Every day was a new day in Mordor.
Even though the earthquake yesterday shocked everyone, everything became normal on the second day.
In the residential area south of Mordor, men began to prepare for work with tools, while women began to clean their rooms and deal with housework. After some time of tension, the half-elves soon reached the standard of living of ordinary people. In this way, the women who were in the labor force were liberated. In addition to doing some sewing work, all aspects of physical labor were now done by men and slaves. Half-elves were naturally smart and handy. Many of their crafts, though not up to the standards of elves, were much more exquisite than those produced by humans.
It seemed that Mordor soon would have another item that could be sold.
The south coast area was very rich. The prosperous trade made many coastal residents advance into a well-off life. With a surplus of funds in their hands, they naturally had a greater desire for better goods and services.
Stephen walked toward the barracks leisurely.
Because he had brought the woman he loved over, he had now moved to a private house.
This woman was very hard working.
After moving in, she had tidied up the place. Since he had a woman with him at night, he naturally didn’t want to live in the barracks. Now he was a wealthy class in Mordor city. Because of the accumulated military achievements, Stephen had exchanged for some land, but farming land was still too expensive. Half of his land was still a wasteland, thus he plans to hire people to reclaim it in the second half of the year.
Stephen had been wandering in the sea all his life. Now he was over 30 years old and had a lot in his mind. He was ready to spend some money to let these children learn a trade. There were still apprenticeship positions in the blacksmith shop, thus there was no problem arranging for an apprenticeship there. In the future, if they became a qualified blacksmith, they would be able to set up their own businesses. The other children could also have a way to survive. In the future, he could give the land outside the city for them to manage. The ones who were more intelligent and more talented could be cultivated into a professional.
After a few years, they could also become guards of Mordor city.
Stephen wanted to have a child of his own, so in order to avoid too many disputes in the future, he had prepared these things ahead of time. If they don’t work hard enough, they would not be entitled to complain.
In the front was the guardhouse.
Stephen quickly had a serious expression; after tidying his clothes, he quickly went to the meeting hall.
Soon, there was an order that the garrison strength of Mordor city should be doubled recently. Although he didn’t know the reason, he only needed to finish the task seriously.
The most important thing in Mordor city was to take their responsibilities seriously!
Shadow Realm.
Soran looked at a space crack in front of him. His face was more serious than ever because he felt that it was a very special half-plane.
Even though Gloria had opened a crack, she did not enter the realm carelessly.
The plane crack was only a plane crack, and it still may be closed; thus, the most important thing for her and the fallen witch now was to expand it into a transmission channel that could allow free movement.
Only after preparation could they explore the realm freely.
A half-plane was a very small world!
Even the gods were not how dangerous these places could be. Soran must now open a channel of different dimensions with his own power when they have established the portal.
“We’re going to begin!”
In front of Gloria was a complex teleportation array. She looked at the fallen witch next to her. Then she said to Soran, “We will set up a teleportation signal to complete the location of the teleportation gate. What you need to do is to stabilize the channel of different dimensions.”
Soran nodded.
Countless magic aura appeared from the ground, and a door appeared in front of them.
Right now!
Soran’s figure rose into the air, and his divine power infused into the dimensional gate. In a blink of an eye, a different dimension channel was opened to connect the shadow plane and the half-plane; the core of the maze was displayed in front of them.
In front of them was a mirror-like realm.
On the opposite side of the portal was a vast and incomparable platform. Soran could not help frowning and murmuring, “this half-plane seems a little strange!”
Gloria came beside him and said, “Indeed. It seems like a multi-layered half-plane with a pyramidal structure.”
“This could only be constructed by a very skilled half-plane maker.”
“It seems that the previous owner of this place is very powerful!”
In front of them was a multi-layered half-plane.
Just like the Nine Hells of Baator, it was actually one complete plane, but it had nine layers. Now, the half-plane seen by Soran through the portal was like this. It’s a very complex multi-layered pyramid structure. To be able to create such a half-plane needed a very powerful spellcaster; the spellcaster would need to cut space.
The structure of the plane was strange.
It seemed like an upside-down pyramid; it also seemed to have its own rules and was spacious.
Plane rules.
In short, some of the potential planes had a large gravitational pull, while some of them had a small gravity; some of them were not livable, while some of them were suitable for all living things.
This was the rule of the half-planes!
Only if a person understood these rules, could they create a complete plane.
It was a huge project; even with the lifespan of a legendary spellcaster, they would need half their lifetime to work on a plane.
Element, space, gravity, and environment.
All things needed to be controlled and adjusted by the creator of the half-plane. The energy consumed by a half-plane was unimaginable!
Even gods needed to borrow powers from other places.
“Let’s go and take a look.”
Soran gestures to the two, then Gloria cast a protective energy field and activated the teleportation array.
A battle may occur.
Any half-plane would have a protector because the plane was the treasure of the spellcaster.
Everything in front began to twist.
Soran’s figure appeared on a vast and incomparable platform, with a huge area. There were strange stone pillars on the ground, and there seemed to be a certain system. The structure of the half-plane was very similar to that of the material plane, which showed that its creator had perfected it for a long time. The most obvious feature of coming here was that any action would cost more energy, and the gravity here was close to 1.5 times of the material plane.
“The energy of the earth elemental is strong here.”
“The energy supply of this layer is mainly maintained by the Earth Element pool, and the signs of element interference are obvious,” Gloria murmured after closing her eyes.
The fallen witch took a step forward then said, “The gravitational force here is greater than other planes. This is probably due to the Earth Elemental.”
Each plane seemed to have its own characteristics.
The Earth Element plane was known for its supergravity. In some places, the gravity was more than ten times, even Saints of incarnated gods would find it hard to bear.
Half-planes needed Elemental power to balance; if there was no balance, strange characteristics may appear.
A perfectly balanced plane would be like the material plane.
If there was any deviation, the plane would become unbalanced.
A glow of magic appeared!
In front of Soran and others, there suddenly appeared a faint transmission spell, followed by a metal upper body and windy lower body. It looked like a demigod genie, but in fact, it was a life created by alchemy.
The genie looked at the three but did not show any hostility, “Welcome to the chess plane!”
“Here is the improver and successor of the chess plane, the most famous card master of the Arcane Empire, and the greatest Arcane master Monadnock!”
“In this plane, you will challenge the most difficult game of war chess!”
“In this plane, you would gain unimaginable wealth and treasure!”
“I’m tower spirit number 13! If you all are ready, please step forward to the teleportation array!”