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Terra 783.

A long, long time has passed on Terra since Ian stopped advancing to Star God, returned to Terra, and dived into the Aether Sea.

During this period, the Silver Peak Territory was under the control of the General Political Bureau. Director Scott was in charge of the political development of the territory, while Isengard and Xio were responsible for managing matters related to the Ascendants in the territory and the implementation of policies. If there was a conflict, there would be Convening meetings to make internal decisions is, in general, a relatively rare oligarchic bureaucracy on Terra.

The reason why it is said to be rare is because most Terran systems, no matter how they appear, are actually lifelong dictatorships/monarchies.

This is also in line with the hopes of the people of Terra. In Terra, the people do not long for the 'power' and the huge responsibility to fight against 'natural disasters' that comes with power. What they want is a peaceful and stable life, and electoral democracy The policy instability it brings is unacceptable to them.

When life is tolerable, a charismatic leader is the best, followed by a stable leadership team.

Although there are no 'festivals' such as inspections, speeches and people-friendly meetings brought by Ian in the past, many old Yinfeng people have difficulty adapting, but the General Political Bureau is doing a good job now, and they have gradually accepted this kind of life.

As for the empire, with the unnamed Silver Peak leader Sun Bird and the Western Empire Emperor Carlos taking action, the imperial crown prince Aina Setar was captured and returned.

Forced to inherit the blood of the throne left by his aunt, although he has not yet reached the fifth level, he has become the only emperor of the current empire, bridging the divided empire into one again.

Although he doesn't look very happy, Aina has indeed traveled among the people for many years. He knows well that the true appearance of the empire today is not just the surface, but goes deep into every corner of the grassroots. Tu also has a very clear understanding of social changes.

This is the strength of the Sun Bird, and Ainabi is better at comparing people's hearts with his commanding view. The many decrees he issued generally make people's lives more stable.

With the support of Silver Peak Leader, Long Dao, and the other two fifth-level people in the empire, Aina’s authority is still guaranteed. After he also becomes a fifth-level person, Aina may become a more powerful person than his father and grandfather. Good emperor.

Among the people, everyone is talking about another thing: there is a sun bird who presides over the government affairs of Yinfeng, and the empire also has a sun bird. Everyone says that this is no different from the past, no matter it is The two Sun Birds are still the first and second empires. No matter where they are, everyone still lives under the wings of the Sun Birds.

As the political situation gradually stabilized, some towering structures in the South China Sea were gradually returning to their original appearance.

It’s a bit incredible to say: in terms of materials science, the technology mastered by humans in the Terran Era is far more advanced than that of humans in the previous era of civilization.

In the pre-epoch civilization, even if some fire technology was mastered, the ropes used in the space elevator were just some ordinary nano-carbon fibers. The performance of the ropes entangled with multiple carbon fibers with different crystal structures was unbelievable at that time. It could almost be said to be planet-like. The strongest, enough to support a giant structure like a space elevator.

But in the Age of Terra, stronger materials abound.

Of course, the alchemy of pre-epoch civilizations is also quite advanced, and there are many special alchemical creations. For example, fine gold mithril is essentially a special alchemical alloy processed by pre-epoch civilizations, and Morian steel is an automated Psychic nanometal materials.

However, the level of ether activity in that era was not comparable to that of Terra today - at that time, the entire Terra might not be able to support the activities of a fifth-level person, but what about now?There are thirty humans alone, including Warcraft and those large and small superstructures, fire remains...

This is also the revival of some kind of spiritual energy.

When creating these materials, Isengard was still feeling that if civilization was lost again in the future, the materials they created might also become 'rare minerals' like fine gold and mithril.

Maybe, because of the special properties of ether, these 'rare minerals' will also be recognized as 'special minerals' by the planet Gaia, automatically generated by ether in the underlying mineral veins... This is the special thing about the ether universe, any 'special minerals' Materials' are all likely to occur naturally, they only now understand.

In short, Ether is easy to use. You only need to use Ether to change the properties of matter. Even the most ordinary hemp rope can have terrifying properties. Of course, this requires the use of Ether to continuously maintain it, even for fifth-level powerhouses. It can't be done either.

But if we use alchemy to improve and stabilize the material properties of the already strong materials, we can produce high-performance composite nano-carbon fiber ropes at a few tenths of the cost of pre-era civilizations while reducing a lot of costs. The 'Enchanted Carbon Fiber Rope' has similar performance.

The quality and cost of materials will gradually enter the marginal effect trap. Spending a thousand times the money may not be able to create materials with twice the strength.But this is just pure material technology. If it is supplemented by advanced ether alchemy, it can have an independent strength multiplication area and refine materials with two or three times strength at more than ten times the price.

These materials, in the past, were only used for the weapons and armor of the High Ascended, for etheric weapons and other things that only the Ascended could use.

But five or six years after the popularity of the Arcane Path, manufacturing this material has become an assembly line.

This is the gift given by the Star Gods to all living beings in the universe. The two major hurdles that can most hinder the development of civilization, materials science and the speed of light, have been built by them using their power to modify the cosmological constants.

Perhaps this is the [Ladder to Heaven] of civilization.

The ladder to space is being built rapidly. The most difficult process is actually how to pull the rope to the equatorial orbit. Generally speaking, it is to launch a rocket satellite, and the satellite will hang down the rope, and then form the backbone of a space elevator.

The Silver Peak Leader does not have particularly powerful rocket technology, and has almost no satellite technology... Terra's electromagnetic signals are still easily interfered, and they can only use virtual realm signals to communicate.

But the Void Realm signal still has the disadvantage of being unstable. Even though Ian has teamed up with the goblins to use the power of the Light Realm to calm down the Void Realm bit by bit, its use for civilian communication is its limit. A strategy like a space elevator. Architecture cannot be done casually.

They can launch a Crystal from the Heart of Terra as a satellite, but only if there are enough repeaters - they need to place crystal repeaters layer by layer in the middle of the space elevator to allow Terra to The power of the Heart of Ra extends from the Silver Peak Collar into space.

Currently, the link radius of the repeaters in the Heart of Terra is 25 kilometers, and large repeaters can extend to [-] kilometers. However, large repeaters are generally located in the center of the city and are the size of a five-story castle.

The limit of repeaters that can be miniaturized for use in space elevators is 25 kilometers. To connect the top of the space elevator with the control area in the Heart of Terra, three thousand to four thousand repeaters are needed, and God knows how many rockets and satellites will be launched. .

But no problem.

The Silver Peak Territory doesn’t have satellites, but they have dragons!
As a true dragon in the virtual realm, although Xiou did not fly very fast, it was still easy for her to break through the atmosphere and reach the satellite orbit - she easily placed a giant Heart of Terra crystal satellite where it should exist. Then let down the rope.

Xio's mother, the King of the Mountain, will take over here. He will use the earth element technology to give this crystal a mass of more than 2000 million tons as the counterweight of the space elevator.He will be stationed here as the envoy of Dragon Island until the Silver Peak Leader builds a huge space station, even a space dock and a space city here.

Tens of thousands of kilometers of enchanted carbon fiber ropes were lowered directly by the dragon and the powerful Ascendant, and connected to the main base of the space elevator that was originally quite complete. The powerful super individual was originally created by an extremely developed civilization, but now, when a fragile civilization After being destroyed by natural disasters, powerful super individuals can easily reshape civilization.

This may also be a kind of cycle, an eternal reincarnation.

[The main cable channel link is completed, the control port initialization is completed... and the fixed cable channel is launched]

[Place the Heart of Terra Relay Crystal-Target-3600]

【Start placing】

In the space elevator control room located at Sequoia Base, the huge holographic display screen is divided into three parts. Dazzling data and indicators flash in various small screens and split windows, while on the central main screen , a vertical 'progress bar' is constantly rising.

The Heart of Terra has taken over the main control system of the Sequoia Base, and it is now deriving its own tentacles bit by bit to control the entire space elevator skeleton.

As the chief engineer, after confirming that the data was correct, Roland and several dwarf craftsmen from Gantrigam left the main control room and went to the outside world - above the endless South China Sea, a piece of silver suddenly appeared. The island is the top of the floating Sequoia Base, which was once the 'material transfer platform' and the base of another super building, the 'Mass Accelerator'.

The pre-epoch civilization built two super buildings. The first one was actually a 'mass accelerator', which was used to assist rocket launches and conduct technical experiments.

Because of the dense atmosphere inside Terra, this is not the stage for mass accelerators. Its stage is actually the vacuum of outer space. Pre-era civilizations have built different accelerators all over the world. The Republic of Gantrigam has the largest one. , a special accelerator that utilizes fire technology. It is located on the top of the mountains and shines like a star. It may not even be a simple acceleration device, but a special facility that can affect gravity.

Since they already had the support of the Ascendants, the Silver Peak Leader chose to repair the space elevator first, while the mass accelerator was used to study its structure. The great engineer of Gantrigam was attracted by it and was willing to form an alliance with the Silver Peak Leader. Study the precious heritage of this pre-epochal civilization.

They all stared in silence at the platform and the Heart of Terra relay that were being rapidly built in the distance. The main frame of the majestic space elevator had been constructed over the past few years, and the blue crystal Little by little, they were placed by the real dragon and disappeared into the unreachable and vast darkness at the top of the sky.

After a while, as all the repeaters were placed and charged and linked to the main body, all the crystal repeaters suspended in mid-air began to glow faintly, and the powerful psychic pulse penetrated a distance of [-] kilometers in an instant.

No matter who it was, at this moment, they felt the gaze of a silver sun, and dense grid shields began to appear around the space elevator - the terrifying ether fluctuations turned into semi-physical shields, protecting the space The structure of the elevator also protects against external impacts.

"When do you plan to start?"

The dwarf engineer stared at the moment when the giant structure was completed. He had a lot of words in his heart, but because he was a dwarf, he just stared silently, and then said lightly: "What are you going to use it for?"

"today."

Roland said calmly that the young graduate back then was now the Minister of Engineering leading a party. He stared at the tall tower reaching into the sky in front of him and couldn't help but laugh: "I don't know."

After confirming that the cables and cableways of the space elevator are fixed and ready for use, the core 'elevator' of the space elevator has begun to be assembled and is ready to be put into use.

He noticed that the dwarf master on the side raised his eyebrows and said, "Are you fooling me?" ' With an expression on his face, Roland waved his hand and said: "This is the plan left by our lord. We will build an orbital space dock and factory in the orbit of Terra, and build an orbital accelerator on it to start the exploration of 'New Moon'."

"This is what our prophet lord wanted to do. We just followed the path he saw - at first, we really didn't understand what he was going to do, or even why he wanted to go to the moon."

"But the process of gradually building a space elevator has taught us a lot... brand-new alchemy, new material requirements, cheap and high-strength weapons, research and practical application of various psychic virtual operating systems... "

"These technologies, taken individually and placed in the Silver Peak, each can bring about changes. But for the space elevator, for this plan, we must be perfect and break through the limits before we can complete it. .”

"How can I put it, we have taken a lot of shortcuts, but even shortcuts have taught us a lot."

"If you must say it, Your Majesty is guiding us."

"And we are following in the footsteps of adults and finding our own path."

"Ian...Silver Peak."

The dwarf master whispered to himself, repeating this name that had not appeared for a long time but always existed in people's hearts. At this moment, with a thunder, the empty car was accelerated and launched, and disappeared in an instant. In the sky.

"I don't think he's a prophet."

The dwarf master was silent for a while, then shook his head and said: "This is not a derogatory meaning, but a complimentary meaning."

"Prophets are crazy. There was a prophet in my family's ancestors. He foresaw too many things that he didn't want and didn't know why he saw them. He was a very talented engineer, but he was caught in the illusions he saw. It drove me crazy... Since then, we have known that prophets may not necessarily be able to see valuable information. It can even be said that the most powerful thing about a powerful prophet is not the ability of the prophet itself, but that he can From the trivial fragments, we find useful information, and then we understand and use it beyond time and space.”

"But Silver Peak Prophet is different... everything he has seen so far is not the real 'unknown future', but a kind of... reuse and bridging of past knowledge."

"Of course, there is also a possibility that Silver Peak Prophet can use all the information he sees... That is beyond the scope of a prophet. We will not call him a prophet."

"Is that so?" Roland rarely saw dwarves actually praise others like this. He asked curiously: "Then what will you call me?"

"We call this kind of person..."

The dwarf raised his head and looked at the top of the sky, where the light from the car broke through the atmosphere.

"Sage."

In Terra 784, the Silver Peak Space Elevator was 100% completed. With the support of Dragon Island, the first space station in the Terra Era began to be built as quickly as possible.

The Terran nations were quite disapproving of the Silver Peak Leader's efforts in this area. Space elevator?So what, it's not that they don't have this technology, it's just that the effort and reward are not proportional, and it's meaningless.

Moreover, a powerful Ascendant can easily destroy the structure of the space elevator at any time - they are unaware of the shield surrounding the space elevator - such a fragile creation will naturally not gain their approval.But when the Silver Peak Leader cooperated with the Imperial Capital to build a climate network throughout the empire, which could be linked to the Imperial Capital, and made macro-adjustments to the climate of the entire country, the entire Empire, and even the West Terra region, became more Things are getting better.

And it just so happens that the countries of Terra in this part of the world happen to be Ian's allies.

And Yinfengling does much more than that.

Across Terra, there are many relics left by civilizations from previous eras. These relics have even created many strange terrains, which have not changed for thousands of years and have even become part of the local ecology.

Silver Peak Leader does not intend to change these ecology, but they want to control it in their own hands.

For example, the "earth hurricane" phenomenon in the Butte Rift Valley originates from an underground geothermal energy center. It is located at the bottom of the Grand Canyon and continues to operate, creating a long-lasting strong wind that makes both sides of the Rift Valley The integrated ecological connectivity also attracts a group of special birds to inhabit.

These devices are essentially like a BUG, ​​and Terra Era people without authority cannot modify them. In this case, rather than destroying or changing them, it is better to maintain the BUG and allow the ecology of this region to continue to operate.

But Silver Peak Leaders are different - they have authority!
Although it is Ian who has the authority, the top management of Silver Peak Leaders has some of Ian's personnel, so it is easy to control these pre-era civilization machines.

Ian's authority is so high that he can basically control 90.00% of the pre-era civilization heritage, spaceship heritage and part of the fire heritage on Terra.

Among other things, the planetary mining equipment located on the Far Shore Island that creates the mantle plume is also being started under control. Although it is impossible to completely restore the geology around the Far Shore Island to its original normal state, with the power of Cangxing, it can be adjusted. After more than ten years, it can be completely returned to the dormant stage.

And this is why Cangxing supported Ian in the first place.

After building the space station, Yinfengling used the many fire technologies and pre-era civilization technologies as the core to create a large number of structures. These man-made tools that were once called "robots" are being used by the electromagnetic accelerator of the space station. The land was launched towards Shuo Yue.

Today's New Moon fragments are not nothing.

As early as a few years ago, there was one of the strongest gray warriors in history, the holder of the Apocalypse Armed Forces Dawn, the Grand Duke of Junling Castle, and all his citizens, landed on Shuo Yue and built the Ether on Shuo Yue. mining base.

To be honest, for Terra, outer space is really opening up a blue ocean. If ordinary people couldn't survive at all, everyone would have gone to outer space long ago. Who wants to be involuted on the continent? It's a pity that they can't survive, which is sad.

But with the support of the Apocalypse Armed Forces, the citizens of the Grand Duchy who regained their mechanical bodies happily built many strongholds on the New Moon fragments. Like ordinary people in the world of Cangxing's dream, they work and develop on the moon on weekdays, and when they are tired, they Return to the 'etheric world' within the Apocalypse Arms.

There, there is a 'real world' waiting for them that can satisfy all people's desires and fantasies. This is an electronic space designed by the Grand Dukes of Junling Castle based on their own thunder bloodline. It is a legacy unearthed at the same time as the Apocalypse armed technology.

And during this period of time, the strong men of Terra's kingdoms did not do anything.

Because of the inspiration brought by Ian and the popularization of the arcane path, powerful men from all countries have indeed found their own 'paths to ascension'.

Cang Xing announced that she had truly mastered the essence of the arcane path and thoroughly understood the method to the fifth energy level and even higher advancements - in her hand was the Heart of Terra information that Ian had exchanged with her. Maybe it's not bragging, but really understanding the concept of the 'infinite ring' that Ian said.

While the Cangtian Royal Court is trying to popularize the 'celestial beings' and the arcane path, it is also further strengthening the existence of 'national consciousness'.The new generation of great khans, Guntasimore, believes that human beings have limits, even the mad wolf that can devour the world. The real limit is the entire Cangtian Royal Court, the Leviathan where everyone gathers together. Behemoth.

He is obviously taking a path similar to that of Hilliard, intending to use the power of the empire to support his beliefs. Of course, he has optimized it a lot, because everyone in the Heavenly Court now has a soul and can provide far more support than At that time, the empire was high, but he frantically launched welfare laws and built public facilities. He almost wanted to build the kingdom of heaven on earth by himself, and he was the god of the kingdom of heaven.

This is indeed a path. If everyone believes in him and he himself believes in himself, this mighty trend can indeed strengthen his immortality.

But there are also hidden dangers behind this step: Guntasimore burned all the reserves of the Cangtian Royal Court for many years. In other words, he used the wealth of his ancestors and advanced the funds of the future Great Khan - he Investing in the entire country's reasonable economic cycle is a desperate attempt to try the possibility of this 'ascension'.

In addition, Juyue and Yuanxing in the Yanjiang region also did similar things - but what they did was to spread some precious technologies and sublimated knowledge.

This did usher in gratifying results in the early stages. With the spread of this knowledge, a large number of foreign scholars even came to the Yanjiang area to study and support the policies of the two fifth-level people. However, chaos soon arose.

Knowledge itself has no good or evil, only good and evil are human beings.Whether it is Juyue, Yuanxing, or other sublimates under them, they are all the ruling class of Yanjiang, and they are quite rational types, so they will not undermine the stability of their country in any way.

But with the spread of knowledge, those ordinary people who have gained knowledge may not think so - they wantonly capture those rare monsters, are not afraid of contamination and prepare various dangerous medicines and semi-finished materials. These people will even kill people to refine rare monsters. The crystallization of spiritual essence and life essence.

As we all know - methods to rapidly increase strength in a short period of time are evil ways, and they must have a price or sequelae.Otherwise, they are entirely new paths.

The most special one is the Suming Cult... They have been studying the 'reincarnation of life and death'. They found that a firm thought itself can create a strong enough reflection in the virtual world. For example, the four major religious sects in The essence of the reflection in the virtual realm is close to the existence of eternity. If these 'reflections in the virtual realm' can be used correctly like the Silver Peak Leader, it may also be able to help future generations of sects better assist in condensing immortality.

It can even be said that the reason why the four major religious orders have been strong throughout the ages may be because the reflection of virtual reality and reality complement each other - not only human individuals, but also a strong enough human group organization can also bring people together. , transformed into immortal nature.

According to their theory, if all human beings, with independent will, follow the same set of consensus, the same cognition, and have the same beliefs, and become "comrades" on a certain path, then the end of this path may be able to Give birth to a 'saint' who transcends the fifth energy level.

These roads currently have various obstacles and shortcomings.

But in essence, they all have very significant help to the immortal nature.

Promote your own doctrine.

Build your own Kingdom of God.

Establish morals, laws or beliefs.

Create your own order, even your own path and thoughts.

And the more they walked on this road, the more silent Terra's strong men became.

Because, they discovered something.

That is, no matter how much they try, they can never get past one person.

A person who spreads his own knowledge, order and ideas...the founder of the arcane path, Ian Silverpeak.

If the path they found was only helpful to immortality, then Ian's arcane path has now spread to the whole world, not only humans, but even Warcraft are practicing it.

How terrifying should his immortality be?
He is worthy of being the first living saint to attempt ascension... Everyone admires him greatly, but they still cannot accept Ian's victory.

However, they also discovered that Ian had indeed not appeared in these years.

The Chongling Sect founded by Ian, its Holy Light Priests and Guardian Paladins have spread their faith to half of the empire. This huge sect is integrated with the virtual realm of the Silver Peak Territory, and even has four other major sects. The prototype of projection.

Some believers in the Chongling Sect even said that they had seen the appearance of God—a face that was exactly the same as Ian’s!

In a sense, Ian is indeed a god walking in this world.

But that god was not Ian.

Ian disappeared—or rather, fell asleep.

At the beginning, there were still some people who could contact Ian, such as Isengard, Xio and Anfa.Elders Ellan and Pude can also communicate at any time.

But as Ian continues to go deeper and further back in the great etheric sea-time tributary, he has dived into a depth of time and space that is unimaginable to others.

Some time ago, only Ian's brother Ellan could still try to communicate with Ian using his psychic powers.

But as Ian continued to delve deeper, it was difficult for even Elan to determine Ian's current situation.

"Brother is currently... located in a very peaceful... even empty area?"

With the support of the Heart of Terra, Elan tried his best to improve his psychic abilities. He has grown up, and on the surface he is no longer much shorter than his brother. Maybe he will be taller than Ian in the future.

But even if Elan has received the support of the rapidly growing 'Retrospective Vision' and the Heart of Terra, he is surrounded by spiritual radiance and can only get some very vague shadows: "He is still exploring...well, The mood is very stable. He sensed my exploration and responded to a certain extent, but I couldn't hear clearly..."

"fine."

After hearing the news, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Isengard said with great relief: "As long as we know that nothing happened to him... Exploration is Ian's favorite thing, so maybe we shouldn't disturb him too often."

"Do not."

But Elan shook his head slightly. He was still connected to the Heart of Terra and said softly: "Brother likes us to communicate with him very much... He likes to explore, but he also loves us."

"He will come back if we call, if Terra needs him."

"……what?"

Halfway through, Elan suddenly raised his head in shock, with purple light flowing in his eyes: "I heard my brother's voice!"

"What!" Everyone was shocked: "What did he say?"

"He says……"

Ellan frowned, discerning the meaning of Ian's voice: "He said..."

【——The time has come】

[I have discovered part of the essential truth of the universe, but one-third of it exists in the past, one-third exists in the future, and one-third exists in the present]

[Now I will bring the past and return to the present, and then set off for the future]

[However, before that, I need to conduct another experiment - the most important experiment, an experiment aimed at the end]

[And no matter what the result of this experiment is... I need to do one thing]

[I need to make the entire Terran civilization 'quiet', with only one voice]

【my voice】

　Let’s see if we can finish the middle and lower parts in one go tomorrow!

　　(End of this chapter)