out of cage

Chapter 230 Chapter 7.12 Crossing the Landscape
The eight major departments of Arcana (seven plus one), for laymen, the evocation department is the most similar to the caster faction.

Flames, thunder, and frost erupted with intuitive power one by one.The most recruited by various countries and large mercenary groups are evocation mages.For positive output.

However, Wei Keng knew at the beginning of learning the arcane method that he had no shortage of positive output, and what he needed to beware of were the back arrows and conspiracies from all sides.

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The first checkpoint to enter the imperial capital in the south is the Iron Pattern Mountain Fortress.

The general in this fortress immediately dispatched knights to intercept the formation of steam trains after seeing it.Of course, after confirming Carret's identity, he dispatched a regiment of guards to escort his group to the next checkpoint.

This kind of escort may be a respect for the royal family of the empire, "Carret".

Of course, it's also possible that even if you figure out that such a powerful siege force is legal, you're still afraid of something unexpected along the way.

For example, an emergency that directly impacts several towns in the fortress defense area.Well, even if Carret was very friendly and didn't look like a lunatic, maybe some blind people deliberately bumped into the knife.

This, you take a kitchen knife to the street, even if you hold pork in your left hand, it proves that you are a legal butcher.But people on the road still have to give way.

For Carret, the bigger the ostentation behind him, the better.The reason why I took such a big trip this time is to prove that I went to the capital and went to the order seriously.

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Creaking, the tank moved forward.Let the sound of horseshoes around you become the soundtrack.

During this kind of long-distance march, the restoration technique in the transformation spell kept the gears meshed precisely.

The guards sent by the general of the fortress are standard town troops, armed with spears, wearing their own leather armor, and swords made in the blacksmith shop.

As for the queue, oh, don't expect them to go out of the orthodox marching queue, as long as the five people stay together.

Although the speed of the steam tank was not fast, the guards quickly fell behind as they kept going.

Carret looked at the long queue dragged by him for a kilometer and made a decision. ——that is, hiring carts in town.Then let the following city guards lie on their carts.

For this reason, Nord Knight once again had an argument with Wei Keng.

Nord: "His Royal Highness, we don't need to worry about these locals, they will naturally return to their base after falling behind."

Carret found a good excuse to quibble: "No, no, my lord knight, since they followed us, we have to worry about it. As you said, there may be various accidents along the way, If I were a sneak attacker, I would definitely catch the stragglers in a certain team to obtain information. All in all, it’s not going to be much faster now, so I might as well be stable.”

After saying this, Wei Keng leaned on the tank and continued to meditate.And the mechanical mages accompanying the Northern Territory also took turns meditating next to the mechanical furnace.The drop driven by the steam boiler was connected by groups of psychopaths.

The mechanical structure in the tank locomotive is the same as the machine they visualized in school, and it is a unified standard.

Among the new mages in the Northern Territory, everyone is familiar with their tolerance for standard runes, so they can uniformly obtain magic energy from mechanical facilities.

They infuse the enthalpy generated by the mechanical operation into the mental field, construct the spell configuration, and then feed it back to the various parts of the tank to ensure that the mechanical parts are stable and not broken.

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Therefore, during the long journey along the way, the first team of mechanized mages under Carret was gradually tempered.

These mechanical chariots with machining precision at the end of the nineteenth century have never failed during long-distance voyages.

According to the rules of the main world, in the control group with the same mechanical material properties, during such operation, the metal parts accumulate tiny cracks under stress all the time until they collapse.

But in the arcane world, these stress accumulations are all erased under the arcane restoration of the mechanics.

When the machine has a mage who is familiar with them and takes care of every inch of the machine, the machine is like a creature with a soul, which can repair itself.

Master Wei: "Well, in the future, these maintenance spells will be solidified in the intelligent core circle. In this way, the real body can be refined with refined steel, the common sense of circuit geometry can be preserved, the pure soul of silicon crystal can be sublimated, and the mechanical heroic spirit can be used as a strong shield."

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Oh, the above is the daily routine of the mechanical mage team, and the mana extracted by Wei Keng is mainly used in information exploration.

The two spells of advanced scrying (seventh ring of prophecy) and true seeing (sixth ring of prophecy) are currently the most spells released by Carret along the way.

Wei Keng thought silently: "The surroundings are too quiet now."

Yes, it is indeed quiet enough.Master Wei did not expect the worst: "Tang Monk went to the west to learn Buddhist scriptures, and the ups and downs were difficult."

This is because: when the steam convoy was just on the road, after a wave of nearly forty rounds of four-ring evocation spells directly bombarded the grove, the druids sent by an unknown force were bombed and fled.After that, all parties who had been waiting and watching all the time, a lot of small thoughts were extinguished.

Just like in the international reality in modern times: when your country is strong enough, most of the world’s malice towards you stays on the Internet, and in diplomatic diplomacy.The malice that goes directly to the end of the game will only be released when your national strength is really weak.

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A few months ago, there was a fierce confrontation between the powers of the royal capital, and the nobles below were all watching the news from all sides.

Carret, who had no parents, 'had to leave' his territory to go to the royal family.For other nobles along the way, this is a good opportunity to show goodwill to the real power faction in the capital.

Here I have to mention Carrett's father, who didn't have a good reputation back then.Now that the descendants are down to the point of removing the fiefdom, it seems that all parties can step on it.

But as soon as they lifted their feet, they found that the 'shabby settled in the north' was covered in metal armor, armed to the teeth.

Master Wei played the "March of the Big Bad Guys", and the road was crushed by the track all the way.

This, stepping on such an army that can directly break through the defenses of small and medium-sized towns, to show loyalty to some big figures in the imperial capital?These big slickers are weighing again.

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The road is so peaceful, making Carret feel a little regretful about "traveling in brocade clothes at night" and "not drinking blood with a bright sword".

Along the way, Master Carret communicated with the Nord Knight Commander many times, and asked the engineering tank troops to leave the main road and go around to stay in the territory of the big and small lords, these adults who have old friends with his father.

Carret's explanation to Nord: "Being a man must be polite. My father was taken care of by these adults when he went to the Northern Territory. I must also pay a return visit."

But in fact, everyone knows that Carret's father was not an 'old friend' with these lords back then, at most he only met once.If Carret's father really had the emotional intelligence to communicate like this, Carret might not be the heir to the capital by now.

Ever since, in each town, heavy rock music began to sound.Industrial ballads begin to be sung

Carret's real little thoughts,
Nord and his party can be seen from their lively and rich performance art every time they go to a territory.

Nord complained to other team members in private: "He is controlled too much by his own arcane teacher, so once released, he wants to perform without restriction."

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Carret is very ostentatious, and wherever he goes, he must give a speech in the town.To the city guards, he told how powerful the steam cars under his command were, and to the street vendors, he told the northern aqueducts to irrigate the potential fertile soil.

The charm attribute of [-] o'clock made Master Wei severely socialized. ——Master Wei: As the god of industry in the future, this expedition should promote the road of industry.

This time, Wei Keng, like a bard, gained a lot of reputation along the way.

But in the eyes of the old fritters from all sides: Prince Carret is too young to do things with little thought.

In their eyes, Carret stayed on the land of the lords in various regions, and did not win the sincere support of any lord.

Well, no one will support such an idiot who talks big in front of ordinary people.Played by its ruthless music, it made the entire noble glass window tremble three times
All the lords welcomed Carret on the scene, but in private they just hoped that this idiot would leave early, just out of face, because they didn't want this idiot to be stimulated and become crazy, so that the tank was facing a certain castle, There was an accident of "testing the power of siege crossbow bolts", so we can only give each other good words.

So along the way, Carret's team was escorted by various city defense forces in turn.

System duty officer: Sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy, he really hates cats and dogs.

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July to August.

Starting from the Northern Territory, after walking a boring journey for a full month, finally, as long as they pass through the lake and swamp area in front of them, they can reach the capital of Aiger.The journey ended soon, and in Nord's view, Carret seemed to have something to say.

This lake is called Juni Lake.About 2000 years ago, it was just after the end of the era of the seven sages, the era of the seven legendary mages.When the order of the highest mage is absent, there is a chaotic scene of wanton seizure of resources.

At that time, the mage group of the necromancy system drove a large number of skeletons to conquer cities in various regions like a tide.

Necromancy magic is magic that explores the mysteries of life——it mainly studies the vitality of living things.

Even if the high-level necromancer is summoned by spells, it is often used to create bone dragons, or directly build bone to bind powerful "negative energy", and deal a fatal blow to creatures as strong as dragons.

At that time, there were almost five or six hundred low-level necromancers, mainly apprentices controlled by high-level necromancers. They launched the natural disaster of the undead just to collect resources for their masters. ——For the necromantic system, if you can get enough lives, you can extract organic matter with high quantum information, so people are resources.

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The Aiger Empire was only an earldom at the time, and it was crumbling in the face of the tide of massive undead, so the mages in the territory at that time adopted the method of using water instead of soldiers. After using the softening technique, a flood flooded the undead army marching towards the south. However, after more than 40 days of infiltration, it formed in the northeast corner of the current imperial capital. Large and small discontinuous lake.

These lakes do not obstruct commercial roads, but they are also difficult to clean.Too much dark system energy was deposited at the bottom of the lake, resulting in very ferocious deep-water biological mutations here.Swamp catfish, carrion crocodile, and black blood python are specialties here.

Of course, some bandit groups in the empire felt that this place was hidden, and at the same time, it was only [-] kilometers away from the bustling area of ​​the empire, which was very close, and they also built bases here.

It is said that there are hundreds of square kilometers of water here, and there is a bandit organization of three to five people stationed here on every ten islands.Oh—these islands are full of traps that only they know how to avoid.It is difficult for outsiders to break in.

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And Master Carret, who has always been cautious and stable, decided to take the main road, that is, to cross directly from the area between several lakes.

Regarding this swamp, Wei Keng thought it was a disorderly place at first, but when the tank drove across the road, Wei Keng found that there were inns every few kilometers, and there were signs on many roads.

On the sign was crookedly written such inexplicable words as "the owl sings, the scarecrow dances" and so on.Some of the handwriting is described with dry grass, and some are written with a quill pen, and the inks are also different.

Wei Keng released for these brands: mastering legends (prophecy, six-ring spells, reading the origin and information of items).

These are the codes written on the sign to enter the black market.

For example, the owl hoots because there are three owl nests on an old crooked-neck tree nearby.That's where the connectors come in.

The scarecrow dancing is the black market guide, and the scarecrow mark is inserted on the bow.

Different ink marks and handwriting indicate the time of writing and the importance level of joint tasks.

Wei Keng couldn't help admiring: "Guys who can run the black market under the eyes of the imperial capital are indeed talents. If they can't be recruited in the future, they must be cracked down hard."

After admiring, Carret sent a signal, and the mechanical mage sitting in the tank cockpit handed over a mechanical crossbow.Wei Keng held the crossbow arrow, stepped on it vigorously, and immediately raised it up to aim at the thing on the bush 100 meters away.

The Nord knight commander on the side noticed the movement of the guy he was guarding and immediately became alert.

Whoosh, a second later, although the arrow was curved, it still clicked, and shot the black wild duck that was spying on him to death.

However, after shooting the black duck, Carret did not put away the crossbow, but still frowned, looking forward: "I have warned you, don't you know what to do?"

So he held up the crossbow again, this time aiming at the thieves who were still spying in the grass.

Of course, when the thief was locked by the arrow, he sensed the danger, twisted his figure, and left. At this time, the spear in the long hand of the Nuo knight was thrown out.

This shocked Wei Keng, only to see the knight commander's muscles slapping.

There was a red light on the arm, and then the short spear was ejected like a steam ejection, and the short spear was still entangled with a force when it was flying.

Yes, after the hand was released, judging from the standing posture of the knight commander and the exertion of his feet on the ground, it was still providing thrust to the short spear that was released from his hand.

This made the short spear directly break through the limit of 75 meters in the first energy level, and reached a speed of 100 meters per second before falling, and the tip of the spear also lifted the limit due to friction with the air, and wiped out the impossible existence on the earth. Flame rays.

boom.

The spear fell to the ground and broke the thief's leg on the spot.Then several knights walked over.

The Nord knight commander said to the stunned Wei Keng: "My lord, next time you encounter prying eyes, please remind me first not to act without authorization."

Carret stared at the guy's strong muscles, and after a while, blurted out: "Master Knight, I want to learn this."

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Muscles can't beat machines?This is the cognitive habit brought about by the common sense of the geophysical environment.

In this world, there is a magical energy storage method, and the distance of muscle action is definitely not the distance that the hand can throw.

The big knight can still have more than ten seconds to exert force on the object after it is released.

Let’s put it this way, it’s similar to how on earth, if you carry a shot put for 5 minutes and climb up to the fifth floor, all the vehicles below will not be able to withstand the blow of you falling from the roof of the building.

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Now, after Carret has prepared potions and trained with luck, his strength value is above the average value of ordinary human carbon base.

This qi has adopted the mode of operation of the real qi on the body of the Shenzhou plane.Although the physical rules of the two planes are quite different, the movement response modes of the human carbon-based body are similar, which can be used for mutual reference in design.

The true qi in Carret's body circulates through the limbs and bones, and it is still a step away from condensing. As long as the condensing is completed, there will be a liquid ligament.It can also burst out the explosive power of a strong bow and crossbow.

Of course, Carret's previous practice was just to be prepared for "no shortcomings". ——Wei Keng: "In case of being banned, just use the flashlight in your left hand and the Junzi sword in your right hand to show my supreme sword intent."

And now I see the abuse of soldiers.I really want it.

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Nord's knight commander is very useful in the face of Carret's sudden enthusiasm.

After all, in the aristocratic world, it is rare for mages to praise warriors. ——Words such as "lord" that Carret touts, he can't understand, but he can feel sincere envy.

Of course, as an upright knight, he remained humble, and persuaded Carret: "My lord, human energy is limited, and a knight's training should start from a young age." All in all, there is no ten-year burden. With the high-intensity training of sword and shield, toning muscles and stimulating the source of power of blood, the road of knighthood cannot be walked.

In the view of the Knight Commander of Nord: Carret is now 16 years old. Although the blood has the source of life, he has missed the road to becoming a warrior.Moreover, a person's energy is limited, and he has to make choices in other aspects if he takes the path of arcana.

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While Wei Keng was "disappointed" looking at the warrior manual given by Nord, he pulled down the menu bar of the system to see if there was a remedy.

Energy is limited, but hanging on the wall is unlimited.

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As the journey continued, the captured thief gritted his teeth and didn't say anything.

In fact, Carret can use hypnosis and torture with severe pain, but!This kind of thieves organization has existed for a long time, and it should be kept strictly secret in all aspects. Instead of exposing one's ability to master high-level spells, it is better to temporarily hold them hostage.

The procession sped up, and there were no more trailing snoopers.When about to leave the swamp area.Then he met an old man.

The old man was willing to offer something in exchange for the captured thief.

Although this guy looks like he could be blown down by a gust of wind.But Carret, who "respects the old and loves the young", did not underestimate him.

Ask the knight to put the thief down in the middle of the road.

Carret: "You guys can take it away. I'm not interested in your things, but I hope you can accept this warning. I don't want to encounter such rude behavior next time."

The old thief sighed: "Thank you for your generosity, in the name of the god of thieves, we will not have any troubles related to you in the future." Then he disappeared like a shadow with the thief who missed.Under true sight, this invisibility can still be seen through.

A few hours later, Carret looked around, determined the location where the old thief was lurking after leaving, and secretly remembered it.

The last sentence of the old thief gave key information. ——The thieves will only emphasize that this is a trouble after accepting the employment mission and failing the mission.Therefore, the previous snooping was done by someone else.

So, who actually issued the mission?Master Wei is not interested in knowing, but~ this gave me a reason to attack~
Carret looked at the royal capital in the distance, and murmured, "I've walked along the way, well, next, it's time to find a chance to get angry."

　BGM: HMKids - Adeptus Mechanicum
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