Chapter 1,132 The Scorpion and the Raven Should Fall in Love and Kill Each Other.

Generally speaking, the technological side and the mysterious side of the Xiling Empire are roughly equal in overall strength, and basically what the technological side can do, there will also be corresponding technologies on the mysterious side. If the two compete on the battlefield They are also equally matched. This status quo has been gradually formed and deeply rooted in the long-term development of the empire, because the enemies that the empire has to face emerge in endlessly, and the respective situations and situations to be dealt with in each region are also changing rapidly, which determines that the empire as a whole cannot exist. Technical shortcomings - whether it is a battleship on the technological side or an alchemy product on the mysterious side, it cannot become a weakness on the battlefield.

But while having the same power or function, things on the technological side and on the mysterious side have their own distinct characteristics.

Things on the technology side are relatively "direct". From the mode of action to the design concept, they all adhere to a simple, intuitive and direct-to-target attitude. Just like the most powerful conventional main gun they made - Galaxy, it uses simple, crude and effective absolute power. To destroy the enemy, do not beat around the bush, nor give the enemy a chance to beat around the bush. Everything is based on a straight and efficient way of thinking. This kind of logic is very suitable for creations on the technological side, and it is also in line with the systematic linear thinking style of Xiling technicians. In a sense, it is this design concept that directly reaches the goal that gives The endless unlimited weapons on the technological side of the empire have astonishing power.

The creations on the mysterious side give people a strange feeling of "elegant and elusive", just like their classification, they are full of mystery. They have a habit of using ingenious means to get around powerful obstacles. Directly hitting the enemy's vital points from the most difficult-to-defend angles, various curses, symbolic rituals, and mathematical rate-effect weapons emerge in endlessly in this field. Instead of using absolute power to destroy the enemy's solid armor, they are more accustomed to using the laws of the world to enhance their own strength. Success rate. The things on the mysterious side are cunning. They may seem inconspicuous or even weak, but after carefully analyzing their working principles, you will find that you only need to make a slight mistake. It has fallen into the abyss of eternal destruction - the most obvious representative of which is the terrifying mirror system of the Glow Circle. To be fair, the applicability of this system is not as strong as the main cannon of the Galaxy. The combat effectiveness of the Glow Ring itself is not even half of that of the Eternal. But you cannot deny that the threat of the horror mirror on the battlefield is no less than that of a cannon. Your Galaxy main gun has been locked.

If the technology department relies on force to overcome skill, then the mystery side is just the opposite, using skill to compete. Two completely different development routes eventually reached the same height and entered the palace of "truth".

Sandora and I, led by Alleria, visited several urban areas that had resumed operation. Including the production factory of the Colossus of Gundar and several other "Smart Soldiers" constructs. The experimental weapons manufacturing plant also has a "magic furnace" used to produce other standard mysterious apostles in addition to the two special units of Raven and Xiling Angel.

The Magic Energy Furnace is a huge and upside-down white hemispherical building located in the sky directly above the City of Angels. In the center of the huge building can be seen a huge blue crystal, occupying nearly three-thirds of the entire sphere. An area of ​​​​1, the crystal makes the magic furnace look more like a hanging 36,000 meters in the sky...

I always feel that it is best not to describe too much about this hemispheric building.

The inside of the magic furnace is an environment that I can't understand. It seems that even Sandora knows very little about the principles and structure of this thing. The extremely wide space inside it is filled with mist and jumping arcane lightning. Groups of freely moving elemental creatures appeared and disappeared in the mist, and those were the workers of the furnace. They are responsible for maintaining the crystal cells fixed on the four walls of the furnace. In those crystal cells, Sandora and I saw the "embryos" that had not yet formed, only a ball of human-like light and shadow, Alleria told We, the radiant embryos sleeping in the crystal cells, are the mysterious apostles who are about to be born.

The birth and evolution of the mystical apostles are quite strange. They had only three branches at the beginning. One was the raven, a spellcaster born from the arcane ocean (of course now we use the power of technology to directly copy the soul of Bella Vera fragments, the efficiency is about the same), one type is Xiling Angel, which produces "seeds" from the Angel Wall, and then gradually breeds into Holy Light creatures in the incubation lattice, and the last type is named "Magic Pioneer" The mass-produced apostle. They are the basic form of general mysterious apostles (excluding the two special units of ravens and angels). Each member of the mysterious side is a magic pioneer when he is born. All abilities are average and have no outstanding advantages but can Flexible and versatile spellcasters, they are usually born in the magic furnace. After accumulating a certain amount of experience and military exploits, the magic pioneer can choose his own promotion route in the crystal in the center of the magic furnace and become a Arcane experts either learn to use holy light, or study shadows and curses - it is not until this stage that the mysterious apostles will give birth to as many types of branches as the technological side.

This "evolution" method of starting from a basic form and evolving into various advanced branches through "promotion" is very visual. I have to think that maybe in order to enhance the evolutionary advantages of their own race, they refer to a certain Zerg technology tree...

Of course, not every magic pioneer must choose to be promoted. Although most of them will choose to strengthen the route they are best at, there are also a small number of people who choose not to be promoted for life. Such magic pioneers will eventually achieve great achievements and even become Of generals, Odysseus is an example - even though he is now a lieutenant general, Odysseus is still a "vanguard of magic energy".

Different technologies, different styles, different promotion mechanisms, but they have the same beliefs and complementary strengths. When these mysterious and wonderful things that I have never been exposed to before are presented to me one by one, I feel that there has always been something in the empire. The deficient areas are slowly being filled in. Although I can't pinpoint exactly what they are, I do have this feeling. Maybe in the next battle, I will face a brand new battlefield situation - I am looking forward to this.

Just when he and Sandora were preparing to leave Tianjie City. Three unexpected guests suddenly visited us, slightly delaying our trip: Sakina, Sona, and Vanilla.

These three girls have been staying in the mortal world of "Xinxiang". Under our instructions, they have developed their respective churches and at the same time reported the situation in the mortal world to the Celestial City in a timely manner. After the three hundred commanders on the mysterious side woke up, they left a large number of ancient spirits in the mortal world. These ancient spirits changed their previous chaotic state and began to reorganize religious societies around the world with extremely high efficiency under the orders of the empire. And announced that the Crow God Sect will be the new leader of the religion, while the Dragon God Sect is busy recruiting half-dragons from all over the world and rebuilding the half-dragon empire. It can be said that the three girls are in a very busy state. They suddenly came to the heaven today. In the city, I actually came to report the situation to Alleria, but I didn’t expect to run into Sandora and me.

Saw the two of us with Alleria. Sakina made a big fuss and was stunned incoherently for a long time. It wasn't until Sona calmly slapped her with her tail that she became quiet. I smiled and said to the over-energetic half-dragon girl, "Why are you so surprised? Didn't I say we would come over at any time?"

"Hey. I'm not used to it for a while." Sakina slapped her thick tail on the ground twice to show that she was very excited. "It feels like you have all gone to a very far away place. I didn't expect that you can actually talk about it." Just come?"

"This place is now on the outskirts of Shadow City. It takes less than two seconds to walk through the portal." I shrugged, looking at Sakina and Sona each wearing a pair of shorts similar to the cool outfit Lin likes to wear. Shirt + skirt. This short outfit was in sharp contrast to the overly large priest robe worn by Vanilla, but something like a badge could also be seen on the former's clothes. "Is this the priest uniform of the Dragon God Sect? It's really unique. I thought priest uniforms were all kind of long robes and coats."

"Forget it. I ordered a few robes like the ones you mentioned a few days ago, but they turned out to be impossible to wear - my tail couldn't be swung away, and I just fell over when walking." Sakina grimaced, showing a calculating look, " A lot of fabric was wasted. This kind of short dress is suitable for us half-dragons. It is light and simple, and does not delay work. Sometimes I see Vanilla getting tired for her. With her small body, she probably doesn’t even have her own clothes. Where is Shen..."

Vanilla didn't say anything, she only smiled shyly while holding a big book in her arms. This child was still as introverted as before... Oh, it wasn't that long before, only a few days...

The book that Vanilla was holding was mostly just for show. When we left Xinxiang, the child had just learned to write all of our names. She was no better than the well-informed Sakina duo. This child The native girl who grew up in the ravine has never read a book, but according to the reports of Alleria and Lilina, even such a vanilla still adapted to her new life and new job at an astonishing speed. Although she is still immature, she now has a high prestige within the Crow God Sect, and can also handle some things independently - of course half of the things still require Lilina's remote control to help. From this point of view, Vanilla is actually a very smart child, and her friendly personality is more suitable for becoming a "saint". In this regard, she has an advantage over Lilina. Lilina's compassion in front of believers is just a pretense. Yes, vanilla, this is real. So in this way, some of my previous worries disappeared: in fact, I have always been worried that Vanilla would not be able to bear the burden that suddenly fell on her shoulders, although she could live a life of luxury and food that she had never imagined. , but Lilina was also equivalent to irresponsibly throwing the child into a strange environment that could make ordinary people panic. Now it seems that there is no need to maintain such worries.

I once asked Vanilla if she was troubled by Lilina's irresponsibility in dragging her into such a strange environment. Vanilla's answer was that not only was she not bothered at all, but she was very grateful to Lilina - thanked the latter. It gave her a new life and met so many kind and good people. In this regard, I can only comment: Lilina's superb deception skills reached a new high. Such a simple and kind-hearted good boy was deceived by the illusion and became a die-hard fan of the sinister loli. Vanilla still firmly believes that Lilina is the kindest Pope in the world. What a terrible thing do you think this is...

"By the way, you guys are coming over anyway. Why don't you go to my house for dinner tonight?" When Sandora signaled for the third time that she was hungry. I suddenly remembered something and stopped the three girls who were about to return to the mortal world. Sandora next to me immediately smiled in response to the word "rice" and said, "Anweina's craftsmanship is very good. You should try it." taste."

Sakina was in a daze: "Eh? Invite us... to your home?"

"You are not so busy that you don't even have time to have a meal, are you?" I used my mental connection to inform Anweina to prepare more meals for three people tonight - in fact, with Shandora's huge meal base, it would be better to prepare more meals. The meal for three people was almost indifferent to Anweina - she said to Sakina.

Vanilla had lived in our house for quite some time before and knew the temperament of our family, so she happily agreed immediately. Sakina and Sona were still a little confused. It seemed that "Emperor Xiling invited me to his home for dinner" was so unbelievable, but we agreed vaguely, so when we went back, we took three more people with us. Well, we also took one more little guy with us. It's the kind of "Arcane Bean Curd" I saw in the Experimental Factory before. I think it's quite fun. Qian Qian probably liked this kind of weird little guy, so he asked Alleria for one.

In fact, Arcane Bean is just a joking name. Its scientific name should be Arcane Colloidal Organism. But since the abbreviation of this name is "Arcane Colloid", so... I still insist on calling it Arcane Bean Ding, or Slime - even though this slime's combat power is quite impressive, except that its intelligence is about the same as that of an autonomous machine. Besides, it could almost knock Kael'thas down...

Currently, the direct transmission channel from Celestial City to the world on the surface of the Earth has not yet been opened, so we have to transfer to Shadow City first, and then teleport home. This was the first time Sakina and Sona saw this capital of all worlds that they had only heard of in legends, and they were immediately attracted to it. Various flying tools and magical tools traveling through the sky...Raven, the magnificent dimensional hub square. There is also the giant steel wheel floating over the city at the Military Command Headquarters, and another piece of land reflected in the sky - Gaia. These things opened their eyes. Although Celestial City is a more fantastic place than here, there is also Celestial Realm here. With the unparalleled prosperity of the city and the "high technology" that is even more difficult for Sakina to understand, the two half-dragon girls are just like Vanilla when they first came here. After a hundred thousand reasons, Vanilla will Volunteered to give them a lot of weird explanations, and according to my guess, most of Vanilla's messy common sense came from Lilina...

So I had to correct them all the way, hoping that Vanilla's three views could still be saved, at least she wouldn't really think that Shadow City was implementing a shaman instant hearthstone bill - that was compiled by Lilina.

"You can come here at any time. The three of you all have B-level access rights to the empire. You have time to learn from Alleria how to use the World Gate. The vastness of the empire is more incredible than you imagine."

I smiled and said to Sakina and the others. The two half-dragon girls probably realized that they had not seen the "real world outside the gate" at all at this time, so they both looked excited and nodded repeatedly. Vanilla is relatively calm. She has seen those weird aliens in the dimensional hub square, and has also watched the documentary about the empire's territory (friendly broadcast by xltv program), so she is relatively calm about this.

At this moment, a depressed figure suddenly appeared in the corner of my eye. When the other person walked in, I realized that it was Bella Vera...well, not her.

I looked up at the horizon and found that the sun had already set, and in the afterglow of the sunset there were two big words: meal time.

It is now at least half past six, and Bellavera has returned to her half-minute ping world. This desperate girl wearing a store clerk uniform with a dejected face should be Raven 001.

"Hey, No. 1," I took the initiative to say hello, which was able to mobilize the other party's attention. Raven 001 saw us and quickly cheered up, saluted Sandora and me, and then greeted the others in turn: "Hello. , Vanilla, hello, Sajina, hello, Sona, hello, Xizhilang..."

She had probably seen the information of the Vanilla trio from the public database, so she knew them. As for Xizhilang...she was greeting the "slime" we brought back from Tianjie City. The latter was also unambiguous and immediately shook his head. It swayed into the shape of Raven 001, followed the example of a military salute, and said in a girlish voice with a strange grunting sound: "Hello, sir." Then it spread out into jelly again.

"You look depressed," I looked at Raven 001 curiously. The other person returned to a depressed state immediately after saying hello, as if he had just been beaten severely, "Bella Vera is possessed. The sequelae?"

"No..." Raven 001 covered his head, "I just met Vega. Your Majesty, that violent woman may be broken..."

I:"……?"

"My subordinate came back from the dessert shop just now. As soon as he entered the base, he saw Vega rushing towards me. Then she beat me up in an extremely nervous manner. Finally, she cheered happily: 'This time I finally made it right!' and ran away. Well, to sum up, she may be broken..."

How should I answer at this time? Can I make a sad face?

Raven 001 is wandering around looking for Vega. She firmly believes that her nemesis has finally broken down because his head has been malfunctioning for many years. She vows to send Vega to the repair center for various reasons. I decided not to tell her the truth, after all...

Falling in love and killing each other is also the biggest daily routine for these two people, isn't it? (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation.)