Sword of Dawn

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This powerful blow caused Ye Xiao and Bird Bee to subconsciously stop their steps of fleeing. They suddenly felt that the strange crisis in front of them was not so dangerous in front of the absolute power of the old mage. However, just as they stopped, they He was stunned to see that the old mage Mordir, who had just thrown out a shocking blow, turned his head and ran away, shouting while running: "What are you still doing in a daze! Run! These things can't be killed, stand against them , the legendary mage will be beaten to death!"

As if to confirm the shouting of the old mage, Sparrow Bee felt the familiar chill rushing over again in the next second. Before the mushroom cloud on the slope in the distance dissipated, a large number of shadowy "messenger" and shadow dwellers once again emerged from the air. They emerged, and this time the number was even more than before, and the speed of appearance was even faster than before!

The two officers of the Military Intelligence Bureau finally didn't dare to delay, turned around and ran away!

A legendary adventurer in pajamas, and two dizzy military intelligence officers ran wildly on the ramp in the thick fog. In the middle, Mordir threw a big fireball or pyrotechnic spell behind him if he had a chance. Powerful magic like that—humans are not magical weapons after all, and they cannot sing and guide them while running. Even a legendary mage like him cannot instantly release high-level spells like just now, but even ordinary big Fireball and Pyroblast, thrown out of his hand, are like the main gun of a tank. For a while, the ramp roared continuously, large and small explosions continued into pieces, and countless shadow dwellers dissipated and disintegrated in the explosion—then instantly reorganized reproduce.

Modil didn't even intend to turn back at all, he ran skillfully.

Ye Xiao obviously noticed this too, and while running wildly behind the old mage, he subconsciously asked, "Do you have experience fighting against this kind of shadow creature?"

"I don't remember!" Modil shouted while running, and threw a few instant protection spells on himself and the two officers of the Military Intelligence Bureau, "But I seem to have dealt with them before Yes, this feeling is very familiar, especially..."

While speaking, he threw a continuous fireball behind him, and his running speed faintly surpassed the two young operators who had received training and were extremely good at swift action: "Especially now! I don't know why, I feel like this scene very familiar!!"

Quebee was running wildly. She looked at the old mage who was running at the front, and suddenly felt a little unreal in her heart—she had never seen a mage with such good physical strength and running so fast in her life. No matter how strong the survivors are, their physique is basically weak. Years of research and study make it difficult for them to have the opportunity to focus on tempering their bodies. Even if they forcibly strengthen their bodies with secret techniques or other heretical methods Run like the legendary adventurer so... "fluid and natural".

After all, body strengthening is one aspect, and running experience is another aspect. Without the experience of being chased and ran through the wilderness and mountains, it is hard for Quefeng to imagine that a person can run wildly while casting spells like this Mr. Mordill. He can run faster than her and Ye Xiao - this old man doesn't even have shoes on!

Of course, the spellcasters she summed up here do not include the monks and nuns of the Church of the Holy Light—in fact, she doesn’t think those people are spellcasters at all. Are there spellcasters who chase bears all over the mountains with big iron sticks and war hammers? ?The bears around Cecil City have recently begun to move south across the Dark Mountains...

These messy thoughts turned in the bee's mind for a while, but it didn't affect her running speed at all, and it didn't even affect her and Ye Xiao's telling the extraordinary vision that happened in the Violet Kingdom to the people in front of her while they were running. elder.

Judging from the clues we have now, this legendary adventurer inexplicably appeared in this strange city, obviously also affected by this vision!

She and Ye Xiao are intelligence personnel, and they are not good at dealing with overly professional problems in the extraordinary field, but Mordir Wilde is a powerful and knowledgeable mage, and he is an expert in the extraordinary field!

Not only that, but this powerful old mage also seems to have inexplicably the experience of confronting those weird "shadow dwellers"-of course, it seems that it may also be experience of running away... But it is also experience, isn't it?

Chapter 1474

In the border city shrouded in thick fog, amazingly powerful magic tore apart the silence under the night, flames, frost, thunder, arcane missiles - these powerful spells bombarded like the saturated firepower of a small army The ramp at the rear, and in the continuous explosions, the tall and thin "messenger" and the "shadow dweller" whose body was filled with black smoke were torn apart again and again, and reappeared again and again.

Mordir Wilde's powerful magic can destroy houses and burn streets, but for these strange enemies... it seems that it can only be temporarily dispelled.

"Can we just run all the way down like this?" Sparrow Bee finally couldn't help shouting loudly, "Why don't the enemies chasing up behind seem to be decreasing at all!?"

"The shadow dwellers are like this! The 'entity' they show is not an entity at all, they are just projections formed in the shadow environment, and usually attacks can only cause 'disturbance' to them," Modil said while running. Said loudly, his physical strength shocked the two operators, "It takes a very complicated method to completely eliminate the shadow dwellers, but I didn't bring the casting materials - I can only run now!"

"When will it run until?!" Ye Xiao asked loudly. He looked at the road that continued to extend in the mist in the distance. After the ramp, there was a street, and after the street, there was a ramp. This border city seemed to have no Like the end, the boundless thick fog and the unkillable enemies made him feel a little desperate, "Is there no end?"

"You should be able to leave their hunting range in a while-the shadow dwellers will not chase the enemy indefinitely, they all have their own fixed range of activities and wandering 'targets', no matter what happens, they will not deviate too much from this area Far," Modil responded loudly, "you believe me, I have experience in this area! Although I don't know where the experience comes from!"

Sparrow Bee & Night Owl: "..."

This powerful mage with a legendary name and outstanding status will definitely leave an unforgettable impression on them tonight. The two senior operators never imagined that the first time they met such a big man in this life would be in this kind of place. Situation - was chased by a group of monsters born in the shadows and ran half the city, and this legendary adventurer was leading the way in front of him wearing pajamas and nightcap with floral patterns...

Quefeng couldn't help but think, even if it was an absurd dream, the development to this point is really beyond her imagination...

And she didn't know how long this running lasted, and she suddenly found that the terrifying figures that were approaching and emerging behind her had decreased.

This is the first time that those weird "shadow creatures" have decreased since the encounter between the two sides.

As if to testify to Mordir Wilder's "experience", when the three of them finally ran to the edge of the southeast urban area, and finally saw the end of the street vaguely in the mist, those who were chasing and fighting The invincible enemies seemed to give up at last, their numbers gradually decreased, their strange figures gradually melted into the depths of the mist, and the chill and sense of crisis that had always lingered in the hearts of the three finally gradually weakened and dissipated.

The streets of Prandell in winter are still bitingly cold, but compared with the chill from the bottom of the heart brought by those shadow hunters just now, these external colds are really friendly.

The three of them who had run wildly for nearly half of the city finally slowed down gradually, and stopped slowly after confirming that there were no more enemies emerging. Finch was panting heavily, holding its hands on its knees, almost unable to straighten up. The cold air was sucked into her lungs, causing her throat to hurt like a knife. The night owl beside her was not much better, and her physical strength was obviously close to its limit.

But when she raised her head, she saw that the old sorcerer who had "led the race" just stood there and took a few deep breaths, his face immediately became rosy again, and then he patted himself several times for protection. Spell, after the filming, I still turned my head to look at this side: "Do you want the stone skin technique? I practiced special super magic skills back then, and the stone skin technique on a person can stack twelve layers..."

Sparrow Bee: "..."

"Your Excellency, your physical strength is... amazing," Ye Xiao managed to catch his breath at this time, and looked at Mordir with a strange expression, "I never thought that a mage could be so good at running... "

"The physique of an extraordinary person will be strengthened, and my main job is adventurer, and I have seriously trained in this area," Modil said cheerfully, and casually made up for the two young people in front of him. Putting up several layers of protection, "Any situation will be encountered in the wilderness, and when you are adventuring alone, you can't rely on others. Of course, you can only find ways to prepare yourself for everything..."

"What you mean by 'everything will happen', does it also include encountering such a large group of shadow dwellers and strange 'messenger' in a city shrouded in dense fog?" Quebee said in a strange tone, "This seems to be beyond the ordinary The concept of 'adventure' is gone..."

Modil thought for a while, then nodded: "Actually, the situation I encountered today should be considered a relatively common one in my adventure career..."

Sparrow Bee: "...?"

"We won't discuss this anymore," the old mage waved his hand at this time, as if he was not interested in continuing to talk about his past adventures—after all, he didn't remember more than half of his adventures, "I still want to study this weird place What's going on, you guys have to find a way to get out of this weird thick fog, and I have to find a way to go home——you have come all the way, do you have any idea?"

Finchfly frowned. She raised her head and looked around the foggy scenery. Under the dim streetlights, the houses on both sides of the road stood silently in the night, and there was a faint light in the doors and windows. Everything was the same as her previous experience in the inner city. The scenery I saw at that time was not too different, but perhaps because it was close to the edge of the city, the fog here seemed to be thinner, and I don’t know if it was an illusion.

"Let's not stop, keep walking outside the city." Worried about another accident in his heart, Finch Bee walked towards the city wall after recovering a little bit of physical strength, "talking while walking."

The three of them started to walk towards the city wall, and on the way, Ye Xiao talked about the information he had so far—although he also told the old mage about the weird current situation of the city when he ran wildly before, but that After all, he was on the way to escape, so in order not to affect his running and to save his energy, he couldn't explain in too much detail, and it was only at this time that he had the opportunity to explain the situation in detail.

"...We suspect that this extraordinary vision is spreading and strengthening from the city of a thousand towers. Judging from the order of news interruptions in each city and the degree of distortion of the vision, currently apart from the city of a thousand towers, Pa Cities such as Lansanto and Lenghai City, which are between the inland and the border, may have already encountered similar things as here...

"Violet's internal regions have always been isolated, and it is difficult for outsiders to inquire about the internal news, so it was not until the vision developed to this point that we could deduce something...

"At present, we don't know whether the dense fog will continue to spread to areas outside the Violet Kingdom. If it does continue to spread, it may cause a disaster..."

Modil quietly listened to Ye Xiao's narration, and at this moment he suddenly said: "You two are obviously not ordinary businessmen doing business here, are you... Hu Po's subordinates?"

"...That's true," Quefeng pursed her lips, but she didn't intend to continue to hide it. Although at first she and Ye Xiao didn't reveal their identities to the "mysterious mage" in front of them due to regulations, but now they know who the other party is. Dill Wilder exposed a lot of clues during the run together, so there is no need to continue to keep it secret, "We are from the External Affairs Division."

"Oh, that's true. I suspected it just now..." Mordir nodded, and then involuntarily looked behind the two senior operators, looking up and down as if looking for something.

Ye Xiao was embarrassed by the other party's gaze: "What are you looking for?"

"Where's your two-handed sword?" Modil looked curious, "It's the one used for Whirlwind."

Ye Xiao: "...Different missions use different equipment, and it is inconvenient to carry a two-handed sword on the body."

"It's reasonable," Mordir nodded, and then he returned his attention to the business in front of him. "Actually, I've felt very strange since just now...how did those shadow dwellers appear in this place?"

Quite curiously: "What do you mean?"

"This is not the Shadow Realm, at least the Shadow Realm I know is not like this," Mordir pointed at the foggy street ahead and the houses on both sides of the road, "but the shadow dwellers will only haunt the Shadow Realm, Even if there are occasional "cracks" that stray into the real world, they will never form such a large scale, let alone stay and act in the real world for such a long time. Our real world is very uncomfortable for them place, unless..."

He paused when he said this, and shook his head slightly: "...the whole city is shrouded in a strange environment, maybe this is not the real world we are familiar with, maybe this is a 'crack' ’, perhaps some kind of superimposed field... This is a bit beyond my knowledge reserve, I have never seen such a bizarre environment in my life."

Quebee was thinking about something, she suddenly thought of something, and said to the air: "Manager, as long as we leave the city, we will be safe, right?"

The surrounding area was silent, but a few seconds after the voice of the bee fell, some pale writing appeared on a nearby wall: "Go to the beach in the southeast, that is the exit of the vision——I have already arrived at the beach Nearby, ready to meet you at any time."

Modil stared at the writing that suddenly appeared on the wall.

When he started running just now, he saw such handwriting that appeared out of thin air, and now these handwriting appeared before his eyes again, still presented in this weird way.

The old mage was thoughtful.

"This is our 'store manager', the commander of our team operating here," Finchbee on the side saw Modir's gaze but thought the old mage was curious, so he took the initiative to explain, "He can't directly communicate with him now. When we meet, we can only use this method to convey the news, he went to the northern city to investigate the situation before, and he knows more about this vision than us."

"Shop Manager, is your side safe now?" Ye Xiao asked on the other side.

"I'm safe here," another line of pale writing appeared on the wall not far ahead, "The 'Messenger' and the shadow dwellers summoned by the 'Messenger' seem to only be active around the inner city for the time being. They should have Clear mission or purpose, will not move outward for the time being."

Seeing the pale writing on the wall, Finch Bee and Ye Xiao finally felt a little relieved, and then they looked at the end of the road ahead in unison, but saw a faint, orange-red light appearing in the night without knowing when. The other end, and it is slowly and silently spreading in the mist.

It wasn't the light from a street lamp or a building—it was the rising sun.

"The sun is about to rise!" Ye Xiao reacted in an instant, and his tone was involuntarily filled with excitement. Although there was no evidence to prove that the sun would disperse this strange phenomenon, at this moment, in this place, which was already close to the city, At the edge, he suddenly saw a ray of rising sun appearing in the boundless thick fog, and he still felt great encouragement in his heart.

Bird Bee also smiled at the moment when the faint sunlight appeared: "Great, the sun is about to rise... let's speed up!"

After the words fell, she was already walking quickly towards the end of the road, towards the direction where the faint sunlight gradually spread.

It's like walking towards the exit of a weird nightmare.

The fog on the surrounding streets surged slightly, as if the sunlight from the sky disturbed and stimulated the dense fog. The gray-white fog flowed like liquid between the street lamps, eaves and walls, as if wanting to interweave It is entangled into a big net, but this invisible and substanceless net can no longer stop the birds and bees that have reached the edge of the city.

They walked fast. Although they had been running around in the night all night, their bodies were lighter than ever at this moment. The too dim street lights on both sides of the road became brighter than before at some point. The outline of the building is gradually becoming clearer, and the brighter sky is gradually shining on the entire border city.

However, the dense fog is still there, as if as long as one does not leave this strange and strange place, the dense fog will chase and cover everything forever.

Sparrow Bee and Night Owl walked through the fog, leaving the foggy streets behind and facing the sun-illuminated world in the distance.

They came to the end of the city, where the mist towered like a towering wall, as if some kind of conflicting "demarcation line" showed a clear gesture.

Before this final obstacle, the bee's footsteps suddenly stopped.

She looked at the end of the road in some surprise, and saw that the stone pavement in front of her stopped abruptly as if it had been cut off by something, and even a part of the surrounding houses were in a state of being cut off by a sharp knife in front of an invisible boundary. , and a little further ahead, there was only an empty piece of darkness in the thick fog, and the city wall that should have stood there... I don't know when it has disappeared.

Looking through the thinner "gap" in the fog, she could only see the darkness ahead as thick as ink, which looked strange and daunting.

"Where are the city walls and gates?" Ye Xiao was also puzzled, "And the road here..."

"Go forward," pale writing suddenly appeared on the nearest lamppost, "don't be fooled by this last illusion, the road is in front of you—you will see it when you step out."

Ye Xiao and Bird Bee looked at each other subconsciously, and then looked back at the old mage who was following them.

Modil just nodded slightly: "You guys make a decision, anyway, I think your 'store manager' should be sure, and I don't feel any danger."

Quebee withdrew her gaze, turned her head to glance at the boundless darkness at the end of the road that stopped abruptly, and then took a step forward almost at the same time as Ye Xiao.

In the next second, their figures suddenly disappeared into the boundless darkness.

Chapter 1475 Disappearing

The figures of Sparrow Bee and Night Owl suddenly disappeared in the endless darkness, as if stepping over an invisible boundary. Beyond the boundary, there is a "world" completely different from the silent city in the thick fog. ".

When they left this dense fog, they also left this time and space distorted by extraordinary visions.

Mordir Wilde was still standing quietly on the foggy street. He didn't follow the footsteps of the two young operators, but stayed on the edge of the foggy field. After going to the border of mist, recalling the phenomenon when the two young people stepped across the boundary, they finally said softly with a hint of surprise: "It turns out that it is a boundary of discontinuous time and space, no wonder... it seems that the whole space is no longer It's not the real world anymore."

There was silence all around, and no voice responded to the muttering of the old mage, but he suddenly laughed, and turned his head to look at an empty place next to him: "It may take a while for the sun to fully rise. , I can stay here with you for a while."

After the voice of the old mage fell, the air was still silent, but the surrounding gray mist suddenly produced a strange flow, and then a line of pale words appeared on a nearby wall: "Sure enough, I didn't hide it from you. Eye."

"Actually, I didn't notice it at first. The abnormal environment here affected my perception, but I have experience, some...unusual experience," Modil said lightly, and he simply found a relatively clean block nearby. Xi Di sat down, "You're not actually waiting in any 'safe place' at all, you've been following them, right?"

"...Before they evacuated, I returned to the stronghold, but at that time I could no longer contact them. I spent a long time trying to pass the message, until finally I found out that by leaving writing on the surface of the material. Talk to them," the writing on the wall quickly extended, "At that time, I knew I couldn't go back."

Mordir was silent for a moment, then suddenly asked: "...how did you get into this state?"

"Northern City was first covered by fog, and I was checking an unmanned warehouse - after noticing the abnormal dense fog outside, I chose to hide in the warehouse and wait for the fog to dissipate, that was the biggest mistake I made After that, the messenger knocked on the door of the warehouse, and I disappeared into the mist with the warehouse, and then... I was left here."

"You don't want them to know the truth, just because you don't want to make them sad?" Modil shook his head, "They are trained military intelligence officers, even if they know your situation, they will still complete the task. It can be seen, and the changes in you are also a piece of vital information, you should let them take it out..."

"If they knew what happened to me, they would also be trapped in the mist, and they would never be able to cross the discontinuous border just now," the pale writing on the wall said, "This mist... is very unusual , it is located outside the boundary between reality and illusion, the power of mind and cognition will be entangled with the fog, the more you know in the fog, the more difficult it is to get out of this secret place."

Modir's expression gradually became serious, and he quickly realized: "Then how do you know that it's okay to tell me these things? Don't you worry that I will be trapped here too?"

"...you weren't here, were you?" The pale writing on the wall continued, although it was just words, Mordir seemed to see the smile of the writer from those letters, "This is just a Meng, you are still in the warm bedroom of Winterhold, lying on the bed."

"Sure enough," Modil touched his beard and sighed softly. Obviously, he had vaguely noticed some truths before, but he was still not very sure. It was not until this time that he confirmed his conjecture, "No wonder I I feel that the flow of magic power is a bit weird when casting spells, and the mental protection spells still can't be formed... If my mind is in a dream state from the beginning, then everything makes sense."

As he said that, he frowned slightly, and said to the empty street: "But how did you know all this? Although I don't know much about the situation of your Military Intelligence Bureau, I guess you are not a scholar. A profound magician or an extraordinary scholar is not an expert in confrontation in this area—not to mention that this fog is so weird, even if a real expert comes here, they should not be able to investigate so many things in a short period of time, right?"

"...the mist itself told me a lot," the words on the wall began to write again, "When I became a part of this place, I naturally knew some things, and even directly perceived some 'truths', such as your The real state, but it involves the principle behind it... Sorry, I don’t know what the principle is, as you said, I am not an expert in this field.”

"You don't know, but I can probably guess a little bit. I guess this so-called 'fog' probably originated from an unusually huge...'mind', and it is even possible that the fog itself is a part of this huge mind," Mo said. Dill looked very serious, and said slowly while thinking, "Only in this way can we explain why you know some knowledge that doesn't belong to you in the mist, and it can also explain why you will be trapped in the mist forever if you know this knowledge." middle."

"An unusually large 'mind'?!" The pale text on the wall conveyed shocking emotions, "What kind of mind can produce such a terrifying power that it even envelopes the whole..."

"God." Modil said calmly.

The words on the wall did not respond for a while, and it seemed that the writer was also in great shock. At this time, Mordir thought of the shadow dwellers he had seen before, and thought of those strange people who seemed to have a close relationship with the shadow world. The contacted "Messenger Figure" thought of the house swallowed by black flames in the mist, and thought of the strange fact that he entered this "Violet City" inexplicably in a dream, and many clues turned in his mind like pages in the wind. Then, for a brief moment, all the pages come together as a whole.

"I think I probably know why I came here in my sleep," the old mage sighed softly. From the corner of his eyes, he saw brighter and brighter morning lights emerging in the sky at the end of the mist. Dawn The sun seemed to be shining on this world, and the darkness at the border of the mist was about to completely recede. He watched all this quietly, and said softly, "It seems that here, dreams and reality have been completely mixed together."

He suddenly turned to the air next to him, with a hint of apology in his tone: "Sorry, I originally wanted to chat with you, but I didn't expect to talk about so many boring things."

"No, I think this is quite interesting," the pale text began to write again, "Few people have the opportunity to talk with a knowledgeable and experienced adventurer like you, and even discuss and solve a puzzle. It was a valuable experience for me."

Mordir didn't speak for a while, but just let the tranquility of this moment continue. He sat in the city of Plandel, which was shrouded in dense fog, watching the morning glow in the dense fog spread from the direction of the coastline. In that long and fragmented adventure career, he has seen countless bizarre scenery—the sea of ​​flames burning underground, the turbulent magic power oscillating and undulating at the boundary of foreign space, and the elemental rift tearing apart in the clouds, each of which is thrilling.

But even compared with those experiences, the dawn in the city of dense fog is enough to leave a deep memory on him.

An invisible traveler is here waiting with him to witness this otherworldly moment.

"...It's almost time," Mordir suddenly broke the silence, "Is there anything you want to say? I don't have the ability to bring you back, but I can bring your last words to the person you care about."

"...I don't have anyone to worry about. I'm an orphan. I have no parents or siblings. I was rescued from a wild dog by Chief Amber in the sewer alley 20 years ago. She gave me a stutter..." The writing on the wall continued, paused here for a moment, and then continued, "If you have a chance to meet her in the future, tell her, 'Silver Eye' Cloade completed the task very well, as always. "

"I'll remember, I'll tell her the next time I see her—and the information you collected here," Modil said slowly, "These information...is extremely important."

"That's good." The writing on the wall said simply.

Modil exhaled softly, stood up, squinted his eyes and looked at the gradually brightening sky in the depths of the mist in the distance. Day is about to come in the real world. When the light covers the earth, the power of shadow Then retreat temporarily, and the fog will return to where it should be. If his guess is correct, this will also be the last sunrise of this "Prandelle City".

Just like the City of Thousand Towers, Palansanto and Lenghai City that may have completely disappeared.

A bit of chill came from the direction of the inner city. Modil looked back and saw the pitch-black flames rising into the sky, burning the whole city in the thick fog. Looming in the center, between the flames and the mist, there are countless shadow dwellers condensed by the shapeless black mist, shuttling back and forth, and the entire city is being swallowed up by the flames, the scene is thrilling but silent—— Quiet as a dream about to shatter.

The old mage sighed—unfortunately, he couldn't see the last scene.

He must wake up.