Chapter 1553: make an appointment

The majestic sea of ​​clouds stretches infinitely into the distance in the line of sight. The bright and somewhat dazzling sunlight shines brilliantly on the surface of the sea of ​​​​clouds. The anti-gravity flying fortress at the foot is advancing in the sea of ​​​​clouds, like a beast breaking waves, and there is a large-scale escort. The fortress formations shuttled through the clouds and mist nearby, like a giant whale swallowing the sky—this was not the first time Gawain had taken the Dawn of the Earth, but no matter how many times he took this sky fortress, such a thrilling sight still made him the same. Amazed and intoxicated.
Standing on the edge of the upper deck of the Earthly Dawn, the high air flow filtered and weakened by the shield turned into a harmless breeze blowing around him. The vast land that appears and disappears from time to time—he saw the frozen mountains in the north are slowly moving between the gaps in the clouds, and the distant coastline is clearly visible, and the north port is like a gem embedded in the strait and the mountains. between.
"We are about to cross the North Harbor," he said softly. "If the weather continues to be clear, we will be able to see the edge of Violet Island in a few dozen minutes at most."
"This thing is so fast!" Amber's voice came from the air next to it, "Actually, I have always had the illusion that something as huge as the Earthly Dawn must be cumbersome to move, and when it floats in the sky, It's like moving slowly..."
"Strictly speaking, the agility of the Earthly Dawn must be very poor. If you let it tail-flick with the dragoon fighters in a small range, the mother who will definitely be dumped does not know, but long-distance linear movement is another concept— It uses a drive array similar to the Temple of the Stars, and it is no slower than the Dragoons when it accelerates." Gawain shook his head and explained casually, then looked at the location where the voice of Amber came from, "Speaking of which, it's almost over the Violet Strait. , you still insist on stealth? Can't you come out to breathe?"
"I'm not nervous!" Amber's voice sounded again in the air next to him, "I'll be there soon! Violet, that's Madam Ye's base camp—I'm so nervous!"
When Gawain heard the other party's trembling voice, the corners of his mouth turned up: "I didn't see you being so nervous when I set off, and my BB will use your excellent eloquence to make a difference with the other party after meeting Ms. Ye. Half-sisters, this is the case at this time? Come on, come out, you're all here, you can't run away no matter how much you're cowardly—not to mention that Ms. Ye is the ancestor of the Shadow Realm, you are so invisible. I can't hide it, how can I hide it from Lady Night?"
The air beside her was quiet for two seconds, and then Amber's figure reluctantly emerged from the air, she rubbed a strand of hair on her forehead: "Okay, you're right, it's all there. It's here... But aren't you nervous at all? That's a bit of an ancient god, and it's not clear with the sailor, and you are also unclear with the sailor's legacy. Convert between you and Ms. Ye It's not clear, your situation is obviously not much better than mine, how can you be so calm?"
"What is unclear... Although this is true, why does it always feel wrong to say it from your mouth?" Gawain's mouth twitched at Amber's wonderful way of describing it, and then he exclaimed softly. He breathed with a relaxed expression, "To be honest, I've been nervous for a while, but it's useless to be nervous. What kind of Ms. Ye is, I won't know until I meet her, and I'll say it again... What about the ancient gods? It's not like we haven't dealt with each other before."
Amber was stunned for a moment when he heard it: "...Ah? When have we dealt with the ancient gods of this age?"
"Enya," Gawain glanced at Amber as if looking at Rebecca, "Enya and Ms. Ye are the same generation, although they didn't deal with each other back then, but they are also colleagues in the next unit. Can you forget?"
"Ah this..." Amber's expression suddenly became a little weird, she actually forgot about this, "I really ignored this, Ms. Enya and Ms. Ye are from the same era... But it's not my fault, you Thinking about Ms. Enya's current style of painting, she is really at ease as a retired god. Every day, she is either drinking tea in the house, reading the newspaper, surfing the Internet and playing chess with the old man and the old lady, or being pushed by Betty to the courtyard to sunbathe. The sun watching the dog fight, how can there still be a little bit of majesty as an 'ancient god' at the beginning, if you don't remind me I really can't remember her and Ms. Ye in the same era..."
"...Actually, I almost forgot about this," Gawain's expression was also a little unstable after listening to Amber describe Enya's idle life after retirement as a tea egg, and after holding it for a while, he said, "That is, before departure. She suddenly took the initiative to look for me once, and talked about something related to Lady Ye, and I remembered that these two goddesses are from the same era - by the way, it also eliminated the last bit of nervousness in my heart."
"Ah? Ms. Enya visited you? She also talked about Ms. Ye?" After hearing Gawain's words, Amber's expression suddenly became serious, "What did she say to you? Did she tell us how to deal with Ms. Ye? Some taboos and rules about the ancient gods?"
Gao Wen's expression was a little weird, and after being silent for a few seconds, he opened his mouth awkwardly: "Neither—she asked me to help convey her greetings to her old colleague. The core is a few words: Is the work going well or not, and are you tired from overtime? Ah, when can I get off work, I'm a lot of years old, if you can't do it, find a way to retire - and then describe her current comfortable and degraded retirement life or something."
Amber: "...Do you really want to spread these words?"
"I'll pass on a hammer!" Gawain's eyes widened immediately, "I'm not stupid! Can't judge the temper of Lady Ye? The bag on the head of Flora, the goddess of spring, hasn't gone down yet! And why doesn't she say this? Speaking face-to-face? Obviously, she also knows Ms. Ye's disposition very well. I'm afraid that if she speaks face-to-face, she will smash it down on the spot, and even Huang will be knocked apart by her..."
Amber rarely sees Gawain in such a frantic state, so he couldn't help but be amused, and even the tension in his heart dissipated a lot in an instant: "It seems that you have a lot of resentment."
Gawain seemed to have swept away a little haze from the smile of the Shadow Assault Goose in front of him, and a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and then he shook his head slightly and sighed: "She has become more and more idle lately, especially Now, when even Amoen has started to contribute to the Ragnarok project, this contrast is especially obvious - of course, I won't say anything if she just idles around, after all, she doesn't even have a hand now, the key is that she still She's getting more and more skinny... If she goes on like this, she's afraid that she will turn from a tea egg to a preserved egg..."
Amber: "...What is a preserved egg?"
Gao Wenyile: "Then I have to explain it to you well..."
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In the core wasteland of Violet Island, in the forward exploration camp built by the Cecil Empire, Modir and Maggie, who were the team leaders, received a notification that the Earthly Dawn was about to arrive. .
In the tent, Maggie hung up the magic net terminal. The dragonborn maid had a look of relief on her face. She exhaled softly and turned to look at the old magician standing next to her: "Your Majesty, they will be very fast. It’s about to arrive, if everything goes well, after they arrive, the Prince Nash in the City of Thousand Towers will open the gate to the Shadow Kingdom as promised, and our mission will be successfully completed.

Modier seemed to be thinking, until after a few seconds after Maggie's voice fell, he suddenly raised his head as if awake: "Ah... Yes, after staying here for so long, the mission is finally completed successfully..."
Maggie's eyes fell on the great adventurer. She didn't know what to think from the reaction of the other party. After hesitating for a while, she said: "You...you will also pass through that gate, don't you?"
Modier didn't speak for a while. He seemed to be thinking about his future, or maybe he was recalling the past, looking for his fragmented memories. After an unknown amount of time, he suddenly smiled and shook his head. , with some sort of happy expression on his face that Maggie couldn't understand: "I've been invited—an invitation from an ancient god, and I'm invited to go to his kingdom, to witness a man never seen before by mortals. Kingdom, which adventurer can refuse this?"
Maggie opened her mouth and seemed to want to say something, but a slight commotion came from outside the tent, interrupting what she wanted to say, and then a familiar breath appeared, and Victoria's voice entered her ears: "Maggie, don't bother, no one can stop my ancestor's enthusiasm for adventure - something the Ansu royal family didn't do six centuries ago."
Maggie looked back in surprise and saw Victoria in a long snow-white dress appearing in front of her. Before she could speak, she heard Modier's unexpected voice from behind: "Victoria? What are you doing? Here? Aren't you commanding from the rear?"
"That doesn't have to stay on the Frost Star," Victoria shook her head and said indifferently, "and His Majesty is coming, I also need to come to greet."
When the voice fell, her eyes had fallen on Modier. After less than two seconds of silence, she said with a calm expression: "Are you ready to go?"
"There is nothing to prepare, I have everything I need for the adventure, and I am always ready to embark on the journey," Modir laughed, with a very happy expression, "and there is not much time before sunset, really Anything you didn't bring with you... there shouldn't be time to go back and get it."
Victoria nodded slightly, then fell silent.
She is not a very talkative person, nor is she good at adjusting the atmosphere. It is her habit to keep silent after saying necessary things, but now, for the first time in her life, she feels that silence is so depressing She wanted to find some topics to adjust the atmosphere in the camp, or to exchange a few more words with the "family ancestor" in front of her, but found that she couldn't find a topic that could be used at this moment - in the final analysis, she I have only been with Modier for just a year.
And time passed quietly in this silence - in fact, it didn't take long before a strange low roar came from the sky.
A soldier ran into the camp, delivering the news of the arrival of the Imperial Air Force's highest flagship.
Earthly Dawn arrived, the steel city miraculously descending from the clouds in the twilight light, its majestic silhouette obscuring the sky, it cast shadows of astonishing scale on the earth, as its height gradually approached On the surface, the large forest behind the imperial camp seemed to have fallen into night in advance.
In the low and majestic roar, this air fortress finally hovered at a height of several hundred meters above the ground, which is not a low height for ordinary mages or even ordinary aircraft, but for the Earthly Dawn. For such a behemoth, this is almost the limit of its proximity to the ground - for those who stand on the surface and look up at the sky, the steel sky is almost crushing.
Few people can look up at the sight of Earthly Dawn near the surface—not even a machine girl like Diana or a face paralyzed like Victoria.
Outside Cecil and Typhon's camp, Diana, Victoria, Modir, and Maggie all gathered in the open space between the camp and the forest. Diana raised her head and quickly intercepted this while accelerating the heat dissipation of the core. All the detailed pictures of the fortress in the sky, these pictures are not only for personal collection preferences, but also for the monarch who will be handed over to her after returning. I don't care about this part of the information, but even this kind of information that can be made public can still be of great value when handed over to real experts after returning.
Victoria, who was standing not far away, was always watching the steel barriers of the Earthly Dawn and the giant acceleration turrets extending from the edges of the barriers, with a little excitement and pride in her expression. On the day of the decisive battle on the Tarash Plain, she failed to kiss her. Arriving at the battlefield to see the defensive posture of this sky fortress, although the "Grand Duke of Ice and Snow" never showed any emotions to the outside, she felt somewhat regretful about it, and at this moment, she seemed to have From the majesty of this majestic fortress, you can imagine its posture in battle.
While sighing in her heart, she heard Modier's voice coming from the side, and the great adventurer's tone was full of exclamation: "...This thing can also be made!"
"This is the Empire's highest marvel of engineering and magic—at least the highest marvel at this stage," Maggie said with pride, she had not been involved in the construction of the Earthly Dawn, but the dragoons she tested The aircraft and the dragoon pilots she had trained were part of this huge fortress, which made her feel a little different from others when she saw the giant ship, so much so that she was completely using Cecil in her heart. He spoke in a human voice, "Although it is said that the Silver Elf's Temple of Stars is larger in scale and more advanced in technology, but... after all, the glory of the Temple of Stars has passed, and now the most powerful air force in the world is undoubtedly the earthly power. Fortress of Dawn."
Modir nodded again and again. He actually didn't know any air fortresses at all, and he had never seen the elf's star temple (even if he had seen it, he would have forgotten it), but the process of witnessing a magical thing itself was already for him. It is a great enjoyment.
Under the watchful eyes of the people on the surface, the Earthly Dawn finally suspended completely over the forest on the southwest side of the wasteland - it did not stop directly above the wasteland, and the reason was very simple.
The hazy outline of the city of a thousand towers has emerged in the gradually sinking afterglow of the sunset. This city of projection, which was originally hidden under the starry night sky, appeared in front of the world a moment earlier today. It is suspended high above the central wasteland. In the sky, the transition from virtual to time is rapidly going on at this moment.
Maggie and Modier looked up at the sky, and after a moment of staring, Maggie was the first to break the silence: "...Looks a little flustered."
"Nonsense, such a big steel fortress flew over and scolded his face, whoever changed it didn't panic."
"makes sense…"