Clockwork technology is a very special technology tree for this world, and its energy utilization efficiency is quite high, especially in terms of energy storage. Compared with energy storage devices such as batteries used by humans on earth, storage
The effect is better, the output is more stable, and there is almost no loss during storage.
The most important thing is that this energy is very stable. As long as the insurance is installed, there will be almost no catastrophic consequences. It is suitable for long-distance transportation, and it is also a renewable energy source.
With the support of this almost endless energy, the construction of the Bright Empire has also become faster. With the development of transportation, the logistics network throughout the empire has also begun to be laid. The biggest change is probably that it runs through the north, south, east, and west of the entire continent.
of the railway network.
The construction of things like railways originally requires considerable costs and high technology. But in front of the extraordinary experts in this world, these technical thresholds have been lowered. For example, the construction of the most expensive rails in railways is
In the process, it becomes the cheapest part.
Strong men with the ability to manipulate metals have extremely powerful abilities in mining and smelting metals. It may be difficult to make them into artifacts, but if they are just made into rails, it will not be much more difficult for them than ramen.
Each extraordinary person can produce thousands of meters of rails in a day, and there are so many extraordinary people that if you want to produce enough railroad tracks to lay the entire continent, you can do it.
As for the roadbed and sleepers of the railway tracks, it is not difficult to get the roadbed. The roadbed is the strength of those with strong graph attributes. They control the earth to gather the soil to form a roadbed higher than the ground, and then use rocks to lay it in the soil, making this
The foundation becomes strong enough.
As for the sleepers carrying the railway tracks, strong people with wood attributes can spawn plants on the spot and then transform them into them. Their power can not only make plants grow quickly, but they are also good at cutting and trimming plants, trimming the wood to suit their needs.
shapes and then lay them under the rails.
In this way, the speed of railway construction is even faster than that of roads. After all, the construction of roads can only rely on strong people with earth attributes. The hardening of roads also requires strong people with map attributes to perform certain operations on the road surface. Although turning mud into stone can
It is a relatively simple five-element spell, but it still has certain requirements for the operator's strength.
It takes time to harden pavement, and roads are usually much wider than railways, requiring a larger hardened area, which makes construction much slower.
When the first clockwork train started, no one realized how much change it could bring to this continent until the train carried a large amount of supplies between the Southern Fire Empire and the Northern Water Empire, almost every day.
It was able to make a round trip and transport a large amount of previously cherished materials. Only then did the extraordinary people realize that long-distance material transportation could finally get rid of space devices.
Although space props can also be produced, these things are undoubtedly very expensive. Although the effect of carrying props is very good, it can easily carry materials across considerable distances without consuming too much physical strength.
But the carrying capacity is still too limited.
All the space props on the continent are sandwiched together, and the space contained in them may not be much larger than a fully loaded train.
While such trains are being constructed at a rapid pace, a large number of rail trains have begun service, transporting various materials to various parts of the mainland.
This also provides enough resources for the establishment of extraordinary academies around the world. The practice of extraordinary people also requires resources, and many things are expensive not because they are really rare, but because their location is too high.
Remote and difficult to transport to bustling cities.
With the establishment of the transportation system, the prices of many originally precious extraordinary materials have also been reduced in the process. The speed of cultivation of practitioners has greatly increased. Under the effective guidance of the academy, many extraordinary people who are exploring on their own have also traveled less.
took many detours.
In addition to some mineral resources, the most in demand resource for the extraordinary is probably the magic crystal, or the magic core, which is the essence of Warcraft. It is just like the crystal crown of human beings. Whether it is making extraordinary props
Whether you are practicing or using some one-time powerful abilities, you need to use this kind of resources.
Originally, people only captured wild monsters in the wild jungles, and then obtained their magic crystals. However, on the one hand, this was inefficient, and on the other hand, it caused extremely serious damage to nature. After long-term hunting, the number of monsters would decrease.
Dropped significantly.
This is similar to the soul beasts above Douluo. Tens of thousands of years of hunting have greatly reduced the number of soul beasts. With the development of mankind, in order to obtain large amounts of magic crystals more cheaply, people began to try
Breeding monsters.
The advantage of the Warcraft on the Five Elements Continent compared to the Soul Beasts is that they can cultivate faster. Although their life span is much shorter, they do not need to take tens of thousands of years to cultivate to the top level.
As long as they are provided with enough food and enough herbs rich in spiritual energy, they can practice very quickly. After reaching enough cultivation level, they can condense the most basic magic crystals, and these can already be used by practitioners.
Already.
It was originally difficult for humans to breed these monsters on a large scale. On the one hand, it was difficult to capture them. If only one or two pairs were captured, if they wanted to develop into large-scale breeding, they would need to be bred from generation to generation, and it would take dozens of them.
A hundred years of time.
Before the five empires united, they did not have enough power to capture the monsters, and they were not able to gather a sufficient number of monsters from the beginning.
On the other hand, the cost in the breeding process is very high, especially the cost of preventing the destruction of these monsters. These powerful monsters are not as peaceful as ordinary livestock, and they will riot from time to time, and they have mastered the extraordinary
Ordinary cages of strength cannot contain them.
But after the five empires united to form the Empire of Light, the cost of this kind of breeding has also been reduced to a considerable extent. Strong people with various attributes cooperate with each other to create very strong cages. Strong people with earth attributes can create
Those who build thick walls with metal attributes will insert metal into the walls to form a reinforced concrete-like structure, while those with wood attributes will plant plants on the earthen walls, and the roots of these plants will wrap around the metal inside.
Make this wall stronger. Even if it is broken somewhere, it will be disconnected by these plants, making it impossible for the monsters inside to escape.
Under this kind of alliance, it is difficult for the captive monsters to cause trouble, and before they grow to be strong enough, they have already been captured and slaughtered.
In this process, the most docile among them will be selected, and some will be used as the contracted monsters of the extraordinary, and the other will be used to pull the cart, or to be precise, pull the spring.
With the gradual popularization of clockwork technology, clockwork energy has become more and more important. Ordinary depths can be used to charge energy. Naturally, Warcraft can also be used. The power of Warcraft itself is much greater than that of ordinary livestock.
It is more suitable for this kind of work, but ordinary monsters are unruly and will not obey people's orders. The monsters that the extraordinary person has signed a contract with are also the darlings of the extraordinary person and will not be used to perform such hard tasks.
.
The only way to do this kind of hard work is to choose those who have a docile personality among the monsters and have not been selected by extraordinary beings.
As the kind of Warcraft that strengthens the clockwork, humans are also selective. Not all Warcraft are suitable for this kind of work. Although many Warcraft are strong in combat, they may be good at spells or speed, and they are
It is lacking in strength and endurance, and is not much stronger than ordinary animals.
However, although some monsters are not very powerful in combat and are looked down upon by extraordinary beings, they are very powerful in terms of strength and endurance and can continuously recharge the clockwork for days and nights.
These originally looked down upon monsters have become extremely popular over time and have begun to be bred on a large scale.
Many people even found that the value they brought to charging the clockwork was much greater than the value brought by killing them to take out the magic crystals. They raised them all like treasures and were not willing to kill them.
In fact, this is a very normal situation. Those creatures with strong fighting power in nature often do not have much endurance. The creatures that have strong endurance and can travel long distances are actually herbivores. They tend to be docile and not very strong.
They have strong fighting power, and in order to survive, their reproductive abilities are usually relatively strong, and their numbers in nature are quite large.
The monsters that today's extraordinary beings cultivate to charge clockwork are basically of this type. Most of their prototypes are herbivorous animals, such as cows or horses. Of course, there are also some special ones.
For example, a giant turtle, or a giant beetle.
They do not have such giant individuals in nature, but among Warcraft, there are huge and powerful beetles. Their strength as combat pets is very average, but they have the huge power of insects and can drive very large torques.
Such a big winding force.
These beetle monsters usually reproduce very quickly. If they are in the wild, after they lay eggs, a large number of young individuals will die, because these bugs will not take care of their own larvae, and most of the fragile larvae will
All will be eaten, and some will be killed by cannibalism. But if their eggs are collected and cultivated artificially, hundreds or thousands of larvae can be reproduced at one time. In nature, the survival rate of these larvae is probably
It's not even one percent, but in the process of artificial cultivation, their survival rate is definitely more than 80%.
And this does not improve the reproduction efficiency at all. As long as you catch a few of these beetles and cultivate them in one or two years, you can get an army of beetles.
Originally, even if we obtained such an army of beetles, it would not be of much use. Whether we could defeat an army of ordinary people on the battlefield was questionable. Even because of our low IQ and lack of understanding of formations, we encountered an army formed by ordinary people.
, with a high probability of being massacred, but now they have shown their great value. After being cultivated, their strong strength and endurance have made them the main force in charging clockwork.
Especially in remote areas, far away from water conservancy facilities, most of the energy there is provided by these insects.
Each village will raise a few of them, allowing them to recharge the clockwork in the village. Although it is still not comparable to the abundant energy in big cities, it is enough to meet the basic needs of this new era.
With the rapid development of the Bright Five Elements Continent, the Dark Five Elements Continent has actually gradually learned their development direction. These things are actually very easy to learn and do not have much technical content. It is just that the predecessor did not think of it. After seeing it,
, it is not difficult to imitate.
Through the space system, the exchanges between the Dark Five Elements Continent and the Light Five Elements Continent are very frequent, and both parties have become accustomed to the transaction of crown crystals. Originally, the Dark Five Elements Continent wanted to destroy all its crown crystals and weaken the Light Five Elements Continent.
The strength of the mainland side, but the feudal era government's ability to control the local area was limited after all. A large number of tomb robbers dug out the crown crystals they had buried and unlocked the seal.
In the end, the officials saw that they could no longer control this kind of thing, so they started official excavations. They dug out all the crown crystals that had been gathered together and sealed them together, and then sold them through official designated channels.
It has indeed created a big advantage for the Dark Five Elements Continent, because all other channels have been merged by the official channels. Anyone who dares to sell this kind of thing privately will be severely hit. As a result, the official website of the Dark Five Elements Continent can
If you raise the price of your own crown crystals to a certain extent, for a long period of time, the price of dark crown crystals will be about half of that of light crown crystals.
However, things changed slightly after the unification war of the Guangming Five Elements Continent. As the Guangming Five Elements Continent also unified its sales channels for crown crystals, both parties were able to engage in price wars. After a period of scolding, they finally had to compromise.
, the two parties chose to exchange in equal amounts, one for the other, so that there was no need for monetary transactions.
The advantage that the Dark Five Elements Continent had finally gained before was also regained in the process.
As time goes by, the gap between the two Heavenly Five Elements Continents will probably become smaller and smaller. Lan Nuo's plan is finally gradually becoming successful. With the technological exchanges and material trade between the two Five Elements Continents, at least the two
Mutual understanding has emerged among the ordinary residents of the Five Elements Continent. As long as this continues for a while, the war may not break out.