Chapter 575: Advance to the Base

The high-power magic spar lamps illuminate the vast cave as bright as day, and the sounds of mixers, elevators and various magic matrices are intertwined. Busy walking between the support frames, the construction site of the South Gate Fortress is busy.

Gawain, Heidi, and Amber came to the former Shadow Experiment Field. In the center of the cave, they found Gordon, the person in charge of the place.

"Lord, the supporting structure and the underside of the foundation have been laid, the main wall construction is more than halfway through, and the southern gate, wall barrier, outer wall armor, and extended fire platform are 60 percent complete," Gordon reported on the fortress According to the construction situation, "the military station and the energy station have been opened. As of yesterday, the defense capacity has been preliminarily established here."

"Not bad, well done." Gawain looked at the progress made by the engineering team led by Gordon with satisfaction. He saw that the workers were reinforcing the walls of the cave's boundary, and between the southern gate and the inner cave, An additional layer of cement-steel armor has begun to take shape, a huge support frame spans the cavern, a magic engine-driven hoist is fixed to the top of the frame, and a winch pulls a cable, lifting the huge cargo pallet to the fortress On the second floor, and around each cargo pallet, a faint rune radiance can be seen, that is, the weight reduction rune matrix is ​​working.

At this stage, weight reduction is still a spell that cannot be fully analyzed, and the rune masters have not yet solved the problem of interference when several weight reduction effects act on one target at the same time, so it is difficult to use it on larger-scale objects (such as large vehicles), but when dealing with smaller volumes of materials, weight reduction has always been a sharp tool.

On the edge of the cave, it can also be seen that technicians with magic terminals are quickly adjusting the rock wall using "fossil to mud" and "mud to stone" to prepare for the subsequent installation of wall cladding, not far Another engineering team here is installing the magic net unit on the installed wall cladding, and the flash of the plasma welding beam (hot melt welding gun) is constantly shining, showing the efficiency of each team with the ability to cooperate.

Treating extraordinary power as productivity, rather than simply a "weapon for fighting the strong", brings this incredible efficiency.

Of course, the proper command of Gordon is also an important factor in the rapid progress of the project.

Gawain retracted his gaze, looked at the circular pit on the ground in the center of the cave, looked at the ancient and mysterious rune array at the bottom of the pit and the ancient devices arranged in a ring, and asked casually: "This shadow portal is the closest Are there any unusual reactions?"

Gordon shook his head: "We didn't set up magic sensing devices around, and we didn't find any signs of activation of this magic door."

"Very good," Gawain nodded, then looked at the brand new gate at the end of the cave,

"Open the gate, I'm going to advance to the base to see."

"It's opening the gate!!"

The rune array hummed, the gears and the winch head creaked at the same time, the steel chain and bearings were pulling the heavy steel gate, accompanied by a shock that even the ground trembled slightly, the South Gate Fortress. The gate slowly opened in front of Gawain...

If you want to go to the wasteland border to start the wall repair project, you must first open a road from the civilized world to the wasteland, and this road blocks the entire black forest that humans have not stepped on for hundreds of years.

After deciding to build the wall, Gawain considered two options to get through the road. One option was to go straight through the mountains from the South Gate Fortress, then build a forward base in front of the fortress, open the road violently in the Black Forest, and build a straight line. The road to the wasteland; the second plan is to bypass the entire Rebellion Fortress, go out from the mountain pass on the west side of Cecil City, and finally build a road through the Black Forest.

The first plan is obviously more time-saving and labor-saving, but the second plan is to keep the secrets of the disobedient fortress and the South Gate fortress. He does not want too many outsiders to know that Cecil holds such a special portal in his hands and holds such a complete The ancient fortress. Although there are many rumors about "Duke Cecil holds a Gondor relic in his hands", there are too many secrets in the fortress of disobedience.

But now Gawain still chooses the first plan, because he has already determined that neither the royal family nor the Eastern Realm will send people to participate in the project. They are in order to preserve their strength and continue to fight, but for Gawain, he is happy to let it go. The whole project is under his control.

Add in a bunch of noble overseers and slave artisans from the north, and they'll only hold back Cecil's engineering team.

Due to the convenient element manipulation spells, it is not difficult to lay simple roads in this world. From the South Gate Fortress to the border of the Black Forest, a broad road temporarily hardened by "turning mud into stone" has connected the Rebellion Fortress and the Black Forest. Going forward to the base, Gawain saw the towering magic net relay tower and the temporary base built by the "Pathfinders" in the front.

More than a dozen large and small board houses are built on the edge of the Black Forest, and the surrounding of the houses is a protective barrier built with a mixture of wooden fences, wire fences, chest-length low walls and sentry towers. The sentry tower is watching the direction of the black forest vigilantly, and in front of the gate of the base entrance, there are two strong white knights standing like iron towers.

Just as Gawain had previously emphasized that beyond the boundaries of civilization, there were crises everywhere, and this forward base marching into the wasteland naturally needed to be heavily guarded.

"pay tribute!!"

The two white knights noticed Gawain sitting in the car. They immediately stood up straight, and a strong and powerful voice came from under the fully covered steel helmets. The gates of the base opened to both sides. The guide car drove smoothly into the forward base.

When he got out of the car, Gao Wen saw a burly figure walking towards him quickly.

Wright Aviken, leader of the White Knights and Patriarch of the Protestant Church.

This pastor, who has become a "big man", did not stay in his church first, but asked to come forward after hearing that he was going to march into the wasteland, where he commanded the "Pathfinder" escort force. . Since the white knights themselves are good at taking on the work of guarding, and the power of the Holy Light has the convenient characteristics of curing pollution and expelling monsters, Gawain agreed to his application.

Behind Wright, Gawain saw several special figures

It was Sonia Frostleaf and the elven messengers she brought.

These elves are obviously very concerned about the repair of the barrier. Although the bustling and novel city of Cecil has indeed aroused their great curiosity and interest, they are still more concerned about the progress of the construction in the southern part of the Dark Mountains. These days, Sonya and her His companions only spent one-third of their time in Cecil City, and almost all the rest of the time was on the Black Forest side.

"I'll check the progress," Gawain said hello to Wright first, then looked at Sonia, "Are you here again today?"

"Watching the progress of the project can make us more at ease," Sonia smiled and said calmly, "and staying in the city can also prevent some embarrassing... mother-son conflicts."

What Sonia said was obviously a joke. In fact, her relationship with Soldrin was pretty good in Gawain's opinion, but Gawain still understood the elf mother's tangled feelings after seeing Soldrin. mentality

In all fairness, if he also had a son who didn't go home for seven hundred years, didn't have a partner, didn't write letters, was bald and wore a wig, and liked women's clothes...

After thinking about half of it, he didn't dare to assume any more.

He thought he might choose to lie back in the coffin and have someone help put the lid on.

"...As you can see, we are doing our best to speed up the road paving, and strive to open the road to the Corrupted Plains before the Harvest Festival," Gawain used to change the subject to cover up his embarrassment for a moment, "At present, as long as we don't In the event of a major accident, the project can be completed on schedule.”

"We saw this and it made me feel a lot more at ease," Sonia sighed softly, "Frankly, I didn't even expect you to be so fast, and you have already started in such a short period of time. The road is paved in the Black Forest. I can see how much manpower and material resources you have invested in this, but looking at your royal family, they have not sent the first batch of materials yet! To put it bluntly, they are also from Ansu. , how can your efficiency be so different?"

"Not everyone can turn magic into productivity," Gawain shook his head helplessly. "What's more, the nobles in the north may not be aware of how terrifying the threat of the wasteland is. For elves, it may still be a vivid thing, but for humans... that is an ancient legend from dozens of generations ago."

It was not the first time for Sonia to deal with humans. Of course, she knew that what Gawain said made sense, so she didn't say much, but looked in the direction of the Dark Mountain Range, looking in the direction of the Nanmen Fortress, and sighed leisurely: "The fortress of ancient Gondor... 700 years ago, I heard that the northern pioneers found an ancient ruin in the process of crossing the dark mountains, but I didn't expect that today, 700 years later, it will be in your That's how it works in the hands."

"We didn't expect it back then," Gawain said with a smile, "just like I never thought that before I fell, I saw the magnificent wall being built, but after waking up from the long sleep, I have to rebuild the wall again. Destiny, always It's unreasonable."

"You are unlucky enough," Sonia couldn't help shaking her head, "You fell in the most difficult period and woke up in the next difficult period, fate seems to be deliberately arranging you to confront disasters without giving you any rest. opportunity. We had seven whole centuries of peace, and you haven't enjoyed a single day."

Gawain didn't speak, because he was not the real Gawain Cecil, so he had no regrets, but Hetty beside him suddenly raised his head, this Cecil's big housekeeper seemed to be in Sonia. She was greatly touched by her words, and she fixedly glanced at her ancestor, suddenly ashamed of her usual smoky makeup.

Gawain didn't know why Heidi blushed suddenly.

...

At the same time, in the northern part of the Principality of Cecil, Rock City Port Square.

The commander of the Rock, Sir Wald Perich, stood on the square with his guards and guards of honor, preparing to bid farewell to the envoys from the capital. These envoys stayed in this gateway city for half a day. Now, they will board the ship and set off. Go to Cecil City.

"This city is impressive, ser," Cohen Rollan, the leader of the messenger, and deputy commander of the Anzu Royal Knights, said to Walder convincingly, "I came to this land two years ago, but It wasn't like that at all back then, and I have to admit, it was incredible here."

Sir Walder looked at the deputy commander of the knights in front of him. The deputy commander had the special surname "Roren", but he was a member of the royal faction. The envoys he led also included envoys from the East and The special envoy from the capital, the meaning of which makes people have to think more, but Wald himself is not a person who is interested in court tricks and aristocratic balance, he just smiled and shook his head: "Rock city is just a portal, this A truly incredible side of the land that you haven't seen yet."

"Oh, I'm a calm person," Cohen Rollan smiled politely, "I only look at the novelty things here with admiration, after all, no matter how amazing they are, they are all man-made. "

"Then please." Wald raised his hand and pointed to the pier, and almost at the same time, a melodious whistle came from the river bay.

With the sound of breaking waves and the roar of machinery, a large ship with no sails and no oars, which shocked Korn Laurent, gradually approached the port from the distant river.

The boat looked as if it had been cast out of metal.

"In order to ensure efficiency, the lord ordered the inland river express passenger ship 'Wavebreaker' to come to receive the envoys," Wald Perich said with a happy smile, "Please get on board."