648 A floating city
Floating City......
How attractive this word is to a mage, it is simply impossible to describe in words. A floating city is a secret base for mages. He can carry out arcane research in the city with peace of mind, carry out a magical reality that can be thought of, and try any crazy creation idea through the alchemy real yàn room......
Mages can assemble an army loyal to themselves in the Floating City—made up of constructed creatures, elemental creatures, and even necromantic armies or plant legions—to annihilate all enemies who dare to attack. Mages can build floating cities as they wish. Whether it's turning it into a small bridge and flowing water, a sky garden with pavilions, or armed into a flying fortress with a magic crystal cannon or a tower, you can do whatever you want.
Dorne had told Gordon that his biggest dream was to build a floating city, and then make it a luxurious and comfortable palace, where he could live with many beautiful sisters, go wherever he wanted, and live a comfortable life.
Well, apart from the fact that Gordon has some disagreements with Dorne on the issue of "Pretty Sister", in other respects, he agrees with the idea of losing friends. After all, he is a loving man, as long as he is a cute girl, he will not refuse, so that he will not be entangled in the specific attribute of "Royal Sister" like Dorne.
During the time of the Magic Empire of Netherduran, the Floating City was not too rare. Because they have mastered the technology of making the Myser Energy Core, almost every Grand Arcanist has their own floating city. Even the Magic Empire once issued a decree called "Natural Environment and Mountain Protection Measures", which forbade Grand Arcanists to cut mountains at will within the Empire. Manufacture a floating city.
Because if you don't stop those crazy archarcanists, it won't be long. I am afraid that there will never be a spiky mountain in the empire again.
But now in the Fourth Age, the Floating City has become a very rare thing. Back then, in the catastrophe caused by the huge source energy tide. Ninety-nine percent of the Magic Empire's floating cities fell and were destroyed. Even the first of the Grand Arcanists, the great Elemental Emperor Asaph. Augustus was also unable to keep his floating city. Perhaps only a handful of Grand Arcanists who piloted the Floating City far from the Northern Continent during the Source Energy Tides, or even traveled or studied the arcane in other planes, would be spared.
But there are too few such people, and in this day and age, even if there are surviving Grand Arcanists and his Floating City. I'm afraid that I will also be far away from the world, and I will not show up lightly. As far as Gordon knew, if we excluded low-level cottages like the Flying Fortress that the Three Holy Baptists had created during the Orc War, there were only two floating cities that were actually created during the Fourth Age.
First, it belongs to the Austrian Federation. The other, in the Southern Continent, is owned by the great Warlock family Ben Latu.
After all, in this day and age. It is very difficult to find an intact Myser core. The Myser cores that Gordon has obtained successively are all defective products that have insufficient output arcane energy or are damaged. It can't be used as the power core of the floating city. So if Gordon wants to achieve his dream of owning a floating city of his own, not only must he reach the legendary realm, but he must also find a large myser core intact. It's a very difficult thing to do.
If you can really get a ready-made floating city, it will definitely be a once-in-a-century good thing.
Ionn was intrigued to see Gordon. He continued to tell him the origin of the Floating City: "The master of the Floating City, that is, the ruler of the Eye of Truth and Warning. It's called Hetruss. Osht ......"
Osht means "inquirer and guardian of ancient mysteries" in the Nether language. The history of this branch is said to date back to the early First Age, and it is even associated with the Old Rulers. Almost all of the reliable information recorded in the main physical realm today related to the creation god war was recorded by the people of the Osht family.
However, the matter about the Osht family is only dispensable bean knowledge, and what Gordon really cares about is the information about the floating city.
"As I've told you before, Hyteras is a Grand Arcanist who has studied the School of Prophecy, otherwise he wouldn't have the ability to create items like the Eyes of Truth and Warning. On the eve of the destruction of the Magic Empire of Netherduran, he foresaw the catastrophe. The Grand Arcanist had warned the Imperium, but not many believed it. So he simply drove away in his floating city. ”
Hyteras first traveled north, across the barren tundra, to the northernmost point of the northern continent, the Supreme Glacier. There, the Grand Arcanist opened a space-time rift with the massive energy powered by the Myser Core, manipulating his Floating City to leave the main material realm.
Maybe it's to avoid trouble, maybe it's to do some complicated arcane research, maybe it's just a simple desire to find a quiet and comfortable plane to live in. No one knows why Heteras had to put so much effort into driving the entire Floating City away from the main material realm - it was an absolutely immense project to move such a massive object into space.
After that, the whereabouts of Hyteras himself were clearly insignificant compared to the collapse of the entire Magic Empire. Not many people cared anymore where the Grand Arcanist was, what he was doing, dead or alive. It wasn't until about ten years ago that the God of Knowledge discovered the floating city of Heteras in the vast astral ocean when he traveled to the plane.
The astral realm is the passage through which the main material realm leads to the upper realm, which is commonly known as the heavenly kingdom. It is an endless land of colorful and crystalline free source energy, and when viewed, it looks like an ocean of countless shining stars. This is also the origin of its name.
Born out of natural curiosity as a god of knowledge, Ion decided to explore the Floating City. At that time, the floating city of Hetrus was empty, but all the defenses were still intact, and it seemed to be heading for a specific destination on a predetermined course.
Ionn searches the Floating City and finds the Eye of Truth and Warning. However, as he prepares to explore further, something happens that forces him to leave. So Ionn left a positioning item in the Floating City and left.
"Put this thing away." Ionn pulled out a leaf that glowed with silver and handed it to Gordon. With a little magic infusion, a runic mark of the Trinity will appear on the blade.
Gordon knew that the leaves belonged to a plant called the weir tree. The weir tree is very rare in the main material realm, and only grows in the deep mountains and dense forests, and in the vicinity of Ferredon, it can only be found in the deep green dense forests. As long as the weir tree is not disturbed by the outside world, it can easily grow into a towering giant wood, its wood cannot be ignited by non-magical flames, it is elastic and durable, and the sound of the instrument is gentle and clear. Many bards chose weir trees to make their flutes or mandolins.
For mages, the weir tree has another purpose. The weir leaves that grow on the same branch all have a characteristic of pointing at each other. Based on this characteristic, the mages were easily able to use weir leaves to create low-cost and powerful pointing props.
Gordon's palms were spread flat, holding up the silver shiny weir leaves. After a few moments, the leaves began to rotate automatically, and finally the freeze frame pointed in one direction.
"If you follow its direction, you'll eventually find the Floating City. You must know that this pointing blade made by me can cross the isolation of the space barrier. When the Floating City is on the same plane as you, and within a hundred kilometers, the rune imprint on the blades will bloom with a golden light, and you will know when the time comes.
"Since you gave me this leaf after I came to the abyss, and told me about the floating city. Can I think so, that floating city is in the abyss now? ”
Ionn laughed, "You're smart, young man. Your guess isn't entirely accurate, though. It had been ten years since the floating city of Hyteras disappeared from the astral plane before it reappeared. However, it is not in the abyss, but in a new sub-plane that suddenly appears between several levels of the abyss. ”
The Abyss is the embodiment of the chaotic power of the entire multiverse, and it is not surprising that any accidents and accidents occur. Between the layers of the abyss, even if there is any spatial turbulence, time storm, or the sudden appearance of a new unknown place, it is normal.
"If I have the chance, I'll definitely go to that floating city to find out." Gordon put away the leaves of the weir tree.
Ionne tells Sù Gordon that he has a chance to get a floating city, and that he can further enhance the Eye of Truth and Warning. This good thing sounds like a carrot hanging in front of a donkey—it looks delicious and drives the donkey forward, but it never gets it. Although he was very interested, he also kept an eye on it.
The old man, who had been teasing the three canaries before, came over.
"I read a trace of reservation and distrust in this young man's heart, the one who names all things. It seems that you were too vague about him in the past, and it made people suspicious. Bahamut said.
"I can't help it, this young man is too smart, too cautious, too sharp, and it's not easy to deal with him. I also hope that I can deceive the stunned young man who charges forward in three or two sentences. But such people are often too weak to meet our requirements. Aion said helplessly, "Great Platinum Dragon, my affairs are finished, please take care of me." ”
Lord Ryujin, who rules all the metal dragons and is revered by the humans of an empire, has no shackles at this time, and is as kind as a neighbor's old man. He nodded at Gordon and asked, "How is it, is the Platinum Seal any good?" (To be continued......)