King from scratch

In the depths of the mountains.

The tool cart made a way out of the mountainside and galloped in a certain direction.

He got the detailed address of Luomu and the others from Duolongna—in the middle of the mountain, deep underground.

There is no other way to get there than to carve a way through the rock and dirt.

Direct space teleportation is a very dangerous behavior - entering a hidden space without the owner's permission, trespassers must be prepared to face many attacks.

After more and more people learn to open black holes with bare hands, this has become an essential self-protection.

Obviously, science and technology... oh no, it is an eternal truth that ether changes life.

The tool cart stopped deep in the ground, and Adisseo King held the sledgehammer and tapped the frequency familiar to the dwarves on the tool cart.

After waiting for a while, the soil layer in front turned over, revealing a hidden opening, revealing a layer of light.

The tool cart drove straight into the hole, and another space deep underground suddenly appeared.

The water is rushing, the machinery that takes care of the farmland is running on its own, and the metal city pool reflects light under the light. At the top of this space, there is an artificial light source suspended, which tirelessly emits heat and light, and maintains the ecological environment of the ground.

The tool cart stopped on the ground, the closed metal city was opened again, and the suspension vehicle drove out of the city.

Luo Mu got out of the car and greeted Adisseo Jin: "Luo Mu."

"Adisu King." Adisseo introduced himself, pouring out the words that have been surging in his throat since he knew their existence: "Thank you for your perseverance, this is a long and difficult time, but I I see in you what the dwarves have lost."

He opened his hand to Luo Mu and gave him a hug.

"Let's go, we have prepared a celebration for you." Luo Mu led Adisseo towards the city: "I'm glad that we have reached a consensus on the status quo of the dwarves."

"It's hard to imagine that the dwarves will become stubborn and stupid after the split." Luo Mu: "They even choose to exile you with their own hands. It's really an imaginative act."

The scene in Metal City unfolded in front of Adisseo.

Automatic machines are everywhere. In order to effectively use the land area in the city, the houses are designed as one-story bungalows, which are assembled together to form several high-rise buildings. In addition, there are some outdated buildings in the city. The buildings and signs have experienced the baptism of time, but they are well preserved.

The roads are well-organized, and the high-rise buildings are coordinated with other buildings. The height does not cause a sense of oppression, but instead forms a futuristic sci-fi style with the entire city.

The straight avenue leads to the square in the center of the city. There is a huge stone tablet erected on the square. The bonfire beside the stone tablet is burning fiercely. The wine jars are piled up into a wall, neatly piled up. , bringing Adisseo King back to the distant time almost instantly.

When Adisseo King was born, the dwarf kingdom had long been divided. His understanding of the kingdom came from his elders, history, and imagination. But at this moment, he seemed to see the dwarf kingdom that once made the whole continent look up , strong and confident, standing on the top of the mountains, overlooking the whole world.

"It's a child of Jin's lineage."

The singing and dancing dwarves invited Adisseo King to join the celebration, and with fire, song, and wine, the dwarves celebrated the return of their kin.

Luo Mu sat in the corner of the bonfire, without the dwarves to disturb him, he was also happy and relaxed, watching Adisseo King, who was not the same as them, from a distance.

He was different from what he had imagined, he looked too ordinary.

He stared at Adisseo King for a while, then turned to look at the stele behind him.

The huge stone monument stands in the city, and the years have given it a sense of vicissitudes.

There are no extra patterns on the stele, only a neat line of writing.

"A kingdom of dwarves, a kingdom of dwarves."

Luo Mu looked at it for a while, and at some point, Andy Su Jin, who got rid of the singing and dancing, finally got out of the encirclement and found him, but his face looked a little drunk.

But dwarves' festivals are always like this. Songs, dances, and wine are indispensable.

"What are you looking at?" Adisseo shook, and held Luo Mu's shoulder in time to prevent him from falling.

He stabilized his body, followed Luo Mu's line of sight, paused on the writing on the stone tablet, read it once, and laughed.

"The Dwarf Kingdom..." He picked up the altar of wine from the side and gestured to Luo Mu: "I heard from Dorona that you have no intention of meddling in the unification of the Dwarf Kingdom."

After he finished talking, he drank the wine jar in one gulp, and was staggered by the wine jar again, and simply staggered and sat beside Luo Mu.

"We are the guardians." Luo Mu picked up a jug of wine, touched Adisseo and said, "Swinging the sword at the dwarves violated our promise."

"That's fine." Adisseo drank another jug ​​of wine and wiped his beard. "There's no need to participate in hopeless struggles. Let the dwarves have some hope."

Luo Mu drank more casually, spilling more wine than drinking it into his mouth. He heard this and laughed: "If I can, I want to be you too."

Andy Su Jin couldn't help laughing: "What's the good of being me, being exiled by the tribe, and doing nothing except shouting slogans?"

"Speak out for the people, run around in endless despair, even if you fall into darkness forever." Luo Mu raised the wine jar to Andy Su Jin: "This wine respects your loyalty without hesitation."

Adisseo touched the wine jar with him: "It's just that there is nothing you can do."

Drunkenness rose, and he said things he had never said to anyone before: "At first, I was always angry, so I went back and forth, expressing my views, calling on the dwarves to do something, and I told the elders that the dwarves should To prepare for the coming war, you should even launch a war first to seize the opportunity.

But then I understood that these angers were nothing more than my inability to do anything about it. "

Luo Mu interjected: "It's not powerless, at least there are so many dwarves who agree with your point of view."

Adisseo denied him with a smile: "No, no, they agree with my point of view because they desire to unify the dwarf kingdom. They are not fighting for survival, but for the distant dwarf kingdom."

Luo Mu: "No matter what, they chose you. The dwarves are rushing to appeal for your views, and more and more dwarves agree with your ideas."

Adisseo Jintonton drank a jar of wine: "This is where I can't even get angry. When will the dwarves have nothing but a blood and a life?"

"The elders will even be afraid because of this, and choose to exile me because of fear." Adisseo Jin narrowed his eyes, staring at the artificial light above Metal City: "And they succeeded in doing this by voting."

"You can't ask a group to maintain what it used to be after being torn apart. It has been 7000 years since the dwarf kingdom was split." Luo Mu: "The honor of the past has disappeared over a long period of time, and the dwarf kingdom has caused the entire continent to look up. History has become a story passed down by word of mouth.”

Luo Mu objectively said: "There is no unified education, coupled with long-term displacement, the basic quality of dwarves generally declines, which is very normal."

Adisseo King laughed loudly: "When you say that, it seems that the dwarves are destined to become stubborn, single-minded, and poor-minded enough to solidify this kind of worldly people."

He smiled and denied Luo Mu's words again: "Don't make conclusions so firmly, it will only limit your own thinking."

Adisseo took a sip of his wine and continued: "I used to think that most people are very stupid, but then I found that compared with some people, we are also stupid."

Luo Mu stopped pouring wine into his mouth and guessed, "Human king?"

"He is the only one who makes me feel that he can do everything." Adisseo Jin glanced at Luo Mu: "But he never thinks that intelligent creatures are stupid."

Luo Mu put down the wine jar, thought for two seconds, and turned the topic to the main topic: "We have reached an agreement with the human kingdom..." He thought about the wording: "There is no binding force, only a verbal agreement."

"We provide the location of the mine, and the human kingdom agrees that the top of the mountains belongs to the dwarf kingdom."

Adisseo was surprised by the word: "Dwarf Kingdom?"

Luo Mu added the qualifier: "If the dwarf kingdom is unified again."

"This sounds like a useless agreement." Adisseo slapped his knees rhythmically with the singing, and talked about these topics with Luo Mu in a relaxed manner: "I thought you knew that the dwarf kingdom could not be unified."

"Don't make inferences so firmly, it will only limit your own thinking." Luo Mu repeated Adisseo's previous words: "Because of your existence, I still have the last glimmer of hope for this impossibility."

He touched the wine jar with Adisseo: "I hope we can wait until the day when the kingdom is unified."

There was a blazing bonfire in his eyes, shining brightly in the depths: "I hope I can wait until the Dwarf King."

Adisseo King laughed and shook his head, repeating what he had repeated countless times: "I am a citizen of the Kingdom of Man."

"Moreover, it is better to prepare for the war that is about to sweep the entire world than to harbor the last glimmer of hope for the unification of the kingdom."

Luo Mu put down the wine jar and sat up straight: "Speaking of this, I'll show you something."

The celebration was still going on, Luo Mu and Adisseo Jin quietly left the square and walked along the avenue towards the end of the road.

The building at the end of the road is located in the corner of the city. In the case of tight land resources, it occupies a whole piece of land by itself, and there are no buildings around it that can block it.

As the distance between them and the building shortened, the number of machines around them increased, alerting them to possible dangers.

Luo Mu used the ether body to open the way, and arrived in front of the metal building without any obstacles.

He pushed open the closed door and led Adisseo King into the building.

The interior of the building is a pattern that runs through from top to bottom. The huge cylindrical machine goes from the top of the building to the deeper underground. The blue light is shining on the cylindrical machine. It is composed of multiple parts and complex. The design surrounds each node with a fleet of floating mechs, ready to deal with problems.

Adisseo looked up at it, and realized it almost immediately after seeing it. This is a large receiver used to receive and process a large number of ether signals.

This city, which is buried deep in the ground on top of the mountains, is processing a large amount of ether signals all the time.

The word ether signal may not be enough for people to clearly understand its function. Simply put, it is a signal composed of ether fluctuations, which contains the information carried in ether fluctuations.

In this world, all intelligent beings emit etheric signals - because ether is everywhere.All intelligent creatures in this world are exploring how to use ether better to obtain more powerful power.

The most typical example is the Masters.

And even if an intelligent creature never learns or explores the ether, he will still send out ether signals.

Because of the existence of world projection, they have an extremely close connection with the ether.

This was once a plan of the dwarf kingdom, but was not completed due to design flaws.

The design was called the "Ether Signal Observer", and the project was named "World Watch".

But it now appears that they finalized the design thousands of years after the kingdom was divided.

Luo Mu led Adisseo to go up, and after passing through the hidden etheric fluctuations, he pushed open the "door" at the top.

Behind the door is the information processing center of the entire ether signal observer. After analyzing, deconstructing and reorganizing the ether signal, it is finally converted into understandable information and presented to the observer.

In other words, in front of Adisseo King is a huge projection divided into regions.

Too much information is gathered together, and even after filtering, the remaining part can still be called numerous.

In order to accommodate so much information feedback, the projected area covers the entire building—after the door is pushed open, it is not a room, but a window.

Looking out from here, you can see those projections, suspended in a fixed position of the building - except here, located somewhere alone in this building, you can't see these projections, it can only pass through this "window" See.

Luo Mu reached out and closed the "door" behind him, and introduced to Adisseo Jin: "Ether signal observer, we use it to keep in touch with the world."

"This is a huge project." It is impossible to collect the ether signals of the entire world with only one signal collector.

"Yes, so we spent thousands of years installing all the parts of the ether signal observer on the top of the mountains, and completed this huge project not long ago."

Although Luo Mu said it lightly, in fact, this is quite difficult-because of the danger of the mountain top itself and the huge amount of engineering.

Taking the whole world as an observation object requires enough arrogance.

The dwarf kingdom proposed this idea at its peak, but it has been shelved because of technical failures. It is hard to imagine how the dwarves, who have only such a few people left, finally completed it in the thousands of years and generation after generation.

Adisseo keenly thought of his purpose of coming here: "So, the passage connected to the pure crystal mine..."

"In fact, these passages are all over the top of the mountains."

Luo Mu's ether condensed into dots, went deep into the projection, and explained casually: "That's the road we dug when we installed the parts of the ether signal observer."

As his ether went deeper into the projection, the densely packed scenes behind the "window" changed accordingly, new pictures were enlarged, and other pictures were shrunk accordingly, hidden in the depths.

The sea is as calm as some kind of air, without the texture of water.The damaged crystal tower collapsed in the rift valley, and there were no traces of underwater creatures except for the stones around it, and the whole picture was filled with a dilapidated atmosphere.

Adisseo King recognized the location of this scene at a glance: "South China Sea?"

"The change of the underwater kingdom is due to the unexplained ether overflow in the crystal tower." Luo Mu introduced to him: "The crystal tower is the strategic reserve for the underwater kingdom to store ether energy. One of the most important safeguards."

"Taking the Nuri Empire as an example, the [-] crystal towers located in the Lahai Valley of the South China Sea, the Great Rift Valley of Nuri Kenti, and the mountains in the East constitute the safety zone covering the entire territory of the Nuri Empire, ensuring that those dangerous seabed Creatures cannot enter the territory of the Nuri Empire."

"But not long ago, there was an abnormality in the crystal tower. The ether in the crystal tower overflowed and caused the crystal tower to fail or even collapse. The major kingdoms on the seabed urgently dispatched spare crystal towers to maintain the protective layer of the safe zone, but the situation did not improve. , the crystal tower's ether is still overflowing, if it continues, it will only be a matter of time before the submarine kingdom loses its safe zone."

Adisseo King didn't know anything about it. In fact, the only people in the whole world who knew about it were the Undersea Kingdom and Luo Mu.

Undersea Kingdom is a general term.

The number of kingdoms on the bottom of the South China Sea is at least a few hundred. It will take time for them to reach a consensus on this emergency, and it is even less likely that they should seek help from land creatures. .

"Because of the abnormality of the crystal tower, the South China Sea is under martial law, and the undersea kingdom has stopped trading routes."

After briefly introducing Adisseo to the current problems in the South China Sea, Luo Mu controlled the ether and changed the image on the projection.

The man sitting on the high chair, holding the scepter in his left hand, leaned forward slightly, staring at the people discussing endlessly at the round table below.

There are dozens of humans around the round table, with some slight racial differences.

Some of them leaned forward, showing an aggressive attitude;

And a human sitting at the end of the round table, in the midst of the chaos, seemed to be in a study, out of tune with the excited crowd, keeping his hands on paper, recording something.

With the stabilization of the projection, all the figures that had been paused started to move, and the noisy arguments rushed into the ears for a moment.

"Why should we make concessions? The border line..."

"We absolutely disagree with this proposal..."

"The Kingdom of xx has been a sacred and inseparable part of the Diman Empire since ancient times..."

"Fuck your grandma, I want to fight you!"

Adisseo caught the key word in the noise: "Diman Empire?"

Luo Mu hid those too loud voices and confirmed his guess: "This is the scene of negotiations between the Diman Empire and other countries on the Neiva Plain."

Adisseo glanced at the still-continuing screen: "Ongoing negotiations?"

"The information captured by the ether is enough to feed back what is happening on the other side of the world in real time." Luo Mu explained, and continued: "The changes in the Neiva Plain are due to the drastic reforms of the new emperor of the Diman Empire."

"He spent decades suppressing other voices within the Diman Empire, started political reforms, and is now opening dialogues with other kingdoms on the Neiva Plain. The unification of the Diman Empire is on the mend."

The projection screen changed again, switching from the arguing conversation scene to another slightly bloody scene.

The ground vibrated, countless beasts galloped on the grass, dust and smoke billowed, and occasionally one or two human figures could be seen among many beasts such as lions and tigers. On this undoubted battlefield, apart from pure physical collisions, it was almost No sign of machinery.

Roars echoed, blood and flesh collided, and a primitive and bloody war appeared before their eyes.

Luo Mu: "Beast God Field, the wolf tribe is gradually unifying the beast tribe."

Adisseo King Surprised: "This has never happened before."

"The intricate contradictions and blood feuds within the beast clan have kept the Beast God Wilderness in a state of conflict for several epochs, but not long ago, more than ten years ago, the appearance of a new leader of the wolf clan changed the status quo."

Adisseo can already feel the breath of war, which comes from the common mutations in these three different regions.

Most of the conquerors of the unified kingdom are ambitious, and there are so many unconquered territories in their vision, so re-divide the world and obtain new benefits will naturally become their goal after unification.

"These are just mutations that are still in progress," Luo Mu changed his projection, "but the Safa Federation next to the Andava Mountains..."

The projection changes, revealing a blank space.

With some doubts, Adisseo turned to look at Luo Mu.

"Not long ago, the ether signal collector was unable to collect ether information from the Sarfa Federation."

Adisseo King reacted: "They discovered the existence of the ether signal collector and carried out targeted shielding?"

Luo Mu took over the words: "The observations before the etheric signal of the Safa Federation could not be collected, they were developing an 'unprecedented invention' at that time, this is how they described it."

"Looking at the results, they appear to have succeeded."

Adisseo King: "Unprecedented invention? You don't have any information on it?"

"We went back to the remaining images..."

Luo Mu showed a complicated expression, and brought out the projection of a densely packed picture, presenting it in front of Adisseo Jin.

"This is the original design drawing."

"The scale is huge." Adisseo looked at it carefully for a few seconds, and understood the meaning of Luo Mu's expression: "But I can't understand it."

"This is an 'unprecedented invention' developed by great scientists based on the latest research theory. Even among great scientists, there are only a few who can keep up with Li Wang's thinking."

Luo Mu's complex expression stems from this: "We have studied for a long time, and we have to admit that this has surpassed the design of the ether and has reached another field."

Adisseo King spits out a word: "Science."

"That's right, it's the science that has just flourished in the past few hundred years. They discovered a new way to use ether." Luo Mu: "Beyond everyone's understanding, including mages."

"It's really amazing." Andysu King sighed sincerely: "Fortunately, the mages didn't know about it."

The conflict between mages and scientists stems from differences in ideas. There was cooperation between them, but the cooperation was interrupted because of difficult to reconcile ideas.

The mages belong to the classical school, passing down the knowledge of the academy from generation to generation, and researching the ether on this basis.

And scientists... As a new thing that has only appeared for hundreds of years, it is difficult to define what they belong to.But there is no doubt that they are creating the history of this new thing, exploring the ether without the constraints of inheritance.

Luo Mu: "The Salfa Federation accepts many races, and the races of great scientists are also different. Dwarves, humans, druids, and even dragons also have young dragons who learn related knowledge in the Salfa Federation. This is a loose and Inclusive existence, they have no interest in territory and conquest."

"The only problem is that although it has no interest in territory and conquest, when the Safa Federation is involved in the war, the inventions created by science will intensify the scale of the war."

"I have no doubt that once the Salfa Federation is involved in the war, no matter what the objective situation is, the war will undoubtedly escalate to a scale that sweeps across the entire continent. Because for other forces, under the covering absolute force, the natural Preservation has replaced the priority of doing nothing."