"Sun?" Listening to Darren's words, Maka had a somewhat surprised look on her face.
"Yes, it is a very large fireball that automatically glows and heats up... No, it should be called a plasma ball." Darren showed off the little knowledge he had in his mind.
The astonished looks of these natives gave him an extremely strong sense of superiority.
The halflings present whispered, and Maka also remembered that she had heard this term in the tribe.
It seems that a long time ago, there was a sun in this world, but Maka had never seen it before. She only knew from the words of her ancestors that it had endless light and heat and could light up the vast earth, and the light it emitted was more powerful than [ Blazing Mushroom] The fluorescence emitted by the jungle is a hundred thousand times stronger!
Maka simply couldn't imagine what kind of power it was that could fill the whole world with light!
You must know that in this cold, dark foreign land, light and heat are very precious resources.
Subconsciously, Maca thought that Darren must be lying, but she couldn't help but have some expectations in her heart, because these outsiders did show abilities beyond expectations.
For example, they can make a kind of soft food out of thin air, and for example, these people can control fire, ice and lightning, and can easily defeat powerful and dangerous monsters.
The high priest once said jealously that if the Moon God had not left this world, they would definitely be able to do the same thing.
Of course, now the high priest has been killed directly for resisting outsiders, and his body has been turned into an ice sculpture and buried with his followers.
The remaining halflings are very emotionally stable, because in this god-forsaken world, it is obvious that the strong get everything and the weak choose 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 plundering, enslaving, and fighting were commonplace.
Maka has no respect or belief in the Moon God Diana, because since his birth, the tribe has never stopped worshiping the Moon God, but the god has never cared about their life and death. .
Perhaps just like what these outsiders said, she has fallen!
A dead god naturally no longer has any value, and cannot even provide a vague hope.
"That Speaker Linn you are talking about...is he also a god?" Maka couldn't help but ask. In his knowledge, 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 said this slightly awkward word. There is no such word in the tribe's language, so Darren used the common language of the Eternal Continent.
Maka kept this imported word firmly in mind. In his eyes, wizard represented powerful power, an existence as powerful as God.
"Since you can create the sun, can you..." Maka hesitated for a long time before gritting her teeth. "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, years of experience in living in a foreign land made Maka clear that no favor came in vain, but after thinking about it for a long time, she couldn't think of anything else they could offer in exchange.
Because now the survival of the entire tribe depends on the other party's thoughts. In theory, including their lives, they are the other party's property. Taking the other party's things as a condition of exchange, Maka cannot do such a thing.
"By the way, there is also faith! As long as you can help us build a sun, we will dedicate our faith!" Maka suddenly thought of this and said firmly.
Freedom of thought is the only thing they have. Since the Moon God needs or likes their worship, then maybe the wizards also want this.
Anyway, in the past when they successfully hunted, they would perform routine prayers, but now it was just another person worshiping.
"Wizards don't need faith..." Darren shook his head, rejected Maka's proposal, and then spoke again.
"You guys just need to... well, just work hard. As long as you have enough merit, it's not impossible to build a sun for you..."
Darren kept making cakes for the halflings, although in his opinion, this was not considered cheating.
Before leaving for the foreign land, Darren heard that the Council was preparing to build solar furnaces in all major cities to provide continuous energy.
If these halfling compatriots could really make great achievements, he felt that the Parliament could not create a 'sun' for them!
Under Darren's constant encouragement, Maka and others began to imagine what a life with endless light and heat would be like. Many halflings were even more interested in the world outside the door of time and space that Darren said. .
Compared to the god-forsaken land that is dark, dead, and full of dangerous beasts and undead souls, the vibrant world that Darren describes as moving day and night is simply like a paradise.
While the halflings were talking about it, Raphael had already received the message that the people who went to investigate the outside world were back.
A few dark magic bats flew in first, followed closely by Alchemist Tik and a small group of halfling sentries.
Tik's face was full of sorrow, but he did not speak. Instead, he couldn't help but look at the halfling natives gathered here.
Raphael immediately understood what he meant, and silently unfolded his domain to wrap several people inside, and the soundproof barrier was also completed in an instant.
Only then did Tik speak eagerly. "Master Raphael, the situation outside is very bad right now. A large number of undead are gathering here!"
"Did something happen? Is it possible that our position has been exposed?" Raphael's expression changed slightly. Even though he had a premonition that what Tick brought must be bad news, he did not expect that it would be such bad news. .
Yolande immediately glanced at the halfling natives present.
He suspected that these people had revealed their information.
Although after taking control of this settlement, Raphael asked the psychic wizard to set up forbidden magic in each of their minds, but it was obviously not safe enough. After all, their opponents were the ones who were 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 directly surround him, but were aimlessly looking for something in the entire area, as if digging deep into the ground.
"Could it be that the impact of our frequent opening and closing of the space-time gate has been felt..." Yolande speculated.
Raphael is also thinking about this possibility. Every time the space-time gate is opened, a large amount of magic power will flow into another world, just like an extra small stream branching off from the big river. Although the loss rate is very slow, but It is indeed possible to be perceived.
"How far are they from us now?" Raphael asked solemnly.
"Less than fifty kilometers," Tik replied. "The undead are searching every possible spot, and I even saw a dragon level a hill to make sure there was nothing inside."
"Four days, four days at most, they will be able to find here!" Tik added.
Although the search range of those skeletal soldiers has a tendency to expand, but these undead souls can't bear to stay awake, and they will find this place sooner or later if they keep searching like this.
Raphael frowned and pondered for a long time. This was undoubtedly the worst possibility.
"We must find a way to lure them away and delay as much as possible the time for these undead souls to find the time and space node." Raphael said decisively.
During his stay in the foreign land, in addition to subduing the halfling settlement and instructing them to explore information, Raphael also did a lot of things, such as placing alchemy blocks near the time and space nodes in the valley to isolate sight and magic perception. Magic circle.
But Raphael didn't think that his arrangement could hide those damn skeletons. The other party would definitely flatten every place they could find without hesitation.
So the only way is to attract them to another place.
Since the time flow rate in the two worlds is different, every day they delay is equivalent to seven days of profit!
But 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 first." Raphael sighed, and then looked at Yolande, Tick, Ivina, Darren and others without speaking. Instead, let them choose who goes and who stays.
Returning means survival, and staying behind means almost no life, because they must go to a place as far away from the time and space gate as possible, and the possibility of being able to come back is extremely slim.
"Ivina, it's up to you to go back and report." Tik suddenly said. She is the youngest person here and deserves this only chance of life.
However, the girl shook her head. She was ready to sacrifice the moment she joined the foreign exploration team.
The rest of the people were also silent, and a solemn atmosphere suddenly enveloped the station.
"Then let's decide by drawing lots!" Raphael finally agreed. This was the fairest and there was no need to argue.
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In the newly built Magic Tower in the Magic Kingdom, Vittorio, who had just received information and rushed back from the North, was interrupted by a piece of breaking news before he could report it.
"What did you say? Artok... turned into a cloud of probability?" Vittorio almost spit out the tea he just drank, and looked at Lin En and others in disbelief, as if they were talking about a Ridiculous jokes.
"Although I really don't want to believe it, it seems to be true now..." Aurora shrugged and told everything they saw in the laboratory where they went to the wizard's land.
Vittorio really can't restore such an image in his mind of a person who is both together and separated...
Weird... This can only be described as weird!
"Is this still magic?" Anthony on the side was also shocked. Like Vittorio, it was the first time for him to hear the news.
Harrov and Aurora are also thinking about this problem. Ever since they began to study the microscopic world, the past magic common sense has been torn to pieces, and the world seems to be becoming more and more weird.
"Actually, there's nothing strange. It's just the sense of fragmentation caused by looking at high dimensions from a low dimension." Linn flipped through the book about elemental ghosts written by Artok in his hand, and interrupted a few people. session.
"High-dimensional?" Harrov and others looked over and were extremely surprised by this new vocabulary proposed by Lin En.
"Not bad!" Linn nodded. "It may be more intuitive to express it using Olympiad mathematics."
"For example, you can imagine that the zero dimension is an infinitely small point, and the one dimension is an infinitely long straight line with only the concept of length. The second dimension is a plane, consisting of length and width..."
While speaking, Lin En raised his right hand. Under the surge of magic power, a tiny point appeared in front of everyone, and then it changed from a point 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 the coordinate system in Olympiad. Each additional axis represents an additional dimension.
"So what about the higher dimension? Where should it extend from?" Harrov asked confusedly. Now that the length, width, and height are available, 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, everywhere, and can theoretically be divided infinitely. 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 with his hand. Regarding how many dimensions there are in the universe, and in what state the fourth and fifth dimensions exist, even the federal scientific researchers in previous lives have not been able to come up with an accurate conclusion. conclusions, and even caused great differences.
For example, the famous Einstein once proposed a four-dimensional space-time theory, believing that the universe is composed of time and space. In addition to the three axes of length, width, and height of ordinary three-dimensional space, a time axis is added.
That is, the three-dimensional static universe and the four-dimensional dynamic universe.
However, many federal researchers do not agree with this statement and put forward an interesting hypothesis. If there are two-dimensional creatures in their current universe, these creatures can move freely in the two-dimensional space and can also sense the passage of time. , then will their scientists directly regard time as the third dimension?
Therefore, many people advocate distinguishing the dimensions of space from the dimensions of time, and simply study the concept of dimensions in mathematics and space concepts. The famous string theory even believes that space has eleven dimensions!
After seeing Artok's state, Linn also recognized the idea that space has more than three dimensions, because in addition to the time dimension, it has now been confirmed that there is indeed a fourth space dimension!
(End of chapter)
