Chapter 46 Anomalies and Visions

Chapter 46 Anomalies and Visions

The Great Annihilation was the turning point in the history of this world, and the beginning of the so-called “Deep Sea Era”.

According to what Nina had told him, Duncan finally roughly understood what kind of shocking changes had happened in this world, and also realized that this world was not as weird and dangerous as it is today—.

According to history, the world before the Great Annihilation was a prosperous and safe paradise.

At that time, the ocean was not “boundless sea”, the limited sea water did not occupy more than 95% of the world’s surface as it does today, human beings lived on the vast and safe land, and even in the ocean, there were no such dangerous phenomena as the spirit world, the profound and the subspace.

The “Age of Order” as recorded in the history books felt more like the world Duncan was familiar with – even though modern people would look back with wonder and incredulity at a time when no “anomalies” existed! Though modern people would look back with wonder and incredulity at a time when there were no “anomalies”, to Duncan, the way the world looked today was just plain wrong.

History books do not explain in detail the key event of the “Great Annihilation”, and despite the efforts of the archaeological community in this regard, the city-states and peoples of the ancient history of the great disagreement remains, no one knows how the so-called Great Annihilation occurred, and does not know what the body of the disaster is! contraption – great confusion and fog enveloped that drastic change, and beyond the fog has been the present-day Age of the Deep.

The waters from nowhere flooded more than 90% of the land, the survivors of civilization built city-states and fleets on the remaining archipelagos and small pockets of land, and the infinite sea and the sea mists brought forth strange and weird things called anomalies and visions, which still threaten the survival of civilization today. still threaten the survival of civilization.

Nina didn’t know that a ghost captain from a foreign land was learning from her words, she only thought it was her uncle testing her homework – he hadn’t been in such a good mood for a long time, and she only felt happy, and even felt that this moment was very precious, because she was worried that somehow Uncle Duncan would turn back to the way he was before. would just turn back to the way he was before …… and from past experience that was almost inevitable.

As soon as the spirits lost their effect, or the painkillers ran out, Uncle would become extraordinarily cranky, irritable and hysterical.

So before Uncle Duncan had another attack, she wanted to show him all the progress she’d made – it might keep him in a good mood for that extra day or two.

“…… Old Mr. Morris is very interested in the history of the Kingdom of Crete, he is an expert on the subject, and he told us that even though the ancient kingdom of Crete only lasted a hundred years, it was the first civilization to rise from the ashes to fight against the anomalies and visions after the coming of the Deep Age, and that they spent a hundred years The experience that they figured out is still guiding most of the people in the world even today – the most important of which is their method of categorizing ‘anomalies’ and ‘visions’ ……”

“A method of categorizing ‘anomalies’ and ‘visions’? You’ve learned that already?” Duncan raised his eyebrows, and his words were not without guidance.

He’d been concerned from the moment he’d been listening, and only then had he become more and more convinced that, in the eyes of ordinary people in this world, there was supposed to be a strict set of distinctions between things that didn’t make sense, some of which were called ‘anomalies’, and even numbered, but other things… …seemed to be called “visions” separately, unlike his previous impression that they were all categorized into “abnormalities” in a general way.

He’d never heard the details of this from Goathead on the Lost Country before, and now what Nina had learned in school would finally make up for his shortcomings in general knowledge.

Nina nodded, recalling what she had heard in class as she said, “Old Mr. Morris taught us that the easiest way to classify between anomalies and visions is scale.

“Typically speaking, anomalies are small in scale, often limited to an object, an animal, or even a ‘person’;
“Most anomalies can be artificially moved and their effects limited in scope, many even affecting only one target at a time, and with the mastery of specific methods, most anomalies can also be safely sealed or quarantined – some of the more innocuous of these anomalies can even be used like tools that can be ‘utilized’ by specific methods. “Visions, on the other hand, are far larger than anomalies, with the smallest being the size of a house, and the larger ones covering entire city-states, or even larger than that …… so large as to be unimaginable.

“A significant portion of the visions cannot be artificially moved, they are either fixed in one place or are operating according to their own will, and their ability to influence is also far greater than that of an anomaly. Often, anomalies can affect an infinite number of targets within their own effective range, so much so that they can almost be equated with ‘natural phenomena’, hence the name ‘anomaly’.

“Unlike anomalies, almost all ‘visions’ can’t be sealed or controlled, they exist in the world like natural phenomena, functioning without external interference and naturally affecting all targets within their range that meet the conditions, and since most of them are dangerous, what people can do is also only stay away from these dangerous visions, or avoid being the target of the visions in effect through specific methods ……

“Fortunately, those most dangerous visions usually don’t move, and the Heralds help us to detect these dangers so that we can safely keep our distance from them ……”

Nina spoke earnestly, then as if she suddenly remembered something, she hurriedly added, “Ah yes, the old gentleman also specifically mentioned to us that all these judgment methods and characteristics are only ‘usually valid’- Anomalies and visions are things that do not conform to common sense, so no matter how much people summarize their experiences, there will always be anomalies or visions that do not conform to the definition that pop up out of nowhere, and even sometimes anomalies and visions are interchanged, and there are also instances in which the visions have been interfered with and annihilated by human hands.

“For example, in 1830 of the New City-State calendar, the city-state of Lunsar had an anomaly known as ‘mycelium’ get out of control, and the local church-keepers banished the out-of-control anomaly at great cost to a nearby island, which was recognized as being promoted to an anomaly in 1835, the subsequent Fungus Island – but in 1844, the great saint Palatine sheltered Fungus Island in his own urn at the cost of his life, and so the vision ‘Fungus Island’ was delisted in the same year, and it became an ‘anomaly’ again ‘, known as ‘Paladin’s Mushroom Vase’, and is now sealed in the underground sacristy of the cathedral of the city-state of Lunsar ……”

Duncan listened with rapt attention to all that Nina was telling him, his mind racing while hiding the ups and downs of his inner thoughts with a calm expression.

In this one short breakfast, he had already gathered more information than he had in the past so many days aboard the Lost Country combined!

Establishing communication with the land and setting up an outpost in a surface city-state was indeed the right way to think – civilized societies were where most of the world’s intelligence was aggregated!
He subconsciously looked at the girl in front of him, who was still talking, with quite an epiphany in his heart.

A civilization that had developed normally to the industrial stage, it would definitely find ways to compress and aggregate the basic knowledge of how society functioned within its own education system, and a child living within that system might hardly realize what a treasure trove the textbooks they came into contact with on a regular basis were:
That is the knowledge accumulated by countless people in countless years, and through years of sorting and integration into the most suitable for learning and absorption of the structure, those books are constructed in the world’s most exquisite “nutritional compression packages”, in order to ensure that in the smallest possible cost of time and energy, so that a blank piece of paper can quickly become a part of the operation of society. The purpose is to ensure that a blank sheet of paper can quickly become a functioning part of society with minimal cost of time and energy.

This point, even the usual love of learning Nina herself can not be experienced – only Duncan, the “outsider”, can realize how valuable this knowledge is, and how easy to absorb.

Nina didn’t realize what Duncan was thinking, she just remembered what her venerable history teacher had told her in class-

“…… So old Mr. Morris told us at the end of last class, he said that in dealing with ‘anomalies’ and ‘visions’ people have have summarized countless laws, but the only law that is really always valid is that ‘no matter how many laws we summarize, there are bound to be anomalies or visions that don’t fit the laws that appear in the world’.

“This law, also known by scholars as the ‘perpetual zeroth rule,’ is ranked by default at the very top of all books and papers on the subject, and on which one bases the famous ‘Law of Permanent Misalignment of Anomalies and Anomalies,’ which until today, this law has never been broken ……”

(end of chapter)