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"That is to say, you have ever seen the magic star with your own eyes and talked with him face to face, Lord Theodore?" a witch asked with surprise and some doubt.
The rest of the apprentices also looked at Theodore excitedly. As the gravedigger of the empire and the church, the controller of the magic network, and the founder of the magic kingdom, Lynn was an existence beyond the mundane and even dimensional existence. He was undoubtedly the object of admiration of all apprentices and wizards. Especially the hit movie last month pushed the reputation of this magic star to the highest peak!
"Of course!" Theodore nodded complacently, and seeing that everyone present was really interested, he said, "Speaking of which, it happened more than ten years ago. At that time, Speaker Lin En was being hunted by the church, and he took the knowledge and inheritance of the [Secret Law Society] and sailed to the port of Yieta. I happened to be working under the Great Wizard Hellram, responsible for shipping and the review of outsiders..."
Theodore told everyone this past event with great pride. If you really want to count it, he should be the first wizard in the wizarding land who had contact with Speaker Lin En. He also witnessed with his own eyes how the other party rose from a formal wizard to become the supreme ruler of the parliament!
The apprentices who had just graduated from school were naturally excited when listening to the story. They had just learned in the cinema last month about the great achievements of the magic star in spreading knowledge in the empire, revealing the truth, and fighting against the evil church forces.
Even when facing the pursuit and blockade of more than a dozen bishops and cardinals, Lin En, who was just a formal wizard at the beginning, was still able to handle it with ease. In the end, he defeated the pursuers in the port town on the border of the empire and killed thousands of the empire's elite guards. It is rumored that a cardinal launched a divine descent to reverse the situation.
Now Theodore's narration undoubtedly connects the plot directly.
Just as he was about to continue spoiling the story, a loud alarm suddenly rang out. Theodore's face suddenly changed and he spoke anxiously.
"Dimensional fluctuations have been detected. Everyone, be alert and notify the Speakers immediately. It could be the gods from the main world attacking us!"
This dimensional inspection system that covers the entire planet is the latest work of the Magic Research Institute. To put it simply, it can sense abnormal spatial fluctuations in the area, which is usually a precursor to the opening of a space-time gate!
On the other side, the parliament that received the call also responded immediately. Fifteen galaxy-class battleships and twenty legendary speakers were dispatched together, and thousands of annihilation cannons had adjusted their muzzles and pointed them at the sky.
Fortunately, with the arrival of a quantum communication, the tense hearts of Harov and others suddenly relaxed and they became overjoyed.
Lin En and others who went to the heartland of Geometry civilization are back!
About three seconds later, a diamond-shaped warship rushed out from the surging space-time gate, followed by the second, third, and fourth...
"After not seeing you for a month, the kingdom has changed a lot!" An alchemist in the spaceship said with emotion while looking at the city scene projected on the screen. "I remember the last time I came here, the capital wasn't this big, right?"
The changes in the capital were not just as simple as just getting bigger. A 'new city' with a larger area was even built next to it. However, the interior was empty and had many huge signs erected. It did not look like a place to live.
"It's just one month for us, but for the outside world, it's already two years!" another alchemist corrected.
When in a foreign land, many people have experienced a difference of seven times in the speed of time flow, but now it has suddenly increased to twenty times, and they are still a little uncomfortable with it.
Fortunately, it was only a month. If they had stayed on the spaceship for a few years, they would not know what the kingdom would have become when they returned.
Lin En was not surprised by the changes in the kingdom. Although he had spent more than a month on the spaceship, the Eternal Star was his divine domain. Of course, he could not be completely ignorant of what was happening inside. All the information would be transmitted to his brain at dozens of times the speed.
The reply from the kingdom was quickly conveyed - asking them to proceed to the interstellar port for docking according to the instructions!
The crew members then realized that the new city erected next to the royal capital was actually the new interstellar port established by the parliament, which was expected to accommodate fifty galaxy-class battleships and provide inspection, maintenance, energy replenishment and other services.
Under the strong watch of countless citizens of the royal capital, more than 30 huge warships with a diameter of more than five kilometers hovered in the port one by one. The nearby areas were set up with anti-force field magic, otherwise no floor tiles would be able to withstand the terrifying mass of the warships.
Harov and others were already waiting in the interstellar port and came over immediately.
"Chairman Lin En, is everything going well during this trip to the heartland of the Geometry Civilization?"
Ever since Lin En and his group opened the space-time gate to the Geometry civilization two years ago, they have been in a semi-lost state.
Although Lin En can receive information from the outside world due to the connection with the divine realm, the flow of time on both sides is inconsistent, making communication inconvenient.
"The harvest is pretty good, much richer than we expected!" Lin En showed a smile on his face, and roughly explained his plan to build a planetary ranch. By the way, he asked the parliament to send some wizards to the new world to assist those geometric stars in improving and researching the magical beast species.
Using an entire planet as a pasture and artificially breeding magical beast species through genetic technology, Lynn's generosity once again made Harof and others amazed.
However, this does solve the most troublesome problem for the parliament at present.
Due to the widespread popularization of magic education and the improvement of the magic network, the number of wizards is increasing day by day, and the number of users of the magic network has increased to 1.5 million!
Of course, most of these more than one million people are just apprentices, and the number of formal wizards is less than one-tenth. Even so, the resources consumed are an astronomical figure.
In recent years, the prices of alchemy and potion materials have skyrocketed. The large-scale breeding bases they have built cannot meet the demand at all. Lin En's planetary ranch plan can perfectly solve this problem.
Chapter 625 Element 7 and Higher Dimensional Matter
"Using the entire world as a pasture for breeding magical beasts? Isn't this a waste?"
Although the planetary ranch plan proposed by Lin En was very shocking and could solve the most troublesome problem facing the current parliament, Raphael and others still felt that something was wrong.
That’s a whole star of life!
"One planet is nothing..." Lin En naturally saw everyone's doubts and couldn't help but said with a smile. "Don't forget, the Geometry Civilization gave us three star systems, and there are at least two more planets with life like this!"
If they could master the corresponding ecological transformation technology, or obtain life or create a kind of priesthood, they would be able to transform and convert other planets in the system. Therefore, the life planet is too rich for them, and the empire simply does not have enough population for colonization.
"The population of the kingdom is still too small!" Lin En sighed.
For nearly a thousand years, under the rule of the empire and the church, the total population of this continent is about 20 million.
Thanks to the fact that they ended the war that swept across the continent at lightning speed, the population did not decrease on a large scale, but instead increased a lot.
The increased population mainly consists of liberated slaves and hidden households. They were not counted in the empire's statistics before, but it is different now. All those who have suffered from oppression by the nobility and the church are the most loyal subjects of the kingdom!
Together with the barbarians who were incorporated into the North and the halflings who fled from foreign lands, the population increased by about five million again.
However, in the past decade or so, fertility has been the main cause of population growth!
As living standards increased sharply and there were no protective measures, the number of births soared as if equipped with rocket propellers, and the population naturally also experienced a surge, soaring from 25 million to 60 million!
The population has nearly doubled in more than ten years, which is undoubtedly a terrifying speed, but it is also very normal. A rough calculation shows that the average annual growth rate is only 9%. In fact, if it were not for the tight work schedule, adding a few million more people would not be a problem.
Under the empire's unique child labor system, the first batch of teenagers were already able to participate in work. These newly added laborers who had received basic education largely made up for the gap in technical workers.
Even so, in Lin En's opinion, it is still far from enough. If you want to support a huge galactic civilization, a population of tens of billions is not enough, and hundreds of billions is just barely enough.
"The population growth rate needs to continue to accelerate. In fact, we can consider using some rewards or honors to encourage childbirth..." Lin En gave suggestions to Harov and others based on the policies that encouraged childbirth in his previous life.
If he remembered correctly, in his previous life, when agricultural civilization was gradually moving towards industrial civilization, some countries even achieved a natural population growth rate of more than 20% per year. It took only 16 years for the population to increase from 60 million to 1 billion. This is the horror of exponential growth!
Anyway, they don't need to worry about the problem of insufficient resources now. Of course, the more population the better. If they wait until the rise of humanistic thought, it would be a fantasy to have such fertility again.
"Oh, Speaker Lin..." Vittorio on the side said as if he had thought of something. "Just a month ago, those Geometry people sent two warships over to hand over part of the compensation."
During that period, Lin En happened to be out of contact, and suddenly found that a fleet of Geometric civilization appeared in the galaxy, which scared them to death.
Fortunately, it turned out to be just a false alarm.
"Element No. 7?" Lin En paused, then quickly guessed what the handover compensation was, and immediately became interested.
He had seen the so-called element seven in the memories of some Geometry people, but he did not search through the minds of scientific researchers, so he only obtained some basic information.
However, the Geometry Civilization has always kept it hidden tightly, and they almost fought over it during the previous negotiations. This is enough to prove the importance of Element VII, which is regarded as a treasure even by galaxy-level civilizations. This is why he specifically asked Raphael to ask for it during the negotiations.
"Have you figured out anything in this month?" Lin En asked curiously.
Vittorio's expression suddenly became a little strange. "This element is very strange. It seems to have no fixed form. We have used many methods but cannot accurately calculate its mass and volume. Even the Great Disintegration Technique cannot break it up..."
Vittorio's words made Lin En even more interested. He immediately postponed the original welcoming process and went to the place where element seven was placed to take a look.
The parliament obviously knew the importance of this thing, so after completing the handover with the fleet of the Geometry Civilization, it placed it at the bottom of the Sky Tower and the guards were very strict.
About half an hour later, Lin En walked through a door engraved with runes and saw the long-awaited Element No. 7.
It was a ball of matter only the size of a fist, glowing faintly. Just as Vittorio said, its shape kept changing. At the same time, Lynn also noticed that the surrounding space had undergone subtle changes.
It's not like it was a twist caused by quality, but a more profound effect.
Harov, who is most knowledgeable about element VII, couldn't help but speak up. "I found that this thing seems to be somewhat similar to Godhead. I suspect it is very likely a kind of..."
"Higher-dimensional matter!" Lin En took over Harov's words and agreed with this point of view. He also instantly understood why the geometric civilization attached so much importance to it.
Ordinary high-dimensional matter is not a rare thing, because microscopic particles all possess high-dimensional properties. In a sense, all matter has more than three dimensions, but the universe seems to have some kind of limitation. Once these microscopic particles are arranged and aggregated into macroscopic matter, they lose their original high-dimensional properties.
Element No. 7 is different. Its volume is trillions of times that of microscopic particles, but it can still exist in a high-dimensional form. This special feature is where its value lies!
Lin En stretched out his hand, and under the traction of magic, element number seven floating at the bottom of the tower floated over and landed in his palm.
Then a large amount of divine power with will poured into it, and soon Lin En noticed the difference. If divine power is compared to water flow, then this palm-sized mass of matter is like a bucket that can never be filled. It continuously receives water flow but there is no sign of filling up at all...
Chapter 626: The Low-Dimensional Unfolding Form of High-Dimensional Matter
According to Lin En's perception, the divine power in his body was disappearing at a very fast speed, and soon it was more than half. The palm-sized element No. 7 in front of him was like a bottomless whirlpool that seemed to swallow everything.
Harof, Vittorio and others also looked at Lynn nervously. They had studied this strange element before, but the results were not satisfactory. If someone from outside had not interrupted him in time, Vittorio would have almost been trapped in it.
At this moment, Lynn was just like Vittorio at the beginning. His consciousness was trapped in a strange maze of thoughts. His mind was divided into two parts, one part existed in the outside world, and the other part was trapped in the palm-sized element No. 7. The surrounding area was like a strange maze, with overlapping lenses on all sides.
Lin En knew very well that this was a scene unique to high-dimensional space.
It is like a two-dimensional person looking at a three-dimensional object. As the object continues to move, the cross-section in front of him will continue to change.
Fortunately, Lin En, who had already transcended the realm of gods, had also become a high-dimensional creature. From both the internal and external perspectives, the appearance of element seven soon appeared before him.
This is an irregular hypercube with a diameter of about 15 centimeters. It is as smooth as a round mirror, reflecting the surrounding scenes. As the object rotates, it is as dazzling as a kaleidoscope.
The divine power infused before was not without effect. The magic power could permeate every element they were familiar with, even microscopic particles were no exception. Even though element number seven was very unique, it could not avoid the infection of magic power.
However, the amount of magic power required is so huge that even if legendary wizards like Harof drained it, they would not be able to control it.
After spending nearly 60% of his divine power, Lin En finally gained control of this group of element seven.
Although it looks only the size of a palm, its mass is about 100 tons. Unlike a neutron star, which relies on the close fit between microscopic particles for its high mass, the terrifying mass of element VII comes from the fact that it has four dimensions at the same time!
It's like a metal block with a length, width and thickness of one meter, its mass is about 78 kilograms, but if its thickness is increased to one meter, its mass will become 7.8 tons!
Element seven has four dimensions, which is equivalent to countless three-dimensional substances stacked together, so its mass is naturally exaggerated.
However, element seven, which possesses a huge mass, is now constantly changing its appearance like a toy under Lin En's manipulation and is being kneaded into various shapes.
"Speaker Lin, what is the use of this thing?" Anthony asked curiously.
Lin En paused, stopped ravaging Element 7, and immediately began to explain. "This high-dimensional matter can directly affect time and space, and has extremely strong plasticity..."
For some reason, the inference that a triangle is the most stable structure suddenly popped up in Lin En's mind...
Is the same true for dimensions?
Lin En felt that this was very possible, because the high-dimensional forms of microscopic particles are usually presented in the form of probability clouds, which are very unstable. However, as countless microscopic particles are fixed together under the trend of strong interactions and appear in front of them in a low-dimensional form, their form becomes more and more fixed.
Countless speculations flashed quickly through Lin En's mind. The two characteristics that were discovered alone were already very useful. For technological civilization, this was the key to moving from low dimension to high dimension!
It is no wonder that element seven is so valued by geometric civilization.
The speakers present were also eagerly discussing the usage of this substance. Vittorio soon put forward a very useful and constructive suggestion. Since this thing can have a direct impact on time and space, can it replace the divine power system to provide energy for the curvature engine?
Upon hearing this, dozens of speakers suddenly felt their eyes light up. After losing Ella, the Moon Goddess, as an energy source, the curvature engine they developed became a beautiful decoration and no longer had the ability to fly at superluminal speeds.
Unless Lin En is willing to serve as this energy source, but as the leader of the Wizard Council, it is obviously impossible for him to spend too much energy here.