Sword of Dawn

So in the camp on the second day, Hetty saw a scene of labor she had never seen before—both civilians and serfs were working as if they were going crazy, and they would do the work even without the supervisor standing by. Do it quickly, and because the work is divided into groups instead of fighting on their own, they all start to cooperate unconsciously when working, and the work efficiency is further improved.

Those who are elected as group leaders, most of them will soon realize that if they want to eat meat, the only way is to improve the work efficiency of the whole group, so that everyone in the group can eat meat, And the small number of people who can't turn their heads and rely on fists or cunning to become team leaders may be replaced soon.

It was incredible not to whip them to work, but to compete and reward them.

The tents had already been set up, and Rebecca also led some people to survey the nearby wasteland. The logging team set off early in the morning to the cutting point in the upper reaches of the Baishui River in the west. The flow of the Whitewater River came to the open and gentle section downstream——in order to prevent the logs from being washed away by the river, Hetty handed over the inspection work to Knight Byron before the appointed time, and she herself came to the river beach to respond.

When the appointed time came, the first batch of logs appeared. They were tied into a raft by thick ropes, with the big logs underneath and the small logs piled up and reinforced in a haphazard manner on top. Branches floated on the river, and two serfs with nervous faces stood on the raft, controlling the trajectory of the "raft" with long poles: the flow of the Baishui River in this section is already very slow, and there is still no wind or waves today , but the improvised raft itself is difficult to control, and it may even fall apart if you are not careful, so they can't help being nervous.

But soon, the two serfs noticed that the raft was steadily approaching the nearby shoal: they saw a huge translucent hand emerging from the side of the raft, and the hand formed by the air was pushing the raft towards it with gentle but powerful force. On the bank, one of the serfs exclaimed subconsciously, but the other quickly hit the idiot on the head with a pole, and pointed at Mrs. Hetty standing on the river beach.

They quickly cooperated with their hostess to support the raft to the shore, and let it rub against the sand and gravel, and stop smoothly.

Then the people who had been waiting on the shore for a long time rushed forward, untied the ropes, dragged the wood, and prepared to turn them into the board houses to be built next in the camp.

Originally, the wood needs to be dried in the shade, dewormed and a series of processing before it can be turned into a qualified and durable board. However, since many facilities in the camp will be temporary and need to be used in a hurry, it will not pay so much attention. up.

Gawain stood behind Hetty, thoughtful: "Magic is indeed very convenient..."

Just as Hetty took a breath, the sudden voice behind her startled her and almost fell off the stone—fortunately, Gawain grabbed her.

"Sorry..." the lady apologized in a panic, "I didn't expect you to be standing behind..."

"I scared you," Gawain waved his hand nonchalantly, "By the way, your skill just now was not bad?"

Hetty blushed a little: "The evocation hand is a very basic spell. I have practiced its super magic skills, and the duration can be longer. In this way, as long as you keep pushing, even a heavy raft can be guided and pushed to On the shore. But if the current speed is faster, there is no way..."

Although Gao Wen was a knight, everyone in the pioneering era was forced to become a naturalist. He still knew a little about some theoretical knowledge in the field of magic. It is not easy to strengthen the basic evocation hand to this point, and it is also rare to perform metamagic exercises specifically for it.

"I... am not very gifted in magic." Hearing Gawain's question, Hetty's face became even more ashamed. "Although I awakened the ability of magic affinity when I was very young, my mental power is very slow to condense." , unable to build an overly complex spell model, so until now I am just a third-level mage, and I will probably remain at this level in this life, so I can only strengthen those elementary spells over and over again."

"Rebecca's magical talent doesn't seem to be high..." Gawain frowned, thinking of the great-great-great-great-granddaughter who could perform four types of fireballs.

"Her total magic power is very large, and her spiritual power is also very strong, but when constructing spell models, she will encounter problems similar to mine, or even worse," Heidi lowered her head, "She can only master one fireball spell." , or a big fireball similar to the fireball spell model. In fact, she is a very hardworking child, and she herself knows that her talents are not good-neither a good lord nor a good mage, although she usually looks Careless, but she actually knows it herself, and has been secretly working hard. But there is no way, the limit of talent is the limit, this is a wall, it is difficult to cross."

As she spoke, she sighed softly: "So when I saw the notes of the wild mage, I was also very impressed... He is not a special case. This kind of situation is actually very common among the downcast mages. The ability to build spell models is not as good as the theory. level, you can only be a low-level spellcaster for the rest of your life. For a pragmatic magician, there is no way to convert the calculation process in your head into a spell that can be used, so everything is zero..."

"No." Gao Wen's voice interrupted her suddenly.

Hetty didn't react immediately: "What?"

"If it is 'practical' only if you make a fireball and an ice arrow, then there is not much difference between a magician who wields a staff and a monkey who wields a stick." Gawain shook his head, "the formula is not zero, it is Countless ones in front of the zero, you just haven't found the place for the decimal point..."

Hetty frowned: "I... don't understand very well. If you can't use the spell model to realize the formula in your mind, then what's the use of knowing more theoretical knowledge? Can you beat someone?"

"One day you will understand that the word 'able to beat people' is not the entire evaluation criterion for a mage, and it should not even be the main criterion." Gawain laughed, "I have already sent people to Tanzania Town on horseback. , go and inform Knight Philip to purchase some extra things, and when the big troops come over, your magic laboratory can be set up."

"Magic laboratory?" Hetty was stunned for a moment, then frowned, "Those things are very expensive, in the early days..."

"I took a few mithril ingots from the treasure house in the mountain. They are not coins, they don't need to be recast, and they can be used as hard currency when buying magic items, enough to buy you a set of the most basic things. I know you The magic laboratory in the castle is all destroyed, but we must have a new laboratory as soon as possible."

Hetty remembered the task that Gawain had arranged for herself before.

"Understood, when the crystal resonator arrives, I will print all the rune structure diagrams you requested!" Hetty couldn't help laughing. Although she regretted those mithril ingots, as a magician, she could How can you be unhappy to have your own magic laboratory again?And there is a saying that is good, the cub sells Ye Tian's heart does not hurt...

Is it a problem for the ancestors to give their great-great-great... great-granddaughter pocket money to buy a set of experimental equipment?No problem at all!

Well, this statement is not suitable for the stable and mature Hetty, but it will definitely be fine for Rebecca.

When you have spare energy, do you want to get a magic laboratory for that iron-headed little girl?Although there is a high probability that she will only study fireball in it...

Gawain returned to his tent with somewhat scattered thoughts, ready to study those strange crystals.

Chapter 0047 Crystals

The construction of the camp needs to be done slowly. Although Gao Wen has written a lot of systems and plans, and even has a draft plan for the next step of expanding the camp and perfecting it as a permanent residence, these things are not completed overnight. Achievable——Considering the knowledge level of most people in this era, the literacy rate of civilians and serfs is zero, knights can only do basic reading and writing, and warriors trained by families (non-serf soldiers) can only write their own Names and figuring out the numbers within one hundred, so the advancement of many things must be done slowly.

What's more, there is no manpower here, and the current Cecil collar can't support many people.

Deeply aware of this fact, Gawain returned to his tent and sat at the desk.

This desk can be said to be one of the few finished furniture brought by the team from Tanzan Town. It may take some time until the carpenters use the wood obtained from the forest in the west to make the first batch of furniture—— Wood can't be as adequate as a simple board room, so having a table is the biggest benefit for Gao Wen as the lord of this place.

There is a lot of papers spread out in a mess on the desk, and the papers are full of various things: construction plans, material statistics, camp sketches, and a rough future construction plan, including walls, docks, and residential areas , Production areas, cultivated land, etc. are all arranged on it, ink, dip pens, pencils and a wooden ruler are placed on one side of the desk, and an amber is lying on the other side of the desk.

Gawain stepped forward, grabbed Amber by the collar and slipped her away. The half-elf girl was still awake when she was picked up, but just as she was halfway up, she screamed ahhh, and then disappeared into a shadow Gawain's hands, and recondensed his body not far away.

"You scared me!!" Amber seemed to be awake, and glared at Gao Wen angrily, "I thought there was an earthquake!"

Gawain looked at this guy feeling annoyed and amused: "I told you to look at the things in the tent, is that how you guard the door?"

Amber's face was full of righteousness: "My whole body is thrown on these ghostly symbols of yours, okay?"

Gao Wen glanced down at the table, then raised his head and glanced at Amber: "You're still drooling on it?!"

"Who can control it when you're asleep," Amber murmured, then watched Gawain curiously sit down at the desk, and leaned over again, "What are you doing? I'm going to start drawing you again." Is it a ghost drawing?"

"This is not a ghost drawing, but a plan, a regulation, and a construction drawing." Gawain was very troubled by this ignorant half-elf. "These things are the basics of the camp—that's why I let you look at them."

Amber picked up a piece of paper with symbols and numbers and looked at it for a long time, then curled her lips: "What a mess, I can't understand it at all."

Gao Wen looked at the other party helplessly: "You took it upside down."

Amber looked innocent: "I've never seen any of your blueprints. It's even harder than a magic formula. How can I figure out the pros and cons!"

"So you need to learn. Knowledge is very important." Gawain sighed. He was not surprised that Amber couldn't understand these things: a little thief, who had never received an orthodox education since he was a child, was completely educated by his adoptive father and concurrently. With her master's hands-on teaching, she has learned a set of sneaking skills, coupled with an inexplicable talent for shadow affinity, she is enough to wander and take risks in this world. For her, learning culture has neither this condition nor This is necessary, so Amber's cultural level is actually only up to basic reading and writing, and the blueprints he drew not only contain a bunch of weird nouns, but also carry various data and shorthand marks. This thing is thrown to Hetty. I'm afraid the other party is also confused...

Thinking of Hetty, Gawain looked into Amber's eyes: "I asked you to learn more from Rebecca or Hetty in your spare time. It seems that you didn't take it to heart at all."

"That's so boring, and I don't like to deal with nobles," Amber rolled her eyes, "Besides, your great beauty once... great-granddaughter is so busy, so she has no time to talk to me. Rebecca is more relaxed , but she always wants to throw me with a big fireball."

Gao Wen looked at the other party with a half-smile: "I don't like dealing with nobles—but I think you are quite open when dealing with me."

Amber said truthfully: "I always feel that you don't look like a noble..."

"You are also far from the elves in my impression." Gawain said, and began to arrange and gather the papers in front of him to the side. At the same time, he took out the few crystals and spread them out on the table one by one.

Amber muttered: "I'm a half-elf, and I was picked up by humans. I don't know what a serious elf is... Eh? You don't write anything today? You want to study these stones?"

After confirming that these crystals had no magic power and Gao Wen didn't plan to sell them for money, these things were downgraded from crystals to stones in Amber's eyes.

Gawain looked at the half-elf with a bit of a headache: "I would be very grateful if you could be quiet by the side."

Amber: "Tch, it's meaningless at all, you should study your stone."

As she spoke, her body swayed and gradually disappeared as if melting into the air, but through the faint perception of breath, Gawain could be sure that this guy was still standing where he was, and was continuing to stare at him curiously.

Forget it, as long as she can stop BB, let her go.

Gawain focused on the crystal in front of him.

For some time now, the research on these crystals has been almost without progress.

He took out the crystal more than once on the road to observe it carefully, and asked Hetty to use magic resonance to try to probe the inside of the crystal when he was in Tanzania Town, but there was no progress, especially the magic resonance-Hetty admitted frankly that these crystals had nothing to do with it. Magic items have nothing to do with them, and when the magic power acts on them, there is no ripple at all, just like facing a stone.

But 700 years ago, Gawain Cecil treasured it in the mithril safe, and bought the crystals for permanent preservation in the mithril treasury. Could it be some inconspicuous stones?

Gawain can only boldly assume that these crystals definitely have something special, but their special feature is not at the level of magic.

Or that current theories of magic cannot explain them.

He put the apparently shards aside and picked up the whole piece.

Those broken crystals have exposed a part of the inner crystal structure, but it is difficult to observe accurately with the naked eye. After Hetty's magic laboratory is built and there is a crystal resonator, you can try to check it from the aspect of physical structure, and this piece Complete... makes people not dare to worry about it with confidence.

God knows if the crystal resonator will destroy some kind of "information" inside the crystal.

He lifted the crystal and observed it through light.

On the crystal clear and beautiful ridge line, you can see the light cruising, and as the incident angle changes, each side and each line of it presents various colors and light structures.

This is a crystal with extremely precise geometry, and its processing technology should be very superb, and Gawain has already verified that these crystals have amazing strength when using those broken crystals for testing——extremely hard and not like ordinary crystals. Brittle crystals are so easily broken, they can even scratch mithril ingots with ease, without fraying the tips.

This made him wonder how the four crystal shards broke like that.

After observing the sunlight for a while, Gawain tried to cut his finger again, and smeared a little blood on the surface of the crystal before the wound healed itself.

Of course, it's useless.

It was vaguely like hearing the sound of a half-elf holding back a laugh...

Blocking the amber, Gawain held the crystal and fell into deep thought, thinking that there are more and more things in this world that I don't understand - crystals of unknown origin, memories that disappear inexplicably, suspected gas giant planets, but The "sun" whose properties are quite different from those of normal gas giant planets, and those "surveillance satellites" that should still be hanging in the sky, whose purpose and origin are unknown...

Just as his thoughts diverged to the "monitoring satellite", he suddenly felt a little heat in his hand.

At first he thought it was an illusion, but then the crystal trembled slightly, and the light blue light in its core lightened up slightly.

Heat, tremors, and light, the combination of these three points cannot be an illusion.

Gao Wen looked at the crystal in astonishment, but before he picked up a pen to record the changes in the crystal, a voice suddenly sounded in his mind——

It was a sound, but it was more like information pouring directly into the spiritual world, and he "listened" to understand its content:

"The mental frequency is reset and the connection is being re-established."

Immediately afterwards, he felt that his consciousness was in a trance.

It was as if something suddenly intervened in his thoughts, and some "data flow" that did not belong to him came in, but the data flow was not an intruder, because after a short moment of astonishment, he felt something about it. There was an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

These "familiar data streams" quickly produced corresponding clear things in my mind.

Some pictures began to appear in his mind.

That is the scene of looking down on the earth from a high altitude.

In the first instant, what came to Gao Wen's mind was neither surprise nor consternation, but a shit.

"Fuck me, I'm going to heaven again?!"

Cold sweat immediately flowed down from his forehead.

But soon he discovered that the situation was not as he had imagined. He was still sitting on the chair, his soul had not been separated from his body and returned to the sky as a synchronous satellite. All his perceptions were still normal, and his body was under control. Freedom, it's just that there is an extra picture in my mind.

This made him calm down a lot for a moment, and then he became excited and focused on the picture in his mind.

Only then did he notice that there was a big abnormality in the picture, it was completely different from what he was familiar with.

The picture became blurred, and it seemed to have a weird color distribution as if a layer of filter was added. It was smeared into groups like the image formed by a thermal imager, and it could only be roughly judged such as mountains, forests, and rivers. structure, and this vague and weird picture is still limited to a small area.

That was the northern side of the Dark Mountains, the periphery of the New Cecil Territory. From above, one could vaguely see the Whitewater River, the western forest, and even a bit of the camp.

This image cannot be zoomed.

Chapter 0048 Satellite Warning

Gawain focused his attention on the picture that only he could see, and finally confirmed that what it showed was indeed the terrain within a range of about [-] kilometers around the current Cecil pioneer land, and he was familiar with it before. The operation of adjusting the angle of view is invalid.

The screen is limited within this range, and cannot be moved or zoomed.

Moreover, the original high-definition satellite view has also become this blurred and covered with strange color blocks.

What do those colors mean?Thermal Imaging?Or some other induction imaging?

Or... just a glitch?

Gao Wen still clearly remembered the voice he heard when he left the high-altitude perspective. He clearly heard words such as energy failure, mainframe restart failure, escape program, etc., so the possibility of failure is extremely high. , coupled with the current state of being unable to adjust the angle of view, further deepened his guess in this regard.

And he began to extend his thinking: his soul, or spiritual body, may have mutated. Although he came to the ground and obtained a human body, his spirit obviously still retains the relationship with a certain "thing" in the sky. The ability to connect, he had been offline for the past few months, but the unexpected crystal strengthened and re-established that connection.As for the ancient device in the sky—whether it is a satellite or a space station—it is still in a state of failure, but it is not known whether the energy system has returned to light or the host computer has successfully restarted. Surveillance footage has become an indescribable mass, but this at least proves that it still exists.

And in this extended line of thinking, Gao Wen had to start worrying about another thing: If the connection between his spirit and the "satellite" in the sky is beyond imagination, there may even be a connection similar to symbiosis and death... Then once that thing in the sky is really completely finished, wouldn't it be extremely terrible?

He knew that this possibility was not high. After all, he had already completed his rebirth on the basis of Gawain Cecil's body, and he had clearly heard the words "escape procedure" back then, so his spirit should have already Independent, but on this kind of issue involving life and death, any little hidden danger cannot be let go!

But that thing in the sky is most likely hanging on the synchronous orbit of this planet, and he himself is trapped in an ignorant and backward medieval kingdom, let alone repairing that "satellite", he can't even see it now !

In this constant turbulence of thoughts, Gao Wen was still observing all the details of the top view, and he noticed that the image was not static, in fact, those hazy color blocks were always changing slightly, and some areas would be brighter , and other areas will gradually darken, cyclically, which seems to be regular, but while changing, the overall distribution and outline remain roughly unchanged.

But when Gao Wen was trying to summarize the changes in those images, things changed again.

He suddenly saw a box like a floating window appearing above the image, and a line of text that was constantly flashing and seemed to be disturbed jumped out of the box. It was a character he didn't know at all—it was neither Chinese nor Chinese. The text of any kingdom and race on Loren Continent.

But when he looked at the line of words in astonishment and seriousness, the meaning of those words was directly translated and appeared in his mind:

"New data, the activity of giant planets has increased, and the alert level has been raised to four."

The screen began to shake, and layers of interference patterns appeared on those color blocks. Gawain woke up with a start, and his attention quickly shifted to the external real world - the first time such a visual field switch made the scene in front of him shake. It took a while to stabilize, and then he ignored the dizziness that remained in his mind, got up from the desk, and rushed to the door of the tent.

Hu Po, who had been watching invisibly for a long time, was taken aback, and suddenly jumped out of the shadow form: "Wow!"

Gao Wen had already rushed outside the tent at this moment, and the two militiamen standing guard at the door looked back at him in astonishment, but he didn't have time to pay attention, but raised his head to look at the sun that was hanging high in the middle of the sky.

The giant sun was moving slowly and majestically across the sky, and a mist-like halo was rippling around the non-glare sun. Everything looked normal, but soon, there were streaks of red on the surface of the sun. It gradually emerged like a bloodshot eyeball.

The picture in Gao Wen's mind still persisted. He saw that the color blocks on the overhead view like thermal imaging were surging, and almost all the colors were rapidly deepening, but gradually entered a new stable state, and some of them seemed to be numerical. Things from time to time appear on the edge of the screen, but they can't be understood at all.