Chapter 30: The Function of Paradise Mountain
“Question!” Nuo raised her hand obediently. “What is a semi-plane fragment?”
“It’s a space.” Asker explained. “There are multiple dimensions of space in the universe, just like this book in my hand. The main world space we live in is like one of the pages of the book. Although different pages are close together, they are parallel to each other. As two-dimensional little people on the pages, we have no way to cross higher dimensions and go to another page.”
“But sometimes, two parallel dimensions overlap.” He demonstratively bent two pages of the book, making the outer edges touch. “This way we can run from one page to another, that is, from one space to another. Each space is a plane, some smaller spaces are semi-planes. If they are divided by external forces, causing the semi-plane to be torn apart again, then the smaller products are semi-plane fragments. This book is the key to that semi-plane fragment, an anchor of space.”
“Doesn’t that mean?” Nuo immediately realized something, her beautiful big eyes sparkling. “A special space that belongs only to our team?”
“Wait a minute.” Eleanor also raised her hand. “I don’t understand.”
“It’s very simple, Ellie.” Nuo explained to her. “Just like the hero’s team in legends, there is always a wizard, isn’t there? When the hero’s team has been adventuring all day and is exhausted, the wizard will summon a house with plenty of hot water, wine, and food, allowing the hero’s team to fully rest and recover. This semi-plane fragment is equivalent to a house that we can summon.”
“That’s great.” Eleanor said, “I want hot water, wine, and food now, can you conjure them up, Captain?”
“Of course not.” Asker said with a chuckle. “As you can see, the space sealed in the book is just an island, there is no food, drink, or other resources… There were originally a lot of corpses and creatures from the Dreamland Paradise sect, but I just expelled them all. They are probably at the bottom of the sea now.”
“Then it’s useless.” Eleanor shook her head and said.
“Although there is nothing in it now.” Peggy, who had been silent, spoke up. “But we can put things in it.”
“That’s right!” Nuo clapped her hands. “We can put things in it, that island is big enough to be countless warehouses! We will travel all over the world in the future! We can put all kinds of supplies and survival gear in it, and take them out when we need them, without worrying about transportation and weight!”
“About the usage of the semi-plane fragment, we can brainstorm.” Asker looked at the sky, estimated the time, and said, “The merchant ship will probably arrive in the afternoon, I’ll summon the island first… so that this small boat won’t be washed away by the waves.”
He opened the book, mobilized his spirituality, and pushed open the door. The island instantly appeared on the ocean. They were back on the open space at the top of the mountain.
“Think about it, everyone. If you could decide, how would you use this island?” Asker stood up, put his hands behind his back, and walked out leisurely. “You can discuss freely first, and I’ll come back later to ask for your answers.”
So the three girls began to discuss heatedly. Asker came to the edge of the cliff, overlooking the island, and began to recall everything about the Paradise Mountain fragment.
In the official setting novel, Paradise Mountain was not originally a fragment – it was a complete, huge, floating island in outer space, inhabited by countless wild angels. When the human colony ship first approached this planet, the angels of Paradise Mountain also noticed the steel behemoth emerging from the void.
Subconsciously, they regarded these steel monsters as enemies, so they dispatched the high-ranking demigods in the tribe and used their Radiance ability to destroy one of the starships.
The human colony fleet was immediately dumbfounded when they were attacked. They originally thought this was an unowned planet suitable for human habitation, but they didn’t expect that there was actually an alien civilization on it. Since a starship had been actively destroyed by the other party, the commander of the colonial army ordered the launch of the first round of tentative counterattack.
1000 “Apocalypse” space torpedoes carrying 200-megaton hydrogen bombs.
And then there was no more. Before its destruction, Paradise Mountain activated the emergency escape into the semi-plane magic circle, and then it was blown into 25 fragments, swept to who knows which plane by the shock wave. The human colonial army saw that it was so weak, the entire floating island was destroyed by our nuclear bombs, so they cautiously began to enter the landing orbit.
Please ignore all the unscientific parts above, after all, this was just an official setting novel for an online game, it didn’t need to be too hardcore. Being too hardcore would make it unsellable.
In short, Paradise Mountain was blown into 25 fragments by nuclear bombs and scattered into different semi-planes. In the late Second Epoch, the ancient Siris School of Dreams collected all the Paradise Mountain fragments from the semi-planes and sealed them in the 25 separate volumes of the mystical work “The Interpretation of Dreams,” attempting to recreate the complete Paradise Mountain.
Then the Peloponnesian War broke out. Ten years of war, almost all the ancient Siris colonial city-states were crippled, and the Macedonian city-state in the north took advantage of the situation. The extraordinary school of the Macedonian city-state was the “Arcane School,” whose extraordinary beings were the prototype of the “War Mages” of the later Eastern Solomon Empire. Due to their extreme emphasis on the military application of extraordinary abilities, the Arcane School was not very friendly to almost all academic extraordinary schools such as the School of Dreams, so the process of reassembling Paradise Mountain was also suspended and has not been completed to this day.
It could be seen that it was good to have lofty ideals, but they also had to consider the course of history.
From the perspective of the game, the 25 fragments were actually equivalent to 25 special benefits for guild players – it was equivalent to having their own guild residence, and they didn’t have to pay taxes to the local lord. The usage was also very simple. One was to summon it to the real world, just like the demonstration just now, suitable for uninhabited places such as oceans, wildernesses, and deserts. After the island was summoned, it would merge with the real environment.
The other was to teleport there themselves, and as Peggy and Nuo said, bring a lot of living supplies in, and use this semi-plane as a portable warehouse and residence.
Asker finished thinking in his heart, and then strolled back. He heard the three girls arguing fiercely.
“We should build a castle.” Eleanor said seriously. “The center of this island is a mountain range, which is a natural highland suitable for defense, and there is such a large open space on the top of the mountain… I roughly estimated that it should be nearly 10,000 square meters, it would be a waste not to build a military castle! Let me tell you, as long as we build a castle on the top of the mountain, and then cut down all the trees below, no matter how many enemies there are, they won’t be able to attack! And as long as we deploy enough firepower on the top of the castle, we can cover every corner of this island!”
“Ellie, this semi-plane fragment is already under our control. As long as we don’t want to, the enemy can’t even enter this space, so what’s the point of building a military castle?” Nuo shook her head repeatedly, with a regretful expression of “you are wasting a treasure.” “We should build a manor, and not just on the top of the mountain, the forest area below the mountain is also a very good environment. I have already studied it, the top of the mountain can be used as a manor residence, the view from above is excellent. We can cut down some trees at the foot of the mountain and divide it into flower fields, racecourses, and forest areas. We can even learn from the Dreamland Paradise sect and raise extraordinary creatures below!”
“We can hollow out the mountain, set up all kinds of traps and mechanisms, and make it look like an ancient ruin.” Peggy’s answer was very characteristic of a horror demon king. “Then we spread the word that there is treasure hidden here, attracting other extraordinary beings to come and treasure hunt. After they are killed, we search their bodies for valuables. If the church comes, we run away with the book and the entire space.”
“We should build a castle.” Eleanor ignored Peggy’s suggestion. “Even from an aesthetic point of view, a majestic and magnificent castle is better, and it’s also strong and durable.”
“I think no one except Ellie wants to sleep in a cold stone room.” Nuo retorted without hesitation. “And stone materials are difficult to clean! In humid weather, it’s easy to get moldy and mossy, it’s super disgusting!”
“Will it be easy to clean such a large manor?” Eleanor argued, “Your plan, without a few thousand servants, how can you ensure daily maintenance? It will be covered in dust in a week, right?”
“Then hire a few thousand servants.” Nuo said.
“This is the exclusive space of our team!” Eleanor said in disbelief. “You want to hire a few thousand outsiders to come in? What if they leak information to the outside world? Don’t we need confidentiality anymore?”
“I can borrow family servants from my brother.” Nuo said nonchalantly. “They are all family servants who have served our family since childhood and have signed lifelong binding contracts. Let’s transfer 1,000 of them first!”
“Ugh!” Eleanor was defeated by the other party’s financial resources. What was the concept of 1,000 lifelong family servants… There were less than 100 servants in her father’s entire castle, and their monthly wages alone were a considerable expense.
“No.” Asker said disapprovingly. “You can’t let your family know.”
“Why?” Nuo said incomprehensibly.
“Because they will borrow it.” Asker said euphemistically.
Nuo understood as soon as she heard it. What was the concept of a portable island in business? It was equivalent to a super huge logistics transportation tool! You know, the largest cargo ships at that time had a carrying capacity of only a few hundred thousand tons.
With this island, even tens of millions of tons of cargo could be loaded, just throw it into the island space. Then only a low-level extraordinary being needed to take the book and fly to the destination, then open the space with spirituality and release the cargo…
The logistics cost could be almost reduced to 0… Nuo covered her face weakly. Not to mention others, just her elder sister who was in business would definitely terminate all the logistics suppliers she had on hand, and then pester her to “borrow” this book, and never return it…
So the question was, was the treasure they had worked so hard to obtain just to add a few more zeros to her sister’s annual marketing performance?
“You’re right.” Nuo said helplessly. “We absolutely can’t let them know. Or rather, we can’t let anyone outside our team know.”
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