Chapter 14: Star Forest 01
Burned forests
"What kind of wind did I smoke to really pull you all the way over......
"Hehe, do you want to take a break? I must be tired after running for so long, I have a drink to relieve fatigue. ”
Alan jumped off the floating saucer and pulled out some kind of herbal juice from his backpack and handed it to Xi Xiangyu.
"No thanks, my mental fatigue is worse than my physical fatigue. 」
"Don't bother with the house cat, you're pulling all the way anyway. Are those lights in the distance a gathering place for snow elves?"
Leach pointed to the lights in the distance, which flickered on and off, like candles in the shade of a lampshade in the wind and rain.
"Ah...... That's ......"
"Those are not lights, but "firelight". The fires that burned down the forest have not been extinguished. 」
Hearing the explanation, Leach remembered the rumors he had heard about the burning of the Starlanguage Forest, and it seemed that this was indeed true.
He jumped off the puff and ran towards the forest, only to be pulled back by a happy encounter.
"Don't go over. You two go back to the float. It's very dangerous ahead, I'll take you with me. 」
"I can protect myself as dangerous as I can. ”
Joy then casts the Nature's Ally Summoning spell, and a few seconds later, a black bear appears out of thin air, waiting for Joy to Meet.
"Running at full speed towards the firelight. 」
The black bear ran towards the firelight. It wasn't long before a violent explosion and fire erupted, followed by the screams of a black bear. When the three of them got closer to look, they found that the black bear had been blown up and was dying from the explosion, and its body was also pierced by a large number of debris, and it didn't take long for the black bear to disappear due to near death.
"Look, there's a problem. 」
I didn't expect that the snow elves even took out the mines, how much technology did the ivy teach them? How much pressure and resentment did the snow elves suffer before they were willing to use such something that went against the nature of the elves?
"It's too much ......"
"yes, Ivy is going too far. If technology is just developed and used as a weapon, it will be almost a massacre for ordinary people's armies...... Are they really anti-civilized?"
The dissemination of technological weapons will completely change the existing combat structure and social structure, and once this thing is spread, it is impossible to say that it can be retracted.
You must know that strife is also a great help to the development of civilization.
"I mean, you've gone too far to step on a trap with your summoned animal allies, are you really a druid?"
"You can't let me step on it, and besides, summoned creatures won't actually die. 」
"You're ......"
"What the hell was that...... Can you blow a bear like that, magic trap?"
"That thing is called a mine on Earth, and it's similar to a trap here, but it's a more portable weapon. 」
Depending on the crafting process and recipe, its power is comparable to that of low-level to high-level magic. However, it has no magical aura, and it does not require a one-in-a-million spell casting talent, and only needs to be crafted or used after a period of training.
It can be said that it is a weapon that is not much different from a long sword and a bow and arrow.
The lack of magical aura with the power of high-level magic means that even the caster cannot easily spot these mines through detection spells, which means that they can be easily killed by placing them in a place that the caster does not expect...... Like in the pillow?
However, if you localize the mine-crafting process of Golantia, you can make more powerful mines from cheaper materials, and there are no disadvantages except that they are difficult to mass-produce and can be detected by detection spells.
After listening to the explanation, both Leach and Allen felt very incredible, thinking that such a weapon should not have appeared at all.
"If such things are popularized, then more people's lives will become more lowly, how can the Ivy continue to be incited like this......"
"In that case, the Ranger's twin blades and bow and arrows are completely useless, so do you have to adapt to new weapons and genres?"
"Human weapons are generally much stronger than armor...... But with the spread of technology, more people will be able to have power, promote class mobility, and give civilians the opportunity to become superior to others through knowledge, rather than fighting for their lives like adventurers. 」
In the course of time, feudal civilization will perish, and a world without kings, lords, nobles, and commoners will not be good? To move in that direction, you only need to pay a certain price, and after experiencing chaos, order will always come.
Joy does not fully say what he really thinks, and his position is like that of a historical spectator, while Leach and Allen are historical participants.
It is also meaningless to talk to people in history about the direction of history, and it should not be. It is enough to bring the ideas of science to the Golantians, and what the future will look like should not be decided by the bystanders.
But it would be nice if it was a world where everyone could work and live in a stable way and everyone had the opportunity to realize their personal value......
「...... Therefore, let the Golantians develop on their own, and not let the Ivy League show the world how to use technology excessively at this stage. We must ...... No, I have to stop the guy hiding in the ivy League. 」
In a sense, the happy encounter is not qualified to say that the Ivy League traveler has influenced the course of Golantia. You must know that a lot of knowledge is still transmitted by him, and in fact, there are still people who often send people to attack him to prevent him from continuing to popularize science.
It is really difficult to tell whether this is 50 steps and 100 steps, or whether only the state officials are allowed to set fires and the people are not allowed to light lamps, or whether the two are simply the same thing.
"You're really out of sight, of course I'll help you, those who provoke conflicts between elves and humans can't be forgiven at all. ”
"I feel like I'm a little bit different from your argument against the Ivy...... But the goal is the same, of course, it's better to cooperate. ”
"Looks like the explosion just caught the elves' attention, and they're coming. 」
More than half a minute later, a group of snow elves armed with Mauser-like rifles surrounded the trio.
Note: Summoning is a sub-school of spells that summon creatures or objects to a specific location. When the spell is terminated or the spell is dismantled, the summoned creature is teleported back to its original location. However, if an object is summoned, it usually does not return to its original location. Summoned creatures will return if killed, but the creature is not dead and will respawn after 24 hours, during which time it cannot be summoned again. When the spell ends, the summoned creature also disappears, and all spells cast by the creature end.