Chapter 650: The Day of Destruction Postponed

Chapter 650: The Delayed Day of Destruction

In the after-fire that gradually cooled after the extinction of everything, the remains of the ancient gods ruled over the ashes of the world, and something that “grew” from the remains constructed a forgery and a phantom of the past between the ashes – after stripping away all the aura of the myths, and after the “Age of the Deep” had been realized. After stripping away all the mythological aura, after reorganizing the information he had already obtained, the “Age of the Deep” in front of Duncan’s eyes appeared in its most real and chilling aspect.

Of course, he could have used milder phrases to describe this era, or used some acceptable ways to explain the state of the gods at the moment, but this could not change the essence of things.

He stood up and gave the goathead a scratch on the neck – the former “Creator” looked up and observed Duncan’s expression, “You look preoccupied.”

Duncan sat back, and after a moment of silence suddenly spoke to himself, “…… The whole world is a pile of dying embers ……”

“That’s a phrase I’ve heard Lucrecia mention.” Goathead immediately said.

Duncan nodded and didn’t say anything else, but instead reached out his hand and dug around in his pocket, pulling out two things after a few moments of fumbling.

One of them was an “orb” that was emitting brilliant light, it was an ancient star that had been shrunk by countless times, with flames flowing on its surface, and the mild light flame continuously erupted, refluxed, and surged, as if it was maintaining the star’s “operation”. The star’s “operation” is being maintained just as if it were.

This was the “gift” that Vanna had received from Tarekin, the former sun of the Sanguine people.

The other one is a piece of light golden crystal, about the size of a fist, which has irregular and asymmetric dozens of planes, each side of which presents a smooth and perfect texture, and there seems to be a very precise and subtle structure hidden in the crystal, such as a hairline that spreads out from the center of the crystal, forming a three-dimensional lattice structure wrapped in the crystal.

The goat head’s attention was first attracted by the “small sun”, but immediately fell on the strange light golden crystal, froze for a moment and then was puzzled: “What is this thing?”

“If we’re going by the way the ‘civilized world’ is divided, this would be some sort of ‘profane archetype’,” Duncan said casually, “It was created when that Sun Heir separated from it when it fell from the sky – Aye ‘picked’ it up before the flames burned it out.”

Goathead was stunned for a moment, then finally recalled a scene from that time – the

The Sunchild had tried to escape from the Dream of the Nameless One at the last moment, only to be intercepted in the sky, and he himself had given that monstrosity one last blow in its mythic form at that time; the thing fell from the clouds in pieces, and something shiny seemed to be flung out from the center of its shattered fragments, but the situation was chaotic, and the thing only flashed in the sky for a moment before it was ” swept away”, and no one noticed that …… it turned out to be such a thing?

A sound of flapping wings came from the side, Ai fluttered its wings and flew to the sailing table, it tilted its head and looked at the strange crystal it had retrieved, and after observing it for a long time, it stretched out its neck and pecked at the surface of the crystal with the shell of its beak: “The crystal is filled with hate! The crystal is filled with hate!”

Duncan did not pay attention to the noise of this stupid bird, he looked at the crystal in front of him and got lost in thought, but in his mind he recalled those tall and thin black-clothed men called “sun residue” holding the strange umbrellas in their hands – he also remembered that, in addition to the inside of those strange umbrellas, there was an ingenious and far beyond the times. He also remembered that inside those strange umbrellas, in addition to the mechanical and electrical structures that were so delicate that they were far beyond their time, there were also crystal structures that had been cut with extreme precision.

This crystal-based “blasphemous prototype” seemed to be the unique “technological creation” mastered by the “Black Sun” and its heirs and survivors.

A long time ago, after seeing the strange umbrellas in the hands of those men in black for the first time, Duncan realized one thing – the fact that those followers of the sun had technological artifacts in their hands meant that they were not barbaric and chaotic primitive groups, and that the advanced manufacturing techniques embodied in these blasphemous prototypes showed that they were in fact an extremely advanced civilization. civilization.

Or rather, the “afterglow” of an extremely advanced civilization.

Now, after witnessing the truth of the Great Annihilation, Duncan has a new understanding of this matter.

The collision and annihilation of worlds brought about the Age of the Deep Sea, and the worlds that collided were not only the homelands of the elves and the Sanguin, but also the warrior who threw the longsword, as well as his own homelands, which were obviously destroyed during the Great Annihilation, and by this inference, every group in the world nowadays, every style of relics, and every kind of unexplainable and contradictory historical records, behind them all represent a destroyed civilization I’m afraid it’s all a destroyed civilization.

Some of these civilizations may have come from different planets in the same universe, but those that deviated enough to contaminate other “legacies” clearly came from universes with different laws.

So which universe is the Black Sun …… an orphan of? Duncan slowly furrowed his brow as he gently rubbed the surface of the crystal and said to himself in thought, “So they’re also the Lost Ones ……”

“Who?” Goathead didn’t respond for a moment, but quickly understood the Captain’s meaning, “You mean the Black Sun and His freaks?”

“Everything in the Deep Sea Era came from those destroyed worlds during the Great Annihilation, and the Ancient Gods are nothing more than powerful individuals that survived half-dead after the Day of Destruction, the Black Sun couldn’t have been created out of thin air – this crystal, representing what should be the ‘Children of the Sun ‘ once civilization.”

“…… But now this ‘civilization’ stands against us, and their very existence is, in itself, destructive to the entire real world,” Goathead pondered for a moment, and slowly said, “The Black Sun wishes to extinguish itself, while His children are obsessed with destroying the Reality Dimension and causing the Black Sun to be ‘reborn’ from the ruins of the earthly world – they may have once been a glorious civilization, but now they’re have gone mad from top to bottom, and it is apparently no longer possible to coexist with the earthly world.”

“That’s right, it’s impossible to coexist, there are still a lot of things in this world that can’t coexist with the civilized world, the dangerous Ancient Gods, the shadows in the Spirit Realm, and those things in subspace …… But have you ever considered a deeper level- the Why can’t these things coexist with the earthly world?”

Goathead froze for a moment, and seemed to start to get lost in thought.

“All things are ‘ashes’ left behind after the Great Annihilation, and from the ashes, the corpses of the gods opened up the current Deep Sea Era, theoretically, the current Deep Sea Era is already a product of the various worlds merging, transforming, and compromising with each other during the Great Annihilation, in other words, since the Great Annihilation has ended, since the Third Long Night has successfully reshaped the world, then what exists in the world is already the result of the ‘rebalancing’, and should not produce the same mutual contamination and erosion as it did when the worlds collided ……

“But the truth is that there are still ancient gods like the Black Sun, and there are still many ‘pollutants’ that would cause disasters if they appeared in the real world, and this kind of pollution is the same as the ‘erosion’ that appeared around Silantis at the time of the Great Annihilation. Like the same thing, it gives people the feeling as if ……”

Duncan paused here, seemingly unable to find a suitable description for a moment, but the goathead next to him suddenly spoke up, “It’s as if the Great Annihilation hasn’t ended at all?”

“Yes, it’s as if the Great Annihilation didn’t end at all,” Duncan slowly nodded his head, his expression extraordinarily grave, “It was simply postponed, temporarily isolated somewhere and slowly released onto the world over time, the erosion still exists, the conflict and contamination between the different worlds is still proceeding slowly, the Third Long Night forcibly ‘pinched’ the Remnants together, but in this barely ‘pinched’ order, the underlying antagonism and destruction of all things has continued unceasingly… …”

Goathead gradually responded, “This corresponds to that ‘twilight’ mentioned by the Final Preacher ……”

“Self-pollution and self-destruction are the destined course of the Age of the Deep; the Day of Destruction was predetermined at the beginning of history, and the End pollutes history and will eventually chase it from the long river of time – this is what those Final Preachers have always ‘preached ‘ content,” Duncan nodded slowly, “All this time, this doomsday theory has been refuted by the mainstream society, but after learning the truth about the Great Annihilation, and then combining it with all the ‘characteristics’ of today’s Deep Age, I had to start to seriously think about that gang of maniacs’ doomsday theory.”

Speaking of this he paused, and continued in thought, “Perhaps this is not a doomsday theory, but just some kind of objective description of the Third Long Night ……The Third Long Night is an incomplete and unsuccessful Genesis, and it didn’t fundamentally resolve the ‘conflict’ caused by the collision of multiple worlds, and it didn’t resolve the ‘conflict’ caused by the collision of multiple worlds. ‘conflict’, but merely provided a buffer zone in order to allow the world to find its own way out within a 10,000 year period …… That’s why the Fourth Long Night was needed.”

“…… Do you think this ‘way out’ has appeared?”

“No,” Duncan shook his head, “those Endbringer preachers seem to know something, but only what the ‘hidden dangers’ left by the Third Long Night are, and that the conflict and collapse at the bottom of everything in the world is slowly progressing , if they really knew what to do about it, then they wouldn’t have used the Annihilationists and the Children of the Sun as cannon fodder, they wouldn’t have sent them to the Dream of the Nameless One to find answers.

“The ambiguous and vague information they’re providing to the Annihilationists and Sun Followers doesn’t sound like purposeful guidance at all, but more like they’re doing some kind of test, which suggests that the gang of End Preachers themselves don’t even know what the right direction is.”

Goathead was silent for a moment before suddenly asking, “What are you going to do with this crystal? If it’s really some kind of blasphemous archetype …… then the longer this thing stays in the real world, the higher the danger will be, even if it’s placed on the Lost Country ship, it’s not necessarily safe after a long time.”

Duncan thought for a moment and slowly raised his hand.

Wisps of flame rose from his fingertips and seeped in towards the crystal.

“I am interested in their secrets.”

(End of chapter)