Mobile City Travel Guide

When Li Xin woke up, it was already daylight.

A low hum came from below, while the scenery outside the window continued to flow—the Starfire had been traveling overnight since yesterday and had now sailed beyond the borders of the Kingdom of Edlas.

When he arrived at the watchtower as usual, he was surprised to find that there were already people there.

"Good morning, Mr. Li Xin." The elf prince Elarian waved to him. "I usually like to keep watch from higher places."

Li Xin walked up the tower and stood beside him.

"Um... if I may be so bold as to ask, how old are you this year?" he said.

The reason for this question is that elves often have ridiculously long lifespans and are eternally youthful, so you can't tell how old they are from their appearance.

Elarion was taken aback for a moment, then smiled slightly.

"I'm not very old, only a little over a thousand years old."

"......"

After regaining his senses, Li Xin couldn't help but scratch his hair.

What an enviable race! They don't have to worry about wrinkles or aging, and they have plenty of time to learn whatever they want, go wherever they want, and see whoever they want.

At this moment, the Spark was sailing across a vast plain, where the morning light had fully spread, dyeing the entire land a translucent emerald green. Waves of grass stretched from near to the horizon, and with a gust of wind, they rippled in layers, like a frozen sea.

He unconsciously took a breath and felt his whole body become lighter.

To be honest, just walking around in a place like this can lift your spirits.

But not long after, he witnessed an incredibly outrageous scene.

Before me stretched countless oddly shaped, irregularly formed mountains. They varied in height and build; some resembled tree stumps cut in half, others flattened buns, and still others stood crookedly on the ground, as if they might topple over at any moment.

According to Elarian, it was called Dragonspine Mountains, and it was originally several thousand meters high. But during the Great War in the Wizarding World, humans and dwarves fought there for three days and three nights, and the wizarding armies accompanying both sides utterly destroyed the entire mountain range.

The Spark cruiser sped from the plains into the mountains, its tires crunching over the loose rocks along the way. Li Xin stared blankly at the passing scenery. These majestic mountains, thousands of meters high, had actually been blasted into such a state?

After crossing the Dragon Ridge Mountains, he saw even more exaggerated sights.

The entire lake has evaporated; the once shimmering surface is now gone, replaced by a gray, dry, cracked flat area.

The earth was completely torn apart, with hundreds and thousands of huge cracks extending outwards. The cracks were even tens of meters wide and bottomless. Looking down from the edge, all one could see was darkness and the occasional hot wind carrying the smell of sulfur rising from the depths.

There were still many scattered ruins along the way. Li Xin thought it was a destroyed town, but Elarian told him that it was the ruins of a human kingdom, but it had been destroyed so badly that its original appearance was no longer visible.

What surprised him most was that there was a large area of ​​land completely suspended in the air in front of him.

Flowers, vegetation, building ruins, mountains, rubble... everything was eerily floating in mid-air, with an unfathomable abyss below. For a fleeting moment, he thought he had returned to the Sky World.

But Elarian told him that it was caused by the reckless abuse of magic by several high-ranking wizards during the war, whose unleashed magical power completely blasted through the ley lines beneath. The remaining magical power caused this "floating" phenomenon, which would not dissipate for at least a hundred years.

"In short, as you can see," he shrugged. "The whole world has been ravaged by magic."

Li Xin nodded, his eyes flickering.

Therefore, magic is a power that is almost on par with, or even surpasses, human technology.

Human technological development requires resources, energy, the accumulation of generations, and countless trials and errors. From the steam engine to the internal combustion engine, from the propeller to the jet engine, from gunpowder to nuclear fission, every step is built upon the shoulders of predecessors, like a relay race.

Magic is different. Magic is a power that an individual can master. A wizard, through dedicated practice, can, in just a few decades, achieve a destructive force far exceeding the accumulated power of centuries of human industrial revolution.

No mines, no smelters, no assembly lines, no supply chains are needed—all that's needed is his own talent, knowledge, and control over magic.

"This is truly a power so strong it defies all reason," he thought to himself.

Then he realized something and continued to ask questions.

"By the way, what's with the runes on the orcs? Why is magic almost useless against them?"

Just as Elarian was about to speak, another voice suddenly came from behind.

"Orcs are creations of the demon lord Angmar. In order to conquer the world, Angmar not only endowed orcs with powerful physiques, but also developed anti-magic runes."

It was Peter, the wizard apprentice, who spoke with a tone of heaviness beyond his years as he explained.

The Elf Prince nodded, his expression turning melancholy and helpless.

"Since magic is ineffective, we have no choice but to face the orcs with our bare flesh and blood," he said. "And that has undoubtedly caused us heavy casualties..."

Li Xin glanced at Peter, who was currently holding the life-saving box in his arms. Kadrin had entrusted the important task of guarding it to his apprentice, and he was extremely careful, never leaving its side, even holding it tightly while sleeping.

He couldn't help but glance at the thing a few more times.

It's not because we covet its power, but because it also has evolutionary branches.

【Item Name: Fallen Artifact - Life-Protecting Box】

[Description: The soul of a demon king slumbers here; his return will make the entire world tremble.]

[Evolutionary Branch:]

[Fully Unleashed: Enhances the Life-Protecting Box's abilities, significantly accelerates the recovery speed of Angmar's Soul, and makes it even stronger after rebirth.] - 9900 Evolution Points

[Matrix Life Box - Data Ascension: Angmar's soul is sublimated into pure electronic consciousness. He will wield a torrent of data as his body and binary code as his spell, transforming his vast army into cold, electronic beings that permeate every crevice of cyberspace.] - 25000 Evolution Points

[The Chest of Atonement - Elegy of the Holy Light: Use the Holy Light to completely purify the corrupted souls of Angmar, granting them new life and making them followers and advocates of the Holy Light, bringing hope and redemption back to the world.] - 50000 Evolution Points

"I never expected even the Life-Protecting Box could evolve." He said in surprise. "Speaking of which, isn't this first evolutionary branch completely aiding and abetting evil?"

As for the second evolutionary branch... the Matrix Life Box? Data Ascension? Doesn't this just create a cybernetic demon king?