Chapter 394

"Getting coordinates..."

"Historical Knowledge: Sky Island loaded!"

"Sky Island: In the eighth level of history that does not belong to this world.

Mystra's Prime Material Plane is developing in another direction.

Many years ago.

That was the turbulent era after Mystra left and the Magic Network was shattered for no reason.

Because of an unknown incident.

The entire world has fallen into an unprecedented crisis.

Poison gas from unknown Sub-Plane erupted.

It swept across the entire world.

It took countless lives.

The failure of the magic network caused the magic power of the mages to no longer exist.

The vast majority of mages died in the first three Earth's Core Poison Gas outbreaks like other humans.

Under the influence of poisonous gas.

All living things in the world are facing the crisis of extinction.

And in this case.

There is still a Mage Organization named "Future" who insists on the faith of the past.

They believe that Mystra will eventually return.

To wait for that day.

Future Mages people have tried every means to ensure the continuation of themselves and the human group.

The number of people who can be organized is decreasing irresistibly.

The terrible poisonous gas not only took away the lives of many people.

It also makes the surface of the earth become extremely strange——

Unlivability is one thing.

The frequent Casting Disorder is a deeper crisis! This means that mages in the post-Magic Network era are likely to completely lose their magic power!

The members of "Future" called for the return of Mystra in despair.

But as time goes by day by day.

More and more species are becoming extinct across the land.

The only remaining human groups are also in danger.

And because of the lack of height.

Floating City created by the "Future" organization cannot completely escape the category of poisonous gas.

People kept dying.

The magic network effect also continues to ebb.

therefore.

The only 30 mages left in the city performed a mysterious ritual from an unknown ancient book in despair——

"True God Awakening Art"

They tried to get Mystra's favor by calling Mystra's real name.

But what this ceremony brought was not the redemption that the "Future" members longed for.

But complete destruction! The mysterious star beast caused by the ritual completely destroyed Floating City, where the "Future" headquarters is located! After that.

The star beast began to greedily devour all objects within its field of vision.

Finally arrived at Prime Material Plane.

Its purpose is more than just a satisfying meal.

then.

The creatures in this world have entered the darkest and most desperate period in history! Poisonous gas erupts all the time on the ground.

There are star beasts in the sky that cover the sky and the sun, watching eagerly.

The most difficult time.

The human population has shrunk to less than 2,000 people! One day.

The star beast entrenched in Above the Sky finally couldn't restrain its hunger.

It flopped to the ground.

Start chewing mountains and rivers.

But at this time.

The fourth and most powerful gas explosion in history occurred.

The mysterious star beast was actually unable to resist the terrible poisonous gas.

It screamed and fell to the ground.

After more than 30 days of intense struggle.

The star beast gradually turned into a corpse.

After the death of the star beast.

After a long period of fear, people dared to leave the shelter.

The only three remaining "future" mages mustered up the courage to do research on the corpse of the star beast.

Very quickly.

They discovered that the arrival of the star beast had absorbed most of the poisonous gas during the fourth explosion.

This resulted in the nearby creatures not being harmed too much.

Even more surprising.

They discovered a brand new ether on the body of the star beast!

It was a kind of ether with a pink form.

It has extremely unique properties and powerful magic.

The mages of the "future" call it "Dream Ether".

With help from Dream Ether.

Future Organization's mages repaired part of the magic network.

And created "Vortex Bridge" that runs through the sky and the earth.

And "Future City" standing above Vortex Bridge! With the support of Vortex Bridge technology.

The mages produced large quantities of Sky Island.

This allows them to completely escape the already uninhabitable ground environment.

Human civilization can continue because of this..."

Looking at the dense Historical Knowledge in the data column.

Roger gently rubbed his temples.

His eyes looked a little blank.

In fact, it is because he is digesting a large amount of information received at this moment.

The ultra-high Historical Knowledge allows him to grasp key historical information as soon as he enters Historical World.

Except for the origin of "Sky Island".

He also gained several keywords.

"Harvesters"

"Mage Wings"

"Dream Ether"

"Bridge Keepers"

"Mage Tyranny and the War of Resistance"

The above keywords are closely related to the origin and system of Sky Island.

And "Dream Ether" is the cornerstone of Sky Island.

Roger learned.

After establishing the Sky Island habitat.

With the help of the only remaining magic network and Dream Ether, Future Mages became the well-deserved master and guardian of Sky Island.

at first.

Others who were blessed by them were very grateful.

After all, they were the ones who built Sky Island.

But as time passes year by year.

The population on Floating Island is increasing.

The voices of dissatisfaction are getting stronger and stronger.

The cause of the matter is "Dream Ether"! It is not difficult to see from the origin of Sky Island.

Dream Ether is the key to maintaining the power of Future Mages.

What's more troublesome is that.

Future Mages itself does not have the ability to obtain Dream Ether!

In order to maintain the existence of "Vortex Bridge".

Each Celestial Capital of the Sky Island group will consume a considerable amount of Dream Ether.

Coupled with the reasons such as spell disorder and anti-gravity field failure.

Future Mages cannot find any other way to replace Vortex Bridge.

in addition.

Other technologies they later created also required support from Dream Ether.

It can be said that the entire Sky Island civilization is based on Dream Ether!

But here comes the problem.

Dream Ether can only be obtained from the corpse of a star beast!

This resulted in the need for someone among the residents on Sky Island to regularly collect the pink "Dream Ether" from the corpses of the star beasts.

These people are "Harvesters".

In the Sky Island world.

Harvesters is a profession with an extremely high mortality rate.

Because they need to get into the ground.

After hundreds of years of toxic gas outbreaks.

The surface has entered a low-frequency period of toxic gas eruptions.

But those who are unlucky can still encounter small gas outbreaks.

With the power of Sky Island civilization.

I still can't resist this poisonous gas.

And what's even scarier is.

Except for the gas.

A group of highly deformed monsters were also born on the surface! According to research by Future Organization.

These monsters are inextricably linked to the star beast.

They are also keen to obtain Dream Ether.

This even led to several horrific incidents of monster attacks on "Vortex Bridge".

These events intensified the conflict between Future Organization and other humans.

Because the power of "Future Mages" cannot affect the surface of Casting Disorder.

They also dare not get close to the surface.

Therefore, the responsibility of guarding Vortex Bridge has been placed on other professionals just like Harvesters.

These people are called "Bridge Keepers".

Compared to Harvesters which needs to go deeper into the Star Beast Mountain Range.

Bridge Keepers is less risky.

Vortex Bridge itself has a low probability of provoking monsters.

While stationed.

As long as you can avoid a small gas explosion, you'll be fine.

And Harvesters may be attacked by monsters at any time during the process of the Star Beast Mountain Range collecting Dream Ether.

What makes them even more dissatisfied is that.

I don't know if it's to save costs.

The aircraft "Mage Wings" provided by Future Mages to Harvesters to travel between the surface and Sky Island often suffers from malfunctions.

According to incomplete statistics.

The failure rate of this thing is over 20%.

It was fine on the way down.

After all, every Harvesters will carry 3 Mage Wings when setting off.

Well-trained Harvesterss have the ability to change clothes during free fall.

When it's time to return.

They need to carry a heavy Dream Ether.

Come out at this time.

Harvesters has to face the decision of whether to throw away Ether Canister with Dream Ether on his back.

A little careless.

Or you will lose the Dream Ether that you have worked so hard to collect.

Or just throw away your life altogether.

Even more unsatisfactory.

If Harvesters returns empty-handed.

They still need to bear the costs incurred by renting "Mage Wings".

Of course, there are also compensation fees for losing the aircraft.

These liabilities often force them to carry out their next collection operation.

But even if you successfully collect it and return.

The reward obtained by Harvesters is still not proportional to the risk.

Rest for up to 3 months.

The bottoming out of savings will prompt Harvesters people to return to their old businesses.

This is based on the fact that Future Organization monopolizes the lifeblood of all industries——

Especially in the agricultural field.

Sky Island does not allow any form of private cultivation.

Only "Bread Garden" with a business license can produce food.

The owners of Bread Garden are all members of Future Organization.

They ventilate each other.

Complete control over food pricing.

therefore.

These foods are sold on the market at extremely high prices.

Harvesters's pockets will soon be emptied.

The rest of the personnel can only survive as various vassals of Future Organization.

They live a life where food and clothing cannot be guaranteed.

It is worth mentioning.

Exotic plants such as breadbasket, cheese vine and fruit platter bush in Bread Garden also grew under the irrigation of Dream Ether.

In this context.

People who have mage qualifications and can enter Future Organization live like an emperor.

The rest of the people can only live in a hurry.

Harvesters looked at the plants growing happily in Bread Garden and felt resentful.

Bridge Keepers felt sad looking at his companion who died tragically.

Others face similar dilemmas.

So there was "War of Resistance".

About War of Resistance.

The Historical Knowledge obtained by Roger didn't mention much.

He only knew that Harvesters, Bridge Keepers and other non-mage members had united.

Some people went on strike.

Another group of people chose to escape "Sky Island"! This incident caused Future Organization to be furious.

But they didn't dare to chase "Resisters" who escaped to the surface.

We can only take it out on those who are on strike.

all in all.

That was another dark time that Sky Island experienced since its establishment.

The population of the island group plummeted.

For a while.

Mage Organization even openly declares that they don't need other humans.

They only need people who are qualified to become mages.

Others only deserve to be kept in captivity.

But very quickly.

For some unknown reason.

The mage who made these remarks was deprived of his membership in Future Organization.

Future Organization's attitude softened.

They began settlement negotiations with the remaining people.

It didn't take long.

A few people in "Resisters" fled back to Sky Island in embarrassment——

They encountered terrifying monsters chasing them on the surface.

And the spreading poisonous gas still does not support the long-term survival of mankind.

Forced by desperation.

They still have no choice but to return to Sky Island! final.

Both mages and non-mages realize that they need each other.

Under this premise.

The two sides conducted rounds of negotiations.

final.

Future Organization gave up the management rights of the two islands, as well as its apparent monopoly on some industries.

Sky Island's civilization has re-entered a period of stability.

But nevertheless.

Mages who have the ability to use Dream Ether are still a privileged class.

Friction between the mage and non-mage communities continues.

Until 30 years ago.

An earth-shattering event happened...

"Historical Knowledge: Information loading completed... Historical Knowledge is insufficient to obtain the blocked information..."

"No..."

"What happened 30 years ago?"

"Historical Knowledge can also play broken chapters, right?!"

It just looks like Historical Knowledge with 'To be continued' written on it.

Roger suddenly became furious.

But after calming down.

He felt a little strange again.

"Where is Slaughter Mask?"

"How come there is no mention of Slaughter Mask in the history of this world?"

"And..."

"How did a world dominated by mages give birth to an upgraded person named Slaughter Authority?"

"Aren't these Future Mages just awesome? Why did the secret key fall into the hands of Slaughter Mask?"

Roger's head is full of question marks.

For a moment.

He even suspected that he had come to the wrong place Historical World!

present.

Roger took a few steps forward.

Coming to the edge of Sky Island.

But see it under the sunset.

"Harvesters" with white gas coming out of his back returned from the ground to the sky like a tired bird returning to its nest.

below the flight path.

It is the Vortex Pillar that connects the sky and the earth.

And the extremely rich Poison Gas Layer! Come to your senses.

Roger glanced at the data column again.

The coordinates of "Mystic Mark" have been loaded.

It seems that they are not on this "Butterfly Island" where they landed.

"This is 8th History World who has not yet fully returned. That's right."

"It seems that the secret key obtained by Slaughter Mask is related to the incident 30 years ago..."

Roger thought secretly.

Soon he felt a little annoyed again.

He originally wanted to use the identity of Slaughter Mask to swindle in this world.

It seems now.

This identity may not be as powerful as he imagined.

Considering the sensitivity of mages in power.

Roger even smelled a hint of danger!

And at this time.

behind him.

A shadow quickly takes shape.

Whoosh! The shadow hasn't taken action yet.

Roger has already taken the lead.

Floating Cloud Palm starts.

Small Capturing Hands Technique is at your fingertips.

Roger locked that shadow with ease! ...

"Hint: You control a 'Slaughter Mask's Projection'"

"Is it him?"

"We were discovered?"

Ripley was slightly startled.

Roger shook his head:

"It's just a projection. His influence on 8th World is not as great as I thought. He doesn't know it yet."

Ripley is:

"But if you kill him, Slaughter Mask himself should know that we secretly took the back door."

Roger frowned.

He immediately relaxed and said, "It doesn't matter."

"I'll try this first."

Finished.

He silently chose "one-click dress change".

After putting on the evil four-piece suit.

Roger can do it.

Just endless kneading and caressing! As a projection of the ascendant.

Slaughter Mask is obviously very durable.

Roger pinched it with Intelligence Reduction Hand for a long time.

The latter's IQ collapsed little by little.

"You didn't meet me..."

"You never attacked me..."

"You haven't been touched by me either..."

Roger rubbed the projection's head vigorously.

Until the other person's eyes roll back and his expression becomes dull.

Then he let go of his hand tiredly.

The projection glanced at him.

Then slowly disappeared in place.

"Done."

Roger rubbed his wrist.

Look back.

But he saw Ripley's strange eyes.

Roger was a little dissatisfied when he saw this.

Then he coughed lightly. "What?"

"Is there anything wrong?"

The frightened Zhuo suddenly said in a panic, "No, no, no!"

"Nothing."

"I'm just amazed, you are really skilled..."

"Um..."

"What do we do next?"

He forced to change the subject.

Roger is too lazy to continue looking for trouble.

He mused:

"You secretly investigate Slaughter Mask's background."

Ripley nodded.

"And I..."

Roger looked in the direction of Mystic Mark.

"I'm going to take care of some personal matters."

"If there is important information, you know how to notify me."

The next second.

His figure disappeared from the spot.

Not far away in the sky.

A pair of wings of light unfolded quietly.

Under cover of clouds.

Roger is like a dragonfly.

Flying lightly into the sky.

Not long after.

on the data column.

"Hint: You found 'Butterfly Island'"

"Insight: You sensed a large number of people, and they seemed to be carrying out some kind of celebration..."

"Hey!"

"The one over there."

"Are you here to participate in "Triathlon Tournament" too?"

Under dusk.

A uniformed officer blocked Roger's path.

He looked Roger up and down.

Roger rolled his eyes.

nodded.

Whoosh! The man suddenly took out a thick stack of leaflet-like documents from his back.

His eyes began to shine. "Which one are you going to focus on?"

"Unlock? theft? Or escape?"

"I have all kinds of confidential information here..."