Gwen looked at the horizon for a long time. In the first few minutes, the huge cognitive conflict made him unable to guess what he was looking at. No matter what it was, it was far away from the sun.
The broad and magnificent arc continued to rise, and in the initial stage, it rose much faster than the sun. So, Gwen soon saw a small part of its arc. The arc was indeed glowing, with hazy colors and cloud-like structures on the edge. The light and heat of this world should be provided by this thing, but its light was not as dazzling as the sun. In fact, it was the opposite. Gwen could not only look at the arc directly, but he could also see some subtle lines on the arc.
After roughly estimating the arc of the object, Gawain realized that it was an object whose visual diameter was tens or even hundreds of times larger than the sun. Of course, its true size should be smaller than a normal star, but it was too close to the earth.
At this distance, if it were to rise, it would probably cover about one-fifth of the sky … Of course, this was only Gawain's rough perception. Because he had been greatly affected, it was inevitable that his intuition would deviate greatly.
Looking at a giant celestial body rising in front of his eyes, the pressure it brought was indescribable.
He quickly searched Gwen Cecil's memory. Sure enough, he found countless similarly spectacular "sunrises" in that memory. The thing in the sky was not an abnormal astronomical phenomenon, but the most normal scene in this world.
So, how to explain it?
Gwen quickly made a lot of explanations based on his knowledge. Perhaps the physical laws of this world were very different from the universe in his hometown, so the efficiency of light and heat of the star was quite low. But the planet under his feet was very close to the star, so he could see such a huge sun, and at the same time, the earth was not scorched. It was also possible that it was not a sun at all, but a hole that emitted light and heat radiation, or something else that was not scientific at all but very magical.
But more likely, the planet under his feet was not orbiting the sun, but a gas giant planet. It was not a planet at all, but a satellite of the latter, rising in the sky.
It was the home planet of this satellite.
At this moment, Gwen's feeling of being in a foreign land was stronger than ever.
"Ancestor? Lord Ancestor? " Heidi's voice came from the side and finally woke Gawain who was in a daze and deep in thought.
"Ah … Ah?" Gwen snapped out of his daze and stared at his great-granddaughter in bewilderment.
The beautiful noblewoman left the dark, cramped, and dangerous underground tunnel. She had regained some of her former elegance. She bowed slightly to Gwen and said, "Ancestor, you were in a daze just now, but we have to leave this place first."
Gwen mumbled perfunctorily. Only then did he notice that the exit of the tunnel was a small hill with no cover. It was not wise to stand there stupidly when the surrounding situation was unknown. So he nodded. "Let's go up and check out the surroundings first. What I know is the terrain from seven hundred years ago. It may not be useful today. "
So the group moved toward the hill not far away under Gwen's instructions. On the way, Gwen could not help but look up at the huge "sun" a few times.
"Lord Ancestor, you've been looking at the sun?" Rebecca, who was walking behind Gwen, could not help but ask with concern. "Is there a problem?"
Amber said casually. "Your ancestor has slept for seven hundred years without seeing the sun. It's not easy to see the sun, so of course he would look at it more."
Gwen ignored Amber and glanced at his great-granddaughter on the N + 1 floor. He shook his head slightly and confirmed the name of the thing in the sky. It was also called the sun.
In other words, no matter how the word was pronounced, in the minds of the people in this world, the word referred to the sun and nothing else.
Gwen once again searched the memory of the original owner of this body. After trying several keywords and vague information, he finally raised his head and looked at the slightly dusky sky on the other side.
In the sky that was not completely bright and still had many stars, he found a "star" that was about the size of a grain of rice and brighter than all the other stars.
The people of this world called the special star "Ao" and gave it a lot of religious and magical symbolism.
The previous two conjectures could be overturned, but only the third conjecture was reliable.
"Ao" was the star of this galaxy. It was unbelievably distant. Its light shone on the ground under Gwen's feet, almost as cold as the other stars.
In the cool morning wind, Gwen climbed to the top of the hill.
A land that was burned by the war and showed a strange state of festering appeared in the distance.
It was as if a strong acid had been splashed onto flesh. The ground was rotten beyond recognition, and large patches of rocks and soil had turned into a grayish-black color. Cracks could be seen everywhere, and the vegetation on the ground had long since rotted away. The remaining tree trunks were twisted into a demonized form that resembled the claws of a devil. Further away, one could see collapsed walls, charred houses, and the Cecil Family's castle shrouded in smoke and dust.
The giant-like mutant monsters wandered on the wasteland.
The fields and crops had long been annihilated in the demonic wave rolled up by the monsters and could not be distinguished at all.
"My family's territory …" Rebecca lay on the hillside and clenched her teeth tightly. Her eyes were a little red, and there were tears of either anger or sorrow rolling in her eyes. The girl who had just inherited the family business and had not even gotten used to her identity as a lord seemed to have lost everything at this moment.
"This is what a land corrupted by the demonic wave looks like." Gwen sighed. "The Kingdom of Gondor had been corrupted from the inside out. I guess the corruption should still be entrenched in the wasteland of the old empire. But new corruption has appeared in the territory of civilization."
Amber broke out in cold sweat. "God of Shadows above … We have been surrounded by these things all this time?"
Heti was thinking about the possibility of her family's recovery. "Is there any hope?"
"There is no hope." Gwen shook his head. "You did not stop the attack of the mutants. They have formed a group resonance, and the elemental contamination caused by the demonic wave is irreversible. Even if all the monsters are destroyed, the corruption in this land will last for a long time. "
"How long will it last?" Heti seemed to be a little reluctant to give up.
"Has human civilization returned to the land of the Kingdom of Gondor now?" Gwen asked a seemingly irrelevant question.
"… It is still a forbidden zone. No one dares to set foot on the land on the other side of the magnificent barrier."
Gwen shrugged. "It seems that the corruption of Cecil's territory will continue for at least 700 years."
Rebecca and Heti looked at their ancestor in amazement. They could not understand how the great founder of the Cecil family could be so calm in the face of the destruction of the family's last territory by the monsters. He was neither angry nor sad, as if he was looking at something that had nothing to do with him. This attitude even made them a little scared.
But Gwen soon noticed the look in their eyes and asked, "Is there a problem?"
"Ancestor, aren't you … angry?" Rebecca asked cautiously. "This is the last territory of the Cecil family …"
Gawain was stunned for a moment. He immediately realized that he had not fully immersed himself in his role and exposed a flaw. So, he quickly put on a straight face and used all his acting skills. "It's useless to indulge in these things. Gwen Cecil is a pioneer. Every inch of the family's land and wealth was built by me from scratch. If the territory is gone, so be it. At most, we will find a new place to explore. Why are you being so wishy-washy? "
Heti and Rebecca quickly nodded. As they nodded, they were full of admiration for their ancestor. They thought to themselves that he was indeed a Legendary-level ancestor. His vision and breadth of mind were indeed different. They just did not know where their ancestor was going to explore in this era where all the land had been divided up by the existing aristocratic system and the ownerless land was basically a forbidden zone.
Where would their ancestor be going? "There is nothing to see here. We have to plan our next step. The first step is to find a town and then find a way to meet up with the group that broke out." Gwen quickly changed the subject while he was still acting cool. "I remember it was a Knight named Philip who broke out of the encirclement. Did you guys agree on the rendezvous point? "
Rebecca quickly replied, "The rendezvous point was Tanzania Town in the north. If Tanzania is attacked by monsters, we will continue north along the Kingdom Avenue."
Gao Wen nodded. Just as he was about to leave, a strange feeling made him stop in his tracks.
After a moment, he and Byron and Knight shouted almost at the same time. "Get down! Hide! "
Rebecca and Heidi had no idea what was going on, but they still followed Knight Byron and hid under a nearby boulder. Amber, on the other hand, had already slipped into the shadows the moment Gawain opened his mouth to hide in an unknown corner. Gwen followed closely behind Rebecca and hid. Suddenly, he saw the little maid, Betty, who looked a little silly, still standing there with a pan in her hand. Gwen quickly rushed out and pulled her back. Almost at the next moment, a sense of oppression that made everyone tremble in fear descended from the sky.
In the gradually rising light of the "Giant Sun", an elegant and huge creature slowly flew across the sky.
It was a Giant Dragon with a body length of tens of meters.
Heti instinctively cast a Tier 3 spell, "Refracted Light Field" in panic, hiding everyone's body. But she was not sure if this shallow spell could hide from the eyes of a legendary creature.
But the Giant Dragon did not notice the people on the ground — or maybe it did not care at all. He or she just slowly flapped its wings, gracefully and majestically flying across the sky, its huge eyes reflecting the land of Cecil that was destroyed by the Demonic Tide.
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