, Dawn Sword

Located in the barren wilderness near the front line base, the ancient facility that maintained its complete structure was standing quietly in the sunset. As the purification device continued to extend in the wasteland, the dirty clouds that originally entrenched above this area have been gradually dispersed with the change of the energy field. For centuries, normal sunlight shone on this land for the first time. In the sunset, the mottled and ancient building complex casts long shadows into the depths of the wilderness like giants standing silently on the earth.

A fully armed command vehicle and two heavy combat vehicles were parked in the shadows near the building, and the soldiers set up several temporary sentinels surrounding them to monitor wasteland. In the command vehicle, a clear picture was presented on the holographic projection in front of Philip.

The squad led by the warrior Sara is approaching the only entrance at the bottom of the building. The ancient door has been damaged. The crooked door panels are poured into the nearby dust. The space behind the door is like a black cave. It quietly opened its huge mouth in the dusk, as if waiting for the reckless people to approach. In the background of the picture sent back, Philip can also hear the heavy breathing sounds coming from under the full-coverage helmets.

"We have arrived at the entrance, neither the heat source alarm nor the life detection responded," Sarah's voice sounded outside the screen. "There are no active targets within the visual range, and we are not attacked."

"Look around the entrance and shine all the images in," Philip said to the communication device, "and then alert the formation to take care of safety."

"Yes, general." The warrior's voice came, and at the same time the picture on the holographic projection also began to rotate. The mottled and old exterior walls and building materials that fell off the exterior walls slowly moved in front of the eyes of the people in the command vehicle. Then the picture began to move towards the black "hole entrance". A scout turned on the light and a bright light beam shone into the door.

At this moment, the middle-aged scholar standing next to Philip suddenly spoke: "Stop and turn back to the place just now in the middle of the pile of gravel. Is there something in the place where the light just now?"

As the expert finished speaking, the picture sent back by the communication device moved, a pile of broken objects scattered on the ground and a half-buried, rectangular thin plate appeared in front of Philip and others. A soldier pointed at the pile of wreckage: "Yes, this looks like a sign... It seems like something on the surface. Do you want to take it out? It looks very fragile."

Philip spoke in a deep voice: "Take it out and deal with it carefully, there are words on it. Yes, General."

The thin plate half buried in the ruins was carefully taken out, and a piece of dust and debris fell from its surface. The soldier carefully flipped it and placed the side that looked like a word in the middle of the picture. It was a pattern that had been worn and weathered and difficult for ordinary people to recognize, but it could still be seen as the text of the ancient Gondor Empire. Philip immediately turned his head and looked at the middle-aged scholar beside him: "Can you see what is written?"

"We are identifying it." The middle-aged scholar frowned, and several other experts came over. These people who knew Gondor's relics carefully distinguished the symbols on the picture while discussing it in a low voice from time to time. Then they took out a map of the ancient Gondor Empire and gestured on it. It seemed that they were confirming the location of the facilities in history. After a while, one of the scholars whispered thoughtfully: "Is this the Viplanton Observatory?"

"Veplanton Observatory?" Philip immediately raised his brow. He vaguely remembered when he had heard the name, "Why does it sound a little familiar..."

"It was one of the largest astronomical observation facilities in the ancient Gondor era. It was located in the north of the ancient empire. It is said that foreign objects fell in this area thousands of years ago. Therefore, this observatory is also a research facility for Gondor scholars to study "external objects"," explained the middle-aged scholar. "Most of the characters on the sign are no longer recognizable, but the words of the observatory can also be seen. We just confirmed the ancient map. We are now located near Viplanton County, ancient Gondor..."

"I remembered it! Your Majesty mentioned this place to me." Philip showed a sudden expression and nodded. He did remember the knowledge corresponding to this place name, and remembered that after the destruction of the Gondor Empire, the Northern Trail Army had passed by the vicinity of the "Veplanton Observatory". His Majesty's legendary shield of the Kingdom Guardian was the shield that the pioneer army obtained from a facility in the Viplanton area. It is said that the shield was even one of the legendary "extraordinary objects"...

"This observatory is still here, and there is no sign of collapse in the main structure..." After realizing that this ancient facility might be of great significance, Philip's expression instantly became more serious than before, "We have to report upward..."

"General, do you still have to go deeper?" At this moment, the voice of the warrior Sara came from the communication device, "There is a very wide space here, but the magic reaction is still deeper in the facility. Do you want to find out if there is a channel to move forward further?"

"…Continue to move," Philippe ordered after thinking, "keep aware of the readings of the detection equipment at any time."

The soldiers received the order and began to continue to act in this ancient facility that had been silent for centuries. On the screen returned, they could see that they first entered a roughly circular hall. All the equipment in the hall had been damaged and silent. It was obviously impossible to be the source of the mysterious energy reaction. The lighting system in the facility was completely broken. After checking some remaining energy lines, technical experts made a judgment: the energy system of the observatory itself was completely shut down.

"The energy reaction somewhere inside the observatory can still be sensed from outside, and the energy reaction is very stable and does not respond to the activities of the exploration team," said a technical expert. "So this energy reaction may have nothing to do with the observatory itself. I suspect it is some kind of exogenous energy source...such as some ancient relics, which are stored in that facility and have been operating over the years..."

"It can continuously release energy for seven centuries. No matter what it is, it can only be described as amazing," Philip frowned and shook his head. "Even the cutting-edge technology left by the Gondor Empire back then, it is difficult..."

"General, we found a road to the upper floor. On the side of the hall, it looked like a spare staircase," Sara's voice suddenly came from outside the screen, interrupting Philip's muttering, "We are walking upwards, there seems to be a door in front..."

Philip's eyes immediately returned to the holographic projection. He saw two soldiers walking on a rather steep staircase. The disrepaired steps looked quite stable. At the end of the steep staircase, a small platform could be seen. A dim metal door was inlaid on the wall on the other side of the platform. It was tightly closed, and a rusty sign could be seen on the door frame.

The sign was obviously much better than the sign at the entrance of the facility, and the characters on it were vaguely identifiable. The middle-aged scholar standing next to Philip quickly identified the handwriting: "Behind the door of the upper observatory should be the most important part of the observatory."

"You can try to open the door," another scholar said, "Theoretically, there will be no traps behind this door. This is a research facility, and there is no need to arrange any weapons and devices near the observatory."

The soldiers entering the observatory received the order. One of them walked forward, put his hand on the heavy-looking metal door and pushed it slightly for a second. A flowing light suddenly appeared on the surface of the door!

Glimmer light flowed on the surface of the door, as if some kind of "will" that had been sleeping for many years suddenly woke up in the depths of it. The soldiers who went to push the door couldn't help but exclaim in a low voice. Philip and several technical experts who monitored the scene through the communication device were also instantly shocked. The door actually had energy?!

Immediately afterwards, before anyone could speak, the shimmer light flowing on the door quickly gathered together and turned into a light curtain floating in front of the door, with clear characters jumping on the light curtain.

Philip immediately looked at the expert next to him, who translated without waiting for the general to speak: "It is not a qualified general. This is an access control system. It is still operating normally and requires permission to open the door..."

"This is something from seven hundred years ago. Where can I find the right to open the door?" Another scholar next to me said immediately, "It seems that we have to find a way to crack this old antique... This door still has energy, and the facility structure behind it is likely to have energy. If you forcibly destroy the door, you don't know if it will cause some kind of destruction mechanism. Confidential research facilities like this usually have settings to automatically destroy data..."

"Wait," Philip frowned and thoughtful since the beginning. At this time, he suddenly interrupted the conversation of several scholars. "Don't be busy stimulating this door. Let's report the situation here. If you have permission... I'm afraid there is a way to solve it..."

...

"The First Legion led by Philip found the Viplanton Observatory in the highlands southeast of the Magic Charcoal," Gao Wen put down the information he had just received in his hand and said to Amber, who was helping to sort out the information, "And the observatory is incredible in good condition, and the main structure is intact."

When Amber heard this, he suddenly widened his eyes: "I'll go! Then they have dug up good things! Is Philip so talented in this industry?"

"...I think the 'talent' you said should not be consistent with what I was thinking at this time," Gao Wen glanced at this outstanding tomb robber of the past, "but you can be happy."

"Oh, this doesn't matter," Amber waved his hand casually, and then his eyes rolled. "By the way, I remember that your shield was picked up from the Viplanton area... You said that before."

"Yes, the Kingdom Guardian Shield was indeed found in an underground facility in the Viplanton area," Gao Wen nodded, "But strictly speaking, Charlie and I only found a very solid metal plate. Later, we really couldn't understand what that thing was, and we thought it was the right size, shape and hardness, so we used it as a shield..."

What Gao Wen is talking about is the origin of the legendary shield that is as famous as the Trailblazer Sword, but he did not mention more details:

The main body of the shield of the Kingdom Guardian, the metal plate with unknown origin and extremely high hardness, was actually one of the fragments that fell on the surface of the Viplanton "Meteorite Rain" incident. Those fragments were the wreckages thrown from the space station three thousand years ago when Amoen hit the Sky Station. The Gondor people in ancient times regarded the wreckage as "outside objects". Later, with the development of Gondor civilization, scholars set up a series of research facilities including the Viplanton Observatory in order to study the wreckage. Time passed and Gondor was destroyed. One of these debris from the Sky Station fell by chance to the hands of Charlie and Gowen who led the team to transfer to the north at that time, and were processed into a shield. All of this was like an invisible line, connecting the three thousand years of history together.

Sometimes, when thinking about the fall of White Star three thousand years ago, the "meteorite rain" in the Viplanton area, and the pioneer army processed the fragments into Gowen Cecil's shield, Gowen would not help but continue to think about whether it was because he had been with the fragment from the Sky Station all year round that Gowen Cecil had some "change" seven hundred years ago, leading to his establishment of a certain connection with the legacy of the Setter in space and indirectly contacting himself as a "satellite" at that time? Gowen Cecil, as the strongest knight, died in his prime, leaving an immortal body, and he was reborn on the surface of space, occupying such a body that once held the fragments of the Setter in space... All of this really looks like a long-standing deal.

To this day, many mysteries about Gowen Cecil and the legacy of the Settler have been revealed, but only this most critical link is still blank in Gowen's memory.

"Hey...hey," Just then, Amber's voice suddenly came from the side, awakening Gao Wen from his distracted state, "Are you okay? Suddenly my eyes were dazed...is he distracted again?"

"It's nothing, I just accidentally remembered something about the past," Gao Wen shook his head and said casually, "Where did you just say?"

"When it comes to your shield, you opened the box from a basement in Viplanton. It was originally just a metal plate that you didn't know what it was for. Then you welded it as a shield..." Amber balabala said, then looked at the information that Gao Wen had just thrown on the table, "How is the situation with Philip now? What did they find in the observatory?"

"They found an ancient access control that required some kind of authentication authority to enter. The observatory on the upper floor of the observatory was blocked by that thing, and the exploration soldiers could not enter," Gao Wen said in a deep voice. "The access control system is still in operation, which means that there are other things on the upper floor of the observatory. The rash destruction of the gate is very likely to lead to the destruction of data in the facility, so Philip is now waiting for further instructions."

"I'll go, the seven hundred-year-old grave has a lock, then..." Amber was shocked and then suddenly realized, "Wait, authentication permission...I remember..."
Chapter completed!