There were still so people inside the chanical fortress who hadn’t dared to co out earlier, but Carlotta spotted them one by one and dealt with them accordingly.
During this process, Alia left the area.
Having learned from Carlotta the locations of the other two mines, she flew off intending to eliminate the chanical Fortress personnel there as well, to prevent any escaped miners from spreading news of this place to those at the other two mines.
As for wiping out all the miners, Carlotta hadn’t even considered such a thing, she wasn’t soone who enjoyed killing without reason.
After Alia left, Carlotta quickly gathered every visible ore deposit into the Stellar Workshop. Once the exterior ores were collected, she even ventured deeper into the mine to search further.
On the mine’s walls, she spotted Tricolor erald tal, but even placing the Stellar Workshop right beside it, she couldn’t absorb the ore into the space.
"Could it be because it hasn’t been mined yet?"
Carlotta frowned.
If she had to mine it herself, it would undoubtedly waste too much ti, ti she clearly didn’t have in abundance.
After thinking for a mont, she left the mine.
Besides the three mines, the chanical Fortress also had outposts within the city. Miners from the three mines returning to the city would likely be noticed.
So after leaving the mine, Carlotta took flight. With the enhancent of the Speed Card, she arrived in the city ahead of ti and exactly located the chanical Fortress outpost.
It was a spacious, stylishly constructed building. Since it was already deep into the night, many people inside were asleep.
Carlotta remained silent. Through the windows, she saw several simple alchemy workshops containing nurous alchemical materials.
’It’s already mine.’
Carlotta muttered to herself.
She pulled out the Rose Cross, silently slicing through the door lock, then moved through the chanical Fortress outpost like a ghost, finding one person after another still asleep and killing them instantly in their dreams.
In just a short ti, Carlotta had slaughtered everyone in the building while they slept. Blood flowed soundlessly. Everything remained as serene and quiet as the night itself.
Then, Carlotta gathered various alchemy-related items and materials, storing them all inside the Stellar Workshop.
Although the chanical Fortress was a vast organization, it couldn’t possibly station powerful experts at every outpost. The strongest individual here was at most just a listener.
With the people eliminated and everything she needed taken, Carlotta quietly left and headed toward the other two mines.
At the entrance of the Fla- Stone vein mine, Carlotta encountered Alia. All ores from this mine and the other mines that Alia could collect had already been gathered.
Upon learning that unmined ores couldn’t be collected, Alia didn’t insist. Unless she could take the entire island, the ores inside the mines would have to be mined first before collection.
Although the ores held so value, it wasn’t enough to warrant them mining manually. The two imdiately left the island.
On another island, at a coconut grove by the beach, Carlotta and Alia landed. They transferred all the ores Alia had collected into the Stellar Workshop. Finally, on the luminous screen embedded in the walls of the workshop, the progress for the second-tier ship reached 21%.
"Only 1% increase?"
Carlotta was sowhat stunned.
The amount of ore collected was clearly not insignificant, yet the gain was so minimal. Was it because the quality of these ores was ultimately too low?
She put away the Stellar Workshop and said seriously, "Looks like we’ll have to keep targeting the chanical Fortress bounty. Hopefully, their next outpost will bring enough."
Carlotta figured the incident on Island 61 wouldn’t be discovered by the chanical Fortress right away, since it was the middle of the night.
So she decided to strike at other nearby chanical Fortress outposts.
"Next, Island 74."
Carlotta led Alia quickly towards their destination.
...
That entire night, Carlotta and Alia traveled to many places, successfully looting five chanical Fortress outposts. Only when dawn arrived did they find a safe island to rest.
Such actions would naturally attract serious attention from the chanical Fortress, even provoking fury, but Carlotta couldn’t care less.
Indeed, while Carlotta and Alia were subrged in peaceful dreams, the chanical Fortress gradually realized sothing was wrong. One by one, their peak tiering officials stood up in rage, declaring they will get to the bottom of this.
On Island 1, the chanical Fortress’s headquarters.
Inside the hall, Lucas Castro sat in the main seat. Tall and broad-shouldered, with a square face that naturally exuded authority, his gaze swept across those below. Everyone present lowered their heads; no one dared et his eyes.
As a Weaver, Lucas Castro was undeniably a peak official of the chanical Fortress. His words and actions could significantly influence the entire organization.
But at this mont, despite his lofty status, he was furious. In just one night, five of the chanical Fortress’s outposts had been wiped out. Even though these weren’t particularly important outposts, such an act was utterly unacceptable.
These were their chanical Fortress outposts!
And now, soone dared to treat their outposts with such disdain?
"Find out imdiately who’s responsible. No matter who it is, kill them on the spot!"
Lucas issued his command.
The order of a Weaver was not sothing anyone would dare disobey. Everyone in the Bass Archipelago imdiately mobilized.
Carlotta, however, couldn’t care less. She didn’t wake until nightfall, then casually went for a short stroll outside, where she learned of the chanical Fortress’s actions.
Since the incident was seen as a provocation by the chanical Fortress, they made a huge public move, impossible to conceal, and they had no intention of hiding it. Thus, the matter quickly made headlines.
"Acting like they’ve suffered so great injustice, but in the end, you were the ones causing trouble from the start."
Carlotta murmured after reading the newspaper.
She didn’t care at all about the chanical Fortress’s response. Intelligence would inform her exactly how their experts were distributed, and she could easily avoid any trouble.
Over the next few days, Carlotta and Alia road across the Bass Archipelago, assuming various identities to harass the chanical Fortress, destroying one outpost after another, driving the organization’s mbers nearly mad.
For the people of chanical Fortress, this period had truly been overwhelming. An invisible enemy was attacking them from every corner, yet they remained unable to locate their foe.
Yes, even after many days had passed, they still didn’t know who their opponent actually was.
All they saw was their own strongholds being eliminated one by one, their comrades falling one after another. Such scenes deeply shook them and filled them with resentnt.
Over ti, they even began suspecting an insider.
Because the enemy always managed to avoid their strongest fighters, appearing instead at their weakest points to destroy their bases. If no one was leaking information, how else could the enemy accomplish this?
They couldn’t make sense of it.
Forrly trusted comrades now seem suspicious in their eyes. Every action those comrades made now appeared strange.
anwhile, as the people of chanical Fortress scrambled frantically, Carlotta was enjoying a al with Alia in a private room at a restaurant on Island 36.
After finishing their al and drink, Alia retrieved newly acquired alchemical materials from the Ten-Heart Pearl and handed them to Carlotta.
Carlotta stored them all inside the Stellar Workshop.
Currently, the progress on the tier-two ship within the Stellar Workshop has reached 26%. After several days of consecutive strikes, the spoils they’d captured were abundant, successfully boosting progress by another 5%.
But this was clear enough.
"It’s ti for sothing big."
Carlotta murmured.
Previously, they had deliberately avoided stronger mbers of chanical Fortress, only targeting weaker. This gave chanical Fortress a false impression, their current enemy wasn’t particularly strong. Otherwise, why would they constantly avoid direct confrontation?
Under these circumstances, the mbers of chanical Fortress didn’t concentrate their forces either, continuing to scatter across the area in search of clues and targets. This was their opportunity.
Carlotta alone knew that chanical Fortress already operated several alchemical ships. If they could capture all of them, the gains would be trendous.
"Since we previously captured one of chanical Fortress’s alchemical ships, their current ships must at least have peak tier Resonators aboard, possibly more than one. Unfortunately, they don’t realize such formations are still insufficient. Do they really think peak tier Resonators can stop us?"
Carlotta couldn’t help but smile.
Truthfully, neither she nor Alia were Weavers. Under normal circumstances, defending against two early tier Resonators with peak tier ones would indeed be adequate.
It was unfortunate, though, that they were no ordinary people.
Carlotta glanced at the map on her intelligence report, which clearly displayed the current positions of several alchemical ships belonging to chanical Fortress. Over recent days, these ships had gradually moved closer together. If they launched a surprise attack, Carlotta believed she had the chance to seize all the alchemical ships in a single night.
Every day for these past few days, the intelligence she gathered had been related to chanical Fortress. After so much ti, she had beco extrely familiar with them.
"It’s ti to act."
After paying the bill, Carlotta and Alia left the restaurant.
It was nightti now. Lights sparkled across the island, and even beneath the night sky, the liveliness remains as vibrant as throughout the day.
Just as Carlotta was looking for targets among chanical Fortress’s people, she suddenly turned her gaze and noticed a crowd gathered at the intersection ahead. Faintly, she caught snippets of intriguing news.
"Let’s go see."
The two imdiately approached.
This was a newsstand, where copies of the Bass Evening News were being sold. Important news was printed on the front page, and after reading it, many people’s expressions beca visibly excited.
"The Tower of Babel... is it finally going to open?"
Soone whispered, eyes gleaming with excitent.
Many people’s eyes lit up, their pupils filled with yearning for the future.
Carlotta quickly bought a newspaper and scanned the page. Soon, she found the relevant news.
Rumors about the Tower of Babel’s impending opening had long circulated across the Bass Archipelago and even reached the northern and southern continents, drawing many to participate. But even after a long wait, the Tower of Babel still hadn’t opened, leaving many puzzled.
Today, however, the signs of the Tower’s arrival had beco unmistakably clear.
This towering structure capable of reaching the heavens was actually located on Island 1, the largest island in the Bass Archipelago. However, it normally remained invisible, undetectable by the naked eye. No one could see the Tower of Babel, much less enter it, it seed to exist only in illusion, untouchable.
But as the Tower descended, it gradually emitted a strange fluctuation. When this fluctuation appeared, it signaled the imminent arrival of the Tower of Babel.
It was exactly because this fluctuation had previously appeared that rumors of the Tower’s arrival began spreading, drawing crowds from far and wide.
This was only the first stage. The duration of the first stage wasn’t fixed. Sotis the fluctuation progresses quickly into the second stage, but sotis the first stage lasts a very long ti, such as this ti.
Only when the second stage appeared did it truly an the Tower of Babel’s opening was near.
The hallmark of the second stage was the Tower shifting from intangible to tangible!
The tower, previously invisible to the naked eye, will beco visible during the second stage. Anyone on Island 1 who looked in its direction would be able to see the Tower’s existence!
Even people on nearby islands can see the Tower of Babel.
Because the Tower was truly towering, ascending to unknown heights, piercing into the vast starry sky.
It was said that in ancient tis, powerful cultivators had flown into the sky attempting to find the Tower’s peak, but all ended up in humiliation because they simply couldn’t locate its summit. No matter how high they flew, they never reached an end, until finally exhausted at their maximum altitude and forced to descend.
Towering, mysterious, this was the impression the Tower of Babel gave.
Able to rival the Sky Island in fa, the Tower of Babel’s exceptional nature was evident. Together with the Sky Island, they were known as the two great miracles of the world.
"It’s about to begin. I’ll have to step up my actions."
Carlotta murmured softly.
A miraculous place like the Tower of Babel, she absolutely had to enter it. The wonders and rewards inside were not sothing she could afford to miss.
Before that, of course, she needed to take more from chanical Fortress.
"Let’s go."
Carlotta said quietly.
Alia nodded, following Carlotta forward, then couldn’t help turning back to glance at the distant north.
That was the direction of the mainland.
She felt that the ti to return to the Wendell Empire might not be far away.
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