Chapter 205 - A Door? (1/2)

The long period of time hanging in the sky as a surveillance satellite did not change the innate character of Gawain but brought him a distinct perspective on the universe —— when necessary, he could use the attitude of almost a complete bystander to analyze the transitions in this world and sum up some possible rules from the frequent changes that lasted thousands and tens of thousands of years. And these rules, to the species living on the ground (including those elves who had lifespans of a few thousand years), were difficult to summarize.

Precisely because he had witnessed the rise and fall of civilization multiple times, Gawain could speculate that the Dark Wave happened more than once —— even if he hadn’t caught any one of those times, the surveillance images before and after the occurrences were enough for him to guess what had happened in between.

And in another of Gawain’s guesses, he thought that the scale of the Dark Wave was uncertain.

A large-scale Dark Wave might cause the civilizations on the entire planet to be remolded, while a small-scale Dark Wave’s effects would be more localized; the annihilation of the Gondor Empire 700 years ago was probably just a “small Dark Wave”.

Although it destroyed the most powerful empire in human history, its range was only the central region of the continent. Forget others, even the elves’ Silver Empire and the western Dwarf Kingdom were barely affected.

Or… perhaps the event 700 years ago shouldn’t be considered an official Dark Wave but was merely the “prelude” of a real one?

All sorts of guesses and associations emerged involuntarily in Gawain’s mind. Many of those contents were actually from his imagination, coming out of thin air. Beside him, seeing that Gawain wasn’t responding for a long time, Amber finally couldn’t hold back and poked his arm. “Hey, hey, what are you thinking about?”

“Just thought of a matter,” Gawain jolted and casually replied. “Say, if one day, all the resources in the world that humans are familiar with changed — for example, the properties of all kinds of magic-conducting materials have been altered — what would happen?”

Amber faltered for a moment. “Why is the leap in your thoughts so big…?”

Gawain knocked Amber’s head. “Just say what would happen.”

“Everything would definitely be a chaotic mess,” Amber answered offhand. “Especially the Mages. They probably wouldn’t be able to find spellcasting mediums all at once, and many spell materials would have to be reviewed…”

When Gawain heard Amber’s answer, he kept silent for a good while before letting out a light sigh. “The civilization of mortals is really weak… isn’t it?”

Amber’s ears quivered. “You really speak oddly.”

Gawain stood up, turning to look at Holme and the other members who were waiting at the side. These people didn’t dare to come forward to disrupt their feudal lord while he was in thought. Seeing Gawain stand up now, they then came a little closer.

“This type of ore needs a name.” Gawain nodded at Holme. “I will name it Holme raw ore.”

“Lo—Lord?” Holme, who had still been a serf not too long ago was greatly startled upon hearing Gawain. He repeated with eyes wide in disbelief, “Holme raw ore? This… I… this is not befitting of my status! How can I have this privilege…?”

“In the domain of exploring the unknown, discoverers are forever noble. No need to decline.” Gawain waved his hand. “Henceforth, we might find even more valuable objects on this land. Naming them after the discoverer would be a simple and convenient way —— and it could very well fire up the job enthusiasm of explorers.”

“Yes… Thank you!” Holme abruptly straightened up. For so many years, it would be the first time his back, which was hunched forward due to heavy work, was straightened. This even caused a cracking sound to come from his back; then pain spread throughout his whole back, but he still put in effort to keep his body straight. “I… I…”

This civilian with shallow insight, who would be considered barely able to read and write by noble standards, could not find the suitable words to describe his own feelings, and Gawain wasn’t bothered by this either. He only waved his hand. “Everyone in the exploration team deserves credit. I will have Heidi put this on record and convert them into rewards according to the contribution list.”

Then, he looked towards the direction of the mountainous path —— earlier, he had already seen a combatant run over. The soldier stopped on the path and had been waiting for him.

“What’s the situation?” Gawain approached the soldier and asked.

“Lord, I brought the report from the ruins.” The soldier stood straight, bowed, and reported, “Sir Byron found an unusual piece of magical equipment and a strange hall with runes that spread all over in the lower level. He hopes that you can go take a look personally.”

Another new area was found deep in the ruin?!

Gawain brows knitted together. He immediately gestured to Amber. “Make a trip with me.”

The two went down the mountainous path, led by the soldier. After a rather long journey, they finally arrived at the deepest part of the ancient facility.

“It’s really big in here…” Looking around at the tall and wide corridor and the dim magic crystal lamps on both sides of it, Amber could not help but sigh. “Even walking in here on a straight path took so long…”

“And this is still the outcome after Sir Byron had cleared the way.” Gawain nodded. He’d noticed that the magic crystal lamps on the two sides of the corridor were newly installed. Considering the problem with cost and the output rate of the portable Honeycomb Magic Web, those magic crystals were fixed with great intervals between them. As such, the overall illumination of the corridor seemed extremely dim. However, compared to the original pitch blackness, this corridor that had regained illumination once more was still much better than before.

In that circular hall, Gawain saw the middle-aged Knight who he had not seen for a long time.

The many days of exploring the ruins did not make this Knight seem haggard and exhausted: his condition was even unusually good, as if he had found the feeling of being a mercenary in his former days once more. Byron looked to be in high spirits. He came forward once he spotted Gawain. “Lord, you should look at this! I bet that the two sets of writings at the entrance are describing the uses of this room —— but we couldn’t figure out what they meant even after studying them for a long while.”