Chapter 509 – The Secret of the Church Ark

Chapter 509 – The Secret of the Church Ark

All the known history of this world began with the “Great Annihilation” in the ancient times.

If the “great annihilation” is regarded as a wall, then this invisible wall is obviously not a simple “event node”, but in fact “cut” the entire history of the time stream. The flow of time.

Everything before the Great Annihilation is unknown, and archaeologists have exhausted all their wisdom and efforts, but they have not been able to restore the slightest bit of information before that node of time, and the world has not even been able to find any historical relics that can point to the Great Annihilation – even if it is a piece of stone engraved with words.

This “black wall” of despair has stood in the eyes of scholars for 10,000 years, and now that Captain Duncan, who has returned from subspace, has given this wall an apt name.

As the leader of the Academy of Truth and the Pope of the God of Wisdom, Lune, more than anyone else, understood the existence of the black wall and the subtlety of the phrase “Limits of Sight”.

“Our world, as if it had been ‘created out of thin air’ at some point after the Great Annihilation, and its fragmented and contradictory history is but one ironclad proof of the existence of that ‘Limit of Sight,'” he said. “In front of his three old friends, Lun’s tone was tinged with emotion, “Ever since the rise of the city-state, and even from the beginning of the Dark Age, there have been countless scholars who have tried to reach back into the past, trying to find that ‘source’ before the Great Annihilation, and they have been drilling deeper and deeper into the dark earth, only to end up drilling deeper and deeper, but all of them have ended up drifting into the dark earth. They were like drilling deep into the darkness of the earth, but in the end, they were all blocked by that invisible barrier.

“One second, even one second before the outbreak of the Great Annihilation, is blank and unverifiable, even the ‘Three Long Nights’ mentioned in the ‘Book of Blasphemy’ that that Captain Duncan received from the Annihilationists was only describing this period of history between the Great Annihilation and the establishment of the ancient kingdom of Crete – there is still a void of information about what preceded the ‘Limits of Sight’.”

“It’s a dangerous thing to use the heresies of the cultists as reference material.” Death Pope Banister couldn’t help but warn from the sidelines.

Lune gently shook his head, “The danger of heresy lies in its compulsive nature and motivation to draw people to do evil, stripping away these influences, the ‘Three Long Nights’ itself is still a topic worthy of study, and a lot of the results we have had on the Dark Ages following the collapse of the Ancient Kingdom of Crete are based on our research on the Sun Cultists and the Cult of Annihilation studies.”

“…… In a nutshell, what you’re trying to say is that you can’t explain what’s going on with the ‘leviathans’ underneath the city-states, and that the leviathan giants that carry the church arks can’t give us an answer to that “Frem breaks the silence, “because this is an event that happened before the Great Annihilation, and all the information pointing to it is unknowable and unmeasurable and unprovable.”

Lune didn’t say anything, sort of acquiescing to Frem’s words.

Helena, on the other hand, suddenly spoke up after a moment’s reflection, “But you can at least tell us where the Truth Academy found the four Leviathans – at least those behemoths carrying the four church arks were indeed discovered and ‘resurrected’ by you, weren’t they? ‘, isn’t it?”

“…… They came from the borders, after a ‘border collapse’ of immense proportions,” Lune finally had a clear answer this time, ” The exact location …… is near the Eternal Curtain in the eastern sea.”

“Eastern seas?” Banister subconsciously frowned.

“Yes, near the former site of the Thirteen Islands of Vesseland,” Lune nodded, “The Eastern Curtain of Eternity has always been a vulnerable node ever since that horrible subspace disaster a century ago, where the fog has occasionally collapsed inward or created temporary areas of anomaly in the waters, which You should all be aware of this as well.”

Helena and Frem nodded silently, while Banister had a thoughtful look on his face, but neither of them interrupted Lune, instead signaling the other to continue.

“When the Truth Academy was in charge of inspecting the border, one of our ships encountered an anomaly there,” Lune continued to speak as he sorted through his memories, “The exact circumstances are no longer available, as the occupants of that ship experienced severe cognitive disorientation and memory gaps during the incident, and afterward, they were unable to accurately describe what they experienced in the course of the incident, but there was a hastily written log on the ship that recorded part of what happened at the time –

“The sea suddenly sank inward, like a strange bowl, the edges of the ‘bowl’ were smooth and calm, and the water just seemed to fall into solidification, but the ship did not go down with the sunken sea, but floated over that sunken sea …… The ship lost power, unable to move forward or backward, suspended in a terrifying way hundreds of meters above the sea water …… There was something huge emerging from the sunken sea, as if it were some kind of creature ……

“The above is a record hastily written by one of the crew members of that ship before cognitive dissonance and memory loss set in.

“Later, one of our other fleets located the missing patrol boat, which was slowly drifting out of a patch of mist, with all power lost, its steam core cold, everyone on board asleep, and behind that boat, in the depths of the fading mist, four massive giants appeared in view of the search and rescue crews.

“That’s the Leviathan we found at sea – a behemoth long lost to history, an apostle of the Storm Goddess, as recorded in the original Storm Codex.

“You’ll know what happened after that, the Truth Academy found a way to ‘resurrect’ those legendary behemoths and built massive church arks on them, delivering them to the Church of the Four Gods for use.” Lune’s narration ended, while Frem and Banister were still pondering, Helena gradually frowned, “Are those Leviathans actually one of the border relics?…… No wonder you’ve been avoiding talking about these details before, so it’s related to the border collapse.”

“Knowledge of border collapses raises the chances of them occurring within the civilized world, and the closer the time, the higher the probability, this is a rule concluded a century ago when that Captain Duncan Ebnomar was still a great explorer,” Lune nodded, “but it is now a century before the Truth Academy discovered Leviathan decades after that border collapse, it’s not as dangerous to bring these things up again.”

“…… I’m a little confused,” Frem snapped at that point, “The Church Ark is large, but it’s still obviously not in the same league as the City-State- -If the biological structures at the bottom of the city-state are really also leviathans, then they are several times the size of the church ark leviathans …… Is this really the same species?”

“Who knows?” Lune spread his hands, “Maybe those four Leviathans we found at the border were just some sort of ‘small individuals’? Or ‘juveniles’?”

“…… Theoretically that shouldn’t be the case,” Helena shook her head, “I’ve communicated with the Leviathan of the Church Ark from time to time, and while it’s not sure of the events leading up to the Great Annihilation and the truth of what happened at the bottom of the Citadel, it has said unequivocally that it is the an adult Leviathan.”

“Then the problem lies with those biological organizations at the bottom of the city-state, perhaps they are ‘mutated individuals’ of extraordinarily large scale, or perhaps …… they are related to those ‘blueprints’ in the deep sea ”After all, if the information from the Lost Country is true, then all the city-states in the boundless sea today can actually be considered ‘creations’ of the Ancient God, and even those biological structures at the bottom of the city-states can be considered ‘creations’ of the Ancient God, and even those biological structures at the bottom of the city-states can be considered ‘creations’ of the Ancient God. Even those biological structures at the bottom of the city-states could very well be the result of the Profound Holy Lord’s ‘secondary processing’……”

Saying this, Lune suddenly stopped, then shook his head somewhat mockingly, and then brushed his hands over his eyes in a gesture of prayer to the God of Wisdom, Rahm: “May the Lord forgive me, it feels strange to talk about these heretical remarks.”

“May the Lord forgive.”

Helena and Frem also each made a gesture of benediction, making a confession to the Goddess of Storms and Eternal Flame behind them.

As the heads of the church, they were able to look at these topics that were on the verge of being forbidden, or even called heresy, from a higher perspective, and were able to analyze the information from the heretical fanatics with a calmer attitude and a more practical perspective, but as the spokespersons of the four gods, they were also keeping the precepts of their respective sects and were bound by their beliefs – when talking about certain dangerous topics, the disconcerting feeling in their hearts was not a problem, and they could not talk about them. talking about certain dangerous topics, it was unavoidable that they would be offended and resisted in their hearts.

Only the spokesman of the God of Death, the tall, thin, and old-looking Banister never spoke, as if he had been in deep thought since just now.

“Banister,” Lune’s attention was focused on this silent Advocate of the God of Death, “you have seemed distracted since just now.”

“I’m thinking about a problem, Lune,” Banister finally looked up, the sunken eye sockets as deep as night, “The Thirteen Islands of Vesseland – those Leviathans were found near the waters of the events of the Thirteen Islands of Vesseland, do you don’t think that’s cause for concern?”

Lune nodded calmly, apparently having expected Banister’s attention to fall on this detail.

“I know what you want to talk about – the Lost Country,” the elderly elf said slowly, “a hundred years ago, the Lost Country opened a gateway to subspace on the Thirteen Islands of Vesseland, dragging all of that island and its inhabitants into the The depths of the terrifying world, this event also led to the space-time structure of the entire sea area being unusually fragile, and visions occurring frequently …… From this point of view, the incident that befell that patrol ship of the Truth Academy a few decades ago and the incident of the Thirteen Islands of Vesseland are somewhat causally linked.”

Saying this he suddenly paused and raised his head again to look at Banister very seriously as he continued, “But we can’t so simply assume that ‘it was the Lost Country ship that sent the Leviathan Beast into the real world’, this lacks evidence and is not supported by enough theory.”

“But it is indeed possible that those four Leviathans entered our real world as a result of some sort of fallout from the events on the Thirteen Islands of Vesseland, Loon, and this matter was actually risky from the start.”

“…… you church ark don’t want it?”

“To.”

(End of chapter)