Demon King: Hero, don’t run away!

Due to not knowing the ancient language and writing, Yang Yu is destined to just take a cursory glance at the ancient relics guarded by the Lamia.

Yang Yu isn’t lucky enough to randomly fiddle around and obtain information like some European players.

With his luck, randomly fiddling might lead to a series of unfortunate events, dragging the team into the abyss.

Perhaps, he could ask Iyas to try her heaven-defying luck, but considering this is someone else’s territory, where risk doesn’t match the reward, Yang Yu decided against it.

Without any hesitation, Yang Yu, along with his companions, followed Salt White Lamiya out of the ruins, back into the pyramid, through various complex production lines, and headed toward a certain laboratory heavily guarded by layers of guards.

The Lamia guards were astonished to see Salt White Lamiya return to her original form.

They immediately realized the matter below had been resolved and did not dare to delay, promptly opening the door to the laboratory for Salt White Lamiya.

As they stepped into the laboratory, a distinct sense of futurism greeted them, with the silver-white walls and floors gleaming, and various sophisticated instruments Yang Yu had never seen before were being skillfully operated by Lamia researchers, exploring various mysteries.

In the center of the spacious laboratory, on a raised round platform, there was an enormous square.

The square stood over four meters high, predominantly gray-white, but each edge was a dull purple.

Along each edge, at intervals, were inlaid crystals emitting a golden glow, resembling golden threads stitched onto purple fabric.

The center of each face of the square was concave, with a basin-sized circular bead at the center emitting a green luminescence, looking incredibly bizarre, yet possessing a unique design beauty.

This, without a doubt, was also an ancient creation.

After scanning the giant cube from top to bottom, Yang Yu asked:

”Your Majesty, the thing you wanted to show us, is it this square in the center of the laboratory?”

Salt White Lamiya nodded and also looked at the enormous square:

”We used this thing to create the Shark Catcher.

Apart from the Shark Catcher, we’ve also created many other little gadgets.

To be honest, if you caused trouble in our city, I might even use the power of this thing to subdue you.

As long as a specific device is activated, all skills will cease to function in our city, and the strength of all creatures, except for the Lamia, will drastically decrease.

By then, we only need to operate the machines for a wild bombardment to completely capture the enemy.”

Upon hearing this, Yang Yu didn’t secretly rejoice; instead, his eyes lit up immediately.

If he could move this thing to fight the Demon King, pulling the Demon King down to his attribute level, wouldn’t he be able to use his rich combat experience to defeat the Demon King?

”Your Majesty, do you think you could...”

”Wishful thinking!” Before Yang Yu could finish, Salt White Lamiya interrupted with a refusal, ”This is our top-secret weapon, and it cannot be casually lent to others.

Even if I planned to lend it to you, you wouldn’t be able to take the square away.

Any magic power exerted on this thing would be fully absorbed by it, and then, periodically discharged through the gemstones on it.

The direction of the magic power discharge is the same as the direction of the magic flow in the last layer of the ruin’s pipeline.

It’s toward the sea.”

”Towards the sea?” Yang Yu confirmed again, ”Your Majesty, can you confirm that one hundred percent?”

”It’s definitely toward the sea.

Because after seeing the direction of those pipelines, I thought this thing might be connected to the pipelines seen in the last layer of the ruins, and finally decided to tell you about its existence.

As for the origin of this thing, I heard it from the previous Lamia Queen.

A long, long time ago, the Lamia Clan had no mission; they were just a race roaming the desert.

Our various traits signify that we were born for the desert.

But surviving in the desert posed many difficulties, with water and food being the primary challenges.

The barren desert had nothing, except for this area slightly closer to the coast, appearing less barren due to the moisture brought by the ocean.

For a long time, the Lamia struggled for survival.

But...

One day, our Lamia ancestors found an oasis in the desert.

In the center of the oasis sat a gray, uniquely aesthetic square.

Nobody knew where that uniquely aesthetic square came from, and our ancestors always considered it a marvel of nature.

Until... one day, a Lamia accidentally activated that unique square.

The square emitted the current light and began to float slowly in mid-air, bringing disaster.

In short, any land near the square was turned into sand.

My ancestors lost their life-sustaining oasis in an instant, with starving corpses everywhere.

At that time, the Lamia believed it was divine punishment for enjoying the blessings of the God but not worshiping, thus earning retribution.

How should they calm the God’s anger and restore the peaceful life of the past?

The Lamia of the past chose to build a magnificent structure for the God to reside, allowing the revered God to rest and thereby calm the God’s wrath.

They tirelessly hauled stones from very far away and constructed a pyramid different from the current one.”

”A pyramid different from the current one? Does that mean there was a second ’God’s Wrath’?” Yang Yu asked further.

Salt White Lamiya smiled helplessly, ”Not just once or twice, but many repeated times.

Each time the square became active, it brought many disasters to the Lamia’s life.

In the past, the Lamia often resorted to sacrifices, praying to the heavens for forgiveness.

Those were real sacrificial ceremonies that could result in death; in ordinary years, three or four people, but in special years, possibly hundreds.

Fortunately, there were individuals with special constitutions among the Lamia clan.

Although, at the beginning, they had no rights and were always restricted by the rhetoric that the square was a God and immensely sacred, their hearts yearned for a better future and could not bear to see compatriots bound by the so-called words of the God.

They used wisdom and strategy to overthrow the sacrifices and let all Lamia know that the square was not a God but merely a tool.

As long as one can find the correct way to handle this tool, disasters can be prevented without deliberately offering sacrifices.

The current pyramid was thus born, allowing us to discover the relics beside this square and continually improve our current life with what we’ve learned from the relics.

It can be said that the pyramid itself is the key tool in suppressing and utilizing this thing.

Away from the pyramid, if anything unexpected happens to this thing, we won’t be able to stop it.

Perhaps, this thing will turn the entire city into a desert.

Ordinary cities can’t bear this cost.

If this thing falls into the wrong hands, the consequences would be unimaginable, so we remain here, generation after generation, guarding this thing and the relics beside it.”