Twilight War

03

"I don't want to learn anymore!!!"

Zichen slammed the book in his hand onto the table, and after a minute of cooling, he picked it up and continued reading.

Weier allows Zichen to enter the Hall of Valor, but the condition is that he must pass the next test of the Valkyrie.

According to the "Eda Fragments", Odin's daughter, the holy Valkyrie, will turn into a swan, give a kiss to the brave warriors who died in battle on the battlefield, and lead them to the legendary Hall of Valor, Enjoy eternal life and battle.

And when the twilight of the gods falls, they will go to the battlefield without fear.

Of course, Zichen still doesn’t have to really die to enter the Hall of Valor, but the result is that not only the kisses of the beautiful Valkyrie sisters are gone, but even the beautiful Valkyrie sisters are gone. Headed by a group of uncles.

Zichen felt that it would be better to change the name of this test to the Uncle's test as soon as possible. If Odin knew that his daughter had become a bunch of uncles, he wondered if he would get up and jump off the throne.

The whole trial was divided into two parts - the Sword of the Valkyrie and the Kiss of the Valkyrie. Zichen had serious doubts about the seriousness of this trial when he heard the name for the first time.

And the Valkyrie's Kiss was performed yesterday, the day after tomorrow it should be the Valkyrie's Sword.

The young man flipped through the "Book of Promise" in his hand. It can be said that the steam machinery technology in the entire Western Continent originated from this book.

It was Arthur's wandering bards who first found the book among the ruins of desolate Muspelheim, and dedicated it to Arthur's rulers.

The most original version of this book was written in the Ruen script. Judging from the age of the paper, it was at least a thousand years before the book was written. Translated into the text of Xilu.

It is said that the contents of that book shocked the entire empire, and the blue-blood noble veterans of the Ministry of Political Affairs who lived in the dark basement all day long were even invited out of the basement of the family.

Those old people who seemed to have lived for centuries roared hoarsely in the dim Uld Spring Hall-this is the gift of God.

——It is the promise of the ancient gods to the Arthur Empire!

As a result, the Shenyue Machinery Research Institute was secretly established, and a large number of steam machines were put into production. Hundreds of tons of silver from the abyss were burning underground in Asgard, and the silver from the abyss flowed into Asgard through huge pipelines. Gard's underground is like the pulse of a giant.

In the next 20 years, the powerful steam machinery technology of the Arthur Empire quickly crushed all the countries in the Westland, completely unified the originally chaotic and desolate north, and then set foot on the territory of Vana.

After repeated failures, Vanner used spies to steal a copy of this book from Arthur's Covenant Mechanical Research Institute, and established his own mechanical headquarters. Within a year, the gray-white smoke after the silver of the abyss burned covered the entire world. over Corinth.

No one knows who wrote this book, but the technology recorded in this book is definitely beyond the reach of human beings. Everyone believes that this book is a gift from God, so this fragment is called For - "Book of Promise".

Some people say that when the bard opened this book, he also opened the entire era of steam machinery...

And the bard who brought the book back finally died in remorse, and it is said that he roared with all his strength before he died-I unleashed a beast! ! !

No one knows whether what he brings back is a gift from the gods or a monster that will eventually devour everything.

But even now, a hundred years later, human beings still cannot even surpass this book. Some people say that everything human beings have is just a poor imitation of God.

Even many of the machines in this book cannot be restored by humans. Those complex and exquisite machines seem to only exist between the pages of paper, and cannot be tolerated by the world.

A whole generation of mechanical researchers in the 940s of the Apocalypse Calendar were obsessed with restoring all the machines on the pages of the book, but in the end, that group of mechanical researchers could only die with hatred.

So the whole continent believed that the gift of God ended here, and the book was completely lifted in the 950th year of the Apocalypse.

Zichen used his fingers to outline the unclear mechanical design on the pages of the book. In fact, there are people in Donghuang who are studying this huge and complicated machine. Those people are called Yanshi, but they can only be enslaved for life. It is important for the court.

And 300 years ago, Yanshi committed a crime by chance, holy anger, and punished Yanshi all over the world.Only Yuyuan City in Shu is willing to take in Yanshi from all over the world.

When Zichen was ten years old, he went to Yuyuan City with his uncle. There were twelve bridges in the city, all of which were made of bronze heavy wooden hooks and embedded, and there was even a huge bronze dragon flying in the air.And in the center of the sacred wood building in the city is a huge bronze sacred tree, on which there are nine golden crow divine birds, solemn and solemn.

There are countless bronze divine bells hanging in the building. When the metal carved windows above the Shenmu Tower are opened, the wind blows over the divine bells, like chime bells.

At that time, Zichen raised his head and watched the last light of dusk shine through the window into the five-storey Shenmu Building, coating the huge bronze Shenmu with a layer of gold like an ancient emperor.

"Hey, don't look at it. Judging from yesterday's appearance, you probably won't be able to pass." The tall boy looked at Zichen who was still reading seriously and laughed, throwing his clothes on the upper bed.

Zichen looked back at Dai Wen, he was Zichen's temporary roommate in the Hall of Valor, if one of the two people failed, the rest would be re-arranged in the dormitory.And yesterday, after seeing Zichen's performance on Valkyrie's Kiss, Dai Wen immediately started packing his things when he came back, ready to be rearranged in the dormitory.

"Really, you are the first person I've ever seen who can't use a gun." Devon said, "So you really can't use a gun?"

Zichen nodded.

"If you don't know how to use a gun, you want to enter the Hall of Valor. What do you think? Those who want to enter the Hall of Valor have prepared for several years. After all, although the Hall of Valor is said to be directly in charge of General Weir, it is actually subordinate to the Hall of Valor." Your Highness Vichypel." Devon lowered his head and peeled the apple in his hand, and said with a little disdain: "I don't understand why Your Highness arranged for you to enter the Hall of Valor, everyone is guessing whether you are the illegitimate son of His Highness Vichypel .”

"You see, His Highness Wisipel doesn't seem to be able to give birth to an illegitimate child like me." Zichen said with his head down.

"Don't worry, everyone knows it's impossible. If a person as perfect as a god like His Majesty Vichypel could give birth to such a waste like you, the entire Arthur Empire's senior generals should be queuing up to jump into the sea by now."

"Are you from Donghuang?" Dai Wen asked.

Zichen nodded.

"Then what are you doing here?"

Zichen remained silent, looking down at the books on the table.

"There are many roads in this world, and this one is not the only one." Devon gnawed on an apple and said, "There is no need to choose the Hall of Valor, this road will not work for you at all, and it will be difficult for you to walk .”

"I know." Zichen said.

"What do you know?" Devon said, "Here, those who can enter the Hall of Valor are either the children of officers or those selected |out| from the army after bloody battles, and you are from Donghuang. The defeated country of the Vana Empire. War and conquest are things engraved in the blood of every Arthur, and the corresponding thing is the contempt and contempt for the weak. You are here like a sheep stepping into a lion. group territory."

"I know." Zichen lowered his head. When he was led here, he passed by many people. They looked at him with inquiries, curiosity, and contempt that they didn't realize.Sheep don't live long in a pride of lions.

"I advise you to go back to Donghuang, you won't be able to stay here," Dai Wen said.

Devon took a bite of the apple, "The Sword of the Valkyrie is no joke anymore, are you sure you want to continue?"

"En." Zichen nodded.

"Do you know where the Hall of Valor is?" Devon smiled with a corner of his mouth.

Zi Chen shook his head.

"Then do you know what will happen after you join the Hall of Valor?"

Zichen looked up at Dai Wen.

"do you know?"

Zi Chen shook his head.

"Then why did you join the Hall of Valor?" Devon snorted coldly, "Did you come here without knowing anything? Should I say you are stupid or naive."

Devon stopped paying attention to Zichen, and began to gnaw on the apple by himself.

Zichen stroked the book in his hand with his fingers.

In fact, he knew, he knew why he was here.

He still remembered that when he held the gun for the first time yesterday, he could only stand there in a daze, listening to the constant gunshots around him.

But he still wants to stay here.

He didn't know where the Hall of Valor was, and he didn't know why he entered the Hall of Valor.All he knew was that he wanted to stay, to stay with that person.

He still remembers the first time he lay down on the cold stone platform of the withered wood meditation room, the whole meditation room was as dark as the beginning of an ancient gloom, with only a little light peeking out from the cracks in the roof.There was a moth in the meditation room, and that gray moth kept hitting the roof.

When there is only such a little light in your world, you will do everything you can to catch it...

Do whatever it takes.

02

Dai Wen couldn't stand it anymore, walked to Zichen, looked at Zichen, "By the way, you really don't know where the Hall of Valor is?"

Zi Chen shook his head.

"The Hall of Valor is where all the beautiful girls of Arthur gather," Devon said with a smile on his face. "It's a place where a girl's military uniform can show her calves!"

Zichen: "..."

"Okay, I'm not joking. I'm serious. The Hall of Valor was built by Odin in legend to select warriors, and all the warriors in it were born for war." Devin said, "But the Hall of Valor is beautiful. There are really a lot of girls."

"This myth and legend is clearly written on the stone tablet at the entrance of the Hall of Valor, so you have to see it when you come in and out?" Zichen said.

"In the past hundred years, the country's investment in the Hall of Valor has continued to increase. After His Royal Highness Wisper became the consul, he attached more importance to the Hall of Valor than ever before, and even directly assigned the Hall of Valor to General Weir. "

"Why? Because the war is coming." Devon suddenly became serious when he said this, but there was still a smile on the corner of his mouth.

War, that is too grand a word.Death, a sharp sword piercing the heart, a battlefield full of crows, and chess pieces falling from the hands of emperors and generals.But the boy said it with a smile at the corner of his mouth.

"All the people thought it was a war against the Vana Empire. The whitewashed peace has been too long, so long that people have forgotten what war is."

"But no, this war that has prepared the whole country for hundreds of years is by no means a mortal battle! This battle is—"

Devon was only wearing a white undershirt and flip flops on his feet, but at that moment he seemed to be standing on the stage in a fancy dress and was about to unveil the final curtain.It was a grand scene, so grand that a country had been preparing for it for hundreds of years, and at this moment Zichen was about to watch the huge curtain open in front of him. He was dragged off the stage as he walked casually, watching this big show that would shake the world once it started.

"—a battle that belongs to God."

Dai Wen said these words slowly, his voice was very soft, like a sigh from a distant stage.But amidst his sigh, the giant curtain was pulled away in front of Zichen...

He has already sat under the stage, but he hasn't made any preparations yet, but everything has already begun.But Dai Wen still looked at Zichen pretending to be serious, but there was still a trace of a smile that couldn't be suppressed at the corner of his mouth.It was like the narrator who retreated innocently after the huge curtain opened.

"The twilight of the millennium will eventually come, and then will be the final battle." Devon looked up at Zichen, "You and I are all dust destined to die in this battle."

Zichen thought for a while and said, "You mean cannon fodder."

"Dust sounds nicer, but it's all the same. Anyway, in the eyes of God, everything is the same, and we are the ones to be crushed." Devon scratched the top of his head.

"Do you know the story of the first Twilight Battle?" Devon asked.

Zi Chen shook his head.

"Loki was originally the No.13 god of Asgard, but he chose to betray, so he was imprisoned by Odin in the darkest place in the world. But when 1000 years later, Loki will lead Frost The Giant returned with all his servants. And then it was Ragnarok."

"——After 1000 years, I will return, the evening will be bloodied, and all living things will be destroyed." Devon slowly thought about Loki's last curse on this world.

Zichen suddenly felt a chill emanating from his body, as if his soul had been captured suddenly.

The dusk of the gods, that is the final chapter of everything in the prophecy.In this battle, not only humans but all gods died.Before the battle came, frost covered the courtyard, the sun fell, and the stars burned.Everything is in chaos, human beings are killing each other, and beasts are eating each other.The earth cracks open, mountains crumble, and Loki, who was imprisoned at that time, will return.Odin and the three goddesses of Fate whispered a few words in a hurry, and then rushed to the battlefield with a sad face. Loki, with an ugly face, fought the final decisive battle with the gods in the wilderness.And Loki will also die in this battle, and what will be buried with him is - the whole world.

This is the prophecy recorded in the "Eda Fragments".

"Many people think this is just a myth, but I know it's true." Devin said, "This is the trajectory that this world has long been destined for. And we are just a speck of dust... ..."

The cut thread in Shi Kodan's hands, the coming dusk, the annihilated dust and blood, this is... destiny.

Zichen looked up at Dai Wen, "So what does this have to do with my exam?"

"Don't you think these are very important?" Devon looked at Zichen in surprise, "This is the absolute inside information I got, many people thought that they joined the Hall of Valor just to fight with Vaner What! If I didn't feel sorry for you, would I tell you?"

"But now I just want to know how to pass the exam."

"Don't be so short-sighted, okay? You at least know why you joined the Hall of Valor! You at least know the meaning of your hard work preparing for the exam!"

"Then tell me how I should prepare for the exam because of this? Now take the sword and go to the darkest place in the world and hack Loki to death with a sword?" Zichen said, "Will I be exempted from the exam?"

"Really, you said Odin defeated Loki, why didn't you just kill him." Zichen shook his head, "There are so many things like this."

"And then? Are the gods and the frost giants living a happy life?" Devon asked?

"Yeah, don't you think that's nice?"

Devon shook his head.

"You also know it won't work!" Zichen said, "If you know it, disappear quickly, I'm going to start studying hard!"

"Hey, don't be so heartless. I still have some useful information." Devon blinked.

"Say."

"The topic of the Goddess Sword is different every year, but one thing is certain, the Goddess Sword tests our ability on the battlefield."

"Although we are from the mechanical department, we are also soldiers. Those who conduct purely academic mechanical research will directly enter the Shenyue Mechanical Research Institute, and stay in the dark underground laboratory all year round, without even seeing the light , weak as a sheep."

"But we are different. We need to control the machinery at any time on the battlefield. Those sophisticated machinery may break down at any time on the battlefield, and the situation on the battlefield is too changeable and dangerous, which requires us to have super high responsiveness and adaptability.”

"In short, Tomorrow's Goddess Sword is basically a wartime simulation, and all you have to do is treat yourself as a real soldier."

Zichen frowned, "That's all?"

Devon nodded, "Well, isn't that enough?"

"Forget it, just pretend I didn't ask you."

Zichen continued to look at the mechanical entry in his hand seriously. After looking at it for a while, he suddenly turned his head and asked Devin, "Why did that Loki rebel? Did the gods treat him badly?"

"Who knows? The whole fragment of Edda doesn't say why Loki rebelled. All I know is that he killed Baldr, the God of Light, but he didn't even have a reason to kill Baldr." Devon shrugged. , "Maybe it's just for fun."

"Fun?"

"Maybe one day Loki suddenly felt bored, so he rebelled." Devon said, "Loki was not a protoss at all, he has the blood of the frost giants, and it is said that his blood can command all the frost giants, and in the end all In God's Twilight, those frost giants will follow in his footsteps and destroy this world..."