"The sun?" Maca's face showed a look of surprise as he listened to Darren's story.
"Yes, it's a very big fireball that automatically glows and generates heat... No, it should be called a plasma ball." Darren showed off the little knowledge in his mind.
The astonished looks of these natives gave him an extremely strong sense of superiority.
The halflings present were whispering to each other, and Maka also remembered that he had heard this word in the tribe.
It seems that a long time ago, this world also had the sun, but Maca had never seen it. He only knew from the few words of his ancestors that it had endless light and heat that could illuminate the vast earth. The light it emitted was 100,000 times stronger than the fluorescence emitted by the [Fiery Mushroom] jungle! Maka simply couldn't imagine what kind of power could fill the entire world with light! You have to know that in this cold and dark foreign land, light and heat are very precious resources.
Subconsciously, Maca thought Darren must be lying, but he couldn't help but have some expectations in his heart, because these outsiders did show abilities beyond expectations.
For example, they can create soft food out of thin air, and they can control fire, ice and lightning, and can easily defeat powerful and dangerous monsters.
The high priest once expressed jealously that if the Moon God had not left this world, they would certainly be able to do the same thing.
Of course, now the high priest has been killed directly for resisting outsiders, and his body has turned into an ice sculpture and buried with his followers.
The remaining halflings were in a very stable mood, because in this God-forsaken world, it was an obvious truth that the strong got everything and the weak chose to obey.
A few years ago, when the temperature in the foreign land was not so low, there were several tribes in this area, and looting, enslavement, and fighting were common occurrences.
Maka had no reverence or faith in Diana, the Moon Goddess, because since he was born, the tribe had never stopped offering sacrifices to the Moon Goddess, but that God had never cared about their life or death.
Perhaps just as these outsiders said, she has fallen!
A dead god naturally no longer has any value and cannot even provide a vague hope.
"That Speaker Lin you mentioned...is he also a god?" Maka asked involuntarily. In his understanding, God is the most powerful existence and the root of all miracles.
"No, he is a wizard, the most powerful wizard!" Darren corrected.
"Wizard..." Maka read this slightly difficult word. There was no such word in the tribe's language, so Darren used the common language of the Eternal Continent.
Maka firmly remembered this imported word in his heart. In his eyes, wizards represented powerful strength and were as powerful as gods.
"Since you can create the sun, can you..." Maka hesitated for a long time before gritting his teeth and said. "Can you help us build one too?"
If there was a sun in this world, everything would be fine, right?
At least they don't have to worry about light and heat.
However, after years of living in a foreign land, Maca knew that there was no such thing as a free favor. He just thought for a long time but couldn't think of any bargaining chips they could use to exchange.
Because now the survival of the entire tribe depends on the other party's thoughts. In theory, their lives are all the other party's property. Maca cannot do such a thing as using the other party's things as a condition for exchange.
"Oh, and there's faith! As long as you can help us build a sun, we will give you our faith!" Maka suddenly thought of this and said firmly.
Freedom of thought is the only thing they have, and since the moon god needs or likes their worship, perhaps the wizards will also want this.
Anyway, in the past, when they succeeded in hunting, they would perform routine prayers. Now it’s just a matter of worshipping someone else.
"Wizards don't need faith..." Darren shook his head, rejected Maca's proposal, and then spoke again.
"You just need to...well, work hard. As long as you have enough merits, it is not impossible to create a sun for you..."
Darren kept talking and painting promises to the halflings, although in his opinion it was not really a scam.
Before heading to the foreign land, Darren heard that the Parliament was preparing to build solar furnaces in all major cities to provide a steady supply of energy.
If these halfling fellows can really achieve great enough achievements, he thinks that the parliament can create a 'sun' for them! Under Darren's constant encouragement, Maka and others all imagined what life would be like with endless light and heat. Many halflings were even more interested in the world outside the time and space gate that Darren mentioned.
Compared to the dark and silent God-forsaken land filled with dangerous beasts and the undead, the vibrant world that Darren described, which was flowing day and night, was like heaven.
Just as the halflings were talking about this, Raphael had received the message that the people who went to explore the outside world had returned.
A few pitch-black demon bats flew in first, followed by the alchemist Tik and a small team of halfling sentinels.
Tick's face was full of worry, but he didn't say anything. Instead, he couldn't help but glance at the halfling natives gathered here.
Raphael immediately understood what he meant, and silently expanded his domain to cover the few people. The soundproof barrier was also completed in an instant.
Tik then spoke anxiously. "Master Raphael, the situation outside is not good now. A large number of undead are gathering here!"
"What happened? Has our position been exposed?" Raphael's face changed slightly. Even though he had a premonition that Tik must bring bad news, he did not expect it to be such bad news.
Yolande immediately turned his gaze to the halfling natives present.
He suspected that these people had leaked their information.
Although after taking control of the settlement, Raphael had the psychic wizards set forbidden magic in the minds of each of them, it was obviously not safe enough. After all, their opponent was the one who was best at playing with souls.
"No, I don't think they are here to catch us."
Tik shook his head, because the undead did not surround them directly, but were aimlessly searching for something in the entire area, as if they were digging deep into the ground.
Raphael was also thinking about this possibility. Every time the space-time gate was opened, a large amount of magic power would flow into another world, just like a small stream was separated from a big river. Although the loss rate was very slow, it could indeed be perceived.
"How far are they from us now?" Raphael asked solemnly.
"Less than fifty kilometers," Tik replied. "These undead are searching every possible location. I even saw a dragon flatten a hill to make sure there was nothing inside."
"Four days, four days at most, they will find this place!" Tik added.
Although the search area of the skeleton soldiers seems to be expanding, they cannot resist the sleepless undead spirits and will eventually find this place if they keep searching.
Raphael frowned and thought for a long time. This was undoubtedly the worst possibility.
"We must find a way to lure them away and delay the time for these undead to find the time and space node as much as possible." Raphael said firmly.
During the time he stayed in the foreign land, in addition to conquering the halfling settlement and instructing them to gather intelligence, Raphael also did a lot of things, such as setting up alchemical arrays near the time and space nodes in the valley to block sight and magical perception.
But Raphael didn't think that his arrangement could hide from those damn skeletons. The other party would definitely level every place they could find without hesitation.
So the only way is to attract them to another place.
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Since the time flows at different speeds in the two worlds, every day of delay is equivalent to earning seven days!
However, this also means that they need to face a vast, powerful and dangerous army of undead.
"Anyway, let's send someone back to report the news." Raphael sighed, then looked at Yolande, Tik, Ivina, Darren and others without saying a word. Instead, let them choose for themselves who goes and who stays.
Returning means survival, and staying means almost no chance of survival, because they must go to a place as far away from the space-time gate as possible, and the possibility of being able to fight back is very slim.
"Ivina, you go back and report." Tik suddenly said. She was the youngest person here and deserved this only chance to survive.
However, the girl shook her head. She was ready to sacrifice the moment she joined the exotic exploration team.
The rest of the people were also silent, and a heavy atmosphere suddenly enveloped the station.
"Then let's decide by drawing lots!" Raphael finally decided. This was the fairest way and there was no need to argue any more.
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In the Magic Kingdom, in the newly built Magic Tower, Vittorio, who had just received intelligence and rushed back from the North, was interrupted by an explosive news before he had time to report.
“What did you say? Artok… turned into a probability cloud?” Vittorio almost spit out the tea he had just drunk and looked at Lin En and the others in disbelief, as if they were telling a ridiculous joke.
"Although I don't want to believe it, it seems to be true now..." Aurora shrugged and told them everything they saw in the laboratory in the wizard's land.
A person who is both together and apart, Vittorio really cannot restore such an image in his mind...
Grotesque... This can only be described as grotesque! "Is this still magic?" Anthony on the side was also shocked. Like Vittorio, he was hearing the news for the first time.
Harof and Aurora were also thinking about this problem. Ever since they began to study the microscopic world, the previous common sense of magic had been torn to pieces, and the world seemed to be becoming more and more weird.
"Actually, there's nothing strange about it. It's just the sense of separation that comes from looking at higher dimensions from lower dimensions." Lynn flipped through the book about elemental ghosts written by Artok and interrupted the conversation.
"High dimension?" Harov and others all looked over, extremely surprised by this new term proposed by Lin En.
"Not bad!" Lynn nodded. “It might be more intuitive to express it using Mathematical Olympiad.”
"For example, you can imagine zero dimension as an infinitely small point, one dimension as an infinitely long straight line with only the concept of length, and two dimensions as a plane consisting of length and width..."
As he spoke, Lin En raised his right hand. As the magic power surged, an imperceptible dot appeared in front of everyone, and then it turned from a dot to a line and then to a surface...
"So the third dimension is a cube with three dimensions: length, width, and height?" Aurora understood immediately.
This is the concept of coordinate system in Mathematical Olympiad. Each additional axis represents an additional dimension.
"Then what about higher dimensions? Where should it extend from?" Harof asked in confusion. We already have length, width and height, so where can the fourth dimension extend from?
"Could it be the time?" Anthony suddenly replied.
According to Lin En, that dimension is something that is invisible, intangible, omnipresent, and theoretically can be infinitely divided. Time can undoubtedly correspond to every point.
And it can be distorted and affected by gravity just like space...
Lin En did not reply, but tapped the table lightly with his hands. Even the federal scientific researchers in previous lives could not come to an accurate conclusion about how many dimensions the universe has and in what state the fourth and fifth dimensions exist, and even had great disagreements on this.
For example, the famous Einstein once proposed the four-dimensional space-time theory, believing that the universe is composed of time and space, adding a time axis to the structure of the three axes of length, width and height of the ordinary three-dimensional space.
That is, the three-dimensional static universe and the four-dimensional dynamic universe.
However, many federal researchers do not agree with this statement and have put forward an interesting hypothesis: if there are two-dimensional creatures in their current universe, and these creatures can move freely in two-dimensional space and can also perceive the passage of time, then will their scientists directly regard time as the third dimension?
Therefore, many people advocate distinguishing the spatial dimension from the temporal dimension, and simply studying the concept of dimension in mathematics and spatial concepts. The famous string theory even believes that space has as many as eleven dimensions! After seeing the state that Artok was in, Lin En was more convinced that there were more than three dimensions of space, because in addition to the time dimension, it can now be confirmed that there is indeed a fourth space dimension! (End of this chapter)
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