Amber's first impression of the wasteland is "foreign land".
The light gray sky was tumbling and surging above the head like some kind of viscous liquid, the turbulence of magic power that was almost visible to the naked eye was flowing around between the thick clouds, and the chaotic wind rolled over the barren and twisted land irregularly, And the earth—the earth is covered by some kind of purple-black "substance" that seems to be a mixture of volcanic eruption melt and sludge, like a sore in this world, extending continuously until the end of the line of sight, extending to The interior of the magnificent energy barrier in the distance.
She had never seen anything like it anywhere.
She finally understood what Gao Wen meant by "the wasteland is outside the boundaries of the civilized world".
The Black Forest may be corrupted and distorted, but at least the trees are still trees, and the monsters are still monsters. No matter how gloomy the sky is, the sky that can be seen between the clouds is still clear. Here, at the end of the Black Forest, at the foot of the magnificent wall, The whole world is different from what she knew.
She even felt that even the shadow power here had become strange.
"According to Siren, the magic tide is the process of 'shuffling' the world. The magic tide seven hundred years ago was just an incomplete eruption, which is equivalent to a kind of 'prelude' to the shuffling..." Gawain looked at the waste The soil stretched in front of his eyes, and he suddenly thought of what Tyre had said to him, and couldn't help but whisper to himself, "So the changes here... can actually be regarded as a harbinger of some kind of 'new world'."
Amber looked at Gao Wen with a look of horror: "You said that such a bad place... is the appearance of the 'new world' after the real demon tide broke out?"
Gao Wen nodded lightly: "It should be about the same."
"... The new world is really scary," Amber stuck out her tongue, "What kind of life can survive in this 'new world'..."
"The horror is only relative to our aesthetics." Gao Wen glanced at Amber. "Perhaps in the eyes of the beings in the new world, this twisted and corrupted land is a paradise with pleasant scenery, and the blue sky, white clouds and green we are familiar with. Qingshui Mountain... I am afraid it is no different from purgatory in their eyes."
Sonia came to Gao Wen and Amber's side. She heard their conversation and couldn't help saying: "Seven hundred years of deep sleep has made you more emotional than before."
Gao Wen said casually, "After all, sleeping in a coffin has nothing else to do."
"If you have a chance, please introduce us to that lady siren. We elves have always been very interested in the ancient knowledge that sea monsters know."
"I will, after she wakes up next time," Gawain nodded, and then looked around, "And now... let's build the last advance base here."
There is still a short distance from the Sentinel Tower that needs to be constructed. Although it is not far away, there are many crises on the Corrupted Plain. A forward base.
Including the No. 1 base in the northern part of the Black Forest and the No. 2 base in the depths of the Black Forest, this is the third base.
The transport vehicles loaded with important supplies drove out of the forest area and formed a loose ring on the open ground at the edge of the dense forest, while those multi-purpose tanks docked smoothly and accurately in the gaps between the large transport vehicles, filling in the gaps between the large transport vehicles. A notch on a loose ring.
The steel armor and bodywork of the convoy thus formed a temporary protective barrier, while the artillery pulled by the chassis of the tractor was set inside the barrier and became the initial self-defense firepower of the base.
After the initial protection was established, the road pioneers and the guards began to unload supplies and set up bases.
The cornerstone of Cecil's magic industry is the magic net, so the magic net must be laid as the first step.
The prefabricated magic net unit group was transported from the first two trucks. They are large metal plates with a length and width of more than two meters, and a large number of magic net units have been pre-assembled on it. These unit groups are connected to the prefabricated buckles on the edge of the chassis of the multifunctional tank, and are connected to the power ridge of the tank itself. Finally, using these tanks as nodes, a large continuous magic net is formed inside the protective barrier. , and as more and more magic net unit groups were connected in place, these multi-purpose chariots began to play a new role-becoming the magic obelisk.
"The external energy of the No. 1 tank reaches the threshold—the crystal powers on!" "The external power of the No. 2 tank reaches the threshold—the crystal powers on!" "The third tank..."
Accompanied by the loud reports of the mechanical soldiers, the crystals on the top of the chariots set up around the advance base lit up one after another, and the abundant magic power was quickly deployed with the activation of the magic net energy field, covering the entire open area in an instant. .
Gawain picked up a magic terminal casually, saw that the runes on its side representing charging had been lit up, and nodded slightly.
These light "multi-purpose tanks" are new things designed after the "Warhammer I" main tank was finalized. They don't have too much technical content, but they are specially designed for this mission—and They are also sure to be of great use in the foreseeable future.
On the edge of the wasteland, the environment is harsh, and various uncontrollable factors will always threaten the safety of the personnel in front, and how to deal with these threats is a problem that Gawain must consider—the Warhammer I is powerful and has strong survivability. Respond to most challenges in the wasteland, but it cannot solve the survival problem of the entire construction team in the wasteland, and in order to solve this problem, the designers of the Machinery Manufacturing Institute and the Institute of Magic Technology based on the framework of Warhammer i , designed this lightweight multi-purpose tank.
It was named by Gawain—Steel Ambassador.
At the beginning of its birth, "Steel Ambassador" was positioned as a powerful support platform rather than an attacker. In order to allow the team far away from the stable rear and in the wasteland (or the front line) to quickly gain a foothold, a larger-area magic mesh unit and a larger-load power ridge are installed inside the Iron Ambassador, and a magic energy unit is fixed on the top of the tank. Crystal—the core component of the Magic Net Obelisk, the combination of this crystal and the specially designed "turret" of the Iron Ambassador is a complete magic obelisk.
On the front line far away from the rear supply, the steel ambassador's magic energy obelisk can provide vital energy coverage for the position, ensuring that the position facilities can start operating as soon as possible, and its powerful power spine also allows it to support a more powerful Shield system, and switch between two shield modes - when self-survival is the priority, use the "Standing Mode" with strong defense but the projection range can only protect the tank itself; when it is necessary to protect friendly forces, activate the supporting super magic The rune can enter the "Peace Messenger" mode. In this mode, its shield projection range can be expanded to tens of meters around. Although the shield protection will be greatly reduced, it can protect a large area, thus showing Powerful battlefield support capabilities.
In addition to providing energy and supplementing the shield, the magic energy crystal of the steel ambassador can also act as a relay point for magic network communication. Although its power is much smaller than that of a fixed relay tower, it is enough to ensure communication on the battlefield. For example, the cutting-edge magical warship "Pioneer" can provide communication coverage for the entire fleet, and the steel ambassador can also ensure that a land force will not lose contact with friendly forces when fighting on the front line.
In addition to these fixed functions, as a chariot that is positioned as a "multi-function support", Steel Ambassador also reserves the ability of expansion modules in advance. There are card slots and rune drag chains around its chassis, which are directly connected to the The power ridge of the chariot is connected, and the magic net unit can be connected to increase the energy output, and the rune drag chain can also be used to directly provide fast charging for heavy equipment such as the White Knight...
Of course, the realization of these convenient functions is not without cost. In order to install the huge crystal and support the special shield system with high energy consumption, these tanks modified on the basis of Warhammer I directly removed the main gun. A few thermal energy ray guns and an individual-level grenade launcher at the front of the tank were left as self-defense firepower. Its crew number was changed from six to three, and the space saved was used to install additional magic nets. Units and an overly large power ridge, these changes made this tank almost lose its offensive capability—but Gao Wen knew that on a complex battlefield, a multi-purpose tank with excellent auxiliary capabilities can play a role far beyond that of a main gun.
This is especially true in this wasteland.
On the open ground where the forward base is located, above the "wall" composed of large transport vehicles and multi-purpose combat vehicles, the soldiers have used the carriages as shelters to form a temporary defense line, and inside the wall, the road pioneers are placing prefabricated tents and simple The prefabricated houses were unloaded from the subsequent large trucks and quickly set up the camp. The "steel ambassadors" located at each node of the fence lit up the magic energy crystals on the roofs of their respective vehicles, and while the crystals were lit, a layer of shimmering The shields were also closed on the periphery of the convoy.
"Magic technology..." Sonia watched the camp's defense mechanism being established little by little, and couldn't help sighing softly, "At first, I thought it was just some transformation and... reorganization of Gondor magic technology, but now it seems , it took a completely different path.”
"The demise of the Gondor Empire has taught us a lesson—no matter how advanced the technology is, as long as it is confined to a small number of elite individuals, limited to a small area, and cannot be popularized, it will inevitably lack reliability and disaster resistance. It is doomed to be difficult to break through the bottleneck of our own development," Gao Wen smiled, "Of course, one of the reasons for taking the road of magic technology is also forced by the situation—after all, we don't have a dark blue magic well."
"Dark blue magic power well..." Sonia said softly, she looked at the "steel ambassadors" who were opening their shields and releasing magic energy broadcasts, and their eyes fell on the crystals on the top of the chariots, "Perhaps... the value of these things No less than another deep blue…”
This is undoubtedly a high evaluation.
And an elf from the Silver Empire who had witnessed the glorious age of Gondor uttered this sentence, which gave it an extra layer of unusual meaning.
Gawain just nodded slightly, then he raised his head and looked at the majestic tower in his vision.
The huge sentinel tower stands on the border of the former human empire. It looks like a hexagonal monument with a height of hundreds of meters. In the sky above the seat, countless complex runes and energy streams flickered and circulated around the tower and the base. Driven by these runes, powerful magical energy was projected into the air, and on the edge of the wasteland, a thousand-meter-high energy barrier.
"The splendor of the ancient empire..."
Rosetta Augustus looked back at the top of the giant tower and sighed softly.
Behind him, a busy construction site is undergoing intense and orderly construction. A large number of low-level mages from the Royal Mages Association are using the hands of evocation and various shaping and summoning spells to build the walls of the camp. The huge stone wall The rampart grew out of the polluted and corrupted land at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the giant shield emblem of the Typhon Empire had risen to the top of the flagpole. In the chaotic wind of the wasteland area, the golden-red flag fluttered in the wind.
A sound of horseshoes came from not far away, and a heroic gray-haired female knight came in front of Emperor Typhon. Rosetta Augustus raised her head and looked at this talented "little girl" from the Wendell family. "Wolf" nodded, with an almost imperceptible smile on his usually gloomy and stiff face: "It seems that there is news."
Andersa Wendell got off her horse and bowed to salute: "Yes, Your Majesty, the eagle-eyed sentry has confirmed that a team has appeared on the edge of the Black Forest in the northwest, and the team has the Cecil family emblem hanging."
"As we expected, the Ansu East Territory was fighting with the royal family, and in the end they could only let their ancestor who came out of the grave come forward," Rosetta nodded, then turned her gaze to the northwest, looking far away The hazy giant shadow of another tower, "It's so close..."
(Presumably many people already know... Xiaoyanzhuzi has been born, mother and child are safe =. = And this is my last chapter, wish me a safe update...)