Chapter 1012 Spinning

Ferdinand left the room, and Rosetta stood there for a while before breaking the silence as if saying to herself, "Everything is exactly as you said."

As soon as his words fell, an invisible wind suddenly blew in the empty study, and there was a murmur from all directions as if several voices were superimposed: "Of course-maybe we have not been so happy with each other these years. , but one thing you must admit, when it comes to the realm of gods, the knowledge I give you has never been deviated... As long as a cooperative relationship is established, I have always been sincere."

Rosetta narrowed his eyes slightly, others might not be able to see anything, but in his line of sight, he had already seen the stars eroding the surrounding walls and ground, and there seemed to be countless sight lines hidden in the purple-black shadows. , the floor-to-ceiling windows beside him are pouring in the twilight-like light, and the glow is projected on the ground, mixed with cloud-like shadows.

In this chaotic superposition of light and shadow, there is an abstract eye wrapped by curved lines slowly opening in front of him, and the empty pupil is staring at this side without the slightest humanity.

If an ordinary person saw this scene, even if it was just a careless glance, he would be instantly driven to madness by this eye and the endless knowledge it contained - but for Rosetta and the members of the Augustus family. Say, this eye is already their "old friend".

"Sincerity..." Rosetta said softly, the corners of her mouth seemed to be slightly upturned, "Actually, you should know very well that I have never really trusted your sincerity... For mortals, trusting 'things' like you is too expensive Too exorbitant."

"...It's true," the eye was silent for a moment, but the tone that always contained a hint of bewitching was restrained, and he agreed quite earnestly, "I must admit that in the past many years, you and I have It's not very pleasant to get along with... I know how much your family has paid to accommodate 'me', but whether you want to believe it or not, this is not my intention."

Rosetta didn't speak, just listened quietly to the "eye" talking to itself there.

"...I have been like this since I was born, and other gods have been like this since their birth. We have never held any malice towards you mortals, but our existence itself is a threat to you - just like Those who come close to the flames will be burnt, but it is not the fault of the flames. If you put aside your prejudice, son of Augustus, you should know that what I say is true.

"So, I don't expect you to 'trust' me so much, because even I don't believe that I can do any harm to you in my subsequent activities... Human beings should not believe in the benevolence of nature, nor should you believe in a The fragments of gods parasitizing your family...

"But under this premise, we still have a common goal...A descendant of Augustus, we have a common goal."

Rosetta Augustus finally broke the silence,

"End this," he whispered.

"Yes, end this, end this tormenting relationship for both of us," the eye said calmly, floating in mid-air, the countless curves that make up its outline and the starlight escaping around it, slowly wriggling , which seemed to carry a gentle tremor, "Relax a little, this curse is finally over... Now it's better to think about a better future. You and your family can finally get rid of the nightmare, and I will also usher in a better future. Freedom - don't be afraid and resist this, I can promise you that I will be on your side and your empire...Aren't you going to lose the patron saint you have always been? Then I will take this place, The power of dreams will be your new backing..."

Rosetta was silent for a few seconds, as if thinking seriously about the feasibility of this matter, before nodding slightly for a long time, "I will seriously consider it when everything settles down."

"Of course, of course, you have to be so cautious, otherwise I won't recognize you so - think carefully, the decision is yours, no matter what answer you give at the time, our cooperation will be effective..."

The voice of that eye gradually faded away, and the light and shadow floating in the room gradually returned to normal. As the starlight and dusk light gradually faded, Rosetta's eyes became a familiar room again.

He calmly stared at the empty mid-air, and he didn't look away for the next ten minutes, as if the eye was still floating there...

...

"The above is the information that General Philip just sent back," Hetty stood in front of Gawain, reporting the situation on the front line with an unusually serious expression, "In this battle, the Earthly Python was completely lost, and the recovered wreckage was basically not repaired. Value, another armored train is heavily damaged, repair work may continue until the spring, and the damage to the dragoons is still being counted - the blizzard has caused a considerable number of people missing, and related search and rescue work has been carried out."

Gao Wen sat behind the desk and listened to Hetty's report without saying a word. This battle report suddenly came from the front line broke the stalemate and balance that had lasted for many days on the front line, and also broke the rhythm of some of Gao Wen's plans. And from the large-scale operation that the Typhons suddenly launched this time, he also smelled something strange.

"That is to say... the Typhons used a large-scale 'miracle'," he said to break the silence after Hetty's report was completed, "Because it was a disturbance at the astronomical level or other reasons, this thing still bypassed our detection technology?"

"Yes, until the extraordinary phenomenon suddenly appeared in the snowstorm, the magic detection devices on the armored trains and dragoons did not respond - then the above detection devices were fully disrupted, and the enemy launched a full-scale attack," He said. Ti nodded with a serious expression, "General Philip analyzed that this aspect should be caused by the special nature of 'miracle'. Miracles in the form of celestial phenomena should have the effect of avoiding detection. On the other hand, it may be that the Typhonians targeted us. The detection technology has carried out some kind of... countermeasures, and considering that their accumulation in the magic field is far more advanced than ours, it is very possible that some kind of countermeasures will appear."

"The existing detection technology still needs to be improved," Gao Wen said in a deep voice, "Send the battlefield data and the wreckage of various equipment carried by the Typhons collected on the spot to Changfeng and Sorin's research institutes. , try to figure out what means the enemy used to create this sudden attack... In addition, how about the damage to the Dragonborn?"

Hetillo recalled, "Two of the dragonborn mercenaries were killed, sixteen were seriously injured, and the rest were slightly injured... The casualties in this regard have been sorted out and sent to the person in charge of the Holy Dragon Principality."

Gawain was stunned for a moment, "...all Longyi injured?"

War will inevitably kill people. Even if the Dragonborn is strong in combat, it is impossible to face the overwhelming Typhon Air Force without casualties. This was considered by Gawain when recruiting the Dragonborn mercenaries, but he did not expect this powerful force. The first time the air force was put into the battlefield, all the personnel would be injured, which made him a little surprised for a while - not even a single one escaped completely? Are the Typhons so powerful?

"According to General Philip, it seems that the fighting style of the Dragonborn is particularly... rough," Hetty obviously guessed that Gawain would have doubts about this, and immediately explained, "Their fighting style is unorganized but fierce and abnormal, completely Regardless of the damage, it is completely different from the state during training. Our army cannot effectively cover, and many Dragonborn choose melee combat due to the damage of the weapon in the final stage of the battle. They grab the enemy's Griffin Knight to hit the mountain... It's impossible not to hurt."

Gawain "..."

Heidi asked cautiously, "Ancestor?"

"I already understand," Gawain sighed softly and waved his hand, "Anyway, the 'Dragonborn' card in our hand should have been exposed to the Typhons, and the Dragonborn troops don't have to hide Tuck after that. With this, the aerial confrontation between us and Typhon may continue to escalate, and the Dragonborn and Dragoons will become important weights on the battlefield."

After that, Gawain was silent for a while, and then asked, "Let's talk about the other side-how is the assessment of Typhon's damage?"

"There is no very accurate assessment conclusion yet - the main reason is that the enemy had a very strange continuous 'resurrection' phenomenon in that blizzard, and the extremely bad weather conditions seriously affected the judgment of the downing situation, but one thing can be Certainly—the Typhons definitely outnumbered us in terms of casualties," Hetty said immediately, "according to the reports of post-war aerial observers, the valleys of the entire mountain line were filled with searing wreckage and dead bodies of men and griffins. The enemy dispatched at least 2,000 to 3,000 gryphon knights to deal with our air force, and after the dragonborn entered the field, these gryphon knights were completely wiped out..."

Speaking of which, Hetty couldn't help shaking his head and sighed, "Unfortunately, we have also suffered the biggest loss since the start of the war... The Earthly Python is the armored train with the strongest offensive capability at present. After it was destroyed, it was left behind. The vacancy is not so easy to fill. Zero will stay around the Winter Wolf fortress to perform defensive tasks, and there are still some problems with the weapon system of the War Citizen, which cannot be used for frontal attacks for the time being..."

"It's just a temporary loss. Maryland has preserved all the experienced technicians and officers and soldiers. As long as the next train leaves the production line, the combat power of the Earthly Python will be restored immediately - what the Typhonians have lost is more than ten years. They are not necessarily elites who can be trained." Gawain was very open, but he was a little helpless, "The only headache is that most people in Typhon can afford to die..."

As he spoke, he leaned back on the back of the seat with a thoughtful look on his face.

A "miracle" at the astronomical level... This is really something he has never considered before, or in other words, he has considered that the Typhons will use some kind of large-scale strategic magic power to affect the war situation, but he never thought that this would be the case. kind of "miracle". According to the information from the front line, this miracle obviously has traces of the power of the gods, which gives him the feeling that it is... faint.

"Ancestor?" Heidi noticed that Gawain's face was gradually becoming serious, and couldn't help but ask, "What did you think of?"

"Have the Typhonians ever used God of War magic on such a large scale since the start of the war?" Gawain asked.

"Large-scale use of God of War magic..." Hetty immediately began to recall, and shook his head after a few seconds, "No. There have only been figures of God of War priests on small-scale battlefields, and most of them were on suicide missions. The small-scale 'expendables'... This is the first time for such a large-scale magical miracle, which may require the participation of hundreds or even more high-level priests."

"Yes, it may require the participation of hundreds of high-level priests, and it must be a very formal and very grand sacred ceremony," Gawain said slowly, with a solemn expression on his face, "Hetty, this is not right."

"Something's wrong?" Heidi was stunned for a moment, but reacted in the next second, "You mean...to use the power of the God of War without any scruples..."

"Yes, no scruples," Gawain nodded, "We all know the truth of this war, and Rosetta also knows - if it is a normal war, then it is normal to use the power of the God of War on the battlefield. behavior, but now this is a divine disaster, and the use of divine power on such a large scale becomes a very dangerous behavior. Since the beginning of the war, the Typhons have been consciously avoiding this, they have tainted those who have been contaminated The fanatical priests are divided into small groups, so that they do not have the opportunity to use large-scale magic, and let them continue to reduce their personnel in the war of attrition... This is all to prevent those priests from introducing the power of the god of war into the world too much, but here In this operation...they did a 'miracle' on such a scale..."

"Could this be the unauthorized action of the frontline commander?" Heidi said subconsciously, but soon she shook her head herself, "No, it's unlikely..."

"Of course it's impossible, if the Typhonian front-line commanders were so stupid, if the front-line army was so out of control, then Rosetta Augustus would have been ousted at the very beginning of the war. Now," Gawain shook his head, "This kind of action must have been approved by Rosetta, or even...it was his order."

Heidi opened her eyes slightly, she couldn't understand what the Typhon ruler was planning for a while. "Why did he do this?"

Gawain didn't answer for a while, he just stared at the map in front of him, and his mind was spinning quickly - from the recent changes in the areas controlled by both sides on the front line, to the troops invested by both sides so far, to the military trends of Typhon, The information that Solderin and the Iron Rangers he led returned from the enemy's control area... All kinds of clues gathered in his mind, as if they turned into invisible lines, and finally, he vaguely realized that he had noticed the key. !

This terrifying discovery even made him break out in a cold sweat!

"Ancestor?" Heidi suddenly showed a hint of concern, "What happened to you?"

"I can probably guess what Rosetta wants to do," Gawain couldn't help standing up from behind the desk, "...this is really..."

Heidi cast a startled and confused look, "What does Rosetta want to do? What do you mean?"

"This war has an ultimate goal, not to maintain the status quo, nor simply to eliminate a runaway church, all of us have considered only the mildest options, but Rosetta...he wants to do something more thorough. things," Gawain said, taking a deep breath, "He wants to pull the God of War into this world."

"Drag the God of War into this world?!" Heidi was startled, "He's crazy?! Did he plan to let an out-of-control god destroy everything?!"

"No..." Gawain shook his head slowly, "From what I understand, he may have planned to... kill him."