Sword of Dawnbreaker

”The door is indeed open, but whether the other side is the divine realm requires verification,” Kamel’s steady voice came from the side, bringing Windsor back to calmness from her excitement, ”As planned, let’s send out the first ’Explorer’.”

Windsor immediately nodded, and turned to issue instructions to the technical personnel standing by: ”Bring the ’Explorer’ over.”

A moment later, several technical personnel came to the portal, and behind them followed a peculiar-looking magic artificial intelligence, standing barely over a meter tall. Made of brass, it was a self-regulating mechanism with a round body and multiple jointed insect-like long legs. Besides the magical symbols engraved on its copper shell, there were deep-sea runes and crystal lens structures. It also had a long-handled ”head” and three ”arms” extending from its copper shell, all driven by intricate mechanical structures and its core magical mechanisms.

Kamel’s gaze lingered on the magic artificial intelligence for a moment. Seeing this, Windsor, standing beside him, commented with a smile: ”The pinnacle creation of traditional magic realm—perhaps not as powerful, cheap, or easy to produce as ancient magical devices, but in situations like this, it has its purpose.”

”...I see some elements of Iron Man Technology,” Kamel murmured, ”Its joint connectors are More-76 style.”

”Yes, we’ve learned a few things from Gondor’s Iron Man Technology,” Windsor replied quietly with a slight tone of pride before raising her hand, ”Let the Explorer enter the portal!”

Under the watchful eyes of everyone full of anticipation, tension, and concern, the brass magic artificial intelligence stepped forward, its jointed long legs clattering, fearlessly approaching the round ”lens” glowing with a soft radiance—it stepped into it, causing the mirror’s surface to ripple. Then, as if passing through a veil of water, its form appeared on the other side of the portal.

Once the Explorer completely passed through the ”lens,” Windsor immediately turned to the controllers by the portal: ”How is it, can you still track it?”

”Yes, Master Windsor,” a controller promptly nodded, floating beside him a magical projection clearly presenting the ”Explorer’s” view. From that view, what first caught the eye was an extremely wide stone plaza, and in the distance stood majestic architecture, ”The signal successfully passed through the portal, I see everything clearly here.”

Kamel focused on everything happening, unable to resist asking: ”What is your plan if the signal cannot pass through the portal? What if the Explorer loses contact with the outside world after entering the divine realm?”

”We have emergency plans,” Windsor Maple promptly nodded, stating, ”If the control signal from the rear is interrupted, the Explorer will autonomously assess its action plan. It will patrol within a limited area near the portal, collect data, gather a small number of samples, and return automatically after a set period—if it senses itself contaminated with harmful elements, it will self-destruct immediately.”

Kamel nodded, without inquiring in detail what ”harmful elements” the magic artificial intelligence would evaluate, because this information was publicly circulated within the theocracy Authority Council, sourced from several high-ranking consultants of the council—in the ”Divine Realm Harmful Elements List,” included but not limited to independently moving substances, chaotic light and shadow color products, animated shadows, and anything possessing such characteristics. Essentially, anything impossible in reality, that could cause mental pollution to ordinary people, and that exhibits a tendency to actively spread, is categorized as ”harmful elements” potentially breeding within the divine realm.

His gaze returned to the portal, focusing on the mages responsible for controlling the explorers, and he fixed his eyes on the holographic projection floating between those mages—the explorers had already left the portal’s directly visible area, and people ”here” could only judge the environment around the magic artificial intelligence through these holographic projections.

He saw an extremely vast space, most of the ground was paved with huge stone blocks, and he saw some grand and majestic buildings in the distance, their outer walls shimmering with an iron-gray sheen, as if their tops were adorned with polished spears, swords, or shields, bringing to mind scenes described by the War God’s believers: