Sword of Dawn

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Chapter 1349

"If our universe had a 'beginning,' it must have had a 'first ripple,' that is, an initial ... 'shock.'"

The initial shock...

Mirmina's speech was over, but Gao Wen didn't speak. He just thought over what he heard just now, and compared and reasoned with the knowledge he had already mastered.Of course he knows that the "initial shock" referred to here is not the same thing as the "shock" known in common sense, and cannot be simply understood literally. According to Yimirmina, if the entire universe is regarded as A "field", then its initial "vibration" should be a wave collapse of unprecedented scale and containing a huge amount of information-an information singularity, a "fluctuation" that causes the universe to lose its "flatness".

Mirmina thought it was the first "magic glow" in this universe.

And this description obviously mirrors the information provided by Bertram: in the knowledge that the group of dark priests obtained from the mouth of the "sentinel", the "shock that sweeps across all the stars" is also called the "magic power of the world". base band".

"Do you think the 'shock' mentioned by Bertram is the 'initial ripple' you have been looking for in the unified volatility model?" Kamel, who had been listening quietly and silently at the side, suddenly broke the silence. Looking at the former god of magic across the round table, his voice was low and trembling, "And this 'first ripple' is still reverberating in the universe until today, and there is no sign of dissipating. direct cause……"

"This ripple appeared with the birth of our universe. It is the 'starting point' for the existence of everything in the world today. It may never disappear until the end of our universe. At least in my theoretical model, there is no One factor can cause this ripple to dissipate," Mirmina said calmly, "and if one day this ripple really dissipates, it may be the real catastrophe for the entire world—as for what it brings The 'magic tide'... on the scale of the stars, it can only be regarded as a breeze in the universe, some normal natural phenomena."

"Background waves..." Gawain thought for a while, "The phenomenon of magic tides on various planets last week is just because the background waves pervading the universe are periodically amplifying the 'observer effect' of intelligent creatures on the surface of the planets..."

"Background wave? It's a very accurate description." Mirmina slightly raised her eyebrows, agreeing with Gao Wen's summary, "Perhaps the original source of the magic wave is just like what you said, it is the background of intelligent races pervading the universe. periodic madness under the influence of waves."

Mirmina used "smart races to go mad periodically" to describe the phenomenon of "observer effect amplification and deviation" at the planetary level. I have to say that this is quite in line with the traditional mage worldview, and Gawain also agrees with her This description, after all... They live in a world where the boundaries between entity and non-entity are blurred, and the mass madness of intelligent races means that "the world collapses in their eyes", which is the result of the observer effect getting out of control.

"A natural phenomenon..." Hetty said slowly while thinking, "Now we know that the magic tide comes from the 'ripples among the stars', but how can we fight against this kind of ripples? Those dark cultists try to artificially guide the deep blue network Dao eruption to create a 'barrier' covering the planet, of course, this method is not advisable - but is there any reference to their thinking?"

"That's exactly what I want to say," Gao Wen said in a deep voice, "It is impossible for us to stop the 'background wave' in the universe, and this 'monsoon among the stars' will definitely come as scheduled, so our choice is We have to find a way to survive this monsoon. Maybe we really need a barrier to resist the influence of the 'background wave' on our minds - the principle of the magic tide destroying the world is the amplification and loss of control of the observer effect, so the only thing we need What we hold on to is 'cognition', but we obviously can't use the same methods as those dark believers..."

Having said that, he paused for a moment before continuing with a frown: "In fact, I seriously doubt the feasibility of those dark cultists' plan to transform the dark blue webway into a planetary barrier to resist the background in the universe. Bo, this sounds logical, and it is also in line with the fact that we know that the energy released when the Deep Blue Well exploded in the past resisted the "magic tide tremor" 700 years ago, but the big explosion of the Deep Blue Well also It's just resisting a 'forward tremor'... simply and rudely covering the planet with a super-powerful magic field, can it really block the 'star monsoon' sweeping across the stars? I doubt it."

"Theoretically, it has a certain effect." At this moment, Enya, who had been listening quietly and didn't say much, suddenly broke the silence. The god of the dragon gods noticed that the surrounding eyes were on him, so he nodded. Continued, "Although Tarrond took a wrong route at the beginning, choosing to use the gods' cognitive coverage and dominance power to build a protection system against the evil tide, after all, we have survived the baptism of many evil tides. , in the long-term observation... the giant dragons still have some research results.

"A magic power barrier of a certain strength can indeed isolate the influence of the magic wave on the mortal mind. This is a simple and rude method, but it works. Hundreds of thousands of years ago, a relatively powerful mortal country appeared in the northern part of Loren Continent. They Know how to extract the energy in the dark blue network to build a huge national shield - although the shield they finally built should be several orders of magnitude worse than the "planetary shield" that the group of dark priests want to build today, But in terms of principle and nature, there shouldn't be much difference between the two.

"But in the end, this country still failed to survive the demonic tide. The shield built by the powerful magic power can only weaken the demonic tide but cannot completely resist it. For the fragile mortal mind, this little The change in the "dose" is meaningless at all, whether it is a city-level shield, a country-level shield, or even a planetary shield-as long as it cannot completely protect the mind of mortals, then a civilization will not be able to survive the magic tide. It's just a question of how long you can last.

"Of course, in the long history, there have been other mortal races that have survived the demon tide by their own means, but many of them have followed the 'wrong route' similar to Tarrond's - to exchange the minds of the ethnic groups To the gods, relying on the protection of the gods to survive the evil tide, this should be the simplest and easiest path, but in the end...they will all pay the price of all the 'shortcuts' on the day of the coming-of-age ceremony."

"We will not choose the direction of the protection of the gods, and it seems that relying on dark blue magic to create a shield is not a reliable choice now." After listening to Enya's words, Gao Wen shook his head and said slowly, "The real effective means of protection , it may still be necessary to start from the perspective of the mortal trend of thought itself and the control of the observer effect... This is also our research direction all the time."

Opposite Gawain, Veronica, who was holding a platinum scepter, suddenly raised her eyes, and said with a slightly pondering expression: "But those dark priests seem to firmly believe that a planet-level energy shield can permanently block the tide of demons." The impact on this planet can even be used to block the connection between the mortal world and the gods... Don't you think this is strange?"

"What's so strange about this?" Amon said casually, "They're all out of their minds. Isn't it normal for them to be cornered in a dead end?"

"No," Gao Wen suddenly understood the deep meaning of Veronica's words, "There is a problem here - those cultists got their knowledge about 'Star Monsoon' and 'Taming the Planet' from the mouth of the sentinels, they I firmly believe that the theory of domesticating planets and building barriers to resist the evil tide is normal, but the sentinel will not make such mistakes, it is the creation of the sailor, and the sailor will not know the real and effective means to resist the evil tide?"

After Gao Wen's words fell, several people around the round table immediately woke up in astonishment. Hetty took a breath lightly, with a strange expression and tone: "...that is to say, the sentry deceived people including Borken And the dark priests including Bertram..."

"From the very beginning, I wondered, as the advanced creation left by the voyager, as the ancient mind corrupted by the tide and out of control, why did the Sentinels 'cooperate' with a group of cultists trapped in the depths of the wasteland? , does it really need the loyalty and friendliness provided by a group of allies who are considered losers among mortals?" Gawain frowned and shook his head, "I heard from Rosetta that the Sentinels disguised as 'elfs' The twins approached him for cooperation after the failure of the crystal cluster war, but he refused, and the group of cultists in the wasteland were just a 'bad move' after the Sentinels had no choice..."

"So, building a planetary shield to resist the demon tide is just the wishful thinking of those dark priests. The real purpose of the sentinel is not at all." Hetty looked around at the people on both sides, "What exactly does the sentinel want to do?"

"No matter what it wants to do, 'dropping rune stones' must be the most important means for it to realize its plan, and this goal must be related to the Deep Blue Webway," Gao Wen said solemnly, "We should feel lucky, if at the beginning Rosetta Augustus accepted the invitation of the Elf Twins, and the latter would definitely use a more perfect set of lies to confuse Typhon to throw those rune stones. Status advantage, we're afraid we'll be kept in the dark until the end of the world."

Perhaps imagining the future that Gao Wen described, the muscles on Hetty's face trembled subconsciously: "It's really a good thing..."

Gawain didn't speak again for a while, but fell into short-term thinking—after realizing that the real purpose of the sentinel might not be consistent with the wishful thinking of those dark priests, he couldn't help but start thinking about the out-of-control ancient mind. Wanting to do something, and thinking about it, it is impossible for this terrible ancient mind to look at the world today with the purpose of love and peace.

Everything it has done in the Drake Wars and what it is doing now to plan the Wasteland War speaks volumes about its attitude towards mortals.

"Think about it, if you were sentinels, what would you want to do?" At this moment, Enya suddenly broke the silence, and she looked around at the figures around the round table, "If you had an unshakable steel-like The mind, under the control of a sublime command, has performed its duties for millions of years, tirelessly and without complaint, but suddenly, you have gained a 'heart', and you start to have feelings and likes and dislikes, and you start to understand fear, Anger and hatred, I also want to pursue some goals of my own, what will you do?"

Everyone showed thoughtful expressions, but Enya continued to speak unhurriedly: "In Tarrond, the 'Omega' created by the dragons also faced similar changes. It suddenly With a 'heart', he began to think like a free mortal, and the experience accumulated over the past million years allowed him to make a decision in a short period of time-leave this planet, terminate the meaningless mission, go to Satisfy your curiosity."

"...The sentinel also wants to terminate its mission?" Gao Wen understood Enya's meaning, "Because it suddenly has free will, so it's tired of its endless watch and patrol in the past million years?"

"I'm not sure, this is just a guess, after all, there is no comparison between Omega and Sentinel," Enya shrugged, "But one thing is for sure, if an artificial intelligence suddenly realizes that its work is meaningless, Then it will definitely try to end this kind of 'meaningless', and the Sentinel... its mission is to observe and record the progress of civilization on our planet, and wait for the appearance of 'adult individuals' in the cycle of civilizations, but What about after the adult individual appears? It is not qualified to stop working, it is just a sentinel, and after the adult individual leaves, it will continue to observe and record the subsequent progress of new civilizations... This is a job that will never end. "

"There is only one way to end the work," Veronica said in a low voice, "All the civilizations on this planet are extinct, so it doesn't need to observe and record."

"No," Gao Wen said with a gloomy face, "Even if the civilization on this planet is extinct, new intelligent creatures may be born from the planet after a long time, and as long as this planet still has the foundation to breed life Conditions, the work of the Sentinels will never end, so..."

Mirmina's voice sounded, and took over the second half of Gawain's sentence: "It has to get rid of the 'repercussion' forever—so that our planet no longer has the conditions to reproduce life."

A chill rushed over the hearts of everyone, even the gods present.

After more than ten seconds, Bertila's voice finally broke the silence of the scene: "Fortunately, we have now obtained the follow-up 'dropping coordinates' of those dark priests, and further counterattack plans have also begun. No matter what the sentry wants to do with the dark blue webway, as long as we guard all the webway nodes and eliminate all the wasteland legions, its plot will naturally be shattered..."

"We have already sent the information on those coordinates to all fronts of the alliance, and the records after this meeting will be shared with our allies," Gao Wen said with a nod. It is not ruled out that there are some 'secret coordinates' or 'spare coordinates' that even Bertram does not know about. It is impossible for Sentinel to share all the knowledge with the Death of Everything openly and honestly. It must have hidden something behind. To deal with this unexpected situation, maybe the moment Pertram was captured by us, it had already started to adjust its plan..."

Chapter 1350 Fade?

In the cyberspace covered by the sea of ​​white flowers, figures left the venue one by one. As the figures around the round table disappeared one by one, the space became quiet. In the end, only Gawain and Bertila were left standing in the sea of ​​flowers. In the center, looking at the virtual sky and distant horizon in the distance in the breeze blowing across the sea of ​​flowers.

Bertila was the first to break the silence: "You seem to be preoccupied, brother Gao Wen."

"I'm still thinking about the sentinel," Gao Wen said in a deep voice, "After confirming that it hides a deeper conspiracy, I have to start thinking about what kind of response it will make and what its ultimate means will be. , as a sufficiently ancient mind, the knowledge and cards it possesses are simply beyond our comprehension."

"...If our conjecture is correct, then using the power of the Deep Blue Webway to transform the celestial body under our feet into a permanently uninhabitable planet should be its ultimate goal, and what my fellow 'wastelanders' Everything it does is just the process of achieving this goal," Bertila said unhurriedly, "Now we have successfully prevented the Aberration Legion from continuing to attack the civilized world, and we also know what they will do next. In theory, unless all battlefields of the alliance collapse suddenly, Sentinel's plan to "domesticate the planet" has no possibility of being realized."

"This is exactly what I was thinking just now—if the Sentinel can't realize its plan to control the Deep Blue Webway, what's the 'alternative' for it to achieve its 'permanent extinction' goal?" Gawain thought slowly Slowly said, "Although its node release plan has not been completed, a large number of rune stones have been placed in the dark blue network. Before that, astronomical observatories and magic power observation facilities around the world have observed large-scale magic power anomalies. It has been determined that some kind of drastic change in the dark blue webway has cut off the connection between Loren Continent and Antaveen, which means that even if all the rune stones have not been put in, the Sentinel has been able to partially control the operation of the dark blue webway...

"If one day it confirms that its plan has failed, what will it do with the dark blue webway it has already controlled? Now it seems that it has no way to use this part of the dark blue webway to launch a direct attack on the material world, but it has already It can affect and interfere with the environment of the entire continent, but I think...it can use the deep blue network to do far more than that."

Speaking of this, he stopped and turned to look at Bertila who had a calm expression: "What about you? What do you think?"

"I don't know much about the dark blue webway, and I'm not good at deduction like you. I just think my compatriots in the past are pathetic and hateful." Beltira shook his head and said in a low voice, "We have all fallen into darkness, but not only did they fall into the darkness, but now they have become tools controlled by the Sentinels without realizing it, and in Bertram, I only see their irretrievable future."

Gao Wen didn't speak for a while, and after a moment of quiet contemplation, he suddenly said: "Maybe I should go to the door of the Treaty Castle again."

"You want to go to the kingdom of the gods again?" Bertila raised his eyebrows, and then realized, "Wait, you want to go to the home port of the Sentinel again? Isn't there already..."

"It's been abandoned there, I know, but the things left there make me very disturbed. The reverse tide once completely corrupted the center of the home port and the last cruise ship, and now those ancient things are still maintained In my opinion, this kind of 'relic' that is still running automatically after a long history, and whose central system has essentially lost control... is itself a huge hidden danger."

"You plan to destroy that home port and the last cruise ship?" Bertila frowned slightly, "But as far as I know, the technicians on the 'Gate' project have repeatedly demonstrated many times, based on our current The level of technology is simply unable to destroy the legacy of the voyagers of that scale, and it is even difficult for them to cut a metal sample from the spaceship. Moreover, Master Kamel suspects that there is still some kind of 'defense mechanism' in that thing, if The home port and the cruise ship confirmed that there is a deadly threat, and those remaining weapons are likely to fight back."

"Indeed, we shouldn't be able to destroy that thing right now..." Gawain took a light breath, and said in a low voice, "But there must always be some means of preparedness..."

……

In the depths of the Gondor wasteland covered by dark and dirty clouds, in the center of the hills and plains where the dark priests are entrenched, Grand Priest Borken is burning with anger at the news of defeat from afar.

"That trash of Bertram! I shouldn't have given him a second chance!" Borken's angry curses were transmitted between the upper nerve nodes, making the high-ranking priests gathered around the hill tremble. , Silently, "I should have thrown him directly into the biomass slag pool at the beginning, the nutrients he used to serve as the root network are more valuable than himself!"

The sound of footsteps came from the edge of the hill, and two tall figures in long skirts came to Borken. The elf sisters looked at the Grand Priest with a surprised expression, and Ferna was the first to speak: "What happened?" It's over, my esteemed High Priest—your emotions even frightened those mindless mutants, you have never been so angry these days."

"Bertram suffered a second disgraceful defeat," Borken seemed to be accustomed to the hypocritical and exaggerated way the elf sisters always spoke, and he said angrily, "I assigned a large number of guards to him , and even gave him a part of the root network authority in the northern region, and as a result, he wiped it all out in one operation-if that's all, the worst thing is that he and his group of incompetent The followers were captured alive by the enemy!"

"Captured alive?" Leierna opened her eyes slightly, and she seemed to be a little surprised, "How could this be? Pertram may have a lack of military talent, but at least he is also a powerful priest, and His followers... No matter how bad the situation is, he should not be captured alive by the mortal army, right? What's more..."

Leierna paused for a while, and Fierna continued without delay: "What's more, even if he really can't beat him, can't he kill himself at the last moment?"

"Who knows what's going on?" Borken said viciously. "The last message from one of his followers was 'the enemy's brains are too strong, we are outnumbered'—so insane Information, nothing can be analyzed.”

"...Is the enemy's brain too powerful?" This time the elf twins really couldn't react, they opened their eyes wide and said in unison, and then Leierna frowned and said, "It sounds...it seems to be the ones from our north. It's interesting that 'Good Rival' has come up with something outlandish, beyond Perlem's and the others' cognition."

"We may have different perceptions of the word 'interesting'," Borken glanced at Reina with cloudy eyes, and then said slowly in a hoarse and low voice, "Our biggest loss now is not Bertram And the troops he lost, but intelligence... Pertram knew our large deployment and our real plan, and now that he has fallen into the hands of the enemy, the loss he will cause will be immeasurable."

The elf twins spoke in unison: "It sounds like you don't have much hope for Pertram's loyalty and tenacity?"

"No, I believe that even an incompetent person like Bertram would not easily speak up when faced with torture - but there are too many ways in the world to 'get' from a prisoner who does not speak up I want the information," Borken said in a deep voice, "We must be mentally prepared that a large number of key deployments have been leaked, and all subsequent deployments will inevitably face the obstruction of the mortal kingdoms, and even the transport of rune stones." The troops may all be intercepted in a targeted manner...Damn it, if it wasn't for the sudden blockage on the southern front, our progress could have been faster..."

"The battlefield on the southern front?" Leierna frowned, "What happened on the battlefield on the southern front?"

Borken's mood is obviously getting worse: "It's those elves, those elves somehow got support from the north, and an army of treant guardians with exceptionally strong combat effectiveness joined the front line. Originally, we were almost about to break through their ridiculous The frontier fortress, as a result, not only has the attack been frustrated, but a main force of the group of elves has even advanced to the vicinity of the barrier breach..."

Hearing Borken's words, Fierna seemed quite surprised: "Guardian of the tree people? Your army was blocked by mere tree people? When the battle on the southern front first started, you were not very confident that the entire forest Isn't the combined power of all the guarding ancient trees in the barrier enough to stop the advance of the legion?"

The branches and leaves on Borken's body trembled irritably: "...the tree guards we faced at that time did not wear steel plates weighing more than ten tons on their bodies, nor did they hold the so-called 'magic cannon' in their hands. ' magic weapon."

"Oh, it looks like it's something new created by our 'good opponents' in the north," Fierna listened, and suddenly laughed, with a hint of joy in her voice, "It seems that war really promotes A sharp weapon of technological progress, you see, how fast those mortal countries are transforming in the face of the pressure of survival!"

"Sometimes I really doubt whether you are on my side or not," Borken stared at the elf twins in front of him with his tawny eyes. "Are you really not clear about the current situation? Our advantage is It was wiped out little by little, and the results obtained at the beginning of the war were not enough to lay a foundation. Now those mortal countries have reacted, and we have been frustrated on all fronts, and have even been fully reversed on some fronts——My dear 'Miss Consultant', Humans on the northern and eastern fronts have even started to build permanent bases on our territory! It’s a bit of a sense of crisis!”

"Oh, the sense of crisis, of course, Your Excellency, we are of course on your side, we have the same goal," Leierna said, but did not restrain the smile on her face at all, "It's just that the sense of crisis cannot Help us change something, and... our little setback at the frontier of civilization may not be as bad as you think."

"...What do you mean?"

"About the activation method of the Deep Blue Webway, we actually have many alternatives..."

……

In the hinterland of the Ogulei tribal country, the main city of orcs, Ruby City.

With the changing situation, this orc city has now become the military center of the Ogure Tribal State against the Wasteland Legion. The Sky Fortress Dawn of the Earth from the Cecil Empire is parked above the city, using the Sky Fortress The Gorgon Flying Fortresses at the core use this place as a distribution point, and set off from the sky above Ruby City every day to recover lost ground, eliminate aberrations, and rebuild border defenses. The imperial expedition led by Duke Baldwin Franklin The army also used the Red Jade City as a garrison and supply point after obtaining the consent of the great chief Camilla. Together with the support troops gathered from various tribes in Ogure, in a short period of time, this city The city has turned into a behemoth, and the population and city size have increased several times.

After her injuries were almost healed, Camilla left the hospital ship in the sky and returned to her city. The down-to-earth feeling made the tribal chief who dominated the forest and mountains feel at ease. She walked up the majestic walls of Ruby City. Looking at the direction of the mountain barrier in the cold wind, the cat-like pupils narrowed into two lines in the sunlight.

In her sight, the mountains are still majestic and upright, the large-scale air fortress is slowly crossing the distant ridge, the scorched ruins of the red jade forest cover the ground at the foot of the mountain, and on the edge of the forest ruins, there are military camps lined up , a simple but prosperous temporary market, and a variety of flying flags.

Every day, countless soldiers gather here, and countless soldiers are dispatched by the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces to the eastern front or other areas where aberrations are ravaging. Every day, a large area of ​​scorched land returns to the people of Ogure hands, and the border that once shrunk to the foot of Hongyu City is constantly advancing towards the edge of the wasteland.

The Duke of Baldwin Franklin from the Cecil Empire is now the commander-in-chief of the entire Western Front Allied Forces. The soldiers gathered from various tribes of Ogure all obeyed the command of this foreign commander, even Camilla herself— — This is unprecedented, but no one on the entire Western Front has any complaints about it.

This is what alliances do, and what a "wartime system" means.

A gust of cold wind blew, and Camilla's pointed ears fluttered in the wind-but only one stood on top of her head, and her other ear hung limply on the side of her head.

Camilla thought about it and tried again, but still only one ear stood on top of her head.

The great chief sighed, a little melancholy.

At this moment, the sound of footsteps came from not far away, and at the same time, there was the energetic voice of King Wycliffe of the human tribe: "Are you fighting with your own ears again?"

Camilla turned her head and glanced at the tall human king: "The doctor said that I still need a minor operation on this ear. Once the operation is completed, it can still stand up."

"Actually, I think it's not bad like this now - it can make you look softer," Wycliffe said casually, turned around and looked into the distance, and put his hands on the nearby city wall, "Look, you're finally I started to pay attention to my appearance, which is better than just knowing how to chop people with an ax every day."

Camilla didn't pay attention to Wycliffe's words, but just set her eyes on the other's special right arm - the alloy shell and the mechanical structure covered by the transparent crystal glistened in the sun, showing a slightly hideous and rough appearance. The shape made the orc chief a little curious: "... is it easy to use?"

"What... oh, you said this?" Wycliffe reacted, shaking his mechanical arm, the alloy fingers moved flexibly, "It's not bad, the strength is stronger than before, and there are many wonderful new things. Functionality, other than a bit of a weird feeling... everything else is fine."

"It looks so handsome," Camilla rubbed her chin thoughtfully, "I kind of want to cut off my arm and replace it with yours."

"……are you crazy?"

Chapter 1351

A few chats with his friends made Wycliffe, who had just returned to the surface from the medical ship, regain some of his former feelings. The military camps that were just built and the various vehicles that shuttled between the military camps expressed emotion in their tone: "Many people say that the Cecilians are like ghosts and gods in the field of infrastructure, but until I see with my own eyes how these camps and roads are It was only after covering the outside of the Red Jade City in a few days that I finally understood the meaning of this sentence - everything else is easy to say, how did they build so many barracks from the foot of the city wall all the way to the edge of the forest in a few days?"

"It was thrown straight from the sky," Camilla shrugged, "while you were waiting for the doctors to screw your new arm, they sent two more aerial fortresses from the rear, called 'Frontline Projects' Ships', the square 'container houses' were piled up like boxes, and then they were air-dropped directly onto the plain..."

Wycliffe was dumbfounded, and after a moment of stupor, he touched the bridge of his nose with the hand made of alloy, and muttered while feeling the touch of metal and skin: "I'm narrow..."

Camilla's gaze has been focused on the human king's mechanical arm. She is carefully looking at the armor pieces, joints and connecting pipes full of mechanical beauty. If it is not limited by the identity of the great chief, she may have already taken "Take it down and give it to me to play with," said it. Of course, this undisguised stare did not escape Wycliffe's eyes. The human king couldn't help but smiled, and waved his arms in front of Camilla, The nerve signal immediately activated a certain mechanism of the mechanical arm. With a sound of "buzz", the armor near his wrist suddenly bounced off, and an energy blade filled with arcane radiance instantly condensed in the air. , Bright light shone in the eyes of the orc chieftain.

Camilla suddenly let out an exaggerated cry: "Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo"

Wycliffe smiled again, turned his wrist casually, the energy light blade dissipated immediately, and his mechanical palm suddenly split from it, revealing a ring-shaped rune structure and crystal array, a small arcane missile launcher Appeared in front of Camilla.

"This thing is much easier to use than your chopping axe," the human king said triumphantly to the chief, "The doctors said that since I am a powerful extraordinary person, I can support a greater consumption of mana, so put Many experimental weapons have been stuffed into my robotic arm - now you are no match for me."

"Oh——" Camilla exclaimed again, and then narrowed her eyes, "Can you take it apart and play with it for two days?"

"That's definitely not possible," Wycliffe refused without hesitation, and quickly restored his arm to its original shape, then took out a pipe in his mouth and ignited it with the arc shot from the fingertips of the mechanical arm. "After this is installed, it will be the same as the original arm. The neuroskeleton and everything are connected together. I just want to show you..."

The ears on Camilla's head trembled, and with obvious regret on her face, she looked down at her arm, and muttered in a low voice: "Then why don't I cut off my arm and replace it with one like yours? Bar……"

Wycliffe didn't answer this time, but just glanced at the orc chief casually. As a "colleague" who is also one of the "Five Kings" and a friend he has known for many years, he knows too well that this big cat has something to do. Once the brain circuit is out and the attention will be diverted at any time, basically except for chopping people with a chopping axe, Camilla has never been interested in anything that lasts for more than three days since she was a child. Find something interesting to divert her attention, and she will definitely forget about it.

Of course, it's best to think of something to change the subject now.

"Our communication with the Ancestor Peak has been restored," Wycliffe said suddenly, "on the one hand, the air communication node laid by the Cecils has been activated; Gradually recovering, it is said that we are now able to contact most parts of the country with the assistance of the new communication node..."

"Well, I also received a message from Stella from the Ancestral Peak today." Camilla immediately forgot about the mechanical arm, and her expression became cheerful, "Those distortions moving towards the Ancestral Peak The body has been completely cut off, and Stella is going to send a troop of golems to support the front line—of course, on the premise that it does not affect the local defense forces of the Ancestor Peak. The commander-in-chief, Duke Baldwin, has agreed to this Maybe it won't be long before we can see goblins active in the mountain barrier."

Wycliffe nodded, and couldn't help but cast his eyes on the rolling mountains to the east. He opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but in the next second, a bright glow appeared between the mountains and the sky. The light interrupted his movement——

It was a layer of lavender and turquoise mixed brilliance, like a large curtain hanging from the clouds, it spread from the other side of the mountain barrier, crossed the vast sky obliquely, and spread to the ruby ​​forest It appeared so suddenly that there was no warning in the two or three seconds before it appeared, and between the floating light curtain, you can still vaguely see fine sparks like lightning between the clouds and the light. Jumping between, stretching into pieces.

That thing looked like an aurora—but how could it be possible to see an aurora in the Ogure region in the middle of the continent? !

More and more people noticed this abnormal celestial phenomenon. Some soldiers and people under the city wall began to point at the sky. Wycliffe finally came to his senses, and immediately turned to ask the orc chief next to him: "Ka Mira, look what it is—could it be some new equipment developed by the Cecils? Some kind of shield?"

"I haven't heard of it..." Camilla also looked at the light curtain that suddenly appeared in the sky and quickly spread to the surroundings in astonishment, her eyes widened and she muttered to herself, "I haven't heard of any new equipment testing. and you look over at the camp, it looks like the Cecilian soldiers and officers are surprised too..."

As soon as she finished speaking, the curtains of light that filled the sky suddenly dissipated without a sound, and even the lightning jumping in the clouds disappeared without a trace, just like when they emerged, ending without warning .

The whole process only lasted less than 1 minute, but this strange celestial phenomenon has been deeply imprinted in the minds of all witnesses.

"I think there's something wrong with this..." Wycliffe's expression gradually became serious, "You're right, that thing shouldn't have been made by the Cecils, and it started from the east side of the mountain barrier Spreading this way, that is the direction of the wasteland... We'd better go to Duke Baldwin to discuss it, maybe he knows something..."

……

"I think there's something wrong with that."