Sword of Daybreaker

Melita had to admit that this was the most embarrassing and lost dragon landing since she broke the shell-although her landing accident rate has always been relatively high among her family due to some carelessness or occasional failure of visual components, but It was really the first time to appear in front of Speaker Andar in such a rolling posture.

There is no doubt that this is all due to the failure of the implant. The disappearance of the Omega system has caused the suspension of various auxiliary implants, and the discomfort caused by leaving the visual field enhancement system...

But no matter what, the embarrassment and pain caused by a failed landing disappeared in the next instant. When I saw the familiar old dragon with traces of implant modification, only Merita's mind was left in an instant. Surprised and surprised.

Speaker Andar is still alive, and even the high priests of Herragor are alive.

Three giant dragons appeared next to the huge crash pit. Two of them were familiar to Merita and thought they had already died in the final battle. Only Balroger did not know her-the Duke of Dragon Blood The true identity is a secret to ninety-nine percent of the dragons in Tarrond, even for Merita, who is a member of the jury.

...

It took a long time for Herragor, Andal, and Balogre to learn about Tarrond from Melita and Duke Moore, and to understand what happened after they left the planet. Changes on the earth.

"I really didn't expect... I could see you come back alive," Duke Moore looked at the three old friends who appeared in front of him with complicated eyes. One of the dragons, however, while performing the final coming-of-age ceremony, he stayed on this planet to fight against the natural disasters caused by the gods. As one of Taikoo's rebels, he has no regrets about such an arrangement, but his fate has reached this point, but he still sighs with emotion, "This is a miracle in a miracle."

"We didn't expect to be able to come back, nor did we expect to see you'alive', Duke Moore," Herragor said with emotion, "So... all the surviving compatriots have regained their self-awareness? And Omega left Tarrond after releasing the minds of all the dragons?"

"It looks like this at the moment," Duke Moore lowered his huge head, the red light in the eyes of the mechanical prosthesis dimmed, "Although there are few compatriots who survived, everyone is awake. As for the Omega system... now we There is no way to determine the conditions of the computing nodes buried deep underneath, but we have unearthed some urban service lines and factory information processing stations distributed on the surface. A small part of them can still operate. They are connected to the main network through those lines. At the time, we discovered the "disappearance" of Omega. Judging from the few feedback signals, it seems that the computing node deep underground is still "alive", but the Omega system that should have been running in the node is gone. "

Duke Moore's description made Melita on the side think of "the body is still there, but the soul has left." Then she felt that her association was a little weird: the Omega system is a super AI, it really... ...Is there a soul?

While Melita was thinking about it, Balroger thought of their strange encounter in space. The ancient mechanic looked at Duke Moore: "Do you know how we got back?"

Duke Moore said immediately: "I just wanted to ask..."

"We were saved by a weird...existence," Barroger said in a deep voice. "He passed our spaceship and looked like a weird dragon made of steel, even though his figure flashed by. The appearance looks very strange, but I can tell that many of his characteristics come from Tarrond, from our race..."

Andal rested for a while, only then did he take the subject in a low tone: "He comes from this planet and finally disappeared into the depths of the vast universe."

"You mean..." Duke Moore's eyes widened suddenly. He finally realized the deep meaning of his old friend's words. However, the possibility revealed by these words made him stunned. "What you have encountered is ...Omega?! But this is impossible...why...this does not conform to Omega's behavioral logic..."

"Yes, it does not conform to his behavioral logic," Herragor said softly, "According to our initial instructions, he should eliminate all the dragon minds as soon as the final battle is over to prevent the rebuilding of the spiritual seal. According to the instructions, he should perform a second cleanup to prevent the recurrence of thoughts. According to the instructions, he should not take any new actions after completing this final task, but quietly wait for the system to disintegrate by itself... but he did not In doing so, he did something outside of the procedure, and even... chose to leave the planet."

"It sounds... as if he had a'heart'," Duke Moore muttered to himself softly, and suddenly couldn't help shaking. "I feel shuddering."

"Shudder? I don't feel that way," Herragor shook his head. "I think of other things now."

Duke Moore cast a curious look: "Something else?"

"Omega's'variables' cannot be created out of thin air. Someone must have exerted an influence on him, and this influence occurred at the bottom of the logic library," Herragor said calmly, "We are Omi The procedure set by Gah is based on our knowledge of the gods. In order to avoid all hidden dangers as much as possible, we have pushed all the conditions to the limit-but this does not mean that we must reach this'limit', we do so Extreme, just because of fear of failure.

"Facts have proved that Omega did not reach this'limit' in the final stage. He did not eliminate all the dragon minds, and even saved the three of us back, and his actions... did not lead to failure.

"We still won. Although we were prepared to gamble and do everything, we didn't really sacrifice everything in the end. It was like an invisible hand fiddled with a very, very narrow boundary between life and death. We adjusted our too crude and simple plan, and grabbed a glimmer of life for us from the originally destined ending."

Herragor said slowly, he was the oldest leader and rebel among the dragons, and also the priest Tarrond closest to and understood the gods. Listening to his analysis of word by word, Andal and others had coincided with each other. There was silence, each showing a contemplative look, only Melita still seemed a little confused-she felt that she seemed to understand a little, but she didn't fully understand what happened.

Herragor paused. In the glow of this twilight, it seemed that it took him a long time to break the silence: "That hand... knows the **** better than those of us who have been thinking about it for 1.87 million years."

Andal was silent for a long time before he whispered in a hoarse voice: "Indeed, no existence in the world knows the gods better than Him."

Melita blinked, with obvious confusion in her huge crystal-clear eyes. She looked at the leaders and hesitated for a long time before carefully asking, "What are you talking about?"

"Nothing, you will understand later, we have to focus on other things now," Andal looked at Merita and shook his head slightly. The old dragon slowly propped up his huge body and looked towards The direction of Agundor in the past, "You built a temporary shelter near Agundor, didn't you?"

"Yes," Melita nodded quickly, "Elder Duke Moore summoned the original survivors, but now Karador is in charge of the specific affairs of the camp..."

"Ah, Calador, he is still alive...I have the impression that he is outstanding," Andal said, and slowly opened his huge dragon wings. "But in this situation, no matter how outstanding the dragon is, it needs More helpers. We have to go to that temporary shelter soon, and with more help, perhaps more compatriots will survive."

"Can you still fly normally?" Duke Moore glanced at Andal. "Many implants can no longer be used after the Omega system is offline. Even me, after undergoing surgery to remove many defective implants. Just barely regained the ability to move freely—the implants in you are no less than mine, and you have just experienced a crash."

"It's an emergency landing, my old friend, it's an emergency landing," Ballogel said immediately. "Also, don't neglect the basic skills of a senior mechanic-I have adjusted the implant on Andal. , The malfunctioning and suspended devices have been removed or shielded, and I can guarantee that he can now fly around Talrond for a week."

Andal couldn't help but glanced at Balrogl, and then suddenly smiled freely: "He said yes, then yes."

"Well, I believe that the most outstanding mechanic in Talrond's history-even though this mechanic has not been in contact with Talrond's contemporary machinery for many years," Duke Moore shook his huge head. Yangshou looked in the direction of the temporary refuge, "And I don't need you to circle Tarrond around... Our camp is on the other side of the cliff."

...

"This is all we have so far." In the holographic projection projected by the Monet terminal, the Duchess of Victoria maintained her usual cold expression and reported to Gao Wen what she had observed on the northern border in the last 24 hours. According to the latest results, "Based on several sea and air reconnaissances as close as possible, we can determine that the eternal storm has completely disappeared, and there is still a strong annular current in the original sea area, and there are many unstable sea cyclones nearby. The activity also triggered large-scale rainfall and huge waves. These should be natural phenomena caused by the residual magic power after the eternal storm dissipated.

"At present, the above phenomenon is also fading fast, and it is expected that in half a month at most, all traces of the eternal storm will disappear-of course, after this storm disappears, there will be many long-term meteorological effects, ocean currents and maritime climate. There will be changes. These "traces" should last a long time, and may even be permanent."

Gawain was sitting behind his desk, listening to Victoria’s report, but he couldn’t help but think of the old trip to Tarrond in his mind, recalling what he had experienced when riding through the storm on Melita’s back. everything of.

He thought of the ancient battlefield hidden in the cracks of time and space at the base of the storm, the stagnant dragons, gods, and the ancient "relics" at the center of the Maelstrom.

Others may not know it, but he knows very well that the eternal storm relies on the weird static and lost time and space to maintain... Those ancient forces entrenched in that sea area, which led to the never-dissipating cloud wall and vortex.

And now, this strength of maintaining has apparently disappeared.

"Your Majesty, shall we do further investigations?" Victoria's voice awakened Gawain from his thoughts, and the Duchess had a serious expression on her face-of course, she had this expression most of the time, "The sea of ​​Beigang The demon and the naga said that they can try to approach the sea from the bottom of the sea, maybe they can find something."

"They are willing to help?" Gawain was a little surprised, but then he showed a look of surprise, "Of course it's good, we do need further investigation."

——The sea area after the storm dissipates is still very dangerous. It is still difficult for Cecil’s current ships and aircraft to move safely in the far sea, but the siren and naga who originally lived in the deep sea should be able to ignore the "natural threats" after the storm dissipated "They are willing to take the initiative to help, of course it couldn't be better.

"I understand," Victoria nodded, "then I will arrange it."

Gao Wen gave a hum, then looked up again: "Anything else?"

"I don't have any here," Victoria said, "but there should be something else on the Duke of Baldwin."

Gao Wen nodded, and after finishing the communication with Victoria, he connected with Shilin City in the west, and the gentleman of the Duke of the west, Baldwin Franklin, immediately appeared in the holographic projection.

"Good afternoon, Your Majesty."

"Good afternoon, Grand Archon," Gawain nodded to Padwin in the projection, "What's the matter with you?"

"Information from the Ogure tribal nation, the magician technicians we sent there to assist the locals in setting up the magic net hub have sent some interesting information." Baldwin Franklin said with a serious expression.

"What is worrying about?"

"Yes, your majesty--according to the reports from the technicians, the project to set up the magic net hub in the Ancestral Peak area has officially started, but since the first test magic obelisk was launched, the device installed on the top of the mountain has been Frequently received interference signals from unknown sources, after preliminary comparison... Those interference signals are somewhat similar to the signals we received in the Thorin area and Winterhold."

Gao Wen opened his eyes wide in surprise and surprise, and subconsciously leaned over his body: "I also received the signal at Ancestral Peak?! And it was received by the test equipment?"

"Yes, low-power test machines," Baldwin Franklin nodded. "The signal strength they receive is very high, but there is a lot of'noise'. This is the same as the situation we have encountered so far. There is a big difference. The magic technician stationed in Ancestral Peak has sent back samples of the signal, but the "impurities" in those samples are too serious for the technicians in Shilin City to deal with. In the neural network, I hope that the Empire Computing Center can filter out those annoying clutter."