Chapter 631 – The College Ark

Chapter 631 – Academy Ark
There were countless threads there, as if clumps of hair had sprung up from the surface of the sea, floating up into mid-air without weight in general – and they were still growing, more and more now.

Alice stared at this scene with wide eyes, confused and shocked, and then, there was a flash of green fire in the bottom of her eyes – Duncan’s eyes were flickering with the same fire, and so the “threads”, which could only be seen by dolls, also appeared in front of Duncan’s eyes.

“Is this …… Lightwind Harbor’s man?” Alice stayed for a long while, finally muttering to break the silence, “They’re gone in person, but the threads are all still there, huh?”

Duncan did not say anything, he just looked at the floating in the air, dense and thin lines, although he could not confirm it visually, but he could vaguely feel that this “line” is too much – even according to a person’s body can be extended out of the five line calculation, they represent the number of far too many. Even according to the five threads that can be extended from one person, the number of threads represented by them far exceeded the population of the elves in Light Wind Harbor, and it was almost as if the soul threads of all the …… world’s elves had been gathered here.

The huge number makes these continuous pieces of threads look hazy, they are amorphous in the wind slightly fluttering, like an unbroken mist shrouded in the Light Wind Harbor sea above, but also with a kind of dreamlike …… beauty.

As well as creepy eerie.

Alice at this time has recovered from the state of being startled at the beginning, she curiously observed the threads on the surface of the sea, like a cat that sees countless balls of wool revealing a pressing but hesitant look, she still remembers the captain’s usual instructions, so she carefully put her hand away, trying not to touch any of the surrounding threads, but her eyes kept darting around, wanting to scratch but not daring to grasp.

This, of course, could not be hidden from Duncan’s eyes.

“Captain, I’ll just touch them a little, I’m not scratching …… I want to see their ‘state’ ……” noticing the Duncan cast over the line of sight, Alice immediately said cautiously, and stretched out his hand to gesture a little, to show that his “a little touch” is really very “a little”.

Duncan nodded silently, while paying careful attention to the movements of the doll’s hand.

He trusted Alice, of course – but he didn’t really trust Alice’s reliability.

The mannequin received permission and instantly looked pleased, then carefully reached out and touched the nearest invisible thread.

In the next second, she let out a low gasp of surprise and let go of the thread quickly.

Duncan immediately inquired about the situation, “What’s wrong?”

“…… Weird stuff.” Alice muttered suspiciously as she looked at the thread in a bit of a daze.

Duncan frowned at that, “Weird stuff?”

“I don’t know what it is, but it’s not quite like any of the ‘threads’ I’ve come across before,” Alice spoke hesitantly, as if struggling to translate what she was sensing into words, “I feel a …… extraordinarily, extraordinarily large thing hiding on the other side of the line, but that thing is vague again, and it seems to keep changing constantly ……”

As she spoke, she raised her hand and pointed to the deepest part of the gauzy, foggy thicket of threads.

“It seems to be hidden in there, but I can’t see it either.”

Duncan frowned at the hazy “white mist”, he didn’t see the “weird thing” Alice described, but he knew what that “weird thing” was.

Silentis had begun to gradually condense a mental entity in the elves’ racial consciousness.

After a slight hesitation, he also reached out his hand towards a hazy thread in his vision, and cautiously touched it.

He felt nothing – but that was not surprising.

After all, his ability to “see” invisible threads was only “borrowed” from Alice through the flame connection, so of course he wouldn’t be as comfortable using it.

“Goathead,” Duncan called out mentally after a moment’s hesitation, “can you feel anything?”

“No,” came Goathead’s voice immediately, sounding with a hint of bemusement and panic, “I’m sorry, Captain, I ……”

“It’s okay, it’s not your fault.”

Duncan interrupted Goathead, at the same time he took another step to the edge of the deck and reached out beyond the side of the ship.

An ethereal green spiritual fire coalesced in his hand and then fell back into the sea like water, the flames spreading silently across the surface and flowing back toward the floating invisible threads.

However, the next second, the flame will pass through each invisible line, Duncan did not feel any “feedback” coming, as if …… those threads are in a completely undisturbed dimension. Duncan frowned at this scene, but there is not much surprise, just thoughtfully muttered: “…… seems really not so easy.”

Just then, a mellifluous siren coming from the distant sea suddenly interrupted his thoughts.

Duncan immediately looked in the direction from which the sound came.

He saw an imposing silhouette appearing on the distant sea along with the sound of the siren, as if a curtain had suddenly been lifted between the sky and the sea, and that huge object, which looked to be the size of a quarter of a city-state, just “appeared” out of thin air, and was moving and decelerating towards this direction.

Afterwards, he gradually saw the appearance of that huge thing – its edge is as steep as a cliff, the white wall surrounds its base, and there are high and low buildings situated on the high ground within the wall, among which there are bell towers, minarets and high-rise buildings, and those buildings with white walls and blue roofs don’t have much of a religious ambience, but rather, they are reminiscent of a light and windy city. The buildings with white facades and blue roofs did not have much of a religious atmosphere, but rather were reminiscent of the famous City State University in the center of the city-state of Lightwind Harbor – the two were vaguely similar in style.

Around that huge thing, Duncan saw the silhouettes of other ships – those are not new and advanced main battleships, but in front of the huge ark ship, their silhouettes are particularly inconspicuous, Duncan even almost ignored them at first.

At that moment, another white mist rose from the sky above the huge “mobile city-state”, and the tops of the academy buildings on its back spewed out a massive stream of steam, followed by the melodious sound of whistles across the distant sea, once again reaching Duncan’s ears.

The second whistle was a gesture of some sort, vaguely friendly.

Duncan had realized what it was – it was the “Truth Academy”.

It was the Ark of Truth and its escort!
He had previously seen the Deep Sea Church’s Ark of Honor, and was deeply impressed by the huge “Mobile City State”, and he knew that the Four Churches of God all had their own Ark of Honor ships, and all of them were similar in size – the huge thing that appeared on the surface of the sea in the distance was the same as the one he had seen in Planders. The huge thing that appeared on the sea in the distance was comparable in size to the “Storm Cathedral Ark” that he had seen in Prand, and the style of the building on the upper deck of the ark revealed its belonging.

“Captain!!!” Goat head’s voice suddenly came to his mind, interrupting Duncan’s thoughts, the first mate’s voice had obvious surprise and a hint of nervousness, “It’s the church’s parade ark!”

“I saw it,” Duncan replied calmly, “What are you so flustered about?”

“It’s the Church’s Patrol Ark!” Goathead clearly didn’t understand how the captain could still be so calm, “That thing’s not going to be easy to deal with – that thing really does have direct divine patronage ……”

“Why would I want to deal with it?” Duncan returned casually, “It’s not like I’m at war with the Church of the Four Gods.”

Goathead’s voice, however, still sounded very panicked, “But Lightwind Harbor is gone! So big Lightwind Harbor, and now it’s gone!”

Duncan felt puzzled, “It’s not like I made it go away.”

Goathead: “……”

The poor first mate seemed to be suddenly stuck from logic, all of a sudden he didn’t know how to continue talking, only a burst of confusing thoughts of unknown significance came from him, while Duncan paid no attention to this guy, just turned around and walked towards the bridge on the aft deck, taking over the Lost Country ship with his own hands.

The huge ghost ship instantly “live” over, the spirit of the sails quickly filled with air, then this huge sail warship will be an incredible dexterity attitude steering, sailing straight to the distant sea that looks like a small city-state like the “Ark of the Patrol”.

Duncan did not hesitate.

Goathead, however, was startled by the captain’s unhesitating action: “Captain?”

“Go over to say hello, by the way to exchange the situation, they are obviously not passing through here – it should be the distress signal sent by Lightwind Harbor that attracted the Truth Academy’s patrol ark,” Duncan said casually while controlling the Lost Country’s advance, “Duncan said. “I know what you’re nervous about, it’s true that the Lost Country has had some unpleasant experiences with the four major churches in the past century, but you have to look at things with a developmental perspective.

“We’ve had a lot of dealings with several city-states and churches, and I personally believe that this kind of active and positive communication has been fruitful – remember the situation Lucrecia mentioned earlier? The Church of the Four Gods issued a circular to the city-states ordering the cities and churches to actively cooperate with the Lost Country Fleet’s actions, which suggests that they are aware of the Lost Country’s zeal to protect the civilized world ……”

Goathead was flabbergasted by Duncan’s words, but still quickly reacted and warned without worry, “And …… what if? We have not dealt directly with the Truth Academy’s Parade Ark, and now Light Wind Harbor is still in such a situation, that fleet’s intention is unknown, we just lean over, in case there is really a misunderstanding ……”

Duncan didn’t say anything, just smiled and shook his head.

Spirit fire burned on his body, making his body as illusory and transparent as light casting, the Lost Country ship in the countless “silk threads” interwoven into the “mist” breaking the waves, sailing to the distant Academy ark, and in the undulating surface of the sea, is the Lost Country ship hazy illusory Under the surface of the undulating waves, there was the hazy and illusory reflection of the Lost Country ship – that reflection was gradually being wrapped by the green flames, and the flames were flowing and spreading like water in the fine waves, gradually staining the whole sea with a layer of green flames.

“If there is no misunderstanding, then there is no misunderstanding, and if there is a misunderstanding, then it is not a misunderstanding – so all in all, there will be no misunderstanding.”

(End of chapter)