"All the instruments and equipment on the expedition ship are operating normally, there are no traces of fighting, but there is no one, and the 50-person expedition team composed of 12 scientific research personnel, 34 security personnel and crew members, and 4 life experts have all mysteriously disappeared, including 3 well-trained mountain leopards, and the state of life has not been determined so far. ”

Braque flipped through the materials he had obtained from Gehry's mouth, collating them: "It now seems that everything has to do with an unknown supernatural power that is rising in the primeval forest. According to the information you provided, the extraordinary strength of a poisonous snake or python is not strictly powerful, and a militarily trained adult can resist it, but what is really terrifying is their number, right?"

"Yes. Gary nodded.

"That's easy, the snake python's supernatural power has a limited range of influence after all, since it will be affected by supernatural power on the ship, which can lead to sudden sexual death-" The engineer put down the data, playing with his warhammer, "I think the sky should be a safe place." ”

"Huh?"

The Fairy Industries' cutting-edge laboratory was far more powerful than the two human mercenaries had imagined, and after determining that no more useful information could be obtained from Gary, the Voyager stayed where it was for a week, and when the eighth day came, Gary and Ralph were transferred to two urgently mobilized airships along with the other goblins on the orders of the Engineer.

"I sincerely hope that you are not hiding information related to the transcendent power of the snake python. Of course, I am very satisfied with your cooperation so far, and in return, I can promise you a fivefold increase in reward when we find out the truth about the disappearance of the expedition. ”

That's a huge sum of 2.5 million.

Facing the 800-foot gale, Gehry was not happy about it, everyone knew that the high-reward twin brother was a famous high risk, and it was still unknown whether he would be able to return alive, and at this moment, the human mercenaries began to miss the Mala'a River below, which divided most of the state of Saloman in two, as never before.

Before entering Room 302, all the liquids he had brought with him, including water, were scavenged by the goblins, which were his spell casting materials.

Gehry is a mage of the water elemental faction, and the casting materials are naturally all kinds of liquids, and without the water source, he can't continue to cast spells, just an ordinary person who knows some martial arts, and he is not a goblin opponent with a thermal weapon at all.

In this era that does not belong to magic and mages, no matter how clever a mage is, he needs the right carrier and casting materials to cast spells, fireball requires fire, lightning requires dark clouds and cumulonimbus clouds, and wind blade requires wind, which is completely different from the ancient period.

Taking Gehry as an example, it takes about 200 milliliters of water to release a water arrow, and at least 3 liters of water is needed to release a water bomb, and some powerful spells can shape the water into dozens or even hundreds of dense arrow rains, and more water sources are needed - rivers, lakes, and oceans with abundant water sources are the most suitable combat environment for middle-aged men.

"It is rumored that in ancient times, mages did not need any casting materials at all to cast spells, just complete spells. As a friend, the bald man naturally knew what Gary was thinking, "At that time, there was an abundance of elemental energy in the air, and it could be extracted, molded, and cast spells whenever and wherever it was, like now. ”

The seeds and vines on his body were also scavenged, and without the materials for casting spells, spells such as vines and thorns became ornaments, like a gun without bullets.

The two human mercenaries glanced at each other with some frustration, and couldn't help but think of the splendor of magic in ancient times.

Whether it is recorded in the classics or historical research, it can be proved that the world once had a very brilliant civilization in ancient times, an era of magic and mages.

Mage is a profession, not a race, which determines that the mage group in ancient times included all major racial groups, including humans, as well as elves, dragons, and titans that have disappeared from history, as well as the suspected extinct Naga and mermaids, but there are no goblins.

Yes, goblins are notoriously ungifted for magic and physically weak, but the Creator is fair, compensating with a unique mindset and a nimble brain, allowing the latter to develop goblin engineering in combination with magical runes.

According to some words handed down from ancient times, combined with historical research, modern people can roughly piece together that glorious civilization was destroyed in a special catastrophe.

It was the third millennium, more than 900 years ago, and a huge palm that could not be described in any words fell from the sky, pierced into the sun in the midst of the screams of terror, dragged out a small sun that was extremely bright, and then disappeared, known as the Millennium Cataclysm.

- The mages generally believed that the little sun that was taken away was the origin of the sun.

From that day on, the whole world seemed to be in a state of hopeless and irretrievable serious illness, one of which manifested itself in the fading of supernatural powers, starting with mages and other otherworldly beings.

The four major elements of earth, water, air, and fire, as well as the two major energies of light and darkness, rapidly declined, and the mages lost the spell-casting environment they relied on to survive, and even the archmages with a career level of 19 recorded in history could only release one fireball spell with all their strength, and their strength was sharply reduced.

Of course, the most unfortunate are the two legendary creatures of the dragon and the titan, the mage who has lost the casting environment and his own strength is still alive, and the dragon and the titan, the two creatures standing at the top of the food chain, directly degenerate, including but not limited to spell-casting talent, physical physique and even wisdom!

In modern times, dragons and titans have long since disappeared from history, leaving only dragons and lizards and titans, two endangered protected animals with little intelligence.

On the other hand, along with the elemental energy, there is also the fertility of the major intelligent races.

For example, the size of the two legendary creatures of dragons and titans has always been small and their numbers are quite limited, on the contrary, the goblins at the bottom of the comprehensive ability are simply like rabbits.

In the past, the intelligent creatures and long-lived creatures that occupied an important position in history, the elves, were originally a typical low-fertility race, and due to the bad impact of the millennial catastrophe, this race was directly extinct 300 years ago because of zero fertility.

History records that the last elf died at 4:33 a.m. on December 3, 3703 AD.

Then, there are the Naga and the mermaids, whose figures are said to have completely disappeared into the ocean, but they have never been officially proven.

The age of mages and magic has passed, and the era of goblins and engineering has arrived.

Who would have thought that a small, ugly-looking, and frail goblin would one day be able to stand on the stage of history on its own and rule the whole world.