Chapter 505 Destabilizing trends

Chapter 505: Unstable Tendency

In many cases, Nina didn’t realize how powerful she was and how intimidating that power was among ordinary Transcendents – it certainly helped her to maintain her “human” mentality, but it certainly had a bad effect.

After all, a 6000°C Dabi Pocket is a stone’s throw away, no matter where it’s pasted.

Fortunately, Duncan has been concerned about this problem from the beginning, and often guide and remind Nina, he timely let this girl understand the danger of their own power, and find ways to let her step by step to control the power of the sun, at least now Nina has gradually familiar with and recognize a fact:
This world to her today was a delicate but fragile paper house that could burst into flames if she wasn’t careful, and she had to carefully control her breathing and her gaze to prevent everything from turning to ash.

In hindsight, Nina’s understanding and control of her power has been successful in that she has never burned anything except for the occasional, minor “out of control” incident, while on the other hand, she has always maintained her “awareness” as a normal human being, not realizing that she is powerful, but also that she is a human. On the other hand, she has always maintained her “perception” as an ordinary human being, and has not had an arrogant and dangerous change of heart as a result of realizing how powerful she is.

In Duncan’s opinion, that was good.

The dark sea slowly undulated in his vision, the chaotic sky and the sea lacked a clear boundary, the ghostly spirit fire surrounding the Lost Country illuminated the surface of the sea in the near distance, and in the interplay of light and shadow, one could occasionally see strange and suspicious shadows flickering from the air or the water – that was the Spirit World’s “Knowledge”, the “Knowledge”.

Those were the “natives” of the spirit world, these chaotic and unintelligent beings were attracted by the intruder, the Lost Country, but as soon as they gathered, they would be burned by the spirit flame, and then scattered and fled.

Nina ran to the edge of the aft deck and sat down directly on the deck, swinging her legs over the railing and curiously observing this strange and interesting “sea” in her eyes.

Duncan, on the other hand, urged Nina to be careful not to fall off the deck, and then focused on the helm, after a while, he suddenly thought of a problem.

“Vanna,” he turned his head and glanced at the Lady Inquisitor, who was standing on the edge of the high platform looking out over the sea, “I have a sudden question about the Storm Goddess.”

Vanna immediately turned around with a serious look on her face, “You may ask.”

“The Storm Goddess Gemona is the guardian of the sea right?” Duncan said, “The entire Boundless Sea falls under the Storm Goddess’s patronage – what about the seas of the Spirit World?”

The serious expression on Vanna’s face instantly turned into dismay, followed by embarrassment and contemplation that lasted for more than ten seconds, and only after a long time did she hesitantly shake her head and speak with apology, “I’m sorry, I actually never thought about that ……”

After saying this she began to reflect, “It looks like my delving into the Way of Faith is still too shallow, praying all day but not seriously thinking about the details behind these scriptures ……”

“It’s normal that there are no such details behind the scriptures, because from the establishment of the Church of the Deep to the present day, there have never been any cases of mortals moving freely in the depths of the spiritual realm,” Morris said casually from the sidelines, “Doctrines are tools used to explain the truths of the gods to mortals, and they only represent those parts of the truths of the gods that are known, not the entirety of them. known parts, not the whole ……”

“And where did the original ‘doctrine’ come from?” Duncan asked again, “In the days when the city-states were first founded, in the years when the belief in the four gods was first born, who wrote the original doctrine and used it to explain the logic of how the world works – the mortals who first preached it, or those four gods?”

This time, Morris was lost in thought.

Duncan, on the other hand, continued, “According to today’s interpretation of the scriptures by the Church of the Four Gods, doctrine, is something that can only come from the gods, right?”

“…… Yes,” nodded Maurice, who seemed to have organized his language on the fly in response to Duncan’s query, “Doctrine is a partial manifestation of truth, and its source comes from the gods- -According to the more accepted accounts, it was the original Cretan prophets who received ‘enlightenment’ from the gods, whose thoughts entered their minds, and who then naturally wrote the original admonitions in enlightenment, followed by centuries of the ‘Age of Truth Self-Revealed ‘ and the ‘Age of Revelation,’ where generations of prophets were enlightened and recorded their knowledge, ultimately forming the current Four Divine Teachings and Classics ……”

Duncan didn’t say anything for a while, but just thought very seriously, and only after a long time did he break the silence once again, “Are there still such ‘prophets’ who have been enlightened and are able to write new doctrines and truths that have appeared nowadays?”

Maurice and Vanna looked at each other.

“…… As far as I know, no,” Morris shook his head, “Saints are able to listen to God’s voice, but it is usually only a vague hint or reminder, while the kind of ‘prophets’ like the ones recorded in history who were able to talk directly to God for long periods of time ‘Prophets’…… have not appeared since the end of the Dark Age. Rather, those cultists who follow the Black Sun or the Profound Holy Lord often claim that prophets have appeared among them, but as you know, the ‘prophets’ in their mouths are often nothing more than madmen who have suffered from mental contamination ……”

“That is to say, at least in the period between the Cretan Dynasty and the Dark Ages, the Gods were able to contact the earthly world frequently,” Duncan said thoughtfully, “He could even converse with eligible mortals for long periods of time to a certain extent, whereas from the Age of the City-States onwards, their earthly contact has been reduced to vague ‘hints’?”

Listening to these words of the Captain’s as if they were extremely meaningful, the expression on Vanna’s face was more or less odd, and she couldn’t help but speak, “I …… have never thought about it from this direction. Why are you suddenly asking about this?”

Why suddenly ask about these ……

Duncan was silent for a moment, and in that silence, what came to his mind was the picture he had seen in Tirian’s office not long ago – the

The Moon. As far as he knew, the world in which the Moon existed was devoid of the Four Gods – and there was no Boundless Sea sheltered by the Goddess of Storms, no World Creation high in the sky, and no stars or demons hidden in the deep, deep sea.

Ever since he had seen that picture of the moon, his heart had never been at peace, and the myriad speculations …… about this world had almost filled his mind.

“I’m just suddenly interested in the oldest part of this world’s secrets,” he said slowly, then exhaled softly and nodded to Vanna and Maurice, “I’ve already read the ‘show of warning’ that you’re going to convey to the Church of the Deep and the Academy of Truth ‘ content, there is nothing wrong with it, go ahead and contact your Church of the Sea headquarters.”

Although there were still some doubts in their hearts, and they also felt a little worried about the captain’s preoccupied appearance in the past two days, Morris and Vanna still didn’t ask anything more, but bowed their heads at the same time, “Yes, captain.”

……

Lucrecia awoke from a series of confusingly strange and frighteningly bizarre nightmares.

She looks out the window.

The thick curtains blocked the light from outside the window, and only a little golden afterglow shone through the gaps in the curtains, making the room shadowed, and the familiar everyday furnishings looked more than a little strange in those obscure corners, as if the remnants of the nightmares had seeped into the real world, huddling and hibernating between the light and the shadows.

A rustling sound came from beside me.

“Mistress?”

The eerily thrillingly shaped doll bunny sat up from the side, cocked its head, and looked at Lucrecia with those button studded eyes, a little girl’s voice coming from its stuffed cotton body.

Lucrecia casually yanked the rabbit doll over and hugged it in her arms and rubbed it vigorously, then raised her head to look out the window, “What time is it?”

“It’s about an hour before your usual wake-up time,” the rabbit doll was honestly being rubbed around by her mistress while seemingly observing Lucrecia’s face, “You’re not in very good spirits, and you slept uneasily a while ago… . did you have another nightmare?”

“Dreaming of something weird and strange ……” Lucrecia rubbed her forehead and let go of the rabbit doll, “Pour me a drink.”

“All right,” the doll agreed good-naturedly, hopping from the bed to the floor, and taking out a glass of wine from a small cupboard beside her, she poured half a glass for her mistress, and at the same time inquired with some curiosity, “What did you dream of? Is it because …… the old master is coming, so your heart is disturbed?”

The little girl’s voice had a hint of nervousness in it, obviously feeling great pressure at the mention of the words “old master”.

Lucrecia took the glass of wine handed over by the doll and drank it all in one go, and then let out a long breath: “I dreamt of the time when the Radiant Star almost ‘crashed’ because it was too close to the border fog, but unlike what I remembered, our ship fell out of the fog and flew all the way upwards, straight towards the ‘fall’ of the ship. ‘falling’ toward the creation of the world, and many, many more ships, twisted into various forms, fell from entire worlds into the sky …… absurdly grotesque.”

She said as she casually tossed her glass of wine to the bunny doll next to her, “‘He’ is coming, and it does make me a little nervous, but that nervousness isn’t enough to turn into a nightmare – Rabbi, he’s my father after all. ”

“Yes, Mistress,” the rabbit doll immediately bowed its head obediently, but immediately after that it couldn’t help but remind, “but you should still pay some attention, having nightmares on a ship is not a good sign, the old master he …… has, after all, a relationship with sub Space has a relationship, he is now approaching you.”

“I understand.” Lucrecia said casually, then got up from the bed and went barefoot to the window, pulling open the heavy curtains with one hand.

Warm, bright sunlight instantly flooded the room.

It was not yet time for the sun to fully rise – however, not far away on the sea, the floating giant luminous geometry had already maintained “eternal day” for a long time for the entire sea.

Lucrecia squinted her eyes and basked in the endless “sunlight”.

The rabbit doll’s voice came from behind her, “Mistress, will you be traveling to the Stone Sphere today?”

“No,” Lucrecia shook her head and turned towards the dresser, “Going to town today, to say hello to old friends from the Explorer’s Guild.”

(End of chapter)