Baby?

Gawain was slightly stunned, and then turned his head to see Miss Half-Elf staggering not far away with an excited face, holding a shiny thing in her hand, revealing a momentum of invitation from beginning to end.

Although this guy seems to be greedy for money and loves to take advantage of small advantages at any time, he still popped up and reported it as soon as he found out.

Gao Wen beckoned Miss Half-Elf over and looked at each other curiously, "What did you find?" ”

"Look," Amber happily handed Gawain what she was holding, "a ring!" ”

It was a silver-white ring, with a simple shape and a slight fluctuation of magical power, it was obviously a magical creation, and the moment he saw this ring, Gawain's eyes froze.

With a strong sense of familiarity, he finally remembered where he had seen something similar.

This is the ring of the Mithril Treasury! It is a Ring of Communication distributed to the Mithril Treasury Premium customers for contacting agents!

"This should be a token of the Mithril Vault, right?" Amber had also seen Gawain's Mithril Ring, a half-elf with a dragon-like acumen for any gleaming precious metal, so he had already seen it, "I remember you had one too." ”

"Indeed a token of the Mithril Treasury ......" Gawain muttered to himself, "The dragon fell?" Could it be that even the dragons are customers of the Mithril Vault? ”

"This ...... I'm afraid there's still a discussion," Amber stuck out her tongue, and then felt something else behind her, "because I've found more than this ring......

What Amber pulled out was a delicate metal box the size of a palm.

The metal box had apparently been locked, but now its lid had been broken open, and the lock was twisted and distorted, and inside the box was a neat box of Mithril rings, one by one tucked into the black grooves......

This time, it was finally Gawain's turn to be dumbfounded.

"This box is the Ring of Mithril, right?" Amber watched Gawain's expression change, "Carrying a ring with you is a customer of the Mithril Vault, carrying a box of rings with you......"

Gawain's expression became serious: "That dragon has either robbed the Mithril treasury, or ...... It's a member of the Mithril Treasury - maybe it's the one in charge of keeping the membership certificate. ”

This is a very simple and easy to understand truth - if a person carries a house key, he is an ordinary person, if he carries several house keys, then he may be a large sum, if he carries a half-pound of keys...... Then he's either a key-bearer or a dormitory manager......

If this box of Mithril Ring was really left by the dragon, then the possibility behind it is very intriguing.

Of course, Gawain doesn't rule out the possibility that a dragon has robbed the Mithril Treasury and snatched a box of communicators, but his intuition tells him that the more likely explanation for this is that the dragons are related to the Mithril Vault.

And when this possibility appeared, Gawain suddenly felt that many mysteries of the Mithril Treasury had been explained - their strength, their secrets, and the secrets that their power had stretched on the continent for thousands of years, and they were not even affected by the demon tide, suddenly became understandable, because this organization was not created by "mortals" at all, and behind this organization, there was the shadow of the dragon clan.

But this leads to more questions: why did the extremely mysterious dragon clan, who never made his appearance public, create such a "commercial organization"? What exactly is the purpose of their activities on the mainland? Is the Mithril Treasury really just a "treasure trove"? Are there any more forces on this continent that are controlled or established by the Hidden Race like the Mithril Vault?

Gawain's thoughts flew far away at once, but he soon forcibly took the nonsense back.

Now it's just that a box of Mithril rings has been found, and these "tokens" happen to appear in the place where a giant dragon has been active, and the clues are not sufficient at all, even if these rings are really left by the dragon, even if the dragon is really a member of the Mithril Treasury, there is more than one possible explanation behind this, what if it is a dragon employee in the wealthy Mithril Treasury?

It was too early to conclude that "the dragon was the actual controller of the Mithril Vault" in the absence of clues, but now that he had some clues, Gawain still connected the two equally mysterious forces of the Dragon Clan and the Mithril Vault, and if he could find more clues about them, he would continue to investigate the matter.

After putting away those Mithril Rings, Gawain exhaled slightly, and at the same time secretly planned to contact the person called "Melita?" Pernia", perhaps...... I can find some information from her.

He looked up and looked around: the Steel Rangers were on guard nearby, while Thorderlin led two warriors to collect samples of the material at the bottom of the pit and trace the paw prints left by the dragon.

On top of that, there are no more valuable clues in the crater, and now that it's getting late, continuing to stay in the Black Forest will pose more uncertain risks.

Now is not the time for a large-scale operation in the dangerous zone covered by the Black Forest.

Thinking of this, Gawain shouted to Thorderlin: "After collecting samples, close the team, we are ready to go back." ”

"Yes!"

By the time the team returned to the Shadow Proving Ground caverns, it was already completely dark.

A large number of portable magic crystal lighting devices were set up in and around the cavern rift, and for the first time in hundreds of years, man-made civilization lights illuminated this dark place, and building materials urgently transferred from Cecil City were being sent here, along with various construction machinery and more engineering personnel who had been subjected to weight loss techniques.

When Gawain returned to the cave, the Byron knight was leading the soldiers to guard the makeshift line near the breach, while a middle-aged man with a sturdy appearance and a heavy overalls and a bearded face was directing the workers to clear the rubble near the breach, as if in preparation for the subsequent construction.

Gawain recognized the middle-aged man, who had been Cecil's stonemason named Gordon, who had received a special commendation for his outstanding performance during the first defense of Cecil, and who was now one of the heads of Cecil's construction department.

"Mr. Gordon," Gawain said to the head of the building, "How's it going?" ”

Gordon, who was born as a stonemason and has now become one of the officials of the Government Department, hurriedly saluted: "Your Excellency! We have cleared the open space outside the cave, and by this time tomorrow, my brothers and I will be able to build a two-meter-high wall. ”

"Very well," Gawain nodded, "it's hard for you tonight, we must get the fortifications up as soon as possible—it's not a safe place out there." ”

Gordon glanced at the dark and dreary Black Forest in the distance with a little nervousness and jealousy, although he was tall and strong, in front of the famous Black Forest, any ordinary person would face a test of courage - but fortunately, with General Byron and the brave Cecil Corps guarding here, and the personal encouragement of the lord, the reliable magic cannon and the legendary heroic duke can make people more courageous than anything else.

He nodded firmly: "Guaranteed to complete the task!!" ”

Gawain nodded, and led Amber and Soldling to the depths of the cavern, where he saw Hetty, who had been waiting for a long time in the makeshift resting place in the middle of the cavern.

Hetty had obviously been worried for a long time, and when she saw Gawain, she immediately greeted her, with undisguised relief and relaxation on her face: "I'm so glad to see you safe and sound—did you find out?" ”

"It's true that I've found something amazing, but let's go back and talk about it in detail," Gawain waved his hand, "I just saw the construction team—Gordon was involved in some of the additions to the Northern Rock Fortress, didn't he?" ”

"Yes, he is an expert in this area, he led the team to strengthen the northern gate of the Rock Fortress, and participated in part of the reconstruction of the Rock Castle, which was only taken over by the local construction team of Rock City after the winter," Hetty said, looking at Gawain curiously, "Ancestor, what are your arrangements?" ”

"The passage between Cecil and the southern foothills of the Dark Mountains has been opened," Gawain nodded slightly, "I'm going to keep this passage - set up a portal here." ”

Hetty blinked, looking up at the massive cave - the high-powered magic crystal lamp used by the construction site illuminated the once dim shadow experimental field, and a large number of engineering equipment and building materials and weapons were stacked on the rock platforms in the cave, in fact, when she saw the ancestor mobilize so many supplies from Cecil City, she vaguely guessed the ancestor's thoughts.

"We can't stay in the north of the Dark Mountains forever, facing the threat of the Demon Tide, and retreat if the boundaries of civilization do not advance," Gawain said, "When the Ansu retreated once, we directly lost one-third of the southern land, and the southern barrier of the kingdom was shattered as a result, so we must not rest on our laurels." ”

He looked at the great chasm in the southern part of the cavern, and the dark night came into view.

"It's too difficult to climb over the Dark Mountains from the ridge, and the Fort of Disobedience is our natural passage, a gentle slope that leads directly to the southern foothills of the Dark Mountains, and it's not easy to defend but easy to push out, from where we can go straight into the Black Forest. I'm going to use the giant cavern of the Shadow Experiment Field as a base and transform it into the 'South Gate Fortress', a man-made fortress armed with railguns, rainbow cannons, and reinforced concrete, no worse than the original rock walls, and then we will have a gateway to the south." ”

Herty understood Gawain's intentions, and after a short thought, she nodded slowly: "Yes, I'll start arranging." ”

Gawain didn't speak again, he looked at the dimly dark sky in the southern part of the cave, and his eyes slowly became firm.

Impact craters in the Black Forest, mysterious alien objects, dragons whose whereabouts are unknown, the dark curtain behind the Mithril Vault, and the sudden cracks at the end of the Fortress of Disobedience......

The world seems to be becoming more and more unstable, and as the ruler of this land, he must seize every ounce of usable value in this unstable world.

Properly utilized, a dangerous gap can also be turned into a gateway to a march south.

This is the year of Ansu 737, the 1st day of the month of recovery.

On the first day of spring, construction began on the fortress of Cecil's South Gate, and for the first time after seven hundred years of peace, the descendants of the Gondor Empire set foot on the edge of the wasteland.

On the same day, the brief truce between the Ansu Kingdom Army and the Eastern Legion came to an end, and the atmosphere on the front line of the confrontation in the eastern part of the Holy Spirit Plain became tense again.

It was also on this day, on the edge of the forest, somewhere southwest of the Dark Mountains, far from Cecil, that a huge pit of earth was filled with smoke.

A young woman in a lilac gauze dress, with a lilac veil on her face, and an aura of mystery and elegance all over her body, is sitting on the edge of a large pit filled with smoke and dust, quietly contemplating her tens of thousands of years of "human" life.

"You shouldn't flick your tail when you circle on the last lap, and you'll be fine if you glide down...... Anyway, it's not going to be fat lately...... No, it's definitely a matter of the direction of the wind...... Hey, where's my box?! ”