Witch Special

Finally, Lin Zhenxi chose a golden beetle as the tool insect to outline the bottom of the magic ore.

This kind of golden beetle was discovered by Lin Zhenxi in the ruins of a pyramid in the wizarding world. Its characteristic is that it likes to gnaw on magical devices. It should have been used by ancient pharaohs to prevent wizards from robbing tombs, but it is obvious that all its anti-theft measures have failed, otherwise that place would not have been developed into a tourist attraction in the wizarding world.

Because of their characteristic of feeding on magic, this kind of golden beetle has a certain tolerance to magic, but it is only a little. They just rely on instinct to gnaw on anything with magic, and have no concept of hunger and fullness at all. Unfortunately, their magic capacity is not high, so they can easily eat themselves to death.

However, the bodies of these golden beetles, which died from consuming too much magic power, would produce some rather miraculous chemical reactions. The specifics of how this was achieved were unknown, but wizards could use these insect corpses to extract a magical metal with properties very similar to gold.

It is precisely because of this characteristic that this golden beetle, which poses a threat to magical creations, has not been completely eradicated by wizards. Instead, enough populations have been left as seeds in the places where they were found for any wizard in need to select and take home to cultivate.

Lin Zhenxi also bought a few and used them as a model to create corresponding summoning magic, but they never came in handy. Now, these demon-devouring golden beetles finally have a job to do.

However, before summoning the golden beetle, Lin Zhenxi had to expand his excavation team. Because the goal had changed, Lin Zhenxi needed to dig a large enough hole under the magical ore. The current team of three, consisting of digging moles and chess dwarves, would be too slow to make progress.

If she continued to summon more digging familiars, Lin Zhenxi would have to build more magic generators. Magic generators require water to operate, and the number of magic generators that can exist simultaneously in a given area is limited. Therefore, Lin Zhenxi must expand the scope of her underground space, preferably digging directly into an underground water vein so that she doesn't have to worry about energy issues.

In the next few days, Lin Zhenxi started to deal with these things. The water in this place was really difficult to dig. It was deep and the water pressure was high. Several of Lin Zhenxi's servants died in accidents while digging groundwater. In the end, Lin Zhenxi had to cast a shrinking spell and go into the tunnel to deal with the underground water veins himself. Only then did he complete a sufficient number of magic generators.

With the magic generator as a foundation, Lin Zhenxi's underground construction team instantly expanded tenfold. The members were no longer limited to digging moles and chess dwarves, but also included rockworms that specialized in dealing with continuous hard rocks and tunnelworms that specialized in transporting debris.

Due to the large scale of the project, the debris generated during the excavation process is no longer something the chess dwarves can handle, so they are now dedicated to the work of hardening the passage.

With the joint cooperation of the four summoned creatures, Lin Zhenxi dug out a huge underground palace under the entire Orc Canyon and Time Square. If someone could open the God's perspective like Lin Zhenxi's glass altar, they would definitely be amazed by the huge project completed by Lin Zhenxi in the past few days.

It’s a pity that only Lin Zhenxi can appreciate such a magnificent underground project.

After several days of preparation, Lin Zhenxi had dug tunnels directly beneath every magical ore. The work of summoning the creatures was complete, and Lin Zhenxi released the magic power supply to them and sent them all back.

Next, she began using the magic generator to summon a large number of magic-devouring golden beetles, and then had them dig up the soil from directly below and gnaw at the roots of the magic ore. These golden beetles would soon die from consuming too much magic power, but their corpses would also block the magic radiation, allowing Lin Zhenxi to use the glass jar to outline the bottom of the magic ore.

After another day of preparation, Lin Zhenxi finally gathered tens of thousands of demon-devouring golden scarabs. These palm-sized scarabs completely filled the tunnels Lin Zhenxi had dug over the past few days. In the display of the glass altar, the tunnels all turned dark, with almost no gaps visible.

Very good, let’s get started!

At Lin Zhenxi's command, these demon-eating golden beetles began to split into dozens of groups and launched a fatal charge towards the magic ores scattered throughout the Orc Canyon.

The radiation from those magic ores was extremely dangerous. Even through the thick soil, it still affected the surroundings. Many of the golden beetles that were at the front didn't even touch the edge of the magic ores before they were killed on the spot by the radiation.

But Lin Zhenxi did not stop providing them with magic power, so even if they were dead, their bodies would not disappear, but would remain in place and become a shield to protect the subsequent golden beetles from radiation.

In this way, layer after layer, they paved a path to the surface of the magic ore with the corpses of their companions. After finally being able to approach the bottom of the magic ore, the golden beetles quickly spread out and began to cling to the bottom of the ore, desperately gnawing at the magic ore with their hard mouthparts.

Then, die.

One day later, most of the golden beetles prepared by Lin Zhenxi were dead, but they also completed Lin Zhenxi's preset goal very well. They had outlined the outline of the part of the magic ore buried deep underground. Lin Zhenxi finally mastered all the shape information of these magic ores.

Next, it was Lin Zhenxi's turn to appear. She crawled into the tunnels and came to the underground holes that the excavation team had almost dug, and made some simple adjustments to the shape of these underground holes.

The magical ores overhead were no longer connected to the surrounding soil. They hadn't fallen because the carcasses of the golden beetles had replaced the soil, becoming the connection between them and the soil. If Lin Zhenxi completely cut off the supply of magic power to the golden beetles, these products of summoning magic would simply vanish, and the magic ores, without their anchors, would fall into the hollow below.

With this, the third phase of work was complete, and it was time to cover the area with soil. If the holes created by the falling magical ore weren't sealed, the Canine Mercenaries above ground would surely come down to investigate, and Lin Zhenxi would eventually have to confront them head-on. Then, what was the point of all the work Lin Zhenxi had done before?

In fact, at this point in time, it no longer matters whether Lin Zhenxi can defeat the Canine Fang Mercenaries and the Xiuxiu Sect behind them. Lin Zhenxi just wants things to develop step by step according to her own plan. As for whether she has taken a detour and done useless work, she doesn't want to think about those things.

So, while Lin Zhenxi was busy digging his huge underground project, what was happening on the ground?

It was actually quite boring, as the three sisters were blocked by Gracchus, who finally had some free time, and his team.

After the magic ores discovered in the Orc Canyon were sent to Harlin, they were confirmed by the Xiaxiu Sect to have great practical value. The top leaders of the Xiaxiu Sect finally turned their attention to this remote and backward wilderness.

The first thing they did was to send a formal cadre from the Xiu Sect to serve as the manager here, and then demoted all the Canine Mercenaries to miners.

To be precise, all the orcs, except for the cadres, became miners. The former cadres were relegated to overseers. While they no longer had to work in the mines, their status plummeted. Gragul, the leader of the Fang Mercenaries, became the foreman. He had to excavate a certain amount of magical ore every day, or face punishment from the official Xiaxiu cadres.

At the same time, because the radiation hazards of magic ores have been confirmed, the mines in the Orc Canyon have also been given a new name, that is, the "Ninth Isolation Zone".

"Silver Light" Daker, a formal cadre from the "Skull Bird", a lower-level plundering group of the Xiu Sect, became the temporary ruler here.

"Black Tiger" Gragul could not accept the fact that the Canine Mercenary Corps he had worked so hard to establish was being used as miners, but his struggle was meaningless and could not change the current situation because the Xiu Sect did not take it seriously at all.

It's like raising a relatively intelligent black dog. Even though it can understand human speech, does that mean you have to treat it like a human? Of course not. A beast is a beast. In the eyes of the Xiu sect, the orcs are no different from beasts. Only those who master magic can be regarded with respect.

After all, the Xiu Sect is a magical organization that relies on powerful dark magic to do whatever it wants. Powerful magic is the cornerstone of this organization's rule.

Obviously, these mercenaries of the Canine Mercenary Group do not master magic, so in the eyes of the Xiu Sect they are not even considered human beings, and of course it is impossible to entrust them with any important tasks.

Gragul, who had no magic, was no match for the cadres of the Xiu faction. After being easily suppressed by "Silver Light" Daker using barrier magic, he had to humiliatingly accept the reality that he had lost his power and became a mere foreman.

But it did not give up its ambition. On the contrary, the memory of being subdued by Daker's magic tightly bound its heart like a red-hot chain, constantly bringing it a burning pain and making it extremely eager to master the power of magic.

The three sisters, Elta, Belladir, and Skulti, who were members of the Alien Clan and could wield magic, became its most pressing targets. It had somehow learned of the Alien Clan's legend of the Transcendents, and like a lifeline, it sought to transform the sisters into Transcendents under its control, using their power to resist the oppression of the Khasho Clan.

So, while Gracchus was completing the mission assigned to him by the Khashts, he also began to devote all his energy to capturing the three sisters. This time, facing Gracchus's full firepower, the three sisters' good luck finally ran out.

They were caught.