"I don't see any magic here. It doesn't have any fluctuation, mana flow normal. Zero carvings other than natural." Jax scratched his head, he was at the bottom of mountain that pipe led to. He looked for some mechanisms that don't use magic, like hidden lever or fake wall, everything he knew. Finally, he sighed.
"I don't have a choice, other than to try this" Jax closed his eyes and inhaled cold air, and took step back. Jax's fist started to glow in different colours and mana started to gather around him. Few moments later when Jax exhaled world froze, he opened his eyes and punched the mountain. When his fist touched the mountain, it started to crack. He jumped away, and look at crumbling mountain. When dust settled itself, Jax saw that enormous gate was carved into the mountain.
"Good choice, stones were probably moved here by magic and placed to block the gate, and to enter this place people needed to use spatial gate or move the rocks themselves." Jax nodded with approval. He walked to gate and touched it, formations there tried to restrict him, but were badly damaged and unable to defend themselves.
"The core of formation is not damaged and most of it is intact, I will need just few days to fix it." He nodded. He created some formations around the gate to hide it, and then went inside.
"I feel mana growing stronger" Jax was walking downstairs for already an hour. He was careful and watched each step with his abilities. Finally, the doors at the end of the stairs.
He checked them out using [Mana Eyes], [Mana Sense], and everything he had.
"They don't have any enchantment, probably gates outside are for the defence. So if someone breach the gates, that means you already lost?" He smiled and opened the doors. When he entered he saw that this place is at least 20m tall and wide for at least 200m or more, but what truly stunned him, is what he saw in this place.
"Artificial magic stones factory?" He saw countless glass domes and in them magic stones veins were growing. He found that pipes were connected to each dome, and led to big crystal dome in the middle of the hall. Jax saw that each part of crystal dome had different light inside. He also found some of them had cracks.
"So I was right, even better our situation could be far worse, if that energy leak was in these domes it would explode already" Jax walked around the crystal dome, each section had pipe connected to it that led to some dome with magic stone vein.
"Fire, water, earth, wind, light, darkness"He started to list every element he saw on the crystal dome. It took him more than 20 minutes to count all of them.
"I need to fix it, it's too precious to destroy."
He started to plan how to do it, when he suddenly moved to a corner of the hall.
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"What this guy is doing?" Merlin was pondering, until he felt extreme levels of energies and few moments later he felt explosion of mana and aura. He looked into direction that it came from.
"Wait, isn't it the direction that Jax went to?" He just shook his head.' That guy is probably doing something reckless'.
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"Give me one reason, why should I not kill you?" Jax asked soul that he captured in his [Divine Power]. He felt that something is observing him, and he found this soul.
"I don't want to harm you my lord!" The soul pleaded. Soul looked like very tall, old human male, but there were parts that weren't human. Soul had long pointy ears, and long fangs that sprouted from his mouth outside. 'High Orc?'
"Why do you call me your lord?"
"You are divine orc, you are worthy of worship" Jax face turned serious.
"How do you know this?" He never told anyone about it, also he wasn't divine orc, and he only gained lineage of it, which is just bloodline.
"My lord, you have [Divine Power] and I can feel familiar scent from you" Soul admitted.
[Divine Power] is something that only demigods or Gods naturally have. People can gain by becoming apostle of the God. Only [Divine Power] is able to destroy souls and trap soul without containing it like his soul capturing box.
"If you want to survive, allow to use slave mark on you." Jax said. Slave mark was just slave contract. Master could do anything to his/her slave, and order them to do anything.
"Of course my lord" Soul replied. Jax didn't say anything, he made slave mark on the soul, he was cautious and kept vigilance until the mark was created. Then he released the soul, it couldn't do anything against him now.
"So what's your name?" Jax asked, he didn't like the idea of not knowing name of someone.
"I am Kurkhak, my lord. I am keeper of this place."
"So Kurkhak. What did you mean by familiar scent?"
"Well in the past during our reign, there were legends about divine orcs. In them divine orcs were godlike beings that could even fight the gods. In cathedral that was dedicated to our ancestors, existed vial of blood that was said to belong to divine orc. You have the same scent as that blood." Kurkhak explained. 'So some beings can tell that, it's bad.'
"And what this place is, I know it's artificial magic stones factory, and how it works in general, but are there any other things I should know?" Jax asked, that was something he needed to take over.
"Other than what you said it's nothing much, it wasn't a research facility, sure there were some studies conducted here, but it was mainly a production facility. What I can tell you that there are some defense mechanisms, but I disabled them when you entered this hall." Kurkhak explained, he sensed Jax presence and because of his connection to the divine orcs he disabled all defenses.
"How long it will take for you to make them running again?" Jax immediately saw guns coming from the celling.
"That's long" Kurkhak replied.
"Are there any materials here to fix these leaks?" Jax asked looking around.
"Yes, but there is a problem" Kurkhak scratched his head.
"Materials are behind some barrier, or it's just about being exposed to extreme levels of elements" Jax shrugged.
"I am bound here, and I am of this place keeper, but I can't control the creation process, so during repairs, you will be exposed to enormous levels of pure elements." He didn't like it, he couldn't move from this place, but he didn't have full control.
"You don't need to worry about it, just show me where materials are." Kurkhak led him to the room with spare parts and materials for repair.
"So what exactly I need to grab and do?"
"The sides were created to be just replaced, so you need to pull off the pipe from it, and insert new plate. After that plug the pipe back. Energy is stable and calm, but it's extremely pure and in huge quantity." Kurkhak tried to warn Jax because he had divine orc blood, and he wanted him to be safe, and this energy can mutate him.
"Like I said don't worry, I don't go there unprepared." Jax took his clothes off and they disappeared.
"Subspace?! How did you get one? During our reign only a handful of people had them."
Subspace was something like inventory in games. You could put there anything as long as subspace was big enough. Jax got it from Shiro blessing, his subspace could fit up to 100m^3 of materials, clothes etc. He mostly used it for storing the most important stuff, like his inventions or enchanted clothes. Jax took his clothes off, because he didn't want them to be destroyed by the energy of the factory. He walked closer to the dome and saw that damaged parts were at least at 10m. He looked over and found an enormous long ladder lying around. Jax picked it up and leaned it against the crystal dome, after he checked if it's stable he started to climb. Few minutes later he was in front of the damaged part.
[Powerful energy is detected. Energy tries to invade host body.]
[[Adaptive Body] adapted, energy is absorbed]
Jax smiled, and started to work with crystal dome. He removed the pipe and held it under his armpit. He then transported the damaged plate into subspace and summoned a new one. Jax carefully placed in the spot. When he saw there aren't any leakage, he plugged the pipe back. He repeated the process for two hours.
"Hey Kurkhak. Did I miss something, or is everything done?" Jax asked. Kurkhak was dumbfounded, in his time high orcs needed protective suits to do it, even then it was a job for slaves, because suits couldn't protect them for a long time." Did you hear me?" Jax asked again. Kurkhak snapped from his thoughts.
"Yes, yes, my lord. Everything is done"
"That's good"smiled Jax, then he looked around. 'This entire place is mine' "Hey Kurkhak, I will fix the gate and put stones back in place, so do you have any method for me to not use the gate." He didn't want to create some new formation here, he didn't know everything about formation used here, and high orc society, so it's better to study it.
"You don't need to worry my lord, I can teleport you inside when you are nearby. Thanks to slave mark I will know it." Kurkhak answered politely.
"That's great. I must go now. I will fix the gate and put the stones back. Probably I will visit you in next few days, or a week" Jax said and run towards the exit.