Sword of Dawn

Amber raised her head vigorously, and while trying to see Ms. Ye's face clearly, she couldn't help exclaiming: "My God! You are so tall!"

Then she seemed to want to say something again, but before she could speak, Gao Wen suddenly touched her shoulder.

Amber shut her mouth immediately, and only then did she notice the changes in Mordir who was standing next to her.

The great adventurer...is losing all color.

First from the hair, then to the eyebrows, then the clothes on the body, the skin, the walking stick... It seems that an invisible flowing water is washing this old man who defies time. Wherever the flowing water goes, all the colors fade away, leaving only The purest gray and white.

It was as gray and white as the desert of shadows under his feet.

Mordir himself obviously noticed this, he raised his hand to look, and with this movement, countless dust fell from his body, his whole body was like a dust statue at this moment, every breath It is a process of constant disintegration, but even so, there is still a smile on his face: "This... is also quite incredible, it's the first time I've seen it."

"Hey! Old man, you..." Amber was taken aback. She immediately subconsciously tried to maintain the shadow dust on Modil's body, but soon realized that it was futile, so she immediately looked up at Ms. Ye's face. Direction, "Is there anything you can do? He..."

"All journeys have an end," Mordir's voice interrupted her, and the old mage shook his head calmly, "Many, many years ago, my journey had actually reached its end, but I Wandering centuries before this end..."

Mordir's voice fell, and in front of Lady Night's throne, another voice as old as Mordir came from the black book: "Now is the time to put an end to this long adventure, one A good story needs an ending."

"Yes, an ending is needed." Modil nodded lightly, and walked towards the direction of the throne, "Some people will be crowned at the end, some will retire in the end, and some will live in the end. A peaceful and joyous day, and a bad old man who is adventurous... and finally reached the oldest god in this world..."

Modil slowly raised his head, and in a trance, he seemed to recall some yellowed pictures, that was six centuries ago, he also stood here, looking up at the ancient god like this moment, but in the next moment, this The memory fragments dissipated like the wind, leaving only the clear picture in front of me——

He saw that the steps leading to the seat of God stretched upwards in his field of vision, and a tall stone pillar stood in front of the steps. The large black book on the top of the stone pillar had been opened, and the pages turned to the end without wind blowing. On one page, lines of text constantly emerged on the blank page, and the black letters wrote the life of Mordir Wilde——

"At the end of the journey, the great adventurer Mordir returned to the throne of Lady Ye. 600 years ago, he took over the mission in front of this throne to convey a warning to the world. Today, 600 years later, the world has changed from that Escaping from a catastrophe...

"The world is still not safe, but for the great adventurer, his mission is accomplished.

"So he raised his head, looked at the ancient god, and said—"

Modil looked up, with a smile on his face: "Ma'am, the news has arrived."

Ms. Ye lowered her head: "Thank you for your hard work so far, Mr. Great Adventurer."

A gust of wind blew across the throne, and Mordir's gray-white body suddenly turned into dust all over the sky, and then all the dust was swept and flew towards the stone pillar in front of the throne. The large black book on the top of the stone pillar was flipped quickly, and the dust Between every page that flowed into it, amidst the sound of flipping, the book finally closed with a bang, and on the dark cover, simple and simple words gradually emerged:

"Modir's Travels"

Chapter 1562 Deputy Monarch

"Modir's Travels" lay quietly on the top of the stone pillar, and there was no other decoration on the dark cover except for a line of titles. Ms. Ye's eyes hung down from the clouds, staring at this book for a long time compared with his huge body. It took a long time to break the silence softly: "...ah, he has calmed down. After so many years... I'm still not used to it."

"Modir knew this day would come when he set off from Beigang," Gao Wen did not speak until this time, "We have reminded him that direct contact with his 'other half' is very likely to cause his current Fragile flatness is broken..."

"Yes, Wilde knows that too, but a great adventurer doesn't want his journey to stop at the last step forever," Ms. Ye said slowly, "A journey should have a beginning and an end, and an adventure should have a beginning and an end. He set out on the road 600 years ago , what I look forward to is the moment when the adventure reaches the end...I am very happy for him, because he has witnessed a lot of scenery along the way, and this is what he wants most."

Amber looked up at Gao Wen, then at Ms. Ye on the throne, held back for a few seconds before she waved her hands helplessly: "You are all right, but I still have to think about how to explain to Victoria, her ancestor It's gone..."

"Victoria probably expected it too," Gao Wen shook his head thoughtfully, "I have already said goodbye, I think she will understand Mordier's choice, as for us... to Modi I should be relieved that I finally got what I wanted.”

After finishing speaking, he turned his attention to the ancient god in front of him. Everything he experienced in the illusion before is still clearly in his mind, but after the memory is re-filed, the memories of those decades of vicissitudes are now The sense of unreality was highlighted like a dream, he calmed down, and asked seriously: "What you have experienced for me... is the necessary process for the 'anchor' operation?"

"Yes," Ms. Ye responded frankly, "The anchoring operation is not something that can be done purely by external force. This process requires your own cooperation and your unwavering determination—if you waver yourself Well, no matter how well the anchor generator works, it won't help. Frankly, I was a little surprised at how smooth this process was, I did think it would be successful, but I didn't expect you to be so lucid and… …firm."

Speaking of this, Ms. Ye paused, looking down from the sky with curiosity: "I'm curious, how did you realize that you were in a dream?"

Gawain met Ms. Ye's gaze, and after a while turned his head to look at Amber: "From the moment I 'returned to the surface' and saw Amber popping up suddenly, I felt that something was wrong, even though I still I'm not sure what happened, but I can be sure that the world around me has been 'distorted' to a certain extent, and in the following 'decades'... the amber around me has always been the biggest violation point."

Amber looked at Gao Wen in bewilderment, then looked up at Ms. Ye, her head was full of question marks, she obviously had a lot of questions, but she swallowed them after holding back for a long time.

Ms. Ye on the throne became more and more curious: "Oh? I thought this was the most delicate and cautious part of the whole dream...Why did it become the biggest violation?"

"First, although Amber is always sneaking around in the shadow world, her concealment skills can't hide from my perception at all." Gao Wen shrugged and said bluntly, "I'm not sure if it's because When I 'arrived' into this world, it happened that she pried open the coffin lid, which made me very sensitive to her breath, but in short, she has never happened to me when she suddenly came out before the breath arrived. Condition.

"Secondly, although Amber will call me 'Old Zongzi', she blurts it out occasionally, or when no one is around to make fun of me, and after making this joke, her first reaction is to find me Hiding in a place, or holding her head and waiting to be knocked—how can she come here with an open mouth, and she is not Rebecca.

"The third and most important point is that Amber went to the Military Intelligence Office on time every day to process documents, and was still approving the report after lunch! I put a plate of melon seeds on the desk, and then locked Amber and melon seeds in a separate room. Three ten minutes in the room, the melon seeds were still there after opening the door! How could this be something that Amber could do? Three ten minutes, let alone melon seeds, under normal circumstances I opened the door a little slower and she would even put the plate back... "

As soon as Gao Wen's voice fell, Amber next to him immediately stared - although she still didn't understand what Gao Wen and Ms. Ye were talking about, she could at least understand that there was an attack on her image: "You This is wrong, when will I pass the plate..."

Gao Wen didn't pay attention to Amber who started to jump, he just met Ms. Ye's eyes calmly, until the latter said after a moment of silence: "...It seems that I did have a lot of omissions when I acted."

Gao Wen raised his eyebrows, and finally there was a little surprise on his face: "So that 'Amber' is really you?!"

Surprised on his side, he has already started to toss about the memory of "50 years" in his heart, and count how many times he knocked on the head of "Amber" in that dream—although he had realized at that time that he might He was in a hallucination, but at that time he never thought that the Amber next to him would be Ms. Ye in person... No wonder she was in a daze for so long when he knocked on Amber's head in the dream for the first time!

Ms. Ye seemed to have seen the wonderful change in the depths of Gao Wen's eyes, and there was a hint of a smile in his voice: "That is indeed me. In order to ensure the smooth injection process, I must personally control that 'dream' Although the specific process was a little different from what I had imagined, luckily everything went smoothly in the end, you... don't have to care about what happened in the illusion, it was an interesting experience for me, and after all, we are neighbors, mutual Help is nothing."

The more Gao Wen listened, the more he felt that something was wrong. He always felt that the ancient god in front of him was about to lose his temper, but he quickly glanced at Amber next to him, and then focused on the things he cared more about: "Then Now that the so-called 'anchoring' process has been successfully completed, can some issues be discussed? Between you and Amber, what is..."

"Don't you already know the answer?" Before Gao Wen finished speaking, Ms. Ye said with a smile, "A wrong copy, a copy of overflowing data, in a sense, amber can be counted as mine. 'Extension' and 'copy', although she is now an independent individual, closer to the 'source', the connection between us has never been severed."

Gao Wen frowned a little bit: "The phenomenon that Amber keeps 'moving closer' to you, and the constant changes in her body..."

"In a sense, we are one. She is a tributary from the big river, flowing on the earth and then returning to the river as the mother body. As time goes by, the soil between the two rivers is washed away. With constant erosion and erosion, the tributary will gradually show a tendency to merge with the main... Just like what you are worried about, she is indeed gradually returning and becoming a part of me again," Ms. Ye said calmly, but the last word Turn around, "But you don't have to worry, this process will not continue."

Gawain listened to the first half of the other party's explanation, and his heart was already raised, but he didn't expect the other party to make such a big turning point in the end, so he immediately opened his eyes wide, and the one who reacted more than him was of course the one next to him. Amber, the latter blurted out: "Ah? Why? You cut yourself?!"

Gawain felt relieved when he heard this familiar way of speaking with a huge amount of sand. If nothing else, this Amber who could knock out half of his teeth with a single sentence was the Shadow Assault Goose he was familiar with...

Ms. Ye didn't seem to care about Amber's sandy and offensive way of speaking, she just looked at her "shadow" with a smile, and reminded softly: "Do you still remember the building that was covered by the shadow?" and the city shrouded in mist, and those who have helped you and guided you beyond the city?"

Amber was stunned for a moment, and suddenly, complicated memories flooded out from the depths of her mind. She suddenly recalled what she had experienced after entering this "Kingdom of Shadow God", recalling that she was separated from Gawain After that, she fell into a dazed state, recalling that she stepped into a huge city while wandering, and that city accepted her as a "foreigner" like her hometown. She recalled those strange residents with silver-white hair and pale skin, and those Strange aborigines...

She lived in that city for many years, and embarked on a journey from that city. She regained her sanity in the city, and set out to find Gao Wen from that city...

She raised her head in astonishment, and saw that Ms. Ye was still staring at her. Those amber eyes looked very familiar. When she woke up every morning and looked in the mirror, she saw such eyes.

"I created an 'anchor' for you," she heard Ms. Ye's voice descending from the sky, but it seemed to come directly from the depths of her consciousness, "According to the principle of the anchor point generator, I weave A complete 'information cycle', and using the city of a thousand towers as a template, build the city on the border of the Shadow God Kingdom into a 'night city', and use it as your 'anchor generator'.

"Now, you have your own 'root' in this kingdom of shadows. You no longer have to draw water from my source, and you are no longer a tributary. You are Amber from the city of nightfall, living in the borderland The 'Vice Lord of the Kingdom of God', you are traveling in the world due to your free will, and the city that belongs to you will be managed by me on the day you leave the country. As long as that city still exists for a day, you will not will disappear from this world."

Listening to Ms. Ye's words that seemed to announce to the world, Hu Po's eyes widened. She finally couldn't help but speak when the other party's voice fell. The drastic change in her mood even made her seem a little incoherent: "You ...I... thank you?"

Gao Wen almost couldn't hold back anymore: "You held it in for a long time and then you said 'thank you', and you still have doubts?"

"I don't know what to say!" Amber stared wide-eyed, looked at Gao Wen and then at Ms. Ye, and finally regained a little ability to organize words, "You...you mean, in the future, I won't Worry about the future? Then you can think about which wave to go on?"

"First of all, don't use honorifics. We are of the same origin. Your honorifics make me feel very strange. Second——at least from the point of 'returning to the trunk', you no longer have any worries. You are now a complete and A self-consistent independent individual, there is no need to worry about being assimilated by the source," Ms. Ye's tone was very calm, but in the end it became a little weird, "As for the last point... I think which wave you go depends mainly on your strength."

Gao Wen: "..."

amber:"……"

Hearing such fresh and common words from an ancient god was quite a shock to Gawain, but besides the shock, he noticed another bigger fact more keenly——

"So apart from relieving her worries, her own strength hasn't changed, right?" Gao Wen's eyebrows twitched, and his gaze swept over Amber.

Ms. Ye was silent for two seconds: "...I didn't do anything unnecessary, because every additional link in the anchoring process will double the complexity of the system and double the anchoring success rate."

"But what did you say that I am the 'Deputy Lord of the Kingdom of God'!" Humber immediately realized, and the little scorpion looked astonished, "When I heard it just now, I was so excited. Is this title really just a title? It won’t work, I’d like to have such an extra title, after I go out, I won’t look good if I don’t have enough strength..."

Ms. Ye was silent for another two seconds, and gave a suggestion: "When you go out to fight with others and lose, don't mention that you are the vice-lord of the Kingdom of God."

amber:"……?"

The Shadow Assault Goose held back for a long time, and said again: "Then you can win or lose in a fight with a dog..."

"...why did you fight the dog?"

amber:"……"

"Don't fight with dogs in the future." Ms. Ye suggested sincerely.

Gao Wen watched the topic turn so unbelievably in the span of three or five sentences, and finally couldn't help it: "Ahem, I don't think we should discuss these things at this time..."

Immediately afterwards, he glanced at Amber, who immediately froze under this look and fell silent.

But Gao Wen didn't mean to blame at all, because he knew that the girl wasn't sincerely gagging or deliberately trying to divert the topic in a wrong direction, she was just too excited, because a crisis that would almost destroy her had been resolved, because What she has been most worried about for a long time has now been proved to not happen, and she will not be able to control her mouth until she suddenly relaxes - after all, although Amber usually behaves carelessly, she will also feel pressure.

Compared with her usual inconspicuous performance, this level of talk is already quite restrained.

What really made Gao Wen astonished was that Ms. Ye was able to follow Amber so cooperatively and twist the topic like this. This ancient god, who is mysterious and majestic in the eyes of the world, followed Hu Po's nine-turn and eighteen-turn train of thought quite easily and naturally. , the two of them talked smoothly as if they were one person (although in a certain sense this is true), He was neither angry nor embarrassed during the process, the reason behind this is really worth thinking about...

So Gao Wen stood there thinking for a few seconds, until he felt that Ms. Ye's eyes were on top of his head, and the pressure in those eyes was getting more and more stressful. Naturally changed the topic: "Now that my own problem is solved, Amber's problem is solved, and Modir has completed his journey, shouldn't we talk about the sailor?"

"Of course," Ms. Ye showed a smile in the clouds, and then slowly got up, "Now, you are qualified to know the expectations left by the sailors to this world."

Chapter 1563 The final answer has already been revealed

As Ms. Ye stood up from the throne, Gawain clearly felt that the surrounding "atmosphere" had changed. This change centered on the throne and spread rapidly throughout the gray-white desert. The originally chaotic but still bright sky suddenly darkened. When it fell down, it seemed as if night was falling, and the invisible wind in the desert also stagnated, and all the fine sand and dust crawled on the ground, and the "City of Night" in the distance gradually disappeared in the darkness. In just a few seconds, only the purest and monotonous scenery remained in this vast kingdom of shadows——

The desert, the throne, and the ancient gods and visitors before the throne.

Ms. Ye stood next to the throne, and Gao Wen's gaze was involuntarily attracted to the throne. A flash of light quickly caught his attention. He saw the high back of the throne suddenly rippling slightly, followed by the huge stone carving. The finished surface suddenly became as deep as the night, and turned into a darkness that seemed to be able to swallow and contain everything—and considering the majestic scale of this throne, the darkness was simply overwhelming!

Immediately afterwards, Gawain saw bits and pieces of brilliance emerging from the darkness... not only on the throne, but even the sky of the Kingdom of Shadow God began to show the same star brilliance as on the throne!

The star map, a star map with an astonishingly large scale, began to spread to the entire Shadow God Kingdom centered on Lady Ye's throne. This desert, which was originally shrouded in gray-white sky, suddenly seemed to be floating in the boundless space. Covering the four fields, the stars filled the line of sight, and between the starry sky and the brilliance on the throne, one can see routes jumping between the stars, and countless signs emerged around the celestial body. Among these signs Occasionally, subtle flashes of light can be seen moving slowly, the light flickers on and off, and everything changes.

Under this magnificent star screen, even Hu Po, who is usually the most dancing, couldn't help holding her breath. She stared up at the sky with her eyes wide open. After a few seconds, she took a sharp breath as if she had just realized it. The standing next to her Although Gao Wen was not so shocked, he was stunned for a moment before he realized that this is the star map that the sailor gave Ms. Ye to keep, and it is the complete form of the star map!

Moreover, this star map changes in real time. It is not just a piece of historical data, but also a monitoring image sent back in real time by countless data stations set up in the universe by the Voyager!

"This is the star map left by the voyager," Gawain finally said softly to himself after a long time, "The star map keeper... I had imagined what the star map you kept looked like, but I didn't." To think it would be so amazing..."

"When the original star map was handed over to me, the scale was not so large," Ms. Ye's calm and indifferent voice came from the night, "but in the past more than 100 million years, new data have been coming in continuously, it It has also gradually expanded from the initial size to the current scale - the voyagers are constantly sailing in the universe, leaving outposts of various sizes in every place they go, and these automatic outposts transmit data to the 'star map keeper', The picture of the known universe is outlined in real time, and at the same time, there will be some wandering machines of automatic exploration trekking among the stars, expanding outward from the center of the star map keeper, and the final formation is the "star map" you see .

"To this day, the voyager fleet has left this space domain, the signal from the mother fleet was no longer updated tens of thousands of years ago, and the automatic exploration fleet also ended its mission about 10 years ago. Today The scale of the star map is no longer expanding, but more than 90.00% of the nodes on it are still sending back local data in real time, so what you see... is the real state of this starry sky every minute and every second."

Gao Wen quietly stared at the starry sky above his head, remained silent for an unknown amount of time before suddenly speaking: "For a civilization that has just stepped into the universe or is about to step into the universe, the value of this star map is simply inestimable..."

"Yes, an immeasurable legacy. Civilizations crawling in the gravitational field cannot understand the value of the stars, but as long as they start to look up at the starry sky, they will naturally understand the meaning of this thing," Ms. Ye said in a deep voice, "and it's not just A star map is more like a navigation authorization... The navigator can't help the primitive civilization too much, but just a little help is enough to make a toddler civilization leave the cradle relatively smoothly."

"...so the civilization that accepts this inheritance must be carefully selected," Gao Wen seemed to understand something, "that's why it needs many tests, and there can be no external help before reaching adulthood..."

"External help will lead to abnormal development of civilization, and in this world, abnormal development of a civilization is the most terrifying thing." Ms. Ye's eyes fell on Gao Wen, "A abnormal development of civilization gave birth to abnormal development of gods , and at the same time, this god came into contact with the knowledge stored in the star chart. You can imagine what a terrible disaster this will cause-you know, the gods born during the adulthood of civilization are not free from the cage of "parent star information closed loop" limited."

Like a bell ringing in his heart, all the clues were connected at once. At this time, Gao Wen realized that Ms. Ye had spent so much effort to prevent himself from becoming the "God of the Starry Sky", and even went to accompany him to complete half of the journey. What was the purpose of the phantom journey of the century, and he realized what kind of terrible fate he had brushed shoulders with, and at the same time, he heard the voice of the ancient god continue to come from the sky——

"The last entrustment left to me by the sailors was about the entrustment of the star map. They told me that if the star map is finally to be handed over to the civilization that is about to mature, then the 'representative' who accepts the inheritance must be non-god, and forever Not God..."

Gawain blinked, and he had already reacted at this time: "So if I failed the binding test of the anchor point generator before..."

Ms. Ye was silent for a moment, her voice was low and low: "Unfortunately, if you really can't pass, then I can only let you stay here, because you have already come into contact with some core 'knowledge' at that time, and your probability of becoming a god is low. It still exists, and keeping you in the Kingdom of Shadow God is the only option for me to ensure that the situation is under control after the plan fails."

Gao Wen thought about it seriously, and a smile appeared on his face: "Although it is not a good method, it is indeed reasonable."

"Yeah, it's reasonable, but it's not a good method, but... Actually, I knew from the beginning that this preparation would not be useful." Ms. Ye seemed to laugh, "I believe in you, my neighbor, of course you You can pass that so-called 'test'-although in the end, it went more smoothly than I expected, but even in the worst predictions, I never really thought you would fail."

This time it was finally Gao Wen's turn to be a little surprised. He looked up at those eyes overlooking the sky: "You have so much confidence in me? This sounds like unconditional trust..."

As soon as his voice fell, Ms. Ye hadn't said anything when she heard Hu Po beside her say something very natural: "Is there any need to doubt it? I didn't even see you blinking when the tide hit the ground..."

Gao Wen was a little surprised and turned his head to look at the Shadow Assault Goose next to him, but saw the amber eyes of the other party staring at him shining under the night, with inexplicable pride and trust on her face, as if clearly It was Gao Wen who was talking about it, but she was the one who was so proud.

Gao Wen blinked, and just as he was about to say something, he heard Ms. Ye's voice again: "In any case, it all went smoothly. Although the current situation is not in line with the plan of the sailors back then, there is still something to be done. A civilization has grown to its present height."

"...What exactly do the sailors want?" Gawain's thoughts quickly converged, and he asked what he cared about a long time ago, "I mean, they made so many arrangements, leaving such Many gifts, and set up a star map keeper like you... There must be a purpose, right? But now that their fleet has left this space forever, then..."

"Starters... I hope there are other 'Starters' in the starry sky," Ms. Ye said softly, "One will reach adulthood by its own strength, one will truly step out of the cradle independently, and one will be able to set sail from the parent star just like them." new civilization."

Gao Wen was stunned.

"Another 'Starter'...is that all their wish?" He said in astonishment, "They left so many arrangements, just hope that a civilization can set sail from the mother star like them? Wait, that's it If so, don’t they already have a lot of…”

"The civilizations taken away by the voyager fleet will never truly become adults, they just embark on a journey in a larger 'eternal cradle'," Ms. Ye said calmly, "The voyagers will not give up seeking help ethnic group, but the civilizations taken away by them can only be "passengers" in the fleet even after tens of thousands of years. They may become advanced, civilized, and able to be like the sailors Controlling warships and galloping across the galaxy, but there will always be a shackle that has not been completely cut off in their ethnic group thoughts.

"The existence of this ideological shackle is like an eternal shadow, constantly chasing these 'boat passengers', this shadow prevents them from living alone for a long time without leaving the boat group, and the boat passengers chased by this shadow... no Could be a starter."

Gao Wen listened to Ms. Ye's words, and he didn't speak for a while. He had realized something in his heart, and at the same time, deep in his heart, the person called "the sailor" left a deep impression on the hearts of the world. At this time, the ancient group of mysterious shadows finally had a little clear outline, and after this moment of silence, he suddenly heard Lady Ye's voice again, the ancient god whispered a short poem— —

"...don't be intoxicated by this illusory and peaceful night...the night will eventually be broken...

"...do not indulge in your warm cradle...the cradle will capsize one day...

"...don't sleep in the sanctuary of the mind... sooner or later the sanctuary of the mind will become an unbreakable shackle...

"Go away, before the stars twinkle, go away, before the long night is over...

"If you don't start sooner, the day will come..."

Gao Wen suddenly raised his head: "I've heard this poem before, it's in the debris left by the sailor..."

"This is also what the voyager left to this world—but it's not a 'formal' legacy like the star map," Ms. Ye said slowly, "This is the last time a poet among the voyagers left before he evacuated from the sky station. What I did when I looked back at this planet, this poem was recorded by Sky Station, and then entered into my database. You can take this as a poet’s feeling, or it can be regarded as a response to this The expectations and reminders of the world."

Amber opened her eyes wide in surprise: "Poet? There are also poets among the sailors?"

"Why not?" Ms. Ye laughed, "Poets, singers, painters... Culture and art are available to every civilization, and the sailors are just a civilization that travels in the sea of ​​stars—they You are a mortal, please always keep this in mind.”

Gao Wen was thoughtful on the sidelines. In the past many years, he has revisited this short poem more than once. He has understood this poem from various angles, but with his understanding of this world As his understanding continued to deepen, his understanding of demonic tides and divine disasters gradually became clearer, and his understanding of this poem was quite different from the original one.

"At first, I thought that all the things mentioned in this poem were just metaphors for the separation and reunion of the world or the wrong lines of some dark sects, but now it seems...every sentence in this poem is pointing to the civilization as a whole , and among the stars," he said suddenly in his thoughts, "the illusory quiet night actually refers to the intermittent quiet period of the demon tide, right?"