Game of the World Tree Chapter 954: The Road to Transcendence (3): The Age of Void
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"Over the mountains and fog,"
"Arrived at the ancient cave in the deep cellar,"
"We need to leave before dawn,"
"Search for treasures and places of legend."
"Take a starship and travel through the planes,"
"Our footprints are spread over thousands of miles."
"The noble and beautiful Elf Chosen One,"
"Have strong will and courage..."
The vicissitudes of life and the passionate ballad slowly echoed in the cabin accompanied by the moving accordion accompaniment, which was the latest version of the magic gramophone playing music.
However, Tony prefers another name for this magical device-magic sound.
The music is quite charming and the melody is beautiful.
Listening to this, people can't help but imagine themselves to be a noble chosen elf, traveling and adventuring in the boundless void and thousands of planes.
Of course, Tony is already a well-known Elf Chosen One.
He just likes the melody of this music very much. It reminds him of the days when he was just a newbie and adventuring in the world of dawn.
However, that was already twenty-eight years ago in the game.
Even in the real world of Blue Star, a full seven years have passed...
A lot of things can change in seven years.
What's more, in the game, this time is doubled.
The former Dawn World has long been integrated by the World Tree and has become one of the main planes where players are active.
Looking at the entire boundless void, the number of planes that have successfully integrated into the leaves of the World Tree exceeded 10,000 as early as seven years ago.
Over the years, Tony has not even paid attention to how many planes the entire game has been integrated into, and how far the map has been developed.
Because he was numb.
At the beginning, he will be shocked by the huge map of "Elf Kingdom".
Now, he has long been used to it.
This game...is simply a paradise for travel lovers.
Even if you keep traveling in the game, I'm afraid you won't be able to turn around the entire game map.
Not to mention traveling, just checking in, I don’t even know how long it will take.
Tony seriously doubts that "Elf Kingdom" has its own program, and all new maps are randomly generated.
Anyway... Ordinary manpower will definitely not be able to complete such a huge workload.
"Captain, the starship has been charged. When will we set off?"
A thick voice came, interrupting Tony's thoughts.
He turned around and saw the crew of his starship waiting respectfully for his answer.
This is a strong orc, a follower who conquered an orc plane ten years ago in Tony's game, and a devout believer in life.
In the past ten years, he followed Tony and conquered seven more planes, witnessing the ascension of the seven plane worlds.
Yes, ascend.
It is said that this term was invented by Chinese players, specifically referring to the fusion of the plane world and the World Tree.
Tony thinks it’s quite appropriate.
"I got it, inform all the crew and the chosen ones on the ship that we are getting ready to leave. Those who should say goodbye, say goodbye quickly. After all, it is not a farewell. After the plane passage to Segas is opened, You can come back anytime."
Tony said.
After speaking, he glanced outside the round window of the cabin made of magic crystal.
Beyond the starship, in the ruins of the city, there were crowds of people paying farewell.
They looked at the starship with strong reluctance and respect.
Tony is already used to it. This is already the nineteenth plane he has fought in. As a void player, his mission itself is to travel in the sea of stars and shuttle between planes.
What? You ask, if that's the case, why do you want to hide in the captain's cabin alone?
Harm...
After all, I have been here for more than a year.
Human beings are not grass and trees, so how can they be ruthless?
The order to set off was quickly issued.
Although reluctant to leave, the players on the plane still boarded the starship.
In the farewell of the residents of the plane, the brilliance of magic bloomed on the starship, and the mysterious inscriptions and engravings slowly lit up.
With a burst of exclamation, the starship slowly took off and flew towards the sky...
No way, the dimensional passage leading to the world of Segas has not been built yet. Now if you want to get in and out of here, you still have to go through the canopy.
After the starship took off, Tony also left the captain's room.
It was just a matter of taking off and leaving. His crew already had rich experience and did not need his special command.
The entire starship is not too big. Except for the non-player starship crew, the full number of players is only one hundred people.
One-third of them are the teams that Tony has built up over the years. Because everyone is part of the Mengmeng Committee, nearly half of them are Chinese players.
However, with the magical translation function of the game system, it is not difficult for everyone to communicate. In many cases, it is easy to ignore the various nationalities.
The remaining two-thirds are players who board the starship together, similar to passengers, who have paid a fee.
For a plane like today where there is no plane passage, players can only enter and exit through starships, sky fortresses or floating cities, and ordinary players can only buy tickets.
Even in the void, there is a special type of players who own aircraft such as starships and make money by transporting other players.
In the main cabin, most people are resting, and many players must have been offline and are sleeping around.
No way, it's said to be a starship, but it's actually just a larger modified aerostat. The predecessor of this thing is actually the Zeppelin airship made by players, but the airbags were removed and the hull was strengthened. And equipped with a small magic energy-gathering core.
Tony, for example, is the most common standard version. Although it is not the smallest model, the space is still relatively small. In addition to the captain's cabin, the number of separate cabins is very limited.
There are larger and more advanced ones in the Chosen City and the Floating City, but the price... Even Tony, who is already a golden boss, has to look up to them.
As for the air fortress and floating city...
Only some large guilds have the strength to build the former. Even though the number of players online in the entire server has already exceeded 50 million, there are less than 300 aerial fortresses, and most of them are small and medium-sized.
As for the latter, there is only one so far, and it is shared by several major guilds.
No way, although since players discovered the lost plane in the game ten years ago, the production technology of magic energy core has been put on the exchange mall, but it is only a small core.
The technology of a large core like a floating city is many times more complex than that of a small one.
After research by high-end technology players such as Cuckoo Bird, they even speculated that even if the relevant technology for this level of energy-gathering core is analyzed, only legendary or even demigod-level beings can produce it.
So...in the end the players gave up.
That is to say, the Dingyuan was lucky. Early players fished out a batch of long-lost large-scale magic energy-gathering cores from the Dawn World and were able to reluctantly make it.
As for Tony...
When he bought this small starship, he had already gone bankrupt.
Even this small starship is a high-end product that most players look up to.
After all, although the sparrow is small, it has all the internal organs.
This kind of magical-punk-looking ship is specially designed for void navigation. The armor and magic circle are designed to resist void energy erosion and even void storms, and the cost of magic energy gathering has always been high. The core is the power source. If we really want to classify it into levels, I'm afraid it would be a quasi-legendary level.
The price is outrageous...which is normal.
In addition, it consumes energy. Starships consume magic crystals, which is also a money-burning thing. Although it is far more powerful than aerial fortresses and floating cities, it is not something that ordinary people can afford.
In today's "Elf Kingdom", those who can afford to drive starships must be rich. In comparison, training a group of NPC followers who can control starships is relatively simple.
Seeing Tony come in, the awake players greeted him and continued to do their own things.
There are also players who open the windows and look out with very excited expressions. Such players are often newbies who have not been in the game for a long time. They don’t sit in many starships and like to enjoy the scenery outside.
Tony is different. He has been traveling in the void for nearly ten years, and he has long been nauseated by the beautiful scenery.
Compared to the majesty of the void, seriously speaking, he prefers the lush, beautiful and charming Elf Forest.
Under layer upon layer of acceleration, the starship passed through the plane barrier on the plane sky and stepped into the void.
The next moment, the ship shook slightly and quickly returned to calm.
Tony knew that this was the starship's magic shield opening.
The power of the void is everywhere in the boundless void.
Except for a few Void species that can adapt to survival, only extraordinary beings of Legend and above can resist the erosion of the power of the Void and travel between planes.
If you are below legendary, you must take good protection and ride in special vehicles.
For example, starship.
Starship A starship, as its name implies, is a ship that travels between the stars.
Although there is a big difference between the void of "Elf Kingdom" and the space of Blue Star, in the eyes of players, they are very different.
Although the materials of each starship are specially made to deal with the erosion of the power of the void, it is more effective to use it with a shield, which can minimize the wear and tear of the starship.
Of course, the shield also requires burning magic crystals.
Only in the sky fortress and floating city can the goddess statue be placed, instead of consuming magic crystals it will consume the power of faith required for contribution exchange.
These days, contribution is cheaper than magic crystal.
Leaving the plane, the starship entered the void.
Tony gave the order to fly at full speed and flew towards the nearest air fortress.
There is no way. Although the starship is also equipped with a directional ultra-long-distance teleportation array, it is too expensive to transmit it once.
Generally speaking, Tony prefers to take a ride from the air fortress and land directly in the fortress to use the magic circle back.
"Pay attention, observe your surroundings, the magic crystal cannon is on standby, the plane ascension is over, there will probably be more void pirates during this period."
Tony ordered in a deep voice.
After hearing his words, the NPC crew members looked serious, and even the players who were awake also looked serious.
If there is any major change with the advent of the Void Era, it must be the Void Pirates.
The forest is so big that there are all kinds of birds.
This sentence is true at any time.
As the number of players increases over time, the gap between new players and experienced players becomes wider and wider. There are many people who want to use their brains to take shortcuts.
Although "Elf Kingdom" has strict red name rules to punish those who violate the rules, as the saying goes, there are policies from above and countermeasures from below. These rules are not without loopholes.
Among them, the most famous are the Void Pirates.
Plane development is a hugely profitable activity. Even if you don’t mention the system rewards, casual searches during the conquest of other planes are enough to make players rich overnight, and naturally, some people will get the idea. Players who return after completing the mission.
These people often purchase starships, wander in the void, and pick out other players' starships to attack.
However, they only robbed things and did not kill people. If they really wanted to silence people, they would leave it to the NPCs they had conquered, thus escaping punishment.
Such people are called void pirates.
Many years ago, Tony was also robbed once.
At that time, he had not yet entered the gold rank. If he had not been careful and did not transport all the trophies of the development back at once, I am afraid that the development would have been in vain.
It takes at least half a year to develop a project, and it also takes one and a half months in real time. If all the hard work of one and a half months is lost, everyone will explode.
However, although Tony has now become a gold-level professional, he still has to be careful.
Because among the void pirates, there will also be high-level players.
And if we really encounter void pirates...
It depends.
Generally speaking, most captains, including Tony, prefer to pay a sum of money and leave.
If you can't fight, don't fight. If you damage the ship, the repair money may not be as good as the one trip.
Of course, if you meet someone who likes to fight and kill people, you will be in trouble.
Such perversions do exist, and there are many of them.
The crew and players were on high alert and drove the starship in the predetermined direction.
That is the location of the Mengmeng Committee’s air fortress.
Along with them, there were several other starships, some large and some small.
That is a ship that also takes off from the plane. Everyone often chooses to go together, which is relatively safer.
Of course, it will be more miserable if you encounter a large group organization of void pirates.
After sailing for about ten minutes, suddenly, the alarm sounded loudly. Tony's expression changed slightly, and he quickly came to the bow of the ship and looked into the void.
Sure enough, a starship suspected to be a void pirate ship appeared in front of the fleet composed of returning players.
The appearance is still easy to identify. In order to reduce losses, void pirate ships often dismantle the directional long-distance transmission device. If it is damaged, they repair it themselves instead of sending it to the Saigas World to spend a lot of money for a comprehensive overhaul.
So...these pirate ships tend to look a little more miserable.
Fortunately, there was only one ship coming.
After flying around Tony's fleet for a long time, it seemed that it felt unbeatable, and the other party finally chose to leave.
Tony breathed a sigh of relief.
However, he was not completely reassured because he was not sure whether the other party only had this ship, or was just the first to explore the way, or... was just leaving temporarily to gather people.
It wasn't until he saw the Mengmeng Committee's fortress that he finally felt relieved and ordered the crew to slow down and sail towards the fortress...