Sword of Dawn

Gao Wen shook his head: "It's really hard to say. There is a conjecture that human beings become deformed after being attacked by chaotic magic, and there is another theory that a passage to another world opened in the magic wave, and the deformed body came from another world. It came from the space, but none of the claims has actually been proven.”

Amber curled her lips, thinking that even someone like Gao Wen, who had fought against monsters for 20 years in his previous life, couldn't tell where the monster came from, so it seems that the so-called experts and scholars in the interior of the kingdom are even more unreliable in this regard. .

And when her eyes swept around, a trace on the ground suddenly caught her attention: "Hey, there seems to be something over there!"

On the stone wall not far ahead, you can see the rocks that have been scratched, and the dried blood can still be seen in the cracks of the rocks.

When the two serfs in charge of leading the way saw the traces, they trembled like chaff.

"It seems to be around here." Gawain gripped the pioneer sword tightly, sensing any subtle changes in the surroundings, "be vigilant."

Amber swallowed her saliva, followed behind Gao Wen and carefully turned to the other side of the fork in the road, as if facing an enemy.

Suddenly, Gao Wen stopped, and an instinctive alertness from this body permeated the air. Under the guidance of this alertness, he quickly hid behind a boulder, and looked towards the other side of the mountain path.

Four huge humanoid creatures that looked like giants of flesh and bones appeared in the field of vision. They staggered on the mountain road, with no facial features on their faces dripping with red mud, but chaotic, profane sounds were constantly emanating from their chests and abdomens. , The indescribable low voice Bibi.

Oh, murmur.

"One, two, three... four," came the warm breath, and Hu Po's low voice came from behind, "It seems that the serfs encountered them. It seems that they haven't found us yet, you first Come on, I'll wait until you can't see me before I run."

Gao Wen didn't pay attention to the elf shame's daily chatter, and his eyes were fixed on the abdomen of one of the deformed bodies, where he could see a distorted, decayed gray-black object. He couldn't tell what it was at all, but Gao Wen saw the clue after looking carefully: it was a weapon of the Gondor Empire!

He withdrew his gaze, sensed the surroundings intently, and confirmed that there were no more monsters nearby, and then responded to Amber: "I will charge forward later, you sneak up to backstab the last one, hold the one next to it, and after I finish the other two, we will Join forces to resolve the battle."

Amber blinked and nodded cheerfully: "Okay, I'll wait for your action."

Although she deliberately made jokes and said some strange things before, it was obvious that when it came time to do business, she was still unambiguous.

The two serfs who led the way were already frightened by the monster and couldn't move, but they mustered up the last courage to cover their mouths, and they didn't scream in panic or run away. This is already a pretty good performance for them , Gawain nodded to the two, told them to keep quiet and wait, and then raised the pioneer sword.

Magic power was injected into the blade, and scorching light gushed out from the blade. Gawain's armor was also covered with a layer of pale white gleam, and then he jumped up and directly crossed tens of meters The distance, like falling from the sky, slashed at the monster that had just reacted.

At the same time as he jumped out, a hazy shadow also flashed in the air, and then the last one of the four monsters was shaken all over - it had just been attracted by Gawain, and it was just now. He looked up to the sky and let out a chaotic roar, but the chrysanthemum was severely injured, and fell to the ground after a critical blow.

Amber emerged from the shadows and began to swim quickly around the other monster that had already reacted. Her small dagger had no effect at all when it hit a place other than the monster's weak point, and could only splash some red mud. or sparks, so start the fight and yell, "Boss help!"

Gao Wen's long sword had already been cut down, and he staggered to slash the first deformed body. Then he didn't pursue, but turned around and rushed towards the monster with an ancient sword stuck in its belly, just as he expected The same way: Although a sword stuck in the stomach is not a fatal injury to this freak, it will also affect its activities. Facing Gao Wen's fierce attack, it only resisted twice, and was directly chopped into pieces from it. two paragraphs.

If you have the power to cut the enemy in two, then it doesn't matter if you hit the weak point or not.

The deformed body in front of him let out a chaotic and inexplicable roar. Its murmur before death was mixed with power that could disturb people's mind, but Gao Wen didn't care about the momentary trance in his mind. Hit the enemy who was wounded by his first sword.

Afterwards, amidst Amber's humiliating screams, the last enemy was also successfully beheaded.

As the giant made of flesh and mud fell heavily to the ground, and quickly decomposed into chaotic elements in the air, Amber also fell to the ground with a buttock: "Oh my god... I'm exhausted... It seems that I still You have to strengthen your escape skills..."

Gawain inspected the monster wreckage on the ground and replied without raising his head: "Shouldn't the normal way of thinking increase the frontal combat power at this time?"

"Let me tell you, my current frontal combat power is already my personal peak. I am very self-aware... Hey, what are you studying?"

Amber didn't notice that Gao Wen was squatting next to the wreckage of one of the deformed bodies in the middle of speaking, with his head lowered and his face devoted to research, so he asked curiously.

Gao Wen waved: "Come and see."

Amber leaned over obediently, and she saw the deformed body fell to the ground. A large amount of flesh and mud on its body had "evaporated", leaving only a pair of blood-red bones (the bones would not completely dissipate after a few days) .And on this terrifying skeleton, a piece of severely twisted and corroded metal was stuck.

Amber blinked: "What the hell is this?"

"The soldier's sword of the Gondor Empire," Gawain said in a serious tone, "it can't be wrong. It is the model used by the northern outpost of the Empire."

Although Amber has a wild personality, she is not stupid. At this moment, she reacted instantly: "Wait! This monster has this thing on it...so it came from the wasteland of Gondor?!"

Gawain nodded silently.

"This...how is this possible!" Amber felt cold sweat spread from the back of her head to her heels in an instant, "The entire wasteland of Gondor is surrounded by magnificent walls built by elves, and those sentinel towers are not just decorations... these monsters How could it have escaped?!"

Gao Wen was silent for a while, and suddenly said quietly: "The magnificent wall has been standing there for 700 years."

Amber twitched, and smiled dryly: "Hey... hey, don't scare me, maybe these monsters were locked out of the wall at the beginning, and they have been wandering between the Dark Mountain and the Sentinel Tower, and then they just wandered to the top this year. here."

"Impossible, the aberrants will gradually disintegrate after leaving the magic tide environment, unless their number reaches a new chaotic magic environment," Gawain dismissed Amber's last hope, "These monsters cannot survive outside the wall 700 years, so...they came out of the wall."

Amber thought for a while, then shivered: "...Mom!"

"Don't say anything," Gao Wen looked into Amber's eyes, "it doesn't have to be that bad - I was there when the Sentinel Tower was erected, and I know those things have the function of self-healing and load balancing, so don't worry about it." There is a high possibility that it will shut down completely. The biggest possibility is that one of the sentinel towers has temporarily lost power due to its age, but the barrier will heal itself in a short time..."

Amber swallowed: "What does it mean to translate it in human language?"

Gao Wen: "...that is, there may be a hole in the barrier temporarily, but it will fill it up by itself."

"Then why don't you say it earlier," Amber hurriedly patted her chest, which didn't have much sense of presence, "Scared me."

However, Gao Wen still frowned: "Don't be too busy to relax. It is obvious that there is something wrong with the magnificent wall. Even if a hole is made and then patched, it is enough to prove that it is aging. Sooner or later, the small hole will become a big hole. of."

"Then what?!"

"...No, I have to take a look, even if the wall is still there from afar." Gawain suddenly got up, "Stay here and guess wildly, you will never be at ease."

"Then I..." Amber stood up after him, her mentality fluctuating violently between cowardice and recklessness, but in the end she was still infected by Gao Wen's attitude, and gritted her teeth, "I'll go with you!"

Chapter 0084 More...

Gawain said he wanted to take a look at the Great Wall—of course he didn't go to the Sentinel Tower on the border of the Gondor wasteland.

The nearest Sentinel Tower is also at the end of the banded plain at the southern foot of the Dark Mountain Range. To get there, you have to not only climb over this mountain range, but also pass through the barren wasteland tens of kilometers wide, which is not something that can be considered now.

But if you just look at it from a distance, it will be much simpler. Just like its name, the magnificent wall is a giant barrier that can be described as a "miracle". Those sentinel towers that are nearly a thousand meters high are just the "anchor" of the wall. The wall itself is a layer of magic barrier connected to the clouds. As long as you stand on a higher place in the dark mountain range, you can clearly see the top of the barrier, and Gawain can determine the approximate status of the sentinel towers.

With Amber and his foot strength, it is not difficult to reach the nearest commanding heights in a short time, but it is not easy to bring two serfs who belong to ordinary people, so the two guides must be sent back to the camp first. .

And I have to go back first, to calm my mind.

Gawain looked down at the wreckage of the deformed body that was emitting faint black smoke: the flesh and blood mud on the wreckage had been wiped out, but the remaining blood-red bones dissipated slowly, and it took about two or three days to completely "evaporate". Before the wreckage dissipates completely, they should be put to some use.

Gawain raised the pioneer sword, slashed hard at the bones that were harder than steel, and quickly chopped off their ugly heads. Amber looked terrified at the side: "Oh, why are you still doing this?" The one with the whip... oh my god, you are so twisted..."

"Bringing this thing back has a miraculous effect on calming people's hearts." Gawain looked up at Amber, and threw the freshly severed skull into the opponent's arms, then bent down to chop off one, "Then——I'll get another one. "

"Hey woo woo!" Amber exclaimed in shock from the monster head suddenly thrown by Gawain, and continued to yell, "You're sick! Bringing this thing back is sure to calm your heart, isn't it?" Scaring people out of their wits?!"

"For the Cecilians who have just been ruined by the mutants, seeing the corpses of these monsters is the fastest way to increase confidence and fighting spirit-although it may be a little mentally stimulating, the effect is the best. OK."

Gawain chopped off a new head as he spoke, and then he ignored the other two monsters who fell a little further away. Instead, he carried his head in one hand and the long sword in the other and walked towards the corner where he was hiding before. Those two led the way to this point. The serfs still hid in it obediently according to the order.

In fact, they didn't even dare to poke their heads out of their hiding places to take a look outside - they only heard the short but fierce battle sounds, and although it sounded like their lord had won, the two did not. Have the courage to come out and see the results.

It wasn't until Gao Wen appeared with a huge blood-red skull that they came to their senses, and when they saw that hideous and terrifying head, both of them gasped in unison: "God!" "My God!" sky!"

"God will not help you deal with these monsters," Gawain said casually, "All the mutants have been killed, let's go back to the camp first."

He intentionally showed his ease, and added seemingly casually: "But having said that, these things are still as weak as they were 700 years ago. Just one sword at a time, even this kind of thing can threaten the security of the camp. ?”

The two serfs looked at each other in astonishment, and then one of them reacted and nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes! Lord Lord, you are so powerful, these monsters are really vulnerable to you, vulnerable !"

Another serf muttered blankly: "But just now I heard Miss Amber calling for help..."

"Ahem!" Gao Wen coughed twice and interrupted the other party, and looked at Amber calmly, "She's a battle cry!"

Amber also reacted, with a serious face: "That's right, I was a battle cry! No matter what you hear other than that, you have heard it wrong!"

"Understood? These monsters are not as strong as you imagined," Gawain looked at the two in front of him, "Keep this in mind, and then go back to the camp."

The two serfs nodded repeatedly: At this time, as long as they can return to the camp as soon as possible, they can talk about anything, not to mention they have already seen clearly that the monster's head was chopped off by their lord!

With two deformed heads emitting black smoke, Gawain and his party quickly returned from the mountain and returned to the camp.

When approaching the camp, Gawain deliberately handed over the two heads to the two serfs, and asked them to walk ahead with the two skulls swaggeringly.

At first, the two serfs were so frightened that they almost lost their wits, and only took the skull tremblingly under the command of the lord, but soon they realized that the bone was already a dead thing, and it was a dissipating thing. Dead things, they finally mustered up their courage, and after mustering up their courage, the hatred for those monsters that destroyed their former homeland finally permeated from their stagnant hearts.

They held their skulls high and walked ahead like soldiers holding a flag. They deliberately showed the spoils to the trembling and poking people in the camp. Although they were not the ones who eliminated the monsters, they seemed to be in the process Shared the glory in general.

The atmosphere of panic and tension still lingered in the camp, but Gawain could imagine that after the two skulls were brought back, the panic and tension in the camp might still be there, but there would be more stability in it—

For this world full of monsters and ferocious beasts, and there have been demon tides, what people fear most is not monsters, but being unable to resist when monsters attack. As long as they see a little hope of defeating monsters, they It's enough to muster some courage.

Even if these courage just prevented them from fleeing the camp that day, it was enough.

Amber understood what Gao Wen meant very cleverly. The first thing she did after entering the camp was to follow the two serfs to find someone to brag about, telling how easy it was to defeat these monsters, especially how she herself was in the process. What a pivotal role it played - anyway, there was no mention of calling for help.

But for Gao Wen who returned to the camp, the things to do had just begun.

He called Hetty: "Hetty, do you know the auxiliary spells for magic concealment?"

"I understand, and I'm very proficient," Hetty replied confidently, "Because I can't break through the intermediate level, I have learned all the spells that can be learned below the intermediate level."

Besides aiming...

"Very good," Gawain suppressed the desire to complain, "you come into the mountain with me again, I need your spells."

"Hasn't the monster been wiped out?" Hetty was a little puzzled, "I saw the spoils you brought back, and thought I was going to clear the alarm..."

"That's temporarily reassuring." Gawain shook his head. "Those aberrations wandered from the wasteland of Gondor and arrived here through the southern belt plain and the entire mountain range. problem—and I suspect it's not just the aberrants wandering off."

Hetty didn't ask any more questions, but went back and arranged the affairs during her departure, then she took her staff and put on a short robe that was convenient for going out in the wild, and was ready to go.

Gao Wen found Amber who was touring in the camp to blow off steam, and after pulling this half-elf who tried to avoid work on the ground of "helping with publicity", the group of three entered the mountain again, and quickly returned to the place where they had been with the monster before. Where to fight.

Those huge blood-colored skeletons are still lying quietly on the mountain road, in a state of continuous decomposition.

Amber frowned and looked at the ugly wreckage: "By the way, how do you know there are more monsters? Did you see them?"

"You don't understand aberrants," Gao Wen said in his judgment. "You know that aberrants are a kind of thing that becomes more tenacious when there are more numbers, and weaker when there are fewer numbers. It will even self-destruct when the number is too small." Is it?"

Not to mention amber, even Hetty didn't know about it: "When the number is too small, it will self-destruct? What's going on?"

"Aberrations and demon tides complement each other, and may even be two manifestations of the same phenomenon," Gao Wen explained. "The number of aberrations has a threshold. After exceeding this threshold, the greater the number, the more pollution from demon tides." The stronger it will be, and the stronger the pollution, the more and stronger the aberrations will be, and the ubiquitous magic in nature is the soil for this process to continue to develop. Therefore, as long as a sufficient number of aberrations gather in Together, new magic wave pollution points can be formed and spread rapidly; but conversely, if it is lower than that value, the magic wave pollution produced by the aberrations will not only fail to proliferate, but will not even be able to maintain itself. They will continue to weaken and gradually disintegrate in the orderly world-this process is very fast, and the mutants that are separated from the main force will even collapse themselves within three days."

Amber glanced at the wreckage on the ground: "I remember you said that the aberrants will wander blindly or stay in place without sensing the target. In this case, their moving speed is very slow... ..."

"That's right, if there were only four monsters, they would never have wandered from the wasteland of Gondor to this place. With their speed, they would have dissipated halfway," Gawain didn't hide his worry, "So the four This monster broke away from a large army... Maybe it got lost, maybe the team was too loose, but the big army definitely exists."

Hetty couldn't help holding her staff a little nervously.

Gao Wen concentrated his energy and carefully observed the mountain road where those monsters roamed.

Aberrations are the product of the dark tide, and their chaotic and disordered magic power is as pungent and eye-catching as rancid sludge in this world. Although these chaotic magic power dissipates quickly, these monsters have not been long ago. Appeared, so those traces of magic power are very likely to remain.

Sure enough, after concentrating on discerning carefully, he perceived a subtle incongruity in one direction of the mountain road.

That direction also happened to be one of the roads leading to the southern foot of the Dark Mountains.

Chapter 0085 The Great Wall

The aberrations did leave a lot of traces of pollution in the process of wandering—although the aura of chaotic magic power has dissipated rapidly, due to the timely discovery, there are still many clues remaining.

Following the pollution that appeared from time to time, Gao Wen and his party continued to advance in the dark mountains, and gradually approached a gap in the mountain southwest of the camp, and this gap made Gao Wen vigilant.

This is the lower part of the Dark Mountains, and it is also the easiest pass to cross. If those monsters came in through this gap...then they will soon be able to sense the human breath of the camp, and rush down from the mountain and drive straight in. attack the camp.

A group of three people climbed up a boulder and looked at the gap in the mountain ahead from a distance. The rock there was not covered by many plants. The exposed gray-white rock was lifeless like a broken bone, and the whole terrain was like a sharp axe. It was formed, and below the gap, a disturbing gray-black mist can already be clearly seen rising.

Gawain immediately asked Hetty to use spells to cover up all kinds of auras including magic power on the three of them - the ability of third-level mages in this area is of course limited, and this kind of aura coverup cannot be fooled by any mid-level or above professional , but Gawain is very aware of the shortcomings of aberrations: after leaving the magic tide environment, their perception will become very dull, and their thinking ability will be low. As long as they do not clearly feel the magic power or the breath of intelligent creatures, they will not have reaction.

After completing the covert work, the three of them moved forward cautiously, and before halfway there, a rotten breath came from the front.

"Ugh..." Hetty retched in a low voice, and at the same time, she grasped the staff slightly with her fingers: she was too familiar with this breath, and this breath even appeared in her nightmares more than once, waking her up from the dream— —A few months ago, the entire Old Cecil Territory was destroyed in this breath.

Knowing that those monsters could perceive magic fluctuations, and her occlusion spells had limited effects, Hetty restrained the urge to release the breeze shield, and followed Gawain carefully, bypassing the rocks and ancient trees blocking the way ahead.

Gao Wen, who was walking in front, suddenly made a gesture: "Hide - in front."

A group of three people hid among the jagged rocks, Amber boldly poked her head out from under Gawain's shoulders, and goose bumps appeared all over her body in the next second.

The mountain road below was shrouded in a layer of gray-black mist. The plants there withered and mutated, and hideous spikes and tentacles grew out of the rocks and soil. Countless clumps that looked like some kind of mollusk were among the rocks. Wriggling, rolling, and disgusting to look at, crowds of flesh and blood giants are staggering forward on this mountain road that looks like a road to hell, with muddy flesh and blood flowing on their chaotic faces, profane and low Whispering sounds emanated from their chests and formed a buzzing resonance in the air.

What is even more chilling is that many of these flesh and blood giants have decayed ancient weapons stuck on their bodies. Amber even saw an empty human skeleton stuck in the abdomen of one of the giants, which is disgusting. The evidence proved Gao Wen's judgment:

This is an army of demons from hell that wandered from the wasteland of Gondor.

Amber immediately grabbed Gawain's arm, and expressed her clearest thoughts at the moment in the lowest and lowest voice of her life: "Boss, I don't want my salary, you let me go..."

"Hush——" Gawain pressed Amber's head, but his eyes scanned among those monsters. He confirmed it over and over again, and finally heaved a sigh of relief, "Fortunately, it's not the worst situation."

"Isn't that bad?!" Amber looked at Gao Wen like he was watching a lunatic, "Such a large group is enough to tear down the entire camp three times!"

"Don't be intimidated by the appearance. In fact, there are not as many of them as you imagined." Gao Wen knew what kind of misunderstanding ordinary people would have when they saw the aberrant army for the first time, so he patiently explained, "Those mist and The growths surging on the ground will give you the illusion that there are a lot of them, but if you count carefully, the number may actually be less than a thousand..."

Amber was stunned, and carefully estimated the number of flesh and blood giants shaking in her sight: "It seems that there are really only a few hundred..."

But then she realized: "But there are only 800 people in our entire camp - [-] of them still don't know how to fight!"

"But it's much better than my worst expectation," Gao Wen said in a low voice. "My biggest worry at the beginning was that their number exceeded that 'line' too much—then they would increase rapidly, just like the It looks like it grows out of the air. We suffered a lot on it back then. The [-] enemies in the report may multiply to [-] or even [-] when we meet... But you see, there is no new distortion The body grows out of the air, which means that their number does not exceed that line, or exceeds a little bit, but it has not yet reached the level of natural growth..."