Before being claid by Drake, she had probably already received education telling her that she must never disobey her Promoter's orders.
After granting Enju permission to enter and leave Terraria, Drake directly brought her to the spawn point.
"This is another world. Aside from and so contractees like you, there's no one else here."
"Next, I need you to help explore a certain area of this world."
"We may run into enemies… Hmm, they're similar to Gastrea."
"When it cos to fighting, will there be any problems?"
After carefully listening to Drake's explanation, a little more life finally appeared in Enju Aihara's eyes.
"Fighting… I'm very good at it!"
"Good."
Drake nodded, then began rummaging through his storage chests, intending to prepare a full set of equipnt for Enju as well.
Contractees could also wear equipnt and accessories.
It was just that until now, he had never had anyone suitable to accompany him on exploration.
"All right. This set should do."
The equipnt Drake prepared for himself and Enju this ti was two sets of Victide armor.
That was because the area they needed to explore this ti was the Sunken Sea — an ancient ocean located beneath the desert.
When moving underwater, Victide armor allowed the wearer to move as if they were walking on land, almost unaffected by water resistance.
Besides that, Drake also prepared two Ocean Crests, which could provide oxygen while standing still underwater.
Although he had plenty of Gills Potions in his inventory, it never hurt to have a backup.
"Take these potions. When the glow around your body disappears, or when your vision starts getting darker, drink two of them."
Drake handed so Shine Potions and Night Owl Potions to Enju, then reminded her,
"Don't be afraid of wasting them. Your safety is the most important thing."
Shine Potions could make one's body emit light, illuminating the surrounding environnt.
Night Owl Potions, as the na implied, allowed one to see even corners with no light at all.
These two potions were extrely useful when exploring caves, the seabed, and similar environnts.
"Oh…"
Enju accepted the potions.
After hesitating for a few seconds, she suddenly said, "Um… Can I call you big brother?"
It seed she had been thinking about how to address Drake this whole ti.
"Call whatever you like."
At least compared to "Master," calling him big brother on the street would not attract the police's attention!
Seeing Drake agree, a joyful smile imdiately blood on Enju's face.
Only at that mont did Drake faintly see the shadow of the Enju Aihara from his mories.
"Big Brother Drake?"
"Mm. What is it?"
"Nothing… hehe."
Drake rubbed Enju's head, thinking to himself that she might actually get along well with Lili.
"Are you ready? We should set off."
...
Sunken Sea.
According to legend, Terraria's desert had originally been an endless ocean.
It had once nurtured the ocean nation of Ilris, a civilization famous for magic.
The reason it had beco what it was now was because the magic of Calamitas, the Brimstone Witch, had boiled the ocean dry and plunged countless lives into suffering.
The once-prosperous ocean kingdom now had only a few remnants of water left.
That was the origin of the Sunken Sea.
"Glub, glub…"
Enju seed to have discovered sothing and was just about to turn around to report it to Drake.
But she forgot that she was underwater, so when she opened her mouth, she only released a burst of bubbles.
Fortunately, the Gills Potion allowed her to breathe underwater, so no accident occurred.
"I saw it too."
Drake nodded at her, then pointed ahead, signaling for Enju to follow him.
There, surrounded by vast stretches of coral and Eutrophic Sand, an underwater laboratory with exposed steel frawork was emitting a steady light from its windows.
So gentle marine creatures seed to have treated it as a source of light, swimming back and forth around it from ti to ti.
"Finally found it. The Sunken Sea Lab!"
Seeing one corner of the underwater structure, Drake was overjoyed.
He had two main goals in exploring the Sunken Sea this ti. Collecting materials was only secondary.
One goal was to search for the mini-boss Giant Clam.
After defeating it, he could obtain materials for crafting equipnt and unlock a new NPC function.
The other goal was to find Draedon's lab located in the Sunken Sea.
Unexpectedly, before he had even found the boss, he found the lab first.
"Let's go in and take a look."
Drake swam directly over. When he approached, the laboratory door opened automatically.
He did not know what kind of advanced technology it used, but the seawater outside was actually blocked off on its own.
Splash…
After entering the lab covered in seawater, Drake reached out and caught Enju, who had also swum in after him.
"Phew… I can finally talk."
Enju shook her wet hair and began cleaning the seaweed off her body.
"I didn't expect there to be this kind of building at the bottom of the sea."
"It looks even more advanced than IISO's laboratories."
"It's far more advanced than that."
Hearing this, Drake could not help smiling.
Draedon's creations were enough to rival the power of gods. That was exactly why he was searching for Draedon's labs.
Although so early Draedon equipnt was mostly fashionable junk with unclear practical value, that did not affect how powerful Draedon weapons would beco once the technology tree advanced.
The Sunken Sea Lab was the first Draedon lab, even earlier than the Planetoid Lab.
It could be said that this was the true starting point of all Draedon technology.
"Be careful of the turrets inside the lab. I'll scout ahead."
The turrets in the Sunken Sea Lab were similar to those in the Planetoid Lab. They were all pulse laser turrets.
Drake understood these things all too well. As long as there was cover, he could easily dodge their attacks.
After dismantling the few turrets in the laboratory, Drake could finally begin looting with peace of mind.
The overall structure of the lab was shaped like a tilted number eight.
The upper-left chamber had an aquarium containing a Sunken Sea landscape.
The lower-right chamber had a very complete cluster of Sea Prisms.
After collecting them all, Drake counted and discovered that there were actually more than two hundred pieces.
"With this, I finally won't need to dig around the Sunken Sea for Prism Shards anymore."
Drake had good reason to be happy.
It took five Prism Shards to craft one Sea Prism.
Crafting a single Seashine Sword required seven Sea Prisms, which had already used up all the materials Drake could gather in one exploration trip.
With more than two hundred Sea Prisms, Drake basically no longer needed to go out of his way to collect Prism Shards.
At the center of the laboratory was a vein of Navystone, which Drake also collected.
Navystone could be mined in the Sunken Sea. It was not particularly rare, and its uses were not very broad.
It could only be used as building material, to craft Water Turrets, or for a certain accessory later on.
Besides that, Drake also discovered several new Power Cell Factories and Charging Stations.
With this, his daily Power Cell output could rise to a new high again.
"Lastly…"
Drake ca to the most valuable security chest in the entire laboratory and reached out to open it.
A list of items soon appeared before his eyes.
[The security chest contains the following items:]
[Dubious Plating x15, Mysterious Circuitry x10, Torch x30, Gold Coin x12, Healing Potion x10, Yellow Seeking chanism x1, Gravitation Potion x6, Schematic — Sunken Sea…]
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