Sword of Daybreaker

The howling cold wind swept across the land, and now there are only endless ruins and monsters wandering around in the ancient country destroyed by war. Except for a small part of the safety zone and the reconstruction of the isolation zone, you can look far away from this land. Apart from the ruined walls, there are only all kinds of weird landscapes distorted by the "power of the miracle of the gods".

In places farther from the plains, the undulating hills and mountains are gradually being covered by hard ice. After losing the protection of the large shield, the former Lonking ecosystem has completely stopped, and the polar regions The climate is quickly taking over this piece of land that is gradually returning to the original. Frozen soil, glaciers, frost, these forces belonging to nature are constantly spreading from the coastline to the inland. With an unwavering attitude, we must The land is corrected to its natural state.

This is a realm that cannot be imagined in the warm and stable human world—whether it is the posture of destruction here or the incredible polar environment here.

However, for adventurers who have ambitions to cross the endless sea and vowed to dig a pot of gold in this mysterious land, the harsh natural environment here is not a problem that needs to be considered too much. Those are between safe strongholds. The elemental creatures wandering around and the rare things that can be seen almost everywhere have attracted almost all of their attention.

The temporary capital of Tarrond, on the south side of New Agendor, a newly built urban area is bathed in the long-lasting sunlight during the polar day. This urban area is surrounded by high walls like other wasteland strongholds, and the high walls are dominated by huge rocks. , Filled with alloy melted by Long Yan, despite its rough appearance, it can provide the most precious safety guarantee on this dangerous land. There are wide and straight roads in the stronghold. Hundreds of stone, metal and Houses built with other easy-to-collect materials are neatly lined up in the walls. All these houses are practical. Although they lack decoration, they are at least strong and durable.

This is the newly established camp for adventurers—the dragons, adventurers, alliance aid forces, and volunteers sent by the Holy Dragon Principality alone worked together to complete the construction of this city in a short period of time, perhaps with The extremely luxurious buildings of the Tarrond palace in the old days are not so beautiful and beautiful than this place. However, when these straight and rigid houses and high walls stand in the cold wind, they can still present a kind of impressive Admire the roughness and strength.

After the first bell rang in the morning, the young huntress Lola left the assigned barracks with several fellow adventurers. They walked to the adventurer management hall in the middle of the town. There were a large number of groups of three or five on the road. The adventurers are all going in the same direction as them. A gust of wind blew from across the street, and the cold in the wind made Laura’s somewhat sleepy mind instantly sober, she shuddered a little, and couldn't help muttering: "This place is really **** cold..."

A companion next to her looked up at the sky above the town. A translucent energy shield rose from the top of the distant wall, covering all the street houses inside the wall. She shook her head: "It's good, at least The construction team finally completed the town shield two days ago. With this layer of shield, the temperature in the residential area will slowly rise-outside the wall is now really cold, no frost With resistance potions and enough protective items, even extraordinary people like us may not last long."

"Fortunately, the frost resistance potion is distributed for free, and the protective device can be charged directly in the magic net charging station," Laura rubbed his nose, restraining the urge to sneeze, "Although I don't understand how those things work. , But I have to admit that magical technology is really a good thing...If these things are kept in the past, who is willing to use them as daily consumables?"

The comrades were deeply convinced, and at the same time, the most important facility in this city for adventurers finally appeared before their eyes.

Adventurer Management Hall-it is one of the tallest buildings here, and one of the most peculiar ones. Those infinite dragons cut a part of a collapsed Tarrond palace directly The architectural structure of the building was placed in the middle of the camp, and it was slightly repaired and used as a meeting point for adventurers. This made it a huge difference in style from other buildings in the camp, but it also had enough eye-catching benefits.

Taking into account the size of the dragon, the palace they lived in was a big mansion even if they cut a toilet and threw it out in the human world. The size of this hall is natural enough for adventurers.

Standing at the entrance of this "hall", Lola saw this roughly cylindrical building glowing with pale golden brilliance in the sun, and it could be vaguely seen that there were still mottled reliefs on the exterior wall of its original glorious appearance. In contrast to the painted patterns, the arch pillars and decorative multiple eaves above the hall were damaged in many places in the previous disaster. Now they are filled and covered with temporary materials. The mottled appearance has a sense of vicissitudes.

Looking up like this for a while, Laura couldn't help but think of strange thoughts in her heart, and muttered in a low voice: "...Couldn't this really be changed from a toilet in a dragon palace?"

The companion on the side cast a horrified look: "Damn it, Laura, how come you have such weird thoughts?!"

"Ahem, maybe it was influenced by him the last time I chatted with Mr. Modil," Laura immediately coughed awkwardly, rubbed his forehead and muttered, "He said he was a polymath, and then Various things in the camp had a bold association..."

"Modil..." The companion on the side is obviously no stranger to this name-an old gentleman who seems to be the grandfather of almost everyone suddenly appeared in the team of adventurers mainly composed of young and middle-aged. A thing that is noticeable enough, not to mention that this old gentleman is a powerful mage who claims to travel the whole world and has a lot of mysterious knowledge. Frankly speaking, this kind of person should not appear in a crowd of mobs. Among the adventurers, in the old days, he should be confessed by the royal family of a certain country, and passed on from generation to generation in the warehouse with cold frost. If something major happens, he will be consulted. After it's finished, freeze it and keep it carefully...

Obviously, the vulgar and shallow mercenaries and adventurers have overly exaggerated imagination and wrong understanding of concepts such as "Royal Royal Magistrate Advisor", but this exaggerated imagination can at least show that the adventurers in the camp are not in favor of that person. What kind of impression does the old Mr. Dill have? Almost everyone thinks that the old man is in the wrong place, except for the person involved.

"That mage really likes to say some weird things, but I suggest you don't take his description too seriously," the companion considered the language, and carefully looked at the surroundings, before lowering his voice to Lola- This is after all talking about an awesome spellcaster behind the scenes. Even though Modil’s attitude towards the outside world is very gentle and his relationship with everyone is good, it’s time to be nervous, "You know, that The old man..."

While talking, this companion who was also a hunter gestured his head with his hands: "The brain is not very good."

Laura didn't know how to respond, so she laughed awkwardly, then waved her hand, turned and walked towards the management hall.

In order to make the building originally prepared for the dragon adapt to the human body, this "recycled" building has undergone a thorough renovation. Laura and his companions first passed through a gate that was added later. Then he walked through a porch before entering the extremely wide rotunda. Remains in the lobby are huge columns for humans, and the windows for posting tasks, registering remuneration, receiving supplies, and auction transactions are set around these huge columns, with very eye-catching signs hanging on them, even Even adventurers and mercenaries who are not good at obedience can find exactly where to go.

The sunlight shines through the crystal dome at the top of the hall, and spreads across the entire interior space through multiple complex bends on the surface of the cracked polymer shell. Even if there is no light here, there is almost no dark area in the entire hall.

Before walking to the mission release area, Laura subconsciously looked up at the crystalline dome made of unknown material, guessing how much gold it would be worth if it were brought to the human world. At almost the same time, she heard a familiarity. His voice came from the side, apparently speaking to himself: “Have you noticed the complicated optical design contained in this dome? It’s incredible, Laura...just such a detail reminds us of the giant How far has the civilization of the dragon developed... However, it is a pity that almost none of the people who come and go here can perceive the information contained in it... Fortunately there are young people like you who are keen and good at thinking. , You can pay attention to the treasure of knowledge buried in this ruin together with me..."

Lola suddenly shrank her neck. She followed the reputation and saw the familiar figure: wearing a black mage short robe, a black soft hat, white beard and hair, old-fashioned, standing like an old man who had walked the wrong door. In the hall of adventurers that came and went, while sighing about things that other people didn't understand, while controlling the pen and paper floating in the air to write and calculate.

Recalling that before entering the door, she was still talking to her friends about the old gentleman's affairs, Lola suddenly felt a little embarrassed, she smiled unnaturally, and then she reluctantly condensed her real thoughts about the crystals just now. Respond to the other person's topic: "It's true that these things are just like what you said...well, amazing, all amazing."

Modil seemed to perceive the awkwardness and tension in the young girl's attitude. He just smiled, ended the current topic kindly, and looked up at the column where the task release counter was: "Go together?"

Laura was taken aback, her eyes widened in surprise: "You... have finally decided to take up the mission?"

"I can't always follow the construction team to debug those shields and crystal towers-although the work is interesting, I didn't come to this barren land to blow the cold wind just to hide in the camp," Modil He laughed happily, "These days I have collected a lot of information related to the external environment, including not only those told by the dragon family, but also the situation described by the adventurers and mercenaries who returned from the early exploration missions. I feel that I have already Ready to participate in external actions."

"...A cautious attitude and sufficient information are necessary for survival and combat in an unfamiliar environment. You are indeed an experienced adventure...home," Laura nodded with a smile, "Let's go together. "

During the period from morning to noon every day, the column around the mission release area has always been the most lively place in the entire hall. The envoy from Tarrond will announce the recent "promotion" to the surrounding area of ​​Agundor here. At the same time, the panel’s recent exploration and clean-up plan for the wasteland was announced. A large number of tasks were issued to the counter, and the adventurers gathered here used it to plan their own actions for the day or the next few days.

Usually there is no over-compulsive or urgent conscription, because the role of the adventurers from Loren here is more of a help, limited to the true strength of this miscellaneous army, and the tasks assigned to them are usually limited to Clear away scattered monsters around the city or gather resources from the ruins—the real danger zone has its own real Tarrond fighters to deal with, and the adventurers themselves know this very well.

The role of the adventurer here is to free Tarrond’s stretched dragon warriors from the security trivialities to deal with the real threats. This is what everyone knows before they leave Beigang. Things.

"The preliminary exploration and boundary determination of the entire southern region has ended... The main energy of the dragons is still to expand the safe area under the control of Agundor and search for possible survivor camps in the southern area..."

Under the huge column, Laura looked up at the bulletin board illuminated by the sun, and at the same time whispered the content written on it. In addition to Modil, there were many adventurers around who were reading the same. The announcement just posted today-from the text with fresh ink, smart people can roughly summarize the exploration and development direction of the dragons for the next period of time, and make some preparations in advance.

"The second advancing direction is to the west," Modil reads faster than Lola. He has already seen the second half of the public announcement document, and the content on it makes him a little serious. "Clean up the hilly area on the west side. Wandering spirits and elemental creatures, stabilizing the security boundary, and assisting the advance team soldiers to clear the way to the crystalline rock hill... This is a bit interesting, the mission area is the farthest of all areas, and the first level license can participate... Is it because there is a'regular army' of the advance team as the main force throughout the process, so there is no danger?"

Lola heard Modil's grunt, and then turned her gaze to the second half of the announcement. She frowned slightly: "But this is still the most risky area... the road to the crystalline rock hill is still It has not been completely opened up, it is said that there are even active elemental rifts on the road..."

"I'm interested in this," Modilton showed enthusiasm. "There are active elemental rifts, which means there are fresh elemental creatures. I have to find a few ways to inquire about the elemental world... Do you want to stay with me?"

(End of this chapter)