Sword of Dawn

Gao Wen took the file and opened it quickly, and the contents were basically what Hetty said. It was a perfectly worded official letter, expressing his rejection and apology politely, and at the same time not revealing any information about St. The real information inside the Principality of the Dragon—other than that, there is nothing to see.

"Amber," after thinking for a moment, Gao Wen turned his head and said to the air beside him, "Is there any corresponding information?"

As soon as he finished speaking, an intelligence chief appeared in the air, and the half-elf lady jumped to the ground and said quickly: "We don't have many intelligence personnel who have infiltrated the Holy Dragon Principality, but there is also useful news: Barlow Grand Duke Geer has not appeared in front of the public for many days, and Longlin Castle, the capital of the Holy Dragon Principality, has also been under martial law recently. There are rumors that the health of Grand Duke Dragon Blood has suddenly deteriorated and he cannot perform public activities. There are also rumors that he has He left the Principality, but no matter what, the Dragon Blood Council and the courtiers of the Principality did not seem to be in a panic. They controlled the situation, and the territory of the Holy Dragon Principality was peaceful—only the Grand Duke was gone.

"Ah, by the way, there is another piece of news: It is said that the residents living around Dragon's Landing Fort once saw a huge silver flying dragon hovering over the high mountains, and flew straight to the north. The local merchant thought this was probably a rumor, but I suspect... this is related to the sudden disappearance of Grand Duke Dragon Blood."

The intelligence is scattered, but the conclusion seems to be imminent.

It's just that this conclusion is still not enough for people to speculate on the real situation of Tarrond.

Gawain frowned, wondering what happened in the far north, but at this moment, a special Magic Net terminal next to Hetty's desk suddenly rang.

All eyes in the room were focused on the sound and flashing machine for an instant.

This is the special line for the Grand Consul of the Empire - it will ring only when special major events occur on the borders of various places, or when two other Grand Consuls make emergency contact with the imperial capital.

"Connected." Gawain said to Hetty as he walked towards the desk.

Hetty quickly connected to the communication terminal, and with the shaking and emergence of the holographic projection, the figure of Victoria Wilde appeared in front of Gawain and Hetty.

"Your Majesty, and Grand Consul Hetty," the Snow Duchess looked extremely serious, and said in a hasty tone just after the communication was established, "The Eternal Storm is gone."

Hetty didn't even react for a while: "...What did you say?"

"The Eternal Storm is gone," Victoria said again patiently, "it's the giant storm in the northern sea—the last visual observation this morning has confirmed that the cloud wall formed by the storm has completely disappeared. Monitoring stations near North Harbor confirmed that ocean currents and the magic flow in the atmosphere are changing."

Having said that, her eyes fell on Gao Wen, and her tone was unprecedentedly serious: "Your Majesty, there may be other major events happening in this world beyond the borders we know."

Gawain did not immediately respond to Victoria's words, he just raised his head subconsciously, and his eyes suddenly fell on the large map hanging on the wall not far away, and fell on the north of the map.

……

When the huge sun in the extreme day passed the lowest point of the horizon again, and then slowly rose to a third of the sky, there was a sea breeze blowing from the land of Agondor, carrying the smell of the sea and smoke to the sky. distance.

Melita Purnia woke up from a deep sleep with the feeling that she had had a long, strange, bizarre and frightening dream.

In the dream, she was armed as a bloodless and tearless war machine, confronting an enemy more difficult to defeat than natural disasters with steely will, in the dream, the god she once respected and feared became A destructive calamity swept across the earth and devoured everything. In her dream, she saw the magnificent and magnificent Agondor mountain collapse and the ground crack, the towering palace walls and pavilions of the jury fell from the top of the mountain, and it was crowded with the ancient Tarrond below. The entire city was reduced to ruins, and the dragon's lair that she had carefully maintained for tens of thousands of years collapsed along with the mountain peaks, and everything in the lair was blazing in flames...

She sank and fluctuated in this dream, but she couldn't wake up, and she couldn't think freely, as if her spirit was frozen in a piece of muddy amber, and she could only watch all this flow in front of her eyes indifferently, while her mind seemed to be dead. Difficult to make waves.

But suddenly, she heard the howling wind and felt the cold blowing across the earth.

Among the ruins of Agondor, the scarred blue dragon opened his eyes.

"...I got a...?!?!"

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Chapter 1046 Victory Day

The cold wind from the coastline whizzed past, rolling up the dust that had just cooled down on the barren land, the brilliance of the giant sun obliquely shone on the devastated land, and even the scales of the giant dragon were coated with a layer of ripples. Come halo.The blue dragon, who just woke up from a deep sleep, stood blankly in this shocking wasteland. In the first few minutes, she was in a state of "who am I, where am I, who beat me like this, and who am I?" Who are you going to beat up?” in a dazed state.

A strong wind blew past, and Melita shook Xin's long neck subconsciously, and a black and round thing was blown down from the nearby mound by the wind, perhaps it was some kind of coincidence, or even fate—— She found out that it was part of a lamp in her bedroom.

"My house... my big house... and my dragon nest, my balcony... I..."

The mind that had just recovered was unable to process too much information, and the Blue Dragon, who woke up from a deep sleep, fell into a short-term thinking confusion. However, as time passed, the powerful physique of the dragon began to play a role, and the damage to the nervous system quickly recovered. Waking up, those vague memories that were like dreams finally gradually became clear, showing their true appearance from the absurd and distorted impressions—Melita's stunned expression was gradually replaced by silence, her eyes became solemn, When she looked at the ruins in front of her again, her expression seemed to have changed into a dragon.

At this moment, a sound of flapping wings came from nearby, awakening Melita from her contemplation.

Miss Blue Dragon suddenly raised her head to follow the prestige, and the next second, her eyes were full of surprises—a familiar, pure white figure was passing by from a high altitude, looking around as if looking for something, Melita couldn't help but Immediately roaring towards the sky, the white dragon shadow finally found the figure in the wreckage and ruins, and immediately landed towards this side.

A moment later, accompanied by a gust of wind and vibrations, the white dragon landed on the edge of the ruins. Melita finally gathered her strength and broke free from the pile of ruins. Enduring her injuries, she ran towards her friend—— Halfway through, she reverts to her human form, which helps to reduce consumption and save stamina.

The white dragon Noretta maintained her giant dragon posture, and she lowered her head only after Melita came in front of her: "Great, you are still alive!"

"...It seems that the surviving compatriots account for only a small part," Melita immediately heard another meaning in her friend's words, her eyelids drooped, but she quickly raised her head again, "It doesn't matter Well, it's good to see you."

"It's the same when I see you." Noretta lowered her head and made a low and gentle voice. "It seems that you have recovered? How much do you remember?"

"I'm not sure, my mind is still a little confused, but I remember many scenes when the final battle broke out... I remember that I fell from the sky at the end, but I was lucky to survive. I also remember that there was a firestorm..." Mei Rita muttered, and couldn't help pressing her forehead with her hand, "All the sounds are gone now, God's, Omega's... I have never felt that my mind is so quiet in my life, I feel a little uncomfortable for being quiet. Habit."

"Everyone who survives has this feeling, and we will gradually get used to it," Noretta lowered her head, gently touching her friend's hair with her chin, "I woke up earlier than you, and I know the process. "

"Survive..." Melita couldn't help but whispered, "How many survived? Has everyone gathered somewhere? What's the situation now?"

"Not many survived, scattered all over the battlefield, but the surviving ancient dragons in the council and the senate are trying to restore order and gather the people - I was sent out to find survivors, and there are more than a dozen A compatriot with minor injuries like me is also patrolling here," Noretta said while lowering half of her wings, signaling Melita to climb on her back, "The current situation is complicated, and there is something to explain. Too many, come up, I'll take you to everyone's current temporary foothold, we're talking while flying on the road."

Melita looked at her friend's leaning back, and between the white dragon's elegant and white scales, she could see a hideous wound—even though the wound had begun to heal, it was still shocking.

Melita knew that her injury should be more serious, but she still shook her head hesitantly: "Forget it, your state is not much better than mine..."

"You never used to be so polite to me," Noretta said with a hint of teasing in her tone, and lowered her wings again, "Are you going to come up? Let me tell you, there are not many such opportunities. Maybe if you miss this time There will be no next time..."

"That's what you said!" Melita glared at Bailong, then gritted her teeth, and walked up to her friend's broad back.

Accompanied by a shock, she felt that she was separated from the ground and embraced the sky again—the protective barrier that the dragon opened automatically when it was flying blocked the whistling cold wind, and Melita didn't realize it until the cold wind stopped Suddenly realized this: "The wind is so cold... It feels like it's blowing directly from the frozen ocean..."

"Of course, the Great Shield has been extinguished, and the whole continent is now exposed to the polar climate - we've also lost nearly all of our weather controllers and tide controllers, and it's only going to get worse in Tarrond. "

Melita didn't respond, she just carefully stepped on the scales of the white dragon and took two steps forward, before coming to the shoulder blades of the giant dragon, she poked her head out and looked down, and for the first time saw the present situation from a high altitude Tarrond, saw the true face of this post-war wasteland-Agondor has been completely destroyed, the continuous mountains on the edge of the city collapsed like sandcastles after a strong wind, and the ancient palaces and temples have become The broken bricks and tiles between the rocks and the rifts, the ruins after being hit by the high heat wave, are full of scorched marks, and there is a terrifying crack that spreads from the center of the city to the direction of the coastline.

And the remains of dragons and various war machines are scattered on this desolate land, like ink dots on a doomsday platter.

Melita couldn't help pursing her lips: "...It's gone...even the headquarters of the jury is gone, and there is no complete roof in sight."

"Nothing can face the wrath of the gods intact," Noretta's voice came from the front. "We survivors are the luckiest people in all of Tarrond."

The wrath of the gods...

Melita couldn't help repeating this word in her heart, and the things soaked in the deepest part of her mind gradually emerged, making her emotions more and more complicated. After several minutes of silence, she couldn't help asking: "So, we won?"

"It seems so," Noretta replied, "you don't hear the voice of the gods anymore? You don't hear or see those indescribable visions...Me too. Everyone got rid of it That pervasive mind erosion, that's the proof of victory. Elder Duke Moore has declared victory in the assembly point...yes, we won."

"We won... the greatest miracle of all miracles, we actually won..." Melita couldn't help muttering softly, but she didn't know whether to be happy or sad.

She didn't know how to describe her mood at the moment—the final battle, all dragons knew at the bottom of their minds that there would always be such a day in the future.Although no dragon has publicly announced it, and no dragon has admitted that it will happen, this doomsday battle, which is almost equivalent to myths and legends for many dragons, is like a curse hanging over the entire race. Once you have implanted a resonance core and can think for yourself, you know it will come sooner or later.

Tallond maintains balance in the cradle, but there is no eternal balance in the world. If humans with short lifespans can realize this, so can dragons.

It's just that no one can say it before the final battle comes.

Facing the final battle like a curse from time to time, some dragons will be addicted to the happiness created by hallucinogens and synergists, some dragons choose to obey fate and wait for its arrival, and some dragons are awake Replenish their energy and prepare for the reception secretly, but almost no dragon really thought that mortals would become the victors of this battle—but now, the victory has really come.

"We won, so theoretically we should all be gone..." Melita suddenly realized the problem——as a high-ranking dragon living in the upper-level Tarrond, and also as a member of the Supreme Council , she is qualified to know more details of this final battle, so she has more questions at this moment, "But why did we wake up? Could it be that we actually... lost half?"

"No, we did win, but the situation has undergone an unknown change," Noretta said in a low voice, "Omega did not completely clear the original mind of all nodes, nor did it execute the original 'self-cleaning' command. In fact...it seems to have vanished from Tarrond, and released all nodes before disappearing, so we can wake up."

"Disappeared? Omega disappeared?" Melita's eyes widened in disbelief. "How did it disappear? Do you mean that the servers and computing nodes are gone? Or is it that the Omega system is gone?"

"It seems to be the second situation, but I don't know the specifics. I'm just in charge of searching for survivors—Elder Duke Moore and a few mechanics seem to know more, but they are also a little confused .After all... the Omega system has been running on its own for many years and iteratively, it is already a complex system that even the original designers can't understand, and the technicians can do almost nothing in the last few dozen millennia It’s just to make more refined casings and replace decorations for some of Omega’s computing nodes.”

"...I couldn't help but think of what Gawain said about Tarrond. In private, he said that our situation is called 'lost sacred power'..." Melita couldn't help muttering, and then slowly Slowly frowned, "Anyway, Omega actually released our minds... This really doesn't conform to the logic of the command..."

"But it's always a good thing, isn't it?" Noretta said with a slight tilt of her head. "It made us 'live'. Although it will be more troublesome for us to continue living now."

Noretta's words seemed to remind Melita that Miss Blue Dragon, who was riding on the dragon's back, couldn't help but look down at the land that had been turned into wasteland again: "The current situation must be very bad, right? Tell me about it." The problem we have now to face..."

"Well, although these things may not sound so pleasant," Noretta sighed, "Let's start with the extinguishment of the big shield, and then the shutdown of the ecological environment and the subsequent food And the medical issues, and the shutdown of the factories after the omegas disappeared...although we don't have many factories working now."

……

Outside the ruins of Agondor, the huge buildings that used to be the headquarters of factories and giant corporate complexes have also collapsed. The huge steel structures and protective walls were destroyed in the chaotic gravity storm and heat wave, and became a place on the plains. The weird posture of twisting and crawling on the surface, but compared with the urban agglomeration that was completely reduced to ruins, the integrity and stability of this area is still much stronger.

This should be attributed to the high-strength construction standards of the factory group itself-compared with urban facilities that value elegant and complicated shapes, these crucial basic factories have extraordinarily strong structures and multiple protections, and in the previous battles, this The area is also not the main battlefield.

Therefore, although the factory facilities here have been shut down, and the key and fragile control systems have been completely destroyed, some extraordinarily strong factory buildings and caves built on the ground floor have survived, and now these facilities have become a temporary safe haven for survivors— —The scarred dragons who survived the final battle gathered here with their tired bodies, licking their wounds, and waiting for the future.

This is what Melita saw after getting off Noretta's back.

To be honest, the miserable scene here really made it difficult for her to connect it with "victory".

"I know this doesn't look like a comfortable place to stay, but it's the best 'survival' place we can find right now," Noretta said, looking back as she limped off her wings. Melita, who came down, said with a hint of ridicule, "The conditions are limited, bear with it, and use the stone here as a zero-gravity bed in your lair—you bought that thing from the flea market anyway, After I bought it, it didn’t work normally for a few days.”

"It's better to find a place to rest if you have time to ridicule my financial situation at the beginning, your wound will open again if you fly down." Melita looked back at her friend, "And speaking of economic problems, everyone is the same now anyway. gone."

"Okay, I'm still very optimistic, so I feel more at ease." Noretta folded her wings, the wound on her back made the corners of her mouth twitch, but she still shook her head, "I will set off again, to the south Look for compatriots who have just woken up in a battle zone—the temperature is dropping. Although the physique of the giant dragon is not enough to be frozen to death by the cold wind at the North Pole, the physical exertion after the injury itself is very large. Wind can undo what could otherwise heal."

Having said that, Noretta looked at the war-torn factories and cave facilities in the gathering point: "At least there is a roof that can shield the wind, and there are a few heat source pumps that are barely operating."

"Then your injury is all right?" Melita couldn't help asking.

"To be honest, it hurts a little, but it will definitely be fine to fly again," Noretta stretched her wings, "Bailong's recovery ability is very strong, and I am very confident in this."

"Okay, then be careful."

"I'll be careful—you go to Calador first, he's in charge of order in this camp," Noretta said, raising her head at the same time, her long neck pointing to the center of the camp, "except him There are also a few red dragons there, and their healing magic and repair techniques can help you stabilize injuries. Now that Omega is gone, medical equipment and automatic repair equipment cannot be used, we can only rely on traditional 'crafts'... Although They're not very skilled either."

Chapter 1047 Post-War Ruins

In the huge temporary shelter, the dragons who woke up from their mental slumber dragged their tired and scarred bodies together, and the huge sun gradually rose to the high point of the sky. Even in this cold North Pole, the warmth brought by the sun It also slightly dispelled the cold that was entrenched in the ruins of the war—even though the cold wind was still blowing across the ground non-stop, Melita still felt a little relieved and warm in the refuge.

She wasn't sure whether this feeling came from the broken but still standing walls around her, or from the surviving compatriots in sight.

Some of the dragons gathered in the refuge maintain the form of a giant dragon, and receive limited treatment or "repair" in this form, while the other part maintains a human form, in order to save energy and material consumption, and Make room for others—the scale of these ruins is not large, and the shelter they can provide is very limited. If every dragon shows its body here, it will definitely not be enough for everyone to settle down.

Under a huge semi-molten metal tower in the center of the refuge, Melita saw the red dragon Calador—he stood on a high place in human form, his fiery red hair and beard stood out from the crowd, and several other The clansmen are busy nearby, some are tending to the wounded, and some seem to be trying to repair some machines dug out of the ruins.

"Melita!" Calador saw the approaching Miss Blue Dragon from a distance, and said in surprise, "You're still alive!"

"You are still alive," Melita smiled and looked at this senior in the jury—he is a trustworthy old red dragon. Since thousands of years ago, Melita has often fought with The other party partnered, "Where's Takdam?"

"Dead, we have found his body," Calador said with a trace of sadness in his tone, but more numbness in the sadness, "The same is true for the others, only two of us survived in the six groups. "

As he said that, the red dragon had keenly noticed the weakness in Melita's breath: "You need treatment and rest—what about the implant? Is there a problem with the implant?"

"I feel that the muscle booster under the left wing has been burned, and the entire nerve booster from the spine to the tail is also destroyed," Melita sensed the situation of the body, "the injury is still there Well, I can feel myself healing...the key is the implant, can this be repaired now?"

"...Probably we can only do some emergency treatment, remove the damaged and harmful things, and wait for the body to heal those wounds by itself - of course, healing magic will speed up this process," Calador said with a frown, "You should Already know, we've now lost Omega, and all automatic systems - only a few makeshift tools dug up from the ruins are available here, and a few undamaged boosters."

"Then remove my broken parts, fortunately the problem is not a fatal system," Melita exhaled, "As for the synergist...let's keep it for now, I'm in good condition, synergist Leave it to the seriously wounded."

……

A cave in the temporary shelter was transformed into a medical center to receive and treat those extremely serious injuries that required major surgery on the body. Melita, who had recovered her dragon form, lay quietly in one place and was cleaned up. On the platform that came out, he was waiting for the mechanic of the medical center to remove the last damaged booster device near his spine.She tried her best to shield the tingling pain from her nerve endings, and her gaze slowly scanned the scene in the cave——

Materials and equipment unearthed from the ruins were piled up around the cave, and the automatic devices that had lost power were disassembled and thrown into the corner. The cave was filled with a strange smell mixed with blood and engine oil. The original ventilation system here obviously It has lost its function, and even the lighting is maintained by a few magic light spheres floating in mid-air.

Melita couldn't remember how many years she hadn't seen this primitive lighting spell in Tarrond—before that, Omega had been taking care of the dragons like a nanny.

"It's the last part, it might hurt a bit," a hoarse voice came from near the back, "I tried my best to suppress your nerve activity with magic power, but the effect is relatively limited, so bear with it."

"Just take it apart, mechanic," Melita moved her neck slightly, "my willpower is still quite... oh my god damn it, I got a #￥@#￥%%￥!!"

"It's taken down."

"It doesn't hurt a little bit!" Melita woke up from the severe pain that seemed to doubt her life, and she was very surprised that she still had the strength to speak to others, "Are you sure you can use spells to help me relieve the pain?"

"The spell did its best, but the old model booster you're using has a problem with the interface - luckily it didn't cause irreversible damage to your nerves. Now relax, I'm casting a healing spell, and your wounds will heal quickly .”

As the other party's voice fell, Melita finally felt the pain in her back rapidly reducing, and even began to feel that her flesh and blood were gradually joining together again. She was slightly relieved, and suddenly said jokingly: "Model It doesn't matter what, it's all the same now—we should be saying goodbye to implants, right?"

"...It seems like this now," the mechanic came down from the platform and came to Melita to sort out and clean the blood-stained tools. The young red dragon had a tired face, but she There is still no lag in the movement of the hand, "The Omega system is gone, and many implants that are directly connected to the Omega system are now hidden dangers-although there will be no problems in a short time, but for safety, it is best to Either take it all down or shut it down. Also now that there is a shortage of various parts, the factory is shut down, and many implants that are damaged beyond repair will eventually have to be taken down... The only good news is that at least a mechanic like me is still there know how to take them apart, and we haven't forgotten that knowledge too far."

Melita noticed the young mechanic's skillful handling of those tools when she heard this, and she looked at him with some surprise: "You... seem to be very good at using this old-style tool to handle implants?"

"My grandfather taught it. Before he died, he always said that these technologies are useful things... It is said that he was the last generation of mechanics who participated in the design of Gomodo implants. After him, no one directly participated in mechanical design. And manufactured——all the work is handed over to Omega and the factory's automatic system," the young mechanic finished handling everything, and looked up at Melita, "Actually, a mechanic like me who has a little 'craft' The master said more or less, said less or less...Although not everyone has a grandfather who was a mechanic, everyone has their own way."

Melita blinked and whispered to herself, "I never knew..."

"Upper Tallond will not allow this kind of 'private work', and even most of the blocks in the lower Tallond you can touch will not encounter a dragon like me," the mechanic smiled, his tone very serious. Lightly said, "It's more illegal than those corner workshops - illegal implants are banned, but there's still a market in the deepest neighbourhoods, and the Omega doesn't care that it happens every day in those neighbourhoods. what."

"...Sorry," Melita said subconsciously, although she didn't understand what she had to "sorry", "I really don't understand these things."

"There is nothing to be sorry for, we were no different before, and there is no difference now," the mechanic smiled and put away her tools, "I can barely deal with the problems with the implants, and the damage to the flesh and blood depends on you." Don’t worry, my healing spells are limited, if you still feel something is wrong, you can go to Calador.”

After saying this, the mechanic turned his head and left the platform where Melita was - she still had a lot of work to do, and she didn't have much time to talk to the dragons with damaged implants before they could rest in peace. people gossiping.

After the mechanic left, Melita looked up, and the cold old machines or damaged mechanical arms around her remained silent. After losing the support of the Omega system, these things would no longer actively operate, helping her inject Scale maintenance after synergists or surgery.

In a burst of radiance, Melita recovered her human body, and then climbed down the iron ladder on the edge of the platform—she didn’t jump down rashly or cast the flying spell. After losing the neural booster device, She still needs a little time to readjust to this much weaker body.

She walked out of the cave and came to the open space outside. The slightly dim skylight shone obliquely, shining on the square full of ruined walls.

Only then did she realize that she had been lying in the cave for a long time, and the huge sun that was originally high in the sky had gradually sank to near the horizon—then there would be a dusk that lasted half a day, and the sun would rise and fall slowly on the horizon once, and It started to rise again early the next morning.

Melita took a breath of the cold air to cheer herself up a little, and then she noticed that there seemed to be some commotion ahead, so she walked towards that side.

A lot of dragons in human form gathered around the red dragon Calador, but when Melita arrived, the small commotion here had subsided, and the gathered dragons gradually faded away, and Calador breathed a sigh of relief. And noticed Melita's approach.

"Are you okay?" The elderly red dragon looked at Melita, "I thought you were going to rest for half a day."

"After solving the problem of the implant, it's good that the injuries on the body recover slowly, there is no need to occupy the position in the cave," Melita said, and at the same time looked at the scattered figures curiously, "What happened? ? Could there be trouble?"