Sword of Dawn

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She didn't know how she knew all this, but she just knew it, as if all this was what she should know.

But now, she has gradually reached the deepest part of this historical track—that endless whirling vortex that seems to have an end, and she can see that the chaotically rotating light and shadow are gradually becoming sparse and "smooth". Said that this is a very deep pool, so now she is probably about to hit the bottom.

Amber's mood gradually became tense. She didn't know what kind of scene she would see at the "bottom of history". She knew that it must be the most important moment in the whole vortex, and it might even be the forgotten history of this world. In the most crucial part of the movie, she was expecting, curious, but involuntarily felt a little fear...a fear for no reason.

In the next second, an ancient starry sky suddenly appeared in the phantom that flew past her eyes. Under the stars, it was the earth in flames of war, and among the bright stars, it was the time when countless huge objects suddenly entered the physical universe The erupting flashes, the weird flashes are continuous, and in each flash, a huge shadow outlined by a huge spaceship or something else can be seen in the field of vision.

It was a ship, a huge, majestic, ancient and magnificent ship.

Amber suddenly realized: she saw the Voyager Fleet.

She saw the moment when the Voyager Fleet landed on this planet.

However, in the next second, this phantom quickly passed her sight.

Amber was stunned for a moment, not aware of anything wrong for a while, but then she realized that she was still falling into the depths of this "historical vortex", and she hadn't really "bottomed out" yet. She is going to a time point that is older and more unknown than when the sailor came to this planet! !

She also thought that the starting point of this historical memory would be the arrival of the sailor—in her inertial impression, there should be no event older than the arrival of the sailor among all the "event lines" in this world that have continued to this day. The event was right, but now she suddenly found that... she was going to a time earlier than this ancient event!

The next second, the swirling vortexes in her eyes suddenly stopped, and the last crack of light and shadow passed her line of sight.

Only then did she finally hit bottom—it happened one day before the Voyagers landed on this planet.

There was darkness in the field of vision, and there was no comprehensible picture recorded in the gap of light and shadow. Amber only felt that she was immersed in a chaotic void, and in the depths of this void, countless noisy voices gradually emerged.

She heard roars, frantic murmurs, the howling of something powerful beyond human comprehension when it was on the verge of madness, prayers and supplications, and the loud noise of some huge things collapsing and tearing.

Amidst this chaotic sound, a clear and rational voice suddenly reached her ear: "...It's irreparable..."

Amber stared her eyes wide. In the darkness, she seemed to see many huge and stalwart figures standing in front of her. Her own figure seemed to be as tall and stalwart as these figures. These ancient great beings were talking to her, and it seemed each talking to himself—

"Irreversible..."

"...on the verge of losing control...maliciousness has filled the whole..."

"This is our first conversation, and I'm afraid it will be the last..."

"Accept it, accept this ending..."

"At least they can survive... This is probably the last thing we can do for this world."

"What about that young polar civilization, they sealed everything..."

"They have their own destiny."

The soliloquies that filled the surroundings suddenly stopped, and Amber looked around blankly until...she heard "herself" speaking.

"...Let's send out the signal, to announce our existence to them."

Chapter 1466 Answers

This was the last sound Amber heard in the "bottom of the vortex".

Now, this vortex formed by overlapping and distorting countless lights and shadows has completely solidified around her, and chaotic darkness covers everything in sight outside the vortex. She has bottomed out in this historical memory, and in this At the bottom of the vortex was a layer of vague but insurmountable obstacles. She tried to move deeper into the vortex, trying to see what was behind that vague obstacle——

That should be a point in time older than the bottom of the vortex, and it should be what happened before those huge ancient beings had their last conversation. She tried her best to stick to the foggy but insurmountable barrier. , felt that she seemed to vaguely see some interlaced, off-white light and shadows, but when she blinked again, she found that there was only darkness in front of her eyes.

At this moment, a huge attraction suddenly came from behind.

"Oh..." Amber only had time to let out an exclamation, and felt that her whole body was being forcibly pulled away from the vortex by that huge attraction. At the same time, she also felt the influence of the vortex itself on her. Repulsion, everything she saw in her eyes gradually blurred in the rapid movement, and gradually returned to darkness in the blur. This process may last for several hours, or it may only be an instant.

Amber found that her perception of the passage of time had been severely torn at some point, as if she had lived through years longer than the civilized narratives, so that she could no longer accurately judge the differences in these "short times", However, before she could experience this weird feeling carefully, it was quickly stripped from her soul, and she regained her normal perception of time, and felt again... the sunshine of the real world shining on her body.

She opened her eyes suddenly, and saw that she was standing in a room covered with blue velvet carpet, and Gawain was sitting at the desk, with a pen in his hand, preparing to fill in the last line on the paper.

She felt that she had been fluctuating in a certain vision for a whole day, but in the real world it only passed for a moment, and this moment was so short that ordinary people could not detect it at all.Amber blinked, the experience of ups and downs in the vision created a certain sense of tearing with the seemingly uninterrupted reality in front of her, which made her a little uncomfortable for a while.

But at this moment, Gao Wen, who should have been unaware of the moment just now, suddenly raised his head. He stopped what he was doing, and his eyes fixed on Amber.

Before Amber could speak, he broke the silence: "What happened just now?"

Noticing the strange expression on Amber's face, as if she was dazed and didn't know how to speak, Gao Wen immediately added: "I just felt your breath... There was a very, very short fluctuation, as if it suddenly disappeared. The duration It's less than a hundredth of a second, but I'm sure I didn't feel wrong, looking at your expression now... did something happen?"

Recently, Amber has always been haunted by abnormal phenomena, and Gao Wen has always been very concerned about it. Therefore, even if he only notices a little abnormality, he will immediately notice and confirm the other party's state. Now it seems... the abnormal phenomenon Sure enough, it appeared again.

"I just now... I just looked at the patterns you drew, and I suddenly seemed to be 'sent' to a certain place," Amber was relieved at this time. Although the strange tearing feeling in her heart was still there, The conversation with Gao Wen quickly brought her mind back to the "real world", which made her condition improve rapidly, and her speech became fluent, "I feel like I have fallen into a vortex of light and shadow, and in that vortex are all In the ancient historical moment, I kept falling in it..."

Amber began to describe in detail the abnormal experience he had just now, and Gao Wen became serious. He listened intently, and at the same time flipped the pattern that was about to be finished upside down on the table.

His expression gradually became solemn, and his brows were furrowed a little bit. When he heard Amber mentioning the huge starship that fell in the sea, he wanted to interrupt the other party's narration, but in the end he kept quiet, Let Amber tell everything she saw in the vortex in one breath.

"Then I was pulled back... It's not accurate to say that I was pulled back. I felt two forces, one force was pulling me back to the real world, and the other force was from the vortex, which was pulling me back to the real world. I'll 'push' it out," Amber said with dry mouth, picked up the water glass on Gao Wen's table and drank half of it, "Actually, I originally planned to stay in the 'bottom' to observe carefully, I had a vague feeling that I should be able to see what was on the other side of that barrier, but I was interrupted at a point..."

"Being interrupted is not necessarily a bad thing. If your mind really sinks into the deepest place, it may be dangerous," Gao Wen said very solemnly, his eyes fixed on Amber's eyes, and he sank after thinking for a moment. The sound continued, "So...you saw the scene of the voyager landing on this planet, and even saw a certain moment before the voyager's arrival."

Amber nodded immediately: "It should be right, and those huge creatures talking around me... I suspect they are the ancient gods at that time!"

Gao Wen nodded slowly, his expression was tense, but his heart was already full of turmoil.

If what Amber has seen is what actually happened, if the information revealed in the conversations she heard is as he guessed, if his judgment is not wrong... Then now, a completely subversive truth It fell right in front of his eyes!

His understanding and conjectures about the sailors and the ancient gods over the past years will be greatly impacted by this truth, and his cognition in this aspect will definitely undergo a huge revision. History...is not what he imagined!

Before the sailors landed on this planet, the ancient gods of Loren, who were on the verge of madness, had a short conversation. They somehow broke through the barrier of rules that could not communicate between gods, and made a decision in that conversation. In order to make a decision that could affect the fate of the entire world, they... released a "signal" to the outside world, "declaring their existence" to a certain group of beings.

Who did they send the signal to?Who did they expose their coordinates to?The answer is probably very obvious... At the bottom of that historical vortex, Amber has witnessed the fate chosen by the ancient gods.

For a long time, Gao Wen thought that the voyager passed by this planet by chance, and happened to encounter the gods on this planet who had entered the final stage of madness. It happened that all the ancient gods could not be saved, so he had to destroy the entire ancient god system and He has always thought that it was all a coincidence that he took away the other races on this planet except the giant dragon, but now it seems... there are so many coincidences in this world.

The sailors were summoned by the ancient gods themselves!It was a... mass suicide.

Amber watched Gao Wen's face change drastically. Of course, she could guess what the other party was thinking. In fact, after she figured out the clues, she also felt the same turmoil in her heart. She couldn't help saying: "You said... If I What I heard is true, does it mean that the gods of Loren more than 180 million years ago took the initiative to send out some kind of 'call'? They called the sailor fleet?"

"That may have been their last choice at the time—the end of the world was inevitable, and divine disasters were beyond the control of the gods themselves. In their last waking hours, all they could do was to commit suicide to save the last survivors of that season's civilization. After all, they were on the verge of Crazy gods cannot be saved, but mortals can still be saved..." Gao Wen's voice was low, and he slowly said the conclusion he had deduced, but if he said it was a conjecture, it might have been the truth back then, "And as a planet The most powerful existence in the world, it is difficult for them to commit suicide, so the only choice is the sailor."

"But how did they know about the voyager?" Amber's eyes widened. "How did they know that the voyager would definitely come over after receiving the signal? Loren must have never been in contact with the voyager fleet at that time... ..."

"I don't know, maybe the Voyager Fleet was nearby at that time, and the Loren civilization at that time had developed to a height where deep space observations could be made, maybe the Voyager Fleet would make some kind of broadcast on its own course, and The ancient gods of Loren received this information." Gawain shook his head, "There are as many guesses as there are baseless guesses. The gods live in the deep sea, and in the deep sea, the information of the entire universe is reflected in some form. The gods Although he is trapped in the trend of thought, he can also know some things that mortals cannot know through the reflection in the deep sea, and the Voyager Fleet...the fleet that can kill the gods, the 'projection' in the deep sea may be enough It has spread to dozens of planets, but now they are far away from this universe, and we have no way of verifying this."

Speaking of this, he paused, and then continued: "These are not important, what is important is the part that already has evidence... The fact that the ancient gods of Loren summoned the Voyager Fleet is too shocking. If this is the case...then I am afraid that many of my guesses about ancient history will have to be adjusted, especially the attitude of the sailors towards the ancient gods of Loren..."

He frowned, constantly overturning and reshaping everything in his impression.

It is true that the voyagers killed the ancient gods of Loren, but their attitude was not out of hatred. The ancient gods should have been in the last stage of their sobriety when they summoned the voyagers. When the voyagers came At that time, the gods were obviously completely insane... The gods are not completely unable to communicate with each other, there is a way to break through this barrier, and the ancient gods of Loren used this method to complete the conspiracy of their own destiny ...

In this series of information, the most critical point is: the sailor has no real hostility towards the gods of Loren back then!The seemingly cold and ruthless "hunting battle" recorded in the brief battle report was actually a transaction in essence!

Gawain glanced at the upside-down paper on the table, he thought of the "star map keeper" recorded in the sky station, and thought of a speculation he had made these days...

If the relationship between the voyager and the gods of Loren is really as he understands at the moment, then this speculation can finally be established.

Amber on the side also fell into deep thought at this time, and after thinking about it, she suddenly muttered: "Such an important historical truth...the dragons of Tarrond don't even know about it, not even Ms. Enya? They It seems that I always thought that the sailor came suddenly..."

"It's normal for Ms. Enya not to know the truth about the arrival of the sailor, because long before the arrival of the sailor, Tarrond entered a state of being closed to the outside world and a closed-loop of faith. In order to prevent their gods from falling into Out of control, they 'encapsulated' their gods through conscious ideological guidance, this is a kind of all-round shielding," Gawain analyzed while thinking, "And there is another point, the dragon civilization of Tarrond... "

He looked up and looked into Amber's eyes.

"Don't forget the words you heard at the bottom of the vortex. Although the Dragon Kingdom is the oldest civilization on our planet, they were still a 'young polar civilization' when the Voyagers came. At that time, Tallond might just be a closed and backward iceland tribe in front of the Loren ancestors..."

Amber nodded slowly: "That's true... I'm just out of habit. I think that such a powerful Tarrond civilization should have been very powerful in ancient times, but I forgot that dragons also developed little by little from primitive society. of."

While speaking, she also frowned, with a serious and slightly nervous look on her face: "The key now is, what are those 'records' I saw... What happened, and who left them? Why are they left behind? And more importantly...why am I seeing these things?"

Her eyes fell on the piece of paper that Gawain put on the table: "...everything happened after I saw these patterns..."

Gao Wen casually took the piece of paper away: "If you know this thing is weird, then you should still read it."

While speaking, he shook his head again. Many clues have been connected in his mind, and the conclusion is actually very obvious, but Amber, the "man in the game", obviously hasn't turned the corner for a while.

"These patterns come from the 'anchor point generator' in the firmament station, and are closely connected with the mysterious 'star map keeper'," he said slowly, letting the many clues in his mind connect with each other, "the star map keeper assumes With some kind of mission of observation and waiting, it is his duty to record important historical nodes on this planet, and this "star map keeper" seems not to be the sailor, but a person who was "recruited" or "transformed" by the sailor. exist;

"The initial historical fragment you saw in the 'bottom of the vortex' happened before the arrival of the sailor, which shows that the individual who left this historical record once lived in that era;

"Your perspective at that time was standing among a group of huge figures that seemed to be ancient gods, and the person you belonged to had spoken, so this individual... should be one of Loren's ancient gods;

"Among the ancient gods who have disappeared in ancient times, there is only one existence that is the most special. He survived that ancient hunt and has been hidden from the sight of all beings. He controls the power of shadows and stands in the sky. The hall where the 'Anchor Point Generator' is stored in is also filled with shadow power..."

Gawain stopped and looked into Amber's eyes quietly: "In this way, you will have a proper connection with all of this."

Amber also slowly connected all the clues at this time, turning thousands of words into an exclamation: "...Mom."

"Remember the last scene you saw when you tried to look through the 'barrier' at the bottom of the vortex?" Gawain breathed a sigh of relief, "You saw a gray-white interlaced light and shadow."

Chapter 1467 The "Source" of Amber

The study room fell silent, and Amber was a little silent for a while—she had already fully understood Gawain's speculation, and had to admit that this was probably the only possible answer.

It's just that as a "participant" in this vortex, she still needs a little time to calm herself down.

After a few minutes like this, she suddenly raised her head and looked into Gawain's eyes: "When did you think of this?"

"Actually... I had a vague feeling when Nicholas and the others discovered that hall of shadows," Gawain thought for a while, and confessed frankly, "At first I thought of you from the shadow power entrenched in that hall. body, but the possibility of you being a 'star map keeper' is very slim - even if you yourself can't remember your 'life experience' before being transformed into an artificial human by the Gondorians.

"After that, I suspected Ms. Ye—an ancient god who has a mysterious connection with you. It has survived from the age of the sailors until now, hidden in the depths of the world, holding the authority of shadows, and has been fighting against the tide for a long time. Confrontation... all the clues are suspicious, and coupled with the abnormal reaction you had when Nicholas and the others explored the Hall of Shadows, I vaguely feel... Ms. Ye is probably the answer to everything."

Amber subconsciously said: "You thought of it at that time...then why..."

"Because of the lack of the most critical 'explanation', this leads to a complete contradiction between my guess and the information we have been 'mastering'," Gawain shook his head, "The Voyager almost killed all the ancient gods. In the records they left, there is even a special message about sending a fleet to continue to hunt down Ms. Ye, and the records of the Dragon Clan can also confirm this. For a long time, all kinds of evidence have shown that there is an endless relationship between the Voyager and the ancient gods If this major premise is not overturned, how dare you believe that Ms. Ye, who was hunted down by the Voyager to the last moment, is actually the star map keeper of the Sky Station, and even has a lot of authority?"

Amber suddenly understood: "So what I saw at the 'bottom of the vortex' just now is the most critical explanation..."

"Yes, if the 'war' between the voyager and the ancient gods was essentially a deal, if the ancient gods took the initiative to summon the voyager fleet, and there was no hatred between the two... then everything would be It's all made clear."

Gao Wen nodded and said, and then sighed in his heart: After all, the records of the Dragon Clan are correct, and the "battlefield logs" he obtained are also correct. The battle of killing gods more than 180 million years ago... was actually true. It is a situation of endless death.Although the ancient gods summoned the voyager fleet at first, when the latter landed on this planet, the gods who had sent the signal had already fallen into a state of madness while waiting, and in this out-of-control state Next...they started a deadly battle with the fleet they summoned by themselves.

The sailor just faithfully fulfilled the content of the transaction in the process.

The above are actually the conclusions that Gao Wen speculated based on the existing information, but all the key contradictions have been explained, all the existing clues can be connected, and all the evidences are mutually corroborated - so even if it is speculated In conclusion, I am afraid that it is infinitely close to the truth of the year.

Now he only has one last little bit of confusion: According to the available information, the Shadow Goddess "Lady Night" was obviously crazy and out of control in the final stage of the God Killing Battle. The survivors had to send a fleet to hunt down the out-of-control god, but in the end... the out-of-control god became the "star map keeper" of the Sky Station, and there is a gap that needs to be explained.

What happened in the process between Ms. Ye escaping from the Battlefield of God Wars, the Voyager sent hunting troops, and Ms. Ye becoming the "keeper of the star map"?Could it be that he was not completely insane back then, so he was rescued by the sailor in the final stage?Could it be that the sailor has some means to restore the out-of-control god?Could it be that the so-called "anchor point generator" not only has the function of maintaining the existence of gods, but also assists in stabilizing the mental state of gods?

There are too many possible explanations, and I am afraid that only the "participants" themselves know what happened in the first place.

Compared with Ms. Ye's experience back then and his current state, what Gao Wen was more concerned about at this moment—or what he was able to pay attention to now was the situation on Amber's side.

Amber, the "artificial man No. 36" of the Gondor Empire, whose soul comes from the "shadow resident" in the shadow field, has an inexplicable connection with Lady Ye, and can even steal part of Lady Ye's authority. The state changes reacted, and after seeing the lines recorded on the anchor point generator, he fell into the vortex of the suspected "memory of the ancient gods"...

She is still the same noisy, cowardly and jumping outside, but in Gawain's perception, she is no longer a simple shadow assault goose - she is a shadow assault goose that has a lot going on.

"Is there any abnormal reaction in the body now?" Gao Wen carefully observed Amber's state, sensing the change of the other party's breath, and asked very cautiously.

"No," Amber replied honestly, "Except for being a little confused when I came out of the vortex just now, it seems to be unaffected... Actually, you don't have to worry too much, although I have encountered many strange things during this period. It's a strange thing, but these visions don't seem to have caused any harm to me, I have a feeling that Ms. Ye's power is not hostile to me at all..."

"No hostility does not mean there is no danger, and no harm now does not mean that it will be safe forever in the future," Gao Wen frowned, with a serious and scary expression, "We have no way to locate Ms. Ye's location now, before the expert group of the council Trying to use shadow dust and shadow fissures to indirectly find Lady Ye's divine kingdom has also failed... We have to make some new attempts. Even if we can't find Lady Ye, we must at least do some protection for you. "

Amber stared blankly at Gao Wen: "A new attempt? What are you going to do?"

"For example, first build two anti-divine barriers around the Royal District and the Administrative District," Gao Wen said while thinking, "This may prevent you from over-contacting those indescribable and uncontrollable forces to a certain extent."

Amber was stunned for a moment, her eyes widened: "...There is no need to exaggerate like this!"

"...Well, maybe it's an exaggeration, and you will always go out for action," Gao Wen thought for a while, and could only shake his head. "Then a more feasible solution is to wear protective measures on your body."

"Wear protective measures on your body?" Amber said with doubts in her tone, "Could it be that you let me go out with a set of anti-divine barriers on my back? Like those heavy white knights?"

Gawain raised his eyes and glanced at the thin and small half-elf in front of him, thinking that with this guy's small body, he might not be able to wear the white knight's equipment even after eighteen surgeries, he waved his hand : "I'm referring to protective means such as deep-sea talisman and divinity perception talisman-although these things are simple, the effect is guaranteed. Go to Tyr later and ask her to make a deep-sea talisman for you. Don’t take it off while you’re wearing it.”

"Although I still think you're a little too nervous... But well, doing some protection can really make you feel more at ease," Amber thought for a while, then sighed helplessly, "I'm going to find Tyr now, I hope she can do it this way." Time to wake up."

While talking, she couldn't help poking her head to look at Gao Wen's desk curiously—the upside-down paper seemed to have an inexplicable attraction to her, even though she knew that the paper The patterns on it were weird, but she still wanted to take a second look.

It was as if something important to her was hidden there.

However, Gawain put the paper away directly: "You still don't want to touch this thing, until Nicholas makes more progress in the research on the Shadow Hall and the Anchor Point Generator, you should keep a distance from this thing .”

Amber could only give up with a little regret, and then turned around and went back into the shadow rift—she was going to find Tyr next, and if the other party remained awake at this time, she had to get her a customized version of the deep sea amulet.

Although theoretically speaking, as long as the material, process, and rune accuracy of this kind of thing meet the standards, there is actually not much difference in the effect whether it is produced in a factory or hand-made, but in fact, it is processed by the Kraken himself. The effect of the deep-sea amulet in resisting the erosion of divinity and protecting the stability of the soul is still a little bit better than that of factory products. Gao Wen explained the principle behind this little difference as "the god of harmony in the deep sea can also be regarded as a god. It is easy to rub something with special effects. Normal", but Amber prefers another popular explanation:

Handcrafted things have soul.

The study room became quiet. After Amber left, Gao Wen pondered for a long time in front of the desk, and then he took out the piece of paper that he had put away, unfolded it and looked at the dense patterns on it.

There is a not-so-obvious blank space in the corner of the pattern, and he has yet to finish the last stroke - as long as he adds this stroke, he will complete the pattern that looks like a totem relief on the surface of the anchor point generator.

He stared at the pattern for a long time, but he couldn't feel any special power from it like Amber, but he vaguely felt that if he added this last touch, it might bring about some changes.

He picked up the pen at hand, but just let the nib rest a few millimeters on the paper. He thought of the scenes that Amber saw in the vortex just now, and thought of the "star map keeper" and "Night Lady" In the end, what he thought of was the inexplicable connection between Hu Po and Ms. Ye.

Actually... He already had a vague guess in his mind.

The currently known information can prove that Ms. Ye is most likely the "star map keeper" left by the voyager, and Amber can "borrow" Ms. Ye's authority to "steal" the shadow dust from the Kingdom of God, and even Through the totem pattern on the surface of the anchor point generator, she can also see the "observation records" that are most likely left by Ms. Ye-this can no longer be explained by a simple "some connection".