Amber blinked her eyes and looked at Gao Wen as if she was unconsciously writing phrases on paper. She could see all the words clearly, but after they were combined, she had never seen them before. The half-elf's head rumbled for a while, and finally confirmed that the thing seemed to be unfathomable, so she simply withdrew her gaze and began to look at the scenery outside the window and became stunned.

Gao Wen raised his eyelids and glanced at the guy: "I thought you would ask."

Amber suddenly became proud: "I guess you would say it."

"Then I won't say it anymore. Anyway, there is no sign of this matter," Gao Wen waved his hand without any psychological burden, and then saw the half-elf in front of him bulging his face as expected - this made him more pleasant and immediately changed the subject, "Have we received a response to the invitation we sent to neighboring countries?"

"How long has it been sent out just now? How could it be so fast - even you have just returned to the imperial capital," Amber wanted to continue asking what the word Gao Wen wrote meant, but after the other party changed the topic, she had to answer, "They must discuss and discuss, and maybe they have to conspire to theory, guess whether the two human empires are planning to divide the interests of the entire continent..."

"Indeed, they have to weigh the trade-offs. After all, no one has done this before," Gao Wen smiled, with a calm expression on his face. "But they will most likely agree in the end, or at least send representatives to check it out and confirm what this matter is. Cecil and Tifeng are the 'leader strength' of the two major settlement areas on the mainland today. All kingdoms that have trade with the two empires cannot ignore this invitation. Even if they do not pay attention to the previous war, they will also pay attention to the economic operation of the settlement area afterwards... What is really troublesome are those countries outside the settlement area."

"The Violet Kingdom, and the Dwarf Kingdom, several city-state consortia in the southeast corner of the continent, right..." Amber's eyes turned, and the corresponding information came to his mind. "They are both relatively closed countries, or countries with natural geographical barriers within the continent. In fact, the Dwarf Kingdom and those marginal city-conflict alliances are fine. The maritime trade line will sooner or later pull them into the settlement area of ​​the two empires, and only the hermit-like Violet Kingdom... is difficult to deal with."

"Is it a hermit-like kingdom..." Listening to Amber's muttering, Gao Wen's expression couldn't help but become a little complicated: When many countries on this continent began to gradually open their doors to this new era, one country seemed to be stagnant in another world, which would inevitably make people curiosity flooded. "This country built on a huge island will always remain close to the countries on the continent... But there are not many mages traveling from the Violet Kingdom to the mainland, and there are also merchants in the northern region doing business with the other side of the sea. They do not seem to be completely closed..."

"Yes, the people are not completely closed. The Violet Kingdom does not prohibit its citizens from traveling to the mainland countries, nor does it prohibit cities in coastal areas to engage in foreign trade. However, their capital, the Thousand Towers, is never open to anyone, and their royal family does not contact people on the Loren continent. So far, all our exchanges with them have been done indirectly through the Violet Parliament or the Secondary Envoy."

"...This makes people even more curious," Gao Wen murmured while touching his chin, "It's so close to us, but it seems even more mysterious than the Dragon Clan - now even the Holy Dragon Principality has opened its doors to us."

"Should we take some more proactive communication plan? Well... or investigation?" Amber thought for a while, stretched out his hand and gestured, "I mean sending some spies or something..."

Gao Wen glanced at the half-elf, and the latter also looked at him with confidence, as if he was a intelligence leader who was completely working hard and ready to make trouble.

"You are indeed a qualified intelligence minister," Gao Wen sighed, "But have you never tried to send people to penetrate the Violet Kingdom? Is this effective?"

"This...well, the Military Intelligence Bureau did send some people. We tried to investigate the situation of the Violet Kingdom with the help of merchants or adventurers, but the progress was not smooth. Basically, we could only move around their coastal cities. It was difficult to penetrate inland - and those coastal cities looked no different from other places in the Loren continent. But if you order, I can formulate some new plans here..."

"No need, that's enough," Gao Wen shook his head. "We cannot regard every country that is unwilling to open its doors as its enemy. Exceeding the necessary temptation is an offense - they have their way of survival, and closing the doors is their freedom. We cannot require everyone in the world to abide by Cecil's values."

Amber shrugged: "Okay, you have the final say."

Gao Wen nodded and was about to ask about something else, but just before he spoke, the magic net terminal set next to the desk suddenly rang.

After the terminal was connected, the holographic projection in the air shook twice, and Veronica's figure appeared in the air, and her expression looked a little strange: "Your Majesty, we are analyzing the remains of the God of War recovered from the battlefield, and we have made some discoveries."

Gao Wen immediately put the previous topic behind his mind for a while, and his expression suddenly became serious: "Wait a moment, I'll go there immediately!"

...

Deep in the dark mountains, disobeying the fortress.

The continuous development of the empire and the improvement of various facilities in Cecil did not abandon this ancient fortress. Instead, with the resumption of the unjust plan and the deepening of various research projects on gods, this facility, which was once specifically used to study gods and demons, was once again used.

The space inside the mountain, which has been over thousands of years, has been reinforcing, the ancient corridors and rooms have been cleaned up and painted, and new experimental equipment and staff have settled in it. Many laboratories and warehouses are now in hand. With the leadership of Veronica and Carmier and the permission of Gao Wen, the middle and lower levels that disobey the fortress have become the new "divine research base" of the Cecil Empire, specifically used to crack the mysteries related to gods.

To achieve this goal, Gao Wen even set up a neural network computing node in the Dark Mountains to import Narithir's power into the disobedient fortress - the former "upper narrator" can itself provide the necessary data analysis services for the laboratory here, and it is also a powerful security barrier to protect the fragile ordinary people in the facility from the damage of the gods' legacy.

At this moment, in a large laboratory at the deepest level of the Fortress, a group of technicians were analyzing the dangerous wreckage collected from the Winter Fort battlefield.

The rectangular experimental hall is brightly lit, and various magic devices are buzzing everywhere in the room. Several neatly arranged platforms are set up in the center of the room. Each platform is now placed with some fragments of wreckage from the God of War. Some are iron-gray armor fragments, some are entangled and growing dark red fibers, and some are stones that seem to be completely soaked by blood and corroded. No matter which one is, they all exudes strong magic fluctuations and eye-catching atmosphere.

Around each platform, four metal cylinders carved with complex runes stand, and a thick layer of magic halo floats between the cylinders, which is used to isolate the dangerous samples of the interior from the outside.

More than a dozen researchers were busy everywhere, recording the magic fluctuations released by the wreckage and the changes they showed over time. The expression on each face was solemn and faintly excited. Carmire, who served as the director of the laboratory here, floated around among the researchers, directing and supervising the operation of the scene. Veronica, holding a platinum scepter, stood far away from them. The glory next to the saint princess was slightly ups and downs, but her expression was already in deep thought.

Gao Wen and Amber entered the room at this moment.

Veronica immediately noticed Gao Wen's breath. She immediately woke up from her thoughts and turned around and walked: "Your Majesty, you are here."

"Well, I'll check the situation." Gao Wen said, and first looked up at the entire scene. In addition to the busy technicians, he also discovered some extraordinary "existences" at the first time:

On the roof of the laboratory, some hazy and vague lines spread out from the air, and intertwined over the entire room into a spider-web-like shape. This nearly transparent spider-web protects everything here. In the center of the spider-web, Gao Wen vaguely saw a lazy white spider lying on it.

That was the "upper narrator" who had shrunk countless numbers - she looked a little bored and might have fallen asleep.

"When technicians need to directly contact the relics of the gods, Naretiel will provide shelter and pollution warnings on site," Veronica noticed Gao Wen's sight and immediately explained, "This is one of the experimental processes designed by Kamier, and it is proven that this is very effective."

"Yes," Gao Wen nodded, and said casually as he stepped forward, "Tell me about the situation, what have you discovered?"

"In short..." Carmier floated over from the side and saluted slightly in front of Gao Wen. A buzzing sound came from his body, "We found these wreckage... now there is no mental damage to mortals."

Gao Wen stopped halfway through, and he seemed to be stunned on the spot.

Amber, who was walking forward behind him, hit his head directly on his back - with a uch, it bounced out nearly one meter away.

"No mental damage?" Gao Wen seemed not to feel the impact from his back. He stared at Carmier with his eyes, "Is this conclusion reliable?"

“Reliable, we conducted direct and rigorous tests,” Carmier said seriously with a blue light face. “This includes personnel testing—the tester directly contacts the sample while under close observation, and nothing happened.

"Of course, we did a good job of protection - Naretir wrapped the tester's mind with spider silk. Once mental pollution occurs, the tester will be 'pulled' back in an instant and undergo purification and healing."

"Have you even tested this..." Gao Wen finally recovered from his shock. He listened to Carmier's narration in disbelief, but his eyes fell on the platform closest to him. Between the tightly protected rune column and the energy barrier, a fragment of armor flowing with iron gray light was quietly lying. Because the God of War was originally huge, it was impossible to see which part of the armor this fragment once belonged to, but there was only one thing that was certain that this thing... was once enough to put it in front of a mortal to make the most determined warrior into madness.

Originally, when he saw the fragments when he entered the laboratory, he was placed directly on the stage. The people around him seemed to be unaffected. At that time, he thought that these were the various protective systems in the laboratory and the Narithir at the scene were playing a role, but now it seems... this is not the case.

The wreckage is harmless.

So, what exactly happened to these fragments?

"After the God of War fell, did all the remaining fragments lost their 'divine nature'?" Gao Wen whispered to himself, "Because the fall was very thorough, the fragments left behind became mortals?"

"We also guessed that these fragments had changed, but Naretiel didn't think so," Veronica's voice came from the side, "She had used spider silk to 'predate' before the fall of the God of War. At that time, she remembered the breath of the God of War. She just analyzed the breath remaining on these fragments and confirmed that except for some weakness and dissipation, the essence of the two breaths did not change in nature. Miss Tyre also helped confirm this..."

Without others' explanation, Gao Wen knew how Tyre helped confirm, but he couldn't help asking: "Is Tyre's inspection reliable?"

"I think I can trust it," I don't know if it's an illusion, but Veronica, who has always been calm and gentle, was a little hesitant at this moment. "Although she's 'consuming' a lot of samples, she is indeed an expert in this regard."

"...I understand," Gao Wen rubbed his eyebrows. "In short, the remaining divine power on these fragments has not declined, and the theoretically spiritual pollution they carry has not disappeared, but now these pollutions have lost their effect on mortals. So what changes are not these fragments, but..."

Speaking of this, he stopped subconsciously.

It’s not that he can’t tell the conclusion, but that the conclusion that came out of his mind at this moment is really a bit bizarre and even a bit challenging the three views.

But behind him, Amber was rubbing his nose and swaying over, obviously didn't think too much. The half-elf almost subconsciously said: "These fragments have not changed, can the ones who have changed still be humans..."

The whole laboratory was quiet. Amber, who was rubbing her nose, immediately felt the atmosphere change. Her movements stopped and looked around with a little scared. Her eyes finally fell on Gao Wen: "I just said it casually, you don't have to take it seriously..."

"No," Veronica shook her head and said slowly in a deep tone, "We speculated... that's exactly what we're thinking."

Amber widened his eyes and was stunned for a long time: "...Mom?"

"This is not the final conclusion. Everything needs more testing and analysis," Carmier, who was standing by, couldn't help but say, and the arcane light on his body was also a little undecided. "Yes, more testing and analysis... This conclusion is too important, we must design more carefully..."

"We can verify it carefully, and it is no exaggeration to verify it a hundred times, but before that, we can indeed make a bold guess," Veronica interrupted Carmier's words. Her fingers holding the Platinum Scepter were slightly forceful, and her fingertips were a little white. "Maybe... the impact of our battle on the Winter Fort battlefield is far more than just the fall of a god."
Chapter completed!