Chapter 850: Information about Megal III

Night falls.

Stars cover the night sky of Cecil City. The starlight and the artificial lights on the ground complement each other. A kind of thin halo spreads from the sky above the city, giving the starlight a hazy and illusory texture. Sir Gorosh looked up at the stars in this foreign country and heard the faint sound of music coming from the busy neighborhood in the distance.

The starry sky in Longlin Castle is brighter than here, and the nights are colder. It is not as prosperous as here, but it has a different kind of solemnity.

If you put aside personal feelings, which one is better is really a difficult question to answer.

Asarena's voice came from the side, interrupting Sir Gorosh's thoughts: "Sir, your daughter has left. If you still want to blow the cold wind here for a few hours, , then I won’t accompany you - the warm room and the nightcap are calling me.”

Gorosh woke up from his thoughts, and looked away from the dark night sky. Looking at the direction Maggie was leaving, he shook his head with a complicated smile: "Do you think Maggie's meeting with me tonight was arranged by Gawain Cecil?"

"As long as we stand here Here, everything that happens around us can be regarded as the result of Emperor Cecil's arrangements. There is no point in worrying about these." Asarena glanced at Gorosh, "The key is whether you are willing to accept these 'arrangements' , and whether these 'arrangements' will affect your judgment as an ambassador."

After saying that, the dragon seal witch paused and added: "As for my personal opinion-this is not a bad idea. This is not a good thing. All of Gawain Cecil's actions so far have been measured. He has carefully taken care of the dragonborn's feelings and is working hard to advance the whole matter. You can put tonight's events into perspective. Think of it as an 'arrangement', but you can also think of it as a sign of goodwill and sincerity."

Golosh was silent for a few seconds in thought before Asarena urged him. She spoke: "Ms. Asarena, I'm afraid I have to trouble you again - please contact Longlin Castle again."

Asarena sighed deliberately: "...Oh, I knew it It will be like this."

......

The night wind blew into the study.

Gawain raised his head from a pile of documents and saw Amber's figure quickly precipitating from the air.

"How's the situation?" he asked casually.

"The father and daughter talked for a long time. Except for a small accident at the beginning, the overall atmosphere seemed harmonious." Amber reported the results of his tracking, "But according to your instructions, I didn't get too close, and I didn't eavesdrop on other people's private affairs - I don't know what they talked about specifically."

"Well, mainly because of your strength, if you get close, you will be easily beaten. "Death," Gawain nodded, "It doesn't matter. After all, our main purpose is just to let Maggie and Sir Gorosh meet. What result will it produce... Just let it happen. We don't expect this."

Amber is "easy to let go" to GawainHe didn't refute this comment at all. Instead, he nodded in agreement, and then curiously glanced at the pile of documents in front of Gawain: "...by the way, you still have so many things to deal with? ”

“Construction projects have been started across the country, as well as new diplomatic, economic, military, and industrial plans. Although each department has dedicated personnel in charge, there are still many things that require my personal attention. Gawain glanced at the pile of documents in front of him and smiled helplessly, "Actually, it's okay. There aren't many things that are particularly troublesome." "

Amber scratched his hair and muttered: "My head is going to explode just processing the intelligence compiled by the Military Intelligence Bureau every day..."

Gawain flipped through the documents in his hands. His movements suddenly paused, and after a moment he smiled: "When the computing center is officially opened, the situation will be much better - many tasks can be completed by machines and networks, and the clerk and assistant administrative officer will have the energy to deal with more important matters. Things, after the efficiency is improved, our work..."

"Our work will increase accordingly. From reviewing ten documents a day to reviewing a hundred documents a day, you will be able to review quickly every day. You can solve things that took several days to solve in the past, but you will find that there is still no end in sight to the problems waiting for you to solve -" Amber rolled his eyes upwards and muttered in a tone that sounded like he was comprehending life. Stop, "I've been following you for several years. Next time you try to fool me, at least change your mind..."

Gawain stared at Amber in front of him as if he was enlightened, and suddenly felt that this The progress of the half-elf over the years by his side is actually no less than that of others - this guy is getting harder and harder to fool.

At this moment, a special aura suddenly disturbed Gawain. After a slight recognition, he nodded to Amber across the table: "A guest is here. "

Amber's first reaction was to take out the portable power sap from behind his waist: "It's easy to say, I'll just..."

"No, it's really a guest," Gao Only then did Wen realize that there was an ambiguity in his words, and quickly waved his hand, “Put that thing away—Megor, you can show up now. ”

As his words fell, an invisible wave of magic power suddenly emerged out of thin air. All the lights in the study seemed to be disturbed by invisible forces and became slightly dim, while the lights were mixed with dark purple. The shadows and the undulating starlight in the shadows condensed in the center of the room - these starlights and shadows quickly gathered into a group of expanding and contracting starlight, and floated over the room like some kind of ghost.

Amber was startled by this sight. Before he had time to ask what it was, a low humming voice came from the starlight aggregate: "Good night, Your Majesty, and this... nervous half Miss Elf. With all due respect, miss, the weapon in your hand may not be effective against me. I lost my head many years ago. ”

Amber stared blankly at the rising and shrinking starlight. Although she was startled, when the other party spokeAfter that, she had already reacted, and quickly matched the information in her mind, raising her eyebrows: "Megor III? The Pope of the Eternal Sleeper?"

"It has passed," the stars converged He said calmly, "You can just call me Megor - now I am just an ordinary Cecil citizen, loyal to His Majesty Gawain Cecil."

Amber tugged at the corner of his mouth. , while putting away his power sap, he muttered casually: "Okay, after issuing certificates to a ball of arcane light, an iron ball and a tree, now we have to make an ID card for a ball of... flashing smoke. "

She looked at Gawain: "Do I need to avoid it?"

"No, you can just stay here," Gawain nodded to Amber and continued. Then he looked at Megall III, "Her name is Amber, and she is my Minister of Intelligence. What do you want to say to me when you come here now?"

"Minister of Intelligence...I understand," Megall Er made a slight trembling sound, and the amorphous starlight shrank slightly and lowered its height, stopping in front of Gawain in a state of face-to-face communication, "Your Majesty, you have accepted our transfer to Cecil as you promised. The personnel who have helped us solve the crisis of the upper-level narrator have previously agreed, and all the techniques and secrets of the Everlasting Sleeper will belong to you.

"I am here today. To fulfill the agreement.

"I have some secrets involving the Typhon royal family. I wonder if you are interested?"

Gawain's eyes changed slightly, and then he said in a deep voice. : "What aspect?"

"It has something to do with the two-hundred-year-old curse of the Augustus family."

"...I'm very interested," Gawain said, pressing Then he looked up and down at the starlight aggregate floating in the air, "Do I need to prepare a chair for you? When you communicate with me like this, I always feel like you are asking the guests to stand."

"No need. , I'm used to this state," Megall III responded, "Of course, if you feel uncomfortable, you can also give me a chair and I can float over and pretend to sit on it."

"...Forget it," Gawain imagined the scene and shook his head, "You start talking."

"First, start from the era of Orlandale, the old imperial capital of Typhon," Mego Er said, "You should know that the headquarters of the Eternal Sleeper Order is deep underground in the ruins of Orandale, and the curse of the Typhon royal family only appeared after the collapse of Orandale... In fact, Long before the collapse of Orlandale, the Eternal Sleepers were already active underground there."

Part of what Megall said was information that Gawain had already mastered, and he had no idea about that area. The district had long had doubts. When he heard Megoir's last words, he immediately frowned: "So the key to everything is Orandale - what is there in that place?"

"... ...It is a fragment of the God of Dreams, Your Majesty, it is under the ground of Orlandale."

Gawain's breathing stagnated for half a beat, but after this short and small reaction, his expression was much calmer than Megall imagined.

"You don't seem very surprised?"

"I expected it," Gawain shook his head, "The Eternal Sleeper is a dream priest who fell into darkness, and you have been here for hundreds of years. Hiding deep underground in Orlandale to study forbidden knowledge is not only suitable for hiding, but there must also be something that attracts you. In addition, the curse of the Augustus family is very special, and it obviously has a dream and spiritual realm. Characteristics - I have been suspecting that all this points to a certain god. For me, there are only a few 'suspects'."

Referred to as "suspects". This is obviously the luxury that only wanderers from outside the territory have.

There was a hint of awe in Megall's voice: "Everything is as you have judged."

Gawain waved his hand and looked at Megall with a serious expression: "That is to say , the so-called 'curse' of the Augustus family is essentially the pollution of the gods caused by the God of Dreams - so what happened to the Orlandale collapse two hundred years ago, and how did the pollution spread to the Augustus family? On your body? You used Orlandale as a stronghold before that. Is all this... your work?"

"That's not the case," Megall immediately denied it, and then his tone became slightly clear. Showing slowness, he seemed to be organizing his thoughts while speaking, "Where should I start to tell you... In fact, all of this is the result of coincidence and errors. The cause of the Orlandale collapse was that the underground ruins were out of control. The fragment of the God of Dreams suddenly activated, and this was more of an accident; on the other hand, you should know that the original Typhon royal family had 'predicted' the disaster in time before the collapse and evacuated the entire city in advance. The residents miraculously avoided tens of thousands of casualties, and the reason why they were able to 'predict' the collapse in advance was precisely because they received the warning from the Eternal Sleeper..."

"Then Let’s start from the beginning,” Gawain tapped the table lightly, “from the time when the Dream Church fell into darkness and used Orlandale as a stronghold, and when the Typhons established their capital in Orlandale.”

“In the early days of Typhon’s founding, the Augustus family chose Orlandale, which had relatively fertile land and was suitable for city building, to establish their capital. The Dream Church, which had barely recovered some of its vitality, arrived at Orlandale, which was still a camp at the time. We lived in seclusion there, hiding in the nearby mountains and forests as well as the villages and towns where order was still very chaotic at the time, and maintained it for a long time. He kept a low profile and lived with the people of Orlandale at that time.

“After that, Orlandale became a city that was beginning to take shape, and the Church of Dreamland was more restored. We reorganized into the Eternal Church in the dark alleys of Orlandale.The Order of the Sleepers, and operated locally as a secret church - at that time, our most important things to consider were still survival and recuperation, and in a very unexpected situation, while we were looking for a new hiding place, we found ourselves in the city. We found a cave leading to the ground in an area outside... At first we thought it was a cave, but soon we discovered that it actually led to an ancient ruin that was almost as large as Orlandale at that time.

"It completely shocked us at the time."

Gawain interrupted Megall's narration: "Are what you discovered the facilities left by the Gondor Empire? You You are also from Gondor, so you should recognize the technology and architectural style of the ancient empire."

Although he has entered the core of the Dream City many times, he has never seen the headquarters of the Eversleeper in the real world. What it looked like, and from some of the memories of Daniel and others, he could only see the state of the underground palace after seven hundred years of reconstruction, and could not imagine what it looked like when it was first discovered by the Eternal Sleepers. At this moment, he just instinctively thought of the disobedient plan of the Gondor Empire, and suspected that what the Eversleepers found was actually another "disobedient fortress" used to store samples of gods - just like the fortress in the Dark Mountains .

After all, the combination of ancient ruins + divine samples gives a really strong sense of déjà vu.

However, Magol gave a negative reply: "I can confirm that it is not - that is definitely not something built by the Gondor Empire. First of all, it is outside the territory of the ancient empire. A newly developed land by humans. Secondly, and more importantly, that facility is full of things we don’t recognize: the construction style is unprecedented, some walls still have writing that no one knows, and there are some closed rooms. Some equipment wreckage appeared in it, and the technology used was unheard of..."