Sword of Dawnbreaker

If there had been enough time, the breaking point would have eventually come. The old aristocrats could not forever prevent society’s forward progress. But alas, before the King’s Road could be extended to the frontier, Anzu met the Fog Month turmoil.

Thus, today Anzu still has to rely on the King’s granting of feudal vassals and vassals granting sub-vassals to maintain order. Due to the significant depletion of national power from the Fog Month turmoil, the remaining aristocrats across regions are nearly powerless to maintain and repair roads, and the population of ”white feather” gryphons sharply decreased during the war. Anzu’s transportation and communication conditions have nearly degenerated back to their state before 557.

What is worse is yet to come: the second dynasty royal family and the aristocrats who experienced the horror of the Allied Army charging through the King’s Road to the Plains of the Holy Spirits during the Fog Month civil war, remember vividly. In the war’s late stages, as local aristocratic powers waned, the roads traversing territories leading directly to castles became lurking threats to the leaders’ peace of mind. Moreover, due to population decline and chaotic situations post-war, the aristocrats had to retreat to protect themselves, and this negative regressive attitude has persisted to this day.

Not until Anzu 735 did an old ancestor rise from the grave, with the authority of the founding ancestor, possessing experience from millions of years on two people’s star, with a dismissive attitude toward the traditional aristocratic system, and began constructing his new Cecil scenario in the most unreasonable way.

Looking at the communication device still in the testing phase before him, Gawain envisioned not only the communication device but also the orderly roads connecting the southern borders and even every place in Anzu.

Transportation and communication, for the former, he had concrete and the rapidly advancing various types of magic-conducting machinery. For the latter, he finally saw the results of Kamel and Rebecca’s efforts to date. The solutions to these two problems, which trouble all rulers, seem to have appeared.

”The current communication device uses a hybrid rune combination—most rune groups are based on the Eternal Sleepers’ technology, but the signal transmission and control parts still utilize traditional communication spells,” Kamel explained next to the communication device, detailing some of its technical intricacies to Gawain. ”Unfortunately, we still haven’t figured out how the Eternal Sleepers network transmits signals in the natural ’primitive magical power field’, so this device can only function within the coverage of a standard magical power field.”

Gawain was quite interested in these technical details: ”Standard magical power field... within the range of the Magic Obelisks?”

”Yes, the standard magical power field produced by the Magic Obelisks is like the ’surface of a lake’ you described. The ripples generated by the communicator spread throughout the field, reaching from one Magic Obelisk to another, allowing us to call this communication method ’Magic Web Communication’,” Kamel explained. ”I’ve found a method to use Magic Obelisks as ’relays’ to continuously transmit signals, and have achieved success in a small area, but the specific effects as the transmission distance increases still need to be verified...”

”How do these communication devices pair or identify each other?” Gawain asked again, ”If I have a hundred of these devices distributed everywhere, how can I use one device to accurately contact another specific device?”

Gawain was also very curious about this question—Kamel’s communicator was vastly different from traditional communication spells or the elf’s great walls. It was a product of combining communication spells with the Eternal Sleepers technology, and its communication medium is the ”standard magical power field” created by the Magic Obelisks, which is currently considered quite advanced technology. From a working principle perspective, it resembles a non-selective ”broadcasting” device broadcasting signals in the magical power field, allowing all similar devices to listen. Without a matching pairing or identification mechanism, all signals would be publicly transmitted unencrypted, making the entire magical field a chaotic mix, difficult to realize Gawain’s desired ”communication network” function.