The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 394: Damaged Star Map

After hearing the news from the Snake King, Richard did not care about the problems in the command room, but asked:
"Snake King, what is the master controller you mentioned? The tower spirit of this fortress?"

"Ta Ling?"

The snake king was a little confused.

Ta Ling is a word created by wizards specifically for the wizard Ta Ta Ling. There is no such word in Dragon Language.

He explained to Richard: "The Fortress Master Controller is a mechanical intelligence created by the Supreme Being in order to more efficiently utilize the Fortress's performance. You can think of it as using a machine to simulate the brain of a living being.

All kinds of information about the entire Star Fortress can be obtained through the main control."

The Snake King's description was very clear, and Richard immediately understood what the fortress's main controller was - artificial intelligence, not a rare thing.

But Richard didn't expect that the forerunners would actually use artificial intelligence to increase the efficiency of their fortress management.

He thought that this master control would be more "fantasy".

"Okay, this thing sounds similar to the Tower Spirit, but the Tower Spirit is not simulated by a machine, but directly processes the soul."

"Processing souls?" The Snake King was shocked. "This is too unreliable. Souls are not as reliable as machines."

Richard spread his hands and said, "Taling is a butler, not a soldier. Reliability is far less important than cheapness."

The soul of a first-level creature is enough to manage a small wizard tower after processing. But if you want to build an artificial intelligence with the same performance, the price will be several times higher.

When it comes to managing more complex machines, although processing souls becomes more expensive and has its limits, alchemist wizards can be used as a substitute at that time.

A great wizard who studies alchemical machinery, his soul is the best tower spirit.

If this fortress in front of us were seen by a great wizard who studies alchemical machinery, he could even exchange it for a world.

……

The passages in the fortress are all made of crystal. Under the control of the master, the crystal passages leading to the command room will light up faintly, which is very convenient.

On the way to the command room, Richard also took the opportunity to ask some questions about the Forerunners - as a Dragon King recognized by the fortress's master, he naturally had the power to ask questions to the master.

But the results were somewhat creepy.

In the permission list of the fortress master, the highest level of permission, and even several high-level permissions, were empty.

The civilization that fought against the Forerunners could even interfere with the artificial intelligence such as the Master Controller.

However, although this news is a bit horrifying, this result is undoubtedly good for Richard.

The lack of the highest authority caused some logical errors in the bastion master control, which almost caused the master control to crash.

Fortunately, the Pioneer’s technology was advanced enough that the master controller quickly modified itself after the logic error occurred.

Now the highest authority of the master control has fallen to the dragon whose information has not been deleted.

In other words, Hogg is now the highest-level creature in the master control authority.

As the heir of the Dragon Prince, she was ranked third in the original version of the authority. Now that the Forerunners disappeared, she directly replaced the Forerunners and became the highest authority holder in the fortress.

All areas of the astral fortress were open to her.

As a dragon king who absorbed Hogg's blood, Richard's authority is second only to Hogg, and he is on par with subspecies dragons such as the Snake King.

Passing through the dimly glowing black crystal passage, Richard and his companions soon arrived at a broken section.

This ancient star fortress was severely damaged, with its upper part almost blowing apart. This huge injury even caused damage to the fortress's power reactor.

The huge amount of radiation emitted by the power reactor shuttled through the cracks in the fortress, glittering green like the aurora.

"This radiation intensity..."

Richard looked at the aurora-like radiation and rubbed his eyebrows with a headache.

Conservatively estimated, the intensity of these energy radiations has reached the energy level of 8,000. If exposed to radiation of this intensity, even a three-ring wizard would not be able to survive for long.

But according to the fortress's controller, the command room was in such an environment.

"I'll go in headfirst." Ulises looked at the radiation aurora and suddenly said, "You guys are not strong enough, going in will mean you'll die.

These energy radiations are not a big threat to my soul. Even if my body is destroyed, I can come back safely. "

Ulises' proposal seems to be the most feasible option at the moment, but Richard is not very willing for Ulises to do so.

The body of a third-level creature is not easy to make, especially the body of a nearly top-level third-level creature like Ulysses.

If his body was destroyed, he would probably have to stay in the secret realm during this plane war.

The combat capabilities of level one and level two are basically useless to Richard.

Suddenly, Richard spoke to the wall: "Master, what are the rules for manipulating the space inside the fortress?"

[To manipulate the space inside the fortress, you need to apply to the fortress master. After the fortress master reviews and approves it, you need to register the purpose of manipulating the space and the consequences of manipulating the space before you can manipulate the space.]

The voice of the master sounded in Richard's ears. After receiving this answer, Richard was certain in his heart and said:

"I want to apply for maneuvering space."

[The application has been submitted to the fortress owner, please wait]

At the same time, Hogg, who was beside Richard, suddenly heard the voice of the fortress controller.

[Since the fortress master has been killed, according to the wartime authority order, you will now temporarily serve as the fortress master of the World Tree No. 3 Star Fortress]

[Dragon King Richard applies for space manipulation, please review it]

Hearing the voice of the fortress controller, Hogg looked at Richard in confusion.

Seeing her like this, Richard smiled and nodded, saying, “Sure enough, after the death of the fortress master, the control of the fortress will fall to the person with the highest authority in the fortress.

Don't just stand there, please approve my application immediately."

"Yes!" Hogg said in a panic. [Application approved, please register]

After hearing the response from the fortress's main controller, Richard continued, "The purpose of manipulating space is to conduct cross-space collaboration and help us enter the command room. The consequence is the appearance of one or more tentacles of world tree-type life."

[Registration completed, you have the authority to control the space]

Hearing that he had obtained the authority, Richard felt a little relieved and smiled at Ulises:

"Okay, you don't have to be a death squad anymore."

Ulises pretended to be disappointed and said, "Alas, the vacation is gone."

"Go to hell."

Richard cursed with a smile, then he and Ulysses opened the rift in the secret realm, allowing the mycelial tentacles of the World Mushroom to emerge from the secret realm.

"Master, what do you need me for?"

Richard pointed to the radiant aurora not far away.

"Do you have any way to deal with those auroras?"

The mycelium tentacles emitted an energy wave, and then Richard heard the confident voice of the World Mushroom.

"Master, if it was before, I could only resist these radiation auroras. But after devouring those World Tree offspring, I have evolved.

These energy radiations are the best nourishment for me.”

Richard nodded with satisfaction. After feeding so many World Tree offspring, they finally came in handy.

"That's good. You will escort us next."

"Yes."

……

With the escort of the World Mushroom Tentacles, Richard and his group's journey became much smoother.

The World Mushroom was like a bandage, tightly blocking all the cracks they encountered along the way, preventing any energy radiation from entering.

So everyone quickly came to the command room.

The command room is located in the upper middle part of the fortress, with the power reactor at its feet.

Although this design looks dangerous, the power reactor is the core of the fortress and the most closely guarded place.

If it goes wrong, it doesn't matter where the command room is.

Through the energy barrier of the World Mushroom, Richard could see that the entire command room was surrounded by a layer of radiant aurora.

Looking at such conditions, Richard could only pray that the quality of the pioneers' stuff was strong enough that even after spending tens or even millions of years under such high-intensity radiation, it would still be possible... Forget it, this was a little unrealistic.

The World Mushroom used its mycelium tentacles to block the cracks in the command room, but long-term radiation had changed the nature of things inside the command room.

They can actually emit energy radiation.

Fortunately, these energy radiations are not very strong, and everyone present, except Hogg, can easily resist them.

The command room was in a mess, with a large number of crystal creations lingering with a faint fluorescent light. Even Hogg and the Snake King could not tell what these things were.

So Richard could only use the stupid method - touching them one by one.

As long as the Miracle Furnace reacts, it's a profit.

So the people who followed Richard saw that Richard started from the crystal fragments on the ground and moved all the way to the few large crystal creations in the room.

"What are you doing, sir?" the snake king asked in confusion.

Ulises, who knew about the existence of the Miracle Furnace, replied calmly: "Don't worry about him. This is his special way of finding things. We can't learn it."

Suddenly, everyone heard Richard exclaim.

"found it!"

Everyone looked over and saw Richard excitedly holding a regular polyhedron the size of a human head. Even though the cells in his hands had begun to collapse, he couldn't let go.

[Raw materials: damaged star map]

[Information that can be extracted: Incomplete Star Map of the Supreme Being]

[Refining consumption: 20 mental power]

Looking at the information given by the Miracle Furnace, Richard cheered in his heart.

It’s not completely broken yet!

Produced by a pioneer, the quality is excellent!

"Is this the star map?" the Snake King asked in confusion, "But this thing looks broken no matter how you look at it."

There is no other reason. The fluorescence emitted by this regular polyhedron can even cause Richard's cells to collapse. It is obvious that he has been exposed to radiation for a long time.

If this can still be used, the quality of this thing can only be described as horrible.

"Don't worry, as long as he says it's useful, it will definitely be useful." Ulises replied calmly.

Richard took out two metal ingots from his pocket and made a box for the broken star map. He then put it in his pocket and continued to explore.

Since the star map is still usable, maybe there are other things that can still be used as well.

But just as he was groping, Hogg suddenly spoke:

"Master, the master controller told me that someone from the other world is contacting us."

(End of this chapter)