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Chapter 585 - 325 Special Skin - TK2300_2

Chapter 585: Chapter 325 Special Skin - TK2300_2

[As light suddenly flashes ahead, the mine cart bursts from the underground tunnel onto a vast plain.]

[You see a huge city barely visible through the mist ahead, standing against a background dominated by shades of faded yellow. This is your destination, Clockwork City!]

[As the cart speeds towards the city, you gradually get a clear view of the entire city.]

[It is a massive city of steel, circular in shape, its outskirts covered by dark yellow and pale red iron walls, boasting a distinct steampunk style.]

[The entire city is made up of steel and alchemy devices, with countless skyscrapers and castles rising from the ground, each taller than the last towards the city center. The tallest tower in the city center extends up into the dense fog and layer of clouds.]

The city’s atmosphere is shrouded with steam and black smoke from factory chimneys, making the air in the vicinity unpleasant and pungent smelling. However, the goblins seem to relish this mix of sulfur and soot, which they stubbornly consider as symbols of civilization and wisdom. Numerous goblins happily gather in this alchemy city to live and work...]

[You notice more rail tracks leading to the city from all directions, intersecting at the city entrance. The junction appears to be a platform similar to a lighthouse with numerous robots busily maneuvering inside...]

Upon reaching Clockwork City, before Mu You could enter, he runs into another checkpoint, so he hurriedly chooses to ’jump off the cart’.

[Before the cart reaches the station, you release Phantom Shifting, abandoning the mine cart and appear behind a mound.]

[Poking your head up, you quietly observe the station ahead.]

[Three goblins are seated in the station, keeping track of all the incoming carts. Apart from a dozen working robots in the vicinity, there are also seven self-walking cannons, their barrels continuously scanning the surrounding area, ready to fire at any unfamiliar creature approaching.]

[After observing for a while, you realize there’s no possibility of forcing your entry, this forces you to keep hidden and quietly pass by the station. Holding the pass gem given by the old goblin, Eugene, you approach the city gate from another direction, in a bid to slip through the checkpoint.]

[Unfortunately, you have underestimated the defense of this goblin base.]

[The moment you got within a few hundred meters from the wall, the countless alchemical cannons atop the city wall swiveled and directed their barrels at you. In the face of the goblin’s superior technology, all forms of invisibility would be exposed.]

[The next second, alarm bells ring throughout the base. Recon robots sense the presence of a traitor, while you are engulfed and shattered by non-stop cannon fire the same instant the alarms went off...]

"Damn!"

Mu You quickly presses his pocket watch.

It’s indeed not easy to enter the goblin’s lair. Moreover, the gem given by the old goblin is useless now and ended up marking him as a traitor, too...

Left with no choice since he can’t go through the main entrance, Mu You decides to find another entrance, even considering infiltrating the city underground or underwater.

In his view, no city, no matter its tight security, is completely impenetrable. There will always be loopholes and gaps.

Next, Mu You starts to maneuver his character, circling the outskirts of Clockwork City, intending to first explore the city’s surroundings no matter what.

The city is breathtakingly massive. Exploring its entire circumference won’t be a quick job. Mu You prepares himself for a long haul.

However, before he can find an entrance, barely two to three hours in, an unusual text message pops up.

[You have arrived at a swamp on the western side of the Clockwork City, where the ground is muddy and hard to walk on. Gutters crisscross the barren land, and the smell is even worse than near the city gate.]

[As you endure the odor and continue exploring, suddenly there’s a peculiar surge of energy coming from somewhere up ahead, as if it’s calling for something on you.]

[On further inspection, the item responding to the energy surge is the Legacy Crystal within you...]

"Legacy Crystal?"

Mu You is momentarily surprised. Isn’t this something that only the Sky City Lord would have? What on the territory of goblins could possibly call out to the Fool’s Legacy Crystal?

Mu You was uncertain for a moment, decided to go there first and then see.

[You chose to track this fluctuation, following the legacy crystal’s guidance in order to investigate...]

[You arrived at a huge junkyard.]

[This is the swamp area to the west of Clockwork City, where corrosive acid is perennially produced beneath the surface. This area is unfit for farming or long-term settlement, but the acid here serves to corrode and dissolve metal junk, thus the goblins use it as a place to store alchemical waste.]

[You stepped into this mountainous junk area, where a lot of scattered metal parts were piled up, either full of rust or riddled with holes.]

[These once exquisite alchemical pieces have lost their past luster and have become useless junk, filling the area so densely that there’s almost no place to set foot.]

[You carefully avoid the filthy water and acid on the ground and walk into one of the rubbish piles. According to the crystal’s guidance, the swap object is underneath this pile of garbage.]

[You toss away the surface trash bit by bit, and start digging downwards...]

[Only when you got to the very bottom of this heap of junk, did you manage to fish out a heap of robotic remains from the acid pit below.]

[The robot debris had neither limbs nor head left, and the surface was corroded beyond recognition by the acid. You washed off the stains and rust on the surface of the wreckage with clean water, and pried open the back shell, only to find a well-preserved and shiny metal cube hidden under the robot’s battered shell.]

[From this metal cube, you sensed the presence of a ’relic’.]

"A relic?" Mu You was taken aback.

Could it be that this thing was really left behind by an ancestor of the Fool?]

[You carefully removed the metal cube. As soon as the metal cube was in your hand, it immediately began to automatically change its shape, finally fixing into the exterior of a small mechanical doll that was the size of a figurine and settling down in your palm without further movement.]

[At the same time, a light shone from the mechanical doll’s eyes and condensed into an image in front of you. The image showed a serious middle-aged man.]

["I am Tarif Kent, an alchemist of the Sky clan." The image spoke.]

["No matter who you are, since you found the ’Final Masterpiece’, you must be a City Lord of some Sky City, which means you are a descendant of the Fool..."]

The man in the image then began to explain his experiences.

According to the text, he was a genius with extraordinary talent in alchemy, dedicated to researching how to transfer the Fool’s soul into a mechanical body in order to discard the physical body and achieve eternal life through the mechanical body.

However, alchemy was not popular among the Fools, and his ideas were not recognized by the mainstream Fools of the time.

In order to further advance alchemy, he chose to collaborate with the goblins, using their most advanced alchemical equipment to continue his research.

And in the end, he actually succeeded. He created the ’Final Masterpiece’, capable of carrying the Fool’s soul, and its accompanying ’Eternal Power Furnace’!

[I succeeded! But the despicable goblins betrayed me at the last moment. They killed me and stole the Eternal Power Furnace to power their own city.]

[Young Fool, I am now entrusting the ’Final Masterpiece’ to you. Please make sure to reclaim the Eternal Power Furnace!]

As his final words were spoken, a new prompt popped up.

[Hidden relic acquired: special skin ’T-K2300 Robot’ (also known as the Final Masterpiece).]

[Final Masterpiece: The owner of this relic will have a skin limit +2, automatically obtains the special skin ’T-K2300’, which is a growable robot skin. It has the abilities: Transformation, can change into the appearance of a robot that was previously killed. Evolution, can integrate parts from other alchemy robots to obtain corresponding functions.]

[Note: When this skin is loaded, the player will temporarily lose their flesh and blood body, all physical attributes will be reset to zero, and no magic or items can be used.]