Gao Wen looked in the horizon's direction for a long time. In the first few minutes, the huge conflict of senses even made him unable to guess what he was seeing-no matter what it was, it was a far cry from the sun he saw in his previous life.
That broad and magnificent arc continued to rise, and in the initial stage it was much faster than the rising speed of the sun, so after a while, Gawain saw a small part of its arc, and that arc was indeed Glowing, the edges have hazy colors and unrealistic, cloud-like structures.
The light and heat of this world should be provided by this thing, but its light is not as dazzling as the sun, On the contrary, Gawain not only can look directly at the curved surface, even see some subtle lines from the curved edges.
After roughly judging the curvature of the thing, Gawain realized it was a thing with a diameter that was dozens or even hundreds of times larger than the sun—of course, its true size should be smaller than a normal star, but he felt It is too close to the planet.
At this distance, if it rises, it might cover about one-fifth of the sky...Of course, this is only Gawain's rough judgment, because seeing something new, his mind impacted really great, and inevitably, there will be a lot of things judged with the first reaction and there will be some mistakes.
Seeing a giant celestial body rising in front of you, the presence it brings is hard to describe.
Quickly searching the memory of Gawain Cecil, and sure enough, found countless equally spectacular "sunrises" in his memory. The thing in the sky was not an abnormal celestial phenomenon, but the most normal landscape in the world.
What about the information?
Gao Wen quickly made many interpretations based on his own knowledge, perhaps because the physical rules of this world differ completely from the universe of his hometown, maybe light and thermal efficiency of stars are quite low, and the planet under his feet is not very far away from the stars.
It's so near that you can see such a huge celestial phenomenon, but the planet is not so parched; it is also possible that it is not a sun at all, but a hole emitting light and heat, perhaps it is a magical thing...
But it is more likely that the planet under my feet is not orbiting a typical star, but is surrounding a giant gaseous star. Even I am standing on a satellite planet.
maybe that is the home planet of this satellite.
At this moment, the feeling of coming to "a foreign land" felt by Gao Wen was stronger than ever.
"Ancestor? Ancestor?" Heidi's voice came from the side, finally awakening Gao Wen, who was in a dull and contemplative state.
"Ah?" Gawain woke up and looked at his great-granddaughter beside him with a dull look.
The beautiful lady left the gloomy, cramped, and dangerous underground tunnel. At this time, she recovered a little of her former style. She leaned slightly towards Gawain: "Ancestor, you were in a daze just now, but we have to leave here first. "
Gao Wen looked around twice before he noticed the tunnel exit was at an open hillside. It was indeed not a wise move to stand stupidly here when the surrounding situation was unknown, so he nodded: "Let's go to a chief place first to check the surrounding situation. What I know is just terrain 700 years ago, and it may not be useful well today."
So the group of people marched towards the hillside not far away under Gao Wen's instructions, and on the way, Gao Wen couldn't help but look up at the huge "sun" several times.
"My ancestor, have you been watching the sun?" Rebecca walking behind Gao Wen couldn't help asking with a minor concern, "Is there any problem?"
Amber next to him casually said: "Your ancestors slept for 700 years without seeing the sun. Maybe seeing the sun, he might be recollecting."
Gao Wen ignored Amber, glanced at the great-granddaughter, shook his head slightly, and confirmed in his heart that what the locals in this world called the thing in the sky was 'the sun'.
No matter how you pronounce that word, in the minds of people in this world, the thing that the word refers to is the star, nothing else.
Gao Wen retrieved the memory of the original owner of the body again. After trying several keywords and vague information, he finally raised his head and looked at the slightly dim sky on the other side.
In the sky that had not yet been fully brightened and there were still many stars remaining, he found a "star" about the size of a grain of rice and brighter than all the stars.
Humans in this world call that special star "Ao" and gives it a lot of symbolic meaning in religion and magical rituals.
The two previous guesses may be overturned, only the third guess is reliable.
"Ao" is the star of this galaxy. It is so far away that it is unbelievably far away, yet its brilliance shining on the ground at Gawain's, almost as intense as the light of nearby stars.
In the cool wind of the early morning, Gao Wen finally climbed to the top of the hillside.
A piece of land that had been burnt down by the war, showing a weird state of festering in the distance.
It was like a strong acid splashing on the skin and flesh. The land was so rotten. Large tracts of rocks and soil turned grayish black. Irregular cracks could be seen everywhere. The vegetation on the land had long been decayed, and the remaining tree trunks were twisted into pieces like the devil's claws in the demonized state, far away, you can see the collapsed walls, the charred houses, and the Cecil family castle shrouded in smoke and dust.
Aberrant monsters like giants roaming the wasteland.
The fields and crops have long been annihilated in the demonic tide rolled up by the monsters, and they are completely indistinguishable.
"Our family territory..." Rebecca was lying on the hillside, clenching her teeth. Her eyes were a little red, tears of anger or sorrow were forming around in her eyes. The girl who inherited the status of the lord seemed to have lost everything at this moment.
"The land corrupted by the Demon Tide is like this," Gawain sighed. "Back then, the Gondor Empire was corrupted from the inside out and became like this. I guess that until today, corruption should still be entrenched in the old empire. On this lad again, new corruption has appeared in the realm of civilization."
Amber broke out in a cold sweat: "The God of Shadow is here... We were surrounded by these things before?"
Heidi thought about the possibility of the family's recovery: "Is there any rescue?"
"It's not saved," Gao Wen shook his head, "You did not block the attack of the aberrations. They have formed a group resonance. The elemental infection caused by the demonic tide is almost irreversible. Even if all the monsters are eliminated, they have already polluted this land. This state will continue for a long time."
"How long will it last?" Heidi seemed unwilling to give up.
"Is human civilization returning to the land of the Gondor Empire now?" Gao Wen asked a seemingly irrelevant question.
"..." it is still a life forbidden zone, and the land on the other side of the magnificent barrier is something no one dares to set foot in."
Gao Wen shrugged: "It seems that the corruption of Cecil's collar will continue for at least seven hundred years."
Rebecca and Heidi looked at the ancestor with some surprise. They couldn't understand why this great figure who created the Cecil family was so calm when facing the scene of the last piece of the family territory being destroyed by monsters—— There was neither anger nor sorrow, it was as if they were looking at things that had nothing to do with them, and this attitude even made them a little scared.
But Gao Wen quickly noticed the look in the two of them and asked, "Is there any problem?"
"My ancestor, aren't you... angry?" Rebecca asked cautiously, "This is the last territory of the Cecil family..."
Gao Wen was taken aback for a moment, and immediately realized that he still hadn't fully placed himself in the role, which revealed the flaws, so he hurriedly stood up and broke out all his acting skills: "Indulging in these things will not help. I am a pioneer. I earned every inch of land and wealth of this family from scratch. If there is no territory, just be no more. The big deal is to find alternative places to open up the land-why should I be angry about losing something?"
Heidi and Rebecca hurriedly nodded their heads and admiring the ancestors in their hearts. They realized he was a truly legendary ancestor. His vision and mind were really different. It has been planned by the existing aristocratic system, that the land of no owner is basically a forbidden zone. Where did the ancestors plan to open up wasteland...
"There is nothing to look at here. We have to plan the itinerary next. The next step is to find the town first, and then figure out a way to meet the group of people who rescued out in the first place," Gao Wen quickly changed the subject while pretending to be he was still there., "I remember a knight named Philip led them to breakthrough? Did you discuss the meeting point?"
Rebecca quickly replied: "It was agreed that the town of Tanzanite in the north. If Tanzanite is also attacked by monsters, continue north along Kingdom Avenue."
Gawain nodded and was about to leave when a strange feeling suddenly stopped him.
After a moment of silence, he and the Knight Byron next to him shouted almost at the same time: "Get down! Hide!"
Although they didn't know why Rebecca and Heidi immediately followed the Byron Knight to hide under a nearby boulder, and Amber had already escaped into the shadows.
Gawain followed Rebecca to hide but suddenly saw that little maid Betty, who looked a little silly, was still holding the pan and standing blankly on the spot, so he rushed out and dragged her. And almost at the next moment, a sense of oppression made everyone's heart tremble fell from the sky.
In the rising light of the "giant sun", an elegant and huge creature slowly flew across the sky.
It was a dragon with a body length of tens of meters.
In a panic, Heidi subconsciously cast a third-order spell "Curved Light Position" to conceal everyone's body, but she was totally unsure whether this superficial spell could hide the eyes of a legendary creature.
But the dragon really didn't find anyone on the ground-or maybe it didn't even bother to pay attention to it. It just flapped its wings slowly, flying gracefully and majestically across the sky, and the land of Cecil's land was destroyed by the demonic wave reflected in those gigantic eyes.
Then it took a sip of cold air... oh, released the breath and burned the place.