Sword of Dawn

Before he finished speaking, a strange force came from the long sword, as if a pair of invisible hands were pulling it, and the enchanted soldier sword from the ancient Gondor Empire was violently pulled towards the center of the tent In the direction of the ball, the team leader instinctively fought against this force, and exclaimed: "Go and call someone! There is something wrong with this ball!"

The soldier named Locke rushed towards the door immediately, but just as he was halfway there, a huge force came from his armor—strictly speaking, this force was dragging his armor.He was directly dragged by this powerful attraction and flew up, knocking away the fences and ropes around the sphere, and then the whole person was firmly attracted to the "stone ball".

Locke struggled in horror, trying to take off the armor and break free from the restraints, but the strong attraction caused the locks of the armor to fit together completely, and he couldn't break free after several attempts.On the other side, the squad leader also felt that the attraction from the long sword was getting stronger and stronger. He finally couldn't hold his own weapon. On top of the "Stone Ball".

The tip of the sword was only half a palm away from Soldier Locke's head.

Locke rolled his eyes and glanced at the sword above his head, and finally shouted loudly: "The stone ball is alive!! Something is wrong!!"

His shouts spread almost halfway across the camp...

The squad leader who lost his weapon stared blankly at his empty right hand, then raised his head and looked at the other soldier in the tent.

The armor on his own body was not sucked away, and the remaining soldier was not sucked by anything at all.

This "stone ball" is picky when it sucks things?

Chapter 0072 Life Response?

Gao Wen was awakened by the movement outside while he was in a drowsy sleep.

The sound of soldiers running and shouting woke him up from his sleep, interspersed with shouts like "the stone ball is alive", and it sounded like there were a few footsteps running towards his tent. Even Gao Wen, who was not deep enough, woke up, grabbed his clothes and put them on his body, and shouted to the outside: "What happened?!"

Knight Philip's voice came from outside the tent: "My lord—something is wrong with the stone ball you brought back!"

What do you mean something is wrong?

The always shrewd and capable young knight used such a vague description. Gawain immediately realized that the situation might be quite complicated, so he quickly tidied up his clothes, and took the Pioneer Sword that was always at hand, and set off. Open the tent door and walk out of the tent.

At this moment, there were still two hours before dawn, and there was no sign of light on the horizon, but the braziers and torches burning everywhere prevented the camp from being completely enveloped in darkness.As soon as Gawain stepped out of the tent, he felt a shadow twisting suddenly at his feet, and then Amber emerged from the shadow—the half-elf lady had not had time to change into her usual leather armor, but was wearing a suit of leather armor. She was wearing light regular clothes, and she was yelling as she got out of the shadows: "What's going on, what's going on, I'm falling asleep here, why... oh, I'm stuck, I'm stuck, help me..."

Gao Wen tugged on Amber's collar in cold sweat and lifted her out of the shadow. He felt that the other party was as light as a cat: "A shadow master like you is still stuck in your own shadow step?"

"Isn't this a bit of a hurry and you haven't woken up yet?" Amber's face was a little embarrassed, and she quickly shifted the embarrassment, "What's wrong?"

"There seems to be something wrong with the stone ball I brought back," Gawain said casually, and motioned for Knight Philip to lead the way, while he led Amber to follow behind the knight and soldiers, "Let's go and see the situation."

When Amber heard that this was the case, she yawned immediately: "Ah, I want to go back to sleep..."

As soon as he was halfway through speaking, Gao Wen carried him away under his arm.

The independent tent on the south side of the camp has been surrounded by soldiers and militiamen. A circle of people has formed a defense line within a dozen meters from the tent. The burning torches make this area bright as day, and the civilians in the south of the camp have been surrounded by the people here. The movement woke me up, but almost no one dared to come out of the tent to check the situation: most people just huddled in the tent tremblingly, and it was good enough to poke their heads out for a look.

Because Amber struggled fiercely, Hetty was already at the scene when Gawain arrived with the half-elf. She drew magic runes in the air, and set up a weak protective structure in the area around the tent. When she saw Gao Wen, she couldn't help being a little surprised: "Ancestor, you are..."

Gao Wen put Amber down smoothly: "This guy is more sensitive than us at night, but she doesn't want to come."

Amber jumped to protest: "Don't take you like this! You almost strangled me!"

However, no one listened to her protest...

"How's the situation inside?" Gawain looked in the direction of the tent, and noticed that there was an isolated isolation zone between the tent and the defense line, as if approaching the stone ball would pose great danger, "Are there any casualties?"

"There were no casualties, but two militiamen and a soldier were trapped inside," Heidi said with a strange expression, "he was sucked by..."

"Catch it?" Gawain was stunned for a moment, "Is that how a magnet attracts metal?"

"It's similar, but it's very weird," Hetty said about the current situation. "At first, the militiamen on duty found that the magic equipment on their bodies suddenly lost their magic power, and then their weapons and armor were attracted by stone balls, but not all metals will Being sucked, the stone ball seems to have a choice, and some people walking around the stone ball in full armor are not affected...Because I'm not sure if there are any other changes in that thing, so I won't let anyone Closer inside, only the druid named Pittman is checking on the three trapped people in the tent."

Selectively attract?Also affected the magic power?This property is not like a magnet at all.

Gawain pondered for a while, then untied his pioneer sword and handed it to Knight Philip next to him, and then patted Amber on the shoulder: "Let's go in and have a look—you leave all the metal products on your body."

"Why...why am I going?" Amber suddenly looked timid, "Shouldn't a knight like you go first in such a dangerous situation?"

"Yeah, so I'll go ahead and you follow," Gao Wen nodded, "unless you don't want this month's salary."

Amber gritted her teeth, and threw the metal objects she carried on the ground with a desperate expression—two small daggers, two amulets, a small pendant, and the old butler of Viscount Andrew's house in Tanzania Town next door. pocket watch...

By the way, she hasn't returned this stuff yet? !

Gao Wen's eyes swept across the pocket watch, and finally stared at Amber, and he didn't ask until the latter looked horrified, "Where's the money bag?"

Amber immediately clutched her waist in horror: "This is absolutely not possible!"

Gao Wen continued to stare at her.

After a few seconds, Amber finally took out her purse reluctantly, counted it over and over again, and finally handed it to Knight Philip next to her: "Let me tell you, I counted it clearly." Yes! If I miss one when I get back..."

"I swear on the honor of the knight! I will protect the property entrusted to me by others!" The young knight immediately puffed up his chest and said loudly, but Amber was startled: "Hey, you don't have to shout so loudly, in fact, there is not much money in it... "

"Ancestor, I'm with you..." Hetty took half a step forward, but was stopped by Gawain. He looked into Hetty's eyes and said, "You and Philip are guarding here, maybe the ball can Affecting the flow of magic power, you will be useless if you get close."

Hetty nodded, bowed and stepped back: "Then you should be more careful."

Gao Wen sighed in his heart: What a wifely attribute... How about asking her when she plans to get married?

With incoherent thoughts running through his mind, Gao Wen walked towards the tent with Amber, who looked like he was facing an enemy.

In front of the tent, he used his danger perception to confirm the situation inside, and after roughly judging that there were no factors that could threaten him, Gao Wen carefully opened the curtain.

He first saw the big ball placed in the center of the tent. The ball looked unchanged, still in the shape of a rough stone, but there were three men in full armor sticking funny around the stone ball.

A militiaman, a militia captain, an official soldier.

He also saw the figure of the little old man. Pittman was indeed taking care of the trapped soldiers here as Hetty said. When Gawain opened the curtain, the little old man was squatting in front of the militia captain and talking kindly: "...So you are obviously a bad luck, really don't try our druid sect's transfer ceremony?"

"The Druid sect has a fart transfer ceremony, don't fool my soldiers here." Gawain strode into the tent and looked down at the three soldiers, "Who was the first to be trapped?"

The three soldiers who were sucked onto the stone ball were already in a very depressed and nervous state, and then there was a nagging little old man here to sell them the transfer ceremony, basically reaching the critical point of mental explosion, However, Gao Wen's sudden appearance eased everything immediately.In any case, the encouragement that the legendary-level pioneering knight could give them was huge (although the legend himself only knew how dehydrated he was), the three of them immediately breathed a sigh of relief as if they had been saved, and then the remaining The bearded militia leader tried to tilt his neck to the side: "My lord, Locke was the first to be trapped. At that time, I was also standing next to me in armor, but I was not attracted. I was curious. As a result, I was attracted even when I was curious..."

The No.3 soldier sighed in frustration: "My lord, I was sucked in when I came to check the situation."

Gawain looked down at the situation of the soldiers, and found that the stone ball had indeed sucked their armor, and there was also a long sword that had been sucked to the top of the stone ball, but what was strange was that it was on the ground next to the stone ball. There was an iron hoop that had come off the armor—but the hoop showed no signs of being attracted.

Gao Wen picked up the hoop and rubbed it against the stone ball, without feeling the magnetism at all.

At this time, the druid Pittman next to him spoke up: "I checked it just now, and it's not pure magnetic force, and their armor seems to be 'solidified', becoming completely inactive, so take it off. not come down."

It seems that the guy who promotes the transfer ceremony is not doing nothing.

"It sounds like some kind of magical effect..." Gawain pondered, then turned to look at Amber, "Try it from the shadow level and see if you can remove this effect."

Shadow is something that exists with the real world but is located on a different level. Therefore, shadow power is very suitable for interfering with the magic power of the real world, and even destroying extra dimensions. This is why the stalker profession has the most dispelling magic traps and the ability to break the seal, and as the darling of the shadow force, Amber is even more master-level in this respect.

Bringing her here is to deal with a similar situation.

Amber no longer made trouble at this time, but nodded, mobilizing her natural power seriously.

Her body instantly became hazy and unreal, and her whole body entered a state between the real world and the shadow world. Some vague shadows extended from her feet, and gradually merged with the shadows around the stone ball.

While the amber was beginning to crack, Gao Wen tried to push the stone ball, but found that it did not move at all.

"Isn't this thing very light..." He frowned, with a puzzled look on his face, "Even with the weight of three people now, it's impossible for me to push it."

"This is also something wrong," Pittman nodded, "I heard about the scene when you brought this stone ball back, a person can easily push it with one hand, but now... I guess it is at least It is as heavy as a black gold rock of equal volume. The abnormally light weight before might be a magical effect, but the current weight is its real weight."

As soon as Pittman's voice fell, Amber suddenly "jumped" out of the shadow form, and sat down on the ground: "Oh——"

Gao Wen quickly stretched out his hand and pulled her up: "What's going on?"

Amber also looked confused: "I don't know... There seems to be a strange energy field around this ball. As soon as I stretched my spirit over it, I was bounced away..."

"Wait a minute!" Pittman said loudly suddenly, "There was a life reaction just now!"

Chapter 0073 So Is This A Routine?

Druid Pittman's shout stunned Gawain for a moment, he didn't realize what the other party meant by the life response for a while, and he didn't realize until two seconds later - he was talking about the ball.

"When the amber was bounced off just now, there was a weak life reaction inside the sphere," Pittman repeated again, and carefully moved to the side of the sphere, reaching out his hand to take out a dry and wrinkled leaf from his pocket, while While rubbing the petiole, he continued, "But the life reaction lasted for a moment and then disappeared...I have never seen such a strange phenomenon..."

Amber looked at the stone ball in disbelief while rubbing her buttocks: "What the hell... is this thing really alive?"

The three soldiers who were still trapped on the stone ball suddenly became more nervous.

Gawain, on the other hand, was more suspicious of the professional skills of an unreliable druid: "You must be wrong, right?"

Pittman glared immediately: "Impossible! I'm a real druid, a professional from the Spirit of Nature School, how could I make mistakes in such a basic field!"

Gao Wen: "...Aren't you from the Heart of the Forest school?"

Pittman was taken aback: "Did you say that last time?"

Immediately afterwards, he looked at Amber: "The last time you told people which school I belong to?"

Gao Wen: "..."

"Anyway, my induction is not wrong." Noticing the awkward atmosphere, even with Pittman's face, he couldn't hold it any longer, so he could only change the subject abruptly, "No matter which school of druids, it is very important to sense the vitality." It's the foundation, without which no druid can cast any spells...and you see, this is the proof."

As he spoke, he showed Gao Wen the dry and wrinkled leaf in his hand: the leaf had become full and plump at some point, and now it was showing a verdant green state, as if it had just been plucked from a branch. Same.

"Although it looks lifeless on the surface, there is a certain form of life reaction inside..." Pittman walked around the stone ball, saying very seriously and professionally, "This seems to be a very deep sleep, and there are Maybe it's because it hasn't turned into a complete form yet?"

Amber blinked her eyes, and she didn't know what thought was turning in her head, and suddenly said: "Wait a minute, isn't this an egg?!"

"Egg?" Gawain was taken aback, thinking that if the thing that Gondor researchers had studied in the mountains for a long time 1000 years ago was really an egg, then this matter would be very interesting, but then he became more puzzled Get up, "What creature's eggs are so big?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly had an idea, and answered casually: "Could it be a dragon's egg?"

Amber and Pittman fell silent immediately, and they looked at the big stone ball in the middle of the tent with horror and nervousness, while Gawain rubbed his chin and fell into an inexplicable tangled state—what kind of ancient meme is this? Expand, after traveling to a different world to get a dragon egg or something, this kind of routine was not popular a few years before he traveled, did this kind of prehistoric routine actually fall on his own head?

But then he thought of something else—even if it was a dragon egg, God knows how long it took to hatch, judging from the lifespan of tens of thousands of years in the legend of those giant dragons, they might be afraid of hatching an egg. It’s not to be counted according to the millennium. Picking up a dragon’s egg is probably the way to hatch for a lifetime, and it’s not necessarily enough for one’s lifetime. You have to hatch the eggs for generations. When it finally hatches, the dragon father and mother come He was taken away, and he didn't necessarily say thank you when he left... Maybe this is the usual routine of giant dragons?

But if you really want to calculate it in a thousand years, this "egg" was taken out of a 1000-year-old relic, maybe it is about to hatch?

Probably because he suddenly came into contact with such a familiar routine, which activated some memories deep in his mind. Gawain just stood there and fell into a state of serious distraction. Amber next to him called him several times, but there was no response. In the end, the half-elf lady simply Jumped up and bumped his head on Gao Wen's chest: "Wake up!!"

"Ugh—"

Gao Wen was not wearing armor now, and he was almost knocked out of his breath. After waking up, he immediately stretched out his hand to grab Amber's ear: "There's something wrong with you, you hit someone with the head so directly!"

"Nonsense, you left all the metal objects on your body before you let me in. I need a warhammer and still need to hit my head?" Amber nimbly dodged Gawain's claws this time, and retorted confidently, "What happened to you suddenly froze?"

Although he really wanted to ask the other party what he was going to do if he had a warhammer, Gawain still turned his attention back to the stone ball: "I'm thinking if this thing is really a dragon egg... how should I put it away?" Turn off the damn 'energy field'."

Three more soldiers were sucked here and couldn't move.

"The ability to manipulate the power of metal can affect the flow of magic power. According to legend, there is a subclass of dragons called metal dragons or 'earth dragons' that do have this ability," said half of the scholars (the other half are cooks, Thief, appraiser, and fortune teller) Pittman touched his chin and began to fiddle with the unknown knowledge in his mind, "If you really associate it like this, the probability that this thing is a dragon egg is indeed very high."

Gao Wen didn't expect the old man to have something in his head, so he showed interest: "Oh? Then do you know how to stop this power?"

"Then I don't know," Pittman spread his hands, and continued before Gawain hit someone, "and even if I knew, it would be useless—if this is really a dragon's egg, it's just me, a low-level drew. How can Yi's skills be able to deal with it? The giant dragon is a legendary species, don't look at it as an egg, a creature like a dragon has the magic power equivalent to a human mid-level magic class when it is still an egg."

Gao Wen was dumbfounded: What is the meaning of this god-damned setting, dare to think that human beings are not as good as a fertilized egg after tossing half their lives?

At this time, Amber suddenly looked over: "Aren't you a legendary hero? Cutting a magister is like cutting beans. Can't you handle it?"

"The abilities of knights and legal professions are different." Gawain said with a frown. He knew how much moisture his "legendary level" had, although he had been getting used to this body more and was learning. Mastering the abilities contained in the body and memory, but after all, the long sleep consumes too much power, plus the combat experience is not my own, it is quite difficult to integrate, I am afraid that there is more power that can be used in actual combat As a discount, it may be okay to be the number one master in today's territory, but if you rush out of Novice Village, you may die on the way...

What's more, the egg in front of me (assuming it's really an egg) is completely out of the realm of knight skills.

But after thinking about it carefully, Gao Wen still decided to give it a try: "Let me try it first."

Knights' abilities are indeed not as varied and convenient as mages' abilities. Most of the skills memorized in Gawain's mind are used to draw knives and cut people. It's not like mages who have seven or eight flavors in just one water making skill. But to deal with this egg in front of him... Maybe some basic abilities can also come in handy.

Since this egg not only has a life reaction, but also can interact with magic power, how about using magic power to communicate with it?

In this world where everything is driven by magic power, any extraordinary profession knows the basic use of magic power. Knights also use magic power, but it is different from the way mages use it.

But at the most basic level of perception, guidance, etc., there is not much difference in the use of magic power between knights and mages.

Gawain came to the stone ball and pressed his hands on its rough surface, and the three soldiers who were sucked on the stone ball suddenly turned their heads a little nervously and looked over: They didn't know what method their lord was going to use to deal with this " "Stone Ball", and I don't know whether my life will become a victim in the process. Although the life and death of almost all civilians in this era are controlled by the nobles, but when this time comes, they still can't help being nervous stand up.

Gao Wen noticed the eyes of the soldiers, and said with a smile, "Don't worry, I'm safe."

After that, he no longer cared about the reaction of the three of them, but instead concentrated on sensing the flow of magic power.

Another "vision" appeared in his mind.

That is the distribution of magic power within a certain range around them. Although it is not as clear as what mages "see" in meditation, it is still enough to indicate the flow of magic power.He saw that the inside of the tent seemed to be shrouded in a very thin layer of mist, and there were faintly subtle flows in the mist, and there were several more obvious "gathering points" in the mist, two of which were slightly stronger. Amber and Pittman were nearby, and three other very weak magic groups gathered together, obviously the three soldiers who were ordinary people.

And what about the "stone ball" that was guessed to be a dragon's egg?

It is a pitch-black black hole.

In the "field of view" of magic perception, the center of the tent is absolutely black as if a piece of space has been cut out of thin air. It is pitch black without any reflections and no details. There are only two possibilities: either, the stone ball It is a substance that should never exist in this world and has no magic power at all. Or, the stone ball actively shields all magic power effects on it.

The first one can be ruled out, because Hetty once sensed a magical reaction from the stone ball. Although that reaction was very strange and different from the known forms of magic, it did exist.

So this stone ball should have entered some kind of "self-protection" state now?

While guessing, Gao Wen carefully guided his spirit and moved closer to the darkness.

Amber has already proved the strength of this layer of "self-protection" by using his face to detect landmines. Too strong stimulation may cause him to be "bounced away" like Amber, so he must be careful and careful.