How many primary matter planes are there in the multiverse?

Few people knew the answer, and the mages on Atas did not study the magic of interdimensional travel, and even fewer actually ventured into the realms. And for these few plane travelers, after talking about those worlds with much better living conditions, there are even fewer who return to Atas.

Some Witch Kings, such as Malik, have ventured to other primary material planes and returned to Athas. According to his own speculation, there are thousands of main material planes, and at least hundreds of them are inhabited by sapient species. But by his own admission, this number may be greatly underestimated, as time is limited and no one has the energy to travel across the multiverse.

While traveling to a major material plane known to the natives as Faeron, the Witch King Malik learned a strange anti-gravity spell from a mage there, which was used to create huge floating cities, hundreds of which obscured the sky and the sun. Later, when the Witch King returned to Atas, he was inspired by this spell and came up with the idea of building a huge immigration ship, which would later become the Troll of the Ocean.

He had also been to the Anselon Plane, but he didn't like the mages there, and their spells were boring for the Witch King. Malik found Oss and Aberon to be much more interesting than the previous world, and he greatly enriched his spell list in these places. However, all the worlds he had set foot in were not as exciting as a place called the Raven Pavilion Demon Domain. As a Witch King, he is one of the few beings who has been there and come back alive.

The more Wizard Malik visited, the more doubts he had in his heart. Upon his return to Attas, he made his doubts public. Let the scholars and mages discuss together why the academic standards of all worlds are similar?

Admittedly, some worlds are a little more enlightened. There are many amazing legendary spells and amazing magical writings out there, some in the world. Spells are similar to the legends, not only are they extremely rare, but they are also mostly unremarkable. Some worlds have developed steel industries, as well as great inventions such as land cranes, self-propelled steam horses, etc. In some worlds, the inhabitants of the world do not even know how to cast iron, and they are similar to primitive people.

But the gap between the technological level of this civilization and the level of magic is still too small in the eyes of the Witch King. There are so many planes in the multiverse, so many intelligent races, how can the differences in the level of development be limited to a few thousand years? The inhabitants of some worlds have high intelligence and a stable environment, so it is natural that they should be far away from other worlds. But Malik was disappointed to find that there was no god-like civilization in the multiverse that he had imagined - or a civilization like the witch king - and there was no earth-weed-like gap between advanced and backward societies.

Further research by the Witch King also revealed that although the multiverse was very, very old, the history of all the planes, civilizations, and intelligent races he had come into contact with was extremely young. In most of the world, the history of the major civilizations is only tens of thousands of years. It is not as long as the upper body of Atas. Malik wondered why the civilizations of different worlds were concentrated in the last tens of thousands of years based on geological evidence, and why the history of the multiverse was a 10,000-page book. Then the first 9,999 pages are blank, and the last page suddenly has intelligent races and civilizations in different worlds, which is also too strange.

If there is even one civilization. A race that is one percent first on the scale of the history of the multiverse. That would also be a 100-million-year lead over the rest of the world, if not that they had already ruled everything. At least there should be some traces, but no, how to explain it?

The mages and scholars of Atas have put forward hundreds of hypotheses, ranging from intelligent life design to pure coincidence. For example, some mages claim that in addition to the Atas humans, the intelligent races of other planes, such as the elven dwarves or native humans, are all humanoid races, naturally inferior, and cannot carry out any creative thinking at all, and their existing achievements are actually achieved by reverse engineering archaeology of the exploration spaceship of the ancient Atas halflings, and naturally they cannot surpass the height of ancient civilizations, and they are all trapped under the same technical barrier.

The Witch King himself was extremely skeptical of this claim, but at that time, the battle for purification was in full swing, and this theory was very much in line with the great humanist claims of the primordial warlocks, so it was widely supported and became the mainstream opinion.

Muhati himself had heard of the doubts raised by the Witch King Malik, but he did not seriously think about what the explanation behind those doubts should be, and it was only now, after encountering the content expressed by the wise men, that he realized that the Witch King Malik's doubts had a dark explanation.

There are no extremely advanced races in the multiverse, due to the fact that all races have an extremely limited time to develop (relative to the age of the universe). The Old Rulers and their clansmen devoured all the older civilizations, and along with their worlds, were devoured without leaving a trace.

How many times has this gobbled up? None of the races in the multiverse now have a history of civilization that is more than a million years old. And if the Old Sun Rulers had destroyed the multiverse every million years—one in their own terms—one salvation—then such devouring might have happened tens of thousands, if not more.

When the wise men sent messages to al-Muhadi's mind, they sent not just words or words, but fragments of fragmented, crazy and terrifying thoughts. It takes a great deal of energy for a psychic to organize these fragments of consciousness into meaningful words. But at the same time, the fragments of thought were alive, viciously biting, feverishly erecting, as if trying to push the will of the psychic warlock into the abyss of madness, and Muhadi felt a dullness creeping through his brain, and he seemed to become less self-conscious.

But through this method of communication, the psychic warlock was able to get a glimpse of the superficial surface of the other party's unique and strange thinking.

Thousands of inexplicable flesh and blood monsters, crowded together in a universe where there are no deaths, everything is different from the multiverse, and completely non-Euclidean geometry is bizarre. In the cancer universe. All matter has life, and all life is eternally in that crazy and incomprehensible state. If you believe in the wise men. Every family member of the old ruler has sucked up the experience of intelligent life in an entire universe. Created by emotion and intellect, I don't know how many universes have been destroyed by them.

This can't be true.

The wise men are lying!

Either that, or I'm crazy, Lyra's invention didn't work. All I heard were hallucinations created by my crazy consciousness. The true sages can't communicate at all, and everything it just said is that I have misinterpreted the meaningless fragments of consciousness myself.

This can't be true!

This can't be true!

That's not true!――

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"I don't think you can shake him anymore. Muscle Daddy insisted, with an expression he had long expected of this. "I used to know a man, a gladiator, the kind that played with a shield. When he and I fought three hourglasses in the arena - it wasn't that my dad was not good at it. He was always hiding behind that shield. The shield also depicts a woman without clothes. Every time I hit him, the woman trembled. In the end, he was foaming at the mouth of the shock, unconscious, and looked like an idiot...... It's like the Psionic Kid is now. ”

"There was a woman who shook the unfortunate one in her arms, and when she thought about it, it seemed to be the one he had drawn on the shield. In the end, I didn't wake him up, and then I heard from the doctor that it was because she was moving around that that guy miserably!"

"What's going on?" said Satilly, looking up at Muscle Daddy. "That gladiator is dead?"

"Not dead. But since then the guy has been stupid - not how smart he used to be, but even more stupid since then. Muscle Daddy shrugged. "The healers say, 'He's got a bad brain!' like a lizard's egg is yellow!"

"But we have to do something. The Coral Witch cleared her throat. "He's so weird that the spells can't detect anything unusual, but he just won't wake up. ”

"I said you shouldn't shake him. It's not that we shouldn't do anything. "Muscle Daddy didn't hesitate. "Let me try, I'm a good at treating unconscious. ”

"I never knew you were a healer. Satili's tone was skeptical.

"Actually, I didn't. But when I was a gladiator, I was able to heal a lot of my other colleagues. Believe me. That's right!" Muscle Daddy patted his chest and assured.

He walked over to the psychic mancer lying on the ground, and Satili took a step back. The former gladiator stretched out a hand, rounded it up, and said, "Psionic boy!

He slapped the psychic in the face, twisting Muhadi's head in the other direction, but he didn't wake up yet.

"Didn't work?!" Muscle Daddy was a little suspicious, "Okay, then I'll try again." ”

Satili covered her gaping mouth with one hand, "Are you sure it works......"

"Of course it works. Muscle Daddy slapped the Psychic Warlock again. "It's because you don't say hello when you see me, you just say hi!"

"It's because when I untie my hand, you don't help me hold that talk!" another slap in the face.

"It's because you're talking to Coral Girl and ignoring Daddy!" another slap in the face.

"It's because I'm so excited when I fan someone else!"

Muhati suddenly shuddered all over, and then woke up with his eyes open. The first thing he heard when he woke up was the muscular daddy's boasting, "Look, my method worked." Psionic boy, don't you hurry up and thank me, I woke you up. ”

"Did I pass out?!" the Psychic Warlock straightened up, but felt a pang of weakness all over. "What's going on? Where are we now?"

"When you have seen all the wise men, you will faint. After that, we were transported back to the bottom of the glacier. Satili explained briefly, carefully observing the psychic mancer's condition.

She was right, and Muhathir felt the familiar cold, and entrenched in the distance. That inexplicable nameless amorphous thing. This is the place where the wise men of the world are entrenched, not the mysterious space where the wise men of all worlds live.

"Contacts with the Wise Men...... It's harder than I thought it would be to accept ......," the Psychic Warlock carefully chose his words. He hadn't figured out whether he should make public the content of the exchanges between the wise men and himself. But it's not necessarily good to hide it, maybe the wise men revealed the same thing to Satili and Muscle Daddy. Thereupon. Muhathir chose to speak first and asked, "What do you ask from the wise men?"

"It's none of your business!" replied the muscle daddy. "It's all my personal question, and if you don't beg me, I won't tell you the real names of the people I asked...... You only gave me a little gold for this adventure. Of course, I'm going to take this opportunity to make a good profit. ”

"You probably asked a few rich businessmen's names, only that your real names are useless, and you have to find a powerful enough mage to use these real names to order the other party. The Coral Witch said in an admonishing tone.

"I can sell the real name I know, but you two don't worry, my muscular dad is righteous, and I didn't ask what the real names of the two of you are. Don't talk about Daddy's real name!"

Then Satili must not have known her real name. Muhadi thought to herself, otherwise she could directly use the power of her real name to awaken herself directly just now. Sure enough, the psychic warlock then heard the female mage say, "I haven't been able to ask for too many real names, and when the wise men and I came into contact, the price was too high." ”

"The wise men ask for a price?" Muhadi felt incredulous, he had the impression that the wise men, who were the clans of the old rulers, seemed to have little interest in the things in the multiverse, so what did it pay for?

"It's not about how much the wise man needs, it's about seeing how much we are willing to give. Muscle Daddy replied in a surprised tone. "When that weird thing came into contact with me. squeezed out every dollar on Lao Tzu, and felt sorry for Lao Tzu. That's how I asked for five or six names, why didn't that thing ask you for anything? It's so unfair! I didn't even know I had the privilege of being a psychic mancer!"

Sadiri then chimed in, and the wise men demanded her for knowledge of legendary spells. She cautiously chose to reveal some of the spells she knew. In exchange for a few real names.

"Polis's real name, and a few other Witch Kings who haven't shown up. The female mage explained to the Psychic Warlock. "All are candidates who are most likely to be enemies in the future. I would have asked for a few more names, but the price for that wise man was getting higher and higher. Had to give up. ”

Ashamed, Muhadi explained to the two men. I only asked about the primordial warlock and his real name. And although the wise man strangely did not ask for any price from him, the huge mental pressure exerted by the other party made him unconscious.

"It's a pity that the primordial warlock has been sealed for many years. Now even his incomplete life box, the Black Soul Stone, has been destroyed, otherwise you could have turned him into a super thug with your real name. "Muscle Daddy looks sorry for the Psychmancer. "It's really worthless for you to run so far to dispel the doubts of your own soul and explain a philosophical question like who I am! If I were you, you would have to ask Aisha what the girl's real name was, so that next time you wouldn't have to worry about her running away by herself?"

"It's good that you can be sure that you haven't been influenced by Rajat. The Coral Witch said to Muhadi, who, like Muscle Daddy, thought in her heart that the Psychic Warlock could not be the embodiment of the Primordial Warlock.

I also think from the bottom of my heart that I am not a primordial warlock. Muhadi said to himself, whatever the wise man said, it was the same.

"Now we've seen all the wise men. Muscle Daddy said again. "So what are we going to do next? I don't want to stay in this place any longer, that weird thing makes my heart crunch...... Even if there is any protection. ”

"Let's leave. The Psychic Warlock suggested. "Leave Bato Nine first, and then go back to Atas. We already have the real name of Witch King Polis, so we should take advantage of that. Then, I have other things to work out. ”

The most important thing in Muhadi's words is to find the missing Aisha and his master Lyra, who seem to have known about the affairs of the wise men for a long time, and what they are secretly planning has to be paid attention to. The second is that although he didn't believe what the wise men told him, he felt that it was necessary to make some preparations. If the old rulers and their families do invade, they must not leave themselves unprepared.

The third reason is that the Atas invasion of Mistara has been going on for a long time, and the psychic warlocks are still a little concerned about what the battle will do. What's more, before this adventure to Bato, he promised Fatoumah that he would rush back as soon as his adventure was over.

"I agree that we should leave Barto immediately, but we should probably postpone our return to Attas. Unexpectedly, the Coral Witch objected at this time.

"Why?" asked Muscle Daddy for the Psychic Warlock.

"We don't need to go through a portal to get back to Attath, and with the Wisdom of the Worlds, we can actually go directly from here to wherever we want. Sadiri gave her reasons. "If this opportunity is not taken advantage of, it will undoubtedly be a loss. ”

"Where do you suggest we go?Mistara, or go back to Sigil City?" asked the Psychic Mancer.

"Neither. The Coral Witch confided in herself. "We should go to the capital of the Gisyankees on the astral plane first, I learned the real name of Empress Gisyankee from the wise men. This time, we can have peace once and for all, and this opportunity should not be missed. (To be continued......)