Chapter 277 127. The world shaping engine in front of the ball player
Darkus is not set up on the pyramid, but on the flat ground.
The exterior is composed of four evenly distributed golden conductors of the wind serpent totem. Suspended in mid-air is a ring similar to the engine of the gods, but part of the gold conductors of the ring has fallen off. After all, according to time, this equipment will not be maintained without maintenance. It has been running under the same conditions for more than six thousand years. If he judged correctly, the purple sphere entangled in mid-air by the wind of lightning and magic in the middle of the golden ring should be the legendary lapis lazuli.
It is said that the World Shaping Engine is an arcane device used by the ancient saints to reshape reality. It is an important part of the grand plan and has sufficient technical content. This incredibly powerful device turns the land into a safe haven for the lizardfolk and a nightmare for their enemies.
The World Shaping Engine exudes powerful power, releasing wave after wave of transformation power into all areas. It can instantly turn the hardest rock ground into a dense jungle, turn barren dust into a bubbling swamp, and the creeping Vines and poisonous plants protected the cities of ancient civilizations.
This magical device indeed did it. Although Zulkes sank into the lake, the satellite city was preserved intact in a sense and was not eroded by the Chaos Demons during the great invasion.
Darkus thought a lot at this moment. He assessed the value of Zulkes from military, political and geographical perspectives.
If we insist on benchmarking, we can benchmark Zulkes with Panama in the Americas, which is of course the west coast near the Pacific Ocean.
Zulkes is located on the left side of the Isthmus of Lustria. Although it is not a port city, it is very close to the Zhiyuan Sea. You can reach the seaside in half a day's journey.
Darkos suddenly thought about Lake Maracaibo in northwestern Venezuela. Miraculously, Lake Maracaibo has become the only freshwater lake in the world that is connected to the sea due to its unique geographical environment and changes in wind direction. It's not impossible, Master Ma is a matter of magic, but that will happen in the future, and now he has to solve the problem in front of him.
After entering the hall, Malekith did not move inside, but stood still and observed. The same was true for Drusala and Colonia. Only Chupacoco walked to Dacus's room with a staff. Beside him, Darkus' noble robe was pulled up.
"Don't worry, I understand." Darkus turned his head and looked at the sad-looking Chupa Coco and comforted him. He knew that skinks also have an emotional side.
After applying a mysterious shield to himself, Darkus bravely moved towards the Shaping Engine. As he got closer, he felt as if he had entered an endless abyss, with only the Shaping Engine illuminating him. The darkness behind him swallowed him up, leaving him in a world full of death and emptiness.
"All phenomena are false." Darkus muttered in a low voice while approaching cautiously. He had to always pay attention to his feet to avoid stepping on the bones of the temple guards. Although it was a bit strange here, he didn't believe it now. We are obviously at the bottom of the lake, but can we go to outer space in the next second?
Although Darkus was constantly approaching the direction of the Shaping Engine, he did not want to do anything to the Shaping Engine, but to check the situation of the stone slab and Chengyu. In addition, there were ten cheerful gadgets on the ground to attract them. Attracting his attention, ten baubles looked out of place in this place, bright colors like spinning children's toys or decorations on the deep ground.
Under the gaze of the other team members, Darkus was fixed there with an extremely strange and awkward gymnastic movement. He had already picked up the slate and looked at it.
Just as Darkus was watching, he heard the sound of steel rubbing against the ground behind him. He took his eyes off the stone slab and stared at Malekith, who was also moving forward cautiously to avoid stepping on the lizard man's bones. . He nodded to Malekith, then lowered his head and looked at the slate in his hand through the vague light.
The slate does not contain the manufacturing and use methods of the World Shaping Engine. Instead, it records a magical thing called celestite, which can also be called celestial stone or heaven stone. Unlike the celestial stone in the Lizard Age, it was everywhere. Even the Skink Kid has equipment on his weapons, and lapis lazuli is extremely rare in the medieval world.
Celestite can only be obtained from celestial bodies that fell into the medieval world, and if it exists in the celestial body, it will not exist.
It is rarer than warpstone. The relatively rare warpstone is numerous compared to lapis lazuli. After all, the great evil moon, Morsrib, is there.
Darkus instantly thought of the lizard-man scarred veteran who was born in Spicazuma last year and the stone slab obtained by Drusala in Golond. What kind of scarred veteran was that? It was the core of a lizard-man army. : Star Stone Flag Bearer, but what he didn't know was that Star Stone Flag Bearer was even more magical than he imagined.
The Starstone Flag is not a traditional flag, but consists of some reality-distorting devices. Taking the form of a coiled serpent totem, lined with text and encased in a floating skystone sphere.
Raw energy sparkles within the sphere and connects to the glyph, making it sparkle. No matter what it is made of, the Star Stone is a link to the magical winds. It can summon magical winds to strengthen the lizardmen's spells, and it can also make nearby allies within a certain range immune to damage and release magical winds to heal injuries. friendly forces.
Occasionally, the energy of the Star Stone will suddenly burst, forming new words, these words shine with azure light, and even the Slann Demon Priests don't know what or who caused this phenomenon. Perhaps this is proof that the Old Ones still exist somewhere in the void, retuning the Starstone to better serve the greater plan.
However, there is still one link missing, that is, the method and raw materials for making the Star Stone Flag are missing.
Although Darkus roughly knew what the Star Stone Flag looked like, he didn't think that the Slann Demon Priests or Sorceresses could deduce the idealism based on the sketch. It was not some kind of steel-making equipment, it had completely surpassed the idealism. It’s the limit, you have to follow the production instructions on the stone board step by step. When he first came to the continent of Lustria, he studied the Sun Engine and the Gods Engine. The two things looked almost the same, but they were incompatible and had no connection at all.
At the same time, Malekith leaned down and grabbed one of the spheres to observe. The vague flames on the sphere gave off an orange light, but the color was clear enough. A huge blue vortex was swirling, and green spots were on it. spread over most of its surface. Everywhere there were tiny blue capillary lines cutting through the green, like the veins in a drunkard's nose.
Malekith leaned over again to pick up another crimson sphere dotted with countless interlocking circles. He held the two spheres, one on the left and one on the right, in his hands and kept observing.
Chupa Coco also walked over and picked up a gray sphere whose only feature was a thin orange line crawling across its surface.
"Do you know what they are?" Malekith asked, looking at Chupa Coco.
"Celestite! I once saw one in Hesiota." Chupa Coco's pupils rolled around in his eye sockets, then he tilted his head and said, and the marquee on his crown also flashed.
"No! My dear little lizard, this is the world!" Malekith's orange eyes flashed, and his voice turned into a jagged giggle, obviously he was teasing Chupa. , after seeing the surprise flash in Chupa Coco's eyes, he continued, "Did you see the meteor scars on the surface? The one you are holding is Rokaratea. Here, look! Diemore, the burning world !"
The two sorceresses also walked over cautiously, and they also bent down to pick up the spheres scattered on the ground.
Drusala held in her hand a gray smear with three bruises, a few tiny black pinpricks, and a pale orb of death covered in ice. At that moment she wanted to scream in pain, but she held on with her will. Her body was shaking constantly, and non-existent cold sweat flowed from her head. The pain soon passed, and she seemed to have passed through the lapis lazuli. Saving throw, now the sphere gave her another strange feeling. She felt that the surging energy was contained in the sphere, and she could guide this power out. "Obuskulia!" Chupacoko said looking at the spheres in Drusala's hand. After Malekith finished speaking, he understood what these spheres were. He was a Skink Priest. Although he was not He is good at astrology, but he also knows astrology, and of course he knows the meaning of these lapis lazuli spheres.
"Sharib, Diemor, Tigris, next is our world, that is Vidra." After resisting the rejection of lapis lazuli, Colonia began to introduce to her brother, she pointed Said the sphere on the ground or in someone else's hand.
Among the four strange lizards, they all know more or less astronomical knowledge. To say that the best astronomical calendar in the entire medieval world should be the lizard people, followed by the elves. Before the split, the elves had too much time to raise their heads. Look up at the stars.
Drusala and Colonia are different from Alyssa. Alyssa's inheritance and experience are more like that of a battle mage, while they are positioned as scholars.
Perhaps Darkus is the only one here who is confused about these spheres.
The galaxy in which this planet is located in the medieval world is also called the solar system. It consists of one star and ten planets. The star is called Sol (Sll), which is the sun.
Calculated in terms of orbital distance, the first five worlds that make up the inner galaxy are called "sons of Asuryan" by the elves, and there are the last five worlds in the outer circle.
Sharibu is the closest planet to the sun and orbits Sol every 80 days.
Diemore, as Malekith calls it, is called the Burning World, and its surface is identical to the red sphere Malekith holds in his hand. It is the second planet, slightly smaller than Sharib. , and it also has a moon revolving around it.
Tigris is the third planet and orbits Sol every 200 days.
Next is the main event. The fourth place is the Warhammer world and the medieval world. "The Land of Destiny" is the name given to this planet by the lizard people and their old creators. It revolves around Sol every 400 days. . It is surrounded by two satellites, the natural satellite Mannersrib and the unnatural satellite Morsrib.
The medieval world may not have been the fourth planet closest to Thor before the arrival of the Ancient Saints. This was once a cold planet. Through the Old Ones' uncanny understanding of magical techniques and available technology, they brought the medieval world closer to the sun, dramatically warming the climate.
Vedra is the fifth planet that orbits Sol every 800 days and also has a moon, which is characterized by its green glow.
There is no need to introduce the next five planets. They are all ordinary planets, either solid planets or liquid planets. Only the tenth one is more interesting.
Obsculia is the tenth and farthest world from the sun in the system. Its surface is exactly the same as that held by Drusala. This planet has nothing to dispute among the lizards and elves, because this The planet is right there.
However, the existence of this planet is controversial in the empire. It can only be deduced from theoretical arguments. It is only known that it is located somewhere in the void. The details are unknown. However, it is not 2300 years later in the imperial calendar. The academy was not established either.
Malekith stretched out his hands, and ten lapis lazuli spheres floated from the ground or in their hands into the air. His fingers were constantly turning, and the spheres also changed positions as his fingers turned.
"It's best not to do that!" Chupa Coco warned slightly vigilantly.
Orbs of yellow, white, or old and dying red hung in the dark void, tiny orbs forming patterns in the vast darkness as complex as handfuls of thrown grain. Some of them shimmered brightly enough to bring tears to Chupa Coco's eyes. The rest are just lightless specks in the void, and the main body of the Milky Way appears behind the sphere.
"There is no illusion! Reality is like the stars you see." Above Darkus' head, the Milky Way shimmered in the cold void. He looked at the strange phenomenon in front of him and said calmly, he felt like going to the astronomical museum to see the 3D projection. Of course, the current experience is much better than the 3D projection.
"Isn't it great?" Malekith said with a smile while manipulating the sphere. He had already understood the power, and he probably knew how to use the energy in the lapis lazuli.
Malekith changed the control methods over and over again, as if he was showing off his skills. In fact, he was trying to figure out the real use of these spheres that were like planets. Maybe it was not as simple as he thought? Or is this just a toy?
"My Ancient Saint, I saw Thor!" Darkus emerged from the projection. He carefully walked around to Chengyu who was collapsed on the ground. He did not see the Slann Demon Priest left behind after his death. He found similar frog bones, but he saw that the Slann Demon Priest had used the magic hammer before, and a sun-like sphere was imprisoned at the front end of the magic hammer.
Then the magic hammer also floated in mid-air under the guidance of Malekith, and then nothing weird happened. It crushed the lapis lazuli sphere and the corresponding planet also exploded, or reverberated or resonated, let alone anything. What outrageous things can be summoned after gathering them all.
In addition to the energy and value contained in lapis lazuli, the sphere is more like a small toy of the Ancient Saint or the Slann Demon Priest?
Darkus turned his head and glanced at the Shaping Engine and shook his head. The lapis lazuli in the middle of the Shaping Engine was larger than the eleven spheres combined, as if the leftover materials after processing were reused. He no longer wanted to stay here. His body was getting more and more unwell. It was like there was radiation here and he couldn't stay any longer.
"Let's leave first and settle Ren's matter first. If that trial has a time limit, it will be troublesome." Darkus said after taking off the hammer floating in mid-air.
Malekith turned his head and glanced longingly at the lapis lazuli on the World Shaping Engine. If he were alone, he would definitely take the piece of lapis lazuli away, and this and that, but that's not the problem.
This device will not last long. If it is forcibly removed without a proper method, the pyramid is likely to explode violently. At that time, the double-layer barrier will also fail, and the lake water will pour in directly and flood the city.
Depend on. My head is filled with lead again. If I hadn't been unable to ask for leave, I would have wanted to ask for leave
(End of Chapter)