Sword of Dawn

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The western region is far away from the front line of the confrontation, and has not been used as a source of troops for this civil war. Coupled with its location close to the Southwest Tower, it is natural that people can be sent out.

"We hope to complete this project within two years—two years at the most," Sonia said, "preferably within one year. Because according to our records, the surge of magic energy in the wasteland occurs every two to three years." There will be a big ups and downs, the last overload was caused by the surge of magic energy, to ensure safety, we must complete the reinforcement before the next surge.”

Gao Wen said solemnly: "I believe that everyone will do their best, after all, this is a matter of their own life and death."

"I hope so."

After talking about the Great Wall, Sonia put away the magic device that stored the technical information, and handed it to Solderin who was beside him: "This information is left to you. When the materials and personnel are in place Before that, your mages can study it first. One of the people I brought this time is a magister who has participated in the design of the 'Auxiliary Tower' and the 'Pressure Relief Point', you can ask him if you have any questions."

Gawain nodded to Solderin, then exhaled, he glanced at Sonia, and asked in a casual tone: "Speaking of which, Belsetia has been crowned for more than 700 years... She should have grown into a qualified your queen?"

"Your Majesty is an excellent queen. You should be surprised to see her again."

Gawain laughed: "I still only remember her dragging me around the camp... Has she already sat on the throne of dominion now?"

"That's the Queen's duty," Sonia said with a serious face, "His Majesty passed the test 600 years ago and became the new owner of the Throne of Dominion. She has done a good job, and the Temple of Stars is still sailing in silver today." In the skies of empires."

"The temple in the air that never touches the earth..." Gawain revealed a look of reminiscence, "I was lucky enough to go there once, when the countries signed the covenant, the temple sailed near the peak of the ancestors... That is probably the first time that the Temple of Stars has left the southern part of the mainland, right?"

"Yes, it was the only time," Sonia said, and she couldn't help feeling a little emotional in her eyes. "After that, the scope of activities of the temple was basically limited to the area around the Silver Empire and the Gaoling Kingdom... and the nearest outside The cruising range has been further narrowed to the east of the Gaoling Kingdom."

"You still haven't solved the problem of power aging?"

Gawain Cecil had a close relationship with the elves 700 years ago. It is not a secret that there are many things about the Temple of Stars here. Faced with Gawain's inquiry, Sonia just sighed: "We once tried to repair it once. . . . but with little effect."

"...that ancient system is said to be the creation of the original elves in ancient times. However, the civilization of the original elves was scattered with the division of the elves, and has long since disappeared in history. The inheritance of the silver elves is the most complete branch of all elves. , but still can't understand all the mysteries of the Temple of Stars..." Gao Wen said with emotion in his tone, "I still remember the appearance of Belsetia when she first told me about these things."

Back then, Belsetia had just been crowned. Although she was known as the Silver Queen, she was almost a carefree girl. Only then will it show a serious and sad appearance.

Gao Wen talked with Sonia a lot.

From the brief fight together 700 years ago, to the establishment of the magnificent wall, from the ups and downs of the human kingdom in the past few centuries, to the development and changes of the Silver Empire in the past 700 years, even the long-lived elves can't help but feel emotional This period of time is long - there are too many things that are different from those years ago.

In the end, Gawain ended the chat. He stood up and stretched out his hand to Sonia: "You are exhausted from the journey, so go to rest early today. Tomorrow I will arrange for you to visit this city, this Cecil The city should be able to bring you many surprises."

Sonia politely supported Gao Wen's hand and stood up with a smile on her face: "This city has brought us many surprises, and even this land has opened our eyes - we are in the sky. But I saw a lot of interesting things."

"You will have time to get to know each other slowly," Gao Wen said, and glanced at Soldering next to him, "but before that, I will leave the time to you mother and son—after all, we haven't seen each other for 700 years. You should have a lot to say."

On this relatively private occasion, Sonia couldn't help but glanced at Solderling: "A son who hasn't returned home for 700 years, I really don't know what to say to him."

Soldering's face was full of embarrassment: "My lord, I...have a public position here..."

Sonia stared at the embarrassing high-ranking ranger: "Have you always held a public office for the past 700 years?"

Soldering: "..."

The high-ranking ranger looked at Gao Wen with some embarrassment, his eyes were full of pleading for help, Gao Wen immediately understood the meaning in his old friend's eyes, and said to Sonia: "Then I won't disturb your exchange of feelings—Sonia I'll see you tomorrow, ma'am."

After saying this, Gao Wen led the people and walked out the door.

Going all the way to the outside of the living room, after the door was closed, Gao Wen was still listening to the movement in the room with his ears pricked up, when Sonia Shuangye vaguely reprimanded him: "...it will be too late if you don't go home for 700 years. Forget it, there is so little communication, but now, even the communication link of the Sentinel Tower is broken...

"...Isn't it just the matter of the hair, who does this stubborn temper belong to...

"Is there a girl you like...not yet?! Do you know that XXX in Wind Valley City even has a child!!

"What does it mean to work hard with Duke Cecil! What's wrong with Duke Cecil not getting married? You see, there are dozens of generations of great-grandchildren!!"

Gao Wen in the corridor silently withdrew his attention from the room, while Rebecca beside him couldn't help but leaned forward: "My lord, my lord! How did you know that Ms. Sonia? She really Is Mr. Solderling's mother? Looks so young!!"

This girl held back all the way, now she has a chance to balabala.

"The age of elves can never be judged by their appearance. Their growth and aging cycles are different from those of humans," Gao Wen said casually. The empire and various pioneering forces are in contact, because the situation is turbulent, we have also fought side by side."

Hetty on the other side couldn't help feeling a little emotional: "The love of comrades in arms..."

Frankly speaking, at this moment, the butler Cecil accidentally thought of her treasured book "The Affair of Gawain Cecil--Tales of Heroes and Princesses"-and produced countless meaningful stories. Lenovo.

Frankly speaking, Gawain guessed what kind of associations were going on in the eldest granddaughter's mind the moment he saw the change in Hetty's expression.

He thought about it, and decided to do something to divert Hetty's attention—

"Hetty..."

Hetty was surprised: "Ah? Please tell me, ancestor!"

"Have you thought about getting married?"

"what?!"

"Actually, it's not that important to convert to the gods and give up the right of inheritance. You are not too young at this age..."

"Ancestor, wait a moment! I..."

"Don't be nervous, I'm just asking, but if you have any ideas..."

Gao Wen's method of diverting attention was very effective.

Chapter 0571 Development

In a manor south of Carroll City, the big shed that used to be a warehouse is brightly lit.

This is the property of the great merchant Ke De. The shed and the surrounding houses used to be warehouses, used to store fodder for the horse team and temporary turnover goods. Bought five magical vehicles in one go, and formed a new fleet. The original horse-drawn carts were reduced by [-]% at once, and the remaining horse-drawn carts were also deployed to the hands of merchants in the countryside. The reduction in horse-drawn carts resulted in the need for fodder As a result, the old warehouses were transformed into new facilities - workshops and laboratories.

Cod, who was wearing a thin coat and meticulously combed his hair, walked into the shed. The magic spar lamp hanging on the roof of the shed shone brightly, making the room as bright as day. The wide space in the shed was surrounded by chest-high low walls. It is divided into several areas, and the newly purchased simple machine tools are running happily in each area. The sound of metal parts colliding and the buzzing of magic mechanisms are mixed together, and there is a wonderful smell of lubricating grease in the middle. ——Big Merchant Through these sounds and smells, I came straight to the compartment at the end of the aisle.

Several young men in short robes were busy in front of the workbench. When they saw Kord appearing, they turned around and saluted. Kord quickly waved his hands: "No need to salute—you just do your own thing." .”

Several young people returned to their previous jobs, and Kord came to the workbench and watched these people busy.

These people are mage apprentices and rune craftsmen he recruited at high prices - apprentices and craftsmen themselves are not expensive employees, but they have studied in the academy opened by the government affairs department, and they have also passed the magician certificate , which is enough to double their worth.

It costs a lot of money to hire these people, but the role they play is completely worth the money in the eyes of big businessmen.

On the workbench, a once-complete magic device has been dismantled into a pile of parts. Several rune substrates and a series of control, energy supply, and linkage mechanisms are neatly spread out, and labels are attached to each part. Their functions are marked, and on the side of the workbench, there are also a lot of manuscript paper and scrolls, which are full of dense calculations and records. Ordinary people will probably faint just by looking at them.

"Sir, we have completely disassembled the M-2 general-purpose magic terminal and figured out the functions of all the rune substrates," a young magician with messy short hair said to Codd, "Now we are using the rune Using logic to calculate the power and interference coefficient of the ice pick substrate, we believe that as long as its projection area is properly adjusted, and a box with better heat insulation is added, it is completely feasible to manufacture a container that can store food..."

"Very good, very good," Cord nodded repeatedly, "Is there any difficulty?"

Another young man said: "We need a more stable source of magic power - the previous magic net units are all purchased second-hand goods, and some of them have begun to damage, which is really unusable."

"Don't worry, I have asked Pal to purchase a new magic net unit, this time it is no longer a second-hand unit, it is brand new."

"Then it's fine."

The technicians returned to work, while Kord continued to stand by the workbench, watching them busy around a pile of runes, manuscript paper, and formulas.

He can only understand a small part, but this does not affect his immersion in it.

Since the winter, the attempt to promote Carroll's specialty products with "advertising" has been a great success. "Code Family Information" company is his second attempt in this new era.

It also looks like this attempt will be a big success.

The emergence of the magic industry has changed the way of production, and as a successful businessman, Codd has seen more than just a change in the way of production during the promotion of the magic industry.After buying his first magic car, after experiencing the power and efficiency of the magic car, he realized how useful this incredible thing can be - an ordinary person, an ordinary person like himself , how unimaginable is it that you can control a machine with infinite force by holding those levers?

For Codd, the biggest impact of purchasing magic vehicles from the lord was not the strength of those vehicles, but the fact that "magic can really belong to ordinary people" itself.

He opened up his mind, and also saw business opportunities from the price of magic vehicles.

Magic vehicles, magic network communication, large machinery... These things cannot be copied and produced with his ability, but what about smaller ones?What about something simpler?

The officials in the government affairs office did not prohibit him from doing this, that is, it could be done.

His method is very simple, even in the eyes of a real magician, it is almost comical - he bought a general-purpose magic terminal from a store directly operated by the Government Affairs Office, then disassembled it, and used his extremely limited runes Knowledge, according to the basic courses taught in the college textbooks, patched together the scorching rune group, energy group and a sunken iron plate, and then put a pot on the iron plate, boiled A pot of undercooked vegetable soup.

The vegetable soup was the worst thing he had ever eaten, but he was proud of the clumsy "warming station".

Then, he registered the Kodd FamilyPay company.

He couldn't rely on buying magic terminals from the store and dismantling the parts to produce his own products - that would only make a loss, so he ran all over the government affairs department and bought a rune that was half scrapped due to overload production press machine;

Without technical personnel, he went to school and copied a full set of basic courses in rune logic and mechanics (printed books were still in short supply at that time, and there was no way to buy textbooks in the school), and took the literate students from the family and the chamber of commerce The young man studied for half a month and repaired the scrapped machine tool;

He used his prestige and connections, and spent a lot of money to hire a few young people with a magician's license—these are the ones in front of him;

He bought a lot of magic devices, magic devices produced by Cecil Machinery Manufacturing Institute and Magic Technology Research Institute, ranging from general magic terminals to agricultural water pumps, machinery, and even expensive magic network communicators. But they were all dismantled into parts;

He built his own "new factory", built his own "laboratory", and he even built a simple small machine tool with the workers - powered by an obsolete piston-type magic energy engine, which can only It is used to drill holes in metal plates, but the efficiency is already higher than that of manual labor.

This is his "Kode Factory", but it is not the first factory building he built. His first factory building was actually a little further north, next to his mansion, but due to a rune out-of-control accident, the factory building Most of it was burned down, and the nearby residents also panicked, so he had to move the equipment and personnel here.

All of this cost him nearly half of his family’s wealth. The wealth he accumulated since he was in business was poured into these machines and workshops like water. Many people thought he was crazy, because he was dazzled by the dazzling magic web broadcast phantom Brain, to the point that I still have to do such a big risk at an age...

But in the end, two thousand sets of his first batch of magic heating tables were sold—the slightly affluent upper-class citizens could not refuse this convenient thing, not only because it was novel and easy to use, but also because it got rid of firewood and firewood. A smoky life is a sign of decency.

These "products" of Codd are actually very simple in principle, just like the original stupid method, he bought a complicated magic device, and then disassembled it to see what simple techniques he could master, or went to Research courses taught in schools for ideas and approaches.

The magic technology at this stage is not that complicated. There are many basic principles that can be understood and controlled by ordinary people, and the civilian field is so blank that any kind of slightly more convenient invention has a huge scope for use. The first thing Kodd has to do is to find the "demand points" for civilian use.

His method is not complicated - it is to study the lives of nobles and extraordinary people, study the convenient and comfortable parts of their lives, and then find ways to realize it in magic technology.

The nobles and superhumans in this world have always lived a comfortable and convenient life, and the level of convenience is beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

They have magical lighting, a comfortable environment with artificial temperature and humidity, instant messaging, artificial intelligence servants, and can enjoy any food in any season...

As a big businessman who was born in the common people and got rich by doing business, Codd not only knows the living conditions of the common people, but also has seen the lifestyle of the upper class. When he maximizes this advantage, he finds countless business opportunities——

Mages can use magic flames to heat food, and he can create civilian heating tables; mages have kept the spell of perennial spring in the mage tower, and he can use rune substrates and ventilation ducts to create similar effects; nobles If we can eat ice cubes in summer and eat fresh meat forever, then he needs to make a cheap and convenient container that can also make ice cubes and preserve food...

The success of Kede Family Business has also attracted the attention of other people. Now, in Carroll and the surrounding areas, many businessmen have also become active. They are all preparing their own companies, and many acquaintances have come to find Codd seeks experience, and people seem to have finally noticed this should be obvious truth:

Magic brings convenient life, and whoever can bring convenient life can seize business opportunities.

There was a sound of people coming from the gate of the factory building. Kord raised his head and saw his eldest son Paar and a few workers pushing a cart in—they were carefully protecting the contents of the cart, but were caught What they protected was a large box packed with wooden planks and straw ropes. The mark of the Cecil Rune Foundry could be seen on the large box.

The new magic grid cell array is back - laboratory grade.

Ke De hurried up to greet him, and at the same time called the nearby workers to help unload the goods, but the eldest son Pall pulled him aside. This young man who just came back from the city center had a deliberately unfathomable look on his face: " Father, I have news for you..."

Cord glanced at his son: "What news?"

"Duke Cecil already knows about your company and what you're producing, guess what happened?"

Cord suddenly became nervous.

what happened?

He seemed to suddenly realize that there was another risk in what he was doing. He realized that what he was touching and copying was the rights and interests of the lord—although he was only tossing some simple "small fields" in the "small field" that the lord did not take care of. stuff", but dismantling the magic devices produced by Cecil, making new machines, and hiring magic technicians... isn't it a taboo?

Although the officials of the Government Affairs Office did not stop themselves before, although Cecil's law does not seem to prohibit such acts, although the lord has always said that he must strictly follow the law, but... After all, this involves the lord, the lord Will you really abide by those laws?Would he be annoyed by his audacity?

Cord thought about a lot of things for a while, so much so that he forgot that the advertisements he put on the magic net must have been reviewed and approved by Cecil's highest government affairs office, and Pal noticed his father's nervousness. , the young man burst out laughing, and took out a carefully rolled piece of paper from his arms: "Father! A commendation order signed by Duke Cecil himself!! And you are about to be canonized as a knight! !"

Cord froze for a moment, and froze in place for a while.

Two seconds later, he snatched the certificate of commendation from Pal's hand, opened it with trembling hands, and carefully read every word on it.

At the end of the commendation order is the canonization order.

He watched it over and over again, and finally noticed the unbearable smile on Paal's face.

"You bastard, you dare to tease your father!"

"Oh father! Don't forget your chivalry!"

Chapter 0572 Road

The last ray of sunset in the sky fell into the depths of the mountains. Under the gradually dimming sky, the glow of the magic spar street lamps lit up one by one under the control of the timing device—before the stars in the sky twinkled, the stars on the earth took a step ahead. Brighten up, and in the bright lights, the night life of the citizens of Cecil is just beginning.

Night is not the end of the day, but the beginning of another period of activity.

The street tavern is brightly lit, and the workers who have just got off work are resting and relaxing in the tavern, filling their stomachs. The magic network radio device on the square is broadcasting the evening news program, which makes the nearby citizens stop and stay, full of interest. Restaurants and shops lit up the illuminated signs at the entrances one after another. Enthusiastic shopkeepers and shop assistants were attracting customers at the entrances, and waves of people walked towards the east or south of the city—that was the direction of the factory district and night schools.

Sonia Shuangye stood on the street, looking at the bustling city in surprise. She looked at the lights all over the street, and couldn't help but said, "This place...is far more lively than the capital of Ansu's king."

"Cecil is the most prosperous city in the southern border, and I'm afraid it's also the most prosperous in Anzu," Soldering said beside him, his tone not without pride. He was temporarily assigned as a guide to guide visitors around the city. After all, here No one in the city is more familiar with the preferences of the silver elves than him, "There may not be the historic buildings of San Sunil here, but everyone here lives better."

"It can be seen," Sonia nodded lightly, "this place reminds me of the Gondor capital...the same bright lights, the same advanced prosperity, but they are fundamentally different...there is only one Gondor capital, There is more than one bustling city here. It seems that I can't bring you home—this is indeed a good place to stay."

Silver elves love to travel, and almost every young elf has at least a hundred years of travel experience. In the elves' sayings, "a good place worth staying" is the best evaluation of a foreign land.

"The development here is very fast, and it will develop even faster in the future - even in other places in Ansu, those relatively closed and backward cities have been developing continuously in the past few hundred years, and the Silver Empire... the Silver Empire The empire hasn't changed for 1 years," Soldering said, "and that's a depressing place for me."

"Her Majesty has been pushing ahead with the construction of the new city."

"I don't mean the new city, mother, you know that," Soldering interrupted Sonia, "...how has the hometown been in these years?"

"If you mean peace, then the empire has always been peaceful. If you mean the 'legacy'...'heritage' is in decline," Sonia sighed softly. "As of 50 years ago, all technological research fell into a We are stuck at the bottleneck of the Great Split of the original elves, the data is broken, the data cannot be matched, and the technical field is full of black boxes... Scholars still maintain hope, but some people say that we are already in a quagmire."

"The bottleneck of the original elves..." Soldering couldn't help repeating this word with special meaning to the silver elves.

Legend has it that there was only one family of elves at first, no matter gray elves, sea elves, dark elves or silver elves, they all originated from the "primitive elves" on the remote old continent. The palace in the sky, but a sudden disaster caused this powerful ancient civilization to fall apart...