Chapter 1293： Return to Cecil

Amber’s sigh is not what she feels alone. For every explorer who has just returned from the sentinel’s home port, this kind of relief is inevitable, even though the God of War is still a mere mortal. In a dangerous situation, there is a difference between "existing danger" and "unexplainable".

"Anyway, the God of War is still a place where we can control the situation," even Victoria, who has always felt a sense of cold and alienated people, couldn't help but speak after hearing Amber's words. "What the sentry left is for us. My feeling is completely uncontrollable, unpredictable... I can only say that we still don’t know much about what the sailor left behind."

Ms. Windsor Mapel and the Soldier Knight, who greeted everyone here, also greeted them at this moment. Windsor came to Daniel for the first time, with a smile on his face: "I am so relieved to see you return safely. Is it going well?"

"There are many discoveries," Daniel nodded calmly, "We have seen other kingdoms of God, but more important than that is that after we uncover the secret of the'Sentinel' and go back, I will tell you the situation in detail."

The white dragon Noretta also greeted her friend who had just changed into a human form. The two young dragons rushed into her mother’s arms faster than her. The little guys yelled in excitement and hit Melita’s head with their heads. Arms and stomach, the latter had to use both hands and feet to barely cope with this kind of over-enthusiastic "greet": "Okay, well, don't make a fuss... Do you miss your mother? Did you listen to your mother at home?"

"It sounds weird what you said, although it is logically true," Bailong Noretta smiled and came to her friend, "Look at your expression... the harvest of this journey should not be easy."

"It's more than simple," Merita pressed the heads of the two young dragons, looked at Gawain not far away, and said with a complicated expression, "I have a little recollection of the time when the two hearts were blown up in one breath. Yes, my blood pressure has never been lowered this time..."

"We need to return to Cecil City as soon as possible, Soldier Knight." On the other side, Gawain came to the white knight commander and spoke quickly. At the same time, he raised his head and glanced at Victoria in the ice woman. Beside the Duke, the invisible magic is holding a frozen ice cube. In the crystal clear cube, you can see the entwined vines and two inconspicuous pink and white flowers, under the confinement of the magic ice. , These plants still maintain the original appearance of being frozen, "Something needs to be sent back immediately."

"Yes, Your Majesty," the high-ranking fighting monk Solied replied in a deep voice, a deep and heavy voice came from the full-covered white knight helmet, and then he spoke again, "In addition, there is an emergency report."

Gao Wenlai was about to hand over information about the sentinel and mention the follow-up exploration plan, but he heard a strange serious mood in the tone of the heavily loaded priest before him, and immediately raised his eyebrows: "Emergency?"

"There is news from the Sea-Monster Kingdom that our deep-sea allies have discovered an abnormal situation in the deep blue network channel in the field of water elements. They'salved' from the magical veins and found some kind of man-made object of unknown purpose and unknown principle. "Everything in the soil is about the death of cultists," the Soldier said in a very serious tone. "Now they have shared the structure diagram and preliminary analysis data of that thing with Cecil City, but whether it is Ms. Jenny or Rebe His Royal Highness has encountered...technical obstacles."

"In the deep blue net...that group of krakens actually'salved' something from the deep blue net?!" Gawain was stunned. First of all, he was taken aback by the amazing actions of the group of krakens. Focus on the second half of the Sollid knight, "You said that neither Jenny nor Rebecca can understand what the siren fished out? What about the other scholars of the empire?"

Although Jenny and Rebecca are absolute authorities in modern runes and magical fields, they are still lacking in experience and accumulation. They may not be able to surpass those traditional wizards and scholars in the "learned" field. The mysterious objects "salved" by the Krakens might be known to the scholars of the old age with extensive knowledge.

However, the Soldier Knight just shook his head: "There is no progress. Ms. Hetty even summoned the academic community of St. Sunil, but no one has seen that thing... I have never heard of it."

Gawain frowned. He couldn't help but think of himself and Carmel and others when they were in the sentry home port not long ago, and they discussed that the "elven twins" in the wasteland might use the power of the cultists to engage in the dark blue network. Some things, but he did not expect a suspicious clue to emerge so quickly, he turned his head to look at Windsor Mapel and the Typhon scholars he led next to him, and then frowned and asked the heavy priest in front of him: "Related Has the information been sent to Typhon and the Silver Empire?"

"Yes, in accordance with the alliance's joint defense agreement to deal with major world-class disasters, we have sent this part of the intelligence to the senior leaders of the two countries," the Soldier knight nodded and said, "but..."

"But we don't have any clues," said Ms. Windsor Mapel, who was a little worried. "The feedback from the Silver Empire is the same. It's something completely unknown to today's mortals. It uses incomprehensible things. Although the current suspicion of this incident is most likely to fall on the cultists in the wasteland, we don’t understand how a group of cultists who have enclosed themselves in the wasteland of Gondor created that. They even mastered the technology to open the deep blue network and inject substances into it..."

"It seems that the situation is indeed as we expected..." Faced with Ms. Windsor's confusion, Gawain just sighed as expected, turned his head and said to Carmel, "The sentry has already begun to act."

"Sentinel?" Ms. Windsor was confused when she heard it. She knew the word "sentinel." In the confidential documents circulating within the alliance recently, the words "be careful of sentry" appeared frequently, but she did not. I don’t know why this disturbing vocabulary has something to do with the Gondor Wasteland, "What is between this and the Wasteland..."

"This is what I just mentioned to you, the biggest discovery of our trip," Daniel said in a low and slightly gloomy voice, "Remember the warning of the'beware of the sentry'? Now we finally know what this sentence is. What do you mean... An ancient guardian left by the sailor has lost control. It penetrated into our world a thousand years ago. After a long dormant period, it has now begun operations and is currently hiding in the Gondor Wasteland. The'elf twins' in… are faked by this guard called the'sentinel'! Now the cultists in the wasteland have become the minions of the sentry, and their hands... have the skills of the sailors!"

Windsor Mapel's breathing suddenly speeded up a bit, and after a while she squeezed the staff in her hand tightly, her expression extremely serious: "This matter must be reported to Aldernan immediately!"

"I have to rush back now," Gawain said. The news from the Soldiers made him feel more urgent. "Victoria, you return to the northern border to deal with affairs. We will need a stable domestic country more than ever. Regarding the situation, Amber and I returned to Cecil City. As for Carmel..."

He looked at the ancient magister who was floating on standby. After thinking for a moment, he nodded: "You stay here and continue to preside over the exploration of the kingdom of God. We need more clues and intelligence, and related research activities cannot be interrupted. ."

Carmel bent down in mid-air: "Yes, Your Majesty."

"Noretta and I will also return to Tarrond," Melita walked from the side with two whelps who were trying to hug her mother's body in a koala-like posture. "Happened. The'homeport' matter must be made known to the leaders of Andal and Hragor as soon as possible, and...we must also be prepared for changes in the situation."

Gawain nodded slowly: "You will leave after a little rest and preparation. Agonda should also be waiting for your news."

…

After returning from the Kingdom of God of War, all parties acted separately. Gawain and Amber went directly back to Cecil City in Dragoon aircraft. When they arrived, the night had begun to envelope the city at the foot of the Dark Mountains. In the large study of Cecil Palace, Heidi has been waiting here for a long time.

The light from the magic spar dispelled the night that had fallen early in the winter. The streetscape outside the floor-to-ceiling windows was filled with lights and the sound of distant carriages and horses. Gawain sat back on his most familiar chair, and Hetty stood in front of him. The "Empire Butler" had a serious and solemn expression on his face, and the dark circles under his eyes seemed quite serious.

Gawain's eyes couldn't help but stayed on Hetty's dark circles for several seconds.

"This time the eye circles are real, ancestors," Heti sighed helplessly, rubbing his forehead a little tiredly, "I haven't had much rest in these two days... I spent half of the time with Tifeng and the silver empire technology. The officials exchanged information about the Deep Blue Network, and I believe they are just as devastated as we are."

"So what exactly did the Krakens catch?" Gao Wen forced his attention away from Hetty's eye sockets, and asked solemnly, "I heard that it is a very complicated structure. Rune device..."

"Yes, a very complicated rune device. It looks like a black cube with a side of about two meters. The material contains magic crystals, highly purified black stones and several alloys. There are layers on the inside. "The precise structure of the sea monster," Heidi nodded, and put the drawings and documents that she had been holding on Gawain's desk. "This is the information passed by the Krakens, led by Jenny and Rebecca. The team has extracted and individually annotated the clearer structure as much as possible, you can take a look."

Gao Wen took the information, and sternly scanned the dense structure drawings and the text annotations around the drawings. He knew that he was definitely not better than the real experts in the field of runes, so he did not waste time trying to analyze and calculate those. The relationship between the rune knot and the guiding demon is to try to determine the secret of this thing directly from the structural divisions inside the "cube".

While he was reading the information, Heidi's voice continued to be heard: "At present, we guess that the construction of these rune stones is done'layer by layer'. First, the core is made, and then the shell is layered. Inlaying and drawing rune structures, and at the same time, different layers are connected by precisely placed crystalline plugs. There is a shadow of technology from the Gondor era, but it is also limited to the craftsmanship...In addition to craftsmanship, These rune stones are full of technologies that we cannot understand."

"The technology of the sailor." Gao Wen raised his head and looked at Hetty's eyes.

"The sailor... I have heard from Amber what you saw in the Deep Sea," Heti said solemnly, "If the'elf twins' hiding in the wasteland are sentries, and these rune stones are indeed From the hands of those cultists, then the mysterious technology behind these devices does have an explanation."

"...It is said that the sea monsters ‘salved’ more than one of these cubes from the deep blue network?" Gawain asked curiously.

"Yes, as of yesterday afternoon, they have found five such devices from the deep blue network," Heidi nodded, "and this is just the number of uncaptured or even undiscovered devices they successfully captured. More."

"Did the Kraken discover anything about these devices?"

"They don't have any useful clues," Heidi said, shaking his head. "The Sea Monster itself has a relatively superficial knowledge in the field of magic, and doesn't know much about the Deep Blue Network, but..."

"but?"

"The Sea-Monster Queen Petia mentioned one thing. Recently, the water elements in the endless sea are consciously staying away from the deep blue veins that pass through the endless sea. Although the elemental creatures originally didn't like the magical aura in the deep blue nets, they The recent response has been particularly obvious and... tense. The element masters and element lords did not explain this, but it seems that they are not deliberately hiding something, but they themselves can’t figure out the situation."

Gawain fell into thinking, and did not respond to Heidi for a while. After almost half a minute of contemplation, he suddenly raised his head: "Has Milmina read these materials? She has been in charge of the magic field, maybe she What can I see."

"Not yet," Heidi shook her head. "Ms. Milmina has been studying the secrets behind the volatility of magic power since she returned from the God of War last time, and she has also specially submitted a "concentration" within the Theocracy Council. Study the Do Not Disturb statement, but I think if you were to go...neither of the two senior consultants would refuse to cooperate."

"Did you concentrate on studying the mystery of magic..." Gao Wen muttered softly, but he couldn't help but think of the "Magic Kingdom" that he saw on the cruise ship. For a while, he felt a lot of emotion, "She is finally I'm free to pursue the true knowledge...but I still have to disturb her, after all, I have to send something to Ammon."

Heidi nodded immediately: "Okay, I will arrange it and go with you."

Gawain glanced at the "descendant" who had been following him for several years, and couldn't help but smile: "No, as usual, I'll take Amber and go there. You'd better get a good night's sleep. "

Heidi suddenly asked what he wanted to say: "Ancestor, I..."

"Go and rest, Heidi," Gawain interrupted her directly, "I'm back."