Facing Solderin's slightly awkward greeting, Sonia Shuangye just nodded lightly: "At least she's still healthy."
The people around Gawain were dumbfounded. They rarely dealt with elves. It was impossible for them to have imagined that this elf lady who looked only a few years older than Rebecca would be Soldering's mother. Out of politeness, everyone restrained their overly surprised emotions very well. Only Rebecca's "wow" was the only surprise.
However, Gao Wen had expected such a situation after seeing Sonia Shuangye. He was very indifferent, and said casually: "Why haven't I seen you for so many years, are you so indifferent?"
Solderin shrugged helplessly, while Sonia glanced at Gawain, "He hasn't returned home for seven centuries."
Gao Wen: "..."
Then he couldn't say anything.
"We have already arranged accommodation for you, and I hope you can get used to living in human rooms," Hetty on the side spoke at the right time, relieving the delicate atmosphere of the scene, while she was talking, she looked at the huge birds of prey on the square, "These giant eagles... can they live in the griffin's nest?"
Although Cecil has started to promote the magic network communication, and the function of the griffin as a messenger is declining, but in order to deliver important letters and undertake part of the investigation work, Cecil City still retains a basic griffin team and a griffin nest. such infrastructure.
"It's ok, giant eagles don't choose where to live," Sonia nodded, "The Oran Ranger will tell you how to settle these giant eagles. Also, please settle those griffins whose nests have been occupied, and appease them... Emotions."
A male elf in green leather armor stepped forward. He should be the "Oran Ranger" that Sonia mentioned.
The personnel in charge of managing the Griffin's Nest began to hand over the work to the Ranger, while Sonia and other elves followed Gawain to the Autumn Palace.
The giant eagles that landed on the square seemed a little uneasy about this strange city. One of them raised its head and uttered a loud cry in Sonia's direction: "Coo! Coo!!"
Sonia stopped helplessly, turned her head and said loudly to the huge bird of prey: "Show some courage! You are a giant eagle!!"
After she finished speaking, she turned her head and continued to walk forward. Gao Wen was taken aback when the giant eagle spoke. He looked at Sonia in surprise: "What's the matter with this giant eagle?"
"It's called Gu Gu, and I just hatched it forty years ago." Sonia pressed her finger on her temple and couldn't help shaking her head, "Damn it, I shouldn't let Master Thornheart take care of it... It's a pigeon!"
Gao Wen: "..."
Fortunately, all these brief episodes did not affect the next welcome process. According to the scheduled plan, the autumn palace prepared a rich welcome banquet and a rest environment that was more in line with the elves' aesthetics for the emissaries. , in the living room of the Qiu Palace, Sonia Shuangye handed the two letters that had been prepared to Gao Wen.
One of the letters was sealed in a hollowed-out wooden box, with light green vines and leaf decorations visible on the box, and the sealing seal had the mark of the Elven King's Court, and the other letter was sealed in a light gold metal box , with the sword and shield mark of the Ansu royal family on the seal.
Obviously, one was given to him by the Elf Queen, and the other was from Silver Castle.
Of course, from the name at this moment, the second letter should be "co-signed and issued by Silver Castle and the East Territory".
Gawain glanced at Sonia, did not open the two letters, but said casually, "Now, you are both the envoy of the Silver Empire and the envoy of Saint Sunil."
"Strictly speaking, I am just submitting this official letter to you on behalf of Silver Castle. The elves cannot represent any of the human beings. I am just a messenger," Sonia said. In the process of preparation, but they should have already set off by this time, they will hurry up and arrive at your place within half a month."
"We want both face and profit. We don't make concessions, and we are afraid of each other. At the same time, time waits for no one... In the end, it became such a nondescript situation. The letters with the royal family's seal were delivered by elf messengers," Gao Wen said. He sneered and shook his head, "Regardless of those unworthy descendants, let's get down to business. I know the general situation and your intention to come to the human kingdom. How bad is the state of the barrier now?"
"All sentinel towers have been damaged to varying degrees. The effective power of the entire barrier has dropped to 70%. It is currently stable, but the self-repair function of the system has been half-stopped. If there is another overload in the next impact, One hundred percent can't bear it," Sonia didn't hide anything, and in front of this human hero who had experienced the magic tide, she directly told the truth that would cause mass panic outside, "We no longer have the ability to reproduce Sentinel The core part of the tower, the current situation is that there are no accessories, no replacements, no complete restoration plan."
After a pause, she said again: "I have already contacted the Duchess Victoria Wilde, she mentioned that you have issued several warnings to the capital, and I have also seen the warning messages you wrote, if my judgment does not Wrong, the initial overload should have started from the northern part of the wasteland, but at that time you... the Ansu people's monitoring of the magnificent wall was useless, and no one noticed the omen vision, waiting for the aberration to invade Anzu, that is you By the time the aberration mentioned in the first warning destroyed Old Cecil, the portent had turned into actual damage."
Gao Wen frowned: "After that time, I have organized people to start remote monitoring of the Grand Wall again, and I haven't seen anything unusual for a long time."
"The self-healing system conceals the situation of the faulty node. When you re-monitor the barrier, it is already 'normally operating', but unfortunately it is only normal on the surface," Sonia said seriously, "Actually... the fault has been spreading, Spread from one sentry tower to another, until today, spread the entire barrier."
Hetty who was on the side couldn't help asking: "Didn't your monitoring system detect it? A situation like this where faults continue to spread... Shouldn't there be an early warning mechanism?"
This is exactly what Gao Wen wanted to ask, but Sonia shook her head slightly: "This is exactly what we are investigating recently. The Sentinel Tower should issue an alarm, even if the self-repair system temporarily repairs the malfunctioning tower. , and at least one failure record should be sent back to the highest control center of the Temple of Stars, but in fact all systems cannot find these records... In the past few years, all the data sent back by the sentinel towers are all normal. "
Gawain and Hetty couldn't help but looked at each other.
"Is it a deeper fault? Or is someone doing something wrong?" Gao Wen asked seriously.
"We are investigating the situation of the early warning mechanism, and at the same time, we are also sending magisters to check every sentinel tower along the barrier," Sonia said slowly, "but no problems have been found so far. The monitoring of the entire magnificent wall is uninterrupted Yes, no suspicious points have been found in the system, and besides the monitoring system, we have also set up a large number of monitoring outposts around the wasteland. The outposts monitor the barrier 24 hours a day, and even a mouse that approaches the sentinel tower will It was discovered that there was no way anyone would have had a chance to destroy those towers. We really don't know what went wrong."
Listening to Sonia's words, Gawain exhaled softly, and then said: "Anyway, according to what you said, we actually missed an opportunity to repair the magnificent wall..."
"And it's the best chance," Sonia sighed. "When the initial failure occurred, the Sentinel Tower hadn't suffered any substantial damage. We had a chance to completely repair it... But it's useless to say that, the initial failure occurred Don't talk about other Ansu people when you are here, even you should still be lying in bed at that time... "
Sonia was a little embarrassed when she said this, but Gao Wen was very calm: "I was lying in the coffin at the time. When I woke up, I saw that there were distortions everywhere. According to you, the last time for emergency repair should have passed by then. .”
When he died in battle, he was fighting the mutant, and when he woke up seven hundred years later, he was still fighting the mutant. The so-called "waste fighting" in the previous version was referring to Gao Wen's situation.
"Don't discuss things that are beyond repair, let's talk about the status quo." Gao Wen ended this regrettable and slightly embarrassing topic, and then returned to the right track, "You just mentioned that there is no thorough repair plan. , then did you bring any other plans?"
"Building the external wall augmentation device is an incomplete repair and reinforcement plan. We brought the information." Sonia said, and took a silver-white cylindrical device from another courier beside her. The device looked like a scroll, but when Sonia injected magic power into it, a clear holographic image suddenly appeared at the end of the "scroll". In the projection made by this illusion magic, a huge tower device and A large number of intricate runes and magic circle structures are constantly switching between pictures.
Sonia placed the "scroll" vertically on the table, and continued while maintaining the holographic projection: "This plan is to build an accompanying 'secondary tower' outside a part of the sentinel tower, to provide additional energy for the sentinel tower and to bear part of the burden." Barrier pressure, at the same time, establish a series of "pressure relief points" between the sentinel tower and the auxiliary tower, guide and release the chaotic magic energy accumulated near the sentry tower to the outside of the barrier gradually in a relatively safe way, and release it at the pressure relief point Decontamination nearby…”
Gao Wen immediately grasped the key points in the other party's words: "Have you found a way to purify the demon tide?"
"Seven hundred years, it's not like we haven't done nothing," Sonia smiled, but there was still a hint of reluctance in that smile, "This device can't purify the entire wasteland, nor can it purify the magic tide. A part of the Chaos Demon can be extracted from the barrier and purified with limited efficiency, the main purpose is to reduce the load on the Sentinel Tower and decompress the repair system. The effect is limited, but better than nothing."
Gawain looked at the complex rune arrays and device exploded diagrams in the illusion magic, his eyes were solemn and concentrated.
This is the technology of the elves, which is different from human magic, but the essence and laws still conform to the description of rune logic. It seems to be able to resist the pollution of the magic tide... Although it is only a little effect, it is indeed effective.
The Silver Empire is indeed in decline, but after all, it has reserves that are difficult for all human countries to match. Before this savings is exhausted, they can still produce such amazing technological achievements.
After thinking for a few seconds, Gawain raised his head and looked into Sonia's eyes: "Then let's not waste time. Which area will be repaired? How many secondary towers and pressure relief points will be built? How much manpower and material resources will be needed? When will the work start? How long is the construction period left for us?"
Sonia couldn't help covering her forehead with a few neat questions: "My God, if those human nobles in Saint-Sunil can have half your awareness and efficiency, I'm afraid we have already set off to repair the barrier at this time." !"