After seeing off the deputy leader of the Royal Knights, the spacious reception room became quiet.
Gawain sat in his seat and fell into a brief thought. Amber's figure gradually emerged from the air. The half-elf glanced at Gawain with a curious look on his face: "It turned out to be that Welsh... Moen's letter? "What did it say?"
Gawain raised his eyelids: "Didn't you really peek at it before?" Of course, what am I capable of doing such an immoral thing as reading other people’s letters?”
This coward and coward who spends his days sneaking around can actually be quite moral in some inexplicable way?
Gawain shook his head: "You'd better not know it yet."
"Hey, if you don't say it, don't say it." Amber curled her lips, and her figure gradually disappeared in the air, " I'm going to stare at those envoys, you can continue to be in a daze."
As the breath of amber gradually dissipated from the room, Gawain just sighed softly: "In the end, the person who sees through this quagmire. It turned out to be him..."
The special envoy from the Royal Capital did not stay in Cecil City for too long.
In the final analysis, the symbolic significance of these messengers coming here is greater than the actual significance - the elf messengers have completed the transmission of all information, and Gawain himself has advocated vigilance in the wasteland and consolidation from the very beginning. The first person on the frontier, regarding the repair and expansion of the magnificent wall, as long as the northern territories have prepared supplies, there is no need for negotiation and negotiation here in Gawain. Saint Sunil sent a group of envoys over, and more Just to go through the process.
On the afternoon of the second day, all the letters and to-do items were handed over, and the envoys led by Cohen Rollan boarded the inland express passenger ship "Breaker" again and left Cecil City. .
It comes in a hurry and goes in a hurry.
The first batch of supplies that St. Sunil and the East Territory jointly promised and prepared arrived as scheduled on the 30th of the Harvest Month.
Six large inland river cargo ships were loaded with cloth, metal, grease and various magic materials. The warehouses full of goods made people feel that the nobles of Anzu were finally generous - in order to The stingy nobles took out these things from the bottom of the box, and Victoria and Edmund probably used a lot of tricks.
On the unloading trestle in the dock area, Amber looked at the packed magic materials being piled on the ground one after another. The piles were getting more and more, and they gradually piled up like a mountain. She became excited. : "Oh my God...how much is this worth..."
"This will all be used for the barrier repair project," Gawain glanced at the glowing amber, "Not even a brick. That's right."
Hubo looked at Gawain up and down as if he couldn't believe it, and said with surprise in his voice: "You really want to use it all on the project? Don't you want to take away so much? ! And no one dares to supervise you, and no one knows about it - don’t you say that the territory needs to be developed and the resources are not enough?”
“I am not?All profits must be taken," Gawain pressed Amber's hair, "cutting corners on the magnificent wall is digging your own grave. "
After Gawain said this, he walked away. Amber, who stayed in the same place, heard Rebecca talking to herself next to her: "What the ancestors said makes sense..."< /p>
Amber glanced at Rebecca: "Whatever your ancestors say makes sense to you. "
Rebecca looked serious: "No, the ancestors seemed particularly reasonable when talking about things related to digging graves. "
Amber looked at Rebecca up and down with admiration: "...No wonder you get beaten every now and then. "
On the other side, Gawain found Hetty and others waiting for him at the edge of the pier.
"After these supplies arrive, I will set off for the wasteland. "Now," Gawain said to Hetty, "the internal affairs of the duchy will be left to you and the Government Affairs Office, and the military will be left to Byron and Philip. The other ministries also have their own responsible persons and emergency plans, all in accordance with the previously formulated Just a development plan. ”
“Do you really want to go in person? "Hetty bit her lip, and finally couldn't help but said, "This is actually not necessary..."
"No one knows the wasteland better than me, and I also want to confirm the magnificent world with my own eyes. The situation of the wall and the wasteland," Gawain interrupted Hetty. He looked at the other person with a smile on his face, "Why, no confidence? Worried that you can’t manage it all? ”
If someone else asks the same question, then the best answer is undoubtedly no. Hetty will respond to all doubts about her own abilities with her usual maturity and calmness.
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But the man in front of him is his ancestor, the pillar of the Cecil family, the man who supports and leads this land from eight hundred refugees and a tent to today. In front of him, his Reservedness and stubbornness will be seen through at a glance.
“…I do have some worries. "Hetty nodded lightly.
"You can do well," Gawain patted Hetty on the shoulder. "When the Cecil family was in its greatest decline, you alone supported it. The family persevered, and now, the operations of the entire Government Affairs Office are in order under your management. You are more capable than you think. ”
Hetty really wanted to say that the territory she helped Rebecca govern was just a viscounty territory, but now the Cecil Territory is the entire Southern Principality. There is a huge difference between the two. , but looking at Gawain’s hidden smile, her heart quickly settled down.
“I understand,” she lowered her head, “I won’t let you down. "
"Just don't disappoint the people. It's not easy for them to live a good life," Gawain nodded. "Don't worry, I will set up magic network relay devices along the way, even at the edge of the wasteland." , I will also maintain contact with the territory. In addition, the Trailblazer's road construction project has been mostly completed. We will have a convenient highway through the Black Forest, with modern vehicles and roads, and you will soon discover the seemingly distant wasteland.In fact, it's not too far from you. ”
This day is the 30th of the Harvest Moon, fifteen days before the Harvest Festival.
After two days of preparations and personnel mobilization, the first batch was sent to the south The supplies were loaded onto advanced magic transport vehicles. A large convoy - the technological crystallization of Cecil's Magic Industry - passed through the fortress in the Dark Mountains and set off through the South Gate Fortress, heading towards In the direction of the Gondor Wasteland
Gawain personally led this team. In addition to the accompanying magic combat soldiers, Solderin also led an elite Iron Rangers as a guard. , the team will soon catch up with the Pathfinders who have penetrated deep into the Black Forest, and will join the Pathfinder engineering team and the White Knight Guards. The materials carried by the convoy will be used to build the last forward base on the border of the Black Forest, and then continue Ahead...
It is the boundary of the wasteland, the Corrupted Plains
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"Open the gate! ! The convoy passes! ! ”
Accompanied by the shouts of the gate controller, the magic machinery made a low roar. The heavy gears and hinges pulled the equally heavy steel gate slowly open, and the rock at the southern foot of the Dark Mountain was revealed. In the meantime, a "rock wall" covered with armor and turrets opened its portal armed to the teeth, and large transport vehicles drove out one after another. Several more vehicles could be seen on both sides and in front of the transport vehicles. A "multipurpose tank" covered with light armor plates, with a thermal ray gun firing port around it, and a magic energy crystal fixed on the top is escorting the front.
At the rear of the convoy, you can see the use of weapons. Several magic cannons were pulled by tractor chassis.
Accompanied by the sound of whistles and the roar of engine machinery, the convoy drove along the hardened road in the direction of the Black Forest.
< p>On the edge of the black forest, an exceptionally tall giant tree is standing quietly among the twisted and decaying plants - this kind of tree with the name of "giant" is often nearly a hundred meters high, and in the black forest, corruption The crazy magic energy further promotes the mutation of these towering trees - its ferocious crown stretches in all directions, with not a single leaf visible on the skinny and curved branches. Against the background of the turbid sky, the crown looks like a withered mass. The limbs pointed toward the sky crazily.The convoy entered the black forest.
The branches and leaves of the giant tree shook and made a rustling sound, and on its top branches. , a black mist suddenly condensed, and a huge corrupted crow, with its feathers stained with rotting flesh and half of its skull exposed, emerged from the mist.
The crow's dark eyes stared intently. From the direction of the motorcade, a hoarse human voice suddenly came from its rotting vocal cords: "Gawain Cecil has left his territory... He went to the Great Wall himself. "
Then the crow tilted its head, as if something in the void was talking to it. It listened carefully and continued to make sounds in its throat: "The north is more important, the north is more important... I know, I know . I will continue to stare, but I will only stare from a distance..."
The crow said and listened again. It seemed to have heard something that made it angry, and suddenly flapped its wings angrily: "You ask me why I stare from a distance? ! Do you know how dangerous those crazy Cecil people are! Do you know how scary those lunatics are! !
"Do you know how they built roads? Do you know how they 'explored' the forest? Do you know how they walked through the traps and monster lairs!?
< p> "Those lunatics, the Cecilians who only have the urge to destroy in their minds, they are definitely the projection of the devil in this material world, the product of the devil's liaison with the active volcano - listen, Dorne was blown up,' Corrupted Bol' was also killed, as well as the eighteen plague beasts and six corrupt beasts they had tamed, as well as Pador. Damn it, Pador just wanted to take a closer look. Who would have known that Se The Sirens bombed the whole bush - I would just watch from afar, I wanted to get as far away from those lunatics as possible! Even those children of the storm, whose brains were damaged by the sound of the deep sea tide, are much calmer than those Cecil people! !"If you have any objections, then send someone to replace me - I would rather go to the abyss of flesh and blood to do hard labor... Oh, damn!!"
Crow Continuous The constant cursing suddenly stopped. "It" looked at the outer wall of the steel-covered fortress in the distance in horror, and saw that several forts on its upper floors suddenly turned in its direction.
"Those lunatics may have discovered me!!"
The crow flapped its wings and flew away in surprise, and almost at the same time, a continuous roar broke through the black forest. Dead silence tore through the chaotic sky and the mist in the forest.
Large expanses of explosion smoke enveloped the corrupted woodland in the distance. In the artillery control room in the South Gate Fortress, the great architect Gordon carefully watched the scene presented on the holographic projection, watching the smoke and dust rising. Watching large tracts of forest disappear into ashes.
The power of the fixed fortress cannon is indeed amazing.
The mechanical sergeant responsible for controlling the turret reported: "All the main turrets on the upper level of the defense wall have been successfully activated, and the upper turret II needs to be calibrated. The observation device is operating well."
"Okay, record the data , test the secondary guns at all levels in one hour. George, take two assistants to see the specific situation of the II turret." Gordon arranged the work in an orderly manner, and breathed a sigh of relief.
When he first started to build the South Gate Fortress, he was still very nervous and worried. This corrupted area with a notorious reputation was terrifying, and at that time, it was wide open and had almost no defense or cover. The entrance to the cave was even more disturbing, but as the project progressed and the southern defense wall and turret were installed, his initial nervousness and worry had completely disappeared.
As the lord said, although the Black Forest is dangerous, it is nothing more than that in the face of the power of Cecil's Magic Industry.
“Nothing happened again today,” said a person in front of another console nearby.The mechanical sergeant sighed, and the content of his emotion was exactly what Gordon was thinking, "Another peaceful day."
"Don't relax your vigilance," another mechanical sergeant reminded, "there are still things in the black forest. If there are monsters, there might be completely crazy monsters attacking the fortress."
"Don't worry, I won't let up."
Soldiers are really vigilant.
Gordon couldn't help but sigh in his heart, but at the same time he was muttering——
There seem to be fewer and fewer monsters in the black forest...