When the wind blowing across the plain gradually cooled down, the heat began to fade from the valleys and hills in the south of the mainland, and the yellow-brown leaves covered the earth. From the long bridge of the returnees in the north to the lush jungle of the Elven Empire, a refreshing and comfortable atmosphere. The wind seemed to blow over this ancient land overnight, and even the decayed and decayed aura entrenched on the scorched earth brought about by the previous war seemed to dissipate at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In the forest on the edge of the long bridge of the returnees, the sound of heavy footsteps and the swaying and rubbing of wooden branches continued to sound. The huge forest guards walked out of the forest and patrolled the land that has now returned to calm. Ordinary tree guards are much taller guards with a strong torso and iron-gray bark. The bark and canopy also have a large number of alloy armor and tactical equipment that are absolutely invisible to ordinary tree guards. They are particularly eye-catching in this lush forest.

They are armed with heavy Gorgon railguns, shoulder anti-shield generators, and automatic missile launchers. There are communication arrays and armored crew compartments buried in the canopy. Each guard is like a walking turret—even if it’s a painting style. It's really weird, but the existence of these "Guardians of Thorin" has become the norm in this forest. Whether it is the elves on the side of the long bridge or the humans on the opposite side of the long bridge, they have become accustomed to these silent and powerful allies.

As the Silver Empire and the Highmountain Kingdom are still in vigor, the Guardian of Thorin is an important guarantee to ensure the tranquility and order of the forest.

After routinely patrolling to the long bridge of the returnees, the Thorin guards slowly stopped. One of the guards leaned down, and two agile figures emerged from its canopy and jumped lightly. To the ground-these are two elves, but their appearances are significantly different. One of the taller huntresses is the obvious silver elves, and the other petite figure has a pale to almost transparent complexion and is more complex than the silver elves. On short ears, you can see mysterious magic patterns faintly appearing on the surface of the skin, like tattoos.

The petite elf is Berna Breeze, who is leading the Thorin Guard patrolling the forest, and the huntress next to her... is her childhood friend she thought she would never see again.

Standing on the land of her hometown, Berna took a deep breath of the cool and fresh air. The magic runes near her neck and forehead were faintly extinguished several times like breathing. Half of the Thorin guards immediately received the order and began to patrol. On the next route, Berna herself looked in the direction of the Long Bridge of the Returnees, her eyes remained for a long time.

On the wide sea-crossing bridge built with ancient technology, a convoy of supplies was quickly passing through the border checkpoint of the Silver Empire, and a group of elves preparing to go to the northern kingdom were approaching the "Outbound Travel Registration Bureau" near the checkpoint. The flat and wide deck of the long bridge is glowing with a psychedelic glow in the sun, and the automatic maintenance machinery quickly goes back and forth in the trenches on both sides of the bridge, and there is a giant eagle rider who is patrolling the sky just flying over the long bridge. , The majestic and elegant figure quickly passed by in the sun.

Even now, Berna still has a dreamlike sense of unreality when seeing the returnees' Long Bridge.

"I really didn't expect... I would see this bridge again one day," Berna said softly, "It appeared in my broken dreams countless times, until I couldn't even sustain the dream. It is still imprinted in my memory like a shadow, but now it is here, in front of my eyes, I can even step on it directly..."

"Yes, you walked back home on this long bridge before, Bernard," the tall huntress looked back at her childhood playmate, who had been away for many years and returned to her hometown not long ago. Today, Berna still never mentioned to her former friends what she had experienced over the years, but only from those few words and her strange appearance, the huntress knew that this must be a hard journey, "So you really Don’t plan to stay here? You finally go home..."

"...I thought about it, but I have a place where I should go," Berna shook her head slightly, "I have already met the tutor and met my friends. They are all doing well now, they I also know that I'm having a good time, I think this is enough-this forest is my hometown, but I no longer belong here."

"Is it because of you...this body?" The huntress frowned slightly, looking at Berna's body covered in magic patterns, "I noticed that your body occasionally has abnormally high fever, and you don't seem to adapt to the food in your hometown. …Is this body unstable? Or do these runes bring a lot of pressure?"

"This is part of the reason, but more reason...I do have to go back to the Thorin tree," Bernard laughed. "At least, I have to take these Thorin guards back-they are from Sisi. You'lent' to the army of the Silver Empire and waited for General Lomar to make preparations for the handover. These reinforcements must be returned to the mainland. Of course, my'commander' must follow."

"Then you can come back after you send them back..." The Huntress said immediately, but in the end she sighed suddenly and shook her head with a helpless smile, "Well, since this is your decision, it seems that Thorin Giant Tree There must be someone or something you are thinking of over there. Based on your personality, this must be decided. So, you will live in the north in the future?"

Berna raised her arm and looked at the gleaming rune on it: "It should be, after all, my body is indeed more adapted to the northern environment now."

Speaking of this, she suddenly smiled and looked at her friend beside her: "But you don’t have to show this expression, Wei, have you forgotten? The wasteland is no longer a dead place that is difficult to cross, nor is it in the north or south of the mainland. As far away as before, as two worlds, I heard that soon the three major empires will start to build two magic railways running through the east, west, south and north in the wasteland, based on the current blocking wall, and in the future. There will be a direct air flight between Cecil and the Silver Empire—you can find me at that time, and I want to take you to the highest viewing platform of the giant Thorin tree to watch the sunrise over the Holy Spirit Plains.

"That is the most magnificent scenery I have ever seen in my life. It is even more beautiful than the morning sun in the forest of my hometown. I can also take you to'expedition' in the dark mountains. Now it is about to become a tourist attraction, or go Look at the snow-capped mountains and glaciers in the north? I have not been, but I heard that the scenery around Winter Fort is very beautiful, and seals can be caught near Beigang... Have you ever seen seals? The dragons in the north are very good at roasting seals! Know a few dragon friends..."

Berna’s eyes glowed with shining brilliance, like a few treasures, telling about the exotic scenery that could not be imagined in the hearts of friends who had been living in the southern forest since childhood. At this moment, the huntress called "Wei" seemed to look at it in a trance. Many years ago, I saw the elves who were excitedly packing up their bags and preparing to cross the long bridge of returnees to travel to the northern human world. At that time, they seemed to be standing in front of the long bridge of returnees, which was also an enthusiastic speech. They kept listening, and one listened helplessly for a long time.

Many years later, many things have changed, but it seems that some things have remained the same as before. This feeling...seems not bad.

"Okay, okay, I'll go to you, if you say my head is going to explode," the huntress's mouth couldn't help but curled up, she reached out and held her friend's shoulder, "I'm looking forward to taking the train directly or ' The flight's day to the north, as you often tell us after you come back... the world has changed, right?"

"Yes, this world has changed, many things have changed..." Berna smiled lightly, but suddenly, a few runes near her neck suddenly lit up slightly, which made her quickly pat the Huntress off. Arm, "Oh sorry, I am going to call back..."

"It's a messenger again?" The huntress raised her eyebrows, with a hint of teasing in her tone. "Or the saint? This is almost your mother. I heard she was not like that back then..."

Berna waved her hand slightly awkwardly and apologetically, and then walked away two steps while already muttering to the message: "Ah, I was chatting with a friend just now... Now? How about the patrol, the situation has just stabilized here? How long...I’m not tired or tired. I don’t need to walk down by myself. I just sit on the guard and watch the scenery. Remember, remember, keep warm? It’s almost the equator here! It’s just a little bit cooler today! Ah know it, every day I brush my teeth... Of course I don’t pick up anything to eat! I’m not a two-hundred-year-old kid...

"Ah? Picking up fruits from the forest doesn't count! We elves are not always...Oh, my stomach is getting better, it's okay... Can you just pick up the fruits that fell from your body and eat them? And I washed them all... "

Berna had already walked a few steps away, but her voice still came through the wind clearly. The huntress watched the petite elf girl leaning against the tree guardian's feet and muttering to a voice from afar. Slowly Slowly, a smile appeared on her face.

She still doesn’t know what Berna has gone through over the years, just as she doesn’t know how many joys and sorrows are happening in this world at every moment, how much haze has been in the lost and obscure history, but it’s just like this. Shining on the earth, the returnees' long bridge has once again restored its former vitality and excitement—in this world, it seems that there is always some future worth looking forward to.

Berna's message will probably continue for a long time. The huntress breathed out gently and looked up to the northern sky. At this moment, a few lights and shadows appeared from the clouds and caught the huntress's sight.

It was a small group of great eagle knights, and a flying elven boat surrounded by great eagle knights, glowing in the sun.

The Huntress opened her eyes slightly: The Talash meeting is over, and the Silver Queen is back.

…

After a long half-month agenda, this post-war meeting that affected the sight of countless people across the continent finally ended smoothly. At this moment, the flying boat on which the Silver Queen had crossed the national border in front of the returnees’ long bridge, and compared to the Queen’s What arrived at the Elven King's Court earlier was the large amount of information she had sent from the Plain of Talash.

The first minister of the empire, Valendian Jingu, stood on the highest terrace of the elven king's court, looking at the pool at the edge of the king's court. A courtyard building with a delicate and simple structure and a metallic luster with the main supporting structure was standing quietly. In the center of the pool, two apparently newly built bridges are connected to the shore.

That was the escape module "Quiet Garden" that was previously detached from the Temple of the Stars. As the last well-preserved part of the once glorious Temple of the Stars, this escape module has now been permanently shut down, and it stands quietly in the Elf Empire at this moment. The political and cultural center of Beijing has become a “monument” of special significance. Every day, countless citizens come to the waterhole to commemorate. For this reason, the queen even ordered the opening of a part of the original royal court area as a Rest and activity place for visitors.

Whenever looking at the "monument" from the heights of the royal court, Valentian would realize more deeply-some things have been permanently changed.

On a small round table not far from him, quietly placed a document written in beautiful elves. It was the information about the post-war meeting that was sent back to China from the Tarash Plain not long ago.

Valentian's gaze swept over this document sent back to China by the Queen herself, and the content of this document had already been read several times—

The Deep Sea Kingdom officially joined the alliance as a member of the alliance. A mysterious alien race with advanced technology and ancient history was unveiled in front of the world. No one knows what changes this new force will bring to mortal nations, but The mere addition of a strong ally is enough to make people look forward to;

The "Remaining Fire" of the ancient Gondor, the last descendant of the Norton royal family, Ophelia Norton and the Deep Blue Well she governed finally officially returned to the mainland stage. As an independent city-state, the legal legitimacy of Deep Blue Well has been obtained. The nations of the alliance recognize that it has now joined the alliance as a new member. At the same time, with the Deep Blue Well as the center, about a quarter of the entire Talash Plain is designated as a permanent neutral zone;

At the same time as joining the alliance, Deep Blue Well announced the export plan for energy and magic minerals. The high-purity arcane energy from the depths of the planet and the arcane crystal deposits that have been stored for seven centuries will become the recovery of the alliance after the war. A surging momentum, and in the foreseeable future, this will undoubtedly change the pattern of the entire world.

However, due to the defects of the original energy flow, the energy transmission range of the Deep Blue Well itself is limited (the territory of the Gugondor Empire is restricted here), and the three empires headed by the Cecil Empire announced the establishment of the "Alliance Energy Integration Committee" ", using modern magic technology to solve the problem of "Dark Blue Magic cannot be sent to the border of Gondor", and to ensure the international price stability of Deep Blue Well Energy and the fairness of the market;

The issue of the development and reconstruction of the Gondor wasteland after the war was roughly divided into two parts:

The land on the edge of the wasteland with traceable historical data and evidence to be traced will be “claimed” and legally owned by the human tribes of Typhon, Cecil, Kaolin, and the Ogure tribe, because this part of the land was originally It belongs to the above-mentioned Quartet. It is a historically proven territory opened up by the first pioneers who evacuated from the Gondor Empire in the past. It was only gradually abandoned due to the expansion of the wasteland pollution in the later period. Now the pollution has subsided and the countries (or successors) are still there. , So these lands have returned to their original owners.

This issue would have been debated for a long time, but at the meeting, the Silver Empire produced key evidence sufficient to support the above-mentioned legal attribution of the land: a full set of development records, a backup of land measurement data, and twenty elves who personally registered the information that year...

Except for the above-mentioned "Land of Ownership" and the Deep Blue Well, which is an independent city-state, the rest of the wasteland is "commonly owned by all mortals." The three empires at the same time announced the abandonment of all areas currently occupied by their respective armies, and announced the establishment of a "transnational pioneering organization" in which all countries can participate. This organization will work to restore the vitality in the wasteland and study the environment after the chaotic magic fades. , The exploitation of resources in safe areas, etc., the development income will be distributed according to the "shares" of the countries of the alliance, the results of research are shared by all mortals, and the operation of the organization is subject to the supervision of all member states of the alliance—at least, the three empires are like this Commitment.

Of course, there were also voices of opposition in the alliance—but in the final vote, the voices of opposition were only a minority.