The "Silver Sky" is a thriving mining area on the outskirts of the Dead Lands, as well as a transportation hub and trade center for the field, with teleportation stations to various parts of the astral plane and even other planes, and hundreds of plane travelers enter and leave this place every day. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The starry sky floated with wisps of silver trails, like a huge cobweb with dewdrops, stretching towards infinity, all the spider silk leading to a destination: it looked like a huge saucer, more than two thousand feet thick, with a radius ten times thicker, the central depression was warped around all sides, and because of the milky yellow mineral color on its surface, this mining star was actually more like a large plate of cheese, probably because the sky above the star was once shrouded in silver-gray smoke all year round, a haze caused by the large amount of ore smelting.

The saucer-shaped edge is covered with irregular honeycomb holes, most of which are thousand-year-old mines, and those silver spider silk are the transportation pipes leading to the depths of the pit, and only need to activate a magic password, and the constructed body minecart will use the "spider silk" as the track to correct the direction of gravity by itself, and transport the fully loaded ore out of the pit at a constant speed of 50 feet/s, and send it to the dock-type beneficiation, ore washing, and smelting integrated factory connected at the other end of the spider silk track for rough processing, so as to obtain the finished industrial magic crystal.

During the golden age of mining, thousands of mining docks hung around the Silver Sky, like a ring of pearls set in the crown.

However, the good times caused by the gold rush have long since come to an end with the depletion of mineral resources, and now most of the mining docks in the outer star field of the silver sky have been evacuated, leaving only the spider silk orbit floating alone under the starry sky, as if it has lost the broken line pulled by the kite.

The vast majority of the silver empty pits have been proven to no longer produce magic crystal ore, and the very few pits that are still mining produce less than 1,000 pounds of ore every year, considering that the content of magic crystals in natural ore is less than 1/10,000, and the standard industrial magic crystal processed into 10% purity is no more than 10 pounds, and the total annual output value is 100,000 gold coins.

How do the remaining mines make ends meet?

Replacing miners with traps is the most basic consensus, which is a large one-time investment, but theoretically can reduce labor costs to zero, and seems to be able to make up for the shortfall. However, in fact, the organ is not a "perpetual motion machine" that will be fine once it is invested, and the maintenance cost is also a large expense, not to mention that the industrial organ does not have the intelligence and cannot really do its own thing without the command of the owner.

In general, replacing labor with machines can achieve a slight or no loss, but it is very difficult to make money. As a result, the only remaining mine owners in the area did not use the Crystal Mine as their main industry, but only used the ore produced as a tax to be paid to Lord Gisyankee, where the Crystal acted as a monetary tax, and thus gained the privilege of operating other industries in the "Silver Sky" area: taverns, inns, casinos, brothels, grocery stores, prop shops, and some shady establishments.

The customers of these service industries are mainly travelers who travel to and from various planes - as a distribution center for goods, intelligence, and various services in the countless dimensions of the multiverse, the most valuable thing in the Silver Sky today is not mineral resources, but a natural teleportation array in the center of the saucer-shaped region. According to known detection results, this teleportation array associated with the Silver Sky can lead to at least 100 different planes, which is a truly inexhaustible gold mine compared to the depleting magic crystal mine.

At this moment, the calm starry sky suddenly stirred up waves, and a dimensional crack appeared directly above the silver sky, and the distorted light and shadow quickly stabilized, forming a strange humanoid silhouette with a thin waist and long legs and rabbit ears, the body curve was bright silver, like a molten metal outline, and the interior was a pitch-black and deep space, I don't know where it leads.

A human youth in pitch-black armor and carrying a golden sword walked out of the portal, looking down at the saucer-shaped star below, and as soon as his eyes touched the large teleportation array in the center of the silver sky, two system prompts immediately came to his mind.

- Discover the remains of the Old God "Eltaran"!

- Discover the high-concentration potential radiation field!

The name "Eltaran" sounds unfamiliar. Roland tried hard to search for his memory, but he couldn't think of such a god, and based on experience, it was not difficult to come up with a conjecture: the other party was not a recognized god projected in various planes of the multiverse, probably similar to Varres's god of the deep sea giants Vermore, but a local god whose influence was limited to a certain crystal wall system.

"Eltaran is an ancient deity who was once the 'goddess of travel and observation' of Vares, and was active in the 'Black Iron Age' before the Ocean Age." Sputnia's answer confirmed Roland's suspicions.

"Black Iron Age" belongs to the prehistoric civilization of the obscurantist period for human beings, when the human beings on the earth mostly existed in the form of tribes, and a very small number of kingdoms with a high degree of civilization were also destroyed in war, after 40,000 years of erosion, especially the subsequent flooding, the rise of the ocean empire, these prehistoric civilizations have long been submerged in the depths of the ocean, and there are very few cultural relics recorded for future generations, and today we can only speculate through myths and legends that it is the beginning of the era of human civilization, and it is difficult to determine what kind of height it has reached. But there is no doubt that it was then that humans learned from the dwarves to mine ore and forge iron, and soon replaced bronze and other materials with iron tools to make agricultural and hunting tools, which is the root of the name of the lost era after the "Black Iron Age" by later historians.

The human society of the Black Iron Age did not have a well-established church organization as it is now, when animism was still the mainstream of faith, there were no priests, no nuns, and of course there were no splendid temples and cathedrals, and the druids and shamans were highly respected and loved among their respective tribes, the former was the spokesperson of the divine power of nature, worshipping a world tree called "Igdrasius", which was also called "Ilminsur" in other places; Shamans are the spokesmen of spirits and ancient gods, who acquire magic through charm rather than perception, much like warlocks.

The Black Iron Age is said to be the era when the conflict between the new gods and the old gods intensified and finally broke out into a decisive battle, which ended in a complete victory for the new gods, and most of the old gods fell, and the "land of the gods" was one of the battlefields where the old gods were buried, and the old gods who survived either changed their faces and joined the camp of the new gods, or fled to the edge of the universe, and their influence was not as good as before.

Under the influence of this divine war, the once thriving "shamanic class" also quickly declined, and now they can only be found in those wild corners far from the civilized world, but the druid lineage that does not rely on the spells granted by the old gods has been preserved intact to this day, and it is flourishing day by day.

Eltaran, the "Eye of All Worlds", is an ancient deity who was defeated in a divine war. She was unfortunate enough to be targeted by the "Eye Demon Master" and fell prey to that powerful divine power, and in the end most of the priesthood was stripped of by the Lord Mother, and a small part went to the "God of the Way" Frann. This fiasco caused her godhead to drop to level 0, and she could no longer maintain her huge kingdom of gods, and when the kingdom of gods collapsed, she was no longer among the true gods.