Fourth Sula First voyage
[[[cp|:21o|c.{0,10}o.{0,10}m697782414]]]] At least during the age of magic, copper coins were still used as a currency in small denominations on the Attas. However, since the middle of the Purge War, the number of copper coins in circulation has decreased so much that in less than 500 years, they have completely withdrawn from the market and been replaced by pottery coins.
The fluctuation of the value of precious metals was born after the end of the cleansing war, and the purchasing power of silver and gold coins circulating in the market slowly but inexorably increased. Anyone who is interested in studying the Attass economic system will realize the fact that the number of precious metals circulating on the market is decreasing.
There was also a decline in iron weapons and farming tools, and many nomadic tribes began to use obsidian or bone weapons. Only wealthy merchant families and Templars in large city-states were generally armed with metal armor and weapons.
The reason behind all these phenomena is one man - the Witch King Malik, the Sultan of Ankara, the Sixteenth Warrior, and the Soul Sucker Destroyer.
Even if a huge meteorite vein appeared in the depths of the desert, it was still far from enough to meet the needs of building the magic ship Hongyang Troll. The witch king used various means to earn a lot of wealth. He melted and purified gold and silver coins to obtain iridium, tungsten, tantalum, titanium, and other rare metals that could improve the properties of the metal.
The magical ship of the Mighty Ocean Troll took shape with the combined efforts of the Witch King, countless machine servants, elemental servants, and dwarven craftsmen and slaves. For thousands of years, its massive keel was completed first, then the decks and cabins, and finally the weapons systems and life support systems. Now, it only has the core powertrain unfinished.
The ship, in earthly terms, was 21,040 meters long, 3,000 and 40 meters wide, and weighed 3,722,000,000 tons. It can hold 240,000 combatants and can transport more than 6 million people to another world through guò time extract.
When he realizes that the misuse of magic will eventually ruin Miè Attas, Sultan Malik decides to build this gigantic magical ship. In order to be able to transfer himself, his servants and slaves, his army and allies to other worlds before the world was destroyed.
"This deck is not flat," Muhati was standing on the highest crystallization of this incomparable creation, enchantment-based spell. "The ends are about eighty feet lower than the center. ”
"Because of its own weight, the keel of the four palesan is bound to bend, and no amount of magic I can do it. Malik Sultan, who was standing next to Muhadi, said. "The ship is meant to sail in gravity or microgravity, and when it flies, the keel is straight. ”
"If it can't enter the gravitational sphere of a world, how can it achieve interdimensional migration?"
"No, you misunderstood me. Malik's tone was not without pride. "It can fly within the gravity circle, as long as the gravity of that world is not as exaggerated as the earth elemental plane. It can't land directly on the ground, it must have 6 matches, otherwise the tail flame of the jet propulsion will burn the ground into a sea of lava. But it doesn't matter, there are smaller flying boats that can help people land. ”
"Terrific idea. Muhadi did not hesitate to praise himself. "How did you come up with this incomparable idea?"
"Actually, it's not my original idea. Malik said modestly, taking a sip from the water bag he was carrying, and he continued. "Unlike other fighters, I like to travel to all planes. On an interesting primary material plane, I've seen some powerful spells. There, Grand Arcanists can cut down a mountain and turn it upside down to build their own floating city. At that time, I thought, every city can fly in the air, why not build a bigger spaceship?"
"The story of the later life is very complicated, ignoring the details, to put it simply, when the magical civilization of the main material plane was destroyed, I found some of the information I needed on their ruins. Malik said. "So with this ship in front of you. ”
"I tell you that you have mastered the technique?" asked Muhadi.
"The stellar simulator is truly a masterpiece of technology. Even now, I'm struck by the ingenuity of its design and its grandiose concept!" Malik exclaimed, and the Psychic felt that his watch was too exaggerated and a little contrived. "IMHO, the technical attainment contained in this thing is far beyond the level of modern Atas, and I guess the ancient halfling could not have been able to do it. Except for you, Master, I'm afraid no one can conceive it anymore. I have to admit that this is yet another proof that Atas is superior to the Planes in terms of magic and technology. ”
"Be careful, while magic can create permanent magnets and magnetic monopoles, magnetic field restraints are extremely dangerous. The psychic warlock's praise of the Witch King didn't seem to be very useful, and he coldly warned the other party. "If you react too much, it will be easy for the furnace to dissolve, and then your spaceship will be in vain. ”
"Don't worry, my master. Malik took a sip of the liquid in his water bag and said. "I prepared a batch of scrolls in advance, and if the real yàn fails, then use the time rewind spell to go back to before the accident. ”
Muhadi nodded. "Have all the unrelated personnel in the dry dock been evacuated?"
"Three hourglasses were evacuated before the hourglass. ”
"Good. The psychic mancer stroked his chin. "Let's get started. ”
Sultan Malik snapped his fingers, teleporting the two of them from the deck of the Trolls to its castle-like central control chamber. It was infested with busy Templars and minions, and the ground and walls were dotted with thick metal pipes of unknown purpose and bulky mechanical parts, similar to the halfling city that lay dorman's sleep underground.
The space here is even larger than the average palace, and they are located on a bridge that juts out into the air, just overlooking the whole area. The ship's operators sat in an orderly row, with many sealed doors leading to different areas of the ship.
"Captain on the bridge!" a Templar announced, in a loud voice.
"Report the situation. Sultan Malik calmly gave the order.
Scattered throughout the bridge, the operators reported in turn.
"The hull is sealed properly!"
"All weapon systems are normal!"
"The ancillary life support system is normal!"
"The hull compartment deformation range is within the range of patience!"
"The powertrain is ready to go live, command?"
"Start the fusion furnace!" Malik said, his hands wrenched together, as if he was a little nervous. One Templar brought several scrolls, while another brought a number of obsidian orbs containing the souls of the dead. The Psychic Warlock raised his eyebrows slightly, but said nothing.
A tremor spread through the huge hull, and this incomparable behemoth made its first fetal movement from its own fiery heart.
An invisible buzz seemed to fill the air, and the small objects on the bridge began to jump. A Templar shouted, "The fusion furnace has been activated, and the fusion reaction efficiency has reached five percent!"
"The magnetic field is normal!"
"The temperature of the furnace is within the tolerance range!"
"All right," Sultan Malik said, turning to Muhadi. "Success or failure, in one fell swoop. ”
Then, the Witch King cleared his throat and gave the order in a loud and decisive voice. "Fusion furnace full on! ready to start the main thruster!"
With a bang, the giant ship more than 60,000 feet long seemed to tremble violently. In the central control room where the bridge is located, the flame of the oil lamp flickers on and off. In the power room of the core of the giant ship, a small team of blasphemer mages nervously maintained the strength of the magnetic field while restraining the summoned fire elemental master and maintaining the temperature of the fusion furnace.
The three fusion furnace roofs stood in the core of the power room, each of which was thousands of feet tall and nearly half the size of its height. Thanks to the use of some of the technological achievements left over from ancient halflings, they have inscriptions on their bases to pray for safety. They are dedicated to the four supreme gods of the ancient halfling belief system - the god of strong interaction, the god of weak interaction, the god of gravity and the god of electromagnetism.
In addition to this, these furnaces are also marked with tips on how to operate the God of All Machines - it was also an important member of the ancient halfling faith. In the Teal Age, the followers of the God of All Machines were second only to the God of Evolution, who was also known as the Enemy of Entropy, the Child Worshipper, the Double Helix Copulator, and the Gene Pool Stirrger.
The magic marker on the outside of the fusion furnace rose higher and higher, and the blasphemer mages reported the situation to the bridge, and a Templar stepped forward and announced, "The fusion reaction efficiency has reached forty percent, and the output energy has been input!"
"Inform the dry dock and all remaining personnel enter the shelter. The Witch King nodded in satisfaction and gave one order after another. "All ready to withstand the impact!"
The three artificial suns have produced an unbelievably large amount of energy, which is probably the most powerful energy source in the hands of Attas, or even mortals in the entire multiverse. Due to the invisible fluctuations emitted by the fusion furnace, several scavenging birds in a radius of Ankara City were fleeing for their lives, as if sensing the source of this great danger. The dark red sun peeked out of the clouds created by the blue storm, as if struggling to witness the moment destined to be written in the epic.
In the dry dock below the Giant Troll, the few remaining servants and shipbuilders panicked and hid in the prepared refuge area, locking the heavy metal blast doors. The walls of each of these shelters were over ten feet thick, reinforced by the natural abilities of the earth elemental.
Due to the great danger of ignition and lift-off, the Hongyang Troll was not directly docked on the ground, but was erected in mid-air by hundreds of thick support buildings, and it was about 500 feet away from the ground. Only in this way, coupled with the sturdy protection of the shelter, can it be ensured that the dry dock will not be destroyed when the giant ship takes off.
"Arif, Basel, and Tayi are ignition!" ordered Sultan Malik. "One to forty, eighty-one to one hundred and twenty escapements unlocked!"
The vents of the three thrusters with a diameter of more than 6,000 feet directly below the giant ship emitted a red glow, and the temperature in the dry dock rose sharply, and the surface of the rock was baked. Half of the building that supported the Giant Troll loosened its massive Adamantite claws at the top, and a violent air stream blew in all directions from the canyon where the dry dock was located, creating a massive sandstorm that Atas had never seen before.
Inside, the shaking became more violent, and the low-ranking Templars and servants grabbed the fixed objects around them to avoid falling. The Psychic Warlock uses psionic skills to levitate himself a foot above the ground, making him appear unfathomable.
"Fusion reaction efficiency, up to 60 percent!"
In the power room, the blasphemous mages responsible for maintaining the fusion furnace watched in horror as the three huge devices in front of them glowed with white light, as if they were close to imprisoning the huge power inside and were about to be vaporized and vaporized at any time. Each of them knew that if something happened, the sun-like heat in the furnace would swallow them up in an instant. But no one dared to back down, because for to them, the Witch King was more terrible than the sun.
Malik Sultan wiped the sweat oozing from his forehead with the back of his hand, poured another sip on himself, and then gave the final order in a trembling tone. "All escapements are disarmed!The three main thrusters of Arif, Basel, and Tayi are at their maximum output!"
All the supporting structures loosened their adamantite claws, and the glow of the three thruster vents at the bottom of the giant ship, almost the same width as the hull, turned bright yellow, and then to a dazzling white, a piercing blue. The sand on the ground is heated to a scorching glassy state, flowing slowly. The turbulent air currents overturned the boulders on the ground, and the sand and dust covered the sky and swept the wilderness.
After thousands of years of construction, the Propagation Troll has successfully lifted off.
"Keep up the momentum and take us to low Earth orbit!" said Witch King Malik breathed a sigh of relief and touched his chest. "We succeeded, my master. ”
Thousands of years ago, when the young Malik first successfully cast a spell under the Rajat, he was full of confidence. Years have passed, and today's Atas has long since become a human being, and the handsome man of the year has grown to an unimaginable level.
Muhadi felt the gravitational pull of the giant ship as it ascended, "just a small step in success." He said in a somewhat trembling voice, with a stirring in his chest.
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The Witch King Malik designed this giant magic ship for the purpose of interdimensional migration. However, this test flight did not intend to enter the phlogiston sea or the astral plane, but only prepared to make a short journey of the crystal wall system to verify the reliability of each system.
In order to keep his promise to curry favor with Fatoumah, this time Muhadi decided to take the elven girl with him. The girl was naturally elated, and the warm embrace made the psychic mancer's bones click and click. She spent the whole day packing up her things, taking five large boxes and thirty retinues, and came to the city of Malik Sultan on a magic carpet.
The Witch King had no objection to Muhadi inviting the elves to be his companion, or so he appeared to be. He warmly entertained the elven chieftain, touted the girl's beauty without any bottom line, and gave all kinds of gifts with great hospitality. Although Malik is a mage, Muhathir never knows what is in his heart. The psychic warlock wondered if the other party had secretly cultivated some psionic skills to conceal his true state of mind.
Muhadi even had the illusion that the other party might have doubted whether he was really the Primordial Warlock himself, and whose soul it was that was manipulating the body. He never expressed such suspicions, perhaps because he felt that Muhathir was useful, or simply because he was not sure.
However, the Psychic Warlock is not afraid of the other party's attack on him, which will only really awaken the power of the Primordial Warlock.
The result of that legendary battle not long ago was that three different soul forces frantically competed for dominance of this body. In the end, it was the soul of the primordial warlock Rajat who prevailed. Although his resurrection was incomplete, the black soul stone was lost in the depths of the desert, leaving only a wisp of dregs to preserve the body of the Zài Psychic Warlock.
Muhadi had to disarm the remnants of the Thousand Souls in order to barely suppress Rajat and force him to mature again. In this way, the three different soul forces in his body were beaten into a wonderful and fragile state of balance.
This state of equilibrium greatly increased Muhadi's strength, and he entered the hall of legendary psionics almost overnight. Although he had never used it, Muhati believed that he could cast it even if he did it. It's just that doing so may upset the fragile balance in the body and create a situation where the family is dominant.
In order not to enslave himself to the power of a thousand souls, or the primordial warlocks, Muhadi had to play this dangerous game of balancing, sometimes strengthening one side with his own soul, sometimes strengthening the other.
Although on the surface, there is nothing wrong with it. But those two very powerful souls had already begun to affect al-Muhadi as the host, and he was more emotional than before, which was also the reason.
Malik Sultan prepared a luxurious cabin for Muhadi on the giant ship, and as soon as the elven girl got on board, she asked to move to the psychic magician's room, and her attitude was extremely resolute. However, the Witch King rejected the girl on the grounds that she needed an absolutely quiet rest to prepare for spells and psionic meditation, which was naturally at Muhadi's behest.
The reason the Psychic Warlock did this was because Fatumai was not the only one on the ship. Her brother Fahd, as well as the psychic sorcerer Aisha, followed Muhadi aboard the magic ship.
Fahd came as Fatoumah's "retinue", and Aisha did so at her own request. Muhati asked himself if he saw her as a friend, and there seemed to be little reason to reject her. What's more, Senior Sister Psychic Warlock has helped herself so much in Tyre City. However, since Aisha was also on board, Muhathir did not want to live with Fatoumah.
When the Starch Spencer sent Druid Camila with no companions, Muhadi gave her a mission that only she could accomplish, to retrieve the lost Black Soul Stone in the Salt Sea Center.
During their departure from Uric, the Psychic Warlock left the defense of the city to the Believers. With the legion there, and Dressner's Deleges as foreign support, Polis, who was seriously wounded, did not dare to act rashly in a short time.
However, the cabin prepared by Malik is called luxurious, and it is not very comfortable to live in. Since the magic ship will be in a weightless state after leaving the gravity circle of Attas, all the parts in the cabin are fixed, and there are no decorative ornaments or tapestries, which looks very simple.
The ship is huge, but there aren't many places to visit. In order to reduce the difficulty of construction, only about 1 percent of the space in the whole ship is sealed. The rest of the hull is a cargo hold, which at this time is in a vacuum. It didn't take long for Muhati to master all of its construction. With nothing to do left and right, he used his psionic energy to control his own floating, and went to the central control room again.
"One qiē system is normal," one after another reports rang out on the bridge. "The lower thruster is closed, the tail thruster is on!"
"We are heading to the nearest planet of the Moment to Artas," the Witch King Malik announced to the Psychic Warlock as he arrived. "This is the closest known world to Attas, Kokhavhamah (meaning hot star in ancient Semitic language), where we will complete the final tests and then return to the skies over Attas. ”
"I thought you were referring to the Great Migration that meant the plan to cross the Crystal Wall. Muhathir said. "If we don't even enter the astral plane, how can we find other habitable primary material planes? As far as I know, the world you just mentioned is too close to the dark sun and extremely hot to be inhabited. ”
"It's extremely hot, yes. And there is no air yet. The Witch King Malik took over. "According to my personal speculation, it was originally a larger, atmospheric world. However, due to its proximity to the dark sun, its atmosphere and surface have been completely stripped away by the gravitational pull of the dark sun. Now, all that remains of the Flame Star is its dense core—what we see now. ”
"In that case, what is there to test for us to go there?"
"That's right, my Master. Malik looked very proud, perhaps he never thought that one day he would be able to teach Rajat the Primordial Warlock something. "According to observations and calculations, my present world is locked by the gravitational tides of the dark sun, that is, it has no rotation and is always facing the sun. ”
"The side facing the sun is unimaginably hot, and the side facing away from the sun is bone-chilling. This means that there will be a small area at the junction of morning and dusk. And its lethal range dù makes it a suitable gravitational attraction even though it is smaller than Atas. Malik explained his plan. "According to the results observed with magic from the Attas, there seem to be signs of life there, and we will go there to test the weapon system. ”
"I'm looking forward to it. ”
After a short voyage, the giant magic ship, the Troll, flew over the Flame Star.
The dark sun, which was only the size of a round table on Attas, had now swelled into a behemoth that obscured half of the sky, and made the cowardly feel extremely frightened, as if it could be sucked by it at any moment. Due to the intense light it emitted, not a single other star in the black deep sky could be seen, as if the dark sun was the only existence in the multiverse.
At such a close distance, it is already possible to observe the dark spots on the sun and the hot material that is not flourishing. It is only at such a close distance that this being, whom the Atas regard as an eternal tyrant, can reveal its own complete terror and tyranny.
On the surface of the Flame Star below the giant ship, there are also many dazzling spots of light. If you look closely, you will see that they are vast lakes of mercury, each of which is an average of hundreds of square meters of Palesan.
Muhati imagined standing on the shore of a mercury lake on the ever-daytime side of the star, in a heat high enough to melt steel.
Even in strong winds, the mercury lake will be calm. The Flame Star has no air, no wind, and the surface of the lake is like a vast mirror plain, on which the sun and the magic ship are projected undistorted.
Undoubtedly, if it were here, the Sun Mage would be so powerful that it would be difficult to resist. Muhadi had such a strange thought in his head, and he shook his head and threw it out.
The Trolls flew towards its destination, and none of its members could have predicted how much their perception of the world would change in just two or three days.
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According to the DND setting, as well as my own room rules. Attas's cosmology is set as follows.
The crystal wall system, similar to what the earthlings call a star system, consists of a star and a number of planets. A wall system is a plane of matter. It is surrounded by a dark and empty phlogiston sea.
It is impossible to reach another crystal wall system (star system) across the phlogiston sea. Must be with the help of the astral plane. It's like a human spaceship in a halo that goes into folded space and then returns to the normal world.
All primary material planes (Faeron, Greyhawk, Athas, Mystara) share an outer plane and an inner plane. You can think of the outer plane as the subspace of Warhammer 4ok, and the astral plane as the hole.
In addition to many magical ship settings, the main ones in DND are the Nessreel civilization of Ferron and the Gisyankees who live in the astral plane. They will all play a heavy role in the future plot.
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