This sight left all the ratfolk miners dumbfounded.
After several seconds of dead silence came earth-shaking cries of amazement, praise, and even worship.
"This is the Divine Artifact bestowed upon us by the Rat God!"
The ratman powerhouse raised the Long-handled Axe-gun glowing with fiery light high overhead. Still speaking in that strange, tail-dragging accent, he roared, "The Era of Glory belonging to the ratfolk has arrived! The Rat God's power lies not only within this Divine Artifact, but within the bloodline of every ratfolk as well. So long as your faith in the Rat God is devout enough, you can create unbelievable miracles just like me!"
From deep underground came a burst of cheers.
Meng Chao, lurking in a corner, was equally astonished.
This Long-handled Axe-gun engraved with Cuneiform Script was not merely a cold weapon. It also possessed formidable pure-energy attack capabilities.
It could even use Spiritual Energy ripples to interfere with the Atomic Spherical Energy Layer of matter, thereby altering the nature of objects and blasting seemingly indestructible substances into powder, reducing them to nothingness at their root.
The shocking crack before the ratman powerhouse had been less cleaved open by the battle-axe than disrupted by Spiritual Energy. Vast amounts of solid material resembling Reinforced Concrete had all turned into semi-fluid substances like gravel, collapsing from within.
Ancient orc weapons truly were tyrannical!
They bore an uncanny resemblance to the Spiritual Energy attack methods of the "Ancients" during the Primordial War that I saw through the Monster Mastermind.
Or rather, these were imitations and weakened versions of "Ancient" technology.
So, the secret organization serving the Great Horned Rat God infiltrated Black Horn City in order to excavate an ancient orc "armory" buried deep beneath the city?
Upon careful consideration, Meng Chao felt it could not be that