Sword of Dawn

It seems that all memory associated with these crystals has been erased.

Gao Wen fiddled with those crystals. They were made of the same material, but in terms of shape, the crystal from the Mithril Treasury was obviously complete. It was in a state of perfect symmetry, roughly shaped like a palm-sized spindle, but without a tip. A faint blue glow can still be seen in the center of the spindle; while the other four crystals taken out of the safe are obviously fragments, they are the remnants of another spindle, Gawain tried to put it together and found They can only spell out two-thirds of the spindle at most.

"What is this?" Amber stood beside him for a few minutes, then she was so bored that she wanted to fly up, and couldn't help but leaned over to Gao Wen's side, "Crystal? But it's so dim...it looks completely worthless look."

Gao Wen didn't even raise his head: "Fortunately, it looks worthless, otherwise I would have silenced you right now, saving you from taking their ideas."

Amber patted her chest exaggeratedly: "Wow! You nobles are so cruel!"

Gao Wen glanced at her curiously: "You are aristocrats all day long, do you have any grudges against nobles?"

"No enmity, but isn't it natural for the poor to scold the nobles?" Amber rolled her eyes, "Anyway, there is nothing else to scold, so no matter birth, old age, sickness, death or natural or man-made disasters, it must be the fault of the nobles."

Gao Wen glanced at Amber with a half-smile: "You don't look like a poor person at all. The real poor don't have the guts at all."

Amber was proud: "That's right, ordinary poor people don't know how to walk in the shadows~~~"

Gawain ignored this guy who was talking about running around the train and didn't say a word of truth, but waved her off to call Rebecca up.

"The little lord?" Amber blinked, then glanced at the crystal in front of Gawain, "Wait...are these really valuable things?"

Gao Wen didn't know how the other party thought; "Why do you think so?"

Amber's analysis was straightforward: "This kind of atmosphere at this time, and when you think of the agent of the mithril treasure house you mentioned just now, you are obviously going to confess the rhythm of the inheritance—could it be that the Cecil family will last forever? The foundation is actually on these crystals?"

Gao Wen's forehead was covered with cold sweat: "If you don't go again, I will slap you against the wall with a sword!"

The amber stings and turns into a shadow, gradually dissipating in the air.

Gawain exhaled slowly, the noisy half-elf finally left, he was able to truly calm down, and thought about the question that made him faintly uneasy - what was behind his "resurrection" or "possession"? What?

Originally, he thought that everything was just a coincidence. He just crawled out of someone else's ancestral grave after floating in the sky to the limit of the life of a certain device, and then was thrown down by the escape system. But now it seems... maybe his own The arrival was indeed an accident, but the resurrection of Gawain Cecil was not.

A person who is destined to have a limited lifespan, and in fact dies very early, will not buy a permanent escrow in the Mithril Treasury.

Unless he already knew he'd get his stuff back someday.

Of course, it is also possible that the money was burned... But this possibility is too low to be considered.

Gao Wen moved his fingers subconsciously on the table and wrote three Chinese words: Who am I?

Gao Wen, who came from the earth, died in an air crash in his previous life, and traveled to this point. Although the reason for this has not yet been understood, he first hung in the sky for thousands of years, watching the vicissitudes of life in this world, and then he became a human being and became Gao Wen. Cecil has only been there for just over two months.

The memory is perfect, there is no problem with personality, and the logic of thinking is clear and correct.

So it's not what worries me the most.

Then the one who went wrong should be Gawain Cecil—his resurrection...could it be messed up by himself, a visitor from heaven?

If you think about it carefully, a person whose body does not rot for 700 years after his death is indeed a doubtful point.Maybe that legendary fierce man arranged for himself 700 years ago (for example, the unscrupulous descendants are about to destroy the family's foundation, or for example, the group of monsters who destroyed the country came back and recklessly pierced the defense line, or two Worse things happened at the same time) revived, and continued to defend the country with the spirit of devotion to death, but one of the calculations was missed, and a soul that became a satellite happened to fall...

Thinking about it this way, it's very possible!

Gao Wen frowned, deducing various possibilities in his mind, but most of them could not be confirmed.

The only thing that can be proved is that I am still myself.

He didn't think about such overly complicated and meaningless questions as "changes in the subconscious cannot be detected, just as the brain cannot perceive that it is thinking, and people whose thinking is affected cannot realize that their thinking has been affected", because he feels that now It's a waste of time to suffocate yourself in philosophy.

As long as he confirms that his mind is still free, because only by ensuring that his mind is clear can he continue to complete what he wants to do.

The sound of footsteps from outside the study interrupted Gao Wen's thinking, and he heard Amber's voice rang outside the door: "Let me tell you, your ancestor was talking about it, and I met someone in the middle of the night. The agent of the Mithril Treasury, and then suddenly called to see you—I think he wants to confess his inheritance in all likelihood... Also, to tell you, the agent of the Mithril Treasury punched me, you have to Give me work-related injuries..."

There was a crackling sound of the fireball forming.

Amber's voice: "...Of course I didn't ask you to pay now..."

The door opened, and Rebecca appeared at the door, with Amber standing beside her.

"Master Ancestor, are you looking for me?"

While Rebecca asked, she sized up Gawain—although the words of the half-elf thief who talked nonsense were basically unbelievable, but the honest lady lord still subconsciously observed the expression of the old ancestor to make sure that the other party was Not really about the legacy...

Gao Wen looked at Amber: "Stay outside to prevent anyone from approaching. If someone comes in again this time, let alone work-related injuries, you won't be paid."

Amber curled her lips and muttered as she walked towards the window: "It's as if you gave me a salary..."

Gao Wen: "Hey, do you have to go through the window?!"

Miss Amber, who is very professional, returned to her work through the window again.

Gawain sighed, feeling that he couldn't reason with such a shame of all things, so he turned around and came to the desk, first put away the few crystals that he didn't understand the use of for the time being, and then put away the crystals he got from the safe earlier. The platinum disc was pulled out from his pocket.

"What Amber said is actually not completely wrong-I do have something to tell you," Gao Wen said, and quickly emphasized, "But it is definitely not about dividing the inheritance."

Rebecca looked curiously at the platinum disc in Gawain's hand: "What is this?"

"A key that can be used to open..."

Gao Wen had just finished speaking, when he suddenly heard Hu Po shouting from the roof: "Little thief! I've caught you again!!"

Immediately afterwards, there was a sound of running on the roof, during which there was no "ahah" sound of Amber being hit, which surprised Gao Wen.

Could it be that a goose proficient in shadow stealth climbed onto the roof? (fog)

Then he immediately reached out to touch the weapon next to the table, ready to go up with Rebecca to check the situation, but before he had time to move, he saw a shadow suddenly surged in the study, and then Amber jumped out of the shadow mist , carrying a black-haired young man in black leather armor who seemed to have lost consciousness in his hand.

Gawain glanced at the other party and couldn't help sighing: Tonight... there are so many visitors.

Chapter 0031 Shadow Guard

To be honest, Gawain was quite surprised to see Amber capture a person back alive - if he had seen this scene an hour ago, he probably wouldn't have been so surprised, but ever since the shadow master was captured by a person named My little pony After the bank salesman slapped her flying, he completely disregarded her combat power. Rather than letting this guy go out to stand guard, it would be better to say that it is equivalent to releasing a siren...

After all, Amber's shadow skills are really strong, so it shouldn't be a problem for her to find an assassin spy or something and call the police... But who would have thought that she would capture one alive?

At the same time that Amber captured the person back, another burst of hurried footsteps sounded outside the study, and then Knight Byron pushed the door and rushed in: "My lord, what happened here?"

He was originally responsible for guarding the gate below, but this time there was a lot of movement on the roof, so he was alarmed.

As for the time when Melita visited... At that time, Amber was sent flying as soon as they met each other, so there really wasn't much commotion.

"It's okay, it's just a petty thief, already caught," Gawain waved his hand at Byron, "Just go back and watch over it, it's not going to be peaceful tonight."

Byron looked into the study room a little confused, and saw the proud Amber and the stalker lying on the ground, but before the order, the middle-aged knight nodded: "Yes."

"How did you catch him?" After Knight Byron left, Gawain looked at Amber in surprise, "Win?"

"What do you mean by that expression?!" Amber was rather dissatisfied with Gao Wen's reaction, "My ability to fight head-on is a little bit weaker, but it's not so bad that no one can beat me, okay? How about killing a monster you call a 'distortion'..."

Gawain continued to stare at her.

"Of course, the main reason is that this guy is stupid," Amber really had something to say, "He might win if he fights head-on, but he insisted on showing off his shadow step with me—but he was kicked out of the shadow state by me. The spirit is still there." There is a shock between the shadow world and the material world, and you will faint."

Gao Wen looked at the other party in astonishment, thinking that only you, an evildoer, could do such a barbaric operation.

Shadow walking is the signature skill of stalkers. Basically, those who rely on this profession have the ability to "shadow walk" one or two times, but ordinary people's shadow walking is not the same as Amber's unreasonable ability. It can even be said that there are completely two skill trees.A normal stalker can only be temporarily invisible in the material world at most, and shuttle between the material world and the shadow world (magicians call this "shadow critical"). This is an extremely dangerous technique. It's like dancing on the tip of a knife with precision and caution, because one wrong foot could fall into the side of the shadows and be torn to pieces by the nameless things of the Shadowlands.And Amber...God knows what kind of ability she has.

Under normal circumstances, stalkers only need to focus on their own steps. As long as they don’t make mistakes, they don’t have to worry about falling into the shadows, because "shadow walking" is also called the lonely road. Every stalker We all know that no matter how clever a shadow master is, he can't step into other people's shadow steps, so as long as he is a skilled stalker, he can be familiar with this "dance on the tip of the knife", but that's a general situation...

When you are dancing on the tip of the knife, a monster with a combat power of 1.5 goose suddenly pops up next to you and kicks you, which is different.

At this time, Amber was still smugly saying: "It was interesting at the time, this guy put on a particularly silly pose, and then suddenly entered the shadow form - but I think he is real , I just saw him sneaking up to me and gesticulating with a knife, so I pretended not to see him, and kicked him when he was standing on the edge..."

Rebecca didn't pay attention to Amber, but squatted next to Gao Wen to check on the uninvited guest together: "Is it possible that I won't be able to wake up?"

Gao Wen shook his head: "It's hard to say, a normal person will become an idiot even if he is not dead if he is shocked at the shadow threshold."

While speaking, the stalker who fell on the ground suddenly twitched, and then woke up leisurely.

Under normal circumstances, a trained stalker would continue to pretend to be dead quietly at this time, and would seamlessly control his heartbeat and breathing, so that bystanders could not notice at all, but just now in the shadow The impact of the critical state made this professional unable to control himself. By the time he realized that the situation was wrong, he had already looked at Gao Wen face to face.

The unnamed young man's expression was a bit dull, as if what happened in front of him was a bit too unexpected, and then he was about to bite the poison hidden in his mouth to commit suicide, but found that the poison in his mouth had been taken away at some time .

He could only choose to keep his mouth shut and say nothing.

"What's your name?" "What's the purpose?" "Who sent you here?"

Gao Wen asked the other party several questions in a row, but he didn't get any response, the other party seemed to be deaf.

Amber took out her small dagger, and twirled it quickly in her hand: "Do you want to torture to extract a confession? Although I am not very professional, I have seen some practical operations when I went to the dungeon to steal things... "

Rebecca was confused: "What did you steal in the dungeon?"

"You don't understand this," Amber complacently said, "Many jailers have to hide the property in the corner of the dungeon after they get the property from the prisoners, and they have to wait until the shift is changed before they can transport it away. , otherwise it will be discovered by the patrolling officer or the lord——I specially took advantage of that time to strike..."

"Don't think about it, torture is useless," Gao Wen interrupted Amber, "The Royal Shadow Guards, specially trained to serve the king, are the elite of the elite. Apart from various special warfare skills, the will The power is also frighteningly strong, and it's really lucky that you caught such a master by accident, and you can play in the tavern for more than half a year when you go back."

As he said that, he looked down at the young man who was showing a surprised expression: "But when I was alive, the Royal Shadow Guard was just a personal bodyguard. At most, it was responsible for scouting intelligence in extreme environments. How come 700 years have passed, and the Royal Shadow Guard Wei has degenerated to the point of stealing?"

The captured shadow guard looked at Gawain in astonishment, but before he could speak, Gawain continued, "You want to ask me how I know your identity?"

The shadow guard nodded slightly.

"Nonsense, I personally gave you the names back then, and your first version of the training system," Gao Wen patted the Shadow Guard's face, "I am the instructor of the first generation of Royal Shadow Guards!!"

Amber stared dumbfounded at Gawain's nearly two-meter-high figure: "You're a knight...going to be an instructor for stalkers? You teach them stalking?"

Gao Wen smiled slightly: "No, I teach them physical training and two-handed swordsmanship."

Amber looked confused: "Why do stalkers learn two-handed swordsmanship?!"

"Of course, kill all witnesses when the mission is discovered."

"As a stalker, wouldn't it be equivalent to the end of the mission if you were discovered during the mission!?"

"No, for Anzu's stalkers, the discovery of stealth is the beginning of the mission... But this one doesn't seem to have completed those training courses very well. It may also be the courses I left behind in the past 700 years Already eliminated due to obsolescence?"

The shadow guard who fell on the ground suddenly had a painful expression—it turned out that those hellish training courses were left by this person in front of him...

Although 700 years have passed, all the courses have been updated for an unknown number of times, but only the courses that are regarded as the basics have not been fundamentally replaced even if they are revised again. Physical training and two-handed swordsmanship are two of them.

And seeing the change of expression on the shadow guard's face, Gao Wen knew that those lessons in his memory seemed to be still there...

"Francis II sent you here, right?" He looked at the young man on the ground, showing a kind smile, "But I think His Majesty the King is not so confused that everyone in the smaller kingdom knows that I am in the capital. You even sent an assassin to assassinate me, so the order he gave you should be surveillance?"

The shadow guard still didn't say a word.

"But he should remind you to stay away. After all, this matter is very risky. Even if the Cecil family fell, Gawain Cecil did not fall with him, so you are overconfident... Or not obey orders?"

The shadow guard finally said the first sentence: "If you have humiliated your mission, you will die, so you don't have to worry about it."

"Get a fart!" Gao Wen slapped the other person's face, "It's been so long, you have degenerated like this?!"

The shadow guard looked at Gao Wen in confusion, as if he didn't know what he meant.

"What does the Royal Shadow Guard do? It protects the king, this country, and this land! Your duty is to deal with those villains who are trying to subvert this kingdom, not to help a foolish king to spy on your founding prince! If You were captured on the battlefield with an enemy country, and I have a bit of backbone for saying that, but you are here, in my home! You are talking about disgraceful bullshit in front of me-you mean Am I going to subvert this country, or is it that Gawain Cecil captured you and insulted Ansu's dignity?! Could it be that in the hearts of Ansu people in this era, the founding prince and the kingdom he created have already stood The opposite?!"

Faced with Gao Wenyi's stern reprimand, the young shadow guard was finally at a loss: "No...I'm not this..."

"It's okay, your opinion is not important," Gao Wen interrupted him directly, and then stood up, "I'm not careful enough to get angry with my junior, so you can go now."

The young shadow guard didn't expect such a development at all (it is estimated that the development tonight was all unexpected by him), he stared at Gao Wen blankly, and couldn't believe what he heard.

Even the expressions on the faces of Amber and Rebecca beside them were not calm.

Gao Wen repeated it again: "I said, you can leave—do you still want me to see you off?"

The shadow guard slowly got up: "Are you sure?"

"Of course, I can't kill Francis II's people here, and I don't plan to take you to Silver Castle in public tomorrow—although I really want to do this, but unfortunately I have already acted out of my will age, then I can only let you go."

Rebecca seemed to want to say something, but under Gao Wen's serious eyes, she forcibly held back.

The shadow guard slowly moved to the window, and before he left, Gawain suddenly said, "I'm not interested in telling others what happened today, so how to report to your majesty the king after I go back... It's up to you. "

"...Thank you for your kindness."

After leaving these words, the figure of the shadow guard gradually dissipated into the air.

Gao Wen curled his lips: "...Another one who walked through the window."

It wasn't until this time that Rebecca found a chance to speak: "My lord ancestor, did you really let him go just like that?"

"Of course," Gawain laughed, "Of course I will let him go."

"But doesn't he need to be punished? Besides, His Majesty the King sent someone to monitor here, and this matter itself can..."

"Rebecca, remember, if you want to get greater benefits, you have to take a long-term view." Gao Wen patted Rebecca's head, "It's not a loss to let go of a soldier, but the potential There are bound to be benefits.”

"Potential benefits?" Rebecca blinked, "Like?"

"It depends on how the young shadow guard will report when he returns home, and the results are nothing more than two," Gao Wen spread his hands, "Either, Francis II will not be able to sleep in the second half of the night today, or, from now on, he will be by his side." There's just one more... not so loyal shadow guard."

As he spoke, he turned around and looked at the moonless night in another world.

"Relatively loyal is absolutely disloyal—there's a lot of truth in this saying."