Sword of Daybreaker

After finishing the MIB meeting, Amber went straight to Gao Wen's study.

Gao Wen was sitting behind his desk at this time, carefully looking at an old book that had been repaired and reinforced. His eyes slowly moved on the mottled pages and the letters repainted by the book repairer. The smell of the alchemy potion, which has not completely dissipated, slowly drifted into his nostrils. The content of this ancient travel note made him think from time to time. Then, a sudden sound from the air interrupted his movements— —

"Hey! I heard you looking for me just after the meeting!" Amber's figure emerged from the air, with a force of eternal enthusiasm, "Is there any need to process money again?"

Gao Wen raised his head from the ancient book, glanced at the amber standing in front of him, a smile appeared on his face, and pointed to the chair beside the desk: "Sit down, I have something to show you."

In the first time, Amber noticed something unusual from behind Gao Wen's smile and tone. The seemingly sharp "half elf" shook his ears immediately and frowned suspiciously: "You This is ... what are you going to show me? "

Gao Wen stood up from behind his desk, exhaled for a long time, and gently pushed the ancient book forward: "Give you-rest assured, repaired, it will not be so easily damaged."

"A book?" Amber froze for a moment when she saw that it was just a book, and subconsciously took it over, but soon her less caring expression gradually froze, and she vaguely noticed it. What, with complex and unbelievable eyes in her eyes, she slowly raised her head and looked at Gao Wen, "... is that book?"

"The exact evidence has been found," Gao Wen nodded gently. "An unknown shadow thief tried to steal it from a church-so this book was sent to the library of St. Luan's Cathedral. Save. We compared all the information we can find, and finally confirmed that it is what your adoptive father wanted to steal. "

"That's it ... just for it ..." The ever-excited expression on Amber's face gradually faded away. She grabbed the mottled cover of the ancient book with some force, but soon let go of her hand as if fearing damage. She stared at the repaired letters on the cover, her fingers slowly stroking on it, her eyes changed several times, but in the end she neither cried nor laughed.

For a long time, she looked up at Gao Wen: "I saw you were reading it just now ... What's so special about this book?"

"Strictly speaking, it is composed of several books-several fragments and broken chapters, and a crappy editor forcibly blends them together, and accounts for the" parts "that make up the book. The largest proportion, and the one I think is most likely to interest your adoptive father, is a travelogue. "

Amber's eyes widened: "Travel?"

"Modil's Travels," Gao Wen nodded. "The author is the Duke of the North, six hundred years ago, Modil Wilde."

As the person in charge of intelligence, Amber is no stranger to the name and the relevant information behind the name. She was surprised: "... You mean, the note lost by the Wild family ?! The one Victoria also mentioned to you? "

Gao Wen nodded and pointed his chin at the ancient book in Amber's hand: "Now it's in your hand."

"But ... why did my adoptive father ..." Amber glanced down at the "journey" in his hand with incomprehensible eyes, "Is it worth his risk?"

"I was also trying to find the reason just now, and I found the reason from the content of that travel note, but I haven't found it yet," Gao Wen said. "I only have a little bit left, maybe we can find it together. If your foster father was It was after hearing some of the contents of this travelogue that we decided to take the risk and if his information was correct, then we would definitely see it. "

Amber immediately nodded and came to Gao Wen to open the book-after glancing at the contents, she scratched her hair a little embarrassedly: "Ah ... it seems that I still want you to find ..."

She saw that the text of the Travels consisted of a large number of dizzying and difficult to recognize words and phrases: it was the human common language six hundred years ago, which is closer to the ancient Gondor Empire text, although the modern human common The language comes from its changes, but after hundreds of years of changes, the grammar of these words from the spelling form to the entire sentence has been very different from the contemporary.

Amber can only vaguely recognize some of the short sentences inside, but it is probably as difficult as understanding an ancient Gondor book to understand it completely.

She suddenly understood why a "crappy editor" would put together such a book and several other irrelevant miscellaneous books. Obviously, there are only dedicated senior scholars who have studied the text and mastered a lot of knowledge. The priests can only understand this thing-of course, an old dumpling who was resurrected from the Gondor era is also enough.

Gao Wen naturally knew this, so he did not shy away. After moving the book a little to his side, he began to recognize the words above with Amber.

This ancient travelogue contains staggeringly rich content, and its author, the Duke of the North Realm 600 years ago, is obviously very different from the contemporary nobles. Modil Wilde lived in a time closer to the early pioneers. He was even deeply influenced by the earliest Wilde Grand Duke. This led him to be more adventurous and creative in death than his descendants. Sex.

His footprints are in every corner that humans can explore at that time (even including areas that no humans have stepped on except him), especially after completing the transfer and arrangement of the power and responsibility of the Duke, his adventure It is even more surprising, from the border of Gondor wasteland to the violet country that was still mysterious to humans at that time, from the frozen mountains of the Principality of the Holy Dragon to the depths of the desert in eastern Tifeng, and even some of them are occupied by elemental creatures. The different space of the world, never knows where the space debris floating in the corner of the universe ... He has set foot in it.

Every time he explores a new place, he will entrust his organized notes to a loyal servant of his own (the loyal servant will wait for the owner to return in a safe place), and write new ones in the subsequent exploration journey After returning safely, he will organize these new notes, integrate them with the previous notes, and take them to the next adventure.

This behavior seemed rather incomprehensible to Amber, who was born hundreds of years ago. After reading several thrilling expeditions in a row, she couldn't help but frown and asked: "A big noble like him ... why is that? Enthusiastic about taking risks? Many of these "adventures" are clearly beyond the level of leisure and ease. It's just like looking for death ... "

"... He is a generation close to the Blazers. At that time, the descendants of the Blazers were also deeply influenced by their parents and grandparents," Gao Wen shook his head. "Many people believe that humanity will one day return to Gondor In the heyday of the era, and for that day to come, they had to walk through every inch of the continent's land to find a safe boundary for the human civilization at that time. I have not seen the generation of Modil, But I can imagine what their heirs look like according to my generation, and I can be sure that Modil Wilde was not the only adventurer at the time-only the big nobles and superpowers like him Ability to circulate your notes so far. "

Amber blinked inexplicably, no longer having problems, and turned his attention back to the second half of Modier ’s notes, while next to her, Gao Wen ’s eyes swept over some of the old paper pages. The words suddenly slowed down.

Amber immediately noticed this: "What did you see?"

"... I suspect that I found something that aroused your adoptive father's interest ..." Gao Wen said while flipping through the following pages quickly, glanced at the content inside, and after a few changes in his eyes, he slowly wrinkled Frowned.

"Then you read it to me," Amber looked at Gao Wen and didn't say anything. She was a little anxious. "Hey, I must know that most of this content has something to do with my life. I'm all mentally prepared. You tell me. what……"

"In his later years, Modil Wilde had explored the shadow world and successfully established communication with the residents in the shadow world ..." After a moment of thought, Gao Wen nodded and reached out to point to the words in the travel notes-

The following is an autograph left by Modil Wilder:

"X month x day ... After several unsuccessful attempts, I finally found a weak point in the real world, a natural shadow fissure. This fissure can be expanded and stabilized by rituals, so that a human can Step into it completely and stay for a long time, instead of briefly traveling through the shadow boundary like other shadow professions. I ’m not sure if the ancient Gondor mages used this method to open the door of the shadow. , But this is the best way I can find ...

"X month x day, with perfect preparation, the rift opened, as stable as I thought, but the scale was slightly smaller than expected, but it was still sufficient. I decided to pass through this door at the moment of the strongest shadow power tonight ,Wish me luck……

"... Across the door is a world that is more barren and weirder than I expected ... There is no color, the lifeless black, white and gray colors construct everything in this world ... Things in the real world are projected into this space in a weird state , The town where I lived temporarily appears as a large stack of twisted building fragments, and the mountain in the distance seems to turn into a squirming black mist ...

"This world is obviously not suitable for the survival of ordinary people, and I do n’t see any value in the exploitation of resources, but I still decided to go deeper. The good news is that the magic here is still the same as the outside world except for the imbalance of elements. More than 80% of the strength can be exerted here ...

"X month x day ... I met those creatures! They look very similar to humans, wearing weird clothes like rune cloth, like the smoke of a restrained adult ... they float from afar, I think I did not disturb them. I can be sure that they are the legendary shadow dwellers, the intelligent inhabitants living in the shadow world. It is said that only a few masters who specialize in the way of shadow have witnessed these mysterious creatures by extreme chance. , But even those masters have not succeeded in establishing communication with the Shadow Residents ...

"Me, Modil Wilde, the most powerful human caster in this country-although not a shadow mage-intends to challenge, I will try to establish communication with these mysterious creatures, they may be able to tell me this weird What secrets are there in the bizarre world ...

"X month x day, never played.

"X month x day, never played.

"X month x day, prepared well, even returned to the real world to perform some special rituals, I believe I have accumulated enough experience, including how to deal with their invisible bodies and their increasing number, I do not There are weaknesses.

"X month x day, never played.

"Modil, Modil! Look at your shameful record! But you are the most powerful human spellcaster in the country! How can you run after the deserted one by one group of weird enemies who can only whisper?

"X month x day, never played.

"I think it should be outsmarted.

"I'm not young anymore. I want to rely on strategy like an old mage who fits my age ... If the method is proper, those shadow residents may also be reasonable.

"I want to keep all my previous failures intact. I might be able to give some warning to future adventurers. Of course, this may damage my image, but as an adventurer, it is a duty to try the road. The embarrassing experience is also a valuable experience, and I cannot conceal my failure.

"Thinking about the good news, I am already old, so I can publish these records in a hurry, leave a last word, and let my children and grandchildren publish it, so that I can't hear those ridicules ... maybe even Someone was impressed by my sense of humor ... "

Gao Wen had just glanced at it just now, so his expression could still be stretched at this time, but the amber next to him could not help pulling up the corner of his mouth. After a while, he couldn't help saying: "This man has a big brain ..."

Gao Wen: "He is one of Victoria's ancestors ..."

Amber: "That's what Dazhi Ruoyu said ..."

"It's just a special character," Gao Wen said solemnly and indifferently, pointing to the following words, "Let's go, he began to try to approach those shadow residents in a special way."

Amber quickly shut up and put her head away—although she did n’t understand it, she followed Gavin ’s fingers and looked down:

"... The shadow dwellers seem to extremely reject foreign uninvited guests. They treat me as an intruder in the real world before they refuse to communicate again and again. What if I make myself look like a creature living in the shadow world?

"This idea is bold and feasible. I know some special rituals and magic potions-large doses of shadow potions may not be so friendly to the stomach and intestines, but may make those shadow dwellers friendly to me, and even a little gastrointestinal discomfort. Important ...

"X month x day ... I completed the ritual according to the above ideas, transformed myself into a form similar to a shadow creature, and took a sufficient amount of shadow potions. I found an old friend who knew the magic of the shadow system, he said I'm 'just looking like a shadow' now, so I'm sure it's foolproof.

"I decided to try to contact the shadow dwellers tonight-then the shadow power in me will also reach its peak, and my disguise must be flawless.

"X month x day, never played.

"After coming back, I experienced severe diarrhea.

"... (Gu Gangduo's rough mouth) (Ansu's rough mouth) (Northern rough mouth) (unspeakable rude words)"