In the camp built by the Typhonians, in the palace parlors shaped by magic and decorated with tapestries, oil paintings, wall paintings, etc., Gawain and Rosetta? Augustus sat on either side of a golden oak table, reviewing the papers before him, while the knights, who were witnesses, stood behind their lords, watching all this with solemn expressions.

Gawain's gaze briefly swept over Rosetta? Augustus, seeing that the dark-haired Typhon monarch was looking at the Chinese book in his hand with a serious face, then he withdrew his gaze, with an imperceptible smile on the corner of his mouth, and his gaze slowly swept over the document in his hand.

With the opening of trade routes and the establishment of trade posts, Cecil promised to actively promote the construction of roads in the eastern part of the White Sands Hills, lay railways, and if negotiations with the eastern border of Ansu did not go well, open roads in the small plains on the northern side of the Dark Mountains, which was recognized as a "no-man's land" and met the requirements of the "permanent right of development", so the additional costs incurred would be borne by the Duchy of Cecil......

The low tax rate agreed by both parties, as well as the incentive policy for merchants......

The first phase of the cotton textile procurement program for Typhon included undyed cotton fabrics, medium-grade colored fabrics, and high-grade fabrics......

Alchemical potions, artificial crystals from Typhon purchase order......

Also from Typhon's "Magic Car" purchase order, as well as the purchase intention of the "Magic Train" - the official order will be sent to Typhon to send observers, who have actually learned about the concept and physical objects related to the train, and Rosetta? It came into force after Augustus himself signed it......

In addition, there are a series of long-term terms and agreements on trade and trade, as well as an oath by both parties to promise to be sincere and not to violate the contract.

Moving his gaze all the way to the end of the document, Gawain raised his head with a smile and looked at Emperor Typhon across the table: "This will be a historic moment, perhaps we will create a new concept of trade, and give birth to many new industries and professions, from which will come the prosperity of the country and the prosperity of the people, and its beginnings ...... It's on these few sheets of light and thin paper. ”

"The paper is thin, the contract is heavy," Rosetta said with a slight smile as he said one of Typhon's proverbs, "and to be honest, I didn't expect that we would enter into such an agreement under these circumstances, in this wasteland frontier, in an impromptu meeting...... But I know that there is a saying among the Ansu people: seizing an opportunity is like seizing life, and I think we have seized an opportunity in time now. ”

The two leaders of their respective factions smiled at each other, and then, in the presence of witnesses, exchanged documents, signed their names on both documents, and printed their respective coats of arms.

A high-ranking mage dressed in a starry robe then came to the table, and in front of the mage floated two flat and smooth Mithril plates, countless shiny runes fluttering between them, as if they contained countless mysteries and knowledge.

According to the necessary process of the transcendent world, when two transcendental beings, representatives of two powers, enter into such an important contract, they must be recorded and backed up with magical power for a longer and more symbolic time, and if necessary, they should pray to the gods of their respective beliefs for their witnesses.

But usually, with the exception of the ecclesiastical saints who can actually induce oracles, this kind of "divine witness" is rather limited in binding force and more like a symbol.

"Do you want to ask a specific god to testify?" Rosetta? Augustus glanced at Gawain and asked calmly.

While asking the question, relevant historical materials came to his mind: According to the historical records, Gawain? Cecil himself had no clear beliefs.

"The gods are busy, so they don't need to bother them about this," Gawain smiled and asked rhetorically, "What do you think?" ”

"God is indeed busy...... "Rosetta nodded slightly, revealing a slight smile, "then let the Ancestors, and the Mysteries Lady Mirmina, witness all this." ”

In addition to ruling the realm of magic, Lady Myrmine, also known as the goddess of magic, is also regarded as a witness to all mysteries and hidden knowledge, and is often considered a "witness of nature" in the absence of the witness of a particular god. Of course, when entering into purely commercial contracts, businessmen usually regard the god of commerce "Boufal" as a "witness of nature", but since the power of the god of commerce is limited to the fairness and performance of commercial terms, when it comes to contracts at the national level with complex political terms like today's, this god of commerce is not as "applicable" as the "Lady of Mysteries".

This is knowledge in the field of theology, and Gawain doesn't believe in God, but he understands it.

The High Mage who presided over the ritual sketched the symbolic seal of the Mystic Lady Mirmina on two Mithril plates, and then Rosetta? Augustus put his hand on the document he had just signed and took the oath in the name of the ancestor of the House of Augustus, and Gawain also put his hand on the document that belonged to him, and asked the ancestors of the Cecil family to testify to the ones older than him.

Finally, at the instigation of the magical ritual, the contents of the two documents were rubbed onto the Mithril plate and blessed and solidified by the elemental powers.

For ordinary people and most of the less powerful transcendents, such a "contract" that has undergone ritual infusion has actual power, and the violator will undoubtedly suffer a magical backlash, and may even suffer a certain "divine punishment", but for people like Gawain and Rosetta? For people like Augustus, who possess great power in their own right, and whose "contracts" are signed in the name of the state, the binding force of ritual magic is usually limited to face......

Even Francis II and Rosetta at the beginning? The same is true of the peace agreement signed by Augustus in the Covenant Fort.

Everybody knows this.

Putting away the original contract and the "Mithril Oath" that they should keep, Gawain and Rosetta clasped their hands together, their eyes fell on each other, with similar smiles on their faces, and they said in unison, "For peace and prosperity." ”

The knights and guards standing around the table applauded in celebration of the memorable occasion.

At this moment, a hurried bell suddenly rang from outside the palace, and the greetings and politeness that should have been due after the signing of the documents were suspended in advance.

A familiar feeling welled up in his heart, Gawain clenched his fist slightly, and Rosetta listened to the rhythm of the bell for a moment, frowned slightly, and then shook his head and said, "It seems that even the monsters roaming the wasteland want to come to witness this special moment—this wave arrived a little earlier than usual." ”

As he spoke, a knight of Typhon in black armor ran into the hall and shouted, "Your Majesty! Aberrations are close to the line of defense! The number is about two hundred, and the direction is southwest! ”

Rosetta? Augustus nodded slightly: "I know, deal with it as usual." ”

Then he glanced at Gawain: "If you are interested, we can go to the city wall together." ”

Gao Wen immediately nodded: "Of course." ”

In the interior of the safe realm, the assault of the aberration is the tale of a troubadour, with exaggerated descriptions and romanticized plots about the cliché of a knight saving a princess, but beyond the Black Forest, on the only line of defense on the wasteland border, aberrant and monster-like attacks are the order of the day.

On the walls of the southwestern section of Typhon's camp, black-armored soldiers and battlemages in robes were already in full swing.

The powerful ballistas are pushed between the battlements, the glowing rune stones are set up at the back of the wall, the soldiers are adjusting the angles of the ballistas, the mages are communicating the magic stored in the rune stones and adjusting their status, and the heavy warriors in special steel armor are forming battle formations on the walls between the ballistas, they work in groups of three, one holding a shield in front, one holding a steel spear in the back, and the rest holding a long sword to respond at any time.

Gawain et al. and Rosetta? Augustus climbed the walls together, and Amber looked into the distance to see that in the southeast, on the corrupted plains outside the Great Wall, a group of red monsters with ominous clouds of smoke were speeding towards them, smoke billowing beside them, and the ground beneath their feet was becoming more and more corrupted.

Gawain noticed the well-organized Typhon soldiers, the ballistas and battle runestones they used, and their unique "three-man battle formation".

In the face of the aberration whose innate qualities far surpassed that of ordinary people, these Typhon soldiers and mages appeared to be unusually calm, and it was obvious that they had dealt with this situation more than once, and the unique "three-person battle formation" was also an effective means of dealing with the aberration in Gawain's opinion—by the standards of cold weapons.

Guards with heavy shields can resist the attacks of the aberrations in a short period of time, spearmen have the opportunity to inflict heavy damage on monsters with obvious targets, swordsmen can attack the weaknesses of the deviants when their comrades are entangled in monsters, or support the shieldmen who are in a bitter battle, and the battle formations of three are scattered to ensure that even if a large number of distortions climb the city wall, they can be delayed, divided, surrounded, and gradually resolved, and can support each other at any time.

All of these soldiers carry spare crossbows, and while the damage to the distorted is very limited, it is still large enough to threaten monsters that use ranged magic, along with the large ballistas on the walls and the magic of the battle mages.

Such an army is just as effective against humans, and even if it is of sufficient size, with the assistance of city-level shields, and a sufficient number of battle mages, they can be considered a huge threat when facing Cecil's magic guide corps.

As Gawain observed and pondered, the aberrations entered the range of the Typhonians.

The commander on the city wall gave the order, and the battle broke out in an instant.

The city defense ballista that had already been full of power made a muffled sound, and the crossbow "arrows" that were heavy and huge enough to hit the low-level transcendent knights with one blow flew into the distance in an instant, "smashing" a blood mist in the distortion, and between the continuously fired crossbow arrows, there were fireballs, lightning, ice and other spells from the mages, and the mages of Typhon in battle robes stood next to the rune stones at the back of the city wall, while extracting additional magic power while continuously creating deadly attack effects, bombarding the monsters in the distance. As long as the mage's mental strength is unstable and the spell casting efficiency decreases, there will immediately be a reserve caster to take over the position and continue to maintain the spell suppression on the city wall.

In the distance, the crimson, roaring or groaning monsters began to fall one by one, but some of them continued to move closer to the walls with their powerful life force, some of them raised their hands in the air, and clusters of energy arrows containing terrifying corrupting power took shape, and after a brief delay, they slammed into Typhon's camp.

A thick layer of magical shield rose from the wall, blocking the corrupting energy of the aberration, and with the very slight shaking of the shield, the distance between the attackers and the defenders was further reduced, and the Typhon soldiers who used the crossbow as a secondary weapon immediately wound their crossbows, and the crossbow arrows blessed by magical effects such as holy water rained down on the remaining monsters.

It seemed that these attackers couldn't even climb the walls, and the Typhonians' "three-man battle formation" didn't even have a chance to raise their shields and draw their swords - after all, there were only a few hundred of them, and in this extremely close proximity to the Gondor wasteland, it was already a very "light" attack.

Gawain vs. Rosetta? Augustus stood quietly on the city wall, watching the desecrated and corrupted monsters turn into wreckage on the plain one by one, and quickly enter a state of evaporation and dissipation, neither of them had the intention of doing it himself, and the people around them also seemed very calm and indifferent.

This is only a "daily" level of attack, and in this land, this kind of attack happens every few days, and both the Typhonians and the Ansu have long been accustomed to it.

In the process of watching those monsters gradually be destroyed, Gawain's intuition was suddenly touched, and he raised his head and looked at Rosetta standing next to him? Augustus.

The Emperor Typhon was silently staring into the distance, his gaze beyond the battlefield, past the deformed monsters that were about to be reduced to wreckage, and he was staring in the direction of the Gondor wasteland, staring motionless.

His gaze was deep and introverted, and his whole person was like a heavy and solemn obsidian sculpture.