Sword of Dawn

All in all, it looks like there is no danger.

Gawain put away his saber, bent down and picked up the one-foot-square man-made crystal cube. It was quite heavy, but it was nothing to Gawain. — Divine Art Formation", the remaining surging black mist and blood-colored mud almost disappeared in the blink of an eye.

The rune array that had lost its core barely ran for a few more seconds, and the few remaining magic crystals on the array quickly dimmed. In the end, there were only complex and mysterious runes left here, and there were no more visions. up.

"What is this..." Amber watched with a nervous expression as Gao Wen carried out a large piece of crystal. This was the first time in her life that she had seen such a shiny thing but couldn't bear it. The idea of ​​stealing it and selling it for money, "I...why do I feel like I'm getting hairy just looking at it?!"

"You really want to know?" Gawain held the flesh and blood tissue that most likely came from a god, and glanced at Amber with a half-smile, "With your brain, you should have guessed something, right?"

"I..." Huber's eyes widened suddenly, and then she took a breath, "Are you kidding me?!"

"It is said that there was a battle of gods in ancient times, and the gods fell into the world, and the world has extraordinary power including magic. Then since the power of the gods can fall, why is it impossible for their flesh and blood to fall?" Gao Wen laughed. Smiling, he didn't say the information he got from the fragments of the eternal stone slab, but explained it with the legend of the gods in ancient times. After all, even if Amber escaped from the weird and thick lines, she is still the third view of the local people. And she also claimed to be a devout follower of the Shadow Goddess, and told her directly that the gods might all be dead, God knows what the hell the mortals are worshiping now, she might not be able to accept it, but the legend of the ancient gods has existed since ancient times That's it - she should be able to accept this explanation.

After all, it’s okay to say that two or three of the gods fell when they were fighting on their own, but being blocked by the Zentraedi fleet and destroying the whole family is a completely different level...

Seeing Amber nodding her head thoughtfully, Gao Wen secretly made up his mind: if necessary, he will use the same explanation with the "outside" people later.

He doesn't want the wave of people he managed to gather to be completely destroyed by the three views he tossed...

Even if it collapses, it must collapse gradually.

Chapter 0148 Test

As Gawain took out the biological tissue suspected of being the flesh and blood of gods from the mixed circle in the Shadow Realm, the mutants in the outside world finally lost their almost inexhaustible vitality.

Accompanied by Knight Byron's heavy blow, the monster let out a deep howl. It staggered and fell to the ground, and began to evaporate rapidly like a real aberration, decomposing into black smoke and dust that drifted in the sky.

Gawain and Amber also returned from the Shadow Realm, but the former had a strange crystal cube in his hand.

Although they don't know exactly what happened, Byron and Hetty can also guess that their actions in the Shadow Realm destroyed the monster's resurrection mechanism, and Hetty immediately went up to meet him: "Ancestor—that monster Finally dead! Did you find something in the Shadow Realm?"

"Found this," Gawain raised the crystal cube in his hand, then looked at the guarding soldiers around him, and after a little thought, he said in a deep voice, "Byron, Hetty, Amber stay here, others People are temporarily guarding outside the room."

The soldiers realized that their lord might have discovered something extraordinary in the Shadow Realm, so they left the hall without hesitation.

Byron's expression immediately became serious. He had just seen the thing in Gao Wen's hand, and now he had a vague association with it: "My lord... what you have in your hand is..."

"It's this thing that releases energy, causing the monsters outside to regenerate continuously, and the monster is probably also affected by it, and has lived here for 1000 years, and has many abilities that ordinary aberrants don't have," Gao Wen said. He said in a low voice, and told Hetty and Byron what he had discovered in the Shadow Realm, "...that's the situation, we're afraid we really discovered something extraordinary."

With a clang, it was the staff in Hetty's hand that came out and fell to the ground.

"Is this... is it the...flesh and blood of a god?" The mature and calm lady finally lost her senses, she looked at the crystal cube in Gao Wen's hand with a hint of fear in astonishment, "God, how could a god... ..."

"I know it's hard for you to accept, and I know you are a believer in the goddess of mystery and magic. The fact that gods have fallen, and even flesh and blood has fallen into the hands of mortals, is a big shock to you," Gawain slowed down his tone, hoping that his The tone of voice can make my great-great... great-granddaughter calm down a little bit, "But I also know that there is a sentence in the mage's creed: the road of exploration is endless, and God is also in it--the mage is never an overly God-worshiping groups, even if you believe in the goddess of magic."

"I just can't believe it," Hetty breathed a sigh of relief, and picked up her staff with a wry smile, "Do you know, I have only been so shocked twice in my life, and the last time was when I saw you standing up from the coffin when."

"It is said that there was a battle of gods in ancient times. Some gods were defeated, and after falling, their wreckage fell into the world. Their power and fragments turned into various extraordinary powers and magical creatures in the world. God," Gawain said as he prepared his explanation, "maybe not all the wreckage of gods have been 'transformed'—maybe the Gondor Empire found such a piece of wreckage that was still alive and intact, and then built This secret base to study it."

This explanation is relatively easy to accept, and it's not a nonsense—in fact, Gao Wen even thinks that more than half of this explanation is in line with the truth. At most, it's explained a little... euphemistically in the part about the death of the gods.

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Compared to Hetty, Byron seemed calmer. As a mercenary, he lacked awe of the gods. When he saw the wriggling weird biological tissue, he was more nervous and shocked, but he rarely felt awe and fear. , so he quickly regained his composure and thought: "Maybe it's not as exaggerated as we thought. There were so many powerful things in ancient times. Maybe the Gondor Empire just found the remains of some kind of demigod creature, and there are some What is that called...'divine' power, and then they were studied as the corpse of a god."

Gawain had to admit that Byron's statement was also reasonable: "It's also possible."

As he said that, he glanced around the hall, and he felt that he had grasped the clues about the research projects that had been carried out in this place.

"The Gondor Empire in the age of sparks...it was an era when human beings were proud and arrogant. The energy of the Deep Blue Well was endless, and the adaptability of the human magic system to the dark blue magic made the human mages at that time almost the most destructive in the world. The caster, the world is invincible, and the things that human beings pursue will change. There is no shortage of resources, no lack of power, and what they want... probably only be as eternal as the legendary gods," Gao Wen said at the same time. He said, while looking at the line on the wall of the hall, "Humanity will last forever—even if you disobey the gods, the use of the word disobedience shows that the researchers at that time knew what a bold thing they were doing, but They just dared to do this... they were frantically probing on the verge of death, that's probably what they said."

At the end, he sighed and shook his head: "It's a pity that the scholars of the empire soon discovered that the Deep Blue Well is the only super magic power well on the mainland, and its magic power has a transmission limit. The mighty Gondor Empire In fact, it was just luck. The territory of the empire was limited to the radiation range of the magic well from the very beginning, so the era of sparks is over, and all arrogant thoughts have turned into sleep and sleep..."

Everyone was overwhelmed by Gao Wen's words, and it was Hetty who broke the silence in the end: "Ancestor, what do you plan to do with these...flesh and blood of gods?"

"I'm about to talk about this." Gawain glanced at the crystal cube in his hand, and then looked up at Hetty and Byron, "When you stared at it, did you feel any... mental discomfort? Such as fear Or hallucinations or something?"

"No," Knight Byron shook his head. "Although I was taken aback when I first found out what it was, it's fine now that I accept it."

"Is that so..." Gao Wen frowned, "I'm going to do a test, this test may cause some pressure on your spirit, are you willing? By the way, Amber has tried it herself just now, this kind of mental impact It's not fatal and it's recoverable."

Amber stared immediately: "I didn't take the initiative to try just now!"

Hetty and Byron didn't hesitate too much, and they both nodded together: "Ancestor (Master), please start!"

Gawain thought for a while, then carefully placed the crystal cube on the ground, and ordered the two of them, "Stay away a bit."

Byron and Hetty complied without knowing why, and stood a few meters away from the crystal cube, then watched Gawain take his hand away from the surface of the cube, and slowly backed away. Any discomfort?"

The two still shook their heads, while Amber rushed out the moment she realized what Gao Wen wanted to do. At this time, she didn't know where she was going.

Gawain continued to step back, paying full attention to the changes in the biological tissue in the crystal. During the process, he also confirmed the status of Byron and Hetty over and over again until he retreated to a distance of about 15 meters. Suddenly, the flesh and blood sealed in the crystal suddenly changed!

The originally slow-moving biological tissue suddenly became active, and the dark plasma flowing slowly around the biological tissue also accelerated its flow rate, and a large number of small "tributaries" spread out, forming a three-dimensional spider web inside the crystal. Like structure, and with the changes of the flesh and blood in the crystal, the expressions of Byron and Hetty also instantly became trance!

The moment Gao Wen saw this scene, he completed his judgment. He didn't even need to ask about the status of the two, he suddenly took a step back, and within the distance of this step, the god's flesh and blood that had just regained some vitality calmed down again.

"This is... what's going on?!" Hetty woke up from a brief trance, and looked at Gawain with a little bit of palpitations remaining. What happened, but she still remembered the terrifying feeling of losing control of her mind and her brain being filled with noises and phantoms. What made her even more incredible than those horrible feelings was that Gawain could suppress the gods with just one step forward The restlessness of flesh and blood, "How did you do it just now?"

"To be honest, I don't know, but I seem to be able to suppress the activity of these biological tissues." Gao Wen himself was really confused. Although he had some guesses in his heart, he really didn't know how to express his guesses, " Probably because I, the guy who came back from the dead, violated the laws of nature, and possessed some strange powers."

Hetty looked at Gawain with a look of awe, but apart from awe, she had a more practical question: "Then what should I do with this thing? Do you want to keep it with you all the time?"

Amber, who was so cowardly just now, came out of the corner again at this time, and was still commenting on the side: "I always feel that if you want to eat and sleep with such a piece of god's old jerky, you will be regarded as a pervert..."

Gao Wen thought for a while, and thought that if it was true as what Amber said, this would probably be the highest-level necrophilia in history, and this necrophilia might have to be prefixed with holy...

Then he pulled back his wandering train of thought and stared at Amber: "Don't say a few words and no one will treat you as dumb!"

Next, he conducted several more tests, and finally figured out the "laws of violation" of the flesh and blood of these gods.

After all, it is a little remnant of a dead god. The destructiveness of these biological tissues is not as great as Gao Wen imagined at the beginning. He found that as long as ordinary people do not directly look at these flesh and blood, they will not be affected by them. The distance from these flesh and blood is more than 20 meters, so even if you stare at it, you can still maintain enough rationality to divert your attention or escape its influence.

That way, there's no need to send the thing back to the Shadowlands for preservation.

To be honest, sending this thing back to the Shadow Realm seems to be the safest way to preserve it. After all, no one in this world can enter the Shadow Realm except Amber, but Gao Wen always has a faint uneasiness. Magisters didn't put this piece of god's flesh and blood in the Shadow Realm for safe control - because with Gondor's magic technology back then, they are fully capable of creating other types of space shields or magic puzzle locks to preserve this thing, which is easier It is controllable, and the safety factor is no worse than that of the Shadow Realm - after all, with the average magister level of the Gondor Empire back then, it is not as difficult to enter the Shadow Realm as it is today, so naturally it is not as difficult to put things in the Shadow Realm. Safety.

Think about it carefully, those magisters put these biological tissues in the Shadow Realm, and set up a complex mixed magic circle for it. Rather than suppressing and restraining it, it is better to use the power of the Shadow Realm to maintain it .

Gao Wen recalled that there seemed to be a structure similar to charging runes on the mixed magic circle...

Thinking of this, Gawain made up his mind: he decided not to send this dangerous thing back to the Shadow Realm!What if it loses the control of this ancient test site, and it slowly grows and comes back to life in a place where no one can monitor it?

How many novels, TV and movies in the previous life have reminded me: sealing things in a place where I can't see them is the first step to overturning the car!

Chapter 0149 Containment

Although it has been decided that the "God Sample" cannot be returned to the Shadow Realm, where to store it is a big problem. It is definitely not acceptable to put it on the territory-this thing is different from regular excavations. The same, not to mention the harmless big iron lump like Nicholas eggs, the existence of god tissue cells is a fatal thing to mortals, even if they only take a close look, people will be either dead or crazy, so we must Keep it away from crowds, but at the same time keep it under your full control.

After thinking about it, it seems that this mountain ruin itself is the best shelter.

Gawain took out the map drawn by Byron, and quickly found a place that met his requirements: in the large corridor in the middle of the ruins, there was a vast empty room near the southwest corner, which was once a laboratory. So strong and easy to defend.

And more importantly, that room is quite a distance from this rotunda.

Although I don't know if there is anything in this rotunda that can respond to the flesh and blood of the gods, but keeping the distance between the two will make people feel more at ease.

Gao Wen pointed to the map and ordered: "Store things in this room, and pack them with opaque cloth or boxes. From now on, no matter what the situation is, unless I am present, you must ensure that this sample is completely Covering, not a single bit of it can be exposed to the eyes of ordinary people. Hetty, the magic door in that room itself has been damaged, you go and reset its mechanism to ensure that it will not be opened casually. That room will be used as a magic door in the future. 'Restricted area', no one is allowed to enter unless I give permission."

Byron and Hetty nodded in agreement, and then Byron asked again: "My lord, are there guards outside the room?"

Gawain nodded: "Leave two guards, and send another two groups of people to take turns with them. The room must be guarded 24 hours a day. In addition, the most reliable soldiers must be selected to prevent those with excess curiosity from entering and dying."

"Yes."

After giving these instructions, Gao Wen breathed a sigh of relief, but his heart was not much relieved.

He seemed to understand Viscount Andrew's feelings at the beginning - digging up a treasure, but it turned out to be a hot potato.

The flesh and blood samples of the gods, it is almost impossible to think about how much storm this thing can cause in this world. The power, knowledge and wealth it can bring are immeasurable, but so are the dangers it may bring .Gawain was not an adventurous person in his previous life. According to his own personality, when he dug up such a thing, he would rather throw it as far as possible, and throw it to someone who took advantage of him (such as a certain person) cult) that would be better, but now, his personality has changed somewhat.

He really couldn't control his curiosity about the "God", especially now that he realized that the "God" might have had a connection with him, this curiosity was even more uncontrollable.

Those flesh and blood organizations will be suppressed by him. Those gods may have died in the hands of a powerful civilization with a fleet. He traveled across and was very likely to be possessed on a satellite. This satellite may be left by that powerful civilization. , so my suppression of the flesh and blood of the gods is mostly related to my identity as a "satellite spirit"; Out of the particularity, thinking of the crystal inlaid on the slab fragment, maybe it is also a relic of that powerful civilization...

As for why the Eternal Slate, which should have been the "Godslayer's Thing", carried the knowledge of the gods and brought religious enlightenment to the mortals on this planet, this is something Gawain still can't figure out.

Gao Wen faintly felt that he was already involved in all this, and he couldn't escape it. It could even be said that he was not just involved in the whirlpool - he himself was a part of the whirlpool.

"What happened here today must be kept secret," Gawain said in a low voice, and looked at Knight Byron, "Byron, you and your people continue to explore this ruins, but as long as you find a place similar in style to this place, you will It must be sealed as soon as possible, and I will confirm it in person. This is to prevent you from accidentally touching things related to God."

Byron bowed his head deeply: "I understand, my lord."

"Ancestor, these original manuscripts..." Hetty pointed to the original manuscripts that had been collected on the table not far away, that is, the ancient parchment that recorded the crazy ravings of a certain madman, "Should I take it back or what?" ?”

Gawain glanced at the manuscripts, and couldn't help but look at the bloody skeleton on the nearby ground that was rapidly decomposing and dissipating. He had already vaguely guessed how those manuscripts came from: most of them were left by this monster.

The human experiments conducted by the Gondor Empire here produced a lot of failed experimental subjects. When they evacuated, most of the experimental subjects were destroyed, but some of them seemed to be left directly in the culture container and replaced by seals. Burning—this may also be for some research purpose, but it is obvious that the researchers who left never came back.

However, a certain experimental subject who was sealed in the container did not die because of this. On the contrary, he (or it) was continuously affected by the flesh and blood of the gods in the experimental device, and has survived until today, and in the process, he developed special abilities. So much so that it can leave the cultivation tank and achieve a certain degree of freedom of movement.

It even retained the ability to think for a time.

But anyway, now it's just a pile of decomposing debris.

"Let's seal it up with this sealed crystal," Gao Wen finally decided. "This crystal cube is named the original sample and numbered No. [-], and the manuscript will be the No. [-] derivative of the original sample. Similar weird things were found, and they were numbered and preserved according to this rule."

After dealing with the ruins in the mountains, it was already night when Gao Wen returned to the territory.

Bright magic crystal lamps have been lit up on the main road and several important places in the territory.

Due to the realization of the magic net technology and the trial operation of the new "Honeycomb Magic Net" in some key areas, the territory is no longer as it was at the beginning. After dark, it can only rely on torches and braziers for lighting. In the night school area and on the main road of the territory, the magic spar that relies on the magic net to continuously supply energy and stay on all night brings long-term and stable light, and night lighting is an important guarantee for the accelerated development of the territory.

Without cheap and reliable means of lighting at night, people can only work during the day, and many projects that require 24-hour continuous operation cannot be carried out, and night school education and factory assembly lines will be affected.On the earth, the appearance of electric lights has brought about great changes in people's work and lifestyle, turning human civilization into a powerful machine that runs around the clock. In this world-high-quality night lighting technology has actually appeared long ago. Magic spar for lighting that can be synthesized artificially is not too expensive. The only thing that limits its development is the backwardness of energy.

Without a highly compatible magic net, the traditional magic spar must rely on the uninterrupted injection of magic power by the wizard to light up, and let the noble wizard run around between hundreds of magic spar lamps all night like a handyman Is it something ordinary people can imagine to infuse demons?So all along, the only castles that can be brightly lit at night are the castles of kings and lords. For those commoners who have to be careful about lighting an oil lamp, they dare not imagine the so-called "night life".

We should be grateful to the magic net, which made up for the shortcomings of the magic spar lamp, and reduced the maximum magic power cost to almost zero. The inexhaustible remaining magic power of the various factories is enough to light up the lights of the entire camp.

Using the light, Gawain returned to his tent. He glanced at the tent that he had lived in for several months, shook his head and laughed.

It was indeed time for him to move out of the tent—the brick kiln factory was on the right track, the first batch of brick and tile houses had begun to be built in the territory, and the wooden houses had even entered the phase of elimination, but he, the lord, was still living in the tent , This incident can really shock many people's jaws.

Some people speculate that this is because the lord loves his people, and some people speculate that this is because the lord was frugal in nature as a pioneer back then, but in fact it is because Gawain designed the residence style he needed early on—including the storage room magic laboratory The kitchen sewage system in the weapon room, etc., could not be built at the early stage of the territory, and Gawain was too lazy to build a temporary wooden house and then tear it down, so he simply waited until today, and waited until the conditions were met.

As soon as he entered the tent, Gawain saw Betty sleeping soundly on his desk. The little maid might have been sleeping here for a long time. Judging from the extent of her saliva, she had been lying down for at least an hour.

However, although Betty slept soundly, she was extremely sensitive to the sound of Gao Wen's footsteps. As soon as the latter approached within three meters of her, the girl raised her head suddenly, and said with a dazed look: "Master, you are back—— I didn't sleep, so I lay down for a while..."

"Drool," Gawain looked at the little girl who was a bit dumbfounded, "Wipe the slobber."

"Oh."

Gao Wen was very curious: "Why are you waiting here? Someone is looking for me?"

Betty thought carefully about why she fell asleep lying on the table, and finally remembered what she did here: "Ah, I remembered! Miss Rebecca and Miss Jenny came to see you!"

"Why are you looking for me..." Gao Wen just waved his hand in the middle of speaking, "Oh, you must have forgotten."

"I won't forget this time!" Betty said with her head up and chest out, and then happily took out a small book from the pocket of the maid's skirt, and opened it solemnly, "Miss Jenny helped me write it on it. ! They said...the rune model was calculated, the rune model...Master, I don't know this word!"

Gao Wen went over to take a look in surprise and dumbfounded: "Let me see... this means scorching rays. Very good, very good, I'm waiting for this good news, go and call them here!" "

0150 - Heat Ray Gun

Rebecca and Jenny were quickly called over, and they also brought a big bag full of stuff, which was probably a little of their "achievement".

Seeing Gawain, Rebecca immediately came over, but just as Gawain expected, the girl came here just to inquire about the excitement: "My lord ancestor! My lord ancestor! What did you find in the ruins? Why Hetty?" After my aunt came back, she looked serious, and Knight Byron also..."

"Ahem," Gawain coughed in embarrassment, and then slapped Rebecca's head back. "The matter is very complicated. I will tell you when I have the chance, but don't inquire about it for now. Let's see your results first." Bar."

Rebecca is a very straightforward girl, but she also has the advantage that her attention is also very easy to divert-just bring up a topic that interests her.Hearing Gao Wen's words, she immediately showed a happy face, and then took out the things out of the bag with Jenny: "Yes, yes, look at these, we have already designed that rune group! I and You said, rune logic is really a magical thing, although all runes are calculated on paper, as long as they are combined strictly according to formulas and rules, the effect will be the same as the calculation result..."

Gawain's eyes lit up when he saw Rebecca took out several scrolls and a metal plate with runes engraved on it: "Have you already produced the finished product?"

"Experimental product," Rebecca scratched her hair a little embarrassedly, "Because I couldn't help but want to try the final effect, I asked Eggy for a general-purpose substrate, and the two of us worked hard for half an afternoon to engrave it by hand. A test object came out."

Gao Wen's eyes had fallen on those blueprints at this time, and he saw that there were runes and line patterns that were several times more complicated than the magic net units, but all the runes and connecting lines were more concise and clearer than traditional magic circles. Rustic, that is a drawing method that is completely different from the traditional drawing rules of the magic circle: all useless structures have been simplified, and no decorative patterns are left. Precise mathematical calculations allow every rune to be arranged It is in the right position, and the energy ratio between all runes can reach a perfect balance. It is precisely because of this extreme rationality, although this magic circle is nearly twice as large as the conventional "Scorching Ray" magic circle. The number of effective runes, but its look and feel is more concise and intuitive than the regular magic circle.

And after this array of runes with peculiar beauty was engraved on the general-purpose substrate stamped and formed by a machine, it even gave Gao Wen a kind of "industrial art" trance illusion.

Gao Wen picked up the general-purpose substrate, it was only the size of a palm, made of extremely cheap red copper, and in the groove of the rune, one could see dimly radiant quartz sand powder and solidified red blood gum: look With less expensive materials and no fancy engraving techniques, Gao Wen is almost sure that it will be very easy to turn this magic circle into an industrial mass-produced product.

"You carved this?" He raised his head and looked at Jenny who was standing aside.

Jenny quickly stood up straight and nodded respectfully: "Yes, my lord."

Gawain laughed: "Very good...have you passed the test?"

"I've tried it," Rebecca said proudly, "tested with the magic net of the steel plant! You see, there is a groove next to the fire rune on the sharp corner, and that's where the scorching rays are released! "

Gawain looked at the universal substrate. On one of the sharp corners of the hexagonal substrate, one could see the fire-type rune as the ultimate energy outlet point. From the center of the rune to the apex of the substrate, one could see a special The groove is filled with a small section of quartz pillars. If the magic circle is activated, scorching rays will be emitted along this groove and the quartz pillars in the groove—the effective range can reach 400 meters, And if it is replaced with a better quality quartz pillar or the runes are further strengthened, there is still room for improvement in its range.