Exploring Technology in a Wizard World-Chapter 552 - 550: Demolition-style Levelling

"Boom!!!"

The Magic Bomb exploded, and the vast space shook violently, like a meteor smashing into the ocean. The multitude of lizard monsters were flung up like the sea itself, more than half dying midair, the rest meeting the same fate upon hitting the ground.

The seemingly indestructible formation of the lizard monsters was instantly decimated under the irrational and overwhelming attack. Countless lizard monsters perished, and those who survived were petrified, slowing their advance.

At that moment, Pandora turned her head to look at Richard, who promptly handed her another Magic Bomb.

Pandora clicked it into her hand cannon, her eyes curving into crescents with glee, ready to take aim and fire a second shot.

But in the next instant, Pandora’s eyes widened at a rate of five centimeters per second, her joyful expression vanishing fast, as her face turned stern.

Following Pandora’s gaze, they saw the lizard monsters, as if sensing impending doom, "whoosh" away at a speed faster than they had appeared, fleeing deep into the underground space.

"Don’t run!"

Pandora jumped up and yelled, but rather than stopping, the lizard monsters sprinted even faster and soon vanished completely.

Completely!

Not a single one left!

Pandora was left with an expression of frustration, her inner thoughts filled with contempt: These lizard monsters really lacked backbone!

Truly, they lacked any spine at all! She felt disdain, utter disdain!

"It’s alright," Richard then patted Pandora’s shoulder in consolation, saying, "Let’s continue exploring."

With that, Richard placed his palm on an interior wall of the bunker, casting a spell. The wall quickly collapsed. He stepped outside, walking over the dense pile of lizard monster corpses, heading deeper into the underground space.

"Okay then," Pandora pouted in reply, her mood still a bit soured by the retreating lizard monsters, but she quickly followed in Richard’s footsteps.

...

The two of them continued on without encountering any further disturbances from monsters, smoothly traveling several hundred meters until they came to a corridor.

The corridor was about five meters tall and a bit more than four meters wide, not particularly spacious, but not cramped either.

Without much hesitation, Richard and Pandora together entered the corridor and walked a few hundred meters more when new creatures appeared. These new monsters were a swarm of green beetles, each the size of a coconut, with black wings that gave them a malevolent look, and they possessed the ability to fly short distances. Moreover, these beetles were even less intelligent than the lizard monsters, acting purely on instinct. Upon detecting Richard entering the corridor, they didn’t even bother with introductions and immediately launched an attack en masse at Richard and Pandora.

Richard didn’t bother to be polite in response.

In such a confined space as the corridor, where the beetles had no room to dodge and only one direction to approach, he didn’t even bother to build a bunker. Instead, he simply brought out his Magic Gun and started shooting straight ahead.

The Magic Bullets flew out like a burst of shrapnel.

"Bang bang bang bang...click!"

The drum of shellless magic bullets ran out, and Richard swiftly replaced it with a new one. In the gap between, the beetles took their chance to charge, but Pandora immediately fired her cannon, instantly clearing the field.

After several rounds like this, Richard and Pandora stood in place, unmoved, while the beetles lay dead all around, the corridor ahead was littered with their carcasses.

Richard glanced around briefly, stowed his magic gun, and then, as if recalling something, turned to Pandora and said, "Next time you use the cannon, keep a proper distance, best beyond fifty meters. Too close, and we are going to get affected."

"Oh, fifty meters?" Pandora nodded somewhat understandingly, then mumbled to herself quietly, "Seven sevens are forty-nine, seven eights are fifty-six, so fifty is just a bit more than seven sevens and a little less than seven eights, got it..."

Richard shook his head without saying much more and continued on with Pandora. They proceeded with a demolition-style push.

Yes, a demolition-style push.

Drawing fully from his experience exploring White Stone City, Richard’s approach to the underground space was practically to destroy wherever he went.

The pattern was fixed: if danger was detected, first barrage with magic bullets, if that didn’t work, blow them up with Pandora’s cannon, then follow up with more shooting, if they still weren’t dead, cannon again.

After several rounds like this, there were rarely any survivors.

Occasionally encountering strange, potentially creature-nest-like small openings along the way, too lazy to deal with them, he’d just fill them up with chlorine gas, and after ensuring it was full, would carefully seal and fortify the hole with earth magic.

This basically guaranteed that "wherever they stepped, nothing would grow."

Speaking of which, if not for not wanting to waste time, and not having much chlorine gas in reserve, Richard really wanted to follow his last resort in White Stone City - to fumigate the entire underground space with chlorine gas.

With such a method, Richard and Pandora’s advance was astonishingly fast, practically herding the monsters. In some hardly noticeable corner, they found remaining lizard monsters, and after a few shots, exterminated all potential threats.

The exploration was so easy that it didn’t surprise Richard at all.

After all, though his level was still Apprentice Level, his strength had vastly improved compared to when he was at the White Stone Tower. Plus, having fully learned from the lessons of White Stone City, it would have been strange if things weren’t easy.

Thinking this, Richard led Pandora into the deepest part of the underground space - the secret chamber that held the treasure.

Upon entering the secret chamber, Richard looked around and noted it wasn’t very large, about a hundred square meters, and the style was similar to the treasure chamber in White Stone City - gray floors, gray walls, a gray ceiling, entirely monochromatic, minimalist, and dull.

However, the chamber wasn’t empty; it was lined with boxes, and without looking, Richard could guess they were filled with gold and silver jewelry, antique trinkets, and various denominations of Crystal Coins, just like the previous treasure.

These things, precious to others, held no meaning for him now. His gaze circled the room and finally landed in the center of the hall, where he saw a cylindrical stone platform about a half meter high - the design was exactly the same as the Black Spirit King’s Treasure in White Stone City. The only difference was that atop the gray stone platform in White Stone City there had been a Space Handbag, but now, it held three rather ordinary boxes, one large and two small.

These were the things that had significance to him.

And what might be in those boxes?

Richard approached the stone platform with a touch of curiosity.

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