Boiling Beast Bloodline-Chapter 2219 - 679: Final Battle Countdown [5]_4

"I know about the Mobasa Nine-headed Bird, it existed in the same era as us. Though it wasn’t very conspicuous back then, so many years have passed..." The Tenth Prince Ventéclair shrugged his shoulders.

"An artifact! This magic mirror is definitely an artifact! Who doesn’t have weaknesses? With this magic mirror on hand, it’s like having a Hook’s blind spot searcher." Andulan’s old man grinned widely, exclaiming, "Mourinho truly deserves the reputation of a legendary sacrificer who has never tasted defeat!"

"Absolutely! The magic mirror is indeed a supreme artifact!" Richard said with a grin, "I’m curious, if I asked the magic mirror what my fatal weakness is, I wonder how it would answer."

"What is the boss’s fatal weakness? One, two, three!" Led by Helen, the Summer Palace guards replied in unison, "Women!" Then everyone burst into laughter.

"That answer is really laughable," Richard squinted and sneered, "Are you guys asking for trouble?"

"I’m dying of laughter, is this magic mirror what you all call an artifact?" Tan Ya sneered from the side, "The more I listen, the more it sounds like the ’mirror search engine’ we made with mineral life forms."

"What do you mean?" Richard was stunned. Facing prehistoric life forms, he didn’t dare to be presumptuous. God knows how old this wife is, billions of years old maybe.

"The so-called ’mirror search engine’ is a translation I made into the Aegean language. You wouldn’t understand its original name. Put simply, it’s an intelligent tool with a detection range of a hundred thousand square kilometers, mainly used for analyzing life structures and civilizations. It’s a basic piece of equipment invented for ’interplanetary exploration’ — uh, I’m not sure how to translate ’interplanetary exploration’ into the Aegean language, but Richard should grasp it." Tan Ya smiled with two dimples, "Nini, Lily, is that magic mirror your father treasured made of stone? Round, about one yard tall, with a base shaped like a calyx?"

The two swan maidens were stunned for a moment before shaking their heads, their expressions filled with astonishment, "Father never let us see the magic mirror, but Grandpa said it seems similar to what you described."

"Honestly, you really shouldn’t use this magic mirror frivolously. You might end up asking silly questions like if there’s anyone more beautiful than you in this world." Avril laughed and said, "Isn’t that what all women would ask? Haha..."

"Did interplanetary exploration start in your era?" Richard tilted his head and asked Tan Ya, "Did you capture any aliens?"

"We only discovered a few primitive planets with basic life, but couldn’t go further. Those planets had too much oxygen, and we couldn’t survive there." Tan Ya said dismissively, "Perhaps these primitive planets are what you refer to as places like the Abyssal Realm, the Demon World, and the Netherworld."

"Bollocks!"

"Not at all, your magical civilization seems more impressive to me. Space teleportation was high-tech even back in our day, and now your primitive civilization can somehow use it. That’s miraculous! Actually, our interplanetary exploration stopped swiftly because it became meaningless. We explored everything that was possible, and anything further was inaccessible."

"You’re right, you should never underestimate any civilization." Richard nodded genteelly. From the information he gathered from Tan Ya, it seemed that the mineral life forms inhabiting the Aegean at the time hadn’t developed nuclear weapons; they invented another type of ray-based destructive weapon! It seems that the technology on Earth isn’t that simple either.

"I actually have a hypothesis that I’ve never dared to make public." Tan Ya looked at Richard and then at everyone with a very serious expression, "I suspect that when mineral life forms in the Aegean World created you — that is, the nascent states of major animals and plants — the alteration in atmospheric composition due to your respiratory cycles led to a significant increase in oxygen levels. This allowed the oxygen virus to erode our bodies, resulting in our eternal petrification! Initially, the Aegean had nothing but stone and water!"

"It’s all our fault, haha..." Richard sincerely admitted his mistake, "If only you had invited me and Yi Tiao to help back then. Hey, an ultimate transformation by a wizard plus a Finger of Seal, everything would have been resolved!"

Tan Ya ignored his insincere apology and continued, "From ’Intelligent Bath’ and ’mirror search engine,’ you can gauge how advanced our civilization was back then! So, when the atmospheric change occurred, not all mineral life was doomed! Although we halted alien exploration, we retained a few monitoring space stations, and a few astronauts remained in outer space! Since those astronauts didn’t encounter oxygen, they’re surely fine!"

"You don’t mean to say that the gods living in the sky are those astronauts of yours, right?" Elder Andulan was flabbergasted. Being old and wise, he was the first to catch on to Tan Ya’s insinuation.

"That’s right!" Tan Ya said unabashedly, "In fact, we created everything in the Aegean you now see. It’s not an exaggeration to call them your gods!"

"Nonsense! Even if there were astronauts, wouldn’t they have died by now after all these years?" Richard laughed and said, "Tan Ya, don’t tell me your astronauts also have the ability of a Lich King, to become immortal through rituals and a Lifeline box!"