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Gawain was slightly taken aback, and then he turned his head to see the half-elf lady bouncing around not far away with an excited expression on her face, holding a shiny object in her hand. Enthusiasm.
Although this guy always looks like he is greedy for money and loves to take advantage of small things, he jumped out to report as soon as he found out.
Gawain beckoned the half-elf lady over, and looked at her curiously: "What did you find?"
"Look," Amber happily handed the contents to Gao Wen, "a ring!"
It was a silver-white ring with a simple shape and a little magic power fluctuation. It was obviously a magical creation, and the moment Gawain saw the ring, Gawain's eyes froze.
After a strong sense of familiarity, he finally remembered where he had seen similar things.
This is the ring of the Mithril Vault! It is a communication ring distributed to senior customers of Mithril Treasury to contact agents!
"This should be a token from the mithril treasury, right?" Amber has also seen Gawain's mithril ring. This half-elf has a dragon-like sensitivity to any shiny precious metal, so he has already seen it , "I remember you have one too."
"It is indeed a token of the Mithril Treasury..." Gao Wen muttered to himself, "Did the dragon fall? Could it be that even the Dragon Clan is a client of the Mithril Treasury?"
"This...I'm afraid we still need to discuss it," Amber stuck out her tongue, and then found another thing behind her, "Because I found more than just this ring..."
What Amber took out was a delicate metal box the size of a palm.
This metal box was apparently locked once, but now its lid has been thrown open, and the lock buckle is distorted and deformed. Inside the box, there are neat boxes of mithril rings, one by one. Tucked into the black grooves...
This time, it was finally Gao Wen's turn to be dumbfounded.
"This box is a Mithril ring, right?" Amber watched Gao Wen's expression change, "A customer who carries a ring with him and can be said to be a Mithril treasury, carries a box of rings with him..."
Gao Wen's expression became serious: "The dragon either robbed the Mithril Vault, or... a member of the Mithril Vault may be responsible for keeping the membership certificate."
This is a very simple and easy-to-understand truth. If a person carries a house key with him, he is an ordinary person. If he carries several house keys with him, he may be a rich man. If he carries half a catty with him The key... Then he is either a key distributor or a housekeeper...
If this box of Mithril Ring was really left by that dragon, then the possibility behind this is very intriguing.
Of course, Gao Wen did not rule out the possibility that a dragon robbed the Mithril Treasury and stole a box of communicators, but his intuition told him that the more likely explanation for this incident was that the dragons were related to the Mithril Treasury.
And when this possibility appeared, Gao Wen suddenly felt that many mysteries of the Mithril Treasure House could explain their strength, their secrets, their power stretching on the mainland for thousands of years, and they were not even affected by the magic tide. The secret became understandable all of a sudden, because this organization was not created by "mortals" at all. Behind this organization, there is the shadow of the Dragon Clan.
But this has led to more questions: Why did the Dragon Clan, which is extremely mysterious and never disclosed in the world, create such a "commercial organization"? What is the purpose of their activities on the mainland? Is Mithril Treasure House really just a "treasure house"? On this continent, are there more forces controlled or established by hidden races similar to the Mithril Treasury
Gao Wen's thoughts suddenly flew far away, but soon he forcibly collected these wild thoughts back.
Now I just discovered a box of mithril rings, and these "keep tokens" just happened to appear in the place where a giant dragon had been active. The clues are not sufficient at all, even if these rings were really left by the dragon, even if That dragon is really a member of the Mithril Vault, and there are more than one possible explanations behind it. What if the rich and powerful Mithril Vault happens to have a dragon employee
In the absence of clues, it is too early to conclude that "the giant dragon is the actual controller of the Mithril Vault", but now that there are some clues, Gao Wen still tentatively puts the two equally mysterious dragons and the Mithril Vault. The forces have been connected together, and if he can find more clues about them, he will continue to investigate this matter.
After putting away those mithril rings, Gawain exhaled slightly, and at the same time secretly planned to contact the senior agent named "Melita Purnia" again in the future, maybe... he could find something from her. some information.
He raised his head and looked around the surroundings: the Iron Rangers were guarding nearby, while Solderin led two warriors to collect material samples from the bottom of the pit and describe the paw prints left by the giant dragon.
In addition, there are no more valuable clues in this impact crater, and it is very late now, continuing to stay in the Black Forest will bring more uncertain risks.
Now is not the time for large-scale operations in the dangerous terrain covered by the Black Forest.
Thinking of this, Gawain shouted to Soldering: "After collecting the samples, the team will be closed, and we are going to go back."
"yes!"
By the time the team returned to the cave in the shadow experiment field, it was already completely dark.
A large number of portable magic spar lighting devices have been set up inside and outside the cracks of the cave. For the first time in hundreds of years, the man-made lights of civilization illuminate this dark place. Construction materials urgently dispatched from Cecil City are being sent here. At the same time, all kinds of construction machinery and more engineering personnel that have been subjected to weight reduction techniques are also sent.
When Gawain returned to the cave, Knight Byron was leading the soldiers to guard the temporary defense line near the gap, while a middle-aged man who looked rather robust, wearing heavy work clothes and with a big beard was commanding Workers are cleaning up the rubble near the gap, which seems to be preparing for the follow-up construction.
Gao Wen recognized the middle-aged man. He used to be Cecil's stonemason named Gordon. He had received a special award for his outstanding performance during the first Cecil defense battle. Now, this stonemason Mr. is already one of the heads of the building department in Cecil City.
"Mr. Gordon," Gao Wen came to the construction manager, "how is the progress?"
Gordon, who was born as a stonemason and is now one of the officials of the Government Affairs Department, hastily saluted: "My lord! We have cleared the space outside the cave. By this time tomorrow, my brothers and I will be able to build a two-meter-high wall. "
"Very good," Gawain nodded, "I've worked hard for you tonight. We must fix the fortifications as soon as possible. The outside is not a safe place."
Hearing the words, Gordon glanced at the dark Black Forest in the distance with a little nervousness and apprehension. Although he was tall and strong, in front of the prestigious Black Forest, any ordinary person would face a test of courage. Fortunately, General Byron Guarding here with the brave Cecil Corps, as well as the personal encouragement of the lord, the reliable magic cannon and the legendary hero Duke can inspire courage more than anything else.
He nodded firmly: "Guaranteed to complete the task!!"
Gawain nodded, and walked towards the depths of the cave with Amber and Solderling. At the temporary resting place in the middle of the cave, he saw Hetty who had been waiting here.
Hetty had obviously been worried for a long time. After seeing Gao Wen, she immediately greeted him, with an undisguised sense of relief and relaxation on her face: "I'm glad to see that you are safe and sound, did you find out?"
"It's true that we found something extraordinary, but let's go back and talk about it in detail," Gao Wen waved his hand. "I just saw that Gordon, the construction team, was involved in part of the construction of the Northern Rock Fortress, right?"
"Yes, he is an expert in this field. He led a team to strengthen the north gate of the Rock Fortress, and participated in part of the reconstruction project of the Rock Castle. After winter, these projects were taken over by the local construction team of Rock City," Hetty said. As he spoke, he looked at Gao Wen curiously, "Ancestor, what are your plans?"
"The passage between Cecil and the southern foot of the Dark Mountains has been opened," Gawain nodded slightly, "I want to keep this passage and set up a portal here."
Hetty blinked, looked up and looked around the large-scale cave construction site. The once dim shadow experiment site was illuminated by high-power magic spar lamps. A large number of engineering equipment, construction materials, and weapons were piled up in the cave. On one of the rock platforms, in fact, when she saw her ancestor mobilize so many supplies from Cecil City, she vaguely guessed what her ancestor was thinking.
"We can't stay in the north of the Dark Mountains forever. Facing the threat of the demon tide, if we don't advance, we will retreat at the border of civilization," Gao Wen said. "The Ansu people retreated once, and we directly lost one-third of the land in the southern border. The kingdom's southern barrier has also been broken into pieces, so we must not rest on our laurels."
He looked towards the huge gap in the south of the cave, and the dark night came into view.
"Crossing the Dark Mountains from the ridge is too difficult. The Rebellious Fortress is our natural passage. The outside of this gap leads directly to a gentle hillside at the southern foot of the Dark Mountains. Although it is inconvenient to defend, it is easy to push outward. From here we can directly Enter the Black Forest. I plan to use the giant cavern of the Shadow Experimental Site as the basis and transform it into a 'South Gate Fortress'. The man-made fortress armed with rail guns, rainbow cannons, and reinforced concrete is no worse than the original rock wall. Then we'll have a gateway to the south."
Hetty understood Gawain's intentions, and after a short thought, she nodded slowly: "Yes, I'll start making arrangements now."
Gawain didn't speak any more. He looked at the gloomy and dark sky in the south of the cave, and his eyes gradually became firm.
The impact crater that appeared in the black forest, the mysterious extraterrestrial object, the giant dragon whose whereabouts are unknown, the shady scene behind the Mithril treasure house, and the suddenly opened crack at the end of the rebellious fortress...
The world seems to be becoming more and more unstable, and as the ruler of this land, he must grasp every sliver of value available in this unstable world.
Properly exploited, dangerous gaps can also be turned into gateways to the south.
This is Ansu 737, the 1st of Resurrection.
On the first day of this spring, the construction of Cecil's South Gate fortress began, and the descendants of the Gondor Empire set foot on the land on the edge of the wasteland for the first time after seven hundred years of peace.
Also on this day, the brief truce between the Ansu Kingdom Army and the Eastern Border Corps came to an end, and the atmosphere on the confrontation front in the east of the Holy Spirit Plain became tense again.
On the same day, far from Cecil, at the edge of the forest somewhere southwest of the Dark Mountains, a huge earth pit was filled with smoke and dust.
A young woman wearing a lavender veil and a lavender veil, full of mystery and elegance, is sitting on the edge of a smoky crater, quietly thinking about her tens of thousands of years of "human beings". "born.
"During the last circle, you shouldn't flick your tail. It will definitely be fine if you use gliding to slow down... By the way, it's not because you've gained weight recently... No, it must be a problem with the wind direction... Where's my box?!"