Chapter 760: Metal Dragon Nation (II.)
Valentina smiled and nodded, "Knowing the Paradise Islands, at your age, you are very knowledgeable, in fact, the Paradise Islands originally did not have dragons, and the metal dragons living there now had ancestors from other planets in the main material world, among which Vares Tianyu was the majority, and my great-grandfather was the first batch of immigrants who moved from Vares to the Paradise Islands at the end of the Dragon Age three thousand five hundred years ago." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info”
Roland suddenly said: "No wonder after the end of the Dragon Age, the metal dragons of the Vares world quickly disappeared, and it turned out that they had collectively migrated to another country, and the 'North Wind Tianyu' was not very far away from the 'Vares Tianyu'?" ”
"About 3,600 light years, it's not far away, after all, it's still inside the main material realm, due to the crystal wall separating each other, the two celestials can't be directly teleported, and they need to turn around from the astral plane, the era of the Vares dragon is over, it's no longer our stage, and then there are two eras in which the Arcanist and the Holy Light Church play the leading role, during which the metal dragon keeps a close eye on the changes of the times on the home planet but rarely interferes, I'm an alternative."
"You run the Harvest Ring in the Far East without family support?" Roland asked suspiciously.
Valentina smiled bitterly, "Don't talk about funding, there is not even a public authorization, I have done it well, the old guys will jump out to take credit, if they mess up, they will probably only say some cool things." ”
"It seems that you don't have a good relationship with your family."
"What young man hasn't lived through the age of rebellion? It's just that I've gone a little too far in rebellion...... Forget it, not to mention these old things, now I am not a willful little girl, the relationship with the family elders has eased, if it weren't for the sudden arrival of you, I would have been ready to go home to move the rescuers. Valentina glanced back at the large library, "I said I would go back to the Paradise Islands today, and I turned back halfway, and Anna was startled when she saw me." ”
"It's ...... that you came back to receive me"
"Not only to receive you, but also to ask you to come with me later." Valentina smiled a little embarrassedly, "Accompany me home to visit relatives, this is the task assigned by the patriarch of the family, you won't give your sister face, right?" ”
"Of course not, how long are we going?" Roland is worried about how to avoid the forced marriage of the red-robed couple, and he can't wait to accompany Sister Jinlong out to play.
"Set off in the afternoon, if it goes well, we can teleport to Beifeng Tianyu in a few minutes, we will stay on the island overnight, and we will have to rush back early tomorrow morning."
"Pressed for time?"
"Don't be nervous, no, the cold ** in the central area of the Divine Meteor Star Domain has become more and more intense recently, and the star gate leading to the 'Prison Gate Tianyu' will be opened in three days at the latest, and I will bring reinforcements back before this."
"You mean to invite the dragons to participate in this war against the Black Plum Alliance?" Roland asked.
Valentina nodded: "This is mainly the intention, and at the same time, I am also a little selfish. Andre and his wife brought the fleet of the Tower in the Clouds to the astral plane, and Carol hired the Warrior Monks of Gizzele, but I have not recruited troops for my own camp, so I don't work hard enough and don't look good; Second, he has no direct forces of his own, and he is invisibly shorter in front of the red robe and Carol, and his words lack weight. ”
The three legendary powerhouses in the same camp also compete in private. People fight for a breath of Buddha for a stick of incense, and Roland can understand Valentina's mood.
"Why don't you recruit the Green Druids of the Harvest Ring to fight in the Astral Plane, they are very loyal to you."
"The strength is not enough, and loyalty alone is not enough." Valentina spread her hands and smiled bitterly, "After all, the Green Field Druid is still shallow, and there are few people whose strength has reached the quasi-legendary realm, and they can only be used as cannon fodder on a battlefield of such strength as the Astral Boundary, how can I bear to pull a little girl like Tonya into this cruel war." ”
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The relationship between the "crystal wall system" and the "main material realm" is very strange, and it is a bit complicated to talk about it in detail.
As one of the most important planes of the multiverse, the main material world has an infinite and vast space, and the "crystal wall system" is like a bubble suspended in the air, and some people say that the space outside the crystal wall system is a vacuum, and some scholars claim that it is full of special substances similar to star quality, colorless and odorless called "phlogiston sea", and the space included in the crystal wall system is a "celestial universe" with an independent universe. There are many forms of civilization, and there is a huge disparity in level.
Varestianyu, Dongfang Tianyu, Prison Gate Tianyu, Beifeng Tianyu...... They are all relatively independent worlds enclosed in crystal wall systems, and the spatial scales of different crystal wall systems are different, some are just a star system, some are huge galaxies with hundreds of millions of stars, and some are even larger, and it is almost impossible to find the margin. However, compared with the plane, the wall system has a definite property: its spatial scale must be finite, and the specific size must be calculated from the day the wall system was born, which is the so-called Big Bang, and the expansion scale is calculated according to the speed of light, which is the limit of the current expansion of the crystal wall system.
According to this definition, the universe of the earth where Roland lived before crossing is actually a crystal wall system in the main material world, and Roland has asked Sputnia about his hometown many times, but only got two valuable clues:
First, in the mouths of the gods of the multiverse, the crystal wall system where the Earth is located is called "Ustianyu".
Second, casting spells such as "Otherworldly Teleportation" or "Otherworldly Gate" in the astral realm can easily go to most of the crystal wall systems, but "Uss Tianyu" is more special, its crystal wall is wrapped around a thick layer of dead magic area, cutting off the radiation of the magic net, and it is impossible to use magic to directly teleport to the past, which is very similar to the central area of the land of the gods, and also makes Es Tianyu a world isolated from the magic net.
Roland knows that there are some special secret methods that can make the magic net penetrate into individual areas of Us's Tianyu - such as using "silver fire" to build a tunnel to communicate the magic network in the dead magic area, and there are also ways to forcibly cast spells in an environment without a magic network - such as learning the magic schools of "Blasphemy" and "Protection" of the "Catastrophe Sun" Atas, but these are all strange tricks with great side effects and have no universal significance, so "Uss Tianyu" is still a typical "demon-free world" in general.
Roland regrets that he can't return to Earth, but fortunately, at this moment, the metal dragon country "North Wind Tianyu" that he and Valentina went to is not hindered by the Death Magic Zone, and can directly teleport through the Star Boundary.
PS: About the main material realm and the crystal wall system
The most likely controversy between these two concepts is: who is bigger, the main material realm or the crystal wall system? Who includes whom?
Originally, I saw the concept of a "crystal wall" in the DND2 canon, which is defined as "worlds floating in the phlogiston sea of the main matter plane wrapped in eggshell-like walls", which can be teleported to and from each other by magic ships or by magic.
According to the above definition, it is obvious that the main material realm is larger than the crystal wall system, and a crystal wall system is equivalent to a galaxy. The phlogiston sea that is abundant between the crystal wall systems is better understood as a vacuum.
However, in the DND3 version, the world setting changed greatly, and the 2nd version of the "giant wheel" was abandoned, and the tree universe was changed to an independent world setting. In the background of a story, it seems that there is only one "so-and-so Tianyu" by default, the concept of phlogiston sea is invalid, the magic ship is cut down, and the crystal wall system is not mentioned much. According to this setting, who is bigger in the crystal wall system or the main material world? Frankly, I don't know.
As far as the world view is concerned, I don't like the independent world of version 3 very much, and I prefer the freer and more diverse world of version 2, so in my own story, most of the settings are from version 3, but the settings of the plane and crystal wall system refer to version 2, only in this context can we accommodate the colorful forms of civilization, and there is the possibility of communication, which also includes the earth we live in.
In addition, the original advanced teleportation technique (precision teleportation technique) can cross the crystal wall system of the main material realm, in order to maintain the relative independence of each crystal wall system civilization in this book, I limit it to the inability to teleport directly, and it needs to be rotated in the astral boundary or other transitional planes, which is hereby explained.
In DND2, Earth is part of the main material realm, and the people of the Greyhawk world call it "Us", and there are often archmages who come to travel and sightseeing, and I use this title in my own story.