Chapter 506 – Echoes of Doom

Chapter 506 – Echoes of the Last Days
Light Wind Harbor, one of the cities closest to the border of civilization among the city-states, had been the most important stronghold of the Truth Academy and the Explorer’s Association since the day it was built.

Thousands of years ago, a fleet of exploration ships led by elf scholars were lost in a storm near the border, and in the process of searching for a route, they discovered this large island that was not in any information.

According to the records, the fleet was chased by the storm for seven days, and in the morning of the eighth day, when the crew was exhausted, land suddenly appeared in the sunlight between the storms, and the explorers were ecstatic, and tried their best to bring the ship closer to the coast, and as they approached the strange island, the storm’s power diminished, and by the time the members of the fleet were able to get a good look at the lush vegetation on the island, the storm had dissipated cleanly. By the time the fleet could make out the lush vegetation, the storm had dissipated and there was only a light breeze offshore – so the explorers named the island after “Light Winds”, which later became the name of the new colony.

Many cities and states were discovered by explorers wandering the seas, and these discoveries are accompanied by more or less thrilling stories or legends, true or false, but the discovery and construction of Lightwind Harbor has always been regarded as “reliable” – simply because it is an Elven island. The reason for this is simple: it is a city-state founded by elves.

The explorer captain who first discovered the island is still the consul of the city-state – and president of the Explorers’ Guild.

Sara Meir stood on the terrace of her residence, looking out over the distant streets bathed in “sunlight”, at the city-state that he and his colleagues had built up and prospered to this day, where patrolling steam-pedestrian machines paraded through the streets, the bells of bicycles chimed loudly, and the citizens prepared to start their day’s work, and in the “tower” not far away, the “high towers” of the “high tower” of the “high tower” of the “high tower” of the “high tower” of the “high tower” of the “high tower”. Not far away, on the “tower”, the elfin-style dome is slowly opening under the drive of a mechanical device, and a heavy filter lens set rises from the top of the tower, slowly adjusting its angle to track the sun that is gradually rising into the sky.

The elven consul narrowed his eyes slightly, wrinkles building up at the corners of his eyes.

Even with the elf’s longevity, Sara Meir was no longer young, wrinkles had crept onto his forehead a little since three hundred years ago, the elf’s signature blonde hair was now gray with frost, and he had gone from a vibrant explorer captain to a stoic, but decrepit old man, but one thing had remained the same – he was still curious about this world. But one thing remains the same – he is still curious about the world.

“Your father, back in the day, was a worthy explorer, even by the harsh standards of the elves, he could be described as ‘extraordinary’, such an explorer’s warning to the civilized world certainly deserves to be taken seriously, but I hope that you can understand- -our misgivings are quite normal.”

Sara Meir turned to the dark-haired lady who was sitting demurely at the terrace tea table.

“Of course I understand, but then my task is simply to deliver the message, how you deal with it is up to you,” Lucrecia said blandly, “Father has thought of your possible reactions, and his attitude is the same – -provide a warning and nothing else.”

“On the side of the …… Explorer’s Guild, I will step in, and in any case, the news coming from Captain Duncan is in itself information to be taken seriously, and should put the captains of the line on alert,” Consul Sara said, and immediately afterward he frowned. “I do wonder though …… if it is really possible to dive into the depths and see the ‘original blueprints’ of our world with a spherical submersible?”

“The risk is high, but the Frosts did succeed,” Lucrecia nodded, “Of course, the pioneers paid a heavy price for it half a century ago – mortal minds are ultimately too fragile to completely avoid the effects of those ‘truths’ of the deep, and my father he …… is more or less exceptional, and I do not advise you to imitate them.”

“…… If I were seven or eight hundred years younger, I’m afraid that at this time I would really have already begun to plan my own dive plan,” Sara was silent for a few seconds, shaking her head somewhat regretfully, “If I could witness those sights with my own eyes, I think I would have been more certain of convincing the others in the association.”

A smile crossed Lucrecia’s face, “It’s all right, more people will be warned soon enough – Father has already arranged for a show of force to be sent to the Church of the Four Gods and the various city-states, and I’m sure that’s enough to show the seriousness of the matter.”

Sara Meier nodded, then he hesitated, but still couldn’t help but speak, “I’m still curious …… Ms. Lucrecia, has your father really fully regained his humanity? I’ve already lived for more than two thousand years, but I’ve never heard of anyone being able to return from subspace and even regain their humanity after returning …… How on earth did he do that?”

“Who knows?” Lucrecia shook her head, “If you’re really curious, you can just ask him face-to-face when the time comes – he’s going to come in person soon anyway.”

Sara Meir’s stoic, calm face twitched with a fleshly twitch.

“Ma’am, you don’t need to reiterate this news ……” the elven consul said in an odd tone, “It’s not good for the heart – please be be kind to the elderly.”

Lucrecia laughed, looking rather pleasant – she felt like she was experiencing Tirion’s joy – and rose contentedly, waving her hand at Consul Sara.

In the next moment, the figure of the “Witch of the Sea” suddenly transformed into scattered pieces of colored paper, which were swirled into the air by a gust of wind and disappeared on the terrace.

“This ‘witch’ is really free to come and go ……” Sara Meier couldn’t help but grunt, turning around and preparing to return to her room…. It was time to think about contacting the Explorers’ Guilds of the other city-states, and how to deliver the dreaded “warning”.

But just as she turned, the city-state consul’s movements stopped.

As if a wind of fear suddenly blew over the border of his consciousness, an unspeakable horror and despair surged in his heart, and Sara Meier felt this “emotion” as if it were injected directly into his own mind, clenching his mind in an instant, making his blood run cold and his muscles tense up!

With great difficulty, he raised his head and looked in a direction that seemed to be deeply embedded in his mind, with a strong tugging sensation. He looked towards the center of the city-state, towards the towering buildings – and he did not see his familiar city. Yet he did not see his familiar city-state, nor any other familiar sight.

There was only a blinding fire, and a giant tree, so huge that it was hard to describe, and he couldn’t even see its boundaries, like a huge mountain range, burning at the end of his vision!
The tree was like the world tree “Silantis”, which existed in the old elven legends, but it was far more magnificent and amazing than the poets and scholars depicted in their imaginations, it seemed to cover the entire mountain range and plains, and sheltered a kingdom in its shade, and it was bigger than any city-state or island Sara Meir had ever seen. and the earth beneath the giant tree was even more vast than he could have imagined –

All of this, however, was shrouded in apocalyptic flames.

The crimson flames were consuming everything, burning the tree and the forest around it to ashes, and there was some kind of huge flash that seemed to be a release of energy constantly bursting out from the edge of the flames, igniting the air and tearing the sky apart.

Along those eerie huge flashes of light, Sara Meir lifted her sight with difficulty.

He finally found the source of the flames that led to the flames that engulfed everything.

It was the sky – the entire sky was glowing with a terrifying fiery light, bulging and glowing like a steam core reactor that was about to melt through out of control, and in the middle of that ever-bulging light, some kind of dark red unsettling color could be seen gradually seeping in.

Afterwards, the dark red color began to spread rapidly, until the sky’s blazing light was swallowed up, causing the entire world to be shrouded in a horrifying, dark red twilight, the sky’s blazing heat receded, however, everything on the earth had already been incinerated in the flames, the forests were turned into scorched earth, and the miracle-like giant trees also collapsed in the embers, emitting a heavenly roar of the earth crashing down.

The dark red sky became darker and darker, and a little bit filled with some kind of black streaks, time seems to have passed for a long, long time, or maybe only a moment, Sarah Meier saw the nightfall, dark mixed with the dark red eerie night sky covered the world has been turned into scorched earth, in this extremely short “quiet”, he seemed to hear someone In this very brief “peace”, he seemed to hear someone talking in his ear.

It was several unfamiliar voices-

“…… I remember them, I remember what they look like ……”

“Memories can come in handy …… We have a plan ……”

“A shelter, or a lingering cage – the future doesn’t look good.”

“But at least there is a future ……”

Sara Meier looked around, trying to find the source of the voice, but only saw the world burned out, everything annihilated, and then, the dark red night sky began to split apart, the wrong kind of light and shadow from the cracks in the sky “pouring” in, the ashes and debris on the ground in an instant by the light and shadow of the assimilation, decomposition, everything is rapidly disappearing, a A strong thought of unknown origin roared in his mind, as if it were hundreds or thousands of thoughts speaking and resonating at the same time:

Tearaway Doomsday.

Sara Meir’s body shook.

Something was receding like a tidal wave, and all the violent emotions and horrific impressions remaining in his mind were melting away as fast as snowflakes in the sunlight; one moment he felt as if he had seen something, even remembered something intensely, and the next he felt as if he had simply frozen in a trance for a moment.

Those things disappeared, like a dream that dissipates in the morning.

Sara Meier stood there, frowning subconsciously, and looked back in the direction where the “Witch of the Sea” had disappeared.

“This ‘witch’ really comes and goes freely ……”

Sara Meier couldn’t help but grunt and turned around to return to the room.

(End of chapter)