A sneeze destroys a magical civilization

There is no doubt that the undead wizard Ludwig is a Frankenstein-like figure.

He does not have what normal people call a "view of good and evil" or a "view of morality". He is simply interested in the subject he studies, and has a kind of fanaticism and persistence that cannot be described in words.

It was also because of this that Zuo Si chose to abduct him from that hellish place in Innistrad.

The most important thing is that as one of Innistrad's most outstanding geniuses, Ludwig has the qualifications to become a top necromancer or even a legendary mage.

This guy used to make large quantities of corpse-embedded creatures, just to accumulate skills and experience, rather than having a morbid fascination with corpses and undead creatures like Kirav.

Just the opposite!

What he really wants to do is to transcend the limits of human beings and completely transform himself into another, more advanced life form.

There is a saying that goes well, how big a person is is how high his achievements will be in the future.

Obviously, Ludwig is considered top notch in terms of intelligence and structure.

Even though he was born in a barren, weak, closed world like Innistrad, he was still not restrained, but had his sights set on the highest from the beginning.

Now, after acquiring a large amount of necromancy magic knowledge from Faerûn and the Floating City, this genius has completely opened his eyes. All kinds of fantastic ideas and inspirations are springing up one after another like mushrooms after a spring rain. Every day Conducting all kinds of crazy experiments.

If the current spellcasting level were not too low, I would have probably started trying to create some special corpse-embedded creatures that retain the soul and consciousness of the deceased.

Tyrantir was undoubtedly very wary of Ludvi, a stranger from another time and space.

Because he was educated by Faerun's traditional wizards, he has always believed that magic is a very powerful and dangerous force.

Every mage and apprentice must maintain enough respect for it, and maintain a cautious attitude no matter what experiments they do, ensuring that everything is within control.

And what about Ludvi?

Not only is he very radical when studying and experimenting, but he also exudes a kind of hysterical madness in his bones. He is simply an unstable bomb that may explode at any time.

So after leaving the underground laboratory, Tyrantir immediately couldn't help but ask: "Your Excellency, we now have a construct production line. It is necessary to take huge risks to mass-produce what is called corpse inlays." An army of the undead?”

Zuo Si answered straightforwardly: "The construct is a construct, and the corpse-embedded army is a corpse-embedded army. The positioning of the two is different from the beginning.

The former is expensive and difficult to destroy easily, so it is the elite used to attack difficulties at critical moments.

The latter is an extremely cheap cannon fodder army that overwhelms the enemy with overwhelming numbers.

The greatest significance of their existence is to carry out endless consumption until the enemy is completely overwhelmed by the casualties caused by the war and the countless material consumption, or his morale collapses and he loses his will to resist.

You have to understand that the wars we may face in the future are not just small fights in Faerûn or this world, but cross-time and space battles with hundreds of thousands, millions, or even tens of millions of enemies.

Just imagine, if one day we need to enter Baator Hell or the Bottomless Abyss, is it really possible to stop the siege of thousands of high-level demons or demon legions with just the number of constructs?

The answer is obviously no!

Therefore, Ludwig's arrival is to make up for this numerical gap and ensure that there is always a large enough army in the floating city that is not afraid of death and can fight for time at critical moments. "

"Fighting across time and space..."

Tyrantir's eyes shone slightly, and he instantly realized what the supreme leader of the organization in front of him was doing all these days.

Similarly, he also began to be full of expectations for knowledge and magic from other worlds.

After all, just capturing the magical knowledge of a floating city has already brought a lot to the senior members of the organization.

Especially for those amazingly powerful super magics, each successful transformation will increase the legendary magic collection in the spell reserve by one, and at the same time, it can also greatly increase one's understanding and knowledge of arcane magic.

"That's right! Fight across time and space!

I think you should be very clear that due to the relationship between the gods in Faerûn, it is impossible for us to carry out large-scale expansion and conquest.

We cannot easily destroy the balance between good and evil, order and chaos, otherwise it will trigger a series of serious and uncontrollable huge risks.

But in other worlds where there are no gods or the gods are not powerful enough, the situation is different. "

When saying these words, a meaningful smile appeared on Zuo Si's face.

Tyrantir instantly understood and couldn't help but smile and nodded: "That's it! Then we really need to strengthen the large-scale combat capabilities of the floating city. Especially with so many mage towers, it's best to find a way to use them. .”

"There are only two ways to control so many mage towers.

First, cultivate a sufficient number of mages;

Second, I upgraded the [Creator] profession to the legendary level, and then used [Legend Awakening Creation] to activate the entire floating city and generate independent consciousness and thinking ability.

But it's not easy to do this.

Because it is not the floating city of Plantia that preserves the most complete information about the creator's profession, but another floating city called Horatis.

We first have to find the location of this floating city, and then seize it from a bunch of powerful undead creatures.

By the way, has any news come back from those gargoyles I sent before? "

Zuo Si suddenly remembered that he had released a dozen gargoyles more than half a year ago to explore the whereabouts of other floating cities in designated areas.

"Sorry, Your Excellency, I may be disappointed. So far, not a single gargoyle has come back to report. Maybe they are still continuing to search, maybe they have been defeated. In short, there is no news about the other floating cities yet. "Tailantir sighed regretfully.

You must know that many lichs in the organization have always wanted to find and capture other floating cities, and then recreate the glory of Netheril's magical civilization in this world.

"If we continue to summon gargoyles or other creatures for reconnaissance, I don't believe that these floating cities can hide themselves forever. What's more, those archmages who transform into undead forms are also a huge threat to us. In the end, It's better to nip it in the bud as soon as possible." Zuo Si narrowed his eyes and gave the instruction.

As the fourth natural disaster plan unfolds, he will soon carry out large-scale construction with the port city of Hull as the center, and continue to plunder the population from another continent across the sea to rekindle the fire of civilization.

In this case, if one or two floating cities suddenly descended from the sky and launched an attack, the consequences would be disastrous.

Therefore, no matter what the angle is, the threats to other floating cities must be found and resolved as soon as possible.

"Understood! I will make this matter the top priority for the next three months." Tyrantir quickly agreed.

"Very good! I'll leave it to you and Vanessa to find the floating city. Remember, you only have three months at most. After three months, I want to see the locations of all the floating cities."

After that, Zuo Si ignored the old mage who was quite famous in Baldur's Gate area, raised his hand and began to try to call the phoenix in another world.

In less than a second...

A mini phoenix that looked only about the size of a palm appeared out of thin air in the palm of my hand.

Judging from his body shape, the power he possesses at this moment is obviously far from his original body.

Driven by curiosity, Zuo Si asked with great interest: "Is your current form an incarnation? A saint? Or a projection?"

"Barely regarded as an incarnation. Because I don't have any believers in this world, I should not be able to come. But thanks to your existence, I can penetrate a little power through the connection of the earth cards. If you leave this world , then I will instantly lose all perception of the world." Little Phoenix explained patiently.

"So... for God, in addition to providing a certain amount of faith power, believers are also equivalent to their coordinates in a certain time and space? And the greater the number of believers, the more power will penetrate in, and the incarnations will also come. The more powerful?" Zuo Si touched his chin with an interested expression.

Little Phoenix nodded slightly: "Yes. As a native god, I don't need faith in the world where I was born. The soul well is the source of my power. But in other worlds, I must rely on the help of believers to incarnate. Otherwise, we can barely maintain our current weak state.”

"Interesting! It turns out that this is the reason why many gods have a large number of believers in countless material planes, but they still tirelessly promote their doctrines to make more mortals believe in them.

The number of believers determines what kind of incarnation they can bring to that world.

In other words, if one day I go to war with a certain god in Faerûn, the easiest way is to destroy all his temples and kill all the mortals who believe in him.

As a result, the god whose number of believers has dropped sharply will not be able to send a very powerful incarnation in Faerûn.

Of course, the premise is that this god cannot be the native god of Faerûn. "

Zuo Si touched his chin and muttered to himself.

Obviously, he found another good way to deal with the gods. He also realized why the gods encouraged their churches in the mortal world to attack other churches that were hostile to the gods and reduce the number of believers of the other party as much as possible.

The most typical one is Sullun, the goddess of the moon.

She was originally one of the two goddesses of creation, with undisputed powerful divine power, but she gradually fell into a disadvantage in the battle with her twin sister Shar, and now she has even fallen to medium divine power.

One of the very important reasons is that Sullun's temples and believers are often assassinated by believers of the Goddess of Night.

Maybe once or twice is no big deal.

But what if it lasts for decades, hundreds, or thousands of years?

If Selun had not been Toril's original god, it is estimated that even an incarnation of weak divine power would not be able to come to him now.

"You are right. If you want me to exert power in this world, you need to have enough believers first."

Little Phoenix answered in the affirmative without thinking.

Zuo Si lowered his head and thought for a few minutes, then immediately responded: "In that case, then go to Hull to inspire your first pastor and let him start spreading the doctrine. Oh, I almost forgot to ask, have you obtained the priesthood? ?"

"Yes, father. I now have three priesthoods: soul, immortality and flame." Little Phoenix answered without thinking.

"What about your name? What name do you plan to use for believers to call you?" Zuo Si smiled and continued to ask.

"I'm going to call him Bennu, after the phoenix in Egyptian mythology. What do you think?"

There was a hint of excitement and expectation in Little Phoenix's tone.

You don't need to ask to know that during this time, he read a lot of myths and legends about Phoenix, and found what may be the oldest name among them.

After all, the word phoenix was born in ancient Egyptian and ancient Assyrian myths and legends.

"Bennu? A good name. From now on, you will be the god Bennu."

After saying that, Zuo Si slowly raised his hand and let the little phoenix fly.

The latter took off into the air in the blink of an eye and flew straight to the Port of Hull not far below.

As a god, all Bennu has to do is to find one or two people with high enough perception attributes among the few remaining survivors, and use methods such as dreams or illusions to make them realize that he is a real person. god.

Only then can a stable connection be established and divine magic granted.

In this way, priests who have gained divine power can convince more people by showing this power and slowly become believers.

At least this is basically the way the gods of Faerun preach.

Of course, since there are no other gods in this world yet, Little Phoenix can completely claim that he is the only true god.

Zuo Si obviously didn't care much about how Bennu would spread his faith. Instead, he went straight to the lounge and said to the thirty senior talents waiting here: "How do you feel about your new body?"

"Awesome! This is simply a miracle of genetic engineering and biotechnology! If I guess correctly, these bodies should be more than just humans or elves, right?" Professor White asked enthusiastically.

Zuo Si nodded slightly: "Yes! The body you are currently using is actually a fusion of four species: humans, dark elves, dragons and trolls.

Among them, human genes prevent your appearance from looking too exotic;

Dark elves can grant dark vision and magic resistance skin;

The dragon has stronger strength and physical attributes, as well as a longer lifespan;

The troll gene gives powerful self-healing and regeneration abilities.

In other words, your body has been different from most mortal races from the beginning.

Coupled with your smart minds, amazing learning abilities, and the knowledge, experience and insights you bring from the earth, you already have the qualifications to become a strong person.

By the way, the bodies you control are all fertile. "

"Oh my God! Fusing the genes of four species into one clone? This... how on earth is this done?"

Dr. White's eyes shone slightly, and he clenched his fists excitedly.

"It's very simple. Rely on magic, to be precise, cloning magic. In this world full of strange energy, magic is an energy that exists objectively and can be utilized. It has almost unlimited possibilities, not only can it realize the realization of matter and energy The conversion between them can also create life out of thin air.”

In order to let these experts, who were full of scientific knowledge, understand what he wanted to express, Zuo Si directly opened his arms and created an energy ball the size of a basketball in front of everyone.

In this energy group, there are not only flames emitting astonishing heat and dazzling white electric light, but also positive energy that can heal all pain and negative energy born from death.

All of this can be directly observed with the naked eye.

Almost everyone present stood up from their chairs instantly and rushed forward to take a closer look.

"Magic? This is magic!"

"Visible energy? Unbelievable! How does it work?"

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way! Why are you, a social science person, so far forward? Do you know what high-energy physics is?"

"Shut up! I originally studied nuclear physics, but I just changed to a new track later."

"Okay, okay, don't argue. We are all elites in various industries, and we will even be colleagues working together in the future. Don't hurt your friendship over this trivial matter."

"Mont is right. Everyone should be quiet and form a tight circle as much as possible. The short ones should stand in front and squat down, and the tall ones should stand in the back."

…

Suddenly, the originally quiet lounge became boiling.

After all, there is only one person who can engage in scientific research who does not have a strong curiosity, let alone something that is completely unscientific like magic.

Especially Michaels, who has a background in physics, his face is full of joy and enthusiasm, as if he has discovered a huge treasure.

He even reached out several times to feel the magic energy, but was stopped by his companions.

After all, it is fire, lightning, golden light emitted by positive energy and biting cold emitted by negative energy. Any fool knows that if you touch it rashly, you will definitely be injured or even die.

Although they will not really die through remote connection, if they lose their current body, it is unknown when they will get the second one.

no doubt!

Zuo Si used the simplest, crudest and most intuitive way to make the experts present realize what the world they were living in was like.

After seven or eight minutes, he put away this ball of energy, took out two of the most basic magic theories, and said in a slightly playful tone: "I think you all have understood that magic is an objective existence in this world. things.

Next, all you have to do is learn to master and use this power.

I think after seeing magical energy, no one would choose to give up magic and receive warrior training, right?

If you have any, you can raise your hands now.

It doesn't matter, I respect your choice. "

moment!

The rest room became silent. No one raised their hands. Instead, everyone stared at the two books with extremely longing eyes.

Since they had all been instilled with the corresponding language by Isadora, who became the mastermind, when recreating the virtual illusion of Waterdeep City, they were able to understand what the words on the cover meant.

Most importantly, who the hell wants to train as a warrior when they can learn magic?

Is your brain okay?

Magic not only means powerful power, but also a tool for exploring the world and even the universe.

No matter how powerful a warrior is, can he travel between different planes with his own strength?

Can he feel changes in the energy of his surroundings?

The answer is obviously no.

Therefore, for these industry elites with high scientific research present, magic is naturally the only choice.

Seeing that no one said anything for a long time, Zuo Si nodded with satisfaction: "Very good. Since you all choose to learn magic, starting from tomorrow, I will assign a great mage to teach the most basic knowledge. But he is a It’s a lich, so you’d better be mentally prepared.”

"Don't worry about this. We have just seen the legendary Mind Flayer who feeds on the brains of intelligent creatures. As long as we can learn knowledge, we don't care what kind of monster comes as a teacher." McCas is very free and easy. shrugged his shoulders.

You must know that since he obtained the body and came to the real world, he has been frightened more than once.

First there were mind flayers, and then they encountered huge constructs and golems. Just now they saw giant dragons and griffons flying in the sky, and now they are almost used to it.

"Haha, keep this good attitude, I believe you will be able to adapt to your new life soon.

In addition, in addition to learning magic, you must also take time to do your part.

For example, mechanical engineer David, you need to check all the Quarish mechanical devices to see if there are any areas that can be innovated and improved;

Sociologist Chris, you are responsible for giving me a detailed report and plan to ensure that more earthling souls entering this world will not cause chaos and panic;

Dr. White, your task is to study the genes of different organisms, find ways to extract those useful parts, and then graft them onto the genes of other organisms.

In addition, let's see if we can increase the breeding speed of clones.

In short, everyone must play a role in their professional fields..."

Zuo Si arranged the work content for everyone without any politeness.

"I have a question! Genetic research requires a series of expensive professional equipment including oscillators, centrifuges, PCR amplifiers, etc. Are they available here?" Dr. White asked in an uncertain tone.

"Of course! In fact, I have prepared a complete biological laboratory for you."

With that said, Zuo Si raised his hand and snapped his fingers.

Snapped!

With a crisp sound, a portal opened instantly.

I saw a large number of inexpensive professional instruments densely placed on the other side, some of which even cost tens of millions of dollars, and the total in the world does not exceed twenty.

"You couldn't have robbed a certain country's cutting-edge biological laboratory, right?" White's mouth widened in surprise.

You must know that several of these instruments were treasures that he wanted to get when he was alive, but the superiors were never willing to allocate funds.

"Please believe me, doctor. I have never bothered to do something as simple as robbery. In fact, these expensive instruments were donated unconditionally by a generous and wealthy man. For this reason, he even He sold most of his family property."

When he said these words, a hint of playfulness flashed in Zuo Si's eyes that was not easy to detect.

Obviously, the rich man did not really volunteer, but was "volunteered".

Zuo Si, who has mastered more than forty ways to charm and control others, can make a person willing to die for him with just a few moves of his fingers, not to mention giving up more than half of his family property.

Of course, any of the unlucky ones he selected were basically not extremely black-hearted capitalists. They were families whose ancestors had sold contraband to the East.

In his opinion, the only value of living for these people is to become their own all-weather cash machine, and he can get some whenever they need it.

As for whether the other party will go bankrupt or commit suicide because of this, Zuo Si doesn't care.

It's a pity that White, who was in a state of excitement, didn't realize this. Instead, he said happily: "Great! It's perfect! With these instruments, I can carry out a series of research. But just by myself No one can play in such a big laboratory."

"Don't worry, doctor. It won't take long for the second batch of relevant talents to arrive. At that time, you can recruit the assistants you need. Of course, arriving with them will also be a group of players who don't know the truth. For the latter , I hope you can control your mouth and not reveal any information to them." Zuo Si warned with a serious expression.

"No problem. Most of us have had the experience of signing confidentiality agreements and know what to say and what not to say." McCas took the initiative to give assurance.

"Very good! Since you all understand your tasks, there is no need for me to continue talking nonsense here. In order to celebrate the beginning of a new life, I will have a day off today. You can walk around and see."

After that, Zuo Si opened the door leading to the street outside.

Driven by curiosity, thirty senior talents came to the street with anticipation and apprehension, gaping at the towers rising from the ground, as well as the gardens, fountains and sculptures everywhere.

The most important thing is that they saw that the edge of the city not far away was not land, but the blue sky!

"I...we are in heaven?!"

McCas's voice suddenly rose an octave, with a shocked expression on his face.

Not only him, but the other twenty-nine people also performed similarly.

One person who was afraid of heights even lay down on the ground and carefully climbed to the edge to see the scenery below.

Appreciating the interesting reactions of these "high-quality human males" who couldn't believe the scenery they saw, Zuo Si couldn't help but smile and responded: "Yes, we are in the sky, to be precise, in a city floating in the sky. Welcome To the floating city of Plantia, my floating city.”

As the last word came out of his mouth, Maccath plopped down on the floor and started laughing like crazy.

"Hahahaha! God! I can't believe that I actually landed on a floating city! Interesting! So interesting! I feel as if I have returned to the age of twelve or thirteen, the age when I can let my unlimited imagination run wild."

"Hey! Me too! Today we have experienced so many things that can subvert traditional cognition. This feeling is so wonderful." Dr. White also sat down on the ground and sighed.