Chapter 1033

Rennes mastered dozens of ancient sage runes in a short while.

He returned to the bridge of the Osto, immediately opened the phone gallery, sorted out the photos he took at the ancient holy altar, spent more than two hours, and then imported the "translation dictionary", waiting for it with anticipation the result of.

Soon, a few lines of characters appeared on the phone interface.

Ren was refreshed, but was disappointed after reading it carefully. The translation dictionary did decipher some ancient holy runes, but there were only more than a hundred of them, all of which were based on the troll runes he had mastered. some content.

The proportion of these more than one hundred ancient holy runes is still too low to allow translation dictionaries to decipher the entire writing system.

"There is too little information, it really doesn't work..."

Ren had a headache.

If you can't decipher the runes and words of the ancient sages, you may not even be able to take the first step in your webway plan, and you will have to die.

He also tried to sort out all the known troll characters, link them with the ancient holy runes, and use the multi-core chip to drive the translation dictionary to conduct a comprehensive analysis.

This analysis took three days and consumed a lot of power.

Still, not much came of it.

During this period, Solim officially started the work of rebuilding the Temple of the Storm, the Western Temple, the Southwest Temple and the Southeast Temple, and the three temples were built simultaneously. The rune dwarves in the Storm Plane have all surrendered to the giants. These skilled craftsmen are the main force in building the temples, commanding hundreds of thousands of giant vassals, and sweating on the former sites of the three temples.

Solim put the giant in charge of the work, and he got busy himself.

Deep underground in the Southwest Temple and the Southeast Temple, two ancient holy altars have been destroyed for tens of thousands of years. The altars cannot let outsiders know of their existence, so Solim must do it himself.

He asked the giants and rune dwarves to collect ores, smelt metals, and use the magic alloy in the treasure house to smelt them into pieces of titan blue iron of corresponding size and shape.

This step alone almost stumped Elder Titan.

The main structure of the Altar of the Old Sage is a magic alloy, which is very similar to Titan Blue Iron, but the properties of the two are actually quite different. The appearance is also completely different, the Titan blue iron is dark blue, and the metal of the ancient holy altar is like gold, brilliant and dazzling.

Sorim called it "True Gold of the Old Ones".

Both metals are very hard and have superb toughness, high temperature resistance, low temperature resistance and corrosion resistance. In these aspects, Titan Blue Iron is even better.

The magic conductivity of Old Sage True Gold is several times higher than that of Titan Blue Iron, even surpassing Mithril.

Fortunately, the Altar of the Ancient Sages was completely made of real gold. Otherwise, the demand for real gold alone for a 100-meter-high pyramid would be an astronomical figure. Even if the entire Storm Plane was hollowed out, it would not be possible to gather so much magic metal. Real gold is only used in the key parts of the altar, the control platform and the rune array. The main structure of the altar is another relatively cheap alloy.

Even so, Sorim studied for a long time but failed to determine the formula of the Old Sage True Gold.

The formula of the magic alloy is almost completely different. It must fully meet the requirements of the ancient holy altar, otherwise it may be useless.

Sorim had to ask Ren for help.

This is no difficulty for Ren. In fact, when he first entered the ancient holy altar and touched the wall, Ren had already determined the formula ratio of real gold.

He generously told the Elder Titan, and revealed that the Thundercast Sky Soldiers have the ability to smelt metal and can help smelt the Old Sage True Gold.

Solim was overjoyed.

After thinking about it, he invited the Thunder Cast Heavenly Soldiers to build the Altar of the Old Sage with a very high reward.

Ren was just waiting for the other party to speak, so naturally he didn't refuse.

As a group of Thundercast Heavenly Soldiers entered the Altar of the Ancient Sage, Ren took photos of every layer, every stone slab, and every detail of the altar through their eyes, and sorted out hundreds of thousands of runes of the Ancient Sage And words, and a series of incomprehensible rune arrays.

The Thunder Cast Heavenly Soldiers also went in to see the other three intact ancient holy altars.

These three are ordinary altars, smaller in size, only about 2/3 of the height of the main altar of the Temple of Storms, about 70 meters.

Rennes studied on the Augustus for a few days, but still had no breakthrough.

As the emperor, he can't leave the empire for a long time, and a substitute can't do many things, so he brought most of the army back to the main material world, leaving only an imperial star destroyer and 10,000 thundercast soldiers, following Athena's orders .

Back in the empire, it was already February in the new calendar year 2546.

Ren entered into a busy working state again, processing a large amount of official documents during the day, deciding a series of things, accepting the audience of the subjects, returning to the harem at night to have dinner with the family, playing with the children, teaching the prince, and resting late at night.

Gradually, he got used to the daily life of the emperor.

The magic circle in the promotion temple is guarding day by day; the Imperial Intelligence Bureau was successfully established, with the Thundercast Heavenly Soldiers as the backbone of its members, spreading the sky step by step inside and outside the empire. Of course, no one except Ren himself knew that the Imperial Intelligence Bureau was up to the top. From the director, down to the informant, they are all clones of the emperor.

The Ministry of Public Security was also established very quickly. Moserio served as the first Minister of Public Security and entered the cabinet.

Under Ryan's hard work, the political situation of the empire became increasingly stable and flourished.

In the dark, Ren has been paying attention to the construction of the Altar of the Old Sage.

With the help of the Thundercast Heavenly Soldiers, the speed of Sorim's construction of the altar was greatly accelerated. The project that might have taken decades to complete took less than three months. Deep underground in the Southwest Temple, an ordinary-level ancient The foundation of the holy altar was laid.

If Solim hadn't wanted to engrave the rune array, and refused the help of the Thundercast Heavenly Soldiers, and insisted on completing it alone, the progress would have been several times faster.

At this rate, an ordinary altar would take four to five years.

Even if it is built, it may not be useful.

Ryan couldn't be more clear about this. Reverse engineering is not easy. The more high-end and sophisticated products, the harder it is to reproduce. Without grasping the principle and essence, the result of following the gourd painting is likely to be just an empty shell, which will not work at all.

But Sorim had no better way, so he had to go all the way to the dark.

Ryan has ideas of his own.

For the past three months, his many avatars and the Thundercast Heavenly Soldiers lurking in various cities of the empire have been collecting troll knowledge, books, relic stone carvings, unearthed ancient objects, predecessors' research notes, etc. every day. Information related to trolls is not spared.

The vast amount of information allowed Ren to master more than a dozen troll characters and languages.

He has a clear understanding of the history of the troll era, destruction and division, wandering and revival, and the development of tens of thousands of years.

"There's no one in the world who understands trolls better than I do."

Ren thought so many times, and laughed at himself: "Including trolls."

The history of trolls after the end of the first era can be called a history of racial blood and tears.

To describe it in one word, it would be "miserable"!

After the fall of their empire, countless trolls were scattered across the world, some fleeing to other planes.

The former rulers of the world lingered in remote and barren lands, and their tenacious vitality and adaptability allowed them to survive. However, civilization and wisdom degenerated, and different branches evolved in different environments.

Up to now, there are more than three hundred known types of trolls in the world!

Trolls can be found in even the most inhospitable geography, growing like weeds that cannot be killed.

During the second era, trolls, like other races, became slaves to dragons and giants, and they were the lowest slaves.

During the third era, the number of trolls increased again. There was a brief revival at the beginning of the era, and even wanted to regain the status of world hegemony, but they were quickly defeated by the elves. Although elves also evolved from trolls, elves never admit it.

During the Fourth Era, now known as the New Era, trolls were still everywhere.

In the new era, trolls still live in remote and barren places, such as the cold north wind, arid deserts, the depths of the dead forest, and cold swamps, etc.

Human superhumans go out on adventures, and the most enemies they encounter are trolls.

Eat, sleep, and fight trolls!

This sentence can sum up the adventures of the extraordinary to some extent.

Although everyone has heard that trolls are the earliest aborigines in the world of Arranus, who have made brilliant achievements and established the world's first empire, but in the eyes of many people, trolls are not the same as Beasts are almost reduced to a kind of "wild monster".

So is reality.

Among the trolls humans encounter in the wild, not one out of ten may have wisdom and be able to communicate with language.

The other nine are all aggressive and hostile to humans, and many have the habit of cannibalism.

Most trolls are no longer intelligent races.

Ren has a deep understanding of trolls and has a wealth of information, but unfortunately, he still failed to decipher the ancient sacred runes.

But it's not all fruitless.

In the process of sorting out the history of trolls, he found many clues, all of which pointed to the same place - the Southern Continent!

In the First Era, trolls spread throughout the Material Plane, and can be seen in every region from the Old World to the New World. The troll empire has experienced more than a dozen dynasty changes, but their core ruling area has never changed, and that is the southern continent.

However, some three hundred years or so before the First Age ended with the first invasion of the Abyss, the Troll Empire fell apart.

This is different from people's impression.

The troll empire was not destroyed by the demons of the abyss, but after more than three hundred years of collapse, they were helpless in the face of the attacks of the demons of the abyss, ruining the whole world. This is a history of more than 20,000 years ago, and the truth has long been obliterated in the long river of time.

Since then, there have been two era changes, and the relevant records have long since disappeared.

However, Ren still found clues.

The reason for the collapse of the troll empire lies in the Southern Continent. About 20,800 years ago, this continent suddenly lost contact with the outside world!

No one can enter the Southern Continent.

After that, the entire Southern Continent became a restricted zone, completely lost contact, unable to enter, and no news came out. It was as if the Southern Continent had disappeared from the main material world. To this day, the Southern Continent is still the most mysterious place in the world.

The coast of the Southern Continent was shrouded in mist, and weird tides, unnatural eddies, and terrible storms prevented any ships from landing.

Looking at this piece of land from the edge of the southern continent, people can see that it is a vast and boundless primeval forest.

However, as long as you land on the mainland, you will lose your way. It seems that there is an invisible and huge magical power that prevents people from entering it. They return to the original place after walking, or appear on the dangerous coastline and die from unknown attacks. .

Portals, teleportation, and various spells cannot bypass this layer of magic protection.

If the caster is within a hundred miles of the Southern Continent, casting the teleportation spell will inevitably fail.

Even Holy Soul Sorcerer and Archmage are no exception!

The southern continent has been isolated for too long, so long that almost everyone has forgotten the existence of this continent, and there are very few records about it, and they are all the same.

Anyway, just can't get in.

Ren had heard about the mystery of the Southern Continent long ago, but he didn't know that the Southern Continent had become like this as early as 20,000 years ago. After two epochs, the Southern Continent still remains mysterious, which shows how powerful that magical power is.

The gods must have tried.

It can be seen from this that either even the gods cannot break the magical power that blocks the southern continent, or the price of breaking it is too high for the gods to pay.

Ren could not guess the truth before, but now, the answer is too obvious.

The ancient holy altar!

There must be a large number of altars of ancient saints built on the southern continent, forming a huge system, like blocking the plane, isolating the entire continent from the outside world.

Trolls are the only race that have had contact with the Old Sages. They were the first to accept the teachings of the Old Sages. The blockade of the Southern Continent was before the end of the First Era. Knowledge of holy runes!

In this way, he is bound to win the Southern Continent.

No matter what you have to try, as long as you enter the Southern Continent, even if the trolls have long been extinct, those ancient holy altars that are still functioning are of great value.

"In the future, we will not be able to bypass the Southern Continent when we build the Magic Energy Network Road."

"Looks like I'm going to take a trip."

Ren made a decision, but he didn't leave right away. He sat in the center of the office in Holland Palace and thought about it, and the ten Stormcast Eternal Soldiers in the demiplane of Gotham City started to move.

Every Stormcast Eternal is a legendary high-level.

They took off their golden armors, warhammers, and bolt guns, and put on adventurer's preparations. Their bodies and appearances also changed into different appearances, and they quickly disguised themselves as a soul hunting team.

After a while.

The Thundercast Eternal Soldiers traveled south along the east coast of the New World through the teleportation array and arrived at the Wind and Thunder Islands after two teleportations.

This archipelago consists of four islands, one large, three small, and is located at the junction of the New World and the Southern Mainland.

There is a narrow and winding land bridge connecting the two continents, like an umbilical cord, the narrowest point is only a few tens of miles away. During the third era, the elves dug a canal at the narrowest point, called the "Torijos" canal, which connected the Endless Sea and the Falling Star Ocean, and opened up the shipping routes on both sides of the New World.

The Wind and Thunder Islands are on the west side of the canal, less than a hundred miles from the land.

There is a port terminal on the island. Looking at the canal, you can see cargo ships and passenger ships shuttling back and forth. The island is also a prosperous scene.

In the past ten years, as more and more territories have been recovered on both sides of the New World, the Torrijos Canal, as the only port connecting the two sides of the strait, has become more and more important. The island's population is increasing and business is booming. The islands and canals are controlled by an "Islands Alliance" composed of several large mercenary regiments. They make a lot of money just by collecting tolls.

Ren saw the prosperity of the Fenglei Islands through the eyes of the Stormcast Eternals.

"Go back and take this down."

"Such an important shipping gateway must be owned by the empire."

Ren thought of it for a moment, and decided the fate of the Fenglei Islands. At the same time, the Thundercast Eternals walked into a remote alley in the port, and cast a teleportation spell towards the southern continent.