Sword of Dawn

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"I can do it!" Before Hetty finished speaking, Rebecca raised her hand hastily, "I can do it!"

"Have more confidence in Rebecca," Gao Wen stroked Rebecca's hair with a smile, and then looked at Hetty with a smile, "I know she has a lot of troubles for you, but you also have to see her What’s more, the heir of the Cecil family, the head of the magic technology department, how can he not even have a laboratory of his own! It’s a joke to say it.”

Rebecca's eyes sparkled: "Master Ancestor..."

Gao Wen didn't wait for the other party to be moved, and said immediately: "But the ugly words have to be said first. If you really blow up the magic laboratory, you will have to be responsible for rebuilding or cleaning up the aftermath."

Rebecca: "...oh."

After finishing talking about the establishment of the Institute of Magic Technology, Gawain and Hetty asked about Rebecca's current physical condition, and confirmed that the girl had fully recovered after waking up, which made Gawain uneasy. I am deeply moved—as expected of a brat who can go to the forest to fight wolves before he is an adult, his physical fitness is fierce, and a mentally overloaded person will be fine after a night of sleep. It's not magic free...

After confirming that she would not be knocked today, and even got a laboratory of her own, Rebecca turned over and sat up on the bed, "I'm going to get up, I feel uncomfortable all over after lying down for so long."

Her vitality is always so full.

Gawain stood up from the bed with a smile. Out of the corner of his eye, he once again caught sight of the manuscript paper and formulas that Rebecca had pasted on the vanity mirror, and the contents on them suddenly aroused his interest: "By the way...these things are What have you been researching recently? Shouldn’t you be busy designing a detection-type auxiliary magic circle for use on tactical helmets?”

"Ah, that part is almost finished. I'm going to put the effect of detecting distortion spells on the lenses made of white crystal, and there are only a few small problems in the processing technology." Rebecca waved her hand, and then pointed to the makeup The draft on the mirror, "These are the things that Jenny has been researching recently - I saw these things and thought they were very interesting, so I copied a copy and calculated them myself. But...these things are unexpectedly difficult."

Gao Wen frowned and looked at those things. He saw strange curves and piles of data listed. Those things seemed to be not just calculation processes, but also a large number of measured parameters, but those parameters were really complicated. , and various, far surpassing the mathematical expressions of interference knots and rune knots he saw in Jenny's rune logic materials.

He couldn't help asking: "What is this?"

"It is said that Master Kamel took it to the Rune Research Institute," Rebecca scratched her hair that was a little messy due to sleep (Hetty gave this indecent gesture), "It was in the Obelisk of Magic Energy After starting, the fluctuating frequency and attenuation data of the surrounding magic field, as well as the frequency of magic in the normal natural environment, and many parameters in the superposition area of ​​the two magic fields, Jenny wants to find out the law from this, and find the Under the condition that the known parameters are determined, it is possible to accurately describe the strength, attenuation, frequency and other data of the magic field at any point... It is also possible to accurately calculate the distribution of the magic field after superimposing each other to produce distortion... Ah, and You have to find the distribution model of the magic field in the three-dimensional space... To be honest, neither she nor I have any clue."

The more Gao Wen listened, the more surprised he became, and at the end he couldn't help muttering to himself: "Has she already reached this point..."

"Master Ancestor, this question is really difficult!" Rebecca didn't hear Gawain talking to herself, but she felt emotional, "It's different from the fixed data of interference knots and rune knots. The field is something that is constantly changing. The frequency can be changed, and the strength will attenuate with the distance. It will interact with the original magic power in the natural environment. After the two magic power fields are superimposed, the situation is several times more complicated, and it cannot be calculated at all. ...But Jenny said that these things must be clarified, otherwise we will not know what is going on when this technology develops to a bottleneck in the future..."

Gao Wen couldn't help but rubbed between his brows. He noticed that there was a special calculation paper in the middle of the manuscripts, which depicted a series of curves and formulas related to the curves. Such things made him slightly stunned: "This It's you and Jenny..."

"Ah, this is not, this is what Master Kamel taught us," Rebecca quickly explained, "Master Kamel said that this is the magisters of the ancient Gondor Empire who calculated the 'arcane magic' similar to the magic field." The calculation method used in the "distortion effect" can be described by numbers. Master Kamel said that this will help solve the problem of the magic field, but Jenny and I are not quite..."

Gawain looked at the contents of the paper in surprise. He didn't hear the last half of Rebecca's words, but muttered to himself: "So the magisters in the Gondor period... already knew how to use functions?"

"Han... what?" Rebecca was stunned for a moment, apparently what Kamel told her was not the word, "Master Kamel said that this is called 'genetic change'..."

"Ah no, it's nothing, just change the style because of the generation." Gao Wen exhaled softly, slowly calming down the surprise in his heart.

You shouldn’t be so surprised, and you don’t need to be so surprised, it’s a matter of course—even though the magicians in this world have gone astray in the process of studying the mysteries of magic, and began to blindly pursue the strength of personal power and the improvement of magic skills, But this does not mean that they can only cast spells violently-in fact, even for the most traditional classical mages, mathematical tools are an indispensable thing. They need the assistance of mathematics to draw magic circles and adjust their own Spell models, or the preparation of potions, and the manufacture of magic props, "calculation" has always been a compulsory course for mages. This is the case in contemporary times, and of course it was even more so in the ancient Gondor Empire.

It's just that "calculation" has never been popularized, and it has not been developed to a higher level. For the current mages, the current mathematical tools are completely sufficient.

The Gondor Empire once had the opportunity to build the edifice of mathematics, but that powerful empire failed to break through the shackles of "the extraordinary belongs to the extraordinary". It is a pity that precious knowledge perishes with waves of imperial elites.

But it doesn't matter, don't be afraid if it doesn't develop. With this foundation, the situation is much better than Gao Wen expected.

Rebecca's stupid... the head of a smart roe deer seems to be enough.

Gao Wen looked at his great-great...great-granddaughter, and suddenly showed a heart-warming smile. Facing such a young girl who yearns for knowledge, he decided to be a generous and good grandfather:

"Rebecca, have you ever heard of a thing that fell from the sky...ah no, a wonderful thing called calculus?"

Chapter 0281 The 25th Brigade is in Action

Gao Wen is very grateful for the various education he received in his previous life and the habit of flipping through books (and bragging with others online) when he has nothing to do. Some kind of mutation—he guessed that when he became a satellite, he experienced a "reconstruction" or "compilation" at the spiritual or soul level, and this reconstruction based on the satellite host must have completely sorted out all his memories, And sorted them out, which eventually brought him two extremely important changes: first, an inhuman mind, and second, a memory like a hard disk.

He can remember things very clearly, and he can even remember things that he thought he had forgotten in his previous life—as long as he recalls them.

Now, he was happy to teach Rebecca the good things he recalled, um, and by the way, Hetty who stood beside her with a circled face.

While the lord of this land and officials at all levels are planning post-war production and future development, everyone in the territory is also busy with their own affairs, including studying with apprentices how to further improve the magic melting furnace The efficient Hammer, including Norris who is considering land reclamation in the coming year, also includes the No.20 production and construction brigade who has just returned to the residential area and is meeting to hear tomorrow's work plan.

Before the monster attacked, the 25th production and construction brigade was building a new industrial area in the southwest of the territory. After the alarm came, the whole brigade temporarily stopped the work at hand like other engineering teams. They were assigned to the city wall section to help carry Materials and reinforcement of the wall, and now, the battle alert has been lifted, and the entire brigade has returned to its own station—as a special "team", they are not together with other production teams, assigning production tasks, carrying out work The same is true when summing up. There are several specialized supervisors and soldiers in charge of managing the Second and Fifth Brigade. The one who is holding a meeting for them now is a member of the Cecil Combat Corps who is said to have served the Cecil family for ten years. veteran.

Hall is a member of the 25th brigade, and also a new member of this territory. He sat obediently in his own position, listening to the tall and strong veteran conveying the lord's order to the people in the team. Let yourself behave like the most normal civilian husband, but you still need to work hard to adjust to fully adapt to the role you should play.

The "citizen husband" in this land is different from other places, which makes him a little awkward, but fortunately, he is a person with strong adaptability and good sense of words, so he has not lived here for a long time. He learned the way of Cecil's common people--or so.

After confirming that everyone around him was listening carefully, Hall pretended to casually raise his head, and quickly glanced at the soldiers in front of him.

It is normal for the civilian husband's team to be managed by a supervisor, but in addition to the supervisor, there are three soldiers in this team responsible for maintaining order, which is unusual. Hall was nervous about this at first, thinking that he had already It aroused the suspicion of the lord, but soon he realized that the soldiers who managed the team were not targeting him at the beginning, but were monitoring the entire team, so he felt relieved.

Even relieved, there was a lot of secret joy—this team is very special, and the lord's private soldiers personally supervise it, which shows that he has been lucky enough to sneak into a place where he can get access to secrets.There are factors of coincidence and luck in this, but isn't the job of spying itself very dependent on luck?

I have heard that several spies were caught at city gates, docks, checkpoints and other places, and were whipped and exiled, but I am still sitting here, I am undoubtedly lucky.

And it was precisely because I was lucky enough to lurk down that I had the opportunity to see so many unimaginable things in this land.

There is no doubt that the resurrected Duke Gawain Cecil is indeed not simple. He led his descendants and hundreds of refugees to the Dark Mountains not because he was out of his mind, but because he was planning something— —The speed and extent of the construction of this land far exceeded the expectations of its owner, that is, Viscount Carroll. It was a wise move for Viscount Carroll to send himself here.

And there are those monsters, those monsters that are said to have run out from the wasteland of Gondor, and the war weapons created to destroy those monsters...

Until now, remembering the battle that was over still makes Hall a little bit scared. Although he only took a quick glance at the battlefield when he climbed up the city wall to deliver the bomb in the second half of the battle, the scene still made his legs weak. He couldn't imagine that there would be such a terrible thing in the world, and he couldn't even imagine that the resurrected Duke could create thunderous war weapons to fight against that monster. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, who would have imagined that in this civilization Such a thing is happening in the borderlands?

The soldiers who conveyed the orders didn't make long speeches like noble lords, so when Hall was thinking, the soldiers had already finished talking about the important things, and then he announced his dismissal, and the members of the 25th Brigade at the scene stood up one after another.

Hall also stood up with everyone, flicked his clothes as if nothing had happened, moved his hands and feet, and walked towards the exit.

He restrained the urge to go to that soldier and get close to him, it was too early, and his identity was just a "untouchable". Contacting the private soldiers of the nobles is still unavoidably suspicious-even if you spend money to buy them off, such loyal soldiers are likely to sell themselves immediately.He has to play it safe.

Don't let others see your abnormality.

On the way, someone came over to say hello to me—the other party was also a member of the 25th brigade. They had been working together for several days, and their names were familiar, but the details were still unknown.

This is a newly established production and construction team (a very strange name), so it is normal that everyone does not know each other, but in order to avoid suspicion, Hall still responded enthusiastically to each other and chatted about the latest production tasks , and at the same time the topic naturally turned to the battle that just ended.

Everyone around was also talking about the same topic. After all, the battle had just ended, and it was still an impressive battle. Normal people can't help but use this topic to talk about it at this moment to relieve their nervousness.

There's nothing suspicious about that.

But Hall still remembered his mission, so he couldn't just chat, but also took this opportunity to inquire about things in the territory, such as asking how the monsters came from, and where the weapons used to fight the monsters came from.

And in this process, he can't just ask questions, the people next to him may ask questions at any time under the guidance of the topic-but as an excellent spy, Hall knows the skill of adapting to the situation, and he can always answer questions in the shortest time. Based on the information he observed, as well as his own guesses and understandings, he fabricated smooth answers, so that people would not suspect that he was actually an outsider who knew nothing and was asking for information everywhere.

After chatting for a while, Hall would sensibly change the subject to prevent others from doubting himself, and then he would find a way to naturally get out of the sight of the people around him and find a chance to be alone.

The dormitory was a relatively safe place, but it was not suitable at this time, because several people in the same dormitory might have gone back, so he turned a corner and walked towards the toilet in the dormitory building.

The number of toilets here is sufficient, and "cubicles" are also set up-to be honest, Hall did not understand this at all at first: this territory does not allow people to defecate indiscriminately, and the lord has spent a lot of effort to establish There are so many toilets and sewers, it seems that there is some kind of cleanliness, but until now, Hall has adapted to the strange rules here, and thinks that the strange rules set by the ancient duke have brought him great convenience.

After walking into the toilet, Hall saw a row of cubicles with closed doors. He knocked on the first few, and there were people inside, but in the end he found an empty cubicle, so he quickly dodged in.

He didn't forget to turn around and close the door, and catch the latch from the inside.

Then he took out the charcoal pencil and paper hidden in his body, and after confirming his safety, he began to write a secret letter:

To the host:

Has settled down and become a construction worker.This place is developing extremely fast, with a population of more than [-]; a monster attack occurred today, and it is said...

He used as accurate words as possible to describe what he saw, but it was not easy, after all, he saw too many things beyond imagination here, even as an excellent spy, he was also describing the process of those things Zhong felt that his vocabulary was insufficient, but he still finished writing the secret letter and hid it close to him.

In the near future, businessmen from the Carroll Territory will pass by here, and some of them have a secret message. He will send the secret letter when the contact person passes by.

After confirming that everything was fine, Hall stood up, intentionally made some clothing noises, and pushed the door to leave the cubicle.

Someone also came out of the next compartment, an ordinary construction worker.

Hall nodded and greeted the other party, and the other party also nodded, without seeming suspicious at all...

In this way, the members of the 25th Brigade were moving in the residential area, chatting, pretending, collecting information from the people around them, and at the same time releasing information themselves, except for a few officers from the Military Intelligence Bureau who were placed among them In addition, none of them are senior citizens who really understand Cecil's situation, but miraculously, countless information about Cecil's territory was brewed among them and passed on.

Some of them were things they saw with their own eyes, but more...God knows who was the first to imagine it, and then spread it to the entire brigade.

The soldier who finished the meeting went to the military area after leaving the 25th brigade, and walked into the resident of the Military Security Intelligence Bureau.

There were two men in winter overalls reporting to Amber in the office—they were MIB operatives who were placed in Team 25.

Amber was taken aback by what they reported.

What Cecil Territory was built on the ruins of a Gondor city, the monster was summoned by the crazy ancient magister in the dark mountains, and the weapons used to fight the monster were secretly smuggled by the Silver Empire...

In the process of raising Gu, the miraculous second and fifth brigade actually relied on internal brain supplementation, fermentation, and rumors to create a fantasy version of Cecil to lead it out.

Even Amber couldn't help exclaiming:

"It's just like what the old zongzi said, this is a miracle created out of nothing..."

Chapter 0282 On the Frontier

Cecil Territory was once again attacked by monsters from the wasteland of Gondor, and successfully wiped out the invading enemy that day—this became the fastest and most widely circulated news in this cold winter, and the spread of the news was not only The contributions of spies, merchants, and mercenaries from all walks of life, and Gao Wen's tacit approval and even secret promotion of this also had a great impact.

In Gao Wen's words, "the gang of comfortable southern aristocrats and people from the royal capital must be made aware of the existence of the threat."

In this cold winter, many people are destined to be restless.

On the eastern border of Ansu, Changfeng Fortress.

As the general guardian of the Eastern Territory, Duke Silas Loren has personally garrisoned the fort all year round. At this moment, he is standing on the top terrace of the castle in the center of the fort, looking at the layers of walls in the distance. And the vast expanse of snow-covered wilderness beyond the walls.

This fortress, which was only completed ten years ago, is the pride of the Loren family in the East. It has gone through three generations of painstaking efforts. This strong fortress was erected on a piece of land facing the Typhon Empire tit for tat. It is far away from the Winter Wolf Castle and its affiliated fortresses set up by the Typhon Empire on the border. It is not only a barrier, but also a deterrent.

The establishment of Longwind Keep stems from a rapidly deteriorating relationship between Anzu and Typhon.

During the civil strife in the Brumaire 100 years ago, the Loren family in the East was the one with the best preserved strength among the Dukes of the Four Realms. From the very beginning, this family realized that the Typhon Empire, which was always commensurate with the Ansu brothers, was actually a huge empire. Therefore, during the entire civil strife in Brumaire, this family did not allow its core strength to participate in the chaotic and cruel battle for royal power. The internal status and influence, and most of their energies have been placed on the eastern border - later facts proved that the prudence and conscientiousness of Duke Laurent protected the entire kingdom.

After the civil strife ended and Ansu's domestic situation was quickly pacified due to the establishment of the Second Dynasty and the thunderous tactics of the Wilder family in the north, the Loren family began to build a series of defensive facilities on the border, and the Changfeng Fortress was all defenses. Among the facilities, it is the one that puts the most energy into it, takes the longest time, and has the strongest defense force.

It is not so much a military fortress, but rather a "fortress city" that has both the functions of a fortress and a city. It has all the facilities to maintain the operation of the fortress and ensure self-sufficiency. The soldiers of the Loren family are the soldiers who guard the city here , is also a resident of this city, and the purpose of this fortress city is to stand on this border land under any circumstances and never fall down.

When Ansu declined sharply due to civil strife, but the Typhon Empire became more and more powerful and became unruly, it was precisely because of the barrier established by the Loren family that stood on the border that made Typhon unruly. The heart of evil can only be the heart of unruly.

In fact, it can be said that the four major families of Ansu during the civil strife in the foggy moon have taken on several completely different historical roles: the Franklin family in the western border has always maintained diplomatic and trade relations with the Ogure tribal country, and kept the kingdom The economic lifeline of the country laid the foundation for the reconstruction of the kingdom after the war; the Wilder family in the north used an illegitimate son as a banner to quell the civil strife in the entire country, and forcibly stabilized the kingdom before the situation was completely irreversible; The Lauren family served as a barrier to guard the border of Ansu, blocking those enemies with malicious intentions outside the kingdom during the civil strife.

Although each of them can be said to be selfish, and they were almost divided into hostility during the civil war, but in any case, they still held the kingdom to the last moment.

In stark contrast, at the same time, the Cecil family in the southern border was originally established by the heads of the four founding dukes. The Cecil family has always been brilliant for 600 years... It didn't do anything.

Now that the ancestor of the Cecil family is alive, no one dares to directly criticize the honor of the Cecil family. It can only be said that their family is unlucky, and at the most critical point in time, they met the worst heir, the ancestor. The foundation was almost destroyed.

Historians have never lacked enthusiasm in this regard. They always discuss with relish what factors caused the four families to behave so differently during the Brumaire civil strife, but in Duke Lauren's view, all Discussions about that period of history are meaningless. He believes that the main reason for the situation that year was that Gawain Cecil died too early——Duke Cecil, who died in battle at the age of 35, died prematurely. Leaving this world, that's why he failed to pass on his brilliance and glory to his heirs in time, and that's why the Cecil family's inheritance had a big problem in Grumman Cecil's generation.

Duke Cecil's resurrection may have come to educate future generations.

Silas Lauren stood on the terrace, quietly thinking about these issues related to the history of the kingdom and the inheritance of glory. Many people thought that the duke with legendary strength was just a warrior, but he thought those were just ignorant people He has never lacked deep thinking, but his talent on the battlefield is far higher than his thinking, so people only pay attention to his strength.

A familiar breath approached, and Silas Lauren retracted his gaze into the distance. He turned around and saw a young man with short brown hair and armor walking up to the terrace. This handsome young knight in military uniform Bending slightly in front of him: "Father, the information is here."

"Perform a knight's salute!" Silas Lauren said sternly, "Belke, you are reporting military information now!"

"Yes!" The young man quickly stood up and performed a very standard knight salute, "General, the latest information."

Silas nodded: "Say."

"It has been proven that the defenders of Typhon Winter Wolf Castle did fight a few days ago, but it was not against us, but an unknown 'monster'. The defenders of Winter Wolf Castle won, and the fortress was not destroyed. It was breached, but the outer wall suffered moderate damage, and the casualties of the defenders are unknown, but they should not be few."

Silas nodded slightly, but was noncommittal. Seeing this, the young Belk, the eldest son of Silas Lauren, couldn't help but said: "Father, this is a good opportunity for us to weaken the enemy!"

Silas looked into Belk's eyes expressionlessly: "You really think so?"

"The enemy's exhaustion is our advantage," Belk said, facing his father's gaze, holding his head up. "Their city walls have been weakened, and it is difficult to repair the walls in winter. The defense of Winter Wolf Castle has weaknesses in a short period of time. Secondly, they were attacked by monsters, and panic in a short period of time will weaken their combat effectiveness, and finally their soldiers are also damaged, so this is a good time for us to attack."

"idiot."

Belk straightened up without flinching.

"Did you know that Winterwolf Castle is not a single fortress, but one of a series of fortresses? Did you know that it is winter now, and there is a vast expanse of ice and snow between us and Winterwolf Castle? You know that the Typhons are in their How many reserve soldiers are set up in the fortress group, can you replace the frustrated legion at any time?

"This kind of damage does not hurt Typhon at all, but it will allow them to at least double the defense of Winter Wolf Castle and its surrounding areas in a short period of time, and a large number of defenders will move from the rear of the fort to the front line , to make up for the lack of defense caused by the damage of the city wall; we have to cross the ice and snow to attack Winter Wolf Castle, and the ice and snow will weaken our troops a lot. The enemy's fatigue is our advantage? When you run to the foot of Winter Wolf Castle, You are the one who is tired! And the most important point - attack, is all-out war, but did I say that I want to start a war with Typhon now?"

Only then did Belk lower his head in embarrassment, but he still couldn't help but said: "Our war with Typhon... is just around the corner."

Silas looked at his son, who was too young, and he could feel the courage and desire for victory and glory in the opponent's chest. This is the quality he tried to instill in the opponent, but he still shook his head at this moment: "Don't expect this War. Expect nothing."

"Father?"

"Soldiers should indeed desire victory on the battlefield, but not the war itself, especially the war with Typhon," Silas Roren said slowly, and sighed softly, "And you heard some other news?"

"Another news?" Belk frowned, obviously not knowing what his father was referring to, "What is it?"

"A group of merchants came from the southwest, and they brought a kind of alchemy potion into the city," Duke Silas said unhurriedly, "They said that the New Cecil Territory in the southwest was also attacked by monsters. Attack, those monsters are mutated creatures from the wasteland of Gondor—your information came too slowly, even the news from Cecil led the businessman here, but you only figured out what happened to Winter Wolf Castle!"

Belk was a little ashamed, although he knew it was not because of his incompetence—travelers were walking in a safe and stable country, and he was going to investigate the situation of hostile fortresses outside the country that were tightly blocked. The difficulty and efficiency of the two were completely different Different, but even so, it's true that he didn't do his best.

So he silently accepted his father's criticism, and felt a little uneasy feeling from the news his father mentioned: "Those monsters... are the ones that Duke Gawain Cecil warned the nobles in the capital before. The monster mentioned?"

"That's right," Silas Lauren nodded. "At first when he issued a warning, not many people believed it, and even I didn't pay much attention to it, but now it seems... I'm afraid I made a mistake."

Belk looked at his father in surprise. He rarely saw his father admitting mistakes.

"Those monsters are real, and they are threatening human territory," Silas ignored his son's gaze, but continued as if talking to himself, "They will attack Typhon, and they will attack us. In the eyes of those wasteland monsters, there is no distinction between Typhon and Ansu, and this sudden threat...may change the whole situation."