The sun is high

"what?"

The flash of strange shadow startled the young villager Luert, who was originally extremely relaxed. He sat on his bed and stared blankly at the corner of the house.

After hesitating for a full two seconds, he finally reacted and raised his hand towards his bed.

The village he is in is very remote, with dense woods on both the north and south sides. Therefore, it is common for wild animals to run into the village. Luert has long been very familiar with this situation, so he and other people in the village Like villagers, they will prepare some basic self-defense weapons in their rooms.

Soon, he silently pulled out a very old double-barreled crystal gun from the darkness.

The craftsmanship is old, the style is simple and crude, and it is a classic product produced by those black-hearted alchemy workshops.

Luerte is very aware of the true power of this weapon. It is very unstable. Although it can fire low-quality crystal bullets, it is very difficult to hit the target. However, for those beasts who are afraid of loud noises and light, such firearms That's enough.

At this time, Luerte had mostly woken up from the drunkenness in his body. His hands were shaking slightly, but overall he was still calm. The shadow just now looked very long and thin, so Luerter judged that there was a high probability that it was not running from the woods. The wild boar that came out was a lost wild dog or a hungry wild wolf.

He stabilized his breathing and heartbeat, controlled his trembling palms, and finally took out two crystal bullets with some pits on the surface from the small bullet bag hanging on the side of the double-barreled crystal gun. After filling the two bullets into the crystal gun, he stood up from the bed.

Luerte held a gun in one hand to be on guard, and freed up his other hand to touch an old crystal lamp installed on the wall beside the bed.

After a moment, dim light immediately illuminated most of the room, and various shadows intertwined and overlapped in this limited space, dappled like the patterns left behind by sunlight passing through the canopy of a tree.

"Um?"

Lute looked around in confusion.

He didn't see anything noteworthy. The room looked the same as usual. There were no traces of wild wolves, wild dogs, or wild boars. The floor of the room was not clean, but there were no traces of any animals. .

"I probably really drank too much..."

Luerte shook his head in confusion, but out of vigilance, he still searched the other end of the room with his weapon. After confirming that there was indeed no abnormality in the room, he relaxed completely and turned around to check. Lock the door.

At this time, a huge crisp sound suddenly came from the other side of the village.

That was the sound of a crystal cannon.

To be precise, it was the sound made by the crystal muskets of the hunters in the village. The weapons held by these hunters were completely different from the intimidating weapons in his hands. Let alone any kind of wild beasts. Even some dangerous magical creatures may be killed on the spot.

"What, are there wild beasts there?"

Luerte was a little confused. Before he could react, several more gunshots were heard in the distance. It seemed that there was not only one hunter who was alarmed!

However, what followed these consecutive gunshots was an extremely shrill scream, and this scream only lasted for a moment, as if it was extinguished by a candle in the dark night, and was directly drowned in the echo. of gunfire.

"..."

At this moment, the vague intuition hidden in Luert's body made him turn around, and this action allowed him to successfully see an extremely weird and terrifying picture.

He saw that right behind him, in the corner he had checked before, there was a long and strange shadow slowly seeping out from the angle between the wall and the wall.

Almost in the blink of an eye, this shadow successfully broke away from the darkness attached to the wall and took on a real form. Its head was as slender as its body, and it looked like an elongated wolfdog. Like a close relative of the dangerous crocodiles that roam the rivers.

The twisting, slender tentacles stretched out from its slightly open mouth. They were twisting and turning, reminding Luerte directly of those bugs that suck the blood of humans and animals.

What is even more frightening are the blood-red gem-like eyes embedded on both sides of the head. They are so dense and cold that just looking at them is enough to make one's breathing stop and the body become cold. .

"Ah...ah..."

Lute made an unexplained sound from his wide-open mouth, and then he saw the shadow that seemed to be wandering on the boundary between reality and nightmare begin to slowly approach towards him little by little.

Dominated by fear, his fingers pressed hard on the trigger of the double-barreled crystal gun in his hand.

His shooting skills and experience were so bad. With a subconscious click of his finger, he fired two bullets from the crystal gun one after another. The huge sound almost shook Luerte himself. Poor quality firearms paired with poor quality The bullets created a thick cloud of smoke inside the house.

Through the floating smoke, Lute found that the terrifying shadow in front of him seemed to have disappeared.

"Did I break it?"

This thought flashed through the young villager's head, but the next moment, he heard a creepy and harsh friction sound.

That was the sound caused by the sharp claws gently scratching on the wooden wall.

Right next to your own ears.

"No……"

He instinctively wanted to shout, but before he could make a sound, a black shadow exuding a cold aura suddenly popped out from the corner next to him.

The long and narrow head split from the middle, and then Lult once again saw the terrifying mouth full of fangs and tentacles.

Darkness enveloped him, and at the moment he lost consciousness, he heard the sound of his teeth closing and his skull shattering.

…

"Pop!"

Warm applause once again rang out in the grand venue.

It is already late at night, but this meeting has no intention of stopping. In the past few hours, these participants from different countries and with different racial and ethnic identities have discussed several important and basic issues. Very intense discussion.

Although most of these speakers representing different countries, positions and organizations have completely different or even contradictory and conflicting opinions, they have a relatively unified view on a certain matter.

"The black sun in the sky is a hidden danger, as are the Black Sun Society and the Saint Steele Kingdom controlled by the Black Sun Society. All three need to be resolved."

As for how to solve it, who will solve it, and to what extent, this is something worthy of debate and quarrel.

Xiuge was not surprised by this situation.

Consensus can be generated because different races and countries have now seen the dangers that the Black Sun Society and the Black Sun may bring. Among them, those who are adjacent to the Sea Kingdom of St. Steele and the Votel who are close to the rugged hills. Both the Kingdom and the Kingdom of Deland feel this deeply.

But this kind of thing is like people from different regions and different cultural backgrounds discussing the issue of eating. They all know that they need to eat, but they are always prone to quarrels over "what to eat."

Weilin frowned, picked up her water glass, and took two sips.

She had just made a speech on behalf of the Dawn Society and the scholars who had boarded the Windless Cruiser - during the ten-day journey, the Dawn Society had basically reached an agreement with these scholars who had witnessed the dangers of ancient creations. Consensus, everyone agrees that advancing research on those ancient beings is the current top priority.

Only by further understanding the specific nature of these approaching threats and the nature of the power of those so-called ancient gods can we better choose specific response methods.

And this was also the first resolution at this important meeting that received an overwhelming majority of votes and was declared passed.

Led by the Legal Committee, with the Dawn Society, the Council and other societies affiliated to the Mage Tower as the basic support, a new academic committee was formed to concentrate the power of scholars and relevant intelligence and resources as much as possible to deal with these different approaching threats. Conduct comprehensive research.

"I don't even think this kind of thing needs to be discussed in a meeting at all... It's a waste of time, but I really didn't expect that even on such an issue, some people would vote against it."

Weilin put down the water glass. Her voice was a little dry. The long series of speeches made her a little tired. Reading manuscripts was really not something she was good at.

And those inexplicable objection votes made her feel even more angry.

For a few seconds, Weilin even had the urge to use Merlinle, Wall of Flame and Pool of Cold to cover certain corners of the venue.

Hearing Wei Lin's complaint, Xiuge stretched out his hand to hold her half-empty water glass, and then the magic power started to work slightly, and the water that shone with a faint magic light was quickly replenished.

Xiuge's magic water has been optimized countless times before. Now the water he created is not only drinkable without any problems, but can even bring a slight refreshing feeling to people's throats.

After that, he turned his head and gestured to the members of the Dawn Society who were responsible for recording the venue and meeting details. Soon, Richard passed over a paper full of handwriting.

Xiuge picked up the paper and looked at it for a few times, then smiled and said: "Those who have objections should be such a group of people... Well, several research societies and laboratories funded and controlled by the Giant-Eared Goblin Chamber of Commerce, of course , and there are several mage associations with deep sea-level mage towers in their names."

"The Goblin Chamber of Commerce... I can understand why they don't support it."

Weilin took two sips of the magic water in the cup. The magic power contained in the water was very refreshing and soaked her throat, making her feel a lot more comfortable. Then she asked doubtfully: "But those Mage Tower Society, why do they Do you want to object? Goblins pursue interests, so do they pursue it too?"

Xiuge shook his head: "I think this is not a problem caused by interests, but concepts and beliefs... Well, look at these names, don't you look familiar to them?"

Wei Lin curiously stretched her head over and glanced at the paper in Xiuge's hand. Soon, her brows that had finally relaxed were wrinkled again.

She did see several familiar names.

"Mel's Gift Mage Society, Sinar Mage Society..."

After reading these names, Wei Lin couldn't help but let out a long sigh. As a mage who once took "evil magic" as her main subject, she was quite familiar with these names.

Wei Lin whispered: "These societies... especially the 'Gift of Mel' within them, have always opposed the internal research on 'wicked magic' within the Legal Committee. They believe that this has been abandoned by the goddess of magic. There is no need to take risks and pick up the dregs and threats again.”

Having said this, she gritted her teeth: "My teacher and I have met some of these people before. It is no exaggeration to say that their fanaticism in their belief in the goddess of magic is even more than that of those sword-wielding hermits."

"The goblins are easy to deal with. The headquarters of these chambers of commerce are all located in Walter and Delan. In order to further ease conflicts and promote cooperation, they should all take similar actions in this regard."

Xiuge responded in a deep voice: "These societies... they are about to develop into the church of the Goddess of Magic within their own sphere of influence. I'm afraid the Law Committee will have to find a way to deal with it. We cannot let these guys change from one Going from one extreme to another.”

The two discussed a few more words, but suddenly they heard arguments erupting in front of them again.

The person speaking on the podium at this time was a high-status naval official of the Kingdom of Hain, and this official was presenting a proposal on behalf of the Kingdom of Hain - to gather part of the naval forces of various countries to transfer the naval forces of the Kingdom of Hain Several ports and islands are built into interconnected solid defense lines and outposts.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the target of this proposal is the Saint Steele Kingdom. Although on the surface, the sea power of the Hain Kingdom is fully capable of gaining the upper hand in the confrontation with the current Saint Steele people, but the sea power The Kingdom of En said that now it is not just the size of the fleet that needs to be considered.

They believe that the potential terrible risks in the ocean and the unknown methods of the Black Sun Society may overturn the original balance at any time.

This proposal aroused opposition from many plain and coastal principalities.

It's strange that they don't object.

In the previous war, the fleet of the Kingdom of Haine was like a terrifying hammer, and these fleets pieced together by the plain principalities were like pieces of iron that could only be beaten. Although the fleet of the Kingdom of Haine The fleet also suffered considerable losses, but the extremely fast advancing front was enough to explain many, many problems.

Now, let these principalities who have just suffered a big loss and are eager to completely cut off the navy of the Kingdom of Hain vote in favor...

This is simply a daydream!