Chapter 1155： Global acceleration

In this world, civilizations change and multiply, intelligent creatures emerge in endlessly, and there will be a large number of intelligent races that are obviously different from the evolutionary source, living next to each other. Just in the continent of Loren, there are humans, elves, dwarves, fairies, and spirits There are nearly ten intelligent species such as tribes and a larger number of "subspecies". Except for the subspecies of elves that may be related to a split event in the ancient times, other intelligent races are obviously products of independent evolution.

And if you look at the distant starry sky, according to the information provided by Enya, the number of civilizations bred among the stars far exceeds Gawain’s imagination—more than a hundred signals do not actually mean accurate numbers. , That only means that in the past million years, at least one hundred civilizations have mastered the technology of super-long-distance signal broadcasting between the stars. According to Gawain’s idea, there may be more that have not been developed to this. A high degree of civilization exists among the vast stars.

They were born, reproduced, and developed on their home planet. The vast astronomical scale obscured the lights of small and weak civilizations. Their eyes could not look far away, and their voices could not be transmitted far away. No one knew their existence. Perhaps these civilizations From birth to death, there is no trace left in the universe, just like the season after season of civilizations that have been born and died on the planet at the feet of Gawain.

These "lights" are obviously excluded from Enya's statistics.

There must be reasons behind such a high density of civilization. Gawain did not seriously think about this problem for a time. Even if there were some doubts in his mind, he did not think too much in this regard, but today he came to Carmel’s In the laboratory, seeing the arcane energy surging here and Carmel himself... a bold and possibly close to the truth thought came out of him:

If the magic wave is ubiquitous in the universe, then the magic is obviously also everywhere, if the magic is everywhere... then it may be one of the “catalyst elements” of the evolution of most civilizations in this world.

Gawain suddenly fell into thinking, and Carmel looked in his eyes. The ancient arcanist couldn’t help asking, “Did you think of anything?”

"I heard you mention that a large number of civilizations are living and dying among the stars. I suddenly realized a problem." Gao Wen woke up from thinking and did not hide his thoughts. "Perhaps the existence of magic power gave birth to numbers. So many civilizations."

Carmel didn’t understand Gawain’s jumping thoughts for a while: "You mean...?"

"Have you ever heard of such a theory—the development process of civilization is accompanied by the absorption and utilization of energy," Gao Wen patiently explained his own ideas, "the higher the efficiency of energy utilization, the higher the development level of a civilization The higher it is, and correspondingly, if the energy of a world is more active and easier to be absorbed and transformed, then the civilization of this world will develop faster, or it will be easier to produce technological progress. , Even stride.

"Magic power is everywhere. According to the clues we know, the rules of this world should be evenly consistent, so there should be magic power on other planets. We all know that this is a power that is easy to extract and transform, even in During the period when the civilization level was still very primitive, the talented and intelligent races could directly drive magic power to achieve various effects such as making fire, carrying, and shaping. Of course, in some cases, this would actually lead to the process of technological progress. It is suppressed by overly convenient production activities, but as long as the time is right, it will allow an intelligent race to develop rapidly..."

"The development of civilization is closely related to energy utilization, and the difficulty of energy utilization determines the development speed of civilization..." Kamel quickly understood Gawain's meaning, and said thoughtfully, "It makes sense. Theory, but... Is magic power that is very easy to extract and transform?"

The arcane master's tone was a little confused, if he still had eyebrows, he must have frowned at this time. He raised his arm and controlled the magic power in the air to resonate, and created crackling sparks in the two nearby energy conduits: "It is not difficult for me, but for most people, it is necessary to control the magic It should be quite difficult."

Gao Wen was stunned when he heard this, and then he reacted: In his own eyes, the magic of this world is really an incredibly convenient energy source, ubiquitous and inexhaustible, but for living in this world As far as the race is concerned, they have long been accustomed to the magic in nature, and naturally they will not particularly feel that they live in a unique environment-at least for the development of civilization, this is a unique and advantageous condition.

But fortunately, this is not a key issue. He quickly skipped this "cognitive bias": "At least in my opinion, magic is a very convenient energy, and magic is everywhere in the world. Obviously catalyzed the development of civilization."

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Carmel lowered his head and pondered, and suddenly said after a moment: “Perhaps it not only catalyzed the development of civilization-it may also catalyze the birth of intelligent creatures, and even accelerate the birth of life.”

He spread out his arms full of arcane brilliance, and light blue projections appeared between his hands. The images showed the appearance of various creatures and their anatomical structures: "The druids of the Gondor era There is a theory that they believe that the abundance of magical power in nature is one of the important factors that enlighten the minds of intelligent creatures. The Archdruid Preman of the Spark Age even conducted a large number of tissue culture and catalysis experiments based on this, proving that humans Although the nervous systems of elves and spirits are different in structure, they also respond to magic. Even ordinary people who cannot perceive magic, their nervous system will passively accept the magical stimulation in nature and give feedback at all times. ——In fact, this kind of feedback is the basis for the realization of many mental spells.

"On the other hand, earlier elven scholars have put forward the hypothesis that'magic power is the source of life'. They believe that an active energy environment is a prerequisite for transforming natural matter into'life elements'. It has been proven, but for many years, its supporters have been numerous..."

"Magic power, this active and abundant energy is a catalytic force in the universe. It allows life phenomena to be born on many planets, and greatly accelerates the evolution of intelligent species, and finally gave birth to a large number of civilizations. "Gawain looked serious, and his voice lowly summarized his and Carmel's conjectures. "Considering that the essence of the magic wave is to destroy the observer, it will not cause the entire ecosystem outside the observer to shuffle. , So it only takes a very short time for a new civilization to re-emerge and develop to a certain height in the ecological environment after the magic wave... It repeats itself for generations."

"The appearance of the magic wave is also related to magic," Carmel said on the side. "At least the ‘deep blue well explosion can stop the small magic wave’ and some of the intelligence shared with us by the dragons can support this."

The ancient arcanist’s voice fell, but Gawain did not speak for a while. His face sank like water. All the answers and clues gathered in his heart into a rotating vortex, and a certain “truth” of this universe was also Presented more clearly in his eyes:

Magic power has accelerated everything, including the birth of civilization and the destruction of civilization. It is a force that "pushes away". All the intelligent races born in this universe are wrapped in this force, with extremely high Speed ​​multiplies and develops, and dies out round after round at an extremely high speed. At one time, Gawain’s impression of the universe was cold and slow. This impression originated from his hometown. In the face of astronomical scale, everything is infinite. Changes are easily calculated in tens of thousands or even hundreds of millions of years, and the lights of civilizations accidentally born in the icy universe also appear so slowly and move slowly, and even until they die, they may only be a cluster of faint and small stars in the vast group of stars. Of the fire.

But now, he realizes that the world he lives in today is completely different from that-this world is a pot of hot soup, everything is accelerated under the scorching of magic, here, a wise race wants to develop It's very easy. As long as there is a breakthrough in technology, mortals need only one step from walking ignorantly on the ground to driving the machine to touch the sky, but at the same time...the end of civilization is much easier.

And the sorrow of many intelligent races lies in this: they can't keep up with this fast-paced train, and they can't avoid the countless traps in this acceleration run. They run wildly on a road where they can't see the point, stepping wrong Or stop in place will be forever.

Therefore, the starry sky is full of shimmering civilization lights, but almost none of them can turn into bright lights. In the dense, rapidly changing shimmer lights, there are actually tombstones after the decline of civilization.

"What are you thinking?" Carmel saw that Gawain hadn't spoken for a long time, and finally couldn't help breaking the silence.

Gawain shook his head slightly, and said in a low voice: "I'm just wondering whether we are being carried forward by magic..."

"...The philosopher Gramos of the Spark Age once said that all beings in the world will be bound by the environment in which they were born. It is not we who chose this world, but this world gave birth to us," Carmel was silent. For a moment, he said so suddenly, he raised an arm, and bright arcane sparks jumped on his rune armor piece, "Magic power... you should know that it is everywhere, and we can't develop without it. ."

Fish living in water, dehydration and death, maybe one day it will evolve to breathe with lungs, but that is obviously not something that mortals can consider today.

"What you said makes sense," Gao Wen nodded slightly, but his eyes fell on the energy conduit and element pool behind Carmel, "So I am particularly curious now...what is the nature of magic?"

Carmel turned around, and the pure stream of flames in the energy conduit rose, and the radiance was bright but cold: "Master Verania and I think it is a kind of wave, a kind that permeates the entire universe. Through the celestial bodies, the fluctuations across time and space, all the indirect phenomena we have observed so far also support this speculation, including our communication technology, and the "magic field" of the magic obelisk. But so far, we Can't find the key evidence...

"I have been constantly testing higher-purity arcane energy sources to minimize the probability of interaction between it and the clutter in the space. Scholars in the Silver Empire are trying to create some kind of'dark room' effect through anti-magical materials. With a barrier energy field to shield the magical noise in the environment, our efforts cannot be said to be ineffective, but we are still far from seeing results."

"Is the magic noise in the environment still an unsolvable problem?" Gawain frowned. He knew about this problem years ago, and he also knew that the silver elves had actually been there nearly half a century ago. Trying to overcome this difficulty, "Is there no natural environment without magic noise in this world?"

"Unfortunately, we haven't found any clues in this area yet," Carmel said with undisguised loss in his voice. "Magic power is everywhere, and noise is everywhere. Originally, we still imagined if Leaving this planet, whether there is a'pure' magic vacuum in space, but now we know that even if we enter the universe, the stars are full of magic... I think it might be like the'background color of our world' 'Generally, or a macroscopic mapping of the bottom structure of our world-as long as we still exist in this world, we can't avoid it."

The macroscopic mapping of the bottom structure of the world?

This seems to be a rather profound guess. Gawain frowned and thought for a while, but nothing was gained. He shook his head: "Do you think the Dragon Race has an answer? The technology they once mastered is much more advanced than ours, and they have accumulated hundreds of Thousands of years of knowledge—many knowledge is now'unblocked'."

"Actually, I have already asked. When the dragon messengers visited Cecil City last time, I visited one of them," said Kamel, shook his head. "It is surprising. It is their progress in this area that is almost the same as ours... They believe that the essence of magic is indeed a kind of wave, and they have confirmed this speculation from various indirect evidence. They do have much more evidence than us, but The final conclusion... is always so close."

In the eyes of ordinary people, the question of "whether magic is wave or not" is probably not that important. They may even think that since the Dragon Race has so much indirect evidence, many of its technical achievements almost support this speculation. The question is "almost." There is no need to search for it so harshly, or even to verify it repeatedly, but Carmel knows that neither he nor Master Verania can do this.

Academy is rigorous—especially when it may involve the deepest secrets of the world.

"Even the dragons have not found a way to complete this experiment?" Gawain was shocked by Carmel's words, "This...it seems that the magic noise problem is much more difficult than we thought..."

……

At the same time, in the sky north of Cecil City, a small group of dragons was stirring huge wings, forming a formation passing through the depths of the clouds.

Located at the forefront of the dragon group, there are Bailong Nuoretta and Blue Dragon Merita.

"This is the first time I have left Tarrond since that battle," Noretta couldn't help but said as she passed through a gap between the clouds, her gaze swept towards the ground far below, some The wide and straight road and the magic power transmission facilities distributed along the road came into her eyes, "There has been a big change...the changes in the human world really never stop for a moment."

"Talrond is the same nowadays," Melita agitated the magic in the air, and her voice was directly transmitted into Noretta's ears, "and in the future, we will certainly not fall into the same stagnation as before."

"This is a very good wish." Noretta bent her neck and gently touched an oval container that was locked firmly in front of her chest with her chin. The dragon egg in that container was soaked in the magic field. , With a slight luster on the surface, "I also believe that the future after the birth of this child will definitely live in a better world."