The gray sky, the air full of decay, and the cold negative energy in the environment...
When Zuo Si passed through the portal and reappeared in the tower of Plantia Floating City, he immediately felt a strong physical and psychological discomfort.
Obviously, this place has become a completely undead country, and is rejecting him, the only living person.
Through the window, you can vaguely see that the streets outside are no longer as chaotic as when you escaped. The streets are full of low-level zombies and skeletons wandering aimlessly.
Quite the opposite!
As the corpses of those powerful casters were eroded by negative energy and transformed into higher-level undead creatures, the entire floating city has been divided into large and small "territories", and each territory is ruled by an undead lord.
Possessing extremely high intelligence, they not only occupy those very valuable mage towers, but also use their magical power to transform the place into a place more and more suitable for the dead.
The fog that hangs overhead and can completely block the sun is the best proof.
What's even more frightening is that the mutated viruses and bacteria that accidentally spread did not disappear, but instead formed an incredible long-term symbiotic relationship with these undead creatures.
Some large undead creatures formed by numerous corpses gathered together even grew putrid cysts filled with stench.
If anyone accidentally punctures these things, they may be infected by the black and light yellow mucus inside and die quickly.
Looking at the apocalyptic scene in front of her, Vanessa, a lich, couldn't help but take a breath and asked in a slightly trembling voice: "Your Excellency, this floating city was destroyed by you with the plague.
of?"
"Strictly speaking, this is just the serious consequence of an accident. And not only the floating city of Plantia, but also several other floating cities and the cities and villages on the continent below were almost completely wiped out by the raging plague.
Destruction." Zuo Si explained helplessly.
"It's really unimaginable terrifying destructive power." Jeffrey couldn't help but sigh.
At this moment, he finally realized why the Imasca Empire, which had such powerful magic skills, would eventually be on the verge of collapse due to an outbreak of plague. He could only open an interdimensional portal to plunder slaves from another world to replenish its own population.
Insufficient.
Without God's help, ordinary people are basically powerless to fight back when dealing with this kind of crisis.
When the lower class people die in large numbers due to the raging plague, it will have an unimaginable impact on the entire country and social structure.
What's more, no matter what kind of magical civilization it is, it must have a huge bottom population as economic support.
Otherwise, the entire society will stop functioning, and a series of serious problems such as extreme shortage of materials will occur.
In the end, even if those high-level mages were lucky enough to survive, they would not be able to complete the reconstruction of civilization.
Because the foundation of civilization is first of all people.
If there are no people left, how can we talk about civilization and study the mysteries of magic?
In fact, when Zuo Si first escaped, there were still some survivors in the Floating City of Plantia.
But now, they should be almost completely dead.
Except for the central tower protected by the most powerful magic power, other ordinary mage towers were successively captured by the undead and turned into lairs occupied by lords.
Looking into the distance, you can clearly see that most of the knights who used to patrol the streets on horseback to maintain order have now become skeleton knights, or higher-level death knights.
The magic weapons in their hands have been covered with a layer of gray color due to the erosion of negative energy, obviously with a curse effect.
"Approximately how many people did this floating city have before it was destroyed?" Vanessa raised a question that concerned her most.
Zuo Si immediately replied: "About 15,000 mages, and more than 100,000 servants, slaves and family members. Especially slaves and various creatures captured for experiments. There is no way to estimate how many there are.
The first thing we have to do is to clean up this mage tower, and then seize control of it and use it as an advance base."
"No problem. Leave this matter to me."
"And me."
The other two lichs immediately took over the task.
For them, exploring this mage tower in a different world and figuring out the differences in its internal structure and design concepts is undoubtedly a very attractive thing.
Soon, the two lichs brought six steel golems and more than fifty large undead creatures made from corpses, and began to clean up the tower from top to bottom.
Since the gate has been breached, all areas in the tower are filled with the undead creatures that originally poured in.
Some of them have developed self-awareness and wisdom, and are trying to transform and control this place as their own territory.
In particular, an undead spellcaster transformed from a high-level mage even had a fierce spell confrontation with two lichs.
The former took a lot of effort to get it done.
The aftermath of the battle completely destroyed everything in the room, even the precious instruments and research notes on the table.
After getting rid of this guy who is suspected of being a "lord", the remaining low-level undead creatures will naturally not make any waves.
Soon they were either destroyed or turned into slaves under the control of the Scroll of the Undead.
When all potential threats disappeared, Zuo Si activated the defense mechanism of the mage tower through the core controller.
Instantly!
The entrance that was open one second was re-closed under the influence of magical power the next second.
At the same time, the top of the tower once again shone with a faint light.
Several dormant cleaning constructs woke up one after another and began to perform their duties. They threw all the broken limbs and limbs scattered in various rooms, corridors and stairs into the basement designated for garbage cleaning, and then tried to deal with them.
Repair damaged areas.
Since they are not designed for combat, they have no reaction to external intruders.
The other lichs immediately took over the library and packed up all the books and notes inside, leaving not even a piece of paper behind.
After finishing all this, Zuo Si used illusion magic to create a three-dimensional diagram of the floating city out of thin air, and introduced to all his subordinates: "The floating city of Plantia is the pinnacle creation of this world's magical civilization. It is the same as the Netheril era.
Unlike the floating city, its power source is not the ubiquitous magic network or primitive magic energy, but the planet itself under our feet."
"The planet itself?" Tyrantir's eyes shone slightly.
Zuo Si nodded slightly: "Yes, it's the planet itself.
There once was a very powerful mage who was good at earth element magic. When he was exploring the depths of the earth, he accidentally discovered a crystal with a unique structure like obsidian.
Some of them are only the size of a fist, while others are as big as a house.
These gems seem to have a very close relationship with the magical energy flowing in the earth's veins, so they are called [Heart of the Earth's Veins].
After a long period of research, the mage discovered that these stones seemed to be able to continuously extract energy from the earth's veins, and also gave the holder the ability to control gravity, so they were also called "Energy Stones" or "Gravity Stones"
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Since the early batches of [Leyline Hearts] mined were generally not large in size, at the beginning, mages only used them to make some aircraft, mage towers and magic fortresses that could float in the sky.
Until one day, a super [Heart of Leyline] with a diameter of more than 20 meters was discovered, and the crazy idea of ​​building a floating city was proposed by another high-level mage.
Therefore, the core of every floating city in this world is the giant [Heart of Earth Lines] buried underground in the central tower.
It is not only the source of energy for the entire city, but also a powerful weapon.
Whoever masters it is equivalent to mastering gravity, and can easily lift huge rocks of tens or hundreds of tons to a height of thousands of meters, and then throw them to the designated location.
In the face of this kind of power, all resistance seems so feeble.
With the establishment of the first floating city, the Mage Council quickly conquered the entire continent and slaughtered all the resisters through brutal suppression.
Under the order they established, only spellcasters are the most advanced beings, and the rest are basically either servants or slaves.
Because the power of the floating city was so amazing, in the next few hundred years, the Council of Mages frantically searched for those [Hearts of Earth Lines] that were large enough, and built several other floating cities.
Therefore, if we want to seize the Floating City of Plantia, the first goal is to seize the central tower and ensure that the [Heart of Earth Lines] is under our control."
"Can I use flying or teleportation magic?" Jeffrey asked in an uncertain tone while staring at the three-dimensional diagram of the floating city.
Obviously, since the mage tower they are currently on is located on a floating island on the edge of the city, it will obviously be a very time-consuming and labor-intensive task to fight all the way there.
So it would be best if we could avoid those undead creatures.
But Zuo Si gave a negative answer without hesitation: "It's impossible. Teleportation magic has been completely banned when the blockade took effect. Even if I can forcefully tear a hole, I can't ensure the accuracy and stability of the transmission. Same thing.
The truth is, whether it is magic or other means of flying, as long as your feet are not on the ground, they will be captured and pulled down by the strong gravity immediately."
"Damn it! That's going to be troublesome now." Jeffrey couldn't help complaining in a low voice.
For mages, being unable to fly and teleport means that they will lose a huge advantage and will be forced to go head-to-head with the unknown undead creatures outside.
"To get to the central tower from here, you have to pass through almost sixty mage towers. To ensure safety, each one must be controlled by us. It seems that this will be a very difficult and long battle." Vane.
To be continued...