The magic moon is a purple-gold composite multilayer sphere with a diameter of about 30 kilometers, which is constantly fixed in orbit 150,000 kilometers from the surface of the parent star under the twisting action of the overlapping gravitational field of the sun, the parent star and itself.

This 'moon' will orbit around its parent star, but will not rotate on its north and south pole axes, and its orbital period is set to 40 days/round, in the way of 'shoot arrows first and then draw targets', synchronized with the calendar expression established by the Republic;

In addition, the size of its appearance in the surface of the earth is constant to be equal to the sun by the realm of the Void, and it will also form the corresponding 'moon phase' according to the distinction of 'first, middle, second, and last', thus further refining the elves' definition of 'moon';

In addition, the Republic has given it a number of definitions of 'deification' in contrast to the sun in various sects as a prelude to some future plans.....

In terms of specific functions, in addition to providing fusion energy to the more than 400 'mother trees' connecting the surface and the moon in the form of microwaves and currents, the magic moon also uses it as the generating end and amplifier of force fields, magnetic fields, field effects, etc., so as to more conveniently pry the climate and tidal changes of the home star, and interact with the geomagnetic field to form a more effective protection.

In terms of materials, the body of the magic moon is mostly made of metal, even if it is a non-solid structure formed by the combination of multiple layers of functional cavities, but the diameter of 30 kilometers still requires a super-large mass of matter to be truly built.

As a result, the 'stinginess' of the elves was undoubtedly revealed here......

The Republic would rather pay a huge price for the materials than have the parent planet lose so much of its mass by 'nothing', so the elves turned their attention to the space beyond the parent planet as early as the plan was made.

In terms of technology at that time, there were actually three places in the home galaxy that were more suitable sources of matter;

One is the 'Infernal Star', which is located in the first orbit;

second, the 'Death Star' in the third orbit;

Third, it belongs to the asteroid belt located between the third and fourth orbits.

In the many subsequent observations of them, the elves finally took the 'Purgatory Star' as the highest priority exploration target based on factors such as the internal disturbance feedback, the relationship between the stellar spacing, and the physical characteristics of the elven group.

As a result, after the 'Spell Moon Project' project was officially established around the 147th year of the Rune Calendar, the 'Purgatory Star Exploration Project', which was a branch of it, was also established at almost the same time, and a considerable amount of scientific research resources were invested in batches.

In the course of the development of this branch plan, the existing technical route of the Republic has not only determined some convenience, but also has a certain negative impact on the plan.....

For example, at the time when the technology of electric drive or light drive totem had not yet been broken through, the Beastmaster cage became the most reliable and only source of totem drive, but because of the preciousness caused by the direct connection to the 'number of mouths' and the inherent risks of remote operation, the Republic did not dare to directly launch a totem-free exploration ship with the Beastmaster's cage to drive the totem.

After all, if anything goes wrong in the process......

For example, if an exploration ship misses its intended orbit and is captured by the sun, it is very likely that it will never come back without the caster's own control of the ship.

Among them, the loss of the main body of the exploration ship does not matter, but once the internal Beastmaster cage is loaded into the sun due to an accident, the direct or indirect loss to the Republic is enough to make the elves cry for a hundred years, or even longer.

Therefore, they chose to settle for the second best thing in the 'Purgatory Star Exploration Project' and instead launched a 'purely physical unmanned spacecraft' carrying a surface probe, directly using physical fission reactors and solar energy to provide driving energy for the plasma thruster, and flew to Purgatory Star in the best orbital window.

Failure, failure...... When the launch was carried out for the third time, the exploration spacecraft that had departed from far Earth orbit finally managed to reach the orbit of Purgatory and launched two types of probes to its surface......

The first type is purely physical detectors;

But within a day of their arrival at the surface, the station lost contact with its home planet;

According to later analysis, it can be seen that the reason for this situation is that ordinary materials without totems to bless their performance cannot adapt to the harsh environment on Purgatory, which leads to their destruction in a short period of time.

the second type is a totem inscription detector loaded with 'high-energy cell sap' in advance;

This batch, until the totem drive source reserves in it were depleted, have been sending valuable first-hand information to the space station.

In addition, unlike the 'inner disturbance feedback observation' and the 'telescope observation', which are disturbed by the density of matter and obscured by the atmosphere, the data of ground detectors are obtained from field investigations, which are naturally more reliable than the first two.

Therefore, after receiving a series of data from the space station on a regular basis, the home planet finally obtained a more detailed picture of the purgatory star, and found that its environmental conditions were indeed very harsh.....

According to the relevant analysis, the planetary magnetic field of Purgatory Star is very weak, its rotation period (about 230 days) is longer than that of the orbital period (about 220 days), and the star also has a thick gas layer with more than 96% greenhouse gases.

And this kind of atmosphere makes its surface atmospheric pressure dozens of times that of the elven parent star, and has a huge impact on its temperature..... If we take the absolute zero of the universe as the starting point and describe its condition, then the average surface temperature of Purgatory is 835 absolute degrees, making it the hottest planet in the known range of the parent galaxy.

At the same time, the planet's surface is darkened by a highly reflective cloud of volcanic gases and corrosive droplets, which blocks most of the visible light from space.

And at the top of the planet's clouds, there are winds of up to hundreds of kilometers per hour, and although the surface below is relatively calmer, it is also affected by the density of the atmosphere, which forms a forward resistance that cannot be ignored.

However, the results of this observation are not all bad news, or not bad news for the elves alone.....

First, as long as the elf has developed to the sub-adult stage, it can directly withstand the average temperature of its surface, or even the maximum temperature, without protection;

Second, after filtering out the corrosive droplets in the atmosphere, the elves can survive by activating the salamander's epichal lungs and relying on the volcanic gases on them;

Third, as long as there are no exposed injuries on the surface of the body and relatively fragile parts such as the eyes are protected, the corrosive droplets in the atmosphere will be blocked by the tough skin on the surface of the body, so that they will not be able to cause substantial damage to the inner structure.

Fourth, the elves of the 'salamander period' can live in extremely deep magma, although there has been a certain degradation in the pressure bearing capacity due to the adaptation to the surface environment, but only tens of times the atmospheric pressure of the home star will not cause the elves to die, and the only certain degree of 'discomfort' can also be overcome through the totem inscriptions on the body;

Fifth, the thick atmosphere on Inferno attenuates cosmic radiation, so there is no need for special protection in this regard.

Therefore, from the perspective of these points, such a harsh environment is by no means an insurmountable obstacle for the elves, and it will even form a higher convenience than those low-temperature planets.

In terms of resources, the surface of Purgatory also has many huge volcanic groups, and the magma flowing from them is rich in metal compounds;

In addition, there is still a certain amount of water in these magma, as long as the preliminary engineering preparation can be completed, it can be collected and utilized before its decomposition, and even if the 'magma gills' in the salamander period can be degraded, then it can directly rely on the characteristics of the body to complete the filtration and absorption of water;

The problem with this is really just a matter of need...... After all, the purpose of the elves in the past was mining, not to burrow into the lava in search of a new home;

However, regardless of whether or not they choose to degrade the salamander's gills and reach their surface, the elves are already able to draw water from the magma and store a certain amount of water with the current technology alone, so as long as the number of people in front of them is controlled, there is no need to travel thousands of miles to travel from the home planet.

All in all, after confirming that 'Purgatory' is not really 'Purgatory' for the elves, the next plan is also naturally determined and unfolded.

After going around and around, the time came to July 36, the 150th year of the rune calendar, which is also the best window to obtain through observation and calculation.....

If you choose to fly away from the Far Earth orbit base on this day, then after about 30 days of fixed route sailing, the exploration spacecraft will be able to reach Purgatory in the closest orbit of 45 million kilometers, thus saving a lot of time and energy;

Nor was it a 'crewless exploration' that had been planned for the previous time....... Instead, he was ready to take the elves on his way to Purgatory.

Although there is still a certain risk in this sudden voyage, the control of the mimic spaceship also minimizes this risk, at least to ensure the survival of the crew and the safety of the Beastmaster's cage, and it is also these two favorable prerequisites that make the dispatch of high-level spellcasters inevitable.

Therefore, the two fifth-order spellcasters, led by Freya, 'drove' the mimic spaceship on the same day......

This is a luxurious spaceship in a sense, with a Beastmaster-class cage as the totem drive source, and a totem fission reactor and solar energy as a double guarantee, providing energy for the plasma thruster, and equipped with a nano-level intelligent brain with ultra-high performance, as a secondary aid in navigation and control;

In addition, the ship is equipped with another Beastmaster-class cage, but it does not participate in the support of the ship's totem drive, and will only be sent to the surface of the Infernal Star after the casters have completed the initial exploration and initial construction, and will become the basis for the construction of the planetary base.

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In deep space, the fifth-order spellcaster in the spaceship has lifted the merge state and handed over the control of the spaceship to the auxiliary brain, while he waits for the moment when he reaches the predetermined orbit and carries out some other explorations.

At this time, the spacecraft had actually been in space for more than ten days, and after the excitement of the maiden voyage at the initial stage, the unchanging scenery outside the porthole made the two crew members feel a considerable degree of boredom.

In the field signal bay, Freya is performing some operations on the brain, trying to repair the Illusion signal that has not been observed since about the third day after departure, which is one of the main reasons for the boredom and boredom of the ship's crew.

As she was busy, a purple torrent burst out of the bulkhead and flowed together, turning into the body of a female elf......

This elf's name is Agathates, the little girl who encountered the 'Bird King' at an altitude of 30,000 meters, but now that she is fully mature, and seems to have become a powerful fifth-order spellcaster, she would not have appeared here in such a way.

"Sister Freya, haven't you connected to the realm yet?"

"Completely unobservable ......"

"Unplanned situation, we seem to have ignored the signal range of the field....." Hearing this, Agatha, who was already bored, said with a bitter face.

"It's not completely unplanned, after all, its ability to restrain thoughts is something we have known for a long time, and it would be strange if it could really spread here indefinitely."

"Yes too.... But this is not the way to go on at all, maybe there should be some relay stations left on the waterway? Agatha muttered, "But what should be used as a medium seems to be a question?" ”

"In the short term, we may still have to use electromagnetic waves, but it may still work in the home galaxy...... Further afield, you have to consider the attenuation caused by scattering and absorption, as well as the interference of background radiation, which can either not be accepted or receive a bunch of garbled characters. ”

Freya no longer bothered with the brain, she sat down and began to think about the question, adding later,

"If you want to be a little more efficient and stable, you may have to start with visible light...... For example, if we use the gravitational field technique to fix the repeaters with the functions of 'receiving and receiving light' and 'transmitting light' at each calculated space point, and then arrange terminals with 'receiving' and 'decoding' functions on the spacecraft or planetary base, we should be able to achieve faster and more efficient virtual conduction. ”

"Or continue to increase the size of the elves, use the huge population, and accumulate enough thoughts to ignore the distance between the planets, so as to envelop the entire inner solar system into the void, but the number of individuals required should not be easily achieved."

"As for the higher-end, more widely used technologies, we may have to wait until we make revolutionary breakthroughs in the quantum field, such as real-time communication using the quantum entanglement effect, and then find ways to seamlessly connect it with the virtual world, as for other forms.... I can't think of it for a while. ”

"Tsk.... It's really troublesome, if only there was no universe, everyone would live in that 'plane' like that, maybe there wouldn't be so many troubles? ”

When Agatha said this, her eyes suddenly rolled, and she suddenly seemed to think of some good idea, and said with a smile,

"Sister Freya, do you think you can bring the Purgatory Star over?"

"How?"

"Do you think, if we pull the orbit of the Infernal Star next to the parent planet, and then use the technique to form a stable 'binary star system'......"

The more she talked, the more excited Agatha became, and continued with a constant gesture,

"After that, in order to prevent the creatures on the parent planet from dying, we can first modify the atmospheric structure and composition of the purgatory, and then connect with the atmosphere of the parent star to form a stable channel in the shape of a mallet.

"Even that as long as we calculate the adjustment range of the gravitational field, we can also aggregate all the matter in the home galaxy except the sun, and the distance is not a problem?"

"Then it is directly 'deified' and a corresponding concept is set for those sects...... Let them think that this world is supposed to be like this, and then through the erosion of reality in the realm of the Void, we will one day be able to fix this pattern with the rules that have been changed without exerting unnecessary energy. ”

"Forehead ......"

Freya was first surprised by her companion's whims, and then after a little thought, she realized that it seemed feasible, so she replied uncertainly,

"What if..... I mean, if we can take the first step in traction and develop the technology of 'electric drive', or 'light drive', or some other 'field drive' totem, and have enough energy, it doesn't seem impossible? ”

"And, perhaps, even further..... For example, simply stop dividing the planet and directly transform the parent star into a super-large rocky planet, or even a continent suspended outside the sun? ”