Chapter 474 – Blasphemous Archetypes and the Fall

Chapter 474 – Desecration of Archetypes and Falling Down

Alice left.

Duncan didn’t know how much the silly doll had understood, but at least she had realized the danger of the Key, and wouldn’t think twice about winding it up until she knew what it really was.

Outside the window, the sun was setting, and the two brilliant runic circles were gradually approaching the distant sea horizon, and the golden-red light that filled the room haloed the entire sea, and then passed through the window and poured into the room.

Duncan sat in front of the desk next to the window, quietly gazing at the brass key, watching the sunlight covering its infinite symbol-like key handle, the fine pattern seemed to come to life in the sunlight, presenting a flowing texture along with the light and shadow.

After a brief moment of thought and hesitation, Duncan gently inhaled and reached out to hold the key.

A tiny bit of dense green firelight appeared on his fingertips, and gradually penetrated towards the interior of the key.

Originally, he did not intend to use the “spiritual fire” to study this key, because the power of the flame might destroy the extraordinary nature of the key, and even if it didn’t, it might affect its original nature, but now he couldn’t care less.

He had to find out what Rei Nora had left inside the key – under this premise, he could only be doubly careful, trying to avoid the power of the Spiritual Body Flame from searing the thing too violently, while carefully sensing any tiny bit of information coming from the flame, and being ready to extinguish the flame as soon as he felt that it wasn’t right.

The flame was like water, flowing gently between his fingers and the key, the ghostly green light seeping little by little into the latter’s brassy surface, while to Duncan’s perception it was as if his flame …… was sinking into a vast, boundless and chaotic inexplicable place.

He slowly closed his eyes, and then began to observe the “world” behind the key, using the spreading flame as his vision.

Fog, boundless fog, like dust and smoke flow, in the field of vision, sometimes cohesion, sometimes dispersion, the flame can see, only chaos and nothingness.

Duncan “observed” the fog in front of him suspiciously, but saw only the same, even chaos in all directions.

He knew that this was the “reality” of the “inside” of the key, and that he was doing the same thing he had done when he had first explored the mannequin’s casket, but the situation here was nothing like the inside of the casket.

After a few moments of silence in the endless mist, Duncan was slightly relieved to see that the flames were still spreading steadily, and that there was no sign of damage to the key itself, and then he tried to move his vision in a certain direction.

But just as he moved forward, he felt the texture of a foreign object in his hand.

A key?

Duncan’s first thought was of the brass key he held in his hand in the real world, and then he realized something else – he had a “body” in this fog?

He also clearly remembered that the last time he looked at the mannequin casket, he only had a “vision”!
Why was there such a change? Was it because of the difference in the nature of the two transcendent objects themselves? Or was it because of some unknown change in his power?

Duncan’s doubts rose steeply in his heart, and at the same time, he subconsciously raised his hand and looked at the “foreign object” in his hand.

A rectangular object with a black shell, the texture of which could not be distinguished as metal or plastic, lay quietly in his palm.

Duncan was stunned.

The thing was only about half a palm long, two fingers wide, its smooth surface is obviously some kind of artifact, in its black shell, you can also faintly see some do not know whether it is a decorative line or the internal structure of the fine lines, and at one end, you can see the complex structure of the metal ports, the ports lined up with a series of neatly raised structures.

It looks …… as if it is a …… “readable device” that can be connected to some kind of machine and used to store data or act as an initiator.

Duncan held the black rectangle in front of his eyes and scrutinized every inch of it with astonishment.

He thought of an “other-worldly” USB flash drive, or a removable hard disk, but the interface specifications were clearly not what he was familiar with.

And after a long time of observation, something else suddenly came to his mind…

In Prand, in the branch of history that was burned by the fire, he saw that the “children of the sun” who invaded the city-state were holding a big black umbrella in their hands, and inside the black umbrella there was a complicated structure and it looked like advanced and precise mechanical and even electronic structure. ……

Duncan recalled the black umbrella he saw in Prand, and scrutinized the rectangular device in his hand, and finally confirmed that the black umbrella of the Children of the Sun and this strange “device” in front of him did not seem to have the same style, and that they seemed to be the products of two technological routes or design styles, but that they also had something in common! –But they have something in common.

But they also have something in common — sophisticated, advanced, complex, and from the looks of it, it seems to be far beyond the technological level of this world today.

At the very least, it didn’t seem like something that could be made, or had been made, by the city-states of the Boundless Sea today.

And this kind of thing seemed to have a unique name in this world:

Profane Prototype. Dog had described them thus:
“There are some histories in the long ages of this world that are ‘locked away’, and the things that have been born from these forbidden histories are Blasphemous Archetypes, and usually, their very existence is harmful to real-world creatures… …”

This “black box” that looks like some kind of data device …… is a “profane archetype”?
Duncan frowned slightly, examining the small device in his hand over and over again, contemplating how it related to the brass key he held in his hand in the real world, when he was interrupted by a strange, low rumbling sound that suddenly came from very high up and very far away.

Duncan raised his head in dismay and looked in the direction from which the sound had come.

In the next second, he saw that a strong light suddenly appeared in the endless chaotic mist that enveloped the entire space, which came from far away as if it was a meteor that was falling violently, and then immediately afterward, it formed a blazing ball of fire in the mist!

It whistled as it swept over Duncan’s head and gradually decreased in altitude as it flew, and the mist was broken up, and something vast was outlined in the dazzling mass of fire, and Duncan saw an entity propelled by flames –

It was shaped like three spindles bound together, and at the end of each spindle you could see a huge stream of light pouring from the thrusters, and on the outer shell of the spindle you could see smoke and fire, and shocking explosions and rips were occurring all the time, during which time pieces of debris were constantly falling out of the explosions and raining down on the fog, and turning into meteors in the process of falling down, and burning up in the sky! ……

Without reference, Duncan could not tell how big the “three-body ship” that was speeding through the sky was, but he could feel the strong shock and pressure brought by the huge figure wrapped in flames and smoke, which might be bigger than a city-state, or even bigger than a lot of city-states combined, and it might have crossed a long journey and passed through the sky on a certain astronomical scale. some astronomical scale to skim the stars, and it glided through this mist-shrouded vision, falling, and as Duncan watched in amazement, the fall was capped by a terrific explosion-

With an explosion that would have shaken the whole of space and time, the Ark, made up of three spindles, disintegrated.

It split into three parts, turned into three burning fireballs, three blinding trails wrapped in smoke, scattered in the depths of the fog.

It was far away, a distance that could not be reached by foot.

And Duncan suspected that even if he could move a thousand miles in an instant, he feared that he wouldn’t be able to reach the place where the three pieces of wreckage had fallen.

Because this misty …… record is nothing more than an incident that happened in the distant past.

Slight heat from the palm of his hand, Duncan lowered his head and saw that a brass key was lying quietly in his hand, the handle at the end of the brass key that looked like an infinite symbol was emitting a faint glow, and the fine lines slowly swam in the shimmering light and outlined into recognizable symbols:

“New Hope.”

“Boom!”

An illusory boom suddenly exploded in his mind as the mist around Duncan suddenly dissipated into the darkness, followed by a shift in light and the familiar view of his bedroom returning to view once more.

Duncan settled back, feeling his senses rapidly returning, and he lowered his head again to see the brass key still lying silently in his hand.

The key is no longer hot, no longer glowing, and the fine lines on the key handle no longer swim, and the characters …… that floated in front of his eyes before seem to be a bubble that dissipates as he wakes up from his dream.

But Duncan still remembers clearly what he saw, remembers the name – the

The New Hope.

He frowned, quickly got up and took the notebook on the desk, wrote the words “New Hope” on it, and quickly and roughly recorded the scene he saw in the “vision”, and when he had written all these things down he was slightly relieved, and resumed the sitting position he had begun with. After writing all these things down, he breathed a little sigh of relief, and resumed his sitting position as he had done at the beginning.

In this world, it was unlikely that anything could affect his memory and thinking, but the necessary caution could not be avoided.

Finishing his notes, Duncan fell into deep thought.

He did not know the scene he saw exactly what the cause and effect, did not know the “vision” of the black data device and the brass key between what kind of connection or “transformation” process, did not know that the fallen ark ship is now where, but he believed that what he saw was not the case. But he believed …… that what he saw was not an illusion.

That was a scene that had really happened, in the distant past, in the city state era has not even begun in the years, happened in this world’s real history.

There was a huge airship that crashed into this world and exploded during the crash, spilling the wreckage into the dust.

Duncan exhaled softly.

He tucked the key away close to his body and lifted his head, looking out the window at Vision 001, which had crashed almost completely into the sea.

“This is …… fun.”

(End of chapter)