Chapter 1569 Return to the Present World

Remember【】for a second!

At the end of Night City, a dark mist stood in front of Gao Wen and Amber like a wall. This mist extended in all directions, as if boundless, as if separating the two worlds. Even the twisted and stacked houses looked even more bizarre, while the bustling "people" on the street stopped a hundred meters away from this fog wall.

Gawain stopped and looked up at the dense and flowing mist in front of him: "Is this the exit?"

"Yes, this is the exit of the City of Night, you can return to the real world after crossing this mist," Chen Xing nodded lightly, "The current location is near the camp between the forest and the wilderness."

Gao Wen nodded, and then looked back at the direction he came from. He saw that the houses stretched out along the empty and real streets, and the pale street lamps were dotted on both sides of the dark street like stars. People with indistinct figures seem to be looking at this side from a distance. Some of them are natives of the Shadow World, and others are "Descendants of the Lost" who have human-like facial features just like Morning Star.

"...If I have time, I would like to live in this city for a longer period of time," Gao Wen said casually, "I am really interested in your lifestyle here and how this city works on a daily basis, and I also Curious how the 'outside world' is viewed by those descendants of the lost from other nations who live with you."

"Yeah, if I have time, I would like to introduce my home to you two, but there are more important things waiting for you," Chenxing smiled, "so it's time to say goodbye now ——But please rest assured, this city will always open its doors to you, the hostess has obtained the authority of the City of Nightfall, she can find a shortcut to this place in the Shadow Realm, and we welcome you to come again at any time."

Gao Wen nodded slightly when he heard the words, and then walked towards the mist. Amber couldn't help but look back twice, as if she was quite reluctant, but in the end she pursed her lips and followed Gao with her short legs upside down. Following Wen's footsteps, the two disappeared into the thick fog one after the other.

A wonderful feeling of slight coldness was fleeting, and Gao Wen felt that he had passed through a film-like "substance", and in this short moment, the world he perceived had completely changed, accompanied by the rapid light and shadow. Shaking and reorganizing, a glimmer of light emerged from the darkness in front of his eyes, and then the forest, wilderness, sky, and clouds on the horizon began to emerge in the glimmer of light—as if the dream faded in the early morning, and the colorful and vibrant real world Come on!

In the next second, he felt down-to-earth. Once he set foot on the land of the real world and saw the bright and rich colors again, he suddenly felt relieved, and he couldn't help but take a deep breath. .

To be honest, although the Shadow God Kingdom ruled by Ms. Ye is not dangerous, the pale and monotonous endless desert and the eternally dark city are definitely not a pleasant beauty. He couldn't come out, and when he suddenly returned to the outside world at this time, he felt the oppressive feeling that lingered in his heart before.

But compared with his "normal person",

Amber, who is naturally friendly with shadows, obviously has a different feeling. As soon as her figure emerged from the air, she muttered: "Hey, I'm really reluctant to leave from there..."

Hearing this, Gao Wen couldn't help but glanced sideways at her: "What's the matter, are you still planning to stay in the Shadow God Kingdom?"

"Long-term stay is not enough—but I have really considered whether to live in that city for a few days every now and then," Amber waved her hands when she heard Gao Wen's words, but then she beamed with joy, "At first I haven't felt it yet, but now I think about it... That's my city! My city! Didn't you hear what Morningstar said? 'Mistress of the City of Night', hehehe, I didn't even think that I would one day To have such a title..."

"All right, all right, stop whining," Gao Wen knew at a glance that the goose was about to float again, so he immediately reached out and pressed his hand on her head (physical anti-floating), curling his lips while pressing down, "You still have a title." It’s called the Vice-Prince of the Kingdom of God, and I haven’t seen how many pluses you can have in combat power—this kind of honorary title is enough to hear, you can find two quick-mouthed bards who can compile a book for you in one afternoon without repetition Yes, is that useful?"

After he finished speaking, he paused, and added: "Besides, it should be impossible for you to live in the city of nightfall every now and then. It's not because of anything else. The main reason is that if you go to the border of the kingdom of God, no one will be able to find you. I can't contact you in case of an emergency, and we don't know if Ms. Ye can connect to the Internet... You can think about fishing after confirming that the magic net can also be erected in the City of Night."

When Amber heard this, she curled her lips immediately: "I just said that casually, I may not be able to get used to it if I move there. But then again, when fishing, you need to put a Dragging back the communicator for overtime work by yourself, is this still fishing?"

Gawain stared blankly at the upright Shadow Assault Goose next to him, and he could only hold back a sentence for a while: "The key question is this?"

Amber didn't seem to hear Gao Wen's question at all, she just took a breath, as if she was using the cold morning air to cool down her boiling head, and said with a little emotion after she regained her energy: "But having said that... This trip to the Kingdom of the Shadow God is really, how to put it in your words, it seems like a world away—it really seems like a world away, too many things happened."

Gao Wen didn't speak for a while, he just couldn't help thinking of the dreamy and illusory dream of fifty years of life that Ms. Ye had woven for himself, the choice between "mortals" and "gods", and the world. In the future that was still precarious, he stood in contemplation for a long time. There were too many facts that happened in the Kingdom of Shadow God, and it might take a long time to sort it out—but soon, his contemplation was interrupted.

A deep and majestic dragon roar suddenly came from the sky. The black dragon flapped its wings and passed over the heads of Gawain and Amber. In the increasingly bright sunlight at dawn, the steel mechanical structure on the edge of the dragon's wings appeared eye-catching. She had obviously noticed the two figures on the surface, so after a roar, she began to hover and gradually descend. Gawain saw the giant dragon landed more than ten meters in front of her. After it stopped, a figure came Jumped off that.

That was the Duchess Victoria Wilde in a white dress and a silver fox cape.

Then another light curtain suddenly emerged from the air, the huge body of the black dragon was condensed and reshaped in the light curtain, and the figure of the black-haired maid Maggie stepped out of it.

The moment Amber saw Victoria's appearance, she shrank her neck, and then turned her head to look at Gao Wen: "Okay, the family members have appeared, and you will be in charge of negotiating later, you are her direct superior..."

Gao Wen didn't pay attention to this shadowy goose that could be touched at all. He just adjusted his expression and mood a little, and calmly greeted the pair of masters and servants who were walking towards him.

"Your Majesty," Victoria came in front of Gao Wen and bowed first to pay respects, "I'm glad to see you and Miss Amber have returned safely—a message from the City of Thousand Towers said that you will appear in this area at dawn today, Maggie and I came here one step ahead of time."

"So it's like this..." Gao Wen understood why someone came to meet him and Amber as soon as he "landed", and then asked curiously, "Today...how long have we been away?"

"It's been seven days, and we've lost all news from you." Victoria lowered her head, her eyes had searched around since just now, but she still answered Gao Wen's question first, "However, the City of Thousand Towers has been Keep in touch with us, promise your safety, and there is no need to worry in the country, everything is in order."

"Well, very good." Gawain nodded slightly, he noticed Victoria's gaze, and after a moment of hesitation, he said, "Modill... didn't come back with us."

Victoria kept her head lowered and her gaze slightly lowered. Her look and tone didn't seem to change, but her voice suddenly became softer: "The ancestor...has he really completed his last journey?"

Amber on the side blinked. Even though Gawain had told her that Victoria should be mentally prepared, she was still a little surprised at this moment: "You know he won't come back?"

Victoria was silent for two seconds, and suddenly sighed in relief: "When he set off to investigate the mist incident on Violet Island, the ancestor seemed... to have expected it. He seemed to have known when his journey would be, Where did it end, he also said that the investigation trip on Violet Island might be his last adventure in this life, and I knew then that he would never return in the end."

Gawain watched Victoria quietly: "You said goodbye, didn't you?"

"Yes, Your Majesty," Victoria said slowly, "Before you set foot on the long bridge, I have solemnly said goodbye to my ancestors—although we spent a short time together, I think we should have no regrets."

"That's good," Gawain nodded, "Mordier has now permanently stayed with Lady Ye, and his adventure has an amazing ending. If you agree, Amber and I will take His adventure journey has been recorded and passed on to the world, I think the world needs to know the story of this great adventurer... Victoria, what do you think?"

Victoria bent down, and said in a very solemn tone, "Following your wishes, this is also an honor to my ancestors - he has always regarded you as an idol, and your commemoration and recognition are far more important to him than anything else."

Gao Wen nodded, and then said: "Take us back to the camp first... Those Typhon people should not have left yet, right?"

"They are still where they are," Victoria replied immediately. "These days they are also waiting for news of your return, especially Ms. Diana, who was ordered to investigate the whereabouts of Typhon's spy who disappeared in the Violet Mist incident."

"The Typhon people who disappeared in the Violet Mist incident..." Gawain exhaled lightly, thinking of the vicissitudes of the century in the City of Night and the flags still flying in the City of Night, his expression could not help but change. More solemnly, "After returning to the camp, invite Ms. Diana to come over. Since the flag of the crown and shield is still flying in the city of night, it is necessary for Typhon to know what happened on the border of the kingdom of God."

...

The capital of the Typhon Empire, Aldernan, deep in the Obsidian Palace.

Rosetta Augustus ended the magic communication with the distant place. Watching the crystal ball in front of him gradually sink into darkness, he adjusted his posture on the seat, and then watched the warm and jumping firelight in the fireplace, and fell into a brief moment. thinking.

"One hundred years...is the flag still flying?"

The flames in the fireplace were crackling and dancing. After some time, a sound of footsteps approaching from behind woke him up from his contemplation. Matilda's voice sounded from the direction of the footsteps: "Father, is Dai Any news from Ms. Anna?"

Rosetta nodded slightly, and then said suddenly: "Do you still remember the name Dante Raven?"

Matilda thought for a while, then nodded lightly: "I remember that he appeared on Violet's list of missing persons, and the Earl of Winterhold commented on him as 'a down-to-earth young man with a bright future'."

"Young man..." Rosetta muttered softly, then shook her head, "The relatives who are waiting for the investigation results of the Violet Mist incident can be notified. Diana has confirmed the whereabouts of those missing."

"The whereabouts of the missing person? Already found?" Matilda slightly opened her eyes, "Then they..."

"I can't come back," Rosetta waved her hand. "Do you still remember the news from Cecil? There is evidence that the people who were swallowed by the violet mist were sent to the border of the Shadow God Kingdom, and at a certain time Hundreds of years passed under distorted circumstances - and now the news has been confirmed, Gawain Cecil ended his 'Journey to the Kingdom of God' and returned to the real world in the early hours of this morning, in which he personally entered I came to that frontier city, and met there the descendants of the lost... It is just a recent event for us, and a century ago for the people there.

"Nowadays, the lost people of the past have all passed away, and their descendants have become the residents of the shadow world. The only thing to be thankful for is...the flag of the Typhon Empire is still passed down from generation to generation in the hands of those descendants."

Matilda was dumbfounded. Although there had been "gossip" in this regard from Cecil's side before, the information was actually confirmed today, and she was still very surprised by the unimaginable things in the incident. She was completely stunned. It took more than ten seconds before subconsciously chanting: "... really worthy of that 'big pioneer'..."

"That's right, it's really him, it seems that no matter how unimaginable things happen to him, it's a matter of course," even Rosetta couldn't help sighing, but then shook her head, "But after all, I'm an elder, Let's stop talking about him behind his back. Matilda, what's the matter with you coming here so early in the morning?"

"Yes, Father," Matilda quickly restrained her impolite associations with the great pioneer when she heard this, she straightened her expression slightly, and her tone became solemn, "The large-scale sacrifice ceremony The preparations for the sacrifice are halfway through, and the first sacrifice test will be held as scheduled in seven days. According to the plan, in order to collect as much "logistics data" as possible during the sacrifice process, there will be a total of three test sites in the three empires to start the ceremony at the same time. The great priest in charge of the ceremony sent a request to ask if you will 'watch the ceremony' in person that day?"

Rosetta raised her eyebrows when she heard the words: "Since the Church of the God of War fell, the priests of the remaining churches in the country have become more and more aware of the rules."

"After all, even the once most powerful Church of God of War has fallen, and the power of the Theocratic Council relies on the alliance and the royal family, and it is unstoppable," Matilda smiled. "In this case, the royal family and the Theocracy Council For such a large-scale ceremony to be 'licensed', the first reaction of the priests who are selected to perform the ceremony must be trepidation and speculation all night long."

"They won't think about the truth until they die," Rosetta laughed happily, "Go and reply to the great priest, I will come to the scene in person—this will probably be the most shocking event I have ever participated in in my life." Pleasant sacrificial activity."