Scales of Eternal Order

As soon as he opened the pneumatic gate that closed the operating room, Ques could feel a strange smell of dust wafting out of the interior of the chamber.

Giant dragons all have super keen sense of smell. Except for the Black Dragon, which likes to roll in the swamp mud and has no carrion, other giant dragons have a considerable aversion to smell.

Ques is no exception. He covered his mouth and nose with his hands as he smelled the scent after being re-humanized. If it weren’t for worrying about accidentally destroying some of the internal equipment due to rapid oxidation, he would have used a wind technique to infuse fresh air to “wash shua” well.

It’s like in a third-rate horror movie, the strange smelling small room and the cramped dark space must add death as a powerful medicine to set off the atmosphere.

When our protagonist, Ques, the blue dragon boy, walked into the operating core of this automated factory, he found a shriveled corpse sitting on a chair looking at the exit of the room with his hollow eyes.

If such a scene appeared in front of him before crossing, Ques would burst his throat in fright, and then immediately turned around and ran. But as a blue dragon, even if it was a juvenile dragon, it would not be frightened by a mummy trifling, unless it was a Demi-God mummy.

And this is impossible. The shriveled corpse is just an ordinary person-shaped creature dehydrated after death, and has nothing to do with Legendary-level undying creatures.

So “the gaze of the dead” not at all attracted Ques too much attention. Instead, the machine lying in front of the corpse on the operating table attracted Ques’s interest.

The central control center of the operation room of this ancient civilization manufacturing factory is actually a form that he is quite familiar with: dashboard, operation keyboard, and screen.

In this fantasy world, we can actually see a “computer” creation that is common in the science and technology world. This makes the blue dragon boy feel a little disharmony.

This control room is said to be cramped. Compared with the production workshop outside, it also has an area of ​​tens of square meters, with a living room, bathroom, and work room. It seems to be the arrangement made to facilitate long-term monitoring by the staff on duty inside.

“The dead is big” is a Hua Family custom. Out of respect for the deceased, Ques first moved the human-shaped remains that had become mummified corpses into the living room before starting to check this operation. Complex instrument on the table.

Just like a novice who hasn’t fiddled with any electronic devices can quickly find the power button, Ques quickly found this conspicuous button.

Unexpectedly, when he pressed the “start button”, the screen in front of the console in front of him actually reacted, and a paragraph of text appeared. With the help of “Speaking Language”, Ques understood the meaning of these words.

“The energy of the equipment is exhausted, and emergency energy needs to be used for charging…” As Ques recognized these words, two connecting devices on the console popped up as emergency energy supplements.

One of the interfaces has a structure that can clamp a cube, which is obviously compatible with battery, while the other interface pops up with a prismatic crystal.

This crystal within the body has a complex spell rune embedded in it. Although it is slightly different from the existing spell system, it is still possible to identify some commonalities through comparisons. By identifying runes, Ques found some rune structures that represent mana extraction.

“Two interface modes, one is to insert the battery, the other is to instill spell power…this is in line with the setting of the fantasy side…”

The reason is that if a lead-acid battery can provide energy for this machine, then the consumption as another way of mana charging is not too much consumption for Ques. Therefore, the Blue Dragon boy thought for a moment, and grasped the crystal prism as the charging interface with his hands-he didn’t want to go outside and search to see if there was any battery that could be used.

Unsurprisingly, once grasped, the crystal prism automatically began to draw energy from the blue dragon boy’s within the body, and the screen in front of the console also showed a prompt screen of the charging progress bar.

Ques estimates that after consuming the spell energy of a “secondary chain of lightning” by himself, the charging of the machine is almost complete, and a new text prompt appears on the screen:

“The energy required to start up and running has been met, and it is automatically detected that the factory energy supply unit has lost connection. At present, it is unable to use the automated control production system. Will it be transferred to the personal application system?”

Of course, select ” Yes”, otherwise the energy previously instilled will not be wasted.

According to the operating instructions, I found the keyboard button to choose to enter. When Ques pressed it, I felt a little sluggish. This may be the reason for the long time, so I increased my strength.

“Huh?”

The subtle pain irritated the skin, Ques raised his hand to see a fine pinhole that had healed-the surface of the button just now The thin needle that popped out quickly and then shrank back pierced the Blue Dragon Boy’s finger and collected his blood sample.

“Alert! Genetic material test result: Not the previous operator. The machine will start the self-locking drive, and the countdown will begin…”

Before Ques has another reaction, the screen is illuminated in front of you The text above becomes new again.

“Test result correction judgment: with advanced modifier genetic information, with advanced authority, the alarm is lifted.”

This sudden change made Ques feel like falling into the fog of Wuli, but he felt There is still a general guess-this may be related to the discovery of his dragon egg from this ancient ancient ruins. It may be that he has undergone some genetic modification before he was born, so he was advanced by this machine. The “computer” of the industrial production central control system judged to encircle the “senior authority”.

The most intuitive manifestation of the benefits of this “advanced authority” is that after it is turned on, all the records of the previous operator are directly set to the retrieval mode for Ques to read.

The first document information that pops up is the detailed information about the former operator of this central control “computer”-“Honored Engineer” Kotmann.

It turns out that the words “Kotmann 13th Manufacturing Workshop” I saw on the wall of the outer passage earlier refer to the family of this “honorary engineer”.

As a famous family of engineers, Kotmann’s biographical profile and personal habits are recorded in this document, even his personal hobby who likes to smoke cigars and collect antique guns has not been left behind. .

The information in this document is out, and the rest of the content contains “Kotmann”‘s personal diary and automation system operating instructions that interest Ques.

So I first clicked on the document icon representing “Kotmann” personal diary. According to the instructions, some research materials and daily records of any user are stored here:

“Imasca · The new star calendar is March 11, 4523.

Today I celebrated my 135th birthday and mourned my deceased wife. The reason why I have so much free time is because the equipment in the factory is using artificial magic nets. The upgrade.

The Grand Artificer still met with the ruler of Netheril, although the Elder Council did not think this was a good idea, after all, our civilization has disappeared from the Toril world for a long time.

In essence, we cannot be counted as the same race. In Star Realm’s thousands of years of colonization, we have had a completely different development path and cultural customs from the original race.

……

Imasca ·New Ephemeris on June 13, 4525

Three colonial stars were attacked and destroyed!

The enemy was not from The bad embryos of Bottomless Abyss and Baator Hell were actually created by the Imasca themselves, which is exactly the same as the destruction of the ancient Imasca civilization.

reap what you have sown, completely reap what you have sown . Just a year ago, the great artificer and the people of the spell council claimed that they had created a new spell instrument that was safer and more efficient than the ancient Seven Secrets——

It is possible to use [Curse] to weaken the blockade of the crystal wall and lead the Imasca to leave this universe hostile by some gods and ancient evils.

It is a pity that this spell creation has just been created and has not yet arrived. Near the boundary of the crystal wall system, it is activated by the chaotic rules escaping from the chaotic sea of ​​the pathway.

Why don’t you believe in the power of technology? Why don’t you believe in the Elder Council? Why keep trying to create uncontrollable The dangerous spell creation?

……

Imasca ·New Ephemeris on November 11, 4535

Ten years, finally everything is about to end.

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Netheril’s Grand Arcanist allies dispatched their most advanced Floating Void City to participate in the battle;

Spellcasters and researchers united to gather all the researchers from the Mage Council and the Elder Council The “adaptive” anti-curse biological transformation experiment is about to be completed;

Even some kind Spiritual Gods have devoted themselves to resisting the chaos and The power of the curse is in the struggle of evil creatures.

Although we cannot offset our faults, all Imasca people contributed their own strength.

The “annihilation battleship” produced by the Alto Rui family carries warriors from all over the multiverse to fight against evil together, and the Kotmann family, my clansman’s factory, provides the best for these warriors free of charge. Good weapons and equipment-laser guns, electromagnetic energy shields, etc. that do not require spell enchantment but are more effective.

……

Imasca · New Ephemeris on June 8, 4536

I know! I knew it! I knew it!

There is nothing new in the sun, and all natural disasters are actually blamed on man-made disasters.

It turns out that this disaster was directed by the shameless master artificer, the sinner who put all Imasca people to shame.

The purpose of the evil being created is not to allow the Imasca people to have a good life in the New World, but to satisfy his evil and greedy ambition-he wants all the gods Weakened, and then steal its glory.

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Imasca ·New Ephemeris, January 1, 4537

Great Artificer, no, he should be called directly by his dirty name—— Polyrosak was eventually destroyed by the gods.

He and his ambitions were destroyed at the same time, and the disaster was finally eliminated, but the karma had to be carried by everyone Imasca.

Most of the gods who fought against Polyrosak fell into eternal sleep, which brought the multiverse itself to the Imasca people’s aversion.

Together with the curse of the evil being dying, the place where all Imasca people live has become an unsuitable Desert, and all Imasca people are infected with an unknown plague inexplicably.

Groups of Imasca people are getting weaker and dying. We are powerless…”

After reading the last diary left by Mr. Kotmann of Imasca, I looked back at the The mummy placed in the living room of this operating room, Ques gently rubbed his sore neck staring at the screen for a long time, and fell into thinking.

Although Kotmann’s diary is just a few words, But there is still a glimmer of information in the decades-long records.

Now he can confirm that this land-annihilated civilization is indeed created by the remnants of the ancient Imasca people.

However, they were brutally annihilated because of the evil master artificer’s death conspiracy, and even their living quarters became a desert. This is probably the origin of this World’s name as Ash World.

Moreover, in the second half of Kotmann’s narrative, it is mentioned that in order to fight against the “evil that spreads curses and chaos”, the mages and scientists of Imasca’s survivors cooperated with the aim of creating a “self-adaptable” to resist the “curse” “Effective transforming warrior.

The dragon egg found by Legendary giant dragon Salota while exploring the ruins is likely to be the material of this experiment, or even the product of a phased experiment.

If this conjecture is true, it can explain why the “computer” passed the authorization verification after collecting blood samples when it was started, and that its natural “adaptive” evolutionary ability exceeded that of ordinary dragons.

However, this is not absolute. After all, the information provided in the diary is still too little, and here is just an energy accessory production factory belonging to the Kotmann family, not the technological core of ancient civilization.

Ques continued to seize the time to search for useful information from the “computer”.

It would be perfect if he could find some maps marked with the Imasca civilization, so that he could find out according to the map and explore slowly in the future Other relics of this civilization, so as to piece together more and more complete information.