Chapter 453: The Forsaken Realm of Gods (42) (1st + 2nd update) [VIP]

No one knows exactly when Slenkmed became an independent sub-world.

According to all organizations in that space, their accountants have to liquidate assets at the end of each year, so this space must have appeared this year.

But according to the in-game timeline, Slenkmed had been alive at least ten years ago, when the Grand Mage was active on the continent searching for purple-haired adventurers.

There couldn't be anything wrong with the space owner's accounts, and the timeline in Slenkmedne didn't seem to have any problems at the moment. Guan Hongyan frowned, but still opened her watch to find the corresponding contact and told him about the current situation.

The contact person of the other organization replied with certainty: [It definitely appeared this year. We didn’t see this space when we liquidated our assets last year.]

"This is strange..." Xu Zichen frowned and simply sat cross-legged on the grass at the back of the mountain. "Assuming that the [Forsaken Realm of Gods] did appear this year, does that mean that during the time period when the Grand Mage was active ten years ago, Slenkmed was alive, but not completely alive."

This seems to be the answer closest to the truth.

"Slenkmed didn't come alive completely. It must be because some step or some pushing element was missing," Guan Hongyan scratched her head. "Then why did it suddenly come alive this year? Is there anything special about this year?"

It's really unclear.

Several members of the exploration team looked at each other in bewilderment. They had only been here for a dozen days or so. Who knew what had happened in Slenkmed before they came in?

This continent is so big that they don't know how big or small the decisive factor that caused the Breath of Slenkmed to suddenly come alive is, and they don't know where to start looking.

"Forget it, what else did the knight captain say?" Guan Hongyan sighed and looked at Zhao Yinglai.

"He didn't say anything," Zhao Yinglai shook his head. "He thought we were here to deal with the magic pattern because we learned that the magic sand supply from the Perlan Mine was cut off. We are now heading here."

Enoch worked with the Grand Mage to set up this magic pattern fragment, and he probably also participated in the design of the route and the purchase of the Perrin Mine. Considering that he is the account of the producer Lao Zhang, it is possible that it was Lao Zhang, not Enoch, who did these things with the Grand Mage.

"Then should we hide for a while?" Xu Zichen took the initiative to speak.

"No need," Zhao Yinglai shook his head, "Yun Guang has already said that there are other people coming, and now they are preparing to reinforce the magic pattern around it, waiting for them to open the door."

The ones who came here together at the beginning were Enoch and the Grand Mage. As Enoch's companions came here to reinforce the magic pattern, it was normal for them to know the specific address of the magic pattern.

"Then we should wait here?" White Moth poked his head out, "Is there anything else wrong with their conversation?"

"No more..." Zhao Yinglai pondered for a few seconds, "The current situation is that it is confirmed that Enoch and the Grand Mage participated in the arrangement of these magic patterns, and the professional task instructors disappeared voluntarily one by one. The real reason why Slenkmed became a subspace is unknown. And Delmis said that these magic patterns are to resist the strange diseases of the alien continent..."

"For the first question, we can only wait until Enoch regains his memory. For the second question, the person who knew about it has disappeared. For the third question, we can't find a place to investigate..." Su Hao counted them one by one on his fingers. "All we know now is that this magic pattern is used to resist the strange diseases of the alien continent. At least we don't have to dig a hole."

"That's great." Guan Hongyan sighed from the bottom of her heart.

What a hard life it is to dig holes in the deep mountains and forests from morning till night. She came here for vacation at the end of the year and to help settle accounts and earn some extra money, not to dig holes to exercise.

If she had known that she would be confronted with people showing off their affection and digging holes in the mountains, she would have said that she would lie in the vacation space and spend the last few months of the year peacefully.

"Any other questions?" Zhao Yinglai looked up after summarizing the current situation.

Everyone shook their heads.

Although I don’t know where to start the next step, as long as I don’t have to dig holes in the deep mountains and forests, it will be a good start.

"My future is bright just thinking about not having to dig holes in various buildings deep in the mountains!" Guan Hongyan breathed a sigh of relief and felt like she was alive again.

"Dermis, what about you?" Zhao Ying looked at Bai Jinshu.

He had been silent since he said "Slenkmed is alive". He seemed to be in deep thought and had not interrupted their conversation. Zhao Yinglai took into account the special nature of this big man and asked a question.

"I have a question," Bai Jinshu said cooperatively, "After digging for so many days, have you noticed who the buildings in the mountains belong to?"

"Belonging?" Zhao Yinglai didn't understand.

"Yes, they belong to it," Bai Jinshu frowned. "The hunter supply point belongs to the Hunter Association. The Cathedral of the God of Light built by the ascetic monks belongs to the Church of Light. The Armored Corps camp belongs to the Knights Academy. The magic workshop of the solitary wizard belongs to the Wizard Tower..."

There is also a small inn that is open to adventurers, but is actually a warehouse for thieves to store stolen goods. It belongs to a thief family and looks like an ordinary village, but it is actually a small base for assassins in the Assassin's Guild to hide temporarily. It belongs to the Assassin's Guild...

In just a short distance, these buildings belong to a variety of organizations, and each one seems to have the functional necessity of being built deep in the mountains.

He named a dozen buildings where they had dug holes in the past few days.

"All of these buildings in the mountains belong to the sixteen professions that players can choose from in Breath of Slenkmed," Bai Jin recited the places they had passed by in the past few days and continued in a calm tone, "Assuming that Enoch and the Grand Mage, who had not lost their memories, traveled all over the continent to organize the invasion of diseases from the alien continent, then the captain of the Knight Academy knew that there was something under his castle, and the owners of these buildings should also know it."

"You mean... the organization of the disease that invaded the continent is not just Enoch and the Grand Mage..." Guan Hongyan immediately understood his implication, "but all the professional mentors of the professions that players can choose are involved?"

"Well," Bai Jinshu moved his shoulders, and the bones on the other side of his neck made a "crackling" sound. "The Grand Mage determined the burial site, and other professional mentors set up buildings belonging to their organizations at key locations, leaving certain people on duty in the buildings to be responsible for spreading the magic sand on top of the magic patterns every month."

"Those who stayed on duty may not know that there are magic patterns under the building, but they receive a batch of magic sand from the Perrin Mine every month, and then spread the sand evenly on the ground according to the instructions left by their predecessors."

"If the Perrin Mine doesn't deliver magic sand one day, even though they don't know what it's used for, as part of their duties here, the duty officer will definitely ask."

"Like the letter that the ascetic monk didn't send?" White Moth thought of the strange corpse.

"Yes," Bai Jinshu nodded affirmatively, and suddenly changed the subject, "In fact, the wood element not only has a promoting effect on plants."

"For most humans, the aggregation effect of elements is actually very limited. Most species in the magic world tend to prefer one attribute, and their perception of the other four attributes is relatively weak," Bai Jinshu looked at the elf boy calmly, "For example, elves and fairies who are close to the wood element, the fire element is like poison to them."

"You can't say it's poison," the elf boy muttered in dissatisfaction, "I just don't like it! I don't like it!"

"If you gather one cubic meter of fire elements into a bead this small," a small ball suddenly appeared in Bai Jinshu's hand, "you can kill an elf instantly."

Elf boy:!

"But the greatest harm this fire bead can cause to a human is to burn a hole in his body and then explode in the wound." The fire bead shook in front of Hector and disappeared before he could show a horrified expression. "And if I don't say this, you won't have any reaction to this fire bead."

"Should we have any reaction?" Guan Hongyan actively raised her hand to ask questions.

Bai Jinshu pointed with his chin at the elf boy who was curled up behind her: "He's like that."

"You didn't react because the human body doesn't have a very strong affinity for elements. Your affinity for a single element may never be as strong as that of a species that is only friendly to that element throughout your life. Conversely, the lethality of a single element to humans is far less than that of a species that rejects that element."

"So basically the most powerful mages in every world are humans," Bai Jinshu retracted his gaze, "Humans' affinity and aversion to each element are basically the same from a macro perspective. Compared with other races that are biased towards certain subjects, humans are most suitable to become mages."

Hector took notes quickly.

Barrage:

[Although I don’t know why the big guy started the lecture, I took out my notes and took notes. ]

[Isn't this the basis of magic? ]

[Humans are the most suitable race to become mages, but there are very few humans who can become top mages. Most humans may never be able to compare with other magical races in their lifetime. This should be common sense. ]

[Hector, the person that Deshen is teaching, lacks this kind of common sense. 】

[That’s right.]

[But I still expect De Shen to say something explosive. ]

【I also……】

【I also. 】

On the screen, Bai Jinshu, who had suddenly started lecturing for no apparent reason, changed the subject again: "Do you know why elves are immortal?"

"No, I don't know?" Hector tried to answer, "Because elves and humans are different races?"

How does he know this?

"Because the elves are a race that is only compatible with the element of wood," Bai Jinshu glanced at him with disdain in his eyes, "When a single element is achieved to the extreme, it will leave an impression on the creature itself. For example, the races that are compatible with the element of wood have extremely long lifespans, and the races that are compatible with the element of earth have much stronger physical fitness than other races, and so on."

"So if you want to achieve immortality, there is actually a very simple and convenient way." He waved his finger, and a blade of grass on the ground suddenly jumped up several centimeters. "Adjust yourself from a human with balanced elements to one with a single affinity for the wood element."

【？ ？ ？】

【ah? 】

[Did I hear that correctly?]

[Is the reason why elves live forever due to their affinity with the wood element? 】

[No, shouldn't the shock be that one can adjust the balance of elements if one wants to live forever? ]

[There are many ways for mages to achieve immortality. This method is only applicable to humans who have not learned magic, right? ]

[Shouldn't the point be how to adjust the elemental balance? No, can this thing be adjusted? ]

[If this could be adjusted... the mage community would be in for a big stir... Most people don't expect to become top mages, but many people are stuck outside the door because of their weak affinity for certain elements. If this could be adjusted, I can't imagine how explosive the news would be...]

[Is there any big boss here? Where is the big boss who came out when God De said that the elemental mixing spell would cause irreversible damage last time? Can this news be spread? ]

[…Don’t ask me. I don’t know either.]

[I have to ask...]

Bai Jinshu, who had no idea that the comments were shocking, pulled up the grass that he had forced to ripen and casually made a ring: "So the dead ascetic..."

"The dead ascetic monk is the one whose life was extended for several years by the wood element?" Zhao Yinglai quickly responded.

"Yes," Bai Jinshushou stretched out his hand to grab Huai Jiamu's finger and put it in, then continued, "He should have died three or four years ago, but he really died not long ago."

It was only because he lived above the magic pattern where magic sand was delivered every month that he was kept alive by the wood element for so long.

Once the supply of magic sand from the Perrin Mine was cut off, the body of the person who should have died long ago would lose the magical materials that kept her alive, the precarious balance would collapse, the magic that once supported her to continue living would leave like threads being ripped off, and the person who should have died long ago would suddenly become a corpse.

This person should have died three or four years ago, and his body was in the same condition as if he had died three or four years ago, which led to the misunderstanding.

"So the elemental balance of this ascetic monk's body has been adjusted by someone?" Xu Zichen was curious, "Who did it?"

If the ascetic didn't know that the magic sand sent by the Perrin Mine contained wood elements, then how did she know how to keep herself alive, and if he knew the use of the magic sand, then who did it.

From what Dermis said, it seems that not just anyone can do this.

Then the top wizard they know of on this continent is only the Grand Mage. In order to allow the ascetics guarding the key nodes to continue to hold their ground, the Grand Mage chose to use this method to prolong his divine life?

"Maybe someone has adjusted it," Guan Hongyan suddenly interrupted, "Isn't it said that the disease on the alien continent will kill the plants and animals living on it? The Grand Mage created this magic pattern to protect Slenkmed from being invaded, so the humans living on this continent are also considered animals, so the people living above the magic pattern will be kept alive forever?"

If the Perrin Mine stops delivering magic sand, the magic pattern will no longer work, and the people living above the magic pattern will naturally die.

"Well, I personally don't agree with this method," Delmis suddenly stood up when everyone was thinking about the rationality of Guan Hongyan's statement, "People who should have died, using a single element to forcibly keep them alive, will live in the narrow gap between life and death, and those who survive are more likely to be zombies."

"If the man who should have died long ago wasn't a priest," he said calmly, "you might be looking at a ghoul between life and death."

"Ah? Have you seen..." Xu Zichen responded subconsciously, but before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Zhao Yinglai.

"They are coming." Everyone stood up.

Not far away, Yun Guang, Zhao Yinglai and Enoch were walking towards here. Beside the three of them was a middle-aged man in heavy armor, who should be Anton's father.

Along the way, Yun Guang roughly told him that they needed to dig up the magic sand in order to reinforce the magic pattern, so there were a lot of young men with shovels following behind them, and they all looked like students from the Knight Academy.

In a world filled with magic, it is very common to have magic patterns buried under important rooms or buildings. Some wizards will even bury protective magic arrays at the doorsteps of their homes for residential safety.

The students were informed that a wizard had come to reinforce the magic circle in the Knight Academy and that they needed to come here to dig out the magic circle buried deep underground. They were used to it and after opening the door, they teased the Knight Captain, asking why they didn't know there was such a place in the academy.

"Go, dig carefully, and be careful not to destroy the magic circle below," the knight captain waved his hand, looking like he had a good relationship with them, "You know what this kind of place is for."

The students were all young and strong, and they were all students of the Knight Academy. They had good weapons in their hands, so they dug out the magic pattern in no time. They went out with shovels, chatting and laughing, and waited for the wizard to reinforce it before burying the magic pattern again.

"I don't know what this is," said a blond student walking at the end, holding a dried object in his hand, "Captain, I saw this in the corner of the room."

"Is this... a big-mouthed flower?" Guan Hongyan's eyelids twitched. "Could this be Xiaohong?"

Although the flower in the student's hand has shriveled, its thick stem and huge flower head can still be seen.

It is a bit of a stretch to call it a "flower". It would be more appropriate to describe this thing as a giant mouth with sharp teeth. Its appearance is very similar to the "Big Mouth Flower" in Plants vs. Zombies.

That huge passage was probably gnawed out by the flower's mouth...

It's shocking that Anton actually calls this thing a flower.

"Ah, this," Anton's father was also stunned, "It's actually here."

He took the dried flower from the student's hand and explained with a bit of nostalgia: "This is the broken spark in my wife's collection room. She dug it out from the volcanic rock when she went to the edge of Endor volcano. In order to keep this flower that can only grow in magma in the collection room, we specially used the magic materials that are delivered every month. This time the mine did not indicate that it would send magic materials, so I did not change the soil. I didn't expect that this flower suddenly broke through the protective shield and disappeared. I thought it ran away to some other place..."

I didn't expect that he would come here to Demon Pattern.

However, unlike what it expected, this place with abundant wood element not only did not allow it to continue growing, but instead accelerated its death. The flowers that could only grow in the magma withered quickly.

It seems that the wood element in these magic sands has also been consumed.

Everyone looked back at the lush branches and leaves in the Knight Academy. It was not difficult to imagine that it would soon become as bleak as Cyril City.

With the Perrin Mine ceasing operations after accidentally digging through Outlanth, the continent of Slenkmed, which had been kept alive for several years by the Grand Mage using the poisonous magic pattern, is about to decline.

As for those disappeared professional mentors, no one knows what identities and responsibilities they assumed in this self-rescue.

After copying the magic patterns from the Knight Academy, Delmis, the only real wizard among the exploration team, pretended to add some "magic power" to the magic patterns. After watching the blue patterns flash with light green, the knight students at the door came in again to fill the big hole.

By the time I finished all this, it was dark.

Knowing that this magic pattern was probably related to his wife's departure, the knight captain invited them to dinner and wanted to keep them overnight. Enoch was afraid that he would be exposed if he talked too much, and Yun Guang also confirmed from their conversation just now that the knight captain didn't know much. The only person who had really communicated face to face with the great mage and Enoch about the magic pattern was the now missing principal of the Knight Academy, so he politely took his leave.

"We still have to go to the next place to stabilize the magic pattern," Yun Guang nodded, speaking gently, "It's really inconvenient to stay overnight, so we have to leave tonight."

The knight captain could only watch them leave with regret.

It was getting darker, and compared to Cyril during the day, there seemed to be more people at night.

In other words, there are more players at night.

n. PCs need to go home in the evening, but players don't need to.

At this point, almost all the people standing on the street are players. No one knows how the events of the day turned out. Guan Hongyan looked at his watch and said that the outside world said that "Enoch" was the real n.pc released by Wei Yu to dispel the rumors. It is really estimated that Lao Zhang is really dead.

Good news never travels far, but bad news travels a thousand miles. Driven by a group of marketing accounts that are eager to see the fun, the death of producer Lao Zhang has been exaggerated in eight hundred versions. Some people even swore that Lao Zhang must have been murdered. As the producer of "Breath of Slenkmed", he is Wei Yu's reincarnated parent. It was this game that allowed Wei Yu to join the world's gaming companies. He must have shares in Wei Yu.

His death might be the result of internal strife within Wei Yu.

This statement is unfounded, but once it involves topics that most people don't normally come into contact with, such as large company equity and business war murder, the discussion becomes extremely high and spreads across the entire Internet within a few hours.

Some even pulled out news and financial reports related to Wei Yu from those years and studied them one by one, trying to find any trace of Lao Zhang's death.

Everyone was walking on the street, listening to Guan Hongyan telling the news while looking at her watch, which was no different from listening to a story.

Or maybe this is just a story made up by a group of people for the sake of hype.

As everyone was walking towards the Adventurer's Inn while listening to the story, White Moth looked around and suddenly saw a familiar face: "Hey? Isn't that the fragrant... the golden wizard?"

Everyone looked over.

[Heavier Resentment Than Ghosts], [Pure and Wild Female Cockroach], and another player I haven't seen before were sitting in an open-air seat at a street cafe and seemed to be talking about something.

The exploration team members changed their faces to avoid the players, so the two men didn't recognize them.

Everyone walked towards the direction of the two people, and coincidentally, they heard the voice of [Pure and Wild Female Cockroach].

She asked the player that no one had seen before, "Xiao Wang, are you sure? After you went there, others told you that Zhang Nuoke was dead?"

"I'm sure," Wang Wenhua nodded with certainty, "I went to the address you gave me. Most of the vegetative patients there are now connected to the brain-computer interface and live in the holographic world. One of them was Lao Zhang's patient from more than ten years ago. He told me that Lao Zhang had died a long time ago."

The author has something to say:

The logic behind the name Enoch is that the producer Zhang Nuoke got the first game account numbered 1 in the game, so it is 1·Nuke.

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