Chapter 595: Element Furnace and Interdimensional Transmission Matrix

In truth, Donald could not understand the psychology of the goblin race. If it were him, he would thoroughly analyze and plan everything before conducting such highly dangerous experiments, ensuring full preparation before taking action.

Although the goblins had invented many advancements that benefited intelligent beings, their low strength and unattractive appearance meant they never received the respect they deserved. Thus, this race, filled with both inferiority complex and a desire for self-improvement, was eager to gain strength and recognition from other races.

This led to the creation of magic-powered mechanical puppets driven by magic crystal energy to fight on their behalf!

The emergence of these puppets did raise the goblins’ status on the continent slightly, but that was about it. Inherent weaknesses are not something ordinary means can overcome, even though the goblins’ intelligence ranked among the highest among many advanced intelligent races!

Tragedy was thus inevitable. Aside from a few low-status goblin workers in the devastated areas who survived, the entire Goblin Empire was almost destroyed. The remaining goblins lacked advanced technological knowledge, and even if they had any, it was lost during the gods’ purge of the goblin civilization.

As a result, the surviving goblins lost their splendid technological civilization and became one of the few races left with only basic mechanical skills. Most of them even reverted to being low-level creatures like wild goblins, lacking much intelligence.

This was the punishment imposed on this race by the gods and the will of the main world dimension!

Fortunately, the destructive explosion blocked the gods’ surveillance, allowing the research institute buried deep beneath the ruins to retain its only Element Furnace. Though somewhat damaged, its core functions remained intact.

While the gods were busy dealing with the aftermath of the disaster and wiping out the goblin civilization, a group of surviving goblin elites, unwilling to see their great civilization destroyed, utilized the second most important research project of the Goblin Empire’s Academy of Technology: a large-scale interdimensional transmission matrix. This matrix, created by combining magic circle knowledge learned from wizards with goblin alchemy technology, was still in the experimental stage and had a high chance of failure.

But this time, driven by a heroic determination to succeed at all costs, the goblins succeeded by luck.

Through interdimensional teleportation, a group of the most crucial products of the goblin technological civilization, including the Element Furnace, along with a group of goblin scientists, were transported to a remote, small dimension in the Material World that had been discovered during previous dimensional explorations. However, the goblins themselves lacked significant strength; if they were true gods, they would have easily realized that this was a dimension on the path to decline and destruction, with initial spatial annihilation set to begin within a hundred years at most. The goblins, who had lived in this dimension for decades, tried to document all the achievements of their alchemical technological civilization. They aimed not only to preserve it but also to create an even more glorious civilization. Only the Element Furnace was classified as taboo, with no substantive experiments allowed to avoid repeating the tragedy of their home world! Yet, the remaining elites of this goblin empire were clearly not lucky. Just as they had regained some strength and their new goblin empire was showing signs of recovery, they faced another catastrophic disaster, and eventually, spatial annihilation occurred one day. Goblins were not a race with particularly strong constitutions, so they could hardly withstand the changes caused by the alteration of the dimension’s rules and soon fell ill one after another. Realizing that this dimension was about to be destroyed, the goblin leaders could only rely on their weakened bodies. They gathered some goblin children and youths, had them carry the achievements of their technological civilization, and activated the interdimensional teleportation matrix to send them out of this doomed dimension. As for where they would be transported, since they had no other definite dimension coordinates besides their home world, they could only be teleported randomly. Whether they could reach a safe material dimension and survive depended on their luck! The majority of the adult goblins decided to go all out and devote themselves to researching the Element Furnace, intending to use the last divine essence obtained during the goblin imperial era to continue their predecessors’ plan to create gods. If they succeeded in creating god-like puppets, they might be able to leave this dimension before it was destroyed. If they failed, at least the entire dimension would be destroyed—after all, it was doomed anyway! “But judging from the state of these ruins, it seems these goblins didn’t succeed!” Donald sighed in regret, then followed the operation instructions left by the goblins to open the passage to the underground research facility. Suddenly, the entire hall began to vibrate slightly, and the empty ground sank, cracking open to reveal a passage leading underground.

Entering the underground, Donald arrived in a large underground space styled like a modern technology research institute, only with a stronger steampunk flair! Dust covering the ground and the skeletal remains of goblins gave the place an extremely ancient appearance. After cleaning up the area once more, Donald focused his attention on the giant metal statue at the center, shaped like a dragon. “Is this the godly puppet the goblins wanted to create?” Donald reached out and touched the cold surface of the metal dragon. With the scanning power of a true god, he immediately understood the structure of the entire puppet. Donald had already acquired the technology for creating godly puppets from Sphinx—the Babylonian pantheon was most skilled at combining mechanical puppets with divine powers! With this knowledge, he could see at a glance that the goblins’ plan was on the verge of success. The reason it hadn’t been completed wasn’t due to design or materials, nor was it because the energy level didn’t meet the standards—it was ultimately because they lacked control over divine power! Gently tapping the metal dragon puppet, and after a slight sound of mechanical friction, Donald used his divine power to open its core. A core energy chamber popped up from the dragon’s chest—a 24-sided metal device about three feet in diameter, the element furnace the goblins were so proud of. Various energy output pipes were connected to it. After removing these, Donald activated the unused element furnace and took out a brilliant aqua-blue crystal! “It’s actually a true god essence containing the powers of water and courage. Not bad—now I have a gift for the kids when I go back!” A god essence represents one or several laws of the universe and is almost eternal in nature, so even after being left here for countless years, it suffered no damage. Donald wasn’t very interested in such newly formed god essences; only their divine domains piqued his interest. With the Gods’ Codex and the Book of Fate, he could freely expend divine power to create essences no higher than his own! However, doing so required an enormous amount of energy and was far less straightforward than creating fragments of god essences, so even if he had the ability, he wouldn’t do it lightly.