Chapter 32 It Turns Out to Be a Tree

Rose pushed me and pointed at the big tree behind us. I looked at the big tree with suspicion. Could it be that this big tree was causing us to spin around? He turned back and walked under the tree and asked tentatively: "Are you the guy who manipulated the agency to oppose us?"

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

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

"So the hero knows my identity?"

faint! It really is a city tree. No wonder this guy can control all the equipment in the entire temple as if he were commanding his body. "How come you were planted here? Where is the owner here?"

"The master has not been here since he finished here, and I calculated that the master should have been dead for thousands of years if nothing unexpected happened!"

"Ah? What's your answer? If you don't behave honestly, I'll chop you up and use it as firewood!"

"Hero, don't get excited, the situation is like this. My master is a god-level magician. As a powerful magician, the master naturally has many strange habits. Of course, he also has the characteristics common to all mages. His hobby is quietness. Therefore, the master built this temple. Its main function is to isolate all disturbances from the temple."

"If that's 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 her.

City Tree explained calmly: "That's it. After studying a lot of magic, the master realized a basic law, which is the law of energy conservation. When using magic, it is nothing more than transforming energy from one form to another. It is another form, and the purpose that mages hope to achieve is nothing more than the amplitude product of these energy transformations. For example, lightning magic, a mage does not simply want to release electric current when using it, his real purpose is to generate electricity High temperature to damage the target. The master studied the principles of magic used by these mages and delved into its essence. Finally he made a discovery."

"What does this have to do with him building the temple?"

"It has a lot to do with it. Because in the master's research, he discovered that using magic can be done as long as there are suitable conditions, and a mage is not necessarily required. For example, magic scrolls are such a thing, although most scrolls require a little magic to activate. But the master invented a scroll that does not require activation of magic. This scroll can even be activated by a low-level creature without intelligence or an inanimate timer."

"What's this?" I didn't understand what this discovery had to do with the temple.

Rose nodded and said, "That means your master has discovered a way to enable all creatures to use magic of any level?"

City Tree replied, "Yes, that's it."

I asked Rose instead. "Is there anything special about this?"

"Of course it's special." Rose explained to me. "The situation is very simple. Those mages have a high status among humans, and what makes those angels and demons better than humans is that almost every member of them is a magician. But there are serious problems with this mage's research. He broke To achieve balance. Any biological individual 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 angels are the light gods, and they compete with the dark gods composed of demons for control of the world. But once all creatures can use any advanced magic, then angels and demons will become ordinary creatures. Human beings, who have the largest number of individuals and super reproductive capabilities, will soon wipe out the angels and demons. If you are a ruler, you will how to think?"

"Of course it is to nip this technology that may threaten you in the bud." I understood immediately. "Oh! I understand. No wonder your master is hiding. It turns out that he is being hunted by the gods of light and darkness."

City Tree continued: "So the master cannot rely solely on the Mage Tower to isolate himself from outside interference. He needs a building that even the Light and Dark Temple cannot or dare not enter to hide himself."

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

"Heroes are indeed smart." This city tree is indeed quite old, and it actually knows how to flatter people. They say that people become better with age, and I think it's the same with old trees.

"So what happened to your master?"

"The master later received an invitation from an old friend to study something, and then he left forever. It has been thousands of years since he left. I guess the master may have encountered something unexpected."

Rose suddenly said, "By the way, where is the demon doll that attacked us at the beginning?"

"Did the heroine talk about the last double-layered golem?"

"right."

"It was severely damaged, and it just couldn't survive."

"What about the wreckage?" I was even more anxious than Rose. Take this wreckage back and it will be valuable research data!

"The master does not want his technology to be stolen. All golems 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-destruction. Self-destruction will hurt nearby companions. They have all been hit by the space magic circle in their bodies. Once their consciousness cannot be guaranteed to exist, they will be sent to the space fault. Even the founding god can't get it back. "

"But we have collected many of them, and we don't seem to have seen them self-destruct?"

"I think if you looked at it now, you'd be surprised to see that they were nothing more than shells."

As soon as I heard this, I quickly ran back to the room where the mirror was, and the space door was still standing there. Entering the space door, several demon dolls were still lying on the grass. I walked over and knelt down to check inside, but I almost didn't vomit blood. All the devils have left is the heavy armor on the outside, and there is nothing inside the armor. He ran back to the city tree angrily: "Why are the cores missing?"

"Didn't I say that? The master is afraid of leaking secrets, so he installed an automatic destruction function. The more things are transmitted, the more troublesome it becomes, and those shells have no secrets, so the transmission system only transmits the internal structure."

"So do you still have any demons here that have not been destroyed?"

"The production of golems is very troublesome, and the materials are difficult to obtain. The owner has only made one golem in total, two of which are verification types and the other 25 are standard types."

"There should be more, right?"

"But when the master left, he took away one verification type machine and 9 ordinary models. There are only 17 golems left in the temple."

"We just destroyed 12 standard models and one verification machine. Where are the other 4?"

"3000 years ago, there was a malfunctioning transmission device that accidentally activated and self-destructed. 2100 years ago, one accidentally fell into the lake outside and lost contact. I think it must have been corroded by the lake water for such a long time. 300 years ago there was Two golems were accidentally involved when repairing the crusher, so now there are no combat golems. However, I still have a few service golems, and the basic principles are roughly the same. Do you want a hero?"

"Call and take a look first."

"Yes, I'll be there soon."

The door across the room suddenly opened, and a dozen little guys rushed over from a distance at an unimaginable speed. I couldn't see clearly the shapes of those little things because they were too far away, but they soon arrived in front of us.

Rose looked at those little things in surprise and pulled me with her hand: "That...that...!"

I nodded and said with the same surprise: "I know!"

What surprised both of us was nothing but the way those little things moved. These demons are actually floating in the air, they can fly! A row of 12 golems lined up neatly in front of us and stopped moving. I was surprised and circled around one of the golems.

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 puppets are not humanoid. Their shape is more similar to a refrigerator floating in the air. The difference is that they have eight mechanical arms extending outside. I can't see any flying devices from the outside, so these little guys can fly on their own. And they are still floating in the air even if they stop, which means that the floating of these monsters does not consume energy. In reality, I know that airships consume no energy when in a suspended state, and there is another such thing in this game world, and that is the floating technology currently used by Essinger. The floating technology studied by the Germans only consumes power during the ascent or descent process. Once it hovers, it only requires a small amount of things to maintain it. However, the floating technology used by Essinger cannot move horizontally, but these small things can move. Could it be said that they have solved the inherent defects of floating technology, or do they have other methods?

Rose couldn't help but ask first: "What is the flying ability of these little things?"

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

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

"Please follow the golems."

The little devil immediately took us and flew towards the door we came in. These little guys were very fast, so I had no problem, but Rose was not fast enough, so I simply picked her up and followed her. After twisting and turning in the back passage, I entered a large room. This place looked familiar, as if it was very similar to Essinger's power core. The entire room is surrounded by machines made of huge crystals that shine with seven colors of light, and a giant red-patterned magic crystal in a magic circle in the center of the room shines with bright light and floats in the center of the room. There are also 16 slightly smaller purple crystals are also shining and rotating around the red-striped magic crystal.

After seeing the red-streaked magic crystal, the ￥ symbols immediately lit up in both of my eyes. The shape of the magic crystal in front of me is a rhombus with thirty-two sides, like the shape of two polygonal pyramids connected base to base, but it is very long, and the distance between the upper and lower tips is more than 10 meters. , while 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-striped magic crystal. It is very easy to drive two Essinger with its output power.

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

"Can the temple be moved?" This is what I care about most. It is also possible to simply float Isinger. What I need is to make Isinger move. Essinger's original design goal was to move the fortress. If Essinger cannot move, he will not be able to exert his maximum combat effectiveness.

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

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

"Yes, this temple was not originally built here. We flew here later."

"Haha, the floating technology has been solved." I happily hugged Rose and jumped. Thank goodness this long-standing problem has finally been resolved.

Rose calmed down faster than me, and she quickly asked: "I would like to ask how fast this thing moves? There is also the issue of energy consumption. It takes a lot to move such a big thing, right?"

"Indeed. The energy consumption of mobile floating technology is all concentrated in movement. If it is just hovering, it consumes almost no energy. The energy consumption of translation is relatively much greater, and it is impossible to move continuously. The current use There is a limit flow rate in power pipelines, and the power flow rate when moving is very large. Many pipelines cannot withstand such a long period of large flow transportation. Generally, a two-hour rest is required after a ten-hour flight, and this is also affected by many factors. For example, pipeline materials, Speed ​​of movement, mass of the moving object.”

I immediately asked: "How can I calculate athletic ability if I tell you the data?"

"Okay." I quickly opened the city attributes interface and reported Essinger's attributes to him. City Tree quickly replied: "It is theoretically very difficult for such a big thing to fly, but your power machinery is also relatively large, so it is still possible to fly, and your power pipes seem to be made of better materials than those of the temple, and the structure is also It is relatively advanced and should have no problem handling flight, but because of its large mass, continuous movement is absolutely impossible. I estimate that flying for 8 hours and resting for 2 hours is the limit."

"What if we want to cross the ocean? We can't fly across the ocean in 8 hours, right?"

“Rest doesn’t mean shutting down, just hovering.”

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

"Theoretically, the speed can be increased infinitely. The special propulsion principle of floating technology can provide continuous and stable propulsion power. As long as it is turned on, it will continue to accelerate. But the problem is not acceleration but deceleration. Because the air resistance is too small, Even if something with such a mass is gliding at a speed of 5 miles, it will have to travel more than 0 kilometers before it can come to a complete stop. This is still against the wind. If the wind is tailwind, it will not be able to stop."

"Wouldn't it be possible to push forward in reverse?"

"First of all, it's wasteful. Secondly, the intensity is difficult to control and difficult to stabilize. Moreover, the potential energy offset by the sudden reverse thrust is too great. Your city will shake violently as if it has hit something. Just forget it once or twice. Often Sooner or later, the city's power facilities will be scattered. If the aerostat disintegrates in the air or explodes, the problem will be serious."

sweat! I have already tried that situation once, killing millions of people and almost scrapping the entire city's buildings. There are still many large and small problems in Essinger that have not been repaired! It's not something most people can bear with something as big as Essinger riding a roller coaster in the air. If I do it again, I'm going to have a heart attack!

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

"It's very simple, just don't fly too fast. The temple's power unit has a power limit, and the fastest is equivalent to the speed of a flying bird. If your city needs to be slower, I think it can reach the average moving speed of a war horse. It’s the limit of safety.”

Rose said to me: "Isn't this speed a bit slow? If we want to move Essinger to Japan, don't we have to fly for a week?"

"Then what's the alternative? It's better than disintegrating in the air and falling into the sea? I don't want Essinger to turn into Atlantis." The situation is almost understood, and it's time to take action. "The owner of that city tree and this temple has passed away, and the power here is about to be exhausted. There is no future for you if you stay. Sooner or later, you will be finished with this place. Why don't you come with me?"

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

"No, no, no. The temple is not moving. We will only take away useful things with you. The temple has no value. It is just a large building. Let it sink to the bottom of the lake and sleep forever?"

"I really want to, but as a city tree, my mission is above all else. Although the master is technically dead, I will not leave here without definite news of the master's death. You are absolutely not allowed to take him with you. Walk on anything here, even a rock.”

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

"I'm very afraid of death, but I hope you can leave quietly after reading it, and you can even take away a few non-combat puppets. However, you must not touch other things, otherwise I will activate the ultimate defense system."

"Ultimate defense?"

"It's the super teleportation system. Send the entire temple into the space crack and seal it into the unknown infinite space forever."

"I can put everything into my space door. Even if I am teleported, I will probably commit suicide once. Anyway, I will return to my country when I am resurrected. Even if you activate the ultimate defense, it will be useless."

"Under normal circumstances, after the adventurer dies, the soul will be transported back to the Resurrection Temple and resurrected, but the space crack is a one-way space for teleportation spells. You can only enter but not exit. Even if you 'suicide', you cannot get out."

Rose nudged me. "Don't make it too tense. If it's true, it's equivalent to deleting your account. It's not cost-effective."

"Then how can you believe that your master is gone?"

"Unless you can bring back the Ring of Stars, which the master never leaves, it will be useless even if I agree. The Ring of Stars is the key to all the mechanisms of this temple. Without it, no one can think of anything here." Hearing this Rose and I laughed at the same time. The city tree made us laugh inexplicably. "Why are you laughing?" I couldn't help laughing even harder, stretched out my hand and showed the ring. "Ring of the Stars?"

"Are there any questions now?"

"It's no problem. The new owner is willing to serve you." City Tree's tone was different. "If you had let me see it earlier, you wouldn't have had to go to so much trouble. All the mechanisms in the temple can be closed with this ring."

"Do you think I like it? If you knew that as long as you held the ring, there would be no difficulty, so you wouldn't have to go through so much trouble to break in! By the way, what did you say you need to activate?"

"Here." A stone platform suddenly rose next to the city tree, with a circular groove in the middle of the stone platform. I didn't see any city tree calling first. "Where's the starter? It must be those damn elves. Babalu, Babalu."

A dozen furry humanoid monsters ran in from outside. They were all quite tall, but they didn't look clumsy at all. Those monsters knelt down in front of the city tree and started muttering something, but we couldn't understand it anyway. The city tree said something in the same language. Although we couldn't understand it, the tone of the city tree seemed to be very angry. Phantom helped me translate City Tree's words: "The goblin stole our starter, you go get it back."

"Wait a minute." I interrupted them suddenly, and then took out the golden disk. "Isn't this the starter you're talking about?"

"Starter? How did it end up at your place?"

"The goblins outside gave it to me. They insisted on calling me some kind of savior. Actually, I think it would be more appropriate for me to be the God of Destruction!"

City Tree said very respectfully: "Since you have the best, please put the golden disk into the groove on the stone platform." I followed City Tree's instructions and put the disk into the stone platform. in the groove on. As soon as the disc was embedded, the cross crystal in the middle suddenly rose. A cover suddenly opened in the middle of the crystal, and a flower-shaped groove appeared under the cover (available 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 gem flower on the Ring of Stars. It seems that this is the starting key.

Needless to say, I immediately made a fist with my right hand and pushed the ring of stars into the groove. The groove and the ring fit together tightly, and the entire disk lit up as the ring was inserted.

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

I turned the ring accordingly, and the gold plate also turned. After turning 90 degrees to the left, the entire temple suddenly shook. After turning 180 degrees to the right, all the walls in the room lit up. Finally, turn left 90 degrees and return. The stone platform suddenly began to fall back to the ground with a click, and the disc also retracted, and my ring naturally came out of the groove. The flowerbed fence around the city tree suddenly retracted into the ground, and the city tree itself shone with golden light.

In the surprised eyes of me and Rose, the city tree turned into a golden little sun, and then the light began to dim, but it was 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 turned into a human-shaped light ball. As the light continued to dim, the outline of the man's face and facial features gradually became clearer. But as the light continued to decrease, I suddenly realized that he seemed to have no clothes. I quickly pulled Rose into my arms and turned her back to the human-shaped object in the light group. "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 city tree just now, which also explains why he has no clothes. The human being transformed by the city tree is obviously a European, and his long wavy golden hair reminds me of The Lion King. Those aqua eyes are full of electricity as if they were born specifically to seduce women from good families. Unfortunately, I am a man. His elegant facial expression and his upright and handsome facial features make people feel how noble he is, but his naked body completely destroyed his elegance and nobility, but instead added some wildness to him.