Sword of Dawn

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He suddenly noticed that Noretta was carrying a heavy-looking large box, and couldn't help asking curiously.

The sudden visit of two agents at the same time and carrying such a big box made him faintly aware of some unusual signals.

And... I don't know if it was an illusion, but he sensed a familiar atmosphere from the tightly closed box that looked like it was made of some high-level magic material.

"Then let's make a long story short." Noretta stepped forward and put the box on the ground. "Our first mission this time is to return you something—something you've lost for many years."

While speaking, she activated the locking device on the suitcase, and with a slight click, the lid made of precious magic metal lifted automatically, revealing the contents inside.

A shield full of vicissitudes and scars.

Chapter 0883 Return to the original owner

The development of the matter was so unexpected that Gao Wen didn't react for half a minute.

He stared at the large box that Noretta opened. The shield with a strange shape and the size roughly equivalent to a medium-sized one-handed shield was quietly lying between the cushioning materials made of unknown substances. A series of memories of this shield emerged—of course he recognized what it was, even though he had already given up on finding it, but this shield was after all the personal equipment of his body, the impression in his mind is deep and clear.

He didn't expect this thing to appear in front of him in this form at this time.

Noretta's voice woke Gawain from his brief distraction: "This is yours, right?"

"Ah, that's right." Gawain blinked and nodded, "Anzu Kingdom Guardian's Shield, I thought I would never see it in my life. Is it in the hands of the Mithril Treasury?"

"If that was the case, we would have returned it to you a long time ago," Melita shook her head, "We also accidentally discovered its whereabouts recently-Mithril Treasury has always operated with integrity, and you are our important customer, so We immediately returned it to its original owner.”

There is no need for the dragon to lie about this kind of issue. Gawain knew this very well, so he quickly believed what Melita said. Then he frowned and looked at the two agents curiously: "Where are you from?" Where did you find it?"

"In the elemental world, in the domain of the fire element," Melita said, "an elemental lord secretly hid it, and even regarded it as part of his elemental inner shell. The treasury is an account, and I am afraid that no one will be able to find it for several centuries."

Gao Wen was taken aback on the spot: "Elemental World?! How did it fall there?"

Melita spread her hands: "It's hard to say - we didn't expect that what the elemental lord secretly hid would be your lost property, so we didn't prepare for the inquiry in advance, and we will wait until we find this thing." When I wanted to ask, the elemental lord who owed money was already unable to answer the question because of a little regrettable force majeure..."

Gawain could use his biceps to figure out what Melita's elegant and artistic words meant inside and out. He immediately glanced at the agent lady with admiration: "In terms of language arts, you dragons are the best."

Melita accepted the compliment frankly, with an elegant and reserved smile behind the veil: "Although we haven't investigated the details, we can roughly infer that this shield should have been stolen from the battlefield by that elemental lord— —In the civil war you humans had 100 years ago. Maybe some crappy wizard on the battlefield opened a rift leading to the elemental world, or maybe the elemental lord had premeditatedly bewitched an elemental mage , and secretly stretched out my 'hand' - your shield is powerful, and it will naturally attract those creatures that love magic."

Gawain couldn't help sighing: "This kind of thing wouldn't have happened in the Gondor era...Elemental creatures also have to behave themselves."

Melita shook her head: "But the Gondor Empire that can make the elemental world feel awe is gone, and the current elemental residents don't respect the scattered human beings very much."

"...In short, thank you very much for sending it," Gawain put away his sighs, and nodded his thanks to the two senior agents in a serious way—even though for him now, a shield for charging has long been It is not as important as it was back then, but it is an exciting thing to recover the legendary equipment shared with Gawain Cecil, especially the two giant dragons who recovered this treasure. If the publicity is proper, this item This matter can not only boost the morale of the whole country, but even enhance the prestige and influence of the Cecil Empire in the world, so his gratitude is also from the bottom of his heart, "I will not let you go home empty-handed-but I don't know Mithril What kind of reward does Baoku want?"

"You have created distance by saying that." Melita shook her head immediately. "There is no fee for returning the lost property, but in exchange, we hope to ask you a few questions before returning the shield."

Gao Wen was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect this group of giant dragons who would even count on a copper coin to be so generous this time, so after hearing Melita's "a few questions", he immediately concentrated - the free ones are the ones. Most expensive, these few problems in Mithril Treasure Vault may not have pitfalls in it...

Of course, the two agents didn't know what kind of magical train was running in Gawain's head. They looked at each other, and Noretta was the first to speak: "The first question-we want to know the specifics of this shield. history."

"Origin?" Gao Wen frowned, and immediately realized something from the first question. Before answering, he asked cautiously, "Why are you interested in this?"

"...Considering that you used the 'God Metal' to make a deal with us, I can remind you," Melita pointed to the guardian shield, "you didn't notice the main material of this shield Something special?"

"Material?" Gao Wen was taken aback, and then some details in the inherited memories that he had ignored suddenly flashed through his mind. Between the metal parts and the cladding material, he saw the most primitive material of this shield, which was a kind of silver-white metal, but there were very fine, star-like light spots flowing on the surface. At that time, he could feel a strange warmth—it was completely different from any conventional metal in the world, "This thing..."

He doesn't recognize this material, but some of the characteristics of this material are somewhat similar to another material he knows, or they all have the same "advanced nature". I saw two macho men with a Hong Kong comic style. The former and the latter are not the same person, but Gao Wen can still tell that they have the same origin - the style of painting is different from the background of the whole world...

The main material of the Guardian's Shield reminded him of "God's Metal", the advanced ancient alloy called "Eternal Slate", and the remains of the weapons and vehicles that imprisoned the God of Nature in the Shadow Fortress.

He frowned slightly—the inherited memory was indeed not his own after all, and this kind of detailed impression was subconsciously ignored by him.

If he was the genuine Gawain Cecil, he should have thought of his own shield after touching the fragments of the Eternal Slate, but he was not, and the memories he inherited could only be Lying quietly in the deepest part in an approximate archiving manner, so many details were "missed" by him.

"It seems you've figured it out," Noretta broke the silence after watching Gawain's expression change, "The main material of this shield has something to do with the god's metal called 'Eternal Slate'—— They belong to the same civilization."

Gawain took a deep look at Noretta.

For some unknown purpose, the dragons of Tarrond have been collecting "God Metal", and the "true identity" of God Metal is the fragments left in this world by the "God Killing Fleet" back then.

The dragons seem to know some of the secrets of the ancient god-killing war, and even the origin of the god-killing fleet.

However, they obviously did not plan to reveal these secrets, and it was impossible for them to reveal these secrets—he once asked Melita about this point, and he deeply confirmed this point after almost causing the Miss Agent to die suddenly on the spot.

Considering that all dragons should be similar, the question that can kill Melita should also kill Noretta, so he didn't ask any questions about "God Metal" and "God Killing Fleet" , but exhaled slightly, and while sorting out the memories in her mind, she answered Noretta's question just now: "I got this shield when the Northern Expeditionary Army crossed the scorching mark of mana - its main material is our Found while searching a supplies warehouse at Viplandon Observatory."

Noretta showed a hint of curiosity: "Viplanton Observatory?"

"The largest astronomical observation and celestial body research center in the northern part of the Gondor Empire," Gao Wen said, "the famous Viplandon meteorite rain once occurred there, and then the Gondorians established it there to study the outer space materials that fell on the surface. Research facilities, and a few years later, on the basis of the research facilities, an observatory, an astrologer, and a giant gravitational analysis station called "Star Axis" were added—of course, these things were all wiped out when the magic tide came, and our The Northern Forces were just looking for some supplies in those surviving underground warehouses."

As he spoke, Gao Wen couldn't help but sigh slightly in his heart.

The former Gondor Empire... technology is even far more advanced than the Earth in his previous life. Although due to the focus of the technology tree, the former Gondors have not tried to step into the universe, but the scholars at that time still have the knowledge of the planet. It is a pity that all these brilliant achievements disappeared along with a demon tide. Not only the technical talents and technical materials in the hinterland of the empire disappeared, but even some research facilities set up in remote areas were wiped out. did not survive.

To this day, the Gondor Empire’s understanding of the stars in those days has only been left to ordinary people with superficial common sense concepts such as “we live on one planet” and “there are other planets beyond this planet”, and these Common sense concepts are also rapidly annihilated, disappearing, and gradually merging with those vague legends.

Fortunately, the recovery of civilization brought about by magic technology is curbing this decline, and the scholars who have been re-centralized and motivated have also begun to share the knowledge that has been dusty in various mage towers, and have begun to rebuild in suitable areas. Modern astronomical observation or research facilities.

Noretta had no way of knowing what Gawain was feeling, she just immediately noticed the background of the establishment of the "Viplandon Observatory": "That is to say, that observatory was originally used to study meteorites - you are in the ruins of the warehouse It is very likely that what was found fell from the sky along with the meteorite."

Although Gao Wen was answering Noretta's question, he himself gradually became aware of the clues behind these questions and answers at this moment. Many things that he hadn't noticed before or that were kept deep in his memory slowly emerged and connected together into a complete My guess—the Godkiller Fleet, the Viplandon Meteorite Rain, metals of unknown origin...

All these are being connected into a huge truth, he never thought that this truth has been hidden beside Gawain Cecil, hidden in the deepest part of his own memory.

"You mean, the piece of metal we found in the ruins of Viplandon was part of the 'Meteorite Shower' that year," Gawain looked at the Guardian Shield in his hand, and the shield couldn't help but appear in his mind The process of being forged (or processed), "it fell from the sky... no wonder..."

"I'm a little curious," Melita said suddenly, "What you found back then should be a metal plate of unknown origin—how did it become the Guardian's Shield in the end?"

Gawain thought for a while, and confessed frankly: "None of us knew about this thing - most of the people in the expeditionary force had very low backgrounds at that time, and the only scholars, mages, and priests were not familiar with the matter of Viplandon Observatory. Don't know, but we found this piece of metal to be extremely strong, almost completely resistant to any magical attack, and it showed no signs of erosion in the magic tide environment, and it was a good size, so Charlie suggested to install it ..."

Melita: "..."

Noretta: "..."

Gawain looked at the two staring-eyed agents, and helplessly spread his hands: "You can't expect the Human Expeditionary Force, which was short of supplies and lacked high-level technical personnel, to have better results when faced with an unknown piece of metal. performance, we can't assemble a team of experts to slowly study what it is, and at that time the expeditionary force urgently needed more powerful combat power - a shield that was considered invincible at the time could allow a powerful knight to protect more people through pollution area, and a piece of heavy metal can only drag down the journey. Of course, I admit that "putting it on" seems a bit sloppy and rude... But there is no one in the expeditionary force who has a bigger brain than Charlie, and everyone has no better ideas , Charlie’s plan is more or less an option.”

"We are just surprised that you dare to make a piece of unknown metal into personal equipment without knowing whether it is harmful." Melita looked at Gawain solemnly and said, "As a Gondorian, you always There should be concepts of elemental erosion and energy radiation?"

Gawain glanced at Melita, and suddenly laughed: "Is the elemental erosion and energy radiation greater than the wasteland of Gondor itself?"

"...It's true."

Melita reluctantly admitted that behind Gawain's seemingly rude and ignorant actions back then, there was actually no choice after thinking about it, while Gawain looked at the Guardian Shield in his hand, and his thoughts became more and more serious——

When he searched Gawain Cecil's memory in his mind using this shield as a key word, he also found a fault!

Chapter 0884 Invitation?

Today, Gao Wen is no stranger to the existence of various faults in the memory he inherited.

A considerable part of these mysteriously disappearing memories was erased by Selina Geer back then, and the reason for the other part has not been ascertained so far.

But all the lost memories have one thing in common: they more or less point to the gods, and they belong to the "mention will be detected" things.

On the premise of confirming this common point, as long as he realizes that there is a gap in his memory related to "Guardian Shield", Gao Wen can already think of many things.

He let out a breath slowly, temporarily put aside the many guesses and associations in his mind, and looked at the two senior agents in front of him again: "About the Guardian Shield, what else do you want to know?"

"We want to know if after you got it..." Melita opened her mouth, she hesitated slightly, as if she was choosing her words carefully, "Has there been some kind of 'change' under its influence?"

"Change?" Gao Wen frowned slightly, "What do you mean? You know, 'change' is a very broad term."

"For example, seeing or hearing something, such as the sudden appearance of a perception ability that you didn't have before," Noretta said, "You may even see some complete illusions, and get memories that don't belong to you..."

Gawain's eyes immediately became serious - Noretta's words almost directly confirmed a conjecture he had just popped up, a conjecture related to Gawain Cecil 700 years ago!

"Since you are the person involved, let's make it clear," Melita noticed the change in Gawain's expression, and said calmly, "We know something about the shield in your hand and the secret behind the 'God's Metal'— ——As you know, the metal of God is the eternal slate. It has the power to influence the mind of mortals, and can instill memories or even "extraordinary experiences" that do not belong to them. The main material of the Guardian Shield and the God's The metal is of the same origin, and has a further 'power' than the metal of the gods, so it can also have a similar effect.

"It will affect the mind and perception of mortals, instill certain memories or emotions in you, and may even alienate your mental and physical structures, allowing you to establish a connection with some distant things.

"What we want to know is whether you have experienced similar changes during the days when you held the Guardian Shield, or... Have you been exposed to similar 'sensory transmissions'?"

Gao Wen was mentally prepared when Noretta spoke just now, so listening to Melita's words at this moment, his expression remained calm and indifferent, only a thunder sounded in his heart: It really is so!

This is the reason why Gawain Cecil, as a human being 700 years ago, suddenly established contact with the satellite in the sky, and was even able to establish communication with himself as a satellite consciousness at that time - it was because of that side that he never left his body. "Anzu · Shield of the Guardian of the Kingdom"!

A metal fragment of unknown origin is most likely the remains of some ancient facility that fell from space. It has energy radiation similar to the "Eternal Slate", but it is not the Eternal Slate. Under the circumstances, this piece of metal was processed into the Guardian's Shield. After that, Gawain Cecil spent nearly 20 years of his life with this piece of equipment day and night. It immediately produced spiritual guidance and knowledge instillation, but subtly influenced Gawain Cecil over the years, and finally established a connection between a human and the ancient facility in the starry sky.

Gawain is not sure how this change occurred, nor does he know whether there are any key nodes in the process of this change—because the relevant memories have disappeared, regardless of whether this memory fault was intentional by Gawain Cecil No matter whether it was erased by some kind of external force, today's Gao Wen has no way of knowing how the original owner of his body was affected by the "starry sky relic". He just suddenly thought of another thing. thing:

According to the legend of the elves, the earliest "primitive elves" once arrived at a high tower, and suffered the influence of mysterious energy in the high tower, thus differentiated into several subspecies such as gray elves, silver elves, and sea elves. All the subspecies suffered from large-scale memory impairment and far-reaching technical chronology, and based on the information obtained later, Gawain guessed that the tower that the original elves encountered should also be a relic of the God Slaying Fleet. It is probably located in the southwest of the mainland. And it has something to do with the tower that Gawain Cecil encountered when he sailed southeast...

These ancient relics seem to have similar powers: they release mysterious energy all the time, they will imbue any race that comes into contact with it with memory or knowledge, and under certain conditions, they can even change the life form of those who come into contact with it...

This made Gawain couldn't help asking a question: Gawain Cecil, who also successfully reached a "high tower"... After he entered that tower and came out alive, was he really still a "human being"?

He subconsciously looked down at his body, and for the first time felt that his "picked up" body out of thin air was the biggest secret he faced in this world.

"Is there any problem?" Melita noticed Gao Wen's strange behavior and couldn't help asking.

"No...it's nothing, I just suddenly thought of something from a long time ago." Gawain calmed down and suppressed all the thoughts surging in his mind, then he frowned, thinking whether he should answer Melita's question directly, he Looking at the two senior agents in front of them—they just stood there quietly, smiling with no real intentions, full of patience and professional courtesy.

Finally, he exhaled slowly, and said in a slow and deep voice: "Yes, I learned something during the process of contacting this 'star relic'."

Noretta asked subconsciously: "Specifically..."

"The gods are dead," Gawain said word by word, looking into the other's eyes, "and it was a massacre."

The room fell into a brief silence. Melita and Noretta looked at Gawain with some inexplicable and solemn eyes at the same time, and Gawain continued unhurriedly: "However, in this era, the gods still Hanging above the heads of all living beings, the oracle and divine power seem to have never changed, so my biggest curiosity now is-what are those who answer the prayers of mortals in the kingdom of God? What is their purpose, and the world of mortals What's the relationship?"

Melita and Noretta subconsciously looked at each other after hearing Gawain's last words, and then they fell silent at the same time. After a few seconds of silence, Noretta finally spoke.

"Sorry, we can't answer your question," she said, shaking her head, "but there is one thing we can answer to you—they are still gods, not something else."

"...This answer is enough." Gawain glanced at Noretta, his brows stretched, and he said slowly.

If the words of the agent lady are to be believed, then this at least confirms one of the speculations of him, Veronica, Kamel and others:

It's not that something else invaded the god's seat, but a new god was born on the god's seat... It's a new civilization activity that shapes the gods of a new season.

The "god-making model" behind the events of the upper-level narrator is correct, and it still works in the real world.

"We have one last question," Melita also broke the silence. "This question has nothing to do with the Guardian Shield, and it may involve privacy. If you don't want to answer, you can decline."

"Ask." Gawain nodded, "I will answer as appropriate."

"We heard that your soul floated outside the human world for centuries during your death, and once shuttled between reality and reality..." Melita asked with a serious expression, "Did you go to a certain place at that time?" Is it the Kingdom of God?"

"There is indeed such a saying, and the source is myself—but this kind of saying is not accurate," Gao Wen said frankly, "In fact, my soul has indeed wandered for many years, and it is indeed at a very high level. This place has overlooked this world, but...it's not the Kingdom of God, and I haven't seen any gods in those years."

"Then we can rest assured," Melita smiled, and looked at the shield in Gawain's hand, "We have no more problems. Congratulations, the shield of the Guardian of the Kingdom is now returned to its original owner."

"Let me once again express my gratitude to the Mithril Treasury." Gao Wen also laughed and said sincerely.

But soon he found that the two senior agents in front of him showed hesitant expressions, as if they still had something to say but couldn't say it, which made him ask casually: "Do you have any questions?" ?”

"It's not a problem..." Melita frowned and said hesitantly, "We have another task, it's just..."

She seemed very contradictory, as if she didn't want to complete this task, but was forced to come here to perform it. This was a situation I had never seen before—this lady agent was always full of motivation when she was working on the Mithril Treasury.

"Come on, don't be so entangled," Gao Wen couldn't help but said, "I won't feel offended."

"Are you interested in going to Tarrond as a guest?" Melita finally made up her mind, looking into Gawain's eyes and said, "Frankly speaking, the supreme ruler of Tarrond wants to see you."

This sentence was beyond Gao Wen's expectation. He was stunned for a moment, but soon realized from the agent's eyes that this "invitation" might not be that simple, especially when the other party clearly emphasized "Tallon "Supreme ruler of Tarrond" a few words, which made him subconsciously ask one more sentence: "The supreme ruler of Tarrond refers to..."

"It's our god," Noretta said in a deep voice, "the god of the dragon clan, the dragon god."

Gao Wen's expression froze immediately: "..."

It is no exaggeration to say that at this moment, his shocking shield almost fell off...

After a few seconds, he confirmed that the expressions of the two senior agents were the same, there was no joke in their tone, and he did not experience auditory or visual hallucinations. He realized the amazing amount of information contained in the other party's sentence, So while trying to maintain a stable expression, he asked with surprise: "There is a god in Tarrond? A god in the present world?!"

Noretta nodded: "Yes, the gods of our dragon clan are located in this world, and have lived in Tarrond for millions of years."

Gao Wen's tone was still full of surprise: "This god wants to see me?"

"Yes, our god wants to see you—he almost never pays attention to things outside of Tarrond, not even the changes of religious beliefs on other continents or even the life and death of civilization. He is so actively concerned about a mortal, This is the first time in many millennia."

Gao Wen noticed that Noretta seemed to deliberately say a lot of things that he didn't ask when answering, as if she wanted to reveal more information on her own initiative.

While guessing the real thoughts of this senior agent, and speculating on the situation of the "God of the World" in Tarrond and his relationship with ordinary dragons based on his previous understanding of the dragon race, Gao Wen quietly thought for a long time. After a while, he asked unhurriedly: "Apart from that? What else did your god say?"

"He asked us to tell you that this is just a friendly and ordinary invitation. Please go visit the scenery of Tarrond, and talk to him about the mortal world by the way. He wants to discuss some issues with you. This discussion may be helpful. There are benefits for both parties," Melita repeated with a strange expression what the dragon god Enya asked herself to tell Gao Wen, as if she herself couldn't believe that these words were spoken by a god to a mortal, "Finally, He also asked Let me tell you—this invitation is not urgent, if you are temporarily busy, then postpone this meeting, if you have doubts, you can directly refuse."

Gao Wen raised his eyebrows subconsciously: "Is this the original words of your gods?"

The two senior agents said in unison: "Yes."

Gao Wen thought for a while, and after a few seconds, he took a long breath——

"Don't go."