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"Okay, that's what you said," Amber waved her hand, and then seemed to think of something again, "By the way, I just thought of one more thing... You said this 'deep world', it is the same as Amon mentioned earlier. Will there be a connection with the 'deep sea' you've arrived at?"

"Actually, I was skeptical at the beginning," Gawain frowned, "but I always feel that the 'deep sea' that Amorn takes so seriously should not be such a simple thing. If the Shadow Realm is the deep sea or the entrance to the deep sea If so... why does Amoen say that since ancient times, no mortal can touch the deep sea, and even the gods are just a ripple in the deep sea?"

Amber thought about it seriously, and felt that Gao Wen's statement was also reasonable. She thought about it for a long time with a serious expression, and finally sighed as if giving up, stretched her limbs and slumped down on the chair without any image: "Hey... It feels like my head is hurting...this is all messed up. Let me tell you, I'm not suitable for thinking about this kind of problem..."

Gao Wen couldn't help but smile and glanced at the shame of the empire - it seemed that this guy had recovered.

Then he turned his gaze back to the Mordir travel book. After two seconds of thinking, he looked at Amber and broke the silence: "Next, it's time to study how to deal with this travel book..."

Amber subconsciously followed Gao Wen's gaze and glanced at the ancient book with a mottled cover. For a moment, she seemed to want to reach out her hand, but before she could do it, she laughed and shook her head: "Still discussing What - of course it is to return the property to the original owner. According to the regulations, it is enough to return the dungeon to the ice duchess after making the copy. Anyway, most of the pages in this book are Mordir's travel notes... In the worst case, you can leave it irrelevant. I will return her after dismantling the content."

Gao Wen glanced at the shame of the empire in surprise: "I thought you would want to keep it."

"...Actually, I really thought about it for a moment," Amber curled her lips and slumped on the chair lazily, "After all, my adoptive father lost his life because of such a poor book, but after thinking about it carefully, ...What does this book have to do with me? It is just a note left by an adventurer who has nothing to do with me after an adventure that has nothing to do with me. It happened to mention my original race ...I have no reason to take other people's things for this."

Gao Wen was even more surprised immediately: "These words don't sound like the words of a person who once swore to be the number one thief in the southern border - that's not what you did when you dug my grave."

When Amber heard this, she waved her hands again and again: "Don't mention it, don't mention it, I was seized with stolen goods every time I dug a grave. My last career was over at that time, okay..."

Gao Wen: "..."

After two seconds of calm thinking, he glanced at the Guardian's Shield and Pioneer's Sword not far away: "Have you considered the possibility of being beaten up by the stolen goods?"

In the next second, Hu Po's figure disappeared into the study in an instant.

Outside, sunny.

Autumn is approaching, the bright sunshine is less dry and hot, and the air is more pleasant than before.

Amber walked on the street leading to the bustling area, gradually getting rid of the effect of shadow invisibility, the hazy black veil-like curtain faded from all directions, and she let the bright sunlight wantonly pour on her face.

It also feels good to walk in the sun.

She raised her head and looked at the brilliant sun disk hanging high in the sky, a smile slowly appeared on her face.

Gao Wen withdrew his gaze from the window and left the large French windows facing the eastern block.

After thinking quietly for a moment, he shook his head, returned to the desk, first took out a pen and paper, and wrote a letter to be transmitted to the northern border of Cold Winter Castle, and then his eyes fell on the book " On Mordir's Travels.

Mordir Wilder, perhaps the greatest adventurer in Anzu's history, has traveled all over the world known to man, and even set foot in areas unknown to man. He left behind countless valuable knowledge wealth, However, the turbulent current situation caused many things left by him to disappear in the long river of history.

For example, few people know that Mordir Wilde also challenged the sea...

Gao Wen picked up the travel note, opened it again, and found the part that he was reading before Amber came and hadn't finished it yet.

In addition to the adventures about the world of shadows, there is another part of this travel book that he is extremely concerned about—about the mysterious "cold disaster talisman" that has been passed down from generation to generation in the Wilder family.

Those ancient and neat handwritten characters came into Gao Wen's eyes:

"On X, X, while sorting out some folklore in the eastern region, I found some interesting clues, which may become the start of my next adventure...

"There is evidence that, some 100 years ago, the great pioneering hero, Grand Duke Gawain Cecil, left his domains on an 'adventure' that would have amazed even an adventurer like myself—challenging ocean.

"About this secret voyage, not many people know about it, and most of the stories that have been handed down are specious and weird, but I still found clues that can be confirmed by many trivial materials, and with the intuition and intuition of an adventurer Experience, I think this is not a simple heroic story compiled by bards, it should be an adventure that actually happened.

"This excites me!

"Think about it, a hero a hundred years ago, a person who was not a professional adventurer, bravely challenged the sea and came back alive, but I call myself the greatest adventurer of this era, but I spent half my life on safe land Going round and round... what a irony, and what a motivator!

"I really should start a new adventure - collect more information, find more clues, and make sufficient preparations. Mordir Wilde will undertake the most thrilling challenge since his adventure career...

"Go find Gawain Cecil's 'Hero's Route'!"

Chapter 0901 Mordir's Voyage

Gao Wen's eyes moved back and forth on the page several times before he finally suppressed the urge to complain in his mind.

The Grand Duke Wilde 600 years ago was actually a fan of Gawain Cecil... This made Gawain, who now bears the identity of Gawain Cecil, feel a sense of embarrassment for no reason.

Then he continued to look down, watching how the ancient noble who took the role of "explorer" described his series of preparations for this adventure——

"... having made up my mind, I set out to build a ship large enough to handle the perils--not easy, as we all know, since the disciples of those storms suddenly went mad and stole or scuttled all ships and fled After going to the sea, the human world has not conducted a decent "navigation" for nearly a century. There is no navigator who can challenge the ocean, and no one knows how to build a ship...

"I went to ask a dwarf friend I met in the early years. It is said that the dwarf kingdom still has some technology that can sail in safer seas. At least they know how to build ships. My friend can help find ship-building craftsmen. I also know two sea elves - they are not interested in land affairs, but they are interested in my magic gems, and for a few gems, they promise to be my navigator...

"While this magnificent (and likely to take a long time) shipbuilding project was in progress, I also found time to make a trip to the South - to visit the current Grand Duke Cecil. With a glimmer of hope, I wanted to see Cecil Does the family still have the record of Duke Gawain's voyage, but I am also prepared to return empty-handed, because it is obvious that Gawain Cecil 100 years ago did not want too many people to know about his adventures , otherwise he didn't need to erase those clues...

"As it turned out, my guess was correct - the descendants of the Cecil family knew nothing about their great-grandfather's voyage a century ago, and the Grand Duke Cecil heard about my voyage plans and about 'Gauvin Seymour'. Searle's 'mysterious voyage' information also showed some concern, obviously he thought it was just a folk tale without evidence, and thought I was joking about my safety... But our exchange was still pleasant, Se The Searle family is a respectable family, there is no doubt about it, and after finding out that I was determined, they chose to give me their blessing.

"After visiting the tomb of Gawain Cecil and offering homage and mulled wine, I returned to the preparations for my own adventure..."

Gawain quickly skipped over this part and the following large sections of records about shipbuilding and recruiting sailors. His eyes scanned the neat handwritten words line by line, and a period of Mordir Wilde's life experience passed quickly. The movies played quickly flew through his mind-until the day of Mordir's sailing, his reading speed slowed down all of a sudden.

This is the part he cares about the most.

On the pages of the centuries, it is recorded what Mordir Wilde experienced after entering the sea:

"...On X, X, after long preparations and meticulous planning, the 'Adventurer' finally set off on a sunny summer day. We set off from the coast of the East, and according to the sea elf navigator's suggestion, first Sailing south along the coastline for a short period, and then heading east, this can avoid entering the storm area as much as possible-although I am very confident in the protective magic and magic power perception system I personally designed, but considering that the sailors cannot risking my life, I decided to follow the navigator's advice as best I could...

"X, X, a day worth recording!

"Not long after we started to adjust our course to the east, we witnessed a 'disordered turbulence' from a distance, and a wall of storm clouds almost connected to the sky rose into the sky, instantly causing terrifying huge waves on the entire sea surface. Between the storm and the huge waves is a network of dense energy lightning, each flash contains a power that makes a powerful magician like me frightened, and the entire cloud wall is moving in a seemingly slow but inescapable way. Moving at a speed, I've never seen anything like it in my life!

"Part of the sailors freaked out and started kneeling on the deck and praying to their gods, but soon the first mate managed to restore order - the first mate was a trustworthy ex-officer and I'm glad I got him on board Ship. It didn’t take long for the sea elf who was the navigator to announce the safety of the road ahead. The expedition ship was at a relatively safe distance, and the terrible storm was moving away from us...

"The crew calmed down, and I had the opportunity to observe the storm from such a perfect distance that it was necessary for me to take note of its characteristics.

"The chaotic turbulence is not a simple huge wave or a tsunami, nor a simple energy storm, but a complex system formed by the mixture of the two. After observation, I think that the cloud wall that connects the sky and continuously releases energy and lightning should be The 'pillar' and 'power' of the entire system. Its energy fluctuations caused the water-rich atmosphere above the sea to resonate. At the same time, I also sensed that its bottom was connected with the entire water body, as if the 'ocean' The highly enriched elemental carrier acts like a 'polar focus' in the magic circle, giving the energy turbulence in the atmosphere a vent to create such a terrifying cloud wall...

"Maybe that's why there's this horrible disordered turbulence in the ocean, but not on land?

"In addition, the top of the cloud wall can be seen with the naked eye that the cloud layer will be torn and floating lights will surge. Over the area where the storm is more intense, you can also observe a luminous phenomenon that is different from the energy flash in the cloud wall. Like a piece of connected 'curtain', it will slowly change as the cloud wall moves... They seem to be located at a very high place, and the scale may be larger than imagined...

"In some magical works handed down from ancient times, the scholars of Gondor divided the atmosphere into several layers such as the static boundary layer of magic power, the turbulent layer, and the steady-state limit layer. When I saw the scene on the top of the cloud wall, I couldn't help but I have some associations... The chaotic turbulence in the sea is so strong that it has surpassed human beings' understanding of the magic environment, so could it be some kind of 'leakage' from a higher atmosphere? It is possible It is the magic power of the turbulent layer that breaks through the protection formed by the near-earth magnetic field, which creates such a terrible phenomenon in the static boundary layer... This is a phenomenon worth recording and studying.

"The sea is full of secrets and dangers.

"Thankfully, the sensing device I designed worked very well - the light beam in the crystal ball was accurately pointed at the storm in the distance, which proved that it can easily sense the existence of disordered turbulence at a long distance , which will help the expedition ship to avoid those stormy seas ahead of time..."

While reading these precious words, Gao Wen frowned and thought from time to time, or nodded slightly. He even took a piece of draft paper from the side, and wrote on it what he thought of at any time.

Undoubtedly, "Modir's Travels" is a treasure trove. Its most precious content is not those horrifying and bizarre adventure stories, but the experience, knowledge and knowledge recorded by Mordir Wilde during his adventures! !

In the chapter "Sailing", Mordir Wild's records and conjectures on disordered turbulence are such significant things.Now that the first phase of the Beigang project has been successfully completed, Byron is working hard for the next step of exploring the ocean. The knowledge left by Modil will undoubtedly be of great help to the technicians there, and the significance of this knowledge And that's not all -

Modill also wrote about his conjectures about the causes of disordered turbulence and his understanding of the layered structure of the atmosphere, accompanied by valuable first observations, which were even more important to Gawain and Kamel et al. Help them decipher the mysteries of the entire planet!

Gao Wen carefully studied this travel note like a serious student, understanding and analyzing every piece of experience and knowledge in it as a source of knowledge, and the adventure of Mordir Wilde continued to move forward in the flow of words. Pushing on—like almost all adventurers, after an initial smooth voyage, he finally began to run into real trouble.

After entering the far sea, the mysterious ocean showed Mordill and his crew the real danger——

"On X, X, a terrible storm hit us.

"The sensing device played a role. For a short time before the storm quickly formed, it began to frantically warn and try to point out the direction of danger. However, this time the storm was brewing above our heads-on the expedition ship. Directly above, the atmosphere was torn apart, high-energy reactions fell from the sky, and the entire sea area quickly entered a state of charging. We were surrounded by growing 'cloud walls' in all directions, and the speed was astonishingly fast.

"When I realized what the chaotic response of the induction device meant, it was too late—the first officer tried to direct the sailors to speed up the ship, hoping to rush out of the 'charging' area before the cloud wall closed, but Huge lightning quickly struck the energy shield above our heads. In the next few hours, the "Adventurer" seemed to be put into a manic magic cauldron, and the entire ocean boiled. And try to kill the poor creatures in this little ship.

"The sailors didn't pray to the gods in despair this time—they didn't have the time to spare. In short, the chief officer organized as many people as possible to maintain the stability of the ship and the operation of the magic system, and I tried my best to ensure the shield Don't be struck by the lightning in the turbulence, everything is like a nightmare...

"Of course, since I can leave this note, it means at least one thing: at least I am still alive.

"Yes, that's how this storm ended—I survived, all alone.

"And now I'm left on a vast ocean with only a few battered sampans and a few barrels that are starting to fill up with water, and the 'Adventurer' has disappeared, and at the last moment I saw it with my own eyes. Swallowed by the waves, my crew is of course not immune - the two sea elf navigators may survive, they can dive to the bottom of the sea for refuge, but now it is obviously impossible for me to join them... In the wind and waves, God knows I How far it has drifted.

"Guilty is entangled, and now I have to bear the heavy pressure brought by dozens of dead souls. Although everyone signed a life-and-death contract before departure, I definitely did not bring them here to die...

"It's just that it's useless to say anything now. I think I must find a way to survive, otherwise who will appease and compensate the families of those crew members? The responsibility of the nobles does not allow me to escape in this situation...

"I collected those floating logs and vats with magic, and barely fashioned them into a crappy boat, no nails, no ropes, and this humble shelter was completely connected by magic. The problem of fresh water It can also be solved with ice spells, food... I hope the fish in the far sea will not be too hard to swallow.

"As a powerful magician, if you don't encounter 'disordered turbulence', surviving on this ocean itself is not a difficult problem. The real problem is...how to get back on the correct route, and how to move quickly and efficiently Own.

"After all, even a legendary powerhouse can't use the flying technique to fly all the way from the far sea back to the mainland, but rely on the power of creating wind and waves to propel this small boat...God knows how long it will take me to see the land.

"Maybe I'll be buried in the next turbulence before then...

"On X, X...Through the skills in the field of astrology, I finally succeeded in confirming my approximate bearing and current course. Now I am located in the north of the original route, and I am still drifting towards the northwest, which means that I am getting farther and farther away from the original goal, and at the same time, I am not on the correct direction to return to the mainland...

"In this direction, I haven't encountered those legendary 'sea monsters', nor have I encountered those Storm Cultists who fled away a century ago and are hiding somewhere in the ocean.

"To be honest, right now I'd rather meet those dangerous Dark Cultists...

"Getting back on track was very difficult as I found out that astrology didn't work so well on the ocean - the magical environment here interfered with my observation of the stars and I lacked a more accurate 'horoscope' As a reference. I did my best to confirm my bearings, calibrated the direction, and sailed in the direction of returning to the mainland, but I knew very well in my heart-I was completely lost.

"This vast and endless sea will swallow me.

"But I will still try.

"On X, X... there was almost no change in the field of vision. The only good news is that I am still alive, and I have not been swallowed by the 'turbulence of disorder' - in such a long time, I encountered the turbulence of disorder three times, but each I passed by a safe distance very thrillingly once, and looked at those cloud walls and energy storms from a safe distance. I really doubt whether this is a kind of luck or a curse...

"But in any case, I will keep a detailed record of everything I observe - there is nothing else to do right now anyway.

"...On X, X, still wandering, no continents or islands appeared, but I suspected that I might still be drifting north, because... I began to feel that the surroundings were getting colder and colder.

"On X, X, a floating iceberg appeared in my field of vision. I am near the northern part of the mainland? Is it near the Principality of Shenglong? This is the most optimistic possibility I can think of. I have been sailing west these days, and It may be in the northwest direction, the only thing you can count on in this direction is the icy coastline in the north of the mainland... I hope my good luck still has some left...

"On X, X, I don't know how to write today's record, I... As an adventurer, well, even a bad adventurer, I never thought of myself...

"Well, anyway, I saw a dragon.

"A giant blue dragon flits across the sky in the distance, it's so real..."

Chapter 0902 Journey to the Extreme North

dragon! !

Gawain's eyes froze instantly, and his eyes stayed on the string of hard-written subtitles for a long time, as if he could see the intense turmoil in Mordir Wilde's heart when he left these letters through the slight trembling at the edge of the handwriting Feelings.

Then he raised his head and looked at the map hanging not far from the desk - on the map, the panorama of Loren Continent has been accurately marked, but the vast ocean outside Loren Continent and the possible new continent However, it is outside his satellite monitoring perspective, so there are only symbolic outlines and approximate directions:

In the depths of the endless ocean in the southwest of Loren Continent is the "Tower of Reaching the Sky" in the ancient legend of the elves. The existence of this tower has been confirmed through the ground scan of the "Sky Station";

To the southeast of Loren Continent, on the opposite side of the unknown ocean, is the "new continent" discovered by an ocean-going team led by Gawain Cecil 700 years ago. Part of the coastline of this continent has also been confirmed through the Sky Station;

In the far east of the Loren Continent, on the opposite side of the storm and ocean currents, is the "Io Continent" ruled by the Krakens, and their capital "Antaveen".

In the northern part of the Loren Continent, after crossing the sea-entry peninsula of the Principality of the Holy Dragon, there is the Eternal Storm that has been observed by human beings, and on the opposite side of the Eternal Storm is the Kingdom of Dragons that only exists in indirect data: Tarlon Germany.

The dragon kingdom is located in the extreme north, maybe even near the North Pole, and there are likely to be a large number of icebergs floating on the sea around it, which is in line with the details mentioned in Mordir Wilde's notes...

"He crossed the Eternal Storm by accident... and drifted near Tarrond..." Gawain couldn't help but muttered to himself, "Is this luck or misfortune..."

While muttering, he lowered his head and refocused on Mordir Wild's incredible adventure:

"...In the next short period of time, I was in a state of high tension and mixed emotions such as surprise and excitement. It was a dragon! A real dragon! I suspected at first that it was the long-term loneliness and Drifting caused my nervousness to produce hallucinations, but soon I realized that everything I saw was real, and the dragon even hovered in the sky for a while...

"I watched the dragon nervously, not knowing what it would do to me as an 'uninvited guest', I was sure the dragon had noticed me - like I could see him. But for some reason, the dragon just Hovered in the sky for a while, then flew away straight to a further distance...

"The other party didn't seem to notice this side... Or did they just regard the pile of broken wooden boards I was living on as some kind of garbage floating on the sea? I don't know what mood I should be in now. On the one hand, I am worried about the other side. Long really turned back suddenly to trouble me. With my current state, I am afraid there is no possibility of surviving. On the other hand, I hope that the other party can come to me... This may be my only hope to get out of the current predicament. If the dragon is friendly enough...

"I passed a chilly night...or rather a long evening in apprehension.

"After crossing a certain boundary, the sun in the sky never falls below the sea level. It always rises and falls within a certain height range, and repeats in the order of 'morning-noon-dusk-and morning'. Everything is just like in ancient times According to the calculations of scholars, our planet is orbiting the sun at an angle, and the existence of this angle leads to the phenomenon of long days or long nights at the extreme south and extreme north of the planet... I think I have harvested another very important observation record, but no one knows if I will have the opportunity to bring this precious knowledge back to the human world...

"On X, X... On the third day after witnessing the giant dragon, I saw a... storm wall of unparalleled scale on the distant sea.

"At first I thought it was a 'charged cloud wall' of disordered turbulent flow, and I was very nervous for a while, but soon I found that it did not contain that kind of violent and out-of-control magic power, and there was no weird magic power on the top of the cloud wall. The phenomenon of luminescence, and there is no sign of movement as a whole, but its scale is much larger than the cloud wall of disordered turbulence... The cloud wall connecting the sky and the sea stretches across the entire sea, like a real "peerless barrier". At the foot of the cloud wall, countless large and small eddies rolled up on the sea surface, and the wind and waves were so high that it was hopeless... I think I know what it is.

"That's part of the 'Eternal Storm'! On the highest mountain in the north, you can use the Mage's Eye or other observation devices to see its aftermath projected in the sky, and you can even directly see it on the peninsula of the Holy Dragon Principality Its edge, and I am now in a sea area that has never been reached by humans, observing the storm closely...

"Damn it, I made a big circle and drifted to the opposite side of the Eternal Storm!!

"The mainland is right there, and the coastline of the Holy Dragon Principality or the Violet Kingdom is on the opposite side of that cloud wall. Goddess of magic, fate really played a big joke on me... Now I can finally determine the direction of the mainland , can also determine the route home - by the way, it is determined that this is a dead end.

"I seriously considered the possibility of going back to the mainland through that storm, and then I laughed at my naivety and audacity, and then I started to think about whether I could go around that big and amazing cyclone... I laughed at myself again once.

"But after laughing, I think my second plan might work... It is indeed possible to show the courage and tenacity of human beings. Think about it, I have drifted so far, Starting from the eastern part of the mainland, I have made such a big circle on the sea all the way to the opposite side of the eternal storm, so why can't I make another half circle to the other side of it? Although my current state is indeed much worse than before , the boat turned into a pile of broken wood...but it is better to be brave enough to challenge than to be trapped in this boundless ocean..."

After reading this, Gao Wen couldn't help raising his eyebrows.

When he saw the first half of the notes, he felt that Mordir was too reckless when he was young (in fact, he seemed to be similar when he was old), but now he couldn't help admiring the other party's courage and tenacity.Drifting alone on the sea for several months, even drifting all the way to the North Pole, and finally able to muster the courage and fighting spirit to try to bypass the "celestial miracle" like the eternal storm, this kind of determination is by no means possessed by ordinary people.

"It has inherited the stubborn temper of the first generation of pioneers..." He couldn't help sighing softly, then smiled, and continued to look down——

"On X, X, I have to record what happened today, I... I don't know how to express my feelings again.

"Earlier today, I embarked on that brave 'detour plan'. After a period of meditation and rest, I felt that my magic power was enough to drive this pile of broken logs around the relative safety of the sea on the edge of the eternal storm. Okay, so I did, and I got close to the cloud wall without a hitch, and then... damn it, then the blue dragon appeared again!

"If anyone reads later, you will never imagine what the blue dragon did - she (I now know she is a lady) swooped down from the sky, straight towards me and my 'battleship', Looking very anxious, I heard a deafening voice shouting in my ear, 'Don't be overthinking', and then the terrible giant claws grabbed the poor hull of the 'New Adventurer' at once, and she seemed to be She wanted to arrest me with the boat, but she certainly didn't expect that the 'New Adventurer' was loose from top to bottom, and some kind of magic attached to the dragon's claws broke the magic cycle between the wood, and The gigantic strength of the giant dragon directly crushed everything... What happened later was very consistent with the laws of magic and matter.

"I finally lost even the pile of 'broken logs', which were so thoroughly crumbled and swallowed up by the waves almost immediately.

"To make matters worse, I was hung on the claws of this blue dragon who didn't know what was going on in his head... The only good news is that I am still alive, and my notebook is still on me...