Sword of Daybreaker

The filthy clouds cover the scorched and rotten earth, and the valleys, plains, hills and basins that have been infiltrated by high-intensity magical radiation for seven centuries are wandering in the shadows of the ruined and the horrible monsters of distortion and mutation. The wind passed through the pores between the rugged rock pillars and the loose rock walls, stirring the ground with whimper-like low noises, and the low noise was mixed with a certain pungent smell-that is the magic. Decompose the breath produced by air.

In the hinterland of the Gugangdor Empire, in a valley hundreds of kilometers away from the Deep Blue Well blast pit, a "base" entangled with huge boulders and twisted giant trees is quietly dormant among the rocks.

The dark brown vines winding through the mountain walls on both sides, intertwined into a cobweb-like huge structure above the valley, between the vines stretch out branches with thorns, cutting the originally dim and terrifying sky into In addition to the more fragmented and messy strips, the valley covered by the net of thorns is full of boulders, and there are also vines and thorns connected between the stone pillars, forming countless structures that look like huge walls, and there are many "pipes" formed by wooden structures. Extending from the nearby mountains and rocks, precious water from the underground flows out of the pipes and flows into the valley’s seemingly rough and messy water supply network channels.

This is a terrifying territory for creatures outside the wasteland, but for the twisted creatures living in the depths of the wasteland, it is the most comfortable refuge and the most suitable place to live.

Numerous strangely shaped giant trees with human faces and controlled aberrations are active in this "birthplace". They build their own "territories" based on this land, and at the same time slowly expand their power outside the valley.

In the middle of the valley, there is an extremely open area, and the thorn dome above the area has left a large-scale opening, and a somewhat dim sky can shine into this gloomy place. On a circle of high platforms around the open area, several withered and twisted human face giant trees are standing on the top of the boulder. They quietly overlook the spiral deep pit below the high platform, and blue arcane brilliance bursts from the pit. Come out, reflecting on their dry and mutated faces.

After an unknown period of time, the leader of the treant spoke up. His voice seemed to be rubbed against a dry wooden plank in the air: "Is this the pulse that runs through our planet... It is as beautiful as a blood vessel, inside? The huge magic power flowing is like blood...If you can sip this blood, true eternity is really not a distant thing..."

"Ah, our venerable Grand Master has such a poetic side..." A young female voice came from behind the leader of the tree, and next to this voice came another almost identical voice. , "Unfortunately, there are no poets in this desolate valley-nor any poem worthy of being sung."

The leader of the tree man, known as the "Grand Master", turned around, and the sound of clacking came from the woody torso. His yellow-brown eyes stared at the elven twins who were walking up the high platform from behind: " Are you so leisurely every day?"

"There are so many things we are doing, but you always don't see it," Ferna said with a smile, and then Lena next to her said, "Most of our hard work revolves around brainpower. Labor—it does seem to be less busy than those deformed bodies that move rocks and dig ditches in and out of the valley."

The leader of the tree man seemed to have gotten used to the faintly provocative and irritating way of speaking of the pair of elves, he snorted and then retracted his gaze, turned around and set his gaze again in the deep pit under the high platform.

It was a deep pit with obvious traces of artificial excavation, with a diameter of more than a hundred meters. Its edges were piled with neat black stones. The surface of the stones was shining with runes, and countless complex and mysterious magic lines outlined in the present The powerful array of magic power that has long been lost in this era, and at the bottom of this circle of "stone rings", there are pit walls that are twisted and sunken like whirlpools, and extend tens of meters down the pit wall. The chilling "pit bottom"——

There is no rock or soil, no ground that can be trampled on. All that can be seen is a stream of blue flames flowing endlessly, flowing freely in a vast space of nothingness.

The soil and rocks stopped abruptly there, and the bottom of the pit seemed to lead to an endlessly wide place, which even gave people an illusion, as if the planet under the feet of all living beings had only this thin shell, and this deep pit After piercing through this shell, people can directly see the hollow structure inside the planet-countless blue flames form a crisscross network in that space. Just as the leader of the tree people just said, they see Go up like intertwined blood vessels.

But this "hollow planet" scene is actually just a visual illusion-the inside of the planet is of course not hollow. This large crater with a diameter of just over a hundred meters cannot penetrate the planet's crust. The bottom of the crater is surging. The scene of is just a "crack" projected by magic power. The environment at the bottom of the pit is more like a teleportation portal, and what appears inside... is a magic network that cannot be directly touched by a mortal race.

That is the body in the depths of the Deep Blue Well, the "pulse flow" that is buried deep in the real world and runs through the entire planet.

"Such a huge amount of magic power flows in the deep blue network, connecting all the realms of this planet, exchanging huge energy..." The leader of the tree man looked at the bottom of the pit, and said in a deep voice, "It's just like magic. The'source' is generally..."

"People who don’t know the inside story really tend to have this kind of illusion when they see the main body of the Deep Blue Nets. They regard the magical power cycle inside a small planet as the source of all the magic in the world-just like a short-sighted ant climbing a blade of grass. Ye, she thought she had reached the end of the earth," Ferna shook her head, and then Leerna also shook her head, "But after all, it is a shallow cognition. The magic comes from stars and like our sun. The'substellar bodies' are the shallow singing of those huge and ancient celestial bodies in the vast ocean of the universe--compared to the kind of ripples from the stars, the deep blue well on our planet..."

The elven twins smiled softly, but there was a hint of sarcasm in their sweet smile: "It's nothing more than a puddle shining in the sun, reflecting the sun and shining brightly, but it will evaporate in a moment before the eternal sun. Disappeared."

The tree leader’s gaze fell on these sweet-smiling elven twins, his tawny eyes were frozen and motionless, and it took him a long time to break the silence: "Sometimes I am really curious about where your mysterious knowledge comes from. ...Not to mention the ancient heritage of the elves or the secret information of the Gondor Empire. I have experienced the Gondor era and traveled to many places in the Silver Empire. Although I dare not say that I have insight into all the knowledge in the world, I can at least Certainly... many things you know are not areas that mortals have ever touched."

"This question is important?" Ferna tilted her head slightly, "Facts finally proved the authenticity of the knowledge we brought, and you have already benefited greatly from this knowledge..."

"We have accurately judged the location of another'pulse flow' in the Gugangdor Empire," Lena also tilted her head slightly, "and instructed you how to steal energy from the deep blue well and use it to unlock this pulse.* *******The twin spirits smiled at the same time and said in unison: "We have always been doing our best to help-unfortunately, you always seem to have countless doubts and cautions. "

The leader of the tree man stared at the smiling elven twins, and a cold grunt of dissatisfaction came from his woody body: "Huh, your mysterious ways of speaking and boring fake smiles can only make me Even more skeptical... Has no one ever taught you how to speak well?"

"Well, if you ask for that," the elves said in unison, "then we can talk to you in a more serious way in the future."

"...No, let's forget it," the tree leader didn't know what he thought of, shaking his withered canopy in a disgusting tone, "imagining what it would look like when you talk seriously...that's too disgusting."

The elven twins seemed completely indifferent to such a harsh evaluation. They just turned their heads with a smile, and their eyes fell on the bottom of the pit under the high platform, watching the "dark blue net" that was constantly surging in another dimension. It took a few seconds before he suddenly said: "We must remind you, His Excellency Borken, Grand Master, that your last action was too risky. Although you will not encounter the'gaze' from the real world and gods when you act in the elemental realm. , It won’t be alarmed by the ancient ghost parasitic in the server matrix in the depths of the wasteland, but the element world has its own rules of the element world...the troubles there are no better to deal with than the guys outside the wall."

"...I don't need to remind you, I know what I'm doing," the leader of the tree said indifferently. "We need more parameters of the deep blue network to determine the best control node. We have been too late in this step. More time, in order to break through this barrier, a little risk is totally worth it."

"Well, since you are so confident, then we can't talk more," the elves shook their heads, and Lena added afterwards, "but we still have to remind you-the network node opened here does not It's not safe. Under no circumstances should you try to intercept anything directly from these pulses... Almost 80% of them flowed to the Deep Blue Well in the center of the old empire, the ghost parasitic in the server matrix... Maybe she has declined a bit, but she still controls these most powerful'tributaries'."

"Don't worry, I'll notice that we haven't "hungry for food" to this point."

The Grand Master Borken left such a sentence in a slightly blunt tone, and then squirmed his roots, turned and walked slowly towards the bottom of the high platform, and the trees standing with him also moved one after another. Leave here one by one.

Only the elven twins remained on the high platform made of ring-shaped boulders, and the eternally turbulent wind lingering around them on the wasteland.

"Impatient, really impatient..." Lena shook her head and said with a sigh, "Humans are really impatient creatures, even if the life form becomes like this, it doesn't improve much."

"But it is this ‘impatient’ character that allows these short-lived creatures to create countless surprises," Ferna laughed. "Don’t you expect such a surprise?"

"Well, this is also..."

...

At the northern foot of the Dark Mountains, southwest of Cecil City, the large secret facility "Project 115" hidden deep in the mountains and dense forests, the main test site is brightly lit in the mountain cave.

The high-power magic spar lamp placed on the ceiling shines brightly, illuminating the countless large and small platforms on the test field and the complex frame structure fixed and connected between the platforms. A large number of equipment that is still in the embryonic stage is in their respective The platform area is being tested and adjusted. Hundreds of technicians are busy everywhere in the test site, and construction vehicles and small patrol cars are constantly coming and going on the road between the platforms.

In the central area of ​​the proving ground, a special large platform has just finished adjusting. Rebecca stepped up the steps and walked towards the test area in the center of the platform. Behind her is Gawain who came from Cecil City.

"My ancestor, we finally settled this guy!" Standing in the middle of the platform, Rebecca turned her head happily to look at her ancestor, with one hand pointing to the large container and container not far away. The surrounding accessory device group, "The technician just gave it a physical examination, and it is in very good condition now~~"

Gao Wen glanced at Rebecca, who was obviously a little bit excited, and then raised his head to look at the "experimental unit" not far away. In his sight, a large hemispherical container was quietly placed in the test. In the pedestal in the center of the platform, crystal containers of different sizes, connecting pipes, and nerve connector groups are arranged around the container. At this moment, the cover of the hemispherical container is not closed, and he can clearly see that the container is full of A thin and translucent nutrient solution, and a huge brain-like biological tissue is immersed in the solution.

That brain was floating leisurely in the solution, and it seemed even a bit...enjoyed.

After watching this for a few seconds, Gawain couldn't help but muttered: "No matter how many times I watch it... the thing that Bertila tossed out is still so weird..."

"Actually, it's okay. I was taken aback when I first saw it, but after watching too much, I feel quite comfortable." Rebecca scratched her head with a simple and bright smile on her face. "And these Servo brains are actually quite interesting. After getting along for a long time, you may even find them a little cute-they are hard-working and sensible guys. They will obey very obediently whether it is a computing task or a fitness request..."

"I think a group of brains acting as computing hosts suddenly ran out of their slots to do exercises and fitness itself is already very strange..." Gao Wen couldn't help covering his forehead, "But since you can all accept this style of painting, That's fine."

Rebecca grinned, and then turned the topic to a place familiar to him: "After this wetware host is debugged, we can start the next step of testing-let it coordinate the new anti-gravity The operation of the group. According to the data obtained by Glenn Heavy Industries, the work efficiency of the servo brain in this area is dozens or even hundreds of times that of humans. The problem we have been troubled by will definitely be solved."

"Don't relax in such a hurry," Gawain knew that Rebecca was relatively reliable in the technical field, but he couldn't help reminding him at this time. "Do a few more simulation tests and start the device on a small scale. The bigger things of this kind, the more careful they need to be handled-your aunt can't stand the more excitement anymore."

"Don't worry, don't worry," Rebecca shrank her neck when she heard the words "Aunt", and then nodded, "I know, just like your famous saying before you died, "Blind self-confidence is The first stairway to destruction'-I have memorized it seriously..."

Gawain was suddenly surprised when he heard this, and he didn't even bother to pursue this girl's "pre-life" saying: "Famous quote? When did I say this?"

Rebecca was taken aback: "...Hey? Isn't this what you said? This sentence is included in the famous celebrity quotes that must be recited in the textbook..."

Gao Wen: "This is not what I said-I doubt that it was a scholar who did not have enough space to write it for me."

Rebecca: "...?"