The long years of hanging as a surveillance satellite in the sky did not change Gao Wen's personality essence, but it gave him a special perspective on everything in the world. When necessary, he could analyze the changes in the world with an almost bystander attitude, and summarize some possible laws from the changes that lasted thousands and tens of thousands of years, which were difficult to summarize for species living on the earth (including those elves who could live for thousands of years).

It is precisely because he has seen the ups and downs of civilization on the surface that Gao Wen can speculate that the magic wave has occurred more than once - even if he has not captured any of them, it is enough to guess what happened in the middle from the surveillance screens before and after.

In Gao Wen's other speculation, he believes that the scale of the magic wave should be uncertain.

Large-scale demon tide may lead to the reshaping of civilization on the entire planet, while small-scale demon tide - the destruction of Gondor seven hundred years ago, is probably just a "small demon tide".

Although it destroyed the most powerful Gondor Empire in human history, its scope is only the central region of the continent. Not to mention, the elves' Silver Empire and the Dwarf Kingdom in the West were not affected at all.

Or... the tide that was not a formal tide seven hundred years ago was just a kind of "prelude"?

Various speculations and associations emerged in Gao Wen's mind, many of which were actually made up out of thin air. Amber next to him looked at Gao Wen without any movement for a long time, and finally couldn't help poking his arm: "Hey, what are you thinking?"

"Just thinking of one thing," Gao Wen woke up and asked casually, "You said, if one day all the resources familiar to humans on the earth change, such as the nature of various magic materials changes, what will happen?"

Amber was stunned for a moment: "Why are your thinking so jumping..."

Gao Wen knocked Amber's head: "Just tell me what will happen."

"Then everyone must be in a mess," Amber replied casually, "especially the mages, they may not find the casting materials at once, and many spell materials have to be summarized..."

Gao Wen heard Amber's answer and sighed softly after being silent for a long time: "The civilization of mortals is really fragile... right?"

Amber's ears shook: "You speak so strangely."

Gao Wen stood up, turned his head to look at Hom and other members of the exploration team waiting beside him. These people didn't dare to come forward to disturb him while the lord was thinking. At this time, they saw Gao Wen get up, and they got closer.

"This ore needs a name," Gao Wen nodded slightly to Holme, "I'll name it the Holme Rough."

"Big... sir?" Not long ago, Holme, who was still a serf, was shocked after hearing Gao Wen's words. He stared at him with disbelief and repeated, "Hom raw stone? This... I am not in line with my identity! How can I have this honor..."

"In exploring unknown fields, discoverers are always great, and there is no need to refuse," Gao Wen waved his hand. "In the future, we may discover more valuable things on this land. Naming them after the discoverer will be an easy way - and it can inspire explorers' enthusiasm for work."

"Yes...thank you!" Hom straightened his body suddenly. Over the years, his waist, which was hunched in advance due to heavy labor, was the first time that he had straightened his back again. This even made his spine sound, which made his whole back hurt, but he still tried hard to straighten his body, "I...I..."

This civilian who was shallow in his knowledge and had just read and write at the same time could not find the right words to describe his mood. Gao Wen didn't care about this. He just waved his hand: "Everyone of the Exploration Team has made contributions. I will let Hetty record it for you and convert it into a reward according to the Contribution Act."

Then he looked towards the mountain road - just now he saw a combat soldier running over, and the other party stood on the mountain road and waited for him.

"What's the matter?" Gao Wen came to the soldiers and asked.

"Sir, I brought the report from the ruins," the soldier stood upright and bowed to report. "Knight Byron discovered a strange magical device and a hall full of runes in the lower part of the ruins. I hope you can go and see it in person."

A new area was discovered deep in the remains?!

Gao Wen frowned and immediately waved to Amber: "Come with me."

The two walked up the mountain road under the leadership of soldiers. After a long journey, they finally arrived at the deepest part of the ancient facility.

"It's so big..." Looking at the tall corridors around and the dim magic crystal lanterns on both sides of the corridor, Amber couldn't help but sigh, "It's really a long way to walk in a straight road..."

"This is the result of the Byron Knights clearing the road." Gao Wen nodded. He noticed that the magic crystal lamps in the corridors on both sides were newly set up. Considering the cost issues and the output power of the portable honeycomb magic net unit, the distance between the magic crystals is very far, so the overall light in the corridor looks very dim. However, compared with the original completely dark ruins, the corridor that has been restored to lighting is still much better than before.

In that rotunda hall, Gao Wen met the middle-aged knight who had not seen him for many days.

The many days of exploration of the ruins did not make the Mr. Knight look haggard and tired. His condition was even surprisingly good. It seemed that he had found the feeling of being a mercenary in the process. Byron's face looked so bright. As soon as he saw Gao Wen, he came forward: "Sir, you should look at this! I bet these two sets of words at the door are describing the function of this room-but we studied it for a long time but couldn't understand what it meant."

Gao Wen looked in the direction of Byron's finger and saw that on both sides of the door on the inner entrance of the rotunda, there was indeed a metal plate with no sign of rust inlaid on both sides of the metal plate. The metal plate was engraved with neat ancient texts using laser etching techniques.

"The left is to pay attention to safety and be careful of accidents, and the right is to lock the door when people leave the field - what's wrong?"

Byron: “…”

On the spot, Gao Wen saw several soldiers behind Byron blushing. If it weren't for the military discipline, they would probably have rolled on the ground.

"Don't bother studying things that you are not professional in the future," Gao Wen sighed and patted the shoulders of the middle-aged old fried dough stick knight. "Even Hetty can't recognize these ancient words, why are you joining in the fun?"

Byron broke out in cold sweat, and he turned around awkwardly and pointed to the center of the rotunda: "...Sir, you are talking about it, you should come and have a look at this..."

Gao Wen looked to the center of the hall - in fact, from the moment he entered the door, he had already noticed the wonderful thing with a burst of presence.

It was a ring vertically embedded on the ground, with about one-third of the structure buried deep underground. The inner diameter of the ring is about four meters, and on the ring, you can see dense magic patterns and symbolic marks. Rare metals and magic crystals are embedded in magic nodes everywhere, which shows that it should be some kind of energy-consuming device.

On the ground around the ring, you can see the same complex and huge magic symbol system, as well as several metal devices fixed to the ground and connected to the magic patterns on the surface, which look like a console.

"Is this... some kind of door?" Gao Wen touched his chin. The shape of the ring made him unable to help but think of something similar to a portal. However, he was suspicious of the judgment of the "portal" - even in the heyday of the Gondor Empire, long-distance teleportation spells were still a theoretical product. This world did not have such convenient space teleportation magic. If there were mature portals in the Gondor Spark Age a thousand years ago, it would not have been passed down at all.

It is more likely to be a "magic gate" for small-scale spatial transformation, used to link different spaces located in the same coordinates. This technology was quite mature in the Gondor era.

"We were initially suspicious of the thing as a stone, but it was actually some kind of metal, but no one knew its material," Knight Byron continued to report. "In addition, we found several blocked rooms on this floor, which were piled with ingots of the same material as the ring. It seemed that the people here planned to build more rings or expand them - but later they evacuated and the work was put on hold."

"Is it an unknown metal material..." Gao Wen murmured to himself, "If it weren't for ancient alloys, then it would be the magic tide that caused them to change their properties. If the reason was the latter, it would be a big trouble to study."

The Byron Knight didn't hear clearly: "Sir, what did you say?"

"No, nothing," Gao Wen waved his hand, and at the corner of his eyes he noticed that Amber had run to the side of the ring at some point, and was poking the purple-black crystal on the surface of the ring with her little treasure bump dagger. He shouted, "Hey! What are you doing! This thing can't..."

"Don't worry, I won't steal!" Amber immediately glared at Gao Wen, loudly clearing the suspicion of his occupational disease. "I just feel that the residual power fluctuations in this crystal are a bit... familiar."

"Are you familiar?" Gao Wen was surprised, "Have you seen this kind of crystal?"

Amber looked at the crystals embedded in the ring like an expert and a scholar, and touched her smooth chin with her idle left hand: "Based on my years of experience in committing crimes..."

Gao Wen: “…what?”

"Ahem, work experience, work experience," Amber herself reacted and quickly changed her words. Unfortunately, everyone at the scene had heard it, so she continued to say with a shameless face, "According to my experience, this kind of crystal should be a rare shadow affinity crystal - the most expensive of all elemental crystals. And to be honest, the purity is also very scary. Shadow crystals with such high purity are now rare."

"Shadow?" Gao Wen blinked. He knew the existence of elemental crystals. This special magic crystal was generated by ordinary magic crystals in an environment with high elemental concentrations. Because the shadow environment in nature is rare, it is even rarer to maintain the shadow environment for a long time and the concentration reaches the standard. Therefore, shadow-oriented elemental crystals are the most expensive and rare. Although Gao Wen Cecil was known as a erudite at that time, his main skills were in herbalism, wilderness survival, territory construction, and monster-cutting. He did not study much about magic crystals. However, as a magistrate, as a solemn of the founding grand duke, he dared to pry a shadow affinity and crazy hangover ratio. It was not surprising that she had seen this kind of crystal.

"Is it related to the Shadow World?" Gao Wen asked guessing.

Amber slapped his chest: "Then I'll go in and see the situation first!"

"You wait," Gao Wen grabbed the other party's arm before entering the Shadow Realm, "bring me in."

Amber was stunned for a moment, suddenly remembering the horror experience of facing the flesh and blood of the gods when he entered the Shadow Realm in the ruins laboratory last time. A layer of cold sweat suddenly appeared and quickly grabbed Gao Wen's arm: "Then you have to walk ahead later!"

Gao Wen looked at the half-elves who suddenly became cowardly and waved his hand: "Let's go."

Amber took a deep breath to calm down, and then activated his talent for shadow affinity.

A familiar trance came again, and Gao Wen felt the scene in front of him begin to shake. However, just as he was about to see the scenery of the Shadow Realm, the amber beside him suddenly said "Oh", and then the two of them "fall out of the critical state together.
Chapter completed!