Chapter 746: The Other Core
Chapter 744 The Other Core
Vanna left, even blessed as she was, she needed to rest and relax at this time.
Duncan watched the other party leave the captain’s room until her figure disappeared out of the door before he withdrew his gaze and looked at Goathead, who was staying quietly on the edge of the sailing table, “What do you think of those ‘revelations’ that Gemona conveyed to Vanna?”
“…… The massive collapse and disintegration of the sun seems to be something the Four Gods have known would happen sooner or later,” Goathead had been holding his tongue for half a day when he finally got the chance to speak up, “I knew they knew about it, and must have been holding it in for a million years! I knew they knew about it and must have been holding it back for ten thousand years! When the profound holy master of the creation of the century also discussed with them to come, the results of the era of the deep sea asked a not squeak and do not say exactly where the problem of course we have to understand after all, this thing to say out that scared to death can be more than one or two city states even that a few popes are not also being hidden it is now well the sun directly began to disintegrate …… “
Duncan looked up and reached out to hold down the goathead’s balabala mouth, “I shouldn’t have asked you.”
Goathead was gagged, a garbled grunt escaping his throat, a pair of obsidian carved eyeballs making their way to the wooden face, his eyes so soulful for the first time.
Duncan sighed and withdrew his hand, “I asked about the second half of the revelation …… ‘They’ intend to talk to me, what do you think they will talk to me about? What form will it take?”
“…… I don’t know about that,” Goathead opened his mouth with a bit of restraint this time, shaking his head resentfully as he did so, “It’s not like they’re going to lull you into taking over something again, is it?”
Duncan didn’t say anything, just mused quietly for a long moment.
“They seem to be in a really bad state, before Gemona was able to send him a message in words, but now she can only send down revelations through Vanna, with that kind of contamination. ……
Just then, a voice from far away suddenly interrupted Duncan’s thoughts.
His eyes instantly shifted slightly, and he looked up at the oval mirror hanging on the wall not far away – a layer of illusory flames spread out under his gaze, and the surface of that mirror instantly turned pitch black, and slowly emerged along with light and shadow.
Tirion’s figure appeared in the mirror.
“Father,” the “Iron Lieutenant General” had a hint of gravity in his expression, the background behind him was supposed to be near the harbor area, and a dense golden light seemed to cover behind him as if it was infiltrated, obviously not a normal sunset,” he said. “I apologize for the sudden interruption ……”
“That’s all right,” Duncan waved a hand, his tone gentle, “What’s happening? So tense?”
“…… Our scholars went inside that glowing geometry that fell in the Frost, and following the information Lucrecia had shared earlier, we managed to find its core, but the thing …… isn’t quite the same as it was in the information , and I would like you to see it with your own eyes.”
“Not quite the same?” Duncan frowned slightly, he realized from Tirian’s reaction that the situation over there might be a bit complicated, and immediately nodded, “I understand, be there soon.”
He quickly cut the connection with Tirian, his mind slightly focused, and turned his head-
Outside the window of the cemetery’s caretaker’s hut, fine snow was falling silently, and as the sun set in the west, the hazy snowy landscape caused the entire world to be shrouded in silence.
The fireplace in the caretaker’s hut was chopping and popping, the tea cooker was making a sharp and gradually stronger hissing sound, and the water was just boiling, steam rising.
Duncan stood up, closed the dampers on the hearth, and removed the black brimmed hat that hung on the doorway; he fastened it, straightened the long black trench coat he was wearing, and stepped out of the hut.
Two young black-clad guards who were sweeping the paths and checking the streetlights in the cemetery heard the commotion and turned their eyes in unison-they saw the intimidatingly silent guard, who was always dressed all in black and wrapped all over in bandages, step out of the hut, and straightened up at once and saluted.
Duncan waved his hand at them in response, then casually snapped his fingers, and a giant bird of skeleton, covered in spectral flames, crossed the great distance and landed directly on his shoulder.
“Full of oil, let’s go!” Aey flapped his wings, letting out a piercingly unpleasant cry in his skeletal form, and then it suddenly transformed into a fiercely rising ring of fire, which wrapped itself around Duncan’s figure, and the two fused together, instantly soaring up into the sky and streaking across in the direction of the harbor area ……
In the eastern part of the Frost, a massive golden glow still shrouded the entire harbor, a glow that seemed to possess some sort of crystalline texture, silently saturating everything within its coverage – bright, but not blinding, gentle, yet disturbing.
Aiden, who was tall and had a shiny brain, looked around at the golden glow a little nervously.
He had shed the outdated lines from his days as a pirate, and was currently wearing a new uniform that represented the contemporary Frost Navy – when in the presence of his men, he would try to maintain his appearance of majesty and reliability, but in front of Tirion, he did not hide the uneasiness in his heart.
“Are these ‘lights’ really harmless?” The big bald man muttered, “Looking at them makes me feel like I’m being ‘submerged’ in something, like they’re seeping into my skin, and even breathing seems to fill my lungs with something …… “
Tirian turned his head to look at Aiden. “First, you have at least seven holes in your lungs right now – do you normally fill those holes with anything less?” He said casually, “Secondly, the harmlessness of these ‘lights’ is proven; Lucrecia has been studying this stuff for a long time in Lightwind Harbor.”
“…… But it’s not like the thing that fell from our side is the same as the one in Lightwind Harbor,” Aiden couldn’t help but read, “The ‘core’ on their side It’s a ball of stone ……”
The undead commander, trusted by Tirion, shook his head, his shiny head reflecting a brilliant golden light in Tirion’s vision.
Tirion didn’t move a small step to the side and opened his mouth as if he was just about to say something, but then suddenly sensed an aura approaching and closed his mouth and turned back.
And almost at the same time, a low and slightly raspy voice entered his and Aiden’s ears, “You mean the core of the fallen object over here is not a ‘stone ball’?”
An eerie green flame rose silently, and Duncan’s figure stepped out of the flames as he crossed over the surrounding guard soldiers and government office personnel who were taken aback, and walked straight towards Tirion and Aiden.
Aiden was taken aback, but reacted instantly and hurriedly took two steps forward, bending his head and bowing his head in salute, “Old Captain ……”
A dazzling golden light swept across Duncan’s field of vision, and he didn’t move to take a half-step to the side, dodging Aiden’s shiny head.
“Father,” Tirian responded as well, rushing forward to greet him, “I didn’t realize you’d arrive so soon.”
“I’ll be curious about the ‘special circumstances’ you mentioned,” Duncan said as he waved his hand and walked forward, “Don’t waste time, tell me as we go- -What exactly is the situation?”
Tirion hurriedly took a step to follow, saying quickly as he went, “It is difficult to describe to you, it is some sort of …… thing we have never seen before, and even the most knowledgeable scholars in the city-state are at a loss. It is indeed a sphere, but the surface is illusory, and it keeps flowing, like some sort of living thing, and makes a slight whistling …… sound when you see it with your own eyes.”
Listening to Tirion’s description, Duncan just nodded lightly while quickening his pace.
They made their way through the pale golden glow that spread throughout the entire port area, crossing the docks and connecting bridges all the way to the coastline – the road was very quiet, the entire area had been urgently dispersed, a long blockade line separated the entire dock area from the city, and the center area of that glowing body was impartially right at this port’s corner of the coastline.
If you look down from the air at this moment, the irregular luminous geometry covers almost one third of the entire city-state, as if a luminous structure had “grown” out of nowhere on the edge of the frosty island and illuminated a large portion of the nearby sea in the dusk.
Under the leadership of Tirion and Aiden, Duncan finally arrived at the center of the luminous geometry, and saw the “core structure” that confused the frost scholars and even made them nervous and fearful.
It is floating at the end of the beach, more than ten meters away from the calm sea water – about ten meters in diameter of the sphere quietly suspended there, the edge of the simple scaffolding has been built, there are also some workers are busy nearby.
“You see, this is it …… ” Tirian raised his hand and pointed to the huge orb that ran as if it were a living thing, with disturbing streams of color running across its surface, “This thing doesn’t look like stone. ”
“…… It certainly isn’t stone ……”
Duncan raised his head and narrowed his eyes slightly, after a brief moment of surprise, a natural but subtle and inexplicable feeling came over him as he looked at the “core”, his lips moving a few times before he softly answered Tirian’s question.
“It’s a gaseous planet.”
Tirian was stunned for a moment, repeating the unfamiliar word with some confusion, “A gaseous planet? What does that mean?”
Duncan didn’t say anything, but after a few moments of observation he slowly took two more steps forward, until he was below the floating “gaseous planet” and quietly looked up to observe its surface structure.
Splendid bands of cloud with a faint metallic sheen flowed slowly across its surface, tracing out a circle of “cloud currents” that encircled the entire planet, with tiny swirls and storms swirling between the bands, slowly and magnificently.
As he drew closer, he heard the “whirring” that Tirian had mentioned, so subtle that it was as if it were a distant time.
It was a chirp from within the star – a chirp that might have been deafening, even powerful enough to tear apart a small celestial body, long, long ago, in the years before the annihilation of all things, when the planet was still large enough to pack thousands of infinite seas into its clouds.
However, now, this ten-meter diameter “star” can only emit that subtle to indistinguishable sound …… like a whimper.
(End of chapter)