Chapter 471 Daniel's Contact

Mary left with a look of confusion and a trace of anticipation that had been carefully hidden, while Daniel stood quietly on the darkened stairs for a long time, his once burly body was now hunched and wrapped in a black dress. Under the robe, the artificial nerve cord extending from the back of the cervical spine vibrated in the black robe, making a very slight sound. He was like a faded oil painting that blended into this dark background, and his shriveled face was full of years. cracks below.

But after standing for a long time, the faded oil painting was injected with a touch of vitality again. Daniel blinked, nodded slightly in the direction of Mary's departure, then turned around and walked towards the height of the mage tower bit by bit.

In his mind, more than ten years ago, he had not completely changed into hysteria, and he had not lost control of his emotions because of the nerve reconstruction surgery. At that time, he was awake most of the time, and he was still Retaining the last trace of sympathy towards the apprentice.

Then, his frustrations in his search for magical truths overwhelmed him, and the neurosurgery and brainwave technology of the Eternal Sleeper transformed his mind into a monster who lost the ability to stay awake and control his emotions in exchange for those The forbidden knowledge of the cultists...

But recently, his sanity and self-control have come back—although not completely, but part of it.

Daniel walked through the long spiral staircase and came to his own room on the upper floor of the Mage Tower. He opened the dark wooden door and stepped into it.

The room is furnished with a variety of furniture that suits the preferences of an old mage like him: sturdy wooden tables and chairs, carved bookshelves and shelves, iron candlesticks and alchemy platforms, and the center of the room that can control the operation of the entire mage tower. magic brazier. In addition to these furnishings, all the exposed walls, floors and roofs in the room are full of strange and mysterious symbols and patterns.

It is not the dream circle of the eternal sleeper, nor is it any kind of rune system known to the world. Even the pretentious royal mages in the imperial capital cannot have the privilege to come into contact with these incredible things.

These symbols and patterns are given to themselves by the "master", and their power is far beyond the understanding of the human mind.

Daniel didn't know the principles behind these symbols and lines, he only knew that these things were of great benefit to him.

After closing the door, the old mage came to the brazier in the center of the room, sprinkled a handful of spices into it, and then relaxed in the reassuring incense, watching the room carefully like a work of art. Those symbols in the texture.

Those complicated and bizarre symbols and lines seem to be incomparably complicated, and even a glance at them will make people mad, but in fact they have the opposite effect. Surrounded by these symbols and lines, Daniel only feels that his heart is quickly filled with positivity. high-spirited power,

A sound like a soft ocean wave echoed in his mind, and he felt himself sinking into the gentle sea water, and countless pleasant thoughts and thoughts emerged, healing his severely torn and deformed soul, even from the flesh. Healing his nervous tissue.

He thought that the damage deep in his nervous system would never be healed - it was the "gift" he got when he was bewitched by the Eternal Sleeper many years ago. Due to outdated technology and his own mistakes at the time, the nerve cord was connected. The maddening noise and vague stinging pain tormented him for more than ten years, and directly led to his paranoia, but these injuries were actually caused by some complicated and bizarre " The picture" was healed... This has to be said to be a miracle that only the master can create.

Daniel was enjoying it slowly in such a pleasant atmosphere, but he still remembered the warning from the master, and when the strange idea of ​​"whether to dig a squid" suddenly appeared in his mind, he immediately cut off this addiction. state, wake up in an instant.

This is also one of the reasons why he blocked these "gifts" in his room and did not let his apprentices contact them: although the master did not issue an order in this regard, he felt that the apprentices who were not determined once contacted With these symbols and patterns, they may not be able to break free like themselves. Maybe they will be directly guided by the thoughts in their minds and jump into the sea and drown.

After regaining his sobriety, Daniel turned his attention away from the patterns—after getting used to it, it was not difficult to resist the power of these patterns—and he remembered what the apprentice Mary had told him and what the master had told him. He ordered and walked to a magic circle in the corner of the room.

He connected his nerve cord to the nodes on the magic circle and began to call the indescribable "Master"...

...

In the southern border of Ansu, in the lord's mansion of the main city of Cecil, Gawain had just finished reviewing a report document from the Kant area. down.

Hetty, who was standing in front of the desk for delivering documents, noticed it, and immediately asked with concern, "Ancestor, are you all right?"

This "Big Housekeeper Cecil" was quite worried. After all, the old ancestor was too old. Although he looked like he was still vigorous, he might have twisted his muscles when he stretched...

Of course, she didn't dare to say this casually - that's what Rebecca would do.

As a mature and stable housekeeper, Heidi would only worry silently in her heart, and then secretly add an extra bone soup to her ancestor's dinner.

Gawain would never have imagined how many strange thoughts were hidden in Hetty's mind, who was usually calm, elegant and decent, he just waved his hand: "It's okay, I just want to meditate suddenly... Go and find Amber and let her guard it. already."

"Amber should be in the MI Bureau and can't get away, I'll be here to guard it," Hetty said, frowning slightly, "I also heard Amber mention that you occasionally meditate suddenly... It's a health issue. Is it?"

"In terms of health? Oh, of course not," Gawain was stunned for a moment, then waved his hands in disbelief, "I'll let you all know in the future. You can keep watch for Amber, don't let people disturb you, if there is really an emergency, you'll use your strength. Tap me on the shoulder."

"Yes." Heidi lowered her head and replied seriously, and silently decided in her heart that she would go to the kitchen to add an egg to the ancestor's dinner.

On the other hand, Gawain had already begun to let go of his spirit. After a while, he had already entered the hidden space that was "stolen" by himself, located in the cracked area of ​​the spiritual network.

The old mage Daniel was already waiting in the space. When he saw Gawain appear, he immediately stepped forward and bowed deeply: "My lord, I'm sorry to disturb you suddenly."

"It's okay," Gawain waved casually, created a table and chair in the space, and sat down first, "Sit down—what happened?"

During this period of time, although Gao Wen has focused most of his energy on integrating and governing the Southern Territory, he has not forgotten about matters outside the Southern Territory, especially the Eternal Sleeper Network, which has always been the object of his attention. . It's just that the Eternal Sleeper has been relatively quiet recently, and there have been no major changes in the network, so he basically just went online to check the news step by step, and then gave Daniel some tasks to study, research, and steal technology.

He didn't expect that the old mage would take the initiative to contact him.

Daniel carefully sat down opposite Gawain and said after considering his vocabulary: "That's it, my lord, one of my apprentices accidentally got news that the ruler of the Typhon Empire... may be researching the magic net, or researching and Magic Web-related technology."

Gawain controlled the surprise in his heart, and responded indifferently, "Oh?"

"Rosetta?? Augustus issued an order to recruit mages, and the recruitment orders were even posted in remote towns closer to the border, and the talents he recruited were rare - it was a request for knowledge of ancient Gondor magic technology. People who must know and are familiar with the self-charging magic circle, from which I think of your 'Magic Web'."

When Gawain was promoting the magic net to the outside world, in order to facilitate the promotion, he once called the magic net "a lost technology from the ancient Gondor Empire", which he also mentioned to Daniel.

"Knowing the ancient Gondor magic technology, and being familiar with the self-charging magic circle... It is indeed uncommon." Gawain touched his chin and said with a little thought.

Ancient Gondor magic technology is a "high-end field" in the eyes of magicians. Basically, only magicians with certain talent, background, and strength are qualified to study and master a little bit of fur, while self-charging magic circles are part of magic circle technology. The low-end tasteless area of ​​​​the self-charging magic circle has always been disdained by the great magicians, and the talents who can study these two fields at the same time ...

It's almost equivalent to finding two people who are good at talking cross talk in the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Even in the magic kingdom of Violet in the north, I am afraid that there are few such non-mainstream mages.

It's no wonder that the Emperor Rosetta?? Augustus would issue a recruitment order to the outside world even when he had the Royal Society of Mages in hand, and even posted the recruitment order to the backcountry--in those eccentric and reclusive In the secluded mage, maybe you can find a few talents in this field.

He didn't expect that the "advertising words" he made up to promote the magic net would mislead the ruler of Typhon by accident. Gawain couldn't help but feel a little funny. ...

He had almost no doubts. From the recruitment information released by Emperor Rosetta, he was 99% sure that the ruler of Typhon was interested in the "Magic Web".

This was what he expected.

Because he never tucked away the information of the magic web - and Cecil's rise was so remarkable, it was impossible to hide it.

Long before the outbreak of the Southern Border War, the information of the magic net was introduced to the Holy Spirit Plain and the Eastern Border along the trade route, and after the outbreak of the Southern Border War, Typhon will definitely pay attention to all news related to Cecil - as a senior The ancient and powerful empires must have intelligence channels within Ansu.

Daniel carefully observed Gawain's face and asked tentatively, "My lord, what do you think..."

"Very good news, count the time, they should also find out the information about the war in the southern border of Ansu. If Rosetta Augustus is really a talented person, he must be very keen in this regard. Gawain nodded and said indifferently, "Remember the knowledge I taught you back then?"

"Yes," Daniel nodded immediately, "and I have realized the magic net in the laboratory, and also realized several basic machines..."

"You have already emerged in the cult of the Eternal Sleeper. As a mature magician, you should almost become a technical star of the Typhon Empire."

Daniel's face was solemn. He seemed to have been waiting for Gawain's words for a long time, so he nodded immediately: "Follow your will."

"This matter is settled like this," Gawain continued, "Since you are here this time... By the way, tell me about Typhon's recent changes."

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