Treasure?
Gawain was slightly taken aback. He then turned around and saw the half-elf lady jumping around excitedly not far away. She was even holding a shiny object in her hand. She looked like she was asking for credit from the beginning to the end.
Although this guy always looked like he was greedy and liked to take advantage of others, he still jumped out to report it as soon as he discovered something.
Gwen beckoned the half-elf over and looked at her curiously. "What did you find?"
"Look," Amber happily handed the object in her hand to Gwen. "A ring!"
It was a silver-white ring, with a simple shape and some magical waves. It was obviously a magical creation. The moment he saw the ring, Gwen's eyes froze.
After a strong sense of familiarity, he finally remembered where he had seen something similar.
It was a ring from the Mithril Vault! It was a communication ring distributed to the high-ranking customers of the Mithril Vault, used to contact their agents!
"This should be a keepsake of the Mithril Vault, right?" Amber had also seen Gwen's Mithril Ring. The half-elf was as sensitive as a Giant Dragon to any shiny precious metal, so she had already recognized it. "I remember you have one too."
"It is indeed a keepsake of the Mithril Vault..." Gwen muttered to himself. "That dragon dropped it? Even the Dragons are customers of the Mithril Vault? "
"This... I'm afraid there's still room for discussion." Amber stuck out her tongue, and then took out another thing from behind her. "Because I found more than one ring..."
What Hu Po took out was an exquisite metal box the size of a palm.
The metal box had obviously been locked, but now its lid had been smashed open, and the lock was twisted out of shape. Inside the box, there was a box of Mithril Rings, stuffed one by one into a black groove...
This time, it was Gawain's turn to be dumbfounded.
"This box is full of Mithril Rings, right?" Amber saw the change in Gwen's expression. "Carrying a ring with him and saying that he's a customer of the Mithril Vault, carrying a box of rings with him..."
Gwen's expression became serious. "That dragon either robbed the Mithril Vault, or... he was a member of the Mithril Vault. Maybe he was responsible for keeping the membership certificate."
This was a very simple and easy to understand principle. If a person carried a house key with him, then he was an ordinary person. If he carried several house keys with him, then he could be a tycoon. If he carried half a kilogram of house keys with him … then he was either a key dealer or a dormitory manager …
If this box of Mithril Rings was really left by the dragon, then the possibility behind it was very intriguing.
Of course, Gwen did not rule out the possibility that a Dragon robbed the Mithril Vault and took away a box of communicators. But his intuition told him that it was more likely that the Dragon was related to the Mithril Vault.
When this possibility appeared, Gwen suddenly felt that many mysteries of the Mithril Vault could be explained. Their strength, their secrecy, their influence on the continent for thousands of years, and their secret of not being affected by the demonic wave, suddenly became understandable. Because this organization was not created by "ordinary people" at all. Behind this organization was the shadow of the Dragons.
But this led to more questions. Why did the extremely mysterious Dragons, who never appeared in public, create such a "commercial organization"? What was the purpose of their activities on the continent? Was the Mithril Vault really just a "treasure vault"? Were there more forces like the Mithril Vault that were controlled or established by reclusive races on the continent?
Gwen's thoughts suddenly drifted far away, but he soon forced himself to stop thinking about these things.
Now, he only found a box of Mithril Rings, and these "tokens" happened to appear in the place where a Giant Dragon had been active. There were not enough clues at all. Even if these rings were really left by the Dragon, even if the Dragon was really a member of the Mithril Vault, there could be more than one explanation behind this. What if the rich and powerful Mithril Vault happened to have a Giant Dragon employee?
Without enough clues, it was too early to conclude that the Giant Dragon was the actual controller of the Mithril Vault. But now that he had some clues, Gwen decided to connect the Dragons and the Mithril Vault, the two equally mysterious forces. If he could find more clues about them in the future, he would continue to investigate this matter.
After putting away the Mithril Rings, Gwen let out a sigh of relief. At the same time, he secretly planned to contact Melita when he had the chance in the future. The senior agent of Pânia. Maybe … he could find some information from her.
He looked up and looked around. The Steel Rangers were on guard nearby, and Solderlin was leading two warriors to collect material samples from the bottom of the crater and draw the claw prints left by the Giant Dragon.
Other than that, there were no more valuable clues in the crater. It was already very late, and staying in the Black Forest would bring more uncertain risks.
Now was not the time to launch a large-scale operation in the dangerous area covered by the Black Forest.
With this in mind, Gwen shouted to Solderlin, "After collecting the samples, let's go back."
"Yes, Sir!"
When the team returned to the Shadow Experimental Field cave, the sky was completely dark.
A large number of portable magic stones were set up inside and outside the cave. The man-made lights of civilization illuminated this dark place for the first time in hundreds of years. Emergency construction materials from Cecil City were constantly being sent here, along with various construction machines and more engineers who had been cast with weight-reducing spells.
When Gwen returned to the cave, Byron and Knight were leading the soldiers to guard the temporary line of defense near the crack. A strong-looking middle-aged man in heavy work clothes with a big beard was directing the workers to clear the rubble around the crack. It seemed that he was preparing for the follow-up construction.
Gwen recognized the middle-aged man. He was a stonemason in Cecil City. His name was Gordon. During the first Cecil Defensive Battle, he received a special award for his outstanding performance. Now, this stonemason was one of the heads of the construction department in Cecil City.
"Mr. Gordon." Gwen came to the head of the construction department. "How's the progress?"
Gordon, who used to be a stonemason and was now one of the officials in the government office, hurriedly saluted. "My Lord! We have cleared the space outside the cave. By this time tomorrow, my brothers and I will be able to build a two-meter-high wall. "
"Very good." Gwen nodded. "Thank you for your hard work tonight. We have to build the fortification as soon as possible. It's not safe outside."
Gordon looked at the dark Black Forest in the distance nervously and fearfully. Although he was tall and strong, in front of the famous Black Forest, any ordinary person would have to face the test of courage. Fortunately, General Byron and the brave Cecil Army were here, and the personal encouragement of the lord, the reliable magic cannons and the legendary heroic duke were more courageous than anything else.
Gordon nodded firmly. "I promise to complete the task!"
Gwen nodded and led Amber and Solderlin into the depths of the cave. In the middle of the cave, he saw Heti who had been waiting there for a long time.
Heti had obviously been worried for a long time. When she saw Gwen, she immediately came up to him. Her face was filled with undisguised relief and relief. "I'm glad to see that you're safe. Did you find anything?"
"We did find something incredible, but let's talk about it when we get back." Gawain waved his hand. "I saw the construction team just now. Gordon was involved in the construction of part of the Rock Fortress in the north, right?"
"Yes, he's an expert in this field. He led the team to reinforce the north gate of the Rock Fortress and participated in the reconstruction of the Rock Castle. When winter came, these projects were taken over by the local construction team of the Rock City," Heti said while looking at Gwen curiously. "Ancestor, what's your plan?"
"The passage between Cecil and the southern foot of the Gloom Mountains has been opened." Gwen nodded slightly. "I want to keep this passage open. I want to set up a portal here."
Heti blinked and looked up at the huge cavern. The high-powered magic crystal lamps used at the construction site lit up the once dim Shadowy Experiment Field. A large number of engineering equipment, construction materials, and weapons were piled up on the rock platforms in the cavern. In fact, when she saw her ancestor mobilizing so many materials from Cecil City, she vaguely guessed what her ancestor was thinking.
"We can't hide in the north of the Gloom Mountains forever. In the face of the threat of the Demonic Wave, the border of civilization will fall back if we don't move forward," Gwen said. "When the Ansu retreated, we lost one-third of the southern territory. The southern barrier of the kingdom was also destroyed. So we can't be content with the status quo."
He looked at the huge rift in the south of the cavern, and the dark night came into view.
"It's too difficult to cross the Gloom Mountains from the ridge. The Defiant Fortress is our natural passage. The rift leads directly to a gentle slope in the southern foot of the Gloom Mountains. It's not easy to defend, but it's easy to push out. We can directly enter the Black Forest from here. I'm going to use the Shadowy Experiment Field as the foundation and transform it into a 'South Gate Fortress'. The man-made fortress armed with railguns, rainbow cannons, and reinforced concrete is no worse than the original rock wall. By then, we will have a gateway to the south. "
Heti understood Gwen's intention. After a short moment of thought, she slowly nodded. "Yes, I'll arrange it."
Gwen did not say anything. He looked at the dark sky in the south of the cavern, and his eyes slowly became firm.
The impact crater in the Black Forest, the mysterious extraterrestrial object, the Giant Dragon, the dark curtain behind the Mithril Vault, and the rift at the end of the Defiant Fortress …
The world seemed to be getting more and more unstable. As the ruler of this land, he must seize every available value in this unstable world.
If used properly, the dangerous rift could also become a gateway to the south.
It was the first day of the Month of Recovery, 737 Ansu.
On the first day of spring, the construction of the South Gate Fortress of Cecil began. The descendants of the Kingdom of Gondor, after seven hundred years of peace, set foot on the edge of the wasteland for the first time.
On the same day, the temporary ceasefire between the Ansu army and the army of the east came to an end. The atmosphere on the front line of the confrontation in the east of the Sacred Plains became tense again.
On the same day, far away from Cecil, at the edge of the forest somewhere in the southwest of the Gloom Mountains, a huge pit was filled with smoke and dust.
A young woman in a lavender gauze dress and a lavender veil was sitting on the edge of the dust-filled pit, quietly thinking about her tens of thousands of years of "human" life.
"I shouldn't have swung my tail in the last circle. I should have glided to decelerate. By the way, have I gained weight recently? No, it must be the wind direction. Hey, where's my box?"
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