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In the future, I will probably follow the rhythm of adding one new character per volume.
But, I don’t have an outline, so I might just do it randomly.
There is also a farming element.
In fact, I personally like the kingdom system in "Kingmaker". Even though it is poorly made, it gives me the feeling of being the king of a country in a fantasy world.
I also like the fortress system in Pillars of Eternity.
But this book is generally an adventure story, and the protagonist is always moving from one place to another. So this farming thing might be achieved by operating a ship or an airship or something.
I don’t know how to add it specifically, maybe I’ll just add it tomorrow on a whim.
That’s all I have to say about the next plans for this book. I really don’t have an outline and I don’t know what to talk about.
Oh yes, there are still some certain things, such as the protagonist will get the ogre power gloves later, or he will only recognize him. Why add this? One reason is that when I was in junior high school, I liked Li Rongdao's "Dragon Clan" (not the Gangnam one) very much, so I paid tribute to it.
Second, as for a mage, the ultimate dream of a mage is to engage in hand-to-hand combat. Since the protagonist cannot cast Tansen's transformation yet, then give him ogre power gloves and let him chop with a two-handed greatsword.
To tell you the truth, my creative thinking can easily go astray, and there is a possibility that it will be abandoned if it goes too far and cannot be pulled back.
That’s why I put it on this location.
Apart from the clue of the church, I did not leave any so-called "clutches". For every reader, the first volume is a relatively complete story, and there should be nothing to worry about.
So if you're worried about it being abandoned, you don't need to continue reading it, or you can wait until I finish and read the reviews before deciding whether to read it or not.
If you are still willing to continue reading, then welcome back at 2023:6 tonight (June 8, ), our journey continues.
In order to allow everyone to quickly enter the plot of the second volume, I will prepare ten updates at 20:05 tonight, which will include the first small climax of the second volume.
As for the rest, it’s the usual 7 am to 14 pm. There are too many games this year. For example, on July 3, there will be "Iron Alliance ", which I have been looking forward to for a long time.
I want to play for a few days without sleep or food, so I have to save up drafts. My output is about three chapters a day. I save one chapter and post two chapters, which frees up time for games.
Of course, sometimes there are particularly intriguing plots, and I will post an extra chapter as appropriate so that you won’t fall asleep with worries.
that's it.
Chapter 72 Set sail
After the ceremony, a group of people boarded the boat.
The ship was called the Star Chaser. Although it was just a shallow-draft inland river vessel, it was named as if it was sailing towards the stars.
The captain took the initiative to come forward and asked Elizabeth: "Princess..."
"Call me Elizabeth," the girl said.
The captain was obviously hesitant. It was disrespectful to call the Duke's sister by her name. After a brief silence, he said, "Miss Langdon, can we start the boat?"
Elizabeth didn't care too much and nodded decisively: "Let's set sail, go down the river, cross the river valley, and enter Monrovia."
The captain saluted again: "Yes, sir."
Here, the king took out the long sword that Bruce had just given him from the dimensional bag and began to study it.
Flint's attention was completely attracted by the longsword. Obviously, although the dwarf no longer believed in Torag, the god of forging, the love for forged items in his blood still dominated his vision.
As Wang studied the sword, he muttered to himself, "This looks like a Justice Crimson Flame Longsword. It should be a good magic weapon. In my teacher's magic tower, he learned a set of rules from some unknown plane and conducted a quantitative analysis of the power of magic weapons, dividing them into five levels. This should be a +3 magic weapon."
The dwarf looked confused, "What do you mean? Is this strong or weak? If you say it is weak, then I have to question your knowledge of weapons!"
Wang: "In the middle. My teacher defined it as the strongest magic weapon he had ever seen, the highest level +5. That weapon has the power to destroy everything. Since my teacher got that weapon, he has become particularly fond of casting Tamsen Transfiguration on himself and using it to chop people."
Elizabeth still looked puzzled: "Why define the strongest magic weapon he has ever seen as the highest level? Maybe there are more advanced weapons?"
Wang: "This is part of quantitative analysis. You always have to set an upper and lower limit before you can proceed to the next step. Just like temperature, the temperature of an ice-water mixture is defined as zero degrees, and the boiling temperature of water is defined as 100 degrees, so we have Celsius."
The wizard stopped and looked at his companions who seemed to be listening to a divine book.
Wang: "You don't know Celsius?"
Dwarf: "Never heard of that term."
King: "How do you dwarves control the temperature of the furnace if you don't know Celsius?"
Dwarf: "We call the temperature at which steel melts the Torag point, and the temperature at which mercury solidifies the Carlisle Newman point. The temperature between the two points is divided into one thousand equal parts, and each part is called a Torag scale. If you pick up a dwarf's temperature measuring device, this is what is marked on it."
Marika looked at the dwarf and said, "Although I don't know how to make things, my intuition tells me that the temperature of the Torag point is much higher than that of the Carlis Newman point?"
Flint spread his hands and said, "Of course. Torag is the patron of the dwarves. Carlis Newman prefers dwarves. Of course, we, the people of the mountains, are taller than dwarves. This is a fact."
The king interrupted the conversation between the dwarf and the drow: "In short, Flint must have understood what my teacher did to magic weapons, which is the same as what they did to temperature. My teacher regarded the strongest magic weapon he had ever seen as the pinnacle of magic weapons, defined as +5.
"If I see a weapon stronger than that in the future, then it will naturally become a +6 or even +7 weapon."
Elizabeth was still confused: "What do you mean? You are not the god of all gods, how can you make rules for the world all of a sudden?"
Wang: "My teacher has traveled through many planes. He believes that gods may be just creatures that are slightly stronger than us. As long as he understands the most basic logic of the world, he can also become a god. As for the God of All Gods, he believes that this does not exist, or is just a synonym for the underlying rules of the world."
Elizabeth's face was filled with more questions: "Are you saying that your teacher is powerful enough to set rules for the world like the God of All Gods?"
Wang: "No, no, no, these are two different things. The first part I mentioned is the teacher's quantitative analysis of magic weapons, and the second part is my teacher's understanding of the world. It was you who mentioned the God of All Gods that suddenly reminded me of this, so I said it."
Flint: "You shouldn't have mentioned this. Your Highness - now I shouldn't call you Your Highness. Why don't we just call you Miss Langdon? After all, Elizabeth is a special title for wizards. Miss Langdon..."
Wang: "You can just call her Warlock."
"Oh well, you suddenly brought it up and made Miss Warlock even more confused."
Elizabeth: "I'm not the only one who's confused. There must be others who don't understand! Isn't that right, Xiaobai?"
Xiaobai: "I'm eating."
Elizabeth was caught off guard. She looked at Xiao Bai and found that she was indeed very happy holding the ham. She sighed and said, "Okay, there is no need to figure out these details. Anyway, I am just a naive warlock. Let's talk about this sword. As you can see, this sword is quite powerful, right?"
Wang: "Yes. This is the first magic weapon our entire team has obtained. You see, I am holding it casually now, and the blade does not hurt me. This is the characteristic of magic weapons. Their power is bound to the user's desire to attack.
"When no one is using them, they are safer than ordinary weapons. If a skilled swordsman uses this weapon, he can easily cut through armor."
Marika: "So the question is, who among us will use this thing?"
Everyone looked at each other.
The king looked at the barbarian and said, "Gotrick, you try it."
Without saying a word, Gao Trick picked up the two-handed sword and swung it with one hand.
The moment he swung the sword, flames appeared on the surface of the sword, like an everlastingly burning torch.
Elizabeth even raised her hand to block the light. Apparently, the magical light that suddenly lit up from this thing dazzled the eyes of the unprepared warlock.
Elizabeth: "By Lancelot! I never knew about this sword... I always thought it was a decorative item!"
As soon as the barbarian lost the intention to attack, the flames and magical aura on the sword disappeared.
Gotrek shook his head: "No."
As he said this he put the sword back into the wizard's hand.
WANG: "Explain, Gotrek."
Gotrek pointed to the middle of the sword: "It's here."
Then the barbarian picked up his axe and pointed to the spot near his head: "Mine, here."
Elizabeth: What's there?
King: "I guess the barbarian is talking about the center of gravity. So Gotrik can't use this thing. Who else can use it? The drow should also be good at two-handed swords, right?"
Marika shook her head: "I was assigned to the Shadow Walker Corps by the Mistress since I was born. I am not good at using weapons longer than armor-piercing swords."
The king's eyes fell on Flint.
Dwarf: "Are you crazy? It's taller than me!"
Marika: "I always thought honesty was one of the qualities that dwarves are most proud of. It seems that you are not very honest. This sword is obviously twice as tall as you."
"Damned drow, if I were a priest of Torag, you would be dead!" the dwarf blew his beard and shouted angrily.
Cailin is a very casual god. He may think it is fun for his priest to travel with a drow elf, so he may even take action to stop the priest from attacking the drow.
The king looked at the dwarves and drow staring at each other and said excitedly, "This is what my teacher talked about, the contradictions in the team! Observing the process of your running-in will definitely make my enchantment spell..."
Elizabeth: "Forget your enchantment spell!"
At this moment, the ship completed all the work for leaving the port, and the deck under everyone's feet shook more and more violently.
And because the wind blew the sail, the deck began to tilt slightly to one side.
The captain stood on the watchtower one level higher than the deck where everyone was, steering the ship while reporting: "The wind is coming from the southwest now, so the ship will tilt a little. Once we are out of the city and there are no buildings to block the view, the tilt will be more obvious."
A cheer went up from the shore: "Bon voyage!"
Everyone looked toward the shore and saw that the long bridge at the dock was full of people waving their hats - the porters without hats were waving their own sweat towels.
Bruce Langdon was still standing on the viewing platform, watching this side, the Langdon family flag fluttering in the wind behind him. The journey of the young lions had just begun, but this had little to do with the king, Elizabeth, and their colorful teammates.
Wang suddenly patted Xiaobai on the head and said, "Stop eating. Take me to the observation deck on top of the mast!"
(*) Here, the part about weapons in the game rules is turned into the result of quantitative analysis by the protagonist's teacher. Basically, no one except the protagonist will look at these weapons in this way. For most people, magic weapons are magic weapons. Extremely experienced appraisers can tell which of two magic weapons is stronger, but they will not grade the weapons.
Chapter 73 The First Problem after Departure
After Wang climbed up the mast, the first thing he did was to pat Xiao Bai on the back of his head: "Become a different animal, the leopard's spine is hitting your butt."
Xiao Bai snapped back into a human and shouted, "Then why don't you come down? This observation tower is so big!"
"You have just taken up all the seats. You were a leopard! So big!" Wang even gestured with his hands.
Xiaobai: "Blame me? Humph, I won't take you down later! I'll turn into a bird and fly down!"
Wang: "It's okay. I specially prepared the Feather Falling Technique today just to prevent myself from falling off the mast."
Xiaobai: "The boat is moving forward, you will fall into the water! I won't save you."
Wang: "First, I can swim. Second, I have inertia. Although my speed may be different from the boat due to various reasons when I fall, this time should be enough for me to grab the rope on the boat."
In order to operate the sails, the boat that Wang and his team were riding on also had a large number of ropes, and it looked almost the same as a sea vessel - of course, this was a superficial view from an outsider who had no experience at sea.
Xiaobai looked at Wang and thought for a few seconds, then shook his head: "I don't understand. Anyway, you can just go down by yourself later, right? I was thinking of turning into an eagle or something to catch you. What is that?"
Wang looked down at the thing he had just taken out and said, "This? This is called a telescope, a dwarf artifact. It can see things far away. It is one of the three great treasures of navigation, along with the sextant and compass."