In the entire temple, the only thing that was not contaminated by blood was a sphere with red light. This was the mandatory sphere, which was placed on a shelf with a magic circle drawn on it.
According to legend, this forced sphere is indestructible, which aroused Abel's curiosity. He did not take out the 'Klimt's Will' first, but slashed the 'steel' sword in his hand heavily on the forced sphere.
With a 'clang' sound, he felt a strong rebound from the 'steel' sword in his hand. When he looked at the forced sphere, there was no damage at all, and it was still as good as before.
But when Abel just hit the forced sphere, he seemed to see a rune pattern flashing.
In order to explore the mystery, he turned on the dynamic vision and digital perspective capabilities of the World Stone fragment this time, and then slashed the 'steel' sword in his right hand heavily towards the forced sphere.
This time, everything in front of him was slow. When the 'steel' sword struck hard on the forced sphere, a rune pattern was generated from the surface of the forced sphere, and then turned into a white light that enveloped the entire forced sphere.
The forced sphere still had no damage. He stepped forward to examine the forced sphere carefully and found that the forced sphere was only made of crystal, not any special material.
The 'steel' sword in his hand is the Rune Word Sword, and the material used is fine iron. It can cut a mark on a piece of steel itself.
"Did that rune just block my attack?" Abel murmured.
Because he had activated the dynamic vision and digital perspective capabilities of the World Stone fragment when he attacked, the full picture of the rune appeared in his mind.
The complexity of the rune exceeded all the runes Abel had encountered. If it weren't for the help of the ability of the fragments of the World Stone, he would not have been able to remember every detail of the rune so clearly in his mind.
Soon a rune materialized in his mind. Since it only had a shape but no substance, he had no way of knowing what the rune did.
Seeing that the surroundings were still safe, he took out a full set of rune-making tools from 'Walaya's Ring' and took out a dark gold-level crystal core for making runes.
Although this was the first time he had seen this kind of rune, with the rune embodied in his mind and the help of the ability of the World Stone fragment, he drew the rune in twenty seconds. come out.
The drawn runes only remained stable for five seconds, and then in a burst of white light, the crystal core violently exploded outwards.
A shield of 'Contract of the Ancients' appeared in Abel's left hand, blocking it in front of him. The explosive power of the crystal core was not very powerful. The energy contained in it was far different from that of a perfect gem, and the violence of this energy was also A lot of difference.
The energy in the crystal core is very mild, and it is precisely because of this that it can be absorbed by the wizard when it is fresh.
During the five seconds when the rune was stable, Abel checked it through his mental power and found out what its function was. However, the fragment of the World Stone was still given a name, '33#Zod Sade'.
The only function of this '33#Zod Sad' rune is to never wear out. The items inlaid with it, even the most common and crude iron swords, will become Indestructible existence.
"No wonder it exploded. This dark gold quality crystal core cannot withstand such high-level runes!" Abel sighed while putting away the 'Contract of the Ancients' shield.
However, he still found the most common iron sword, which was left over from the earliest magic light sword made for the family's dead soldiers. It already had a groove on it.
He took out a crystal core of dark gold quality again, and then quickly drew '33#Zod Sade'. Twenty seconds later, the runes were drawn successfully. At the moment of completion, he quickly embedded the runes into the concave part of the light sword. in the tank.
Abel knew that this rune only existed for a short time. As soon as the inlaid light flashed, 'Hradric Malus' appeared in his hand, and he smashed the light sword hard.
'Hladic Malus' is an artifact specially designed for forging. It was adjusted by Abel to weigh several thousand kilograms. Its destructive power to the equipment exceeds that of all weapons. In an instant, it hit all the enemies hard. On top of the light sword.
The '33#Zod Sade' inlaid on the light long sword appeared on the light long sword the moment it was hit, and then all the energy in the dark gold quality crystal core surged out, supporting the talisman. Culture protects the light sword with a white light.
At the same time, the '33#Zod Sade' rune embedded in the light sword turned into fragments and fell from the groove before five seconds.
Looking at the light long sword without any damage, Abel couldn't help but shook his head. This '33#Zod Sade' is indeed indestructible, but what's the use of this little time.
These five seconds minus the inlay time can only guarantee that each item can be indestructible for three to four seconds at most. Moreover, the runes have to be drawn on the spot and cannot be used in battle at all.
Both his weapons and shields are rune-language equipment, and they are so strong that no one can break them.
"Weak ribs!" Abel said speechlessly.
However, knowledge is priceless. He has at least gained relevant knowledge about the '33#Zod' rune, which is also an accumulation.
He put away the light sword and rune making tools, and put down his research on '33#Zod Sad'.
Changing the weapon in his hand to 'Klimt's Will', Abel hit 'Klimt's Will' hard towards the forcing sphere. A strange thing happened. This 'Klimt's Will' reached the forcing sphere. The crystal surface was shattered, and the '33#Zod' rune did not appear.
It seems that 'Klim's Will' can suppress the self-protection of the forced sphere, making the '33#Zod' rune unable to activate, and thus unable to protect the forced sphere.
After the forced sphere was broken, a large number of broken souls flew out from it. These were the sinful souls of the Zakarum Church controlled by Mephisto. These souls flew towards the altar.
Then the altar made a sound of a mechanism activating, and the altar slowly descended, revealing a downward passage.
Abel arranged for the nine ghost guardian knights to enter the passage first, and then he walked into it with the 'Clay Stone Demon'.
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While Abel was in seclusion, the situation in the Holy Continent took a strange turn. The Principality of Thunder and other five vassal states of the Kingdom of Saint Ellis, which were originally regarded as lambs, have now become a place of peace.
Of course, this peace does not come without a price. The price is that the five principalities and the empire have signed strict vassalage treaties.
Nowadays, in the entire Holy Continent, only the Kingdom of Saint Ellis and its five tributary countries have become a place of peace. There are tens of thousands of knights guarding the peace of the empire, so that anyone who dares to offend its majesty will be punished as they should.
However, the Kingdom of St. Pold and the Kingdom of St. Anlva seemed powerless. The two empires could only maintain peace within their own empires, but had no time to interfere with the chaos in their vassal countries.
And due to the shortage of food, conflicts over food also appeared in the two empires. This conflict was like an underground fire, hidden on the surface, but could break out at any time.
The large number of marine fish that appeared in the Kingdom of St. Ellis caused some people who had strength but could not guarantee food to start another round of immigration.
The empire's parliament reacted almost immediately and introduced a series of restrictive measures so that only those who could immigrate into the empire were nobles with inheritance or leaders in various industries.
Although each principality also wanted to retain these talents, the situation within the principalities made it impossible for them to use material conditions to retain these talents, and the strength of the Kingdom of Saint Ellis forced them to let go.
The Kingdom of St. Ellis, like the former Principality of Kamai, experienced explosive development with Abel's taking over. A large number of nobles and talents from various industries entered the empire, causing the empire to be in depression throughout the Holy Continent. , there was an exceptionally prosperous situation.
The situation in the Kingdom of St. Ellis made the two empires excited. They also tried to reach out to the ocean, but ended up losing all the people who entered the ocean.
The two empires learned through intelligence that these marine fish were purchased by the Kingdom of St. Ellis from the dwarves, and they directly contacted the dwarves and wanted to purchase marine fish.
But what they didn't expect was that the dwarves were now eager to catch all the fish in the ocean around the Titan Temple in order to exchange for more Master Wine and Grandmaster Wine from Abel. How could there be any spare ocean fish to trade with them? .
As the eating habits of the Kingdom of St. Ellis gradually changed, the consumption of marine fish and the consumption of conventional food gradually became balanced. This allowed the food produced in Harvest City to gradually be able to sustain the food consumption required by the empire.
Unbeknownst to most people, Abel was already influencing the development of the entire Holy Continent.
The irrigation system he provided to the dwarves allowed the dwarves to plant more land with fewer farmers. Coupled with the rise of marine fisheries, the dwarves had an ample supply of food in this era of reduced food production.
Abel is in the fruit base of the Elf Aoya Valley, and provides a steady stream of fresh fruits to the Elf Anjost City every month.
The elves have also changed some eating habits, and a small amount of meat has entered the elves' diet. This passive change has made the elves the second race to completely get rid of the difficulty of food supply.
You must know that the Shuangyue Forest contains the largest living environment for wild animals in the Holy Continent. The number of wild animals here is enough for the elves to survive this difficult period.
In the human world, Abel's own Kingdom of St. Ellis has been able to ensure the supply of food, which has also preserved a strength for mankind, and will not be greatly damaged by this disaster.
One day in December, Abel dragged his exhausted body back from the dark world in the morning. Exploring the prison of hatred was far more difficult than imagined.
In the past few months, he has been injured many times, and the chance of injury is much higher than before.
The hell creatures in the Prison of Hatred were fast and had a large number of long-range attacking hell creatures. Coupled with the suppression of mental power in the Prison of Hatred, he almost did not dare to use 'teleportation' to explore.
So in the past few months, he had only just explored most of the first floor of the prison of hatred. The high frequency of daily battles kept his spirit in a state of tension.
You must know that during the few months in the Holy Continent, he has been fighting in the Dark World for several years. Today he decided to take a break and check the operation of the empire.
Now the Three Goddess spring water produced by the Three Goddess statues outside the magic tower will be transferred to other containers by the tower spirit Flavi every day, so that the Three Goddess statues can produce more spring water at full capacity.
Now the role of the spring of the Three Goddess is so important. Every day in Abel's magic tower, there are puppets controlled by the tower spirit Flavi to operate this matter.
Part of the spring water is sent to various fields in Harvest City by the irrigation system, and part of it is waiting for Abel to use the Horadric Cube to synthesize it so that it can be used in a magical environment to grow wheat that can assist the knights in their training.
Now the entire Harvest City is a closed automated planting system. However, sowing and harvesting still require a large number of farmers to operate, and watering has been fully automated. The crops mature once a month, coupled with the strange energy in the spring water of the Three Goddess, so that Harvest City has not been affected by the reduction in crop yields and has high yields and bumper harvests every month.
After these crops are harvested and processed, they will be continuously transported to the entire empire to supply the needs of the empire.
"Flavi, is everything normal in Harvest City?" Abel raised his head and asked in the air.
"Master, everything in Harvest City is operating normally, but the magic stone of the statue of the Three Goddess is about to be consumed, and you need to replenish it!" Tower Spirit Flavi's voice came from the sound transmission array in the magic tower.
"So fast?" Abel was stunned for a moment. The magic stones of the three goddess statues were all made of perfect gems, and they were already being used up in just a few years.
You must know that the statue of the Three Goddess has been in the dark world for tens of thousands of years, and there is no need to replace the energy source.
But when I think about it, the magic environment of the Dark World is much richer than that of the Holy Continent. Even if the statues of the three goddesses there do not have magic stones as energy, they can probably activate some of their functions just by relying on the surrounding magic power.
The frequency with which he uses the statue of the Three Goddess is almost at full capacity, and all the energy it consumes is provided by perfect gems, which increases the consumption speed too much.
Today, Taring Flavi's reminder reminded him of the issue of energy supply. He needed to store a large number of perfect gems for future needs.
Give a large number of perfect gems to Talling Flavi, and it can use puppets to replace magic stones for various devices, and even the farther Aurasian Palace can provide magic stones there through the teleportation circle.
Soon Abel's figure had appeared in the imperial palace of the empire. His appearance made the Imperial Parliament, which had not seen His Majesty the Emperor for many days, overjoyed, because although the Parliament had been established, most of the government affairs had been completed by the Parliament. But for some matters that must involve His Majesty the Emperor, the Parliament still needs Abel's decision.
"Butler Burbage, ask all the magic stone mines in the empire to send all the most damaged waste mines to me. I need them!" Abel ordered to Butler Burbage in a deep voice.
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Butler Burbage bowed and responded.
"Your Majesty, Speaker Bennett of the Parliament is waiting for you outside, and General Bodley is also preparing to meet you!" Butler Burbage did not leave immediately, but continued to report.
"Father, please come in and ask General Bodley to wait!" Abel hesitated and then said.
Speaker Bennett soon walked in. At this time, he no longer looked a little decadent due to being suppressed a few months ago. Now he is in high spirits, and his power brings confidence and magnanimity.
"His Majesty Emperor Abel!" Speaker Bennett bowed and saluted.
"Father, long time no see!" Abel said with a slight bow. He no longer tried to persuade Speaker Bennett, and the stubborn Speaker Bennett would not listen to his persuasion.
"Your Majesty, do I have something important to ask you for?" Speaker Bennett said, passing a parchment from his hand, and then said: "The three principalities of Renxi, Pomo and Sijiang wish to It became a vassal state of our empire and expressed its willingness to sign the same vassal state treaty as the Thunder Principality. This matter has been debated many times in the parliament and no unanimous opinion has been reached! "
Abel had heard of these three principalities, which were not far from the Kingdom of St. Alice, but they were tributaries of the Kingdom of St. Paul.
Although the Kingdom of St. Paul is no longer able to control its vassal countries, once the Kingdom of St. Alice brings it into its sphere of influence, it is likely to cause some bad effects.
On the one hand, diplomacy with the Saint-Palde Kingdom will arouse hostility from the other party, and secondly, once this opening is opened, more principalities may follow suit, which is inconsistent with Abel's desire for stability.
"Father, what do you mean?" Abel thought about it and asked.
"Your Majesty, I think the empire cannot take this step. If it takes this step, the empire will be hostile to the other two empires, and our current stable environment will no longer exist. You must know that the crisis of reduced food production will end in a few years. Yes!" Speaker Bennett replied.
Abel smiled. This was the same as what he had considered. In addition to his own strength, the biggest reason for him to obtain the imperial power of the Kingdom of St. Ellis was that the food crisis made other principalities and empires aware of his military actions. There was not enough military rations to support their participation in the war.
Now that the crisis of reduced food production has passed for more than half of the time, if he were an ambitious emperor, he would use this opportunity to destroy the other two empires, but the problem is that he is not.
As for the three principalities becoming vassals, the benefits were not great and were not enough to make up for the losses caused by enmity with other empires.
In the original three-part world structure, each empire had more or less vassal states, but its land was roughly the same. This was also a kind of balance.
Although Abel has the ability to break this balance, he doesn't even want to manage the current Kingdom of Saint Ellis. What's the point of attacking the entire Holy Continent
The most important thing is that if there are no enemies, his descendants will feel slack in surviving on this land, which is detrimental to their growth.
"Father, the order goes down. The empire will not accept any vassal countries!" Abel said directly.
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Speaker Bennett said happily. Having Abel support his opinion made his prestige in the parliament even stronger.
"The Kingdom of St. Alvos has sent an invitation, inviting you to attend the seventieth birthday of His Majesty Emperor Aldous!" Speaker Bennett continued to report.
"No, you will go on my behalf for this kind of event from now on!" Abel refused directly.
"Then I also handled the invitation from the Kingdom of St. Paul here?" Speaker Bennett nodded, and then asked again.
"Father, I am not far away from the realm of high-level wizards. I will probably enter a state of seclusion for a long time. You are the Duke of the empire and you can completely replace me!" Abel replied.
Think of the Duke of Chesterton, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of St. Paul, who is also a duke, but who would think that he is just a duke? Everyone everywhere treats him as the head of the empire.
Speaker Bennett's status at this time is almost the same as that of Duke Chesterton. They both hold great power, but the difference is that the power in Speaker Bennett's hands was forcibly given to him by Abel.
"The senior wizard Allenby of the Liante City Wizards Guild couldn't contact you, so he passed the news to me. He asked you to help him make a staff!" Speaker Bennett said again.
"Father, for future wizard matters, please directly contact my Talling Flavi, and I will personally contact the senior wizard of Allenby!" Abel said with a smile.
He must help the senior wizard Allenby's request, because he had already owed this senior wizard a favor before. This time the senior wizard Allenby was able to make a request, which made Abel feel quite relaxed.
Favors are hard to repay, so just making a staff to repay them was the easiest way for him.
It is inevitable that he cannot be contacted. He has been in high-load seclusion in recent months, almost cutting off contact with the outside world. Every time he returns to the Magic Tower from the dark world, he is still studying.
"Your Majesty, our ancestor's magic tower has been found. What do you think we should do with it?" Speaker Bennett then asked.
"Then the ancestor's magic tower was found? Where is it?" Abel was surprised when he heard the news. Although the ancestor died, his magic tower has become a mystery. There is no one in the entire St. Ellis Kingdom. People know where the magic tower is.
"Your Majesty, just two months ago, the guards smelled a smell of corpses in one of the emperor's gardens, so they conducted a search there and found that ten royal dead soldiers were killed alive under the ground there. Starved to death in the secret room," Bennett said with emotion.
Abel also shook his head slightly. Death warriors are the heritage of a family. In this regard, his Harry family cannot be compared with Speaker Bennett's Bennett family.
Without tens or hundreds of years, it would be impossible to truly form a complete structure for cultivating dead soldiers.
Think about the past empire, there were many dead soldiers, even the entire Griffin Knights were composed of dead soldiers.
However, after Abel took over the empire, the magic contract he used was no less effective than the dead warriors. In other words, the magical contracts were more economical, practical, and safer than the dead warriors.
"While dealing with the secret room, I discovered a huge space hidden underground. A shielding circle was used around it to shield an eighteen-story magic tower and its magical environment. Originally, I invited three senior wizards from Dana to go there. , and they couldn't open it," Speaker Bennett said.
"Build a shielding array underground and place the magic tower underground!" Abel was shocked. Fortunately, his ancestor came to trouble him, otherwise he would have rashly entered the Royal Palace of the Kingdom of St. Ellis. , that would be dangerous.
If an eighteenth-level ancestor is in a magic tower, the power of his spells will be greatly enhanced, and the shielding array is an extremely rare array that can completely isolate the magic environment.
Even Abel didn't get this kind of magic circle, but considering how precious this kind of magic circle is, he only used the elves' methods to isolate the magic environment.
At least he has never dared to mix the magical environment with ordinary people's residences, which must be separated by at least tens of meters, but the ancestor's magic tower is actually underground in the palace.
"Father, are you okay? If nothing happens, I'll go see what this eighteen-story underground magic tower looks like!" Abel immediately became interested, and he stood up and said.
Abel did not invite Speaker Bennett. Unless you are a wizard in that kind of magical environment, you will be eroded by magic if you enter there.
"There is nothing else to do. I will take my leave first, Your Majesty!" Speaker Bennett bowed and left.
"Butler Burbage, lead the way!" Abel ordered to Butler Burbage.
With Burbage's butler leading the way, Abel came to the back garden of the palace. The environment here was elegant and there was no space under the ground at all.
The entrance to the underground space was at the base of a statue. Butler Burbage pressed a mechanism on the statue, and the statue automatically moved away, revealing the entrance.
Abel knew that this mechanism was used by ordinary people to enter the underground space, because as an eighteenth-level senior wizard, he could enter his magic tower by directly 'teleporting' within the distance. It takes so much trouble.
But this is not Abel's magic tower. If you want to enter the underground space, you still have to enter through this entrance.
Walking into the entrance, there was an underground building. Among them, he saw a food storage room, which had been eaten out. Only empty grain bags were left on the ground. It could be seen that the dead soldiers had persisted here for several days. For months, they persisted until they starved to death.
There are also kitchens, some knight residences, training rooms, weapons rooms, etc. This underground building is a small living area. It seems that the dead soldiers here should serve the magic tower.
Just like when Abel was studying in the magic tower outside Gamba City, Gamba City had dedicated people to serve the wizards in the magic tower every day, and exquisite food and training materials had to be transported by dedicated staff.
It should be the same here, but the only difference is that in order to hide, this ancestor has always used dead soldiers to serve him.
This also explains why no one in the entire palace knows the information about the ancestor's magic tower. It seems that the ancestor's magic tower should be the last trump card of the St. Ellis Kingdom.
"Your Majesty, entering from here is where the Magic Tower is!" Butler Burbage opened a bookcase in a room, revealing the underground space behind it.
Abel saw a huge underground space, which was nearly a hundred meters deep and almost the same size as the back garden above.
In order to stabilize this huge underground space, he saw the patterns on the four walls of the underground space. These magic circle patterns reinforced the four walls. In addition, there was only a garden above the head, and there were no large buildings in the palace. Its weight is not too heavy.
The most eye-catching thing in the underground space is the eighteen-story magic tower. The top of the tower is different from ordinary magic towers. It is densely covered with patterns of magic gathering arrays. It is not like ordinary magic towers that use the strongest The materials are afraid of being damaged by others.
When using magic circle materials to draw magic-gathering array patterns outside the magic tower, over time, wind, sun, or man-made damage will cause these magic-gathering array patterns to be damaged.
Therefore, this method of construction is basically not seen in the magic towers outside, but it is different here. There is no wind or sun, and no one will damage it.
It's just that the shielding circle at the outermost edge of the underground space is the best hiding method, and this is where the imperial palace of the empire is located, so the security here is so high that there is no need to worry about anyone coming to destroy it.
Leaving Butler Burbage outside, Abel's figure disappeared into the room, and then appeared in the underground space.
As soon as his feet touched the ground, he felt the magic power flowing upward from the ground. It was a strange feeling.
"War commanding spirit, scan the underground!" Abel ordered the war commanding spirit in the elder's identity tag around his waist.
"Yes, Your Excellency Elder, the scan is in progress!" The information from the War Command Spirit was returned to him through his mental power.
"Your Excellency, Elder, a magic stone vein has been discovered, and preliminary analysis indicates that it is a high-grade rich ore!" After dozens of seconds, the War Command Spirit fed back the scanning results to Abel.
"As expected, this ancestor is too extravagant. He has occupied a high-end rich mine of magic stones. No wonder he can reach the level of 18th-level advanced wizard. No wonder he does not announce his wizard level. No wonder he wants to build a magic tower. Here!" Abel said to himself.
Almost everything can be explained immediately. Perhaps even the establishment of Denan City was built after knowing the existence of this high-grade rich mine of magic stones.
You must know that if the wizards know that there is such a high-level rich mine of magic stones, the Wizards Guild alone will not let go of the resources here. Even if it launches a wizard war, it will occupy the high-level rich mines of magic stones here.
An empire alone cannot stop the Wizards Guild. Thinking of this, Abel's eyes flashed, as if he wanted to consider whether anyone in the royal family knew about this.