Sword of Dawn

And Amber standing in front of the wall seemed to be frightened by this scene. The ground under her feet had cracked slightly, but she herself stood there unaware, motionless!

"careful!"

At the very moment, Gao Wen yelled and rushed forward, pulling back the dazed Amber. The two of them retreated to the entrance of the hall before stopping, and it was only at this moment that Amber exclaimed: "Mom!" Ah, the wall collapsed with my finger!"

Gawain held Amber's arm tightly and watched the collapse of the hall. He was ready to evacuate at any time, but soon he found that the collapse had only spread to a quarter of the hall and stopped ——Although the momentum was huge, it ended extremely quickly.

However, the scene after the wall and ceiling collapsed made him frown, and a sense of weirdness welled up in his heart.

It was pitch black outside, as if the world had disappeared and the universe had died out.

"That... what is it..." Amber's nervous voice changed, and what made her even more nervous was that she watched Gao Wen walk towards the collapsed place, "Hey! Be careful!"

Gawain was indeed very careful, he cautiously came to the collapsed boundary of the hall, and looked at the space outside the wall.

Behind the wall, there should be deep and thick layers of rock and soil in the Dark Mountains, but Gawain only saw darkness and nothingness in his vision, and the complete darkness filled his vision, as if everything in the world was beyond that boundary It stopped abruptly.

But he squinted his eyes and observed carefully, and finally saw some extremely distant and extremely vague things from the darkness.

He saw an undulating outline like "the land on the other side" at the far end of the dark space, and a faint ray of light could be seen far above it, which was like the light of the sky, and even in the darkness of nothingness, He could also vaguely make out some floating objects, which seemed to be boulders and islands that lost gravity and floated and rolled in mid-air.

Gao Wen finally realized what was going on with the darkness in front of him: this was not the end of everything in the world, but an unprecedentedly huge "void".

The scale of this void is so large that it exceeds the limit of light that the human eye can accept, so it gives people the illusion of "everything disappears", but the special "light environment" of the Shadow Realm determines that there will be no absolute light here. It was pitch black, so Gao Wen could vaguely recognize the things in the hollow.

He casually took out a magic spar, injected magic power to activate the crystal, and then threw it forcefully into the distance.

The brightly shining crystal flew forward after it was released. It could have illuminated a wide room, but it immediately turned into an inconspicuous light after entering the large void—due to the lack of reflective surfaces around, Its radiance seemed too small to be worth mentioning.

This confirmed Gao Wen's conjecture.

"Is this... a cave?" Amber also boldly followed. She looked at the scene in front of her in astonishment, and noticed the ray of skylight far above, "It seems to lead directly to the surface? This hollow... ...How big is it!?"

"Leaving aside the size, Knight Byron has been drilling in the Dark Mountains for so long, and the corridors he has explored include the area corresponding to the hole in front of us—that is to say, there is absolutely no such thing in the Dark Mountains in the real world. Empty," Gawain said with shock, "this emptiness is limited to the Shadow Realm... If it didn't form naturally, it could only be caused by some kind of power beyond ordinary people's imagination..."

Amber finally came to her senses at this time: "So I couldn't enter the Shadow Realm before, not because of some interference from Might and Magic, but because this area...doesn't correspond to the real world, and the dislocation here is too serious?"

"...I don't know," Gao Wen admitted frankly that he was also at a loss at the moment, "I only know that we may not be able to solve the mystery here... Unless the ring device outside can be repaired, no one can do it. See what the ancient Magisters of Gondor did here."

Amber rubbed her arm that started to get goosebumps: "Hey... Anyway, I can't stay here anymore, this place is too weird, I think the right way is for us to leave quickly."

Gao Wen breathed out: "I quite agree with you this time."

Chapter 0207 Dinner time at Gao Wen's house

After returning to the real world, both Gawain and Amber looked a little unhappy.

Knight Byron, who had been waiting outside for a long time, came over immediately: "My lord, are you alright?"

"I saw the uncanny workmanship of nature," Gao Wen breathed out, slowly dispelling the psychological discomfort caused by facing the big void, and at the same time shook his head helplessly, "I hope it is the uncanny workmanship of nature." .”

Knight Byron looked confused. Even with his experience, he couldn't deduce what Gawain had seen in the Shadow Realm at this moment, but he was smart enough not to ask any further questions—since Gawain didn't take the initiative to say it, it meant that this was the case. The news cannot be made public at this stage. There are still many ordinary soldiers at the scene, so he decided not to inquire too much.

After calming down, Gawain looked at Byron, "Are there any more exploration reports besides this new area?"

"Yes, we have been going well recently, and we have made many discoveries," Knight Byron nodded, and immediately began to briefly report the information he has accumulated so far. "Our current position should be the bottom of this group of ruins. If there are no more ramps or stairs, then this hall should be the 'base' part of the entire facility. So far, the entire ruins can be roughly divided into upper, middle and lower floors, and the middle area is connected to the entrance we originally discovered The hall, the room is empty, and the corridor structure is straight and symmetrical. It should be the main activity area at the beginning; the upper area leads to the front line of the top of the dark mountain. It has been blocked due to the weathering and collapse of the mountain, and it cannot be cleared out for the time being; the lower area is where we are currently. It is the smallest of the three areas, but the structure is the most complicated. There are a large number of rooms full of discarded equipment. And the mezzanine with unknown purpose, and the hall we found. These three areas are connected by the 'big ramp' located in the center of the facility, as well as shafts and narrow stairs distributed in various places. In addition, in each area there are There are some floors of different heights, and I have carefully drawn the structural diagrams of the floors."

Knight Byron paused, and continued: "We are going to explore the south and east of the middle zone in the next stage. We found additional connecting passages in these two places. There are debris accumulation in the passage, but there is no sign of collapse. Once the manpower is in place, we will clear the roadblocks and start further exploration. I suspect that the undiscovered area in this ancient ruins is still very large."

Gawain frowned, sketched a comparison chart of this ruins and the overall trend of the Dark Mountain in his mind, and said slowly: "The southern area... If the entire middle layer is a symmetrical building, then the southern part may lead to the Dark Mountain At the southern foot of the mountain, you have to be very careful during this process. Once you find that a building has passed through the mountain, you should immediately block the passage and report it. You must not enter the black forest on the south side of the mountain at will. As for the east..."

Amber mobilized her limited knowledge of continental geography, and suddenly said, "Isn't it leading to the Typhon Empire?"

Knight Byron was startled immediately: "Is this possible?"

"Nothing is impossible," Gao Wen said indifferently, "The area we are in itself is in the southeast corner of Ansu, and the Dark Mountains extend all the way to Typhon. If this ancient facility is really hollowed out The mountain range was built...then it is possible that its end enters the territory of Typhon. After all, in the Spark Era 1000 years ago...there is no such thing as the border between Ansu and Typhon."

Speaking of this, he looked into Knight Byron's eyes with a very serious expression: "If that's the case, then you have to be more careful, understand?"

Knight Byron is more or less a knight—even if he became a monk halfway, he still has a bit of military common sense. He immediately realized what it would mean if there was a passage leading to the territory of Typhon in this mountain ruins, so he stood up straight: "Yes! I understand!"

After arranging the business, Gawain decided to return to the territory first, but before leaving, he patted Byron on the shoulder and reminded: "Your exploration work in the mountains is very important, but you still have to have some vacations. , after finishing work this time, go home and rest for a few more days."

Knight Byron laughed: "Actually, I'm fine. When I was a mercenary, I drilled into various ruins and ruins all day long, and sometimes I stayed in the underground palace for half a month..."

"But you didn't have a daughter when you were a mercenary." Gawain glanced at him, "Pea misses you a lot."

Byron's hey expression froze immediately, and was replaced by a little embarrassment: "Oh... oh... then I'll go back and spend more time with her."

Gao Wen and Amber returned to the Lord's Mansion, and after a busy day, when they returned home, it was already sunset and it was almost time for dinner.

Betty is the only maid in the lord's mansion besides the two temporary servants. The little girl is in charge of everyone's meals and some chores. There were only five of them in Siren Tyr, and Gawain himself was simple, and his daily meals were also simple, but adding in the food for the servants and daily chores, it was no small burden.

Seeing the little girl running around in the restaurant like a gust of wind arranging plates and distributing bread, Gawain couldn't help pulling Amber forward to help. While helping to set the plates, he mentioned to Betty: "Every day Are you busy?"

"You're too busy!" The little maid replied crisply, carrying a big bottle of wine, "Oh, sir, don't put the plates yourself!"

"To be idle is to be idle," Gao Wen was not used to the kind of life where he would sit at the table and a servant stood behind him to pay attention. In fact, he would feel indigestion even if there was someone beside him who was serving him meals. So he is always trying to change this kind of atmosphere, but it is a pity that it seems to be ineffective at present. The little maid is about to cry when she sees him taking away the job of setting the plates, so he has to take the plate in his hand. The plate was put down, "If you are too busy, just tell me, this house is much larger than the previous tents, and there will inevitably be a shortage of people to take care of it."

Gao Wen didn't intend to place dozens or even hundreds of servants in the mansion like the mainstream nobles of this era. Even planting flowers and raising dogs would be so extravagant and depraved that two people were assigned to each post, but he also admitted that such a big mansion needed More people will take care of it, and it should be necessary to arrange necessary personnel for necessary jobs.Betty is a hard-working little girl, but she is not capable of superficiality, so it is inappropriate to put all the heavy housework on her.

Betty didn't think much about it. She was just a low-level maid who helped in the kitchen. She hadn't thought about what would happen if the lord had only herself as a maid. When she heard Gawain's words, she just stood there in a daze. Huhu nodding - I don't know what this nodding means at all.

After a while, Hetty, who was busy dealing with personnel transfer affairs, and Rebecca, who was obsessed with runes, finally returned home, and when they entered the restaurant, Amber had already wrapped herself with all kinds of pre-dinner snacks and cheese. Filled to seven full...

Gawain reckoned that if dinner was served a little later, Amber would be able to eat all the mustard mixed with butter on the table... Maybe this half-elf died in a previous life?

When the family members were seated, Gawain mentioned what he and Amber had discovered in the Shadow Realm.

"You said you found a 'big hole' in the Shadow Realm?" Hearing Gawain's description, Hetty showed great surprise, "And that big hole doesn't match the dark mountain terrain in the real world? "

"That's right, the size of that hole may be able to squeeze our entire town into it, and it's so high that it even breaks through the peak of the dark mountain range, so that you can see part of the sky. The light inside the hole is extremely dim, dark Disturbing," Gao Wen described the situation in the cavity in detail, "There is some kind of unnatural phenomenon inside the cavity, I saw huge stones floating in the darkness, as if they had lost gravity."

"I heard you and Amber describe that the shadow world corresponds to the real world, and apart from black and white and desolation, there is no significant difference in physical rules..." Hetty frowned, "That big hole Does it mean some 'Law of the Shadowlands' that we don't yet know?"

"I'm more worried that it was caused by some kind of external force. A force beyond human imagination has been active in the Shadow Realm, and 'digged' a large piece of Shadow Realm matter, and changed the physical rules within that range," Gao Wen was not without worry, "What is even more concerning is... the Gondor magisters 1000 years ago were obviously aware of the existence of this big void, and they set up a device similar to a magic gate at the bottom of the mountain ruins. The other side of the door should be connected to the big void or somewhere related to the big void. Unfortunately, the magic door can no longer be activated."

Hetty lowered her head in thought, while Rebecca was struggling with the uneven spread of butter on her slice of bread, and said casually: "Then the plan you mentioned earlier to move part of the territory's facilities to the mountains is still going on? "

Gawain looked at Rebecca's movement of waving the butter knife with some trepidation—her aura was as if a piece of bread killed her whole family: "You move slowly, do you need to be so big to spread butter?"

Then he answered Tietouwa's question: "The relocation work still needs to continue, at least the workshops that make grenades and various explosives have to be moved out of the territory, and then there are the production lines of the military factories—these things are always next to the residents. The area is not good. Speaking of which, how is the team of craftsmen who laid the magic net trained?"

"They are all well-educated. When I said that the salary of magic net technicians is twice as high as that of ordinary construction workers, they are very energetic. In addition, those craftsmen have a good level of literacy and numeracy. The best among them I have even learned to arrange the connection method of the honeycomb unit according to the laying environment and the blueprint tutorial, and the connection success rate is the same as that of the first and second level rune masters. Now they can complete the task independently without my guidance."

Gao Wen nodded with satisfaction: "Very well, send the best team to the ruins in the mountain, start laying the honeycomb magic net from the entrance hall, rebuild the magic power supply in the facility, and prepare for the subsequent mechanical entry."

Hetty, who was next to her, sighed sincerely after hearing this: "To be honest, who would have thought that ordinary people who don't have the ability to cast spells, or even the ability to sense magic power, can use this method to control magic power... The magic net and the magic engine , thermal energy ray guns, Rebecca crystals, these things have now achieved the point where they can be completely produced by ordinary craftsmen without a mage or with only a few guidance from a mage..."

"Right now they're just stuck at the stage of following the blueprints to make sure they don't make mistakes. This is just 'imitation'," Gao Wen smiled, "and when the Rune Research Institute led by Jenny achieves the first phase of results, the academy's The first batch of freshmen majoring in runes graduated, and you will see the 'creation' of ordinary people in the field of magic..."

Hetty couldn't imagine what it would be like, in fact, even Rebecca couldn't imagine it.

But Gawain was able to vaguely outline that new era—a time when ordinary people could rely on their brains and calculations, rely on rigorous scientific analysis and mathematical tools to control magic, and even An era in which various magical technologies were developed and created.

At this time, Hu Po, who was engrossed in eating, suddenly raised her head and interjected, "But then again... where's that sea monster?"

Chapter 0208 The Sea-Monster's Knowledge

When Amber reminded him, Gawain also became curious. He looked at Betty next to him: "Didn't you ask Tyre to come over for dinner?"

Betty blinked: "Yeah, but Miss Till said she wants to sleep again..."

"With her almost hibernating work and rest style, if she sleeps again, maybe it's time for dinner tomorrow," Gao Wen couldn't help shaking his mouth. He originally wanted to take advantage of this rare free time to find the sea from the outside world. Yao learned about the situation in the "outside world", but she didn't expect that the other party was still sleeping all day long, "Call her again, if she still doesn't come, I will call her myself—to prevent her from falling asleep. "

"Oh." Betty stood up, ready to ask Miss Siren to come over for dinner, but just as she stood up, she heard the lazy voice of that Siren coming from the restaurant door: "I'm coming, I'm coming... yawn ...I just slept for a while, as for sleeping to death..."

"Sleeping almost twenty hours a day, anyone would have to worry about you sleeping to death, okay? Don't all your sea monsters work like this?" Gawain said casually, turning his head to look in the direction of the restaurant's door, and he was looking at When the siren lady wobbled open the door and "walked" in - he saw at a glance that Tire's lower body did not take human form, but a long snake tail, obviously for this deep-water creature , These sea snake-like limbs are far more useful than human legs.

But in the next instant, Gawain's expression became astonished and stiff: he saw Tire driving his body into the dining room with a snake tail, but instead of sliding in like a snake, he came in gracefully, but arched and arched. Arched in - the middle end of the tail was raised high, and then it arched forward vigorously...

Although Tire has lived here for a few days, she seldom leaves the room when she came here, and secondly, she walked on her legs or hopped with a fish tail a few times before she came here. The way the form moves, how should I put it... feels a bit stupid...

"What's wrong?" Tyre noticed Gawain's expression, and immediately put his hands on his hips, "Is my tail not pretty?"

"You sea monsters are on land... so you act like this?" Rebecca also made a surprised voice. It seems that Gawain was not the only one who felt the surprise. She even waved her hands to simulate the crawling of a snake. movement, "Isn't it walking like this?"

Tyre turned his head and glanced at his tail, then shook the tip of his tail: "Ah, other sea monsters walk like you said, but the first time I conjured up my tail when I was a child, there was a sea caterpillar next to me. I just learned it crooked - I haven't corrected it in my life..."

Gao Wen: "...You should try your best to get used to walking with your legs in the future. After all, in the human world, everyone uses their legs. You can't go out like this."

He didn't have the nerve to say the subtext: the main reason is that the picture of such a beautiful snake walking forward with arches and arches is so stupid, it is so embarrassing that it can be carried into the Diu Temple to receive eternal worship, shame of all races in the territory, shame of profession There are already enough, and he is worried about the per capita face level of the entire Cecil Territory in the future if there are more embarrassing projects...

Tire couldn't think of so many deep-seated factors. She thought that what Gao Wen said was very reasonable, but she thought of a more brilliant solution: "In this way, next time you break my legs in public, from now on I will directly let people Carried it, or simply didn't go out..."

"Why are you doing this just so you don't have to walk upright!" Gawain was dumbfounded at the sea monster, "Are all of you sea monsters like this?"

"That's not the case," Till struggled to climb to the side of the dining table, pushed the chair away, and then firmly coiled his tail into a lump, and used the tip of his tail to fiddle with the dinner plate in front of him, "but I'm just lazy... Oh, you have quite a lot of food on land, so it's changed again?"

"I hope the food on land can suit your appetite," Heidi said with a smile—although her smile twisted a little when she saw the use of the tail of the Tyrian snake, "Actually, the food here is already considered simple. , this territory is developing, many things are..."

"It doesn't matter," Tyre wagged his tail, "I can't taste it, sirens basically have no sense of taste."

"You don't have a sense of taste?" Gao Wen asked in surprise, "Then you usually eat...just swallow it?"

For human beings, lack of taste is obviously a great shortcoming, which means that one of the greatest enjoyments in life-food is far away from life, but the sea monster Tyr obviously doesn't care about it, she poked it with a fork He poked the stewed potatoes in front of him, stuffed them into his mouth, chewed and swallowed them: "Although we don't have a sense of taste, we can experience a relatively subtle taste. Moreover, we sea monsters are essentially closer to an elemental creature. We are water elemental creatures." Aggregates, 'eating' is not a necessary condition for us to survive, but more like a... recreational activity. In fact, many sea monsters usually don't eat, and at most they catch unknown ones in the sea When I eat fish and shrimp, I will take a few bites to test the hardness..."

"It's really interesting." Gawain showed great interest in the daily life of the sea monster (in fact, he was really interested), "Then how do you usually live in the sea? You also build cities and need work something like that?"

"City? Our city can scare you land people!" Tyre glanced at Gawain, as if this is a ridiculous question, "Our city is bigger and more advanced than your largest city, It must also be strong, our city thought it could fly back then!"

"A city that can fly?" Hetty's eyes widened immediately, and she couldn't hide her curiosity. "Could it be a magical floating city like the Elf's Temple of Stars? Wait a minute, you know the Elf's Temple of Stars Is it?"

"I haven't seen it, but some of my sisters have seen it. Floating over the strait to the south of your continent, the Temple of Stars has a floating core that has been handed down from who knows when, and there is another one that can't be closed at all. Those long-eared creatures named Silver Elves seem to be very proud of their floating city. Some of our sisters have been curious to go up to see them, wanting to learn from the elves their technique of breaking free from gravity, only to find that the gang Creatures with long ears can only use them, they can't make or repair them, so the so-called floating cores are probably stolen from somewhere... Tsk tsk."

Tire commented on the Floating Void City, which the Silver Empire is most proud of, with a rather dismissive tone, but her casual words caused waves in Gao Wen's heart.

Tire's tone doesn't seem fake, and the character she's shown these days doesn't seem like the type who is very good at lying and deceiving (of course, Gawain is not sure that he can see through a person in a few days, and he still He can only judge the character of people of different races based on the information he has observed so far), then from her few words, Gao Wen can judge that the sea monsters have extremely advanced technology—otherwise they would not be able to understand the current situation. The Silver Empire with the most advanced magic technology on the mainland made such an evaluation!

It can also be confirmed now that a small number of sea monsters have indeed visited the land and the country of elves. They have observed and evaluated, and have a deep understanding of the technical essence of the Temple of Stars, and they did this... Originally, they wanted to learn Elves' anti-gravity technology?

Is there something wrong with Kraken's own anti-gravity technology?

Till seems to have mentioned just now that Siren's city was flyable "in the old days", that is to say, it's broken now?Can't fly?

They also have a technological gap?

The sea monster's observation and evaluation of the elves obviously disappointed them. They found that the anti-gravity technology of the elves was not even as good as their own, and the contemporary silver elves did not have the ability to rebuild a star temple...

Gawain still has some understanding of the silver elves. After all, Gawain Cecil was one of the greatest pioneering heroes of mankind back then, and he had exchanges with various racial forces on the mainland. In his inherited memory, Gawain did indeed Knowing that the silver elves refer to their star temple as a "lost ancestral heritage", there are many technologies in their air holy land that they don't know much about...

Silver elves should also have a technical gap.

I am afraid that all races in this world have technological gaps.

Maybe it's because of the magic tide...

Thinking of this, he decided to inquire about Siren's understanding of the magic tide and technology dating: "By the way, do you know about a catastrophe that happened on land 700 years ago?"

"The catastrophe 700 years ago?" Tyre thought for a while, "Ah, I probably know a little bit. I heard from those sisters who like to run around mentioned that something seemed to blow up on your side 700 years ago, and then human society was turned upside down. of."

"We call it the 'Magic Tide'," Hetty nodded, and said seriously, "That is a disaster for this continent, many people..."

Tyre interrupted Hetty suddenly: "Wait a minute, what do you call that?"

"Magic tide, or magic tide," Hetty didn't know why, but still explained, "It means that the magic power in nature suddenly loses order, and the chaotic magic energy erodes the existing world on a large scale, forming various deadly environments and destroying the world. Losing the stable structure of the physical world, causing monsters and deadly environments to spread everywhere..."

"Na'Salu'Fala." Tyr suddenly said a word. This word is obviously not a human language. It is uttered by a special vocal mechanism of the sea monster, with a strange, resonant tone and a pleasant voice. With a sense of rhythm, it even triggered a slight magical resonance, making the restaurant sound like an illusory wave.

Amber blinked in confusion: "Ah? What do you mean?"

"Magic Tide, the 'Magic Tide' in our language," Tyr shrugged, "Your explanation for 'Magic Tide' sounds quite similar, and it seems that you have indeed experienced some kind of similar phenomenon, but To be honest...according to our observations, what kind of demonic tide are you guys, can't even a breeze and a wave be considered good?"

Hetty, Rebecca and the others were a little dazed, as if they didn't quite understand what Tyre meant, but Gawain felt a loud noise in his head: He knew and thought much more than anyone else present .

And Tyre's voice continued to sound faintly: "The real tide of magic... will reshape the whole world."

Chapter 0209 What Do Krakens Usually Do?

This was the first time Gawain saw such a solemn and heavy expression on the face of the Siren Tyre. He originally thought that such an expression would never appear on the face of this deep-sea saltwater fish that seemed to never wake up. However, it turns out that there is still a limit to the other party's laziness.

And what she said with this expression naturally didn't look like she was joking, and Hetty immediately continued to ask: "What do you mean by reshaping the world...?"

"Literally," Tyr shrugged (and the tip of his tail), "the properties of all matter will change, some changes are subtle, hardly noticeable by humans, and will not affect the properties, while others will be turned upside down and even change. From stones to magic minerals; the magic environment in nature will also change. The area where the original magic power is full may become a magic power exhaustion area, and the place where the elements are originally thin may become a new gate of the elemental world, and creatures will be extinct and mutated on a large scale , new species will also be formed in a short period of time, and most of the creations of civilization will disappear in this earth-shaking change."

"...Are you scaring people?" Amber listened blankly to the sea monster's words. She understood the meaning of every word in the other's words, but the meaning after connecting them was unbelievable. She was stunned for a while, and finally couldn't help shaking her head, "Your statement is almost the same as those cultists who preach the end of the world every day."

Tyr snorted softly: "There is a difference. They only know that the end is coming, but the sea monster knows how the end will come."

Gawain looked into Tyre's eyes quietly: "Have you ever experienced a real demon tide?"

"You should know that the sea monster is a kind of intelligent creature that is far older than the land races. Before your civilization learned to catch fire, we have survived in this world for many years," Tire continued to poke with the tip of his tail Looking at the bread and potatoes in front of him, he said in a natural tone, "Of course we have seen some things that you haven't seen."