Chapter 219 Natural History Conference
For nearly two days, the airship zigzags along the route between cities without stopping for a moment.
Eating, drinking, and lassing are all resolved in the air.
During the period, some flying spirit beasts came to peep at them. Without Duke's action, the great knights and card fighters on the airship killed the spirit beasts.
Then several arcane masters tasted the fresh barbecued meat of spirit beasts.
"It's here, sir, I have seen Runwu City!" Mu Lali lay on the porthole, looking at the faint city skyline in the distance.
The most conspicuous ones are the mage towers standing on top of the hills.
One of the Mage Towers is no less magnificent than the Keystone Mage Tower, and it is also a Mage Tower in the shape of twin towers.
The castle is connected into one piece, with two mage towers standing.
This kind of twin-star mage tower means that the family currently has at least two arcane mages with ring 4 and above, otherwise there is no need to build two mage towers.
"Two arcanists with ring 4 and above, this is probably the Xiaoyu family." Duke got up, walked to the porthole, and looked ahead.
When chatting with Cowley and others before, I also knew some general information about Runwu City.
The Wind Breath Domain has eight regions under its jurisdiction, and each region has a central city, such as Shenjiao City in the Heijiao River Land.
The central city of the Red Sea region is Runwu City, and at the same time, Runwu City is also the central city of the entire Fengxi domain. It is built on the edge of a spiritual river—the spiritual river is the top spiritual spring, flowing outward like a river.
Large spiritual spring, able to feed millions of people.
Then the river of spirituality can feed at least tens of millions of people.
So far, the Seven Towers Federation has only discovered twelve spiritual rivers in its territory, so it has only divided twelve domains.
In fact, with the strength of the Arcane Master of the Seven Towers Federation, he can explore a wider area of the wild forest and find more spiritual rivers.
However, there are so few people and so many lands that it cannot be managed.
In the current twelve domains, there are still huge primeval forests that breed countless spirit beasts, which need to be cleaned up regularly. Once the elimination is not timely, the beast horde may break out at any time, posing a huge threat to nearby cities and market towns.
Population has always been the main factor restricting the development of the Seven Towers Federation.
What restricts the population development is the spiritual spring. Without the spiritual spring to train arcane masters, even if the population increases, the vast forest cannot be controlled.
"So, the Seven Towers Federation intends to pass the achievements of the spiritual arcana step by step through the Tower of Knowledge and sink it to the common people. I am afraid that it is for the common people to grasp part of the power of the arcane law, so as to gain the power to arm themselves."
Only when the folks have the ability to protect themselves, so that ordinary people can also participate in the defense of the territory, can the arcane masters be freed to continue expeditions and development.
Duke lost his mind for a while.
"Runwu City is really big, it feels several times bigger than Shenjiao City." Mu Lashan also came over, and together with Mu Lali, they were amazed at the destination.
Duke is also a little emotional, this city is indeed shocking.
Runwu City has a population of at least 10 to 20 million. The mage towers and castles around the city alone may have a population of several million.
There are soaring mage towers and castles stretching into mountains.
Like a satellite, guarding the grand city above the rolling hills in front, there are clusters of high-rise buildings, streets extending in all directions, and occasionally towering tower buildings.
Especially in the central area, it seems to be a tower forest composed of towers.
These towers are row upon row, airtight, and Duke suspects that arcanists, or great knights, can even jump from one tower to another.
Vivian stood in front of another porthole. Suddenly, she exclaimed: "My lord, look up at the sky, and you can see the floating city through the gaps in the clouds!"
"Floating Void City?" Duke's eyes lit up.
Immediately, he raised his head and stared above the city of Runwu City, and sure enough, he saw a huge gray building vaguely in the gap between a few white clouds.
You can’t see the whole picture clearly, but you can feel its vastness, which brings a strong sense of visual impact.
"It's Sankawi Floating City!"
Duke said softly, his tone full of surprise.
But Vivian could hear that in Duke's exclamation, there was a trace of fanaticism, the kind of fanaticism of "he can replace it".
"Sir, can you tell me about the floating city of Shangewei? I have heard of this floating city since I was a child, but I don't know much about it." Mu Lali said.
Duke nodded.
Taking advantage of the time before the airship entered the station, he talked about what he knew, some information about the floating city of Shankawei.
Mountain Kawaye is a peculiar plant.
Generally, it grows in mountainous areas with gold mines, silver mines, copper mines, and iron mines. The more desolate the land, the better the sangkawi grows.
If Lingzhishan Kagome is found, it means that there must be a mineral deposit underground.
At the same time, Ling Zhishan Kagome can make a potion with the same name, which can help spirit beasts break through the shackles, and is a favorite potion of knights. It's a pity that there are few sageweeds, and even less sageweed potions, and they are basically monopolized by the big nobles.
The owner of this floating city named Shangewei is Loren Sangowi.
In the entire wind breath field, there is only one arcane instructor—7 ring morning star arcane instructor, puppet sage, formation sage, the chief executive of the United Tower of Runwu City, the seven-tower federal observation tower is stationed in the wind breath field supervisor, and the Austrian tower is a non-voting member.
"Mr. Loren Sangoviofa, born in Weimo, is the youngest son of a 0-ring knight. His parents gave birth to him on the way of adventure..."
Who would have thought that this humble little family would eventually cultivate a towering arcane giant.
After Loren opened his spiritual sea, he soon showed outstanding talent. He was promoted to an arcane mage at the age of eighteen, and in the next ten or twenty years, he was promoted step by step to a sixth-ring sky arcanist. Because he participated in many pioneering wars, he was named an earl.
So he gave himself and his family the surname "Shan Gewei".
It is said that it was because his father once wanted a sangkawi potion to help his contract partner break through the 1st ring, so as to be promoted to the 1st ring Grand Knight.
Unfortunately, until the adventure failed and died, this wish was not fulfilled.
"Later, mentor Loren broke the shackles of fate, was promoted to the 7th Ring Morning Star Arcane Instructor, and built this Shankawei floating city for himself, and finally became a generation of legend in the Wind's Breath Domain and even the entire Seven Towers Federation." Duke sighed.
In the spiritual arcane system, there are nine levels in the cultivation system of arcane masters.
1st level arcane mage, 2nd level intermediate arcanist, 3rd level advanced arcanist, these three classes are collectively referred to as ordinary arcanist.
4-ring Earth Arcane Master, 5-ring Ocean Arcane Master, 6-ring Sky Arcane Master, these three classes are collectively referred to as Great Arcane Master.
The 7-ring Morningstar Arcane Instructor, the 8-ring Huiyue Arcane Instructor, and the 9-ring Sunday Arcane Instructor, these three classes are collectively referred to as the Arcane Instructor.
But the entire human civilization, eighteen national regimes.
There has not yet been a 9-ring sun-day arcane instructor, and an 8-ring Huiyue arcane instructor is the limit for human beings to climb high in spiritual arcana.
"We human beings have not yet touched the real core in the exploration of the spiritual arcane field, but even if the 9th ring is not released, the 7th and 8th rings are still unimaginable heights for ordinary people. The practice of every arcane instructor is related to the fate of all mankind."
Duke whispered the information about Shankawei Floating Void City, but an unstoppable sense of pride and ambition arose in his heart.
A sense of mission that is better than mine.
Others can still go up to the 7th and 8th rings without the assistance of any gold fingers, but he has the 9th ring Xiaoyi.
A companion arcane weapon that combines the artificial intelligence technology of the earth and the underlying logic of the wild world.
"My way of practice must be able to reach the 9th ring, so as to enlighten and lead the spiritual mystery of the wild world to a new height!"
Thinking of this, Duke felt his body faintly want to tremble.
On the earth, he is just a little boss who eats, drinks and plays all day, and lives in a muddle. But here, he has the opportunity to become the leader of human civilization, the prophet of spiritual mysteries, and the light of the entire wild world!
How strong!
"Xiao Yi, we can do it, right?"
"Yes, master, we will definitely become the light of the wild world, with great power to illuminate the whole world, so that everyone can be bathed in your light, master."
With the continuous improvement of Duke's own hardware and the continuous expansion of knowledge in the database, Xiaoyi's flattering skills have become more and more proficient.
Just a few words, the filming made Duke feel relaxed and happy.
"Sir." Mu Lali's question interrupted Duke's obsession, "Do we have a chance to visit Sankawi Floating City?"
When he came back to his senses, Duke's surging emotions quickly subsided.
When he turned around, his face had returned to calmness: "I'm afraid there is no chance, Loren Shangovio, the mentor of Aofa, at least half of the year works in the holy city of Aofa, and the remaining half of the time, I have to spend time touring the Federation. There is very little time to actually live in the floating city."
paused.
He continued: "And even if Mentor Loren is in Floating Void City, we have no reason to visit him. There are too many people who want to visit him."
"That's such a pity." Mu Lashan sighed aside.
Mulali snorted directly: "It's a pity, when you become an arcane teacher, you can still build a floating city. Maybe you will build a dungeon, a crystal palace, etc., and a different mage tower!"
The floating city is a kind of mage tower. Compared with the mage tower on land, the material of the floating city is special, which is equivalent to an arcane weapon.
The dungeon built underground and the crystal palace built in the water are special mage towers similar to the floating city.
There are even some arcanist masters who simply combine their warships with the mage towers to transform them into flying fortresses, capable of flying into the sky and earth, and turning rivers and seas into nothing.
"You two, think too far." Duke rubbed the hair of the two girls from left to right.
Immediately strode out of the luxurious cabin.
At this time, the airship had landed at the flight station on the outskirts of Runwu City. Arcane masters such as Kaoli, Ding Jige, and Aziguli had already disembarked from the airship. Duke and his entourage gathered there.
"Excuse me, is this Your Excellency Cowley?" A group of people came from the flight station, the leader of whom was wearing an arcanist robe.
"I am Cowley, are you?"
"You can call me Taylor, Your Excellency Cowley, Your Excellency Scholars, I am the Erudition Tower of Runwu City, and I will be in charge of welcoming you."
"It turned out to be Lord Taylor."
"Your Excellencies, please follow me to get on the shuttle. A big hotel has been prepared for you at the Learning Tower." Taylor was in charge of receiving several Arcane Masters, and the staff of the Learning Tower he brought over helped arrange the entourage of Duke and others.
After a little confusion, everyone got into the shuttle fleet one by one.
Duke sat in the same large shuttle as Cowley and others. Taylor arranged for the service staff to serve water and tea, and brought a bunch of snacks.
Perhaps because he is used to reception work, Taylor's service is warm and thoughtful.
In the end, Taylor smiled and looked at Duke: "Your Excellency Duke, you are now the learning object of our 1st Ring Arcane Master. The strong light technology you invented made the night of our Runwu City a city that never sleeps during the day. It's too dreamy."
"Luck, I just pierced a layer of window paper." Duke responded with a smile.
At this time, out of the corner of my eye, I suddenly caught a glimpse of a huge slide card billboard on the street, on which was a beautiful woman dancing under the street lamp.
The advertising slogan has been upgraded. It was originally intended to illuminate the way home for millions of people, but now it is to illuminate the dreams of millions of families. However, the taste of advertising is still very vulgar, just to choose the most beautiful and sexiest models to attract the attention of passers-by.
Taylor catches Duke's gaze.
He glanced at the advertisements that quickly passed by outside the window, and said with a smile: "The supply of Giants of Light's products is in short supply, including our Erudition Tower. All lamps are purchased from Giants of Light uniformly. In the field of light sources, Your Excellency Duke, you are a well-deserved giant."
Duke chuckled and accepted the other party's compliment.
However, it seemed that from not far away, there was a slight cold snort. You don't need to look at Duke to know that it must be from Azigul.
Along the way, he didn't exchange a word with Azigul.
Azigul also turned a blind eye to him.
Runwanjia eased the previous decline after Clarinda sold shares and took most of the responsibility, but the interests of shareholders were also damaged.
Furthermore, after this battle, the Runwan family was in full decline, but the giant of light showed its strength like the rising sun.
Many shareholders have already conceived the idea of withdrawing from Runwanjia, and the danger of overturning has become clear. Like Kleinda, Aziguli has long been at odds with Duke.
not long.
The flying shuttle arrived at the Erudite Tower of Runwu City.
Duke and others were arranged in the Xiaoyu Hotel near the Boxue Tower, the exclusive suite of the Arcane Master, which has a spiritual spring water pipe to directly attract the spiritual energy, so that each suite maintains a full concentration of spiritual energy, which can be used by the Arcane Master to practice with peace of mind.
"Wow, sir, the suite here is so big!" Mu Lali exclaimed.
Drizzle Hotel is a level of luxury compared to Shenjiao City Hotel. Considering that Runwu City is the central city, it is a matter of course.
Duke walked around the suite, and then left the suite.
It is already nine o'clock in the morning, and the Runwu City Natural History Conference will be held in the Boxue Tower one hour later.
"Duke, are you ready?"
"It's all right, Lord Cowley, shall we go to the Tower of Learning?"
"Um."
Leaded by Kao Li, a group of seven polymaths from Shenjiao City soon left the Xiaoyu Hotel and went to the Erudition Tower of Runwu City.
Guided by a special person, take the spirit ladder directly to the academic hall on the top floor.
Cowley and others quickly greeted the familiar arcane masters. Duke was a pure newcomer, and he didn't know a foreign polymath.
He also doesn't like forced socializing.
Besides, the polymaths in the field are not young, and there is really a generation gap in communication.
So he sat down in a corner seat alone in the academic hall, silently waiting for the conference to start.
Ten o'clock will arrive soon.
All the polymaths found their seats, and sat together in twos and threes, whispering.
"Ahem." The polymaths didn't stop chatting until several gray-haired arcanists walked in and coughed softly.
One of the polymaths, who seemed to be the oldest, walked to the rostrum.
Glancing at the audience, he waited until the audience was quiet and could hear the sound of the needle falling, and then he said slowly: "Very well, this year's Natural History Conference, the people came fairly neatly. According to the usual practice, I will introduce myself, the chief director of the Erudite City Learning Tower, Jefferson Rock Sparrow."
Duke in the audience felt awe-inspiring.
Jefferson Rock Sparrow, 6th ring sky arcanist—at the level of 6th ring, the arcanist can already fly physically.
"This year's hot summer, I thought it was you old faces, but surprises are always everywhere, and there is a shining star breaking in."
Jefferson Rock Sparrow said, and suddenly glanced at the academic hall: "Who is the new polymath who invented the bright light technology, Duke?"
As he spoke, he cast his eyes on Duke sitting in the corner.
The other arcanists also turned their heads and looked in Duke's direction.
There was an attention ceremony at the beginning, which really surprised Duke, but he stood up calmly and nodded around.
"Sure enough, it is a face that is too young. Come on, come on stage, and I will give you the first academic report today."
Jefferson directly invited on the stage. After the invitation, he walked off the stage and sat in the empty seat in the first row of the academic hall.
"Forehead…"
This situation really stunned Duke for a moment. He thought that Jefferson would have to ramble on for at least half an hour, and then other directors would come over and warm up the scene before inviting polymaths to give academic speeches.
Who knew that Jefferson had only said a few words before stepping down.
"Sure enough, arcane mages who have lived for a long time are more... rash." Duke complained in his heart, but he didn't waste time.
Leaving his seat directly, strode onto the rostrum.
"It was a bit sudden." Duke faced the polymaths in the audience, with a charming smile on his handsome face, "I'm ready to applaud in the audience. I didn't expect to be invited by the chief director to give the first academic report."
Clear your throat.
Duke continued: "When I was a child, I lived in the Sheshou Township Welfare Institute. It was a small border town, and my friends loved to play, but I was the only one who liked to look up at the sky..."
It's the same story as before.
"I always have a lot of thinking... When I grew up, I entered a card repair shop to work... Why are pulp boxes so expensive?"
Too young, too few stories.
Especially before Duke traveled, the story of his predecessor was almost lacklustre, so he could only repeat the old things before.
"A spirit awakening potion needs 23 silver dragons."
"These 23 silver dragons helped me light up a lamp, illuminating me and the world I live in. It turns out that it is not so ordinary!"
Duke didn't like to do standing speeches, he paced on the podium.
Looking at the back, I found that there was only a wall behind, and there were several background promotional pictures about the natural history conference on the slide card.
This idea sprouted in his mind, maybe when he attends an academic conference next time, he can make a PPT slide, so that the audience in the audience can fully immerse themselves in the light and shadow story he outlined—after all, the sense of substitution is a little weaker by speaking only by mouth.
"During my spiritual apprenticeship, I lived on a farm... I forgot to tell everyone that I was actually a ring 2 elf envoy. During the opening up of Cuihai Valley, a lost elf came to my door. It told me that it saw light here."
"Light!"
"Perhaps I have an indissoluble bond with light."
"The night gave me black eyes, but I used them to find light." Duke sang a poem, "I often think that maybe it is the dark night in the orphanage that inspired me to explore the light and try to master the light by myself."
"I invented the portable light...and I invented the bright light technology."
"The newspapers praised me as the son of the sun, but who knew that the son of the sun was just a child who was afraid of the dark."
Duke laughed confidently: "Just the night before yesterday, the airship flew over a market town. I overlooked the market town and saw that the streets had been replaced with strong street lights, and my heart suddenly felt refreshed. I can't say that I brought the light, but I really increased the brightness."
Having said this, he deliberately paused.
Papa.
Someone in the audience understood and applauded Duke, and then there was a lot of applause in the academic hall, which was not very neat.
The participants in the Natural History Conference were all polymaths, and there were more than a hundred people in total.
Duke has no fear, let alone being nervous and forgetting his words, because Xiaoyi's vindictive holographic screen reminded him all the way.
After the applause subsided, he continued to speak with a smile: "Natural history is an ancient knowledge. Maybe it didn't start long ago in the Seven Towers Federation, but it is related to all the daily content of human beings, and it is the cornerstone of promoting social development."
"I think that the development space of natural history is as vast as the sea, so even a newcomer like me can make a difference in natural history."
Duke shook his collar and said, "I'm actually a card maker. When I was researching the slide card, I was thinking that the Spiritual Wind Lamp was invented by intercepting the light-emitting structure in the slide card. Then, adding a few more structures, wouldn't it be able to emit brighter light?"
Academic reports and speeches must return to the academic itself after all.
Duke clearly recognizes this point, so the sensational motivational speech is over, and the next step is to further elaborate on the strong light technology.
But in order to make the boring academic content interesting.
Duke introduces the story of Light Wars.
"The Giant of Light is constantly suppressed by Runwanjia. Although my relatives and friends firmly support me, even if I fail, I can still start all over again, but I am always under great pressure. I don't want to let them down, and I don't want to let myself down."
"During those days, I couldn't get involved in business competition, but every night I was thinking hard about how to defeat the enemy!"
"Finally, I thought of the slide card, and thought of the strong light technology of the series light-emitting structure!"
"..."
"I think you all know the final outcome." Duke looked at the polymaths who were aroused by his story.
and Aziguli, whose face was extremely ugly.
Easy to put an end to my academic report: "As soon as the strong light technology came out, the strong light lighting swept the market. The Erudition Tower of the Holy City of Alchemy helped me promote the technology, and the giant of light won the market in the entire wind breath field in one fell swoop!"
"I, a big win!"
"Light finally conquered darkness!"
Facing the audience and bowing slightly, Duke finally said: "The above is my academic report today, "Orphans in orphanages turned into lights, dispelling a touch of darkness in the corners of society—the thinking and thinking of inventing strong light technology"."
Hurrah.
The applause was very warm, and the polymaths gave a cordial recognition to Duke, who was too young and too young.
He bowed several times on stage, but when he returned to the audience, there was still applause.
After sitting down, Duke was very satisfied with his speech, and he felt emotional in his heart: "Every age pays attention to packaging. I am afraid that the title of Son of the Sun will be confirmed in my speech... I don’t know when I can go to the Holy City of Alfa to give a speech!"
Speech is really enjoyable.
Now he really understands the feeling of traveling to those famous people on the earth before and giving speeches everywhere. According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory, this is the need for self-actualization.
“After a speech, my whole body seems to be sublimated.”
Wait until another polymath came to the stage to give a report, Duke was still immersed in his speech just now, unable to extricate himself.
Even when he looked inside his spiritual sea, he could see that the spiritual core was shining brightly, as if it had been wiped clean.
The arcane master needs to constantly recognize the spiritual arcana, and at the same time needs to constantly affirm the self-cognition, so that the constant thinking and constant innovation can last forever.
Looking for tickets~
(end of this chapter)