Sword of Dawn

Gao Wen left the banquet hall of the Autumn Palace. He brought only a few entourages to the small courtyard behind the Autumn Palace.

A magical car has been waiting here for a long time.

Gao Wen went directly to the side of the car, and the nearby air suddenly trembled and twisted, and Amber's figure gradually emerged from it, jumping lightly to Gao Wen's side.

"I thought you would accompany the guests from the Holy Dragon Principality all the way," Amber raised her eyelids and glanced at Gao Wen while opening the car door, "That's the mysterious 'Dragonborn'."

"Giant dragons are more mysterious than them, and I have dealt with them a lot," Gawain said casually while bending down and sitting in the car, looking at Amber who got into the car behind him, "Hetty and Rebecca will host the banquet instead of me." In the second half of the event, two members of the immediate royal family were present, which is enough to comply with etiquette—as for me, I have to do something more meaningful than chanting diplomatic rhetoric with people at the banquet.”

"I agree with your last sentence very much—let's go," Amber raised her eyebrows and said with a smile. She greeted the mechanic driving in front, and then turned her head to look at Gao Wen, "Other A group of 'guests' are already waiting in the North Shore Development Zone, they seem a little uneasy, but they are quite orderly."

"...Uneasy?" Gao Wen frowned, "I didn't imprison them."

"Yes, not only were they not imprisoned, but you also sent priests and nuns to take care of them," Amber rolled her eyes, "You might as well just send the army there."

The corners of Gao Wen's eyes couldn't help shaking.

"There's no way around that," he sighed, "That's a group of experts in the spiritual field, although they have expressed their surrender, but before the observation test is completely over, I don't dare to let regular personnel contact those people casually. Compared with ordinary soldiers, the white knights and armed priestesses who are determined, have received special willpower training, and are protected by high-intensity holy light at any time have extremely high mental resistance. I can think of asking them to go to the nursing site. the safest way."

Amber nodded helplessly: "Well, that's true."

In the North Shore Development Zone, a gathering place not yet open to the public, Yuri and a large number of Priests of the Eternal Sleepers who have changed their costumes are resting in the hall.

Among them were the priests who took the last train to cross the border, as well as members of the religious order who successfully crossed the border in two groups before that—the latter stayed in the White Sand Hills area for two days until the last group led by Yuri People arrived, and everyone took the magic train to Cecil City today.

There is a newly installed ventilation system in the assembly hall, and the management of the facility has also provided sufficient drinking water and food. For a group of "cultists" who came to a foreign country for the first time and their identities have not yet been revealed, this is considered good However, Yuri's compatriots still feel a little uneasy.

Because there is a group of heavily armed Holy Light Warriors guarding all the entrances and exits of the assembly hall, and the "image" of those Holy Light Warriors... is really impressive.

Half of them were huge men nearly two meters tall-this amazing height may be due in part to their equally amazing silver-white armor. Chains bound metal prayer books, they claimed to be Cecil's priests of the Holy Light, and in Yuri's view, the only connection between these people and "priests" was that they could indeed see a lot of sacred runes ——Those runes were stamped on their helmets with stencils, or hung on their armor with wax paint and scripture belts. It was not so much a sacred symbol, but more like a knight left on his armor after killing the enemy. "Scarred of Glory" below.

And the other half of those people—thankfully, at least—women who seemed a little more genial.

It would be even better if these ladies were not carrying unknown spears (maybe it was a staff or a long-handled warhammer? Or something else that can open people's heads?), and they were not equipped with cold-light mechanical gloves. All right.

Archbishop Semler, who arrived at the White Sand Hills a day earlier than Yuri, but arrived at the meeting place on the same day as everyone else, sat on the bench in the hall and couldn't help but whispered to Yuri next to him: "I have some Miss the 'miners' dormitories' in White Sands... at least the armed security guards for the mining companies there seem a lot friendlier."

"...I don't understand Yu...why His Majesty the Emperor arranged for these priests of the Holy Light to watch over us," Yuri said in a low voice with faint worry on his face, "Could it be true that He has completely controlled and transformed us as rumored? Abandoned the Church of the Holy Light in Cecil, and turned them into his 'loyal armed force'?"

"It looks like this, He will never stand with the 'God of Holy Light'," Sammler said in a deep voice, "And I think..."

A burst of heavy footsteps suddenly came from the side, which stopped Semler's unfinished words. A two-meter-tall white knight in full armor came among the eternal sleepers and stood in front of the bench. A muffled and low voice came from under Wen's helmet: "You guys don't look well, do you need the touch of the holy light or the prayer of tranquility?"

While speaking, this tower-like warrior weighed the warhammer in his hand, put the surprisingly heavy murder weapon sideways in his hand, and began to turn a certain switch on its handle.

Semler's expression changed immediately: "No, we don't need it!"

He very much doubted that the "Holy Light Touch" that the other party said was released by rounding it.

In fact, as an archbishop-level priest of the Eternal Sleeper, his powerful power may not be weaker than these white knights who call themselves "priests", but the style of these iron giants is really weird, and the surging power of the holy light on them is really powerful. What's more important is that this place is still under the eyes of the "outsider wanderers", and every "guard" here is sent by the outsider wanderers. The combination of these factors makes Semler and Yuri nervous .

"Understood," the burly and tall white knight said in a low voice, without insisting, "If you need it, you can speak up at any time."

The iron tower finally left.

Both Yuri and Semler couldn't help but heave a sigh of relief, and then smiled bitterly at each other helplessly, Yuri muttered softly: "This place... is much weirder than I imagined at the beginning."

At this time, Wendy, who hadn't spoken yet, suddenly broke the silence: "Actually, I think it's okay. I mean those armed ladies—don't you think their equipment is very beautiful?"

Yuri looked at Wendy with a weird look: "Ms. Wendy...are you serious?"

Fortunately, this weird topic and the weird atmosphere in the assembly hall were finally broken in the next second.

"His Majesty Gawain Cecil arrived at—"

The attendant's loud announcement was like the sound of heaven at this moment, and both Yuri and Semler were refreshed at the same time.

The eternal sleepers in the hall raised their heads one after another and looked towards the door. They saw that the door was opened, and the white knights and armed ladies guarding the door retreated respectfully to both sides and lined up in a neat queue. And a taller figure than the white knights appeared there, with his back to the sun, he walked into the hall as if descending.

Outlander.

Realistic, alive, panting.

The priests of the Eternal Sleeper who were present at the same time felt a strange feeling, as if a certain existence in the mythical world suddenly stood in front of them, but it appeared in a mortal and harmless posture. The priests, who had experienced a lot of turmoil, became a little dazed at this moment, until Gao Wen's voice suddenly sounded, dragging them back to reality——

"Welcome to Cecil, future citizens of the Empire - I hope most of you will be able to obtain this status smoothly in the future."

Chapter 0843 Computing Center

Yuri and Semler stood up first, followed by Wendy and the other bishops and archbishops at the scene. Finally, the other priests realized who was in front of them, and the bench and the clothes shook slightly. The sound of the sound continued to resound in the entire assembly hall, and every eternal sleeper stood up.

It was a truly spectacular sight.

Gawain looked at these people in front of him, at these people who had just been transferred from Typhon and were members of the dark sect not long ago, even though he personally facilitated all of this, he still felt a little unreal at this moment—the whole Eternal Sleep The orthodox sect, with 700 years of accumulation, more than half of the results belong to Cecil now.

These are technicians.

Gao Wen exhaled lightly, and said lightly, "Sit down."

The three major dark sects, the Son of the Storm is being eroded and transformed by the power of the Harmonious God of the deep sea, the current situation is unknown; the end of all things will finally live up to its name, except for a group of remnants who ran into the wasteland to hide, almost all the parts left in the human country are extinct , only one plant on the Sorin Plain remained; the Eternal Sleepers, the order fell apart, and the surviving technicians were divided among the two human empires.

The darkness and chaos that lasted for 700 years, although it cannot be said that the dust has settled down to this day, in Gao Wen's view, at least the general trend has been settled.

"Yuri, Semler, and...Wendy," Gawain glanced at the faces of several more familiar archbishops, and when his gaze turned to the open space next to him, there were two more figures Emerging there abruptly, "Ah, and Magnum, Selena... Glad to see you arrived safely."

"Your Majesty," Yuri took a slight step forward. When he said the word "Your Majesty", he obviously stumbled a bit. He was obviously not very used to this title. Then he turned slightly sideways and pointed at the crowd in the hall, "At present The Eternal Sleepers who have successfully crossed the border so far are already here—in terms of number, they only account for less than [-]% of the entire church, but they are basically middle-level and high-level members who have mastered technology, including almost all archbishops. One-third of the bishops, as well as some elite priests with outstanding abilities, are always at your disposal."

In other words, in fact, there are still a considerable number of middle-level technical personnel staying in Typhon...

Gao Wen sighed slightly in his heart, but he didn't show it. He just nodded and said unhurriedly: "Don't worry, you can rest here for a few days to get familiar with the environment here, as well as familiar with you here. There will be special personnel and departments responsible for the laws and rules that must be obeyed, and arrangements for board and lodging will be made.

"In addition, in the next period of time, these holy light priests will live with you, and they will lead you to gradually adapt to life here."

The Eternal Sleepers at the scene seemed a little agitated when they heard his last words, but in the end no one came forward to express their opinions, and Gawain was quite satisfied with this.

"Then, others can go to rest, and the archbishops stay - I still have things to explain and arrange."

The White Knights and Battle Sisters at the scene immediately stepped forward and led the other priests to leave the assembly hall and go to the resettlement area arranged in advance. Archbishops such as Yuri and Semler stayed as ordered—including The projection state appeared in front of Gao Wen's Magnum and Selena.

Magnum looked around the place curiously, he was not very used to the existence of "psychological projection", so that he kept flickering like a poorly contacted magic spar (reminiscent of Kamai in party mode Er), after discovering that everyone had left, he sensed the changes on the scene as if belatedly, and looked at Gao Wen curiously: "Your Majesty... Your Majesty, what other arrangements do you have?"

"Take you to see your new 'home'," Gao Wen smiled, then lowered his head and said to Amber next to him, "Go to the computing center."

The place Gawain wanted to take them to was not far away - in fact, it was right next to this meeting place.

Under the guard of a team of white knights, the archbishops walked for less than 10 minutes on a road that was completely devoid of pedestrians and shaded by trees and bushes. Suddenly, an open land that seemed to be still under construction appeared in front of them. In front of everyone's eyes.

All kinds of magical machines that they have never seen before are running nervously and busily in the open space. The supernatural power is controlled by the most ordinary workers and applied on a large scale in the most basic construction projects. In the middle of the tall construction site, a five or six-story building, roughly pyramid-shaped, with a large amount of runes and magic materials being laid on its surface, has taken shape and stands there majestically.

Magnum's eyes widened suddenly - almost every archbishop present was more or less surprised.

Some of them were surprised by the "mechanized cluster construction" scene they had never seen before, and some were surprised by the mysterious pyramid building whose style and structure were unheard of. No matter what the reason for the surprise, they all had one reaction that was surprisingly consistent: All eyes soon fell on Gao Wen.

Magnum stared at the pyramid for a long time before looking at Gawain. He was the first one who couldn't help but ask, "Is that a prison? Or a 'factory' for us to transform?"

He still firmly remembered the "reform through labor" that Gawain had mentioned at the Supreme Bishops' Conference.

The faces of several archbishops at the scene became somewhat subtle, and Yuri even spread his hands helplessly—since Magnum became a projection, it was not so easy to cover the mouth of this loud voice in time.

Gao Wen didn't care, he shook his head with a smile: "Don't worry, at least none of the people present are so strong that they must be thrown into prison, and the knowledge you have mastered can give you a brighter future to the greatest extent. .As for this facility...in a sense it is indeed for you to work in, but it is not a factory.

"Welcome to the Imperial Computing Center—although it has not yet been completed, some of the main building's facilities are ready. Come with me, and I will show you the future."

Gawain led the Eternal Sleepers striding towards the pyramid-shaped building, and everyone followed with mixed emotions of curiosity and anticipation. Amber also walked closely beside Gawain with short legs.When approaching the "pyramid", Yuri noticed that many places on the outer edge of its foundation had not been covered. On the open foundation layer, a large number of neatly arranged hexagonal rune structures could be seen. And there is a faint magical radiance flowing between those components.

This is probably Cecil's "magic net", he thought.

From scale to precision, it is far superior to all kinds of "imitations" made by other forces.

Then, they stepped through the gate of the pyramid-shaped building, and a hall illuminated by a large number of lights, which was still undergoing site cleaning and laying of facilities, appeared in front of everyone.

The first thing they saw was a huge pillar in the center of the hall—the pillar was in the shape of a cuboid, thicker than any main beam of any castle, and its surface seemed to be made up of a large number of silver-white metal plates. , its precise stitching and the distribution of gaps that seem to imply some geometrical regularity reveal an intoxicating "beauty" that is difficult to describe in words, because no one has seen anything like it anywhere else.

And between the gaps of those metal plates, on the surface of some of the special panels, streams of light blue magic light are flowing quietly, and the dots of light are flickering like breathing.

This even gave Yuri an illusion—he felt that this pillar was alive, and even had its own thinking. It was the heart and brain of this building, and those Cecil workers and technicians were putting it Waking up a little bit, and this gradually waking thing...waiting to communicate with other minds...

Suddenly, Yuri realized that what he had had was not an illusion.

He did feel something familiar from that pillar, which was a magical wave similar to some facilities in the headquarters of the Eternal Sleeper!

"This is the thinking hall. The pillar in front of you is called the 'mind hub'. It is the first and only mind hub in the empire." Gawain noticed the changes in the expressions on the faces of Yuri and the others. It took a few seconds to explain, "You may have some familiarity with it, which is normal, because this thing... uses your mind network technology.

"The 'Mind Hub' almost runs through the entire building, with four floors above ground and two floors underground, connecting all levels of computing layers, thinking halls, redundant centers, and the deepest magic net medium layer. You have noticed the rooms around the hall What? There are more rooms above and below ground, and in those rooms there are thousands of immersion chambers in total—there will be more in the future, and more computing centers will appear in various provinces of the empire, each There will also be more 'distribution stations' near the computing center to undertake more computing tasks.

"The immersion cabins in each room will be connected to the mental hub, and then connected to the magic net through the mental hub - after an extra layer of magic net conversion and a new security medium, it is better than you using the human brain to 'naked connection' before. The Internet is much more secure.

"By the way, some of you may not know what an immersion chamber is - you can ask Selina about this, she has seen it before."

However, Semler no longer cared much about what Gao Wen said in his last sentence.

He, as well as the rest of the archbishops present, watched all this with dumbfoundedness, listened to all this, and conceived all this in their minds.

This magnificent building, as well as the large-scale, advanced and sophisticated equipment inside, are essentially technical extensions of the spiritual network of the eternal sleepers, but their volume and application methods are completely beyond the understanding of all eternal sleepers , even if they didn’t get a glimpse of the whole building, even if they only glanced at what they could see, Semler, Yuri and the others could tell that this thing was definitely not just for the priests of the Eternal Sleepers present—it was There are definitely more "users" to accommodate than they imagined! !

What touched them even more was that there would be more than one similar "computing center" in the future—every province would have one, and there would even be "distribution stations" for additional expansion facilities. Huge scale?

The original Eternal Sleeper Order also had so-called "external nodes". In addition to the headquarters in Orlande, they also set up some computing facilities in other places. The auxiliary facilities are probably equivalent to the role of the "distribution station" mentioned by Gao Wen. Even so, it is already the result of hundreds of years of accumulation of the Church of the Eternal Sleepers...

What Gao Wen described was an unimaginable future for them.

The scale is so large that they even feel that it is a bit more than necessary, and it is a bit unbelievable.

"So many, such large-scale computing centers..." Yuri finally couldn't help but said, "Are you planning to let everyone establish a connection with it?"

"Why not?" Gao Wen asked rhetorically, "The immersion chamber is a safer connection method, and ordinary people can also use it. In fact, Cecil has completed research in this area. Currently, the scale of the computing center is limited. , is just the production capacity of the immersion chamber.

"As you said, Yuri, I just want this network to cover the entire empire—in my opinion, this is a very useful technology."

The archbishops looked at each other.

This is a path they never thought of - because this path represents a direction that was once impossible for them!

However, they couldn't help but feel dazzled just thinking about the prospect that Gao Wen had drawn, and the power that the spiritual network could unleash after it was rebuilt on the land of the Cecil Empire.

"It's still possible..." Magnum couldn't help muttering, "We didn't even imagine such a thing..."

Gawain smiled and looked at Magnum calmly.

"Because the Order of the Eternal Sleepers is just a religious order, and Cecil is an empire," he said unhurriedly, "what you see are two forces—the power of industry, and... the state machine the power of.

"And your original path of 'saving the world alone' is destined to run counter to these two forces.

"Finally, let me say it again - welcome to Cecil, welcome to the future."

Chapter 0844 Come to the Future

Come to the future...

This is a brand new term, one that has never been heard elsewhere.

It is said that almost every day in Cecil, such brand-new words "emerge" from various fields. They are used to describe the ever-changing magic technology, and to describe the changing order of Cecil. Citizens of Cecil took pride in mastering and using these new vocabulary, and it even became a kind of label behavior that many people used to flaunt "decency".

Yuri was quite puzzled by this when listening to people chatting, but now looking at the impressive facility in front of him and sketching the scene described by Gawain in his mind, he suddenly understood a little bit.

It is truly a great creation that anyone should be able to show off with pride - even blind pride.

What made the Archbishops of the Eternal Sleeper at the scene a little ironic was that the technical foundation of this creation originated from the Eternal Sleeper Order—for hundreds of years, they have held this technology that can change the times, but they have never Without thinking like Gawain Cecil, they carefully hid the technology and buried it deep underground together with their "great plan". They regarded this technology as a "forbidden weapon" to challenge the gods. ", and "forbidden weapons"... are naturally rare, secret, and precious, and they must be isolated from "ordinary people".

Gawain looked at the silent archbishops and knew what they were thinking.

Their courage to challenge the gods is certainly commendable, but the idea of ​​individual heroism to save the world alone limits their direction. Just like almost all supernatural beings of this era, they have never thought about or believed in the collective Power - Naturally, they don't understand what a state machine is, let alone what a civil war is.

"We spend centuries going around in circles, burying ourselves underground until our heads are suffocated," Magnum muttered (at a volume audible throughout the hall), "hundreds of years... "

"These hundreds of years have not been in vain," Gao Wen shook his head. "It is you who laid the technological foundation. No one can deny that. The creation of a technology is the most difficult part. Fortunately, you have completed it."

"I have a question," Wendy, who hadn't spoken yet, suddenly broke the silence, "Your Majesty, according to your plan, you plan to cover the entire empire with a similar computing center, and then let ordinary people use the ' Is the immersion chamber's device connected to the network?"

Gawain nodded: "Of course."

"Will ordinary people be willing to do this? Contribute their own brain computing power... Although it may be just redundant computing power, the majority of people who have doubts must be in the majority. 'Connected together, most people rarely have the opportunity to touch magic in their lives..."

"I'm glad to see that a priest of the Eternal Sleeper is now starting to think about things from the perspective of ordinary people, but I want to correct you first-in Cecil, it's not as difficult for 'ordinary people' to get in touch with magic as you think," Gao Wen interrupted Wendy, "Secondly, after the initial doubts, the public will soon start to welcome this thing, and we will even have to take certain measures to restrict the use of the immersion chamber by the public, so that Prevent it from affecting the production order of the real economy."

While talking, Gao Wen waved to people not far away. Yuri and the others were full of doubts because of Gao Wen's words, and were about to ask questions, when they heard a pleasant voice with a metallic tremolo from nearby, " "Gone with the wind" came over: "Come here - Your Majesty! I just finished calibrating the power ridge in the west area!"

As the voice fell, a huge silver-white metal ball with a wonderful smiling face on its surface floated in front of Gao Wen quickly, and there were stunned faces reflected on the shiny surface. Subconsciously exclaimed: "My ancestors... what is this?!"

Before Gao Wen could open his mouth, Nicholas Danzong had already turned his face (the ball) and flew in front of Magnum, and there was a curious metallic trill from the silver-white metal ball: "Ah, bearings and gears! What is this? thing?"

While talking, he quickly circled the Magnum twice, and the latter's flickering psychological projection suddenly seemed to fade into thin air, and even Selena, who was not far away, was affected. Nicholas Eggman marveled as he flew: "Weird, immaterial, intertwined energy bodies, mixed with subtle magnetic fields that can interfere with carbon-based biological nerve signals, seem to have no fixed form, but constantly calibrate their own range and energy through energy interaction. Features... a bit similar to Kamel, but a lot more blurred... ah, levers and pistons! This thing even has an emotional response!!"

Magnum's eyes were almost rounded, and he shouted while trying to avoid the invisible magic field around Nicholas Egg: "What the hell is this terrible sphere talking about!"