Chapter 541 Awakening of the Bloodline
"Well, let me take a look." Sunaifa nodded and lowered his eyes. His consciousness fell on the call card of "Flora Forest" with some unfamiliarity, and he clicked lightly.
The shimmer suddenly bloomed, the card unfolded instantly, and a translucent square popped out of the card, like an unfolded magic letter.
This is the "dialog box".
On the left side of the dialog box, there is a small tree light pattern (avatar), with a green light strip extending next to the light pattern. Above the light band, a line of questions is written in universal characters:
【Why are elephants destined to become extinct? 】
"I got it, my king." Sunaifa glanced at the question and gave a reply.
“Great, the message function has also been successfully run!” Gaode was delighted.
"Aisha is also very curious about the Ethernet you are talking about. Should I ask her to connect now and give it a try?"
Sunaifa said while typing a reply in the dialog box, and then lightly touched the quill pattern outlined with light patterns at the bottom of the dialog box.
That's the "Send" button.
【Why? 】
"Yes!" Gaode responded.
Hence, Sunaifa withdrew, turned sideways to give up his position, and nodded to Aisha, who was standing aside with eyes full of curiosity, "You should give it a try too."
Aisha was not polite either, a glimmer of expectation flashed in her eyes. The moment Sunaifa stepped aside, she took a step forward and placed her warm palm firmly on the cold ball of light.
—Because of the need for "broadband access", the status of the key is closer to that of a "computer", which is difficult to move, rather than a portable "smartphone".
Hence, it was not easy for Sunaifa to hand the ball of light directly to Aisha, as that might break the spiritual fiber as the "network cable", so he could only let Aisha take over his place.
After Aisha borrowed Sunaifa's key to log into the Ethernet, Sunaifa looked at Aisha's focused side face, stood there in shock for a moment, then curled her lips, and a smile flashed across her eyes.
The moment she exited the Ethernet, she saw the reply from Gaode in the dialog box:
【Because there is only one truth】.
But compared to this somewhat "cold" reply that made her laugh, she actually cared more about a term that Gothe said inadvertently just now.
"Empire".
It’s really exciting.
It has been more than three years since I came to this world. Gaode’s experience is something that many people can’t imagine in their lifetime.
These experiences and his current status have made him become more calm and reserved, more or less in line with Sunaifa. There are very few moments when his mood changes are so obvious like today.
Sunaifa could see that Gothe was very excited, but she actually didn't fully understand where Gothe's excitement came from.
In her eyes, Ethernet is a magical creation that enables remote communication, but she doesn’t understand the impact that subverts cognition hidden behind it.
Gaode himself didn't know how to describe his mood at the moment.
Happiness is for sure, but more, it seems to be "bullshit"?
For Sunaifa, and even people in this world, the emergence of Ethernet means that he has created something very remarkable.
But they couldn't understand how abnormal the appearance of this thing was - contrary to the scientific common sense in Gaode's cognition.
What is the situation in the north now?
It is still in the transition stage from primitive tribes to city-states, and even the currency used to measure value has not yet appeared.
Let alone basic technological products such as electric lights and telegraphs.
This is a place where even "transmitting text over long distances" has to rely on magical falcons, but it has an "Ethernet" that is equivalent to the Internet in the previous life.
This level of nonsense is equivalent to the villagers sharing nuclear fusion technology with you.
Yes, this is not scientific.
But very magical.
The mage plane is a magical world.
When fireballs can be ignited out of thin air, healing spells can repair wounds, and gem sweet berries can be created out of thin air, the so-called "scientific logic" should give way to "spell laws".
So, from this perspective, this is actually very reasonable.
In the world of mages, there should be solutions from mages.
If we have to use the scientific views of the previous life to explain it, the underlying logic of the supernatural world and the technological world are completely different
Magical civilization and mechanical civilization have never extended along the same path.
Many things that require overcoming countless technical difficulties in mechanical civilization can be solved extremely easily in mage civilization, and vice versa.
In a mechanical civilization, the birth of the Internet requires many prerequisites, such as "electricity", such as the technical foundation for breakthroughs in digital communications and computer technology.
From the telegraph transmitting Morse code, to the telephone that can make real-time calls, to the huge mainframe, and then the breakthrough of the transistor computer, and then the emergence of ARPANET
The emergence of ARPANET
It is possible to point out such technology one by one, and finally we can point out the Internet technology.
Each step requires the preparation of countless technical nodes, each of which is indispensable.
However, the principles of magical civilization, or the "technological tree", have completely different growth directions, and the path of mechanical civilization must not be applied.
This leads to many situations like this in this world:
[Gaode: I need a telegraph machine that can transmit messages over long distances. I need to solve the basic communication problem first.
My king, I'm sorry, this is too difficult. Can I give you a whole "computer" to make do with? 】
This sounds counter-intuitive, but it is a real situation with a high probability.
Because what it "reverses" has never been the common sense of this world, but the inherent cognition of mechanical civilization brought by Gothe in his previous life.
It is precisely because of this that when he first came into contact with the ether spider that could weave a network of spiritual veins, Gaode failed to immediately think of its application potential in the field of "Internet".
—He still has the empiricism left over from his previous life, and subconsciously applies the traditional technology lines he is used to in the development of the technology tree in the North.
As everyone knows, in the mage plane, many advanced "technologies" have already existed, they just need an opportunity to integrate and apply them.
When he thought of this, Gothe couldn't help but patted his head. It was not only a surprise to break through the limitations of his cognition, but also a reflection on the inertia of past thinking
He secretly warned himself in his heart: he must abandon the past dogmatism and experience inertia, and he can no longer use the framework of mechanical civilization to constrain the possibilities of this world.
After all, isn’t magic such an inconvenience?
After "disconnecting the Internet", Gaode breathed out a long breath unconsciously. Although he still had more thoughts, he was still quite emotional in his heart.
His trip to the Blue Flame Islands had been prepared for a long time and was extremely dangerous, but in the end it was very rewarding.
Who would have thought that after returning to the North, an inadvertent [Whisper from the Spirit World] would bring huge gains that surpassed the trip to the Blue Flame Islands.
A relatively cheap, convenient, stable and reliable method of long-distance communication. There is no doubt that it can play a role in the development of a power, country and even society.
It is by no means a simple communication tool, but a core fulcrum that can leverage the efficiency of the entire northern territory.
Instant messaging covering the entire territory allows the Government Affairs Department to achieve the ultimate management of the entire territory, which is an expansion of its governance and management capabilities.
Not only the connection between Valar Bay and Flora Forest, but also the various resource areas that will be developed in the future, including mineral veins, can also be closely connected to Phoenix through this Ethernet.
Furthermore, Ethernet does not only have one communication function, and the role of "Wanwei" for mages is unimaginable.
After sighing with emotion, Gaode's thoughts quickly fell into place: The next thing to do is to increase the number of Ethernet users.
The Internet, the Internet, what is the Internet without enough users?
There are two problems that need to be solved: network access and equipment.
The first is the issue of network access.
When building the Ethernet before, Gaode needed to communicate with the Ether Spider through [Spirit World Whispers] to tell them where to "pull the network cable".
The process is cumbersome and time-consuming ([Whispers from the Spirit World] is recharged once every two months), and it is extremely dependent on him personally and cannot be popularized.
Fortunately, he had foreseen it, and when building the Ethernet with the Ether Spider, he specifically asked the other party to reserve an exclusive node for himself, the key "King".
Now that the Ethernet is running stably, this node has become the "main gate". If you want to add new "broadband" or communicate with the Ether spiders in the future, you no longer need to use [Spirit World Whispers].
Just connect to the Ethernet through the "King's" key and communicate directly with the Ether Spider in the "Friends List" to communicate information with the Ether Spider.
Then there is the more critical issue of “equipment”.
It is the "key" to access Ethernet.
【Heart of the North】Every time an access key is generated, a certain amount of pure elemental materials need to be consumed.
Gaode made a rough estimate based on outside prices. The elemental materials required to generate an access key are worth about 50 Plantagenet coins.
As for cheap, it is certainly not cheap.
Even in the most developed cities outside, the total annual consumption of a family of five is only fifty or sixty gorse coins.
It is equivalent to a family of five not eating, drinking or sleeping for a year, and saving all their income for a year to buy a "computer".
In Gaode's previous life, the price of a "computer" was actually no more than one person's monthly salary in an ordinary working-class family.
But it cannot be said to be expensive.
Because Amap envisions that the users of Ethernet are the mages, not ordinary people.
And mages are a group with overproduction, or a group with extremely high wages.
The theoretical cost for a first-level mage to learn a first-level spell is as high as 65 gorse coins.
It seems that even a first-level mage can scrape together the money to buy the key as long as he slightly reduces his expenses and saves for a while.
More importantly, the North itself is a "treasury of extraordinary materials", and the vast ice sheet stores extremely rich elemental materials.
With a little development by the organization's manpower, these resources can be obtained at a cost far lower than the external market price.
By then, the production cost of keys can be further reduced.
If nothing else, it is not a big problem to ensure that mid-level mages in the North, and even some potential low-level mages, can use the Ethernet.
Gaode tapped his fingertips lightly on the table, and after pondering for a moment, he set the target for early users of Ethernet:
The first batch of three hundred keys will be generated, and all three-ring mages in Phoenix will be equipped with an Ethernet key.
At the time of the first census last year, the number of third-level mages registered in Phoenix was 207, and the number of fourth-level mages was 4.
But this year, due to the advancement of the tribal integration plan, many foreign third-ring mages have been added to Phoenix.
But in just the past year, the situation has been completely different.
On the one hand, with the steady advancement of the "tribal integration plan" in the north, many small and medium-sized tribes in the surrounding areas have been gradually integrated into Phoenix.
Many senior mages from the tribes also joined, and there were dozens of third-level mages from outside;
On the other hand, the resources in the North became increasingly abundant, and many mages in the tribe who had been stuck at the top of the second-level for a long time successfully broke through the bottleneck and were promoted to third-level mages with the help of this "east wind".
With the blessing of these two factors, the number of third-level mages in Phoenix has now quietly approached three hundred.
Three hundred keys are just enough to achieve full coverage, and more can be used for office needs.
Phoenix currently does not have a currency system, and people's daily needs are mostly allocated by the city hall.
So these first batch of keys are equivalent to "office computers", and the production costs are all borne by the city hall.
But this is not a particularly heavy burden.
After all, at the same time, almost all output in Phoenix is controlled and dispatched by the city hall.
Moreover, if there are not enough users, the Ethernet cannot guarantee to operate at all times, and it cannot reach an agreement with the Ether Spider: long-term, large amounts of fresh information.
The Ethernet was successfully established, and there was no need to worry about the lag of news. Gothe "settled" in Flora Forest with great peace of mind, waiting for Ibrahimovic's condition to stabilize before returning to Phoenix.
Just right here, without the hassle of filing papers or trivial distractions, you can spend a period of true retreat and study.
Cultivation, spell model construction, and rune learning.
This takes up most of Gaode’s daily time.
A month passed quietly in the blink of an eye, and the days passed peacefully and fulfillingly.
This period of focused practice, with the combination of bones, blood, thorns, and slurry to match his mental strength at the limit of the second ring, coupled with the environment in the north that is like a holy land for "The Secret of the Ice", his progress in the "Secret of the Ice" has skyrocketed at a speed visible to the naked eye, one day at a time.
Unknowingly, I have reached the threshold of promotion.
Speaking of it, "promoting to the first level" is nothing new to him.
As a second-level mage who has already opened up the first-level magic star sea, and whose mental power has reached the limit of the second-level, this time the level promotion is more like "re-walking the process", and the sense of familiarity is far more than the nervousness of the first promotion.
He doesn't even need to prepare expensive ring-raising potions in advance to stabilize his mana and assist in breakthroughs like ordinary mages do, everything will fall into place.
Hand sitting cross-legged and entering a meditative state, Gothe does not need to take the magic potion to increase the level. The moment his mental power reaches the mana pool, his promotion starts directly.
The ice-blue mist-like mana in his mana pool belonging to "The Secret of Perfect Ice" was no longer calm and began to spin violently under his drive.
(End of this chapter)