Chapter 544: True Face
Chapter 544 The True Face
Below deck in the crew area, Sherry was staying in her room with a sad face, sighing uncontrollably at the pile of exercise books spread out on her desk.
“There’s so many of them …… when will they be finished ……”
“If you’re always sighing then you’ll never finish it,” Dog muttered from the side, “And it’s not a lot at all, you’re purely accumulating it by procrastinating every day – Ms. Alice even manages to finish these on time every day! Ms. Alice can even finish these practice problems on time every day, okay?”
“You call her writing style of filling in the questions with whatever comes to mind ‘finished’?” Shirley instantly rolled her eyes, then stuck her head on the table and mumbled in a muffled voice, “I want to go ashore to play, I want to go shopping in the city-state, I want to go and eat good food …… Nina said that Light Wind Harbor has an exceptional amount of good food, food from all over the world… …”
However, Dog had gotten used to this kind of chanting from Shirley many years ago, and it shook its head, not the least bit moved in its tone, “The captain said, when you finish your drag homework when you can go ashore to play.”
Shirley skimmed her mouth, then faced the exercise book on the table and thought for a moment, suddenly her eyes turned, her face with the sneer of doing something bad, carefully bent down and came close to the Dog who was lying on the floor: “So what, do you want you to help, these topics are surely for you …… “
However, Shirley had just gotten halfway through saying this, and Dog didn’t even have time to respond, when a voice suddenly came out from one of the mirrors in front of the desk, “I’m watching.”
Shirley immediately let out a frustrated and exaggerated “ah…” and raised her head to look at Agatha’s silhouette that was emerging from the mirror with an expression as if she was about to cry out, “Can’t you just go and stare at someone else! Why do you always appear out of the mirror no matter what I do!”
Agatha in the mirror had a serious look on her face, “Because the captain said that I should keep an eye on you for your homework.”
Shirley let out a long sigh and stuck her head into the exercise book on the desk once again, suddenly looking up again after rolling her face in the booklet several times, “Then can you help ……”
Agatha didn’t hesitate, “Can’t.”
Shirley instantly babbled, “That’s not what the story says! The story says that the Magic Mirror knows everything, and that if you make a request to the Magic Mirror, the mirror will give the answer to the person who asked the question ……”
Agatha frowned, “Where is this wacky story coming from?”
“The captain told it to Nina, and then Nina told it to me.”
Listening to Shirley’s speech which was essentially just a bit of nonsense, Agatha’s face suddenly became serious, and after pondering for a few seconds, she looked at Shirley’s eyes and asked, “Did the Captain really tell Nina a story about a ‘magic mirror’?”
“Yes …… yes,” Shirley didn’t know why the other party was suddenly serious, and answered with a bit of nervousness all of a sudden, “It was told just two days ago …… “
Agatha thought very seriously, and muttered softly in thought, “He arranged for me to inhabit the ship’s mirror …… so is there another deep meaning ……”
Shirley didn’t react at all, “Uh …… huh?”
However, Agatha did not answer her, after thinking hard for a few moments, the “gatekeeper of the mirror” looked up and glanced at Shirley: “Which question do you not know?”
Shirley thought for a moment and pushed her exercise book forward, “…… This one I don’t know.”
“This one?!”
“Uhhh – if it’s too much trouble, I can do the oral math part in the front ……”
“Write it yourself!”
Duncan, who had just returned to the captain’s cabin, looked up a little doubtfully, as if listening sideways to a commotion coming from the distance.
The goat’s head on the navigation table turned his eyes at once: “What’s the matter with you?”
“I thought I heard Agatha’s voice,” Duncan said casually, but of course he wasn’t really “hearing” anything, rather the ship was relaying information from every corner of the Lost Country to him. The ship was sending him messages from every corner of the Lost Country, “She seems to be in Shirley’s room, and she’s quite agitated.”
“Need to go check on the situation? Or call her over?”
“No,” Duncan shook his head, “Everyone who’s responsible for keeping an eye on Shirley’s homework gets emotional eventually, and this can be seen as a kind of hammering of the mind ……”
The goat-head gave an oh-so-quiet sigh, not sure if it really understood the spiel, while Duncan silently sensed the state of various parts of the Lost Country again, stepped over to the table and sat down, exhaling softly, “It’s about time for Sherry and Nina and the rest of them to go to the shore and get some air. It just so happens that Lucrecia is preparing to return to Lightwind Harbor, so let her take a ride.”
Goathead quietly paid attention to the captain’s movements and demeanor, and finally couldn’t help but speak up at this time, “Looks like you’re in a good mood?”
“Maybe it’s because of figuring something out, or maybe it’s because of letting go for a while.” Duncan raised his eyebrows, but in his mind he could not help but recall Alice’s sunny appearance, and the corners of his mouth could not help but bring out a smile, then he shook his head, and reached out and took out from his pocket the “sketch” that he had previously obtained from Lucrecia’s hands.
Now that the boredom in his heart had been cleared, it was time to study what was actually drawn in the manuscript that Master Taran Ayer had left behind after observing Vision 001. “What is this?” Seeing Duncan’s actions, the goat head immediately turned its head this way in curiosity, a shimmering light seemingly floating in its dark obsidian eyes.
“It’s a sketch Taran El drew after observing the surface of Vision 001,” Duncan said casually, unfolding the piece of paper and placing it in front of a nearby oil lamp to reflect it again, “It may hide what the ‘Sun ‘ surface as it really looks, but the most crucial details were scribbled out by Taran-El himself.”
Goathead was stunned and let out a meaningful exclamation, “…… Whoops.”
“I would have thought you would have been the first to warn me of the dangers of doing so, as you have so often done in the past,” Duncan however was a little surprised by Goathead’s reaction, he raised his eyes and glanced at the fellow, “Why don’t you nag me this time?”
“Once upon a time I feared for your safety, but now I only fear for the safety of those who would seek to oppose you,” the goat-head complimented at once, phrasing his words masterfully, “A mere sketch would not threaten the great Captain Duncan, even if it did depict the true face of an ancient god. –Not to mention the fact that the man who drew it is a mere mortal, and what truth can that Taran El see?”
Duncan ignored the goat-head’s pile of obviously flattering nonsense and instead concentrated on the pattern on the sketchpad, but after a long time of flipping it over and over, he still hadn’t been able to analyze what was behind those errant scribbles.
He even felt …… that those lines which seemed to be just scribbles were like some kind of “seal” with power, they “covered” the original image on this paper from the concept of occultism, not just a layer of interference. They “covered” the original image on the paper from an occult concept, not just a layer of ink that interfered with the line of sight.
In the midst of his thoughts, Duncan had a sudden change of heart.
A “seal” with “power”?
He lowered his head once again and scrutinized the crisscrossing lines and large scribbles on the draft paper.
Master Taran El is a senior and experienced scholar, as well as a devout believer in the God of Wisdom Rahm …… Although he has a lot of problems caused by a bad work routine, his attainments in the occult are definitely deep enough.
Such a great scholar, in the observation of the vision 001 if really perceived some extreme danger “factors”, then he will certainly be the first time to try to use a more “professional” way to control this danger, even if his reason has begun to be affected! ……
The ink left on the sketch paper is not a mere smear – so it is impossible to see what is really behind the “ink” by conventional means.
This is actually a “secret letter” that has been processed with extraordinary power?
Duncan slightly frowned, a vague idea emerged from the bottom of his heart, then he turned his head and gazed at the oil lamp placed next to him.
Under his gaze, the flame in the oil lamp suddenly jumped for a moment, and then it was quickly colored with a layer of dark green.
The fire of the spirit body swelled and burned, even rising up from the opening above the lampshade.
After a slight hesitation, Duncan picked up the piece of draft paper and placed it over the flame of the lamp formed by the fire of the spirit body.
In just an instant, the blazing green flames engulfed the entire piece of paper!
There was indeed some kind of “disguise” of extraordinary power left on it.
The goat head beside him exclaimed in shock at this scene, “Why did you burn it?”
“The fire of the spirit body burned only those ‘twisted’ parts,” Duncan looked at the fussing goat head with a bashful face, and with a flick of his wrist, he extinguished the flames burning on the draft paper, and underneath the flames, the fragile draft paper was indeed still intact, “The draft paper is still intact. intact, “That’s what it was supposed to look like.”
Said Duncan, “This is the way it should have been.” Said Duncan, “treated” by the flames of the draft paper in front of his eyes, and took a look at the pattern that had reappeared on it.
In the next second, his expression suddenly froze.
The goat head immediately noticed the change in the captain’s expression, and immediately turned its neck to look at this side with worry and curiosity, however, due to the angle, it couldn’t see the content of the front of the paper, and could only yell: “What’s that on there? Are you alright? That ……”
Duncan finally snapped out of his daze, his gaze jerked away from the paper, and with a strange expression, he raised his head to look at the goat’s head, “…… It’s the true face of the ancient god.”
Goathead:”?!”
Duncan, however, did not open his mouth again, but slowly lowered his head and continued to carefully survey the picture on the draft paper – the sphere that was locked by a double runic circle, the one that was shrouded in dark shadows, yet its surface was strewn with lurid blood and lines as if it was raging in fury… …
Eyeball.
The essence of Vision 001 was a huge, encapsulated eyeball within a dark spherical shell.
(End of chapter)