Scales of Eternal Order

“Pa Tu, what’s the gain this time?” The blue dragon leaned over the sand dunes, staring at the rattletail family members who were crawling on the ground and asked.

“Reporting back to Dear Ques. Fetan,” Pa Tu spit out his forked tongue and replied in Dragon Language with a si si voice: “Your servant dug a small ruin this time. There are some weird gadgets, and no suspicious magic items were found. I stored some samples I brought back in the cave.”

Ques picked up the rattlesaurus dragged out of the crypt. The relics are harvested. There are indeed no traces of magic attached to these items, mostly fragments of some mechanical parts.

“It should be because this area is desert. The moisture content in the air is not high. The dry environment keeps these metal parts from rusting, but…” Ques flicked a few pieces of Pa Tu with his claw tips. “These metals seem to be composed of many kinds of alloys, which are not the same as those found in previous relics.” The discovery of the relics proves that the ancient civilization on this land not only controls Powerful magic seems to have in-depth research in the field of technology, or metal smelting. As Ques digs through it, there are many interesting small parts scattered in front of him, but most of them are some remaining fragments, it is difficult to find any valuable traces.

Just as he was about to complete this inspection, a square cube caught his attention. Blue dragons have a natural elemental affinity for electricity, and powerful blue dragons can control electric charges. Just when Ques’ fingertips touched the cube, a flash of current was caught by the blue dragon’s eyes. This is different from the sharp discharge [1] that occasionally appears on the surface of the blue dragon. Ques can feel it. The transferred electric charge did not calm down, the electric energy did not disappear, but was stored in this cube.

“Can store electricity? This seems to be a battery,” Ques thought for a while, using a simple prophecy system spell “exploration” to determine what exactly this cube was. However, the feedback of spell was interfered by the object itself, and the elimination of the interference from the cast meant that the inside of the cube was rich in lead. “High probability is a lead-acid battery.”

I have to say that magic is wonderful. Although the knowledge of blue dragon inheritance does not make Ques Full Mastery the master of spellcasting, spell does provide some solutions to some problems. More than one effective tool.

Although the “exploration art” of the prophecy system will deviate from the lead, there are a variety of Austrian visions that can come in handy, such as “True Vision”.

“Perhaps there should be some useful Austrian vision,” Ques is also the first attempt to use magic to solve the problem.

Under “True Vision”, observing the surface of the cube can reveal all the physical information in the brain, and at the same time have a similar perspective effect. The composition and geometric structure of the cube within the body are clearly displayed in a list form under the order of Ques brain. And when it is displayed, it automatically converts some of the measurements (length cubit, mass derby) commonly used in this World to the Earth unit that Ques is more familiar with.

[Name]: Ancient civilization energy module (damaged )

[Form]: 666 cubic decimeter cube, about 54.3kg

[Function]: The battery module is made using the principle of lead-acid battery, the internal lead-containing structural metal is soaked in In sulfuric acid, an electric current is generated. The positive part is engraved on the surface of the battery, and the negative part is the cathode. Under normal circumstances, it is suspected to provide energy for small and medium-sized mechanical structures. The discharge is stable and can be recycled. Due to the long time, the acid leaked and volatilized, and it was partially damaged…

Looking at these introductions, Ques realized that he might have found a treasure. This World has all kinds of magic, but it is also the limitation of knowledge. These creations without magical aura can easily be ignored by those who discover it. In the past, Salota probably ignored the existence of these technological creations in the process of excavating the ruins.

“Where did you find these things?”

“It is in the area you marked, the cave leading to the ruins still exists, but the exit has been buried by me Because this ruin is already close to the oasis on the edge of the territory, occasionally some caravans will pass by.” The rattletail dragon realized that Ques attached great importance to the gains of this discovery, so it tried to recall the situation of the previous exploration, and wanted to recall More useful information.

After the Blue Dragon gathered his first batch of family members, his first task was to let these dragonborn family members explore some designated desert ruins for him.

Moreover, most of these individually marked key areas revolve around the area where Salota found the Ques Fetan dragon egg. The Blue Dragon logically reasoned that these places where he appeared might hide the reason why he came to this World.

Receiving a message from Pa Tu, the rattlesaurus, Ques recalled the location of this exploration point, “It is about thirty-five Palesan in the east-southwest, which is about 47 kilometers.”

He calculated the distance.

“From the end of this patrol, there should be some time before I go back to report on my duties, so I can simply explore this ruin.”

The cubic lead-acid battery is the blue dragon first In this World, I found a technological creation similar to Earth. He felt that he really needed to rush over to see the situation immediately.

Even if you can’t explore it all at once, you will find the opportunity to find out the secret hidden in this ruin in batches in the future.

Furthermore, the rattletail dragon’s final method of handling the hand tail of the ruin passage is not very brilliant. Now that the value of this ruin has been discovered, Ques feels that it is necessary to conceal this place personally to avoid any setbacks in the future.

After thinking about this, the blue dragon gave the rattlesaurus instructions to continue exploring other marked areas, then jumped up, and took advantage of the wind to spread its wings and flew straight to the direction of the ruins.

……

At the same time, near the ruins discovered by the rattletail dragon, a caravan consisting of dozens of camels was walking on the hot sand dunes.

Santos Ben Zose, a famous merchant in Nome City and the owner of “Sandrhino Caravan”, was riding in the pavilion on the back of the largest sand rhino in the center of the team.

Although the pavilion has a sunroof covered with lizard skins, the hot desert wind still brings unbearable high temperatures.

Fortunately, this somewhat blessed businessman prepared a water bag that had just been supplied with cool spring water from the oasis and washed fruit to quench his thirst and timid heat and to dispel the deep fatigue caused by long-distance business travel.

Santos lifted off White’s tangled head, letting sweat run down his cheeks. One hand loosened the rope around the waist, and the other hand picked up the water bag, and took a sip of the spring water in the water bag, ignoring that the water drops wet the linen shirt on his chest.

The desert at noon is extremely hot, especially for the fat merchants with huge belly.

“The blazing sun, the damn Salem people and the Sashan people, went to war in Opani (the second month of summer). May the fire and the sand curse these two wandering outside Nome City The barbaric scum tribe.”

The objects he cursed-Salem and Sashan, were two giant desert nomadic elves tribes near Nome City with over 10,000 string-controlling men.

Although this land is nominally under the jurisdiction of the Nome City governor subscribed by Pharaoh Medici, the governor of the city-state obviously lacks effective restraint ability for the nomads who come and go like wind and live in no fixed place. .

Nome’s army is mostly infantry guards composed of shielded Swordsman, lacking cavalry with strong mobility. In this way, the army must use the power of the caster to deal with these empires’ scabies.

But to conquer such a large-scale tribal group, at least a plurality of spellcasters must be involved, and it may even be necessary to have a legendary-level spell master.

In this desert-covered world, the sources of spell seem to be many, but even magic cannot violate the first law of thermodynamics.

In addition to the natural spell-casting race’s spell-like ability and some mysterious “sources” that can communicate with the multiverse to mobilize the existence of spell energy.

As for the magic net, this World has never seen any gods in the field of spell at all, and even the faith of this World is the same as its own natural environment-here is a desert of faith .

Naturally, there is no magic net specially woven by the gods in charge of spell that is common in the other world.

This World most human spellcasters master the ability to extract life force or soul energy from creatures in the surrounding environment to convert it into magic. It is said that this method of spellcasting comes from another The main material plane Atas [2] composed of deserts.

This method of casting is obviously very limited in desert areas. In the vast desert, there are few areas where vegetation and species can carry advanced spell releases. This requires the caster to bring in advance the obsidian magic beads poured into the slave soul to extract energy or directly draw their own life force to cast the spell.

Although there is a solution, a spell is a life, and even more slave lives. This cost is not expensive. Some non-evil camp casters will use this method of casting , And even choose regular psychotherapy.

Plus the source of this spellcasting method-those who have begun to be interested in exploring the multiverse and have intersections with Atas world are at least Legendary level and above spellcasters, they must know Atas World The tragedy caused by the abuse of this method of casting-the collapse of the ecological system and the mass extinction of species.

So the wizards who use this method to cast spells will first learn to restraint, and they will try to control their spellcasting behavior except for research. Unless it is a battle of compelled by circumstances, the caster will try to avoid all struggles. After all, no one with a normal mind wants to watch their own world go to ruin.

Therefore, the powerful spellcasters in Nome City only have a powerful deterrent on the surface, but for the struggle between clans outside the city, the governor still lacks the ability to mediate and intervene. In most cases If this kind of conflict between tribes does not expand, it will just happen.

“The blazing sun and the hot wind will always stop the fighting tribes from fighting, and will not lose much to Nome’s interests.”

This is the Nome governor’s role in the two tribes.

But unlike the governor’s optimistic forecast and the urbanites’ ridicule of taking pleasure in other people’s misfortune due to ignorance, Nome’s caravan is actually very Hate the conflict and war between tribes.

This has nothing to do with morality and kindness, but with their immediate interests.

“Usually, as long as you pay a certain toll to the tribe, you can pass through the business road safely. Now, the patrol team that encounters the tribe will be asked for all the goods and even be looted and slaughtered. These are too poor to make up. The damned tribesmen with a suit of armor became extremely greedy during the war!”

Santos Ben Zose, leaned out from the pavilion to look at his burning in the sun The descending caravan had no choice but to think.

In order to save water and avoid the sun, the caravans in the desert used to drive at night and rest during the day.

However, now that the way of business has changed due to the avoidance of the tribe’s war, the merchants have no choice but to choose to walk in dangerous areas that they would normally not pass through.

Traveling in these areas where no detailed maps can be purchased for a lot of money, if it is still day and night, it is very easy to get lost.

Lost in the desert and encountering a sandstorm are the two most dangerous situations. In order to avoid getting lost and to catch up with the delivery time, “Sandrhino Caravan” can only travel during the day when the direction is easy to identify, while tolerating the high temperature.

“In such a high temperature, you will lose a batch of caravan slaves, and you will have to spend money to buy them when you arrive at Nome. Damn tribal wars, may the fire and sand curse you!”

…Dividing line…

【1】: The tip discharge is a discharge phenomenon that occurs in the sharp part of an object under the action of a strong electric field. Belongs to a corona discharge. The charge at the tip of the conductor is particularly dense, and the electric field near the tip is particularly strong, and tip discharge will occur.

【2】: An arid world Atas, Atas was originally a rich blue ocean planet, but the out-of-control magic robbed it of its life force, turning it into a scorching sun burning and being The gods abandon the land lacking water and hope (catastrophe setting sun world). Psychic superpowers are highly developed in Atas and even animals are present. Every individual has one or two wild innate talents at birth. However, compared with psychic powers, the spellcasting form discovered by a Palin (villian boss) at Atas is more known to all planes. Unlike most worlds, the magic energy they use is absorbed by the life force around them. Come, this allows them to quickly get a lot of mana, but excessive use makes the entire planet a barren scene.