Hyperdimensional game! The ultimate aesthetics of violent wizards

"Who is this guy? Even His Majesty the King has entrusted the secret realm to us to develop, and he is here giving orders."

There were other people's voices coming from outside the screen.

"You are so rude. This is the new King Reinhardt whom I mentioned to you before. Why don't you apologize to His Majesty?" Alisha said unhappily.

"Ah, old man, you are dead. You actually spoke to His Majesty like this. Will our entire clan be exterminated? Is it too late for me to sever our father-son relationship with you now?"

"No, I'm still so young, I haven't even married yet, how about we just tie up uncle and hand him over?"

"How can you be so heartless? Grandpa, I have to inconvenience you a little."

When everything was in chaos inside, Rhine was not angry at all. Instead, he was extremely excited.

Of course, it doesn’t mean that they feel excited about being scolded, but the fact that they can use this equipment shows that this secret realm is not dead, at least some of the most basic facilities are still usable.

Regardless of the banging and kidnapping sounds coming from the other end, Rhine went straight to the display screen and began to point and comment. After a while, a secret door suddenly opened on the wall next to the air defense door. Then, Rhine led Alisha into the secret door.

"Brother, Dad, Grandpa, stop fighting! His Majesty is still outside." At this time, a childish voice came from outside the screen.

"Yes, yes, open the door and let His Majesty in first."

"Eh? Where is His Majesty?"

"Oh my god, come and take a look, there is no one at the door?"

The Maxwell family turned the camera at the gate and looked around but couldn't see Rhine and Alisha.

"Are we encountering a ghost?"

"No, is it possible that His Majesty was pissed off and ran away?"

On the other side, after Rhine entered the secret door, he saw the stairs leading to the underground. The walls of the corridor seemed to be made of some kind of metal, and the walls glowed slightly. Even without any lighting, it didn't feel dark at all, and it had a futuristic feel.

Walking down the stairs, we soon arrived at a spacious space.

According to Alisha, the total area of ​​this underground maze is actually not very large. At most, it is just six to seven floors of a high-rise building buried directly underground. The distance they have come down should have reached the bottom of the maze.

"I knew they were rebuilding a shitty maze. They only renovated the monitoring room at the door. The real maze is still underground." Rhine complained while pressing something on the wall.

"Please insert your ID card or enter your ID number."

Rhine does have his own high elf identity ID card, but it was reissued by Laplace for him later, and it is only applicable to the high elf secret realm on the Penicheia continent. His information cannot be updated in places farther away because the signal cannot be transmitted. Therefore, his ID card in other continents is just a black card that cannot be recognized.

After swiping his ID card of the High Elf Prince, the system of the experimental base was unable to recognize it.

"Laplace, don't sleep. I have something to talk to you about."

Rhine tried to awaken the clone of Laplace's clone that possessed him. Its real body was next to Natasha on the continent of Penicia, while its clone was in the high elf tower on the northern continent of Landia, and the clone's clone was sleeping in his body.

Because this guy is too far away from his original body, his energy consumption has not been replenished. Once the energy to maintain the clone is completely exhausted, the clone will dissipate between heaven and earth. Therefore, in order to reduce energy consumption, Laplace usually sleeps in Rhine's body and only comes out in emergencies, but most of the time he acts as a guide.

However, the clone located in the northern continent of Landia does not have such trouble, because there is a secret tower of the high elves there, which can replenish energy for its clone.

"Master, what is it?" Laplace's clone responded.

So Rhine briefly told Laplace about the current situation.

"Can you hack into the system of this secret realm?"

To put it simply, the elves in the divine realm are artificial intelligence life forms, so hacking into a system that is not protected by artificial intelligence is as easy as taking candy from a baby.

"No, this is illegal. When the high elves created us, they programmed us to not allow such behavior."

"It's like the Three Laws of Robotics... But the high elves have been dead for tens of thousands of years, so how can there be any laws? If there are no laws, how can there be any illegal behavior?"

"It seems you are right."

"But if you want to break through the system's firewall and gain control, you need to consume a lot of energy. I am just a clone of my clone now. The remaining energy is only enough to maintain my own existence. If I use up all the remaining energy, I can do it, but my clone will also dissipate due to the exhaustion of energy."

"Forget it then. In this unfamiliar place, a guide is much more important than an unknown secret place."

"Although I can't hack into the system, I can still help you change your identification."

"Can we still do this? Does it consume a lot of energy?"

"Not much. It's just a manual update of the system database. Your identity key has been certified by the High Elf Dynasty Central Committee. No one can forge it, so it is universally accepted."

"Okay, it's been updated, you can just swipe your card to enter."

Laplace uploaded Rhine's identity information while explaining the situation to her. After checking, the system confirmed that it was a centrally certified key, so it entered Rhine's identity information into the system.

"So fast?"

"It's just uploading a key. If you encounter this situation again in the future, you can manually enter your key and the system will automatically decode and authenticate the key."

"This key seems to be a little long..."

Probably just over 10,000.

"Because the key contains your information, official certification, anti-counterfeiting verification and other information, but with the master's mental strength, it shouldn't be difficult to memorize it."

As mentioned before, the brain of a mage is different from that of an ordinary person. When activated, it is equivalent to a supercomputer. Otherwise, it is impossible to use magic like programming. After all, some large-scale magic is composed of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of spells. Therefore, memorizing a key of more than 10,000 digits is as easy as drinking water.

Sure enough, after Rhine swiped his high elf ID card, the flat metal wall suddenly opened to both sides, and a staircase leading deeper underground appeared in front of Rhine.

"Let's go, Alisha."

After the two entered the passage, the door closed again.

Soon, people from the Maxwell family arrived.

"What's going on? I clearly heard someone talking here, why is there no one here?"

"Brother, we are not going to encounter a ghost today..."

"Go away, there is no such thing as a ghost. We are scientists and we should respect science. If there really is a ghost, I would like to study it."

"But...I clearly heard someone talking."

“…No buts, because I heard it too.”

"……"x2

"Oh my god, there's a ghost!!!"

The two siblings went back to call for help while screaming.

"Alicia, aren't you curious about why I know there is a road here and why I was able to come in?" Rhine asked Alixia, who had been following him silently.

"Because in my memory, Your Majesty knows everything from astronomy to geography, so I will not be surprised no matter what Your Majesty does."

"Don't do that, I'll be embarrassed."

On the way down the stairs, Rhine did not forget to ask Alisha about the origins of the Maxwell family. Because in such a world of swords and magic, scientists are too rare, let alone a family.

"The Maxwell family was originally a noble family that had this area as its territory. Perhaps due to their blood relationship, the Maxwell family has produced many outstanding researchers, greatly improving the cultural level of the Kingdom of Elfriden. Many technologies that are popular among the people were invented by them. Among them, the advanced technology discovered by analyzing the labyrinth is highly praised. For example, the method of using the simple receiver of the Gyokuon Broadcasting was discovered by the Maxwell family."

"But I remember that this is a technology that is used throughout the entire Landia continent, right?"

"After all, it happened a long time ago. It seems that the kings of previous generations sold the relevant knowledge to other countries at a high price, and then other countries sold the technology a second or three times, and finally it became popular throughout the continent." Alisha explained.

"Well...it's hard to say whether this approach is right or wrong."

The outflow of key technologies is certainly a serious problem, but it doesn't matter. Others will find out sooner or later anyway. It doesn't seem to be a bad thing to make a fortune while it is still useful. Or it can be used to exchange for other knowledge. The most important thing is that the popularization of communication technology has brought the countries on the entire continent closer together, greatly promoting the development of civilization.

"The Maxwell family, who made great contributions, obtained the ownership of this abandoned labyrinth and became the lord of this area. However, the Maxwell family, who were immersed in research, were not interested in the management of the territory. Therefore, after obtaining the understanding of the royal family, they entrusted the management of the territory to the neighboring Yax family."

"The profits from the territory are shared equally between the Yax family and the Yax family. One half is used as management fees for the Yax family, and the remaining half is used as living expenses or research funds for the Maxwell family. This model has been adopted for hundreds of years."

"So, this secret realm was discovered a long time ago?"

"Yes, about five hundred years ago. It was with the help of the technology of the ancient ruins that the Kingdom of Elfriden developed from a small country to the kingdom it is today."

"It is precisely because the Maxwell family's achievements are so great that they have been granted various privileges by the royal family. In addition, a large amount of research funds are allocated to them every year. If there are any new technological discoveries or breakthroughs, it can greatly improve our country's national defense, economy and people's livelihood."

Alisha explained to Rhine, and seemed to be pleading for them, after all, they had no intention of offending Rhine.

Rhine certainly didn't care about these little things, he only cared about whether these scientists had any results. Because the whole country was extremely poor and the people couldn't even get enough food, but they still allocated a large amount of funds to them to study how to deal with famine.

But judging from the results, there seems to be little progress.

(ps: It's the end of the month, and I plan to pay off the remaining bounties, so there will be an update today. The third volume mainly talks about the Landia continent. At least before the unification, I will not return to the Penicia continent for the time being, but I will mention it occasionally.)

Chapter 299 The Real Void Library

Just when Rhine was about to complain about how such a huge experimental base didn't even have an elevator, the dark corridor in front of him finally reached the end.

Pushing open the heavy door, what comes into view is an underground city full of high-rise buildings and a sense of futuristic technology.

They were at the top of the wall of a huge underground space, and if they wanted to get down to the bottom of the city they still had to walk a considerable distance along the stairs on the wall.

Because the walls of the entire underground cave are made of luminous metal materials similar to those in the corridor, there is still sufficient light even without lighting equipment.

"I knew the place we came in from wasn't the real entrance!"

As the view zooms out, the hollow walls of the huge underground city are covered with densely packed honeycombs like a beehive. Behind each honeycomb is a passage leading to the unknown, and the place where Rhine and the others came out is one of the countless honeycombs.

I think the real entrance should be the tall tower in the center of the city that connects the top and bottom of the cave.

"Your Majesty! This is..."

Alisha, who was always calm, couldn't help but lose her voice in surprise after seeing the scene in front of her.

Looking around, you can see tall buildings rising from the ground, and complex three-dimensional rail transit connects each building like blood vessels.

The whole city is like a steel forest sleeping in the darkness.

Compared with the city in front of us, the most prosperous capital of the Kingdom of Elfriden looked like a shabby little village.

"This is the Third New Tokyo City!"

Rhine said excitedly.

It’s a pity that the whole city is dead silent, otherwise if all the lights were turned on, the scenery would be even more shocking.

"Correction, this city is not called the Third New Tokyo, but Landia City. It is a very famous academic city in the High Elf Era. Led by the High Elf Dynasty, it brought together the top 158 private technology companies at the time to create a scientific city."

Laplace corrected in Rhine's mind.

Of course he knew that this was not the third New Tokyo City, but the overall structure was similar.

"Is the tallest building in the middle the control center of the entire city?"

Rhine asked Laplace.

Because isn't that how it's usually arranged?

"No, the control center is in the space below."

"Hmm? There's a lower level space?"

"This is just a living area built by scientific researchers so as not to interfere with various experiments on the surface. The work area is on the second floor, the control center is on the third floor, and the headquarters of the Void Library is on the bottom floor."

"Laplace, do you think the experimental subjects living on the surface know that they are artificially created experimental subjects?" Rhine asked suddenly.

He once watched a movie called "Escape from the Island", in which the protagonists of the movie lived in a living area arranged for them by a technology company. They didn't know that they were actually artificially created, and they didn't know that the world they lived in was actually an "experimental base."

"have no idea."

"If they knew that the entire continent was just a huge testing ground and they were the test subjects, how could the test go on? The original intention of building this city was to facilitate the secret observation of the test subjects' activities."

“It’s indeed a cruel truth.”

"It's better not to make it public. Let this secret remain dormant forever."

In fact, Rhine felt it was a bit strange when he learned about the background of this continent.

Why do so many different races live on the same continent without fighting each other? It's as if there is no barrier between different races.

You should know that there was also an era in the Penician continent where there were thousands of races. The difference was that the alien races there killed each other so fiercely that countless races were extinct. In the end, humans stood out as the winner of the battle for hegemony among thousands of races and established their current position as the world hegemon.

In the continent of Penicsia, humans are supreme, and they never consider the beastmen to be human.

But the continent of Landia is different. They do not look at different races from the perspective of species.

For example, although humans are also animals, when looking at gorillas or other animals, they do not think they are of the same race as themselves, so no matter how many die, they will not feel any grudge. However, when looking at people of color, they do not think they are of a different race from themselves, and they also recognize that they are human beings and have human rights.

When the humans on the continent of Landia look at other races, they do not have any racial consciousness such as "Why are they different from us?"

In their view, all races are the same, they just look different, and their differences are just different levels of "skin color".