Sword of Dawn

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"I'm in an incredible place right now..."

Chapter 0746 Challenge the Sky

On the west side of the Dark Mountains, an undisclosed military training facility is located in the forest.

This is a large-scale facility, with gray cement walls and large buildings no taller than two floors are its biggest features. This color scheme and construction method make the entire facility almost hidden in the background color of the mountain rocks In the middle of the building surrounded by walls and sentry towers, there are plain barracks and warehouses, as well as an unusually large open space, where soldiers undergoing training are gathering.

The chilly winter wind was blowing the imperial flag not far away. Soldiers in winter clothes lined up neatly in the open space. In the front row of the line, Griffin Knight Jin Na was waiting nervously for the officer 's arrival

This female knight from the family of Griffin Knights has received nearly a hundred days of training in this facility called "Windcaller Camp", as have the soldiers who came here with her.

The soldiers were not informed of their specific tasks and the purpose of establishing this camp, and their daily training content was basically divided into two categories: one was theoretical knowledge about magic machines and quick calculations of instruments, and the other was about the Perform operation drills over and over again on some kind of simulated equipment.

But even if the superior kept it secret, after receiving a certain period of training, Jin Na and her comrades probably guessed the purpose of this facility——

70.00% of the soldiers selected here are Griffin Knights; they are constantly exposed to some nouns during the training process, and those nouns seem to be related to flying; a large area of ​​open land is very suitable for landing something...

This world is not without flying arms. For these soldiers who have more or less dealt with the sky, flying is not an unfamiliar concept.

This is used to cultivate a new type of flying unit, and this unit should be related to magic technology.

Even though they have been locked in this closed facility, they have heard the news that the Magic Technology Research Institute has successfully produced a new type of aircraft, but they have not seen the real thing.

Jin Na took a light breath, the cold air kept her mind clear.Last night, she heard weird buzzing sounds coming from behind those huge warehouses, and then she thought of the magicians who came to the facility suddenly two days ago, and thought of the instructor's solemn attitude when the assembly time was announced yesterday , the female knight vaguely realized that something should happen today.

A few minutes later, the instructor finally appeared—Sonia, the silver elf, appeared in Jinna's sight, walking unhurriedly towards the assembled soldiers.

This high-level messenger is the instructor of Jin Na and other trainees.

At the beginning, Jin Na also wondered why a foreigner was used as the instructor of the imperial soldiers, but she did not question the order of her superiors, and she also fought side by side with this high-level messenger on the battlefield of the Holy Spirit Plain before, She understood the superb flying skills and reliable personality of this high-level messenger. During the subsequent training process, Sonia did show her excellent qualities as an instructor. To this day, this elf from the Silver Empire has won gained the trust of the soldiers.

When Sonia came in front of Jin Na and the others, all the soldiers saluted neatly and forcefully.

Sonia nodded and glanced at these soldiers.

"Today we will enter the final stage of this training camp," the high-level messenger said loudly, "You have been training here for 98 days, frankly speaking, this training time is not long in my opinion, but I believe , During these 98 days of training, you should have already guessed the purpose of your gathering here.

"Just as you think—you're here to fly.

"Soldiers, most of you should be no strangers to flying, but you should have also guessed that the skills you learn here are not intended to be used to control griffins.

"Raise your head and say hello to your partners who will fight side by side in the future."

A strange buzzing sound suddenly came from the sky and quickly approached.

Jin Na raised her head subconsciously, and in the clear winter sky, she saw that thing for the first time——

It was a flying machine made of steel, leather, and crystal. It had a strange inverted cone-shaped main body, and wings that stretched out to both sides, like dragon wings.

Three identical aircraft were crossing the forest sea in the dark mountains, crossing the clear sky, and flying towards the square.

They looked heavy and huge, but they were as nimble and agile as birds. They slowed down gently over the square, as stable and skilled as the best griffins.

After entering the hovering state, the half-moon-shaped main wings on both sides of the three aircraft were folded and folded to form a stable support structure, and the rune rings at the bottom of the vertebral body slightly weakened the light, supporting the entire aircraft to lower its height steadily. It landed steadily on the open space not far in front of the soldiers.

At this moment, Jin Na, who had already acquired a lot of magical knowledge, realized why a silver elf served as her instructor.

Not only because this silver elf is reliable enough, and his flying skills are exquisite enough.

It is also because the Silver Elves possess the most advanced anti-gravity technology in the world.

——From the very first moment he saw the flying machine, the inquisitive Griffin Knight had already judged that the thing should be flying with anti-gravity magic.

Jin Na exhaled lightly.

It seems that it is really useful to study a lot of magic knowledge by myself on weekdays, and to study various mechanical devices when I have nothing to do.

The trainees got a little excited, although they still kept quiet under the restraint of discipline, Jinna could clearly hear the breathing of the comrades-in-arms became short of breath, and some of them even stretched their necks forward, as if wanting to To see more clearly.

"These are three training aircraft, and another seventeen aircraft are being assembled and adjusted in the hangar." Sonia looked at these soldiers who showed expectations, surprises, and curiosity, and nodded with satisfaction, "You have roughly learned You have learned how to operate them, but the actual flight still requires a certain amount of training, and you will be accompanied by these magic machines throughout the winter—I believe you will control these machines as well as a griffin.”

Saying that, Sonia paused, her expression more serious and solemn than before.

Jin Na and her comrades subconsciously stood up straight, and they heard their instructor solemnly announce:

"Then, according to the documents of the Supreme Government Office, the orders of the military department, and the decrees of His Majesty Gawain Cecil, the first phase of the Cecil Empire's dragoon troops will be established today!

"The commander of the dragoon cavalry is temporarily held by Jinna Prince from Tanzania, and will become a full-time member after the training period is over..."

……

After completing the initial introduction and guidance, leading the soldiers to know what the "Dragon Cavalry-I Air Fighter" is, and letting the soldiers have a basic understanding of these advanced big guys, Sonia temporarily disbanded the team.

Standing by the open space, the high-ranking courier watched the excited soldiers gather around the aircraft and refused to leave for a long time, and he couldn't help feeling a little emotional on his face.

"Combining the anti-gravity technology of the elves with the runes of humans...it actually succeeded..." She muttered softly, "This path is indeed correct..."

Footsteps came from behind, and a voice sounded behind Sonia: "It's because he is very good at finding the right way in adversity, so I trust him so much."

Sonia turned her head and saw Solderin standing behind her, and a small group of Iron Rangers patrolling in the distance.

Solderling and his elite steel rangers are also stationed here, but they are not trained soldiers, but are responsible for protecting the safety of this facility.

"Your judgment this time is correct," Sonia narrowed her eyes and nodded slightly, "but it's limited to your judgment this time."

"Mother, you have also seen that it really makes sense for me to stay here," Soldering spread his hands with a smile, "and you also stayed?"

"I am carrying out Her Majesty's order. She ordered me to serve Gawain Cecil temporarily." Sonia glanced at Soldering. "As for you, when you decided not to go home for 700 years, it was not Because of allegiance to Gawain Cecil?"

A gust of north wind blew up and rolled up the long golden hair of the two elves. Soldering immediately remembered one of the reasons why he was stranded in the north, and couldn't help pressing the wig with some embarrassment. She is an indifferent and stable high-level messenger, but when he was here, she was more of a mother who liked to talk about her son, and whenever she talked about the things she didn't go home for these years, the topic was very interesting. ...bald.

Seeing the embarrassment on Solderin's face, Sonia couldn't help but sighed, and turned her gaze back to the three training planes and the soldiers who were surrounding the training planes and refused to leave.

The high-ranking messenger thought for a while and asked, "What do you think of that girl named Jin Na?"

Solderling: "...huh?"

"Jinna, the one with the ponytail," Sonia Nunu said, "I have carried out several missions with her in the Holy Spirit Plain, she is a steady and motivated girl, and she will officially become the commander of the dragoons in the future Officer, I inquired, she is unmarried..."

"Mother!" Soldering even forgot about his hair problem at this moment, and cried in a low voice, dumbfounded, "Isn't it appropriate for you to say this here..."

"What's inappropriate, your father and I were born on the day Her Majesty the Queen was born..."

Soldering: "..."

Seeing that Solderin's expression became more and more awkward and tangled, Sonia shook her head helplessly, and then her expression gradually became serious, and her eyes shifted from the female knight from Tanzania to the three "Dragon Cavalry" "On the aircraft.

"The magical machine that relies on the anti-gravity ring to lift into the sky... this thing, it will be more or less helpful to the difficulties faced by the Temple of the Stars."

"Master Banner said so," Soldering nodded, "He believes that although the 'anti-gravity ring' technology at this stage cannot be used to repair the engine group of the Temple of Stars, they can be used to relieve the pressure of the Temple of Stars. The load of the engine group is still feasible. Moreover, the analysis process of the rune logic to the elf runes also gave him some inspiration. He wants to have a good time with Verania, Master Silver Star, when exchanging information with the Temple of Stars next time. Talking about this aspect may provide some inspiration for the maintainers of the Temple of Stars."

"This technical exchange was not favored by those stubborn parliamentarians at the beginning. The queen and the first and second ministers withstood a lot of pressure for this, but as more and more technical materials have recently been published in Cecil and Silver Flowing between empires, those restless mouths have finally shut up a little bit," Sonia said in a low voice, "No matter what, no matter how pedantic a congressman is, they will not refuse real benefits, and benefits are the best medicine to shut them up .”

Solderin was silent for a moment, and then said Yoyo: "The interests... also include the trade activities with the Typhon Empire?"

"...The queen has her considerations. This is the national interest, not personal feelings." Sonia shook her head. "The Silver Empire is too far away from Cecil after all."

"I know, I'm not that naive yet," Soldering said lightly, "It's in the interests of the Silver Empire that I don't want us to get too close to the Typhons..."

Sonia didn't speak, but just quietly looked in the direction of the playground.

She is a high-level messenger sent by the Silver Empire to the north of the mainland.

The high-level messenger is also the eyes of the Silver Queen.

"The greatest courage of a mortal is to challenge the sky and the sea..." Sonia said as if she was talking to herself, "Now, let us hope that the Cecils' feat of challenging the sky can help them break the barriers of that wasteland." block it...

"Only by breaking this blockade, can there be further cooperation between Cecil and the Silver Empire, otherwise, everything can only be empty talk."

Chapter 0747 Challenge the Ocean

The greatest courage of a mortal is to challenge the sky and the sea.

The slightly salty sea breeze blows from the east, blows across the long coastline of the east coast, and blows past port houses with black sloping roofs and ancient pointed towers. The black crown and shield flag is in the port city "Mobius "The main castle of "Flying in the sky, the flag is facing the endless sea, on the sea, the sun is rising.

Earl Owen Dyson, with short black hair, dark blue eyes, and wearing a black double-breasted long trench coat, stood in front of a window facing the sea. From the commanding heights of the castle, he quietly overlooked the prosperous city below and the waves in the distance. The sparkling calm sea.

This is Port Mobius, the largest seaport on the east coast of the Typhon Empire, and a must-stop for humans in the east to visit the ocean.

used to be.

The Dyson family has ruled this land for hundreds of years. The ancestors of Earl Owen led the original people to overcome obstacles here, and reshaped the solid coastline in the eastern part of the empire with the power of boulders and magic. 700 years ago, This is an extremely prosperous city. Typhon, who was not long after the founding of the country, relied on this harbor to knock on the gateway to the sea, and opened up important colonies on several islands in the east. The ancestors mined ore on those islands. , planting spices, providing a steady stream of precious resources for the newborn country, and maintaining the material circulation in the southeast and northeast regions of the empire with the thriving Eastern Continent route.

But that prosperity lasted only a short time.

The depravity of the three major dark sects ruined the qualifications of human beings to challenge the ocean. The departure of the Son of the Storm made it impossible for humans to perceive the storms and magical turbulence in the endless sea, nor to appease the fury of the ocean. The only sea areas that can sail safely are There are more than a dozen nautical miles close to the land, and these "safety routes" are still intermittent, and it is impossible to connect them at all.

Initially, the brave captains and scholars tried to maintain those routes with experience, courage and alternative extraordinary spells, but the high price and the embarrassing national strength of Typhon at the beginning of the founding of the country made those brave challengers finally choose to give up. The colonial islands in the far sea were forced to abandon, and the output of minerals, plants, and marine life from the ocean was also interrupted. This short-lived and prosperous Port of Mobius also fell into trouble in the following hundreds of years.

It has changed from a prosperous port city to a distribution center for offshore fishermen and a resting place for nearby business travelers. The city has survived to this day by relying on sluggish offshore fishing products and passing taxes.

And until today, it has flourished again.

Earl Owen's gaze swept across the edge of the city, the towers standing near the coastline and the smoke rising faintly.

It was a mining site for Burning Rock.

No one thought that what finally brought Port Mobius back to life would be those gray-white stones that were once considered useless and worth less than mud.

The edge of the coastline is full of burning stones. Those stones are the raw materials for the production of rich dust and spar matrix. The emergence of new technologies has made them hot from worthless. As the largest city on the east coast, Mobius Hong Kong also miraculously came back to life overnight, and in just a few years, it became prosperous again.

And what is changing as rapidly as Port Mobius is the entire Typhon Empire.

His Majesty the great Rosetta Augustus brought prosperity and change to the empire. Although many of the "changes" he brought made some stubborn and old-fashioned nobles very dissatisfied, these dissatisfied nobles did not include Moby Owen Dyson, the lord of Uth——for this frontier earl who has experienced a great transformation from poverty to prosperity, what His Majesty Rosetta brought to him is an absolute improvement.

What made the frontier earl even more excited, and even a little excited, was that His Majesty the Emperor, after making the empire prosperous and strong, finally cast his sights on the endless sea again.

The sparkling sea surface undulates slightly in the distance, and the morning sun shines with fine phosphorescence on the sea surface. Earl Owen knows that the seemingly calm sea is actually extremely dangerous. The chaotic storms and magical turbulence more than ten nautical miles away Powerful transcendental beings were buried in the deep sea, and those turbulent currents and storms tore apart the original intact coastal routes. Hundreds of years ago, the newly born and weak Typhon Kingdom failed to regain those routes, but today, the restoration The newly reborn Typhon Empire may have the ability to challenge the sea again.

A sound of footsteps approaching from a distance woke Owen Dyson from his contemplation, and he heard the voice of an attendant coming from behind: "My lord, that creature has woken up."

Earl Owen turned his head: "I see—lead the way."

"Yes, my lord."

Owen Dyson left the room facing the sea. Accompanied by his attendants, he walked through the long corridors of the castle, walked into the deep corridors, and came to the deepest part of the family castle. In the secret room reinforced with a large amount of sacred materials and magic materials, he saw "that creature" in the mouth of the attendant.

He was wrapped in a somewhat shabby black robe, and lay quietly on the stone bed in the center of the secret room. A large number of rune chains and sacred amulets imprisoned him there, suppressing the extraordinary power he might have.

In fact, Owen can tell at a glance that this should be a human being, but he has mutated beyond recognition.

The exposed arms, face, and neck of this "human" are covered with chilling, light blue fine scales, and the eyes are like snakes with golden vertical pupils, and their hair has faded away, replaced by scalp Covered with a layer of seaweed-like, greasy cortical growths, his palms are twisted and stretched, and there are webbed-like things connected between his fingers, and what is even more frightening is his legs——

The flesh and blood of those legs were blurred together like some kind of chaotic product, and they were already indistinguishable from each other. They were close together, the joints were bent, the skin was glued together, and scales were clustered on them.

This looks like some kind of transfiguration that hasn't been completed, or... an intermediate state from human to some kind of strange and strange transformation.

This "monster" has already awakened. When Earl Owen approached, he saw the opponent's eyeballs roll, and the terrifying pair of golden vertical pupils swept towards him, but the opponent's body was still lying quietly. On the stone bed, only his chest rose and fell slightly.

Earl Owen frowned, and a mage wearing a moon pattern robe stepped forward beside him.

"My lord, I have stabilized his mental state with calming spells and the infusion of moon sleep grass. This monster is safe for the time being."

Owen Dyson nodded, and looked at another figure not far away—it was a knight of medium build, with a bushy beard and deep-set eye sockets.

"Let's talk about the details when you found this 'creature'." He said to the knight.

"Yes, my lord," the knight nodded, "We found him in the south near the desert - some locals reported that there was unusual wind and rain in that area, and there was constant whistling on the sea. The current invaded the land, so I went to check, but found this 'monster' on the rocky beach by the coast.

"There is nothing like ship debris around him, and no ship that has hit the rocks is found nearby. I guess he didn't come by boat, maybe he came by swimming...

"He was half unconscious at the time, a little wilted by the sun, but when we approached, he woke up quickly and acted very aggressively. He attacked us with some kind of acid arrow spell, but it was good. After we took two mages over there, counterspell subdued him.

"He fainted from weakness, and before he fainted, he murmured sentences that no one could understand. The soldiers were a little frightened when they heard the murmurs. Some said it was a curse mentioned by the fishermen. The language of the dead is the language spoken by the dead who are swallowed by the waves...

"He has nothing on him to identify him other than a half-broken amulet, but his clothes are definitely made by humans... I guess he is a poor man cursed by a terrible force in the deep sea. Of course, this is just My judgment."

Earl Owen hummed, and looked at the mage beside him: "What tricks do you see in the amulet?"

"I can't see the name, my lord," the mage said while picking up the cracked amulet and handing it to Earl Owen. "It has been completely damaged, and the magic power has been exhausted. A very strange point—the decorative pattern on its surface seems to have been deliberately polished, and it is completely invisible."

Earl Owen took the amulet, which was only half the size of an old imperial gold coin, and turned it in his hand to take a look.

It is the remaining half of a round amulet, probably made of mithril, apparently once an extraordinary item, and just like the mage said - one side of it has obvious grinding marks, the technique is very rough, but it has been completely worn away The recognizable pattern on the talisman.

Owen casually threw the talisman into the hands of the attendants beside him.

"You were once a human..." He came to the scaled and webbed humanoid, bending down to stare into disturbing eyes. "Is that so?"

"Hiss... heh..."

What came from the throat of the humanoid creature was a hoarse voice that was difficult for humans to make, like some kind of amphibious creature. It was chaotic and low, and it was difficult to distinguish.

"You have been in the sea for a long time...the smell of fish, the smell of mud, and the smell of magic in the storm." Earl Owen still stared at each other, "What is there in the far sea? What made you look like this of?"