Chapter 137 - 105: First Exploration
Chapter 137: Chapter 105: First Exploration
"My lord, everything has arrived!"
As the group was happily chatting, a Guard came to report.
On the plaza beneath the World Tree, a pile of assorted equipment was stacked, surrounded by a group of Guards (Druid Guards).
Lin Yu and his party walked to the base of the World Tree and saw several dwarves inspecting the equipment on the ground, ensuring everything was perfect.
"Orentz, why did you come in person? Couldn’t you have just sent someone to deliver it?"
"My Lord, for a task you personally assigned, I have to be meticulous. I was busy all last night and worried I might have missed something. I wanted to take this chance to do one last check while there’s still time."
"I’ve always had faith in the craftsmanship of the Dwarf Race."
"My lord, if you say that, then I’ll definitely have to check it again!!"
"Hahaha, no need, no need!!"
As the two spoke, Orentz finished inspecting all the equipment on the ground.
"All right, my lord, the equipment is all in order!"
After confirming there were no issues with the equipment on the ground, Orentz formally handed it over to Lin Yu.
"Yuan Xiaobo, Lin Kong, come over here for a moment."
Lin Yu called Yuan Xiaobo’s team over.
"This is the equipment you’ll be using for your expedition. I had the dwarves work overtime last night to make it. Change into it now, and Orentz will explain how to use it."
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Under Orentz’s guidance, the group changed into the gear, and their appearance transformed completely. If the team had previously looked like a ragtag, cobbled-together ancient squadron, then now, they looked like a modern, professional investigation team.
The outermost layer was a sleek white leather suit made from the shed skin of a Rock Shield Python. Processed through various techniques, it possessed extreme toughness and rigidity, making it the best leather material found in the territory so far.
Inlaid into key areas of the leather suit were thick, silver armor plates woven from the strongest silk of the Profound Silk Spider. Each plate required the silk of over 1,000 Profound Silk Spiders, granting it extremely high defense.
Beneath the leather suit was a thermal garment woven from threads drawn from the husks of Fire Silk Fruits, the fruit of the Fire Silk Tree. It had excellent insulation properties and could even generate its own heat in cold environments, maintaining the wearer’s body temperature.
It also formed a heat-insulating layer, mitigating a certain amount of fire damage. Temperatures below 400 degrees Celsius could not penetrate the garment.
Each of them carried a small white backpack. The large pile of equipment and supplies from the ground had been evenly distributed among them and packed into these small bags.
This was a Space Backpack. Lin Yu had redeemed the production blueprint from the point mall after acquiring the Space Stone Vein. The blueprint was very expensive, wiping out his entire point savings. It was also very difficult to produce; if not for the dwarves in the territory, it would have been impossible to study it thoroughly and begin production so quickly.
The Space Backpacks were filled with prepared supplies and various detection devices.
"Hello, members of the exploration team. My name is Orentz Kent. I believe most of you know me. I will now explain the use of this equipment to all of you."
"First, take this device out of your backpacks." Orentz held up the device in his hand.
"This device is called a Vein Detector. It uses the latest Mineral Detection Rune Array developed by the research institute, combined with an Energy Gathering Rune Array..."
"To use it, just flip the switch. It will automatically detect ore veins within a 10-kilometer radius. It’s already been integrated with all the information on known veins that we’ve acquired from the Wisdom Library and the Jade Sanctuary. These other buttons are for..."
"Next, take out this device."
"This is a Life Detector. Like the Vein Detector, it also uses the latest technology and includes..."
"The operation is the same—just flip the switch. This Life Detector can detect life within a 10-kilometer radius, marking the energy intensity of lifeforms and whether they possess any special energies..."
"This is an Energy Detector..."
"Then there’s this device, a simple outdoor Illusion Generator. I know you can cast Illusion Techniques yourselves, but this will help you conserve energy. And since it has an integrated Energy Gathering Array, you can leave it on continuously..."
"Also, this field camping gear..."
"Single-use Elemental Servant Summoners..."
"Finally, I want to highlight this device. This is a finished Cosmic Universal Translator that the Lord redeemed from the third floor of the arena using arena points. It’s said that it can translate the languages of all known and unknown lifeforms in the entire Cosmos. If you encounter intelligent life in that world, it will help you communicate..."
Orentz introduced each of these new devices to the members of the exploration team one by one.
With the completion of various research projects in the Technology Tree, combined with the dwarves’ exquisite craftsmanship and skillful application of existing technology, more and more useful tools were appearing in the territory. People were beginning to use these tools more often in their daily lives.
The entire territory was slowly beginning to move away from a primitive way of life that relied on innate talents for production and combat.
By the time Orentz finished his introductions, Lin Kong and the others were already impatient to head to the Otherworld. Orentz was just too long-winded.
Amid the well-wishes of Lin Yu and the others, Yuan Xiaobo, Lin Kong, and the rest of the team walked one by one into the ice-blue branches.
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"Whoa... So this is ice and snow?" Lin Yan exclaimed in amazement the moment he entered.