Sword of Dawn

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Melita immediately closed her eyes facing the amber side, and at the same time moved her huge head to the side, the friction between the scales and the steel made a sound like a metal impact: "Hey, stay away, the crumbs are all gone!" It popped into my eye!"

"Ah, I'm sorry." Amber quickly took half a step back, clapping her hands while swallowing the cake in her mouth, while Melita opened her eyes, looked in the direction of the rest of the team and said, "Hey , have you seen Gao Wen? I don’t seem to have seen him since just now..."

"He just went into that passage, and said he wanted to check the situation inside the spaceship again," Amber slapped her hands clean, then rubbed her clothes casually, then turned her head to look at the gate leading to the passage inside the ship, "He still didn't let me follow, but I still decided to sneak up and take a look after I was full - he obviously had something on his mind, and he was acting alone, so I was worried."

While talking, she shook her head with a rather helpless expression: "Everyone looks preoccupied, so does Modil, and so does Victoria, and even Se'er on Kamel doesn't look right, That is, I don't quite understand your expression...but I think you must have something on your mind. Looking at it now, there is no change between Daniel and his female apprentice. The former looks like the sky will never fall, and the latter looks like The sky keeps falling..."

Melita raised her eyelids and looked at her. Being stared at by such a huge eye, even the nerve-wracked Amber suddenly felt hairy all over, and couldn't help asking: "Why are you staring at me like this? My face Is there any scum on it?"

"You seem to be the most carefree person among the people around Gawain, but in fact you are one of the most sensitive and careful people I know in Loren..." There seemed to be a smile in Melita's tone , "You are always observing everyone and every detail around you, but most of the time you are pretending to be doing nothing, making yourself look like the least useful one."

Amber froze for a moment, waved her hands indifferently, turned around and walked towards the passage gate while muttering casually: "The slum survival code, this is called the survival code..."

Melita watched Amber drifting away with one eye, and finally slowly retracted her gaze. Near her tail, Modil was walking to a secluded place, looking at the spaceship outside the shield with some ecstasy. The chaotic dark mass that keeps passing by looks like it is in a daze.

Victoria came to Mordir's side. She looked at the old man in front of her with some worry, hesitated and finally said: "Ancestor, are you worried about the time you have left?"

"... I have experienced an adventure like no other before," Mordir said suddenly, "on this ship, what I have seen surpasses anything I have seen before, these mysteries unknown to anyone before, these almost unknown Forgotten things... I think I should be content, Victoria, that I've come this far, and even lived 600 years—I can't be too greedy."

"...you can't give up yet," Victoria said immediately, "Amber has a way to temporarily stabilize your situation, and during this period we can slowly find a solution, we can go to find Lady Ye's kingdom of God, to find you are divided The other half of the body and soul, this is not unimaginable - we even defeated the God of War, reached the deep sea, and found the legacy left by the sailors, ancestors, even if you don't rely on gods, mortals can create miracles... "

"I've always believed in miracles," Modil laughed, with a look of indifference on his face that surprised Victoria, "I didn't give up, Victoria, don't get me wrong, I just have no regrets about any ending, But if there is a chance of survival, of course I am very happy-under normal circumstances, who would take the initiative to seek death?"

Victoria was a little embarrassed for a while: "Uh...that's good, I thought..."

Modil just looked at the lady in front of him who was theoretically his descendant but was actually a stranger not long ago with a smile, and suddenly asked curiously: "Do you care about my affairs? Victoria, I may be a bit blunt, but until not long ago, you and I didn’t know each other. We were strangers at first, and the only thing that connects you and me is a blood that has spanned six centuries and has been very thin... You have people who are closer to you, and people who are more familiar to you, but I...should not be that close to you."

Victoria glanced at the old man in front of her in surprise. She didn't seem to expect that the other party would take the initiative to talk about this somewhat delicate topic, but after a moment of silence, she broke the silence with a soft voice: "You are right, since Theoretically... there is no deep relationship between me and you. For a long time, you were just a story that was passed down in the family records to me. Now that you have walked out of the story, And you yourself are far from what I imagined... Indeed, I can't treat you as a kind and familiar elder, although I know I should do so..."

"Then how do you see me?" Modil asked curiously.

Victoria thought about it carefully, and finally said after a long time: "A great person, this great person used to be far away, but now he is close by - I am trying to understand your affairs, maybe just like Hetty and Rebecca back then Like that."

After finishing speaking, she looked at Modil who seemed to be thinking, and asked again: "Do you have any plans after you go back?"

"I haven't made up my mind yet—Miss Amber has helped me temporarily stabilize the situation, but if there is no accident, I should only have about a year to arrange the rest of my life. I have been thinking about whether to use this year Complete the last adventure in this life, go to a place as far away as possible, and witness some more bizarre things, but just now, when I was looking at you... I had another idea."

"Another idea?" Victoria asked curiously.

"...I have traveled the whole world, perhaps more than once, and although some things have faded from my memory, I still have vague impressions of many places in the world, but one... I am very strange, It's so strange that I don't even remember where it is," Modil suddenly looked into Victoria's eyes, and said in a very serious tone, "I want to go there and have a look."

"Which place are you talking about?"

"Take me home and have a look," Modil said slowly, "Perhaps the last 'adventure' of my life is to go back to the hometown that I have completely forgotten-Victoria, which is in the mountains ,Is it?"

"Yes," Victoria's face with little change of expression seemed to come alive, she met Mordir's sight, recalling the place where she was born and raised, "There is a beautiful castle there, the highest in the north. It's cold most of the time, only a little warm in the room with a fireplace, but the view is good, you can see the snow-covered mountains in the north, and you can see the white courtyard and the prosperity below The towns in town—it’s not as advanced and new as Northport, but in the streets and alleys, you can see the rise and fall of the Wilder family in the 600 years since you left.”

"Oh, that sounds good," laughed Mordir Wilder, "I should really check it out."

……

In the vast desert covered by gray-white fine sand, the majestic throne stands among the ruins of a collapsed altar. An ancient tome on top of a stone pillar.

"Oh, you're awake, great adventurer," Ms. Ye's majestic voice sounded from heaven and earth, "Did you have a good dream?"

"That's right," the old man's voice came from the big black book at the top of the stone pillar. There was still a trace of confusion in the voice that had just woken up from a dream, "I haven't had such a dream for a long time..."

"What did you dream about?"

"I dreamed that I was packing my bags and embarking on the road back to my hometown," Wilder said in a low voice, in this barren and empty sand sea, his voice whispered to the only listener, "It seems that I have not back home..."

"...Yes, great adventurer, home is a very distant concept, do you want to go back?"

"Probably, I think I should have this idea, but I'm not sure if it's my idea..."

Chapter 1292 How to Destroy

The chaotic and disorderly wind blew over from the distant phantom land, rolled up the gray-white fine sand, and set off a cloud of smoke between the collapsed altar and the throne. There seemed to be phantoms of countless ancient things fluctuating in the smoke Sinking, but disappearing when the next sandstorm comes, the goddess on the throne calmly and long-termly watches the phantoms that occasionally appear in the sand. After a long time, a majestic but sentimental voice resounds between heaven and earth: "Yes, great adventurer, we have all stayed in this place for too long, and many things have become blurred because of this, including what we once valued and cared about...all dissipated like dust in the wind."

Wilde's voice seemed quite surprised: "...Ma'am, do you also feel sentimental because of the passage of time and things?"

"Gods are also human, God is the most human, Mr. Great Adventurer," Ms. Ye's voice seemed to carry a little smile, "Those who have lost their humanity have either fallen in madness, or will sooner or later come to an end .”

"...what about that 'thing' that roams around your throne?" asked the book on the stone pillar. "Is he human too?"

This time, the voice on the throne was silent for a long time, until the next gust of wind and sand blew up, and there was a voice from the throne: "Of course he also has his humanity, and in a sense, his humanity is pure and indifferent. Dust."

"...Is that so, I thought that thing didn't even have the ability to think," the great adventurer's voice sounded surprised, "So it's still human..."

"Ah, you're right, great adventurer, he really doesn't even have the ability to think..." The majestic figure on the throne sighed softly. Along with the words, he slowly got up, and at some point in his hand, he didn't know when. With a scepter composed of black and white, she looked at the dark area at the end of the desert that looked like a silhouette of a city, and stepped down from the altar, "Newborn babies don't have the ability to think, but the purest human nature in the world lies in Before the baby's first cry..."

The wind in the desert howled, and in the black and white silhouette of the city in the distance, an indescribable terrifying mass formed of countless proliferating limbs and mutated flesh was growing a body from the darkness, like a giant round of flesh and blood. Floating over the city like the sun, it began to slowly float towards the altar of the throne. There was a piercing sound from the mass of flesh and blood, as if it was a mixture of countless shouts, countless screams and a lot of low-pitched murmurs. And where its tentacles of flesh and blood spread, the gray-white desert was quickly stained with a layer of crazy black and red spots, and the pure sand was instantly turned into clumps of dirty mud.

But in the next second, invisible power spread out from the direction of the throne, and the pollution on the edge of the desert was instantly stopped. The towering figure who stood up from the throne walked towards the distance, and the gray-white cracks that spread and swam on His dress were like water. Flowing and condensing on the top of the scepter in his hand, it seems to be the light and shadow ruling the whole world.

"The 'baby' is about to cry again, he needs a little 'care' from the elders," a majestic and lazy female voice sounded from the sky and the earth, "Mr. Big Adventurer, remember to focus on the star map, don't listen or watch the 'border' 'The movement came."

"Ah, this is definitely the scariest baby in the world... and the scariest scene of domestic violence," the ancient tome on the stone pillar sighed, "Okay, I understand, please be careful."

……

After a lot of hard work, the harsh and noisy alarms all around finally stopped, but the red warning lights in all parts of the room were still flashing non-stop. Gao Wen stood in front of the large terminal device at the end of the main control room with an extremely serious expression. Looking at the system interface that was completely out of control, he kept a motionless posture for a long time.

It wasn't until a familiar sound of footsteps came that he turned his neck slightly and turned slightly to the direction of the sound: "I knew you would sneak over in the end."

"I'm a little thief. Wouldn't it be against my professionalism to be honest with my hands and feet?" Amber's carefree voice sounded from behind Gao Wen, without any sense of nervousness about "disobeying orders". You’ve been staring at this thing all this time? Are you going to see the Sentinel’s weakness from here?”

Gawain's gaze returned to the large hemispherical terminal in front of him. He stared at the holographic screen projected on it, and after a few seconds he slowly said, "I'm looking for the ship's weakness."

"The weak point of this ship?" Amber raised her eyebrows, walked to Gawain's side, followed him and stared at the large terminal in front of her for a long time, but she couldn't understand a single symbol, "You mean The weakness of this ship is the main control room? This sounds quite reasonable, after all, this is its control center... But didn’t you say that the main control room has nothing to do with the operation of the spaceship?”

"This is exactly the problem," Gao Wen said, "the control center should be the weak point of the spaceship in theory, but this ship is no longer just 'a machine', it has been continuously out of control for more than a thousand years. Cruise, its operation has nothing to do with these crashed control terminals... I was actually trying to find a way to repair the system and take over the control authority of the spaceship from these terminals just now, you know, if we can control this ship, even if It would have yielded unimaginable benefits for us by just partially controlling it, but I failed."

"It's normal to fail." Amber was stunned for a moment, but quickly said with a smile, "This is something left by the voyager, and it has been corrupted by the reverse tide again—these two things are not easy to deal with. .In this world, even the gods can’t be omniscient, so there must be things you can’t handle.”

"No, failure itself is nothing. The biggest problem is... this." Gawain shook his head, then walked to a nearby small terminal device. The device with a somewhat damaged shell directly kicked out a big hole, then reached into the hole, and pulled a large piece of metal plate from the machine shell forcibly.

"Hey! This is ancient..." Amber subconsciously exclaimed when she saw Gao Wen's "violent dismantling" scene, but then her eyes fell on the big hole that Gawain dismantled , Through the torn metal plate, the situation inside the device was presented before her eyes, causing her to hold back the second half of her sentence in her bronchi.

The inside of the hole is almost empty, except for a pile of obviously distorted, molten crystal structures and a little ashes, this thing is basically a "bored" empty shell.

However, just above such an empty shell device, the red warning light representing a system failure and a bunch of chaotic holographic images are still flashing.

"Did you see it? This empty shell is still functioning—although it is in a state of system collapse, in fact it shouldn't emit even a gleam of light," Gao Wen said with a serious expression, "Daniel said before This ship is a 'walking corpse' whose head was cut off and is still alive, but the actual situation is probably more weird and terrifying than that... There is some kind of force that maintains everything here, and the various components of this ship are not just 'out of the system' It's still running after that' so simple, the mechanism behind them is beyond our understanding, and it doesn't even conform to our cognition of the material world... I don't know how much of the ship is in this state, I even doubt the whole ship The essence of it has been 'holed'."

Amber stared dumbfounded at the weird and horrifying scene in front of her, and suddenly shrank her neck and trembled: "This... so we can't 'take over' this ship by any means, right? Just what you said' Permissions'..."

"Yes, we can't take over its 'management authority', because this ship has completely alienated into something...indescribable, it just looks like it used to be, but its inside is much bigger than that. The Tower Against the Tide is even more disturbing. Frankly speaking, even if I have a chance to take over this spaceship now, I don’t want to touch it... because this is definitely a trap, and it will lure us to death,” Gawain’s expression was almost serious He said gloomyly, "Similarly, we'd better not try to learn any technology from this ship... Even if some knowledge that we can understand still remains in this ship, that knowledge must be 'poisonous'." 'of."

Amber listened with horror, and swallowed hard: "So when you tried to find the weakness of this ship just now, you actually wanted to..."

"I was thinking, how can we destroy it," Gao Wen said seriously, in front of Amber, he did not hide his thoughts and worries, "We can't deal with that 'home port', but the home port itself seems to be There is no ability to take the initiative to attack, but the spaceship in front of us...it makes me feel threatened."

"Threats... this thing is really weird," Amber murmured softly, "but then again, hasn't Sentinel already run away? No matter how weird the home port and spaceship it left behind, it's dead according to the program. It's just a thing..."

"Did Sentinel really cut off contact with its home port and this spaceship?" Gawain interrupted Amber, "Did it really just want to break free from the orders and missions that were bound to it before running out of the deep sea? Perhaps... ...Its 'leaving the post' is only a temporary means to accomplish other things, and maybe there are still some 'arrangements' left by it in this spaceship and that home port. In a certain day in the future, these Everything becomes a weapon against us."

Amber shrank her neck, and when she looked at the ancient equipment emitting red light around her, she seemed to feel a sense of tension like being pricked by needles, as if behind those flashing red lights were countless pairs of cold and malicious eyes. Her eyes were staring at her "fat" that had fallen into the mouth of the predator, and this feeling reminded her, and she couldn't help but think of the cold stare she had in the corridor of the spaceship before. The chill of staring at, being stared at by malicious minds.

"Then do you have a solution?" She couldn't help rubbing her arm that was about to get goosebumps, and looked at Gao Wen expectantly, "You usually have the best solution..."

"I'm still thinking about it, and I'm not sure what effect my thoughts will have," Gawain said with a serious expression, "The technology used in this ship is extremely advanced, and its armor and shields may be able to resist what mortal civilization can do today." Any kind of weapon ever made, and if it's broken from the inside... I don't know where to start, you look around, these control terminals have been destroyed over 1000 years ago, it doesn't make any sense. And there's something more important..."

"A more important point?" Amber asked subconsciously.

"This ship may fight back," Gao Wen shook his head. "It has a weapon system and protection inside and out, and these things are likely to be operating automatically—we may not be able to afford it until we fully understand the details of this ship. The price of angering this ancient weapon."

Having said that, he exhaled lightly, and said softly with a hint of thought in his expression: "So, I'm thinking of finding another way..."

The information gained at Sentinel's home port and the experience along the way made everyone a little nervous, and this tension even lasted for the entire subsequent journey.

But in the end, the return trip ended without any surprises or dangers.

A hazy light appeared in the chaotic dark depths outside the shield of the spaceship. In the light, one can vaguely see the dust cloud hanging down from an endless high place. After seeing the familiar scene, the high place on the deck Wen finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Melita got up from her resting place, moving her huge wings and tail covered with scales. Others who had rested for half a day also stood up one after another, looking at the border of the God of War God Kingdom, which was gradually showing a clear outline. Daniel, who had a stern face, a gloomy temperament and rarely communicated with other people, couldn't help exhaling at this time, and muttered softly, "Finally he's back..."

"Yeah, I'm finally back," Mary murmured softly when she heard the instructor speak, "I'm so nervous along the way..."

Daniel turned his head slightly to look at his female apprentice, and snorted: "So you're relaxing now? This journey is an adventure that ordinary mages would never dare to dream of in their lifetime. You can't have nothing to gain. ——Go back and write a [-]-word summary, which will be handed in next Monday.”

Mary's expression froze suddenly: "...Ah, yes, the tutor..."

Gawain heard the communication between Mary and Daniel, which reminded him of certain images deep in his memory in his previous life. A faint smile floated on his face, making him serious and depressed along the way. His aura also dissipated a lot.

At the same time, after a moment of deceleration and course calibration, the spaceship finally returned to the place where everyone started.

On the border of God of War surrounded by a sea of ​​faint yellow sand and dust clouds, the flag of the alliance has been hoisted on the outer edge of the fragmented city. Ms. Windsor Maple, the highest technical officer of Typhon, and the commander of the white knights, the high-ranking combat monk Knight Solid With their respective teams standing in a "stable area" near the border, they have been waiting here for a long time.

Among them, there is the white dragon Noretta who is leading two young dragons.

When the spacecraft returned home, it wasn't just the explorers on board who breathed a sigh of relief.

As the spaceship reached the closest point to the Kingdom of God in the sea of ​​clouds, the figure of the blue dragon jumped up from the edge of the deck, carrying the exploration team that set off two days ago and the large number of "samples" they brought back, and finally returned. Arriving at the God of War God Kingdom, although it is constantly disintegrating, it seems to be extremely stable at this moment.

This time, Amber was the first to jump off Melita's back.

"Huh... It's a relief," she shook her head, and couldn't help sighing, "It feels so good to step on the ground... Obviously not long ago, I thought the 'God of War' was a dangerous place, now I'm back here It felt like coming home…”

Chapter 1293 Return to Cecil

Amber's sigh is not her own feeling, for every explorer who has just returned from the Sentinel's home port, this feeling of relief is inevitable-even though the Kingdom of God of War is still called It is a dangerous situation, but there is a difference between "dangerous" and "indescribable".

"Anyway, God of War God Kingdom is still a place where we can control the situation," even Victoria, who always gave people a sense of coldness and alienation, couldn't help but said after hearing Amber's words, "The things left by the sentinels are given to us." My feeling is that it is completely uncontrollable and unpredictable... It can only be said that we still know very little about what the voyager left behind."

Ms. Windsor Mapel and Knight Solider, who were here to welcome everyone, also greeted them at this moment. Windsor was the first to come to Daniel, with a smile on her face: "I am so relieved to see you returning safely. Did it go well?"

"There are a lot of discoveries," Daniel nodded indifferently. "We have seen other kingdoms of God, but more important than that is that we uncovered the secret of the 'Sentry' - I will tell you the situation in detail when I go back."

The white dragon Noretta also greeted her friend who had just transformed into a human form, and the two baby dragons jumped into the arms of their mother faster than her. The little ones shouted excitedly and bumped their heads against Melita's body. Arms and stomach, the latter had to use both hands and feet to barely cope with this overly enthusiastic "greeting": "Okay, okay, don't make trouble...you miss your mother, right? Did you listen to your mother at home?"

"What you said sounds really strange—although it is logically true," White Dragon Noretta smiled and came to his friend, "Look at your expression... the harvest of this journey should not be easy."

"Not only is it not simple," Melita said with a complicated expression while pressing the heads of the two baby dragons, looking at Gawain who was not far away, "I kind of recall the time when I blew up two hearts in one go. Already, my blood pressure hasn't come down this trip..."

"We need to return to Cecil City as soon as possible, Knight Solider," Gawain came to the white knight commander on the other side, speaking quickly, and at the same time looked up at Victoria—— Beside the Ice and Snow Duchess, invisible magic power is holding up a frozen ice cube. Inside the crystal clear cube, twined vines and two inconspicuous pink and white flowers can be seen. Under confinement, these plants still maintain the appearance they had when they were frozen, "something needs to be sent back immediately."

"Yes, Your Majesty," the high-ranking combat monk Solid replied in a deep voice. A deep and heavy voice came from the fully-covered white knight helmet, and then he spoke again, "Also, there is an emergency report."

Gao Wen was about to hand over the information about the Sentinel and mention the follow-up exploration plan, but he heard a strange seriousness from the tone of the armored priest in front of him, and immediately raised his eyebrows: "Emergency?"

"News came from the Siren Kingdom. Our deep sea allies have discovered an abnormal situation in the deep blue webway in the water elemental field—they have 'salvaged' some artificial object with unknown purpose and principle from the magic power flow. It has something to do with the perishing cultists in the wasteland," Knight Solid said in an unusually serious tone, "Now they have shared the structural diagram and preliminary analysis data of that thing with Cecil City, but whether it is Ms. Jenny or Her Highness Rebecca has encountered... a technical obstacle."

"In the dark blue webway... those sea monsters actually 'salvaged' something from the dark blue webway?!" Gawain was stunned. Only then did I focus on the second half of Knight Solid's sentence, "You said that neither Jenny nor Rebecca could understand what the Krakens fished out? What about the other scholars of the empire?"

Although Jenny and Rebecca are absolute authorities in the field of modern runes and magic, they lack experience and accumulation after all. They may not be able to surpass those traditional mage scholars in the field of "erudition". The mysterious items "salvaged" by the sea-monsters may be able to see something by the knowledgeable scholars of the old era.

However, Knight Solid just shook his head: "There is no progress. Ms. Hetty even convened the academic group in Saint-Sunil City, but no one has seen that thing... No one has heard of it."

Gawain frowned. He couldn't help thinking that when he and Kamel and others were at Sentinel's home port not long ago, they had discussed that the "Elf Twins" in the wasteland might use the power of those cultists to make trouble in the Deep Blue Webway. However, he did not expect a suspicious clue to surface so soon. He turned his head and glanced at Windsor Mapel and the Typhon Scholars who were leading him, and then frowned and asked the armored priest in front of him: "Relevant Has the information been sent to Typhon and the Silver Empire?"

"Yes, in accordance with the alliance's joint defense agreement for dealing with major world-class disasters, we have sent this part of the information to the high-level officials of the two countries," Solid Knight nodded, "but..."

"But we don't have a clue," said Ms. Windsor Mapel on the side with some worry, "the feedback from the Silver Empire is the same. It is something completely unknown to ordinary people today, using incomprehensible Although the current suspicion of this matter is most likely to fall on the cultists in the wasteland, we can't understand how a group of cultists who sealed themselves in the wasteland of Gondor created that They even mastered the technology of opening the deep blue webway and injecting substances into it..."

"It seems that the situation is indeed as we speculated..." Faced with Ms. Windsor's confusion, Gawain just sighed expectantly, turned to Kamel and said, "The sentry has already started to move."

"Sentry?" Ms. Windsor was at a loss when she heard it. She knew the word "sentinel". I don't know why this disturbing term is related to the wasteland of Gondor, "what's between this and the wasteland..."

"This is exactly what I mentioned to you just now, and the biggest discovery of our trip," Daniel said in a low and slightly gloomy voice, "Do you still remember the warning of 'be careful of the sentry'? Now we finally know that this sentence is What do you mean... An ancient guardian left by the Voyager has lost control. It infiltrated into our world 1000 years ago. After a long period of dormancy, it has now launched an operation and is currently hiding in the wasteland of Gondor. The 'Elf Twins' in the movie... were faked by this watchman called 'Sentry'! Now those cultists in the wasteland have become the minions of the Sentinel, and they... hold the Voyager's technology in their hands!"

Windsor Mapel's breathing quickened a little bit, and a moment later she clenched her staff tightly, her face extremely serious: "This matter must be reported to Aldernan immediately!"

"I have to go back immediately," Gao Wen said, and the news brought by Knight Solid made him feel more urgent, "Victoria, you return to the northern border to deal with affairs, we will need a stable domestic situation more than ever." The situation, Amber and I returned to Cecil City, as for Kamel..."

He looked at the ancient magister who was floating on standby, and nodded after thinking for a moment: "You stay here and continue to lead the exploration of the Kingdom of God - we need more clues and information, and related research activities are also available. It cannot be interrupted."

Kamel bent down in mid-air: "Yes, Your Majesty."

"Noretta and I are going back to Tarrond too," Melita walked over from the side, with two dragon cubs struggling to cling to their mother's body in a koala-like posture. The two leaders of Andal and Heragor must be informed about the matter of the 'home port' as soon as possible, and... we also have to be prepared for the situation to change."

Gawain nodded slowly: "You guys should leave after a little rest and preparation. Agondor should also be waiting for your news."

……

After returning from the Kingdom of the God of War, all parties acted separately, while Gawain and Hu Po returned directly to Cecil City in a dragoon aircraft. By the time they arrived, night had begun to envelope the city at the foot of the Dark Mountains. In the large study room of Cecil Palace, Hetty has been waiting here for a long time.

The light from the magic spar dispelled the early winter night, and the street outside the floor-to-ceiling windows was filled with lights and distant sounds of cars and horses. Gawain sat back on the chair he was most familiar with, and Hetty stood in front of him, The "Imperial Steward" had a serious and solemn expression on his face, and the dark circles under his eyes seemed quite serious.

Gao Wen couldn't help but linger on Hetty's dark circles for several seconds.

"The circles under my eyes are real this time, ancestor," Hetty sighed helplessly, rubbing his forehead tiredly, "I haven't had much rest in the past two days... half of the time I spent with Typhon and the people of the Silver Empire Tech officials communicate about the Deep Blue Webway, and I'm sure they're just as overwhelmed as we are."

"So what exactly did the Krakens catch?" Gawain forcibly diverted his attention away from Hetty's eye sockets, and asked solemnly, "I heard that it is a very complicated structure. The rune device..."