Volume 3: The Land of Mist Chapter 6 Response Terminal
"Right now, we are only focusing on paving the area around the Rose Palace and the Stranger Star Lighthouse. However, due to limited production capacity and materials, we may need more time to pave the entire Thorn City..."
Nezemar said as he walked.
Since Valk was able to overturn the Viper Lighthouse and expose the Moon Rift inside, William had to assume that the Stranger Lighthouse in Thorn City could also be overturned. As long as there was a possibility of a Moon Rift being opened inside Thorn City, he would have no choice but to temporarily put aside the things here and go to Ava Continent to find Remedios.
After all, the Void Kings have now set their sights on him, and he suspects that Lady Hungry and Corrupted can accurately locate his position in the real world through the wound on his body that is constantly spreading the curse of corruption.
It is impossible to arrange the guidance beacons of the teleportation array on the ever-changing sea surface. Transmission across the continent has always been a difficult technical problem to solve. Therefore it is impossible to rely on teleportation to quickly reach Ava Continent.
William also considered the possibility of using transformation spells to fly there, but even if he departed from Baie Port in Jade Province, it was . He had no way to find a reference point to determine his direction in the vast ocean. Therefore, William had to take a boat to go to Ava Island, and it would take at least more than a month to go back and forth.
Considering that he might have to deal with the siege of the imperial army later, he would have to leave here for at least two or three months. Before he left, he had to solve the security issues of Blackwater Swamp and Nakuland to a certain extent.
Building a basic magic network based on the Eighth Holy Spirit Statue is one of the methods he has thought of now.
"Lord Kane, please come over here."
As Nezemar spoke, he held the lantern in his hand and led William deeper into the dimly lit passage.
William had previously rebuilt a church armed organization called the "Temple of Punishment" according to the structure of the Sealed Temple, and at the same time entrusted the construction of the magic network to this department.
Now that the secular government of Blackwater Swamp and the New Holy Spirit Church are both under the rule of the Judgment Seat, the armed forces of the Church do not need to be as secretive as before. But in the end, the headquarters of the Holy Temple of Punishment was still set up in the maze-like sewer system of Thorn City, and the reason for this was inseparable from the construction plan of the magic network.
The spells with completed models are stored in the public positions in advance. As long as they are within the range of the magic network, those who have the permission to use those spells can call them at will. This was the most popular magic plan within the Mage Guild before the astral circuit was proposed. And William naturally has copies of the drawings of these plans.
After pushing open a few trap doors that had been reinforced with simple sealing spells, a soft magic crystal light flowed out from inside, and William was brought by Nazemar to a spacious stone-walled hall.
As he stepped into the hall, William's attention was naturally attracted by the bloodstains of various shapes on the stone wall.
"This used to be the sacrificial hall of a secret society of the Moon Realm at Offa University. They hung bloody animal skins on the wall and used them as a medium to summon Moon Realm monsters to possess the skins and answer their questions. Over time, these blood marks were left behind."
Nazemar explained after noticing William's gaze.
Vincent mentioned in his previous report that there were many secret societies that worshipped the Moon Realm in private at Offa University in Blackwater Province. Most of the people who joined those secret societies were civilian students who were lucky enough to pass the initiation ceremony. Many of them had finished their magic learning career when they obtained the title of apprentice. If they wanted to go further, it was beyond their personal talent - they needed the Star Lighthouse to open up further promotion rights for them.
Although the Star Lighthouse promised that everyone would have the opportunity to be promoted and awarded a title, they would be selected equally based on merit. However, in reality, the Star Council controlled the number of magic casters of various forces by controlling the number of promotions within the radiation range of each lighthouse. Therefore, promotions, even for apprentices to be promoted to experts, were scarce.
As for scarce goods, no matter how you design the screening mechanism, they will eventually fall into the hands of those who are willing to pay a higher price.
Therefore, for those who can theoretically reach a higher level but see no hope at all, the Moon Realm becomes their only path.
"Just animal fur?"
William asked as he looked at a bloodstain that looked like a human shape.
"Well... the sacrifices they choose are indeed getting closer and closer to humans, but they haven't reached the final stage yet. This is just the mark left by the white-maned ape."
Nezemar replied.
The pollution of the Moon Realm was not achieved overnight. Most Moon Realm monsters would very patiently guide a mortal into the abyss of depravity. Therefore, when William was clearing out the Moon Realm believers in Thorn City and even the entire Blackwater Swamp, although the scale was unprecedented and even the dungeons in Thorn City were filled with them, only a small number of Moon Realm believers who were hopelessly depraved were actually executed.
But William had no doubt that under the deformed system of Star Law, there would always be many people who were extremely disappointed with the existing magic system and turned to the Moon Realm to seek power.
William withdrew his gaze from the bloodstains on the wall, and then looked at the enchantment table with the Holy Spirit Disc placed in the center of the hall. A clergyman in a linen robe with slightly graying temples was busy with the consecration ceremony there.
This person was a consecrator who was previously recruited from another Sealed Temple in Blackwater Province. Together with him were more than 20 internal and external staff of the Sealed Temple in Blackwater Province who were abandoned by the Holy See. The current "Temple of Punishment" was established with them as the backbone.
In order to make them work for him honestly, William even violated his own principles and used the activated image of the Eighth Holy Spirit to perform a divine manifestation. This made the Templars who vowed to live and die with the entire Sealed Temple lay down their weapons on the spot and kneel down to declare their allegiance to the banner of the Holy Spirit.
Unfortunately... there are not as many knowledgeable people in this Sealed Temple as in the previous one.
"How many Type 2 response terminals have been produced so far?"
William walked up to him and asked.
Hearing William's voice, the ordained master stopped what he was doing instantly. He turned to look at William in disbelief, his lips trembling slightly as if he was about to say something.
Before he could start to talk about the prayer that William called "The Eighth Holy Spirit's Prayer", William interrupted him:
"You can save those things for your normal prayers. Answer my questions first."
The other party opened his mouth and froze for a few seconds before saying respectfully:
"Lord Kane, there are more than sixty of them in total."
As he spoke, he took out a sample from the side and handed it to William.
It was a small disc engraved with an ancient horn pattern, about half the size of a palm, a little heavy in the hand, and coated with a layer of shiny source silver.
"According to your request, I chose the 'Kane Horn' pattern. The interior is an Austrian iron core mixed with a small amount of magic crystal powder. The surface is coated with a layer of source silver, and it has been consecrated by the Holy Spirit Disc."
As soon as the pendant fell into William's hands, he felt a connection between himself and it. He could observe the surrounding situation through the pendant, and he could also use it as a medium to cast spells remotely.
Based on these properties, William eventually named it the "Response Terminal".
William had thought of leaving a large number of response terminals behind so that he could remotely cast spells to protect Thorn City. However, there was a fatal problem with using response terminals to cast spells, which was that if the distance was too far, the magic power consumption would increase.
He estimated that if he used the response terminal in Ava to cast a spell on Thorn City, even if all his magic power was drained away, he would only be able to cast a master-level spell.
