Chapter 730: Returning Back to Simple Life
Damian continued, "It’s better if you are well prepared before activating it; you will have only ten minutes every day for the new batch to send in and the old batch to come back. Understood?"
"Yes," Lazrin said, her eyes already calculating how best to utilize that. "Mana gathering functions on such huge runic devices with complicated spells—ten of those at that, and made in a day. Indeed, your ’Runebreaker’ name is well deserving."
Damian continued speaking without giving any reaction to the flattery. "Only you can pull this lever using your mana to activate the waygates. For others, it will only be a simple lever doing no function. Try one."
Damian activated his sacrium mana cubes and powered the waygate fully. Lazrin stared at the hovering sacrium cubes like they were ghosts. The demons had known about his mana generators since the time he was in the academy—Lazrin asking no questions was enough to convey his mana cubes were something very well known even in the land of demons.
Especially third-rank mages who drooled at the thought of having unlimited mana at hand took special interest in Damian’s mana generators.
The demon queen pulled on the lever using her mana, and the waygate flared to life. They stepped into a blue, shimmering portal and came out in the middle of the ocean.
"Woah.." Lazrin said, surprised. Then added, "What is that? Decorations?"
It was the monster locked in a steel cage whose ID he had used to connect the waygates.
"The monster is the connection that the waygate uses to bring us here. If that guy dies, the waygate won’t work, and whoever remains on this ocean base won’t be able to come back—not until we find them ourselves," Damian explained.
"I will make sure no one dares to touch it," Lazrin said, suddenly very worried for the health of the poor half-fish, half-man-like monster.
"My people will remain here and look after it. Don’t worry. I can reach this place through them too."
Lazrin nodded, relieved that one monster was not the only thing they had to rely on. Damian showed her the basement from where to activate the wormhole and reach the dungeon. The rooms had tables and beds in which people could stay, sit, and sleep while waiting for the daily waygate portal to take them back home.
Once the tour ended and Damian spoke to the two units of soldiers who would stay the night there, he left through the waygate back to Jacob. The golem and the old attendant were still checking the lift he had built.