my armed maid

Chapter 153 Chapter 150: Gaia Core (sorry for being late)
The green signal flare rising over the misty swamp means the complete victory of this crusade.

The troops stationed outside came to deal with the aftermath. On this side, Nolen controlled the Eye of Odin backpack to fly over from the distant mountain and met up with Ryan and others in the swamp.

No, after the massive battle just now, this place can no longer be considered a swamp to be precise.

Even though the Gaia Worm has been killed, the many rock peaks it created before its death have not collapsed. It is more suitable to be called a basin than a swamp.

And lying in the center of the basin is the huge body of the Gaia worm.

I thought it was nothing when I looked at it from the sky before, but now I landed next to it at close range. The behemoth tens of meters long was right in front of me, and it was indeed quite oppressive.

"What a wonderful shot just now, Nolen."

Ryan came over and said, "Thank you for your hard work. Do you want to stay here to direct the aftermath?"

"Well, I want to see if there is any useful material on it."

Nolen nodded to all the combatants on the scene, then eagerly stretched out his hand and flicked the spiny silver-gray scales of the Gaia worm with his fingers.

As long as they can be hunted successfully, not only this special organ, but also ordinary flesh and blood can be used as food or medicine, and are also worth a lot of money.

"As expected of an underground creature, I have never seen this material before."

There was a hint of surprise in his eyes. If he could make good use of it, it might become an excellent alchemy material.

Because it had just been peeled off from the body of the Gaia worm, it had not been completely cleaned, and there was still some turbid mucus on the surface. It looked a bit evil like Cthulhu under the dim light.

This has resulted in high-level materials related to World of Warcraft being in a priceless and unmarketable state.

From the outside, it looks similar to a magic crystal, but there are differences. The "core" is a special organ generated in the body of some monsters.

However, the Gaia worm is several times larger than Xia Huilong, so it cannot be peeled off in one day.

This is an oval-shaped crystal, about the size of a baby's head.

Moreover, because high-level monsters are often more powerful than ordinary extraordinary humans of the same level, hunting is also very difficult, and often requires the cooperation of multiple strong people to complete the hunt.

It would be better to say that those without a core are the majority, like Xia Huilong.

Even though the obsidian armor has disappeared, the silver-gray scales themselves are still very hard, and you can clearly feel the considerable hardness when you flick your fingers on the thorns.

Until evening, after a busy day, he happily walked to the set up camp holding an iron box.

Because as early as thousands of years ago, the ancients have proven that eating these extraordinary foods can increase the probability of ordinary people awakening to the extraordinary, or make extraordinary people more powerful.

Just now, the logistics team finally dug out a deep purple gem from the body of the Gaia worm.

He only took one look and knew that this was the core of the Gaia worm, and it was also the necessary casting material for the special spell "Energy Burst", so he immediately took it back to his tent.

With anticipation, Nolen spent the whole day working with the logistics team, dissecting and cutting Gaia worm materials on site.

When he came to the case, he opened the iron box by the light of the night lamp and carefully took out the deep purple gem.

Especially the eighth-level magical beast Gaia Worm, which lives underground all year round and rarely appears in the human world. The materials stripped from it are extremely rare even in the entire empire.

But at the same time, it's weirdly... soft?
As the Gaia worm gradually lost its vital signs, its spiny scales shrank back at a speed visible to the naked eye, and soon returned to a flat scale shape.

Although the core also has the function of storing and releasing magic power, in this world, not all Warcraft have cores in their bodies.

In fact, Warcraft, especially high-level Warcraft, are full of treasures.

Correspondingly, it has a "magic bag" in its body, an organ with similar functions to the "core".

However, when it comes to which form of organ can store and release more magic power, there is no doubt that it is the "core".

The "core" will be formed by absorbing and compressing the magic power to the limit until it becomes solid. It will only appear on monsters of level eight or above.

According to the definition of alchemy, magic crystals are divided into six levels based on magic concentration, which are:
Azure level, dark blue level, dark green level, orange level, vermilion level, purple level.

In fact, before this, the highest-grade magic crystals collected from both the Linfeng Mine in Linfeng City and the Loki Mine in Flamel were only vermilion grade.

Because in theory, the highest quality of purely naturally formed mineral crystals is vermilion grade.

As for the even more powerful purple-red ones... they are only produced in the bodies of high-level monsters.

And the core of the Gaia worm he currently holds is the authentic purple-red magic crystal!
Yes, the core of this form can be used as a magic crystal for direct use by the magic weapon.

Moreover, as the highest-level magic crystal, in addition to being able to store more magic power, it also has another feature -

Just like a living thing, even if the magic power in its core is used up, it can automatically restore its magic power over time and then reuse it!
This is an advantage that natural mineral magic crystals can never match because they are all disposable.

Natural magic crystals are formed in an environment rich in magic power. After hundreds of thousands of years, the magic power slowly penetrates and fills into special ores.

While this type of ore absorbs magic power, its own structure will also undergo irreversible changes. Once the magic power is extracted, the natural magic crystal will become sharply brittle in a short period of time because it cannot adapt to the sudden pressure change inside. If magic power is injected into it, it will immediately break and cannot be reused at all.

But the core of high-level Warcraft is different. It is a special organ, and there is no problem no matter how the magic power flows here.

"The Gaia worm feeds on ley line energy, so I knew it must have its own magic core."

Nolen put his hand on the top of the core. As a transcendent, he could feel the free magic from the outside world being pulled by the core.

This shows that the core is spontaneously replenishing its own magic power, and the speed is not slow!
The huge and permanent power source was finally obtained. Nolen was in high spirits, and the fatigue of the past two days was wiped away from his brows.

After working hard for so long, we in Linfeng City finally have our own solar furnace!
And, the capabilities of Gaia Core don’t stop there.

If it is mounted on the Valkyrie backpack and uses Gaia's core as a medium, Yuna can cast the special spell "Energy Burst".

Needless to say, the intensity of "Energy Burst", with it by its side, the Gaia Worm can pin an eighth-level transcendent to the ground and hammer it, and its oppressive force is comparable to that of a ninth-level monster.

The essence of the energy burst is actually an amplification position, and for Valkyrie equipment, both the "acceleration" of the jetpack and the attack spells of the magic weapon will be strengthened during the amplification period.

This means that Valkyrie equipment will have a qualitative breakthrough in terms of flight speed and attack power, and the performance of the aircraft will jump to new heights.

"Wow--"

Just as he was thinking about the future equipment improvements, the curtain of the tent was opened.

Yuna walked in with a plate in her left hand and a box in her right hand. She smiled at Nolen and said, "It's time for dinner."

After the battle, she became someone's personal maid, and naturally had to take care of his three meals a day.

"Just put it there."

Nolen pointed casually and asked impatiently, "Where are the scales of the Gaia worm? Did you bring them too?"

"...You just told me repeatedly, so of course I brought it."

Yuna wanted to remind Nolen to have dinner first, but seeing how excited he was, she had no choice but to swallow her words.

After being together for such a long time, she knew that Nolen was currently in a feverish state of research, and no matter who said anything at this time, he would not listen.

So she put down the dinner plate, opened the box in her hand and placed it in front of the table.

Inside the box was a piece of intact silver-gray scale that had just been peeled off, with some nerve-like silver filaments attached to its back.

Apart from the core, what interested him most about the Gaia worm were its scales.

It is obviously hard enough to withstand the physical attacks of eighth-level knights, but it can expand or contract at will, and can easily change back and forth between spines and scales like plasticine.

In the current field of alchemy, there is no material that he knows that can achieve this level.

"I see, you can see it more clearly when you peel off the entire scale."

Nolen turned the silver-gray scales over and said, "There is a special conductive wire connected to the back. The worm should rely on it to control the shape of the scales. I don't know whether it is magic power or spiritual signals that are transmitted?"

He tried to touch the conductive thread and imbue it with magic.

At that moment, he clearly discovered that the hard silver-gray scales actually trembled slightly like a living thing.

This made his eyes light up, but that seemed to be it.

Afterwards, he tested it for a long time, but although the silver-gray scales responded to the magic power, they still could not make obvious deformations.

This shows that magic is only one of the necessary conditions to control its transformation.

"Gululu~"

He didn't know what time it was, but his stomach finally became unbearable and protested. He raised his head and saw Yuna standing by, looking at him eagerly.

"I just reheated dinner."

Yuna tentatively asked, "It's already late at night, how about... let's eat first?"

"That's fine." Hungry hit him, and Nolen had no clue of research for a while.

He looked at the dinner plate, then smiled and said, "You actually brought me two dinners. How do you know I'm hungry now?"

"Ah, um -" Yuna was stunned for a moment, then nodded slowly.

"...No." Nolen pondered for two seconds and suddenly came back to his senses.

"You're not waiting for me to have dinner with you, are you?"

(End of this chapter)