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Chapter 488 Battle For

A feminine voice connected to Abel’s mind, “Flora awaits your order, Master . My name is Flora, the tower spirit, and I’m also the control center of the military fort . ”

“When did you get a female voice?” Abel asked .

“According to the analysis in my database, I’ve discerned that Flora is a name that belongs to a female . Thus, I’ve selected my voice to be that of a female . If you don’t like it, I can change to the voice of a male . ”

“Well, sure . I mean, just keep it like this,” Abel promptly said . Actually, he liked this new voice that Flora got . If she, or it, started speaking to him like a man, that would just sound weird to him .

“Yes, Master,” Flora replied .

“Now,” Abel commanded, “I want you to control every war puppeteer on this platform . For each one of them, I want you to equip them with one rapid-fire ballista . ”

Soon, the one hundred war puppets all started grabbing their own ballista . When they were done, they waited for Abel to give his next order .

Flora reminded Abel, “Please charge the puppets in time, Master . Their current power storage can only last for two hours and twenty minutes . ”

Abel had something he wanted to ask first; however, “Can we hide the puppets and ballistas now, Flora?”

“Yes, Master . ”

When Flora stopped talking, a large area of the platform was lifted from the ground . Land about one meter thick was lifted by metal plates that were built underneath . One hundred pits were revealed, and all the war puppets and ballistas were carried into them .

Finally, the plates went back to their original spots . It was like nothing had happened .

Wizard Cyril screamed in bewilderment, “What! What? What! I didn’t know it could do that!”

There was a reason that Wizard Cyril was this surprised . For a huge portion of their history, the dwarves had been doing countless research on the hanging fort platform . If they didn’t think that they’ve known all there was to know, they would’ve never left it in a storage room without ever using it .

In fact, Wizard Cyril’s seen the research papers himself . As far as he knew, none of the research wizards knew about this “storage function” that the hanging fort platform possessed . Actually, he wasn’t even sure if how it fit all the war puppets and ballistas in .

Did the platform contain some sort of portal device? The war puppets were built to be smaller than they should be, but they were still about three meters tall . How, then, did they all fit inside the platform? It just didn’t make any physical sense . Thankfully enough, there were still five more of the same bases left inside the Goff Family storage . Once Wizard Cyril headed back, he could always tell his subordinates to do more research .

“What did you just do, Flora?” Abel asked curiously .

Flora replied immediately, “I’ve put the puppets and ballistas inside my army storage room . At maximum, I can fit about ten thousand of them . ”

“If I want to deploy the puppets right away, how long would it take?” Abel asked .

“Do you want me to enter into battle mode, Master?”

Abel nodded in response, “Sure . Do it now . ”

At the base of the hanging fort platform, one hundred pillars, as thick as a human arm, were raised from the ground . They were all evenly placed across the platform, and most importantly, it didn’t even take one second for all of them to appear .

Soon, metal balls started forming at the top of these pillars . The balls then started cracking, and the small-sized war puppets and loaded ballistas came out .

“So, this is a military fort…” Abel muttered . Flora was really built for this kind of thing .

Wizard Cyril, on the other hand, couldn’t hold it anymore . Right now, he had to go back to the dwarves to report about this . They had to start completely new research into these hanging fort platforms .

Still, there was something that Wizard Cyril missed . Without the same level of spiritual intensity as Abel, the tower would never be activated .

As for Lady Carrie, she did know a little about ancient times . That being said, what she was looking at had far surpassed the stories she heard about . That didn’t matter, though . As far as she knew, it was good enough that the fort could be used without a need to ruin the garden .

Lady Carrie said to Abel, “For the plants, Grandmaster Abel, we can simply move them all to the garden now . But, for the fountain and the statues on it, we need a lot of time for the masters to make them . I can’t give you an exact amount . If the estimates are right, it should take about one or two years . ”

Abel couldn’t help but frown at that . One or two years? He planned on shutting this place down as soon as all the building work was finished . After that, he was going to send the tower to a secret location (with the large-sized teleportation circle, obviously) that no one knew about . This place was going to be his secret headquarters . He couldn’t just wait for someone to carry some statues over to him .

Abel thought of something, “So, the statues and fountains . If I happen to dig some over to you, Lady Carrie, can you install them now?”

“Dig? Lady Carrie said with a weirded look, “You mean steal?”

Abel shook his head, “No, no-no-no . I know a place that has the things you mentioned . There’s no one that owns them, so it’d be perfectly fine for me to take them over to you . ”

“Sure, as long as you keep them whole,” Lady Carrie said, doubting how honest Abel was to her, “We have all the people we need . ”

Abel smiled, “I’ll be getting them now, then . Won’t be long . ”

As he said that, Abel walked into his magic tower . When he walked in, he saw that the elven circle masters painting the runes . Since their work needed to be delicate, he decided not to interrupt them . Instead, he walked straight towards the large-sized teleportation circle . After flicking through the right setting, he teleported himself to Harvest City’s Blacksmith Union building .

When Abel came out of the Blacksmith Union building, he summoned Black Wind and went to his yard in Harvest City . He started setting up his seclusion circle to enter into the Rogue’s Encampment .

So, statues and fountains . He knew exactly where to look for them . He remembered the areas he explored in the dark world . Out of all the treasures he saw on his quest, he just couldn’t bring himself to forget the fountain that had three female archers carved on it .

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