Listening to Duke Baldwin's words, Hetty nodded slightly.
The key to this disaster from the beginning has been the Typhons themselves, and the subsequent performance of the Typhons will undoubtedly affect the final direction of this matter. If it completely goes out of control, then the entire Typhon will inevitably become a polluted area. By then, regardless of whether Cecil is willing to be involved in a larger-scale war, this war that should not be fought will definitely continue to be fought. But if the Typhons take control of the situation...
Then there will be a lot of room for maneuver.
While thinking in her heart, Hetty couldn't help but sigh softly: "Although every god's loss of control means huge disaster... But it is obvious that the God of War is more troublesome than other gods."
"What I am most worried about now is whether the God of War will undergo unknown subsequent changes if the war continues," Duke Baldwin said solemnly, "He may return to normal with the war. 'While gradually getting rid of madness and returning to the position of a righteous god, it is also possible that the state of madness is irreversible. This mad god will become more and more powerful as the war continues, and begin to affect more people affected by the war..."
“In the final analysis, we don’t know enough about the gods,” Grand Duchess Victoria said with a cold expression. “We are not sure whether the mad god state is reversible, nor whether the god of war can draw power during the war. ——We only know that His power comes from the faith of mortals, but this extraction process... cannot be quantified at this stage, and we have no reliable means to collect the popular ideological trends on Typhon."
He. Di hummed, and gently rubbed his forehead while saying: "No matter what, taking down Winter Wolf Castle is the first step. The question now is how to take the second step."
Duke Baldwin thought while saying: "According to our previous plan, after occupying Winter Wolf Castle, we should immediately march towards the Winter Castle defense line and Shadow Swamp, and control the Typhon people's assembly point in the north and the hub of the cross-border railway. Station, and then rely on armored trains and mechanized troops to advance rapidly and attack Aldernan in the shortest possible time. If Aldernan is difficult to capture, quickly occupy the transportation hub of Talenkins and cut off the grain production areas of Typhon. and a transportation hub for industrial raw materials, finding ways to trigger widespread food shortages and industrial shutdowns..."
"The people of Typhon can thank Andesa Wendell that this will not happen now," Herr Ti shook his head, "Now that we know that Typhon is not really declaring war, and that they are internally fighting against this divine disaster, it is necessary to make adjustments to our advancement plan. Grand Consul Victoria, what do you think? ”
“Let the First Army temporarily stop advancing eastward and build fortifications at Winter Wolf Castle. At the same time, find favorable terrain to set up strongholds in the north and south of Winter Wolf Castle, and block the entire area with long-range artillery positions—— Maintain this blockade in the first stage. You can advance, attack, retreat or defend. As long as this blockade is not lost, all actions on Typhon's side will be passive," Victoria said logically.Speaking of her own opinion - in the Triumvirate, she obviously has more military experience than the other two, "At the same time, further collect intelligence within Typhon...
" So far, our intelligence network set up in Typhon has been greatly affected by the situation there. For the purpose of protecting intelligence personnel, many hidden lines have been lurking recently. However, if the situation there continues to be chaotic, intelligence personnel will On the contrary, the activities will become safer...
"In addition, I think it is necessary to grasp the recent changes in Typhon's situation through some other ways, such as the line between the Kingdom of Highmountain and the Silver Empire—— They have a lot of exchanges with Typhon in the southern part of the continent. Perhaps the news from them can corroborate the information provided by Andesa Wendell. Of course, our intelligence power there is relatively weak, probably only Silver. The empire can provide some reliable information, but it is better than nothing..."
Victoria finished her thoughts one by one, and then left time for Hetty and Duke Baldwin. In the next period of time, the three great consuls' discussions centered on various subsequent actions against Typhon.
When the discussion came to an end, Hetty finally had time to pick up the water glass on the table. Duke Baldwin Franklin, who was on the other side of the communication channel, hesitated for a moment and then asked: "Hetty." Grand Consul, has there been no reply from His Majesty?"
Hetti held the water glass, her face a little complicated for a moment, she shook her head, her tone slightly worried: "There is still no news... ..."
"...Your Majesty will come back safely," Victoria said in a still cold voice, "He is someone who can compete with the gods."
They talked a few more words. After that, the two chief consuls Baldwin and Victoria said goodbye to Hetty, and closed the Magic Network terminal one after another. As the slight buzzing sound left after the device was shut down gradually subsided, there was finally only one left in the huge office. Hetty was alone - the room became very quiet for a while, even so quiet that Hetty could hear her breathing.
She suddenly took a deep breath, rubbed her eyebrows vigorously, and then hesitantly reached out to the drawer aside. After a moment, she took out a delicate little quilt from the bottom of the drawer. A small silver-white ring kept in a box.
Hetty stared at the ring for two seconds before reaching out and trying to rub its surface and slightly inject magic into its interior.
Just like when she tried yesterday, the mithril ring showed no response, and this was her sixth attempt in the past twenty-four hours.
Hetty couldn't help but rub her eyebrows again. She took this opportunity to lower her head, as if to prevent anyone from seeing her irritability and uneasiness at this moment - even though there was no one else in the office except her. There is no one else.
The ring in her hand is the mithril ring, which is the "emergency communication tool" left by Gawain before he left. It is said that it uses the superb technology from Tallond and can be maintained even across the continent. PassNews.
Talonde is far away from the human world by endless oceans and eternal storms, and the existing magic network communication cannot reach it, so Gawain left such a thing to ensure that the situation on the mainland would change dramatically. And the empire can contact it urgently when it faces a crisis.
But now this thing is unresponsive - Hetty doesn't know what went wrong, whether it was a mistake in his operation, a malfunction of this precision device, or... something worse. possible.
This made her upset, but she had no one to talk to.
She threw the mithril ring back on the table. The metal collided with the tabletop and made a crisp sound. The ring bounced twice on the table, then rolled to the side and came to rest.
Almost at the same time she threw the mithril ring back on the table, a Magic Network terminal that had just been shut down not long ago suddenly lit up, and there were bursts of rushes from the base of the machine. The buzzing sound, and the holographic projection above showed the identification mark of the internal dedicated line of Winter Castle in the north - Hetty was only stunned for a moment, and quickly connected the communication, so the Duchess of Victoria, who had just been disconnected, appeared again. Holographic projection.
"Victoria Grand Consul?" Hetty looked at the projection in surprise, "What happened..."
"The North Port Hub Tower just received an identification signal from the northern sea. "Victoria Wilder didn't wait for Hetty to finish, and then said in a cold and slightly urgent voice, "It should be the two large magic network terminals carried by His Majesty that are sending the message!"
Listen! Upon hearing the news, Hetty's first reaction was to glance at the mithril ring on the table that she had just thrown aside in shock, and then looked at Victoria with wide eyes: "Have you confirmed it? Have you been contacted? "
"The signal characteristics have been confirmed, and the magic network signal coming from the northern sea area cannot be something else, but the signal is still very weak at present. It should be because the distance is too far and there is no way to establish communication. We sent and received short messages indicating safety to each other," Victoria said. "But according to the current signal enhancement curve, we will be able to barely communicate in about ten minutes."
"Please turn here as soon as possible! Hetty said immediately.
"I'm already doing this."
Ten minutes... Hetty never thought that just ten minutes could be so long. She was restless, anxious and expecting joy and confusion. When all the emotions were mixed together, she wanted to get up and walk around or tidy up her appearance, but she was worried that such a move would be seen by her ancestors who might be connected at any time, so she had to forcefully suppress it and maintain her usual attitude. Sitting behind the desk with a dignified and calm posture. She felt that she had been waiting in this state for almost forty thousand years, and she thought that the Duchess of Victoria in the holographic projection of the Magic Network terminal next to her must have the same difficulty sitting or standing as she did - but she was paralyzed in the ice and snow day. I'm used to it, I just can't tell it at this time...
Her thoughts just started to wander, and the Magic Network terminal on the other side of the desk used for transfer was empty.Suddenly, light and shadow jumped - Hetty felt that her breathing and heartbeat also jumped - and then, amid severe interference and distortion, some vague shadows gradually appeared in the holographic projection, accompanied by Then came bursts of noisy sounds.
Although he can’t see clearly yet, Hetty is sure that it is indeed his ancestor! It was indeed Gawain Cecil.
The ancestor seemed to be speaking, but she could not hear clearly yet. After a while, she saw that the picture became slightly more stable and clear, and human voices appeared intermittently in the noise, and the sound gradually became coherent. She heard her ancestor calling her name: "Hetty...interference... Hear...can you hear it clearly now?"
"Okay, ancestor!" Hetty said immediately. She didn't notice that she had stood up. "There is still a little interference, but it's okay. Listen clearly!"
In just two sentences, she saw that the sound and picture presented by the Magic Network terminal seemed to be a little clearer than before.
Obviously, the ancestors were quickly approaching the continent of Loren - Hetty could almost imagine the sight of the dragon flying through the air at full speed.
"I can finally hear your voice," Gawain's voice rang, "Very good, it seems that these two devices are not broken after some troubles. Hetty , tell me about the current situation on your side, has anything happened in Loren Continent recently?"
"How did you know..." Hetty was instinctively surprised at first, but Immediately after reacting, she didn't care how her ancestors learned about the drastic changes in the situation on the mainland, but spoke directly, "Ancestor, the Typhon disaster has worsened, and some troops have lost control and attacked us - when they had to fight back, We have entered a state of 'war' with Typhon."
"Huh?" Gawain was obviously stunned - even if there were many interference ripples on the screen, Hetty was sure of himself. I saw the shocked expression of my ancestor.
To be able to surprise the always majestic and reliable ancestor like this... maybe I should feel proud?
Hetty laughed at himself with a wry smile, and then had to report the subsequent situation to Gawain: "... After the war broke out, we chose to push the front to the east. General Philip led the First Army in With the assistance of the dragoon troops, Winter Wolf Castle was captured at dawn today - now our army has built forts and bunkers on the Typhon border."
"... Ah?”
“In addition, the Winter Wolf Castle garrison surrendered voluntarily under the leadership of its supreme commander Andesa Wendell, and we ended the battle there more easily than expected... ..."
"...Ah!"
After three consecutive "Ah"s, Gawain finally recovered from the shock, and his figure became more and more visible in the holographic projection. He spoke clearly, and the voice reached Hetty's ears more clearly: "Wait, such a big change happened, why didn't you use the secret?Silver Ring contact me directly? "
Hetty was stunned for a moment, her eyes subconsciously placed on the silver-white ring on the table, and then she spoke: "I tried several times, but you still haven't received it? ”
“Have you tried it? "Gawain seemed even more surprised than Hetty, "But I really didn't get any reaction here..."
Hetty: "? ? ? ”
Is there something wrong with her operation? Or is this Tallond creation, which is said to have extremely high technical content, really malfunctioned?
A new thought suddenly popped up in her mind. question, but before she spoke, Gawain's voice came again: "Anyway, let's ignore the issue of the Mithril Ring for now. First, tell me about the current situation - we are approaching the coastline of North Port. Please try to be brief. Tell me clearly how much I have missed. "
......
The cold wind howled and raged outside the protective barrier. The endless ocean was passing quickly from beneath the giant dragon. The end of the slightly undulating sea water could already be seen vaguely. To the outline of the continent.
Gawain stood in the middle of Melita's broad back, dumbfounded as he listened to Hetty's report.
"Just a long journey..." He couldn't help but mutter to himself, "How come the whole world will be turned upside down when I come back. ”
“Before I set off, I always felt that something was going to happen on this trip! Amber kept BBQing next to him, "You don't believe my intuition. I told you that my intuition is accurate. A month ago, I suspected that this winter would not be good. Look, something happened. Otherwise..."
The half-elf lady's BB sound was a headache. At this time, Gawain felt extremely regretful that Melita didn't have a wall behind her - he couldn't take pictures of the noisy Amber. To the wall.
"Melita," he finally ignored Amber's murmurings and turned to the huge dragon head in front of him and said loudly, "Hetty said just now that the Mithril Ring was unresponsive. , what's going on? ”
“I don’t know either! Nothing like this has ever happened before! Melita's voice was obviously a little nervous, and the surprise in her tone did not seem to be fake at all, "The Mithril Ring... That thing is directly connected to the Omega system, and all information sending and receiving is completed by Omega himself. Even if If a ring is damaged or offline, the relevant damage report will be instantly transmitted to Tallond and sent to the custodian of the ring and the person in charge at each level - I am the person in charge of your ring. But I didn't receive any similar message at all. "
Gawain frowned: "Omega made a mistake? ”
“Omega never makes mistakes! "Melita's voice came from the front. Her tone was very firm at first, but soon she hesitated, "At least... I have never encountered such a thing since I was born..."