Starting from Zero

The rose pushed me and pointed at the big tree behind us. I looked towards the big tree with suspicion. Is it this big tree that turned us around? Turned around and walked under the tree and asked tentatively: "Are you the guy who manipulated the mechanism against us?"

"Hero! Forgive me! I know I was wrong, please don't hurt me!" The tree actually made a sound.

I looked back at This big tree in surprise. "You...you...you are a city tree?"

"So the hero knows who I am?"

Halo! It is really a tree of the city. No wonder this guy can manipulate all the equipment in the entire temple like a body. "Why are you planted here? Where is the master here?"

"The master has never been here since he was done here, and I calculated that the master would have passed away for thousands of years if nothing happened. !"

"Ah? What's your answer? Don't be honest and be careful if I chop you for firewood!"

"Hero, don't get excited, it's like this. I The owner is a Divine Grade magician. As a powerful magician, the owner naturally has a lot of strange habits. Of course, he also has the hobby that all mages share-likes to be quiet. Therefore, the owner established this temple. Its main function is to isolate all interference from the temple."

"If this is the case, then only a high level mage tower can solve all problems. Why build such a huge building? "Rose is very shrewd, and it is absolutely impossible to fool the past.

The tree of the city calmly explained: "That's it. After studying a lot of magic, the master realized a basic law, that is, the law of conservation of energy. A magic is nothing more than Transform energy from one form to another, and the purpose that the wizards hope to achieve is nothing more than the product of these energy transformations. For example, lightning magic, a wizard uses it not to simply want to release an electric current, his The real purpose is to injure the target with the high temperature generated by the electric current. The master has studied the principles of magic used by these wizards and delved into its essence. Finally, he made a discovery."

"What is the difference between this and the construction of the temple? Relationship?"

"It’s very much. Because the master’s research found that the use of magic can be done as long as there are suitable conditions, and it does not necessarily require a wizard. For example, the magic scroll is such a thing, although Most scrolls require a little magic to activate, but is Master invented a scroll that does not require activation. This scroll can even be activated by a low-level creature with no intelligence or a lifeless timing device."

"What's the matter?" I don't understand what this discovery has to do with the temple.

Rose is nodded and said: "That is to say, your master has discovered a way to make all creatures use magic of any level?"

The city tree replied: "Yes, That's it."

I asked Rose instead. "Is this something special?"

"Of course it's special." Rose explained to me. "The situation is very simple. Those wizards have a high status among humans, and those angels and demons are better than humans because almost every member of them is an archmage. However, there are serious problems with this wizard's research. He broke the balance. Any creature can use the same level of magic, so the strength will only depend on the number of individuals. In the world setting of this game, the Angel Race is the Light God clan, and they compete for the control of the world with the dark Divine Race composed of demons. . But once all creatures can use any high level magic, then angels and demons will become ordinary creatures. Humans with the largest number of individuals and super-reproductive ability will quickly wipe out angels and demons. If you are the ruler, What do you think?"

"Of course, it is to kill this kind of technology that may threaten you in its infancy." I immediately understood. "Oh! I understand. It's strange that your master wants to hide, because it was chased and killed by the gods of light and dark."

The city tree continued: "So the master is impossible to rely solely on the mage. The tower is isolated from outside interference. He needs a building that can't or dare not enter the Dark God Palace to hide himself."

I continued: "So he built a temple of Mother Earth The Mother Earth God is one of the founding gods. Angels and demons are just self-proclaimed gods. There is still a huge gap in strength, so there is no who dares to attack the doctrine of the Mother Earth Temple." I paused and continued: "Even if it is false The Temple of the Mother Earth."

"The hero is really smart." This city tree is really old, and it can actually shoot flattery. It is said that people are old and good, and I think the trees are about the same.

"Then what happened to your master?"

"The master later received an old friend's invitation to study something, and then he never returned. He left that time It has been thousands of years since then, and I guess the master may have encountered an accident."

Suddenly, Rose said, "By the way, at first, what about the magic puppet that attacked us?"

"Does the heroine say that the last double-decker puppet?"

"Yes."

"It was hit hard, and it won't work if it barely supports it."

"Where is the wreck?" I was more anxious than Rose. Take back this wreck as precious research materials!

"The master does not want his technology to be stolen. All the magic puppets have the ability to self-destruct. Once it is confirmed that consciousness cannot be guaranteed, they will self-destruct."

"You mean self-destruct?"

"It’s not self-destruct. Self-destruct will hurt nearby companions. They are all hit by the space magic array in their bodies, and once they cannot guarantee the existence of consciousness, they will be transmitted to the space fault Go, even if it’s the founding god, don’t even think about getting it back."

"But we have already collected a lot. It seems that we haven’t seen them destroy themselves?"

"I think if you look now, you will be surprised to find that they have only empty shells."

When I heard that, I ran back to the room where the mirror was, and the space door was still there. Entering the space gate, a few magic puppets were lying on the grass. I walked over and squatted to check the inside, but almost didn't vomit blood. All the magic puppets were left with the heavy armor outside, and the armor was empty and there was nothing left. Angrily ran back to the city tree: "Why are the cores gone?"

"Didn't I say that? The owner was afraid of leaking secrets, so he installed the automatic destruction function. The more things you send, the more troublesome it is. , And those shells don’t have any secrets, so the transmission system only transmits the internal structure."

"Then do you have any undamaged magic puppets here?"

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"The production of magic puppets is very troublesome, and the materials are difficult to make. The owner has only made 27 magic puppets in total, two of which are verified and the other 25 are standard."

"Then there should be more?"

"But when the is Master left, he took a verification-type mecha and 9 normal models. There were only 17 magic figures left in the temple."

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"We just broke 12 standard models and a verification machine. Where did the other 4 go?"

"3000 years ago, there was a faulty transmission device that started accidentally. It was ruined. 2100 years ago, there was a person who accidentally fell into the lake outside and lost contact. I think it should have been corroded by the lake for so long. 300 years ago, two golems were accidentally involved in repairing the shredder. , So now there is no fighting puppet. But I still have a few service-type puppets. The basic principles are roughly the same. Do you want a hero?"

"Call me first."

"Yes, I will be there soon."

The door across the room suddenly opened, and a dozen little fellows rushed over from a distance with unimaginable speed. I couldn't see the shapes of those little things because of the distance, but soon they arrived in front of us.

Rose looked at those little things in astonishment and held me by her hand: "That...that...!"

I nodded also surprised and said: "I know!"< /p>

It's not the other thing that surprised the two of us, but the way those little things acted. These magic puppets are actually floating in the air, they can fly! After a row of 12 magic dolls lined up neatly in front of us, they stopped moving. I was surprised to go round and round one of the magic puppets.

The height of these little things is about 1.2 meters, but because they are floating in the air, the actual height is about 1.6 meters. These magic puppets are not in human form. Their shape is more similar to a refrigerator floating in the air. The difference is that they have eight mechanical arms stretching out. I can't see any flying devices from outside of them, so these little fellows can fly by themselves. And they are still floating in the air even if they stop, which means that the floating of these magic puppets does not consume energy. In reality, I know that the airship does not consume energy when it is suspended, and there is one such thing in this game world, that is the floating technology that Isengard now uses. The floating technology studied by the Germans only consumes power during the ascent or descent process, once hovering, only a small amount of things are needed to maintain it. But the floating technology used by Isinger cannot be moved horizontally, but these small things can be moved. Could it be said that they have solved the Innate defect of floating technology, or they have other methods?

Rose could not help but ask first: "What's the flying ability of these little things?"

City Tree replied: "This is a floating technology. You can make things fly. This temple also has such a technology. You should notice that the lower part of the temple is not built on the bottom of the lake, but floating on the water. In fact, we used the aerospace technique to float."

"Let's take a look at the floating device."

"Please follow the magic puppets."

The little magic puppet immediately took us to the entrance door In the past, the speed of these little fellows was very fast, I had no problem, but the speed of Rose was not enough, I simply hugged her horizontally followed along. In the back passage, he turned into a large room with twists and turns, which looked familiar, as if it was similar to Isinger's power core. The whole room is all around, there are huge crystals. The machine made of shining seven colors, and in the center of the room is a magical array with a giant red pattern magic crystal shining bright radiance floating in the center of the room, there are 16 pieces around it. The slightly smaller purple crystals are also shining. Rays of light are spinning around the magic crystal with red stripes.

After seeing the red-patterned magic crystal, the ¥ symbol lit up in my two eyes. The shape of the magic crystal in front is a rhombus with thirty-two faces, just like the shape of two multi-faceted triangular pyramids connected to each other from the bottom to the bottom, but it is particularly long, and the distance between the upper and lower tips is more than 10 meters. The diameter of the central part does not exceed 4 meters. Such a large piece of magic crystal is already incredible, not to mention that this is a red patterned magic crystal. It is very easy to drive two Isinger with its output power.

The sound of the city tree rang again. "This is the core power device of the temple. All organs rely on it to operate, including our buoyancy device."

"Can the temple be moved?" This is what I care most about, simple It's okay to float Isinger, what I need is to make Isinger move. Isinger’s original design goal was to move the fortress, and the immobile Isinger would not be able to exert his maximum battle strength.

"The temple was originally movable, but the power has been basically exhausted over the years. I have no way to control the magic puppet to move outside the temple, so there is no way to obtain new energy supplements, so I have never dared Move the temple."

"So your floating technology can really move?" Rose asked excitedly.

"Yes, this temple was not originally built here, we only flew over later."

"haha, the floating technology has solved it." I am happy and The roses hugged and jumped together. It's so thankful that the problem for so long has been solved.

Rose was calmer and faster than me, and she quickly asked: "I want to ask how fast this thing moves? There is also the issue of energy consumption. It consumes a lot of money to move such a big thing. "

"It is true. The energy consumption of mobile floating technology is all concentrated in the movement. If it is just pure hovering, almost no energy is consumed, and the energy consumption of translation is relatively large. And it can’t move continuously at all. The power pipelines used now have a limit flow, and the power flow when moving is very large, and many pipelines cannot withstand the large flow of transportation for such a long time. Generally, you need to rest for two hours after flying for ten hours, and this is also affected. Many factors affect. For example, the material of the pipe, the speed of movement, the quality of the moving object."

I immediately asked: "I tell you the data, can I calculate the exercise capacity?"

< p>"Yes." I quickly opened the city attribute interface and reported Isinger's attribute to him. The city tree was quickly replied: "Such a big thing is theoretically very difficult to fly, but your power machinery is also relatively large, so it is still possible to fly, and your power pipeline seems to be better than the temple’s materials, and the structure is relatively relatively. Advanced, it should be no problem to cope with flying, but because the mass itself is too large, continuous movement is absolutely impossible. I estimate that 8 hours of flight and 2 hours of rest is the limit."

"Then what should we do if we cross the ocean? Can’t fly to the sea for 8 hours?"

"Resting does not mean closing, just hovering."

"What will happen in terms of speed?" I asked excitedly.

"Theoretically, the speed can be increased indefinitely. The special propulsion principle of floating technology can provide continuous and stable propulsion power. As long as it is kept on, it will continue to accelerate. But the problem is not acceleration but deceleration .Because the air resistance is too small, even if such a large mass slides at a speed of 5 miles, it will have to rush more than 200 kilometers to completely stop. This is still a headwind. If it is downwind, it will not stop."

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"If the reverse advancement is not possible?"

"One is waste, and the second is the strength is not controlled, it is difficult to stabilize, and the sudden reverse advance offsets the potential energy Too big, when the time comes, your city will shake violently as if you hit something. Even if it’s one or two times, it’s often done so sooner or later to disperse the city’s power facilities. If the aeroplane disintegrates in the air or the problem of a big explosion It's a big one."

Khan! I have tried that situation once. I killed millions of people and almost scrapped the entire city's buildings. Isengard still has many large and small problems that have not been fixed yet! Playing a roller coaster in the air with something as big as Isinger is not something ordinary people suffer. If I do it again, I will have a heart attack!

"Then how does your temple solve the problem of movement?"

"It's very simple, don't fly too fast. The power unit of the temple has a power limit, so the fastest equivalent to the speed of Asuka. If your city is even slower, I think it’s the safe limit to reach the average speed of the horse."

The rose said to me: "Is this slow? It’s a little bit? If we want to move Isinger to Japan, don’t we have to fly for a week?"

"So is there any way, it’s better than disintegrating in the air and falling into the sea? I don’t want Eising. Grid became Atlantis." The situation is almost understood, it's time to do it. "The tree of the city, the owner of this temple has passed away, and the power here is about to run out. You have no future if you stay. Sooner or later, you will be finished with here, why don't you go with me?"

"You mean to move the temple to your territory?"

"no no no. The temple does not move, we only take the useful things with you, the temple is of little value, but a large building , Let it sink to the bottom of the lake and sleep forever?"

"I really want to, but as a tree of the city, my mission is above all else. Although theoretically the owner is dead, there is no I won’t leave here with the exact news of the master’s death. You must not take away anything here, even a rock."

"Why are you so stubborn? Do you want me to use force? "

"I am afraid of death, but I hope you can leave quietly after watching, and even take away a few non-battle-type magic puppets. However, you must not move other things , Otherwise I will activate the ultimate defense system."

"Ultimate defense?"

"It is the super teleport system. Send the entire temple into Space Crack, and seal it to the unknown forever and ever "I can put everything into my space door, even if I was teleported to me at worst and committed suicide once, I would return home when I was resurrected anyway. Even if you activate the ultimate defense, it’s useless. "

"Under normal circumstances, after the adventurer dies, the soul will be teleported back by the resurrection temple and resurrected. However, Space Crack is a one-way space for teleporting spells. You can only enter or exit. Even if you commit suicide, you will also exit. Not coming."

Rose pushed me. "Don't be too stiff, if it's true, then equivalent to delete the number, it's not cost-effective."

"Then how can you believe that your master passed away?"

"Unless you can bring back the ring of stars that the master never leaves, it will be useless even if I agree. The ring of stars is the key to all the organs of this temple. Without it, no one should think about the idea here. "Hearing this, Rose and I laughed unanimously. The city tree is unfathomable mystery by our laugh. "What are you laughing at?" I couldn't help laughing harder, extend the hand to show the ring. "The Ring of Stars?"

"Is there any problem now?"

"There is no problem, the new owner, I am willing to serve you." The tone of the city tree is different. . "If you let me see it earlier, it won't be so troublesome. All the mechanisms in the temple can be closed with this ring."

"Do you think I like it? If you know what it takes to hold the ring It’s hard to break in without a ghost! By the way, what do you think you need to turn on?"

"Here." A stone platform suddenly rose next to the city tree. There is a circular groove in the middle of the stone platform. I haven't seen any city tree screamed by itself. "Where's the starter? It must be the damn elves. Babalu, Babalu."

A dozen humanoid monsters with long hair ran in from the outside, each of them quite tall. , But it doesn’t look clumsy at all. Those monsters knelt down in front of the city tree and started talking about something, anyway we didn't understand. What the city tree said in the same language, although we did not understand it, the tone of the city tree seemed angry. Phantom helped me translate the words of City Tree: "The goblin stole our launcher. Go get the launcher back."

"Wait." I interrupted them suddenly, and then took that The golden disc was taken out. "The launcher you are talking about is not this thing, right?"

"The launcher? How did it get to you?"

"The little fairies outside gave it to me, they I have to say what kind of savior I am. Actually, I think it’s more appropriate for me to be a god of destruction!"

The city tree said respectfully: "Since you have the best one, please put the golden disc Go to the groove on the stone platform." I put the disc into the groove on the stone platform as the tree of the city said. Just as the disc was inserted, the cross crystal in the middle rose suddenly. A lid was suddenly opened in the middle of the crystal, and a flower-shaped groove appeared under the lid (there is in the reference picture gallery of the ring of stars). I looked at the ring of stars, and the groove seemed very similar to the jewel flower on the ring of stars. It seems that this is the start key.

Without the city tree, I immediately fisted my right hand and pressed the ring of stars into the groove. The groove and the ring are tightly joined together, and the entire disc lights up as the ring is inserted.

The sound of the city tree rang again. "Now turn left 90 degrees, then turn 180 degrees and then left 90 degrees."

I followed the rotation of the ring, but the gold plate also turned. After turning left 90 degrees, the whole temple shook suddenly, and after turning right 180 degrees, the walls in the room all lit up. Finally turn left 90 degrees to return. With a click, the stone platform suddenly began to fall back to the ground, and the disc was also retracted, and my ring naturally came out of the groove. Suddenly all of the flowerbed fences surrounding the city tree are retracted into the ground, and the city tree itself shines with golden rays of light.

In the surprised eyes of Rose and I, the city tree turned into a golden little sun, and then the rays of light began to dim, but still very dazzling. The light ball suddenly flew out of the flower bed and landed on the ground next to us. Then it began to deform and soon became a human-shaped light ball. As the rays of light continued to dim, the facial contours and facial features of this person gradually became clear. But as the rays of light continued to decrease, I suddenly realized that he seemed to have no clothes, and quickly pulled the rose into his arms so that her back was facing the humanoid object in the light cluster. "Don't look!"

Soon the light group was completely extinguished, and a completely naked male human appeared in front of us. Looking at this guy, I am sure that he is the tree of the city just now, which also explains why he has no clothes. The human being transformed by the city tree is obviously a European. A golden wavy hair reminds me of the Lion King. Those blue eyes seemed to be full of electricity, specially created to seduce the good women, but unfortunately I am a man. The elegant facial expression and his handsome facial features make people feel how noble he is, but the naked body completely destroys his elegance and nobility, but on the contrary adds some wildness to him.