Sword of Dawn

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"...We have seen a lot of collectors in Mithril Treasure, but this is the first time we have seen one of your level..." Melita said with strange eyes, but nodded slightly after a while, "Are you Senior customers, Mithril Treasure House will give priority to meeting your needs. Although Mithril Treasure House has no more Eternal Slabs for sale, I can keep an eye out for you—if there is, I will notify you as soon as possible. "

Gao Wen smiled: "That would be great."

The sole purpose of Melita Purnia's coming here seems to be to complete this transaction, and she is obviously very concerned about the large piece of "God's Metal" she just acquired, so she didn't do more in Gawain's Lord's Mansion After staying, after completing the transaction, she left here.

Not long after, Melita Pernia walked into a jewelry store in the prosperous and wealthy Earl of Hossman, which was quite a distance from Cecil Territory.

She went straight to the counter and said to the owner of the jewelry store, "Do you buy jewelry?"

The owner of the jewelry store didn't even raise his eyelids: "Yes, the price is reduced by [-]%."

Melita smiled slightly, flipped her hands, and put a beautiful and gorgeous metal box inlaid with crystals and magic threads on the counter: "Boss, take a look at this, a jewelry box made of pure mithril, inlaid with The best amethyst and ruby, as well as these magic lines, these fine gold patches..."

The "jewelry box" is not big. After opening it, it seems that a palm-sized object can be placed inside it...

Chapter 0353 What the hell, a poem?

Gao Wen, who was in Cecil Territory, didn't know what that Miss My little pony did after she left. Now all his attention is on the Eternal Slate in front of him—or some kind of ancient information storage medium.

Amber looked at the metal plate in Gao Wen's hand curiously with wide eyes, and muttered, "The shape is really different from the last time!"

Then she muttered something else: "But having said that, you exchange such a piece of scrap metal with others for the Eternal Slate... Is this appropriate?"

"The value depends on the needs of people. For us, it is metal scrap, because we have a lot of the same things in our hands. We even have samples of gods in our hands. But for people outside of us-that is An extraordinary creation equivalent to the Eternal Slate." Gao Wen said without changing his face.

Amber curled her lips: "You are better at making nonsense than Pittman."

Gao Wen just smiled and didn't say a word, but he felt that what he said was right - are the gods' flesh and blood precious?Throwing a small piece of that thing to the major churches may make all the sects beat their brains out, but Tyr doesn't think so. Those deep-sea harmony gods can eat dozens of tons of god corpses at a party. nah...

He waved his hand and told Amber to watch from the side: "I want to try to communicate with this eternal slab, and you will watch it by the side."

"Hey, that's fine—by the way, I found that I have to watch over you every now and then," Amber agreed, and then BB got up, "When I think of you crawling out of the grave, every time I Every time there is a feeling of vigil..."

There is never less nonsense every time this guy works.

Gao Wen didn't respond to Amber's thoughts beside him, he had already started to release his spiritual power at this moment, and the eternal stone in his hand produced a familiar resonance the next moment.

Accompanied by the illusion that the slate was slightly heated, Gao Wen felt that his spirit was stripped from his body again, and a super-experiential perception descended on him. In that erratic and indescribable state, he suddenly felt that the Some brief information emerged...

He concentrated on listening to the content of the message, but when the message surfaced, he was only stunned:

"...don't be intoxicated by this illusory and peaceful night...the night will eventually be broken...

"...do not indulge in your warm cradle...the cradle will capsize one day...

"...don't sleep in the sanctuary of the mind... sooner or later the sanctuary of the mind will become an unbreakable shackle...

"Go away, before the stars twinkle, go away, before the long night is over...

"If you don't start sooner, the day will come..."

After the message, which seems like a little poem, there is a long period of background noise and an unbearable sense of spiritual emptiness.

In this state of spiritual detachment without any perception, Gao Wen's thinking was still running, and he felt a burst of shock: Is this the end?

On the second eternal slate, there is only one poem recorded?

What does this poem mean?Who left it?Those Zentraedi star fleets that overwhelmed the gods back then?What did they mean by leaving this poem?

Could it be that the artistic talent of ultra-high-tech aliens is also reflected in it by the way...

Gawain's thoughts diverged endlessly, but he quickly took them back half way through. He knew the truth must not be that simple—the eternal stone slabs are not ordinary storage media, they also carry the secrets of gods, extraordinary power, killing There are a lot of things that can change the course of mankind, such as God's War Report. Among so many incredible information, a small poem suddenly appeared... This cannot be a coincidence.

This poem should have its special meaning, which may imply something.

Gao Wen carefully recalled what he "heard" and "saw". From that poem, he could vaguely think of something.Is this poem to keep people from indulging in a fleeting but peaceful illusion?And between the lines, it hints that something will break this short peace, the cradle will overturn, the night will be broken... If it is associated with the real world, does this refer to the periodic... magic tide?

So the short peace is the interval between the demon tide?What about the cradle?Does it refer to the planet where humans are currently living?

The author of the poem also mentioned shackles and spiritual protection... What does this mean?Mind shelter... Will sleeping in the mind shelter have something to do with the eternal sleeper?

But the person who left this poem should not know the Eternal Sleeper, because the birth of the eternal slate is even older than the history of mankind...

Moreover, the poem also mentions "daylight", what does daylight mean?Is it another artistic term for Mochao?So why is it called daytime?

Gao Wen's thinking was running fast in this state of spiritual detachment, and when each question turned into a guess, he found that he still had no signs of breaking out of this detached state—could it be that the second eternal stone tablet recorded The message is not over yet?

As soon as this idea came up, he suddenly felt other information appeared in his mind, the endless background noise disappeared suddenly, and in the endless darkness, light gradually emerged.

The light formed a picture, and he saw a blue-green planet quietly floating in the boundless starry sky, and at the edge of the picture, there was an arc-shaped atmosphere that made people feel infinite coercion The storm is slowly surging.

After being dull for a few seconds, Gawain realized that what he was seeing was the planet under his feet, and the arc-shaped atmospheric storm at the edge of the screen... was the "sun" orbiting around this planet, the star Gas giant planet!

After realizing this, his first thought was to see clearly what was on the surface of that vibrant blue-green planet—how many continents did it have, how big was the ocean, Loren Continent, An Su, Typhon, where on this planet are they, and where might the Sea-Monster be...

However, he soon discovered that he could not control the perspective in front of him, and he vaguely realized that what he saw was not a real, real-time planetary image, and the information emerging from the depths of his mind told him that it was just a The secondary simulation screen, what is shown on the screen is what this planet once looked like tens of thousands of years or even millions of years ago...

Then he saw that the angle of view moved uncontrollably, and the blue-green planet in the picture gradually zoomed in, and around the planet, shining spots of light and matching text symbols suddenly appeared.

Those are words that are different from any common language in the world at present, but their meanings flowed into Gawain's mind as soon as the words appeared. He saw that the light spots floating around the planet had names one after another:

Radiance No.[-] Station, Radiance No.[-] Station...Zenith Satellite Group...Sky Station...Flyover Base Station...Giant Planet Monitoring Station, First Star Bridge, Second Star Bridge...

These things surfaced one by one, but then, one by one was dyed red, which may indicate a malfunction or offline status.

There were only a few red spots at first, but it quickly magnified in the entire field of vision. In the end, almost all space stations were turned into a fault or offline state, and only the last few bright spots were still flickering alone in space. with brilliance.

At this point, the information stored in the Eternal Slate really came to an end. After a familiar sense of dizziness hit, Gao Wen's spirit quickly broke away from that "detachment" state. After the scene in front of him stabilized, he saw it as expected. Amber's big face plate...

In fact, every time this half-elf comes out like this, Gawain has long gone from habit to numbness, and now he can completely ignore it. He just waved and pulled Amber with ease, and then pulled Amber to the side, and then started a The man frowned and pondered there.

He saw a lot of things and thought of a lot of things from the last picture that appeared, and the things he saw and thought made him feel uneasy for a long time——

Sure enough, there are things in space, there are massive things!

The super civilization that left this world many years ago and sailed far away without any whereabouts, they left a system of monitoring stations and management facilities in the sky above the planet, but as time went by, these monitoring stations and management facilities The facilities have broken down and lost contact one by one, and the monitoring satellite that he was attached to for the first time crossing... should be one of the last remaining operating devices!

Are these devices still in the sky today?Gao Wen thinks that nine out of ten they are still there.

They may just be communication system shutdowns, but there is a high probability that the orbit control system can last longer than the communication system. Perhaps some space facilities have indeed crashed on the earth in the past long years, but the remaining things must be still there. Yes—after all, the ordinary satellite he was attached to still survived, and the larger space facilities with longer service life all crashed for no reason.

But none of those things seem to be observable... No matter if you use magic like Eagle Eye, or use a telescope based on pure optical principles, you can't see any man-made objects in space... Maybe the stealth system of those space facilities even More advanced than the track control system?

Gao Wen frowned and pondered here, and he breathed out after realizing that he had no clue. He raised his head and saw Amber was still standing beside him, he was slightly stunned: "Hey, are you still here?"

"Of course I'm here!" Hu Po pinched her waist, "You pulled me away just now and you just forgot?"

"Ah... I didn't pay attention just now," Gao Wen tapped between his brows, shaking out the remaining dizziness from his mind, then stood up and stretched his arms, "How long have I been 'sleeping'?"

"Half an hour, but it looks like you haven't slept for three days now," Amber curled her lips, "What have you seen—I know it, you can perceive it from some strange places A lot of weird stuff..."

"What are you talking about?" Gawain glanced at the half-elf, "Put this eternal slate away and put it together with the first one. As for what I saw...you can't hear me even if I explain it to you." Understand."

"Tch, cheapskate," Amber murmured, and then muttered while packing up the Eternal Slate, "Speaking of such a precious thing, you can really rest assured that I will clean it up—you won't be afraid that I will steal it and sell it ?”

Gawain was delighted when he heard this: "Okay, if you have the ability, you can find someone who dares to buy it and sell it - I guarantee that if you expose this thing with your forefoot, twenty church knights will come and chop it up You, at that time, I will not protect you."

Amber immediately shrank her neck, as if the twenty church knights had already come to her door: "Hey—you talk so scary!"

Chapter 0354 New Functions of Satellite Elite

After Amber left, Gao Wen quietly thought about the information he heard on the second Eternal Tablet.

He could feel that what the second eternal slate brought to him was not only a poem with deep meaning and a view of the surveillance information suspected of space facilities, it also brought a slight change to his spiritual world, This change is somewhat similar to the feeling he felt after coming into contact with the mysterious crystals left by Gawain Cecil.

Perhaps this frequent contact with "relics" is strengthening a certain information link channel. He feels that his connection with the surveillance satellite in space has become closer, and this does not seem to be an illusion...

After slightly calming down his turbulent mental power, Gao Wen focused his attention and began to call for satellite signals.

A view emerged and spread out out of thin air in his mind. It was a familiar surveillance picture from a space perspective, and the picture was still covered with hazy color blocks (magic power intensity distribution map) like a thermal image. At the top is the recent monitoring report on the activities of giant planets.

Gawain ignored the surveillance reports he had already seen, and began to concentrate on trying to adjust the top view.

Gradually, he felt that the angle of view seemed to "loosen" a little...

In the distant space, in the boundless darkness, on the orbit hidden by the optical masking system, the surface of an extremely ancient space facility on orbit is slightly shining with light.

It is shaped like an inverted flat-topped pyramid, with huge black symbols printed on the gray and metallic shell. Between the overlapping and layered shells of the inverted pyramid, a slight stream of milky white light is slowly moving. It shows that there is still enough energy left in this ancient device, but the flow of light is intermittent - its energy core is obviously in a rather bad state.

And at a certain moment, a slight change suddenly occurred at the end of the inverted pyramid pointing to the earth.

On that small plane, a group of extremely complex optical sensors formed a precise observation array. At that particular moment, its observation array suddenly shook—followed by another.

The optical sensors are trying to adjust their angles, and the mounting base of the observation array is vibrating—if sound can be transmitted here, it must be rattling.This process lasted for a few seconds, and then a stuck mechanical structure seemed to be released suddenly—the sensors became active all of a sudden, and the lenses, large and small, trembled crazily until two seconds later they Only after recalibrating, everything returned to calm.

In these two seconds, Gao Wen's world was spinning.

Facts have proved that the consequences of suddenly cutting a perspective into a dozen and then letting them scan wildly across a range of thousands of kilometers are extremely terrible, and the mental pollution caused by it can even reach the level of a million-year-old man. Even satellites can't handle it...

After everything finally stabilized, Gawain supported the table and regained his footing. He was extremely thankful that he had sent Amber out, otherwise he would have been laughed at by that half-elf for more than half a year for his performance of falling on the ground, and what was worse was her May immediately run to Hetty and Rebecca and say "Your grandpa had a stroke"...

She can really do this kind of thing - even if she knows she will be photographed on the wall by Gawain, she still enjoys it.

After standing still, Gao Wen began to slowly adjust the picture in his mind, and a smile gradually appeared on his face.

In his mind, the overlooked picture that was originally covered with large stains and could not be seen clearly finally became clear—he found a way to turn off the "magic power distribution map filter", and now he can freely and clearly looking at the world!

Although it is still not as clear as he saw in the satellite era, he is quite satisfied - after all, this is an old satellite, and now it has greatly exceeded his expectations to be able to turn off the filter, and the slightly blurred picture is completely acceptable of.

That is mostly caused by the aging of the lens group.

And he also tried to turn on the magic power distribution map again - after a short delay, the magic power distribution map covered with changing color blocks resurfaced in his mind, which made Gawain breathe a sigh of relief.

It is the best that the filter can be switched on and off freely. After all, although the magic power distribution map is not clear, it is an important reliance for early warning of the magic tide. In all fairness, Gao Wen thinks it is even more valuable than the current high-definition picture.

In addition to the magic distribution map that can be opened and closed freely, Gao Wen also found that he can finally move the viewing angle and zoom the screen!

In his mind, the vast land was moving slowly. He saw the mountains in the south of Cecil Territory, the open land on the north bank of the Whitewater River, Kant Territory and Glenn Territory, and the Holy Spirit Plain And the northern lands still covered with ice and snow...

After sweeping around the Ansu Kingdom, Gao Wen began to move his perspective to the south.

His vision returned to Cecil Territory, and he slowly headed south, crossing the dark mountains, the black forest that once devoured tens of thousands of warriors of the Expeditionary Army, and the belt that was once an important grain production area in Gondor. The plain...he saw the Great Wall.

It was a bright arc of light, and one after another huge sentinel towers (shield generators) were supported on each node of the arc, and the energy released by them formed an arc-shaped barrier. This barrier is so It is so huge that even if he pulls his gaze away and looks down from a more distant space angle, he can still see the eye-catching barrier.

But after focusing on the wasteland of Gondor inside the barrier, the smile on Gawain's face gradually disappeared.

Large areas of interference ripples suddenly appeared in the screen, layers of distorted color blocks and constantly shaking pixels almost occupied the entire field of vision, and he could hardly see anything in the wasteland of Gondor!

Gawain could of course guess what it was - it was powerful energy interference, the interference from the residual energy of the demon tide still entrenched in the wasteland!

That interference energy is so powerful?So that Zenith Star Technology's monitoring satellites can't see through the situation inside the interference area?

Gao Wen frowned, and then guessed that maybe the satellite has many different sensors and observation modes, maybe there is one that can deal with this kind of interference, so he immediately started the magic reaction observation-this is currently the only one he has other than high-definition images. Observation mode mastered.

Sure enough, Gao Wen saw something different: it was almost purple-black magic color blocks all over the screen.

This means that the magic power within the observation range is extremely high.

Gao Wen silently turned off the magic reaction mode, thinking that it was useless, not even as useful as the high-definition view.

He didn't turn his "sight" away immediately, but continued to stay within the scope of the Gondor wasteland obsessively. He tried to concentrate and tried to fix the frame by blinking and brain-compensating demosaicing. To make up for the lack of pictures, in the process, he struggled to distinguish some topography in the wasteland of Gondor through those flickering interference lines and misplaced pictures, and compared it with what he remembered.

He felt that he had found the scorching mark of mana, saw the Great Plains of Wasteland, and he also saw some vague images that seemed to be wriggling near the scorching mark of mana... What is that?Could it be a cluster of aberrations that are migrating?

Gawain frowned, trying to track down those squirming images, but soon their images became blurred to the point of being indistinguishable.

While Gawain was trying to find other clusters of aberrations, a very faint flash of light suddenly appeared in the central part of the Gondor wasteland, which caught his attention.

He immediately concentrated all his energy (including the power of blinking to complement the frame and the power of de-mosaicing) to that area, and after waiting patiently for dozens of seconds, he really observed another flash at that position.

Is that lightning in the clouds?Unlike... Although many parts of the Gondor wasteland are covered with thick clouds of radiation, there are currently no clouds in the center of the wasteland and most of the northern part. There is only an environment with an abnormally high concentration of magic energy...

Gawain guessed the possible answer - he knew where it was.

That was the imperial capital of the Gondor Empire, and the Dark Blue Magic Well was also there...

So that is most likely the light from the wreckage of the dark blue magic well!

Gawain was taken aback by his conjecture—after so many years, is there still a part of the dark blue magic well that is still in operation? !Wasn't it completely destroyed by the magic tide? !

But that slightly blue flash is obviously the light that can only be produced by the normal operation of the dark blue magic well!That's the arc that occurs when the reaction tower releases energy!

Gao Wen was agitated by strong curiosity, but it was completely impossible for him to see more things from the surveillance screen—the interference was too serious, and the power of blinking to make up frames and brain to make up mosaics After all, there is a limit.

Feeling the rapid consumption of mental power, Gawain had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​observing more things from the wasteland of Gondor, and tried to stretch his vision to the farthest—he wanted to see if he could observe To places beyond this continent.

After trying hard, the result was as he expected: it couldn't.

He realized that this limitation is probably determined by the position of the satellite and the mechanical structure of the sensor-the observation range of this satellite is really only this continent, unless he can control the satellite's orbit change authority one day (if this If the first satellite has this function), otherwise it is probably impossible to see the situation outside the mainland.

Of course, there is also an idea, that is, satellites that can connect to other regions... But Gao Wen always felt that the chances are better than changing the orbit of the satellite... He can't die on the spot and go back to the sky again, right?

Next, Gao Wen was like a child who got a new toy, and began to toss with enthusiasm the perspective permission he had just unlocked. Although the picture he saw after zooming in was not as clear as before, it was still It made him very happy. He glanced at Saint-Sunil for a while, Aldernan for a while, and occasionally glanced at the direction of the Elven Empire, and in the process tried to guess from the vague mosaics. The real situation below.