Chapter 132
Opening the initial portal is the hard part. It’s possible with Karl’s ability, but getting it exactly where you want it and not just within a few hundred kilometers proves exceptionally difficult.
Just being linked to the world might be enough, but as these items are so valuable, we’d rather connect directly to the store room with Lelou in it if at all possible. I don’t know if a Dragon egg can hatch after a thousand years in stasis, but I’ve got a good feeling about this. We were originally just going to power up the bag to compensate for any extra distance, but as we’re both Death Energy cultivators, adding huge amounts of Energy to make up the difference didn’t seem wise with living creatures.
The portal is about one meter round, big enough to pass the incubators through without issue. At least, that’s the plan.
Lelou looks super excited to see what we’re hiding, as details on where we are and what we’re doing were sparse.
"Portal is stable, you’ve got two minutes before I run out of mana and we need to start over" Karl says with a grunt of exertion.
"Here, take these as fast as you can" I hand Lelou the incubators one after another, being very short on time. She’s scrambling to take them and set them down safely in time, but we get them all passed over in a minute and a half.
"Good Job Lelou. They’re all yours, Karl topped them up, but they’ve been locked in there for at least a thousand years. Let me know how it works out."
"Dragon eggs, so many Dragon Eggs" is all she can say before the portal closes and we’re back to a dark room with a skeleton and a barrier protected table full of books.
"Odds on that table being booby trapped?" Karl asks.
"I’d say 5 to 1 in favor of something nasty. This incubation room seems to be the last stand of the cathedral, with the second last survivor choosing mutual annihilation instead of letting the enemy breach that door."
"Gather everything else that looks usable from this room. It’s giving me a mad scientist experimental vibe" Karl says, sounding unsure.