"The secret of the elemental plane? I don't know either. You might as well go to those mages and ask for information. Why are you so surprised? I, Ayer, don't know everything. I seem to know a lot, just because I have lived a long time.
That’s it. The history of the four elemental planes is even longer than that of the main plane. The creation goddess Ai Xi used them as a basis to construct the entire plane. I was not born yet, so how could I know about it.”
When I asked Ayer about the mysteries from ancient times, the answer I got was this. When he talked about the goddess of creation, the indifferent God of Death in black had a face full of nostalgia and reluctance.
"As for the four gods of elements, they just shout loudly. They are actually just warehouse managers appointed by the Goddess of Creation. With Ashe's authorization, they do master some of the plane rules, but they are definitely not rulers.
That plane. Haha, no one can rule that plane, otherwise, he would be equivalent to ruling a quarter of the world and life."
The information I verified from other places (kindly contributed by Margaret) also proves the authenticity of Ayer's words. The most obvious proof is that when the gods of the four elements are sealed, the elemental planes still exist.
If the God of Elements falls, a new God of Elements will pop up again within a few hundred years.
Theoretically, the goddess of chaos Cynthia inherited this power from her mother Ashe. She can indirectly control the world by controlling the gods of the four elements. Cynthia's will is still affecting these planes, so this plane also
Favors chaos.
And unlike what most people think, this is not a world with nothing but earth elements and wind and sand. On the contrary, as the oldest plane, it is extremely rich in materials and products, including various ancient species.
It is not uncommon for diamonds and rare minerals that are regarded as rare treasures in other planes to grow and multiply here. Buried under those ancient hills are rare treasures that can never be found in other planes.
The largest number of residents here are naturally elemental creatures such as earth elements. However, unlike those humanoid elements in the main plane, the elemental creatures here are not used to human forms. They have all kinds of strange shapes, some look like giant dragons, and some are common.
There are stone giants and insect-shaped ones such as giant crabs. Most of them choose to imitate the powerful beings they have witnessed.
Although their appearance and types are almost huge, one thing is the same. Their bodies are at least partially elemental, and they can evolve by devouring each other and evolving into stronger beings.
It is said that Omdiroken was also evolved from a weak rock giant. Due to the high concentration of elemental power, the body parts of the elemental creatures here are also very good magic materials.
Where there are benefits, there will naturally be intelligent creatures. Where there are huge benefits, there will naturally be gold diggers who are not afraid of life and death. When the "administrators" like the God of Elements are sealed, these elemental planes will be open to the public if the door is opened.
There are countless ways to invade the warehouse, and many forces have established their own stations in various elemental planes.
In an area called the Carol Hills, it is the station sent by the country of mage Ainrodante to the earth element plane. Hundreds of mage towers and magic devices have constructed a defensive force field. The deep purple
The semicircular magic shield prevents wind and sand from wreaking havoc in "Carol Town", and also makes this place the largest foreign resident settlement thousands of miles away.
Walking on the streets of Carol, you can see various races everywhere. Although most of them are humans, elves, and orcs, which are common races in the main plane, there are also many demons in the lower plane, and you can even see machine people from other worlds.
Mimics, of course, are also indispensable for goblin merchants who are everywhere, but one of them is the rarest, and it is an elemental race that is difficult to see in the main plane.
The reasons for their emergence are very complicated. Some are the descendants of a certain high-level elemental creature and ordinary life, and some are the elementalization of ordinary creatures in this plane. However, their most obvious feature is reflected in their appearance, that is, their skin color is often strange.
They have pitted brown skin and burnt red skin, and many of them are inlaid with various kinds of crystals on their foreheads, which looks a bit scary.
However, due to the elementalization of part of their bodies, they are also natural elemental mages, with extremely excellent elemental perception abilities. After a little training, they can become excellent elemental mages, not to mention the dangers of being backlashed by elemental magic, and they grow very fast.
.
For the country of mages, in addition to the various specialties unique to this plane, these local sons of elements are very good seedlings. And for those earth magic masters, this earth element plane with extremely high element concentration is also the best.
How could you give up a good place of cultivation, plus all kinds of rare monsters?
But recently, we have encountered some troubles here.
The God of the Earth Element is back, and these uninvited residents will finally face the returning owner of the house.
Obviously, it is impossible for Umdiroken, the nominal master of this world, to have a group of uninvited guests living in his home. More and more local residents suddenly changed their attitude towards Carol City, and the attacking herds became more and more popular.
Come more and more frequently.
The rising elemental tide and the return of the Lord of the Earth Element have also made the wind and sand more violent, and the energy consumption of Carol's protective shield has reached more than 150% of the same period last year.
"It's not an option to continue like this."
The space shackles of the earth elemental plane are becoming more and more stable, the magic energy required to travel through the plane is constantly increasing, and the investment required here is constantly increasing. As a native-born elemental race archmage, Ettadia is also very
trouble.
More than ten years ago, he joined the country of mages as a mage apprentice, and now he has become a gold-level archmage. Etadia is already very familiar with this city, but recently, he has been feeling more and more uncomfortable, as if
This beautiful city where magic civilization gathers is a restriction, and deep in the wilderness, there is a will calling him to go.
It's not just him. In the past three months, more than a dozen young apprentices have disappeared into the wind and sand, leaving only their mage robes and staffs.
"Umdiroken? It's really troublesome."
As a gold-level mage, Etadia is definitely not an ignorant rookie. The only one who can have such a big impact on the entire earth elemental plane is the legendary God of Elements.
He is not bad at strength and can resist the call from the soul, but it is difficult for those rookie apprentices to do so. Every elemental race is precious. It is heartbreaking to lose it in vain. This is not the most troublesome. Two days ago
.It is shocking that a possessed apprentice actually rushed into the magic hub like crazy, intending to turn off the barrier transmitter.
"Is there no reply from the country yet? At least send us a few archmages to control the situation."
"No, the country of mages is also in trouble. The Bayer Empire suddenly had a small-scale conflict with us, and most of the combat forces were involved on the sidelines. I learned from my private channels that the water elemental plane and the wind elemental plane also
Encountering similar troubles. In addition, it is becoming more and more difficult to teleport to the elemental plane. I am afraid that our assistance will not only not increase, but also decrease."
"If there is a problem with the existing plane teleportation, can't we use the goblin teleportation system? Their space tearing device should still be able to be used."
"The fixed failure rate of 20% is too terrible. It's okay to transport materials. It's too dangerous to transport living things. Moreover, those guys have recently changed their rules and actually want us to buy 'insurance' or they won't transport them to us. Once
If it is lost, we will not compensate you.”
"Insurance? What is that?"
"It's a popular thing among goblins recently. It seems to be spread by goblins in the underground world. You pay him a deposit first. If there is an accident and causes loss, he will pay you the money."
"Isn't this a good thing? Then buy it. Didn't we admit the transmission losses before?"
"The problem is that I won't be compensated for buying it. Edwin, the archmage in charge of the teleportation work, is very angry."
"Why? Aren't goblins very particular about sincerity in transactions?"
"He said that we stored special magnetic energy items in the goods, which affected the transmission. This was a failure caused by human error on our part, and he also asked us to compensate for the losses."
"It doesn't make sense. If the special props can't be transmitted, wouldn't we have told him earlier? We'll only tell him if it fails. Then next time? Master Edwin shouldn't give the other party any more excuses."
"The second time, my luck was even worse. I encountered a space storm. Half of the supplies were lost."
"It's time to pay compensation this time."
"No, there is a supplementary clause in his insurance contract, 'No compensation will be provided for losses caused by force majeure.' And the transmission error caused by natural disasters such as space storms is counted as force majeure.
"
"Then why should we buy that insurance? Isn't this a scam? Isn't it just that we want someone to compensate for the transmission loss?"
"...Yeah, we only found out after we suffered a loss that we had to pay for transmission losses. We actually had to buy a special 'transmission loss insurance'. As a result, Master Edwin simply signed all the additional clauses the third time
."
"Don't tell me that I was tricked again? Could it be that goblins would actually tear up business contracts?"
"...This time the space tearing device actually exploded, and we didn't know until then. In this case, we have to buy the 'accidental explosion insurance', otherwise we won't be compensated."
"Buy, buy, buy, just don't buy anything."
"But the problem is, that 'explosion insurance' is more expensive than all other insurances combined, but as everyone knows about goblins, not having that explosion insurance means there is no insurance. Master Edwin was so angry that he had a stroke on the spot...
."
After opening her mouth, Etadia didn't say anything, but the matter was not over yet. The mage apprentice said with a face full of laughter and tears.
"The goblin merchants in our city have also learned this trick, and the sales of various insurances are booming. And haven't many elemental tribesmen disappeared recently? Those guys actually also bought personal accident and disappearance insurance, specifically looking for young apprentices to sign, and also
He declared the disappearance in such a big way and made people panic."
"...Did they lose any money? No need to answer, I've already guessed it, they definitely didn't!"
"Your wisdom can illuminate this sky. Yes, these damn profiteers don't even have a single coin to accompany them! They actually need the policyholders to apply for compensation themselves! This person has disappeared, how can we compensate them?"
Suddenly, a sharp voice sounded from behind.
"Hello, I am from Amway Life Insurance. Do you know Amway?"
Etadia turned around and saw a well-dressed little goblin, holding a handbag and smiling broadly.
"Did you know? Recently, a group of gang kidnappers appeared, resulting in a sharp increase in the disappearance of the elemental tribe. However, we at Amway Life Insurance specifically...don't know what kind of insurance you need. If you are not satisfied,
"
"roll!"
Etadia, who has always been known for being approachable, roared out from between his teeth, but the goblin salesman had no intention of giving up.
"Rolling casualty insurance? We also have it! Although I don't know why the demand for this strange insurance has surged recently, but the customer is God! You roll around, I pay the bill!"
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In the Archmage Council of Carol City, the epic Archmage Kayid also had a worried face. As the highest-ranking Archmage here, he knew far more than his subordinates.
As a truly top mage, the intelligence system of the Controller of Truth will not forget to give him a special report. Of course, of course, the situation on his home continent has been undergoing drastic changes recently, especially the conflict between his country and the Bayer Empire.
It cannot be described as a small conflict. If one is not handled well, it will be a new war.
The country's support cannot be relied on, and the even worse environment is revealing the threat of the legendary Omdiroken, and something is actually going wrong internally right in front of us.
"Teacher, those damn goblins are getting more and more outrageous. They are spreading rumors everywhere and shaking the hearts of the people. Recently, they have started to drive up prices and make a huge dent in the country. Otherwise, we have to drive them away!"
To be able to make the usually calm Ettadia angry to such an extent, it seems that the goblin went too far this time.
"Then we can starve to death. Seventy percent of our business system here is in the hands of goblins. Maybe you can teach us how to use magic to make bread."
Another disciple, Sorento, remained calm as before, but the sarcasm in his words made Itadia very unhappy.
"You think goblins are difficult to deal with just because you are too simple-minded."
"Hmph, then our great talent from Sorento can deal with those greedy misers. Okay, then I'll send you to talk to them about the recent increase in food prices."
"...I can't do it either. But it doesn't mean that no one can. I recommend a person who can actually gain an advantage in goblin negotiations. The goblin contract has more than fifty clauses and seven to eight pages. That guy
Of course, there are more than 800 contracts in the book, and he can talk the goblins into confusion. Recently, he has made money exclusively by negotiating with the goblins, and now wherever he appears, those miserly people will surrender directly.
Bottom line clause.”
Sorento's words shocked the other two archmages. It was completely unbelievable and incomprehensible for such a person to be able to win over a cunning goblin in a business negotiation.
"Is he a big businessman from there?"
"No. It looks like he is a ranger who comes to hunt. Negotiation is just a side job when he returns to the city accidentally. He spends most of his time hunting outside. His strength is not very good, but his luck is very good."
"How?"
"He is obviously only a Silver-level warrior. When he entered the city for the first time, he actually brought with him the poisonous needle of an Emperor Demon Scorpion. It was a powerful opponent that even top-level Gold level warriors would not dare to face alone."
"Perhaps he is hiding his strength. It would not be surprising if he is alone outside."
"Everyone thought so at the beginning, but they met Archmage Alu of the prophecy department. He was indeed a Silver-ranked man, but what was surprising was what happened next."
"Um?"
"When he came back for the second time, he brought with him the crystal core of an earth elemental warlord, which was definitely not something that a gold-level warrior could handle. After that, the prey he brought back became stronger and stronger each time, and the intervals between them became longer and longer.
It's getting shorter and shorter, and..."
When he said this, Sorento paused deliberately, as if to whet his appetite, and saw his master and senior brother looking at him before he said proudly.
"When he returned to the city recently, he brought back a second-evolved heart of a demonized mountain giant!"
"To demonize the mountain giant, you need gold-level warriors to deal with it. If you evolve for the second time, even the legendary top level may not be enough! How is it possible! That is a qualitative change. In this environment, facing the infinitely powerful mountain giant, even I can't.
Be careful."
This time, when it came to Kayid, he was shocked.
"Does he have a support team?"
"How is it possible that he comes in to eat meat and sleep, leaving the whole team to eat sand outside? Moreover, the detection magic shows that as soon as he goes out, he runs directly to the high-risk area, and most of his prey only have frostbite and cutting injuries. He should be
Ice magic swordsman."
"Frostbite? In this place where the water element is almost zero and the power of ice magic is greatly reduced, will it cause frostbite to earth elemental creatures?"
This is even more common knowledge, but Archmage Kayid has become somewhat interested in this legendary person.
"Please arrange a meeting for me. I'm a little curious. By the way, what's his name?"
"Roland, but his nickname seems to be Blackhand, 'Blackhand' Roland."
Upon hearing this, Kayid stood up immediately, his face full of surprise and disbelief, but after ten seconds, he shook his head.
"If it's him, anything can happen. Arrange for me to meet him as soon as possible. Forget it, I'll go see him in person, and you can go with me. Maybe, he will be your uncle!
