Generally speaking, the technology side and the mysterious side of the Xiling Empire are roughly equal in overall strength, and basically what can be done on the technology side will also have corresponding skills on the mysterious side, and if the two are placed on the battlefield, they are also equal. This status quo has gradually formed and taken root in the long-term development of the empire, because the enemies that the empire has to face are endless, and the situation of each sky region and the situation to be dealt with are also changing rapidly, which determines that the empire as a whole cannot have technical shortcomings - whether it is a battleship on the technology side or an alchemy product on the mysterious side, it cannot become a weak point on the battlefield.

But in the case of having the same power or effect, the things on the technology side and the mysterious side have their own distinct characteristics.

The things on the technology side are more "direct", from the mode of action to the design concept, they all adhere to a simple and intuitive, direct to the goal attitude, just like the strongest conventional main gun they made - Galaxy, with a simple, rough and effective absolute force to destroy the enemy, do not beat around the bush, nor give the enemy a chance to beat around the bush, everything is based on a straight and efficient way of thinking. This logic is very suitable for the creation of the technology side, and it is also very in line with the systematic linear thinking style of the Xiling technicians, and in a sense, it is this design concept that goes straight to the goal that gives the endless endless unlimited weapons on the scientific side of the empire an amazing power.

The mysterious creations give people an eerie feeling of "ethereal and elusive", just like their classification, full of mystery. They are accustomed to using ingenious means to bypass powerful obstacles. Attacking the enemy's vital points from the most difficult angles to defend, all sorts of curses, symbolic rituals, and math rate effects are popping up in this field, and they are more accustomed to using the laws of the world to enhance their success rate than destroying the enemy's sturdy armor with sheer force. The mystical things are cunning, they may seem inconspicuous or even weak, but after a closer analysis of how they work, you will find that you can only take a slight wrong step. has fallen into the abyss of no return, most notably the terrifying mirror system of the Halo of Glow Radiance. To be sure, this system isn't as strong as the Galactic cannon, and the glow ring itself isn't even half as powerful as the Eternal level, but you can't deny that the horror mirror is no less threatening on the battlefield than a galaxy cannon that has locked on you.

If the science and technology department is to break the ingenuity with force, then the mysterious side is just the opposite, it is to wrestle with the skill. The two very different paths of development eventually reached the same height, and they also entered the temple of "truth".

Sandora and I were led by Aurelia to visit several of the towns that had been back in operation. This includes the Colossus of Gonda and several other production plants that construct "Karakuri soldiers". There is also a test weapon factory, as well as a "magic furnace" used to produce standard occult apostles except for the two special units, the Raven and the Siling Angel.

The Magic Forge is a large, upside-down white hemispherical structure, located directly above the City of Angels, and in the center of the huge building can be seen a large blue crystal, occupying nearly one-third of the entire sphere, that crystal makes the magic energy furnace look more like a ...... suspended at an altitude of 36,000 meters

It always feels like it's best not to describe the hemisphere architecture too much.

Inside the Forge of Magical Energy is an environment I can't understand, as if even Sandora doesn't know much about the mechanics and structure of this thing. The extremely wide space inside it was filled with fog and leaping arcane lightning. Clusters of free-moving elemental creatures loom in and out of the mist, and they are the workers of the furnace. They were responsible for maintaining the crystal cells that were fixed to the walls of the furnace, and in those crystal cells, Sandora and I saw "embryos" that had not yet been formed, but only a mass of humanoid light and shadow, and Aurelia told us that the radiant embryos that were sleeping in the crystal cells were the mystical apostles who were about to be born. …,

The birth and evolution of the Mystic Apostles is quite strange, they only had three branches in the beginning, one is the Raven, a spellcaster born from the arcane ocean (of course, now we are using the power of technology to directly copy Bella Vera's soul fragments, and the efficiency is similar), the other is the Spiritual Angel, which generates "seeds" from the wall of angels, and then gradually breeds into holy light creatures in the hatching lattice, and the last type is the mass-produced apostle named "Magic Pioneer". They are the basic form of the general mystical apostles (excluding the two special units of ravens and angels), each member of the mystic side is a magic vanguard when they are born, all abilities are very average, there are no outstanding advantages but can be flexible universal spellcasters, they are generally born in the magic furnace, after accumulating a certain amount of experience and combat exploits, the magic vanguard can choose their own promotion route in the crystal in the center of the magic energy furnace, become an arcane expert, or learn to use the holy light, Or study the Shadows and the Curse - it's not until this point that the Mystic Apostles will give birth to as many clans as they do on the tech side.

This kind of "evolution" method of starting from the basic form and evolving into various advanced branches through "promotion" is very immediate, and I have to think that maybe they refer to some kind of Zerg technology tree in order to enhance the evolutionary advantage of their own race......

Of course, not every Vanguard has to choose to be promoted, although most of them will choose to strengthen the route they are best at, but there are also a small number of people who choose not to be promoted for life, and such Vanguard eventually achieve great achievements and even become generals, Oldmutius is an example - despite now having the rank of lieutenant general, Oldhemseus is still a "Magician Vanguard".

Different techniques, different styles, different promotion mechanisms, but with the same belief and complementary strength, when the mysterious side of these wonderful things that I have never been exposed to are presented in front of my eyes, I feel that some of the deficiencies in the empire are slowly being filled, although I can't accurately grasp what it is, but I do have this feeling. Maybe in the next battle, I'll face a whole new kind of battlefield situation – and I'm looking forward to it.

Just as he and Sandora were about to leave Celestial City. We were slightly delayed by the surprise visit of three unexpected guests: Sagina and Sona, and Vanilla.

The three girls have been staying in the Mortal World Realm of "Xinxiang", and under our explanation, they have developed their respective churches, and at the same time reported the situation in the Mortal World Realm to the Heavenly Realm City in a timely manner. After the three hundred commanders on the mysterious side woke up, they left a large number of ancient spirits in the mortal realm, and these ancient spirits changed the previous chaotic state and began to reorganize the religious society of the entire world realm with great efficiency under the orders of the empire. And announced that the Raven God Sect will be the new religious leader, and the Dragon God Sect is busy gathering the half-dragons of the entire world and rebuilding the half-dragon empire, it can be said that the three girls are in a very busy state, and today they suddenly came to the Heavenly Realm City, in fact, they also came to report the situation to Aurelia, but they didn't expect to meet me and Sandora.

See the two of us with Aurelia. Sakina was very fussed, and was incoherently surprised for a long time. It wasn't until Sona quietly whipped her with her tail that she fell silent. I smiled and said to the half-dragon girl who was a little over-energetic, "Why are you so surprised? Didn't I say we'd be here at any time? ”

"Ahh I'm not used to it for a while," Sakina's thick tail crackled twice on the ground to show that she was excited, "I feel like you've all gone to a far, far away place, but I didn't expect you to be able to come just as you say?" ”…,

"This place is the outskirts of Shadow City right now, and it takes less than two seconds to walk through the portal," I shrugged, watching as Sagina and Sona each wore a short shirt + skirt similar to the cool dress that Rin liked to wear. The short dress was in stark contrast to the overly wide clerical robes that Vanilla was wearing, but something of a coat of arms could be seen on the former's clothes. "This is the ryojin sect's priest uniform? It's really distinctive, I thought the official uniforms were all that kind of wide robes and coats. ”

"Don't mention it. A few days ago, I ordered a few robes of the kind you mentioned, but I couldn't wear them at all—I couldn't shake my tail off, and I walked and wrestled," Sakina said with a bitter face, revealing a calculated look, "and a lot of fabric was wasted." Or this short dress is suitable for us half-dragon people, light and simple, and does not delay work. Sometimes I look at Vanilla and panic for her, her small body is probably not as heavy as her own clothes......"

Vanilla didn't speak, only knew that Lu Dao was shyly holding a big book in his arms and smiling shyly, the child was still as introverted as before...... Oh, it didn't take long from the beginning, only a few days......

The book that Vanilla was holding was mostly for pretense, and when we left Shingo, the child had just learned to write the names of all of us, and she was no better than the well-informed duo of Sakina, a young girl who grew up in a ravine and had never read, but listening to Aurelia and Lilina's report, it was such Vanilla who was still adapting to her new life and job at a surprising rate, and although she was not yet mature, she now had a high prestige within the Raven God Sect, And I'm able to handle some things on my own - half of the time I'm still going to have Lilina help with the remote control. In this way, Vanilla is actually a very smart child, and her affinable personality is more suitable for a role like "Holy Maiden", in this respect she has an advantage over Lilina, Lilina's compassion in front of the believers is pretended, Vanilla is real. So in this way, the little worry I had before disappeared: in fact, I had been worried that Vanilla would not be able to bear the burden that suddenly fell on my shoulders, although she could live a life of fine clothes and food that she had never imagined, but Lilina was also very irresponsible to throw the child into a strange environment that could make ordinary people panic, and now it seems that such worries do not need to be maintained.

I once asked Vanilla if she was bothered by Lilina's irresponsible involvement in such an unfamiliar environment, and Vanilla replied that instead of being bothered in the slightest, she was very grateful to Lilina for giving her a new life and for meeting so many kind and nice people. In this regard, I can only comment: Lilina's superb flickering skills have reached a new high, and such a simple and kind good boy has been deceived by illusion and has become the diehard loyalist of the black-bellied Lori. To this day, Vanilla firmly believes that Lilina is the kindest great pope in the world, and what a terrible thing you say......

"By the way, you guys should come over anyway, why don't you go to my house for dinner tonight?" When Sandora gestured for the third time that she was hungry. I suddenly remembered something and stopped the three girls who were about to return to the mortal world, and Shandora next to me immediately smiled when she heard the word "rice": "Anvina's craftsmanship is very good, you should try it." ”

Sagina was a little stunned: "Huh? Invite us to ...... Go to your house? ”

"You're not so busy that you don't even have time for a meal, are you?" I said to Sagina while using my psychic connection to inform Avena to prepare three more people's meals tonight - in fact, with the huge meal base of Shandora, it is almost impossible for Avena to prepare three more people's meals. …,

Vanilla had lived in our house for a few days before, and she knew the nature of our family, so she immediately happily agreed, and Sagina and Sona still felt a little foggy. It seemed as if "Emperor Xiling invited himself to his home for dinner" was incredible, but I also vaguely agreed, so when we went back, we brought three more people, well, and a little one, the kind of "Arcane Peanding" I saw in the experimental factory before, I thought it was quite funny. Shallow should like this kind of weird little guy, so I asked Aurelia for one.

Actually, Arcane Peewee is just a joke. Its scientific name should be arcane colloidal organisms. But since the abbreviation of the name is "Okucolloid", it ...... That's why I insist on calling it Arcane Peewee, or Slime - even though this slime has a decent amount of combat power, except that it has about the same intelligence as a self-discipline machine, and it can almost take Kael'thas to his stomach......

At the moment, the direct teleportation route from Celestial City to Earth's surface realm has not yet been opened, so we will transfer to Shadow City first, and then teleport home. This was the first time that Sagina and Sona had seen this capital of the realms that they had only heard of legends, and they were immediately intrigued. There are all kinds of flying tools and magic in the sky...... Raven, the magnificent dimensional hub square. There is also the huge steel ship floating above the city of the military headquarters, and another land reflected in the sky - Gaia, these things have opened their eyes, although the Celestial City is a more fantastic place than here, but there is also a prosperity that the Celestial City cannot compare with and the "high technology" that is more difficult to understand for Sakina, the two half-dragon girls are like vanilla who came here for the first time, and then vanilla will volunteer to give them a lot of strange explanations, And as far as I guess, most of the mess of vanilla common sense comes from Lilina......

So I had to correct it all the way, and hopefully Vanilla's three views would be saved, or at least she wouldn't really think that Shadow City was implementing a Shamanic Hearthstone Act that Lilina had written.

"You can come here at any time, the three of you all have B-level access rights within the empire, and you have time to learn from Aurelia how to use the gate of the world, the vast world of the empire is even more incredible than you imagined."

I smiled and said to Sakina and the others, the two half-dragon girls were afraid that they had only vaguely realized at this time that they hadn't seen the "real world outside the gate" at all, so they both showed excited and inexplicable expressions and nodded again and again, only Vanilla was quite calm, she had seen those strange otherworldly people in the dimensional hub square, and she had also seen a documentary about the introduction of the empire's territory (a program broadcast by XLTV in friendship), so she was quite calm about it.

At this moment, a depressed figure suddenly appeared in the corner of my eye, and when the other party walked in, I realized that it was Bella Vera...... Well, it's not her.

I looked up at the horizon and saw that the sun had set, and in the afterglow of the sunset there were two big words: Meal.

IT'S AT LEAST HALF PAST SIX NOW, AND BELLAVIRA HAS RETURNED TO HER WORLD REALM WHERE SHE HAS BEEN PING FOR HALF A MINUTE, AND THIS DESPERATE GIRL IN A CLERK'S UNIFORM WITH A DEPRESSED FACE SHOULD BE RAVEN 001.

"Yo, One," I took the initiative to greet the other party, which can be regarded as mobilizing the attention of the other party, Raven 001 saw that we were in a hurry, saluted me and Sandora, and then greeted the others in turn: "Hello, vanilla, hello, Sakina, hello, Sona, hello, Xizhilang......"

She probably saw the information of the three vanilla people from the public database, so she knew it, as for Xi Zhilang...... She was greeting the "slime" we had brought back from Celestial City, and the latter was unambiguous, immediately swaying into the appearance of Raven 001, giving a military salute and a girlish voice with a gurgling voice: "Hello, sir." Then it was spread out again into a field of jelly.

"You look out of your spirits," I looked at Raven 001 curiously, and the other party returned to a depressed state in an instant after greeting, as if he had just been beaten up, "the after-effects of Bellavila's possession?" ”

"No......" Raven 001 covered his head, "I met Wei Jia just now, Your Majesty, that violent woman may have broken ......"

Me: "......?" ”

"Just now my subordinates came back from the dessert shop, and as soon as I entered the base, I saw Vega rushing over, and then she beat me up nervously, and cheered happily at the very end: 'It's finally right this time!' Just ran away, and in summary, she may have broken ......"

How should I answer at this time? Can I make a sad face?

Raven 001 was wandering around looking for Vega's traces, she was convinced that her nemesis had been in a malfunctioning state for years, and now it was finally broken, and she vowed to send Vega to the repair center, but for various reasons I decided not to tell her the truth, after all......

Falling in love and killing each other is also the biggest daily routine of these two people, isn't it? (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )