Chapter 1065： Light and shadow (1/2)

The Cecils have a powerful warship-it is equipped with the longest range and most destructive rainbow light device made by humans so far. After being charged, it can launch a deadly beam from a distant sea to a land target. Irradiation, it is said that it is also equipped with live ammunition weapons that are equally powerful and can launch equally deadly cross-border shooting at greater distances.

On the battlefield of Killing Gods, it was such a battleship that launched the final blow to the God of War.

After that war, the Cecil warship did not leave the place it was patrolling. What disturbed many Typhon soldiers was that the warship named "Bitter Winter" is still active in the eastern coastal area. When the weather is clear, the sentries on the high mountains can even see the steel monster floating on the sea, with its high raised wings shining in the sun.

"Yes, Your Majesty, it's still over there," Perdinan said with a serious expression, with a trace of worry. "We thought that the Cecilians would return the ship to their home port for supplies at least before the end of winter, but now we look at it. The ship’s endurance on the ocean is far beyond our imagination... Currently it is still active in the eastern waters, but it has not been close to land."

"...The property of the empire does not only include land, but the ocean also has important meaning," Rosetta looked at Perdinan's eyes, "Where is our ship?"

"The Valor and the Red Knight just launched have arrived near the ship, but...now they can only watch from a distance," Pei Dinan's face was a bit ugly, "The Cecilian ship is A real battleship, like their land mobile fortress, the "Bitter Winter" was designed to be heavily armed at the beginning of its construction, and our ship cannot compete with it by force. Earl Owen Dyson All we can do now is surveillance, and on the other hand, we cannot build a warship that can rival the Bitter Winter in a short time."

Then he paused, and then said: "The Cecilians obviously also know this. They have no response to our surveillance, but remain anchored at the offshore boundary-a position that theoretically does not belong to our territorial waters. But the weapons of Bitter Winter can still cover the mountains on the east side of Winter Fort."

"...So, this is a kind of deterrence," Rosetta sighed, "absolute deterrence...It's really the style of Gawain Cecil."

Matilda sat quietly on the side. When Rosetta talked with Perdinant, she just listened quietly and said nothing. It was not until her father was temporarily quiet that she cautiously said her own Thought: "Are the Cecils parked the Bitter Winter near our coastline just to show force as a deterrent?"

Rosetta glanced at her daughter unexpectedly: "What do you seem to think?"

"I'm just worried... The Cecil kept the ship in place to prepare for the upcoming negotiation," Matilda said with a frown. "After all, this'war' is theoretically our first Provoked, even if there is a secret behind the scenes, the Cecilians will definitely ask Typhon to explain it-but no matter what their conditions are, we may find it difficult to accept."

"So, they need to further strengthen their own'right to speak'," Rosetta looked at Matilda approvingly, and then shook her head slightly, "Unfortunately, with Typhon's current situation, maintaining a stable situation is on the verge of At the limit, there are very few things we can do."

“If we can know the Cecil’s negotiating intentions in advance, we can at least maintain an initiative,” Matilda said immediately. “How much we can win at the negotiating table depends on what we do outside the negotiating table. How much effort."

Grand Duke Perdinant listened to the conversation between the emperor and the emperor, and after a short period of thought, he finally broke his silence again: "Winter Wolf Castle and the surrounding area are still in the hands of the Cecilians-they show no sign of retreating."

"Are you saying that the Cecilians plan to annex Winter Wolf and its surrounding areas?" Matilda looked at Archduke Perdinand and then shook her head slightly. "...Although it is possible, I always feel that That Gawain Cecil’s plan will not be so simple and rude..."

The room was quiet for a while, and Rosetta unconsciously rubbed the ruby ​​ring on her left hand with her right hand, and then said thoughtfully, "Anyway, there is only one week left before the meeting."

...

At the deepest part of the Obsidian Palace, there is a staircase leading to the underground of the palace, and a brass gate protected by layers of magic runes stands quietly at the end of the staircase.

This is not the location of a royal treasure house, nor does it involve the top secrets of the royal family, but it is still a restricted area, except for a few elites of the Royal Mage Association and members of the Augustus family, no one can approach it. The brass gates, even the guards guarding the stairs and gates, are sophisticated and expensive magic figures and mechanical devices-these soulless magic machines are loyal and reliable, and will never reveal their secrets.

There is only one reason for such tight protection: one of the mysteries of the Typhon Empire that magical technology far surpasses other countries for hundreds of years is in the depths of the brass gate.

Behind the gate, a large square hall is brightly lit, with complex and mysterious magic runes all over the walls and roof of the hall, a large number of buzzing and shimmering magic devices are arranged around, and there are countless guides. Metal and rune chains extend from those magic devices and converge along the grooves on the ground to the center of the hall. At the focal point where these chains and metal rails converge, there is an alloy made of alloy, covered with runes and precision crystals. The console is making a deep buzzing sound.

Windsor Mapel, the president of the Royal Mage Association, was busy at the console, but Diana, the "maid maid" in the Obsidian Palace, lay quietly on the console—the black-haired lady closed her eyes as if She has fallen asleep. The black maid dress she used to wear is replaced by a wide white gown. The belly of the gown opens a hole. What is exposed under the hole is not human skin, but a bionic that has been opened. Skin and alloy cover.

Under the alloy cover, in the normal human abdominal cavity, a large number of precision parts and devices are running in an orderly manner. The surface of the small magic mechanism flashes with runes. A copper core trembles slightly above the bionic spine, although it has continued to operate. For 700 years, its surface still looks as smooth as new.

In the rest of Diana's body, there are many pipes and thin chains extending from the position covered by the gown. They are connected to the corresponding ports on the edge of the operating table, or directly connected to certain grooves and pipes on the ground.

Windsor Mapel carefully checked the working conditions of these devices and fine-tuned the state of certain parts as needed. He straightened up from time to time, recording something on the floating notebook next to him, or using the operating desk The magic device performs some complicated operations, and her movements are fluent. It is obvious that she has done such work more than once.

After a long time, the president of the association finally finished what she had at hand. She bent down and carefully sorted out the delicate structure of Diana's abdomen, reclosed the cover and the bionic skin, and confirmed that the bionic skin closed and grew and merged. After that, she got up and nodded to the "maid maid" on the platform: "The maintenance has been completed, Ms. Diana."

The dark-haired maid lying on the platform as if sleeping opened her eyes instantly, and rows of data were quickly refreshed in the depths of the pierced eyeballs. After several faint buzzing sounds and the sound of mechanical devices running in her body, she sat down. He got up, and while tearing off the pipe connected to his body, smiled at Windsor Mapel: "Thank you for your maintenance, Ms. Mapel-I feel much more relaxed."