Chapter 363: Building a Floating City (Part 2)
Building a floating city is not only a delicate job, but also requires a very long process.
This is not like the Netheril period, where you only need to cut off a mountain peak, and then inlay a Mysser energy core in the center of the mountain peak, and finally build a patchwork of buildings. It is basically a floating city. It's finished.
In Brian's opinion, this should be the simplest process in building a floating city. Of course, he would not choose to just do it perfunctoryly for his own floating city.
After all, the original intention of the great arcanists of Netheril in establishing the floating city was to prevent the harassment of the evil race of orcs on the surface.
It was not until the late period of the Netheril Empire that, under the influence of various floating cities built by the great arcanists, they gradually focused their energy on how to make the floating city more powerful and beautiful.
Unfortunately, by the time the Grand Arcanists realized this problem, the empire had already begun to perish.
Otherwise, Brian might be able to use ancient materials and brainstorm ideas to learn from the strange ideas of this group of great arcanists, and contribute to his own floating city design.
Now, he is no different from crossing the river by feeling for stones. He can only use his limited imagination to create infinite possibilities in this magical world.
Fortunately, ever since he appeared in the main material world, he has been planning in his mind how to build a building that can not only float in the sky, allow ordinary civilians to live a stable life, but also travel through various planes. Even without any magical protection, you can rely on your own defense to resist attacks from high-level spells.
Moreover, as a time traveler who has witnessed the development process of modern technology, it is not impossible for Brian to apply this knowledge to the construction of the floating city.
For example, for aircraft carriers in the real world, after the floating city is built, he can completely modify Haruha’s skyship into fighter-type construction technology, and then assist the floating city in remote or Interdimensional bombing mission.
Recalling his thoughts about the floating city and future plans in his mind, Brian and the old dragon turtle guided the mountain peaks taken from the Eno Oak Desert to the demiplane of the beholder. .
Since it takes a lot of time to build a floating city, in order to complete his floating city as quickly as possible, Brian almost didn’t think much about it and chose the location where he would build the floating city. A demiplane with a time ratio of 1:5 in the prime material world.
In this case, two years in the outside world is equivalent to about ten years in half a plane.
Ten years were enough for Brian to build a satisfactory floating city.
The moment he brought the mountain to the demiplane, Brian saw that Myrcella and Halua Elder Arad had been waiting with their men for a long time.
As soon as he smoothly lowered the mountain, which was comparable to a city, to the ground, the symbolic master of this demiplane, 'Observer Beholder' Victor, took the lead and flew over excitedly. .
"Brian, what are you doing?" The Observer Beholder waved its tentacles that danced like snake eyes, and exclaimed, "Why did you put such a mountain in Victor's world?"
“Build a floating city.” Brian replied casually and walked towards the crowd.
He has already completed the most basic mountain peaks of the floating city. Next, he needs to make a detailed division of labor among his existing manpower and let them all invest in the construction of the floating city.
"Who are you coaxing?" Victor caught up with Brian and used one of the small eyes on the tentacles to look at the mountain peaks on the ground in the distance. All that appeared in the huge one eye was A look of suspicion.
“Don’t think that Victor has not checked the information about ancient Netheril. The floating cities that Victor has seen in the book are all cut in half from the mountain peaks, and then Turn it upside down, it’s not like you moved the entire mountain.”
“Oh, Victor knows!”
All the eyes of the Observer Demon are without exception. Floating through the bright light, floating beside Brian excitedly, spinning in circles, "You definitely don't have the ability to cut a mountain in half."
"When you encounter such a problem, why don't you ask Victor for help?" He quickly floated in front of Brian, blocking his way, and chattered:
"As the great mistress, Victor The most perfect creation, this small mountain, only needs one dissociation ray from Victor, and it is cut in half by Victor like cutting a watermelon."
"My floating city and the sky. The floating city in ancient times was different." Brian said to the beholder, "So, don't bother with this most perfect creation of the Great Mistress."
He really has no intention of being like the Netheril era. He built a floating city like the Great Arcanist. In his plan, he was preparing to start a crazy infrastructure construction mode based on this mountain.
In addition to completely preserving the leyline energy of the mountain and allowing it to have a system for autonomous circulation of natural energy, he also had to transform everything else on the mountain.
While transforming, a large amount of metal materials and obsidian must be used to combine with the mountain peaks to build a perfect foundation.
This is like expanding many wide floating platforms around a small island, building high towers and houses on them, and then these platforms are connected to each other by various bridges, and as floating platforms The mountain at the base of the sky, which is Brian's base camp and the core strength and secrets, is located at the center of the floating platform.
It is precisely because he has a long-term plan for the floating city that he plans to start construction in the demiplane where time passes slowly.
Of course, there is another function, which is the confidentiality of the construction of the floating city in the demiplane.
After saying that, Brian ignored the beholder and walked faster towards Myrcella and others.
"It's good that you know." Hearing Brian's praise, the Beholder nodded with deep understanding but narcissism, and then like a cannonball, quickly caught up with him and continued:
"So you are planning to build a floating city here. No wonder you sent so many people to Victor's world. In this case, Victor also wants to participate in the construction of the floating city. Brian, you plan to give the big master Mother’s most perfect creation, what kind of job will it arrange for you?” Looking at the very motivated observer, Brian was about to say, “You won’t give it to me.” "Making trouble is the greatest help to me", he suddenly remembered a wonder he had seen in the Dark Territory: the Great Killing Field.
The Great Collapse Field is a large crack composed of countless tunnels and caves.
This is not caused by natural factors, but by a group of idle beholders who release dissociation rays at the rocks in the Underdark every day when they have nothing to do.
As time went by, this labyrinth of cracks and tunnels, known as the largest in the Underdark, was born in such a dramatic way.
Looking at the volunteer observer, Brian suddenly had a new idea in his mind.
"Of course." He smiled and pretended to think for a moment. When he came to Myrcella and others, he said to Victor, "I really have a good job here. The most perfect creation for the Great Mother to complete."
"What kind of job?" Victor was obviously not immune to Brian's praise and asked hurriedly, "What kind of job is the most suitable for the Great Mistress? The most perfect creation of the Mistress, Victor."
"Have you seen that mountain?" Brian pointed to the mountain he placed steadily on the ground and said to the beholder. His mission is to use his dissociation rays to carve out the most perfect formations and carvings inside the mountain.”
After speaking, he pointed to Victor, the Harrua Master Arad beside him, and said: "As for how to proceed, you only need to follow his instructions. In this case, when the floating city After it is completed, whenever the world looks up and sees the most perfect creation and the most outstanding work of the Great Mistress, they will involuntarily sigh and praise it.”
No matter what kind of beholder it is. , their rays have almost no limit on the number of times, not to mention that this is an observer whose strength has reached the legendary realm.
So in Brian's opinion, the other party is simply a natural sculptor. As long as he is coaxed well, he can fully undertake the carving work of most of the magic circles in the floating city.
In this case, the casters in charge of the magic circle only need to polish it after the beholder's dissociation ray has passed. The improvement in work efficiency will be very obvious.
"No problem, just feel free to leave this matter to Victor." The Observer Beholder patted his head with its tentacles and said confidently.
As soon as he finished speaking, he was ready to grab Master Arad and ask him to arrange work for him.
Brian and Arad looked at each other and told Arad through a voice transmission that he should arrange a task for the beholder to polish the edges of the mountain. After that, the other party happily went back to his work. .
After getting rid of the naughty beholder, Brian stood in front of everyone with a serious expression and began to assign tasks to them one after another.
The people responsible for building the floating city this time are mainly Harua mages led by Arad. The quality of this group of around 1,000 mages is quite good.
Among them, there are 18 fourth-level casters, about 120 third-level casters, and about 300 second-level casters. Most of the others remain around level 3 and have the ability to release second-level spells.
Seriously speaking, Master Halua is the main force building the floating city.
It was precisely with this factor in mind that Brian allowed Elder Arad of Halrua to join him at all costs.
In addition to promising Arad to go with him to the ancient jungle of Chult to explore a lost temple at a certain time in the future, these prices also promised to be a spellcaster who specializes in the necromancy school. Their exclusive artifact called the 'Forgotten Scepter'.
Although the price of this bad check seems high, Brian feels that it is all worth it. After all, Arad is still the key figure in whether he can successfully enter the Halua Council of Elders.
Of course, in addition to the mages of Halua, there are also craftsmen of other races involved in these people.
In order to have a perfect underground chamber inside the floating city, Brian directly requisitioned nearly 500 gray dwarves from King Aldus City.
Their main task is to create an underground world in the internal space of the floating city that is comparable to surface buildings.
The people responsible for the surface construction are mountain dwarves from the Sunset Mountains, some golden dwarves from the Hurek Forest, and a small number of stone giant priests. Their total number is about 600.
The tasks of these surface dwarves and stone giants are mainly responsible for the construction of the surface and the use of obsidian and various metal materials based on the mountain peaks to create stable foundations and floating islands surrounding them. The floating platform around the empty city.
As for Master Halua and the small number of mages recruited by the Wizard Tower in Mokou Town, in addition to enchanting every building material in the floating city, they also use spells to assist the craftsmen in their work.
"Under the teaching of Ms. Polaris, you must have completely mastered the knowledge of "Lefubo's Weaving Mystery Lock". Before leaving, Brian explained to Master Arad, "Then your task is to develop a complete set of protective barriers for the floating city. There is no problem." "
"Of course there is no problem. "Mage Arad said:
"I have mastered the myth locks and protective wards of the Netheril period, and I can see from them that most of these myth lock knowledge are borrowed from the elves' myth lock knowledge. It was researched based on the Nese Scroll. If you can obtain the knowledge of the elves' mythical locks, you may be able to further enhance the power of the barrier. "
After listening to Master Arad's analysis, Brian pondered for a moment and looked at the mage, "Don't worry about the elves' mysterious knowledge, I will find a way to get it. ”
For Brian, there are two channels to obtain the secret knowledge of elves. The first is Silvermoon City, and the second is Mis Drannor.
This is not difficult for him, it is just a matter of time.
"Then I don't have any questions." Master Arad seemed to have guessed that Brian would answer this way. He nodded, then bowed slightly and saluted, turned around and left.
Looking at the busy crowd rushing towards the mountain peak, Brian couldn't help but smile, feeling filled with emotion.
Among the workers responsible for building the floating city this time, the spellcasters are the most motivated.
Because Brian promised them that when the floating city is successfully built and rises into the sky, all the mages involved will become the first permanent residents of the floating city.
Furthermore, he also promised them that for all spellcasters whose strength reaches the fourth level and successfully masters nine-ring spells, he will provide resources to build their own mage tower in the floating city.
After all, a complete floating city battle fortress and a fully functional mage tower are indispensable.
In Brian's impression, the Saluk witch, one of the three major creator races, has a very famous city: the ancient city of Orem.
This ancient city existed in an era forgotten by history, and is also known as the 'City of Thousand Towers'. It is said to be a city composed of more than a thousand mage towers.
The Earth Prophet Asindo lives in seclusion in the ancient city of Orem. As long as the ghost prince Brenas finds traces of the Earth Prophet, it is possible to find this ancient city.
After arranging the construction of the floating city, Brian left with Myrcella.
He did not involve Myrcella in the construction of the floating city because she had more important things to do.
That is the research on the magic engine and the elemental furnace. If there is no progress in these two studies, the floating city will only be supported by the energy of the demiplane, which is not a long-term solution at all.
After returning to his study in the demiplane, Brian confessed several important matters to Myrcella, then acted as a hands-off shopkeeper and devoted himself to his own spell research.
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(End of this chapter)