In the spacious and bright hatching room, the low resonance sound of the rune device running echoed softly with the buzzing of the ventilation system. These slight sounds were not noisy, but instead made the whole room quieter.

This silence lasted for a short time before Enya gently broke the silence: "Is that right... it seems that a lot of things have happened..."

"I don't know much," Betty said embarrassedly, "some of these things were told by the master or His Highness Rebecca, and some of them were heard by others when they were chatting... They said a lot, but most of them were not very clear. I felt that those things happened very far away, and I don't know why everyone was discussing them so enthusiastically."

"Rejoice in what is happening in the distance is the pleasure of many mortals - but focusing on what is around them is not bad," Enya's tone was gentle, with a hint of pleasant tremor when it came out of the eggshell. "You can see that you are a very simple child, and I like it very much - if you can, we can be friends."

"Okay, I like new friends!" Betty was immediately happy, but then he remembered something and quickly corrected, "But I am no longer a child - I have already grown up!"

"...A man," Enya's voice suddenly fell silent for two seconds after Betty finished speaking, and then she said softly with a hint of incomprehensible emotion from the maid, "You mentioned just now that the messengers from Tallond talked a lot with your master, and they went to that meeting with your master, right?"

"Yes," Betty nodded repeatedly, "I heard from the master mention this matter, saying that the dragon is going to return to this world, or something, and he also said that the incident had a profound impact, but I don't know much about it."

"Is it great to return to this world?" Enya's voice sounded with a smile, and there seemed to be a hint of pride. "They took the first step, and this step was earlier than I thought... It's been more than a million years, and something good happened in this world finally."

Betty blinked and found that the "Ms. Enya" always said something that she couldn't understand, but she didn't feel uncomfortable with it - there are always many things that she couldn't understand in this world that she could explain in reading and asking the owner's advice, and let those that she really couldn't understand... let them go, and Betty would not be affected by them.

So she quickly put aside the confusion and smiled again on her face. She picked up her beloved big teapot from the side, got up and came to the light golden dome: "Ms. Enya, do you want some black tea?"

"...you can do a little more, thank you," Enya said after hesitating, "but these teas will eventually flow outside - it will add a lot of cleaning burden to you."

"No, they all flowed down the grooves next to the base to the ground - just wait a moment for me to wipe it off," Betty smiled happily. "I'm very good at scrubbing. Before, when there weren't many people here, I could wipe the entire floor and tables and chairs alone!"

While she said this, she approached the golden dome. While carefully pouring the hot tea water on the surface of the eggshell, she was a little curious: "Ms. Enya, can you really 'drink' tea in this way?"

"It's a very wonderful feeling. I'm not sure if I've accurately 'tasted' the taste and calories... but it feels good," Enya's voice seemed quite pleasant. "I really didn't expect that I would have such an incredible experience..."

"But I feel this seems a bit weird," Betty looked up at the eggshell in front of him. "I remember he didn't seem very happy after pouring tea for Mr. Egg..."

"Is that so? That's a pity...but I'm fine!"

...

At the outpost No. 112, night falls, and the lights set up in various parts of the town have been lit. The stars in the sky cover the border settlement established by the elves. The artificial fire light and the starlight of the sky shine. The complex with foreign characteristics is outlined in this interlaced light and shadow. The surge in visitors makes this originally quiet town look much bustling and prosperous. However, outside the outpost, there is still a dark and vast wilderness - the dark ridges and the night valley where there is no side. It reminds everyone who visits here with an extremely strong contrast, and reminds them what the "boundary of the civilized world" means.

The Emerald Hall is located on the west side of the town. It is built on a high ground, so from the room on the second floor of the hall you can directly overlook the deserted wilderness outside the town - Matilda Augustus stood in front of a spire-shaped arc-side floor-to-ceiling window with her eyes set on the vast night outside the window. Her gaze passed through the open and even a little scary darkness, and kept looking at the hazy glow at the end of the dark horizon: it was the magnificent silhouette cast by a magnificent wall on the horizon. Even at such a distance, the stunning energy barrier can still be clearly seen by the naked eye.

After watching like this for a long time, Matilda finally retracted her gaze: "There is the boundary of human civilization... I only remember that I looked at it from afar when I was very young, but I didn't expect that until now we can only look at it from afar..."

Rosetta Augustus sat on a chair not far away, and looked up at his daughter: "What do you feel when you just look at it from a distance?"

"I feel that it is an abyss waiting for expansion at any time, a huge mouth ready to devour the entire civilized world at any time - the destructive power is bound by a thin barrier to the wasteland, and there are countless mutant monsters that are enough to sweep the entire world. However, the human kingdoms have been sleeping in such abyss for hundreds of years, which is even a bit...unreasonable."

"That barrier is not thin - in fact, its energy focus layer is half a kilometer thick, but you are right. Faced with such a vast wasteland of Gondor and the wider Loren territory, such a heavy energy barrier is actually as thin as paper," Rosetta nodded slightly, "We have been protected by this piece of 'paper' for more than 700 years, but even such a piece of paper has once exhausted the strength of the countries of the mainland."

Matilda turned to look at her father: "...Gaven Cecil arranged the meeting address here to remind those countries that have been comfortable outside the barrier for too long?"

"A mature ruler will always set more than one purpose in his arrangement, and alerting the world with the desolate scene near the magnificent wall may be his purpose, but certainly only one of his purposes," said Rosetta. "But anyway, at least he is the first person to try to integrate all the mortal kingdoms, a path that none of us had ever imagined... With this alone, we should take this meeting seriously."

"At the same time, be cautious about the possible 'appetite' of the Cecil Empire, right?" Matilda turned around with an extremely serious expression on her face. "What do you think Gauvin Cecil will talk to us tonight?"

"... neither he nor I like to waste time," Rosetta said after a brief pondering. "There will be two meetings here, one is the formal contract between Cecil and Tifon, and the other is the alliance talks of mortals. He and I are very clear that compared with the second meeting, the first meeting cannot waste too long and too much energy. Tonight we will finalize the framework and bottom line of the contract in the form of a closed-door meeting. He will not delay this until the next day, nor will I, so he will probably throw out his conditions directly... and then, just a simple bargain."

Matilda thought, and just as she was in deep thought, footsteps and knocking on the door came from outside the door one after another, and then a high-ranking servant entered the room and bowed at the door: "His Majesty Gowen Cecil has arrived."

"Please come in," Rosetta said immediately-he didn't need to sort out his demeanor, because he was always ready for what was about to happen, "Matilda, sit next to me."

When Gao Wen walked into the reception room, he saw a sophisticated coffee table placed in the center of the room. The light from the chandelier reflected on the coffee table. The blue crystal grinding countertop was shining. Rosetta Augustus was already sitting on the sofa on the side of the coffee table, and the "Pearl of Empire" who had visited Cecil was sitting next to Rosetta - in addition, no one else could be seen in the room.

This is a closed-door meeting, a head-on contact before formal and public negotiations, which is not very consistent with the practice of interaction between the two countries, but here - Gao Wen and Rosetta are the "convention".

Rosetta was only with Princess Matilda, and Gauven did not bring any more staff: he only brought Amber, the intelligence minister he trusted deeply.

The sound of "click" came from behind, and the door of the reception room closed behind him. Gao Wen walked forward with Amber, and Rosetta Augustus stood up to greet them before they approached - the middle-aged man with always gloomy face looked smiling at this moment. His originally gloomy and negative temperament seemed to have weakened a lot. Of course, this obvious change was not hidden from Gao Wen's eyes. Gao Wen smiled: "Good evening, Rosetta, your complexion is much better than when we met last time."

Rosetta's smile became more obvious, and he even joked: "A good sleep is very important for middle-aged people like me - thankfully, my sleep quality has been very good in recent times."

Gao Wen obviously knew what the other party was referring to. This is a good opening remark - an experience that can be regarded as fighting side by side can effectively bring the relationship between the two parties closer, and at the same time it can make some less "friendly" conditions more difficult to say. Although this level of human greeting may not have much effect on people like him and Rosetta, it can at least make the atmosphere better in the future.

"It seems that there are only four of us here today," Gao Wen nodded to Matilda not far away. "There are no idle people waiting to be there. It seems that we can have a lot of fun."

"Miss Amber," Rosetta also looked at Amber beside Gao Wen. His expression became very serious in an instant, but soon returned to normal. "I heard that you are a shadow master who has no way to judge his strength and an expert in the field of intelligence. It means that your appearance in public will be the greatest sincerity of Gowen Cecil."

To be honest, Gao Wen was really worried at this moment. He only thought that Amber's mind might be able to help in this meeting, but ignored whether this guy's jumping character would make a fuss in such a serious occasion. But when he turned his head to look at the half-elf beside him, he was shocked to see that this guy who was always careless and unruly in the past showed an extremely professional and etiquette-like appearance. She faced Rosetta's praise with a perfect smile, and there was almost no problem from his tone to expression: "You are too much-I am here just to perform my duties, as for sincerity... I believe that since you stand here, you and Your Majesty are naturally full of sincerity."

"... Of course," Rosetta nodded slightly, and then said as if he was casually mentioning it, "Dianna once praised Cecil's intelligence agency to me. She even told me directly, 'The operator trained by the Cecil intelligence chief himself may be the most outstanding intelligence personnel in the world'. I had doubted this, but in recent times the situation in Aldernan has stabilized, and I have indeed seen their outstanding methods in my spare time."

Amber immediately smiled brightly: "You still have over-the-winners and agents in your country are equally excellent, especially the ones who do the 'business' in Tamdul."

Rosetta's expression did not change at all. He just turned sideways slightly, signaling Gao Wen and Amber to sit down, and said casually: "This situation needs to be reduced in the future, right? We have wasted too much energy on inquiring about the secrets of our neighbors."

"Of course, we are here today to build further trust." Amber's smile was still bright, and his tone was sincere and even surprised Gao Wen.

But it is unknown how much weight this "sincerity" is. Gao Wen and Rosetta's attention is obviously not on this matter.

"Let's talk about issues that are truly worthy of attention," after both sides took the seat, Rosetta took the initiative to raise the topic. "A war based on misunderstandings broke out between Tifon and Cecil, and now everything should be over, right?"

"Of course, and in fact, this war has ended," Gao Wen nodded and said with a frank look. "We both have signed a long-term ceasefire agreement on the border, and the general-level talks between the two sides are also going well. Next, we will undoubtedly jointly issue a peace statement and explain the truth behind the scenes to the public. This matter will end in peace, trade will resume, and exchanges at the national and civil levels will be reopened. We should have a consensus on this point."

"I have no doubt about this matter," Rosetta's expression was serious, and a gradually tense atmosphere finally spread around him. "Whether it is the recovery of diplomacy or the reopening of trade channels, diplomats will naturally negotiate afterwards, but there is one thing-I hope to get your direct answer.
Chapter completed!