Sword of Dawn

"No," Gao Wen shook his head, "it's meaningless to spread these things now—the negative news is too bizarre, and no one will believe it if it is released, not to mention that the two countries are about to fight, and at this time they are swearing at each other. No matter how ugly things can come out, do you think anyone will take it seriously when you tell the dark history of Typhon nobles from Ansu's mouth?"

As soon as Gao Wen's voice fell, an amber jumped out from the shadow beside him: "If Ansu and Typhon are not serious, it can also make the cultists nervous-such an important secret has been exposed... "

Gawain looked at the half-elf, and smiled: "Thinking too much, I'm going to go all out to become a cultist, and I still care about the loss of reputation? Do you mind if someone says you are a thief?"

Amber stared: "Mind you! I'm clean now, okay? I'm the chief guard next to the Duke!"

Gao Wen: "...Can you occasionally play a card according to the normal routine?!"

Melita looked curiously at the daily quarrel between Gao Wen and Amber, but she politely did not get involved, and just said while both of them were taking a breath: "Then, Mr. Duke, you have more questions." Is it?"

"Yes," Gao Wen said immediately, "Your mithril treasury should contain a lot of treasures, right?"

"Of course, there is such a saying: In any case, half of the world's treasures are stored in the Mithril Treasury, and it is precisely because such a huge amount of wealth can be kept for a long time that those big people choose to let us come Keep their treasures..."

Gawain interrupted Melita's chatter: "Then are there any items in your treasury that can be sold?"

"This..." Melita hesitated for a moment, but then smiled, "Of course there are. There are always some treasures that leave the original owner, and there are always some rare treasures that no one cares about. We are happy to find a comparison price for them when the price is right. A more suitable master."

"How do you sell the Eternal Slate?"

Chapter 0143 Storm Gathering

Melita Bernia is an elegant person. As a senior agent of the Mithril Treasury, she enjoys a special status in the organization. She has always only dealt with those detached and great figures, regardless of whether these big figures are No matter how imposing she is, whether she has a bad reputation or has a weird temper, she can always maintain her own elegance and ensure the smooth progress of every transaction in her elegance.

"How do you sell the Eternal Slate?"

"Gack--"

You see, this is not elegant enough, is it?

Melita didn't come up in one breath and almost sprayed her veil off, but at any rate, she was a person who had experienced strong winds and waves, she calmed down immediately, and looked at the calm Gao Wen with a calm face and a shocked heart: "You ...Did you just say the Eternal Slate?"

"That's right," Gawain nodded, "Of course, I'm not talking about a whole piece. Fragments are also fine."

"Your tone...as if you want to buy cabbage, I am really scared by you," Melita coughed twice in embarrassment, confirming that what Gawain was referring to was indeed a fragment of the Eternal Slate, "You know, this No one in the world would use this tone and attitude to talk about those gifts from the gods."

Only then did Gawain feel that there seemed to be something wrong with his attitude, but he couldn't help it: Even if he inherited Gawain Cecil's memory, his personality was still his own, and he really couldn't put himself into it emotionally. As a pure local aborigine, and how much awe he felt towards the eternal slate, those metal pieces were just a bunch of research materials in his mind-the information stored in them was so frightening...

Besides, even if Gawain Cecil was really here back then, he probably wouldn't be too much awed when he mentioned the Eternal Slate, because that Gawain Cecil was not a believer, and as the first The mud-legged nobleman in the second pioneering era, he seldom has awe of anything.

"Ahem, someone who has died once can see things more openly," Gao Wen waved his hand casually to cover up the embarrassment, and then looked into Melita's eyes, "Let's talk about the Eternal Slate—is it like Organizations like the Mithril Treasury, don’t they have fragments of the Eternal Slate in their collections?”

"The fragments of the Eternal Slate are all in the hands of the major sects. They are their holy objects, and they will not be handed over to the Mithril Treasury for safekeeping." Melita shook her head. "You should be very clear about this."

"But I am more aware of another point: what the major sects keep are nothing but large fragments, and many of the fine fragments are scattered outside, falling into the hands of kings, nobles, and collectors. And there is no greater collector in the world than your mithril treasury."

Melita frowned slightly, and spoke softly after a long time: "You are right, there are indeed some fragments of stone slabs in the Mithril Treasury, but most of our collections are just kept for others, so For those crystals that you handed over to us back then, Treasure House will strictly implement the agreement and never let them go out. Unfortunately, the original owners of all the eternal stone fragments are still alive, and none of them It means giving up ownership of the collection, so please forgive me that I cannot sell them, nor can I show them to you without the permission of the original owner."

Judging by Melita's attitude, Gao Wen knew that there was no need to discuss this matter.

The reputation of the Mithril Vault is well known, and so is the strength with which they maintain it.

However, after a few seconds of awkward silence, Melita continued: "Of course, if you are willing to wait, there may be one or two pieces of stone slabs that can be negotiated..."

"Oh?"

"I can't disclose the original owner's information, but I can tell you that a customer made a wrong choice when fulfilling the contract and made an extremely irrational breach of the Mithril Treasury. We have reason to believe that he has no way to make compensation. So - what he has in his treasury will soon be for sale."

Although Melita was smiling and said these words in an elegant and gentle tone, Amber standing behind Gawain couldn't help but tremble all over, and let out a chill from head to toe.

"Hey - you guys are really scary to do business." The half-elf lady couldn't help muttering.

Gao Wen didn't ask who the mysterious defaulter was, and he didn't care who the Mithril Treasury was doing business with. He just nodded lightly: "Then I'll wait. But I still have to confirm—Eternal How do you sell the slabs?"

It is very necessary to find out the price clearly, otherwise it will be embarrassing when you have no money to buy it when the cowhide is too big, and it will even be more embarrassing than Melita's "ga pou" just now.Although Gao Wen, who was sitting on the coffin book of the Kingdom, felt that he had a lot of spare cash on hand, the value of things like the Eternal Slate cannot be measured by money at all. God knows what price the Mithril Treasury will offer?

Melita had already adapted to Gao Wen's reality at this time, she smiled faintly: "The value of the Eternal Slate cannot be measured by money, and the Mithril Treasury does not need to be sold for money, so we want something else, It is best to have rare treasures worth collecting, such as ancient relics from the Gondor period. I believe you can take them out. If you don’t want to, those crystals you gave to the treasury for safekeeping are also fine. Of course, the best It is most convenient if you have another piece of the Eternal Slab on hand, we can exchange it directly."

Gawain's heart suddenly moved as he listened: In the eyes of the other party, the crystals he handed over to the Mithril Treasury have the same value as the Eternal Slate?

He believed that Mithril Treasure House would not talk nonsense in this regard, the other party's ability to identify treasures was well known in the world, and they never traded at a loss, so... do they know the origin of those crystals?Or at least know its value?

But Gawain was not sure whether he could directly ask Melita this question. After careful consideration, he decided to point a little bit as naturally as possible: "It seems that in your eyes, those crystals are very valuable?"

"According to the classification method of Mithril Treasure House, treasures other than natural products are divided into three types. The first type is treasures that can be reproduced by human hands. Most of the so-called rare jewels fall into this category; the second type is from Human hands, but treasures that can no longer be reproduced, like the ancient relics of the Gondor Empire or older treasures, belong to this category; the third type is extraordinary strange things, they... are not made by human hands."

Melita said, her eyes slightly bent, and she looked at Gawain with a smile: "Those crystals, and the fragments of the Eternal Slate, they are not from human hands."

……

Boundless, moody, sometimes calm, sometimes devouring the world, when furious, it can destroy the strongest ships and reefs, when calm, it is like a cradle—but there is another dark and deep world hidden under the cradle.

This is the ocean.

Humans have conquered the whole land, but they can't conquer the ocean. Outside Loren Continent, there is an impermanent water that is far wider than the continent. However, in the past 700 years, the farthest steps humans have taken to the sea will not exceed the coast The range that the lighthouse can illuminate, because outside the lighthouse, the sea is far more manic than it looks. The fragile wooden boats made by humans cannot resist the storms in the far sea. Experienced captains lost their course.

Before the Church of the Lord of Storms turned into a dark sect, the priests of the Lord of Storms were the only shelters and guides for human beings when they sailed outside the range of the lighthouse. Those priests who received the protection of the gods could find their way back to the harbor in the chaos and darkness However, after the Church of the Lord of Storms broke with all orthodox churches and degenerated into a dark sect, all ocean routes came to an end, and people had to stay away from the sea in fear. Those captains and sailors who dared to go to the sea to hunt wealth They also became cowards who only dared to sail along the coastline, and the priests and priests of the Lord of Storms—they left the mainland and the sight of the world, they walked on the waves and stepped into the far sea, and changed their name to Storm the son of.

They no longer believed in and worshiped the Lord of the Storm, but worshiped the storm itself. They firmly believed that the tide would destroy the entire world-whether it was through the rising tide or the ebb tide.

In the depths of the Eastern Endless Sea, on a nameless large island reef, the Sons of the Storm are intensely repairing the fortifications, repairing totems, and setting up temporary barriers. Brewing in the vortex, the torrential rain continuously poured down from the sky, blurring the boundary between the sky and the sea, and even giving people a feeling that the sea water is about to hang upside down.

Even in the endless sea with frequent storms, such terrifying celestial phenomena rarely appear, and it only means one thing: those sea monsters are coming again.

A storm priest stood on the watchtower in the rainstorm, his black robe fluttering in the strong wind, the rain didn't seem to affect his sight, he just stared at the increasingly violent sea water, as if staring at an abyss.

The endless sea, which wraps this world with impermanent water, deeply hides those truths that are enough to drive people crazy, and leaves mortals with an illusion of tenderness like water, and those stupid mortals—the only thing they have left Reason and wit came into play, which instinctively made them stand in awe of the endless sea, and in awe far from its deepest depths.

This kind of weakness may be the best talent left by the Creator to human beings, but unfortunately, the Sons of the Storm who once faced the truth have lost this happiness of escape.

The vortex of dark clouds in the sky descended again, and the terrifying sound of wind and thunder kept pouring into the ears. The priest of the storm raised his head, and saw abnormal waves rolling up on the distant sea level, and some vague things were coming from Appearing from under the surface of the sea, they were terrifying and ferocious deep-sea beasts dozens or even hundreds of times larger than normal creatures, and among them were some small female figures.

Ordinary people may think that those "witches" are controlling those giant beasts when they first see this scene, but the Priest of Storm, who has dealt with sea monsters many times, knows very well that those giant beasts are not controlled at all. Monsters, they are as much sirens as the female figures that mingle among them.

"They" are the same race, but there are infinitely many incarnations of terror.

The sea soul horn was sounded, and the sons of the storm rushed to the battle position. The voice of the priest penetrated the storm and resounded throughout the island:

"The Kraken is coming!!!"

Chapter 0144 Magic Power... Capacitor

Melita left, and took the ring left by the cultist with her when she left. As a transaction item, and as a thank you to Gao Wen for helping to recover the ring, Melita made a ring on behalf of Mithril Treasury. promise:

From now on, as long as there are fragments of the Eternal Slate left outside, or similar "inhuman wonders", they will give priority to telling Gao Wen.

To Gao Wen, the value of this promise was far more valuable than the ring.

But a certain embarrassing half-elf didn't seem to think so. Amber lay on Gawain's desk, pressed her face against the table, and slumped there like a salted fish, muttering while slumping: "One Looks like an expensive thing... just took it away... didn't even take out a single coin... the people in Mithril Treasure House are too stingy... and they have to wait for a meal when they leave... ..."

Gao Wen squinted at this guy: "They will help collect information on the Eternal Slate and similar things, don't you think this is more valuable?"

"That can't be spent as money, and that veiled woman said it easily, God knows how long it will take them to find new pieces of the slate—that's the eternal slate! It's not a stone on the road," Amber continued to paralyze, "Ah, they If you can’t find it in 100 years, why don’t you wait 100 years?”

Before Gao Wen could say anything, he heard this guy continue to chatter: "Ah, that's right, you have special skills, at worst, you'll kill yourself when you get bored, and then let your descendants give it to you when they find it." You go to the grave and burn the news to you, and then you crawl out..."

"Speaking from the bottom of my heart, even if you are really the God of Shadow God's Chosen, it is a miracle that you can live so long." Gawain raised his eyebrows and glared at Amber, "Stop talking nonsense—go and help me Open that box over there, and take the bag on top of it."

Amber, a salty fish, stood up and got up from the table, swaying towards the thing while muttering: "Usually, it's Betty who helps you, why is it my turn today—by the way, where did that little maid go?" ? I haven't seen her for most of the day..."

"I gave her half a day off, and asked her to get familiar with this place with Pea. Pea is very shy and can't speak. She is easily frightened when she comes into contact with people in the territory, but she gets along with Betty unexpectedly. Maybe the two of them Can be friends."

Amber put the bag of things in front of Gao Wen, and leaned closer with a smile: "Let me tell you, I really appreciate you a little bit now - I thought you were just pretending to be approachable at first, but now It seems to be true. People who are not serious can't arrange this step for you."

"Thank you for your appreciation." Gao Wen casually said, while pulling Amber's head aside, and then poured out everything in the bag.

Inside is a pile of dim off-white crystals, the average size is only the size of a little finger, and the surface has a bit of a dense color, with a mysterious atmosphere unique to magic materials. However, no matter in terms of appearance or texture, it does not look like any high-end stuff. Son.

"What is this?" Amber was silent for only two seconds, and immediately came up again after seeing these things that seemed to be able to sell for a little money: "Crystal? But it looks like the quality is very poor..."

"This is the magic storage crystal that has just been shipped from Tanzania Town. It is a sample of the first batch. Did you forget? I placed a huge long-term order for Viscount Andrew."

"Magic storage crystal? This thing?!" Amber stared at those gray-white crystals for a while, then suddenly yelled, "That Viscount Andrew didn't bring such a trickster! We saved him Fate, he just uses this thing to fool people? If this kind of crystal is placed in a slightly larger rich ore, it will be thrown away as slag, okay?"

Gawain looked at this angry half-elf in surprise. He never thought that this guy who didn't care about anything in the territory before would be so angry because of the loss of the territory, but he just smiled: "Don't be so exaggerated, this thing is much better than slag, and that Mr. Viscount is not cheating at all - he sold these crystals at the price of three Cecil silver coins per taka (weight unit) Ours, where can you find such a price?"

"Three silver coins..." Amber quickly thought about the size of the newly minted Cecil silver coins in her mind, and then her face became subtle, "That's really cheap...but you buy so many low-quality magic storage What are crystals for? This kind of appearance... I am afraid that only the most basic mage apprentices will use it when doing exercises? And I am afraid that mage apprentices with a little money are not willing to use it."

Gao Wen smiled: "Do you know what is the biggest problem with this kind of inferior magic storage crystal?"

"The ability to store magic is only half of high-quality crystals of the same size, and the energy dissipation is extremely serious, especially the second one, which directly makes them useless." Amber obviously has some understanding of these common sense issues, after all When it comes to whether it can be sold for money, "the reason why man-made magic storage crystals are not popular is also for this reason."

"That's right, the low magic storage ability is just a small problem. Just put two more crystals. The biggest problem is that the energy dissipates quickly, and the charged magic power will dissipate by itself in a short time. It is a fatal injury to the magic crystal, so these crystals have become so worthless, although they have a huge reserve, it is difficult to use them," Gawain said, opening the locker under the table, and took out a piece from it. The hexagonal metal plate was placed on the table, "But if we think about it differently, these crystals that can't store energy can also come in handy..."

Amber looked curiously at the metal plate that Gawain took out. She recognized that it was something that Rebecca had sent not long ago. It seemed to be a product from the Machinery Manufacturing Institute. The polygonal shape is the kind of "industrial product" that is pressed out of the machine mold in an instant using the latest "stamping forming technology". On the surface of the metal plate, you can also see neat ravine lines and patterns embedded in the lines. magic material.

This is a "universal substrate" engraved with a magic circle, and Amber feels that she has seen the rune structure on it.

After trying hard to recall for a long time, she said "Oh—": "Oh~~I see, this is the thing that Rebecca and Jenny drew before!"

"The honeycomb magic net unit, this is a basic unit, and it can work independently. I engraved it on a general-purpose substrate that can be moved, and it becomes a 'part' that can be combined with other things at will," Gao said. As Wen spoke, he turned the board over, exposing the vacant grooves on the back of the board, "And these slots are connected to other things."

"So this metal plate is constantly gathering magic power?" Amber looked at this new thing with a completely different style from the traditional magic props in amazement, "Then what do you plan to use this magic power for? Such a small magic net unit can The magic power gathered should be limited, right?"

"It's really limited. With the output of this magic net unit alone, it's very difficult to activate a first-level spell, so you need to charge the energy into these crystals first." Gao Wen pointed to the inferior magic storage crystal next to him, "Complete a spell." After the charging cycle, the magic power in the crystal is exported. Since the charging is continuous, the dissipation of the crystal is no longer a problem. You see, it acts as a temporary register in this system , used to store a small amount of magic power generated by the magic net unit, so as long as the crystals form an array, supplemented by a long enough charging cycle, then it is entirely possible for such a basic unit to release enough magic power to drive advanced spells .”

Amber's eyes widened from the middle of hearing it, and the way she looked at Gawain at the end was not quite right: "You bastard... are you really sure that you are a knight?"

"Uh... As for such a big reaction?"

"You are a knight, where did you get all these magical theories!" Amber stared, and then looked at the magic circle base plate and crystal in Gawain's hands in disbelief—these things have not been combined yet, There are still many key runes and control circles missing, but it is obviously not far from completion. "Is this thing... a magic device? But it still seems to be just a part..."

"That's right, it's still a part, but it's just a very important part. With it, I have completed the most important part of my plans: how to solve the problem of mobile energy without a fixed magic grid power supply. That's the question," Gao Wen smiled, "I'm going to call it Magic Capacitor, what do you think of this name?"

"Magic capacitor?" Amber blinked. "What does this thing have to do with electricity? Are you going to use it to release lightning bolts?"

"Um... well, I didn't think of this," Gao Wen thought about it seriously, and changed the phrase, "Then I decided to call it a magic capacitor."

Amber: "...and this one!?"

Seeing Amber's dumbfounded look, Gawain felt great joy, so he happily lowered his head, found the batch of drafts that he had not finished calculating before, and was going to continue to calculate the power and charging efficiency of the honeycomb magic net unit. It was a difficult problem, but not long after he started working, he suddenly heard a noise coming from outside.

"I'm going to see what's going on!"

After saying these words, Amber disappeared in front of Gao Wen in a flash: as long as Gao Wen wrote something, she would definitely get dizzy from reading it, and at this time, she was eager to find a way to escape.

But as soon as she ran out, she came back in a hurry: "Gawain! Gawain! Knight Byron is back!"

"He's back?" Gao Wen immediately put down the pen in his hand, "Let him in quickly!"

Knight Byron walked into the tent. He looked quite tired after several days of exploration in the ruins, and he looked dusty, but the expression on the knight's face was obviously very excited. He gave Gao Wen a knight salute when he entered, and then said excitedly: "My lord! We found a hidden area in the ruins, which may be the secret test site of the Gondor Empire! There are not only a lot of intact equipment, equipment, and supplies in it. , and... and a small number of still legible manuscripts and documents have been found!"

Chapter 0145 The Ancient Proving Ground

Soon, under the leadership of Byron, Gawain arrived at the frontier of the exploration of the ruins of the Dark Mountains.

It is already located near the middle level of the ruins, and it is the result of the hard work of the exploration team led by Byron for several days. It is connected to the upper level by a large ladder, and there is a wider space and a tall roof in it. It is not easy to construct such an extraordinarily wide space in the body. Since its builder chose such a scale, it can only show that this area needs such a large space.

All corridors are raised, as are all doors and rooms.

Gawain picked up a map, and looked at the route on the map with the light of the magic spar held by Hetty next to him—Byron Knight had completed the drawing of the area along the route very dutifully, and many flat areas could be clearly seen on it. Straight corridors and rooms, and some of the rooms or corridor forks are marked with special marks to indicate that there are unknown objects or suspicious forks in them.Obviously, even after several days of exploration, Knight Byron and his party failed to understand the scale of this astonishingly huge ruin.

How insane is the scale of this thing?

Now Gawain, Hetty, Amber, Byron and a large group of soldiers have come to that special room, Byron pointed to the door and the control mechanism that have been cleared in front: "My lord, our discovery is purely by chance, this door The door was originally sealed, but there was probably a gap due to disrepair, so we discovered the air flow. The control device next to it should have been broken, and its identification function has failed, and anyone can activate it. "

"The creations of the Gondor Empire can't last a thousand years..." Gawain sighed softly, "Let me demonstrate it."

Byron nodded, took off his gloves and stepped forward, putting his hand on the metal device, and then a distorted voice came from the device: "Detection... sample tester... stabilization period... approved. Isolation is starting Door……"

Amidst the creaking sound of mechanical operation, the ancient isolation door inlaid on the wall slowly opened.

"As long as this is done, the gate will open, and then no matter whether there is anyone coming in or out, the gate will close by itself within 5 minutes, or if you tap this pillar twice in a row, the gate will also close. In addition, there is the same on the other side of the passage. device." Byron explained in detail.

Then two more soldiers stepped forward, and indeed a similar sound sounded from the device, notifying that the isolation door had been opened.

It appears to identify anyone who touches the device as a so-called stable sample tester, with no identity verification.

But Gao Wen couldn't help frowning: he had deep thoughts about the words "sample tester" mentioned in the device.

"This thing can actually talk!" Amber became interested in the device itself. She ran over and put her hands on the top of the metal pillar in a similar manner, and said enthusiastically, "I heard that elves and wizards They also make a talking golem, but I've never..."

"Detected...warning, disqualified, non-identifiable target, channel closed, alarm activated."

Accompanied by this blunt and cold sound, the isolation door quickly closed again amidst a loud noise, leaving only Amber standing next to the device with a mask on his face: "Hey... I didn't do anything?!"

Gao Wen put his hand on the hilt of the Pioneer Sword the moment the so-called alarm activation sounded, but he didn't hear anything else after waiting for half a minute, so he was a little relieved. : It seems that most of the functions in this facility have been shut down. The door in front of me may also operate independently, and it will not really send out any alarms.

Byron, Hetty and the others were also taken aback by the sudden turn of events. One by one, they pulled out their weapons and set up a stance, until it was confirmed that no ancient traps had been activated, and Hetty breathed a sigh of relief and was shocked Looking at the metal device, he asked, "What's going on here? Why does the amber die when you touch it?"

"Don't worry about this," Gao Wen stepped forward and pulled Amber aside, and put his hands on the metal pillar, "Let's see if this thing can still be used."