King from scratch

Another futile charge.

The player rushes through the desert, sweeping towards the nearest mage tower, leaving a mess of footprints in the quicksand, no longer the emptiness and tranquility of the past.

Players have a formation, but whether they can maintain it after flying for a while is another question.

But this is not a big problem. After all, once the mages attack them, it doesn't matter whether they have a formation or not.

The tall mage tower stands in the desert. There should be many words to describe it, but now... it can only be said to be indescribable.

The sand next to the mage tower is a mess, as if it has been plowed once; there are many unimaginable marks on the mage tower, one way to the other, and the west side, completely destroying the mage tower's original temperament of being lonely and repelling people thousands of miles away.

After an army of tens of thousands surrounded the mage tower, there was no more formation.

The objective area of ​​the Mage Tower is placed there. If every player can attack it, the crowd can only stack several layers around the Mage Tower to ensure the maximum attack efficiency.

Players wielding various weapons stand in front, trying to attack it physically; while players who have created a lot of etheric spells stand in the second row, using various self-created spells to try to attack it magically; Players who are masters and have learned the second-level skills stand at the end and release their "mechanical army"-a few mechanical creations that can barely fly, but the attack power is really hard to judge. The mechanical creations fly in the sky crookedly, Barely considered to have air supremacy, physically attacking the mage tower from above.

This is the most common scene every time players start a group together. It is like a zombie attacking the city, surrounding the Mage Tower layer by layer, and then the Eight Immortals cross the sea to show their magical powers, trying to cause visible damage to it.

This kind of attack usually lasts for three days (game time), and after leaving a bunch of mottled marks on the mage tower, there is no gain.

During these three days, players will even have regular breaks and position rotation times...

This is not so much a war as an insult from the enemy - to the mage.

The Arcane Academy discussed this meaningless war many times, and finally reached a consensus, and the kingdom remained invincible.

The Arcane Academy had lost the war once and for all when the ethereum's devastating attack came to nothing.

They have no possibility of victory. The curse of the land of God's Fall has prevented all enemies from defeating the kingdom from land.

And the seemingly arrogant words of the king before were indeed describing objective facts.

His restraint is to avoid more casualties, not fear of war-the mage has proved the truth of this sentence with his own experience.

After reaching an agreement on this point, there are only two options left before the mages, how to defeat an invincible enemy, or how to surrender.

The answer to the former was already given by Nubida in the last dialogue - only a continent-wide alliance can defeat the kingdom.

The latter, contrary to the original rules set by the Arcane Academy, ensures the political independence of the Arcane Academy and ensures that mages can study arcane arts without distraction. This is the original intention of the Arcane Academy.

It is quite a coincidence that the road that the Salfa Federation has walked is exactly the road that the mages have walked.

It's just that compared with the Salfa Federation, the luck of the mages is much worse.

They appeared too early, did not catch up with the relaxed social environment, and did not meet another Li Wang.

The roads that mages have walked are covered with mottled blood. Suppression, hunting, and death are the fate that every mage must encounter when he starts to explore arcane arts.

The mages have been hiding in hiding for almost an epoch, and the blood of one mage after another has flowed on the Neva Plain.

But passing on the torch, the ether... oh, at that time, it was still called arcane, but the obsession with arcane, the search for power seems to never be completely eradicated in the human body, on the contrary, the hidden Time has allowed the mages to form an extremely secret connection.

Until the end, the Diman Empire's pursuit of wizards got out of control, and when anyone suspected of it would face bloody suppression, people who couldn't bear the increasingly severe domestic atmosphere turned to God the Father for help.

Father God guided the remaining mages to leave the Neiva Plain and came to the westernmost desert of the mainland at that time. After a period of recuperation, the Arcane Academy was established here.

And the mages who have experienced long hunts and bloody suppression encounters, the first rule formulated for the Arcane Academy is that the Arcane Academy does not participate in wars, does not initiate wars, and exists independently.

They hoped that the Arcane Academy would remain politically independent, and that all mages after them would have the right to explore the arcane freely without being controlled by powerful rulers.

This ancient rule has been passed down from generation to generation, and until now, it has finally played a role. After repeated discussions, the Arcane Academy chose to abide by the ancient rule under the temptations of the kingdom, and then ushered in the current dilemma.

If mages appeared in the third era, or even in the Dark Ages, the Diman Empire would not take such extreme measures, but would gladly accept them, just like the emergence of monks and descendants of blood.

During the Third Age, the connection between God the Father and the Creation gradually diminished, and instead beliefs of other gods began to spread.And in the Dark Ages... Father God has completely fallen.

But the mages appeared in the Second Era, the era when the authority of the Father God was at its peak.

God the Father, who created the world, all things, and even the gods, had the closest connection with the creation in the second era. He would listen to the prayers of the creation, appear on the continent, and even celebrate festivals with the creation.

In the second era, all creations are the most faithful believers of God the Father.

In this era, mages who try to possess power that humans cannot possess and explore the laws of ether are the original aliens.

It is undoubtedly a kind of blasphemy for a mage to try to possess the power that the Father God did not give. At least in that era, the Diman Empire defined it as blasphemy, and therefore began to suppress the mage.

When the mages were hesitating between these two choices, the time has come to the present in a blink of an eye, when players, as always, start a group to brush the mage tower.

The mage did not pay too much attention to this. Although the danger of the player has been recognized, this does not mean that the lethality of the player has also been recognized. Compared with the defense of the mage tower, the lethality of the player still has a considerable gap. some distance.

If it wasn't because killing players was meaningless, a mage could send players to death with a forbidden spell, instead of letting players jump around the territory of the Arcane Academy so unscrupulously.

But the daily group opening this time is a bit different from before.

The first echelon of players generally possesses second-level skills, which means that they have initially touched the threshold of professions such as blacksmiths.

Among them, Li Ming, who was the first professional-changing mechanic, was invited to participate in the opening of the group, and used the imitation ether energy hedge designed and forged by him and perfected by the dwarves in this group brushing tower.

Part of the design is inspired by the military field of the earth, and the other part is inspired by the introduction of Li Wang in the open Wisdom Hall of Safa Federation. Li Wang's first invention in the field of war-Strong Ether hedge machine.

Of course, the gap between Li Ming and Li Wang is enough to make the strong ether hedge machine that Li Wang hastily created a benchmark beyond Li Ming's reach.

Therefore, this imitation etheric energy hedger is just a rough energy collision device, which is only conceptually similar to Li Wang's strong etheric hedger that can defeat the Diman Empire within three months—they all originate from energy collisions It was designed to stimulate huge energy.

It took half a day to install the imitation ether energy hedge, and another half day to adjust the activation method. The low practicality on the battlefield is simply outrageous.

After all, the enemy will not wait for you to complete the preparations before launching an attack. It is more likely that the enemy has won a complete victory before the imitation-ether energy hedge can be used.

"Is this reliable?" Xiong Da looked at the zombie-like scene under the mage tower, and then looked at the straight-line distance between them and the mage tower, which was almost over 400 meters: "The attack range of this thing is so large ?"

Li Ming was calculating the ether frequency, and said without raising his head, "I don't know, I haven't tried it before."

Xiong Da jumped up and slammed the rectangular block of metal half buried in the soil deep into the ground with a thumping hammer: "What the hell? Haven't tried it? Why does it feel even more unreliable?"

After calculating the ether frequency, Li Ming walked in another direction.

The metal block on the side of Xiong Da's back followed his footsteps, and asked repeatedly: "After the design of this weapon is completed, don't you have to try its power?"

"The dwarf said that the uncertainty is too great, let me try it on the ground."

Li Ming walked 600 meters in the opposite direction, stopped, turned to look at the mage tower as the center point, lowered his head to calculate the coverage, and stretched his hand downwards to signal Xiong Da to continue working.

Xiong Da groaned and groaned to bury the metal block, and his mouth was not idle: "So you are calculating where to bury on the spot?"

Li Ming turned to the direction of the mage's tower and explained: "Yes, the Ethernet here causes a bit of a change in the frequency of the ether. I need to calculate how to..."

Before more complicated words appeared, Xiong Da interrupted him: "Buried."

Burying the six metal blocks is not the end. Li Ming also needs to use the two skills of [Scientific Common Sense] and [Ether Perception] to find the frequency formed by the thinnest point in the world made of ether, and then input the same starting frequency, Let the imitation ether energy hedger directly form an impact on it.

Seeing that Li Ming was calculating there for a long time, he didn't move a step.

Xiong Da was full of doubts: "This thing of yours... has no practicality at all, right?"

It takes half an hour to calculate the efficiency, and they have finished playing.

"It's just a half-finished product."

Li Ming got the calculation result, took out a calibration controller from his personal space, took two steps back, clicked on the controller twice, and stopped when he was about to click for the third time.

Xiong Da understood what he meant, and dragged Li Ming back to the mage tower.

A moment later, following Wang Lun's last command on the regional communication channel, the players who were having fun attacking the mage tower began to run in the opposite direction.

Xiong Dati pulled Li Ming, and looked back at the overwhelming crowd behind him. He knew that the players had retreated, but those who didn't know thought it was a zombie frenzy.

Xiong Er looked at the controller with irregular red light flashing in Li Ming's hand, and didn't quite trust it: "Can this thing work?"

Bald Qiang said from the side: "It's not that I look down on you, it's mainly because the players designed it themselves, which is too outrageous."

This game is too free, and it can actually support players to design a practical weapon by themselves.

Li Ming and the others waited for a while at a distance of 800 meters from the Mage Tower, and pressed the final button after the players had evacuated.

All the players are looking forward to it, waiting to see the power of this attack weapon created by the players.

The scene was silent for a moment, and then there was a loud bang.

Accompanied by the yellow sand all over the sky, the seemingly indestructible outer wall of the mage tower shattered in front of them, revealing a hole big enough for players to pass through. The decorations, equipment, and even mage's daily necessities were faintly visible inside.

"Wow~" Bald Qiang let out a meaningless exclamation: "It's really useful."

The players didn't care about other things, and rushed towards the mage tower that was open to them.

Li Ming muttered to himself and calculated something: "It seems not quite right..."

Wang Lun, who was standing close to him, heard his muttering to himself: "What's wrong?"

"Only one is activated." Li Ming calculated the data, very puzzled: "Did I miscalculate the activation data of the other five? Or is there a delay? It shouldn't be..."

"Boom" "Boom" "Boom" "Boom" "Boom"

After five loud bangs, the desert returned to silence.

This destructive weapon made by Li Ming perfectly fulfilled its intended mission - the mage tower at the center of the energy explosion was blown to pieces.

Then, by the way, all the players present were killed.

And the part that exceeded the intended mission was that it blew a hole in the ethernet that spread throughout the Arcane Academy's territory.

Where the para-ether energy hedger kicks in, there is a gap in the ether.

This is what forces mages to speed up their decisions.

On the other side, players who returned to the city for free surrounded Li Ming.

"Fuck, fix one for me too."

"Boss, can this thing be mass-produced?"

"Is this about talent? Or is it possible to achieve this level as long as you change jobs as a mechanic?"

"Can players do this? Does this game have such a high degree of freedom?"

"Isn't it completely possible to rub the nuclear bomb with your hands?"

"Mechanic, always be a god. I'm going to gain favor with the dwarves!"

Li Mingshang was reviewing what went wrong with his calculation just now, and diverted his attention when he heard the words: "Compared to gaining favor with dwarves, I think it is more useful to gain favor with great scientists."

"Li Wang..." Li Ming thought about the choice of words, and the simple engineering man could only use simple words to praise the other party: "Very awesome."

"Beat the Diman Empire in three months..." Another player muttered, "Can you be awesome?"

"Let's not mention Li Wang, the Safa Federation opened up a city, and the people who came were all unknown NPCs, and the few scientists recorded in the Hall of Wisdom never appeared."

"However, how did Li Wang live for so long? A mage can only live for two to 3000 years, and an ordinary human can live for nearly 1 years... Good guy, Li Wang will not be the immortal of Ai Zhijin The first customer of a tailor-made plan?"

"That said, Li Wang does have the potential to be a madman."

"Then it's over. Generally, those who pursue immortality are basically villain bosses."

"Really? That's great! Hurry up and defeat the Salfa Federation and open the career of a great scientist!"

The topics discussed by the players quickly went off track, and Li Ming was able to disappear from the encirclement without a sound.

He pondered the idea of ​​trying the imitation ether energy hedge a few more times in the future, at least it must be more stable, so that it can be replicated on the earth.

However, there are some unsolved problems here, because when the player is on the earth, he does not have the skills of the game character, and the skill [Scientific Common Sense] cannot be succeeded through trial and error like learning [Ether Perception].

This skill comes from the Salfa Federation and is obtained by browsing the Temple of Wisdom.

The Safa Federation is not taking the path of a mage. Their use of ether is in science, not in magic.

To put it simply, unless they have the science and technology of the Safa Federation, the people on Earth cannot master the skill of [scientific common sense] through training ether.

Temple of knowledge.

This existence opened by the Salfa Federation, which has the function of storing knowledge, is not a library, or even an entity.

Strictly speaking, it exists in the matrix.

For players, it is very convenient to browse the Hall of Knowledge. After connecting to the Hall of Knowledge in Alna City, they can browse the Hall of Knowledge anytime, anywhere.

Arna, the city of science.

As the only city in the Salfa Federation open to the kingdom, it showed the kingdom the scientific attainments of the Salfa Federation.

The etheric constructs were indifferent when they saw the buildings and equipment in the Kingdom City, because it really wasn't worth their fuss.

The existence of Li Wang made the Safa Federation go all the way on the road of science, and finally took an unexpected path.

If the kingdom is like walking into the future, then the city of Arna is what the future looks like.

Directional portals, ether cursors, sleeping capsules, mechanical laboratories, public education resources, suspended buildings, each building can conduct information interaction and obtain information from the matrix - including the temple of knowledge.

This palace of knowledge, which is only open to players with partial permissions, is a "library" that all federal citizens have permission to read in the Salfa Federation. It includes the scientific system of the Salfa Federation and the principles of many inventions. The huge information branch, because of non-entity, can easily find all the information in the huge information by searching.

The most sci-fi point is that the matrix, as an existence similar to a 'base station', uses ether technology, and ether is everywhere.

This is specifically manifested in the fact that as long as players have accessed the matrix before, players can easily access the matrix again, as long as they have a federal permit.

Other than that, there are no restrictions—this is the zero-level skill: the source of scientific common sense.

There are no commercial buildings in this city, and there are almost no trade activities. The huge wealth that the Safa Federation has obtained through many inventions is enough for them to not care about the domestic commercial economy, and provide the citizens of the Federation with extremely favorable living conditions and public services. facility.

Li Ming was very interested in this. After the space channel was established between the city of Arna and the Kingdom, he frequently entered and left the city of Arna many times to learn about all the existence of the Sarfa Federation beyond the technology of the earth. In all these inventions, I realized one thing - Li Wang, awesome.

Of course, not all the scientific and technological achievements of the Salfa Federation were invented by Li Wang. In the history of scientific exploration and development of the Federation, the contributions made by other great scientists should not be underestimated.

The problem is that Li Wang is so brilliant, just reading the series of theories and inventions in his profile is enough to recognize this.

Federation science, based on Li Wang's theory.

Defining ether is one of his most well-known theories, and the matrix is ​​another major breakthrough theory of Li Wang that is not known to everyone. On the basis of the matrix theory, the Federation built a strategic weapon, Noah's Ark.

And a series of inventions derived from matrix theory—for example, remote dialogue, information storage and interaction directly promoted the emergence of the Temple of Knowledge, laying a solid foundation for the citizens of the Federation to become scientists.

Li Ming was shocked by all this, and in turn felt uncontrollable curiosity about Li Wang's existence.

Is this a genius born of human intelligence?Or... a miracle that occurred with the help of another 'system'?

But it is a pity that Li Wang never appeared in Arna City, and the players did not have any chance to contact him.

When the Arcane Academy was in shock because of Li Ming's imitation ether energy hedge, news finally came from another place that had been silent for a long time.

The Everfree Forest is fighting.