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The three border city defenses have been lost one after another, and it is also an unprecedented heavy situation for the border between the two countries, which has been at war for many years and has shown a state of see-saw. And what was especially intolerable to the Tumenis side was that in this attack, they seemed to have become blind and deaf...... The composition of the enemy's forces is unknown, the number is unknown, the means of attack are unknown, and not only did they lose three cities by surprise,

If this unforeseen attack is disturbing. Then it is even more frightening that none of the defenders of the three towns have survived the news...... You must know that although the border guards placed by Tumenes on the border cannot be compared with the private soldiers of those great nobles and nobles on the branches, they are at least trained elites, and the silent fall of the whole city has not happened once in the last few hundred years.

This time, it is clear that it cannot be a temptation, but an aggressive attack in the true sense of the word.

In response, Tumenes could only consolidate the city defenses along the route as soon as possible, and announced that he had issued a summoning order to the various lords to gather a large army.

According to the rules of the era, it was one of the few duties that the various nobles had to assume as retainers.

However, it is clear that after a long period of peace, the prestige of the Tulip Fernandez family as the king has obviously been reduced to an unbearable, even dangerous, Cheng dù, and after the magical edict is delivered, there is only one family that responds within a day

These things are not worth paying attention to at all for the small and medium-sized nobles...... What about the Empire's large-scale invasion? Even if it hits the city of Romandy, it is just pushed back by the ** divisions again. However, in order to organize the corresponding private soldiers to go out to the battle, it is necessary to recruit manpower, horses, weapons, and especially most importantly, grain and grass, from their respective fiefdoms to the border, in the process people eat horses and chew but they have to pay out of their own pockets, not to mention the manpower lost in battle, even if it is a back and forth, the consumption of this food is not a small number. If you don't want to lose manpower in your territory. Then you have to hire mercenaries, which is a lot of wealth.

Therefore, for this conscription, the means adopted by most of the minor nobles is to drag,

What needs to be worried about is those upper-level guys, Edward is a viscount, and the people are only 30,000, and this kind of family and country affairs are not the turn of him, a half-sized official, to participate. What's more, as an apprentice of the ** division, even if it is a soldier. Later, if someone is held accountable, he can also pretend not to know. "Oh, there's such a thing? Well, I was doing a long magical experiment and didn't pay attention to it. "Throwing out this kind of excuse, which guy who is idle and has nothing to do will care about this kind of disobedient question with him at this time? Not to mention that according to the regulations, a viscount only needs to lead three hundred troops to help, but the empire still has those three hundred peasant soldiers?

Therefore, the mobilization order stamped with the jade seal of the kingdom was in Edward's opinion. Naturally, its effect was far less than the magic circle that was flashing in his hand.

At this moment, Edward was sitting in his room on the fifth floor of the Magic Tower, frowning

This is a spatial circle that can be used to create a permanent rift in the fire elemental plane.

Under the shroud of Pandorian Ryan's evil talisman, the spatial magic of the entire plane has been affected by special effects, but after some experiments. Edward, this effect is not very deep, at least temporarily, the less space is opened. There are fewer obstacles.

For example, the opening and closing of the small circle in his hand was barely affected—after all, a passage the size of a bowl was nothing more than a million times smaller than the pores of sweat for the entire multiverse plane.

And most importantly, this kind of permanent fire elemental interface circle is not very expensive - compared to the huge thing that consumes one hundred and forty-four pure rubies, this gadget that only needs twelve to drive can only be regarded as an affordable commodity, but for Edward, it is enough.

After all, the passage opening of this circle has reached the size of a bowl, and the high heat temperature in it can boil a large pot of water in tens of seconds.

Generally speaking, mages are dismissive of this kind of thing, which is used to summon the fire elemental, which is too small in scale to summon only the lowest things, and as a molten metal product such as a crucible, it is better to use a magic work to do it than to spend time waiting in a stuffy place.

Of course, this is the common sense of the so-called magicians, but perhaps, it is also this common sense that binds their minds and makes them miss a lot.

Let's say, the infinite thermal power.

The fire elemental plane, as its name suggests, is a plane full of fire, home to fire elemental creatures, and of course only fire elemental beings can survive there, because there, the stone also melts into magma, let alone living creatures - of course, magic can do anything, so legend has it that many guys have been to that place, but for Edward, a half-toned mage, that's all he knows about it.

Based on these messages, he could only speculate on a plausible explanation for the possibility that it was the surface of a planet close to a star.

But in any case, the temperature to melt the rock must be at least 1,000 degrees Celsius or more, right? With such a high-quality heat source, it is obviously not difficult to make a noise.

Therefore, for Edward, one of the goals that could be achieved was naturally to become the heart of industrialization - the improved steam engine.

Generally speaking, although the structure and principle of this thing are a little simpler, but it is by no means so easy to manufacture, just building various parts is a relatively big problem, but for Edward today, this is really an easy job, because that high-level magic craft, the size of the raw materials that can be manufactured and changed, is ten times that of ordinary magic craft!

So it didn't take long, and the first prototype was completed.

The thing was over six feet tall and over ten feet long. Most of them are piston cylinders - because of the application of the fire elemental circle, it can completely ignore the original boiler structure, so it has enough advantages in terms of construction, but this thing still inherits the disadvantage of the extremely heavy dà of the steam engine - the noise problem is not easy to solve.

Because there were so few lubrication structures that could be used in this era, it was a bit overwhelming to rely on animal fats such as butter to solve the problem, and although Edward tried to make some shock-absorbing structures, the steam engine was still deafening and noisy when it started. In the end, Edward had to spend some more magic materials on it, and made a silent circle to solve the problem.

The maximum effect of this steam engine. Nature is used as a substitute for those giants.

It would be overkill to let these giants do the work of simple rotating crankshaft forging machinery - a pig a day and dozens of pounds of food would never have been a loss-making business for a long time if he had only raised a few guys who had turned in circles. Even if these hill giants are not of high intelligence, they are able to undertake complex tasks, such as reclaiming the terraces on the mountainside, where the terrain is complex and there are many kinds of work, such as digging tree roots, moving rubble, and leveling the land. Actions such as tidying up are not problems that ordinary machines can be capable of.

Actually, if you can. Compared to the steam engine, Edward would like to use a ready-made thing directly - the flying machine left to him by Master Minerhil is obviously a very mature rotating circle, if it can be copied, there is no need to spend a lot of effort to convert kinetic energy with thermal energy, but unfortunately although the guy's head is a little off the line, but he is worthy of the identity of a researcher, his motivation for the flying machine is extremely solid, if you want to disassemble it, it will inevitably destroy the internal structure. Therefore, after thinking about it for a while, Edward decided to put this plan on hold for the time being, after all, now, when the teleportation circle was affected, there was such a flying machine, which could deal with a lot of things related to transportation.

However, when it comes to carrying, Edward Mingjia has come up with a new idea. Steam locomotive.

With enough railroad tracks on the building, it shouldn't be difficult to connect the streets of the entire city. In this way, the opening of the mountain will be much easier...... In the future, you can also build a tunnel under the surface, and if you boil water with magic, there will be no problems with fuel and smoke. This kind of motivation can almost be compared to the internal combustion engine, even if you want to get a subway around the city, it doesn't seem difficult?

In addition, these steam engines can also provide enough power to be used for winding tools such as ballistas and trebuchets, and should be good as an upgrade to the defense system, but they can only be used against some low-level enemies, which seems to be a bit ......

The thought in his heart suddenly turned, and Edward narrowed his eyes and took a step back!

The surrounding space trembled like water waves, and the next moment, a faint blue light outlined a spatial door behind him!

"Holy!?"

"What is that bat demon expression that has been hit by a magic missile...... Is there anything surprising about me coming to you?" Accompanied by the silver astral brilliance in the space gate, the figure of only half of an ordinary person dragged a long mage robe into the mage tower, raised his head slightly and glanced at the owner of this place, and a dissatisfied, familiar snort came from the low-hanging hood.

Of course I'm surprised, the Spirit Sucking Monster Lich, the Great Druid, and one more ** master, one after another, one after another...... Are you trying to prove for yourself the unimportance of my anti-teleportation circle here?

Watching the portal shrink and dissipate, the surprise in the mind of the telemancer faded slightly, but he couldn't help but whisper.

But when he raised his gaze, a bright smile had bloomed on his face. "No, that...... Teacher Albert, you are here to shine, but if there is anything, you just need to call casually, disciple, I will naturally be on call, you are here in person, I am really a little ......"

"When did you become flamboyant?"

"Why, I have these words from the bottom of my heart. The Psychic Warlock raised his brow and smiled even wider.

As the saying goes, night owls come to the house for nothing...... Of course, the reason why a guy of your status came to me was that he was bored and came to chat with me, he had been bored in the mage tower for decades, and suddenly came out...... Is this a trivial matter? Naturally, I'll have to seal your mouth with sycophants first. lest there be no room for manoeuvre in a moment......

But it seems that this old guy doesn't want to give anyone else any leeway.

"It's as if you've had a magical connection with the Academy, but the effects of that evil talisman in the sky have been too troublesome lately, and the communication technique isn't easy to use, so I had to make a trip myself, but luckily it's not far away. ”

The dwarf ** master shook his head, he was not interested in the telemancer's diligence, his eyes wandered around the surroundings, and he casually interrupted Edward's noise: "It's not bad, the imitation of the Tower of Thunder? It's not much of a difference, but it's strange." Did you steal the design of the Tower of Thunder last time? No wonder that the little guy from Tesla was crazy last time and wanted to trouble you, okay, if you have this kind of thing, take it out quickly, it's useless for you to keep it, with your financial resources, you won't want to copy the Tower of Thunder in its entirety for another hundred years. ”

"Well, I just memorized a drawing, and I don't want to copy the full ......"

"Isn't it a Tower of Thunder? Well, that's right. You're not a mage. What is this? An iron bucket for water? Well, there's a fire elemental circle. What is it for?" The old dwarf's gaze paused on the huge metal equipment beside Edward: "What is this?"

"That...... A tool for supplying hot water to civilians in cities. ”

"You're really laid-back, don't they boil their own hot water?" The old mage ripped off his hood and rolled his eyes in displeasure: "I told you a long time ago, don't waste time on these senseless things, forget it...... It doesn't matter, anyway, since you're so free, then you go and give me a ride. See what's left there, and if there's a suitable one, I'll naturally check it out. ”

"I beg your pardon, Mentor, what did you say?"

"Well, that's a hassle...... You know what I'm studying, right? Recently, I found out from an ancient book that there was an ancient floating city. It's buried near the Camino so you go and look it into for me. The old man waved his hand: ""

"The ruins of the Floating City? It's thousands of years old, isn't ......it? Teacher. Are you sure you'll find something?"

"The ruins of the Floating City are not so easy to find, especially the core of it, which is highly protected by magical devices, so there is a high probability that it will be preserved. It's just a matter of going to find something and coming back to report it, and as for whether there is one, that's our business, how about it, you're okay, right?"

"The problem is not ......" Edward was stunned, "Wait a minute, teacher, this ...... Camino you say?"

"Yes, on the ancient map, that place is called the Lapu Shield, which means the city in the sky in the earlier Lynn Lace language, I recently found some relevant information, and now it is very likely that it is a floating city built by the ancient Grand Arcanists, the place where Lapto fell, so you go around there and find it for me, if there are any ancient ruins or something, I guess the Eight Achievements should have a little connection. Oh, by the way, a little north of the Shadow Forest, there seems to be a record of ancient ruins in that place. The old dwarf jumped on Edward's sand and twisted his ass comfortably: "Your current ability, although you can't deal with any too troublesome monsters, but, it shouldn't be a problem to search for this kind of place, I remember that you used to be a mercenary for a while, you should be very familiar with this kind of thing, right? That place is not a densely populated area, I think the probability of this floating city not being seen is quite high." ”

"Cameo, Cameo......" Edward's brow furrowed, and he spoke cautiously: "That teacher...... If I'm not mistaken, the city of the Camino is supposed to be northwest of the Shadow Mountains, right?"

"Yes, it's not far from City, I remember walking more than two hundred miles over there, here is a map of that place, you can use it well, and this time you can go with the investigation team, I can probably send five or six high-level mages." The scope of that place is not large, as for the things in the ruins, you can distribute the things you find, how about it, enough to satisfy the appetite of your little ghost, right?"

"No, teacher, I mean, the Camino is now the city of the Empire. ”

"Well, oh, so what?"

“...... Well, I'm afraid the Empire won't sit idly by and watch us dig into their territory. The teacher's absent-minded answer made Edward only smile bitterly and explain patiently.

"Oh, it's okay, those Imperial people don't have the guts to take care of the mage's affairs, you just need to say that you are the mage of the Empire," Albert shook his huge head and snorted: "Today's young people, I really don't like to use their brains, I think I used one of their low-level bird feather badges to run through most of the empire, dug up three ruins, and even dug up one of their Emperor Yang's graves, and no one took care of me, if it wasn't for the puppet guy chasing after me, I might have found this place in the first place." , I don't need you to go at all, and there are ......"

"Master, I mean, now that the Empire is at war with the Tumenes, they are afraid that they will be careful to check on people like mages. Moreover, the Camino is one of the largest cities in the Empire's defense, and it is not so easy to get to that vicinity. Moreover, now that the teleportation spell has been deeply affected, if you want to enter the empire directly, it is easy to be affected by too many people, and it is not easy to succeed if there are few, so ......"

"Huh, those hellish Imperials are at war again?" The old dwarf raised his face,

"It's really troublesome, these guys, okay, Camino is it, right? Since the war is going on, it's simple, you go with the mage team, first take the Camino for me, and then use it as a forward base, so that we can go over it conveniently...... That's it, you can do it. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point to vote for recommendation, monthly pass,