Standing at the barracks gate, Heine looked back at the road leading to the Lord's Palace.

There is a strange-looking tree every twenty meters on the side of the road...... Person.

It is about one and a half meters tall, and the standard bucket size is what the little tree man summoned by Linumu looks like after it takes root.

What surprised him was not the tree man, but a street lamp in the tree man's arms.

A three-meter-tall wooden stake is fastened to the Treant's arms, and its tip generates a small curly cage.

Inside was a fist-sized stone that emitted a faint glow.

In Heine's perception, the spirits around him were particularly active.

If he remembered correctly, it was the effect of a spotlight, and it was the most basic zero-core element in rune literature.

That is, there are no additional processing steps between the input and output.

However, the energy released by the stone in front of you is only one hundredth of the efficiency of the spotlight, or even less.

The energy of the Charging Stone neutralizes the corrosion caused by the Void.

As for usual use, Heine never thought about it.

Now he knows.

Yuan Ling needs to eat energy when he is hungry, and he can also eat two bites when he is not hungry.

If you eat it, you will be more active, like now.

And their activity is not to be "active" themselves, but to bring other lazy companions to "hi together".

…

"So that's what you call a totem?" Heine looked at Tuba.

"Yes, my lord, this is the Yuanling Street Lantern that I made under the inspiration of the Court of Light."

Tuba proudly explained:

"Compared to magic scrolls, the disadvantages of totems are that the energy release speed is slow, it needs to be prepared in advance, it cannot be moved, it is inconvenient to carry, etc......

But if you think about it the other way around, these can be advantages as well.

"For example, slow means stable, safe, and high utilization, and the inability to move means that its location can be planned in advance.

"The most important thing is that the cost of totems is extremely low compared to scrolls or magic devices that require very high material requirements."

He walked up to the little tree man, took out a yellowed ancient leaf, and waved it.

This leaf Heine had seen before, and it was the magic currency of the elves.

This was apparently given to him by Linum to command the little treemen.

The tree man immediately came to life, shook his body, and pulled the stake downward with his two "hands".

The three-meter-tall pole began to lower in height, and the lower end sank into the dirt, as if it had reached into water.

The stone at the top was quickly low enough to be within reach.

- Tuba is within reach.

The old dwarf tiptoed down the stone and handed it to Heine.

Heine checked it and found that it was a stone that could be found everywhere.

Its surface was polished and smooth, and the runes of the totem master were depicted with special pigments, lingering with a faint smell of earth.

"Ordinary stone?" Heine was amazed, "How did this happen?" ”

"It's a combination of totem and rune, my lord."

Tuba told the story.

After half a month of research, he gradually realized that the slow expansion of the inner world was related to the concentration of Yuan Ling.

Concentration is the level of activity.

Quercus is like a powerful heart, constantly contracting and expanding, pushing the active primordial spirits in the inner world farther away, allowing them to awaken more sleeping compatriots.

As the Court of Light appeared outside the confines of the Inner World, but could be observed, the dwarves realized that the so-called "expansion" was not what they had previously understood.

This is not the growth of a new world from the inside out.

The plane in which the world is located exists in itself.

Quarkus is simply expanding the range of actions they can make.

In this way, things become concrete.

…

Tuba: "We arranged several Yuanling street lamps in the real world outside the inner world, and then connected them with plant roots, connecting the dots into a line, and depicting the Yuanling circle you left behind in the inner world on the ground of the real world.

"It has proven to be extremely effective. The world will spread along the circle we draw in reality at a fraction of the cost, at least ten times faster! ”

"Where's the Charging Stone?" Heine asked, "These are all ordinary stones, how can they provide energy?" ”

Tuba smiled, "This is the combination of totem and rune that I mentioned.

"The root system of the plant connects the Yuanling street lamps, and every 10~12 street lamps form a group, and a group shares a charging stone.

"The energy of the Energized Stone extends through the root system and is released through the totem stone on the street lamp.

"Generally speaking, when the energy is halfway through, the area circled by the group can already be seen in the inner world, and it is only necessary to wait for the two to meet, and the former can be included in the scope.

"Once the group's area is included in the world, the rate at which the Charge Stones are consumed will be greatly reduced, and almost no energy will be consumed."

How can it be......

Heine looked at the stone in his hand, and then at the street lamp in the distance.

He did a little mental calculation.

With their careful use of the Charge Stone, the remaining half of the Charge Stone was barely enough to expand the inner world to the boundary of the magic net.

That is, the extent of the mountains of Maikara as defined by the Four-Power Pact of Velitas.

Is this the power of totem + rune?

Sure enough, interdisciplinarity is the future......

"And what's going on with these tree men?" He asked.

Tuba: "This is the suggestion of His Excellency Linumu, he said that these treants have a strength close to level 2, and they can use the treants to protect the Yuanling Street Lantern before the area is incorporated into the inner world.

"And as the expansion ends, the lights can be carried by the Treants to the next area on their own. We have a total of 24 Yuanling street lamps so far. ”

"Too little."

Heine shook his head: "In this way, you go to hunt sheep and let him take the guys from the barracks to help you with the construction, and you can find a way to make this kind of stone yourself, and include the Court of Light in the world as soon as possible." ”

However, Tuba looked embarrassed: "I ...... I'm afraid I won't be able to pick up the pace. ”

"What's wrong?"

"Although it is not difficult to make this kind of stone, it can only be carried out by a totem master, and my strength alone is limited, even if I soak in it all day, I am afraid that I will not be able to keep up with the consumption rate of so many soldiers."

"Hmm......" Heine thought, "can't you use the Yuan Spirit Printer?" ”

"I'm sorry, my lord, but I can't use that circle."

Heine couldn't help but wonder, "It shouldn't be...... The concentration of primordial spirits in that place is already ridiculously high......"

Tuba: "I think it's because the Yuan Spirit can't understand what a totem rune is. ”

Heine was stunned: "It's like not being able to understand what a basic rune is?" ”

"Yes, this is more advanced than the most basic instructions."

Heine patted her forehead, she had been dizzy lately.

"By the way, I haven't asked you yet, how is the promotion of rune literature going?"

"I'm afraid you're going to ask Mr. Karl Elan about that." Tuba spread his hands: "But as far as I know, it doesn't seem to be going very well. ”

"Didn't go well?"

Heine suppressed his doubts for a while, explained a few more words to Tuba and left.

He returned to the Lord's Mansion and traveled to the inner world to find Nobita, who was teaching Gawain how to build a house.

The Sun Knight doesn't know how to build a house, so Heine immediately thought of Nobita.

Even as a layman, he could see that the wooden houses that Nobita had built before were very decent.

Later, from Sabellia, he learned another story.

Nobita's dream was to become an architect, so he also went to the Mercury Forest to get an architect's certificate.

But he soon discovered that almost no elves made a living doing it.

Because everyone has lived too long, they more or less have a certificate.

Gardeners, architects, barbers, etc.

As a result, every industry has a large number of masters who have been alive for five or six hundred years at every turn.

And even these masters live on adventurous missions, let alone newcomers.

There is only one type of elf that can survive without fighting, but only on side hustles.

That's the royals.

Therefore, Nobita had no choice but to give up this dream, become a second-rate warlock, and blend into the Green Leaf Garden, living in a state of confusion.

I didn't expect to do something after "dying".

"How's your communication?" Heine asked.

(End of chapter)

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