Chapter 343 Welcome to my floating city (Happy New Year’s Eve to everyone)
There is no doubt that the undead wizard Ludwig is a Frankenstein-like figure.
He does not have what normal people call a "view of good and evil" or a "view of morality". He is simply interested in the subject of his research, and has a kind of fanaticism and persistence that cannot be described in words.
It was also because of this that Zuo Si chose to kidnap him out of that hellish place in Innistrad.
The most important thing is that, as one of Innistrad's most outstanding geniuses, Ludwig has the qualifications to become a top necromancer or even a legendary mage.
This guy used to make large quantities of corpse-embedded creatures, just to accumulate skills and experience, rather than having a morbid fascination with corpses and undead creatures like Kirav.
Just the opposite!
What he really wants to do is to transcend the limits of human beings and completely transform himself into another, more advanced life form.
There is a saying that goes well, how big a person's pattern is, how high his achievements will be in the future.
Obviously, Ludwig is considered top notch in terms of intelligence and structure.
Even if he was born in a barren, weak, closed world like Innistrad, he was still not restrained, but had his sights set on the highest from the beginning.
Now, after acquiring a large amount of necromancy magic knowledge from Faerûn and the Floating City, this genius has completely opened his eyes, and all kinds of fantastic ideas and inspirations have sprung up one after another. They pop up and conduct all kinds of crazy experiments every day.
If the current spellcasting level were not too low, I would have probably started trying to create some special corpse-embedded creatures that retain the soul and consciousness of the deceased.
Talantir was undoubtedly very wary of Ludvi, a stranger from another time and space.
Because he was educated by Faerun's traditional mage, he has always believed that magic is a very powerful and dangerous force.
Every mage and apprentice must maintain enough respect for it, and maintain a cautious attitude no matter what experiments they do, ensuring that everything is within control.
What about Ludvi?
Not only is he very radical when studying and experimenting, but he also exudes a kind of hysterical madness in his bones. He is simply an unstable bomb that may explode at any time.
So after leaving the underground laboratory, Tyrantir immediately couldn't help but ask: "Your Excellency, we now have a construct production line, it is necessary to take huge risks again, in batches Create that kind of undead army called a corpse embedded army?”
Zuo Si answered straightforwardly: “The construct is a construct, and the corpse embedded army is a corpse embedded army. The two have different positions from the beginning. Same.
The former is expensive and difficult to destroy easily, so it is the elite used to attack difficulties at critical moments.
The latter is an extremely cheap cannon fodder army that overwhelms the enemy with overwhelming numbers.
The greatest significance of their existence is to carry out endless consumption until the enemy is completely overwhelmed by the casualties caused by the war and the countless material consumption, or his morale collapses and he loses his will to resist.
You have to understand that the wars we may have to face in the future are not just small fights in Faerûn or this world, but facing enemies of hundreds of thousands, millions, or even tens of millions. Time and space combat.
Just imagine, if one day we need to enter Baator Hell or the Bottomless Abyss, then with just the number of constructs, it is really possible to stop thousands of high-level demons or demons Legion siege?
The answer is obviously no!
So Ludwig's arrival is to make up for this numerical gap and ensure that there is always a large enough army in the floating city that is not afraid of death and can fight for time at critical moments. "
"Fighting across time and space..."
Tailantir's eyes shone slightly, and he instantly realized that the supreme leader of the organization in front of him had done all these things recently. What.
Similarly, he also began to look forward to the knowledge and magic from other worlds.
After all, just capturing the magical knowledge of a floating city has already brought a lot to the senior members of the organization.
Especially for those amazingly powerful super magics, each successful transformation will increase the legendary magic collection in the spell reserve by one, and at the same time, it can also greatly increase one's understanding and knowledge of arcane magic.
“That’s right! Fight across time and space!
I think you should know very well that due to the relationship between the gods in Faerûn, it is impossible for us to carry out large-scale expansion and conquest.< br>
We must not easily destroy the balance between good and evil, order and chaos, otherwise it will trigger a series of serious and uncontrollable huge risks
But in other worlds where there are no gods or the gods are not powerful enough, the situation is different. "
When saying these words, a meaningful smile appeared on Zuo Si's face.
Tailantir understood instantly and couldn't help but smile and nodded: "It turns out in this way! Then we really need to strengthen the floating city's large-scale combat capabilities. Especially since there are so many mage towers, it's best to find ways to utilize them. "
"There are only two ways to control so many mage towers.
First, cultivate a sufficient number of mages;
Second, I upgraded the [Creator] profession to the legendary level, and then used [Legend Awakening Creation] to activate the entire floating city and generate independent consciousness and thinking ability.
But it is not easy to do this.
Because it is not the floating city of Plantia that preserves the most complete information about the creator's profession, but another floating city called Horatis.
We must first find the location of this floating city, and then seize it from a bunch of powerful undead creatures.
By the way, has any news come back from those gargoyles I sent before? ”
Zuo Si suddenly remembered that he had released a dozen gargoyles more than half a year ago to explore the whereabouts of other floating cities in designated areas.
"Sorry, Your Excellency, I may be disappointed. So far, not a single gargoyle has come back to report. Maybe they are still searching, maybe they have been defeated, in short, there are several other floating cities. There is no news yet." Tyrantir sighed regretfully.
You must know that many lichs in the organization have always wanted to find and capture other floating cities, and then recreate the glory of Netheril's magical civilization in this world.
“If we continue to summon gargoyles or other creatures for reconnaissance, I don’t believe that these floating cities can hide themselves forever. What’s more, those archmages who have transformed into undead forms are also a threat to us. This huge threat should be nipped in the bud as soon as possible." Zuo Si narrowed his eyes and gave instructions.
With the unfolding of the fourth natural disaster plan, he will soon carry out large-scale construction with the port city of Hull as the center, and continue to plunder the population from another continent across the sea, rekindling the fire of civilization. .
In this case, if one or two floating cities suddenly descended from the sky and launched an attack, the consequences would be disastrous.
So no matter what the angle, we must find and solve the threats of other floating cities as soon as possible.
"Understood! I will make this matter the top priority for the next three months." Tyrantir quickly agreed.
“Very good! I’ll leave it to you and Vanessa to find the floating city. Remember, you only have three months at most. After three months, I want to see all the floating cities. "
After that, Zuo Si ignored the old mage who was quite famous in the Baldur's Gate area, and raised his hand to try to call the phoenix in another world.
In less than a second...
A mini phoenix that looked only the size of a palm appeared out of thin air in the palm of my hand.
From a physical perspective, the power he possesses at this moment is obviously far from his original body.
Driven by curiosity, Zuo Si asked with great interest: "Is your current form an incarnation? A saint? Or a projection?"
"It can barely be considered an incarnation. Because. I don't have any believers in this world, so I shouldn't be able to come, but thanks to your existence, I can penetrate a little bit of power through the connection of the earth cards. If you leave this world, I will be lost instantly. Everything about this world," Xiao Fenghuang explained patiently.
"So... for God, in addition to providing a certain amount of faith power, believers are also equivalent to their coordinates in a certain time and space? And the greater the number of believers, the more power will penetrate in, and the incarnations will also come. The more powerful?" Zuo Si touched his chin with an interested expression.
Little Phoenix nodded slightly: "Yes. As a native god, I don't need faith in the world where I was born. The deep well of soul is the source of my power. But in other worlds, I must rely on believers Only with help can the incarnation come, otherwise it can only maintain its current weak state."
"Interesting! It turns out that this is why many gods have a large number of believers in countless material planes, but they still preach tirelessly. The doctrine allows more mortals to believe in themselves.
The number of believers determines what kind of incarnation they can bring to the world.
In other words, if one day I follow you in Faerûn. The easiest way for a certain god to start a war is to destroy all his temples and kill all the mortals who believe in him.
As a result, the god whose number of believers has dropped sharply will not be able to send a very powerful incarnation in Faerûn.
Of course, the premise is that this god cannot be the native god of Faerûn. "
Zuo Si rubbed his chin and murmured to himself.
Obviously, he found another good way to deal with the gods, and also realized why the gods encouraged him to live in the mortal world. The church attacks other churches that are hostile to gods and reduces the number of believers of the other party as much as possible.
The most typical one is Suellen, the goddess of the moon.
She was originally one of the two goddesses of creation, with undisputed divine power. However, she gradually fell into a disadvantage in the battle with her twin sister Shar, and now she has even fallen to medium divine power.
One of the very important reasons is that Sullun's temples and believers are often assassinated by believers of the Goddess of Night.
Maybe once or twice is no big deal.
But what if it lasts for decades, hundreds, or thousands of years?
If Selun was not the original god of Toril, it is estimated that even an incarnation of weak divine power would not be able to come now.
"You are right. If you want me to exert my power in this world, I need to have enough believers first."
Little Phoenix answered in the affirmative without thinking.
Zuo Si lowered his head and thought for a few minutes, and immediately responded: "In that case, then go to Hull to inspire your first pastor and let him start spreading the doctrine. Oh, I almost forgot Ask, have you obtained the priesthood? "
"Yes, father. I now have the three priesthoods of soul, eternal life and flame." Little Phoenix answered without thinking.
"What about the name? What name do you plan to use for believers to call yourself?" Zuo Si smiled and continued to ask.
"I plan to call him Benu, which comes from the phoenix in Egyptian mythology. What do you think?"
There was a hint of excitement and expectation in the little Phoenix's tone.
You don’t need to ask to know that during this time, he read a lot of myths and legends about Phoenix, and found what may be the oldest name among them.
After all, the word phoenix was born in ancient Egyptian and ancient Assyrian myths and legends.
"Bennu? A good name. From now on, you will be the god Bennu."
After saying that, Zuo Si slowly raised his hand and let the little phoenix fly.
The latter took off into the air in the blink of an eye and flew straight to the Port of Hull not far below.
As a god, all Bennu has to do is to find one or two people with high enough perception attributes among the few remaining survivors, and use methods such as dreams or illusions to make them aware Realize that you are a true god.
Then a stable connection can be established and divine magic can be given.
In this way, the priest who has acquired divine power can convince more people by showing this power and slowly become a believer.
At least this is basically the way the gods of Faerun preach. Of course, since there are no other gods in this world yet, Little Phoenix can completely claim that he is the only true god.
Zuo Si obviously didn't care much about how Bennu would spread his faith. Instead, he went straight to the lounge and said to the thirty senior talents waiting here: "How do you feel about your new bodies?"
"Awesome! This is simply a miracle of genetic engineering and biotechnology! If I guess correctly, these bodies should be more than just humans or elves. Is it simple?" Professor White asked enthusiastically.
Zuo Si nodded slightly: "Yes! The body you are currently using is actually a fusion of four species: humans, dark elves, dragons and trolls.
Among them, human genes make your appearance less exotic;
dark elves can give you dark vision and magic resistance skin;
dragons have stronger strength and physical attributes. , and longer lifespan;
The troll gene gives powerful self-healing and regeneration abilities.
In other words, your body has been different from most mortal races from the beginning.
Coupled with your smart minds, amazing learning abilities, and the knowledge, experience and insights you bring from the earth, you already have the qualifications to become a strong person.
By the way, the bodies you control are all fertile without exception. ”
“Oh my God! Fusion of genes from four species into one clone? This... how on earth is this done? "
Dr. White's eyes shone slightly, and he clenched his fists excitedly.
"It's very simple. By magic, cloning magic to be exact. In this world full of strange energies, magic is an energy that exists objectively and can be utilized. It has nearly unlimited possibilities. It can not only realize the conversion between matter and energy, but also create life out of thin air. ”
In order to let these experts, who were full of scientific knowledge, understand what he wanted to express, Zuo Si directly opened his arms and created an energy ball the size of a basketball in front of everyone.
In this energy group, there are not only flames emitting amazing heat and dazzling white electric light, but also positive energy that can heal all pain and negative energy born from death.
All of this can be directly observed with the naked eye.
Nearly everyone present stood up from their chairs instantly and rushed forward to take a closer look.
"Magic? This is magic!"
"Energy visible to the naked eye? Unbelievable! How does it work?"
"Get out of the way! Get out of the way! Why are you, a social science person, doing so far ahead? Do you know what high-energy physics is?"
"Shut up! I originally studied nuclear physics, but I just changed to a new track later."
"Okay, okay, don't argue, everyone is on his own. The elites in the industry will even be colleagues working together in the future, so don’t let this trivial matter ruin your friendship.”
“Mont is right, everyone should be quiet and form a tight circle as much as possible. Squat down in front of the station, and stand in the back if you are tall.”
...
Suddenly, the originally quiet lounge became boiling.
After all, there is only one person who can engage in scientific research who does not have a strong curiosity, let alone something that is completely unscientific like magic.
Especially McCas, who has a background in physics, his face is full of joy and enthusiasm, as if he has discovered a huge treasure.
I even reached out several times to feel the magic energy, but was stopped by my companions.
After all, it is fire, lightning, golden light emitted by positive energy and biting cold emitted by negative energy. Any fool knows that if you touch it rashly, you will definitely be injured or even die.
Although they will not really die through remote connection, if they lose their current body, it is unknown when they will get the second one.
Without a doubt!
Zuo Si used the simplest, crudest and most intuitive way to make the experts present realize what the world they are currently living in is like.
After seven or eight minutes, he put away this ball of energy, took out two of the most basic magic theories, and said in a slightly playful tone: "I think you all understand by now that magic is here. The world is an objective existence
Next, all you have to do is learn to master and use this power.
I think after seeing magical energy, no one will choose to give up magic and receive warrior training, right?
You can raise your hand now if you have any.
It doesn’t matter, I respect your choice. ”
In an instant!
The rest room became silent. No one raised their hands. Instead, everyone stared at the two books with extremely longing eyes.
Since they were all instilled with the corresponding language by Isadora, who became the mastermind, when recreating the virtual illusion of Waterdeep City, they were able to understand what the words on the cover meant.
The most important thing is, who the hell wants to be trained as a warrior when they can learn magic?
Are you okay with your brain?
Magic not only means powerful power, but also a tool for exploring the world and even the universe.
No matter how powerful a warrior is, can he travel between different planes with his own strength?
Can he feel changes in the energy of his surrounding environment?
The answer is obviously no.
So for these high-level scientific research industry elites present, magic is naturally the only choice.
Seeing that no one said anything for a long time, Zuo Si nodded with satisfaction: "Very good. Since you all choose to learn magic, starting from tomorrow, I will assign a great mage to teach the most basic skills Knowledge. But he is a lich, so you'd better be mentally prepared."
"Don't worry about this. We have just seen the legendary Mind Flayer who feeds on the brains of intelligent creatures. As long as we can learn knowledge, we don't care what kind of monster comes as a teacher." McCas is very free and easy. shrugged his shoulders.
You must know that since he obtained the body and came to the real world, he has been frightened more than once.
First there were mind flayers, and then they encountered huge constructs and golems. Just now I saw giant dragons and griffons flying in the sky, and now I'm almost used to it.
"Haha, keep this good attitude, I believe you should be able to adapt to the new life soon.
In addition, in addition to learning magic, you must also take time to be yourself
For example, mechanical engineer David, you have to check all the Quarish mechanical devices to see if there are any areas that can be innovated and improved;
Sociologist Chris, you have to give me a detailed report and plan. , to ensure that more earthling souls entering this world will not cause chaos and panic;
Dr. White, your task is to study the genes of different organisms, find ways to extract those useful parts, and then graft them to the genes of other organisms.
In addition, let’s see if we can increase the speed of breeding clones.
In short, everyone must play a role in their professional fields..."
Zuo Si arranged the work content for everyone without any politeness.
"I have a question! Genetic research requires a series of expensive professional equipment including oscillators, centrifuges, PCR amplifiers, etc. Are they available here?" Dr. White asked in an uncertain tone. .
"Of course! In fact, I have prepared a complete biological laboratory for you."
As he spoke, Zuo Si raised his hand and snapped his fingers.
Pop!
With a crisp sound, a portal opened instantly.
On the other side, I saw a large number of professional instruments of free value densely arranged, some of which even cost tens of millions of dollars, and the total in the world does not exceed 20.
“You must have robbed a cutting-edge biological laboratory in a certain country, right?” White’s mouth opened in surprise.
You must know that several of these instruments were treasures that he wanted to get when he was alive, but the superiors were never willing to allocate funds.
"Please believe me, Doctor. I have never bothered to do something as simple as robbery. In fact, these expensive instruments were donated unconditionally by a generous and wealthy man. Yes, he even sold most of his property.”
When he said these words, a hint of playfulness flashed in Zuo Si's eyes that was not easy to detect.
Obviously, the rich man did not really volunteer, but was "volunteered".
Zuo Si, who has mastered more than forty ways to charm and control others, can make a person willing to die for him with just a few moves of his fingers, not to mention giving up more than half of his family property.
Of course, any of the unlucky ones he selected were basically not extremely black-hearted capitalists. They were families whose ancestors had sold contraband to the East.
In his opinion, the only value of living for these people is to become their own all-weather cash machine, and they can get some whenever they need it.
As for whether the other party will go bankrupt or commit suicide because of this, Zuo Si doesn't care.
Unfortunately, White, who was in a state of excitement, did not realize this. Instead, he said happily: "Great! It's perfect! With these instruments, I can start a series of researches . But I can't handle such a large laboratory alone."
"Don't worry, Doctor. It won't take long for the second batch of relevant talents to arrive, and you can recruit yourself. Assistants are needed. Of course, there are also a group of players who do not know the truth. For the latter, I hope you can keep your mouth shut and not reveal any information to them." Zuo Si warned with a serious expression.
"No problem. Most of us have had the experience of signing confidentiality agreements and know what to say and what not to say." McCas took the initiative to give assurance.
"Excellent! Since you all understand your tasks, there is no need for me to continue talking nonsense here. In order to celebrate the beginning of a new life, I will take a day off today and you can walk around and see. ”
After that, Zuo Si opened the door leading to the street outside.
Driven by curiosity, thirty senior talents came to the street with a mixture of expectation and anxiety, gaping at the towers rising from the ground, as well as the gardens and gardens everywhere. Fountains and sculptures.
The most important thing is that they saw that the edge of the city not far away was not land, but the blue sky!
"I...we are in the sky?!"
McKas's voice suddenly raised an octave, with a shocked expression on his face.
Not only him, but the other twenty-nine people also performed similarly.
One who was afraid of heights even lay down on the ground and carefully climbed to the edge to see the scenery below.
Appreciating the interesting reactions of these "high-quality human males" who couldn't believe the scenery they saw, Zuo Si couldn't help but smile and responded: "Yes, we are in the sky, to be precise, we are in a building floating in the sky. In the city. Welcome to the Floating City of Plantia, my floating city."
With the last word blurted out, Macas sat down on the ground and started laughing like crazy.
“Hahahaha! God! I can’t believe that I actually landed on a floating city! Interesting! So interesting! I feel like I’m back when I was twelve or thirteen years old, the one who could let my unlimited imagination run wild ”
"Hey! Me too! Today we have experienced so many things that can subvert traditional cognition. This feeling is so wonderful." Dr. White also sat down on the ground and sighed.
(End of this chapter)