Chapter 559: “All That Remains of Them”

Chapter 559 “All That Remains of Them”

At that last moment, a sharp, cold light appeared in the depths of boundless nothingness and chaos, and the tidal wave of shattered information almost drowned out the tiny bit of flame that had seeped into the “sample”.

In a slight trance, Duncan heard Shirley next to him exclaim, “Look out!”

Duncan instinctively took a half-step back as his trance-like consciousness rejoined the real world, and in the next moment, he saw the tip of a sword glittering with silver light in front of him.

The tip of the sword stopped only ten centimeters from the tip of his nose, and it was still slowly extending forward.

“Attack behavior!” Ted Riel, who had been staring intently at the sheltered sample from the side, instantly reacted, he let out a low cry, and immediately after that, he had already quickly slapped the large book in his hand, and a dense shimmering light diffused outwards from the pages of that book, turning to cover the surface of the sample in a split second, and quickly condensing and thickening into a layer upon layer of barrier.

At the same time, Duncan also withdrew the flame that penetrated into the sample, and at the same time, his consciousness quickly awake, his eyes were once again directed to the “sample” in front of him.

On the receiving platform, the iron gray metal mass that had already solidified suddenly changed shape just now, and a part of its “shell” instantly bulged out and condensed into a form that looked like a sword.

But that suddenly condensed out of the “sword” and did not stab anyone, it is only out of half, as if by the great power of hard drag, and now also in the slow little by little outward extension, this scene rather than “stab” out of the This scene is not so much a “stab” out of the …… but more like a sword is being gradually “discharged” from the sample.

Lucrecia’s hand had a small “baton” in her hand at some point, she quickly took two steps forward, and while Ted Riel was controlling the sample with his divine magic, she directly pointed the baton at the middle of the “long sword”, but just as she was about to further destroy the structure, Duncan was unable to do so, but he was unable to do so. structure, Duncan suddenly stopped her, “Wait.”

Lucrecia stopped the spell she was about to launch and turned her head to look at her father in confusion, while Tad Reel and Nina, who were about to take the next step, also stopped and cast a puzzled look at her.

Duncan waved his hand at them, and then carefully stepped around the blade, which was still slowly extending outward, and came to the side of the mass of iron-gray “living metal”, staring intently at its “shell”.

It had not really been “activated”, only the extended blade had changed, the rest of the sample was still stagnant and frozen as before.

Confused and broken information still swirled in his mind, as if he had torn a person’s memories into pieces and then mixed them randomly, and then “poured” them in front of his eyes. Duncan sorted through those broken memories over and over again and tried to reorganize them into useful information.

He saw many things – an unsettling “crimson”, scars across the sky, warriors setting out, traveling companions falling, a distorted and decaying world, a meaningless journey, great confusion, anger, fear, and with it, death and peace, and insanity. death and peace, and a variety of bizarre images that keep surfacing in the midst of insanity.

Duncan suspected that if any other ordinary person had seen any of this – even a small portion of it – he or she would have been thoroughly contaminated by some of the dangerous knowledge carried in those messages.

But this contaminating “knowledge” was only a few confusing fragments to him, and he had gradually begun to combine them into a continuous memory as he sorted and recalled them over and over again.

He then raised his head and looked at the longsword, which had already extended halfway out, and after a slight hesitation, he stretched out his fingers and touched its surface.

A cold, hard metallic touch came from his fingertips.

Duncan slowly closed his eyes, he could feel that when he touched the longsword, those chaotic and broken fragments of memories in his mind became clear and coherent a little bit more, although still incomplete, but it was enough for him to understand everything that had happened.

He opened his eyes and looked at the last crumbs left of that distant and ancient world, at the last counterattack that the nameless warrior had sent towards Doomsday – he gently pinched the crumbs, feeling the connection that it conveyed to him, and then slowly pulled it outwards.

The flames gave the longsword, which had failed to fly out of the sky, a touch of extra strength, and it finally detached itself completely from the mass of living metal.

Well crafted, with a slender blade, the hilt wrapped in fine linen, and the handguard inlaid with brilliant crystals of unknown purpose and material, it has now crossed a long period of time, and has come to this …… deep sea era in its original and “correct” posture.

Including Ted Ryer, everyone in the room stared in dismay at the scene in front of them, Lucrecia finally couldn’t help but speak: “Dad, what is this?”

Duncan lowered his head and looked at the nameless sword in his hand, thinking for a long time before slowly speaking, “This is the weapon that had been planned to be used against the end of the world.”

“Against the end of the world?” Shirley at the side instantly widened her eyes, “With a sword? Isn’t this thing the kind of divine weapon that can split the sea in the legends? The kind that the four gods blessed?”

Duncan shook his head, “It’s just a sword – their best sword, it’s sharp, but even when used to the extreme, it can only be used to decapitate larger beasts or armed humans …… That’s as far as they can do to the limit.”

Lucrecia and Ted Reel looked at each other, unable to understand for a moment, while Nina vaguely understood and immediately opened her mouth to ask, “What did you see?”

Duncan was still organizing the messy and tattered memories in his mind, but after a brief moment of reflection, he spoke up to break the silence, “Just some fragments of something that happened a long, long time ago ……”

He described what he had seen – in as understandable a way as possible. He didn’t speak quickly, as there were too many scraps, too much information that even he couldn’t quite understand, and he still had to figure out how to complete the parts that didn’t fit back and forth, or figure out how to explain some of the concepts that were difficult for Nina and the others to understand.

For the first time, he tried to explain what a “planet” was to the people of this world – after the last time he talked to Alice, he finally decided to give it a try.

But explaining an unfamiliar concept required ten more basic points of knowledge, and each unfamiliar point of knowledge required more knowledge to add to it, and there were countless things that were completely counter-intuitive and counter-intuitive to the people of this world, and even if all of these things were explained clearly, no one could visualize them and reorganize them in their mind’s eye.

Ted Reel and Lucrecia were struggling to understand, and the one question they kept throwing out lengthened the time of the explanations – eventually Duncan realized that if he were to explain all the basic concepts, it would probably take at least six months of full-time lectures to do it.

So he had to pass much of it over, or use analogies to temporarily fill in the gaps in his knowledge and concepts.

At the end of the day, despite his many efforts, Nina and the others were obviously still only able to understand part of it, but at least, for once, they largely understood what was happening.

Shirley is still immersed in the shock of a long “story”, Nina is still thinking about those strange words Duncan mentioned just now, while the two scholars on the scene …… Lucrecia and Ted Reel face is like a watery grave, obviously already thought of a lot.

“The end of the world …… ” Ted Riel whispered as if talking to himself, “If those you saw really point to an apocalypse, then the time of its occurrence… …”

“Before the Great Annihilation,” Duncan affirmed the other’s unspoken query, and then raised the longsword in his hand, “The ‘black wall’ that has long stretched before the eyes of historians now opens a gap, and this sword …… is perhaps the first ‘relic’ that can be recognized as having passed from before the time point of the Great Annihilation to this present Age of the Deep.”

“A historic moment …… just happened.” Ted Riel sighed softly with a complex expression on his face, in front of this news that was enough to shake the entire academic world, but he only felt that his mind was in a state of confusion, the countless intelligence that suddenly came out of nowhere was shocking the knowledge system that he had built up over a long period of time, and was even shocking his perception of this world, so much so that he couldn’t help but wish a prayer to Rahm in his heart, and exerted a mind protection and mental suggestion for himself, in order to prevent his own sanity from being damaged.

Lucrecia, on the other hand, suddenly raised her head after a very long period of silent reflection and looked into Duncan’s eyes, “You just mentioned many odd concepts, those …… are the things you previously mentioned that are difficult to explain to me?”

“Just a small part of it, a very, very small part,” Duncan whispered, “I should have told you this sooner.”

Lucrecia, however, only shook her head slightly, neither complaining nor asking why her father was now willing to explain those things to her again – surely her father had his reasons for doing so, and when he was willing to talk, he would naturally do so.

She was just a little curious as to why her father would know these unthinkable things.

Did that knowledge …… originate from subspace?

On the other hand, Ted Riel suddenly realized a problem after a period of time of thinking.

“According to what you ‘saw’, under the influence of that ‘red light’, the world was engulfed by lava, the earth was torn apart, and everyone died …… Then How did the present-day Age of the Deep Sea begin?”

He raised his hand and gestured, slashing his palm downward to mimic a fault line.

“It is not coherent, Captain Duncan – after the destruction of that world, before the beginning of the Deep Age, there should have been a process of change in between, and the world you see does not correspond to any of the races, places, or legends in the present-day Deep Age ……”

“Indeed, there is no correspondence,” Duncan gently nodded, his eyes fell on the “sample” on the platform, after a long time, he finally said a guess in his heart from a long time ago, “so …… that world didn’t pass down as much as the world of humans, elves and Sanguinians, and what we have in front of us is all that remains of that world.”

“‘That world’ …… “Ted Riel and Lucrecia instantly looked at each other, at this moment, they finally understood Duncan’s meaning.

And in Duncan’s mind, the “moon” of his hometown finally surfaced in front of his eyes once again.

Along with it, there were also the words that Alice had said to herself with a smile…

“Captain, is this a brain teaser?”

The expression on Duncan’s face changed slightly, and the muscles at the corners of his mouth twitched gently a few times, finally turning into a smile that neither Nina nor Lucrecia could understand.

“Yeah, that’s a real brain teaser ……”

He whispered in a voice only he could hear.

(End of chapter)