Faced with Solderin's somewhat awkward greeting, Sonia Shuangye just nodded lightly: "At least he is still healthy."
Several people around Gawain were dumbfounded, even Since they had little contact with elves, it was impossible for them to think in advance that this elf lady, who looked only a few years older than Rebecca, would be Solderin's mother, but out of politeness, everyone restrained themselves well. Overly surprised - Rebecca's "Wow" was the only surprise.
Gawain had expected such a situation after seeing Sonia Shuangye. He was very indifferent and said casually: "Why are you so cold after not seeing each other for many years?"
Solderin shrugged helplessly, while Sonia glanced at Gawain: "He didn't come home for seven centuries."
Gawain: "... ..."
There was nothing he could say.
"We have arranged accommodation for you. I hope you can still get used to living in a human room," Hetty said at the right time to ease the delicate atmosphere of the scene. She looked towards the square as she spoke Those huge raptors, "If these giant eagles... can live in the griffin's nest?"
Although Cecil has now begun to promote magic network communications, the griffin's function as a messenger is still However, in order to deliver important letters and undertake some investigation work, Cecil City still retains a basic griffon team and infrastructure such as griffon nests.
"Okay, giant eagles don't choose where to live," Sonia nodded, "Olan Ranger will tell you how to settle these giant eagles. In addition, please settle those that occupy their nests. Griffin, calm down... their emotions."
A male elf wearing green leather armor stood up. He should be the "Olan Ranger" that Sonia mentioned.
The personnel responsible for managing the griffon nest began to hand over the work with the ranger, while Sonia and other elves followed Gawain and walked towards the Autumn Palace.
The giant eagles that landed on the square seemed a little uneasy about this strange city. One of them raised its head and shouted loudly in the direction of Sonia: "Cuckoo! Cuckoo! Go!"
Sonia stopped helplessly, turned around and said loudly to the huge raptor: "You are a giant eagle!" p>
After saying that, she turned her head and continued to walk forward. Gawain was surprised when the giant eagle spoke. He looked at Sonia in surprise: "What's wrong with this giant eagle?" "What happened?"
"It's called Gugu. I just hatched it forty years ago." Sonia pressed her fingers on her temples and couldn't help but shake her head. "Damn it, I shouldn't have let the thorns go." Master Heart helps take care of it... The Valley of the Moon is full of pigeons!"
Gawain: "..."
Fortunately, all these brief episodes did not affect the following! The welcome process, according to the predetermined plan, the Qiu Palace prepared a rich welcome for the messengers.After a banquet and a resting environment that was more in line with the elf aesthetics, Sonia Shuangye handed the two letters she had prepared to Gawain in the living room of the Qiu Palace after a banquet where the guests and hosts enjoyed themselves.
One of the letters is sealed with a hollow wooden envelope. Light green vines and leaves can be seen on the envelope. The seal has the mark of the Elf Royal Court on the paint. The other letter is sealed. Inside the pale golden metal seal, there is the sword and shield mark of the Ansu royal family on the seal.
Obviously, one part was given to him by the Elf Queen, and the other part came from Silver Castle.
Of course, from the name of this moment, the second letter should be "jointly signed and issued by Silver Castle and East Territory".
Gawain glanced at Sonia, but did not open either letter, but said casually: "Now, you are both the envoy of the Silver Empire and the envoy of Saint Sunil."
"Strictly speaking, I am just submitting this official letter to you on behalf of Silver Castle. The elves cannot represent any side of humanity. I am just a messenger," Sonia said, "Messenger from St. Sunil City ——And the envoy team from the east is still in preparation, but they should have set off by now. They are working hard and should be here within half a month."
"They want both face and profit. , refused to give in to each other, and were afraid of each other, and at the same time, time did not wait for anyone... In the end, it became such a nondescript situation. Letters with the royal seal had to be delivered by elf messengers," Gawain sneered and shook his head. Head, "Ignore those unworthy descendants, let's get down to business - I know the general situation and your intention of coming to the human kingdom. How bad is the condition of the barrier now?"
"All The Sentinel Tower has been damaged to varying degrees. The effective power of the entire barrier has dropped to 70%. It is currently stable, but the self-repair function of the system has been semi-stopped. If the next impact occurs and overload occurs, it will be 100% resistant. Can't help it." Sonia didn't hide anything. In front of this human hero who had personally experienced the demonic tide, she directly told the truth that would cause mass panic outside, "We no longer have the ability to reproduce the Sentinel Tower. As for the core components, the current situation is that there are no accessories, no replacements, and no complete repair plan." After a pause, she continued: "I have already been in contact with the Duchess of Victoria Wilder. , she mentioned that you had issued several warnings to the Royal Capital. I also saw the warning messages you wrote. If my judgment is correct, the initial overload should have started from the northern section of the wasteland - but at that time you... …The monitoring of the Great Wall by the people of Anzu was ineffective. No one noticed the foreboding phenomena until the aberrations invaded Anzu, which is the one where the aberrations you mentioned in the first warning destroyed the old Cecil. Over time, the omen has turned into substantial damage."
Gawain frowned: "After that time, I organized people to resume remote monitoring of the Great Wall for a long time. Didn't even look at itTo something strange. "
"The self-healing system concealed the situation of the failed node. When you re-monitored the barrier, it was already 'normally operating', but unfortunately it was only superficially normal," Sonia said seriously, " In fact... the malfunction has been spreading, from one sentry tower to another, until today, it has spread throughout the barrier. "
Hetty on the side couldn't help but asked: "Didn't your monitoring system notice it? In a situation like this where faults are spreading... shouldn't there be an early warning mechanism? "
This is exactly what Gawain wanted to ask, but Sonia shook her head slightly: "This is also what we are investigating recently - the Sentinel Tower should sound an alarm, even if The self-healing system temporarily repaired the failed tower, and at least one failure record should have been transmitted back to the highest control center of the Temple of the Stars, but in fact no system could find these records... In the past few years, all sentinels The data returned by the tower is all normal. "
Gawain and Hetty couldn't help but look at each other.
"Is it a deeper fault? Or is someone tampering with it? "Gawain asked with a serious face.
"We are investigating the situation of the early warning mechanism, and are also sending magisters to check each sentry tower along the barrier," Sonia said slowly, “But no problems have been found so far. The entire magnificent wall is monitored continuously, and no suspicious points have been found in the system. In addition to the monitoring system, we have also set up a large number of monitoring posts around the wasteland. The posts monitor the barrier 24 hours a day, and all those close to the sentinels are protected. Even a mouse in the tower will be discovered, and there is no chance that anyone will have the chance to destroy those towers. We really don't know what went wrong. "
Listening to Sonia's words, Gawain breathed a sigh of relief, and then said: "Anyway, according to you, we actually missed an opportunity to repair the magnificent wall..."
"And it's the best chance," Sonia sighed. "When the initial failure occurred, there was no substantial damage to the Sentinel Tower. We have a chance to completely repair it... But said This is useless. Don’t talk about the other Ansu people when the initial malfunction occurred. Even you should have been lying down at that time..."
Sonia was a little embarrassed when she said this, but Gawain was Very calmly: "I was still lying in the coffin at the time - when I woke up, I saw aberrations everywhere. According to you, the final repair time should have passed by then. ”
When he died in battle, he was fighting aberrations, and when he woke up seven hundred years later, he was still fighting aberrations. The so-called fighting in vain in the previous version was Gawain’s situation.
"Don't discuss those things that are irreparable. Let's talk about the current situation." Gawain ended this regrettable and slightly embarrassing topic and returned to the track. "You just mentioned that there is no complete repair. plan, what other plans did you bring? ”
“Building an external wall amplification device is aAn incomplete repair and reinforcement plan, we brought the information-" Sonia said, taking a silver-white cylindrical device from another messenger beside her. The device looked like a stick. But when Sonia injected magic into it, a clear holographic image suddenly appeared at the end of the "scroll". In the projection created by illusion magic, there was a huge tower device and a large number of intricate runes and spells. The array structure was constantly switching between pictures.
Sonia placed the "scroll" vertically on the table and continued while maintaining the holographic projection: "This plan is based on part of the Sentinel Tower. An accompanying 'auxiliary tower' is built externally to provide additional energy for the sentinel tower and bear part of the barrier pressure. At the same time, a series of 'pressure relief points' are established between the sentry tower and the auxiliary tower to release the energy accumulated near the sentinel tower. The chaotic magic energy is gradually released outside the barrier in a safer way, and is purified near the pressure relief point..."
Gowen immediately grasped the key point in the other party's words: "You have found it. A way to purify the demonic tide? "
"It's not that we haven't done anything for seven hundred years," Sonia smiled, but there was still a trace of reluctance in that smile. "This device cannot purify the entire wasteland, nor can it purify the entire wasteland." The purifying demonic tide can now only extract a part of the chaotic demonic energy from the barrier to perform purification with limited efficiency. The main purpose is to reduce the load of the Sentinel Tower and decompress the repair system. The effect is limited, but better than nothing. ”
Gawain looked at the complex rune arrays and device breakdown diagrams in illusion magic, his eyes solemn and focused.
This is the technology of elves, which is different from human magic. , but its essence and laws still conform to the description of rune logic, and it seems to be able to resist the pollution of the demonic tide... Although it has only a small effect, it is indeed effective.
The Silver Empire is indeed declining. But after all, it has accumulated resources that are currently difficult for all human countries to match. Before this accumulation is exhausted, they can still come up with such amazing technological achievements.
After just a few seconds of thought, Gao Gao said. Wen raised his head and looked into Sonia's eyes: "Then let's not waste time - which area should be repaired specifically? How many auxiliary towers and pressure relief points should be built? How much manpower and material resources are needed? When will work start? How much time is left for us to complete? "
Several crisp questions made Sonia couldn't help but cover her forehead and sigh: "Oh my God - if those human nobles in Saint Sunil could have half of your consciousness and efficiency, I'm afraid we have already set off to repair the barrier at this time! ”