Sword of Dawn

Dodging the monster's sweeping claws with an almost instinctive reaction, Gawain twisted his upper body half a circle, and the swinging blade streaked across the air, slashing fiercely at the monster's shoulder. While chopping down with the blade, he tried his best to mobilize the power contained in this body, and guide that power to the long sword in his hand.

The faint red ray at the root of the blade burst into bright red light under the stimulation of power, and spread rapidly along the blade like a flame. Under the scorching heat, even the surrounding air was distorted.

The three-meter-high monster felt the threat from the high temperature of the blade, and suddenly fell back with an agility that was completely incompatible with its huge size. As a result, Gawain's slash missed by such a narrow margin.

It was the first time that Gao Wen released this magical supernatural power with his own hands. It was inevitable that there would be a moment of excitement in Gao Wen's heart. It was probably this moment of excitement that made him fail to grasp the timing of the first attack. The rhythm, but soon he adjusted his mentality and refocused his strength on the long sword.

The skills and knowledge from Gawain Cecil in memory are indeed callable, and this body has not deteriorated to the point where it can't exert its strength at all. Although I don't know how much strength it can exert, but at this moment, Gawain A lot of confidence has been added.

He began to immerse himself in the battle, and tried his best to convert the combat experience in his mind that didn't belong to him into the power he could use as quickly as possible.

On the other side, Byron was already struggling.

This middle-level knight is considered one of the best masters in the Cecil family. His combat career before serving the Cecil family also allowed him to accumulate extraordinary combat experience. However, he had already consumed too much when the monsters attacked the castle before. His strength, coupled with being eroded by the monster's strange magic power, and the hidden injuries in his body further reduced his combat effectiveness, which made the knight's [-]% combat effectiveness only [-]% to [-]%.

Facing the monster's continuous onslaught at this moment, he could only hold his long sword tightly and strive to remain undefeated. While saving his energy as much as possible, he tried to find the opponent's flaws.

Rebecca gathered her magic power, a scorching fireball the size of a head flew out from the front of the staff, and collided fiercely with the shadow arrow of the spell-casting monster in the distance, making an earth-shattering explosion, and then she took a breath, and immediately Noticing the dangerous situation on Byron's side, he immediately shouted to the territorial soldiers beside him: "You three, go help Byron!"

A soldier hesitated: "But Lord Lord..."

Rebecca shouted while condensing the new fireball technique: "Our side is fine for the time being - but if Byron falls down, it will be over! I order you to go as the lord!"

The three soldiers had no choice but to take orders and fight against the terrible monster together with Knight Byron.

Gao Wen was gradually immersed in the battle, and the memories and experiences in his mind that did not belong to him were being rapidly transformed into his own, and his ability to control his new body was improving. This process brought him full achievements When he woke up from this state of immersion, he found that the monster in front of him had been crushed and beaten by him.

Those distorted bodies that are surging with "sludge" are not invulnerable, they will still be injured if they are cut down, and they will still die if they are cut too much. Although they are infinitely powerful and have advantages in size, as long as they master the method of confrontation, human beings will be able to fight. The body can still destroy them.

This is the experience left over 700 years ago.

The monster's sharp claws swept across the top of the head, Gawain leaned down, and stabbed the long sword into the opponent's thigh with his backhand. Taking the opportunity, Gawain shouted to Byron: "Try to attack their abdomen and lower limbs, don't worry about the chest, these guys don't have a heart!"

Then, taking advantage of his opponent's loss of balance, he twisted around to the opponent's side and rear, raised his long sword and stabbed at the monster's lower back: "Apart from the abdominal cavity, their other weak point is at the back! The lower back!"

Hearing the advice from the ancestor of the Cecil family, Byron immediately lifted his spirits. With the cooperation of the three soldiers, he quickly restrained the monster's movements, and at the cost of being pierced by sharp claws while battling his shoulder armor, Drilling directly under the opponent's crotch, he turned his sword and hit the vital point.

And one second before Byron finished off the enemy, the monster in front of Gawain also fell down heavily.

After finishing off the enemy, Gawain immediately raised his head and looked at the monster in the distance who was using the Shadow Arrow and Rebecca's fireball to bombard him, but just as he was about to rush to the front, the monster suddenly let out a shriek. roared, and then collapsed convulsively.

Hu Po's figure appeared behind the monster, spinning a poisoned steel dagger in each hand: "I'm good at poking chrysanthemums."

Rebecca put down her staff, her cheeks were slightly flushed due to the continuous casting of spells, she took a few breaths to calm down, and then seriously corrected: "My lord ancestor is talking about the back waist, not the chrysanthemum."

Amber spun the dagger in her hand twice quickly, and she didn't know where she hid the dagger. She stepped over the monster's body, and curled her lips as she walked over: "Cut, I don't have any sense of humor at all."

After the monsters died, they began to disintegrate rapidly. The flowing muddy substances on their bodies first stopped flowing, and then gradually dried up and hardened, and a large number of fine cracks appeared. As these mutated "flesh and blood" Corroded and fallen off, they will turn into a huge, twisted bloody skeleton at an extremely fast speed.

Gawain stood beside the monster he had killed, looked down at the process, and said to himself, "So these things attacked Cecil's territory..."

Hetty looked at him curiously: "Ancestor, do you know the origin of these monsters?"

Gawain had already shown a deep understanding of these monsters in the previous battles, and even gave Byron advice on how to fight them, so of course he couldn't hide this, and he didn't want to hide it himself.

"You may still meet them if you stay here. Let's go to the secret passage. There are things in the secret passage to suppress those monsters. They won't go in easily," Gawain said as he walked forward. "I can talk to you about the details on the road." Say it."

After getting into the ancient underground passage and advancing for a while, Gawain broke his silence: "I did deal with them back then—in fact, we mainly dealt with those things back then. You should know about the collapse of the Gondor Empire and the The history of the second pioneering, right?"

"Of course I know," Rebecca nodded immediately. These histories can be said to be a compulsory course for her as a noble child. "More than 700 years ago, there was only one human kingdom in the Loren Continent, and that was the Gondor Empire located in the center of the continent. History It is recorded that it was the most powerful empire on the mainland at that time, and even the Silver Empire established by the elves in the southern part of the mainland did not dare to easily make an enemy against it. A catastrophe known as the 'Dark Tide', the outbreak point of the disaster was in the hinterland of the Gondor Empire - almost overnight, the capital of the Gondor Empire and one-third of the land were swallowed by the Tide The turbulent elemental power breaks down..."

"It didn't happen overnight. In fact, this process lasted for nearly a month—the court mages of Gondor didn't do nothing in front of the demon tide," Gawain interrupted, and then motioned for the other party to continue talking. "But judging from the results, it's similar, you continue."

"Oh...oh," Rebecca blushed a little, and said more cautiously as if her parents were checking her homework, "After that, the demon tide in the hinterland of the Gondor Empire continued to spread to all directions, and finally completely destroyed the entire country , This is the collapse of the Gondor Empire. After that, as the etheric sea gradually calmed down, the power of the demon tide began to decrease, and the surviving Gondor remnants began to rebuild civilization. It is no longer suitable for human survival, so they left the ruined empire under the leadership of a group of pioneers, and opened up in the four directions of east, west, north and south, which is called the second time in history. Your ancestors are the most famous One of the pioneer knights."

"Well, the history is good," Gao Wen boasted casually, "then you should have heard that even though the tide of magic is over, there are still a large number of monsters born in the tide of magic in the ruins of the Gondor Empire. Monsters were one of the greatest threats to humanity during the Second Frontier."

Hetty opened her eyes wide: "You mean..."

"That's right, it was those things that fought us back then," Gawain sighed, "They were born from the tide of demons, and they had human-like outlines, but they were definitely not human beings. After the collapse of the Gondor Empire, a large number of them Monsters sprang out from the ruined hinterland of the empire, and continued to spread in all directions, chasing and killing the survivors at that time, so the first half of the second development was not so much a journey of development as a journey of escape. And even later We have broken away from the wasteland of the empire and established a new country on the edge of the continent, and those monsters have not stopped, they are still coming from the direction of the wasteland of the empire, frequently attacking the defense line of the civilized world... the head of the Ansuli Kingdom For ten years, I have dealt with them almost every day."

Rebecca opened her eyes wide, as if she had been deeply attracted by these ancient and legendary stories: "Ah, after ten years of the Ansu Li Kingdom, those monsters will no longer appear?"

Gao Wen smiled, stretched out his hand to stroke the girl's hair, and showed a smile of looking at a silly roe deer: "Silly boy, your ancestor will die after that..."

Rebecca: "..."

Chapter 0008

Although he only spent less than a day with this titular great-great-great-great-granddaughter, Gao Wen still had a very deep impression on Rebecca, and more than once wondered whether the child's head was blocked when she was a child. what caught...

It stands to reason that it is not possible. Even if the elite education that noble children must receive is not mentioned, her identity as a spellcaster can almost prove her IQ. After all, such a thing as making a big fireball is not something that ordinary people can grasp... …

On the other hand, other people are not in the mood to pursue the problem of Rebecca's lack of brain at the moment. Even Hetty, who has always been very strict with Rebecca, is only deeply worried at this moment: "You mean... appearing in Sisi Are you leading those monsters from 700 years ago?"

Gawain sighed: "Seeing how unfamiliar you are with those monsters, you probably haven't seen them for hundreds of years."

"The wars with monsters after the pioneering period ended are already history," Hetty shook his head lightly, "Although there are records in the history books, the most recent records are at least 600 years ago... According to what I have learned, from The monsters wandering from the wasteland of the ancient empire have indeed harassed Ansu for a long time, but ever since the elves helped humans build those sentinel towers, those monsters have completely become a legend..."

Gawain frowned slightly: "The Sentinel Tower...things built by elves won't be so prone to problems."

"This matter must be told to His Majesty the King," Rebecca clenched her fists suddenly, and said with a serious face, "The monsters that disappeared hundreds of years ago suddenly reappeared in the empire, and someone must send the information back as soon as possible. .And Cecil suffered heavy losses from this innocent disaster, we...we must ask the royal family for help..."

Gao Wen thought about "his own" great achievements in the past, and said with a confident smile: "Don't worry, with the status of the Cecil family in Anzu and the influence I left behind, the city of Saint-Sunil must be We will spare no effort to help you rebuild your territory."

But he didn't expect that as soon as he said these words, Hetty and Rebecca's faces became strange instead of reassuring.

Gao Wen was at a loss: "Uh...what's going on?"

Could it be that after 700 years have passed, the name of the legendary founder of the country, Gawain Cecil, is no longer recognized in this country?

"Ancestor..." Hetty's face was extremely ugly. She bit her lips hard several times before finally making up her mind. "Actually, I wanted to tell you something when I was in the tomb, but... I just couldn't say it."

Gao Wen had vaguely guessed something in his mind, but he still nodded: "Speak, I'll listen."

"The glory of the Cecil family is no longer what it used to be. Although you are still regarded as the legendary founding prince by the whole kingdom, but..." Hetty glanced at Rebecca with some embarrassment, "But now Rebe, who inherits the title of the family Ka, it's just a Viscount, this Cecil Territory...is also the last of the family's territory."

Gao Wen was dumbfounded: "...Huh?! How do I remember that I was already a duke when I 'died' back then, and it was hereditary? The territory even extends from Cecil Territory to the Holy Spirit Plain... ...What did the descendants of Cecil do in the back? Assassin the king to kill him or rebel?"

Hetty lowered her head in shame: "...a lot of things can happen in 700 years, so does the family, and so does this country. Today, Ansu is no longer the first dynasty, but the second dynasty, and the Cecil family is no longer the The important minister who supports the royal family is a person who bears the stigma and is exiled by the royal family."

Rebecca next to her took Hetty's words: "100 years ago, Dalyan III, the last king of Ansu's first dynasty, died of a sudden illness and left no heirs before his death. At that time, there were already many conflicts within the royal family. Dalyan III's own succession rights are in dispute, and after the death of the king, the queen and the auxiliary ministers failed to control the situation in time, which led to the 'Brumaire Turmoil'.

"Members of the royal family with collateral succession fought for the throne in the Brumaire of Ansu 635. In the third week after the end of the Brumaire, the court struggle intensified into a civil war. The members of the royal family and the great nobles standing behind them began to fight directly. The armed confrontation--the Cecil family was also involved...

"The root of the disaster is the Marquis Grumman. At that time, Grand Duke Cecil was old, but he was still very healthy, and his relationship with his eldest son Cecil Grumman was very tense. Marquis Grumman probably sensed a crisis. …So he secretly planned and participated in the civil war that year. Because he had not yet inherited the family power and did not have enough appeal, the Marquis of Grumman turned his idea on the legendary ancestor..."

Gawain covered his forehead: "I remembered, he took my shield, right?"

Hetty nodded, and continued on Rebecca's behalf: "The Marquis Grumman first put the then Grand Duke Cecil under house arrest, and then took your holy object, the Ansu Kingdom Guardian Shield, from the ancestral tomb. Then, in the name of the heir of the Cecil family, he announced his support for Prince Tosh. In March of the same year, Prince Tosh was assassinated and killed. Then the Marquis of Grumman quickly announced his support for Prince Fidik. In April of the same year, Prince Fidik was defeated and committed suicide... "

Gao Wen: "..."

But this is not over yet, Hetty has something to say: "After that, Marquis Grumman approached an uncle of Dalyan III. He used his excellent eloquence to promote an alliance, but after that the second In April, the Northern Grand Duke Brunn Wilder, who had never intervened in the civil war, suddenly pushed a boy onto the stage and announced that the boy was the illegitimate son of the previous king. Then the Northern Grand Duke used this as a bargaining chip to participate in the civil war, and was declared in Ansu 636 The Brumaire of [-] ended the civil war. On the eve of the end of the civil war, Marquis Grumman wanted to repeat his tricks to declare his allegiance to the new king, but before he could make a statement, he was attacked by both the enemy and us on the battlefield at the same time, and died. Under the chaotic knife.

"After that, there was the Second Dynasty of Ansu. Of course, the term 'second dynasty' ... is still a sensitive topic."

At this time, Amber, who had been listening to the silence, suddenly said leisurely: "The whole farce only lasted for one year, but it has completely reshuffled the order of the entire kingdom... Who in the whole continent doesn't know this story?" history?"

"Because an illegitimate child was finally on the throne, this war is also known as the illegitimate child war in private," Hetty said. "There are a large number of nobles involved in the civil war, so quite a few families have been implicated. But this is still part of the rules of the nobility. In addition to the extreme chaos in the country at the beginning of the second dynasty, the new king urgently needs to clean up order, and this requires the power of the old nobility. ..."

"Except for those who jump the hardest, right?" Gao Wen's mouth twitched uncontrollably. This whole history made him, an elder who has been overlooking the common people in the sky for 10,000+ years, feel extremely uncomfortable. Life is more exaggerated than novels—the novels also talk about basic logic. Why is the Marquis of Grumman so talented, "I guess there is no one who can make troubles more difficult than Grumman Cecil?"

"After that, the Cecil family fell into a slump." Hetty lowered her head, "Originally, the fate of the family might have been even worse, but your reputation and the efforts of that old grand duke finally saved the family's blood and the last bit The foundation, but since then, the name 'Cecil' can no longer be the center of the kingdom, as you can see..."

Gawain followed Hetty's line of sight and looked at Miss Rebecca Cecil whose mind was caught.

Rebecca noticed Gawain's gaze and turned her head: "Master Ancestor?"

"The family is unfortunate, the family is unfortunate..." Gawain rubbed his forehead. Although he is not the real ancestor of the Cecil family, the glory and bizarre deeds of the Marquis of Grumman have reached the point of shock. The audience was crying, even if he listened to it, he was deeply moved, "And that prodigal son also lost my shield..."

Hetty & Rebecca: "..."

The old ancestor scolded his great-grandpa again, as expected, it is better not to speak up as a junior.

Fortunately, Gao Wen was not the real party involved in the incident, so he quickly adjusted his mentality—this, in Hetty’s view, became a big-hearted man—and then shook his head slightly: “Forget it, let’s pursue these past events It is not beneficial to the current situation. In any case, those reappearing monsters are a huge threat to the human world. The king of Saint-Sunil City can ignore the declining Cecil family, but he cannot ignore those monsters. Monster, so he must pay attention to us who escaped from this disaster."

Hetty nodded vigorously: "What you said is true."

After that, Gao Wen lost the interest in talking, and the dark and cramped underground passage drained everyone's desire to talk, and the only thing left was to speed up and continue on the road.

Fortunately, the straight underground passage can pass through the entire Cecil Territory at the fastest speed, and the nearest exit is not too far from the castle. After traveling for a while, Gawain judged from his memory that they had arrived at a place. suitable outlet.

Under the effect of the blessing of the earth element, the ancient tunnel steps did not collapse at all, and it was quite lucky that the vicinity of the exit was not completely buried by earth and rocks. After removing some tree roots, vines and floating soil that blocked the exit, the fresh air finally disappeared for a long time blowing on everyone's face.

See the day again.

Knight Byron led the soldiers to jump out of the cave first, and only after they sent a safety signal did the others file out.Rebecca took a deep breath as soon as she climbed to the ground, and whispered cheerfully, "We're out!"

Gawain followed Rebecca to the ground, his excitement was no less than that of the latter, if not more.

A vast world.

His first reaction was to raise his head and look at the sky.

Unfortunately, it was night outside at this moment.

But he should also be grateful for the night, allowing him to see this alien starry sky for the first time.

There was a faint white light in the sky, and the approach of dawn made the stars in the sky look thin and dim, and the sparse stars seemed to be shrouded in a layer of mist, hazy and alienated.

It's completely strange stars.

The white light in the sky is getting brighter and brighter, the night is passing, and the dawn is coming. Everyone who escaped from the underground tunnel is immersed in the joy of the rest of their lives, and Gao Wen is even more delighted. With excitement, he faced the direction of the rising sun, and he opened his hands, as if to embrace the sun of this new world.

Then he saw an unprecedentedly huge luminous curved surface sprayed with a faint light mist gradually rising to the horizon, and sprinkled the world with brilliance.

That's not the sun.

Chapter 0009 Burning

Gao Wen looked at the direction of the horizon for a long time. In the first few minutes, the huge cognitive conflict made him unable to even guess what he was seeing—no matter what it was, it was related to the sun he only saw. far cry.

That broad and majestic arc continued to rise, and it rose much faster than the sun in the initial stage, so Gawain saw a small part of its arc after a while, and that arc was indeed rising. It is luminous, with hazy colors and unrecognizable, cloud-like structures on the edges. The light and heat of this world should be provided by this thing, but its light is not as dazzling as the sun, so that it cannot be seen directly—the fact On the contrary, Gao Wen could not only look directly at the curved surface, but even see some subtle lines on the curved surface.

After roughly judging the arc of that thing, Gawain realized that it was a thing with an apparent diameter dozens or even hundreds of times larger than the sun—of course, its real size should be smaller than a normal star, but It is too close to the ground.

At this distance, if it rises, it may cover about one-fifth of the sky...Of course, this is only Gao Wen's rough sense, because the touch he has received is really great, and what he intuitively judges will inevitably be very different. Big deviation.

It's hard to describe the oppressive feeling of watching a giant celestial body rise in front of your eyes.

Quickly searched Gawain Cecil's memory, and sure enough, he found countless times of the same spectacular "sunrise" in that memory. That thing in the sky was not an abnormal celestial phenomenon, but the most normal landscape in this world.

So what about the explanation?

Gawain quickly made many interpretations based on the knowledge he had mastered. Perhaps it was because the physical rules of this world were completely different from those of his home universe, so the light and thermal efficiency of the stars were quite low, and the planet under his feet was very far away from the stars. So close, so that you can see such a huge sun, but at the same time the earth is not scorched; it is also possible that it is not a sun at all, but a hole emitting light and heat radiation, or something else. Scientific but magical stuff...

But it is more likely that the planet under my feet is not revolving around the sun, but is revolving around a gas giant planet. It is not a planet at all, but a satellite of the latter, rising from the sky...

is the satellite's parent star.

At this moment, the feeling of "a foreign land" felt by Gao Wen was stronger than ever.

"Ancestor? Lord Ancestor?" Hetty's voice came from the side, finally waking up Gao Wen who had fallen into a state of sluggishness and contemplation.

"Ah...ah?" Gao Wen suddenly woke up, and looked at N's great-granddaughter beside him with a little doubt.

The beautiful lady left the dark, cramped and dangerous underground tunnel, and at this moment regained a little bit of her old style, she bowed slightly to Gao Wen: "Ancestor, you were in a daze just now, but we have to leave here first. "

Gao Wen faltered twice, and then he noticed that the exit of the tunnel was an unobstructed hillside. It is really not wise to stand here when the surrounding situation is unknown, so he nodded: "Go to a high place first to check the surrounding situation. What I know is the terrain 700 years ago, and it may not be useful today."

So the group headed towards the hillside not far away under Gawain's instructions, and on the way, Gawain couldn't help but look up at the huge "sun" several times.

"Master Zu, have you been looking at the sun?" Rebecca, who was walking behind Gao Wen, couldn't help but asked with concern, "Is there any problem?"

Amber next to him said casually: "Your ancestors have slept without seeing the sun for 700 years. If you finally see the sun, you must take a second look."

Gao Wen ignored Amber, and glanced at the great-granddaughter on the N+1 floor, shook his head slightly, and confirmed in his heart what the locals in this world called the thing in the sky—it was indeed called the sun.

In other words, no matter how the word is pronounced, in the minds of people in this world, what the word refers to is the sun and nothing else.

Gao Wen retrieved the memory of the original owner of the body again, and after trying keywords and vague information several times, he finally raised his head with a feeling, and looked at the slightly dark sky on the other side.

In the sky that hadn't fully brightened yet and there were still many stars left, he found a "star" about the size of a grain of rice that was brighter than all the stars.

Humans in this world call that special star "Ao", and endow it with many symbolic meanings in religion and magic rituals.

The previous two guesses may be overturned, and only the third guess is reliable.

"Au" is the star of this galaxy, so far away that it is unimaginable, its brilliance sprinkled on the ground under Gawain's feet, almost as cold as other starlight.

In the cool morning breeze, Gao Wen climbed to the top of the hill.

A piece of land that was burned by the flames of war and presented a strange festering state appeared in the distance.