"Hurry, bring it out!" Barney orders without hesitation.]
That’s the opportunity that Mu You had been waiting for. With his well-gripped pocket watch, after more than a dozen retries, he finally seized the opportunity.
[You swiftly move forward, ahead of the other robots, and arrive at the cooling system.]
[Your robotic arm reaches out and slowly retrieves the Power Furnace from the icy liquid.]
["Well done, Thirteen, quickly hand it to me!" The Old Goblin was very pleased with your efficiency and immediately signaled you to bring the Power Furnace to him. Your choice is...]
[You declined Barney’s order!]
[You chose to insert the Power Furnace into your body, triggering the fusion program...]
[Fusion successful. Your Power Furnace has been replaced with: Ancient Power Furnace, current energy remaining: 2%, time required for full recharge: 32 minutes, or directly insert Demon Crystals: 124...]
Mu You’s eyes twitched. The capacity is indeed extraordinary for an epic Power Furnace. It consumes more than a hundred Demon Crystals at once, and the recharging speed is astoundingly fast as well.
The original Power Furnace would be fully charged with just one Demon Crystal, and static recharging would take more than five hours.
However, the Ancient Power Furnace increases capacity more than 120 times and needs only half an hour to fully recharge, which is over 1200 times faster!
["Thirteen, what are you doing?" Old Goblin Barney looked at you in disbelief, his face quickly turning with rage.]
[Other assistant robots in the room have also realized your betrayal and are preparing to raise their weapons at you...]
There’s not enough time for slow recharging now, Mu You chose to directly insert the Demon Crystals.
[You put 124 Demon Crystals in the Power Furnace. Your Power Furnace is now overflowing with energy. The mighty energy flows through your body.]
[You remove your disguise. Shotguns appear on both of your arms. Before the other robots can act, you fire first!]
[Dense energy bullets emerge in the hall, flying towards all assistant robots...]
[’Divine Power’ activated!]
[’Chaos Circuit’ triggered!]
[All assistant robots fall into chaos. All their attacks have a 75% probability of deflection...]
[The assistant robots’ counterattack shoulder armour activates, launching a flurry of missiles. However, as soon as they leave the launcher, they’re detonated by the dense energy net from the shotgun, causing enormous chaos...]
[In the midst of the smoke, you charge towards the Old Goblin Barney, attempting to take him hostage.]
[However, before you could get close, a glowing cube automatically appears around Barney, enclosing him completely.]
[Barney has temporarily entered an invincible state, all your attacks against him are ineffective!]
Mu You is taken aback. He had plans to hold the old man hostage and inquire about the location of the Eternal Power Furnace. However, why did he suddenly become invincible?
Luckily, an in-game explanation is provided at this time.
[Emergency Evasion Device: A safety device prepared by the Goblin race for important personnel. It’s activated automatically when danger is detected. The person is locked in place, unable to move and remains invincible. The invincibility is automatically lifted after 120 seconds.]
"There’s a gadget for this too..."
Mu You marvelled. The Goblin race seemed to invent only strange and bizarre things. Fortunately, he didn’t rush to take him hostage earlier.
With the hostage situation out of the picture, Mu You didn’t push it further; he already had what he wanted anyway.
[A piercing alarm rings out throughout Clockwork City!]
[You swiftly grab the ’Destruction Mecha’ from the workbench and run towards the ventilation duct.]
[The immobilized Old Goblin Barney glares at you, unable to do anything but watch as you escape.]
The ventilation duct is another exit leading to the outside world, besides the main entrance, specifically to let out the heavy smoke from daily alchemy in the laboratory.
[You quickly crawl along the ventilation duct and soon enter another building that it’s connected to.]
[However, upon emerging from the duct, you realize that the building is surrounded three layers deep by numerous Mechas!]
[Seeing your emergence, all the Mechas open fire at the same time! Colourful artillery fire and energy bullets intertwine to form a dense network of firepower, all raining down on the building.]
[The building instantly collapses under the bombardment, and you are buried under the rubble...]