Sword of Daybreaker

A few chats with friends made Wycliffe, who had just returned to the surface from the medical ship, regained some of the previous feelings. He breathed out in the cold wind at the end of winter and early spring, and looked at those fronts outside Hongyu City. The military camps that have just been built and the various vehicles that shuttle between the military camps are with emotion in their tone: "Many people say that the Cecilians are like ghosts and gods in the field of infrastructure, but until they see how these camps and roads are. It took a few days to cover the outside of the Red Jade City, and I finally understood the meaning of this sentence. It's okay to say, how did they build so many barracks from the foot of the city wall all the way to the edge of the forest in a few days?"

"Throw it straight down from the sky," Camilla shrugged. "Just as you waited for the doctors to screw your new arm, they sent two more aerial fortresses from the back. What's the name'Frontline Engineering" "Ship", it was filled with such square "container houses" like piles of boxes, and then they were dropped directly onto the plain..."

  Wycliffe was dumbfounded, and after a long period of sluggishness, he touched the bridge of his nose with that alloy hand, feeling the touch of metal and skin while muttering: "I am narrow..."

Camilla’s eyes have been focused on the human king’s robotic arm. She carefully looked at the mechanically beautiful nails, joints and connecting pipes. If it were not limited by the identity of the chief, she might have already taken care of it. "Take it down for me to play with" said, this unabashed gaze certainly did not escape Wycliffe's eyes. The human king couldn't help but smile and waved his arm in front of Camilla. The nerve signal immediately activated a certain mechanism of the mechanical arm. Accompanied by a "buzz" sound, the armor near his wrist suddenly bounced, and an energy blade filled with arcane glow instantly condensed in the air. , The bright light gleamed in the eyes of the orc chieftain.

  Camilla suddenly uttered an exaggerated shout: "Oh"

Wycliffe smiled again, flipped his wrist, and the energy light blade dissipated, and his mechanical palm suddenly split from it, revealing a ring-shaped rune structure and crystal array, a small arcane missile launcher. Appeared in front of Camilla.

"This thing is much easier to use than your cutting axe," the human king said triumphantly to the warchief. "The doctors said that since I am a powerful transcendent who can support greater consumption of magic power, I put Many experimental weapons have been stuffed into my robotic arm and now you are no longer my opponent."

   "Oh," Camilla exclaimed again, and then his eyes narrowed, "Can you take this apart and play with me for two days?"

"That's definitely not possible," Wycliffe refused without hesitation, and quickly restored his arm to its original shape. Then he took out the pipe and held it in his mouth while igniting it with the arc from the fingertips of the robotic arm. "After installation, this is the same as the original arm. The neuroskeleton and everything are connected together. I just show you..."

The ears on Camilla's head trembled, and there was a clear expression of regret on her face. She looked down at her arm and whispered, "Or I would cut off my arm and change it to be like yours. Right..."

Wycliffe did not answer the conversation this time, but just glanced at the orc warchief at random. As a "colleague" who is also one of the "Five Kings" and a friend who has known for many years, he knows too well that this big cat has a problem. The brain circuit and the distracting attention at any time, basically except for carrying the axe to cut people, Camilla has not had any interest in anything that can last more than three days since she was young, so she will return to her. Find something interesting to divert attention, and she must have forgotten it.

  Of course, it’s better to think about something that will change the subject now.

"Our communication with Ancestral Peak has resumed," Wycliffe said suddenly. "On the one hand, the air communication node laid by the Cecils has been activated. On the other hand, the chaotic and magical environment that seems to be shrouded in the western part of the continent is also undergoing. Gradually recovered, it is said that we can now contact most parts of the country with the help of new communication nodes..."

"Well, today I also received news from Stella from Ancestral Peak," Camilla immediately forgot about the robotic arm, and his expression became happy. "Those distortions that move towards Ancestral Peak. The body has been completely cut off. Stella is going to send a golem troop to support the front line, of course, without affecting the local defense forces of the Ancestral Peak. The commander-in-chief Duke Baldwin has agreed to this. Maybe it won’t be long before we can see the fairies active in the barrier of the mountains."

Wycliffe nodded and couldn't help but cast his gaze to the rolling mountains to the east. He opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but in the next second, a radiance appeared between the mountains and the sky. But the light interrupted his movements

It was a layer of brilliance mixed with lavender and turquoise, like a large curtain hanging from the clouds. It spread from the other side of the mountain barrier, leaning across the vast sky, and spreading to the red jade forest. In the sky above, it appeared so suddenly, even in the two or three seconds before it appeared, there was no warning, and between the floating of the light curtain, you can vaguely see lightning-like sparks on the clouds and rays of light. Jump between, stretch into pieces.

  That thing looks like an aurora. But how can the aurora be seen in the Ogure region in the middle of the continent? !

More and more people noticed this abnormal celestial phenomenon. Soldiers and people under the city wall began to point to the sky. Wycliffe finally reacted and immediately turned his head and asked the orc chief beside him: "Ka Mira, what is it difficult to see, and what new equipment developed by the Cecilians? Is it some kind of shield?"

"I haven't heard..." Camilla also looked at the light curtain that suddenly appeared in the sky and quickly spread around, and muttered to herself with widened eyes, "I haven't heard of any new equipment testing. Notice... and looking at the camp, it seems that the Cecil soldiers and officers are also very surprised..."

As soon as her voice fell, the light curtains that filled the sky suddenly disappeared silently, and even the lightning that jumped in the clouds disappeared without a trace, just as it appeared, and it ended without warning. .

  The whole process only lasted less than a minute, but this strange celestial phenomenon has been deeply imprinted in the minds of all witnesses.

"I think this is a bit wrong..." Wycliffe's expression gradually became serious. "You are right, that thing shouldn't be made by the Cecilians, and it started from the east side of the mountain barrier. Spreading here, that's the direction of the wasteland... We'd better go and discuss with Duke Baldwin, maybe he knows something..."

  ...

   "I think this is a bit wrong."

On the top of the ancestral peak, a huge white tower with huge crystals inlaid on the top stands proudly on the top of the mountain. Many magical devices and detection facilities around the tower are in operation. The height is only a palm-sized Stella. Flapping his wings, hovering in front of an open-air inspection device, watching the data projected on the focusing crystal and changing patterns, this fairy king, one of Ogure’s "Five Kings", slowly frowned. Up.

  Another sound of flapping wings came from the side, and a fairy tech kid who was in charge of monitoring the ancestor’s peak magic net hub flew to Stella’s side: "You also found that the parameters are abnormal, haven’t you?"

Stella turned her head and looked at the tech boy who flew over. This is an adult fairy with light purple long hair. She is also only the size of a normal human palm, but beside her are two arms of the same size as an adult human. The "arm" of the golem made of fine gold, red copper, and mithril, each of which grasped the tools used to maintain the equipment, looked quite dexterous.

Goblins are a very small intelligent race. Physical limitations make it difficult for them to directly use the tools and equipment created by the vast majority of intelligent races on the mainland. This naturally includes the standard demons produced by the Cecils. Guide equipment, but the fairies have their own solutions: as the most ingenious and magical clan of Ogure, fairies are extremely good at making various golems and intricate magical institutions. Many years ago, they relied on The powerful Golem Legion has established its own kingdom on the peak of the ancestors, and when facing the magical technology of the new era, they also rely on these convenient and easy-to-use magic "tools" to become the best demon in the Ogure tribe. Guide technician and rune expert.

"When did the readings begin to fluctuate?" Stella nodded to the goblin who was manipulating the two "golem arms" in front of him, and asked with a serious face, "This happened before communication was restored. Huh?"

"No, the readings began to rise abnormally after the communication was restored, and as the chaotic magical environment near the peak of the ancestors has gradually subsided in the last two days, the rising speed of the readings once reached the peak. Although it has begun to fall again, it is still very high. ," said the purple-haired fairy, and the two golem arms floating beside her also gesticulated, "We have checked the Holm crystal on the main tower and several transformation matrices connected to the mountain magic net to confirm It is not a false reading caused by equipment failure."

"...This shows that there is a powerful magic power being transmitted between several magic net hubs, but the source of magic power is not any magic net array," Stella looked back at the reading on the next device, "No way. Understand...Did those Cecil technologists say anything?"

"They're still in a meeting and studying, I don't think they understand what happened." The spontaneous goblin spread her hand, and the golem's arms floating beside her spread out. Then she showed a nervous expression again, "Queen. Ah, shouldn’t it really be the turbulence that we have been tossing recently, disturbing the sleeping ancestral spirit in the ancestral peak..."

Stella waved her hand vigorously without waiting for the other party to finish her words: "Impossible. A hundred years ago, when we started the'Super Power' on the top of the mountain, our energy was out of control. The lightning struck half a mountain and did not break the spirit of the ancestors. Wake up, where does this go."

   "...That's true," the purple-haired fairy listened to the queen's explanation, and suddenly felt very reasonable, "but how should these abnormal readings be explained now?"

   "I don't know if I package the data and send it to the Cecilians anyway. After all, they invented this set of things," Stella waved her hand. "Looking back to see what they can study."

The purple-haired goblin technical kid nodded, and then looked up at the pure white tower proudly standing on the top of the Ancestral Peak. This was built by Cecil and supported most of the magic net in the north-central part of Ogure. Energy supply, the largest magic net hub in the western part of the mainland is in operation. Several metal ring structures floating on the upper part of the tower are slowly rotating under the clear sky, and a low and sweet buzzing sound echoes high in the sky. , It looks business as usual.

However, where the fairies cannot see, in the dimensions that cannot be observed by today's technical means, an extremely large-scale torrent of blue magic power is surging in the depths of the Ancestral Peak, and part of the fringe branch of this torrent penetrates The mountain has entered the atmosphere, intertwined and flowing near the main hub of the magic net. Above this "Ogure Holy Land" deeply affected by the deep blue net, an invisible wave of magic power is moving from the distant Gondor wasteland. It spreads all the way across the entire continent, spreading out to all parts of this planet...

  ...

  At the same time, there is an endless ocean in the southwest of the Loren mainland.

The monstrous waves roll in from afar, and the dark sky is filled with light like a curtain of aurora and thunder. The wind is howling, the sea is surging, and the wind and waves are constantly beating the bow and side of the steel battleship. A large battleship propped up a shield used to resist sea storms, opened the rune matrix engraved on the ship's hull to stabilize the ocean current and the hull, and turned itself into a stable steel in the waves by relying on the power of technology. mountain peak.

In the command center of the Empire Fleet’s flagship Bitter Winter, Byron stood on the platform belonging to the captain, staring at the sea state map displayed on the holographic projection, and after holding back for a long time, he finally turned his head and asked: "Ka Ms. Sandra, are you sure we are on the right route?"

"...Seriously, I was really sure about it five minutes ago," the black-haired siren known as Kassandra with a mole on the corner of his eye thought for a while, and said frankly, "but now I also feel the situation. What's wrong."

"General, we obviously encountered disorderly turbulence. In theory, this thing should only appear in the far sea," said a naga pilot behind Byron, with dark green scales and snake-like eyes, and his neck. There are also nautical instruments and amulets with deep sea runes. "The fleet may have been pushed off the course by the storm, but it seems that the intensity of the storm will no longer increase. We'd better wait on the spot until the storm is over."

   "...This is the only way," Byron said helplessly, "The protection systems of Bitter Winter and other ships can withstand storms of this degree. We set the protection to the maximum and wait until the storm is over before confirming the deviation of the course."

After giving the order, the Imperial Navy Marshal turned his head and looked at the red-haired lady standing beside him: "Ashalena, you should go back to the cabin and rest. After the storm is over, we may need you and the dragoons. Let's do aerial reconnaissance together."

"Actually now I can also take a look at it," Ashalena said casually. Her current identity is the "Dragonborn Commander" sent by the Holy Dragon Principality. After the war broke out, the Holy Dragon Principality sent to the front line of the alliance. Several troops, one of which was led by Ashalena. She and her men were incorporated into Byron’s expeditionary fleet to serve as the "ship-borne air force". They were originally going to support the southern battlefield, but they didn’t. Thinking of being trapped in the sea by a storm now, "I should be able to cope with this kind of storm."

"Don't be foolish, I believe you can take off in this kind of weather, but you can't land in this kind of situation. Heaven knows how long this storm will last," Byron shook his head, "Obey the arrangement, we'll do well. Waiting for the storm to end."