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They let them continue talking while they walk up the stairs.
As they keep going up, they see Glairborn equipped with exoskeletons, although unlike the ones that captured Clausewitz, their chassis is minimal, only possessing metallic limbs and head protection.
The deities easily slip past them while they are busy calibrating the distillers and writing down their current inventory.
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Judging from where they entered and how many floors they climbed, they predict that the roof is only a single floor away.
They come across an empty room filled with water vapor and leaking water. Orange lights pierce through the mist, revealing a single large machine in the middle of the room.
It is a tall pillar, with multiple wires and boxes around the lower half of it. Numerous coils wrap around the base of this device. The top part is a single large cylinder that is by smaller ones which flare out like quillons on a sword.
Getting closer, there’s instructions written on the pillar.
OPERATING THE SPEAKER
1. PULL THE ORANGE LEVER DOWNWARDS TO OPEN THE SPEAKER
2. INSERT [HOT] THERMAL STONE(S) TO POWER THE SKULL
3. INSERT SCRIPT INTO THE BOX
4. ENSURE THE SCRIPT IS FLAT AND DRY
5. PULL THE BLACK LEVER UPWARDS TO ACTIVATE SPEAKER
1 PAGE = 1 [hot] thermal stone
there’s a small note next to it:
overloading the speaker with extreme heat WILL disable the speaking skull and engulf the room in hot steam
pay will be deducted from ALL personnel in the shift that is responsible
TAKE THE THERMAL STONES OUT AFTER EACH USE!
ーMagic wielders labs
