Chapter 682: The Investigator Who Seeks Stability (Asking for Recommendation Votes!Asking for Monthly Tickets!)
When you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you.
And while the gnomes looked at the Leviathan, the owner of the ship was watching them.
There is no doubt that the "eyes" of the latter are much better than those of the former.
Because it was the first time he had seen Ramsay's dwarf, Quest couldn't help but use means including spell detection to observe from multiple angles and in all directions.
He came to the conclusion that the gnomes of the Ramsay plane were a bit abnormal, not like "normal" gnomes.
The pygmy race is a distant relative of the elves, having historically lived with the elves in the Unrestrained Wilderness, a place of colour, greenery, and passion.
Years ago, the gnome god Gal Shining discovered the race, and under his leadership, the ancient gnomes left the realm and spread across the multiverse.
Despite this, the gnomes have never completely turned their backs on their spiritual roots or become completely secular in their culture.
Although gnomes are no longer true elven creatures, their goblin bloodline is still revealed through their extraordinary magical talents, capricious nature, and special perspective on all things in the world.
Gnomes can have the same motivations and concerns as other races, but they are driven by intense, even bizarre and ridiculous passions in the eyes of foreigners.
They can risk their lives to eat at the giant's table, or challenge themselves to the bottom of the abyss just to break their own record, or risk being roasted and run to an ancient red dragon and tell him a joke......
For the dwarf, these achievements are as proud of their family traditions as the research of new technologies, the acquisition of the coffers of the richest nations, or the overthrow of the mighty evil forces.
Gal Shining especially appreciated this enthusiasm for his people and named it "The Inner Driving Force of the Gnomes." He loved such energetic gnomes, and the gnomes would use their own vitality to please the Lord God.
In Quest's view, like the gnomes of some other planes, Ramsay's dwarf tradition should also be in the field of scientific and technological research. Otherwise, they would not have invented so many mechanical creations and discovered so many alchemical formulas in history.
Of course, this is not to say that the dwarf individuals of this plane have no other choice. In many tech-loving dwarf worlds, there are more gnomes who don't want to be scientists and engineers. Their gods have never objected.
It's just that, through careful observation, he found that Ramsay's gnomes seem to be missing something "something" - although they also have more technological creations, it seems that the soul of each dwarf is not so smart.
Compared to the gnomes in other planes, who are traditionally based on scientific and technological research, Ramsay's gnomes seem to lack a bit of "subjective creativity", in other words, they seem to lack the "inner drive of the gnomes" advocated by Gal Flashgold.
Even though Quest was a leopard in a tube and couldn't see the whole body, thanks to the previous investigation of Stim, he had studied the dwarf race of the Ramsay plane in detail. So he came to the conclusion that Ramsay's gnomes had drifted away from tradition, and that their creative exuberance was being emasculated.
The reason for this may be the affluent life that has been brought about by the "stable" financial system for thousands of years. It could also be that the appearance of Stim caused more Ramsay gnomes to distract a lot of attention from virtual games.
As a result, their technological inventions are a bit sluggish โ the mechanical chocobo, which was perfected more than a thousand years ago, is still in use today, and the steam turbine tank, which was invented more than a thousand years ago and is still in service today โ is simply "stable" like a dwarf.
"No wonder the 'God of Virtual Games' would take such a risk, I'm afraid he's already in a dilemma," Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed as Quest seemed to guess the possible reason why Stem had taken the initiative to participate in the bloody battle, "As his game continues to spread, the souls of Ramsay plane gnomes are starting to lose their vitality. The faster virtual games are promoted, the lower the value of the units that Ramsay gnomes believe in. Stim is probably in a predicament right now. โ
And that's exactly what happened. As Ramsay's original deity, it took less than two hundred years for Stim to develop his weak divine powersโan astonishing entry for a god.
However, for more than 100 years since then, his path has become narrower and narrower, and most of the time he has even had to be wary of the danger of degrading the godhead caused by the lack of faith caused by the declining dwarf population.
It is for this reason that Stim will take the initiative to recruit followers of other races, go to other planes to compete with gods like Kord for certain priesthoods so that they can be included in the category of "virtual games", and venture into the abyss to participate in bloody battles.
However, the problem of the gods is still to be solved by the gods themselves. Ordinary Ramsay gnomes are still unaware of how their behavior differs from normal gnomes in other planes, and they still "go their own way".
At this point, the investigators sent by Dwarf Island showed it vividly. When the sled reaches the breakwater and the driver in charge of driving the vehicle presses a button on the console, the vehicle takes on a different shape.
The blades and tracks were retracted from the supports under them, and in their place were two four-wheels, dragging the gnomes from the shore to the mayor's residence. Rampage all the way, and will not care about whether there are pedestrians on the street or whether there are stalls.
In the face of the citizens' abuse, the dwarf inspectors on the vehicle retaliated with ridicule. Although the group of six of them was heading to the mayor's mansion, they didn't want to visit the mayor of Soft Maple City at all.
The gnome driving the vehicle crashed open the door to the mayor's mansion, and the leader of the group directly cast an illusion on the mercenaries who tried to stop them, causing the dizzy guys to punch and kick each other and fight each other.
Their target was the Storm Mech that was parked in the yard. The dwarf driver who was driving wildly flicked his tail and drifted, bringing the car to a slamming stop next to the mech. With the help of the Foot Monk, Dala Potter soon came to the top of the mecha.
The illusionist took out a cylindrical key from his bosom and stuffed it directly into the beast-shaped keyhole used to open the mech, and as he recited a specific spell, the key immediately deformed and tightly blocked the beast's mouth.
After doing this, Dara Potter clapped his hands and exhaled easily - before setting off from Gnome Island, the master craftsman had instructed him to "contain" the storm mech before conducting an investigation, and then questioning the human mayor.
Therefore, their investigation team had just arrived in Soft Maple City, and they rushed to the location of the Storm Mecha at such a speed. Use the ancient "control key" to temporarily lock this mecha and prevent it from being activated again.
But neither Dalapor nor the dwarf master realized a problem: normal dwarfs who are traditional with science and technology would never think of "controlling" a technological product and preventing it from being used by others.
Even if that technological product may be a dangerous weapon, normal gnomes will most likely choose to invent something more dangerous to "defeat" the original product.
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