Sword of Dawn

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Looking up, a part of the throne stands straight in sight like a cliff, and the scepter leaning against the throne protrudes from the end of the field of vision to the sky, which is particularly eye-catching.

After looking up for a few seconds, a bold idea suddenly popped up in Shadow Assault Goose's head.

Do you want to climb up and have a look?

Chapter 1486 Climbing

As we all know, Amber is a kind of reckless and cowardly, reckless with cowardly, suddenly reckless, reckless duality creature.

When there is an immediate danger around you, even if it is just a slight disturbance, this Shadow Assault Goose will pull a shadow door and escape within a fraction of a second. The speed of escape is astonishing. To the extent that you can't even catch up behind.

But if no real dangerous factors were observed around, the pattern of the goose would be opened in an instant - she would even feel that an ancient god's throne could be tried to climb.

Standing under the majestic throne, Amber raised her head vigorously to look at its cliff-like façade, her eyes gradually became reckless.

In the next second, she climbed onto the facade of the throne without hesitation, and began to climb up with hands and feet with the help of those uneven reliefs and ancient mottled cracks.

The disordered wind from the Shadow Desert stirred slightly, blowing Amber's long hair and the scarf around her neck, but this wind will not affect her climbing speed and stability in the slightest. In this place full of shadow power, She felt that her hands and feet were extraordinarily strong, and her body was extraordinarily brisk. It seemed that the whole world was providing her with strength, and everything in the environment was helping her accomplish what she wanted to do—except for the dust that blinded her eyes at first.

She crawled very slowly at the beginning, but gradually the speed became faster and faster. She seemed to no longer feel the restraint of gravity on her, but felt that her body was as light as a shadow. She grasped those mysterious and complicated embossed lines , moving quickly between bulges and depressions, the smoke and dust formed by the power of shadow dragged a long trail behind her, this scene looked from a distance, as if she had turned into a cloud on the edge of the throne Clinging to the whirling clouds, it is agile and brisk.

She didn't know how long she had climbed like this before she stopped in the middle. While resting, she looked back at the direction she climbed up, and saw the shadowy clouds gradually dissipating behind her. The ancient pillars and broken bricks and tiles covered the line of sight, and at the end of the line of sight, the border of the gray-white desert was the silhouette of the vast city.

Amber suddenly freed up a hand to rub her eyes, and stared carefully at the city in the distance for a few seconds—the silhouette of the city seemed to be different from what she remembered.

After staring into the distance for a long time, she finally realized where the sense of disobedience came from.

In her memory, it should have been a deserted city ruins. Whether it was the description of Modil before or the scene she saw when she strayed into the Kingdom of Shadow God last time, the city on the edge of the boundless desert was a piece of silhouette. Although the ruined walls outlined by the form are far away, those collapsed towers, broken city walls, and architectural frames pointing to the sky like jagged skeletons are still vaguely discernible.

But now, she saw towering towers and majestic walls in the silhouette of the city. Row upon row of buildings stretched on the horizon like a black and white picture scroll. Under the chaotic pale light, the whole city was silent but revealing A vaguely sublime aura.

The Silhouette City, which was supposed to be in ruins, now looks intact!

"What the hell... Ms. Ye, after fighting against the tide, she has too much energy and went to dig dust and do civil work..." Amber muttered subconsciously, "Is she finally freeing up to renovate the Kingdom of God... ..."

She used this unreasonable soliloquy to relieve her shock, but the thoughts in her heart were not confused at all. After seeing the inexplicably "restored" silhouette city, she immediately thought of The most important thing was the information that came from the north recently——she thought of the disappearing Violet Kingdom, the thick fog of Plandel, and Gawain's question about "whether the Violet Kingdom was a country under the influence of Lady Night from the beginning?" The large-scale 'anomaly'" conjecture.

All the changes in this "Kingdom of Shadow God" must be related to Lady Ye, and the changes in the Violet Kingdom are also related to Lady Ye, so the disappearance of the Violet Kingdom...will it also be related to the changes in the city of silhouettes? ?

"It would be great if the old zongzi was here, he is good at brainstorming..." Hu Po suddenly muttered something, and at the same time looked down at the bottom of her, and began to hesitate whether to give up climbing, hesitating Should I find a way to go to the city of silhouettes to find out? Although the city looks extremely far away, she can move quickly in this world with the help of the power of shadow. Going to investigate this vast sea of ​​sand may not be impossible...

After a few seconds of hesitation, she withdrew her gaze from the distance and looked up at the throne again.

She has already climbed more than halfway, it is not wise to change the goal at this time, and more importantly - this "throne" is obviously the core of the entire Shadow God Kingdom.

It may be more meaningful to investigate the throne than to investigate that distant city.

Temporarily putting the "renewed" silhouette city in the distance behind her mind, she refocused on the task in front of her, and continued to climb towards the throne with hands and feet.

After climbing for an unknown amount of time, she finally came to the end of this "cliff".

Hold the last raised line on the edge of the seat with her hands, and use her hands and feet to pull her body upwards. The long and repeated climbing movements have made Amber's nerves a little numb, and she almost feels that she is already on this "cliff "Climbing up for a whole life, until finally turning her body over to the apex of the "cliff" and feeling her back firmly landed on the chair, she suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and then seemed to be drained of all her strength Like lying in place and never wanting to move again.

Although the ubiquitous shadow power in this world gave her a lot of help, even though she still felt very light in the first half of the climb, this is after all a cliff-like "road to the sky", By the second half, she had already started to feel tired, and by the last fifth, her physical strength had been severely depleted. She had completed the last few meters with all her strength, but now...she just It feels like the body is being hollowed out.

"I won't climb walls for the rest of my life..." After lying on the edge of the chair for 5 minutes, Hu Po finally got up and muttered while moving the sore joints and muscles everywhere, "This thing climbs!" Is it so hard to wake up..."

As she spoke, she raised her head and looked around.

At this moment, she has come to the top of the huge "Shadow Throne". This throne specially prepared for Ms. Ye is so huge that Amber has a feeling of standing on the square and looking around the distant city wall in a trance. She then pointed her head towards herself I glanced at the direction I climbed up from, and then subconsciously took a few steps back—not because I was afraid of heights, but mainly because I was afraid of being accidentally blown down by the wind, and the long climb before that would have been in vain.

"This place is really big..." After looking around, Amber finally couldn't help but sigh, "However, such a big chair doesn't even have a cushion, and the chair surface is still made of stone, so it must be uncomfortable to sit on... "

Wantonly commenting on the throne of an ancient god, Amber seems to have completely forgotten the weirdness of this place, as well as the nervousness and caution she had when she first came here, and she may even have forgotten her setting of "self-proclaimed shadow god". She began to run around on the chair as wide as a square, touching here and there, and studying everything that seemed interesting in her sight, until finally she came near the back of the seat and leaned back vigorously. Start looking at this structure that seems to be towering into the sky.

This is a more desperate cliff than the "cliff" she just climbed. The quaint stone back extends straight up, and it makes people dizzy just by looking at it.

Amber had no intention of climbing the ladder.

She just stood at the base of the backrest, raised her head vigorously to search for the trace of the mysterious star map, but she found nothing, only a cliff covered with mysterious and complex patterns.

"I can't see the star map..." Amber raised her head, feeling her neck was a little stiff, "But these lines... seem to be very similar to those on the surface of the 'anchor point generator'..."

She blinked, and reconfirmed the complex patterns on the back of the throne, and finally confirmed that they were at least [-]% to [-]% similar to the surface pattern of the "anchor point generator" that Gawain had drawn from memory at that time, but now this It is no longer surprising information—the secret connection between Ms. Ye and the Sky Station and the Voyager is no longer a secret, and the pattern of the anchor generator on her throne seems to have become a matter of course.

After staying next to the backrest for a few more minutes, Amber finally explored most of the area of ​​the throne. Her eyes turned to the last place she hadn't set foot in yet, and there was a trace of hesitation in her eyes.

Even if it is a shadow assault goose in a reckless state, there will be times when it becomes nervous and cautious when it sees something.

Lady Ye's black and white scepter was quietly leaning against the throne, the upper part of the scepter was resting on the edge of the seat. In Amber's eyes, it was as huge as a giant pillar that could support an entire castle.

Amber was seriously thinking about a question—would she be beaten if she stepped forward to touch it?Anyway, the Lord doesn't seem to be here at this time...

Unknowingly, she had subconsciously stepped towards the scepter, an incomprehensible, even imperceptible attraction was driving her, she walked towards the scepter little by little, although she still felt that this He seemed a little reckless, but he kept telling himself with a strange intuition that there would be no real danger in doing so.

She finally came to the scepter. The scepter leaned quietly against the edge of the throne. On the surface of the gray-white scepter whose material was difficult to identify, faint light and shadows were slowly flowing.

After a moment of hesitation, she finally stretched out her finger and lightly touched the surface of the scepter.

In the next second, a voice rushed directly into her mind: "Error, the border is invalid... Illegal behavior has been stopped... The border is being reconstructed, and the security plan is enabled..."

A feeling of whirling suddenly swept over her whole body. Hu Po suddenly lost control of her body, and even lost all senses for a short time. She only felt that she was surrounded by some irresistible force, and all her senses were mixed together. Rumbled and rolled in her mind - and this process came and went quickly, it seemed that in less than a second, she felt that all the abnormalities disappeared, and she returned to a place where her feet were on the ground, and her mind was clear again stand up.

She blinked, raised her head, and saw that she was standing on a collapsed altar. In front of her was a huge mountain-like throne. The facade of the throne stretched straight to the sky like a cliff...

Amber: "...(Cecil swearing) (very profane swearing) (not a single word of level swearing is allowed)"

My old lady just spent half a day climbing in vain. jpg.

The more Amber thought about it, the angrier she became. If she had known earlier, she would not have made such a foolish move. Maybe she could investigate on the throne for a while, and maybe she would be able to find something again—even if it was not good, she could try to dig something out. down...

But she thought about it carefully, and gave up the idea of ​​climbing again - she didn't know how long she could stay here, but she couldn't put all her limited energy into the infinite chair climbing.

And almost at the same time, a burst of almost imperceptible breath changes suddenly came from nearby, making Huber's ears tremble slightly.

Originally, with her strength, such a faint breath change was basically undetectable, but the abnormal environment here seemed to endow her with a lot of unexpected power. She quickly followed the direction of the breath, and saw that at a glance. A special stone pillar in front of the throne—and a large black book lying quietly on top of the stone pillar.

"Verde", who didn't know where he went before, mysteriously returned to the Shadow Throne at this moment.

I don't know if it was an illusion, but Amber felt that she had already sensed her own existence the moment the big black book appeared, but the other party didn't make any reaction, just lying quietly on the stone pillar like a real book, giving People feel... as if they are deliberately playing dead to reduce their sense of existence.

But Amber didn't care about that at all.

After all, she had also dug out the real dead ones.

"Long time no see, Mr. Wilder." She walked to the stone pillar that looked like a reading table in two or three steps, and looked at the big black book on the top of the stone pillar. "Where did you go just now?"

The big black book was silent for several seconds, and finally said as if unable to bear the pressure of Amber's gaze: "Who are you? I feel that you... are a little familiar. Are you a visitor who strayed here?"

"You don't remember me?!" Amber's eyes widened in surprise, "I'm Amber, we met here before, I accidentally fell in, you told me this is Lady Ye's divine kingdom, You also said that your name is Wilder, you used to be a human adventurer, but for some reason it became a book..."

"Okay, okay, I remembered, I remembered," Wilder's helpless voice came from the black book before Amber finished speaking, "My recent memory is not bad, I remembered the last time After meeting you..."

"It's a good thing for the elderly to have a stronger memory. I know someone with a super-strong memory who is older than you," Amber said carelessly, and then looked at Wilder curiously, "You haven't told me yet, Where did you go just now? So you can move out of here at will?"

The big black book was silent for a few seconds: "...I'm going to meet an acquaintance."

"Meet an acquaintance?" Amber raised her eyebrows immediately, "You can still meet acquaintances here? Is there a place to visit in this lost kingdom of God?"

"It wasn't possible before, but some changes have taken place here recently," Wilder's voice revealed a certain fatigue, "Here... the connection with the real world is gradually strengthening."

Amber stared at the big black book in front of her for a long time, and she didn't know how many thoughts and conjectures went through her mind, and then she suddenly said, "Is that acquaintance you mentioned yourself?"

Chapter 1487 Dislocation

"Is that acquaintance you mentioned yourself?"

Amber's sudden words made Wilder instantly silent. Although the image of this great adventurer at the moment is nothing more than a black book placed on a stone pillar, Amber seems to be reading from the other party's dark cover. Seeing a trace of cold sweat, this moment made her more sure of her guess: "Then it seems that there is nothing wrong, the acquaintance you mentioned is yourself..."

"Why do you think so?" Wilder's voice suddenly came from the book at this time, and the tone of the great adventurer sounded surprised and depressed, "I don't think I have revealed any useful information to you— —I only said a few words to you from the beginning to the end?"

"The Violet Kingdom disappeared in the extraordinary vision. The fog on the border of the kingdom and the shadow dwellers emerging from it pointed the clues to Lady Ye. Before that, I heard some interesting...information from some shadow dwellers," Amber looked at the big black book in front of her with a very indifferent expression. In front of this great adventurer, she didn't mean to hide, "And you told me that the Kingdom of Shadow God is now gradually approaching the real world, which shows that the kingdom of Shadow God The country and the real world are gradually converging somewhere..."

She paused when she said this, and spread her hands: "At this moment, there is an exploration team operating in the Violet Border, and there is a person in that exploration team who has a very special identity. In a sense... he is indeed yours." Acquaintance', that is a relationship that cannot be more familiar. And think about it from another angle, Mr. Adventurer—what other acquaintances do you have in this world?"

"...A surprising derivation process," Wilder sighed, "It seems that I don't know you well enough, little girl."

"I specialize in this," Amber said casually, and then fixed her gaze on Wilder's book cover with a look of interest, "Compared to this trivial reasoning, I'm more curious now. One thing...Mr. Adventurer, your state seems to have changed? You should not have known the existence of Mordir before, just like he didn't know you...I'm sure I never revealed this to you Aspects. Could it be... this is also a change caused by the 'meeting of borders'?"

"Frankly, I don't know," Wilder said slowly, "When I realized that the change had happened, some long-forgotten things had returned to my memory, and the same thing seemed to have happened in 'other One of me'. As you said, this may be related to the 'crossing of borders', but the reason behind it is a mystery, and even Ms. Ye...doesn't seem to know much about it."

Amber frowned, and then involuntarily looked back at the towering and empty throne, and the black and white scepter leaning on the throne. After a little thought, she turned to Wilder: " Where did Ms. Ye go?"

"I don't know. He has frequently left the throne recently, as if he is preparing for something very important, but like I told you last time, I am just a visitor here and have no right to ask about the hostess' affairs," Wilde said helplessly, "I only heard him mention it by chance once, and he said... that he was preparing a grand coming-of-age ceremony for this world."

"A grand coming-of-age ceremony?!" Amber felt her heart skip a beat when she heard this. The word "coming-of-age ceremony" really has a very special meaning, especially when it is heard on this occasion, Especially it came from the mouth of an ancient god, which made Shadow Assault Goose suddenly feel a mental shock, "What does this mean? Did He say the specific content of this coming-of-age ceremony? Did he say when occur?"

"I don't know—he usually talks about everything," Wilder said helplessly, "He said that there are many things that he can't reveal to mortals, at least until a certain 'moment' comes , He wants to keep all the secrets... I feel that Ms. Ye is shouldering some kind of secret and ancient mission, and he regards this mission as more important than her own existence."

Amber frowned and looked at the big black book in front of her, but she also knew that she couldn't blame the other party for being unreliable, Ms. Ye...that ancient god had his own considerations for what he did, and what he decided to keep secret, the last It's better not to peek rashly.

But although Ms. Ye's affairs cannot be peeped, there are other things here that arouse her interest.

"Mr. Great Adventurer," Amber said suddenly after thinking for a few seconds, "Can I 'open' you to take a look again? Just like last time."

Wilder's current form is a book, and it's an open book. There are some things he doesn't know, but his pages record those unknown secrets. During the last visit, Amber opened the book. In this big black book, what I saw was "Beware of the Sentinels" that filled the entire book - she still remembers the feeling of cardiopulmonary arrest at that time.

But now that the sentinel has disappeared... so what will appear in Wilder's pages?Will this mysterious "book" change with changes in the real world?Amber suddenly became a little curious about this.

"Of course." Wilde laughed, his voice sounded quite free and easy, "I'm also a little curious about what is recorded on my body at this moment-you have to tell me what you see, of course, If they're 'harmless'."

"Okay." Amber agreed casually, then rubbed her hands, and stretched out to Wilder's thick book cover with an expectant and happy expression.

There was a faint light and shadow on the surface of the dark book cover, and then she gently opened the mysterious "Book of Adventurers", and she saw the writing on the page—as expected, it was no longer the shocking "full page" Watch out for the sentinels."

She saw that there was a line of big characters at the beginning-"The emperor was good at using wonderful metaphors to explain the truth. He once compared Princess Rebecca to a steel ball of the empire, and explained it this way: the pearl is bright but fragile, and the countries have always been different. There is no "pearl" that is praised to the sky. Only steel balls are unique among princesses in various countries. They are hard and reckless and can be embedded in bearings. Anyway, that silly roe deer (see Chapter 7, Section [-] for the definition of this entry) also likes bearings... ..."

Amber closed the book with a "snap", her expression was greatly shocked, and her mood could not be calm for a long time - this thing is more shocking than the "Beware of the Sentinel" full of pages back then...

Because she is too familiar with this stuff - the latest issue of "The Sacred Tales of Emperor Gawain Cecil", she can recite the content in her dreams, after all, two-thirds of her extra money comes from it this.

Wilder immediately noticed Amber's strange reaction, and the voice of the great adventurer was nervous: "What's wrong? Did you see something terrifying in my pages?"

"No...it's not scary, but anyway, this thing is too evil..." Amber managed to recover her expression, she didn't know how to explain the "Holy Words" to the great adventurer , Then she couldn't help but glanced at the big black book on the stone pillar, "No, I have to take another look."

Nervously, she stretched out her hand to open the book again, hiding her upper body back as if she was about to defuse a Rebecca crystal bomb, and then saw another line of characters on the page: "... Create new words to describe the new things in the empire. Most of these words look weird, but after careful understanding, they will appear accurate and reasonable. The praise of the nuns is greatly encouraged...

"The famous war nun Teresa was inspired after receiving this praise, and creatively proposed the excellent design of mounting a grenade launcher under the nun's staff, which greatly enhanced the spread of the Gospel..."

Amber thought for a while, then closed the book expressionlessly, and swung her mouth round—it really hurt.

"Hey, are you okay?" Wilde was taken aback by Amber's reaction, and the great adventurer's voice sounded extraordinarily nervous, "Why did you suddenly give yourself a sudden... What did you see?"

Amber's mind was in chaos, and countless guesses stirred her thoughts like a vortex. Wilder's voice temporarily woke her up from the chaos, but then she realized that she had no way to give this big The adventurer explained what she saw—and even if she could, she couldn't.

How do you explain this... I'm sorry to tell people that you have two hundred pages of dirty words written on you?Then the other party asked where did the sarcasm come from, did she sell the old rice dumpling or herself?After much deliberation, it seems that I can only sell myself... Otherwise, this matter will be revealed in the future, I am afraid that the old zongzi will not even use the pioneer sword, and he will pick up the table and smash himself into the wall...

But she couldn't think of some excuses to fool her, and she also wanted to know why the content of "Holy Words" appeared in Wilder's "Adventurer's Travels", so after thinking about it for a while, she decided to speak: "You Have you ever heard of a book called "The Emperor's Holy Words"?"

Wilder thought for a while: "I haven't heard of it, what are you talking about?"

"...recording the sacred words and deeds of the great ruler, Emperor Gawain Cecil," Amber said with a stern face, trying to look like a gentleman, "It doesn't matter what the specific content is, and you don't have to care about it. It’s a book in the real world, and it’s a book that’s only available in recent years—but I just saw its content on you. This thing is too bizarre, so I have such a big reaction.”

"A book from the real world? The content appeared on me?" Wilder was really shocked, and it didn't sound like he paid much attention to the content of the book. "Are you sure?"

"I can definitely confirm that I am... familiar with the content of this book," Amber nodded, thinking that this "familiarity" is probably the same as the "acquaintance" that Wilder mentioned just now, "So you don't Do you know how this change happened?"

"I've never had a clue about what I'm writing about, it's as if... I'm just a vehicle, and the information in those pages is just a shadow that just happens to 'cast' on my vehicle," Wilder said. His tone was quite indifferent (thanks to the fact that he didn't know what was written on his body), "But I guess... since the book you said came from the real world, it may also have something to do with the recent 'crossing of borders'."

"It's also related to the intersection of boundaries?" Amber frowned, and suddenly felt that this seemed to be an explanation, "Wait, this is indeed possible, if you and the 'other you' are exchanging each other due to the influence of the intersection of boundaries memory, then you may also have exchanged some...subconscious things while exchanging memories, you may not be aware of their existence, but they have been recorded in your pages."

Wilder immediately thought that Amber's explanation made sense.

However, after Amber finished speaking, a new puzzle popped up in her mind—if the content in Wilder's pages came from Mordir, then where did the "Holy Words" in Mordir's memory come from? ?He has to have a source of reading, right?And that was the latest issue, this thing was not released publicly, and the old mage didn't have much chance to get in touch with relevant channels...

After pondering for a few seconds, her eyes suddenly became sharp: Could it be that the Grand Duchess Victoria bought one issue?

Wilder didn't know what Amber was thinking. He just saw this weird "visitor" suddenly fell silent and had sharp eyes, and finally couldn't help but ask: "What else do you want to ask? It's rare for me to be able to If you meet someone you can chat with, if you have anything else you want to know, just ask, although I may not be able to answer you."

Amber woke up from the distracted state in an instant, she thought for a while, and subconsciously cast her eyes into the distance.

That's where "Silhouette City" is headed.

"I wonder if there are any 'people' who have come here recently," she asked in a deep voice, "I don't mean 'visitors' like me, but 'lost people' who may come here in phantoms or similar forms ’. There may be many of them.”

Although she asked this question, she didn't have much hope in her heart, because even if it was confirmed that the person who disappeared in the Violet Mist incident was related to the change of Ms. Ye, the "Great Adventurer Wilder" in front of her was nothing more than this She is just a resident of Katashen Kingdom space, Ms. Ye has many secrets, as an ancient god, she may even be the god with the most secrets in this world, and Wilder, a resident... always seems to be Ms. Ye is excluded from the secret.

However, unexpectedly, after a moment of silence, she heard Wilde speak in a low voice: "I know who you are talking about, and I also know where they are...but unfortunately, I am afraid that no one can put They brought them back to your world."

"They really were brought here?!" Amber's eyes widened instantly, and then she frowned at the second half of Wilder's sentence, "But what does it mean? Why can't I bring them back? Could it be... ..."

She stopped suddenly.

Looking at Wilder lying on the stone pillar in the form of a large black book, Amber seemed to have guessed something.