Chapter 1016： God near

Snow particles raised by the wind drifted past the arched windows inlaid with crystal glass. The ice crystals slammed on the windows and made a fine sound. The thick walls and magical circulation blocked the cold outside the castle and kept the room warm. .

The dazzling fireplace was burning not far away, and the brilliance of the flame was projected on several brass ornaments, reflecting the hazy and shaking light and shadow, and the warm fire light made the heart of the high-ranking ranger relax. The cold winter seems to be less cold.

"Tell me about the situation at Wintercastle," Gawain walked into the room, unfastened his cloak and hung it on the hook on the side. "How many of us are still active there now?"

"The main squad of the Iron Rangers has withdrawn to our control area. There are currently three reconnaissance squads and two mobile squads performing missions from Winterhold to Frostwood," Soldering nodded and said, "In addition, due to several major The situation in the town is changing, and the pollution of the gods is spreading outside the army. The officers of the military intelligence bureau lurking in the city have been withdrawn from the danger zone in batches. Only a few well-protected liaison stations are still operating at a lower limit."

"Hmm..." Gao Wen nodded slightly, "Evacuation early is good, the situation will change greatly, the stalemate phase is about to end, and the next moment is the time to see the resolution."

"I was a little surprised when I first received the evacuation order-the situation has changed faster than I thought," Solderlin said. "It seems that God of War is deteriorating very quickly. Aldernan can't wait any longer. Now... This is also in line with some of the phenomena I observed before leaving."

"Some phenomena?" Gao Wen immediately became serious. "What phenomena?"

Soldering organized a little language and began to report on what he had detected during his activities in the Winterhold area: "As of the time I evacuated, very obvious signs of divine disaster had begun to appear on the Typhonian land, and ordinary people began to listen. When I saw some'messages' related to the gods, abnormal noises began to be heard frequently in the churches of the God of War that were blocked. In addition, some people witnessed huge phantoms appearing in the sky in the direction of Winter Fort, and some relatively clear sighting reports The image described in the phantom is an iron-grey giant with heavy armor."

"...The classic image of God of War in most religious books," Gao Wen said in a deep voice, "giant in armor, marching in the storm and the clouds, overlooking the earth..."

Then he asked: "Did these phenomena appear after that air battle?"

Soldering thought for a while: "If you are talking about ordinary auditory and visual hallucinations, they happen occasionally before the air battle. The locals think that it is a magic phenomenon produced by a large number of battle mages gathered together. If you say It’s about that giant... that did appear after an aerial battle a few days ago."

Gao Wen sighed slightly, and the intelligence brought by Solderlin further confirmed his conjecture about the "God of War".

As soon as this thought came to him, Solderlin, who was standing opposite, suddenly said: "If I am not wrong in my analysis...These phenomena show that the activities of the God of War are becoming stronger, and He is already very close to us. This world, given that you are even here personally now... Is it possible that the God of War will come?"

Gawain suddenly opened his eyes in a little surprise. He looked up and down at Solderlin, before he could speak, the latter smiled: "I am not an expert in theology, and I do not have your overall deduction. Ability, but I have accumulated a lot of miscellaneous knowledge for hundreds of years. The phenomenon I have observed recently in the Winterhold area is enough to remind me of something... It’s just I didn’t expect it, the situation will really become such."

"Rosetta seems to want to do something big," Gawain exhaled long, "Even I have to admit that he is a terrible guy... but he is also a man of judgment and action."

"In my opinion, you are the kind of people who are quite'terrible'," Soldering laughed, with emotion in his tone, "Sometimes I can't help but remember that I met you more than 700 years ago. At that time... At that time you were a more rampant person, and you were daunting on the battlefield, but in my opinion, you were much more reassuring than you are now."

"After all, I was only responsible for an army at that time, and the burden of the country was on Charlie." Gawain said casually, and as soon as his voice fell, a familiar mental fluctuation suddenly appeared deep in his consciousness and interrupted. What he wants to say next.

He waved his hand to Solderlin in front of him, motioned to the other party to wait, then quickly concentrated his mind and immersed his consciousness into the neural network-after a while, he ended the sudden communication, and the opposite of Sol Delin immediately asked after realizing his "return to reality": "What happened?"

"The news just came on the 25th," Gawain said with a solemn expression, "Rosetta Augustus had left Aldernan yesterday, and Duke Perdinan left with him."

Hearing this information, Söderlin’s expression instantly became serious: at this special moment, in this changing situation, Rosetta Augustus himself suddenly left his imperial capital. This incident revealed I am afraid there is only one information...

"It looks like it's about to begin." After a few seconds of silence, Gao Wen said slowly and lowly.

...

The dizziness of mental connection quickly faded, and Daniel sitting in the chair opened his eyes.

The fireplace on the side is burning, warm flames jumping happily in the hearth, magic spar lamps illuminate the spacious living room, two magic brooms are automatically sweeping the dust on the corners of the stairs, the old mage is sitting near the fireplace On the easy chair, the lower part of his body was covered with a warm blanket, an unfolded magic book was placed on his lap, and the rune pages in the book were flowing with luster, all of which made him look as if he had only done it once. A little nap.

The young female mage sitting in a chair reading a book noticed the subtle movements of the instructor, and immediately raised her head, with concern on her face: "Is the news sent?"

"Well," Daniel nodded briefly, "isn't it abnormal?"

"No, there is no response from the sensory runes set up everywhere in the house," Mary said immediately. "No one is spying on this side."

"That's good," Daniel nodded and said, "Now the situation in Aldernan is very stable. The obsidian imperial army and royal agents in the dark have almost broken their nerves, so even a few minutes of contact must be very careful... ...You shouldn't use neural networks these days, right?"

"No!" Mary shook her head immediately, "I have been very careful."

Daniel gave a soft "um", then his gaze fell on Mary, without moving for a long time, the black-haired female mage finally twisted her neck awkwardly under this gaze, and asked with a hint of tension. : "Tutor...Is there anything I didn't do well?"

There was no fear in her tone, it was just that some apprentices were nervous when facing their tutor.

"If you want to go back to the country, I can make arrangements for you," Daniel said with no expression on his face. "With your current abilities and qualifications, I can make you the manager of a regional wizard society, even if you If you don’t want to take up a position, you can live a good life locally and be respected by many people."

"Why do you say that suddenly?" Mary's eyes widened suddenly, "because I messed up in the laboratory recently..."

"I just recently discovered that what I'm doing is becoming more and more dangerous, and your mind may not be able to handle this aspect of the work," Daniel said lightly, "I have to be distracted to point you to what to do when things happen. what."

Mary was stunned for a few seconds. It seemed that it would take these time to understand the true intentions in the teacher’s words, and after understanding these intentions, she mustered enough courage-she finally arranged her thoughts and boldly broke the silence: "Tutor , I can take good care of myself, and I don’t want to go back to the country...I think I’m fine here..."

Her tone finally weakened, and the courage she had gathered in a few seconds was only enough for her to say these dozens of words in front of her majestic tutor, but Daniel showed a somewhat surprised expression because of this, and he looked up and down. For a moment, I was an apprentice who had never been very promising, and remembered what happened when I found each other's parents from the country a year ago.

After a moment, he withdrew his gaze and snorted coldly: "Then do it as you like, there will be no such opportunity in the future."

...

The magic train slid steadily and quickly on the track, and the scenery outside the window quickly receded-in the white snow landscape, there are fields and quiet villages buried by snow after harvesting.

"We are still a while away from reaching the eastern gate of Winterhold, Your Majesty," Pei Dinan looked at Emperor Typhon who was sitting in the seat opposite him, "Do you need to take a rest?"

"No need," Rosetta said casually, while scanning the scenery outside the car window, "...The magic train is indeed a good thing, and so is the magic machine."

"It's true," Pei Dinan said, "So no matter how much we invest, we have to find ways to make them ourselves."

Rosetta let out an "um", his gaze seemed to be attracted by the field outside the car window, and he watched for a long time before breaking the silence again: "Pei Di Nanqing, do you remember our last hunt in 716?"

Perdinan recalled: "You mean that winter hunt? Of course, I remember that I was very impressed... It was the year before your coronation, and that winter was also very cold. We caught several hunts in the hunting grounds north of Tarenkins. Deer... That was also the last royal winter hunt. In the second year after that, you were crowned and temporarily cancelled the winter hunt that year. In the third year, you officially announced the complete cessation of the royal winter hunt, which lasted for several hundred. The royal tradition of the year ended."

"Yeah... Then do you remember what happened during the winter hunt that year?" Rosetta said, looking at Perdinan, "Don't say you only remember those deer."

"Of course I remember what happened," Pei Dinan recalled seriously, "A hunter broke into a forest forbidden hunting in the winter, trying to secretly beat a rabbit... His pregnant wife was sick. Some meat was needed to supplement his body, but the soldiers patrolling around the hunting ground found him. Without any trial or notification, the soldiers directly shot the hunter with their bows and arrows...just like shooting animals in the hunting ground."

"Yeah, it's like hunting animals," Rosetta said quietly. "At that time, many people thought it was a matter of course."

"Even a few years ago, some people thought that it was supposed to be-all this has not gradually changed until the last two or three years. More and more scholars and capable merchants and runesmiths have appeared among the literate civilians. , Even the civilians began to enter government offices and parliaments at all levels. After the nutrition, education, and newborn pre-selection systems were mature and on the right track, the number of extraordinary awakenings in the civilian class began to increase, and now the ratio of extraordinary awakenings among the nobles and civilians is almost There is no gap. After this, the nobles have to admit that civilians have the same thinking, learning and growth abilities as them, or more bluntly...recognize that civilians are the same species as them."

Rosetta listened to Pedinan’s narration, and all the emotional changes were hidden in the calm and slightly sullen expression. It was not until ten seconds of silence that he looked at the direction of Winterhold and broke the silence softly: "Yes, we It took nearly 20 years to barely do all this..."

"It takes more than ten years to let some people realize an obvious fact that conforms to the laws of nature. This is really a somewhat ironic thing," Pei Dinan sighed. "And the ironic thing is that even you and I are actually too It’s not clear from the beginning..."

Rosetta didn’t respond any more. He just looked out of the window, looking out the direction of the Winter Fortress in a daze. At the end of the snow-covered fields on both sides of the train are the rolling hills of the Winter Fortress line, and Rosetta His eyes stared at the boundless sky between the mountains and the clouds.

There was a faint starlight floating in one of his eyes, and the depth of his pupil seemed to be inlaid with the other eye. He could clearly see the vision in the depths of the sky——

A giant covered in iron-gray armor is standing in the clouds, looking down at this small and fragile world with a hollow and cold gaze. He is carrying a flag and a huge sword on his back, and he is holding a bow as tall as a bell tower.

That is God. He stands under the clear sky of this winter, as if the king is in the hunting ground that belongs to Him alone. The majestic city and the continuous countryside are just like hunting ground decorations with colorful flags in front of the huge body. Under the bow of the war, all mortals in the world-whether kings or civilians, heroes or pawns, seem to be animals to be slaughtered.

The wheels rolled, the train roared, and the wind engulfed in snow particles rolled up between the repulsion mechanism and the relay pile. The magic train gradually accelerated and rushed straight to the end of the horizon that was about to fully enter the world.

While this magic train is heading towards the border, dozens of knights and battles are on the dozens of communication lines leading to Winterhold in the hinterland of Typhon, between the wilderness and valley, between the river and the plain. The Mages, hundreds of thousands of transcendent soldiers, are moving towards the battle zone.