Chapter 497 – Duncan’s Bold Idea
Chapter 497 – Duncan’s Bold Idea
Accompanied by the ghostly green flame reflecting the cabin, the sound of distant waves outside the cabin gradually seemed to come from an ethereal and hazy dream, while those secrets from the endless deep sea, from that dark and icy place, gradually seeped into everyone’s mind like a creepy shadow.
The only sanctuary for mortals on the infinite sea is constructed on the unnamable corpses of giants – withered tentacles hanging down from the base of the city-state, and pale, ghastly eyes gazing into the endless abyss;
All earthly beings are heirs of the Deep Lord, and the flesh and blood of the Ancient Ones constructs the world; what happened in Frost was not an invasion, but the Ancient Ones “awakening” from their own creations;
The four gods are not necessarily stable and orderly beings, they also have the possibility of falling out of control, and similar “out of control” processes may have occurred more than once in this world, the earthly world is now sheltered by the four gods, perhaps only because they are the only ones left who can still stay awake;
The plague of the Frost will not be the last, and as the condition of the Holy Lord of the Fathoms deteriorates further, and as the flaws in the “blueprint of Creation” continue to magnify over time, similar “awakenings” are likely to occur all over the world, with faulty replicas of the Ancient Gods emerging from the depths of the sea, from the cities and towns, and from the world. The erroneous copies of the ancient gods will be drilled out from the deep sea, from the depths of city-states, and even …… from the bodies of every mortal.
Duncan told his followers in a calm and quiet tone what he knew in the deep sea and what he had deduced from the available information.
A long, dead silence then fell over the cabin.
Even the solid headed Alice and the heartless Shirley were honestly quiet and realized the severity of the problem …… probably.
After a long time, Vanna was finally the first to break the silence, she took a deep breath, the gloom between her features seemed to be condensing a dark cloud: “If I hadn’t heard you say all this in person, I would have absolutely taken every word in this intelligence as the epileptic ravings of the Final Preacher …… “
“I’m afraid that even the most insane Final Preacher couldn’t concoct anything of this caliber,” Morris said slowly, picking up his pipe and bringing it to his lips, only to find that the tobacco inside had gone out at some point, so he put it down again with a bitter smile, “Ah yes, Final Preacher, and the Final Preacher who dealt with the Frost Queen The Ultima Preacher who dealt with the Frost Queen – one of the craziest things in the world is nothing more insane than the fact that any of those subspace believers can even stay sane ……”
Tirion’s brow furrowed, and after a long silence he finally couldn’t help but raise his head, “Father, is all this information true?”
Right after he finished speaking he felt that he had asked a stupid question, but this stupid question was so necessary at this moment – everyone sitting at the long table, I’m afraid, had this thought in their hearts.
“It is indeed at least what I have seen and heard,” Duncan said lightly, “but of course, one-sided intelligence can be misleading, and multiple interpretations can exist even of the most obvious clues.
“Also, the Frost Queen doesn’t always tell the truth, and even if she does, she’s liable to make mistakes herself – we can only deduce the closest possibility to the truth based on the information we have at this stage.”
“The closest possibility to the truth at this stage? ……” Tirian repeated these words in a low voice, and then asked immediately afterward, “Did the Queen mention that if there were a situation like Frost in other city-states ‘Ancient Gods Awakening’ situation, what kind of precursors would there be?”
“No,” Duncan shook his head, “she was also unable to confirm what the mechanism for such an ‘awakening’ was, perhaps the only way to do so would be to enter the Profound Deep and go directly to confirm the state of the Profound Holy Lord himself. ”
As the words fell, several gazes from the scene instantly fell on Dog, who was hiding in the corner with his head shrunk.
“Don’t look at me!” A Dog jumped up almost instantly, his huge head whirring and shaking, “There’s no feasibility, and there’s no way for me to get close to the vicinity of the Sacred Lord, much less bring someone in ……”
“But you were able to open the ‘passage’ to the Profound Deep, and even run through it with Shirley,” Duncan looked seriously at the only Profound Demon on the scene, “You also said that the Profound Hound was born near the Holy Lord of the demon breed, and that your ‘old home’ was right next to the Holy Lord.”
“That’s a shallow passageway that can only be skimmed from the very edge of the Profound Deep Sea, specially used for running away,” Dog could only tell these secrets to himself after hesitating for a couple of seconds when he saw that everyone was staring at him – in the past many years, these secrets had always been its and Shirley’s bottom card to save their lives, “The Profound Deep Sea is a more complicated and bizarre place than you can imagine, it’s not a whole, and the various ‘zones’ don’t exist continuously with each other ……
“You can look out over the shallow zone to the deep zone, but without the proper means, you will not be able to ‘walk’ to your destination in ten thousand years, where ‘distance’ is an illusion, and ‘movement ‘ is also an illusion ……
“I have been ‘banished’ by the Profound Deep Sea, although the exact principle is unclear, perhaps because of the ‘heart’ that has been created, since many years ago, I have been unable to open the passageway to the Holy Lord’s side, and on the other hand I’m also very unpopular with the ‘old folks’ over there …… , and even just skimming through the safety of the shallow zone would attract countless demons …… .
“And even putting those factors aside, there’s no way for me to bring just any ‘person’ into that side, the Phantom Demons can only bring their own contracted symbionts through the passageway – I can only bring Shirley, there’s no way for me to bring anyone else’s. ”
Dog crackled out this long string of words before carefully watching the reactions of those around him – especially Duncan – and scowling, added, “I’m not making excuses, Captain, as you can hear, the difficulties are indeed many.”
Duncan, however, wasn’t annoyed by the long list of difficulties Dog recited; he just thought very carefully for a while before speaking thoughtfully, “You mean that the space of the Profound Deep is not continuous?” “…… could probably understand it that way,” Dog thought for a moment and nodded, “I can’t say exactly – I’ve recently been studying Professor Blondauer’s Three Conjectures on Asymmetric Spacetime by Prof. Brundle, so maybe I can explain it a little more clearly to you when I’m done.”
Duncan didn’t pay any attention to the latter part of Dog’s sentence, he just continued to think about it and asked another question, “But I also remember you mentioning that the Lost Country had smashed through the entirety of the Phantom Deep during those years when it was completely out of control.”
Dog’s expression (as abstract as it was) changed instantly, and his entire skeleton creaked into stasis.
Duncan thought that the other party was not thinking of it, and casually added a little more detail, “What you said, it fell from the real world to subspace, and then floated up from subspace, traveling through the realms like a repeated tremor, smashing through the entire Spirit Realm and the Profound Deep Sea each time-did it break through the entire Spirit Realm and the Profound Deep Sea in a process equivalent to the the ‘spatial fault’ in the Profound Deep Sea?”
This time it wasn’t just Dog’s expression that was abstract, the expressions of everyone in the entire cabin were wonderful – a kind of horror enveloped everyone, even including Lucrecia on the opposite side of the crystal ball.
“Ship …… Captain!” Dog’s broken voice finally made a sound, every piece of its bone fragments shaking, “You don’t say such a horrible thing …… you don’t really intend to smash again …… again… …”
“Father, please be careful,” even Lucrecia, who hadn’t spoken much and appeared to be quite raw, couldn’t help but break the silence, she looked at Duncan on this side of the crystal ball with a face full of nervousness, as if she was afraid that her own father would revert to that bloodless, tearless, terrifying “god” in the very next second. “, “It’s never a good idea to let the Lost Country return to its out-of-control state to smash open the gates of the Deep Sea, even as a ‘scientific research project’…… it’s a bit too radical. ”
Duncan, not realizing that he’d elicited such a reaction from the others just by mentioning this bold idea, shook his head, “Don’t worry, I’m not up to such an extreme ‘test’ – I’ve always been a cautious man. ”
The crowd was visibly relieved.
But immediately afterward Duncan took a turn for the worse, adding, “But even from a prudent standpoint, this ‘old business’ has given me an idea – there are certain properties of the Lost Country that are capable of ignoring spatial faults, I’ll do some research based on that and see if I can open the door to that place while ensuring safety ……”
Everyone’s hearts instantly lifted up again ……
But at least, this time, no one raised strong objections like earlier, only Morris and Lucrecia as scholars re-emphasized the necessity of “safety” and “caution”… -Looking at their attitudes, it is clear that they are still worried that the captain will really have a whim to take the Lost Country ship and smash it into the deep sea. ……
Fortunately, Duncan quickly moved on to the next topic.
“Aside from the state of the Profound Holy Lord, I’m more concerned about another matter right now,” he rubbed his chin and spoke while thinking, “Those Final Preachers – technically speaking, those who exist in sanity and act in a style The Final Preachers who are the complete opposite of the ‘cultists’.”
He turned his head and his gaze fell on Tirian.
“You once mentioned to Vanna that three of the Final Preachers visited the Lost Country and talked with me all night?”
Tirian immediately owed his body, his expression seeming a bit embarrassed, “Yes, father, at that time I had no way of confirming your …… ‘status’, so I talked with Miss Vanna about some of your ‘old stories’.”
“That’s okay,” Duncan waved his hand, “I can’t remember much from back then, so it’s good that you do instead.”
Without moving, he re-emphasized his “memory loss” due to subspace effects, and confirmed the change in Tirion and Lucrecia’s expressions before continuing, “What I’m trying to say is that I have a feeling that sooner or later we’ll have to deal with those ‘sensible’ Endbringers again. Sensible Final Preachers’ sooner or later.”
Morris subconsciously spoke, “Why do you judge so?”
“Because they seem committed to participating in far-reaching ‘historical events’,” Duncan said slowly as he adjusted his seating position, “And the commotion the Lost Country has made . . has been growing.”
(End of chapter)