Conquer the magic elephants and plunder the ruins and buildings!

City Lord Oran spoke with increasing excitement, his eyes gleaming: "Even if we can only produce Tier 3 or 4 Magic Golems, they could replace the work of the soldiers currently guarding the border."

"They do not fear the bitter cold, require no rest, and do not fear death."

"They could truly be called the perfect soldiers!"

"At the same time, we could arrange for some Magic Golems to patrol the center of the main city or near important facilities to ensure safety."

"In this way, our defensive strength will be greatly enhanced, and the pressure on the border will also be significantly reduced."

Hearing City Lord Oran's vision, a thoughtful look appeared in everyone's eyes.

They seemed to envision scenes of massive numbers of Magic Golems charging on the battlefield and taking over the fighting from the soldiers.

It was indeed a completely different scene, one that could even be called a technological revolution.

City Lord Oran sighed and said: "For the past hundred years or so, several major kingdoms near our Ice Crystal Kingdom have been researching how to replicate this Magic Golem technology."

"But unfortunately, the technology of these Magic Golems is simply too advanced, and they have extremely strict protection mechanisms."

"Just as we experienced a moment ago, the moment this Magic Golem encountered a crisis, it prepared to initiate its self-destruct sequence!"

"And once it enters the self-destruct sequence, it is very difficult to terminate."

"Even those Legendary powerhouses who forcibly used their power to seal it and take it back for research have had little success over the years."

"As soon as we attempt to dismantle its core device, it triggers the Magic Golem's protection mechanism, and then it instantly self-destructs!"

Speaking of this, he said with some regret: "So—after all these years, we have only managed to research a tiny fraction of the surface-level Magic Golem technology."

"Something like you directly controlling a complete Magic Golem has never happened before—"

A look of realization appeared in Cao Xing's eyes.

At the same time, he understood why City Lord Oran was so excited.

The reason is that things like Magic Golems are too rare and too difficult to obtain.

The surrounding major kingdoms wanting to conduct research and crack the core technology of the Magic Golems need a large number of samples and repeated experiments.

But Magic Golems only appear in ruins, and they self-destruct whenever they encounter a crisis.

Therefore, even a damaged Magic Golem, as long as it isn't completely scrapped, can still sell for a significant value.

Not to mention, someone like Cao Xing who has completely controlled this Magic Golem.

So—? The Magic Golem in his hands has great significance.

After all, according to City Lord Oran, this might be the first complete Magic Golem in history to be controlled by someone from outside the ruins.

It wouldn't be surprising if it sold for an astronomical price!

At this moment, Cao Xing cupped his chin and looked at this Magic Golem with a scrutinizing gaze.

Then he said: "Come here."

"Hum—"

The Magic Golem's energy core emitted a faint light, and then it produced a synthesized mechanical voice: "Yes—Master—I am coming over immediately."

It quickly strode with its thick legs, walking towards Cao Xing.

This Magic Golem was successfully converted by Tong Chuchu through [Mechanical Domination].

Logically speaking, its master should be Tong Chuchu, not Cao Xing.

But because the conversion of [Mechanical Domination] turns these Magic Golems into friendly units.

And Tong Chuchu's friendly units also fall under Cao Xing's management scope.

In other words, the Lord's authority is greater than everything.

So he could bypass Tong Chuchu and issue commands directly to this Magic Golem.

"Master—please give your orders—" the Magic Golem said respectfully.

Cao Xing wanted to test whether this kind of Magic Golem was truly as intelligent as City Lord Oran had described.

So he asked: "Answer me, what can you do?"

On the Magic Golem's oval-shaped head, the two eye areas emitted a blue light.

"Master, I can do anything."

"Whether it is fighting! Or patrolling—or even pursuing enemies, I can execute it."

Listening to the Magic Golem's fluid response, everyone became interested and stared at its figure.

"Can you do anything?" Cao Xing pondered for a moment and said with interest: "Then can you cook?"

Upon hearing this question, the light in the Magic Golem's eyes flickered again, as if it were analyzing something.

A moment later, it replied: "Master—I am a—combat-type Magic Golem—and have not loaded a cooking function panel."

Cao Xing was speechless after hearing this: "Then why did you say you could do anything?"

The light in the Magic Golem's eyes gradually dimmed, and it said in a low voice: "Very sorry, Master—I have disappointed you.."

"I will work hard to make myself better—"

Looking at this Magic Golem, Cao Xing couldn't help but feel a bit amused.

Although this Magic Golem couldn't do everything as rumored.

But through the short conversation, Cao Xing had already determined that this Magic Golem's intelligence was indeed very high.

It could completely replace some ordinary soldiers to carry out complex tasks such as patrolling or reconnaissance.

And this also caused a new thought to emerge in Cao Xing's mind.

That is, can he get more Magic Golems to take back to his territory?

It just so happens that his Giant City is also under construction.

If there are enough of them, in the future, he can directly have these Magic Golems patrol the city and replace the functions of guards.

By then, he will be able to build a city that is truly a combination of magic and technology!

However, before that, Cao Xing still had to confirm one thing.

He turned his head and looked at City Lord Oran, asking: "City Lord, in the outer district, is the number of Magic Golems like this high?"

City Lord Oran pondered for a moment and replied: "The Magic Golems in the outer district are basically inside those buildings."

"The wasteland area of the outer district is simply too vast; if one could explore it all, one would certainly be able to find quite a few buildings and Magic Golems."

"But—this requires a large amount of time."

"And wanting to explore the entire outer district is also extremely difficult."

He looked at Cao Xing and said with emotion: "You know, currently, after so many years, our development and exploration of this ruin only covers 3% of the area."

Cao Xing nodded. Through the understanding gained during his time entering the ruins, he also understood that the difficulty of exploring the outer district was quite high.

Even for just a small area, it requires a large amount of time and the possession of powerful strength.

He cast his gaze toward the map in the top-left corner.

It was covered in thick mist, within which a thin white line could be faintly seen.

This thin line was their movement trajectory, having advanced about twenty or thirty kilometers.

But placed on the entire map, the distance they had explored was completely negligible.

From this, one can imagine how massive the outer district of this ruin is.

After a pause, City Lord Oran continued: "However, besides Magic Golems, it is also possible to encounter some other mechanical creatures in the outer district."

"For example, Mechanical Strange Birds, Mechanical Hunting Hounds, and so on—"

"Their intelligence might not compare to Magic Golems, but their strength is not inferior at all."

"Some mechanical creatures have combat power that is even stronger than Magic Golems."

Hearing this, a glimmer of light flashed in Cao Xing's eyes.

According to City Lord Oran's words, there are really quite a lot of mechanical creatures in this ruin!

If he used Tong Chuchu's [Mechanical Domination] skill to convert these Magic Golems or mechanical creatures into his own friendly units on a large scale.

Not to mention more, even if he could only convert a few dozen, Cao Xing would have already made a huge profit!

If he took them to the black market for auction, they would sell for an astonishing price.

It wouldn't even matter if he got the opportunities inside the inner city!

City Lord Oran seemed to have seen through his thoughts, and a look of emotion appeared on his face once again.

Before this, let alone mass-converting the Magic Golems in this ruin, even controlling a single complete Magic Golem had never been achieved by anyone.

And now, as this Otherworld Lord brought people over, it seemed to have directly broken the rules of this ruin.

Cao Xing nodded with satisfaction and said: "Let's go, we are going to go take a look in that building now."

He hadn't forgotten that this combat-type Magic Golem had just rushed out from that black building in front.

Including those few adventurers who also wanted to explore that building, which triggered the Magic Golem's clearance mechanism.

Although he didn't know what was inside, there might be some unexpected treasures!

After speaking, he jumped onto Dabai's back again and walked towards the front.

Little Chuchu, controlling the Earth Dragon Mecha, followed behind with the newly joined Magic Golem walking beside Cao Xing.

Elisa was bringing Magic Dragon Bingbing.

The group marched forward in a mighty force.

After Cao Xing and the others had completely moved away, several figures gradually stood up on the desolate land behind them.

Their faces still bore expressions of fear and lingering terror.

It was precisely those few adventurers who had almost been caught by the Magic Golem just now.

They gathered together one after another and let out a heavy sigh of relief.

"That was close—I almost lost my life." An adventurer patted his chest, his voice trembling slightly.

Another adventurer chimed in, "Yeah, it's a good thing we were lucky enough to run into this group of experts."

"Otherwise, we would have been dead for sure this time!"

The group nodded in agreement, their faces filled with the relief of having survived a brush with death.

"It's also fortunate that these experts didn't hold it against us that we lured the Magic Golem over. If they had decided to pursue the matter and deal with us…"

"I'm afraid none of us would have had any chance of escaping."

Hearing this, the adventurers' faces showed lingering fear.

They had clearly witnessed the terrifying combat power that group of experts had just displayed.

Just by sending out one person, they easily took down such a terrifying Magic Golem!

If they wanted to deal with these adventurers, they could wipe them out with a wave of their hands.

Fortunately… they didn't pursue it.

At this moment, an adventurer pointed into the distance and whispered, "Look, are those experts preparing to enter that black building?"

Hearing this, they quickly turned their heads to look.

Someone whispered a suggestion, "What do you say—should we follow them and take a look?"

"There's a big chest inside that house, and it was guarded by that Magic Golem itself."

"We were just a little bit away from getting the treasure inside that chest—"

However, no sooner had he finished speaking than another adventurer immediately retorted, "Are you crazy?"

"Didn't you see how terrifying the strength of those experts is? If you want to go looking for death, don't drag me into it!"

The others also chimed in, "That's right, I don't want to go looking for death!"

Hearing this, the greed in the adventurer's eyes gradually faded.

Finally, he sighed and completely gave up the idea of getting the treasure inside that building.

At this moment, Cao Xing and his group were getting closer and closer to the black building.

At the same time, they also clearly saw its appearance.

This building looked like a standard rectangular prism.

It was about ten meters high and about thirty meters wide.

It was entirely black, looking like a metal box lying on the ground.

And at the bottom of the building, there was that metal door that had been knocked open.

Through the door, one could seemingly see a faint light emanating from the inside.

Sarah appeared silently and said respectfully, "My Lord, do you need me to go inside and scout?"

As the strongest assassin in the territory, she also held the title of the strongest scout.

Often, when heading to some special places, they would let Sarah go ahead to scout.

Cao Xing listened and pondered for a moment.

Then he shook his head directly and said, "No need, let's just go in directly."

He was now skilled and bold.

The team's powerful strength gave him enough confidence.

Plus, since he didn't sense any dangerous aura inside, he led the group in directly.

The group soon arrived in front of the metal door at the bottom of the building.

The door was square-shaped, about seven or eight meters.

When they passed through the metal door one after another.

It felt as if they had suddenly entered a completely different world.

The inside of the building was not as dark as imagined; it was emitting bursts of blue ghostly light.

The black walls also looked like they were made of metal, with ancient magic runes carved on them; it was precisely these runes that were emitting light.

And in the corners of the room, there were some strange electronic instruments.

The instrument dials were glowing slightly, seemingly still operating.

The whole room looked like a combination of magic and science fiction styles.

"The architecture of this civilization is a bit interesting—" A look of interest appeared in Cao Xing's eyes.

He swept his gaze over it and quickly ordered, "Alright, go search everywhere and see if there's anything valuable."

"Collect everything you can."

"Yes, My Lord!"

Everyone began to take action.

Most of them here were veterans who had followed Cao Xing for a long time and knew his personality and usual style of doing things.

They quickly began their search.

Some were trying to pry up the floor tiles, while others were carefully examining the runes on the walls to see if there was anything they could take.

They didn't even spare the glowing instruments.

However, these instruments were installed on the ground and seemed to be part of the building itself.

Seeing that they couldn't be dismantled, these powerful beings took out their weapons and smashed at them fiercely.

"Clang! Crack!"

As a series of explosive sounds rang out.

City Lord Oran watched their bandit-like actions with his jaw dropped.

One had to know that the group Cao Xing brought were all experts of at least level 70.

With their strength, even if only to maintain their stature and face, they wouldn't do such things, but they acted as if they were already used to it, their movements incredibly practiced.

Even Qinong's gaze kept sweeping over Cao Xing and this group of experts, a look of emotion appearing in his eyes.

They seemed to have gained a different understanding of Cao Xing's character.

Meanwhile, Elisa was standing in front of a complex instrument, her eyes flickering with excitement!

She wanted to reach out and touch the instrument, but was shocked by the strong electric current released from it, causing her whole body to twitch.

After a few times, Elisa pouted and said as if she were angry, "Abominable thing, how dare you shock Captain Elisa!"

"I'll have Magic Dragon Bingbing come over and freeze you!"

After saying this, she quickly called out, "Bingbing."

That little Ice Crystal Magic Dragon was currently flying back and forth inside the building.

After hearing the call, it flapped its wings and quickly flew to Elisa's side.

After understanding Elisa's intention, Bingbing quickly opened its little mouth and took a deep breath.

"Inhale!"

The next moment, it fiercely spat out a breath of extreme cold dragon breath!

"Whoosh—!"

The dragon breath instantly froze the entire instrument completely, and frost spread rapidly.

The inside of the instrument emitted a "crackle" sound of strong electric current, then emitted a burst of black smoke, and was completely declared scrapped.

Seeing this scene, Elisa happily said, "Bingbing is amazing!"

Then, she squatted on the ground and fiddled with it, dismantling everything that could be dismantled from the instrument.

The others also showed their own unique skills, not letting go of every corner of this building.

Seeing this scene, Cao Xing also had a faint smile on his face.

At this moment, he noticed a dark blue metal fragment appear under his feet.

He squatted down and picked up the fragment.

[Obtained: Strange Metal Fragment]

"What is the use of this metal fragment?" Cao Xing whispered to himself.

Then he looked at the attributes.

[Strange Metal Fragment]

[Quality: None]

[Item Type: Special]

[Item Effect: 100 Strange Metal Fragments can be synthesized into 1 'Strange Metal'.]

[Strange Metal: A special metal synthesized by the Asura civilization using top-tier alchemy to refine basic materials such as iron ore, stone, and plant fibers.

Strange Metal possesses extremely strong ductility and excellent mana conductivity; after testing, its effectiveness is 3.5 times that of Mithril.

It is a core material used for making large-scale war equipment and Magic Golems.]

"Good heavens! So this thing is the main material for making those Magic Golems?"

"To think it was synthesized from such ordinary materials as iron, stone, and plant fibers—this Asura civilization's alchemy is truly terrifying!"

Cao Xing tried it out, squeezing the [Strange Metal Fragment] in his hand with a little force.

However, with his strength as a Level 100 Frost Dragon Mage, plus the buffs from various states, he only managed to make cracks appear on the fragment.

To completely crush it, he would actually have to exert his full strength!

From this, one can imagine how unimaginable the hardness of a complete [Strange Metal] would be!

Not to mention those Magic Golems whose bodies were mostly crafted from [Strange Metal]!

At this moment, Cao Xing also remembered the scene of Tong Chuchu controlling the Earth Dragon Mecha to fight against the Magic Golem.

After the first round of confrontation, cracks had actually appeared on the metal arm of the Earth Dragon Mecha.

Now it seems that this situation is completely reasonable.

After all, the materials on the Magic Golem were far superior to the Earth Dragon Mecha.

At this moment, a greedy thought suddenly appeared in Cao Xing's heart.

"If… I could crack this alchemy and master it in my own hands."

"And then mass-produce Strange Metal several times stronger than Mithril."

"By then, it would not only be of extremely important significance to my territory, but to the entire Western Continent, and even the entire world!"