Sword of Dawn

He realized instantly in his mind: These colors are probably not a malfunction, but a special monitoring mode.

Perhaps it is a monitoring mode that is far more useful than the direct overhead view!

There are more and more red lines appearing on the sun (some of the lines have now turned into plaques), and finally attracted the attention of the people working in the camp. They raised their heads and discussed the changes of the sun with gestures. Until the supervisor yelled at them and returned to work.

Hetty, who was using the technique of turning mud into stone to help strengthen the foundation not far away, also noticed these changes. She looked up at the sun, and then turned her gaze to the tent in the center of the camp—as expected, she saw the man looking at the sun with a serious face. Gao Wen.

She quickly ran in front of Gao Wen: "Ancestor, it looks like red spots again."

Gawain waved his hand, signaling Hetty to keep silent. His eyes were on the sun, but his attention was focused on the picture in the conscious world.

After going on for a while, the red part of the sun's surface finally stopped growing, and the text above the "surveillance image" in my mind changed a step earlier, and a new line of prompts popped up: "New data, giant planet recovered Calm down, the alert is off."

The red lines on the surface of the sun quickly faded after that, and the floating colors on the surveillance images also gradually calmed down and returned to their original appearance.

But even though the surveillance images lifted the vigilance, the vigilance in Gao Wen's heart was hard to disarm.

A large number of new discoveries have become new clues, and a large number of clues are piled up at once and become new problems.

He produced countless conjectures and reasoning, some of which were even daring to the point of madness, but he still forcibly suppressed these thoughts, first regained his composure, and then searched for the explanation that was most likely to be close to the truth.

"Ancestor... are you alright?" Hetty looked at Gawain's face worriedly, "Your complexion is very bad..."

Amber had already slipped out of the tent just now, but the aura around Gawain was so oppressive that this noisy and jumpy half-elf didn't dare to say a word. At this time, Hetty broke the silence, and she dared to speak again: " He came out before the red spots appeared on the sun, and it gave me a fright..."

"Heidi, can you feel the change in magic power?" Gawain suddenly turned his head and looked at Heidi seriously.

"There was some magic power upsurge just now, and casting spells has become much easier," Hetty nodded. The magic power upsurge is a normal phenomenon when red spots appear on the surface of the sun—in fact, even red spots on the sun's surface are normal phenomena, but The frequency of red spots and upsurges of magic power has indeed been higher recently, and the disaster in Cecil Territory and Gawain's previous warnings are still vivid in her memory, so she couldn't help but get nervous immediately, "Do you want to do it again?" ..."

Hetty's face gradually turned pale.

"No, it's not to the point where monsters will appear," Gawain shook his head to calm Hetty. On the one hand, he made such a judgment because he couldn't see any signs of magic tide pollution from the top view, and on the other hand, it came from Gawain. · Cecil's experience, the elemental power in the air is still stable, then there will be no problem, "It's just a normal level of red spots and magic power surge..."

"Magic power surges and red spots are normal phenomena, but they usually only happen once every three to five years," Hetty looked worried, "but this is the second time in a few months..."

In fact, the anxiety and tension in Gao Wen's heart were not much weaker than Hetty's.

Even, because he still has to worry about his connection with a certain "surveillance satellite" in the sky, his sense of tension is even stronger at the moment.

But at the same time, he is also very clear that he has now become the pillar of the entire Cecil Territory, especially when he is in front of Hetty and Rebecca, he cannot show any weakness or wavering state.

What's more, weakness and wavering cannot solve the problem at all.

"Don't worry, there will be no monsters, and I have experience even if the tide of magic really comes," Gawain comforted his descendants, "Let everyone do their jobs well—only by building a strong and stable homeland can we Only then can we have the capital to fight against nature.”

Looking at Gawain's confident eyes, Heidi couldn't help but feel at ease. She bent slightly and went back to her work.

Gawain nodded slightly as he looked at Hetty who was using magic power to help with the construction project.

Maybe Hetty and Rebecca couldn't transcend the era and class they were born in in many aspects of thought and insight, but they had a foundation that no other nobles in this era possessed.

That is, they do not think that they can be separated from the people because of their status.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for a standard noble lady like Hetty to go to the construction site and use magic to assist in the construction.

Watching the ground rapidly harden into a foundation under the action of magic power, Gawain lamented the convenience of magic, but also realized one thing: after the hardware facilities required for minting coins are in place, hire some down-and-out wild mages to It might be a good idea to help build the camp.

But before that, there are more important issues that must be carefully considered.

Gao Wen returned to the tent, sat back at the desk, and wrote down three questions on a blank piece of paper:

What is the relationship between the "sun" in the sky and the demon tide on the ground?

What is the possible role and current status of "surveillance satellite"?

Why did Gawain Cecil 700 years ago leave behind a crystal that would help him reconnect with the moon?

Chapter 0049 Questions and Answers

Even though he had put the crystal away again, Gao Wen could still "see" the overhead view in his mind as if some kind of energy imaging, but soon he found a way to turn off the picture: as long as he consciously turned his attention to If you just move away from the top view and focus on something else, then the picture will disappear by itself, and the way to make the picture reappear is also very simple - just call it consciously.

In this process, there is no need to rely on the power of crystals.

Some kind of "link" based on the control of spirit and ideas seems to have been established, and the role of the crystal in this process is probably only equivalent to a key... or something like a catalyst.

Gawain sat behind the desk, looked at the few questions he had written on the paper, organized his thoughts, and tried to answer them.

According to Gawain Cecil's memory, coupled with what happened just now, it has been determined that the changes in the "sun" in the sky are directly related to the magic tide on the ground. Whenever red spots appear on the surface of the sun, the magic power on the earth will be Upwelling, the elements also become active, and the so-called dark magic tide is actually a process in which a large amount of chaotic and disordered magic power bursts out instantly, and the elemental power loses control like an avalanche and erodes the material world, and those that appear in the elemental storm Monsters—their mechanism is not yet clear, and they can be regarded as a secondary phenomenon after the elements go berserk for the time being.

The intelligent creatures in this world are no strangers to the phenomenon of sun red spot and magic power upwelling. It is a natural phenomenon, irregular but not rare, so Gawain boldly hypothesized that the essence of the magic tide should actually be that it has crossed a certain After the "critical point", the magic power surges up. When the increase in the magic power of this world reaches a certain limit, the stable order of the elements will be broken, and the magic tide will break out.

And what role does the sun play in this process?

Is it the red spots that cause the magic surge?Or that the two are not causal, but two phenomena of the same event?

Gao Wen thought for a while, and added a small question to the paper: What is the nature of the sun?

It is a giant planet, which seems to be certain—at least that's what it says in the "monitoring information", but it is obviously very different from the gas giant planets known to Gawain in nature.

As Gao Wen knows, the gas giant planet in his home world is not a celestial body that emits light and heat. Although it is usually filled with a large amount of nuclear fuel and emits a certain intensity of energy radiation, because it has not reached the fusion critical point, this kind of The giant planet is "cooling" like an unlit furnace, but the "sun" of this world is obviously providing light and heat to the earth.

So is it "ignited"?Or is it because the laws of the two worlds are different that it presents special properties?

Gawain thought for a while, and he was more inclined to the second explanation, because those red spots and magic surges all reminded him that there are physical rules in this world that are completely different from those in his hometown. If you limit yourself to a fixed mindset, I am afraid that I will do useless work when thinking about problems.

And there is another important reason why he ruled out the first guess: if the huge sun in the sky is really an ignited gas giant planet undergoing fusion reaction, then it can already be regarded as a star, and the energy released by it The light and heat are definitely not as small as they are now. With the area of ​​the sun's disc it presents and the almost blue-white surface color, the heat it releases should be enough to burn the planet under its feet to ashes.

Gao Wen wrote his conclusion on the paper: "The sun" is a gas giant planet with special properties, its activities will affect the magic power on the surface, presumably it is some kind of catalytic energy radiation.The appearance of erythema may mean that the energy radiation has increased, but due to the lack of effective detection methods, the answer is doubtful.

Then the second question, what is a "surveillance satellite"?

It may be an ancient civilization, or it may be an outpost left by some aliens in the sky above this planet, and the civilization that built it must be extremely advanced, at least they are not afraid of the so-called magic tide-satellites can even pass through the magic tide. Hanging leisurely in space to watch the show when it broke out is enough to show the poor technology.And where is the civilization that left this (assuming only one satellite) observation post now?

Gao Wen considered that the satellite he traveled over was seriously malfunctioning, but he hadn't seen any after-sales service so far, so he boldly guessed: the civilization that left the satellite has either GG or gone away, and it doesn't pay attention to this place anymore.

Of course, it is also possible that the big boss burned too much money, and the bad satellite was like using up a few napkins, so no one came to see the situation, but this possibility is very low, and Gawain didn't think about it at all.

In any case, the satellite is almost GG, and no maintenance personnel have come to the door. It seems that for the time being, there is no need to worry about the situation where the super civilized father comes to hang and beat the children. If you can help solve the magic tide problem and they don't come, this is bad news...

As for the functional positioning of this satellite, it may be used to monitor the fluctuation of magic power.

Gao Wen remembered the second type of overhead view he had seen before (he called the clear satellite view he had seen for many tens of thousands of years before the first type of overhead view), that view covered the entire earth with various color filters, perhaps in different shades. Different colors represent fluctuations in magic power, and the simultaneous change of those colors when the phenomenon of magic power upwelling can also support this conjecture.So the satellite is actually an early warning device for the magic tide?

At least, "early warning" should be one of its functions.

It's just that the situation at this observation post is probably worrying. No matter how Gao Wen gives orders, he can't make any adjustments to those screens, and there will be serious interference patterns and vibrations on the screen from time to time, which is a reminder He—the system may have reached its limit.

So now there is one last question left: Why did the ancient Gawain Cecil leave such a crystal 700 years ago?

Now Gao Wen still doesn't understand all the characteristics of this crystal, but at least he has verified that it can help him get in touch with a monitoring station in the sky again, so will this crystal be useful to others?

If it was useful, what did Gawain Cecil use it for?Could it be that he also obtained a satellite perspective like himself?

emmmmmmm... It seems reasonable to think about it this way. The reason why the most ferocious pioneer knight was able to lead a group of refugees to escape the demon tide and monsters smoothly, complete the breakout and establish a new kingdom like extreme parkour, is the main reason It's because the full picture is turned on...

But just guessing like this is not enough, he has to actually test it.

Gawain held the complete crystal and thought about how to test it - this involves his own secrets, so he can't just give it to anyone to use, although for the natives of this world, suddenly seeing a thermal image I'm afraid you can't see anything from the same top view, but I'm afraid there are people with great wisdom among the indigenous people, who can deduce the truth from those top views later.

Therefore, it is necessary to find someone who is reliable enough to ensure that even if the other party succeeds in the test on the spot, nothing uncontrollable will happen.

In fact, Gao Wen's worries here are a bit superfluous - based on the worldview of the vast majority of people in this world, they will never have any concept of satellite becoming a spirit, landing and rebirth, and rashly seeing the big map through a piece of crystal. The thought that came to him was probably just "this thing is an artifact, with a level 1 eagle eye technique" - but who made Gao Wen's thoughts not merged with this world yet?

So he just pondered for a while, and slowly raised his head to look at Miss Amber who was standing beside the table and wandering away.

The half-elf girl felt a chill all over her body, turned her head and saw Gao Wen's staring eyes, and immediately got goose bumps: "You...what are you going to do?! You finally revealed your noble nature and are ready to attack your guards. Bar……"

This is no good, she is disobedient and unreliable, and she is a good monkey. Let her do the test and God knows how much trouble will happen.

Gao Wen quickly dismissed his thoughts, but at this moment, someone came in to report that Rebecca, who had gone out to survey the land, had returned.

Gao Wen immediately beamed with joy: "Hurry up and let her come over!"

Rebecca quickly ran into the tent. She ran outside for a long time, but she didn't show any signs of fatigue. Instead, she seemed full of energy. She thought that Gawain wanted her to report the situation, so she went Come in and speak quickly: "Ancestor! I'm afraid you won't believe how many good lands are around here - I thought that the Dark Mountains are all barren and barren places that cannot be developed, but I searched according to the map you gave, and I found it. ..."

"It's okay, there's no rush for this." Gawain interrupted Rebecca with a wave of his hand, and handed over the crystal in his hand, "There's something for you to do."

He looked at the great-granddaughter on the N+1 floor in front of him with a smile on his face, and felt that he was on the other extreme with Amber——

Obedient, reliable, and his brain was caught by the door.

Rebecca took the crystal that Gawain handed her in a daze, wondering what the old ancestor had ordered: "And then?"

Gao Wen thought about how he got in touch with the satellite, and began to direct from the side: "Then you imagine that in a very high place—a place higher than the clouds, there is something that can look down on the earth. Now You try to connect with that thing."

Rebecca blinked: "Oh, you mean the mysterious eye?"

The Eye of Mystery is a term used by mages. They believe that everyone who is gifted with magic has a pair of eyes that transcend themselves. These eyes float over the entire world and are immersed in the "Ether Sea". Instead of magicians, they observe the essence of the world and the flow of magic, and the quality of these eyes also determines the talent of each magician in the process of learning and refining.Magicians cannot directly perceive these eyes, but their souls can subconsciously—the process of meditation is the process of communicating with these eyes.

Of course Gao Wen was not referring to this: "No, it's a place higher than the Mysterious Eye, and it's more specific. It's a tangible thing like a magic prop."

Rebecca tried her best, showing a slightly apologetic smile: "But I didn't see anything?"

Then Gao Wen changed several guiding methods, but the crystal in Rebecca's hand didn't respond at all.

It seems that...the problem that Duke Gawain Cecil opened the whole picture 700 years ago cannot be given a solid hammer.

Chapter 0050 Great Troops

After doing more tests, Gao Wen felt that there was no need to continue the verification.

Rebecca can't connect with Crystal.

He asked Amber to try again, but it didn't work either.

It seems that other than myself, no one else can get in touch with the mysterious high-altitude monitoring station even if they touch the crystal, so why did Gawain Cecil leave this crystal 700 years ago?

Gawain thinks that there seems to be only two answers, either, Gawain Cecil 700 years ago was special and he had a special way to use these crystals, or... these crystals are not Gawain Cecil himself Use it, but leave it to him 700 years later...

The second answer is particularly creepy.

"Master Ancestor..." Rebecca looked at the old ancestor in front of her with a little anxiety. She just went through some muddle-headed tests. Although she didn't know the purpose of the test, she was still clearly aware of the test failure. This made her feel that she might have let her ancestor down again, "Is it because my talent is too poor..."

"No, it's not because of you. Didn't Amber try it just now?" Gawain suppressed all the thoughts in his heart and comforted the girl, "This crystal itself is not for ordinary people. I just found it on a whim. Just try it. By the way, tell me about the results of your investigation outside."

When this topic was mentioned, Rebecca's mood immediately improved: "Yes, that's right, I was going to talk about this just now! Mr. Ancestor, did you know that the land here has been purified from the very beginning? I will follow the scope you gave Looking for it, I found that it was all unpolluted land, and the terrain was open and flat, and it was easy to get water. The farmers who went with me said that this is the most suitable place to open up wasteland..."

Gao Wen was not surprised by this answer, of course he knew the situation here.

At least ten years ago, the pollution in this area subsided - it's just that people in the kingdom didn't know it.

It is still unknown when the influence of the magic tide on the Dark Mountains subsided, but at least 100 years ago, this place was still a polluted area - the pioneering point records left by the Cecil family, which had not yet declined at that time, can confirm this One point, it was precisely because the pollution from the demon tide was still there at that time that the treasure house in the mountain was preserved to this day. Otherwise, the Moen family might have taken back those ancient materials; No one knew the secrets of the treasure house in the mountain anymore, and the kingdom completely abandoned the mess in the southern border, which was polluted and caused disasters every year. Naturally, no one knew the tide of magic subsided.

After all, the "unclean wind" still blows over the dark mountains regularly every year. Even if the pollution in the land has receded and there are those toxic dust storms, this place is still not a good place to develop.

Gao Wen could only be sure of one thing. According to the overhead view stored in his mind, there was no pollution here ten years ago.

The nearest aristocratic territory is the Leslie family's Tanzanian town. According to Anzu law, the nobles and nobles on the southern border are also responsible for monitoring Gondor's polluted area, so Gawain guessed that Viscount Andrew should be more or less I know the influence of the magic tide is fading, but for the traditional aristocrat who relies on mines and nourishes his life, this temporarily settled land is probably still not worth investing in. In addition, the tide of pioneering in this era has cooled, that person Mr. Viscount probably never sent anyone to check on the situation here...

Gao Wen nodded, and looked at Rebecca: "The area of ​​the land that can be determined to be safe at present is the part I have drawn, and the pollution outside should also subside, but it will be carefully surveyed after the large forces are in place. You first Don't go there."

The clear overhead view in my mind is from ten years ago. The polluted area should have shrunk further in the past ten years, but how much has it shrunk... Given that the current satellite view has become a "magic imaging map" and cannot be adjusted, Gao Wen There is no way to determine for the time being, so we can only arrange it this way.

Time continued to pass, after Hetty's efforts to promote and the adaptation of the people in the territory for a period of time, the new work system finally showed its effect, and the workers began to realize that labor meant better rations, and those who tried to work in the new system The "smart people" who exploit loopholes to sneak, rape and play tricks realize that what is more painful than watching others eat meat while drinking vegetable soup is to watch others eat vegetable soup while hungry-for Gao Wen, those poor loophole-seeking skills It's really not clever, and the punishments he enacted have never been merciless.

This is an issue related to the future survival of all people, and there is no way to talk about it.

Also because of the entry into force of the new system, the construction of the outpost camp was completed at an astonishing speed, and preparations were made for the arrival of the subsequent large troops. Under Gao Wen's plan, the fence around the camp was extended to the south and east by several hundreds A large area of ​​open space was reserved for the subsequent 700 people to set up tents, and reserved workshops for carpenters, stonemasons, and blacksmiths, as well as new spaces for stacking materials.He also ordered the construction of a temporary small pier of wood on the part of the camp facing the river beach, and the construction of a sawmill on the spot near the pier to process the timber coming downriver from the deforestation point to the west.

Of course, the pier and the sawmill are still just plans on the blueprints - one hundred manpower is really limited, and even with Hetty's magical assistance, it seems too stretched to build a camp. At this time, Gawain really hopes from the bottom of his heart. Rebe The card can cast a spell other than fireball...

Standing on the high ground by the river beach, Gao Wen looked at a large wooden house that was being completed in the distance—it was one of the few buildings in the camp that could be called a "house", and it was a very large building.It and the large open space around it will be used as a temporary blacksmith shop for a period of time to come.Although there are many smelted and formed metal ingots in the treasure house in the mountain, it is difficult to use them in the construction of the camp: most of them are mithril, fine gold, copper, and purple steel. Bar?

The iron ore in the east has been roughly explored. Although it is not yet time to dig a mine, it is still possible to take some ore back to verify the quality. Now the first batch of ore has been excavated. Wait for the blacksmiths to set up their furnaces. Come on, Cecil Territory has entered the Iron Age...

Really bad.

Thinking of the magic tide that would come at some point and the mysterious monitoring station in the sky, and looking at the slow-moving pioneer camp in front of him, Gawain couldn't help shaking his head and sighing.

Rebecca, who was building an arbor next to her and didn't know what she was looking at, noticed Gawain's movement, turned her head and frowned and looked at him: "Why are you sighing? Can't I just rest here for a while?"

"Don't always think so bad of me, okay?" Gao Wen gave her a helpless look, "When did I really squeeze you?"

"It's interesting to bicker with you!" Amber looked confident, "It's the first time I've seen a nobleman who can bicker with others without getting angry. It feels so fresh!"

Gao Wen turned his head and ignored her.

But Amber didn't intend to give up: "Hey, you haven't said it yet, why are you sighing?"

"It's too slow," Gawain shook his head, "it's really too slow."

Amber's eyes widened: "You said how fast they work? Is this still slow?!"

Then she waved her arms exaggeratedly: "Do you still have a conscience! These people are the fastest-working serfs and migrant workers I have ever seen in my life! Yesterday they took less than a day to complete all the additional fence walls. After finishing the work, we will start building the blacksmith shop today—do you know that this speed is already insanely fast?"