Chapter 42: A Fantasy World Without a Floating City Is Soulless (2-in-1)
It seems that the coachman is indeed very proud of the Floating City, and in his gushing explanations, it can be seen that this Floating City has existed for nearly three thousand years, which can be called a miracle among miracles.
In this world, there are only seven floating cities.
"I've heard that those legendary mages once wanted to create more floating cities, but for some reason, all of a sudden, the way to create them was no longer feasible. Some say it's a deliberate flaw left by the great mage who created it, some say it's the goddess of magic who was angry at this shameless act, and some say it's the lack of skill of the people who came after it......"
The coachman pretended to be mysterious and told the stranger about the rumors of Gibro, and wanted to see the cold and haughty man look at him with curiosity and surprise.
To his disappointment, however, the handsome one-eyed man just looked at the floating city in the sky, as if he had no intention of continuing to inquire.
The coachman pouted a little disappointedly, and the carriage in front of him had just advanced a short distance, and he hurriedly patted his horse to follow.
Of course, Blue knew what the coachman was thinking, but he didn't feel anything, and this kind of ordinary person who showed off to outsiders how good his city was, didn't make him angry.
It's just that the other party wants to peddle what he sees and hears to him, which is really a little funny.
As the sun rose, Gibro City entered its busiest time of the day.
The number of people and carriages on the streets has increased rather than decreased, and the carriages are simply difficult to move an inch.
The coachman looked at Blue a little apologetically and said, "I'm very sorry, guest, but today is the holy day of Mystra, the goddess of magic, so the crowding is worse than usual. ”
Every definite deity in the world has at least one day a year as its holy day, and today happens to be the holy day of Mystra, the goddess of magic.
Although most of the followers of this goddess of magic are natural spellcaster elves, half-elves, mysterious wanderers, warlocks, etc., they have little to do with ordinary people.
But out of envy of the mysterious magic and Mistra's exploits in sheltering mortal spellcasters and making magical energy less violent, ordinary people have a very good impression of this goddess, and every year on her holy day, they will offer her their blessings.
Blue looked ahead for a while and didn't bother to be outside the carriage.
He looked at the coachman, and then said with a smile: "Don't worry, I said when I hired you, your task is to send us out of the city, so the money will be calculated for you during this time, you can drive well." ”
The coachman smiled brightly, he was also worried that the handsome one-eyed man would withhold his payment because he couldn't get out of the city at the specified time, but he didn't expect the other party to be so easy to talk to.
"Thank you very much, generous guest."
After two knocks on the carriage, Blue opened the door of the carriage and slipped inside.
As soon as he entered the carriage, Blue saw Macaria and Orianna leaning against the window, looking through the window curtain at the floating city in the sky.
Hearing him come in, Macaria withdrew her gaze from the window, then naturally leaned over to his side and thumped his back for him.
After sitting cross-legged, Blue looked at Krishanna, who was sleeping in the carriage, and said, "Alright, when we will get out of the city, we will find a desolate path by ourselves, and then when it gets dark, we can return to our true body and hurry." ”
Krisanna opened her eyes, glanced at him, nodded and closed her eyes.
For his sister's lazy appearance, Blue can't do much.
At this time, Orianna looked outside and sighed, "It's really amazing, how did that floating city fly up?" ”
After finishing speaking, she turned her head to look at Blue, remembering that this master and brother-in-law seemed to know a little bit about everything, and hurriedly asked, "My lord, can I also make a floating city in the future?" ”
"It's harder unless you're able to make a magic core that's stable enough and has a power output."
"Magical core?" Macaria also asked curiously, "What's that?" ”
"It's the core of the Floating City in the sky...... Blue pointed to the sky.
Seeing that the congestion outside had not improved much, he was also willing to explain to the ladies in the carriage: "This kind of floating city was researched by the great arcanists of another main material plane in the multiverse. ”
"One of those great arcanists, a genius, created a magical device called the Core of Mithera. This magical device can be connected to the magic web of the goddess of magic, Mistra, to refine the vast and pure magic power to form a lasting magical power. ”
Oriana tilted her head and asked strangely, "Didn't the goddess of magic, Mystra, teach us magic and control the stability of magic and limit magic that is too violent?" When did she make a magic net? ”
"That's because the magic of each main material plane is different, and the magic of our world is more similar to primordial magic, capable of obtaining magic directly from the Endless Void. It's just that this magic is too primitive and has not been refined, so it is difficult to control, which makes the spells in our world more difficult to learn. But on the other hand, the power is relatively large. ”
Orianna nodded in understanding: "I see, then that magic net was built by the goddess Mystra, and after filtering, is it relatively stable magic?" It's amazing, and in this way, the magic is indeed much gentler and much more controllable. ”
Blue smiled, indeed, this gave many mortals the opportunity to touch mysterious magic and magic.
But there are pros and cons, when a person reaches the apex of the magic net and wants to study more esoteric magical knowledge, the magic net will become the biggest constraint.
It's like if you're climbing in someone else's tall building, and when you climb to the highest place, you find that there is actually a higher existence above, but the tall building is so high, and if you want to climb higher, you can only go downstairs and build your own tall building.
It's a pity that most geniuses reach the end of their life when they just come downstairs and want to build their own tall building.
And there is no such constraint here in the Shulais Continent, and at the beginning, the people here chose not to rely too much on the magic net, but to build their own high-rise buildings.
Therefore, in the Shulais Continent, there will not be a farce in which once the magic net disappears, all mages will not be able to cast spells.
"After inventing the core of Mithera, the great arcanist used an eleven-ring spell to cut off a massive mountain, then used Utern's levitation to float it, and finally reversed the mountain with gravity reversal."
Pointing to the roof of the carriage, he sighed and said, "A great floating city has been created in this way. ”
Orianna didn't know what to say, and she looked at the roof of the carriage.
Although it was separated by a layer of wood, she seemed to see the city in the sky.
It is unimaginable that such a huge floating city, I don't know how many tons of huge peaks weigh thousands of tons, can be cut by the power of one person, and it is also reversed by the power of one person!
She couldn't help but put her face against the window of the carriage and exclaimed, "It's really amazing, if you can build more floating cities in the sky, wouldn't it allow so many people to live on it?" ”
Then she looked at Blue again and asked strangely, "Since there is such a stable energy source as the magic net, then there must be a lot of floating cities in that world, right?" ”
"That's right, after many improvements by the later Grand Arcanists, the technology of the Floating City has become more and more mature. Later, almost every year, a floating city was lifted and completed. These majestic magical wonders soar in the sky, suspended among the flowing wind and clouds. ”
Macaria whispered "Wow" behind Blue, and she said with a little wistfulness, "I really want to go and see it, it must be spectacular." ”
In the Shules Continent, plane travel is not uncommon among high-end people.
Even ordinary mortals can go to Bato's hell or the bottomless abyss through some channels.
And it is common to travel to other main material worlds, or to travel here from other main material worlds.
However, this kind of plane travel all needs to be under the same rules, for example, if there is no astral plane or gods in that world, it is basically impossible to communicate.
Therefore, many of the two-dimensional worlds in Blue's previous life were not connected to this place, and he had never seen such worlds in the memories of the primeval dragon.
However, the information of the Faeron and the Remnant Sun of the Catastrophe has appeared, and maybe you can go there to "travel" in the future.
But that's all for later, now let's get rid of the dragon god who doesn't know what nerves in Bahamut.
Blue shrugged his shoulders and said, "Then you probably won't be able to see it, because almost all of those floating cities have crashed." ”
When Oriana and Macaria heard this, they were stunned for a moment, and they asked urgently, "Huh? Why is this happening? ”
"That's why people fear magic, and the search for magic is endless...... There are more and more floating cities, and there are more and more archacanists who control them. These floating cities are like small kingdoms in their own right, and the Grand Arcanist is the king and the dictator. ”
"They began to desperately plunder resources, forming alliances and fighting with other Grand Arcanists; The people within are ruled brutally and bloodily, and magic is increasingly abused. ”
"Slowly, these arrogant grand arcanists want to realize their dream of becoming gods!"
At this time, even Krisanna couldn't help but open her eyes and sat up to look at the eloquent Blue.
And Oriana and the others were so engrossed that they didn't even blink an eye.
Macaria was a little creepy, and she whispered, "They're too arrogant, aren't they?" ”
"No, it's not that they're arrogant, that's what every character who has reached the apex wants to do. When there are so many legendary powerhouses, in addition to fighting each other, only being a god can attract them. Moreover, they have always believed that gods are nothing more than creatures with supernatural powers like themselves...... The reason why a god is a god is nothing more than the ultimate magic of the 'godhead'. ”
Blue couldn't help but admire them, in fact, among the primeval dragons, he also admired these great arcanists.
The pursuit of greater power is the driving force for any race or any person to become stronger.
In a sense, they are actually right, otherwise, there would not be so many new gods born and old gods fall. If God really was that omnipotent, there would be no fall, would there be? ”
Orianna still knows a thing or two about magic and spells, so she guesses, "So, they failed?" Angered the gods, sent down divine punishment, and the floating city crashed like this? ”
"On the contrary, they succeeded."
"What?" Even Lux exclaimed.
Snatching the Godhead and divinity is something that the powers in Bato's hell and the bottomless abyss often want to do, but the success is minimal.
The goddess Rose in the invincible abyss, the dragon queen in Bato's hell, and the evil dragon god Tiamat are all gods themselves, and they have entered these two planes.
"A genius among the Grand Arcanists, Casas researched the spells of the Twelve Rings...... Yes, you heard it right, it's the Twelve Rings, a Twelve Rings spell that can steal the power of the gods...... Make yourself a god. ”
"Just the casting material, this spell will use the stomach of the primeval golden dragon and other materials that can no longer be said to be rare."
As a result, Casas used this spell on Mystra, the goddess of magic, and Mystra was deprived of control of his net. Hahaha, so, Casas, who wants to save his people from perdition, personally deprives the floating city of the power source. Thousands of floating cities fell to the ground like stars overnight, and hundreds of millions of people died. And the falling floating city almost caused the destruction of the world. ”
"It's funny, isn't it, in order to become a god, the Grand Arcanist personally opened the door to destruction, and buried his home, relatives, friends, and people."
"Moreover, at the moment of becoming a god, he knew that such a thing as a godhead was actually something given by the god of God, and it was not directly obtained by a mortal body like him at all, which did not conform to the procedure of becoming a god at all, so the moment he became a god, he died."
"In the end, in order to avoid a repeat of the tragedy, the reincarnated goddess of magic banned all spells created by the Grand Arcanists that exceeded the nine rings, and stopped the floating city from stealing the magic power of the magic net."
Orianna tilted her head, and she asked, "Grand Arcanist, did you also use the magic goddess Mystra's magic net to cast spells?" ”
"No, although there are some differences, but like our world, they can also release spells without going through the magic net."
“…… So, isn't their future our future? Oriana whispered, a little frightened.
Blue looked at her with a little appreciation, her reaction was very fast, it is true that in a similar Shulais continent, if it is not restrained, the exploration of mysterious power will definitely be the same as that of the Grand Arcanist.
He pointed to the huge floating city in the sky and said to Oriana, "Therefore, there are only seven floating cities in the Shulais Continent. ”