Chapter 613 – The Sun That Cannot Be Taken Away

Chapter 613 The Sun That Couldn’t Be Taken Away

Vanna felt like her mind was a little short.

She was no stranger to this feeling of not having enough brains – when she was still a student, she herself had felt this way every time she listened to Mr. Morris’ lectures, but she hadn’t felt this way in many years, ever since she had entered puberty and managed to replace most of her brain’s work with her muscles.

Now, that familiar feeling was back.

She looked at the “glowing ball” in the giant’s hand, blinking several times before she understood the words and the object in her hand on a rational and literal level, but the sensual part of her was still in a daze – this was… . the sun this world once had?

“Care to touch it?” The giant smiled kindly at Vanna’s stiff appearance, and passed the “sun” in his hand over to Vanna a little, “It’s not hot anymore.”

Vanna felt the statement was more bizarre than ever, but didn’t know how to react.

After a few seconds of hesitation, she reached out her hand – with a feeling she didn’t understand, she touched the glowing ball in the giant’s hand curiously.

It was only the size of a fist – a human fist – and in the giant’s hand it looked almost like a small, delicate bead, and there seemed to be many more delicate structures operating on the surface of that little bead, with fine flames of light surging through it, with areas of light and darkness interspersed with each other, and every now and then a few hair-thin rays of light rising up and falling back down to the surface.

It was only a little warm to the touch, like hot water slightly warmer than body temperature.

Vanna was in a bit of a trance, and she thought of the familiar appearance of the sun – rising from the sea level every day with a brilliant double runic circle, able to bring light and temperature to the whole world, a “miracle” of astonishing scale, an ancient grandiose “vision”.

At the same time, she also remembered the captain’s words about the sun having another form, one that was even more brilliant, even more massive – just recently, the captain had begun to try to tell his followers about some of the knowledge that originated in subspace, and among that knowledge was the notion of the stars and the universe.

To be honest, Vanna hadn’t listened too well to the Captain’s teachings, and even Mr. Morris and Miss Lucrecia didn’t seem to fully understand, but at least there was one thing Vanna understood …… No matter what kind of sun it was, it shouldn’t have been a small ball the size of a …… fist.

The warm “little sun” left her hands.

The giant sat on the ground at the edge of the pit, he put the “sun” in the palm of his hand, put his hand on his lap, he lowered his gaze, as if immersed in memories and thinking, after a long time, he spoke in a low voice: “They are full of intelligence, good at using a variety of ways to explain the operation of the world, although born weak, but they can rely on the world to explain the operation of the world. weak, but they were able to rely on ‘science’ to fight against things that were much stronger than them, I have always thought that if they were still around, if they could have developed as far as they have today, perhaps they would be able to explain what is going on with this ‘sun’ ……

“But by the time it fell, the world had gone quiet, the last of them had been transformed into that tower, and all those brilliant minds and whimsical insights had disappeared into the world – and I, for one, couldn’t figure the thing out.”

Vanna was silent for several moments, but she wasn’t just silent – she was telling the Captain what had happened here.

She’s telling the captain – she may have found the “sun” that the cultists mentioned at the rally.

It’s in the hands of this giant who calls himself a god, and it looks like …… can actually “take it”, one hand at a time.

The giant, on the other hand, didn’t seem to care about Vanna’s silence and her communication with some unknown being on the level of consciousness, memories enveloped this lonely god of the past, and he gazed longingly at the small “star” in his hand, which used to shine on the world and his mortal people, and after a long time, he said to himself: “I have been thinking, thinking about what exactly destroyed this place …… It did not happen in an instant, traveler, it has a long process.”

“Process?” Vanna noticed the word immediately.

The giant nodded and spoke in remembrance, “At first, it was anomalies that could not be explained by the knowledge already available; clouds suddenly disappearing and reappearing, flashes of light in the atmosphere of unknown origin, the weather was out of whack, and plants stopped growing normally;
“Then the anomalies began to ripple out into deeper, more disturbing territory – gravity was changing, and there was a break in the passage of time everywhere;

“In the process, we observed the increasingly intense red light, like a rift, which filled the sky from beyond, as if constant in the sky and covering our world, distorting the light of the stars in the distance, a sort of …… ‘deformatization’ ‘ encroaching on the world, and all were helpless to do anything about it.

“That’s when the Archives began to be built.”

The giant paused suddenly as he spoke, he looked towards the tower again, as if because he wasn’t used to communicating with people, he would always suddenly fall into thought or wander off in mid-sentence like this, but soon enough, he spoke again:

“There is a swift end to a long process, and when the Archives were destroyed, I had a brief sense …… of some kind of ‘something’ touching our world, something that took a long time to get close, and in the close process led to that long doom, and its ‘touch’ at the end was the final descent and end of the destruction, yet a long time has passed, and I still haven’t been able to figure out exactly what that ‘something’ was.”

“You said you felt something ‘touching’ the world?” Vanna couldn’t help but widen her eyes, unaware that she had used honorifics when speaking to the giant, “You really didn’t ‘see’ what that thing actually was at all?”

The giant recalled it very carefully and showed Vanna a hint of apology, “I’m sorry, traveler, I can see that you’re concerned about it, but what I’ve said is all I know.”

Vanna pursed her lips, she had to suppress the regret in her heart, and then her eyes fell on the “little sun” in the giant’s hand.

This thing could not be allowed to fall into the hands of the Black Sun’s heirs and remnants.

After hesitating for a long time, she finally decided to be more open and honest. “There are unsuspecting people who have set their eyes on the ‘sun’ in your hands …… I don’t know if they will find their way here or how to explain to you where they are coming from, but ……”

In the middle of her sentence, the giant raised his hand again and placed the “ball of light” in front of her, “Do you want to take it away?”

The giant’s tone was gentle, with a smile on his face.

Vanna froze for a moment, and waved her hand hurriedly after she reacted, “No, that’s not what I meant, you may have misunderstood ……”

“It’s okay, traveler,” the giant but once again interrupted Vanna’s words, he still said in that calm and friendly tone, “I can feel your goodwill, and …… I don’t think you can necessarily take it from me. ”

Vanna was slightly stunned, and after sensing that the giant didn’t mean to joke, she finally hesitantly reached out to the glowing sphere – this time not to touch it, but to try and pick it up.

The warm touch came again, and Vanna felt like she was holding an entity, yet just as she was about to push, the touch suddenly disappeared.

The sphere turned into a phantom and passed through her palm.

She looked with some dismay at the sun that she couldn’t hold.

“I don’t know when it became a part of me,” the giant’s voice came from the side, “perhaps on the day I picked it up …… one phantom picked up another, and it could never be separated.

“You can’t take it with you, traveler, so it would seem that those unsuspecting people in your mouth shouldn’t be able to take it with them either.”

The giant rose from the ground.

He patted the sand and dust from his robes, storing the “sun” carefully close to his body, and then bent down to pick up the massive cane, “We should go, traveler.”

Vanna subconsciously asked, “Where to?”

“A walk in the world, there are still many things here, though they are no longer visible now, I would like to introduce you to the stories of what they once were and what they looked like,” the giant turned his head and looked out at the sea of sand in the distance, “You can also tell me on the way, what those ‘ unsuspecting people’ have come from – this world has been dead for many years, and it’s been too long since I’ve talked to anyone, and this is the first time I’ve heard from …… outsiders.”

He paused and lowered his head to look at Vanna, “I had almost forgotten what curiosity was, thank you for reminding me.”

“Aren’t we going to look down there?” Vanna pointed to the tall tower in the center of the large pit, “I thought ……”

“There’s not much left to see there, what you see here is all there is to it,” the giant shook his head, already turning to walk off into the distance, “Come on, it’s going to be dark again, day and night always turn quickly here, but maybe we can reach another ruin before dusk –where once you could look out over the sea.”

Listening to the giant’s words, Vanna glanced back at the “tower”, saying a silent goodbye in her mind before turning to follow the giant, who had already walked a dozen meters away.

……

Duncan sat behind the chart table and remained in that position for a long time, and it was only after an unknown period of time that he let out a deep breath.

Vanna found the “sun”, in a very …… unbelievable state.

But for some reason, after hearing the situation reported by Vanna, in addition to the initial surprise and doubt, he had no other feelings, and even that surprise also quickly faded, leaving only a …… “so” feeling.

Perhaps because he had already witnessed the ten-meter diameter of the “moon”, or perhaps because he had long seen a “sunrise” that can jump on the deck, in this weird and twisted world survival for such a long time, his ability to accept has been completely tempered. His ability to accept has been completely tempered.

Then there was only one question left–

Vanna couldn’t take the “sun” with her.

That’s a bit disconcerting.

(It’s double time now, so I’m begging for monthly votes~)

(End of chapter)