Facing a slightly awkward greeting from Sölderlin, Sonia? Frost Leaf just nodded faintly: "At least it's still healthy." ”

Several people around Gawain were dumbfounded, and they rarely dealt with elves, and they could not have imagined in advance that this elf lady, who looked only a few years older than Rebecca, would be Toldrin's mother, but out of politeness, everyone did a good job of reining in their overly surprised emotions - only Rebecca's "wow" was the only surprise.

Gawain is seeing Sonia? After Frost Leaf expected such a situation, he was very indifferent, and said casually: "Why haven't you seen it for many years, is it so cold?" ”

Thorderling shrugged helplessly, and Sonia glanced at Gawain, "He hasn't been home for seven centuries." ”

Gawain: "......"

He couldn't say anything.

"We've arranged a place for you to live, and we hope you can still get used to living in the human room," Hettie said at the right time, easing the delicate atmosphere of the scene, and she said as she looked at the huge birds of prey in the square, "These giant eagles...... Can I live in a griffon's nest? ”

Although Cecil has now begun to promote the Magic Web Communication, and the griffon's role as a messenger is decreasing, Cecil still retains a basic griffin squad and infrastructure such as a griffon's nest in order to deliver important letters and take on some of the reconnaissance work.

"Yes, the eagles don't pick a place to stay," Sonia nodded, "The Orlan Ranger will tell you how to settle these eagles." Also, please settle the griffons that have taken over the nest and calm them down...... their emotions. ”

A male elf in green leather armor stepped forward, and he was supposed to be the "Orlan Ranger" mentioned by Sonya.

The man in charge of the griffon's nest began to hand over the work with the ranger, while Sonia and the other elves followed Gawain in the direction of the Autumn Palace.

The giant eagles that landed in the square seemed to be a little uneasy about this strange city, and one of them raised his head and let out a loud cry in the direction of Sonya: "Coo! Cuckoo!! ”

Sonia reluctantly stopped, turned back to the huge bird of prey and shouted, "Show some courage!" You're a giant eagle!! ”

After saying that, she turned her head and continued to walk forward, and Gawain was taken aback when the giant eagle spoke, and he looked at Sonia in surprise: "What's the matter with this giant eagle?" ”

"It's called Goo, and I just hatched it forty years ago," Sonia shook her head with her fingers on her temples, "Damn, I shouldn't have let the Master of Thornheart take care of it...... Moon Valley is full of pigeons! ”

Gawain: "......"

Fortunately, all these short episodes did not affect the next welcome process, according to the predetermined plan, the Autumn Palace prepared a sumptuous welcome banquet for the envoys and a rest environment more in line with the aesthetics of the elves, and after a feast for the guests and hosts, in the living room of the Autumn Palace, Sonya? Frostleaf handed over the two letters that had been prepared to Gawain.

One of the letters was sealed in a hollowed-out wooden cylinder with pale green vines and leaf decorations, and the seal was marked with the Elven Court on the fire paint, while the other was sealed in a pale gold metal cylinder with the sword and shield mark of the Ansu royal family.

Obviously, one was given to her by the Elven Queen, and the other was from Silver Castle.

Of course, nominally at this moment, the second letter should have been "signed and sent by Fort Silver and the East."

Gawain glanced at Sonya, did not open either letter, but said seemingly casually: "Now, you are both the emissary of the Silver Empire and the emissary of Saint Sunil. ”

"Strictly speaking, I'm just delivering this letter to you on behalf of Silver Castle, the elves can't represent any side of the human race, I'm just a messenger," Sonia said, "The emissaries of St. Sunil City, as well as the emissaries from the East, are still in preparation, but they should have already set off by this time, and they should be here for you in half a month." ”

"We want both face and interests, do not make concessions to each other, and fear each other, and at the same time, time waits for no one...... In the end, it became such a nondescript situation, and the letters with the royal seal had to be delivered by elven messengers," Gawain sneered, shaking his head, "Regardless of those unworthy descendants, let's get down to business—I know the general situation, and I know your intentions in coming to the Human Kingdom, how bad is the state of the barrier now?" ”

"All the Sentinel Towers have varying degrees of damage, and the effective power of the entire barrier has dropped to seventy percent, which is currently stable for the time being, but the self-repair function of the system has been semi-suspended, and if the next impact is overloaded again, it will be 100 percent unbearable," Sonia did not hide the slightest, in front of the human hero in front of her, who had personally experienced the Demon Tide, she directly told the truth that it would cause a large-scale panic outside, "We no longer have the ability to reproduce the core components of the Sentinel Tower, The situation now is that there are no accessories, no replacements, no radical repair programs. ”

After a pause, she added, "I'm already with that Victoria?" Duchess Wilde has been in contact with her, and she mentioned that you have warned the royal capital several times, and I have seen the warning messages you wrote, and if my judgment is correct, the initial overload should have started in the northern part of the wasteland - but you were ...... at the time The Ansul's monitoring of the Great Wall was completely useless, and no one noticed the aura vision, and the time when the aberrations invaded the Ansul, the time period when the aberrations you mentioned in the first warning destroyed the old Cecil, the harbingers had turned into substantial damage. ”

Gawain frowned: "After that time, I have organized people to start remote monitoring of the Great Wall again, and I haven't seen anything unusual for a long time. ”

"The self-healing system has masked the condition of the failed node, and by the time you re-monitor the barrier, it is already 'functioning', but alas, it is only superficial," Sonia said solemnly, "actually...... The malfunction has been spreading, from one Sentinel Tower to another, and to this day, the entire barrier. ”

Hetty, who was on the side, couldn't help but ask, "Isn't your surveillance system aware of it?" A situation where failures like this are creeping up...... Shouldn't there be an early warning mechanism? ”

This is exactly the question Gawain wanted to ask, but Sonia shook her head slightly: "This is exactly what we have been investigating recently - the Sentinel Tower should sound the alarm, even if the self-healing system temporarily repairs the malfunctioning tower, at least one fault record should be transmitted back to the highest control center of the Star Temple, but in fact, none of the systems can find these records...... Over the past few years, all of the data coming back from Sentinel Towers has been normal. ”

Gawain and Hetty couldn't help but glance at each other.

"Is it a deeper fault? Or is someone doing it? Gawain asked with a serious expression.

"We're looking into the early warning mechanics, and we're also sending magisters to inspect every Sentinel Tower along the barrier," Sonia said slowly, "but nothing has been found so far. The monitoring of the entire Great Wall is uninterrupted, no suspicious points have been found in the system, and in addition to the monitoring system, we have set up a large number of monitoring posts on the periphery of the wasteland, and the guards monitor the barrier 24 hours a day, and anyone who approaches the Sentinel Tower, even a mouse, will be discovered, and there is no chance that anyone will have a chance to destroy those towers. We really don't know what went wrong. ”

Listening to Sonya's words, Gawain exhaled softly, and then said, "Anyway, according to you, we actually missed an opportunity to repair the magnificent wall......

"And it's the best chance," Sonia sighed, "and at the time of the initial failure, the Sentinel Tower didn't have any real damage, and we had a chance to repair it once and for all...... But it's useless to say this, don't talk about other Ansu people when the initial failure happened, even you, you should still be lying in the ...... at that time"

Sonia was a little embarrassed when she said this, but Gawain was very calm: "I was still lying in the coffin at the time - when I woke up, I saw that there were already distortions everywhere, according to you, it should have passed the last time to repair at that time." ”

When he died in battle, he was playing aberrations, and when he woke up seven hundred years later, he was still playing aberrations, and the so-called last version was talking about Gawain's situation.

"Don't talk about things that can't be remedied, let's talk about the status quo," Gawain put an end to the regrettable and slightly awkward topic, and turned back to the right track, "You just mentioned that there is no complete fix, so what other solutions did you bring with you?" ”

"Build the Extra-Wall Amplification Device, it's an incomplete repair and reinforcement plan, and we've brought the information-" Sonia said, taking a silvery-white cylindrical device from another messenger beside her, which looked like a scroll, but when Sonia injected magic into it, a clear hologram suddenly appeared at the end of the "scroll", and in the projection of the illusionary magic, a huge tower device and a large number of intricate runes, The structure of the circle is constantly switching from one picture to another.

Sonia placed the "scroll" upright on the table, and continued while maintaining the holographic projection: "This plan is to build an associated 'secondary tower' outside a part of the Sentinel Tower, provide additional energy for the Sentinel Tower and bear a part of the barrier pressure, and at the same time, establish a series of 'pressure relief points' between the Sentinel Tower and the secondary tower, and gradually guide the release of the chaotic magic energy accumulated near the Sentinel Tower to the outside of the barrier in a relatively safe way, and purify it near the pressure relief point......"

Gawain immediately grasped the key point in the other party's words: "You have found a way to purify the demon tide?" ”

"Seven hundred years, it's not like we've 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 demon tide, and now it can only extract a part of the chaos demon energy from the barrier for purification with limited efficiency, the main purpose is to reduce the load of the Sentinel Tower and decompress the repair system." The effect is limited, but it is better than nothing. ”

Gawain looked at the complex rune arrays and device exploded diagrams in the illusion magic, his eyes solemn and condensed.

This is the technique of the elves, different from the human form of magic, but the essence and laws still conform to the description of rune logic, and it seems to be able to fight the pollution of the demon tide...... Although it is only a little effect, it does work.

The Silver Empire is indeed in decline, but it has a savings that are beyond the reach of human nations at present, and they can still produce such amazing technological achievements until this savings are exhausted.

After just a few seconds of thought, Gawain raised his head and looked into Sonya's eyes: "Then let's not waste time - which area are we going to repair?" How many secondary towers and pressure relief points should be built? How much manpower and material resources are needed? When will the construction start? How much time is left for us? ”

A few neat questions made Sonia cover her forehead and sigh: "Oh my God—if those human nobles in Saint Sunil could have half of your consciousness and efficiency, I'm afraid we would have already set off to repair the barrier at this time!" ”