Half Elf Ranger

Chapter 396: An Obsession

Unknown demiplane.

Looking at the desolate scene in front of him, Thorne, who was floating in the air, finally understood the very solemn reminder from the businessman before he left.

The moment he entered the range of the Floating Void City, he immediately felt some palpitating energy fluctuations brushing past him.

Although he is not a spellcaster, his swordsman profession can cast various supernatural abilities similar to spells, which gradually gave him a very keen perception of magical power.

Therefore, he can clearly sense that this palpitating energy is constantly destroying the demiplane space he is in now.

At this time, the space was trembling tirelessly. Although the strength of the vibration was small, as time passed, the edge of the demiplane had a large number of collapsed marks and cracks due to the slight vibration.

These countless cobweb-covered cracks formed by slight vibrations also gushed out extremely destructive gusts, wreaking havoc on all destructible things around.

When everything around is completely destroyed, it will be quickly occupied by deep darkness.

This place is like a field of space storms.

Looking around, Thorne could clearly find that the land that constituted the demiplane was gradually collapsing.

Like a huge spinning top, the floating city is in the center of the space storm. From time to time, small pieces of building ruins will fall into the bottomless cracks and disappear without a trace.

In other words, if this unknown demiplane continues like this, it is only a matter of time before it is destroyed by the space storm.

Thorne looked at the floating city at the center of the space storm, and began to hesitate in his heart.

The purpose of his coming here is to take a piece of soul spar to make tower spirit, but the so-called soul spar can only be found in the center of the floating city.

But what troubled him right now was that the ruins of the floating city had been surrounded by raging space storms, and if he wanted to rush in with his current ability, he was undoubtedly courting death.

Floating City.

One of the signs of the great arcane arts during the Arcane Empire period.

A great arcanist without a floating city, in their own social circle, might not even be able to hold their head up.

However, although many people who are familiar with the floating city know that these war fortresses have incomparably powerful combat power, many people do not know that another important structure of the floating city is the demiplane.

Even Thorne learned these very cryptic information from the goblin wizard Malvisa before leaving.

That is to say, the demiplane and the floating city are actually one. The great arcanists create their own floating city, and then use the floating city as the basis to develop a demiplane of their own.

If the floating city is compared to an aircraft carrier, then the demiplane is a safe haven for the floating city to replenish energy.

A floating city without the protection of a demiplane wants to challenge the gods. The moment it leaves the main material plane, it will be directly destroyed by the incomprehensible power of the gods.

If you have a demiplane dedicated to you, as long as you land the floating city in it, even the mighty gods will not dare to break free.

Because the half-plane is a complete small world, the various laws in it can be manipulated by the owner of the plane at will, and the powerful half-plane can even rival the kingdom of gods.

"It seems that the reason why the godslayers dared to challenge the gods is that this demiplane and the floating city in it are the capital of their challenge, but they still failed in the end."

Thorne looked at the ruins of the floating city, as well as the countless scraps of metal that were randomly discarded like garbage on the ground below the floating city, and said to himself.

If his guess is correct, those scraps of copper and iron are definitely the Constructed Golem Legion that once guarded this demiplane.

With the defeat of the war, they were abandoned here alone, until the terrible space storm completely destroyed the entire demiplane, and then disappeared in the cosmic dust.

"Woooooooo..."

The raging gust of wind whizzed non-stop, ruthlessly scraping across the ground like an iron broom, and there was the crashing sound of countless metal parts colliding.

Seeing the countless metal trash on the ground resigned to being put together into various messy shapes in the strong wind, even Thorne himself didn't know why, but he felt an inexplicable sadness in his heart for no reason.

Is it because there is no breath of nature in this small world that is about to be destroyed?
For this point of view, Thorne shook his head slightly, not agreeing.

Although he is a wilderness ranger and has the belief in protecting nature, relatively speaking, he pays more attention to the development of wilderness civilization.

If he had to choose between the two, he would definitely side with civilization.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have cast fire spells without hesitation when attacking the hobgoblin Heruk in the Forest of Tranquility, which would have caused him to be blacklisted by the druids in the Emerald Court.

"That should be the feeling of sadness when a rabbit dies and a fox." Thorne sighed and finally confirmed the source of this inexplicable sadness.

After all, they were all from the same world, seeing such a miserable end for his compatriots, this caused a touch of sympathy to float in his heart.

Why sympathize?

Because the encounters of the first batch of internal testers resonated with their own encounters.

How similar the desolate end of the Godslayers was to those who died on the Emerald Fields.

Perhaps the godslayers wanted to stand up and resist because they didn't want to be bound by the rules of the whole world.

And those compatriots who tried to establish territories in the wilderness just didn't want to live humblely and kneel in the shadow of the original residents.

It doesn't matter whether the rebellion on both sides is for a bright and hopeful future, or for fighting against darkness.

At least after their pale resistance, no more pale compromise is worthy of respect.

It's like when you meet a slave, you may instinctively sympathize with him.But when you meet a rebellious slave, friend or foe, we should show him the respect we deserve.

"Crack!"

Thorn avoided the raging wind, stepped on the cold metal parts step by step, and walked towards the ruins of the floating city.

Even though the floating city was surrounded by terrifying space storms, he still wanted to try to see if he could find an exit leading to the interior.

"Huh?" As he walked, Thorn suddenly felt as if he was being blocked by something, so that there was a sharp pain from the impact on his ankle.

His expression instantly became vigilant. He touched the hilt of his sword while looking down at the source of the impact.

"...alert!...alert!"

"... find the intruder!... find the intruder!"

Accompanied by the sound of icy metal, two glaring red lights suddenly shot out from the metal trash, covering Thorn's figure directly. The red light was like a scanner scanning back and forth on him:
"...The target is suspected to be an abyssal demon!...The target is suspected to be an abyssal demon!...Triggering the first level of combat readiness!...The first team of the Diamond Golem Legion is ready!...Start the defensive battle plan!"

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

As soon as the words fell, all the metal garbage dumps around Thorn trembled like an earthquake.

At the same time, a few scattered red lights shot out from the metal gaps, but most of the lights looked very dim.

Even the moment when some red light was on, as if the energy was overloaded, crackling magical auras jumped out directly, and with a burst of crackling sound, green smoke burst out and disappeared without a trace.

"It seems that they are all constructed golems that managed to preserve the energy core device after the battle." When Thorne found that there was no threat, he squatted down and looked at the golem that first raised the alarm.

This golem can no longer be called a golem, because it has nothing but a metal part of the energy core wrapped in its chest.

So Thorne immediately took out an ancient coin that symbolized his identity, and faced the red light that continued to scan towards him.

"Oh, I'm sorry, it turned out to be one of our own..." When the red light touched the ancient coin, the original cold metallic sound turned into a deep and hoarse voice.

Immediately afterwards, all the red light projected in the darkness dimmed, and a ball of pale white light emitting soft light appeared in the metal parts in front of Thorne.

The bright light centered on the ball of light and spread to the surroundings, reflecting circles of cold metal fragments.

"Who are you?" Thorn looked at the ball of light and asked after a moment of silence.

"Who am I?" The hoarse voice came from the bright ball of light again:
"Who am I? I am a... No! I am a constructed creature, the captain of the first team of the Diamond Golem Legion, and my mission is to guard the safety of the plane of the seer."

Looking at the flickering light ball, Thorne was taken aback, then smiled and said: "Constructed creatures don't have independent thinking, you look too strange."

"Ordinary constructed creatures naturally have no thoughts. However, my master, the great Lord of Winter, used the nine-ring spell "Construct Revitalization" to give me real life. She I also used the nine-ring spell "Construct Awakening" to give me the feelings of a mortal. She is like my mother and gave me a new life. I admire her more than anything else. "The deep and hoarse voice of the white ball of light actually revealed a trace of sadness.

It is the nine-ring spell "Construct Revitalization" and the nine-ring spell "Construct Enlightenment".

Hearing the answer from the light ball, Thorne was stunned for a moment, he still knew a little about these two nine-ring spells.

In order to successfully cast this spell, in addition to consuming a huge amount of power (experience points) from the caster, it also needs a very special casting material: the brain of a humanoid creature that has been dead for no more than eight hours.

Moreover, with the passage of time, it is very likely that this humanoid constructed creature will recall the memory of this humanoid creature's brain during its lifetime, and it is even possible to fully awaken it.

It is said that there are many powerful wizards who cannot bear the loss of their relatives, and will inject their brain memories into the constructed creatures at the moment of their death, and then hope that one day he will recall the memories of his life.

However, that was just a backup of their memories, in fact, their real souls had already left.

"Then... where is your master?" Thorn asked in a slightly heavy tone. Although he had already guessed the result, he still couldn't help but want to confirm it.

"She died...she was shattered by the void storm in order to protect this homeland, but her efforts were in vain. Because...we still failed to hold it, countless demons poured in from the cracks in the abyss, Ba Luoyan Demon, Giant Cow Demon, Eight-armed Snake Demon, Abyss Gnoll, Abyss Petitioner, Iron Cavalry Demon..."

The white ball of light was silent for a while, and the deep voice revealed strong sadness: "There are too many of them, and they rushed towards this plane of insight like a raging torrent. Our floating city fell, and the golem legion also fell. The entire army was wiped out, and many tower owners also fell with the collapsed tower... In short, we lost everything in that desperate war."

"I'm really sorry, I didn't mean to bring up your sadness." Thorn put his hand on the dim light and apologized.

It's a pity that it was just the light cast by the metal fragments on the ground, so he didn't touch anything.

"...You don't need to apologize for this. Hundreds of years have passed, and you are the first person to come here. Unfortunately, this place will soon be destroyed by the Netherstorm...I can no longer see any hope." The white light was a little brighter, and if it had a mouth, it would definitely be a grinning expression.

"There must be hope. Believe me, without a qualified night, there is no so-called real dawn. Don't give up, you will definitely usher in the light." Thorne comforted.

"It's okay, enthusiastic outsider, in fact, you don't need to comfort me, because I have already seen it away. The reason why I am attached to this place is because the last instruction left by my master is to guard this place forever. This plane was destroyed by the void storm, and I will follow it and turn into the dust of the universe, this is my final destination."

There was a deep smile in the voice of the white light ball: "Enthusiastic outsider, although I don't know why you are qualified to enter here, I don't want to ask too much, because after a few brief conversations with you, It made me feel a kind of intimacy that I haven't seen for a long time, this kind of intimacy is like..."

"Like what?" Thorn's eyes flickered a few times, and he seemed to have guessed something, so he immediately asked.

"It's as if... It's as if I met a fellow... from the same town?..." The light of the white ball of light seemed to be dimmed suddenly due to deep thinking, and suddenly it emitted bright white light again. In the space, it suddenly roared at the top of its lungs:
"No!...Who the hell am I? I'm not a construct! I'm a...poor visitor from another world, why did I appear here?! I died in battle while guarding the city of Winter! Why do I still appear here?! Didn't I say that I can go back?! Why..."

"...alert!...alert!"

"... Insufficient energy! ... Insufficient energy! ... Falling into a deep sleep! ... Falling into a deep sleep!"

Accompanied by the final roar of the light ball, the surroundings were instantly plunged into deathly silence and darkness, and one after another cold metal alarm sounds followed the trend.

"What happened in the year of turmoil?"

Thorn got up and saluted the palm-sized metal parts on the ground. Looking at the floating city ravaged by space storms, he couldn't help but mutter to himself.

Then continue to walk in the direction of the floating city.

Although he had the idea of ​​bringing this sleeping metal part back to Fallstown, the other party said that he would stay here forever, so he didn't want to violate the last obsession of this constructed creature.

(End of this chapter)