Sword of Dawn

A soldier said carelessly: "My lord, can you try taking off your gloves?"

Byron's old face didn't turn red at all, and he gave the big soldier a look: "Then you have a try!"

As expected, the soldiers on the other side were brought out by Byron. They were not polite at all. They took off their gloves and imitated Byron's way of putting their hands on the slope.

In the next second, the complicated patterns on the surface of the metal object brightened slightly, and at the same time, there was a slight vibration coming from nowhere. While the soldier showed a look of shock on his face, Byron heard the sound coming from inside the metal object. A somewhat distorted and unusually dull voice came: "Detection... sample tester... stabilization period... allowed to pass. The isolation door is being opened..."

Then, accompanied by the creaking sound of the ancient machine running, the sunken place on the wall actually shrunk inward, revealing a previously hidden passage!

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.

"I... I didn't do anything," the soldier quickly withdrew his hand, with a nervous and helpless expression, "You all watched."

Byron glanced at the dark passage behind the gate, took off his gloves suddenly, and put his hands on the metal slope.

The metal device also lit up, and an old-fashioned distorted voice soon came from inside: "Detection... sample tester... stabilization period... allowed to pass, the isolation door is already open."

"Me too?" Byron was stunned, then frowned, and ordered a soldier at random, "You try!"

The soldier imitated his hand on the device, and then exactly the same thing happened: the metal device lit up, and a voice from inside announced that passage had been granted.

Dare to feel, but anyone who puts his hand on it can pass the test.

"It's probably broken..." After testing two more soldiers in a row, Byron was slightly relieved, "After all, it's such an ancient thing."

A soldier asked cautiously: "My lord, where do we still..."

"Go in and have a look." Byron's face was still cautious, but his heart was slightly excited. As a former mercenary who had traveled all over the ruins of the southern border without overturning his car, he seemed to have smelled something good. "I've been looking for it for so long. , I finally found something!"

……

While Byron and his party continued to go deep into the ruins in the mountains, a new guest also set foot on the new territory of the Cecil family.

This is a young woman with a graceful figure. She is wearing a light gauze dress that does not look like Ansu's style. Her long hair is loose behind her. A lavender veil covers her face, leaving only a pair of bright and lively eyes. With her eyes exposed, she walked into Cecil's territory in this way, passed through the soldiers' post, passed through the gate of the camp - now it is a small town - and walked through neat wooden houses between.

Cecil's subjects were busy coming and going right next to her, but everyone ignored her.

The woman wearing a veil just walked around like this, observing the town with eyes full of curiosity, which is theoretically only a few months old.Those well-ordered wooden houses can already be regarded as qualified urban buildings in other places-after all, in most places in this era, the living conditions of civilians are not even comparable to this kind of houses, but in fact these wooden houses are still obvious. "Transitional buildings", because on both sides of the town's avenue, houses that are being demolished and rebuilt can be seen everywhere. Those houses have a solid foundation and are built with bricks and tiles. They are obviously the next generation of houses in this town.

Strange noises came from not far away. The woman wearing a veil looked around and found that the direction of the sound was a factory building emitting smoke and dust. She walked over curiously, opened the door openly, and saw the inside I was stunned after the sight.

It turns out that this is the place where bricks and tiles are fired, but there are two strange looking machines in the canopy in the center of the yard. One of the machines has an obvious magical reaction. The powerful rotating shaft drives another machine connected to it, and that machine continuously presses the mud-sand mixture as the raw material into regular porcelain adobes. These two machines are not only surprisingly efficient, but also obviously do not require complicated Control: only two civilians in coarse clothes were watching by the machine, while more people were busy loading the rapidly formed bricks onto the carts and pushing them to the neatly lined bricks on the other side of the yard. , In a row of kilns that are several circles larger than ordinary brick kilns.

Those two large magic devices... what are they?

Magic mechanism?But what about the mages who control them?Who is infusing them with magic?Who is regulating the flow of their magic?Who controls their speed and start and stop?

Could it be those two ordinary people who didn't have any magical reaction all over their bodies? !

Speaking of which... it seems that magic power can be sensed everywhere in this place, which is really strange. Could it be that the entire territory is built on a magic power focus?

The woman wearing a veil frowned beautifully. She really wanted to disassemble the two machines to have a look, but to make such an outrageous move, I am afraid that no clever stealth or psychological suggestion would be effective, so she could only Shaking his head regretfully, he exited the yard and closed the door.

And at this moment, a seemingly familiar and energetic voice suddenly came from behind her: "Ah! Which one are you?!"

Chapter 0141 The identity of the cultist

Hearing the voice from behind, the veiled woman turned around, and she saw a half-elf with pointed ears standing not far away, holding a large bag of fried beans in his hand, chatting Chewing bang bang bang while looking at himself suspiciously.

"Can you...see me?" The woman wearing a veil——Melita Bonia looked at this half-elf who had met once in surprise. Of course, she remembered him, as the owner of the Mithril Treasury Senior agent, she has a very good memory, so she also clearly remembers the combat effectiveness of this half-elf guard. Can a half-elf who is stronger than a goose see himself easily?

"Is it difficult to see you?" Amber chewed the fried beans. She still hadn't remembered who the veiled woman in front of her was, whose painting style was different from that of the whole camp, so her face was full of curiosity. "By the way, who are you? A merchant who came to do business? Finally, there are merchants willing to come here?"

I don't know how she connected the person in front of her with the businessman...

"Businessman... If you have to say that, it seems good," Melita smiled, and removed her own concealment effect and psychological suggestion spell. Fortunately, there is no one else nearby, otherwise the people who come and go will see The sudden change of people on the street may cause another commotion, "Are you the guard of Duke Gawain Cecil? Please show me the way, I'm here to talk to him."

"Oh (crunch), good," Amber casually threw two fried beans into her mouth, then walked up to Melita and stretched out her hand, "(crunch) three copper coins."

Melita was stunned for a moment: "Why?"

"Take the toll (crunch)."

Melita: "...are you interested in working in Mithril Vault?"

"Huh?" Amber was stunned for a moment, and then she was reminded of the word Mithril Treasure, and she immediately remembered something, and she pulled a few meters away from Melita, "Ah! Mithril Treasure house! I remember! I saw you last time!"

"It's me," Melita smiled, feeling that this half-elf is really interesting, and her every startled reaction is exaggerated and impressive, "Your lord invited me here, so now you Do you still have to pay the toll?”

"Tch, I thought I could get some extra money—it's a shame that I can't even earn errand fees by being a dog leg for that old rice dumpling," Hu Po said in a low voice, and then waved her hands, "Okay, okay, with I'm coming, I'll take you to see him."

Led by Amber, Melita quickly came to the depths of the territory. She saw a large tent standing in the center of the open space, and the foundation had already been laid beside the open space, and a large number of bricks, wood and stones were piled up on the side, as if Getting ready to build a big house.

"He's in the tent, he shouldn't be taking a nap at this point," Amber strode towards the tent, "You wait outside, I'll go in and let you know."

After a while, Melita heard the half-elf's carefree voice from inside the tent: "Gawain! The agent named my little pony is here to find you!"

Melita frowned suspiciously: How could that guy and the people around him pronounce it so strangely?

Gao Wen has been waiting for the agent lady to visit for many days, and finally waited for her today - the agent lady is still dressed similarly to last time, wearing a peculiar gauze dress, covered with a lavender veil The face is mysterious and elegant.

Amber saw the agent wandering around the brick kiln factory, and before that, no one had reported that outsiders had come to the territory.

This is really a young lady accompanied by mystery.

"Long time no see, Miss Melita," Gawain stood up from behind the table with a smile on his face, "I thought you would have to wait a long time to come, after all, the traffic here is not very convenient. Please take a seat."

"There are always many convenient ways to the Mithril Treasury," Melita also smiled, "and I'm glad you finally pronounced my name correctly."

Gao Wen was suddenly a little embarrassed: "Ahaha...don't say it's so full, maybe you will have to read it wrong next time."

"The Duke is really a funny person." Melita bowed and said decently.

She still didn't take off her veil, but Gao Wen obviously didn't care about it, he just looked at the agent from Mithril Treasury curiously: "You seem to have 'visited' my territory? How do you feel?" ?”

"It's a very nice place, better than I imagined, and there are many strange... magic devices," Melita said frankly, "But what I'm more curious about is this place—you're still living in a tent, Instead, let those civilians live in wooden houses first, which is really strange."

"Most of them are workshops or places for technicians to live, and the infrastructure construction of the territory must be prioritized," Gao Wen explained, "As for this place...you should have seen the large open space next to the tent. This tent will also be demolished soon."

Melita opened her eyes slightly: "I thought it was a barracks for knights and soldiers. It seems that you don't plan to build a castle for yourself?"

"I'll talk about it later when conditions permit, but it's a waste to build that now," Gao Wen waved his hand, "Let's not talk about that, let's talk about the real business."

"Of course," Melita still remembered her purpose of coming here, "please show me the ring you got."

Gawain took out the Mithril Ring obtained from the cultist on the spot, put it on the table and pushed it in front of Melita.

The agent lady narrowed her eyes slightly the moment she saw the silver-white ring, and her eyes became serious: it is obvious that the thing is indeed real.

She picked up the ring, put it in front of her and observed it carefully, and rubbed the inside of the ring to confirm the encrypted patterns. Finally, she put the ring to her lips and whispered a few syllables.

The syllables sounded fuzzy and indistinguishable, and Gawain quickly realized that they were not ordinary spellcasting spells. The whispering sound was not even what a human's vocal chords could make. After a few syllables fell, a layer of hazy light suddenly appeared on the surface of the ring, and it trembled slightly.

After more than ten seconds, these phenomena gradually dissipated.

After completing this spell that seemed to be a special appraisal, Melita exhaled lightly, but her voice did not relax at all, but she was extremely serious: "That's right...it's a token of honor from the Mithril Treasury, and its owner is Ba de Wendel."

"Bud Wendell?" Gawain frowned. He probably didn't recognize the big names of the day, but he was familiar with many of those big names' surnames. "I've heard of the surname Wendell before. There is a stunned young man in that group whose surname is Wendell."

"That's right, Bud Wendell, the heir of the Wendell family of the Typhon Empire," Melita's eyes looked serious, "You should be able to imagine that the Wendell family is as old as your Cecil family, and has been passed down to this day It is already one of the most famous families in the Typhon Empire. The contemporary Grand Duke Ferdinand Wendell is the most powerful "Knight Lord" in the Typhon Empire, and also the wolf general of the previous generation, and he is the "fool" in your mouth Green' offspring."

"Knight lord?" Gawain frowned, "Is it the kind of lord I know?"

"No, that is a unique title after the Typhon Empire reformed its military system," Melita explained casually, "The Typhon Empire has carried out many reforms in recent decades, especially in terms of military system. They will All knights, warriors, mages and other extraordinary fighters have been reorganized and registered to form the 'Imperial Legion' that is not based on the private soldiers of nobles from all over the world, and the Knight Lord is the military leader who commands the knights in this legion."

Gao Wenwen was just asking casually, but he didn't expect to hear this kind of news. He frowned suddenly: "The Typhon Empire has established a professional and regular Legion of Transcendents?!"

"That's right," Melita nodded logically, "That's why their military strength has developed so fast."

"...the gang in the royal capital." Gao Wen subconsciously clenched his fists, "I didn't hear any news about this in Ansu, and even asked the nobles in the royal capital, I couldn't find out about it. thing!"

"Ah, they don't really know nothing about what happened in neighboring countries, but it's hard to say why they don't want to take it to heart." Melita shrugged indifferently. We can discuss it in the future, let’s continue to talk about the cultists and the ring.”

"Okay," Gawain let go of his fist, "The owner of this ring, Bud Wendell, what is his relationship with the contemporary Grand Duke Ferdinand Wendell?"

"Bud Wendell is the only son of Grand Duke Ferdinand, and also the previous generation of Wolf General," Melita said without a word, "and the most important thing is that he disappeared more than ten years ago!"

Gawain's eyes became strange: "The heir of the Wendell family, the general of the Typhon Empire, it would not be surprising if he is a major customer of your Mithril Treasury, but... what I saw in Tanzania Town was a Level [-] Corrupted Druid!"

The difference between these two identities is so huge that Gao Wen couldn't connect them at all. He glanced at the ring in Melita's hand and shook his head subconsciously: "Now I'm starting to suspect that it's that cultist again. Steal or pick up this ring."

"Unfortunately, your suspicion is still unfounded," Melita shook her head, "I have already checked, and apart from your contact records, this ring has not been touched by anyone who does not meet your identity, in other words In other words, this ring had been worn by Bud Wendell until then, and it had never changed hands.

"The fifth-level fallen druid you saw...is Bard Wendell himself."

Gao Wen was stunned and speechless.

But soon, several details flashed through his mind:

When fighting against cultists before, the opponent always subconsciously engaged in melee combat. Even if he had stronger magic power, he chose to hide in the shadows and assassinate himself with a sword.

During the battle, the cultist showed extremely superb swordsmanship, and his experience with swords was obviously very rich.

The cultist's weapon was a one-handed sword, and the weapon used by that Tirian Wendell in the East Road Pioneering Group was also a one-handed sword. The swordsmanship of the two seems to be very close, and the possibility of the same line is very high... …

Chapter 0142 Bud Wendell's Information

There seems to be no doubt about the identity of the cultists.

Bud Wendell, the former wolf general of the Typhon Empire, was the son of a duke who originally had a glorious status and an immeasurable future.

But he appeared here, and was defeated by Gawain as a level five fallen druid, and was even blown off an arm by a grenade in the end.

What happened in the middle?

It is of course a reward to be able to discover a huge stain in the high-level leadership of a neighboring country (and now it can be said to be an enemy country), but what Gao Wen is more curious about at the moment is what kind of incredible life journey this Bud Wendell has gone through to get to where he is today. This astonishing change cannot be explained by a little ups and downs in life, it is simply the ups and downs of life - he couldn't help asking the agent in front of him: "I don't know much about the nobles of various countries today. , How much do you know about Bud Wendell and his family? How much can you tell me?"

"The Mithril Treasury is not a specialized intelligence organization, and what we know is limited to those things that can be spread and not related to confidentiality." Melita nodded slightly, "Bud Wendell, Duke Ferdinand Wendell The only heir, he is talented and diligent, and is a devout believer of the God of War Kyle. He has received elite education and the teachings of the God of War sect since he was a child, and showed Kyle's spiritual talent at the age of ten. After converting, he quickly He has grown into a powerful divine knight, his strength is close to high-level, and he is the most outstanding transcendent among the young people of Typhon's previous generation."

"Stop," Gawain interrupted Melita, "that is to say, his Extraordinary rank is Divine Knight?"

"That's right—at least that's what the outside world is saying, and I don't think there will be any problems with this information."

"When he fought against me, he only had very strong swordsmanship skills, and he didn't have the slightest divine power of Kyle on him," Gawain said seriously. "All his extraordinary power belongs to Druid spells, I can be sure of that."

"Perhaps some reason caused him to lose the protection of God of War Kyle," Melita guessed, "This may be the reason why he joined the cult."

"It doesn't matter, you continue to talk—you just mentioned that Bud disappeared more than ten years ago, what happened?"

Melita nodded: "After passing the assessment and trial of God of War Kyle, Bud Wendell officially took over the title of 'Wolf General' inherited from their family from his father, and was promoted to a knight by Emperor Typhon Lord, became one of the high-ranking commanders of the Knights of the Typhon Empire, but he only stayed in this position for a year - during a routine confrontation on the Anzu-Typhon border, he and an elite knights He was sent out of the city to perform reconnaissance, and walked into a dense fog in full view of everyone, and then disappeared with the dense fog. It was not until three days later that several mad knights were found wandering in the wilderness. The whereabouts of Bud Wendell and the remaining elite knights are still unknown."

Speaking of this, Melita added a few words in passing: "In recent years, the relationship between Typhon and Ansu has deteriorated, and the disappearance of Bud Wendell has also greatly exacerbated this trend—provide Feng's people think that Ansu used sorcery to murder their commander, while Ansu's people think that this is a farce directed and performed by Typhon himself, and the purpose is to find an excuse for increasing troops. In fact, this almost caused the two sides to We went to war directly, but when the situation was at its worst, Bud Wendell's father, Duke Ferdinand, took the initiative to announce that the disappearance of his only son had nothing to do with Ansu, which prevented the war from breaking out."

Gao Wen gently pinched his chin: "Ferdinand Wendell? Is he an anti-war faction?"

"No, on the contrary, he had been an important military minister of Typhon before that, and he was a steady main fighter. He helped His Majesty the Emperor complete several reforms of Typhon's military system, so the old duke When he suddenly stood up to stop the war, he really surprised a group of people, and after that, the old duke also changed from the original main combat faction to neutral—he is still promoting Typhon’s military system reform, but However, he has repeatedly delayed the military operations on the border of the empire for reasons such as premature timing. Although many facts later proved that there was no problem with his judgment, his transformation still caused a lot of discussion from the outside world..."

Gao Wen let out a breath slowly, and knit his brows to think.

The originally brilliant star of tomorrow, the pious and powerful "General Wolf" disappeared in a simple military operation. After more than ten years of disappearance, he suddenly appeared in such a shitty place in the south of Ansu. Not only did the divine knight lose all his power, but he also became a level [-] fallen druid; after losing his son, the old duke not only didn't bother with the "suspected suspect", but prevented the war many times—— What is the connection between these two things?Did the old prince change later because he knew something?

The reason why a devout knight of the gods could betray his faith and join a cult formed by other religions is not simple. A thought suddenly popped up in Gawain's mind—could it be, that Baba? Did de Wendel learn the truth about "the gods are dead"? !

Among the information he currently has, this is the only one that can explain the shocking changes that happened to Bard!

Gawain couldn't help but extend his thoughts: If contact with the truth caused Bud Wendell to abandon his faith, does that mean that his original divine magic power was also lost due to the same reason at the same time?

As long as the belief in the gods cannot be maintained, will the corresponding magic be lost?

What is that magic?As long as you firmly believe that there is a god who is fooling you... to protect you, can you get a "cheap" extraordinary ability?

But such a powerful force must have a source...

So going around, Gao Wen suddenly found himself returning to the question that bothered him not long ago:

At the moment when "the gods are dead", those priests and believers who are still pious and gain the power of the gods through prayers and rituals, what are the objects of their prayers and worship... What exactly are they? !

"My lord duke?" Seeing that Gawain hadn't moved for a long time, Melita finally couldn't help asking, "My lord duke, are you listening?"

Gawain woke up quickly. He rubbed his eyebrows and asked casually, "Does Bud Wendell have any heirs?"

"Before he disappeared, he had a young daughter, Andersa Wendell. Now more than ten years have passed, that little girl has grown up, and the blood of the Wendell family has also shown its influence on her: her swordsmanship As outstanding as her father," Melita said unhurriedly, "Andersa has now been appointed by Emperor Typhon as a knight lord, as the commander of a branch of the Imperial Knights, which is probably Some kind of compensation, but that little girl has done a good job in this position. The outside world believes that it only takes one or two battles for Andersa Wendell to take over the title of "General Wolf" like her father and become Wendell. The next head of the Del family."

"The name that Lengtouqing gave himself back then has really become a family honor now," Gao Wen shook his head and commented, and then asked, "So that Andersa Wendell is just like her father, Believe in the god of war, Kyle, and belong to the knights of the gods?"

"No, this is interesting—she became an extraordinary knight through the most orthodox knight training and magic training. It is said that Duke Ferdinand forbade Andersa to convert to any religion, so the young female commander is still a non-believer. By."

"Indeed, this is interesting..." Gao Wen repeated thoughtfully, "It's interesting..."

Melita smiled slightly: "Your Excellency, that's all I can provide. Have you thought of anything?"

"I thought of some things, but they were all messy. God knows how a divine knight with a bright future could be reduced to a depraved druid with no future," Gawain exhaled, facing the unfamiliar Mei Rita, he didn't tell all the shocking secrets he knew, "Thank you for the information. If you hadn't come, I'm afraid I would never have guessed that the cultist's identity would be so... bizarre."

"So, do you want to spread the news?" Melita's eyes that were exposed outside the veil slightly bent, "The cult members of the Death of All Things Society active in Anzu's territory turned out to be a former nobleman of Typhon, The value of this news cannot be measured by a few gold coins..."