Sword of Dawn

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But in the end, she calmed down all the emotions that shouldn't come out at this moment, and temporarily put all her thoughts behind her head. After adjusting the muscles on her face, she showed the most suitable smile for the current situation.

Byron stepped off the plank and stepped on a solid wooden trestle. Except for his adjutant and a few personal soldiers, he was accompanied by no one else—the Kraken and the technical advisors of the Naga tribe stayed on the boat or in the sea. They don't have to be involved in this contact.

The patriarch of the gray elves came over with a faint smile on her face. Although she was short like a human child, her face was that of a standard adult, and she exuded the calmness and demeanor that a ruler of a family should have.She stretched out her hand to Byron, and said in a slightly hoarse voice: "Welcome to Baiyu Port, General Byron—I'm glad to see that you have a smooth journey."

Byron also stretched out his hand—stretched out two fingers, and "shake" with Wenna's hand: "It's nice to meet you, Ms. Wenna Baizhi. Today is undoubtedly a memorable day."

Then he turned his head and looked at the other aliens who appeared with the representatives of the gray elves. A dwarf wearing black armor and a gray beard walked towards him, like a moving, muscular Like a wine barrel made of iron, the dwarf stretched out his hand towards him, and said in a low voice, "Paladin Huishanyan from the kingdom of dwarves, hello to you, human, I bring greetings from the city of the forge. The craft of blacksmithing is really good."

Byron was startled for a moment, but quickly understood what the other party meant: this was a compliment to the cutting-edge experimental ship "Curiosity".

He suddenly laughed, and at the same time stretched out his hand to hold the other party: "Greetings to you-we received the news that the dwarf representative would also appear before we set off."

"Forge City is very interested in your 'restart route' plan," Paladin Huishanyan said carelessly, "Frankly speaking, your large mining machinery is all good stuff, but it's a pity that they can't be shipped to our side. There is a mountain ridge on the edge of our kingdom, but now that I see this ship, I don't think we need to go through that mountain - the Anzu people 700 years ago briefly used sailing ships and We have done business, but unfortunately it was interrupted as soon as it started to improve. After returning, I will make suggestions with the Forge City Council to repair the port on the west coast..."

It took Byron a lot of effort to finally pull his hand out of the opponent's palm, and at the same time he deeply felt what the so-called "dwarf straightforwardness" meant.

The matter mentioned by the other party is actually not in his mission plan for today-the main task today is to conduct the initial voyage test of Curiosity, and collect sea conditions and coastal data in the offshore area. The meeting of the representatives was more of a ceremonial contact, to announce the success of Curiosity's initial voyage, and to announce the official resumption of the route from Beigang to Baiyu Port. As for further business plans and route development... that requires more Professionals will agree on it later.

He believes that Wenna Baizhi thinks so too, but the dwarf envoy in front of him obviously doesn't think so. The other party's thinking has obviously expanded to how to repair the port on the west coast...

This made him feel like facing Gawain or Rebecca—one with incredible foresight, one who dared to say anything...

But soon, he showed a smile—it is a good thing to deal with such a straightforward representative. In all fairness, he likes this kind of person more, which is more difficult than those words, and it takes seven or eight detours to sneeze The citing nobles and foreign ambassadors are much cuter...

The representatives of the three parties on the port chatted briefly, each with different concerns, and the entourage stood at their own angles, and the atmosphere on the scene seemed harmonious and harmonious. Cecil's official recorders also recorded this scene with the magic net terminal.

A picture was sent to Moss Forest, and a picture was sent to Beigang Hub.

……

"The Curiosity successfully completed its initial voyage and arrived at Baiyu Port on the border of the Ogure Tribal State at 12:15 noon today. General Byron and the ship's entourage were at the port with the leader of the gray elves, Ms. Wenna Baizhi, and the dwarf representatives...

"The smooth initial voyage of the Curiosity marks that the sea route from Beigang to the northwest coast of the Ogure Tribal State has been opened, and the empire's maritime ship manufacturing technology has laid the foundation. We will take a further step towards the ocean...

"...It is planned to extend the air route, connect it to the Dwarf Kingdom, and further extend to the south of the Ogure Tribal State...

"In the foreseeable future, we may establish further connections with the Silver Empire by sea..."

Victoria Wilde waved her hand, turned off the screen played on the magic net terminal, and stood up from the sofa.

"It's really an optimistic forward-looking idea...the distance between Baiyu Port and the Silver Empire is still far away," the Duke of the North said to himself, "But there is nothing wrong with being optimistic. The progress of restarting the route is going smoothly. This trend, sooner or later, can be connected with the elves by sea..."

The room was quiet, and Victoria glanced up.

A maid stood not far away in the room, with her head bowed, waiting meticulously for the Duchess's orders, but the maid obviously neither understood nor how to respond to what the Duchess was talking to herself. Maybe not even listening at all.

"Sigh... If Maggie is here, she will at least participate in the conversation." Victoria couldn't help but sighed, showing a somewhat helpless look on her usually expressionless face.

At this moment, there was a rhythmic knock on the door.

Victoria sensed the breath outside the door, and said casually, "Come in."

The door of the study room opened, and an elderly mage wearing a dark blue starry robe, with a dry and thin figure, but a spirited face, walked in and bowed to Victoria: "Good day, my lord."

"Victor," Victoria nodded to her chief mage, "what's the matter?"

"The connection test of the hub core is complete," said the old mage, with a bright and proud smile on his face. "The data is perfect, and you can accept it at any time."

Chapter 0917

A brand-new tower-like building stands tall on the high ground on the west side of Cold Winter Castle. The snow-capped mountains in the north that never melt all year round form an undulating curtain, which becomes the background of this tower.

The tower is made of steel and cement, with a hexagonal base and simple and straight lines. The streamer of light wanders between the rune lines and the magic metal at the lower part of the tower, as if it has surging vitality and There are large-scale supporting devices with mechanical structures and crystal arrays formed by multiple crystals fixed on the top of the tower. In the cold wind of this extreme north, a layer of translucent magic shield isolates the wind and frost. erosion, the crystal array on the top of the tower is constantly fine-tuning its structure and angle within the shield.

It has not been activated yet, and at this moment the crystal array is further adapting to the magical environment near Winter Castle.

In a gust of snow, Victoria and several high-ranking mages slowly landed from the air, and came to this high ground that was tightly protected by several military outposts and a circle of walls. She looked up and saw that the high tower was standing There was brilliance in his sight, piercing the sky like a sharp sword, and a smile could not help but appear in his eyes.

This is probably the most beautiful of all the magic net main hubs in the entire empire - the white color scheme and simple and powerful lines may look plain, but it perfectly matches the surrounding environment. When designing this tower, Victoria She even personally participated in some steps, so that the style of the main hub of the northern border was synchronized to a certain extent with the same white Fort Winter next to it. Now, she is very satisfied with the final posture of this tower.

And the connection between this tower and Winter Castle is more than that.

Under the high ground next to the main building of the castle, in a series of magic net relay devices extending along the mountain, there is surging magic power flowing day and night-this main hub, and the magic power of Winter Castle are linked together.

The Wilder family in the north has been the most outstanding magic family in this country for hundreds of years. Winter Castle has accumulated the heritage of the family for centuries. Victoria did not waste the ready-made and excellent magic foundation here-after studying carefully After gaining knowledge of rune logic and magic technology, she and the technical consultants from the imperial capital jointly designed a huge system. This system uses the magic net as the "base" to cover the magic structure of Winter Castle itself and the castle. The entire surrounding urban area also solves the problems of urban energy supply, magic net hub energy supply, strengthening the stability of the magic net, and the upgrading and replacement of the castle's own facilities.

And now, this system is already in operation. It gathers surging and stable energy and injects it into the tower in front of Victoria. Soon, it will pass through the crystal array on the top of the tower to further stabilize and adjust the energy. The energy broadcasts to the entire region and establishes a stable connection with the magic web hub in other nearby towns.

"After the final stage of the stress test is completed, the news will be sent to the imperial capital." The Duchess restrained her careless expression, and said to the people beside her lightly, "You can start preparing for the final grid connection."

The mage beside him immediately took the order to leave, and Victoria looked at the tower quietly for a while, then lowered her head, and chanted softly: "Mirmina, the goddess of magic... May you watch all this..."

In fact, she seldom prays to the goddess of magic. In recent years, she has learned many truths about the gods and even witnessed two "divine disasters" in person. She even reduced the number of times she mentioned the name "Mirmina". But in the final analysis, she is still a mage. There are some things that are rooted in habits that are not so easy to change. Domination" respect.

There was no answer to the prayer, but a vague attention and psychological response could be felt - expected and reasonable.

……

Accompanied by a slight buzzing sound and the clicking sound of the mechanical device running, a document was slowly spit out from the printing device next to the desk. Gawain took a glance at the document and couldn't help showing a smile on his face.

"Byron's contact with gray elves and dwarf representatives in White Feather Harbor went very smoothly, and the first voyage of Curiosity has achieved more than expected success," he smiled at Hetty, who was standing aside and had just finished reporting her work. He said, "It seems that those dwarves living in the extreme west of the continent are very interested in Cecil's foreign trade machinery, and also in magic technology-they may charge a very high price."

"Really? Ah...I've been waiting for this good news for several days," Hetty blinked, and her tone became very happy, "Dwarves have never been short of gold, silver and magic materials, but the bow of the dwarf kingdom towards the inland Shaped mountains have long affected their trade with mainland countries. If the sea trade route from Beigang to Forge City can be opened up, although the distance seems to be a little longer, the cost will definitely be countless times more cost-effective than land transportation.”

"I've heard that the dwarf kingdom is rich in minerals. To be honest, more than half of the reasons why I restarted the northern circumnavigation route was to open up trade routes with the dwarves—a series of routes across the border of the dwarf kingdom and the Ogure tribal country. It is too difficult to establish a trade line with high mountains and mountains," Gao Wen said with a smile, his face was undisguisedly happy and relaxed, "That's all right... Although the 'Curiosity' only opened up the North Port to Baiyu Port this time. But this is at least a good start, showing that our whole plan is feasible."

As he spoke, he drew a map of the coastline of the northwest part of the mainland in his mind, and matched the voyage data sent back by "Curiosity" with the details on the map.

He can clearly "see" the location of Beigang and Baiyu Harbor, and he can also see the bow-shaped mountains of the Dwarf Kingdom and several natural ports facing the sea-frankly speaking, for those who have already opened up land trade routes and their geographical location For the gray elves adjacent to the Cecil Empire, the line from White Feather Port to North Port is not of great significance, but as long as the shipping route continues and merchant ships connect White Feather Port and Forge City, the gray elf merchants will immediately You can get huge benefits from it-that short sea trade route is definitely easier than crossing the bow-shaped mountains.

This point, I believe that the keen-sighted Ms. Wenna Baizhi can also see it, otherwise she would not be so active in cooperating with the Cecil Empire's route restart plan, and agreed to open the only sea port in Moss Forest to Used by Northport ships.

With the further support of the gray elves, his flight restart plan will undoubtedly become smoother...

At this moment, the buzzing of the machine and the clicking of the printing device suddenly sounded again, interrupting Gao Wen's thinking.

He looked at the printing device connected to the magic net terminal with some surprise, and saw another document slowly spit out from the paper outlet——on the half page that had been exposed, he could see a letter representing the Wilder family. Snowflake emblem.

The paper fell into the tray, and Gawain reached out to pick it up, while Hetty looked curiously at the side: "Where is the report from?"

The documents that can be sent directly to this study are usually very unusual, and it is rare for two reports to be sent in such a short period of time.

At this time, Gao Wen had already glanced at the main part of the document. The short sentences didn't have much space, but the content was full of big news.

"The main hub of the northern border is ready, one day earlier than expected!" He said very happily, even more happy than when he received the good news from Byron, "The report from Victoria—the hub has completed all The acceptance process and the final stress test can now be merged into the backbone network at any time—just wait for the order from the imperial capital."

Hetty's eyes widened immediately. She had also been waiting for this news for a long time, especially recently as the expected acceptance date approached, her expectations were also increasing day by day. As one of the people who watched the development of magic technology, she was very aware of the empire's What does it mean to connect the whole territory of the magic net? After staying for less than a second, she showed a particularly happy expression: "Great! We have finally waited for this day!"

"How's the preparation going?" Gao Wen asked quickly.

"The preparations for all departments have been completed the day before yesterday, and most of the personnel are on standby at the moment. We have been waiting for news from the north," Hetty said immediately, "If we start the grid connection preparation process from now on, we will be ready in about four hours." The first main hub can be officially launched—starting from the hub in Shilin City."

"Then go," Gawain nodded to Hetty, "The next few hours will be a big event."

This is definitely a big event, and he is very sure of it in his heart—just like the launch of the first magic net prototype, like Ansu’s civil war, like the establishment of an empire, what will happen in the next few hours will It is enough to leave a mark on the times, and he can even foresee that this matter will be undisputedly printed on the textbooks and test papers of the students in the future. History classes must be learned, political classes must be learned, and even magic guides The kind you have to learn in technical classes.

Liberal arts must be memorized, and science must also be compulsory.

Thinking of this, Gao Wen couldn't help twitching the corners of his mouth, showing a strange expression.

The old ancestor suddenly showed a strange smile, and the eldest princess of the empire was a little confused about it, but Hetty quickly put the doubts in her mind behind - at such a happy moment, the old ancestor must also have ups and downs, and the smile is more complicated Also within reason.

She explained to herself in this way, then turned and left Gao Wen's study.She came to the corridor, looked at the neat magic spar lamps on both sides of the corridor, exhaled lightly, then lowered her head, put her hands on her chest and said a short prayer that she hadn't done for a long time: "Goddess of Magic Mirmina...are you willing to witness everything..."

There was no answer to the prayer, but a vague attention and psychological response could be felt - expected and reasonable.

……

In a brand-new classroom at Imperial College, senior students of the Department of Magic and Magic are sitting neatly behind their desks, listening to the new "Neural Network Concept Course" this semester.

Eleven, who was wearing a magician uniform, was looking at the direction of the podium intently, and beside him, a big boy with short brown hair and a few freckles on his face was bowing his head and writing quickly.

"Storm," Eleven couldn't help but gently touched his new classmate, and reminded him in a low voice, "Don't focus on writing notes—the teacher is explaining key theoretical knowledge."

The big boy named Storm seemed to be taken aback, and the tip of the pen left a crooked ink mark on the paper. He raised his head and glanced at Eleven quickly, with a nervous and timid look on his face: "I ...Okay, okay..."

Seeing the other party's reaction, Eleven wanted to say something more, but in the next second a thunderous voice suddenly came from the direction of the podium: "No talking in class! Mr. Eleven Franklin!"

This loud voice swept through the classroom like a storm, and all the students were shocked instantly, and Eleven Franklin broke out in a thin layer of sweat: Even if he is the son of the Duke, facing this loud voice Even in the entire Imperial College, there is no student who is not afraid of this loud voice.

He immediately sat up straight, made a gesture that he had recognized his mistake, and carefully glanced at the figure on the podium.

A middle-aged man with a short stature and bristling hair stood there. He was floating in the air, and there was a set of magic net projection crystals at the corresponding position under his feet, which were making a very slight buzzing sound.

Magnum finished training the students, shook his head, turned around and looked at the schematic diagram he had just sketched in mid-air, and was about to continue to finish the next lesson: "Okay, everyone is refreshed, let's continue to the next part, How to ensure that multiple brainwave signals will not interfere with each other after being transmitted to a node at the same time. You all listen carefully, because the pioneers who summed up this part of knowledge spent ten years trying to solve this problem, and you lucky guys are now It only takes less than half a class! First of all..."

Magnum's voice just stopped in the middle of speaking, and suddenly stopped.

In the brief silence, the students inevitably became a little bit agitated, and Eleven heard someone whispering behind him:

"Why is Mr. Magnum silent all of a sudden?"

"Will Ms. Selena turn off the talker again..."

"Shhh—Ms. Selena might be watching from the classroom."

"Quiet!!" Suddenly, Magnum's loud voice exploded again, he glanced at the classroom, and then waved his hand, "Well, it seems that today's class will end early, there is a task on the neural network, I'm going to turn my attention to other work and save the rest of this class for another time."

Immediately afterwards, he added in a loud voice: "But don't try to be lazy - I have prepared the test papers for the previous part of the course for you! A teaching assistant will be sent here in a while, and the remaining half of the class and Stay here and write papers for the next self-study class!"

As soon as the voice fell, Magnum's figure disappeared from the podium in an instant, leaving only a pile of formula symbols and schematic diagrams floating in the air, and only a group of students looking at each other in the classroom.

Chapter 0918 Howling

The grid-connection project is in full swing.

From Ten Forest City in the west, to Tamdul and Changfeng Fortress in the east, from Winterhold in the extreme north to Cecil, the imperial capital in the south, all the main hubs of the empire are undergoing pre-startup work. For the last test, the magic network nodes at all levels under the main hub are also preparing for the upcoming "sequential roll call". Everyone who has participated in it is tense at the moment, and does not want any accidents to happen to it.

And this exciting project affects not only the real world, but another "world" is also preparing for the upcoming grid connection.

In the "new world" built by spiritual power, a brand new city is spread out on the plain, shining under the sky. I can see the outline of Cecil City in the real world, but there are many differences in the details. It is newer, bigger, and has many buildings that do not exist in the real world. It seems to be based on the real world. A more imaginative and forward-looking "city model" is standing proudly on this vast land.

In the west district of the city, in a block that does not exist in the real world, the flow of people is like a weaving car, and the bustling streets are crowded with cars, horses and pedestrians that Cecil has never seen in reality, which even caused congestion in the entire block , It also made the order of the shops on both sides of the street a little chaotic.

But all of a sudden, all of this stopped, the crowds of people and vehicles on the street began to dissipate quickly, and the open shops along the street also turned off their lights one by one, and then the brightly colored buildings began to fade into gray and white geometric patterns , and quickly turned into monotonous lines and noise, everything disappeared in a few seconds, leaving only undefined blank land in place - the grassland in the distant wilderness quickly spread over and began to backfill this undefined area.

A genteel man wearing a white researcher's robe and a monocle floated out of nowhere on a piece of gray land. He glanced at the block that was being reset, and casually said to the air: "Urban planning for the West Zone VI project At the end of the simulation, the congestion situation has not improved significantly, and it is necessary to re-plan the road scale and adjust the location of traffic signals. I will compile a report after the specific situation."

Jumping golden runes floated in the air, and the response from the real-world urban planning department came from it: "Got it, thank you for your work."

"It should be done," Yuri said politely, and then glanced at the sky not far away - there was a huge countdown timer floating there, reminding him that the time was approaching, "then this is the last simulation for today - The grid connection project will start soon, and the neural network will be temporarily disconnected from all regular nodes before the magic grid returns to normal."

"Understood - I wish you all the best. Connection ended."

"Thanks. Connection ended"

Yuri hung up the communication with the real world, and the grass that spread from afar just happened to backfill the last piece of gray-white undefined land under his feet.

He turned around and was about to return to the city not far away, but a familiar aura suddenly approached and made him stop.

Magnum's figure appeared in front of Yuri.

"I'm not late, am I?" The man with a loud voice stared at him, "I came as soon as I was notified—I didn't even have time to give those students homework assignments..."

"You should think about improving your teaching efficiency, not the efficiency of keeping homework," Yuri said lightly, looking at the guy in front of him who had lost his body in the real world, but recently continued to flourish in the real world through other means He glanced at it, then nodded, "The time is just right, including you, all the technical team members are already in place."

Magnum sighed in relief and nodded.

And behind Yuri and Magnum, on the other side of the "New City of Dreams" built in imitation of the imperial capital, a huge white spider is emerging from the air, and slowly crawling up to the outside of the city. of a hill.

……

On a high ground on the east side of the "New City of Dreams", an old man wearing a black dress, holding a cane in his right hand and a simple lantern in his left hand raised his head and looked at the climbing hills not far away. The white spider whispered to the air next to it: "This is Duvalte, Naritil has started monitoring the data of the neural network center, and it is estimated that the protection of all nodes will be completed in 5 minutes."

A string of jumping golden runes appeared out of thin air next to this "humanity of God", and Rebecca's voice came from inside: "I have received—afterwards, you should always pay attention to the instructions from the dispatch center."

Duvalte nodded, just about to say something, but heard Naritil's shout from the hill not far away: "I can climb a little faster!"

Her voice was actually not loud, but it was loud enough to spread throughout the region.

"Cough...you just need to maintain the current efficiency," Duvalt coughed subconsciously, "There are still three hours before the official grid connection, and we have plenty of time."

"Yes, don't worry, the key is to monitor and protect all network nodes," Rebecca's voice also came from the golden rune, "Your task is very important, you must ensure that the neural network is connected to the magic net. Safe and sound."

"……Oh."

Naritil let out an oh, and continued to climb up the hill at her current speed, and around her huge spider body, countless faint silk threads had begun to emerge from the air, an invisible The net is rapidly weaving, protecting the still immature neural network layer by layer, in order to prepare for the possible impact when the physical network in the real world changes.

……

In the city of Saint-Sunil, in the Silver Fort, the symbol of the old royal family, a high tower is gradually being activated.

It is the main hub of Saint-Sunil, and geographically, it is also the "right center" of the magic net of the Cecil Empire. In the upcoming grid connection, this hub will play a very important role in coordination and support. pressure effect.