Sword of Dawn

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"No, you can just stay here." Gao Wen nodded to Amber, and then looked at Megal III, "Her name is Amber, and she is my intelligence minister. What do you want to tell me when you come here?"

"Minister of Intelligence...I understand," Megall trembled slightly, the shapeless star shrank slightly and lowered its height, and stopped in front of Gawain as if communicating face to face, "Your Majesty, you have already You accepted the personnel we transferred to Cecil as you promised, and you also helped us solve the crisis of the upper storytellers before, so in accordance with the previous agreement, all the technology and secrets of the Eternal Sleeper belong to you.

"I'm here today to fulfill the promise.

"I have some secrets related to the Typhon royal family. I wonder if you are interested?"

Gao Wen's eyes changed imperceptibly, and then he said in a deep voice, "What aspect?"

"Related to the 200-year-long curse of the Augustus family."

"...I'm very interested," Gao Wen said, and then he looked up and down at the cluster of starlight aggregates floating in mid-air, "Do I need a chair for you? I always feel like you're trying to let me communicate with you like this." Guests stand."

"No, I'm used to this state," Megaul III responded, "Of course, if you feel unwell, you can also give me a chair, and I can float over and pretend to be sitting on it."

"...Forget it," Gao Wen imagined the picture and shook his head, "You can start talking."

"First of all, it starts from the time of Typhon's old imperial capital, Orlandelle," Megall said. "You should know that the headquarters of the Order of the Eternal Sleepers is deep underground in the ruins of Orlandelle, and the curse of Typhon's royal family It also appeared after the big collapse of Orlande... In fact, long before the big collapse of Orlande, the eternal sleepers had already been active in the ground there."

Part of what Megaul said was information that Gawain had already grasped, and he had doubts about that area for a long time. He immediately frowned when he heard Megaul's last words: "So the key to everything is It's Orlandle—what the hell is there?"

"...It is a fragment of the God of Dreams, Your Majesty, it is in the underground of Orlandelle."

Gawain's breathing stopped for half a beat, but after this short and slight reaction, his expression was much calmer than Megower imagined.

"You don't seem very surprised?"

"I expected it," Gawain shook his head, "The Eternal Sleeper is a dream priest who has fallen into darkness, and you have been hiding in the depths of Orlandelle for hundreds of years to study forbidden knowledge. In addition to being suitable for hiding, there must also be Something that attracts you. In addition, the curse of the Augustus family is very special, and it obviously has the characteristics of dreams and spiritual realms-I have suspected that all this points to a certain god from a long time ago. For me, There are only a few 'suspects'."

Calling the gods "suspects" is obviously a leeway only for wanderers outside the territory.

There was a hint of awe in Megol's voice: "Everything is as you judge."

Gawain waved his hands and looked at Megower with a serious expression: "That is to say, the so-called 'curse' of the Augustus family is essentially the pollution of the gods caused by the god of dreams—then the Lord of Orlandle 200 years ago What happened to the collapse? How did the pollution spread to the Augustus family? You used Orlandelle as your stronghold before that, all of this... Could it be your handwriting?"

"That's not the case," Megall immediately denied, and then his tone was a little slow, as if he was collating his thoughts while speaking, "Where should I start telling you...In fact, all of this is a coincidence and The result of accumulation of errors. The cause of the Orlandle collapse was that the underground ruins were out of control, and the fragments of the God of Dreams suddenly activated, and this was more of an accident; The disaster was 'predicted' in time before, and the residents of the whole city were evacuated in advance, miraculously avoiding tens of thousands of casualties, and the reason why they could 'predict' the big collapse in advance was precisely because they had obtained The warning of the eternal sleeper..."

"Then let's start from the beginning," Gawain tapped on the table lightly, "from the time when the Church of Dreamland fell into darkness and used Orlandelle as a stronghold, and from when the Typhons established their capital in Orandale."

"Yes," Megoll responded, "First of all, the eternal sleepers took root in Orendelle and the Typhons established their capital in Orendelle. These two things happened at about the same time, but they did not Contact, just a coincidence.

"In the early days of Typhon's founding, the Augustus family chose Orlandelle, which was relatively fertile and suitable for city building at that time, to establish their capital, and just after they established a foothold, the Dreamland Church, which had barely recovered some vitality, arrived at that time. Orlandelle in the camp, where we lived in seclusion, hiding among the nearby forests and the chaotic villages and towns at that time, and maintained a low profile for a long time, living with the people of Orlandelle at that time.

"Afterwards, Orlandail became a city that had just taken shape, and the Church of Dreams was also restored more. We reorganized into the Order of the Eternal Sleepers in the dark alleys of Olandale, and operated locally in the form of a hidden church— —At that time, the most things we considered were survival and recuperation, and in a very unexpected situation, in the process of finding a new hiding place, we found a cave leading to the ground in a certain area outside the city... …At first we thought it was a cave, but soon we discovered that it actually led to a...ancient ruin that was almost as large as Orendelle at the time.

"It totally shook us at the time."

Gawain interrupted Megal's narration: "Did you discover the facilities left by the Gondor Empire? You are also a Gondorian, and you should recognize the technology and architectural style of the ancient empire."

Although he has entered the core of the Dream City many times, he has never seen what the headquarters of the Eternal Sleeper looks like in the real world, and from part of the memories of Daniel and others, he can only see that the underground palace passes 700 meters away. It is impossible to imagine what it looked like when it was first discovered by the Eternal Sleepers.At this moment, he just instinctively thought of the rebellious plan of the Gondor Empire, and suspected that what the Eternal Sleepers found was actually another "rebellious fortress" used to store samples of gods—just like the fortress in the dark mountains .

After all, the combination of ancient ruins + samples of gods has a really strong sense of sight.

However, Megal gave a negative answer: "I can be sure that it is not—it is definitely not something built by the Gondor Empire. First of all, it is outside the territory of the ancient empire, and it is a land newly opened by humans. The second and more important reason is that the facility is full of things we don’t know: the construction style has never been seen before, there are still unrecognized characters on some walls, and there are some equipment wreckage in some closed rooms, It also uses unheard of technology..."

Chapter 0851 God's Eyes

Listening to the scene of the ruins described by Megal III, Gawain gradually fell into thought.

The ancient facilities buried deep in the ground are obviously different from the Gondor Empire's architectural style and incomprehensible ancient technology, and there are "samples" related to the gods... All these characteristics gave him an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

And the clues revealed by Megoll confirmed his "familiarity".

"Another thing," said a deep voice from the starlight aggregate, "the ruins we found in the underground of Orlandael seem to have a certain connection with the ruins found in the Thorin region at the end of all things— —They look very much like two facilities built by the same civilization in different historical periods or under the influence of different regional cultures. But because the remains are too old and lack key clues, we have spent many years and have not been able to determine the relationship between them The specific connection, let alone deciphering the ancient technology in the ruins..."

Gao Wen suddenly took a deep breath: "It's the legacy of Against the Tide..."

Megol obviously had never heard of this word, and asked subconsciously: "Your Majesty? What did you say?"

"The ruins you found, as well as the underground palace where everything will die in the Thorin area, should all come from an ancient civilization called 'Reverse Tide', which was completely destroyed in the war with the dragon, and this empire There is an inextricable connection with the gods."

He thought of the "Ultimate Book" that Bertila gave him. That ultimate book is the legacy of the Reverse Tide Empire. Its function is to forge keys and communicate with satellite databases on planetary orbits. According to the clues provided by Tira, in the collapsed area deep in Thorin's underground palace, there were some rooms that were eroded and polluted by indescribable forces, and those rooms were obviously related to gods.

And now, there are new clues showing that the underground palace occupied by the Eternal Sleepers under the old capital of the Typhon Empire is very likely to be the second anti-tide relic existing in the world!

Megal obviously didn't expect that Gawain would explain the details of the mysterious relic in one word - the problem that the eternal sleepers have spent hundreds of years to understand, seems to be common sense to Gawain, but he soon remembered The real identity behind this ostensible "emperor of mankind" gradually receded.

Gawain didn't continue to discuss with Megal about the Reverse Tide Empire - after all, he only knew so much. He looked at Megal and brought the subject back: "You are concerned about the place where all things will eventually die. Do you have a certain understanding of the underground palace?"

Megall immediately replied: "We have some cooperation with them and share some unimportant information."

"Well," Gawain nodded, "then back to the ancient ruins you discovered—what happened after that? The royal family of Typhon, who was the capital of Orlandelle at that time, was kept in the dark?"

"The ruins are hidden very deep, and the entrance to the surface has almost been swallowed up by earth and rocks. It is a great luck for us to find the entrance-after realizing that it is an excellent hiding place, we are even more so. While moving materials in, we modified and covered the entrance to make it more difficult to find. And for many years after that, we have always been careful to hide ourselves and hide the underground facilities.

"The Eternal Sleepers are a group that is very good at hiding themselves. Just like you think, for hundreds of years...the Augustus family actually didn't know that we were hiding under their noses, let alone What kind of... secrets lie beneath their city.

"We are the shadow and symbiosis under the city of Orlande. We took root and developed together with that city, and infiltrated many facilities in the city. In this way, we recuperate among those ancient palaces and corridors. The order recovered a little bit—at first, we just gathered in the shallower layer of the ruins, where it was safer and enough to accommodate all our members at that time, but as the order slowly recovered, we decided to move deeper.

"We wanted to at least figure out what our 'home' looked like.

"We quickly explored the safe dome area and the almost empty middle-level connecting corridor, and finally, we found...something still running in the deepest part of the ruins."

Gao Wen's eyes immediately became serious: "Something that is still running? What is it?"

"Please allow me to show you what I saw back then—"

Megel spoke in a low voice, the shapeless starlight body gradually dispersed, it turned into a mist, and in the depths of the hazy smoke, Gawain saw a holographic image (magic illusion) quickly Stripped and reproduced from Megoll's memory.

He saw a huge rotunda, and there was a large-scale ring-shaped facility surrounded by metal and crystals around the hall. A large number of black obelisk-like devices were installed obliquely in the hall, and their tops pointed to the hall In the center of the hall, and in the very center of the hall, he saw a dazzling thing like an ocean of light surging around a circle of ancient devices. It was like some kind of viscous liquid, but it was rising When it got up, it showed a hazy and illusory brilliance, and inside it was something like starlight that was constantly moving and flickering.

Gao Wen immediately frowned: "What is this?"

Megoll's voice came from the surrounding smoke and mist: "A powerful energy restraint device, composed of an astonishing magnetic field, circulating arcane energy, and a series of elemental stabilizers, is so huge that the entire hall And part of the cloister around the hall is its 'shell'."

Then the erstwhile pope paused and added: "It took us almost a century to figure out these rough 'functional components'."

"...the one in the center of the constraint field is the remains of the God of Dreams?" Gawain frowned, "Is this a prison device?"

"We thought so too...and this was one of the biggest mistakes we made," Megaul III said in a deep voice, "After discovering this area, we couldn't understand its function at all, we just thought it was The energy of the ruins is like the magic well in the mage's tower. We studied it carefully and figured out its general function for a century, but found that the technology inside could not be copied and utilized at all—of course, we did not dare to close it hastily. It, because no one knows the consequences of doing so.

"After many years, we finally found some way to control the energy flow, and in the process of trying to adjust the energy flow, a very small gap opened in the center of the confinement field-the things that were shielded inside Finally a breath leaked out, and I was there.

"In that breath, I sensed some terrifying and familiar 'voices'—"

Megol's voice suddenly trembled and hesitated, as if that terrible feeling would still entangle his now heterogeneous body and mind, but after a moment of composure, he calmed down his tone and continued:

"I sensed the breath of the gods.

"An astonishing truth shocked all of us - what is 'imprisoned' in the constraint field is not other things, but the God we once worshiped and revered, or in other words, a part of God...

"It's a fragment of the God of Dreams, we don't know where it came from, what kind of power can cut a fragment from the god's body, we don't know how long it has been imprisoned in that device Years ago, we only knew one thing - that terrifying god who was on the verge of madness and would eventually engulf the entire world could be hurt and imprisoned.

"After the incident of the Ancestor's Peak, everyone was shrouded in long-term despair, because the power of the gods is so powerful that it is impossible for ordinary people to fight against it. At the same time, this power is walking on an impossible path. On the blocked and gradually crazy road, all of this is as irreversible as the doomsday in the countdown, but the device we found underground seems to let us see a ray of light—it is a fragment of God! Imprisoned, fragments that can be used for research!

"After overcoming a great deal of fear, we... began to study the thing.

"The powerful power of the restraint field can shield the spiritual pollution of the gods, which makes our research possible, and it is these properties of the restraint field that make us make terrible and wrong judgments about everything—— We mistook the whole underground facility for a prison, and that the restraints were meant to trap gods..."

Just as Gao Wen was about to ask, Amber beside him couldn't help breaking the silence: "Isn't it?"

"Of course not, that thing... is actually an altar.

"An altar used to welcome the gods, talk to the gods, and provide a temporary container for the gods—the so-called container is the restraint field in the hall.

"The will of the gods 'falls' in the center of the constraint field in the form of 'fragments', just like a detached eye, through which the God of Dreams observes the world, and we are busy under the gaze of this eye for hundreds of years."

Amber took a breath: "...Mom..."

Even Gawain felt a chill creep over his heart, he could fully imagine how terrifying the truth was, so much so that at this very moment, when Megaul III mentioned related matters, his tone trembled.

"Everything you do is being watched by the God of Dreams?" He said in a particularly serious tone, and looked at Megall who had regrouped with his brows tightly furrowed.

"Fortunately, the 'God's Eye' in that device is not in real-time communication with the God's body," Megall said in a complicated tone, "The 'God's Eye' in the device is more like a split It collects information in this world, and after a certain amount of time, the polarity of the core of the restraint device will be reversed, releasing the fragments as the "eyes of God" back to the God Realm, and only then will the God of Dreams know about the "eyes" 'The scene we saw, and the restraint device we found may be too old, or some functions may have been damaged and stuck, it has never released the 'God's Eye' in the center of the energy field.

"In a sense, the device in the malfunctioning state is actually a real prison...but unlike a real prison, the 'prisoner' inside it is theoretically the owner of the prison, and the prison gate... is always closed. Possibly left open for system self-healing.

"You can imagine how horrible this is for us."

"I can imagine," Gawain nodded lightly, "but I'm curious, how did you find out the truth? Could there be an instruction manual next to the ancient device?"

Megal was silent for a moment, and the starlight aggregate slowly expanded and contracted: "...Your Majesty, do you know how I became like this?"

Gao Wen raised his eyebrows: "Didn't you change your life form in order to prolong your life?"

"At that time, I had already extended my lifespan by using the technology provided by the Doom Society, at least I could survive for several more centuries," Megoll said with a sigh in his voice, "It was an experiment that made me look like this ACCIDENT.

"Because of a mistake in manipulating the energy flow, I was hit by a ray from the restraining field. The ray destroyed my body, but the powerful energy of the restraining field trapped my soul, and I was involved in those torrents. energy, and... slightly touched the 'God's Eye' bound at the core."

Gao Wen understood: "The knowledge of the gods has the characteristics of forced indoctrination—you 'see' the truth of the device from the fragments of the God of Dreams?"

"Yes," Megaul III affirmed Gawain's guess, "the moment I touched the 'God's Eye', I knew the truth about the device and what would happen once the 'God's Eye' was released back to the God Realm Dire consequences - all our secrets will be exposed before the gods, who will never tolerate such a rebellious act.

"Fortunately, I 'survived' from that terrible accident, because the fellow cultists at the scene operated in time, and my soul was released before being completely annihilated, but at the same time, serious distortions and mutations occurred- —Since that day, I have become like this.

"But compared with the truth of the God's Eye, the mutation of the soul is nothing. We must solve the hidden dangers of the God's Eye, either completely destroy it, or permanently cut off its connection with the God Realm, so that it will never return To the God of Dreams."

Chapter 0852 The Little Secret of the Augustus Family

For hundreds of years, the eternal sleepers lurking underground in the old capital of Typhon have been trying to understand and analyze the secrets of the gods from an ancient device. They once thought that the device with powerful confinement power was a prisoner. The cage, part of the fragments used to imprison the gods, but never thought that the thing was actually a container and altar specially built for the gods - it carried the eyes of the gods.

This is undoubtedly a great irony, and... horror.

The only luck for the eternal sleepers is that the restraint facility from ancient times broke down, and the "God's Eye" contained in it was truly shielded. Locked on the "throne" originally prepared for it, this did not trigger a divine disaster comparable to the "Upper Narrator Incident" back then.

There are only two choices left for the eternal sleeper, either, to completely destroy the "God's Eye" in the restraint field, or to use some method to securely isolate the God's Eye from the God Realm permanently, to ensure that even if the restraint device fails one day, The eye also doesn't "tell" the gods what it sees.

Gawain frowned, looking at the starlight aggregate floating opposite him: "Did the Great Collapse of Orlandle be caused by your attempts to destroy or seal the Eye of God?"

"It's one of the reasons, but it's not all because of us," Megaul III's tone suddenly became a little weird, as if he was lamenting the impermanence of fate, "We finally decided to destroy the Eye of God and made a plan for it ——In the course of hundreds of years of research, we have gained a certain understanding of that ancient restraint device, and can make more control and adjustments to it. We found that closing its inner ring at the right time A stable structure can generate a powerful energy shock in the confinement field, and if the charging level of the outer ring area is adjusted to the highest level, this shock can even completely annihilate the power of the gods in the center of the energy field...

"After much discussion and calculation, we are ready to implement this plan - and for this, we need some time to charge the outer ring of the restraint device.

"The accident happened at this stage—you still remember, the entire ancient ruins are underground in the old capital of the Typhon Empire, Orlandelle.

"At the same time as we were working on adjusting the restraints, the Augustus family suddenly decided to renovate the city's drainage system-it all seems too coincidental now, but no one noticed it at the time-the city in those days The drainage facilities are very backward, as you know, there is no difference between Typhon and old Ansu more than 200 years ago, the so-called urban drainage is an underground river that runs right through Orlandle, and people drain all the dirty water there Going inside, except for underground rivers and limited ditches, most urban areas have no sewers. Under such circumstances, the Typhon royal family at that time suddenly wanted to build an artificial sewer outside the main urban area, so they decided to Start digging down...

"They dug very deep, but at first they didn't touch the 'dome' of the underground palace, but strange things still happened: the workers in charge of the excavation had hallucinations underground, and as more and more earth and rocks were transported out , the mental state of the excavators worsened. At first, the nobles didn't care about the state of the civilian workers, but suspected that they were being lazy and forced them to work underground for a longer period of time. But soon, this illusion began to spread. To the overseers and even the knights stationed near the dig sites...

"And when there was an anomaly on the surface, we focused most of our attention underground, until more and more diggers lost control, and the Typhon royal family even began to send elemental mages to lift the ground and try to dissolve the rock formations. Then we suddenly realized one thing:

"The restraint device has been weakened at some point. The 'God's Eye' has its own consciousness. It has spread its own power secretly without arousing our vigilance. After years of infiltration and pollution, it has affected To the people of Orlandle - and even to the royal family that rules Orlandelle."

Hu Po, who was standing by the side, couldn't help swallowing: "But... and then?"

"The situation began to get out of control - some members of the royal family and a large number of workers, supervisors, and nobles sent to dig the burrows were contaminated. They began to dig down crazily, and the mages loyal to the royal family also participated. Under the attack of powerful magic , All the protections we set up failed to work, they quickly dug a big hole in the center of Orlandle, found the dome of the underground palace, and then the dome was also dug up, royal knights and mages swarmed enter.

"The whole of Orlande was shrouded in a weird, fearful, and tense atmosphere. The civilians didn't know what happened. The little nobles and merchants were frightened by this crazy excavation. All kinds of rumors and rumors arose. The nobleman said that treasures were found underground, which further intensified the chaos in the city...

"The Order of the Eternal Sleepers is powerless to stop all of this, and more importantly... the Eye of God has begun to show a tendency to activate.

"It knew what we were going to do, and it resisted. The members of the Order of the Eternal Sleepers are all powerful Psychic mages, and they have already firmly resisted the gods. When suppressed by the restraint device, it took us No way, so it turned the unsuspecting people on the surface into tools. As the royal knights entered the dungeon and began to destroy power stations everywhere, the eyes of God also began to impact the magnetic cage of the restraint device, and we were originally The energy to be used to annihilate the God's Eye is not yet ready, and if the arrangement is activated rashly, it is very likely that the God's Eye will escape the force field and return to the God Realm...

"My only option at the time was to stop those out-of-control, crazy diggers, and the Typhon royal family who kept sending more knights in the rear.

"Several archbishops and I ventured to the surface through other passages and sneaked into the castle of the Augustus family. To our great surprise-half of the nobles and a considerable number of royal family members in the castle are still trying to resist. The erosion of the God's Eye, even the emperor himself... barely maintained his sanity.

"More than half of the diggers and knights who poured into the underground palace were not sent by them. No one knows who gave those people the order to continue digging and invading the underground palace, and the other half were sent by the emperor who barely kept his head The people who stopped and investigated the situation, but they went crazy immediately after entering the underground palace, and lost contact with the castle. The castle could not receive any news, and its own judgment function was in a state of confusion, so it continued to send more investigation teams , more and more people flooded into the underground palace.

"Fortunately, after establishing a strong spiritual barrier, we allowed the emperor and some ministers to get rid of the erosion of the God's Eye - surrounded by the royal guards, I told the truth of the underground to Typhon at that time emperor.

"Of course, I didn't tell the emperor that behind the 'God's Eye' is a 'true god' in the public's mind, because normal people's view of gods is obviously very different from our view of gods, I told him that it was a crazy evil god , and our research and surface excavation combined to awaken Him.

"We—the people on the ground and the people on the ground—made a big mess together, but there was no time to pursue the issue of responsibility. After quickly judging the situation in the underground palace, the emperor decided to evacuate the entire city and evacuate all unidentified people. The polluted people were all evacuated, creating no-man's land outside the city, and we activated the underground annihilation plan during this period to completely destroy the Eye of God."

Gao Wen nodded lightly: "Evacuate the civilians, create a mental isolation zone to prevent the spread of spiritual pollution, and destroy the pollution center... The thinking is correct, and then?"

Megaul III was silent for a moment, with a sigh in his tone: "Driven by the knights and noble soldiers, the evacuation was completed quickly, and several archbishops and I blocked all the passages in the inner layer after returning to the underground palace. , blocking those crazy knights and diggers who had already entered the underground palace, which successfully delayed for some time. At the appointed time, the energy was finally enough, we successfully triggered the energy shock of the restraint device, and the eye of God was wiped out in a powerful impact— —we cheered until Earthfury and the Wounds of Oblivion fell on our domes."

Amber blinked and spread her hands: "...It's the same as I thought."

"We didn't think at the time," Megal III said in a self-deprecating tone, "we are a group of...researchers, maybe extreme researchers, we are dark sects, fallen priests, paranoid, cold, A horrible path to choose, but despite all that, we are still a group of researchers—and that includes me.

"The researcher's head is not good at guessing the wrath of the earth and the annihilation that fell on his head."

"Emperor Typhon made a cold decision 200 years ago, but do you want to hear my opinion?" Gawain said slowly, his eyes fell on the starlight aggregate.

"... makes sense, doesn't it?"

"It makes sense," Gawain nodded lightly, "If you failed to destroy the Eye of God, then the Orlandle region would be the source of the disaster. Destroying the entire region may not be able to prevent the 'evil god' from coming. But at least it is possible to delay the evacuation of other people for more time. If you successfully destroyed the Eye of God, then Emperor Typhon would not let you continue to live-you are a dark sect, and in the imperial capital, Breeding under the eyes of the royal family for hundreds of years, to a certain extent, you even have the ability to cause turmoil in the entire empire, which is intolerable to any ruler.

"So no matter what the result is, you must die in Orlandle."

"I figured this out later," Megaul III said with a chuckle, "many of us figured it out."