According to Cecil's description, the so-called Lost Land is a place where some dark elves who betrayed the Eternal Night Empire, gave up their beliefs, and race were exiled.
The dark elves living in the Lost Land are a group despised by all dark elves.
"That's right!"
David plans to find an opportunity to ask Raines later, maybe he can get more information about the dark elves from the missionary.
Right now, he was still chatting with Cecil, learning from him how powerful the Evernight Empire was, and also learned that the black ship Cecil had previously used used something called "dark energy."
of energy as energy.
"Dark energy?"
"Dark energy is the greatest technology in the history of the dark elves!"
Although what Cecil said was not very clear and detailed, David still roughly understood that this energy called dark energy is obtained by the dark elves using specialized technology to transform various energies, including arcana.
energy.
The purpose, of course, is to facilitate your own use.
The use of this energy has been involved in all aspects of the Evernight Empire, in addition to ships and cars. This is why the two dark elves were not surprised when they saw the car transformed by the Autobots, but they just felt that the appearance was quite special. In Evernight
Empire, similar things are often seen.
David touched his chin unconsciously, and felt a little strange in his heart: According to the brothers and sisters, the civilization level of the Evernight Empire is far higher than that of the human countries in the eastern part of the Brennian continent, so why has it always been so?
Not heading east?
"We dark elves are a peace-loving race and will not start wars casually."
"..."
Seeing Cecil making peaceful remarks, and the female dark elf of Enid also solemnly nodding in agreement, David decided not to pursue the topic any further.
He began to ask the brothers and sisters about the purpose of their trip!
When it comes to archeology, the brothers and sisters immediately became much more energetic, especially Cecil who always maintained his personal image and even spoke with a calm tone and polite words.
Only then did he show some youthful vitality: "I have been interested in history since I was a child. After many years of study, I became an archaeologist to explore historical records that have been lost due to various reasons.
."
According to Cecil, he became a scholar when he became an adult, and then painstakingly studied various historical texts, almost memorizing various historical materials recorded in the Eternal Night Empire.
As a result of reaching this level, he accidentally discovered that many historical records contained conflicts, many gaps, and even various errors.
This is a normal thing for historical records, but Cecil suddenly felt that as the best historian of the Evernight Empire (self-proclaimed), he had the responsibility to improve and restore these historical materials.
So, Cecil embarked on the road of archaeology. So far, he has done a good job, digging out a lot of "lost" and "lost" historical information. Some of the information guided him to the East, where he may be able to dig out more information.
Lots of information.
"So, Enid and I came here together."
"This was your initial destination? Didn't you simply want to come to the East?"
"Yes, there are mountains reaching the sky at the northern end of the eastern continent." Cecil bluntly stated his destination, which is the peak in the north: "The clues I have found over the years reveal the establishment of the Evernight Empire.
Part of the history of the Dark Elves before."
According to Cecil, a long time ago, the entire Brennian continent was ruled by dark elves, and there were no humans at that time.
But later, fierce conflicts broke out within the dark elves, and humans took advantage of the situation to rise, so some dark elves retreated to the west of the continent and established the Evernight Empire.
Other dark elves also dispersed to various places. The information he found showed that some powerful dark elves "traitors" retreated to the peaks in the northeastern part of the continent.
"..."
For some reason, David suddenly thought of the two towers he had discovered.
Altar, is that left by the dark elves?
He continued chatting with Cecil, and Enid began to join in the chat as they became more familiar with each other, but David was unable to ask anything more from the brothers and sisters.
As for whether there are dark elves on the northern peak, the brother and sister are not sure.
The two people just followed the clues to find them. As for humans...the dark elves don't have many records about humans. They just describe them as a backward, barbaric race that likes to fight among themselves. Taking advantage of the civil strife of the dark elves, they occupied the eastern part of the continent.
.
"..."
These were not the brother and sister's original words, but information that David had carefully condensed and sorted out. Even so, he also noticed that the faces of the two dark elves were rather strange. Maybe he felt that the dark elves' evaluation of humans was too harsh to say in front of a human.
It was so embarrassing when I came out.
After chatting for a while and seeing that it was almost noon, David invited the two dark elves to the restaurant to have dinner together.
After asking in advance whether the dark elves had any dietary taboos, Jonah was given the task of cooking such a difficult task.
Jonah was originally an excellent chef. After coming to Winter Town, in order to adapt to the situation in Winter Town, he studied and created new dishes based on the tastes of everyone in Winter Town.
Fortunately, the dark elves have no dietary taboos, and the brother and sister also expressed their desire to try the special foods of humans.
At the dinner table, in addition to David, the lord of Winter Town, Laura, an archaeologist, was also chatting with Cecil about archeology.
"After lunch, I will take you to visit Winter Town." Because they had a common topic, Laura immediately expressed her willingness to be the brother and sister's guide and take them to visit Winter Town together.
Of course, Laura secretly winked at David, as if to say, "Let's see how I can help you get more information!"...c
After lunch was over and Laura led the pair of dark elves to hang out, Edwin VanCleef appeared in front of David in time.
Back in the office, David, who was drinking tea and eating fruits sent by Helen as dessert, asked about the situation of the black ship.
"Sir, there are indeed some weapons on the black ship, but most of them are self-defense weapons carried with you, and the number is not large."
"Cold weapon or hot weapon?"
"It looks like a cold weapon, sir."
In order to avoid alerting the enemy, Van Cleef did not touch the weapons, so he did not know if there was anything special about these seemingly normal swords.
"What's the arrangement with Raines?"
"I recently recruited some new people, and one of them, Wilcox, went to get close to the missionary."
"Oh!"
David had thought about setting up a professional intelligence department at the beginning. In fact, this department has already taken shape and has recently begun to operate under the command of Van Cleef.
It's just that the name hasn't been officially decided yet. David thought of a few names in his spare time, such as MI9, Hammer Bureau, Wolf's Nest, etc., but he always felt that it didn't suit his liking. I guess in the end he would settle for a traditional Winter Intelligence Bureau.
Signboard.
"Do you think I should establish an observation post on the other side of the Cold Winter River?" In the past, his attention had always been on the east and south. The vast surface of the Cold Winter River gave him the illusion that there would be no
Some threat suddenly appeared from this direction.
But the appearance of the dark elf brothers and sisters sounded the alarm for him, and he paid too little attention to this direction.
"Yes, sir!" Van Cleef also felt that Winter Town's defense in the west was too weak. In the past, it could be said that there were no "hostile forces" in this direction, but the reality is that anyone and any force may come from
Appear here.
After all, they haven't even investigated what's on the land on the other side of the Cold Winter River.
"The navy also needs to start working on it."
David likes to do things the same way, and after finishing one thing, he will deal with another one. But the reality is that when you want to deal with things the same way, more things will appear.
to distract you.
Especially as a lord, he must start to learn and adapt to handling multiple things at the same time, otherwise he will not be able to become a qualified ruler.
After Van Cleef left, David first went to find James Norrington.
This former commodore of the Royal Navy did not just hang around and wait quietly for David's "recruitment" after arriving in Winter Town. Instead, he used all available time to enrich himself.
Ever since he came to Winter Town and saw all kinds of weird things, he knew that if he wanted to gain a foothold in Winter Town, he had to learn a lot of new things.
Elizabeth and Will also gave him similar advice: If you want to become an important member of Winter Town, you must learn a lot of new things. Just relying on your past skills is definitely not enough!
So in addition to learning Brennian Common (there were no language learning tools at that time), Norrington also learned all kinds of new knowledge.
Just like Fording back then, in addition to reading books, Norrington also began to get into contact with video games, movies, TV, animations, etc., so that his tactical theories would not be outdated, and at the same time he would have a more intuitive understanding of advanced weapons.
Therefore, when David found the Royal Navy Commodore again, he was no longer a Royal Navy Commodore from the sailing era, but a former Royal Navy Commodore who was addicted to video games...
Fortunately, Norrington has not forgotten his original intention. He is addicted to these things in order to gain a foothold in Winter Town, so when David came to him, Norrington spent the shortest time to sort out his personal image and change it.
Put on clean and tidy clothes and prepare to face the test from the lord.
"Test? What test?"
"Sir, aren't you ready to test my professional abilities?"
"You are the only naval commander in the whole Winter Town. Apart from you, there is not even a fisherman who can fish. Is there anyone else we can use besides you?"