Overturned Tower

Tuesday, May 9th.

It wasn't until nine o'clock in the morning that the Inferior and Strangler had just arrived at Yongquan Island.

Unlike Sogo Island, which is right next to Happy Island, Yongquan Island is basically the farthest empty island from Happy Island. They obviously set out one day earlier than Russell, but they arrived at their destination most of the time late.

The inferior ones need to set off to Sun Island first, then transfer to Tongshen Island, and then transfer to an airship pad built on land - or in other words, built on a clean island.

Afterwards, they took a boat from this isolated island to Yongquan Island.

——The giant dragon "Hudson" of Yongquan Island specially purified an island for the residents of Yongquan Island and made it a port leading to Yongquan Island. And this island was named "Quanliu Island".

This small island itself is far away from the land and cannot become a flesh-and-blood battlefield for the tug-of-war between the two sides. Therefore, it has not suffered too serious a blow from magic and technology.

Of course, the main reason is...the aboriginal people here had been exterminated by the mages as early as the religious war.

And when Hangsha told the story to the inferior, the inferior also raised the inferior's style question: "How do you know these secrets? Is the news channel reliable?"

Strangler impatiently gave the answer in Strangler style: "It's none of your business?"

In fact, this is the knowledge that Strangler gained after meeting other mages while traveling in the dream world.

When the mages moved the mage tower here, they felt that it was a suitable place to stay. So they occupied this unknown island.

Although the mage tower can always float, it also requires energy - before the "mage tower" became a "floating island" and received the dragon's heart as an energy source, its energy actually came from all the people living on the mage tower. of mages.

Spells are a lonely power that can only be maintained and promoted by constantly entering the dream world.

And if you don't enter the dream world for a long time, the spell will begin to dissipate. A mage who lives alone can maintain his strength for a longer period of time.

When many powerful mages with close spells gather together, the spells they hold will gradually escape into the surrounding space, and the surrounding space will gradually bend...

Just like when a coil is energized, it will generate a magnetic field. But this magnetic force is not generated out of thin air.

Because the "spells" obtained by the mages are not actually stored in themselves, but are a kind of "authority" to draw resources from the sea of ​​group subconscious. This kind of authority allows them to extract power from the dream world... and if the authority they hold is highly unified, then these powers crowded together will form a special space similar to a "funnel", and the power from the dream world It will continuously leak into the real world.

In fact, even if a powerful mage lives alone, this situation will occur, but it is relatively mild.

For mages who live alone, ordinary people around them will find that some "supernatural" things will begin to happen around them.

This is the phenomenon caused by the rich energy in this field. Its essence is the power differentiated by the "unified spiritual energy" in the deepest part of the dream world, the sea of ​​group subconscious that "fulfills human wishes". Some people's "wishes" are captured by this dissipated energy and are realized unconsciously and one-sidedly. The result is some "paranormal phenomena."

The mage tower is a giant device that maximizes the utilization and transformation of the energy provided by this field. Through long-term cultivation, this field gradually solidifies and becomes permanent. Eventually, it can fly directly out of thin air.

The mage tower can fly, but mages have to eat - they must have a supply point where they can dock.

As an isolated island far from land, it has quite dense vegetation and a complete ecological chain. The surrounding warm ocean currents can also bring many marine fish. It was well suited to serve as a beacon, a sentinel turret, to threaten the angels of the church who were attacking from the depths of the sea. So this mage army descended directly from here.

Because it was already during the war, the mages did not have time to investigate the entire empty island. After waiting for a few months, they realized belatedly that there were actually some aboriginal people here who did not understand the language and whose technology was obviously backward. In order to prevent these indigenous people from being bribed by the church, the church's infantry was quietly stationed in the village, so the mages easily wiped them out.

Therefore, this island became an "unnamed island". Because no one who knows its original name no longer exists.

When the battle became more intense, these mage towers deployed overseas gradually began to retreat inland. They abandoned the occupied island again.

But the carnage was even just the beginning.

After the birth of the Mechanical Angel and the reversal of the offensive and defensive momentum, the church quickly realized the flaws of the mages and began to attack their supplies-that is, the villages that existed near the mages' towers.

As the mage's casualties began to increase, the power of the mage tower also began to decline. The mages have mastered a technology that allows them to use some of their "brains" as fuel to expand the hole in the "funnel", thereby overdrafting the operation of the mage tower.

Those civilians faced only two futures.

Either they disobey the mages and are exterminated by the mages; or they obey the servitude of the mages and are exterminated by the church.

This is why civilians suffer the most casualties during religious wars. Because it is true that the church cannot penetrate the protection of the mage tower, and facing the angel army, the mages will die as long as they leave the mage tower, so they cannot take the initiative to attack.

The church could only win by cutting off supplies... So when the war finally entered the final stage, it became a matter of where the mage tower landed, and the missiles followed.

"...At that time, there were at least tens of thousands of indigenous people who died on this island. Some say it was hundreds of thousands. The specific information is unreliable because the indigenous people here have been exterminated..."

Strangler frowned slightly and whispered: "Their bodies were treated as garbage and destroyed, and the brains became the reserve fuel of the Mage Tower."

Even a "noble mage" like him felt that the actions of these ancient mages were too cruel and crazy.

This incident also caused an uproar in the mage camp - but the high-ranking mage did not take it seriously. Because as they go deeper and deeper into the dream world, their personal abilities gradually become ridiculously powerful, and they no longer regard themselves as the same race as those "mortals".

That was still the period when the mage civilization was at its peak.

High-ranking mages can modify their wills and destroy their bodies at will; as long as they are prepared, whether they are bullets, cannonballs or missiles, they can elegantly evade and resist them. They can enter other people's dreams and when others are asleep. Destroy their sanity. Even if the physical body is destroyed, the spirit body can enter the dream world and occupy an area to continue to survive. If you are lucky, you can also take away other people's bodies and then be reborn again...

It is even possible to move through space, go back in time, and come back to life.

Correspondingly, there are "Psychics" whose natural awakening rate is less than one in 100,000 and are extremely weak, as well as those "Holy Order Powers" that are extremely weak, monotonous in type, and poor in performance.

Ever since the First Mage War, mages have considered themselves kings of the world.

Their madness is not just because they are contaminated by the "shadow"...but because they thoroughly regard themselves as a "noble race" and regard the elimination of other races as an "ecological Purification and cleansing”.

"My teacher believes that... one of the reasons why the mages were defeated was because of this trend of thought."

Strangler said in a deep voice: "From a macro perspective, the church was able to win not because the mechanical angels were powerful enough... but because the elves and dragons finally stood with them.

“Rather than saying that the dragon chose the church, it would be better to say that... it was the arrogant mages who drove the dragon away.

"The teacher said something I remember very clearly:

"——When the mage civilization reached its peak, the mages believed that those high, powerful and wise 'monarchs' as huge as mountains...may be nothing more than puppets that can be enslaved."