Seeing the Scarlet Fish Emperor flee, Anthony immediately wanted to chase after her, but Chen Cheng stopped him.
"Don't rush off. Give me a hand first—help me pry out the foundation here."
Chen Cheng had also noticed that the foundation beneath the Royal Palace's main hall was no ordinary earth and stone. Beneath the floor tiles lay an enormous solid block of Mithril.
The value of this Mithril alone was enough to buy an entire massive province.
This was fucking building a palace atop a mountain of gold.
Of course, the truly precious thing was not this enormous Mithril foundation, but the Absolute Magic Array inscribed upon it.
Especially since its core was somehow still completely intact. Taking this out would make it a national treasure.
Still, there was one thing he could not understand. Since there was an Absolute Magic Array here, Hisslaj, whom the Scarlet Fish Emperor had mentioned, should have known about it.
So why had he not moved the array away, instead allowing a fish to occupy it?
But this was not the time to think about that. Since Hisslaj had not moved it, Chen Cheng would help him move it.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Chen Cheng smashed down with punch after punch, shattering and clearing away all the floor tiles above. Looking at the intact foundation exposed beneath them, Chen Cheng finally understood.
It was not only because the foundation was too large. Another reason was that this was merely one core of the array; once it was moved away, the rest of the array would become useless.
So if it had been Chen Cheng himself, as long as he could keep it under control, he absolutely would not have moved the array either.
That way, not only could the complete array be preserved, but it