True God’s Envoy and pull both the Direct Vision Association and the Multivision Association into an alliance, then exploring a mere Polar Star Society and the abyss regions would be effortless.
After going through many worlds, the Omniscient Oath was, so far, the only faction he had joined that had been a complete smooth ride.
If he did not take advantage of the oath faction and the power of plot characters, would that not be wasting such a great opportunity?
[You follow the text on the device and silently recite the incantation…]
[However, after you finish reciting the incantation and wait for a long time, nothing unusual happens.]
[You suspect the energy inside the device is depleted, so the incantation cannot produce any effect.]
[You immediately pull out the refined copper device with Time Prison and silently recite the incantation again…]
After fiddling for quite a while, Lin Xun realized that he was currently using the Child of Evil Shell, which did not have a mage’s spellcasting ability. Even if he recited the incantation correctly, it would be useless.
He switched to the long-unused President of the Direct Vision Association and chanted the incantation at the device…
[As you finish chanting the incantation, countless tiny glowing characters emerge on the device. Amid flickering light and shadow, they form a detailed Route Map.]
[You have learned the route to Coleman Workshop. Ride the refined copper carriage and you can go there!]
“…This really is high-tech. It can even directly display an electronic Route Map.”
The World of Omniscience not only had extremely advanced transplant technology, it also had a series of ‘high-tech’ magical items: refined copper horses, refined copper dolls, and refined copper devices.
That was not strange. After all, the scholar mages of this world were all researchers pursuing knowledge.
If they had not researched some kind of stuff through endless knowledge, that would be what defied common sense.
[You ride the refined copper carriage and follow the route map into the endless fog, heading to Coleman Workshop…]
[…]
[After traveling for a long time within the fog, the refined copper carriage finally stops.]
[You open the carriage door. Noisy voices immediately pour into the carriage along with the fog…]
[You leave the refined copper carriage and see that what lies ahead is an ultra-large workshop. No, it should be called a small factory.]
[Coleman Workshop is covered by fog. You can only see the tip of the iceberg through the fog.]
[In front of the workshop gates, many refined copper carriages are also parked. You even see large public carriages with huge compartments that can carry dozens of people.]
[At the gates of Coleman Workshop, people come and go. There are not only school erudites dressed as scholars, but also nobles in luxurious clothing.]
[You follow the flow of people into the workshop…]
[At the entrance of the hall is a young, beautiful receptionist. You take out the Teleportation Trap Device and ask the receptionist whether this place can manufacture the same kind of device.]
[It takes the Teleportation Trap Device from your hand and examines it carefully, then nods and tells you that this type of refined copper device is not cheap and has many functions. You can go to the counter to customize the device you want.]
[You look in the direction the receptionist points. At the far end of the spacious hall, there are seven or eight counters, and in front of them are long lines…]
[The people in line talk with the service staff behind the counters while filling out something.]
[You notice that several scholars with extraordinary strength, as well as nobles of high status, are not lining up. Instead, guided by service staff, they enter a separate room to the side.]
[Hanging on that door is a refined copper plaque that reads VIP Room.]
[You look at the long line and ask the receptionist how long you would have to wait. The reply is that you would have to wait at least two hours or more.]
[Pressed for time, you have no patience to waste time lining up, so you walk toward the separate VIP Room to the side.]
[Just as you reach the VIP Room entrance, you are stopped by a security guard.]
[Seeing that your attire is neither that of a scholar nor a noble, but rather that of a crude swordsman, it tells you to go line up at the counters. The VIP Room does not receive commoner swordsmen.]
[Will you go line up at the counter, or will you continue trying to enter the VIP Room?]
[You frown and immediately switch to the Shell of the Knowledge-Seeking President of the Direct Vision Association, revealing your noble scholar identity.]
[The security guard raises its eyelids and, contrary to what you expected, does not respectfully lead you into the VIP Room. Instead, it politely tells you that you still have to line up at the counters.]
[But with your status and position, you can receive a fast-lane queue ticket.]