Chapter 32 It turned out to be a tree

Rose pushed me and pointed to the big tree behind us. I looked at the big tree with suspicion. Could it be the big tree that made us fool around? Turning back and walking under the tree and asking tentatively: "You are the guy who controls the mechanism and fights us?"

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

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

"So the hero knows my identity?"

Dizzy! It's really a city tree. Otherwise, this guy could manipulate all the equipment in the entire temple like he commanded his body. "How could you be planted here? What about the owner here?"

"The master has never been here since he finished here, and I calculated that if the master is not surprised, he should have passed away for thousands of years!"

"Ah? What's your answer? If you don't be honest, I'll chop you up as firewood!"

"Hero, don't be excited, this is the case. My master is a god-level magician. As a powerful magician, the master naturally has many strange habits. Of course, he also has the common hobby of all mages - he likes quietness. Therefore, the master built 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 smart, and it is absolutely impossible to fool it.

The City Tree explained calmly: "That's right. After studying a lot of magic, the master realized a basic law, that is, the law of energy balance. In use, a magic is nothing more than converting energy from one form to another, and the purpose that the mage hopes to achieve is nothing more than the product of these energy conversion. For example, lightning magic, a mage uses it not simply to release currents. His real purpose is to damage the target with the high temperature generated by the current. The master studied the principles of these mages using magic and studied its essence. Finally, he made a discovery."

"What does this have to do with his construction of the temple?"

"It's a big deal. Because the master's research found that using magic can be done as long as there are suitable conditions, it does not necessarily require a mage. For example, the magic scroll is just like this. Although most scrolls require a little magic power to start, the master invented a scroll that does not require magic power to start. This scroll can even be activated by a low-level creature without intelligence or a lifeless timing device."

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

Rose nodded and said, "That is to say, your master has discovered a method that allows all creatures to use any level of magic?"

City Tree replied, “Yes, that’s it.”

I turned to Rose. "Is there anything special about this?"

"Of course special." Rose explained to me. "The situation is very simple. Those mages have a high status among humans, and those angels and demons are stronger than humans, that almost every member of them is a great mage. However, this mage's research has serious problems, and he broke the balance. Any individual of biological body can use the same level of magic, and its 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, the angels and demons will become ordinary creatures. Humans with the largest number of individuals and super reproductive ability will soon eliminate the angels and demons. If you are the ruler, what would you think?"

"Of course, it is to kill this technology that may threaten yourself in its infancy." I immediately understood. "Oh! I understand. Otherwise, your master would hide, and it turned out that he was being chased by the God of Light and Darkness."

The City Tree continued: "So the master cannot separate the external interference by relying solely on the Mage Tower. He needs a building that cannot or dares to enter the Temple of Darkness to hide himself."

I said next, "So he built a temple of Mother Earth. Mother Earth is one of the founding gods, and angels and demons are just self-proclaimed gods. There is still a huge gap in strength, so no one dares to touch the doctrine of Mother Earth Temple." I paused for a moment and continued, "Even the fake Mother Earth Temple."

"The hero is really smart." This city tree is indeed a long time ago and can flatter. It is said that people become old, but I think the tree is similar.

"So what happened to your master later?"

"The master later received an invitation from an old friend to study something, and then he never returned. It has been thousands of years since he left that time, and I guess the master probably encountered an unexpected situation."

Rose suddenly said, "By the way, where is the puppet who attacked us at the beginning?"

"Did the heroine say that last double-layered puppet?"

"right."

"It was hit hard, and it wouldn't work if it barely supports it to come back."

"Where is the wreckage?" I was more anxious than Rose. Taking this wreckage back is a precious research material!

"The master does not want his technology to be stolen. All puppets have the ability to destroy themselves. Once they are confirmed that they cannot guarantee consciousness, they will destroy themselves."

"You mean self-destruction?"

"It's not self-destruction. Self-destruction will hurt nearby companions. They are all hit by space magic arrays. Once they cannot guarantee the existence of consciousness, they will be transmitted to the space fault. Even the founding gods do not want to get it back."

"But we have collected many of them, and it seems that we haven't seen them destroy themselves?"

"I think if you look at it now, you will be surprised to find that they are only empty."

When I heard this, I quickly ran back to the room where the mirror was located. The space door was still standing there. Entering the space door, several puppets were still lying on the grass. They walked over and squatted down to check it inside, but almost vomited blood. All puppets were left with the heavy armor outside, and the armor was empty and nothing was left. They ran back to the city tree angrily: "Why is the core missing?"

"Didn't I say it? The owner is afraid of leaking secrets, so he installed the automatic destruction function. The more things you transmit, the more troublesome it is. There is no secret to those shells, so the transmission system only transmits the internal structure."

"Then are there any destructive puppets here?"

"The making of the wizard puppet is very troublesome, and the materials are difficult to deal with. The owner has only made 27 wizard puppets in total, of which two of them are verified and the other 25 are standard ones."

"Then there should be some?"

"But when the master left, he took away a verification body and 9 ordinary models, and there were only 17 puppets left in the temple."

"We just broke 12 standard models and one verification machine, so where are there 4 more?"

"3000 years ago, a faulty transmission device was started and destroyed by itself. 2100 years ago, a person accidentally fell into the lake outside and lost contact. I think it was corroded by the lake for so long. 300 years ago, two wizards were accidentally caught in while repairing the crusher, so there are no combat puppets now. But I still have several service puppets, and the basic principles are roughly the same. Do you want a hero?"

"Call it first."

“Yes, it’ll be here soon.”

The door opposite the room suddenly opened, and more than a dozen little guys rushed over from a distance at an unimaginable speed. Because the distance was too far, I couldn't see the shape of the little things clearly, but they soon arrived in front of us.

Rose looked at the little things in surprise and pulled me with her hands: "That...that...th!"

I nodded and said in surprise: "I know!"

What surprised us was not anything else, but the way of action of those little things. These puppets actually floated in the air, and they could fly! A row of 12 puppets lined up neatly in front of us and stopped moving. I was surprised to circle around one of the puppets.

These small things are about one meter and two in the air, but because they are floating in the air, the actual height is about one meter and six in the air. These puppets are not human-shaped. Their shape is more similar to a refrigerator floating in the air. The difference is that they have eight robotic arms stretched out outside. I can't see any flying device from outside, so that these little guys can fly by themselves. And even if they stop, they still float in the air, that is, the floating puppets do not consume energy. In reality, I know that airships do not consume energy in the floating state, and there is another such thing in this game world, that is, the floating technology used by Eisinger now. The floating technology studied by the Germans only consumes power during the ascending or descending process, and once hovering, only a small amount of things are needed to maintain it. However, the floating technology used by Eisinger cannot move horizontally, but these small things can move. Could it be that they have solved the innate defects of the floating technology, or do they have other methods?

Rose couldn't help asking first: "What's the flying ability of these little things?"

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

"Let's look at the floating device."

"Please follow the puppets."

The little devil immediately took us to the door that came in. The little guys were very fast. I had no problem, but Rose was not fast enough, so I simply picked her up and followed her. In the passage behind, I turned into a large room. It looked familiar, as if it was very similar to Aisinger's power core. The whole room was surrounded by huge crystal-built machines flashing with seven colors, and a giant red-patterned magic crystal in a magic circle in the center of the room was floating in the center of the room with dazzling light. There were 16 purple crystals slightly smaller than it around it, and they were also flickering with light and rotating around the red-patterned magic crystal.

After seeing the red-patterned magic crystal, the ￥ symbol immediately lit up in my eyes. The magic crystal in front of me was a diamond with thirty-two faces, just like the shape of two multi-faceted triangular cones connecting the bottom to the bottom. However, it is particularly long, with the distance between the upper and lower tips being more than 10 meters, and the diameter of the central part is no more than 4 meters. Such a large magic crystal is amazing, let alone this is a red-patterned magic crystal. It is very easy to drive both Aisinger with its output power.

The sound of the city tree sounded 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 the most. Ai Singer can simply float up. What I need is to make Ai Singer move. Ai Singer's original design goal was to move the fortress, and Ai Singer who cannot move cannot exert his maximum combat power.

"The temple could be moved, but over the years, the power has basically been exhausted. I have no way to control the puppets to move outside the temple, so I cannot get new energy supplements, so I have never dared to move the temple."

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

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

"Haha, the floating technology has been solved." I hugged Rose happily and jumped. Thankfully, the problem has been solved for such a long time.

Rose was calmer than me, and she quickly asked, "I want to ask how fast this thing moves? There is also the energy consumption problem. Is it a lot to move such a large thing?"

"That's true. The energy consumption of mobile aerial technology is all concentrated in movement. If it is just a simple hover, it almost does not consume energy. The energy consumption of translation is relatively large, and it cannot be continuously moved at all. The power pipeline used now has the ultimate flow rate, and the power flow rate when moving is very large. Many pipelines cannot withstand such a long period of large flow. Generally, it takes two hours of rest for ten hours to fly, and this is also affected by many factors. For example, the material of the pipeline, the speed of movement, and the mass of moving objects."

I immediately asked, "I will tell you the data, what can I calculate the ability to exercise?"

"Yes." I quickly opened the city attribute interface and reported to him the attributes of Aisinger. The City Tree quickly replied: "In theory, such a big thing is very difficult to fly, but your power machinery is also relatively large, so it is still OK to fly. Moreover, your power pipelines seem to be better than the materials of the temple and have relatively advanced structures. There should be no problem dealing with flight, but because of the large mass itself, continuous movement is absolutely impossible. I estimate that 8 hours of flight and 2 hours of rest is the limit."

"What should we do if we cross the ocean? We can't fly the ocean in 8 hours?"

"Resting does not mean closing, just hovering."

"What will happen to 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, and it will continue to accelerate as long as it is always on. But the problem is not acceleration but deceleration. Because the air resistance is too small, such a large mass thing has to rush out more than 200 kilometers to completely stop even if it slides at a speed of 5 miles. This is still a headwind. If it is a tailwind, it will not be able to stop."

"Will it not work if it is reversed?"

"One of the way, it's wasteful, and the strength is not easy to control, and it's difficult to stabilize. And the potential energy of the sudden reverse propulsion offset is too large. At that time, your city will shake violently like something hits, just forget it once or twice. I often do this so sooner or later to shake the city's power facilities. If the floating aircraft disintegrates in the air or the big explosion, it will be a big deal."

Sweat! I have tried that situation once. Not only did I kill millions of people, but I almost scrapped the entire city's buildings. There are still many places where I have problems of big and small that have not been fixed! It is not something that ordinary people suffer from when I am as big as I am, playing roller coasters in the air. If I come again, I will have a heart disease!

"Then how did your temple solve the mobile problem?"

"It's very simple, just don't fly too fast. The temple's power device has a power limit, and the fastest is equivalent to the speed of a bird. If it's your city, it's even slower. I think it's safe to reach the average movement speed of a war horse."

Rose said to me: "Is this a little slower? If we want to move Aisinger to Japan, wouldn't it take a week to fly?"

"Then what's the solution? It's better than disintegrating from the air and falling into the sea? I don't want Aisinger to become Atlantis." The situation is almost understood, and it's time to start. "That city tree, the owner of this temple has passed away, and the power here is about to be exhausted. If you stay, you have no future. Sooner or later, you're done with this place. Why don't you go with me?"

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

"No, no, no, no. The temple does not move, we will only take away useful things from 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 do it, but as a city tree, my mission is above everything else. Although theoretically, the master is dead, I will not leave here without the exact news of the master's death. You must not take 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 watching it, and even take away a few non-combat puppets. However, you must not move anything else, otherwise I will activate the ultimate defense system."

"Ultimate Defense?"

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

"I can put everything into my space gate. Even if I'm teleported, I can commit suicide once, and I will return to China when I'm resurrected. 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, but the space crack is a one-way space for teleporting spells, and it can only enter but not exit. Even if you commit suicide, you can't come out."

Rose pushed me. "Don't make a fuss. If it's true, it's equivalent to deleting the account, which is not cost-effective."

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

"Unless you can bring back the master's ring of Stars, which never leaves you, it's useless even if I agree. The ring of Stars is the key to all the mechanisms of this temple. No one should think of this without it." Hearing this, Rose and I laughed at the same time. The tree of the city was inexplicably laughed. "What are you laughing?" I couldn't help laughing even more violently, and reached out to show the ring. "Ring of Stars?"
To be continued...