Snox was very upset!
And, the thing upset the optimistic Snox was actually that mysterious white stone.
Since it couldn’t figure out the actual usage of the white stone, Snox had put it aside and continued busying itself with its Goblin Store. It just had no time to find an expert to identify what it was.
But unexpectedly, after spent two busy days, it suddenly discovered the white stone was glowing.
The white stone was lying quietly on the wooden table near the window. Under the shine of the fading moonlight, it was emitting with a faint white glow.
Yes, it was a glow emitted by the white stone itself and not the reflection of moonlight. Snox was certain about this!
Step by step, Snox drew closer to the white stone, and carefully, it touched the stone with its hand. It was neither warm nor cold. The white glow wasn’t caused by a heat source, but from some kind of mysterious magical energy inside the white stone. Based on the fact that the stone could absorb moonlight and transform into energy of its own, Snox determined it was possibly a special magical equipment that came from another ne.
Once it had reached this conclusion, merely for experimentation, Snox took out a magic crystal. To its surprise, when it ced the magic crystal near the white stone, the white stone actually dismantled and transformed. After a series of dismantling and assembling movements that dazzled Snox’s eyes, a mysterious magical machine that looked simr to amunicative mirror was unveiled in front of its eyes.
A mechanical arm stretched out from this magical machine, mped onto the magic crystal and ced it onto a hole located at the lower part of its body. Right after that, a strange mechanical voice echoed out in the room.
“A mutated entry level energy crystal is detected. It can be used as energy source. Magical Kernel serial number 03768, estimated recovery of function reached 17%. Initiating now...”
After that, following a series of peculiar noises, this Magical Kernel transformed from the white stone actually stood up, tilted a screen that was located at the top part of its body and pointed it right at Snox.
A violent distortion of images shed through the screen, and suddenly, an enormous ss eye appeared on it, followed by a noisy and hoarse voice.
“Peculiar... this is peculiar... why did a Magical Kernel that had not show any activity for more than two hundred years suddenly activate? Hey, little guy, are you the one who activated this Magical Kernel?” Snox was certain that thenguage spoken by the voice came from the Magical Kernel was something that it had never heard or learnt before.
“Who are you? How did you squeeze into this tiny object? This... what is this... what exactly is this object?” The naturally timid character of Snox had struck again. Judging from the size of the eyeball, Snox bet it must be a terrifying and enormous giant. If it jumped out from this tiny object, how could Snox escape from its death?
Right at this very moment, Snox was seized with remorse. Why hadn’t it mentioned this discovery to its master earlier! Perhaps, only that miraculous master of its could save it from the giant mouth of this giant.
Right as a fierce mental struggle was going on inside of Snox’s mind, the ssy eyeball on the screen backed off some distance, and eventually, allowed Snox to get a clear look at the appearance of the giant.
Fancy that! The ‘giant’ was actually someone with a near identical appearance and build like Snox! It had a simr height of around one meter tall and had green skin, a pair ofrge ears, a long and pointy nose, and disheveled, fluffy, short yellow hair. The enormous ssy eyeball that Snox saw just now was actually a special goggles.
Yes, this fellow was actually a goblin too!
The goblin on the other side was d in a dirty white coat, a drawing pen was ced in one ear, and it was wearing a high-power magnifier on its eyes. That was why it looked so strange. However, no matter how strange it looked, Snox was certain that this fellow was a... goblin!
After bent over the screen and spending some time looking left and right, obviously, the goblin on the other side never expected it was also a goblin who had just sent a request formunication from a far distance ne. Therefore, after murmuring someints for some time, it finally became friendlier, andmenced a warm interaction with Snox.
“You... are you a goblin too?” Snox asked timidly.
“Little guy, you are now meeting with the greatest chief inventor of the Goblin Empire, Duke Gazlowe. So, before you ask any question, you better add in the proper honorifics!” On the other side of the screen, the yellow-hair goblin was seen waving its arms dissatisfied and speaking in a threatening manner.
“Oh, the Great Duke Gazlowe, could you tell me what exactly is this object? Also, why is that I can understand your words?”
“Damn you #%@￥%... it looks like you this little guy had not understand anything yet.” The yellow-hair goblin crazily cursed, before it exined to Snox with a helpless expression. “What you’re looking at right now is the Magical Kernel I invented: the Super Long Distance Magical-Mechanical Communication and Transmitting Machine. To put it simply, it is a little equipment that allows two goblins tomunicate and transmit items across a super long distance.
As for why you can understand my words, it is because you’re a goblin too! As long as you’re a goblin, no matter which ne you are living in, it is natural that you can understand the Goblinnguage, as it is one unique to Goblins!”
Snox’s eyes went wider and wider, as it hardly believed what it had just heard.
“If this machine was invented by you, why was it stranded in this ce?” Snox asked wonderingly.
“Since this machine is called Super Long Distance Magical-Mechanical Communication and Transmitting Machine, it is of course used to carry out trading of items between nes! When I was young, I produced a few hundred of them at one go, and randomly tossed them into different ces in the multi-verse. So, when the local experts picked up this machine, they could be my customers. If my memory served me well,st time, it was a powerful Molten Giant who used this machine with the serial number of 03768 tomunicate with me. But too bad, that giant was really poor, and didn’t own any good stuff that met the fancy of my eyes!”
“You... you are actually a Mighty Transnar Merchant?” The greedy-in-nature, keen on receiving petty advantages Snox had its eyes pop out instantly. For Snox, obviously,pared to the status of Chief Inventor of the Goblin Empire, the yellow-hair goblin’s status of a transnar merchant was so much more respectable.
“Certainly! As the greatest engineer, inventor and transnar merchant of the Goblin Empire, I, Duke Gazlowe, am well-known throughout the entire multi-verse!”
“You’ve mentioned many times about Goblin Empire? This... what is it then?” Snox asked curiously.
Gazlowe said out loud with a proud voice, “Goblin Empire is, of course, the empire of Goblins! It is a kingdom built by us, Goblins, after upying an entire ne. In this kingdom, we, the Goblins are the true master of the ne. Since you’ve asked this question, presumably, in the ne you’re living right now, goblins have an inferior status?”
Hearing what it said, Snox clenched its fists tightly in excitement, while both of its eyes were filled with tiny sparks of envy. However, it soon recalled its current situation and couldn’t help but lower its big ears dejectedly.
Gazlowe sighed silently.
It had seen many situations like this. In most of the material nes, Goblins were discriminated against and lived miserable lives being bullied by everybody. They didn’t possess any ability in fighting, and they didn’t have any extraordinary innate abilities. Even among all demons, their ce belonged in the bottom of the food chain.
Nevertheless, with regards to this goblin who had identally activated the Magical Kernel in another ne, Gazlowe expressed its extreme curiosity. After patiently questioning Snox, it was told that this dejected little goblin was actually a ve who served a mysterious Adept.
And when Gazlowe couldn’t bear itself and suspected that Snox was just a penniless vagrant who owned nothing, the angry Snox opened up its waist pouch and revealed all its treasures to Gazlowe.
Human fist-sized Fire Diamonds; Sapphire, Ruby, Green Agate, Topaz, and Beryl which sent forth a powerful aura of magical element, and rare Night-Eye Stones, Pyre Stones, Crimson Spinel Stones and other treasures which could only found in certain nes...
A little, seemingly insignificant goblin actually took out so many rare gemstones in one go, this had made Gazlowe nearly dropped its eyes out. It paid no attention to those elemental gemstones, because at the ne where it was living, it could find plenty of them easily. However, the Night-Eye Stones, Pyre Stones, Crimson Spinel Stones and few other special gemstones and materials that Snox took out thest were something it had never seen before, and it took a great interest in a few of them.
In the Goblin Empire where it came from, the one single most powerful creation was all kind of magical machines. And, the energy that drove these magical machines would be a huge amount of energy crystals and distinguished magical gemstones. If it could bring all these special magical gemstones back to the Goblin Empire, figured out the mode of existence and the method of sharing the special energies, no doubt it would bring a tremendous help to the development of the magical machine.
Thus, the more this two goblins talked, the friendlier they became with each other. By the end, they actually reached a trade agreement, nning to carry out a transnar barter trade in secret.
The trade list drafted by each of them was extremely long.
For Snox, it had listed every single magical gemstone, magical materials and some unique Adept resources it heard or seen before in the World of Adept. As for Gazlowe, its listprised all sorts of powerful yet dangerous magical machines and some local resources produced in the Goblin ne.
While browsing through the trade list provided by the other party, when one of them was interested in some random item on the other’s list, it would offer a price and started the negotiation process. Sure enough, Goblins deserved to be generally regarded as a race that cared about nothing but profit, and they were also the greediest race in the world.
When it came to the price of the item, this pair of Goblin brothers who were happily chatting with each other moment ago immediately turned into someone as mean as a miser, fighting over the smallest trifles. Because of a difference in one or two magic crystals, they would rage at each other, cursing loudly all the familial rtives of the other goblins, and portray a fierce look of ‘take it or leave it’.
Therefore, Snox didn’t sleep for the entire night, spent all its effort and more than twenty hours fighting with Duke Gazlowe, who was a greedy, stingy, shameless, selfish, narrow-minded... goblin. In addition to that, it also paid no attention to hygiene and carried a pungent body odor. As for the result? Two transnar deals that were worth less than five magic crystals.
And yet, in order to maintain the smoothmunication, Snox had literally spent three magic crystals in just one night.
But with regards to this, none of them actually felt strange. Snox was dancing in joy as it was able to negotiate a discount of one single magic crystal for the deal. On the other side, Gazlowe was seen roaring furiously, cursing Snox as the most shameless and despicable green-skinned goblin it ever met.
Finally, both ended their firstmunication in such ‘friendly’ atmosphere!