Chapter 9 The Apostles and the Floating City
The Broken Starry Sky is a wonderful world with many intelligent races and powerful superior creatures. These indigenous races have formed many completely different civilizations on some giant hanging continents.
According to the recollection of the Great Goblin Elder, when he was young, he visited many hanging continents. During his adventure, he had seen a variety of racial civilizations. Among these civilizations are mechanical life similar to Transformers, magical worlds similar to Azeroth, and even picturesque Eastern wonderlands.
Various civilizations meet in the broken starry sky, looking like the Creator's test field. However, in the words of the Great Goblin Elder, this is more like a garbage dump abandoned by the Creator God. Because the wise race in the broken starry sky has never felt the favor of the gods, and only the disputes and turmoil between civilizations of major races.
The suspended continents in the broken starry sky are not unchanged, but also have their own survival cycle. The suspended continents as small as islands and reefs generally have only a lifespan of thousands of years, while the decay cycle of some suspended continents as large as planets is in units of billions of years.
Every once in a while, some hanging continents will fall apart, turn into dust, and disappear into the endless starry sky. And some hanging continents will slowly condense into the core in the starry sky, and grow rapidly, gradually becoming a new hanging continent.
Although the position of the hanging continent in the broken starry sky is constant and will not collide with other continents, due to the limited resources, trade and war have to be carried out between the hanging continents. In fact, this is also the root cause of most world-destroying disasters in the broken starry sky.
When a smart race of a certain suspended continent is ready to invade another continent, they will conduct continental teleport through the Starry Gate, which is unique in the Broken Starry Sky. This teleportation is not a time-space teleportation, but is limited to the internal space of the Broken Starry Sky, ignoring the distance and type. The only limitation is the size of the Starry Sky Gate.
The small starry sky gate can only teleport individual lives, while the large starry sky gate can teleport a city fortress and the entire city to other suspended continents.
"So, those powerful superior races, immortals, demons, gods and Buddhas, and angel dragons are the top of the race pyramid in the broken starry sky?" Lily couldn't help but be curious and interrupted the Goblin Elder's narrative. After coming to her senses, her face turned pale immediately.
However, the murderer here obviously wanted to know this answer, and no one paid attention to him for a while.
"No, those upper creatures are basically in a hidden state and will not show up easily. The races that dominate the broken starry sky are those intelligent races with not strong individuals but large populations and huge potential. For example: humans, elves, orcs, dwarves, undeads, mechanical life, elemental creatures, etc."
The Goblin Elder changed into a comfortable sitting position and said with a strange expression, "Actually, this situation has a lot to do with you time travelers..."
Everyone's eyes lit up slightly, and they felt that the next topic of the Goblin Elder was probably about to reveal the hidden story of why the "Lulu clan" attached importance to the time travelers in different time and space.
It turns out that the suspended continent of the broken starry sky not only has an internal starry sky gate, but also an unpredictable space-time portal. There are often some life in different time and space that are absorbed into the broken starry sky by the time and space portal.
Unlike the indigenous creatures in the broken starry sky, as long as these different time and space lives successfully travel through the time and space portal, they will be combined with the world laws of the broken starry sky, forming a unique law body with the soul as the core.
The law of the time traveler is no different from a normal person at first, and he will also get sick, bleed, or even be injured and die. However, due to the particularity of the law of the body, the time traveler has almost unlimited potential. Some powerful time travelers can destroy the world and have combat power comparable to gods and demons. Even the brain and heart and other body keys are severely damaged and will not die immediately.
However, time travelers are not the indigenous people of the broken starry sky after all. They are rejected by the broken starry sky at all times. This rejection will become stronger and stronger over time, so every once in a while, these time travelers will be teleported to other alien worlds by the broken starry sky.
This kind of time and space teleportation is very random, and no one knows where the time traveler will be teleported. Every time the time and space teleportation, some other world tasks will appear in the minds of the time traveler, and even they themselves do not know the source and motivation of these tasks.
If the task cannot be completed, the soul of the time traveler will become weaker and weaker, eventually leading to death. Most of the time travelers will die in these tasks in other worlds. However, as long as they complete the tasks in their minds before teleporting back to the Broken Starry Sky, they will get huge benefits.
It is like the Broken Starry Sky signing a contract of employment with the time traveler. One party works hard to complete the task, while the other party gives them life and ability. Therefore, the crossing of the different time and space are also called the contract apostle by the indigenous lives of the Broken Starry Sky.
The apostles are in various dangers all year round, and all mature apostles have extremely powerful combat power. Some talented apostles will become gods and demons in just a few years. Moreover, because they also have various weapons and equipment obtained from other worlds, and their law bodies have almost no fatal weaknesses, even gods and demons are unwilling to fight against the apostles.
In the ancient times when the broken starry sky was precisely because of the emergence of many apostles, the dominant creatures fell one after another, and some of the superior races were even extinct. They had to choose to live in seclusion and no longer appear in front of others. In the eyes of the apostles, these superior creatures were equivalent to walking treasures. They were very happy to use the legacy of gods and demons to allow themselves to take extra insurance when performing tasks in other worlds.
At that time, it was also called the end of gods and demons. The top layer of the pyramid of the broken starry sky was cut off by the apostles, and the broken starry sky entered a new era of heroes fighting for hegemony. Some intelligent races with large populations and slightly weak individual power began to rise and became the new master of the broken starry sky.
The apostles' influence on the Broken Starry Sky is more than that. Their energy and focus are on adventure missions in other worlds. Broken Starry Sky is just a transitional place for them to rest and adjust. In addition, due to the mission relationship, the relationship between them is complicated, both alliances and hostility, so they cannot become the actual rulers of the Broken Starry Sky.
However, those wise races that occupy a dominant position cannot ignore the power of the apostles. Unlike gods and demons, they do not have the value of hunting themselves, but they can hire apostles to attack enemy races and hostile continents.
In two hanging continents with similar forces, two intelligent races with similar military strength, once a war breaks out, the apostle team they have is likely to become the key to the outcome of the war. Even some small races have hired powerful apostle teams to defeat powerful opponents in the war and gain a broader living space for themselves.
From the demise of gods and demons in ancient times to the current continental battle for hegemony, all the wise races that broke the starry sky have begun to follow an iron rule. That is, they cannot rely entirely on the survival of the race on the apostles, nor can they lose the help of the apostles.
The reason is very simple. Due to the existence of the space-time portal, the apostles cannot be extinct from their roots. However, once they completely rely on certain apostles teams, when these apostles suffer heavy damage in their missions in other worlds, they lose the initiative in war.
This strange and nonsensical phenomenon prompted the birth of a special thing to the broken starry sky. That is the floating city built by some intelligent races that concentrate all resources.
Due to different civilizations, these huge cities have different power sources, but they can all move at will on the suspended continent. At the same time, they can also use the Starry Gate to teleport between various suspended continents. They are not only the survival foundation of the intelligent race, but also a special place to serve the apostles.
Having this kind of intelligent race in the floating city can not only rely on the city, greatly enhance its survival ability, but also continuously attract the apostles to settle in. There is no need to worry about suddenly losing the combat power of the apostles team during the war.
There are many types of floating cities, and they are all kinds of different types. Different civilizations are distinguished, including technology cities, magic cities, biochemical cities, supernatural cities, etc. The types of services provided by the cities to the apostles are distinguished, including college cities, entertainment cities, trade cities, war fortresses, etc.
No matter which city it is, it is very polite to the apostles who settle in. In addition to some basic benefits, a complete set of service regulations will be specially formulated for the apostles. These service regulations basically follow the principle of equivalent exchange. After all, not every apostle will become an existence comparable to gods and demons, and most apostles will fall in missions in another world.
In order to seize the resources of the apostles, the floating city will regularly travel to and from various hanging continents. To this day, there are no intelligent races in the floating city. Should we slowly perish and become an affiliation to other races. The number and size of the floating city have become the only criterion for distinguishing the strength of the intelligent race and the hanging continent.
Strangely, large hanging continents with large populations and races often rarely have time and space portals. On the contrary, small and medium-sized hanging continents with few people and barren environments often have time and space portals and different time and space travelers, that is, preparation apostles.
Preparing apostles does not have strong force, but adding icing on the cake is worse than giving timely help. The floating city provides certain help when they are weakest. Then these apostles will naturally repay their favors after they become stronger and repay their floating city.
It can be said that the more reserved apostles you recruit, the greater the potential of the floating city. Of course, the floating city is all giants, although it can move around in the air and travel across various suspended continents. But it is impossible to go everywhere like ants to find the reserved apostles that will appear at any time.
Therefore, some small and medium-sized hanging continents with remote geographical locations similar to the Red Gobi Desert have been born, some "scavengers" tribes that are specialized in finding time and space teleportation ruins.
For example: the Lulu clan in front of human prisoners!
Chapter completed!