"Aaaaaaaaah!!! Why! Why didn't I win again! I've scratched twenty-five lottery tickets! And all I got were potions and scrolls! Not even a piece of magic equipment or weapon! I'm a fucking warrior! I can't use these scrolls! At least give me a belt or boots!"
A player who had "spent all his money" on lottery tickets sat down on the ground with a bunch of scrolls and potions in his arms, wailing in despair.
Because apart from those low-level healing potions, detoxification potions and strengthening potions that could still be used, both the divine scrolls and the arcane scrolls were just a pile of waste paper to him.
The most important thing is that most players are now in the initial stage without any original capital accumulation and do not have much money in hand.
No one would buy or afford expensive consumables like potions and scrolls.
Even among spellcasters such as priests, druids, mages, warlocks, bards, etc., only a very small number can graduate from their respective academies.
A thief who had fought alongside him patted the "old gambler" on the shoulder and consoled him, "Don't worry about it. It's only temporary that no one wants these things. When the next world opens and all the players come in, everyone will have money in their hands and will naturally be willing to buy some potions and scrolls for emergencies."
"Nonsense! Don't I know that other players will buy it when they have money?" The warrior player rolled his eyes in annoyance. "But the problem is, I want to get some money now to exchange for one or two magic equipment, so as to prepare for entering the next world."
"Hey, everyone is like that. We have now entered the first echelon thanks to this mission. Everyone is scrambling to maintain their advantage and strive to be the first. No one wants to be left behind."
The thief chuckled and touched the glowing red blood-sucking dagger hanging at his waist.
There was no doubt that this thing was the prize he had just won from scratching the lottery ticket. Every time it hit the target, it could absorb a small amount of health points and transfer them to the holder.
In other words, as long as you are not killed on the spot, you can quickly recover to your original state in a short time by killing a few people or animals. It is definitely a good thing that melee professions dream of.
Jack had just taken a fancy to this dagger and wanted to buy it at a high price of three thousand gold coins, but he resisted the urge to sell it.
Because all elite players have clearly realized that becoming strong is the key to gaining a foothold in this virtual game world.
As long as you have the ability, there will never be a lack of opportunities to make money.
The warrior player glanced at the blood-sucking dagger with a slightly envious look, nodded with a wry smile, "Yeah! I was also confused, looking at those dazzling prizes and wanted to take a chance. What should I do now? I only have twenty or so gold coins left, not even enough to buy a set of basic equipment. Am I going to rob houses and become a bandit in the next world?"
"Pfft! Hahahaha! Are you fucking trying to make me die of laughter?"
The thief couldn't help but spit out the water he had just drunk.
After all, there is only one set of welfare equipment for novices, which is the set given when they just graduate from the academy.
If it is lost due to reasons including death, the player will need to buy it with his own money.
As an elite in the first echelon, it is a bit embarrassing that in the end I didn't even have the most basic equipment.
While the two were talking, Caroline, the only girl among the more than 140 elite players who was not a soldier, bodyguard or assassin, slowly squeezed out of the crowd, walked over, pointed at the scrolls still on the ground and asked, "Are you selling these arcane scrolls?"
"Of course! Do you want it? I'll give you a 30% discount! No! 40% off!"
The warrior player instantly got rid of his previous "salted fish" state and jumped up suddenly, his eyes fixed on the heavy purse that the girl was carrying on her back with difficulty, and the +1 Lightning Double-Edge Axe in her arms.
The latter in particular was one of the several prizes he had his eyes on.
According to the description, anyone hit by this axe will not only suffer huge physical damage, but also release additional electric shocks on the wound, causing the enemy to fall into uncontrollable short-term paralysis. This is the favorite of warriors who like to use two-handed heavy weapons.
"What scrolls do you have here?" Caroline continued to ask.
Since she is a warlock, she will automatically learn some spells every time she levels up. She does not need to spend money to buy scrolls or rent other people's spell books like a wizard, so there is no need to spend too much money for the time being.
In addition, the previous battle made the girl realize that her shortcoming was that she had too few spells to use every day, so she decided to use some of her money to buy scrolls and magic items for emergencies.
At this moment, she was wearing a [Secondary Spell Storage Ring] on her finger that could store three levels of spells, and a ten-shot missile wand on her waist.
For a warlock of real level 3, this is already a very "luxurious" configuration.
Of course, the reason why Caroline could own these equipment was not only because there were relatively few arcane spellcasters among the elite players and her own luck in draws was exceptionally good, but also the large sum of money she had just received played a significant role.
Without saying anything, the warrior player immediately picked out all the arcane scrolls, spread them out one by one, pointed at the complex magic patterns and introduced them: "I have two Charm Person, one Grease, one Shield, one Burning Hands, three Horror, one Metamorphosis, one Protective Arrow, two Webs, one Wild Laughter, and finally a three-ring Monster Summoning.
If you want them all, just give me 600 gold coins.
In addition, I have a lot of magic scrolls for healing, protection, strengthening, and various potions. I'll give you 1,600 gold coins for the whole thing.
Of course, you can also exchange it directly with the axe in your hand.
Anyway, that thing is of no use to your small body, right? "
At this moment, this warrior player was like a big bad wolf luring Little Red Riding Hood, and he had obviously been eyeing the Lightning Double-Edged Axe from the very beginning.
After all, a good weapon can greatly improve melee professions.
As for armor, spend five to ten gold coins to buy a piece of inlaid leather armor and you'll be fine for now.
"make a deal!"
Caroline thought about it for a moment and then agreed to the deal.
It took both parties less than a minute to get what they needed.
Then, the girl picked out the magic scrolls and potions that she had no use for and continued to look for other people to trade with.
Similar situations are obviously not isolated cases, but occur frequently in the open square in front of the central tower, forming a place like a trading market.
Even ordinary players who have no money come to join in the fun and learn about the market conditions and prices of various items.
The most outrageous thing is that some players who survived to the end even brought back the broken bones, internal organs, brains and other things from the undead creatures and put them on the shelves for sale.
If it were a wizard who had mastered the technology of making magic wands or necromancy magic items, this thing might be of some use.
At least thick bone sticks have always been the basic material for low-level magic wands, and are worth at least a few silver coins to one gold coin depending on their quality.
The internal organs can also be used to make terrible cysts, which are attached to low-level undead and then controlled to explode suddenly, causing group negative energy damage to enemies in a large area, and even causing a series of serious consequences such as poisoning and disease.
But the problem is that the magic education that players receive is a castrated and quick-course version, and they fail to learn even the basic theories.
How is it possible to master such complex and difficult techniques as making wands, rings, weapons and protection in such a short time?
As a result, apart from attracting a large number of curious people, not a single piece was sold.
Just when this small market for mutual exchange was gradually growing in scale, someone suddenly shouted, instantly attracting everyone's attention.
"Fuck! It's you two again! Is this fair? Did you make some kind of PY deal with the planners and managers of this game?"
"Damn it! I don't accept it!"
"Yes! There must be something fishy going on!"
"Protest! I demand compensation!"
…
Following the direction of the sound, Jack and Wu Sheng can be clearly seen, one holding a flaming hammer emitting red light, and the other carrying the long-barreled alchemical musket that has haunted countless people.
Apparently, they both drew their dream weapons.
Especially the alchemical muskets. Even the cheapest one costs a full three thousand gold coins each in the weapon shop. High-end ones like this will cost at least five to seven thousand gold coins.
Otherwise, there wouldn’t be so many people willing to lose everything they have to take a gamble.
After all, compared to cold weapons such as bows, crossbows, swords, and spears, these elite players still prefer modern gunpowder weapons such as guns and cannons, and they are also easier to use.
Seeing more and more people joining in the booing, Jack immediately rolled his eyes impatiently and cursed, "Get out of my way! What a shady conspiracy! Are you blind? We spent hundreds of gold coins to buy the last few lottery tickets from others."
"Who? That idiot sold his lottery ticket?"
A tall elf female player stared at the crowd around the podium with a shocked look on her face and asked loudly.
After a brief silence, she suddenly saw an orc player walk out of the crowd without saying a word, and began to bang his head frantically against the table where the prizes were placed.
Bang! Bang! Bang! After just a few hits, the wooden table was cracked, and dark red blood appeared on the forehead.
The guy was roaring like a madman while he was ramming into the car: "I'm a fucking idiot! Idiot! Idiot! Don't stop me! Let me just ram my head into death!"
"Brother! Not at all. Not at all. Calm down! If you get killed, you'll lose experience points and levels. It's not worth it."
"Yeah! At least you earned a few hundred gold coins. You can go to the floating city weapon shop or magic item shop to buy something good."
"That's right! You didn't suffer a loss at all. You just earned a little less."
Several other players nearby rushed over to stop this unlucky guy who was seriously mentally unbalanced.
He missed out on two pieces of magic equipment worth at least tens of thousands of dollars just for a few hundred gold coins.
Miserable! Too miserable! Especially being executed in such a public place, it is heartbreaking and makes anyone who hears about it cry.
Of course, compared to this Orc player who regretted so much that he wanted to die, the other side was much happier.
Jack swung the magic hammer twice, which emitted amazing heat and fire, and commented with satisfaction: "Although it is much lighter than my previous one, fortunately it can cause additional fire magic damage. When fighting, just smash it hard into the enemy's face, and the flame shock alone can kill or even seriously injure them."
"Disfigured by the impact of flames? Could it be that you are too ugly and have become mentally twisted and abnormal?" Wu Sheng complained with a twitching mouth.
"Tsk! What's wrong with being ugly? As long as I'm strong enough, that's all. You saw how outstanding and powerful my performance was in this mission. Now among all the players, my professional level is the highest." Jack retorted with a grin.
The reason why this "grim" is in quotation marks is because his face is so ugly that no matter what expression he makes, it reveals a sense of cruelty, bloodthirstiness and hideousness in the eyes of outsiders.
Wu Sheng shook his head gently: "Don't underestimate any basic attribute. Your charm and intelligence are so low, you will suffer a great loss sooner or later."
"What are you afraid of? Low charisma can just make me wear a mask and a helmet. Low intelligence doesn't have much impact on me as a player." Jack shrugged nonchalantly.
However, he didn't realize that it wouldn't be long before he would regret his hasty decision when creating the character.
You should know that every time a player goes to a new world, the local language and writing system will be injected into it through the mastermind Isadora.
If a character's intelligence attribute is too low, the brain will fail to be infused because it cannot carry more knowledge.
In other words, a "retarded" person like Jack, whose intelligence attribute is only five points, is destined to be unable to learn a second language. At that time, he will not even be able to communicate with the locals and can only rely on his teammates to translate.
But he himself had not realized this at this time. Instead, he happily put his arm around Wu Sheng's neck and suggested, "Let's go find a place to try this gun and see what the difference is between the alchemical muskets in the magic world and those on Earth."
“We have to buy bullets first.
Alchemical bullets cost five silver coins each, and a box of fifty bullets costs at least twelve gold coins.
Ordinary gunpowder bullets are relatively cheap, and one gold coin can buy sixty bullets.
But in the world where the floating city is currently located, the power of gunpowder bullets has been greatly weakened. Based on the caliber of this gun, the effective range is only fifteen to twenty meters.
So I can only try the power of the alchemical bullet first."
When he mentioned the bullet, Wu Sheng couldn't help but reveal a painful expression.
After all, this thing is a serious consumable.
Although alchemical rifles usually need to be fired and reloaded one by one, they are far from being like modern automatic weapons that consume dozens or even thousands of rounds of bullets within a few minutes.
However, once it really gets into battle, a box of bullets will be used up in a short time.
Anyone with a bit of common sense knows that one of the biggest advantages of firearms over bows and crossbows is that they do not consume too much physical energy when used.
It is far from being like the former, where after pulling the bowstring dozens or twenty times in a row, the arms will begin to ache and become weak, and it will take a while to rest before being able to fight again.
Therefore, under the same combat conditions, the consumption of ammunition is much higher than that of arrows.
Of course, the more enemies killed, the more experience points gained, so Wu Sheng had no complaints. He was just worried about the high long-term costs of using firearms.
But soon, under Jack's guidance, he stopped worrying about it, and quickly selected a box of the cheapest and most common lead bullets from the various and expensive enchanted bullets in the weapon shop, and came to the public area of the long-range weapon training ground in the floating city.
Since most of the players gathered around the central tower to watch the fun, this place seemed very empty.
Wu Sheng directly chose a maximum distance of five hundred meters, which was impossible for a bow and crossbow to reach.
Then, with extremely skilled movements, he pushed a bullet that was thicker and longer than a twelve-gauge shotgun bullet into the loading hole from the back, and then pulled the bolt hard to send the bullet into the chamber.
After doing all this, he put his shoulder against the butt of the gun and assumed a shooting stance. After about two or three seconds, he pulled the trigger.
The next second...
Bang! A red flame shot out directly from the muzzle, and in just over a second it hit the human-shaped wooden target 500 meters away.
Under the influence of huge kinetic energy and cavity effect, the latter exploded from the middle with a snap, and a large amount of debris flew everywhere.
After penetrating the first wooden target, the bullet changed its trajectory and smashed another nearby wooden target into pieces.
The former is a wooden man of almost the same size as a normal person, and his entire head has disappeared without a trace. The latter is relatively better, but there is also a black hole in the chest.
It goes without saying that if this had hit a flesh and blood body, neither of them would have survived.
"Fuck! How come the trajectory is so accurate? And the bullet is so powerful?"
Wu Sheng opened his mouth in shock, as if he couldn't believe what he saw. He even forgot to rub his shoulder which was numb from the reaction force.
"Of course, this is all the effect of magic. Otherwise, why do you think alchemical firearms are so expensive? Its maximum effective range for unarmored targets is even more than two thousand meters, and it has more than thirty kinds of enchanted bullets with different properties and powers. If you advance to become a magic archer in the future, you can also infuse it with additional magical energy."
Weapon designer Boll walked over from a distance carrying another pistol of a completely different shape.
It is not difficult to tell from the familiar porous round cylinder that this thing is a revolver, but with some alchemical techniques and enchantments added.
Apparently, he was designing a close-range shooting weapon that was easy to carry and cheap enough at the request of Zuo Si, so that it could be supplied to those players who had experience in using firearms.
But this is obviously not easy.
Because anything related to "alchemy" or "enchantment" means that the cost will definitely not be low.
But Boll accepted the task with great pleasure.
The reason why he chose the relatively primitive and simple structure of the revolver was to save costs to the maximum extent, reduce alchemical expenses, and make it easier for mages to enchant it.
But even so, the current cost is still more than 1,500 gold coins.
"Are you testing your gun here too?"
Wu Sheng keenly noticed the revolver in the other person's hand, and his eyes revealed a strong curiosity.
Based on the previous missions and the crashed magic airship, he had realized that the man in front of him should be working in scientific research on the floating city of Plantia, so he was very curious about the principles behind it all.
Although he also understood that it was a bit ridiculous to find so-called "scientific basis" in a game, everything around him was too real, so real that people subconsciously ignored that it was a virtual world.
Bol smiled and nodded, "That's right. Since you all like firearms so much, I'm researching an alchemical firearm that's cheap, simple and convenient to use.
But unfortunately, no matter how much we cut costs, it is difficult to reduce the price of this thing below 1,500 gold coins.
I am currently looking for some people to conduct combat tests on the weapons. Are you interested in joining me?"
"There are many benefits, the most obvious of which is that you can buy various advanced weapons that are still under development at cost price at the first opportunity, and you will also get some ammunition and other things for free. But the condition is that you must submit a report every once in a while and explain in detail the problems encountered during the trial."
Boll calmly put forward the conditions.
随着魔法研究的深入，以及对另外一个秘密基地内来自非瑞克西亚和索兰文明技术的破解，武器设计与研发部门的专家们可以说是脑洞大开，各种奇思妙想层出不穷，光是目前制作出来的概念样品就超过了上百个，正需海量的炮灰……
啊！ 不对！
应该叫做“有科学献身精神的勇士”去大胆的进行测试，顺便再割一波韭菜回收点研发资金。
同样的，精英玩家们也能以相对廉价的方式获得他们梦寐以求的武器装备。
双赢！
至于一些“小小”的意外和“微不足道”的伤亡损失，只要出现的概率不是太频繁，玩家们应该不会太过在意。
可怜的杰克还不知道自己被盯上了，两眼直勾勾看着那支精美的左轮手枪直流口水，连想都没想便用力点了下头：“行！没问题！我们愿意当测试员。”
“太好了！那我们现在就来签一份合同吧。”
说着，波尔迅速从怀里将早就准备好的范本掏了出来。
这玩意可是他委托社会科学部门一个专门研究法律的学者弄出来的，其中大量专业名词、明明每个字都认识但连起来却就不明白的话术陷阱简直多如牛毛。
反正总结起来就一句话，所有试验型武器均不保证安全性，造成的一切损失和人员伤亡也都由玩家自己承担。
与该合同相比，那些互联网大厂的霸王条款都显得如此合情合理。
只可惜，杰克跟吴生受到的教育水平都不高，尤其是对文字游戏这一块严重缺乏经验教训，所以连看都没看便在上边签下了自己的名字。
波尔见状大喜，立刻拉着他们俩去了一趟武器研发射击部门的仓库，忽悠其购买了不少五花八门的道具和装备。
等从里边走出来的时候，两人才发现自己原本鼓鼓囊囊的钱袋已经瘪下去一大半。
尤其是合伙出资购花重金买的两米高试作型人类【组构体】，完全就像是个用粗糙钢铁支架拼凑起来的假冒伪劣产品，就连用下肢行走都摇摇晃晃很难维持平衡，经常是只能四肢着地像动物一样奔跑和爬行。
不过好在这玩意的负重能力要远比一般牲口出色得多，就算不能作为战力也可以当成驮兽使用，而且还不需要喂食。
“伙计，我觉得咱们可以开始考虑扩大团队规模了，你觉得呢？”杰克用略带兴奋的语气征求同伴的意见。
吴生不加思索的点了下头：“我完全同意。上次合作那个叫做伊内兹的盗贼就不错，不仅脑子灵活、擅长制造各种各样的小道具，而且关键时刻也敢打敢拼，绝对是个可靠的伙伴。”
“嗯！你说得对！把他算上。还有术士卡罗琳也不错，她的魔法肯定能在下个世界派上大用场。”
“关于这一点我毫不怀疑。
毕竟除了那些半吊子的吟游诗人，她可是目前唯一一个进入第一梯队的奥术施法者。
目前已经可以使用二环法术了，绝对是个关键时刻能帮我们扭转局势的得力帮手。
另外，你难道就不觉得奇怪吗？
为什么像卡罗琳这样没有任何战斗经验的小姑娘，会如此之快从术士学院毕业？”
吴生注视着搭档的眼睛，似笑非笑提出了一个让不少精英玩家们都为之困惑的问题。
杰克微微楞了一下，紧跟着用不是很确定的语气反问：“你知道？”
吴生不加思索的回答道：“嗯！我已经私下里打听过了。
卡罗琳可是个超级天才，十二岁就以满分的成绩考入了麻省理工。
如果后来没有突然得绝症，她将会打破记录成为该校数学专业有史以来最年轻的毕业生。
除此之外，她还以完美评价通过了法师测试。
只不过得知学习魔法需要花费大量的金钱之后，才主动转而开发血脉的力量成为术士。
不过她并不是放弃了法师这个职业，仅仅只是想要先攒下一笔钱再开始系统性的学习那些复杂多样的魔法知识。
所以相信我，这个女孩绝对值得培养、投资。
她未来会成为团队中魔法方面的专家和智囊。”
“原来如此！那还等什么？我们现在就去邀请她！”
尽管杰克的性格粗鲁了一点，总给人一种莽汉的错觉，但他其实一点都不笨，非常清楚一个高智商的天才意味着什么。
很快，两人就在中央高塔门口的小市场上找到了身为术士的卡罗琳。
不过让他们大跌眼镜的是，此时此刻这个女孩已经通过多次的低买高卖，甚至主动帮那些没多少钱的普通玩家联系相互借贷并提供担保服务，最终利用差价差不多包下了彩票奖励中超过半数的卷轴、魔杖，以及只有对奥术跟神术施法者才有用的装备。
看着堆砌在摊位上的东西，从来没有做过生意的吴生瞪大眼睛，用略带颤抖的声音问：“你……你都做了什么？”
“没什么，我只是把那些普通玩家手里的闲钱集中起来创造了需求和市场。
紧跟着再利用市场规律赚取差价。
最后凭借信息差用较少的钱买下了这些可能会用得上的东西。
虽然在战斗方面我没办法跟你们这些经验丰富的老兵相比，但在这种需要用到数学和动脑子的地方我还是有点自信的。
而且我发现，这个游戏世界的经济体系非常真实也非常有趣。
等到下个世界开放的时候，我会进行更进一步的尝试跟探索。”
在说这番话的时候，卡罗琳脸上洋溢着自信的微笑，与之前执行任务过程中狼狈不堪的模样判若两人。
“知道吗？你眼下这副样子让我想起了那群华尔街的吸血鬼！”
杰克这会儿终于彻底相信，眼前这个女孩的聪明程度绝对远超自己的想象。
因为他注意到，有类似赚差价想法的玩家并不只有卡罗琳一个人。
可问题是，另外几个家伙都只是在小打小闹，根本没想过把普通玩家手里零碎的资金通过相互借贷并提供担保方式利用起来，从而扩大整个交易市场规模。
更何况由于女孩的这种行为，直接赢得了无数普通玩家的好感，因此这些玩家也愿意信任她、听从她的指点。
结果就是她成为了一大票买家的代言人，可以凭借手中掌握的客户资源跟卖家讨价还价，把价格尽可能的压低并从中赚取一定比例佣金。
这就好像有些人还在做小本生意，但另外一些人却已经开始玩起了金融。
双方从一开始的格局跟敛财速度根本就不是一个量级的。
“哈哈哈哈！感谢夸奖！对了，要是看上什么东西就随便挑两件拿走，当做是报答你们在这次任务中给予我的照顾。”
卡罗琳一边大笑，一边指了指摊位上的东西。
但杰克却没有贪图这点小便宜，而是郑重其事的询问道：“天才，你有兴趣加入我们的团队吗？我指的不是那种临时团队，而是长期的固定团队。”
“哦？你们还愿意带上我一起！”女孩脸上浮现出惊讶之色。
她以为就凭自己第一次任务差劲的表现，八成会被踢出第一梯队呢。
“当然！你可是我们第一个邀请的对象。而且我们需要的是你的脑子和法术，所以战斗方面差一点没关系。反正玩家又不会真的死，你可以慢慢积累经验，总有一天能追上我们的脚步。”吴生跟着出言补充道。
卡罗琳的视线不断在眼前这个两个散发着强悍气息的“大叔”身上扫来扫去，足足过了好几分钟才终于下定决心。
“好！我加入！不过有个要求，在战斗中使用的卷轴和魔法物品，必须要由团队的公共资金进行报销。不然遇到频繁激烈的战斗我很快就会破产的。”
“非常合理的要求，我们同意了。合作愉快！”
杰克非常痛快的答应下来，并伸出自己那只又大、又粗糙、而且还长满了浓密毛发的右手。
“合作愉快！”
女孩一脸嫌弃的用指尖轻轻握了握对方的手指，生怕不小心碰到那些让自己感到强烈不适的浓密黑毛。
紧跟着三人收拾了一下东西，又找到盗贼伊内兹的并发出邀请。
就这样，一个由游侠、牧师、盗贼和术士构建的核心小队便悄无声息的构建完成。
确定了核心成员之后，他们又开了一个小小的会议，商讨了一下关于各自职责跟战利品分配的方案。
当一切确定下来之后，这才开始对外进行招募。
才短短两三天左右，这支四人小队便膨胀到了两百五十多人，其中既有第一梯队的精英玩家，也有刚刚从各自学院毕业的普通玩家。
But they have one thing in common, that is, when selecting personnel, they must either have served in the army or fought in the battlefield as a mercenary, or have experience in business and management. At the very least, they must know a little about carpentry, metal smelting, cold weapon forging and some knowledge of engineering machinery.
In fact, Jack and Wu Sheng were not the only ones doing this. Other teams also raised their own banners and began recruiting players, preparing to march into the new world.
Ambitious, they were not satisfied with working for the local forces at all. Instead, they planned to collect information as mercenaries, recruit local natives to join and expand the team.
When the time is right, I'll just rebel right here.
Just as the players were actively preparing for the battle, Zuo Si had already teleported to the world of A Song of Ice and Fire through the power of his planeswalker spark.
However, the place he first arrived was not in Westeros, but in Essos, which was across the sea to the east. To be precise, it was Pentos, a free trade city-state on the coast of the Narrow Sea.
Without any hesitation!
Zuo Si directly found a relatively suitable place and used the legendary magic [Nail into the Sky] to send the psychic signal receiver and amplifier to the space above his head, making it a synchronous orbit satellite.
Afterwards, he took the signal strength test tool developed by the Snail Shell and used teleportation magic to travel to the snow-covered far north of Westeros with the launch point as the center. He then went to the Slave Bay and the Dothraki Steppes, especially the Our Lady of Mount, which was regarded as a sacred place by nomads.
After confirming that players' activities within this main range would not be affected in any way, I breathed a sigh of relief.
You have to know that throwing one of these things would cost millions of gold coins worth of expensive materials. Zuo Si didn't want to be in an embarrassing situation where one was not enough and he had to have another one.
In addition, he sincerely hoped that the device he launched would not be accidentally crashed or damaged when the red comet visited the planet.
After all, according to many people's speculation, this comet is very likely to have brought magical energy to the world.
Dragons, magic, and supernatural powers all began to revive after its appearance.
Who knows if this thing will have any reaction or impact on the psychic signal receivers and amplifiers floating in outer space.
After solving the signal problem, Zuo Si immediately took out a broken magic crystal - a replica of Crenshinibon, and directly created a small island of only a few square kilometers on the sea surface at the launch origin. He then placed it in the highest place and recited the classic spell.
"Iberthun--Del--Aberdur--"
moment!
The prismatic crystal, which was originally only the size of a palm, suddenly began to emit a dazzling light, and drew energy from the sunlight in the sky above, trembling and growing in size with a unique pulsation.
In an instant, the sky in the sea area within a radius of ten kilometers became dim, as if there was a solar eclipse.
Needless to say, this is a replica of the Broken Demon Crystal that is absorbing the sun's energy to maintain its own existence.
When the horrifying doomsday-like scene ended, a huge magic crystal tower stood on the island.
Zuo Si went straight in and came to the top level, peeled off Yalin's spark from her body, and embedded it into a huge portal that had been prepared in advance.
In the blink of an eye, the portal was fully activated and connected to the floating city of Mutahar.
About a few seconds later, a tentacle extending from the main brain Isadora came in from the other side and connected to the huge psychic signal amplifying device on the top of the tower.
The next second...
Through the reception and amplifiers in the synchronous orbit, her perception ability covers the entire continent of Westeros, as well as most of the continents of Essos and Sothoryos near the east.
"Well, have you sensed the power in this world that may pose a threat to us?" Zuo Si asked directly.
Mastermind Isadora responded without hesitation: "No. This world is much safer than you think. I don't feel anything that can threaten you. Even a Balor or a Pit Fiend can easily destroy it."
"Very good! Keep monitoring. I'm going to confirm the current time now."
After saying this, Zuo Si raised his hand and snapped his fingers, and instantly disappeared without a trace.
As for the mastermind Isadora, she unceremoniously summoned several mind flayers from the other side to serve her and be responsible for maintaining those sophisticated and complex psychic equipment.
In order to prevent any unexpected situations, the Diary, which had become a ghost dragon lich, also dispatched an elite undead army to station there.
In fact, if he hadn't been given permission, he would have even entered this world himself and led the players to sweep across all the major forces and collect those young and beautiful women.
…
At the same time, the Mutahar floating city on the other side of the portal has also arrived at the designated location and is hovering at an altitude of more than 15,000 meters.
Fortunately, the people living here are undead creatures who don't need to breathe. Otherwise, with the air here being so thin, a normal person would die miserably in a short time.
Obviously, the reason for docking at this altitude is to be able to better absorb energy from the sunlight.
Since all the wizard towers are transformed into magic crystals, the Mutahar floating city cannot compare to the Plantia floating city in terms of quickly absorbing energy.
In addition, after the volume and area were expanded, the entire underground part was densely packed with crystal matrices that could store electrical energy, making it a super backup energy source.
At the moment, the diary sat on the throne of the central tower in human form, yawning with boredom, and asked casually: "How long will it take for the matrices below to be fully charged?"
"At least two weeks, Great Lord."
A spiritual lich who had created the Broken Demon Crystal bowed his head and gave the answer respectfully.
"Two weeks? Damn! That's a little too long."
The diary couldn't help but curse under its breath.
Needless to say, he is very bored with these days of doing nothing and acting as a "solar panel", and he is eager to find an opportunity to do something.
In particular, we hope to be able to send players to the other side of the portal as quickly as possible, and then guide them through various means to do things that they want to do but cannot do in person.
After all, when players go to the new world, they must first teleport from the Plantia Floating City to the Mutahar Floating City, and then use the cross-time and space portal here to reach the other side.
In addition, some players who use magic need to provide their own magic crystal towers to create a casting environment, so the diary can do a lot of little things.
What's more, his existence is equivalent to Zuo Si's clone, so he knows his master's temper and personality very well, and will not touch Zuo Si's bottom line like other idiots.
Just the opposite!
The only thing this guy wants to do is to have some fun and make the boring life of the city lord more colorful.
(End of this chapter)