The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 851 Technology Sharing Principles

Around the round table of the council, the rulers of the three civilizations—the wizards, the gods, and the abyss—gathered together.

Although the three civilizations have signed an alliance agreement and joined the Wizarding Alliance, this alliance is only a general framework, and the specific details have not yet been determined.

Issues such as the division of war zones, the mobilization of legions, and the exchange of technical intelligence all require numerous rulers to decide on a set of rules.

The people sat in rows, facing each other, the two civilizations of gods and the abyss, separated by the wizards of truth.

After taking their seats, the Energizing Crown spoke first: "I'll skip the formalities and get straight to the point. The main topics of discussion at this meeting are the exchange of intelligence between civilizations, the command and mobilization of legions, and the exchange of technology."

The alliance currently has two battlefields, one in the Wizarding Civilization and the other in the Gods Civilization.

The situation on our side, the wizarding civilization, is relatively optimistic. Thanks to the fortifications of the Star River Mayflies and our elite legions, the Civilization Devourers have temporarily abandoned their attack on us.

After speaking, the Corona of Energy looked toward the region of the civilization of the gods.

Among the three god-kings of the God Civilization, the Sun God-King spoke as the representative: "Although it is somewhat difficult to say, our situation is somewhat worse than that of the Wizard Civilization."

The civilization devourers consumed 113 of our worlds within a year.

Although we have intensified the construction of our fortifications, we still cannot withstand the onslaught of the civilization devourers.

Phew.

No sooner had the Sun God King finished speaking than Beelzebub, who was sitting opposite the civilization of gods, burst out laughing.

He sneered, "Let me guess, are your fortifications still city fortresses, then add a divine kingdom on earth, and finally build a few large temples and put up a lot of statues?"

Even we can't defend against this thing, how can you expect to deal with a civilization devourer?

Samael nodded in agreement.

"Your defenses are indeed inadequate."

Although Samael didn't have much of an impression of the gods' defenses, he did remember the defenses of the civilization devourers.

In the past two years, he once invaded a small world, only to be bombarded with attacks of tens of millions of energy levels as soon as he entered.

This kind of attack was like a gentle breeze to him, but it was still too much for him. When he forcibly invaded the world of gods, he had never even encountered a gentle breeze.

The Sun God King was not angry about this; the facts were right there, and being stubborn would only bring shame upon himself.

"What are your two insights?" the Sun God King asked calmly.

Beelzebub revealed a wicked smile: "If you ask me, the best defense would be for all these worlds to evolve into abyssal worlds."

“Absolutely impossible,” the Sun God King replied bluntly.

After saying that, he added coldly, "Beelzebub, this is an alliance meeting. Don't expose your petty schemes and make yourself a laughingstock."

A brief silence fell over the hall.

However, the silence was soon broken by Richard's voice.

"...Actually, this might not be a bad solution."

The three god-kings of the divine civilization looked at Richard. As the nexus between the three civilizations and the one who knew the Abyss Devourer best, Richard's advice was definitely not unfounded.

“First of all, we must be clear about one thing: with our current level of technology and the quality of our troops, it is absolutely impossible for us to launch a counterattack against the civilization devourers,” Richard said slowly.

The world devoured by the civilization devourers is at the level of the fortified worlds of the previous civilization alliance, both in terms of fortifications and troops.

With the current strength of the Wizarding Alliance, it is absolutely impossible for them to conquer such a world with conventional legions unless a Overlord leads the way.

Those massive defensive fortifications, each with tens of millions of units, were designed specifically to deal with conventional legions; they were weapons against the legions of the World Lord.

"Based on this, we should focus on defense in the short term."

There was no rebuttal in the council chamber; such objective facts left no room for argument.

"Therefore, our focus for the next period should be on defending the hub, concentrating our forces as much as possible, and minimizing our troop disadvantage against the civilization devourers."

From this perspective, those worlds that can be strategically abandoned can be completely transformed into abyssal worlds.

“Strategic abandonment is not easy,” the Eternal God King suddenly said. “We are different from you wizards. We do not have a sufficient number of believers. The combat power of a god is only slightly higher than that of an ordinary native world lord.”

Richard smiled, looked at the Alchemy Crown opposite him, and then at the Energy Crown.

“Believers are not the problem,” Alchemy Crown said, then looked at Energy Crown.

"What do you think of Plastic Energy?"

The Cosmic Crown said calmly, "There are many worlds with elemental imbalances; resettling some refugees won't be a problem."

The wizarding worlds of hybrid wizards are all worlds with balanced elements, while the Red Sun World, which Richard visited, is a world with unbalanced elements. In the wizards' strategic planning, such worlds are considered resource worlds, so they do not contain a large number of hybrid wizards and are sufficient to accommodate refugees.

“If that’s the case, then temporarily giving up some worlds is indeed acceptable,” said the Myriad Transformations God King.

"Ha ha, you're talking as if you have a choice," Beelzebub continued to sneer.

The Myriad Transformations God King glanced at him, his single eye gleaming with a cold, sharp light.

Although Samael was the abyss ruler who most frequently clashed with the gods, in terms of hatred, ten Samaels could not match one Beelzebub.

Although Samael would launch large-scale invasions, his legions were very "martial." These legions would use planning and tactics, but would never resort to deliberately malicious means.

But Beelzebub's army of demons in the abyss is different. Wherever Beelzebub goes on campaign, his legions leave behind countless viruses and toxic swamps, even if the abyss itself is corrupted and eroded. Sometimes, the climate and even the landscape of an entire world are permanently altered.

Beelzebub's Abyss Virus has long ravaged the rear of the civilization of the gods, and countless people have become Abyss Ghouls because of the Abyss Virus.

The atmosphere in the parliament hall suddenly became strangely tense.

Snapped!
Samael suddenly slapped Beelzebub, almost shoving Beelzebub's head into his stomach.

"Beelzebub, shut up, or the meeting will go on forever."

Beelzebub pulled his head out of his chest cavity, neither angry nor annoyed, but instead said with a smile, "Haha, I couldn't help myself when I saw these orbs of light, please forgive my rudeness."

The God of Changes did not pursue the matter further, as verbal sparring was pointless now. The two sides were allies, and deadly combat was prohibited.

“Let’s continue,” Richard continued. “While guarding the Nexus world has indeed reduced our manpower burden, the technological gap between us and previous civilizations still exists.”

"You, Alchemist, should explain this."

With a flick of his finger, the Alchemist Crown appeared a design drawing in the air.

"This is the basic equipment of the Civilization Devourer Legion, a kind of mind-controlled floating cannon. The normal attack power of this floating cannon is at the 10,000 level, but it can be temporarily overloaded to increase its power to the 30,000 level."

Of course, this data isn't immediately intuitive; you'll understand once you get a feel for it.

As he spoke, the Alchemy Sovereign pointed his finger, and streams of light shot towards the God King and the Abyss Sovereign.

boom.

The attack, at the level of ten thousand, produced only a slight tremor on the clones of the Sovereigns.

Upon realizing the power of the beam, even Beelzebub, who had always mocked the civilization of the gods, turned serious.

Undoubtedly, this data is somewhat excessive for basic equipment.

"Aside from basic equipment, we are basically lagging behind in all aspects of astral navigation, including world-master weapons, legion defenses, ley line weapons, and so on."

Our only advantage is probably that we currently have a large number of people and abundant resources.

Faced with this fact, the parliamentary hall fell silent once again.

“Technology isn’t the problem,” Richard said again. “The main problem is technology transfer. Curse, tell me what you’ve discovered.”

Beside Richard, the Cursed Archmage, who had inherited the Cursed Dimension and become the Cursed Crown, spoke somewhat nervously: "Well, based on the legacy left by my teacher, I can almost certainly conclude that the technology of the previous civilization has been 'contaminated'."

Widespread use of technologies from previous civilizations would not only enhance the power of civilization devourers, but could also lead to technological malfunctions at critical moments.

Upon hearing this, the gods and the abyss remained largely unmoved, but the Alchemist Crown was quite uneasy.

"Pollution? Curse? Explain yourself."

The Crown of the Cursed paused, then began to recount his joint discovery with the previous Crown of the Cursed.

The technological pollution he mentioned is similar in principle to Daoist technological pollution, but it is much milder and does not affect the normal use of the technology.

However, this pollution itself is closely related to the civilization devourer, and is almost a part of it.

Once the original technology is used on a large scale, the power of the civilization devourers will increase accordingly. This is also why the Forgemen chose to build the Wonder Forge.

The previous civilization is already bound to the civilization devourers; as long as the civilization devourers live, they will never have peace.

After hearing the story of the Cursed Crown, the council hall fell silent once again.

A moment later, the Alchemy Crown broke the silence.

"Miracle, what do you mean by saying technology isn't a problem? Have you found another base for the spark?"

Richard smiled but did not answer the question directly.

"While the technology of previous civilizations may have been advanced, modern people are not necessarily inferior to them. Their technology is merely a reference; we can only use it as nourishment to enrich our own technology."

Communication is the ladder to progress.

I propose that civilization alliances engage in a certain degree of technology sharing.

These words instantly broke the silence in the parliament hall.

This does not mean that the council hall became chaotic, but rather that the many ideas of the rulers present became active.

There is no doubt that technical exchange is a mixed blessing for wizards.

From a technical standpoint, the wizards' technology is a level ahead of the two civilizations in the Abyss of Gods. If technology sharing were to occur, the wizards would clearly be at a disadvantage.

However, different civilizations naturally have their own unique features.

While exchanging ideas may result in the loss of some knowledge, it can also lead to new technologies and new insights.

In the short term, technological exchange certainly raises the lower limit of the alliance, but in the long run, such technological development is not conducive to the wizards' future struggle for supremacy. It is normal to unite against powerful enemies, but without powerful enemies, even the most united alliance will fall apart.

While hesitating, the Energizing Crown suddenly spoke up: "Let's communicate. In the long run, we're all dead."

Upon hearing this, the success or failure of the proposal naturally came to an end.

After a vote, the principle of partial technology sharing was unanimously approved.

(End of this chapter)