King from scratch

Although the Arcane Academy is located in the desert, as a mage-based existence with the academy as the gregarious existence, it is doomed for them to be very unscientific.

But even such an unscientific Arcane Academy did not build a city on this desert.

The mage towers scattered in the desert and the sky city floating in the sky constitute the entire Arcane Academy.

The vast desert, the solitary mage's tower, and the dead silence where no creatures can be seen were once the most common scenery here.

The mages keep people thousands of miles away in such loneliness and dead silence.

But now, everything has changed.

Players flooded into the kingdom all at once, which had a huge impact on this lonely, dead, and remote Arcane Academy.

At the beginning, when the order of the players was not under control, there were three circles outside the Mage Tower, and there was a lot of voices.

The mage who was already experienced in this regard used sound insulation to isolate the noise, and made up his mind to ignore those players.

Then the mage tower was almost demolished.

The defense function of the mage tower is consumed by countless players. When the ether is close to the critical point, it goes offline directly, resulting in the loss of defense and attack functions. The mage tower is almost kicked by the player without the mage noticing it. It was dismantled with a shovel...

The appearance of the knights of the kingdom saved the precarious mage tower in time.

But this is not the end of the mage's misfortune, but the beginning of another.

After the order of the players stabilized, the players began to construct the city, and buildings appeared one after another on the barren sand, and then the strategy of adapting to local conditions encountered a landslide here.

Buildings can barely be fooled by grottoes, but building roads in the desert... is really beyond the player's ability.

A group of bigwigs tried and tested in the desert for a long time, and finally decided to plant trees.

Druids appeared on the desert that had been monopolized by the Arcane Academy for a long time.

The druid, who has endless interest in planting trees, was invited to come, and then took root and never left.

The mage can no longer pretend that he doesn't know anything, otherwise the place may have to be renamed.

The king and npc still don't know enough about the virtues of druids. The trees planted by druids all have druids' names written on them. When the trees are full, the Arcane Academy will almost change its name to the endless forest. .

Druids don't make sense.

A few epochs ago, if the Druids hadn't been beaten back to the Everfree Forest by various races on the mainland, so that they wouldn't dictate the natural environment in the territory of other races, how could there be Druids who don't get involved in the outside world?

So the mages had to interfere with the kingdom's original afforestation plan, wrangled with the druids for a long time, and finally relied on the king's deterrence to let the druids retreat to the endless forest and transform the afforestation into magical creations.

If the top of the mountains is the infrastructure site where players are familiar with the cooperation of mechanical and human labor, then the Arcane Academy is the infrastructure site where players are unfamiliar with the cooperation of ether and human labor.

The mage was reduced to a worker, miserable.

But at this moment, Wang Lun, who was standing outside No. 25 of Dongshu City, and the audience watching the live broadcast didn't know what they were going to see. After the bullet screen swiped the unscientific grottoes for a while, they all began to urge Wang Lun to get down to business.

Unlike the tops of the mountains, the buildings here are generally semicircular in shape, with a rough and heavy style, which is a style naturally formed in areas with large wind and sand.

Wang Lun looked down at his feet, and the live broadcast gave a close-up.

It should be flowing and loose sand, but it is strangely solidified. Countless sands are densely connected to form a hard texture, so that Wang Lun stepped on it, just like stepping on the hard ground, without leaving any footprints.

The close-up picture of the live broadcast slowly extended the camera as Wang Lun looked on the ground, showing the prototype of this strange city built on the desert in the live broadcast picture.

When the audience was attracted by those buildings, they didn't care about other existences under the buildings at all. It wasn't until the live broadcast gave the close-up shots of the ground that the audience suddenly realized that the special features of the city had been vividly presented from the ground.

That is not the product of industry, but the ether is shining brightly.

It miraculously turned the desert into a solid texture, allowing buildings to rise here.

"Fuck? How did you do it?"

"Only by imagining the scenes that cannot be described, there is nothing that the ether cannot do.

It, the magic in the game, is synonymous with miracles...so say!Why can't we even fly with a sword in reality? !Is the ether on the earth worthy of being called ether? "

"Doubt is a different product of the same name."

"+1, don't talk about Yujian flying, how many people can move things through the air now?"

"Fuck, does this mean that we can also be like mages?"

"Fuck, I didn't expect it. I really realized through watching the live broadcast that the world has really entered a new era. Is this the other shore we can reach in the future?"

"Before you reach the other shore, please take a look at how big the gap is between yourself and the mage... No, just look at the gap between yourself and the beta players, and you will understand what it means. Imagination is beautiful. the reality is cruel."

"No? It's impossible for us to spend thousands of years to keep up with the progress of an npc in a game, right?"

"The premise is that you can live for thousands of years."

"Wait a minute, there is a sensitive topic that must be brought up again, about whether ether can prolong life..."

"It's possible in game settings. Do you think it's possible in reality?"

"This topic is too dangerous. I still want to watch the live broadcast. Don't wait for the live broadcast to be blocked."

"I guess reality does too."

"Hehe, the premise is that you first follow in the footsteps of the mages. The requirements are not high. Open a space teleportation with bare hands, and then talk about what can be done in the game, and whether it can be done in reality."

Wang Lun just posted for a few seconds and lamented the omnipotence of the ether. Not only did the live broadcast room quarrel, the topic also approached the dangerous area.

As an insider of the Special Investigation Bureau, Wang Lun is very clear about what can be insinuated and what cannot be mentioned.Once the topic is in-depth, even the holographic live broadcast of the special application is no exception.

Wang Lun coughed and changed the topic: "Where is this? I read a post on the forum that the traces of ether are the strongest in the city of the Arcane Academy..."

As Wang Lun said, he walked quickly towards the city.

The city construction speed of the Arcane Academy is faster than that of the top of the mountains. The reason is very simple. After all, the ether intervenes in it. Compared with science, it is often easier to achieve it in one step without science.

Wang Lun walked a few steps and stopped. He saw a fountain on the side of the road.

Clear water emerges from the plain base and sprinkles into the green belt beside the road... Oh, it's not the green belt. Wang Lun took a closer look, and those plants with green shoots sporadically seem to be on the cultivated land of the Land of God's Fall I've seen it, it should be crops.

The noisy live broadcast room instantly forgot the argument just now because of this fountain.

"What's going on? You set aside the desert to build me a fountain?"

"Look carefully, not one, but a row along this road."

"...Awesome."

"So where did the water in the fountain come from?"

"Then maybe you have to ask the almighty ether."

"Isn't building a fountain too extravagant?"

It is hard for Wang Lun to disagree with this barrage. Although the ether is omnipotent, it is indeed a luxury to build such a row of fountains in the desert.

A barrage immediately explained: "Don't you understand? This is not a luxury, but a necessity. Otherwise, you think there is no water, and plants can grow in the ground?"

Wang Lun looked along the row of fountains. The area sprinkled by the fountains is the crop planting area. The green shoots are scattered in the planting area, and the growth is not good.

But considering that this is a desert, this sporadic green shoot is enough to be called a miracle.

The barrage is still arguing.

"Hasn't this land been transformed? Can't we just turn it into black soil? And build fountains? Isn't it too much?"

"I know this, didn't the Druid come here before?

Fuck, that scene, I recommend you to watch the video "Druids, God of Greening", a row of druids, directly turning the desert into a forest, that's called professionalism. "

"There is a poem that says it well, suddenly like a spring breeze overnight, thousands of trees and pear trees bloom."

"? Where is the forest?"

"The mage asked the druid to dismantle it."

"...No, mages can't do it, why don't they let others do it?"

"Are you floating or the druid can't hold the knife? Let the druid do it? Do you know what's going on in Everfree Forest?"

"One thing to say, druids are really good at plants, but forget about the fact that druids are resident in the arcane academy. I don't want to fight druids in the arcane academy at all."

Wang Lun glanced at the bullet screen and felt that the topic was off the mark, so he interrupted the conversation and asked, "So, the mage can't change the desert into a black land?"

"Hush." ​​A certain black shadow passing by moved his ears, flew forward, and quickly covered Wang Lun's mouth. He looked around for a long time, vigilant as if something would rush out and catch them all. Mu Cang died.

Wang Lun turned his head and met the opponent face to face. He didn't know him, but he was obviously a player.

"Don't let the sorcerer hear it, or you'll have trouble again later," the other party looked around cautiously, and after making sure there was no suspicious target, he breathed a sigh of relief, removed the hand covering Wang Lun, and looked him up and down: "This is the first time. Come?"

Wang Lun nodded.

"Wang Jianshe," the other party pointed to the nickname on his head, and then said: "Be careful what you say here, the mages are all arrogant, they can only stroke their hair, or they will go on strike..." His voice became louder. Said the lower: "Now is the critical time to build the city, we can't afford it."

Wang Lun understood, and lowered his voice, "So it's true that a mage can't do it?"

Wang Jianshe nodded, leaning close to Wang Lun's ear, his voice was extremely low: "There is a specialization in surgery, have you heard of it? It's not a profession for mages to do landscaping."

What is the profession of a mage?Wang Lun couldn't help but have this question in his mind.

"The atmosphere is a bit gay, anchor, are you sure you want to get so close on the main road?"

"There's not much time, anchor, you should go on."

"I just met a local, so hurry up and ask if there are any attractions worth seeing here."

The barrage in the live broadcast room quickly swiped across the screen. Wang Lun glanced at it and decided to listen to the audience's opinions. He said as he walked, "This is my first time here. Do you have any recommendations?"

Wang Jianshe saw his expression as if he saw a fool on the main road: "Do you think this is a scenic spot?"

Wang Lun glanced at the fountain, and felt that compared with the city being built on the top of the mountains, this thing could be called a tourist attraction.

Wang Jianshe didn't notice his gaze, and continued: "If you don't know the way, follow closely. I'll move the bricks and show you the way."

The urban construction progress of the Arcane Academy is indeed faster than that of the top of the mountains. Wang Lun followed Wang Jianshe and walked a few meters along the road. When he turned a corner, he saw a huge grotto, which made an unknown sound, and it got bigger and bigger as the distance got closer. loudly.

"Factory..." Wang Jianshe glanced at Wang Lun: "The place where ether energy refines and controls exercise."

Wang Lun turned his feet and dragged Wang Jianshe into the factory.

Wang Jianshe wanted to refuse very much, but Wang Lun pulled him so hard that he didn't have a chance to break free.

The inside of the factory is still divided into several different production lines, but unlike the tops of the mountains, the production lines in the city of the Arcane Academy are composed of various ether fluctuations.

The invisible force cuts, combines, and piece together all kinds of familiar basic materials, among which there is a wheelbarrow, which is not suitable for transportation due to the terrain on the top of the mountains, and of course there is no series of tools for mining. After all, there is no mine here at the Arcane Academy.

The difference in the environment has led to slight changes in the basic materials of the city.

Most striking, though, is the way this group of players work with Aether as a support.

Of course, the top of the mountains will also do the same, but the sense of existence of the machine is stronger, and the use of ether is often in some links where the machine is not popular.

But in the factory here, there is almost no machinery, and what replaces it is ether. Some links that players cannot do with ether are fixed spells provided by mages.

A more specific scene is that the liquid automatically forms in the air and jumps directly to the next production line; the sand slowly melts in the invisible force and condenses into bricks; The required parts... and so on, the unimaginable scenes are constantly repeated in the huge space relying on the mage's fixed spells.

Most of them are made of sand—after all, there is nothing but sand here.

"Damn it, is the sand omnipotent? Why does everything grow out of the sand?"

"Why do I feel that this is what a dwarf should do?"

"Mage, miserable, abruptly turned into a large tool man."

"No, to be precise, it has become the energy source that provides energy for these spells."

"Since these basic spells are supported by the mage's ether, won't the mage's ether be used up sooner or later?"

"It seems that the machine is better, at least it can be used for a long time."

"So working in a factory equals exercising ether?!"

"I feel like I've been cheated, I'm going to the Arcane Academy!"

"Welcome to the Arcane Academy."

"Just don't rush to run when the time comes."

"What?"

"Tired, do you think everything is as simple as the top of the mountains? Is using tools and using ether the same concept?"

Wang Lun didn't watch the performance of the magical fixed spell, and was dragged out of the big factory by Wang Jianshe.

"If you want to enter the factory, you have to do a test first, and you can be assigned a job after passing the test." Wang Jianshe continued to move towards the destination, and explained to Wang Lun by the way: "Don't look at it as simple cutting and handling. New players can’t do it, and the requirements for entering the factory are strict.”

Wang Lun took the opportunity to ask, "Did the ether used for fixing spells come from mages?"

Wang Jianshe complained without turning his head: "What kind of mess do you know? How can a mage be so selfless? Why do you use your own ether to support so many fixed spells?"

Wang Lun's confusion further deepened: "Where does the energy of these factory fixed spells come from?"

"Ethernet."

What else did Wang Lun want to ask, the suddenly enlightening scene attracted his attention.

Wang Jianshe arrived at his destination and moved bricks to the scene.

The scene before us is as surreal as ever.

In the open field, players were scattered all over, carrying stones of different sizes out of thin air, stacking them into different shapes, the stones were crumbling, like building blocks.

After the building blocks barely formed a shape, the player wiped off his sweat and ran to talk to the mage standing in the shadow.

The mage didn't move, but the building blocks that were crumbling just now seemed to be brushed by something, and the smooth wall was formed impressively, with its own paint, which was extremely hard.

Wang Lun opened his mouth silently, expressing what it means to be dumbfounded with his expression.

He was stunned too early, and the barrage was crazily reminding him to look to the left.

Wang Lun's gaze fell on the left, and he simply turned his head to look at the figure floating in the air on the left.

He is paving a road—a road exactly like Wang Lun's.

Starting from the place where he was floating, the road made of sand was paved all the way to the farther outside of the city.

The other party floated in the air without moving his hands, and just stared at the extended road expressionlessly until he fell back to the ground in a certain distant direction, and said to the other person: "Why do you ask for so much? Isn't this the end of the matter?" Yet?"

The other party's tone was firm: "This is not good, didn't you say it before, this kind of road maintained by magic can only last for decades..."

"How many years can the road you paved last?" The mage said eloquently, "I'm not a dwarf, so why are there so many demands?"

The other party did not retreat one step: "Anyway, this does not meet the standards. We in the city will also cover new roads in a unified way..."

The two quarreled.

Wang Jianshe was used to this, so he patted Wang Lun on the shoulder and said, "I'm going to move bricks to exercise the sustainability of the ether. Is there anything else you can do?"

Wang Lun gestured to the two who were getting more and more noisy.

"It's okay," Wang Jianshe wrote lightly, "There won't be a fight."

Wang Lun let out an "oh" and glanced at the barrage again.

"I can hear it. The mage wanted to be lazy, so he finished it all at once, but the knight of the kingdom asked him to come every day to cooperate with the road construction progress..."

"You said that a well-behaved researcher became a worker?"

"This is called equal treatment in the new era. What's wrong with the high combat effectiveness of mages? Don't they have to come to work?"

"One thing to say, look at it this way, ether is really cool and awesome..."

"Daily suspect that the ether of the earth is not the same thing as the ether in the game."

"Arcane Academy is very interesting, host, please go around twice more, I also want to see various wonderful uses of ether."

"Come on, I still want to watch the bounty hunter of Azhijin."

"Even if I die, I still have to shout: Everfree Forest!"

"What's so interesting about Everfree Forest? Druids don't cooperate deeply like mages. When the time comes, will the anchor go to Everfree Forest to survive, or to broadcast the infrastructure of Everfree Forest for us?"

"I think it is to survive. I heard that the players of Everfree Forest are working on infrastructure under the pressure of life and death."

"Did Dudu and the others go to the Everfree Forest after completing the mission of the Canyon of the Undead?"

"As a daily question, have Dudu changed their profession to druids?"

"It's still the same answer, no."

"Yes, Dudu's profession is completely abolished."

Wang Lun withdrew his gaze, bid farewell to Wang Jianshe, and watched Wang Jianshe step into the brick-moving site, register with the mage, and then began to exercise the sustaining ability of the ether.

Wang Lun was thoughtful: "It seems that the Arcane Academy is quite suitable for training ether..."

He is also very interested in the Arcane Academy, but there will be a lot of live broadcast projects in the future, and he doesn't have much time to learn more about the situation of the Arcane Academy, so he can only roughly show the players a tour of the city under construction, and follow the order The sorcerer made a close match, and easily revealed the fact that the other party was a student.

"So, the instructor told you that this is an experimental course?" Wang Lun was amazed. Even if it is a different world, the reusability of the students seems to be the same. It doesn't cost money anyway, but a little bit.

The young mage probably lacked communication experience and was not very talkative, so he nodded upon hearing this.

Wang Lun couldn't help asking, "Is it useful?"

The other party nodded, saying few words: "If it is about the understanding of ether, it is indeed in-depth."

Wang Lun wandered between the two thoughts of "Is the other party being limped by being fooled" and "Maybe the mage is serious about teaching the class", but he still couldn't come up with a definite answer in the end.

I had no choice but to harbor a bit of regret, and by the way, tried to get a handful of the young mage's wool, and asked the other party to help teleport to the Everfree Forest, and then got a regretful answer, the other party hadn't learned the spell of space teleportation.

"I wasted another city return scroll." Ever since he squandered his credits, Wang Lun had a miser's attitude towards his property, reluctantly tore up a city return scroll, and chose the teleportation location.

Dense trees appeared in front of his eyes. Before Wang Lun had time to look at the end point of the teleportation, a green shadow flashed past, and a white light flashed. Wang Lun was directly resurrected at the nearest resurrection point.

"This is too fast..."

Before the barrage had time to swipe the screen, Wang Lun, who had just been resurrected, swiped again and died again.

Before seeing the situation clearly, Wang Lun, who died twice first, was full of question marks.

Logically speaking, the nearest resurrection point should be safe, right?

Wang Lun was puzzled, and ushered in the third resurrection and an unexpected battlefield.

Before, some viewers joked that the players of Everfree Forest were engaged in infrastructure construction under the pressure of life and death. This is not a false finger, but a fact.