The long years of hanging in the sky as a surveillance satellite did not change the essence of Gawain's personality, but it gave him a special perspective on everything in the world - when necessary, he can act as a near bystander Analyze the changes in the world with an attitude, and summarize some possible rules from the changes that can last for thousands or tens of thousands of years. These rules are very important for species living on the earth (including those that can live for thousands of years). For elves), it is difficult to summarize.
It is precisely because he has seen the ups and downs of civilization on the earth's surface many times that Gawain can deduce that the magic wave has occurred more than once - even if he did not capture any of them, it was enough to see the surveillance footage before and after. Guess what happened in between.
In another speculation of Gawain, he believed that the scale of the demonic tide should be uncertain.
A large-scale demonic tide may lead to the reshaping of the civilization of the entire planet, while a small-scale demonic tide—the destruction of Gondor seven hundred years ago may be just a "small demonic tide" .
Although it destroyed the Gondor Empire, the most powerful empire in human history, its scope was only the central area of the continent. Not to mention other things, the Silver Empire of the Elves and the Dwarf Kingdom in the west had no influence at all. affected.
Or... that seven hundred years ago was not a formal demonic wave at all, but just some kind of "prelude"?
Various speculations and associations appeared in Gawain's mind involuntarily. Many of them were actually made up by him out of thin air. Amber, who was next to him, watched Gawain without moving for a long time. , finally couldn't help but poked his arm: "Hey, what are you thinking about?"
"I just thought of one thing," Gawain woke up with a start and asked casually, "Say, What will happen if one day all the resources that humans are familiar with on the earth change, such as the properties of various magical materials?"
Amber was stunned for a moment: "What's your thinking? The jump is so big..."
Gawain knocked on Amber's head: "Just tell me what will happen."
"Then everyone will be in a mess. ," Amber replied casually, "Especially the mages, they may not be able to find the casting materials at once, and many spell materials have to be re-summarized..."
Gawain was silent when he heard Amber's answer. After a long time, he sighed softly: "Mortal civilization is really fragile... right."
Hu Amber's ears twitched: "You speak really strangely."
Gawain stood up and turned to look at Holm and the other members of the exploration team who were waiting. These people did not dare to disturb the lord when he was thinking. When they saw Gawain standing up, they came slightly closer. Some.
"This kind of ore needs a name," Gawain nodded slightly to Holm, "I named it Holm rough stone."
"Sir... Your Majesty?" Soon Home, who was still a serf, was shocked when he heard Gawain's words. He widened his eyes and repeated in disbelief, "Home rough stone?"This... I am not worthy of my status! How can I have this honor..."
"In exploring unknown areas, discoverers are always great. There is no need to refuse," Gawain waved his hand, "In the future, we may discover more on this land. There are so many valuable things, and naming them after the people who discovered them is a simple and easy way - and a great way to inspire explorers. "
"Yes...thank you! "Holm straightened up suddenly. For so many years, his waist, which had been bent prematurely due to heavy labor, was straightened again for the first time. This even made his spine make a crisp sound, and his entire back was in pain. He got up, but he still tried to straighten his body, "I...I..."
This commoner with little knowledge and barely able to read and write couldn't find the right words. To describe his mood, Gawain didn't care about this, he just waved his hand: "Everyone in the exploration team has contributed, I will let Hetty record it for you, and convert it into rewards according to the contribution bill. "
Then he looked in the direction of the mountain road - just now he saw a combat soldier running over, and the other party stood still on the mountain road, waiting for him.
" What's going on? "Gawain came to the soldier and asked.
"Sir, I brought a report from the ruins." The soldier stood up straight and saluted and reported, "Knight Byron discovered a strange thing in the lower area of the ruins. Magical devices and a hall full of runes, I hope you can see it for yourself. "
A new area was discovered deep in the ruins?!
Gawain frowned and immediately waved to Amber: "Come with me. "
The two walked up the mountain road under the leadership of the soldiers. After a long journey, they finally reached the deepest part of the ancient facility.
"This It's really big inside..." Looking at the tall corridors and the dim magic crystal lamps on both sides of the corridors, Amber couldn't help but sigh, "It takes so long to walk in a straight path..."
< p> “This is the result of the way that Byron Knight has cleared. "Gawain nodded. He noticed that the magic crystal lamps in the corridors on both sides were recently installed. Considering the cost and the output power of the portable honeycomb magic network unit, the distance between the magic crystals in the corridor was very far. The overall lighting was very dim, but compared to the originally completely dark ruins environment, the newly illuminated corridor was still much stronger than before.In that rotunda, Gawain saw already. The middle-aged knight who hadn’t seen him for many days
The many days of exploring the ruins did not make this gentleman look haggard and tired. He was even in surprisingly good condition, and he seemed to have rediscovered his old skills in the process. Feeling like a mercenary, Byron’s face looked full of energy, and when he saw Gawain he came up to him: “My lord, you should take a look at this! I bet these two sets of words on the door describe the function of this room - but we didn't understand what they meant after studying for a long time. ”
Gawain looked in the direction of Byron's finger and saw that on both sides of the inner door of the entrance to the rotunda, there was indeed a metal plate with no signs of rust inlaid on it. The metal plate was engraved with a technology similar to laser etching. With neat ancient characters.
"What's written on the left is to pay attention to safety and prevent accidents, and what's written on the right is to pay attention to locking the door when personnel leave - what's wrong?"
Byron: "..."
On the spot, Gawain saw several soldiers behind Byron blushing. If it weren't for military discipline, they would have rolled on the ground.
“Don’t bother studying things that are not your specialty in the future,” Gawain sighed and patted the middle-aged oil-dough knight on the shoulder, “Even Hetty can’t read these ancient texts, so why are you joining in the fun? "
Byron broke out in a cold sweat. He turned around awkwardly and pointed to the center of the rotunda: "...My lord, you are right, you should come and take a look at this. Well..."
Gawain looked towards the center of the hall - in fact, from the moment he entered the door, he had already noticed that wonderful thing with overwhelming presence.
It was a ring set vertically on the ground, with about one-third of the structure buried deep underground. The inner diameter of the ring is about four meters, and densely packed magic lines and symbol marks can be seen on the ring. Rare metals and magic crystals are inlaid on magic nodes everywhere, which shows that it should be some kind of A device that consumes a lot of energy.
On the ground around the ring, you can see the same complex and huge magic symbol system, as well as several metal devices fixed on the ground and connected to the magic patterns on the surface, which look like consoles. generally.
"This is... some kind of door?" Gawain touched his chin. The shape of the ring made him think of something similar to a portal, but his understanding of "portal" The judgment is doubtful - even in the heyday of the Gondor Empire, long-distance teleportation spells were still a theoretical product. This world did not have such convenient space teleportation magic. If there had been mature teleportation in the Gondor Spark Age a thousand years ago It is impossible that nothing has been passed down.
It is more likely to be a "magic door" used for small-scale space transformation, used to link different spaces located at the same coordinates. This technology was quite mature in the Gondor era.
"We first suspected that this thing was stone, but in fact it is some kind of metal, but no one knows its material," Byron Knight continued to report, "In addition, we also have Several sealed rooms were discovered. In those rooms were stacked some ingots made of the same material as the rings. It seemed that the people here originally planned to build more rings or expand them - but they later evacuated. , these works were put on hold."
"Unknown metal material..." Gawain said to himself, "If it is not an ancient alloy, then it can only be caused by the magic tide. Nature, if the reason is the latter, it will be very troublesome to study.”
Knight Byron didn't hear clearly: "My lord, what did you say?"
"No, it's nothing," Gawain waved his hand, and at the same time, out of the corner of his eye, he noticed Amber sauntering there without knowing when. Next to the ring, and using her precious little dagger to poke the purple-black crystal on the surface of the ring, he suddenly shouted, "Hey! What are you doing! This thing can't..."
"Don't worry, I won't steal it!" Amber immediately glared at Gawain and loudly dismissed the suspicion of having an occupational disease. "I just feel that the power fluctuations left in this crystal are a bit...familiar."
"Are you familiar with it?" Gawain was surprised, "Have you seen this kind of crystal?"
Amber looked at the crystals embedded in the ring like an expert scholar, and touched it with his free left hand. Touching his smooth chin: "Based on my many years of experience in committing crimes..."
Gao Wen: "...what?"
"Ahem, work experience, work experience," Amber She also reacted and quickly changed her words, but unfortunately everyone at the scene had heard it, so she continued shamelessly, "According to my experience, this crystal should be a rare shadow affinity crystal - all elements The most expensive kind of crystal. And to be honest, the purity is also frightening. Shadow crystals with such high purity are rare now."
"Shadow?" Gawain blinked. Knowing the existence of elemental crystals, this special magic crystal is generated by ordinary magic crystals undergoing long-term erosion and transformation in an environment with high element concentration. Since the shadow environment is rare in nature, it can maintain the shadow environment for a long time and the concentration reaches the standard. It is even rarer in places, so elemental crystals with shadow tendencies are the most expensive and rare. Although Gawain Cecil was known as a polymath back then, his main skill points were in herbalism, wilderness survival, territory construction, and killing monsters. She didn't do much research on magic crystals, but as Amber dared to pry into the grave of the founding prince, and was a shadow-affiliated and insane person, it was not surprising that she had seen this kind of crystal.
"Could it be related to the Shadow Realm?" Gawain asked speculating.
Amber patted her chest: "Then let me go in and check the situation first!"
"Wait a moment," Gawain grabbed her arm before she entered the Shadow Realm, "Take me in with you."
Amber was stunned, and suddenly remembered the terrifying experience of facing the flesh and blood of gods when he entered the Shadow Realm in the ruins laboratory last time. He suddenly broke out in a cold sweat and quickly grabbed it. Gawain's arm: "Then you have to walk in front later!"
Gawain glanced at the half-elf who suddenly became timid, and waved his hand: "Let's go, let's go."
Amber took a deep breath, calmed down, and then activated his Shadow Affinity talent.
The familiar sense of trance struck again, and Gawain felt that the scene in front of him began to shake. However, just when he was about to vaguely see the scenery of the Shadow Realm, Amber beside him suddenly said "Ouch", Immediately afterwards, both of them fell "down""Exceeded" the critical state.
Amber rubbed his head dizzyly, and it took him a while to realize: "It seems... was ejected?" ”