Chapter 1016 Nearby God

Outside the arched windows inlaid with crystal glass drifted snow particles raised by the wind, and the ice crystals beat on the windows to make a crunching sound. The thick walls and magical circulation blocked the cold air outside the castle and kept the room warm. .

The dazzling fireplace was burning not far away, and the brilliance of the flame was projected on several brass ornaments, reflecting a dim and shaky light and shadow. The cold winter doesn't seem so cold anymore.

"Let's talk about the situation over Winterhold," Gawain walked into the house, unbuttoning his cloak and hanging it on the hook beside him, "How many of us are there now?"

"The main team of the Iron Rangers has withdrawn to our control area, and there are currently three reconnaissance teams and two mobile teams carrying out missions in the area from Winterhold to Frostwood," Soldrin nodded and said, "In addition, due to several major The situation in the town has changed, the contamination of the gods is spreading beyond the army, the officers of the Military Intelligence Bureau lurking in the urban area have been withdrawn from the danger zone in batches, and only a few well-protected liaison stations are still operating at a low level.”

"Well..." Gao Wen nodded slightly, "It is good to evacuate in advance, the situation is about to change a lot, the stalemate stage is about to end, and the next moment is to see the outcome."

"I was a little surprised when I first received the evacuation order - the situation changed faster than I thought," Solderling said, "It seems that the God of War is deteriorating quickly, and Aldenan can't wait any longer. That's in line with some of the phenomena I observed before my evacuation."

"Some phenomenon?" Gawain immediately became serious, "What phenomenon?"

Soldrin organized the language a little, and began to report the situation he had detected during his activities in the Winterhold area: "As of the time of my evacuation, very obvious divine disasters have begun to appear on the land of the Typhons, and ordinary people have begun to hear them. And seeing some 'information' related to the gods, abnormal noises began to be heard frequently in the blocked Chapel of the God of War. In addition, some people witnessed a huge phantom appearing in the sky in the direction of Winterhold. Some clearer sighting reports The phantom is described as an iron-grey giant in heavy armor."

"...The classic image of the God of War in most religious books," Gao Wen said in a deep voice, "A giant in armor, marching in storms and clouds, overlooking the earth..."

Then he asked, "Did these phenomena appear after that air battle?"

Soldering thought for a moment, "If you're talking about the usual auditory and visual hallucinations, it happened occasionally before the aerial combat, and the locals thought it was a magical phenomenon after a large number of war mages gathered together, if you say It's about the giant...that really came after the air battle a few days ago."

Gawain let out a slight sigh, and the information brought by Soldrin further confirmed his conjecture about "God of War is coming".

As soon as this thought popped into his mind, Solderin, who was standing opposite, suddenly said again, "If I'm not wrong in my analysis... These phenomena all indicate that the God of War's activities are getting stronger, and that he is very close to us. World, given that you are even here in person now... Is it possible that the God of War will come?"

Gawain's eyes widened in surprise. He glanced up and down at Soldering, and before he could speak, the latter showed a smile, "I'm not an expert in the field of theology, and I don't have the ability to deduce the big picture like you. , but I have accumulated some miscellaneous knowledge in the past few hundred years, and the phenomenon observed in the recent activities in the Winterhold area is enough to remind me of something... I just didn't expect it, the situation will really become like this. ."

"Rosetta seems to want to do something big," Gao Wen took a long breath. "Even I have to admit that he's a pretty scary guy... but also a very judgmental and actionable person."

"In my opinion, you are all kind of 'terrible' people," Soldlin laughed, with emotion in his tone, "I sometimes can't help but think of the time I met you more than seven hundred years ago. Back then...you were a much more aggressive person and feared on the battlefield, but in my opinion, you were a lot more reassuring then than you are today."

"After all, I only had to be responsible for one army at that time, and the burden of the country rested on Charlie." Gawain said casually, and as soon as he finished speaking, a familiar mental wave suddenly appeared in the depths of his consciousness, interrupting him. What he's going to say next.

He waved his hand to Soldering in front of him, motioning for him to wait for a while, then quickly concentrated his mind and immersed his consciousness into the neural network—after a while, he ended the burst communication, and Soldering opposite him Delin asked, "What happened?"

"The news just came on the 25th," Gawain said with a solemn expression, "Rosetta Augustus left Aldenand yesterday, and Duke Ferdinand left with him."

Hearing this information, Soldrin's expression instantly became serious. At this special moment, under this change of situation, Rosetta Augustus himself suddenly left his imperial capital. The information revealed by this incident I'm afraid there is only one...

"It looks like it's about to start." After a few seconds of silence, Gao Wencai said slowly in a low tone.

...

The dizziness of the mental connection quickly faded, and Daniel, who was sitting in the chair, opened his eyes.

The fireplace on the side is burning, and the warm flames jump happily in the hearth. The magic spar lamp illuminates the spacious living room. Two magic brooms are automatically sweeping the dust at the corner of the stairs. The old mage is sitting near the fireplace. On the easy chair, with a warm blanket covering his lower body, an open magic book on his lap, the rune pages in the book flowing with a moist sheen, it all made him look as if he had only done it once. Small naps.

The young female mage sitting on a chair reading a book noticed the slight movement of her tutor, and immediately raised her head with concern on her face, "Is the news sent out?"

"Well," Daniel nodded simply, "No abnormality, right?"

"No, the sensor runes set up all over the house didn't respond," Mary said immediately, "No one is spying on this side."

"That's good," Daniel nodded, "Now the situation in Aldenan is very stable on the surface, and the obsidian army and royal spies in the dark are almost breaking their nerves, so even a few minutes of contact must be extra careful... ...you're not using neural networks these days, are you?"

"No!" Mary shook her head immediately, "I've been very careful."

Daniel made a light "um", and then his eyes fell on Mary, and he didn't move for a long time. The black-haired female mage finally twisted her neck awkwardly under this gaze, and asked with a trace of tension. "Teacher...Is there anything I haven't done well?"

There was no fear in her tone, it was just that some apprentices were nervous when facing their mentors.

"If you want to go back to the countryside, I can arrange it for you," Daniel said with no expression on his face, "With your current ability and qualifications, I can make you the manager of a regional mage society, even if you You can live a good life locally and be respected by a lot of people without wanting to be in a position.”

"Why did you say that all of a sudden?" Mary's eyes widened. "It's because I messed up in the lab recently..."

"I just recently discovered that the things I'm doing are becoming more and more dangerous, and your brain may not be able to handle this work at all," Daniel said lightly, "I have to be distracted and tell you what to do when you encounter a situation. what."

Mary was stunned for a few seconds, and it seemed that it took this time to understand the real intentions in the teacher's words, and after figuring out these intentions, she mustered enough courage-she finally sorted her thoughts and broke the silence with the courage. "Teacher, I can take care of myself, and I don't want to go back to the country...I think I'm fine here..."

Her tone finally weakened, and the courage she mustered up in a few seconds was only enough for her to say these dozens of words in front of her majestic mentor, but Daniel showed a somewhat surprised expression because of this, he looked up and down For a moment, I was an apprentice who had not been very promising for a long time, and I remembered what happened when I found the other's parents from the countryside a year ago.

After a while, he retracted his gaze and snorted coldly, "Then do as you wish, such an opportunity will never come again in the future."

...

The magic energy train glides smoothly and quickly on the track, and the scenery outside the window recedes rapidly - in the snowy landscape, there are fields buried by snow after harvesting and peaceful villages.

"We are still a while away from reaching the eastern checkpoint of Winterhold, Your Majesty," Ferdinand looked at Emperor Typhon, who was sitting in the seat opposite him, "Do you need to take a break?"

"No need," Rosetta said casually, while glancing at the scenery outside the car window, "...the magic train is indeed a good thing, and so are the magic machines."

"That's true," said Pedinand, "so we have to figure out a way to make them ourselves, no matter how much it costs."

Rosetta let out an "um", his eyes seemed to be attracted by the fields outside the car window, and he looked at it for a long time before breaking the silence again, "Sir Pedinan, do you remember our last hunt in 716?"

Ferdinand recalled, "You mean that winter hunt? Of course I remember, it was very impressive... It was the year before your coronation, and that winter was also very cold, and we caught several in the hunting ground north of Tarenkins. Deer...that was also the last royal winter hunt, the second year after that, you were crowned and temporarily canceled that year's winter hunt, and the third year, you officially announced a complete cessation of the royal winter hunt, which lasted for hundreds of years The royal tradition is over."

"Yeah... Then do you remember what happened that winter hunting?" Rosetta said, looking at Ferdinand, "Don't say you only remember those deer."

"Of course I remember what happened," Ferdinand recalled seriously. "A hunter broke into the forest farm where hunting was prohibited in winter, and wanted to sneak a rabbit... His pregnant wife was sick. He needed some meat to mend his body, but the soldiers patrolling around the hunting ground found him, and without any trial or notification, the soldiers shot the hunter with bows and arrows...just like shooting animals in the hunting grounds."

"Yeah, it's like hunting animals," Rosetta said quietly. "At that time, many people took it for granted."

"Even a few years ago, some people took it for granted - it's only in the last two or three years that this has gradually changed. There are more and more scholars and capable merchants and runesmiths among the literate commoners. , and even civilians began to enter the government offices and parliaments at all levels. After the nutrition, education, newborn pre-selection and other systems were mature and on the right track, the number of extraordinary awakenings in the civilian class also began to increase. Now the proportion of extraordinary awakenings among nobles and commoners is almost There is no gap, and after this, the nobles have to admit that the commoners have the same ability to think, learn and grow as they do, or to put it more bluntly... admit that the commoners and they are the same species."

Rosetta listened to Ferdinand's narration, and all the emotional changes were hidden in the calm and slightly sinister expression. It was not until more than ten seconds of silence that he looked in the direction of Winterhold and broke the silence softly, "Yeah, we use It took nearly twenty years to barely do it all..."

"It takes more than ten years to make some people realize an obvious fact that conforms to the laws of nature. This is really a somewhat ironic thing," Pei Dinan sighed, "and what is even more ironic is that even you and I are actually It's not that these things were clearly recognized from the beginning..."

Rosetta didn't respond, he just looked out of the window, looking at the direction of Winterhold. At the end of the snow-capped fields on both sides of the train were the rolling mountains of the Winterhold Defense Line, and Rosetta His eyes stared at the vast sky between the mountains and the clouds.

There was a faint starlight floating in one of his eyes, and the other eye seemed to be embedded in the depth of the pupil, and he could clearly see the vision deep in the sky——

A giant covered in iron-gray armor is standing in the clouds, overlooking this small and fragile world with empty and cold eyes.

That is God. He stands under the clear winter sky, as if he is in the hunting ground that belongs to him alone. Under the bow of war, all the mortals in the world—monarchs and commoners, heroes and pawns alike—seem to be animals to be slaughtered.

The wheels rolled, the train roared, and the repulsion mechanism and the relay piles rolled up with the wind wrapped in snow particles, and the magic energy train gradually accelerated, rushing straight towards the towering god at the end of the horizon who was about to fully enter this world.

And while this magic energy train is heading towards the border, dozens of knights and battles are on the more than ten lines of communication from the hinterland of Typhon to Winterhold, between the wilderness and the valley, between the river and the plain. The Mage Corps, hundreds of thousands of Transcendent soldiers, are moving towards the war zone.