Chapter 321 321. Ether "vegetative"
Sun City.
William was sitting at his desk, and the early morning sunlight shone into this simple room. He couldn't help but squint his eyes, as if he was a little uncomfortable with the too bright sunlight.
My eyes are a little sore after staying up all night.
He sighed softly and glanced at the message on the battle report:
"Another city has been captured."
There have been more and more good news like this recently. The Holy See and the Church of the Earth Mother, which once seemed to him to be shining with eternal light, were now like building blocks washed away by water, crumbling.
It was incredibly smooth.
The news coming from within the Holy See of Light and the Mother Earth Church is that the gifts from the gods are getting less and less, and even some low-level priests are unable to successfully perform divine spells.
"It seems the war should be over soon."
When he thought of this, William felt joy from the bottom of his heart.
For the past six years, he has been thinking about how to coordinate the increasingly large army and various factions. This is not an easy task.
To be honest, even if he has received oracles and blessings, he can't compare to the bishops of the Goddess of Wisdom and the God of War on the real battlefield; any magician from Star Town and Hanjiao Island can't compete with him in magic. An apprentice can crush them; in terms of combat skills, they are even more unsightly.
But even so, he still sits firmly in this position, and everyone will obey his orders and support him - he knows very well that part of this comes from his strong logistics supply Ability, and the other part is the lord of Hanjiao.
He knew very well that he was pushed to this position, but so what? Too many people were crushed in the frenzy of war, not even dust and mud.
It is truly incredible to be able to become the leader of the coalition and leave a legend in the songs of the bards.
Now that this job is about to end, all he can think about is that after it is over, he can finally go to work on infrastructure construction with Teacher Jamie to atone for his sins caused by this war.
Thinking of this, he put away all the battle reports on the table, opened the door and left his residence, and came to the construction site of Sun City, where large-scale construction was underway——
Tall buildings were slowly being lifted out of the ground. Since then, various earth magic plants are using their own power to awaken the soil and deep rocks. After a series of magical processing, they are equivalent to "growing" buildings from the earth.
Before the building can grow, various pipes must be buried, druids have worked hard to spawn magic plants, and defense facilities to isolate prying eyes must be established as well as the most important city mobile array... …
It is said to be Sun City, but it is actually a huge military camp, and it is also a mobile military camp, which can move forward at any time as the army sets out to provide logistical support.
Not only must it meet the needs of extraordinary beings such as knights, warriors, and mages, but also meet all the living needs of elves, mermaids, dwarves, and half-orcs... He couldn't help but sigh that it was fortunate that the little blue cat Dora and the "unknown construction worker" were there.
Otherwise, it would be really difficult to build such a city, let alone carry out infrastructure work on the villages and cities occupied along the way - in fact, he didn't quite understand why Croat asked for so much money before. More resources to restore areas destroyed by war and locust plagues.
It’s like he never felt that he could truly defeat the Holy See of Light and the Church of the Mother Earth. Wouldn’t these places still be occupied by them? By then, won’t their infrastructure projects be cheaper for those “servants” of God?
In his opinion, if he really wants to severely attack the Holy See of Light and the Church of the Mother Goddess of the Earth, all the cities must be burned down, so that the despicable gods can feel pain.
But when he told the little blue cat Dora about his doubts, Dora looked at him with a very strange look for a long time.
"You have really grown up."
Before he could be happy, Dora said again: "It also makes me feel strange."
At that moment His heart was tugged hard.
"Where do you live?" Dora asked: "When you escape the flames of war, only to find that the city where your ancestors have lived for generations has been burned to the ground, how should you survive?"
The little blue cat pointed to his pocket with his paw: "Do they have this?"
Of course William couldn't answer - he was horrified, he didn't know why he became like this, actually fighting for the war. It is necessary to make it difficult for countless ordinary people to survive.
What’s the point of such a war?
From the moment he said without hesitation that he wanted to burn the city to the ground, a huge ravine formed between him and ordinary people, an unbridgeable gap.
Even thinking about it now, he felt that his heart was so depressed that he couldn't breathe.
He felt that if he could not restore the earth after being devastated by the war, he would be sorry for his ordinary background!
So he immediately began to patrol the construction site with great enthusiasm, carefully inspecting every place, striving to nip all uncertain and vague factors in the cradle.
By the time he finished inspecting all areas, it was already noon.
"Let's go and see the laboratory."
Hungry but not hungry, he thought for a moment and instinctively reached for the pocket on his stomach - it was a gift from the little blue cat The "spare pocket" given to him is said to be connected to the pocket of the little blue cat.
But he has never taken out any props he has never seen before. He can only get basic props such as "Any Door", "Memory Bread", "Gourmet Table Cloth" and so on.
Although there is still a slight gap compared to the cat who can easily pull out a huge golem, but these basic magical props make him feel quite incredible.
He took out the pink wooden door and pushed it open gently -
On the other side of the door was a laboratory full of crystal pillars.
Some weird, demonic wolves outlined with simple lines on the paper are running here, and you can find some delicate moss every time you run.
It was blue-purple moss.
"Mr. William."
The owner of the laboratory, an apprentice named Mir, noticed his arrival: "Our experiment has not been completely completed, you came a little early. "
At this moment, Mir is wearing a pure white mage robe. Logically speaking, a robe of this color should be very holy, but for some reason, there is always a gloomy feeling about him.
Even people like William, who are used to seeing broken limbs and bloody battlefields, are a little scared, and naturally a suitable smile appears on his face: "I want to come and see your experiment.
After all, you don’t have Lord Croya’s permission. "
This is a bit meaningful - Ether Mage, that is, the plan to train ordinary people into mages is actually a bit cruel.
As the war progresses, the more and more More and more "torture victims" are being discovered, and they are not even limited to some mines that are in deep contact with the earth. These special existences have appeared in ordinary towns and cities.
After learning that there were so many victims, Mir rushed over and asked William to provide him with enough victims for experiments with Talling's permission.
William originally did not want to. He really wanted to agree, but Ta Ling's permission was equivalent to Croya's permission in a sense, but he still felt that it would not be right without Croya's direct order.
So basically I have to come in person every few days to prevent Mir from turning those already pitiful people into experimental subjects and a pile of cold corpses.
Fortunately, Mir also knows that it is okay to conduct experiments, and of course it is okay to voluntarily participate in experiments, but if you are really crazy enough to risk human life to pile up the experimental results...
Well, wait for Chloe The day Ya comes out is the day He dies.
Mire's expression remained unchanged, "But with Lord Taling's permission."
"You know, Lord Taling can agree, Lord Croya should also be able to agree."
He said this and made a gesture of invitation.
William followed immediately, and the two of them walked inside the laboratory and saw teenagers and girls lining up, with their upper bodies exposed, preparing to be inoculated with ether moss.
Each of them is in good spirits, with no signs of malnutrition or emaciation, and their eyes are full of eager anticipation.
Here, this laboratory can allow them to become mages, allow them to resist those enslavers, and allow the superior priests and gods to taste failure - this is enough.
“The Orpheus family has provided us with ten swan recorder trees.” Mir pointed to the trees that were controlling magic with music and planting moss on people’s wounds: “This is the first In one step, Lord Croya's music can suppress the restlessness of the wound and accept more moss."
He led William to continue walking forward, past the people who were excitedly waiting to receive the moss, and came to the second step area - "People who have been inoculated with moss will enter huge plants, shining with light blue." They are dormant inside the starlight lotus. The dormancy time depends on when they can fully adapt to the surge in magic power. ."
Mire sighed: "These lotus flowers are very strange, they can actually absorb the concept of pain - it seems that pain is also a kind of desire."
"Pain? ?" William suddenly felt that his knowledge reserve was somewhat insufficient, and looked into the distance with surprised eyes.
The surface of the huge lotus flowers, which are as tall as two people, vaguely shines with extremely complex magic patterns, flashing slowly like breathing, and occasionally you can see a flash of red fire. And passed.
"In the abyss, pain is also a kind of desire."
Mill explained: "This is also thanks to the priests of the Maid of Pain. They responded to the 'invitation' of the fallen angels in a 'friendly' manner, The magic that transforms pain into pleasure is handed over Come."
"..."
William knew that the Maiden of Pain was a little-known god in the lower plane, and that her priests would cut themselves apart under the dim moonlight. The body, using body and pain to please its own gods.
But isn’t that magic?
Why can you get other people's magic so easily? This can't be obtained through war, right?
But Mir really didn’t know about this. In order not to affect his image, he simply pretended not to hear it and quickly took William through the area and reached the third, which is the largest one. area.
The number of crystal pillars here is exaggerated. Next to each crystal pillar is a petri dish with various different magic plants planted in it.
There are text and video introductions next to each magic plant, and many people who have completed the second step are choosing.
“People who have accepted the etheric magic moss and can endure the pain caused by the moss will choose their favorite magic plants here and plant the seeds of the magic plants into their wounds.”
Mir casually pointed at a boy with a somewhat illusory, pale golden sunflower growing on his back and said: "That is the descendant of Teacher Sunflower. Its power is healing and protection."
The boy in the distance is using His hand gently stroked the sunflower growing in the ferocious wound, entwined with blue-purple light and golden halo.
The product of the perfect combination of nature and magic grows on the hideous wound, like a flower blooming from the ruins, showing off its existence to the whole world.
Actually, this is quite curious. Why do such plants grow in the human body? Even the druids at best stuff some soil into their hair to grow some plants. This is directly in the flesh and blood. grown inside.
But William didn’t find it scary, but instead found it beautiful.
There are more things further away - the vines growing on the body are woven into armor, surrounded by brightly blooming fiery red roses, the wings of white feather grass behind the body, the cannons and muzzles of peas.
It is not only beautiful, but also represents powerful magic plants one after another. Those magic plants have appeared frequently in wars, making the Paladins and war priests of the Holy See of Light and the Mother Goddess of the Earth... Nothing can be done.
With a proud expression on Mir's face: "This is the masterpiece I have completed so far."
"Let the wounds bloom and let the pain become nourishment."
Along with his voice, his white robe, which had never been changed in William's memory, was suddenly pushed open by something from underneath, and deep purple vines grew out of it.
Each one is wrapped around a tool, such as a knife, fork, wrench, beaker, test tube, staff... Anyway, as long as it appears in evil stories, Mir's vines have it.
“…”
“What are you going to do?”
Looking like this, he looks like a weird mage surrounded by countless tentacles. William is no longer nervous. , and now I’m nervous again.
Is this guy addicted to research and wants to do it for me?
"Oh." Mir said nonchalantly: "I'm a little too excited. You know, they can feel my excitement."
The flower vines slowly retracted, but they were really There were too many, and when he retracted, he would inevitably lift up his white robe again. This time, William keenly saw Mir's body - it had all crystallized.
He sensibly did not mention this topic: "What is the magic level of these ether mages? When can they go into battle?"
"It depends on what magic plants are chosen and accepted. "How much etheric moss." Mir's expression was a bit difficult when he mentioned this. Look: "If too much etheric magic moss is accepted, it will affect the stability of the body structure and completely turn the body into magic crystal.
In this case, flesh and blood will be the nutrients absorbed by the magic plants. ', Theoretically speaking, the more there are, the more powerful magic plants can be accepted
But they will also lose themselves faster and become less human. ”
——His friends, some of the first batch of prisoners who came to Hanjiao Island were completely crystallized, with powerful magic flowing in their blood vessels, and their bones and flesh turned into demons. Jing.
Is that really a human being?
As time passes, he hopes more and more to overcome it. Lord Loya can appear as soon as possible. He really has too many questions that he wants to ask for help. His companions... can't even enter the Hall of Valor and Eden.
But Lord Loya did not come out. , the only message that the mermaid prince brought was only four words "End the War"
Mir sighed slightly and caught a glimpse of William's expression change. Instead of mentioning the matter again, he took out his staff and tapped it lightly.
“Take a look.”
“This is what’s going to happen next.”
The ground changed quickly, the crystal ground turned into a screen, inside The shadow of a city appeared, which was the city used by the Holy See of Light to store "forbidden weapons" and "apocrypha".
The so-called forbidden weapons are some of the demonic creations from the lower planes as well as powerful magic props and sealed monsters made by mages. The apocryphal book is similar to the "Buried Magic" obtained by Croya. .
Such an important place is of course heavily guarded.
“You asked these ether mages to attack this city?” William knew what Mir meant at a glance, and was shocked: “There are three bishops and a legendary cardinal sitting here!”< br>
But his shock was not over yet. He saw a group of about three hundred people with various magic plants on their bodies arriving outside the city.
Immediately afterwards, all kinds of magic lights flashed, and the leader of them had bubbles of platinum light rippling on his body, and he forcefully withstood all the attacks.
Even legendary level magic can be blocked easily.
With such an indestructible shield, others can cast magic at will - sunlight rays, flying feathers, lightning storms, extreme cold storms...
It only takes a moment here. It became a chaotic place shrouded in magic. Those white towers and bright icons were suppressed and destroyed in the brilliance of magic.
The angry bishops and cardinals violently swayed more magical spells, and then attracted more counterattacks - among them was a white fluffy mushroom that seemed to be able to reflect the attacks of magical spells.
“…”
William’s first reaction was: “Didn’t I say that you will not intervene in this war head-on? Is this really okay?”
Hanjiao Island has not explicitly intervened in the war. Even though it has sent out construction team apprentices and magic plant war groups, they are basically cooperating.
As a result, he actually took the initiative now?
“Not just us.” Mir shook his head: “William, the weak Holy See of Light and the Church of the Mother Earth are like a piece of fat.
In places you don’t know, the gods They are also fighting, and there is even a senior who has returned from the star realm."
William frowned: "Why don't I know?"
"This is what Lord Croa once confessed, and it was also passed on by Prince Treden."
"He promised you that you can live well. Now that you have done enough, the remaining things should be more The senior management's discussion is over."
"His appearance is now over. The purpose of intervening is to give you people as much choice as possible."
Mire patted William on the shoulder: "I envy you very much."
The mage in the white robe swayed. Walking away leisurely, William was left looking at the scene on the bottom of his feet in a daze.
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