Chapter two hundred and seventeen looking up at the stars(1/2)
Since his plan to get involved in the mercenary group failed and his plan to experience the adventurer's life failed, Ender gave up this bad idea.
After all, it was just a whim for him. Looking back now, it was actually a good thing not to join the Blood Rose Mercenary Group.
Otherwise, if you have to hide yourself from experiencing life at all times, life would be too frustrating - is it experiencing life or being full?
Leaving Boante City, Ander drove a single carriage all the way, without making any plans, and he calculated wherever he went. Sometimes he walked with caravans, sometimes he stayed in villages and towns, but more often he stayed in the wild.
Walking alone, only Dabai and the sun, moon and stars accompanied him, gave Ende the opportunity to get rid of all troubles and reflect on the difference between the world and the earth - and the path he has walked until now.
The fields at night are broad and quiet.
Ander lay on the grass with his back facing the sky.
He had a grass stick in the corner of his mouth, and he lay on the ground, looking at the sky at night.
Dabai curled up his four hooves and lay down beside Ande. His two big ice-blue eyes looked at his master curiously, wondering why Ande was in a daze.
Horses are very smart animals, and Dabai, who has advanced to high-level monsters, is even better than ordinary people, regardless of their thinking and memory. Although he can't speak for the time being, it's just that it has been too short to advance to high-level monsters and has not had time to learn how to speak.
However, even if you advance to a high-level monster, Dabai's thinking is still quite simple - being with his master makes it feel safe and comfortable, and even when facing the sea of swords and blood, it feels at ease.
Sometimes, it is really hard for Dabai to understand why his master is always worried.
In Dabai's opinion, eating well and drinking well, having a strong body, occupying a leader among the clan, and leaving behind many descendants of one's own descendants. This is already the pinnacle of life and there should be no trouble.
Dabai didn't understand why the owner often looked depressed when he saw that the little owner refused to study hard.
Dabai was very happy to see his foal jumping around. As for whether they learn or not, Dabai didn't care.
The bloodline of the monster can be inherited, especially the monsters like Dabai, which have benign mutations and evolved in physiques, which are more likely to be passed down from descendants than mutations and evolutions in other directions.
Over the years, in order to allow the advanced Dabai Duoduo to leave his descendants and open up a brand new breed of horses, Ander and Emilia have often purchased the Frost Wind Horse from Gilter at a high price to serve as a harem for Dabai.
Ander has repeatedly made personal actions and repeatedly debugged the qi and blood purification core implanted in Dabai's body, striving to be consistent with Dabai's own life energy frequency, completely integrating this core into the life energy circulation structure of Dabai's body, and turning it from an external implant into an energy core that can be self-generated and self-repaired.
Dabai's descendants are the royal pets and imperial war horses under the Duke of Blood Tide - but the Frost Wind Giant Horse's original cart pulling carts rarely show it.
Over the years, Ender's research on energy runes has become increasingly profound, but he has become increasingly unable to see the cornerstone of the existence of this world.
Although the physical knowledge system on the earth still has many shortcomings, from the micro to the macro, there has been a set of logical self-consistent theories that can explain most phenomena.
Living in a world like the earth makes people feel at ease.
Because everything you see and touch with can be explained through science in that world - why wood burns, why water freezes, why sunlight shines on everything, why it rains, and why plants can grow on the earth.
But in this world, the more Ander studied, the more he discovered that many achievements and laws in this world seemed to be based on something uncertain.
For example, alchemy, no matter how precisely the various conditions are controlled, there is always a certain chance of failure.
After Andeppo introduced standardized metrology instruments, alchemists led by Master Wande were the first to discover the benefits and updated the laboratory equipment several times. Their grasp of dosage and time was more than ten times, but with such a jump, many experiments still have a considerable probability of failure.
Ande once asked Master Wande for advice on this.
According to Master Wande, during the material transformation process of alchemy experiments, the spiritual influence of the alchemist plays an irreplaceable role in it.
The microscopic fluctuations of matter and even the instability of space interfere with each other. No one can calculate all variables. They can only rely on the alchemist's spiritual tentacles to adjust according to the changes in the situation, so the probability of failure is fundamentally inevitable.
At that time, Ander asked strangely, since there was so much uncertainty, how should the mage ensure his success rate of casting. The answer he got was that in addition to the correct casting method and casting proficiency, the rest depends on his face.
The reason why the forbidden spell is called a forbidden spell is not only because it has great damage to the environment and is irreversible. Another reason is that the part of casting the forbidden spell is too many and complicated. Even legendary spell casters have a considerable probability of failure to cast the backlash - so it is forbidden.
Why is the legendary caster almost integrated with the elements, but still needs a mage tower? It is because the mage tower can help share part of the casting backlash.
Unless the amount of redundant spell preparation is sufficient, there is no 100% successful spell casting.
In the words of Master Wande, this world is based on uncertainty - only the soul, and the spirit derived from the soul, are the only things that can be confirmed.
Ender was not satisfied with the answer provided by Master Wande.
But Master Wande is already the most knowledgeable of the spellcasters he can find. If he wants to gain more and more in-depth knowledge and understand the reality of this world, he can only study in the holy land of scholars and spellcasters, the City of Wanta.
The stars shine in the sky, like the brilliant Milky Way.
This kind of scenery that has been described on the earth is only a landscape that a very small number of people can enjoy in this world.
In this world, when most people look up at the starry sky, they can only see hundreds of stars that are sparsely scattered - they are the kingdom of gods and the throne of gods.
This is the starry sky that ordinary people see.
This spatial scene, which is different from the real starry sky, is the so-called "star world" in Master Wande's explanation, not the real material space, but the projection of the common consciousness of life in nature.
The 'astrology' and 'prophecy' in spells are based on observations of the 'astral realm'.
In fact, this is also easy to understand. How can the fate of human beings or countries be reflected in the laws of celestial bodies? Only the scene projected by the sea of common consciousness of life can contain relevant information - but it is also very difficult to interpret.
Only through the special equipment of the observatory, or by having some special observation methods such as the "Eye of Reality" and "Sight of Heaven and Earth" can the real universe be observed through the "Astral Realm".
Using the projection of the astral world through the star world and looking at the stars in the sky, Ande's doubts not only did not decrease but increased.
What exactly does this world look like?
Are stars and planets floating in the starry sky of the universe, or are they floating in the virtual world as the wizards described?
What exactly is a planet? Is it a planet or something else?
Where is the abyss?
It is said that advanced or even legendary spell casters can teleport through the astral realm to reach other planes, but what is going on with the astral realm? Why must they pass through the astral realm instead of ordinary teleportation spells?
What kind of existence is it to allow yourself to "fake travel" to the mother river of life in this world?
All of them are like sand rubbing in their eyes. When struggling for survival, Ander certainly didn't have time to think so much.
But now, Ende has escaped the existential crisis, and these doubts have taken root and sprouted like seeds, making Ende unable to help but want to explore the answers behind it.
Ander reached out and grabbed the sky, as if he wanted to hold the sky in his hand.
The air at night was like cool water, flowing out from the gaps in Ende's fingers. Ende put his hand in front of him, and his hands were empty.
Sooner or later, one day, I will be able to uncover all the mysteries of this world and witness the reality of this world.
On this night without a bonfire, Ender and Dabai gradually slept in the open air.
For them, the mosquitoes, cold and wild beasts that plague ordinary travelers are not all problems.
When you want to sleep at night, just find a clean place to lie down.
Such a convenient camping method makes traveling easy and enjoyable.
The Frost Wind Horse is a first-level monster known for its endurance. When Dabai advanced to the middle-level monster, he had already carried Ander to travel thousands of miles a day and night.
Now, after repeated purification and nourishment of life energy, Dabai has long surpassed the limit of the Frost Wind Giant Horse Race and further advanced to a high-level monster.
Although Dabai, a high-level monster, is very watery and may not be able to beat ordinary mid-level monsters if they fight alone. After all, they are also high-level monsters, especially the high-level monsters that are known for their endurance.
It is going to run now, running for twenty hours a day and night, and running seventy or eighty kilometers per hour is no problem.
Within one day and night, Ender can travel through the entire Pathleme Kingdom.
Although Ender was not in a hurry, his journey was really amazing. Even if he was swaying and procrastinating, after half a month, Ender still traveled through the Pathleme Kingdom and came to the most powerful country in the subcontinent - the Kingdom of St. Eddit.
The Kingdom of St. Eddite is the source of all civilized countries in the subcontinent and the first country in the subcontinent.
About two thousand years ago, there was a lucky pioneer knight on the main continent who luckily crossed the Magula Mountains and found a vast plain with fertile land and endless land, which triggered a wave of pioneering.
The Kingdom of St. Eddite was established in this way.
Later, the Kingdom of St. Eddit seized the opportunity of war on the main continent, broke away from the control of the suzerain state and became an independent kingdom, and at the same time monopolized the commercial channels with the main continent.
With the development of navigation technology, the exchange between the Kingdom of St. Eddite and the main continent no longer requires unremitting efforts to travel through hundreds of kilometers of mountainous areas.
Although it takes a long way to go through the sea, it is much better to take a boat than to walk across rugged mountain roads, regardless of the cargo carrying capacity or travel comfort.
The Kingdom of St. Eddite, Port of Beechron.
Beechlun Port is a large city that has only emerged in the past three hundred years, with the light of the gradually rising marine commerce. Compared with the north of Ender, it is adjacent to the sea, with a warm and humid climate and a developed commerce.
(Even the Kingdom of Patleme is the north compared to the Kingdom of St. Eddit; as for the Kingdom of Gilt, what is that? Is it a wilderness?)
Unlike other cities, this Beechlun Port has no walls and is a completely open city with only a large castle with troops stationed at the north and south ends of the city.
Ender rode Dabai on a road that could accommodate ten carriages in parallel.
Dabai is a super-large war horse, but as long as it is not recognized as a high-level monster, it is not unusual here.
Not far from Ender, there was a giant beast half a meter taller than Dabai and three times wider, similar to a giant lizard, easily dragging a long carriage and walking forward along the wooden track.
This is a bus-like bus facility, which will park at some set stops and can get on and take a ride for a very small amount of money.
"Sir, this gentleman! Please wait a moment." A boy who was twelve or thirteen years old, wearing a baseball cap, panted and chased after him.
"Um?"
"Sir, are you from another place? Do you need a guide? It only costs five copper coins, only five copper coins a day." The boy said hurriedly.
"Well, I need to find a hotel with a separate yard, a good environment, so that my horse can live with me."
"Ha, ha--" The boy took a breath, took a breath, and said quickly: "Sir, when you look at your horse, you will know that you are a person with status. I know a hotel run by an elf druid, which is specially used to entertain VIPs with high-end mounts like you, the price is--"
"The price is not a problem - take me there, and I will give you the others." Ender popped up a silver coin.
The boy quickly grabbed the silver coin in his hand, took a look, and a smile appeared on his face.
"Sir, please come with me. The Jade Leaf Hotel is only three streets away from here and will be here soon." The little boy led the way in front.
To be continued...