King from scratch

Outside the boundary between the yellow sand and the oasis, a caravan stands silently.

There is no trace of intelligent biological activity here, and it has always remained dead silent.

It wasn't until the Sea Dragon Stone on the distant mechanical body suddenly shattered, and the operating mechanical body stopped moving, that all this changed.

A few minutes later, a mechanical body came out of the tent. He didn't rush into the oasis, but stopped on the desert.

Anuta was not in a daze, he urgently held a meeting with other wandering traders—using remote contact, he reported the degree of contact with this new civilization and the danger judgment of the other party.

"You left that kingdom?"

The contact symbols lit up one by one, and different voices came from the Sea Dragon Stone—before the Sea Dragon Stone was used as the main energy supply for this mechanical body, because of its special energy storage method, it had already become the unique communication method for wandering merchants .

The sea dragon stone was inlaid in the bones of the demon whale, emitting a steady light. The bones were generously made of gold, which lit up the ether circuit and built a stable spell framework.

The cost of this connector alone is enough to bankrupt a small kingdom.

"Not yet, the period of use of the ether-driven experimental body type [-] has expired." Anuta said: "Just taking this opportunity, I will report the progress to you."

"Wouldn't it be better to talk about your harvest after you leave the Land of God's Fall and get more comprehensive information at the Independence Ceremony of Aizhijin?" Another voice said softly: "Now the time is too short and we can't meet each other , I am worried that it will affect the final judgment."

"I think it is necessary to have a conversation at this moment." Anuta said seriously.

The voices of the conversation participants turned serious.

"Do you think further in-depth contact will lead to loss of control?"

"Is this civilization dangerous?"

"Can they influence the minds of intelligent beings?"

Anuta answered their questions one by one: "No, no, no, they can't influence the thinking of intelligent creatures, but what I saw made me think I should communicate with you first."

The disturbing voices quieted down, and another voice said gently: "Anuta, tell me, what do you see in this new civilization?"

"I saw a newly born civilization, I saw humans working silently, I saw demons suppressing their nature, I saw loyal dwarves, and I saw a group of strange creatures..."

Anudha summed up what he saw in the kingdom: "I saw a powerful and invisible king, and his subjects performed their duties."

"This is the strangest civilization I've ever seen."

It is difficult for Anuta to describe in words how all this makes him feel, but his intuition has always reminded him: "I don't know enough about this civilization, but I'm sure, they are very dangerous."

"How dangerous do you think they can be?"

Anuta fell into thinking, and after a very brief silence, he said: "It's so dangerous that we must always pay attention to their dynamics, so as to avoid a sudden war that causes us huge economic losses. So, based on this, I think it is necessary to talk to them. It is very necessary to maintain a stable trade route."

Different from ordinary trade routes, because of the kingdom's special geographical location, establishing a trade route with it means extremely high costs.

And this kingdom, which is in the early stages of civilization development, obviously cannot bring returns corresponding to its efforts.

But if trade itself wasn't what they cared about, the huge losses from that trade route wouldn't matter so much.

"I understand. We will discuss this carefully at the upcoming independence celebrations."

The gentle voice continued: "Anuta, since you think they are dangerous, you need to open up a new business route to maintain the acquisition of information so that we can respond as soon as possible."

"So, you find them aggressive?"

Anudha thought briefly for a few seconds before giving his answer: "Given the choices made by the dwarves, it's hard for me to say that they are not aggressive."

"But based on what I've seen, I judge that their aggressiveness is not high."

"Surprising judgment." The wandering businessman leading the conversation said: "You think they are very dangerous, but at the same time you think they are almost non-aggressive?"

Anuta sorted out the sentence: "Yes, the danger stems from their strength, and the reason they are not aggressive is because the kingdom I have seen has almost no desire."

"It seems that they don't belong to humans, and the desires that humans have always surprise us."

The other party continued: "But intelligent creatures without desires are not our best customers. On what basis did you come to the conclusion that they would want to establish a trade route with us?"

"Because in this kingdom where there is almost no desire, there are also intelligent creatures with a strong desire to trade, and they are very eager to trade."

"A kingdom without desire and people full of surging desire to trade? It sounds like this civilization is indeed very strange."

He Xingwen went to visit the mages who were almost completely invisible after Moody left the kingdom - because of the more frequent explosions recently.

Just like Zhe's previous attempts, no one can interrupt the research of the mages.

He Xingwen knocked on the door a few times, but the people inside didn't respond, so he gave up this meaningless behavior.

He stared at the door that had obviously been strengthened by spells, and after confirming that he could not open it violently with bare hands, he asked the system: "System?"

"Your most loyal believer must be very happy to solve your problems."

He Xingwen raised his eyebrows: "Are they here?"

The system corrected his misunderstanding of the group of hired people: "The demiplane is the gap between the front and back of the world, reflecting the front of the world, not the back of the world, it is a distorted space."

"To be precise, they are located in the demiplane, and they are in every inch of territory in the kingdom."

After the demons killed several demons because of the holy guards and personally experienced the strength of the opponents, He Xingwen finally came to a realization at this moment: "It sounds like this race is very powerful."

"Yes," the system said objectively: "The fatal weakness that once caused their civilization to fall has become another kind of strength in this world."

"This world does not understand the demiplane, nor does it understand the nature of the ether."

He Xingwen realized belatedly that the last time he drew a card, he seemed to have drawn an ssr, but in the next second, he realized that the weakness of this ssr was.

"But they couldn't communicate."

He Xingwen asked tentatively, "Open the door?"

There was a gust of wind in front of the door, but nothing happened.

This is the problem. If a faithful believer can't understand human language, it doesn't seem to matter whether he is faithful or not.

The system reminded He Xingwen: "Their racial characteristics are not that they cannot communicate, but that they have abnormal thinking." This means that their brain circuits are abnormal, but it does not mean that they cannot understand human speech.

"This reminder doesn't sound very good." He Xingwen muttered, reaching out and pushing the door again.

With his slight push, the whole villa turned into profuse powder, whizzing away in the wind, leaving He Xingwen with a dazed face, and Maca and Duo Lun with shocked faces, looking at each other.

Without the cover of the walls and ceiling, everything in the house was exposed in front of He Xingwen.

The test tubes all over the table, the boiling blue flames, and the black blood stones suspended in the flames form the prototype of an unknown chemical experiment.

The reason why it is called a prototype is because it is more about using symbols and spells to mobilize ether to react, rather than a pure chemical experiment.

But this scene was too shocking.

The test tubes, beakers, and glass bottles all over the table, the spell-casting materials that link each vessel, and the kraft paper densely scattered on the ground make this a laboratory that fits He Xingwen's imagination, rather than magic research in the context of Western Fantasy.

The scene was extremely silent, only the sound of the wind, which never subsided.

The flickering little blue flames quickly lost control amid Maca's stupefaction.

He Xingwen watched helplessly as the flames erupted, obliterating another experimental equipment, causing a chain reaction that was about to cause more serious consequences. Duo Lun finally came to his senses, chanting incantations in a hurry, a thin layer of cloth flew out of thin air, Remove the Black Bloodstone from the flames.

The blue flame quickly disappeared, but the series of reactions that had already been triggered obviously would not stop just like this.

With a loud "bang", all the equipment in the room shattered, and a small mushroom cloud slowly floated above the ruins...

???

Mushroom cloud?

He Xingwen took a step back, keeping a distance from them, and quickly passed a series of questions.

What are these two mages trying to do?Why are you still tossing out a mushroom cloud?Just how much energy was released in the explosive reaction just now?

If this reaction is magnified a hundred times...

Isn't the kingdom running into the age of nuclear weapons?

With those loud noises that disturb the people, every time the kingdom passes by on the verge of being destroyed?

The mushroom cloud dissipated slowly, but its figure remained in He Xingwen's mind deeply, lingering.

"King, why are you here?"

I don't know that He Xingwen was so shocked by this scene that he lost his words, Maca broke the silence and said: "We are studying how to use the black blood stone... Did it bother you?"

He Xingwen answered irrelevantly: "Are you the better ones in the Arcane Academy?"

Duo Lun and Maca looked at each other, and said cautiously: "We are not good at the Arcane Academy."

"Then your college is quite... powerful." He Xingwen thought, it was simply amazing that he didn't get nuclear-leveled because of a certain research failure.

Maca didn't understand the meaning of his words, and hesitantly changed the topic to the other party's intention: "You came to see us?"

He Xingwen said casually: "Your experiments are a bit noisy."

"We will pay attention..." Maca hurriedly said, "Or can we change the place?"

He looked around the group of villas and said, "We have no requirements for accommodation, as long as it allows us to continue our research."

He Xingwen's eyes fell on the cloth that wrapped the Black Blood Stone unscathed just now: "Who is that?"

"We asked the dwarves what they wanted, in order to prevent the black bloodstone from getting out of control."

Speaking of this, it was difficult for Duo Lun to suppress his emotions. He gushed: "It's amazing that the fibers of this material can coexist with the energy triggered by the black bloodstone. I think it is very valuable for research. It is currently Our research focus is still on how to effectively use the energy of the Black Blood Stone, and we don't have time to study it for the time being..."

"But it's unbelievable, there are people who are not backlashed by the energy of the black bloodstone..." Duo Lun's words suddenly faltered here, his eyes stopped on He Xingwen, and he fell into a sudden silence.

Maca was not surprised by the burst of inspiration, and continued: "We haven't made any progress in the research on the effective use of the energy of the black blood stone. The connection between the black blood stone and the out-of-control energy has not yet been discovered."

"Obviously the energy excited from the black bloodstone is also ether, but why is it not controlled? The ether in the black bloodstone and the ether in the air belong to the same substance. What is the difference between them? Let the ether be What we use, but the ether in the black bloodstone has annihilating lethality?"

Maca muttered to himself, picked up an animal skin from the ground, wrote and drew on it with his bare hands, and fell into his own thoughts.

The conversation stalls here because the other party to the conversation is unable to continue the conversation.

He Xingwen's eyes wandered between them and the room for two seconds, then turned his head to look in a certain direction.

The system's voice sounded at the same time: "An outsider has entered your territory."

He Xingwen felt that the strange existence was out of place in his territory.

It was a feeling he had never felt before, that something had entered his territory without permission.

The creatures in the kingdom were outraged by this.

They are ready to go, trying to do something, stop the other's footsteps, and make the other party pay for their disrespect to the king.

But at this moment, the creatures have not moved yet, they are waiting for the king's permission.

Just like when the dwarves tried to hold He Xingwen hostage before, their anger washed He Xingwen's perception, and the whole kingdom roared.

He Xingwen allowed them.

As a result, the existence that entered the kingdom without permission stopped.

He Xingwen turned his head and stared at the direction the other party was in, wondering who this impolite visitor was.

There are not many targets for him to choose from. The dwarves are led by Adisseo King, and the wandering merchants are very polite. Then the rest of them have not obtained his permission, but know the existence of the kingdom, and they can rely on their own strength to fight from the gods. From the land of fall to the existence within the border of the kingdom...

There was only one other big fish that fell on the bait that Zhe let out.

Duoti thought about what he might encounter after entering the Land of God's Fall.

After all, everyone knows the curse that no living things can survive in the Land of God's Fall.

So he made full preparations, took his magic staff, and stepped into the land of God's Fall.

The good news is that before he lost control of the aether, he used a space jump to close the distance between him and the mysterious kingdom, which allowed him to step into the kingdom before the curse went any further.

The bad news is that the moment he stepped into the land of the kingdom, he encountered a more dangerous enemy-an entire kingdom.

The ground trembled as countless animals moved in his direction.

The ground was wriggling, because those inconspicuous grasses rose up from the ground, binding him tightly.

He can even sense the movement from the depths of the ocean that is farther away in this land.

He is facing an entire kingdom that is preventing him from moving on.

Those seemingly weak grasses germinated and took root inside the skin, and he could clearly perceive the abnormal fluctuations of the ether.

At the moment when he entered the kingdom, the curse of the land of the gods fell on him, and he regained his perception of the ether. At this moment, he clearly perceived another group of existences.

They lurk in the depths of the ether, staring at him, or at the ether he controls, ready to move.

It's hard to say which one is more dangerous, the curse from the Land of God's Fall, or this group of existences.

But as an instructor of etheric control and research subjects, Doti is well aware of the danger of the latter.

This is a new creature, no doubt about it.

They live in the ether of which they are a part, and for any intelligent being who uses the ether, the creature stands at the end at birth.

Normal intelligent beings control the ether by learning, exercising, and even foreign objects, but they don't.

This is the natural enemy of mages.

In the pain, Duoti thought this way, and in the next second, he changed his mind. Not only mages, but for this world, all existences that drive ether are weak in front of them.

Because there is an insurmountable gap between them and the other party's understanding of ether.

And this gap is enough for the opponent to kill them easily.

But the situation wasn't so bad now, the grass roots took root in Doti's body, and it was a long process—at least not a quick way to kill the enemy, maybe they just wanted to stop him from moving.

Duoti's judgment was very correct, and he was about to move, but the existence of the group that never moved proved this point.

After his actions were restricted, the vibrations on the ground gradually weakened, but he never showed any movement, which made everything gradually calm down—except for the grass on his body that was still trying to take root and sprout.

If he hadn't chosen to be calm the first time he was attacked, he had chosen to resist instead.

Then, the power from the entire kingdom will completely smash this weak resistance.

Moody's description made the mysterious kingdom in his mouth look like an exaggerated hell.

It's hard to resonate because it's too exaggerated.

But Dodd knew his students well, so he was well prepared for this—for a kingdom that sounded horrific.

Then he found that in the face of reality, his preparations were far from enough.

This is not an exaggerated hell, but a real kingdom completely ruled by the king's will.

The king of the human kingdom used to say, I am the country.

But that's their bloated self-righteousness, because they've never been able to replace the kingdom itself.

Conflicts of interest, change of kingship, the kingdom has been calmly watching the power struggle belonging to intelligent creatures from beginning to end, waiting for the birth of the winner, and then watching the other party die, ushering in the next winner.

It doesn't stay for any king.

But in this land, this is an incomparably vivid description.

The kingdom acts according to the king's will, and they bow their heads loyally under the king's scepter, gathering into a powerful force.

A figure appeared in the distance, and gradually became clear as the distance shortened.

An ordinary young man, this was Doti's first impression of the king.

An elder who has experienced a long time, this is He Xingwen's first impression of this old man.

Although He Xingwen knew very well that the opponent only looked old, and in terms of combat power, it was definitely more than enough to kill one or two demons in seconds, but the appearance of the opponent was too deceptive, which gave He Xingwen an inexplicable illusion of bullying.

With the appearance of He Xingwen, the kingdom completely returned to peace.

The grass rustled down from the other party's body, taking a series of grass seeds and scattered all over the ground.

Duoti glanced at the wound, her lips moved slightly, and the ether covered the densely packed wound, quietly restoring it.

Any outsider who came to the kingdom, no matter what thoughts they had before stepping into the kingdom, would maintain proper etiquette after they stepped on the land of the kingdom.

Greet the king, pay homage to the king.

Because the opponent is powerful enough to "convince" them to remain humble.

"Greetings, respected king," Doti said, "I am the instructor of the Arcane Academy - Doti, and I am here for my students."

He cut to the chase and got straight to the point: "They have stayed in your kingdom long enough, it's time to return to the academy to continue their courses."