Everyone reached the top of Olin City, and the battle with the Thorn Birds had come to an end.

As Asker said, an intelligent race like the Dark Elves is not the same as a flock of thorn birds without intelligence.

Even though their companions had been slain countless times, the thorn flocks still swooped down on the phantom fiercely, not in the slightest bit of basic thinking that distinguished between the ontology and the phantom.

The phantom mechanism of the immortal phantom sword restrains the "revenge" ability that the thorn birds rely on to survive.

With the pressure on the air greatly reduced, some arcane mages also began to join the fray.

For example, using air pressure to force the Thorn Bird to make a forced landing, or using gravity to forcibly lower the Thorn Bird's flight altitude to facilitate Peggy's Phantom to kill.

Suddenly, a chorus of grief and indignation erupted from the thorn birds, as if they could no longer bear the huge amount of damage, and countless shining points of light rose into the sky, like brilliant huge pillars of light, and disappeared into the clouds of the night.

The mages and defenders breathed a sigh of relief, followed by cheers.

"Take a break." Apyrios, the lord of the city, said to Peggy, then stood up and looked north.

It was not the Crusader siege camp in the south, but the city of Thessaloniki in the north.

(Since Mount Olympos was low in the south and high in the north, the Crusaders actually set out from inside the city and made a circle from the south before beginting the city.)

Due to the previous flocks of thorn birds coming from the south, the Crusader camp and the city of Olympia held off these otherworldly creatures from reaching Thessaloniki.

The seaside city is lit up at night and seems unaffected by the recent war.

Is that the end of it? Appilius' brow tightened. It would certainly be best if it ended there, however......

His face changed suddenly, and he looked at the Aegean Sea to the northeast, and his spirit suddenly began to feel uneasy.

Under the cover of night, a huge black shadow floated on the seashore, and its breath was like a hurricane, causing the forest on the shore to fall down.

As it came to the surface, the port of the city of Thessaloniki also set off a huge tsunami. The tide of more than 10 meters high crashed violently, capsizing the fishing boats on the shore, collapsing the building, and washing the trembling dock.

"That can't be!" There were mages around who exclaimed, "The current Demon Tide level...... How could there be a demigod creature! ”

"Not a demigod creature!" Apperius shouted.

His voice seemed to have a special magical power, which shook the spirits of everyone present, and their attention couldn't help but be attracted to him.

"That's the juvenile form of the Leviathan Behemoth! At the moment, it is only Lv.10, and it is not invincible! ”

God is not invincible...... Aske complained in his heart. Even the Leviathan hatchlings of Lv.10 have the extraordinary characteristics of "Giant V", and their HP is so thick that they are scary, okay?

It's not a boss that NPCs or players can beat at this stage.

The girls of the Azure Sword looked at the figures that slowly climbed ashore in the distance, and their faces turned pale.

However, as a demigod who has lived for an unknown number of years, Apyrios must have some hole cards that he has not played, so Aske is convinced that Leviathan will not be a problem.

Let's wait to see the drama animation with peace of mind.

Seeing Asker's indifferent expression, the girls gradually regained their composure strangely, which was a habit and tacit understanding that the Blue Sword team had cultivated for a long time.

As long as the head of the regiment is still there, then everyone has nothing to fear.

Anyway, even if the sky falls, there is still the great god of the head of the regiment first!

In the distance, the Leviathan hatchlings had climbed into the harbor of Thessaloniki, and a visible commotion soon broke out in the city.

The lights went out, the buildings collapsed, and many citizens were even awakened in their sleep, rushing out of their homes in their pajamas, running barefoot on the streets, scrambling to escape from the city.

Appilios stared silently at Leviathan in the distance, his face expressionless.

If he had changed to the strength of a demigod, he would certainly be able to take out that monster.

However, the current upper limit of the demon tide does not allow him to do this.

Soon, Leviathan was completely out of the sea, revealing a body the size of a mountain.

With its huge webbed palm, it grabbed one of the residential buildings, pulled it up to the foundation, and then stuffed it into its mouth and chewed it slowly.

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West, City Solomon, Pantheon Ruins.

The place that was originally strictly sealed by the military was activated as soon as the Tide Rising ended.

Countless papal personnel were running around here, either staring at the giant machine in the center of the temple to record data, or directing the Templars to carry parts and raw materials.

Measuring 30 meters long, 28 meters wide and 2 meters high, the 840-square-meter machine, known as the "Restorer of Civilization", is powered by an ingenious device of hydraulic oil, connecting rods and pistons.

This machine is divided into two parts, the first half is the component placement machine SMT, which uses a large number of mechanical devices to mount various electronic components on the motherboard.

All the circuit components were urgently manufactured from raw materials that had been stockpiled after the Rising Tide had ended, and were continuously transported by workers hired by the Holy See.

The second half of the machine is the data reader DLM, which enters the specified data information into the newly made electronic storage carrier from the outside.

Because during the rise of the magic tide, the violent eruption of the magnetic field will burn all electronic information carriers, including the information stored in all carriers, so it will cause fundamental damage to scientific and technological civilization.

The solution of the first and second human beings was hand-copying.

The electronic information is copied and backed up by hand, and then manually entered after the tide rises.

Hand-copying is of course problematic, one of which is the inefficiency and the high rate of error, whether copied or typed.

What's more, paper can store very little information. You know, even the simplest manned spacecraft has a normal human's life-size height when stacked.

The second is that paper is too fragile as a carrier, and the Peloponnesian War in the Second Century, which was essentially set off for the sake of fighting for these technical documents, ended in the destruction of a large number of technical documents.

Therefore, in the Tertiary period, the ancient Solomonic mechanic Heron invented the mechanical tandem plate, which consisted of densely arranged probes.

probe protrusion, which represents "1"; If the probe is concave, it represents "0". The data is stored in the form of a mechanical position, avoiding the burning effect of the rising tide (also known as the engraved disc).

With an optical reader, all the data on the mechanical tandem board can be quickly written into the electronic carrier after the tide rises.

Initially, this invention did not receive the attention of the Empire, because the most basic "01" binary data stream was stored on the mechanical tandem board, so how much information could be stored on such a board?

Not even handwritten paper can store a lot of information.

Just as when the musket was first invented, it was far less useful than the bow and arrow, and the development of scientific civilization is always a qualitative change that crushes the quantitative change.

In the mid-to-late Quaternary period, the Imperial Academy of Sciences gradually discovered the benefits of mechanical tandem plates – they were better stored and had a lower error rate than paper.

Crucially, the re-entry process can be fully automated, avoiding the inefficiencies of manual entry.

On the ruins of the Western Solomonic Empire, the Holy See of the Fifth Age made unremitting optimizations in this direction.

Today's mechanical tandem plates are made of special polymer flexible materials, embedded with inert materials, and the spacing is controlled at about 0.1 microns.

1 square meter of mechanical tandem plate can store 11 PB of data (1 PB = 1000 TB).

Through the opening of the data reader DLM, these tandem plates, which are often tens of kilometers long, are carefully fed into the machine. The information recorded at the beginning of the first column plate is all the core data of Gabriel, so it needs to be entered with great care.

As the optical reader quickly reads the information on the tandem, a large data stream begins to refresh on the screen outside the machine, monitored by several teams of data experts in real time.

At 11:30 a.m., the main screen inside the Pantheon finally lit up.

"The artificial intelligence Gabriel has been installed, the self-test is normal, and it is restarting." A mechanical electronic voice said.

Fierce cheers erupted in the hall, and many of the clergy even knelt on the ground in excitement and eagerly kissed the cross on the pendant.

Above the temple, Pope Innocent sat upright on the Holy Throne with a relieved smile.