Sword of Dawn

Victor Kant just watched this scene quietly: "Old friend, your dedication has exceeded your responsibility. I wanted to thank you very long ago, but I didn't say it. This is my regret." ..."

The old butler walked around the desk and stood in front of the old master. He lowered his head and looked at the person he had sworn all his life to: "The computing node is under threat, and the risk of exposure exceeds [-]%... Prioritize the concealment of the computing node."

A silver dagger was drawn out, a star of silver light lit up in the dim room, and then it drew a short arc and pierced into a chest that was not considered strong but was warm.

The old lord's body twitched, a strange sound came from his throat, and his eyes were covered with a layer of starlight like a dream at some point, he looked at the expressionless face of the butler Carter, and whispered Said: "The Kant family... thank you... for your loyalty."

The butler let go of the dagger, allowing the old master's blood to stain his body, staining his dark coat and white shirt with blood. Then he turned around, pushed open the door of the study, and walked to the corridor swaggeringly.

A maid who was mopping the floor looked up and saw the butler coming out of the lord's study. She hurriedly stood up to say hello, but the next thing she saw was the blood stains on the old gentleman's clothes, and his blood-stained face. , Indifferent face.

Butler Carter raised his hand, and a lavender, faint energy radiance formed in his hand: "You saw it!"

The young maid finally couldn't hold back her fear and screamed: "Ah!!"

The maid's scream instantly resounded through the entire floor, and even the room on the floor below could be heard clearly. The three people who were talking in Gao Wen's room were interrupted by the scream in an instant. They heard great fear in their cries.

The three of them looked at each other and rushed out of the room at the same time.

Some servants on duty at night were alarmed by the sound, and the male servants and maidservants ran out from every corner, and all the corridors were filled with running figures for a moment, and when Gawain and others ran to the third floor of the castle, there was A lot of people have already gathered.

The maid who screamed fell to the ground, but she didn't have any external injuries. She was only temporarily unconscious due to excessive panic. After a basin of cold water was poured on her, she woke up quickly, and then shouted loudly, "The housekeeper was killed." The devil possessed", "he was covered in blood", "he came out of the master's study" and other broken and almost crazy sentences.

Hearing the maid's intermittent yelling, Gao Wen's heart was agitated for an instant, and some sudden thoughts emerged from his mind. At the same time, he strode forward and looked at the terrified girl: "Where did the butler go?"

"That...over there!" The maid pointed at the end of the corridor, where an open window was shaking violently in the wind and rain, "He cast a terrible spell on me, and then flew out like a ghost!"

"Spell?" Gawain glanced down at the maid, but he didn't see any traces of spell damage on her body, but he didn't have time to think about it, but turned to look at Amber, "Go after it—if you find it, don't Fight, report back in time!"

Amber was already running towards the window before Gao Wen finished giving her orders, her figure gradually faded as she ran, her voice came from the air: "Going out to chase people in heavy rain is a bonus..."

A dim shadow rushed into the rainy night, and Gao Wen turned his head and strode towards the study not far away.

Viscount Victor Kant sat upright on a high chair with a sharp knife stuck in his chest, and the blood spattered out had stained the table in front of him red.

Several servants following Gao Wen exclaimed when they saw this scene.

Philip and Gawain stepped forward together. The young knight chanted the name of the God of War in a low voice while putting his hands between the old viscount's nose and mouth. The next second he exclaimed: "There is still energy!" !"

Gao Wen also noticed the location of the dagger at this time: the old Viscount was really lucky. Although the location of the knife was dangerous, it seemed to be blocked by the ribs and did not pierce the heart!

He's lost a lot of blood right now and fainted—but if it drags on for a while, it might not be that simple.

Gawain immediately took out the special healing potion configured by Pittman from his pocket, and at the same time activated the knight's skill "Blood Inspiration" to temporarily overdraw and extend the old Viscount's life, and shouted loudly: "Go get the healer! Holy Light Priests or druids are fine!"

Chapter 0178

Gao Wen had to lament the magic and convenience of those healing spells—this world does not have advanced medical ideas, nor does it have a complete understanding of microbial infection, human anatomy, cell biology, etc. Wound infection may kill a person, but at the same time, those masters of the holy light and the way of nature can use magic to achieve "healing" beyond imagination. People with the second half of their breath can even heal the wound after a few minutes and turn the corner.

There are no druids in Kantland, but there are several priests of the Holy Light, one of whom lives in the small church in the castle all the year round. He is the religious advisor of the lord, and at the same time bears the responsibility of maintaining the health of the lord. With timely notification, the holy light priest quickly rushed to Victor Kant's study and used the holy light technique to save the old viscount's crumbling life.

Gao Wen stood aside, watching the pastor's busyness.The druid potion has replenished the much-needed vitality for Victor Kant, and the knight's "Blood Inspiration" quickly replenished the viscount's lost blood by overdrafting this part of the vitality. Now, the holy light of healing has already Covered on the wound, the priest prayed devoutly while carefully holding the handle of the dagger, and then he chanted the name of the God of Holy Light, and quickly pulled out the weapon.

The Holy Light immediately agitated, healed the wound quickly, and at the same time adjusted the damaged muscles and bones inside the wound. During this process, the Holy Light Priest kept praying to the God of Holy Light to maintain the healing effect on the Viscount. interruption.

Gao Wen nodded silently, thinking that he could be considered to have seen a priest of Holy Light with a normal painting style - where did the priests who use the dragon-raising bone-setting technique and the one-inch fist clearing technique come from?

The treatment process should last for a short while. The servants were gathering around his master. Gawain looked around and began to check every corner of the study on his own.

No one questioned his actions—the ordinary servants believed that the Duke was inspecting the scene of the murder, while the butler Carter, who might have obstructed him, had turned into a murderer and fled the place.

Gao Wen's eyes moved in this closed study room, his brows were slightly frowned.

This is not a place suitable for a study room—although it is located on a higher floor of the castle, it has a rather poor lighting environment. The narrow and uncomfortable narrow windows of classical castles are particularly prominent here, and there is only one There is a narrow window, which makes it unable to bring much light into the room even when the sun is the brightest throughout the day, and the magic spar lamp embedded on the wall obviously has some problems: even if all the lights are on, the room cannot A hazy and dim atmosphere was shrouded.

No, it's not necessarily a problem with the magic spar lamp...

Gao Wen's eyes fell on one of the lamps. The light of that lamp was actually very bright, but its light seemed to be bound by some force, so it couldn't fill the whole room.

That kind and cheerful Viscount Victor usually works in such a weird study?

Gao Wen came to one side of the room. There was a huge bookshelf next to the wall. A large number of beautifully bound books with thick covers were neatly arranged on the bookshelf. Many of the spines of the books were even inlaid with gold and silver. Ornaments, typical of aristocratic collections.

In Gao Wen’s view, this is a manifestation of multi-functions—it can be used for reading when you need knowledge, and you can use it to smash people when you need self-defense. If your family is in trouble, you can even pry the gold off the book cover as start-up capital. To revive the family business, in addition to being easily slapped on the face and paralyzed when lying on the bed at night, these heavy and gorgeous books are simply a model of "knowledge is power and money at the same time".

And in fact, most of the books in this era are so heavy and gorgeous - they are "luxury goods" that only wealthy people can have, and sometimes the number of books in the castle even directly shows the wealth and heritage of a nobleman ——Even if they themselves may not read it a few times in their lifetime.

But Viscount Kant is obviously not just collecting these books to save face. Most of the covers of the books are worn and deformed to varying degrees. Glue, leather, gold and silver foil repair traces, this is what a book lover would do.

It's just that Gao Wen glanced over a book and found that all the repair marks seemed to have been left a long time ago. Those gold and silver foils had changed color, and the leather glued on them was also worn out badly. And there was not even a newer book on the entire bookshelf.

It seems that after a certain time, the Viscount Kant was no longer interested in these "ordinary books"?

So what is he reading?The sorcery tome left to him by the Eternal Rest Sect?

Gawain turned to another small table behind the desk. There were some temporarily unused documents and files piled up on this table. Gawain's eyes were suddenly attracted by one of the unfolded papers.

Some account transactions were roughly recorded on it, which seemed to be the original data that had not yet been included in the account book, and the most conspicuous among the several records were the remuneration paid to a certain mercenary team and the deposit for the next operation. On the specific employment content, the words "collect raw materials" are written.

Is this a record of mercenary catching refugees?evidence?

Gawain frowned, and was about to approach the paper, when he suddenly heard a small commotion from the servants behind him, and a little extra light shone into the slightly dimly lit study room.

Gawain looked back in surprise, and saw Viscountess Lilith Conde standing at the door. This frail lady who was as thin as a shadow was carrying a lantern. She probably used the light of this lantern to walk all the way from the North Tower. She ran here; her eyes widened, she stared blankly at Victor Kant surrounded by the crowd, her face was full of fear and astonishment.

"What's wrong with this!?" Lilith exclaimed, her voice intermittent, "Who...can anyone tell me...Victor is...what's wrong?"

"Madam, Madam, please don't panic, Master Viscount is fine," the priest of Shengguang quickly stood up, "Thank you for the God of Holy Light's care, Master Viscount just suffered some skin trauma, plus convulsions and coma, Gao Duke Wen gave him the potion in time, and with my treatment, he is already safe."

While speaking, the Holy Light priest raised his hand and tried to summon a holy light to appease the terrified lady, but Lilith Kant ignored the priest and ran quickly to Victor's side. After checking that the other party was still breathing, she breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Gao Wen: "Thank you...Thank you for saving him."

"I should do it," Gawain nodded slightly, and then looked at the servants around him, "There are too many people squeezing in here—your master needs fresh air, and everyone except the personal servants should leave."

Gawain was not the owner of the castle, but no one objected to what he said at this moment, and soon most of the servants left the room, and after confirming that the healing spell had taken effect and that the Viscount himself no longer needed to cast additional spells After that, the Holy Light priest also withdrew.

Viscount Kant's wound had healed, and a senior servant wiped the blood on the Viscount's body, and the latter finally woke up slowly.

It took him a long time to focus his eyes on the situation in the room. He first saw Gao Wen, and was stunned for a moment, then saw Lilith standing in front of him, and his expression immediately became tense: "Honey! You Why are you here?!"

"I... I heard that something happened in the castle..." Lilith Kant seemed a little flustered, "I came to see you..."

"I'm fine," Viscount Kant waved his hand with some difficulty, causing the servant to step back, and then tried to stand up weakly, but the effort failed. Lilith immediately stepped forward to support him, and he turned back Grabbing Lilith's arm, "You don't have to worry—on the contrary, you are running here at this time, which makes me very worried."

"I...I'm fine," the Viscountess said in a hurry, and quickly nodded to Gawain, "The Duke saved you immediately, and even called the pastor—my dear, what happened?"

"Thank you for your shot," Victor Kant immediately thanked Gao Wen, and slowly took a breath while frowning—the wound had healed, but the pain from the dagger's stabbing into his chest still seemed to remain between his heart and lungs. "It was Carter. Carter suddenly attacked me. I was completely stunned. He seemed to be a different person. While stabbing me, he said some strange things, saying that there were intruders in the castle, so what else should I protect... I'm completely dumbfounded right now!"

Immediately afterwards, the viscount seemed to react suddenly: "By the way, Carter—where did he go? Did he attack anyone?"

Just as Gao Wen was about to answer, a shadow suddenly formed in the study, and Amber's voice came from the shadow: "He ran away."

The half-elf lady appeared, her body was almost drenched by the rain, her long ears were shaking in the air (probably shaking the water?), she turned to look at Gawain: "That old housekeeper is definitely not ordinary. People! I saw him running like flying on the steeple of the castle, disappearing and reappearing all of a sudden, I couldn't catch up with him with the shadow walk - finally I chased him to the stables behind the castle, he It just disappeared there, and I can't find it at all."

Gawain was taken aback: "Someone you can't even track down?"

"Yeah, at least he's a demigod," Amber said very confidently, "After all, I'm the Goddess of the Night Goddess..."

Gao Wen pretended not to hear this sentence.

"He ran away, and I'm afraid he will become a threat," Gawain looked at the Viscount and Viscountess, "I suggest you strengthen the defense of the castle."

"That's for sure." Viscount Kant nodded vigorously.

And Lilith also nodded slightly, but suddenly covered her forehead, and her body shook slightly as if she had lost support.

Viscount Kant suddenly looked nervous: "My dear?"

"I... I'm a little dizzy," Lilith covered her forehead, her tone was a little painful, "I'm not feeling well..."

"You have been away from your room for too long!" Viscount Kant said in a serious tone, "You have to go back to rest quickly-don't worry, I will send twice as many guards to guard the north tower, and as long as I feel better, I will Used to be with you."

"Okay...Okay." Lilith Kant stood up unsteadily, obediently obeying her husband's arrangement, and then she picked up the lantern next to her, and slowly walked towards the door of the study.

Chapter 0179 A Good Dream

Finally, only Gawain, Amber, and Viscount Kant were left in the study. Knight Philip was guarding the door, and the room was extremely quiet for a while.

Viscount Kant exhaled slowly, feeling his strength gradually recovering, he smiled wryly: "It's just a nightmare."

"Yes, it was a nightmare." Gawain looked down at the old Viscount, "I don't think you know the reason for your butler's sudden change of temperament, do you?"

"As I said just now, I really have no clue." Viscount Kant seemed to be in a daze for a moment, then shook his head bitterly, "He has taken care of me for decades and has been serving the Kant family loyally. , but just now he seemed to be a different person..."

"Have you heard of the Eternal Sleeper?" Gawain suddenly interrupted Viscount Kant, staring into the latter's eyes and asked bluntly.

Amber next to her couldn't help but quietly put her hand towards the dagger at her waist, while shrinking her body into Gawain's shadow.

"Eternal sleepers?" Viscount Kant frowned, then nodded slowly, "Yes, I have heard that they are fallen believers of the God of Dreams, and they are said to sneak into the consciousness of the victim when people are having nightmares, controlling even Replace the latter's mind. Could it be that Carter is controlled by the eternal sleeper?"

Seeing Viscount Kant's reaction, Gawain remained expressionless without showing the slightest emotion, and then he shook his head: "Anyway, what you need most now is to rest—take a good sleep for a while to recover your strength , and I suggest that you better ask a few more servants to accompany you, you are getting old, and you have lost too much energy this time, so you need someone to take care of you to be safe."

Viscount Kant bowed his head sincerely: "Thank you for your concern."

Gawain and Amber left the study, and Knight Philip, who was waiting at the door, immediately stepped forward: "My lord, how is the situation inside?"

"Viscount Kant has returned to health—except for a little weakness," Gawain said in a low voice as he walked forward quickly. "The current clues all point to the old housekeeper—at least it seems so on the surface."

Knight Philip froze for a moment: "On the surface? Do you have any other doubts, my lord?"

"The timing of that butler Carter's 'temperament change' is just right," Gawain frowned, "If he is a disciple of the Eternal Sleeper or a Transcendent who was bewitched by the Eternal Sleeper, then he should have done it before we arrived at the castle." Everything should be dealt with, and if he is not ready, then simply don't take any action, because all the slave arrest plans are signed by the Viscount Kant, and the Viscount's "resurrection" will also lead the suspicion to Victor Kant, That Butler Carter does nothing, so he can naturally avoid any suspicion—the suspicion has long been on Viscount Kant."

Amber blinked, and slowly recalled: "I remember that when we were discussing the suspicion of Viscount Kant, the butler Carter suddenly assassinated... This is to transfer the suspicion to himself? So the real purpose of the butler is actually Are you protecting your master?"

Immediately afterwards, she suddenly realized: "No wonder! No wonder that dagger will avoid the vital point!"

"In this way, we can be more sure that Viscount Kant is the main messenger of all this!" Philip showed a look of eagerness on his face, and the sense of justice began to throb in the young knight's chest, "My lord, destroy the cultist's plan!" The time has come!"

Gao Wen's face was serious, and he still felt that he had missed something, but finally he had to nod: "It is true that there is no delay. But before alarming Viscount Kant, we must first find the core that maintains the 'illusory space' and put this ritual The magic terminated and separated Viscount Kant from the magic core. If my judgment is correct, the thing that maintains this magic should be a lantern."

"A lantern? Doesn't the Viscountess always carry a lantern?" Amber suddenly remembered - she is very sensitive to anything that looks more valuable, and that lantern looks very valuable, "Is that the one? Why don't I just steal it?"

"The appearance is indeed the same, but the lantern in Lilith Kant's hand is probably just a replica." Gawain shook his head, "The real lantern has a very obvious magical reaction, and it should be placed where Lilith Kant usually stays. near the place."

The three had already returned to the guest room at this time, Gao Wen poured himself a glass of water, but did not drink it, but looked at Amber after a short thought: "I need you to do one thing - to be your boss OK."

"No problem, I'm good at this kind of thing." Amber patted her chest proudly, "Tell me, where is the Kant family's ancestral grave?"

"...I didn't ask you to dig someone's ancestral grave!" Gao Wen almost didn't come up in one breath. He said to himself that he hadn't drank any water, otherwise he would definitely be choked to death by the shame of all things, "I'll let you find that lamp A real lantern—steal it if you can!"

"So we still have to steal the lamp in the end." Amber rolled her eyes, "Is that also a rough range? This castle is huge!"

"North Tower, Lilith Kant lives in the North Tower all year round. If I'm not mistaken, it's in the cellar," Gao Wen said, "Nominally, she stays there because of her weak constitution and photophobia, but It was more like some kind of house arrest."

Amber raised her eyebrows: "The cellar? That kind of place has very strong shadow power, and it's where I cast it!"

After Amber left, only Gawain and Knight Philip were left in the room. The latter stood quietly near the door in charge of guarding, while Gawain was holding a water glass, thinking carefully about the source of the sense of disobedience in his heart.

Knight Philip broke the silence: "My lord, is it really okay to let Amber steal the core of the ceremony? With her fighting power..."

"If everything goes well, she doesn't need to fight at all, and if she really encounters the enemy and is difficult to win, then she will definitely run back immediately." Gawain shook his head and said, his eyes fell on the water glass in his hand, His face was reflected on the slightly rippling water, while his thoughts drifted farther away. During the wandering of his thoughts, the lantern in Lilith Kant's hand suddenly appeared in his mind.

He vaguely remembered that after he gave the lantern to Selina 700 years ago, the latter combined the power of the lantern with his dream magic, but what was the specific usage?

Selena seems to have mentioned... She wanders in the warrior's nightmare, which is often full of twisted and disordered roads and layers of fog, and the lantern can guide her to the correct path, so that she will not be in the dream. Lost in the world, and let her see the real appearance of the dream...

A guiding lantern...a lantern? !

Gao Wen suddenly realized where his biggest blind spot in thinking was.

While realizing this blind spot in thinking, a weird, unbelievable truth also rapidly formed in his guess. This truth is so unreasonable and unimaginable, but this is probably the real truth in this castle. Things that happened!

Gawain stood up abruptly, and put the water glass on the table. Knight Philip, who was standing at the door, was taken aback: "My lord?"

"We made a mistake!" Gao Wen quickly walked towards the door, "We made a mistake from the very beginning!"

Cavalier Philip was taken aback by Gawain's endless words: "What's wrong? What's wrong?"

Gawain put his hand on the doorknob, turned his head and frowned and stared into the eyes of the young knight: "This is not Viscount Kant's dream! Come with me!"

The two left the room, and while walking quickly through the entire corridor, Gawain quickly told the knight beside him of his conjecture and discovery.

Philip's eyes opened wider and wider, and in the end he was completely stunned: "So... there is such a thing?"

Immediately afterwards he realized: "Then Amber is really in danger?!"

"No, according to my judgment, she will not be in danger at this stage, because the dreamer has not yet awakened," Gawain said quickly, "It's just that we have to split up now...Philip, I have a mission here you are."

"My lord, please order!"

"Go to the back of the main building of the castle, find an abandoned stable, and use your ability to detect evil to search for it..."

Cavalier Philip led the order, while Gawain quickly walked through the corridor, up the stairs, and arrived in front of Victor Kant's study.

The study room was still shrouded in the same weird and dark atmosphere as before. Viscount Victor Kant sat quietly behind the heavy desk, motionless like a sculpture.