Chapter 396: Cloud Palace
In the past hundreds of home star years, the Elven Republic has experienced the Black Forest Age, the Global Era, the Stellar System Era, and the Star Cluster Era for the first time, expanding its territory from a corner of the Black Forest to a galaxy field with a diameter of nearly 1,000 light years.
In this process, the realm of the Void realm, with its excellent sensory and realistic environment simulation ability, has shouldered the 'zero distance' communication of nearly 10 billion elves in all parties step by step, thereby effectively alleviating or eliminating the sense of distance and time separation caused by the expansion of the territory.
However, the virtual realm cannot completely replace reality, which is not only related to the essential question of who carries whom, but also depends on the cathartic needs of the elves themselves for exuberant energy;
All in all, the citizens of the country still maintain a rich social activity in reality, and this is one of the reasons why large agglomeration cities are maintained.
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To this day, with the exception of newborns and the most outrageous casters, the most common height range among elven citizens is actually around 50 to 65 meters, and their weight is correspondingly around tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of tons.
The increase in body size and material content during this period has certainly brought about benign changes in the strength and strength of the whole race, making them more confident in the face of the staring eyes that may come at any time, and there is almost a feeling that it doesn't matter when you find us in their behavior.
But at the same time, there are many things that were designed and built in the past for the elves of the past, but are now about to be obsolete.
On a smaller level, these things are all kinds of atmospheric vehicles, many vehicles that travel to and from the earth's surface, weapons such as chariots, guns, etc., and even some tools that are at their disposal, all of which are no longer applicable to the growing size and weight of the elves;
On a larger level, many things, including elven cities, space fortresses, spaceships, and so on, are also becoming closed due to the overall growth in size, or simply no longer applicable.
Although in terms of today's technological capabilities and resource utilization, such a process of elimination will not bring an unavoidable huge waste to the country, but many troubles arising from it cannot be avoided.
And this is not the end of the story, if the current material supply is maintained, then the average height of the population will break through to 100 meters in about a hundred years, and then reach the current genetic limit of 130 meters in the future, and then the difference between the cultivation of height tonnage and the efficiency of natural growth will tend to ease down.
As a result, almost all of the items designed and produced after the completion of genetic improvement have been additionally added with more powerful growth features than before, so as to avoid being eliminated in the future.
Among them, there is a city, after fully considering the scalability of the future, the three-dimensional city tailored according to the current elf body data is naturally an undoubted behemoth.
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In order to avoid disturbing the stability of the force order between the various components of the city, the traffic management measures stipulate that any individual is not allowed to use means other than public transportation as a medium except in emergency situations;
Of course, this ultra-austere way of crossing the body is also prohibited, after all, the body you use to fly does not fall under the category of 'public transport'.
The floating island where Giant Fang was going was further inside, so he landed on a relatively close edge of the rim, intending to use it as a transit point to meet up with his friends.
The city on the horizon was becoming more and more complete, and soon it stretched from the first line of the sky to the lowest point below without touching the ground, revealing the floating islands that were in the shape of mountains, clouds, or buildings.
Slowly slowing down, the giant tooth landed on the edge of a metal city that was clearly unpretentious in the unpretentious style of the public;
His movements were not deliberately gentle as he descended and stepped on the ground, and the reinforced isolated island ground was also very face-saving, and it was able to withstand his feet that weighed nearly 250,000 tons without any damage, so that he did not have to be as restrained as when he walked to the rest of the area.
After crossing some kind of barrier and entering it, one of the elves from the same direction was seen, and they had stored their respective flying machines here and lined up to go to the various traction stations.
Although this is not the same as in the past, and the Greattooth does not recognize every one of his fellow citizens in the group, he still smiles or nods in acknowledgment.
In such a quiet and friendly atmosphere, the transfer station, which was not too busy, was also his turn to use it after a while.
So, Giant Fang, who hadn't waited too long, entered a certain traffic cabin with dozens of other elves, and sat down in each single room before being driven by the invisible pulling force to leave at high speed;
In an inclined route, the traffic warehouse is inserted into the airspace deeper into the isolated island group, and in the process, there are constantly single rooms separated from the main body to the destination along the way;
The tusk's room was not the last to be separated, and after about a dozen seconds, it drifted away at a fork in the road, and approached the goal of the trip in a short time.
In the slightly eccentric part of the urban area, there is a vertical cloud with a space of more than 500 cubic kilometers that occupies more than 500 cubic kilometers in an area that spans 12 kilometers long, 9 kilometers wide, and 2 to 5 kilometers apart from the top and bottom.
In the midst of the rolling clouds, there were traffic warehouses that were wrapped in fog as they approached, and then they entered in confusion and disappeared into the middle.
One of them was the cockpit of the Great Fang, and when he left the cabin, he saw a mist wrapping around him, and the surrounding buildings appeared to be carved from clouds, showing a pure white color in the sunlight.
Viewed from the surface or any other interior and exterior area, the city is undoubtedly as beautiful as a palace in the clouds, and even makes the business district's quest for beauty inadvertently disguised as unnecessary.
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Cloudsdale appears to be quiet, which is clearly not in keeping with the nature of its business district
However, Giant Tooth is not a well-known guest in the house, although he has not used his true body to go out for a long time, he often uses his projection body to visit friends in the real world or wander around, so he is not surprised by this style;
He just informed his friends that he had arrived, and wandered around according to the navigation picture that came to his mind, and then heard a very familiar commotion as he entered the various places.
There are many small clouds in the big clouds, and these small clouds are similar to commercial buildings or shopping streets, and there are also shops of all sizes and sizes that are taken care of by 'idle elves'.
Generally speaking, these shops may be a residential community, a manufacturing society, or a single industry, and most of them are just a business set up out of interest, and no shop owner will really make a living from it except for the public that collects taxes;
Because of this, there are so many shops here that are very unique and inexplicable, some of which may even look more like pranks than business, and there are many elves who are willing to pay for them.
As he walked, Tooth saw a new shop that didn't exist, but there was no information on it other than the caterpillar sign;
Out of curiosity, he walked in, and found that the person sitting in the shop seemed to be a male elf less than 20 meters in name, and judging by his size, he should be a little guy who had not graduated long ago and had not even entered sub-adulthood, so this shop may also be the leisure product of a new generation community?
In any case, the giant tooth entered it, and although its height of about 70 meters was still a little far from the roof, it looked as abrupt as an adult stuffed into a four-door cabinet;
Looking down, he saw that the beautiful young man was looking up at him with a crystal gaze, and the envy of his body shape in his eyes was even more undisguised.
"Hello sir, what kind of shop is this?"
Giant Fang sat cross-legged and took the lead in greeting each other, and did not carry any words that could reflect the difference in age and size between the two parties
As far as he knows, some little ones can resist curiosity and 'adventure' in the imaginary realm for hundreds of years after graduation, and it is not without them that they have the body of a teenager and the heart of a prime of life when they are born;
However, the reason why Giant Tooth did this was more out of respect, after all, everyone was young and weak, and he was obviously much weaker than him at the same time, so there was no need to show himself because of the current gap of how many years he was older.
"Ahh Hello hello hello! ”
In the thick juvenile voice and inexplicably surprised tone, the boy withdrew his envious gaze, and then raised his head to introduce the original intention of product design to Juya
Roughly speaking, this is an extension of the idea of a group of students of the same level, who designed this immersive, completely alternative caterpillar butterfly full simulation game based on their curiosity about 'fully metamorphosed development' creatures;
What he seeks is to explore the deep connection between the various parts of the body and the overall mind, and finally find a way to control the super-sized body that can be applied to non-casters;
In their minds, this is not enough to directly match cellular-level or even molecular-level control, but it may be able to match the druid's transformation ability of mid- and low-level spellcasters.
Although today, the most widely used scenario for druid transformation is between beds rather than battlefields, it can be said that it has become a fancy method of interest more than combat significance;
But that doesn't hide its essence, as all elves understand that it is a precursor to cellular and molecular control;
However, these two undoubtedly have extremely high strategic value.
They are both effective and unstoppable espionage, and they play a decisive role in expanding the horizon of the map today;
After the elves reach the genetic limit of 130 meters, they will also be an important knife and fork to continue to increase the mass of the body, which can greatly increase the digestion rate of the subject.
It is precisely because of this consideration that this group of students finalized the initial idea and finished product with the help of their mentor, and continued to work in this direction after graduation, hoping to complete the replica of the druid's transformed warrior and explore a deeper way to control it based on it.
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After listening to the young man's excited narration, Giant Fang inadvertently frowned slightly, as if he was not very interested in this idea
And it is true, the little guy's philosophy is extremely different from his own, and it can be said that he has gone astray in the eyes of the giant tooth.
In the concept of the Great Fang, the essence of the warrior's path is 'the realization of the self-rules under the control of faith', and the ultimate goal is to replace the 'world rules' with 'self-rules';
In this process, almost all of this is the polishing of 'self-rules', which does not tolerate the slightest bells and whistles, shortcuts, or wavering beliefs;
However, the process of studying 'art' is a waste of time, and it is also the link that is most likely to shake the belief in the heart, and the excessive analysis of the operation of the world will override the immature self-rules, and then lead the warrior to a dangerous and lost shortcut;
Therefore, it may be an exaggeration to say that the caster does not seek to understand the process of his cultivation, but it is also true that he never studies in the direction of deviating from the path.
In this persistence, he has firmly occupied the first seat among the fighters so far, and it can even be said that he alone constitutes the first echelon in the meantime
So, even if you find a way to make deep shapeshifts even for non-spellcasters, it may be a shortcut to a higher level of strategic ability;
But in the eyes of the Great Fang, if anyone is really interested in the trivial aspects of transformation, then why not just become a spellcaster and 'grasp the essence of the microcosm step by step'?
In this way, under the digital meditative body and the caster-like conceptual self-structure, there is no risk that he will be lost.
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The special skin structure of the elves not only gives them strong basic defense, but also causes their expressions to change too vividly;
The disadvantage of this is that it is easy to leave a bad impression or coldness on the ignorant when they first come into contact, but this obviously has little real impact in today's situation.
The advantage of this is that it is difficult for even compatriots to accurately analyze what an individual is thinking at the moment from the changes in his expression.
This, combined with the influence of the extremely fast thinking process, prevented the young man from being able to perceive the thoughts of the giant tooth in time.
So, when he smiled again and left on the pretext of a 'friend's summons', it all seemed so logical.
But in a sense, Giant Fang didn't actually lie to the young man here, his departure was not only because he didn't approve but didn't want to interfere recklessly, but also because the few guys who were wandering around and walking finally arrived.
"Hey! Are you ready for heavy bleeding, Your Excellency Chief~"
Before he arrived, the thick voice of Nighttooth could be heard from afar the moment Greatfang exited the shop.
(End of chapter)