Chapter 686: 686

“Where is the portal door for the base?” Abel asked desperately .

“Headmaster, that is located in the stone wall you had entered from in Nam Mountain . All you need to do is to break that stone platform to see it!” The Commander spirit replied .

Abel remembered that stone platform . Those orcs had sacrificed 20 spiritual beasts on that thing . The portal door to the base was just inside .

However, an elite priest was guarding that place . Abel was not sure if elite priest Dono was still there, but Nam Mountain was one of the most highly guarded places of the orcs .

He was not an intermediate wizard . He could not move in a flash, so no way he could disregard those protection circles .

Perhaps he needed to wait for another 3 days for the orc god ceremony to finish . This way, Elite Priest Dono would think they had all died . After that, Abel would be able to exit without anyone noticing .

Abel began to tour around the base . In this base, the commander Spirit could connect with him no matter where he was .

This base was made entirely out of the fragments of dimension . There were 3 levels in this place . The first was the control area, where Abel was . It was also where the most important member had lived and where the operating rooms for the magic circles and energy stores were .

Abel already had the highest authority in base no . 7, so every place was open to him .

The living space for this place was quite similar to those of humans . With some small alterations, the place would be perfect .

“Headmaster majesty, here is the food inventory!” The Commander spirit guided Abel . It introduced him to all the areas and opened doors for him .

Abel was quite interested in this place . He wanted to know what kind of food the ancients ate .

He entered the inventory . Rolls of bread were stacked on the shelf . He picked one up . It was so old it had almost turned into stones . It was as hard as iron . No one could eat anything like this .

Although the bread had turned into a rock, Abel could still sense some life force within the other food .

Through his speculation, these foods would have been quite nutritious when they were still edible, but it was all in the past now .

“Commander spirit, what are these made out of?” Abel asked as though he was talking to himself .

“Headmaster majesty . This food is perfect for replenishing energy . Every piece can guarantee the energy needed for a knight’s entire day of battle . It was made with the fruit of the cloud tree!” The Commander spirit replied .

“Are those cloud trees still around?” Abel quickly asked .

“The cloud trees are grown in a mana dense environment . Due to the base’s energy shortage, we had stopped the mana environment for the cloud trees a few thousand years ago . All the cloud trees had died!” The Commander spirit followed .

A sense of pity emerged in Abel . Those cloud tree fruit could be one of the few successful cases of turning mana into life force . This success probably took ten of thousands, or maybe even hundreds of thousands of years of trial and error . Still, destroying seemed a simple task .

“I still have the seed for the cloud trees, but if the energy of the base continues to decrease, the next thing I need to get rid of will be the seed inventory!” As the Commander spirit continued, Abel grew excited .

He was extremely interested in the seed inventory the Commander spirit was talking about . What kind of crops were the ancients growing?

They exited the food inventory and continued their tour .

The Commander spirit led Abel to another inventory and explained, “This is the puppet inventory, but all the puppets in here had been damaged . Due to the lack of resources, I can no longer control the puppets to fix themselves!”

The gate automatically swung open, and rows of neatly placed puppets emerged . All almost though he had entered a dwarf’s inventory .

Those puppets’ faces looked different from the ones the dwarfs made, but overall they were quite similar . Abel had a thought, maybe the unique puppet making technique of the orcs was derived from the ancient sight .

This was not hard to imagine . Although the dwarfs’ knowledge of metallurgy was quite high, their skills alone were definitely not enough to make a puppet . If they weren’t assisted by the technology passed down from the ancients, making a puppet would be impossible .

As he gazed at those puppets, he got an idea . He took out a labor puppet from his Kong Kong Spirit Portal bag and placed it on the floor .

“Headmaster majesty . This is amazing; I haven’t been able to have a body for thousands of years . Can I control this puppet?” The commander spirit asked joyfully .

Abel could imagine . An intelligent spirit being trapped in this base without a body, without the ability to move around, it was basically like being locked up .

“Commander spirit, I’ll give this puppet to you . Just tell me the resources you need, and I’ll get you some after I get back!” Abel said with a smile .

After hearing Abel’s words, the labor puppet suddenly twitched and stood up . It then stretched its arms and legs . It twisted its body, enjoying the freedom of movement .

Afterward, it loyally bowed at Abel, “Headmaster, I’ll lead the way for you!”

“This is the garden . Originally, we had 12 kinds of vegetables and cloud trees growing here . But to preserve energy for the base, I had turned off all the magic circles here . It’s deserted now!” The labor puppet opened a door and explained .

The place was pitch black . Through the little raspy of light coming from the open door, Abel could see some dried up soil .

“If this garden returned to operation, how many crops can it grow each day?” Abel asked . It seemed like this garden was around 10 acres .

“The 12 kinds of vegetables the base had picked were all altered . It can grow 1000 portions per day . If the cloud tree was full, we could get a batch every month, enough to sustain 1000 knights for a month!” The commander spirit explained .

Abel finally came across the seed inventory of the garden . The seed for the cloud tree and the 12 kinds of vegetables were perfectly kept . Now the only problem was resources and the puppet .

Without resources, this base could only remain in a low energy state .

Also, there were no workers in this base . Everything needed to be done by puppets, but all the puppets were damaged . Therefore, he also needed a large number of resources to fix them .

The last part of the first floor was the energy storage room . It was where the core of this base was located .

As soon as Abel stepped inside the energy storage room, he saw an empty shell of a dead body . It was a Tauren . It was placed in the center of the room, with a white glowing aura of energy surrounding it through a magic circle .

“Commander spirit, what is this?” Abel asked, pointing at the dead Tauren .

“Headmaster majesty, this is the orc god!” The words of the commander spirit made Abel’s jaw drop .

According to the legend, the orc god had the face of a lion and extremely sharp claws . The only things that matched the definition in this Tauren were the strong horns and long hooves .

But this made sense . If the orc god just looked like a normal Tauren, how many races would loyally sacrifice themselves for him?

The face of a lion signified the bloodline of a royal orc, and sharp claws signified power for the wolves .

It seemed like the image of the orc god was compromised to fit the perception of every race . Maybe the orcs needed a god like this, not a Tauren .

“After all the energy of the orc god had been used up, all the puppets in the base had stopped working . That’s why the dead body is still here!” commander spirit explained .

Abel spread his gaze on the orc god . It was a powerful orc, but it had slowly died in an unknown base . This was all because this base was running out of energy, but the base had sacrificed large amounts of puppets to hold down this orc god anyway .