The ice sea in the Arctic is still cold and windy, but the eternal Tallond Great Barrier maintains the warmth and comfort of the dragon's home as always.
Melita Pernia woke up from the large and soft bed. Her lavender eyes reflected the familiar roof of her bedroom. She was in a daze for a few minutes, then she blinked and looked deeply. Take a breath and stretch.
"I slept at home after a long time..."
Miss Lanlong muttered in a low voice, lying lazily on the bed and waving to the side, the room was set up The sensor device immediately received the command, and the sloping roof on the side of the bedroom quietly opened. Skylight spilled into the room through the completely transparent polymer shell, dispersing the red dimness of the room. Various devices throughout the bedroom also opened one by one. When it starts up, a low humming sound comes from all around.
A transparent polymer curtain hangs from the wall facing the bed. A shimmering ring image appears on the curtain. The edges of the image vibrate, emitting a pleasant mechanical sound. Synthetic voice: "Good afternoon, Melita Pernia."
"Good afternoon, Omega..." Melita responded vaguely, rubbing her eyes, yawning, and speaking. Suddenly he was confused, "Huh? Afternoon?!"
"Yes, you have slept for eighteen hours - please don't worry, this is normal, your body needs to repair, especially the nerves System, more sleep can ensure that your nervous system recovers as quickly as possible."
"But I made an appointment to meet with Chancellor Andal today," Melita exclaimed, "He will kill me. !”
“Don’t worry, Speaker Andal will only deduct your second-category field allowance for this month—no need to worry, it’s already been deducted.”
"...Damn it, I should have asked you to set an alarm clock! The kind that will mess your face with arcane missiles and pyroblasts!" Melita pulled her hair hard, and then jumped out of bed dejectedly, "Okay , It’s about time anyway... Please help me draft an apology letter and make a new appointment. Besides these bad news, is there nothing good?"
"Your heart has been restored. Calibration, the spinal implant is ready and can be installed at any time."
"Okay, that's more or less good news," Melita shook her head and walked towards the bedroom door in her nightgown. "Take me to the workshop...and help me prepare two units of 'Dream' booster."
"I'm happy to help you, Melita."
Setup The transport elevator in the dragon's lair ran silently and quickly. In just half a minute, Melita was sent from the bedroom of the "humanoid residence" to her lair on the top of the mountain.
After stepping out of the elevator, Melita came to a broad and huge hemispherical hall. This large-scale indoor space was transformed based on the natural mountain structure, and its lower half can still be seen. A large and evenly excavated rock barrier has a large number of polymer brackets and cable ducts fixed on it. The upper part is a tightly closed enclosure.Golden dome.
The hall is wide and empty, but it is surrounded by a large number of mechanical devices and golden pillars depicting complex ornate patterns. Three of the pillars are currently activated, and flowing light flickers on its surface, faintly. It can be seen that something is hidden within the pillars.
This is Melita's "dragon lair", a lair that she has carefully built over thousands of years. Compared with the "extremely gorgeous, complicated and exquisite" style admired by most dragons in this era, Up, her lair looks a bit plain, but in fact the decoration style here has not always been like this -
She has also installed a gorgeous dome with full reliefs here, using the palace style She also piled gold and silver jewelry here (although some of them were made of glass and simulated polymer to make up the numbers), slept on huge treasure chests, and even filled it with treasures that were as high as the dome. The bookshelf is filled with model books bought from the flea market...
And now, she has decorated it into the "classical workshop" that was popular in Tallond 10,000 years ago. style.
She is a dragon who likes change and is keen on independent style.
Melita came to the center of the rotunda, stretched out her arms, and a brilliant magical halo immediately enveloped her. Her body quickly grew larger in the light, and turned towards the form of a giant dragon. Transformation, and the three ornate shimmering pillars at the edge of the hall moved quietly near her, and the alloy shell on the surface of the pillars slowly opened with a hissing sound of pressure relief.
There are huge tubular crystal containers filled with thin-colored liquid. Two of the containers are soaked with huge hearts. The heart is composed of biological tissue, bionic skin, polymer pipes and It is composed of a mechanical pump with a complex structure. In another container, there is quietly floating a spine with shining metallic luster. The connecting end of the spine is a large number of cable interfaces and flashing runes.
A string of bubbles popped up in the container, and the metal spine immediately turned half a circle, revealing two clear and sharp lines of steel-stamped letters on its back panel -
"Mechanical in progress. The soul is still free”
“Gomodo Implant Company’s design patent infringement must be investigated”
The magic glow gradually dissipated, and Melita opened her eyes in the dissipating light. eyes - she has transformed into a dragon.
Looking at the two huge hearts soaked in the container, the huge blue dragon shook its neck and made a rumbling sound: "I heard that Buck Bator Company has launched a new auxiliary heart. Beautiful and handsome..."
"Pursuing these things too much will not help improve your financial situation," Omega's voice resounded throughout the hall, "and there is no essential difference in the performance of the old and new auxiliary hearts. ——The beautiful bionic skin makes no sense on the internal implant. Maybe...you plan to replace the scales near the chest with transparent polymer?"
"Forget it, no. Money," Melita sighed, "Start the implantation process, give itI'm happy..."
The mechanical devices on standby throughout the hall immediately began to operate. A large number of manipulators came to the blue dragon Melita in unison and began to dismantle the scales and parts of the mechanical structure. With a built-in protective layer, her chest was opened to reveal the cavity filled with temporary buffer fluid, and her back was opened to reveal the temporary nerve connector and body fluid circulation pump inside...
The heart was After returning to its original position, the spine was repaired as before, and the synergists prepared in advance were injected into the circulation pump, allowing these organ parts that had been activated from the dormant state to start running happily in a short time.
The synergists were injected into the circulation pump. It began to have an impact on the nervous system. Melita felt that her thoughts were gradually spreading, and she began to have some uncontrollable thoughts. Her huge eyes stared into the air, and Omega's figure seemed to appear in the focus of her sight. The interface is ghosted.
But she knows that this is just an illusion caused by her nervous system - there is no Omega visual medium here, and what she sees is actually the stimulation of the resonance core in her skull. The phantom created by nerves
The resonance core that accompanies every dragon throughout his life, the neural interaction system that connects all Tallond citizens, affects and controls the entire dragon kingdom. The super artificial intelligence running throughout Tallond...Omega is here, and it is controlling every machine in this hall, controlling these nominally medical devices, but in fact they can be fatal at any time. < /p>
It is performing the most delicate implant surgery on her, and her heart and central nervous system are defenselessly exposed to the hands of this artificial intelligence.
Melita. Shaking her head, she knew it was the enhancer affecting her judgment, but she still couldn't control her thoughts from spreading.
"Please try not to move," Omega said in an emotionless voice. From all directions, dim red light flashed in the probes of those surgical machines, "I am closing the protective layer of your spine. "
"Omega... where are you? "Melita grunted somewhat vaguely.
"I am in Tallond, I am deep in the dragon kingdom, and I am also here, in front of you, Melita Perni. Ya. "Omega's voice responded immediately as always, while the flashing red probes and moving robotic hands were still quietly performing precise operations.
"You said...are you the one who Who is the true ruler of Tallond? I mean the part outside of divine authority..."
"Omega is Tallond's server. The purpose of my birth is just to serve you and manage this continent just to complete the service. mission. "
"Yes..." Melita felt that she was about to fall asleep, but she still murmured in a low voice, "Omega, so...you are quite loyal..."< /p>
"Omega is loyal to Tallond," the voice of the artificial intelligence echoed calmly in the hall, bit by bit getting into Melita's mind, which was about to fall asleep.In my mind, "Omega is loyal to the Dragon Clan, absolutely loyal, always loyal..."
...
High-level Dragon Priest Herago walked in the gorgeous and spacious golden temple. In the sacred and solemn hall, only his own footsteps echoed.
This middle-aged man "person" who is closest to God walked through the long corridor, walked through the wide hall, and came to the high Holy Seat.
A woman wearing a gorgeous pale gold dress, with blond hair hanging down to the ground, and a bright and graceful appearance sat lazily on the holy throne, looking down at the dragon priest who came to her. .
Heragor lowered his head respectfully: "My lord, what did you call me for?"
"Recently, I feel that the hearts of the dragons are a little wandering," said the graceful blond man The woman said softly, with a gentle tone and an equally kind and kind expression, "Heragor, my high priest, do you know what happened?"
Heragor kept his head lowered. He kept his expression unchanged - even though he knew that nothing about him could be hidden from the eyes of the god in front of him.
"The Dragon Clan seems to be rejoicing in the changing times." He said respectfully.
"Have the times changed... Oh, it turns out it refers to the continent opposite the Eternal Storm," the Dragon God smiled slightly, looking very interested, "It's another season of civilization... another round. One round, again and again... It seems that you are not bored yet."
"There are always young dragons who are curious about the outside world, my lord."
"Curious. "My lord, I am loyal to you," He said. Lagor said calmly, with no waves in his tone, "Absolutely loyal, forever loyal."
The Dragon God narrowed his eyes slightly: "Absolutely loyal...Eternally loyal, ah, the one you created' Omega' always said that to you, right?"
She didn't get a response from the high priest, but she didn't seem to care.
The god who descended into the world just slowly stood up from his chair, his long skirt trailing to the ground, and strolled past Heragore.
"To be honest, sometimes I really want to get in touch with the 'Omega' you created, that heartless creation...
"But forget it. , children’s toys, just leave them to your children.
"Is that so? Heragor."
Helagor lay on the ground, his forehead pressed against the ground where the Dragon God walked: "Yes, my lord ."
......
Cecil Empire, Southern Territory.
Maggie sat in the warm room, looking through the clear crystal glass windows at the bustling streets of Cecil City.
This is the "dormitory" assigned to her by the Magical Technology Research Institute, but it is said to be a dormitory, but it is actually a comfortable, warm, functionalComplete independent house.
Compared with the cold and hard-feeling old-style castles, these new-style houses in Cecil City are particularly comfortable to live in.
Today is a sunny day, and there is no cold wind. There are many pedestrians on the street, and you can also see many passers-by wearing foreign clothes and looking curious about the city. Maggie looked towards the street At the end, at the end of her vision, she could see the tall spiers and walls of the Imperial Academy standing in the distance.
More and more people have come to Cecil City this winter, coming from all over the empire, even from the neighboring Ogure tribe and friendly city-states in the north.
This incredible city with a new order seems to be gradually becoming a kind of "center". The Cecil merchants spreading everywhere and the magical creations sold by the merchants are sparing no effort to transform the city. The information spreads everywhere, and even though it is winter when it is difficult to travel long distances, the city still attracts countless outsiders - nobles who are able to travel far, extraordinary people who are curious about new knowledge, and have obtained royal gifts. Sponsored students are constantly flocking here.
Maggie had never seen such scenery, but she couldn’t help but think of the legendary country that had become history, and the Gondor Empire that had once been the center of civilization on the continent—it was said that Gondor was The Duo Imperial City also attracts scholars from all over the continent and visitors of all races.
Maggie left the window, sat down at the desk, took out a piece of paper, and began to write a letter to a friend far away.
She once thought that she would never be able to write to that place again.
"Sujina, my friend, you may be surprised to receive this letter - of course, provided that this letter can span such a long distance and cross the suffocating territory of the Holy Dragon Principality. It's a cliffhanger to deliver it to you accurately, but I decided to trust the respectable messengers and believe that they will bring my news to you and other friends who stay in the Holy Dragon Principality.
" Sujina, do you still remember your dream of flying?
"I'm in an incredible place right now..."