AK - The Alchemy Kingdom Chapter 129: The magic repeater II

Johann now looked more confused.

Do you see this Alchemy mark in the tool? Is the sa mark I drew in the tunnel. The connection between Alchemy marks with the sa concept is done in another dinsion, which neither can be seen nor touched by us, but where spiritual energy can freely move connecting everything and everyone. So it might look far, but their connection is actually strong and close

Wow Does that an you could send magic anywhere in the world? That cant be right, cant it?

Technically, yes. However, the mark only provides a position, the magic effect still needs to physically reach that position. For example, if we try to use our position as the limit for the barrier in the city, it wouldnt work because once the barrier passed the five or six kiloters mark, it would crumble, not even using all the energy in the vein can make this possible. The sa way if you launch a magic attack from the city using this position, the attack would co straight towards here but would probably disappear in a few kiloters

I see Youre using the mark to point to the position, not actually connect the two points And how will you dig through the mountain?

By using this small excavator Its sides are imprinted with earth affinity movers, just like the normal excavator, and Im using three Manipulation Arrays, one to move the tool towards the mark in the tunnel, and two to make the tool rotate fast Its like using a rope tied to a place to pull ourselves there. The Alchemy part was actually easy, the difficulty ca when designing the tip of the tool to go through rocks and other obstacles. Arnold has been working on it for three weeks

Johann picked the tool and carefully analyzed its exquisite tal tip, which was ford by spiraling blades. They walked for another hour or so before the tool started to react, pulling diagonally downwards. They followed the tools direction until it was finally pointing straight down. Karl looked around and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw a tall tree that could allow signals from both sides of the mountain. Fortunately, the tree didnt need to be tallest, it just needed to provide a clear view from both sides, if they could see, the signal would be able to reach it.

The digging part ended up being less fantastical than Johann was expecting, they just stood there waiting for the tool to go through the ground and hoped it wouldnt et sothing too hard that it couldnt dig through it. Almost two hours later, the crystal that was powering the tool finally stop supplying energy, which ant the tool either broke or was deactivated by Oliver. Karl held his breath and stared at the crystal. Not ten seconds later, the crystal glowed three tis before dimming again.

Karls cheerful expression told the wind Mage they had been successful. Next, the Alchemist asured the energy coming from the hole to check if they had successfully guided the high-density energy through it. After he identified a stronger reading, he took out a wooden Array and placed it at top of the hole before connecting the cable to it. The Array shined, and soon, a blue-ish barrier coated the hole. The barrier inside the newly opened channel would offer protection against earth digger beasts and preserve the cable while also guiding the energy upwards without allowing it to sip through the earth.

The next couple of hours was spent placing the tal pole on the tree, adjusting the repeater, and burying the rest of the cable. He checked the path from the hole to the tree one more ti to see if any part was sticking out or if he could hide the cable better. Using such fragile and exposed arrangent was far from ideal, but they would co back later with the crafters to build a better structure and use the barrier effect to keep it protected.

Now was ti to test the repeater and try to contact the long-distance communication center (CC). The repeater was very similar to the receptor in the CC. It would also use the attract lightning property to receive signals in the area, but instead of transmitting the signal to an operator, it would forward it to the communication center. So, the repeater was actually ford by a receptor and a long-distance communicator that could send signals to the CC.

The repeating effect was easily implented, a Signature Absorbtion A. connected to the receptor part would identify the signal and power the communicator to send a signal to the CC. Unfortunately, a few effects couldnt be easily repeated, like the two-way communication and the selection of lightning concentration. So, the CC had to reserve a receptor just for the repeater and they would have to avoid using many communicators from this side of the mountain unless they could send an operator to the tunnel. Later, this problem could be solved, but again, ti was a rare resource.

Karl took out his communicator and sent a signal. The repeater's Arrays shined and he saw the tal part responsible for forwarding the signal emit sparks. Then, he sent a few more signals to inform the CC the repeater was working. After the end-ssage signal, he quickly shifted the repeater to manual and sent a continuous signal to receive the reply. In a few seconds, a good luck ssage arrived. Although they couldnt mimic the reply part automatically with the repeater, an operator in the tunnel would be able to do it.

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On the way back, Karl didnt stop searching for threats around them, neither Samia relaxed her guard, it wouldnt be good to be caught by surprise after completing such a difficult task. Half of their trip back was uneventful but then, the locator found sothing. The reader indicated a plant crystal 200 ters to the northwest of their position. He asked the others to stop while he confird the reading, he couldnt understand how the locator only pointed the target at 200 ters. Was the target so fast that it covered the 800 kiloters in two minutes?

This didnt look correct since plant beings shouldnt move fast at all. However, instead of clarifying the situation, the next reading only made matters worse as it confird the target and even found another plant crystal close to the first. The readings could only an two things, either the locator wasnt working properly or the plant beings were sohow hidden, like earth digger beasts.

Either way, the team could only move hasty and try to leave the mountains as fast as possible. They ran through the sa path they ca and Karl didnt dare to stop to use the locator again. Samia kept her concealnt going and carefully observed their surroundings, ready to attack anything that appeared with her throwing knives. Johann also started to circle large amounts of wind energy around him, so he could cast a Wind Shield at any ti.

Judging by their hiking ti, they would spend at least 20 minutes before leaving the mountains, even though they could already see the plains below the cliff at their side. Unfortunately, they had to descend using the downhills and couldnt just jump down the cliff, or they could, but that would probably lead to so fractures, if not death.

Suddenly, the ground below them shook and roots surfaced striking the air furiously. Samia, who was moving through the branches wasnt affected by the murdering roots, but Johann was struck directly by a root and launched down the cliff while Karl activated a personal barrier just in ti to block a strike.

Through the dense dark-green foliage, a two ters tall tree-like figure erged. Its feet were ford by roots that extended into the ground, sothing that resembled a face was carved into the trunk. The being made a creaking sound, like wood bending but richer in terms of sound and tone. Then, without notice, all the roots rose before converging to attack Karl.

The Alchemist wasnt ready to risk his barrier against the attack, so he tried to dodge the roots sideways, but they were alive and followed him until they crashed against the bubble wall. The barrier dimd before disappearing, but the roots remaining montum was stopped by the strong wind that raged around Karl, he hadnt hesitated to activate the ergency effect on his coat.

Using the pause in the attacks, Karl ran downhill and reactivated the bubble barrier. The sound of roots raging behind him gave him a psychological boost and made him run even faster. Fortunately, the Treant was slow and they soon left its domain. They could only hope Johann had survived the fall.