The "ridge" made of a mixture of special alloys and rune stones extends from the base of the Sentinel Tower, like some kind of huge roots, and like some kind of pipeline extending from Thunder Hill to the plains. The long-term erosion of magic energy in the wasteland area has stained this civilization's creation with the traces of time. The once smooth alloy shell has become rough and pitted, and the solid rune stones blessed by the elements are also mottled.
But the damage to the shell is only superficial. Inside the "Spine", the ancient magic device still operates faithfully, maintaining the normal functions of the Sentinel Tower - the Silver Empire may have declined, but the elves Creations are still much more reliable than humans.
A small group of elite Iron Rangers, led by Solderin, arrived at the northern section of "Spine" No. 3. Gawain, Amber, Sonia, and an elf magister named Banner came to the team. In front of them, they raised their heads and looked at the raised man-made structure - on the side of the "ridge", an ancient gate was quietly closed. The mottled writing on the gate was still legible: Inspection Port-III.
“Since the completion of the Sentinel Tower and the retreat of the civilized frontier, this gate has never been opened again...” Sonia stepped forward and rubbed the elven style on the gate with emotion. The relief pattern, "There are dozens of sentinel towers on the border of the wasteland, but only one-third of them have been effectively maintained and overhauled in the past seven hundred years - some towers are far away from the Silver Empire, and some towers are deep Trapped in an extremely polluted area, these towers that cannot be maintained completely rely on the automatic repair system of the year to maintain operation."
"Fortunately, most of the things made by elves are strong and durable," Gawain nodded. He turned his head and looked at the mage named Banner, "Master Banner, it's up to you next."
Banner, who has slender eyebrows and a tall and thin figure, nodded. He went to the gate and took out a strange maple leaf-shaped metal plate from his body. After stuffing it into a gap in the elven reliefs depicting flowers, plants and trees on the surface of the gate, he began to inject magic into the reliefs.
A faint light flashed across the gate, and the ancient mechanical device began to operate deep down. Around the gate, locks creaked and unlocked one after another, but the gate itself remained motionless.
Banner looked at the motionless gate, shrugged, took out an elbow wrench from the tool bag on his waist, and slammed it on a lock next to the gate: "Occasionally... These things need a little help."
After three or five hits, an obvious click sound came from somewhere, and the magic door with exquisite reliefs finally opened smoothly. The dark passage inside was revealed.
Amber stared: "Hey, let me tell you...you don't match the elegant style of the legendary elves."
"If you look carefully, you will find that The arc of my swing of the wrench is a perfect quarter arc - if I have to say it, this is elegance." The Elf Magister put away his tools and glanced at Amber, "What the world knows aboutElves have many wrong impressions and are heavily labeled. As a half-elf, you must not let these wrong impressions affect your judgment, little girl. "
Amber immediately rolled his eyes, while Gawain didn't bother at all about whether the elves were elegant or not. He stepped forward and walked towards the gate, while reminding the people around him: " Everyone, cheer up - there hasn't been a living person here in seven hundred years. "
The soldiers stepped through the gate and stepped into the main passage inside the "ridge". The moment they entered the passage, the breath of the wasteland was cut off.
Amber Immediately sensing this subtle change, she looked back in the direction of the entrance and saw that outside was the corrupted and twisted Demon Tide Wasteland. However, there seemed to be an invisible barrier blocking the door, and the depressing magical energy aura was not there at all. None of them entered the interior of the "ridge"
"The entire Sentinel Tower is protected by a complex protection-filtration system," Sonia noticed the surprise on Amber's face and explained patiently, "This. It is to prevent the magic tide from invading the core of the tower and interfering with the operation of key spells inside. This is the main sensor and material circulation pipeline of the tower. Although it is located on the periphery, the protection level is second only to the core area. "
"It's amazing..." Amber muttered in surprise, raised his eyebrows, and looked towards the end of the corridor.
The ancient sensing device finally responded after being slow for a few seconds. Come over, the magic lamps light up in the corridor, illuminating the way forward. In this passage that has not been opened for seven centuries, everything seems to be as gray as it was when it was completed.
The ground and walls extend in sight, and are simple and dotted with a small number of elf-style decorations and symbols. In addition to the magic lamps inlaid on the slightly curved roof, you can also see several huge pipes and Semi-buried in the building materials, the pipes were translucent, and it seemed like something was constantly flowing and being transported inside.
Amber became curious again: "What is in those pipes?" "
"There is coolant in the pipe," Banner said. "In order to control this huge and complex magic tower, a powerful demonic mind is placed in the base, which will generate... A lot of heat, and in order to prevent core meltdown, we designed a very efficient cooling system. These coolants are only part of the system, and there are more complex structures ahead. ”
“Wow——” Amber drawled out her voice and gave an exaggerated sigh of praise. At the same time, she glanced at Gawain calmly.
Gawain was looking away at this moment. Retracting from the pipes flowing with coolant, his face was calm, but he had the same thought as Amber:
The biggest problem with the rainbow generator is the heat.
p>This cooling system can be used
"To be honest, I am very interested in a lot of the technology here," Gawain said casually, "Although this tower is a human being. Built by the joint efforts of the kingdom and the elves,But we didn’t touch upon its technical part much back then… If possible, could you take me to see its heat exchange structure and cooling core later? "
Hearing Gawain's words, Banner and Sonia exchanged a look almost subconsciously, and then the latter smiled: "The Sentinel Tower is built and shared by all races, of course there is no problem. "
Banner reminded: "However, the magic skills of elves and humans are very different, and the structure of the runes is also very different - this is why almost all the technology of the Sentinel Tower was in the hands of the Silver Empire. The reason is not that we don't want to announce it, but that even if humans come into contact with the runes of elves, they can only imitate it to a limited extent. You should be aware of this. "
"Of course, I know, I just want to take a look," Gawain said with a smile, "And we have made good progress in the field of runes now. Although humans still cannot release the spells of elves, But we have somewhat mastered some rune translation techniques, and the technology in this tower has some reference value for us. "
"That's welcome," Banner nodded, "You were also one of the builders of these towers back then, and we have no reason to stop you. However, for the purpose of protecting the property of the Silver Empire and preventing excessive leakage of technology, please do not draw any drawings. "
"Thank you very much, that's enough - I just took a look and referred to your design ideas for certain magic devices. ”
Gawain expressed his gratitude, and then continued to move forward with the team, but under his calm face, there was a trace of excitement deep in his heart.
This is the highest technological crystallization of the Silver Empire, and everything here... is a treasure!
Of course, he did not lie about the reasons for entering the tower - he really wanted to understand these! What went wrong with the Sentinel Tower, and this was one of his goals and even missions in organizing this huge project, but in addition to this formal reason, he was also interested in the elven technology in the Sentinel Tower. < /p>
After the fall of the Gondor Empire, these elves have the most advanced artificial intelligence technology, the most outstanding high-density rune technology, and the most powerful anti-gravity technology in their hands!
Of course, due to the historical issues left over from the "Great Schism of the Original Elves", the elves themselves also have many black boxes to solve in these technologies, and all the magical skills of the elves have been almost incomprehensible to humans for a long time. The race has never considered the possibility of technological communication, but... it doesn't matter.
Mathematics will explain the power of each rune and their optimal placement.
Sonya and. The elf magister named Banner walked quietly beside him. Gawain couldn't see much emotion on the faces of the two elves.
They didn't mind Gawain. Observe the core structure of this tower, and don’t mind if your technology falls into the hands of humans.
Is it just the friendship between the various races that worked together to build the Sentinel Tower seven hundred years ago?Their friendship for "Gawain Cecil" himself? Or... they haven't realized that the Cecil people have actually completely mastered the technology of using runic logic to reorganize elven runes, and they haven't realized that humans have been able to completely control elven magic, not just applying it to cannonballs. A wind elemental blessing?
To be honest, Gawain was a little surprised that the other party agreed to his request so happily. He had even prepared to study secretly in the Sentinel Tower, but now that the other party has agreed ...Then Gawain has no reason to miss such an opportunity.
Although Gawain Cecil was erudite seven hundred years ago, he was more of a military general. When he built the Sentinel Tower, he did not have an in-depth understanding of its technology. Years ago, humanity was experiencing a great recession, and was also faced with the gap of "incomprehensible alien magic." Although he participated in the tower repair project, he also had no exposure to the latter's core technology, so today's opportunity is particularly valuable.
The team continued to move towards the core area of the Sentinel Tower base, and every time they advanced a certain distance, Sonia or Banner would ask the team to pause to check the operation of those key devices.
"This is the sensor center of the entire No. 3 'Spine'." Banner stopped again halfway through the corridor. He came to a gray-white middle strip that connected the roof and the floor. Next to the square pillar with light gold decoration, he took out the tool and said, "All the sensor centers are connected together. Theoretically, no matter which one of the six 'ridges' is in trouble, it should be visible in any sensor center. Something went wrong..."
As he spoke, the magister had already removed a cover on the pillar. After the protective cover was removed, a large number of overlapping blades with inscriptions on the surface appeared. A metal piece with complex magic runes appeared in front of everyone.
These metal pieces were piled up layer by layer inside the pillar. Banner stretched out his hand and waved near the metal pieces, and some of the metal pieces immediately broke away from their respective positions and flew into the air with a clatter. . Banner had a serious expression on his face. He used his teleportation technique to control the metal pieces to fly past his eyes one by one. At the same time, he carefully observed their situation. After observing, he looked at the other pieces in the pillar. The metal pieces are infused with magic, sensing their operation.
"...All the sensor centers are operating normally, and the sensors on the six 'ridges' are all intact," Banner said with a frown, "The signals coming from the wasteland side are also very good. Clear."
Sofia asked from the side: "What about the communication with the demon's mind?"
"The communication is good, there is almost no delay, and the demon's mind seems to be operating normally. ," Banner said, using magic to return the metal blades to their original positions, and then raised his head and looked towards the end of the corridor, "In front of you is the control center of the base of the Sentinel Tower. Maybe we should go check it directly. brain'.