Sword of Daybreaker

Fendi only glanced at the mission summary, and quickly returned his attention to the road in front of him. The wind and snow at this moment seemed to be a bit smaller than before, but the weather was still bad, and the temporarily built hardened road was full of wind. The snow stretches towards the dim distance, and at the end of the road, you can already see something vaguely standing on top of a small hill. There is artificial light in that direction, which should be the end of the trip.

The voice of a communications technician was coming from the rear at this moment: "Sir, who do you say would set up a frontline laboratory in such a place? This is almost next to the line of fire between us and the distortion body..."

"That's why it is called the front-line laboratory," Fendier said without looking back. "I heard that the laboratory is used to study the waste soil environment and the characteristics of the aberrations. Of course, it will be set up closest to it. The place inside the wasteland."

"...Anyway, the person in charge of this kind of laboratory must be a brave scholar. How can ordinary people dare to stay in this kind of place," the soldier said with a sigh. "The above also reminds us to maintain sufficient respect and calm...respect me. Understandably, this kind of scholar must be respected, but why do you have to say an extra calm?"

Fendier himself was actually quite curious about this. He couldn't help but think about it when he heard what he was doing. He curled his mouth: "Who knows, this mission is mysterious...maybe it's because of the laboratory. The image of the person in charge is a bit strange? After all, you see that we already have a great craftsman like an iron ball and a great magician in the form of an arcane spirit..."

"Weird image? Will it be ugly?"

"You ask me who I want to go, anyway, there should be some peculiar looks." Fendier said casually, and did not continue to continue this kind of nutritious dialogue with his men, but continued to pay attention to the road with vigilant attention. Happening.

This place is already inside the Gondor Wasteland. Before the big hole in the magnificent wall appeared, there was only a piece of rotten and dilapidated wasteland and boundless haze, but as the energy barrier disappeared, the environment in this area also changed. Then it changed. The airflow from the outside made it rainy and snowy, and due to the drastic changes in the flow of magic, the weather here was even more unpredictable and inclined to extremes than other places.

The empire has successfully established several propulsion bases and purification devices in this area. In a sense, this original waste land belt can now be regarded as a new frontier of the civilized world, but it is not safe here: in the south The assembled army of deformed bodies is still maintaining an offensive on the northern battlefield, and there are often small groups of deformed bodies passing through the battlefield blockade. In this area, they are often quickly wiped out, but before that, they are also threatening on the ground. The engineers walking between the frontline camps.

Fendier thought of the "frontline laboratory" that was a facility that had just appeared recently. Its construction speed was amazing, and its location was strange. He did not fail to understand that the empire needed a wasteland research facility. "Outposts", but shouldn't an outpost like this be properly protected? At least it has to be built in the propulsion base to be considered safe. However, judging from the map sent by the superior, the laboratory is completely far away from all propulsion bases and forward military stations. It is extremely radically located on the "line of fire" and its location is not Under any protection, Fendi did not want to question the judgment of his superiors, but he really didn't understand it.

At this moment, the environment outside the car window suddenly changed, and Fendier's thoughts were interrupted. He found that he suddenly passed through an invisible "boundary", and the wind and snow outside the window suddenly appeared in front of this boundary. However, a large-scale "calm space" was formed, and a small mountain was located in the center of this area far away from the disturbance of wind and snow. The whole mountain was shrouded by a gleaming "curtain". Unclear mysterious runes flowed like rain on the surface of the curtain, and inside the curtain was the end of his trip:

It was a... mansion, a medieval-style mansion that was indistinguishable from the "research facility" in any way. It made Fendier unable to help but think of the classical courtyard favored by northern scholars, with a solemn tone. The gray exterior wall and the dark blue roof are dotted with clinging vines and narrow flower beds. If it weren’t for the flag of the Cecil Empire, the Empire’s Magic Technology Department hung in front of it. Fendier would even wonder if he had found the wrong place. The style of this laboratory is not at the same level as the many imperial facilities he is familiar with.

But soon he put this doubt aside. After all, there are many strange characters in the upper empire, and styles have always changed. Compared with the tree on the Plain of the Holy Spirit and the priests of the Holy Light Church , A laboratory that looks more like a private mansion is still in the range that ordinary humans can understand. He has only one thing that he can’t understand. How did the people who built this laboratory build such a mansion in such a short time? of? This thing doesn’t look like it’s built with prefabricated parts...

The chaotic thoughts flashed in his mind, but Fendier did not delay the things in his hands. He drove the car up the ramp leading to the mansion and passed through the "veil with countless runes flowing." "The moment the vehicle passed through the curtain, he felt something swept over his body. This might be some kind of defense or identification system. Afterwards, he parked the car in the open space in front of the "laboratory", and brought two soldiers with surprised and curious faces to the dark gate.

He took a breath, feeling a little nervous for some reason, and then put his hand on the door, but before he was about to pull the rope marked "visitor bell", a female voice that sounded gentle and nice From inside it came out: "Come in directly, I have seen that your door is unlocked."

Fendier and the soldiers looked at each other, and then with a light push, the door that looked unusually heavy opened silently.

The next second a bright hall appeared in his eyes, he felt dizzy due to the strange structure in the hall.

He saw an open space covered with a dark red carpet. There were countless dazzling experimental devices and alchemy vessels arranged nearby and running on their own. The arcane servants resembling spiritual bodies were on platforms or shelves. Shuttle back and forth, copy data or control various magical organs;

At the end of the hall, he saw a tall, spiraling upward staircase leading to a platform in the air. Above the platform, there was no roof at all, but a deep space that seemed to extend upwards infinitely. Disorderly stacking stairs, stacking platforms, countless gates, and corridors and bridges spanning across the sky make people dizzy;

At the highest point of the deep space, Fendier vaguely saw some floating, chaotic and dark outlines. He didn't know what those were, but he had a feeling... He felt that the end of there seemed to have been separated. This physical space-time is even connected to a more distant and mysterious place...

The scale and structure of this building are completely inconsistent with the structure of the mansion that looks outside!

Fendier took a sharp breath and broke free from the dizziness. He looked at the two technical soldiers he had brought, but saw the same shock and confusion as his own in their eyes, but soon, for a while. The regular footsteps sounded from not far away. There seemed to be some magic in the footsteps, which made Fendier's pounding heart calm down instantly, and he heard the nice female voice coming from behind: "You are here to help connect to the Internet, right? Great, I've been waiting for a long time... Ah sorry this place is still a bit messy now..."

Fendier turned his head to follow the voice, the expression on his face that finally eased suddenly became a bit stiff: a tall figure appeared in front of him, making him subconsciously look up and look up, and finally see the lady's face clearly. .

A beautiful lady with a mysterious temperament, wearing a complicated black palace dress, wearing silk gloves and delicate purple hair accessories, is at least two meters tall.

"You should be Fendier? I have read the information," the lady over two meters said. The voice from above made Fendier subconsciously think of how she felt when she was a child when she heard her aunt and mother talk. It’s the person in charge of this experimental facility. You can call me Ms. Mina or Ms. Mina. I prefer the second one. Would you like some hot tea? The snowy weather outside is really terrible. Warm up."

As they spoke, two arcane servants floated over, holding hot tea and snacks in their hands, and a small round table and a few chairs floated from not far away, falling in front of Fendier and the others.

"Sorry, I have just settled here, and many of the furnishings have not had time to be displayed," said the tall woman who claimed to be "Miss Mina". "Let's take a break with some tea."

Fendi originally wanted to say that the task is the priority, but at this time he sat down in a daze. When he reacted, he was already holding a tea cup in his hand. Then he glanced at the unusually tall lady in front of him. When the incredible "laboratory" saw this tall lady, he finally understood what it meant to "keep calm" specifically reminded in the task summary.

But it was obviously not a gentleman’s act to talk about a lady’s appearance at the first meeting. Although Fendier’s personality was a bit careless, he knew this at this time, so he quickly retracted his gaze and found normal after looking around. A little topic: "Ms. Mina... you are the only one here?"

He hesitated for a moment, but chose to call the woman in front of him as "lady". After all...Even if he doesn't consider that the other party is a respectable scholar, he really can't ignore the oppressive feeling brought by the opponent's height of more than two meters. It should be more appropriate to use a more formal title of respect.

"Ms. Mina" didn't seem to care about the other person's name, she just smiled and said casually: "Yes, there is only me and the assistants I have summoned here. I am more used to working alone."

This "frontline laboratory" is really only this lady alone? !

Although Fendi had already guessed, he couldn't help but open his eyes wide in surprise at this time, but then he forcibly controlled his overly surprised reaction. He thought that the lady in front of him was probably a powerful legendary powerhouse. This can be seen from her ability to construct such an incredible magic laboratory, and most of these legendary transcendents are a bit weird. Some of them like to hide in the danger of no one, and some like to use magic. Create a highly intelligent partner to accompany yourself, some like to freeze their nephews and throw them down from the castle... In contrast, it is not even "weird" to like to work alone.

But he still couldn't help asking one more sentence: "Isn't this dangerous? You set up the laboratory in this kind of place..."

"Fortunately, I'm pretty good at fighting," Ms. Mina laughed, shaking her fist lightly as if to show her strength, "And if I am alone, it would be more convenient to evacuate in an emergency. ."

"Um... well," Fendier said, nodding, and then bite the bullet and drank the tea under the gaze of the tall lady, stood up, "Thank you for your hospitality, let's do business first. You want to Where is the Mowang terminal set up?"

"I will show you..."

Fendier and the two subordinates he brought began to get busy. According to the instructions of "Ms. Mina", they wanted to install a military-grade magic net terminal next to the magic focus in the center of this hall, and they started After working, Milmina left the hall. She stepped on a sloping upward staircase at the end of the hall, passed through a corridor that looked almost at a 90° angle, and came to a special room that looked over from the direction of the hall. You can't see the entrance room at all.

The room is semicircular in shape, but there is no normal window on the curved side. Instead, it is inlaid with a series of huge irregular crystals. Those crystals are filled with dim dim light, which seems to have light and shadow, but Each one can't see the specific content clearly.

Milmina walked toward one of the huge crystals, and the hazy floating light in that crystal became clear in an instant. The illusion formed by clouds and wind dissipated in the crystal, and what appeared inside was a wasteland. Landscape somewhere inside.

"Start recording the observation log."

Milmina spoke casually to the air next to her, and an arcane servant holding a record board immediately appeared in the air.

"Chaos, seemingly endless chaos... But in fact this should be a regular'tremor'..." Milmina said softly as if talking to herself, her fingers gently brushing the crystal surface , So the wasteland landscape presented in the crystal also began to change. A layer of translucent "filter" formed by countless colorful colors covered the picture, and those color blocks were floating in the air, constantly drawing out the magical power. The flow direction and their conversion process, and among the floating light and shadow, you can see many large or small "vortexes" appearing and dissipating.

It was like an ocean of chaos that ordinary people could not perceive, floating on the old land of Gondor.

"If the essence of the Gondor Wasteland is really a chaotic, complete and unified'field', then any details observed in this field should help describe the mathematical model of the overall field. …

"Frontline laboratory, first observation record, window No. 1, time..."

Accompanied by Milmina's soft words, the arcane servant quickly wrote words and symbols on the record board.

For seven centuries, the truth buried in this mysterious wasteland has finally begun to be revealed little by little before reason and logic.