Throne of the Warlord

Chapter 114 Floating Void City?
But theories are just theories, actually.
"It's almost time for a promotion!"

These few main conditions have been met, and now it is really possible to start the extraordinary promotion.

But the reason why Li Qing didn't do it right away was mainly because he felt that the accumulation was still a little short.

To put it simply, below the extraordinary is the stage of laying the foundation, and the foundation will determine the potential and upper limit after the extraordinary.

To put it more simply, after being promoted to Transcendence, it is impossible to continue to awaken new bloodlines. At the same time, if you strengthen the existing bloodlines, the difficulty is much higher than before Transcendence.

To make a simple analogy, before being promoted to Transcendence, one only needs a dragon bloodline to easily awaken the dragon bloodline.

But if you want to obtain the blood of the dragon clan after the extraordinary, you need at least ten dragon bloods to awaken it.

Moreover, the purity of the dragon blood essence required after transcendence is higher.

Of course, this is not a problem for Li Qing.

The main problem is that what he wants to awaken is not the blood of ordinary dragons, but the blood of ancient dragons. This thing needs a source of light to stimulate awakening.

Awakening before Transcendent only needed one source of light, and awakening after Transcendent required ten such ancient dragon bloodlines.

So, how could it be possible to spend ten sources of light for a problem that can be solved with only one?

It will take a year and a half at the fastest to accumulate ten ways, and it may take three years to accumulate at a slow speed.

Of course, now Li Qing has enough dragon blood and original light on hand, but only a little hero skill point, which has not been used for the time being.

To awaken the ancient dragon's bloodline, you have to point up all the attached bloodline talents, dragon breath, dragon scales, dragon wings, etc., at least fifteen hero skill points.

Don't worry, it's only how long now, when this experience is over, it's basically almost the same.

It was already a month and a week later when Xie Zhu's trade team came back again, at this time Li Qing was in the canyon base on the surface.

Hearing the news of their return, he stopped the experiment in hand to meet him.

After not seeing each other for a month, Xie Zhu's face was covered with wind and frost.

"Thanks for your hard work!"

Li Qing pushed the hot tea in his hand over, sat down in front of him and asked:

"Well, what are the gains from this trade?"

Xie Zhu took a sip of hot tea, sat up straight and replied:

"The underground of this plane is quite complicated. The way we gave up force and changed to trade is very good. In addition, I found a trace of a Scourge Lord when I went to those human city-states."

"Well!"

Li Qing sat up straight and asked in a deep voice:
"Tell me more."

"It's like this. During this month, I went around several major underground clans and found out."

Xie Zhu talked eloquently in front of him, and told Li Qing what he had seen and heard along the way in an orderly manner.

Li Qing tapped his fingers on the table while listening, frowning.

There is not much difference from the information given by the dwarves. The underground world of this plane is mainly ruled by the four major groups of humans, dwarves, orcs and jackals.

These large tribes generally exist in the form of city-states or tribes. Each large tribe or city-state has a population as small as [-] to [-], and as many as more than [-]. The total population of the entire underground United Kingdom is about one million.

With the complex terrain underground, even if the war with the Snakeman Kingdom is unfavorable these years, there is no need to be afraid of the Snakeman Kingdom's attack.

However, with the invasion of natural disasters, a large number of natural disaster heroes and natural disaster lords directly descended in the underground world, and their life was not easy.

The big city-states are fine now, but the small tribes scattered in small underground spaces are in bad luck. Some of them can't even stop the wave of wild wandering undead.

Up to now, none of the big city-states has been broken, but it is not known how many small tribes have been wiped out.

And this situation is also spreading to the big tribes. The previous disaster hero's attack on the dwarf tribe was a test.

In addition, several human city-states on the other side of the ground are also facing the direct threat of the natural disaster lord at this time.

It is precisely because of the poor environment that Xie Zhu's trade can go so smoothly. With dwarves as guarantees, other city-states are interested in the powerful Li Qingting. After this trade trip, several big orders have been booked.

Most of them exchange the most scarce food in the underground world for the most various ores in the underground.

Or use finished war weapons to exchange some rare magic materials, especially the fine gold and mithril that Li Qing needs most.

At the same time, there is a big intention order.

The mage city-state, one of the three major city-states of mankind, is willing to offer [-] kilograms of fine gold, [-] kilograms of mithril, and some knowledge about mages in exchange for Li Qing sending a mercenary of no less than [-] to support the mage A war between city-states and Scourge lords.

Two hundred kilograms of pure gold and one hundred kilograms of mithril are more than enough to make twenty steel golems.

But it's definitely not enough to recruit all his troops to fight for it.

Of course, there is also some mage-related knowledge.

But Li Qing didn't think the mage knowledge in this little plane fragment would be much better. There might be some new things, but Li Qing didn't think it would be of much value.

So after serious consideration, Li Qing told Xie Zhu to reject the deal the next time he passed by.

As far as normal trade, don't get too deep into their wars with Scourge Heroes or Scourge Lords.

Li Qing felt that it was better to stay here honestly, and wait for a fight near the capital of the snake king on the surface before fishing in troubled waters.

Whether it is taking advantage of troubled waters to kill a natural disaster lord, or taking advantage of the chaos to invade the capital of the snake king, it is blood money.

There are ready-made ones, who is interested in going thousands of miles deep into the ground to deal with a natural disaster lord whose strength is unknown.

If there was a fight on the surface just after the expedition here, it would take a month to go back and forth, and when I hurried back, I guess the soup dregs would be gone.

However, less than half a month after he refused, Li Qing received a piece of news that surprised him. The mage city-state built a large portal on the side of the dwarf tribe, and an army of about [-] dwarves passed through the portal. Go to support the mage city-state.

There are large portals that can easily mobilize generals at any time, and more troops can be assembled in a short time.

After Li Qing received the news, he immediately became interested and asked Xie Zhu to ask the mage city-state if the portal building technology was for sale.

Yes, he took a fancy to this thing.

The portal is different from the teleportation technique. The teleportation technique has a duration limit and a strength limit for passing through.

The portal is a fixed portal, as long as it is maintained by a mage, it can continuously transmit troops.

With this, it will be more convenient to open sub-mines in the future.

After only one day of waiting, there was a response from the mage city-state. The portal technology can be sold, but the condition is still the same, and Li Qing needs to send a troop to support it.

Even the mage city-state has come up with a list of transactions, which are the technologies that can be traded, and the prices are clearly marked, as long as the conditions are met, they can be traded.

Li Qing brought a list, and when he turned to the most valuable page of the list and saw the exchangeable technologies on it, he raised his head in shock and asked:
"There is still this exchange? Is it true or not?"

The envoys of the mage city-state are several middle-aged mages wearing old robes. The leading one looks to be 70 or [-] years old. He said with a smile:

"Your Excellency is as surprised as those of your kind, it is indeed true."

"Same race?"

Li Qing immediately realized something and asked:

"Are you dealing with many like me?"

The old mage nodded:
"Yes, many outsiders like you are very interested in our spells and want to trade with us."

Li Qing frowned and asked:

"Then is there anyone who has exchanged it now?"

The old mage shook his head and said:

"No, this kind of technology is stored in a special spell card. We don't have the ability to make more now. Some of them have no technology at all. The existing ones are all left over from the ancient predecessors. There is only one. The float you mentioned There is only one piece of empty city manufacturing technology left over from ancient times, and it has not been replaced yet."

Li Qing lowered his head. On the top of the exchange table is a complete set of floating city manufacturing technology, including all supporting technologies and technologies related to magic runes and magic circles.

The exchange condition given by the mage city-state is to kill the natural disaster lord who is attacking the three human city-states.

The difficulty of this exchange is simply explosive.

But because of this, none of the more than [-] war lord apprentices mixed around the underground human city-state has been able to complete this feat and get the design of the floating city.

Li Qing also said that it was too difficult, even if he came out in full force now, he might not be able to succeed.

Pursing his lips, he looked at the other exchange items below.

A complete set of magic runes, including hundreds of basic runes, nearly a hundred rare runes, and more than a dozen ultra-rare runes.

A set of magic pattern construction design drawings, including all one-star basic runes, several two-star runes, two three-star runes, and one one-star set of runes.

More than a dozen war magics, including three second-tier war magics and one third-tier war magic.

Further down, there are all kinds of mage-related knowledge, including some that Li Qing already has, such as the mage tower design, steel golem, gargoyle, rock golem drawings, and so on.

It can be seen from this that this mage city-state still has a lot of good things on hand.

It can also be seen from this that when this plane was not broken in ancient times, it should have had an extremely splendid magic civilization inheritance, but as the plane was broken, the inheritance was gradually lost, it became more and more difficult for mages to advance, and resources became less and less , many powerful inheritances cannot be reproduced.

For example, a big killer like the Floating Void City, as far as the fragments of this plane are concerned, even if the entire plane is hollowed out, it cannot be built.

Not to mention the strength requirements, there is no legendary mage in this plane, and it is impossible to cut peaks and build foundations.

The basic resource requirements alone cannot be met by this plane.

All kinds of rare magic materials, mithril needs tons, all kinds of magic gems, all kinds of enchanting materials, and artificially drawn magic circles all over the floating city, all need to use magic guide materials, all need mithril, and some More precious magic materials.

In addition, a floating city also needs a core main mage tower, and a bunch of subsidiary mage towers.

Coupled with various powerful vassal modules, whether it is offensive, defensive, or energy systems, etc., they are very complicated and expensive.

The cost of building a high-level floating city of human civilization is at least a trillion or more.

This is still the cost of materials, not to mention the labor cost. At least one legendary mage is required to preside over it, and a bunch of super mages who are above the extraordinary level should cooperate to produce it, not to mention cutting off the mountain peak, and then cutting and carving it into the desired shape.

Time consuming, money consuming, energy consuming.

Building a floating city from scratch usually takes a hundred years, and it takes at least a hundred years to build it.

And once a floating city can be successfully built, it will be awesome.

The Floating Void City is the strongest base for mages, and it is also equivalent to a general void fortress, which can directly cross the void to conquer other planes.

Combining this thing with the Warlord's God's Domain is a perfect match.

Fixing the gate of the God's Domain on the floating city is equivalent to opening a huge independent space on the floating city, which can be completely self-sufficient. The energy pool inside the God's Domain can also charge the floating city, which is equivalent to having two energy pools for the floating city. able.

The power of the floating city is directly related to the energy provided by the energy core. The more energy the energy core supplies, the more weapons and defense modules can be configured, and the stronger the combat effectiveness will be.

To use a simple analogy, a legendary mage who owns the Floating Void City, with sufficient preparation, can single out a true god who has just become a god and has the Kingdom of God.

Of course, the current Li Qing would definitely not want to build a floating city, that would be unrealistic.

But it doesn't prevent him from getting the design of the Floating Void City first, and then starting preparations in advance.

Therefore, at this time Li Qing was already a little moved.

In addition, the Mage Federation has opened a large portal in the dwarf tribe, which is very convenient for communication and information dissemination, so there is room for maneuver.

"Then, can I exchange for a manufacturing blueprint for a gargoyle golem?"

The gargoyle is also a kind of stone golem, and its individual hard power is not as strong as the rock golem, but this thing can fly. It is an extremely rare flying golem, and its strategic role is stronger than that of the stone golem.

The three representatives of the mage city-state bowed their heads to discuss, and the leading old mage nodded and said:

"If you are willing to provide 5000 million kilograms of food, you can replace this gargoyle golem."

"Well, I'm going to have to wait another two or three months to have this much surplus food."

The old mage nodded:
"We can wait."

Li Qing shrugged and said nothing else.

The annual output of the first floor of Shenyu Farm is 6000 million kilometers. Now the first and third floors of Shenyu Farm are opened up as farmland, but the third floor has just been planted, and it is not mature yet, and the grain storage is not enough.

It is enough to wait for another two or three months to mature and harvest.

Of course, if we really wait for two or three months, it is estimated that the war with the disaster lord is over, and there may be no need to exchange food at that time.

Next, they simply signed an agreement. If Li Qing could kill the natural disaster lord and destroy the undead underground that threatened the human city-state, he could obtain a complete set of floating city technology provided by the human city-state.

After sending away the representatives of the mage city-state, Li Qing summoned his men and began to prepare for the next big battle.

(End of this chapter)