Chapter 84: Ghosts and Reality

Chapter 84 – Ghosts are also entangled with reality
Uncle fetched the tranquilizing herbal wine, the power of the medicine and alcohol finally calmed Vanna’s slightly irritated mind, she opened the door to the balcony and stood on the balcony blowing in the wind, looking in the direction of the cathedral in the distance.

Dante Wayne’s voice came from behind her, “You have nightmares every time you come back to stay, and they’re always about childhood.”

“…… As an Inquisitor, it’s an undue sign of weakness,” Vanna’s voice trailed off, she was more than a head taller than her uncle by a full foot, but she always didn’t mind revealing the true side of her inner self in front of the elder who had raised her from the ground up. “I am distressed.”

“Have …… talked to Heidi?”

“She recommended four brain surgeries and two nerve puncture therapies to me,” Vanna sighed, “Considering the years of friendship, I didn’t do anything.”

“…… It’s her style, she doesn’t deal with normal people much,” Dante Wayne shook his head, “I actually didn’t realize that after all these years you’re still stuck with the nightmares from that night. ”

“I always thought I’d gotten over it too,” Vanna rubbed her brow, “Maybe it really does have something to do with this big house, whenever I come back here I dream about that time …… Maybe I should think about having the house for another An exorcism, or I’ll always feel like the building holds the shadow of that disaster ……”

Uncle Dante thought for a moment, but did not raise any objections, only asked thoughtfully, “Is the fire still in your nightmares this time?”

Vanna nodded, “Yes, there were fires everywhere, you carried me on your back as we escaped from the fire, and I even distinctly remember us fleeing the city from the factory’s pipeline, and there was a burning building nearby that was gradually collapsing from the fire ……”

At this she paused, her eyes falling on her uncle, “…… You don’t remember the fire, do you?”

“It’s not just me who doesn’t remember it, everyone doesn’t remember it,” the city-state consul with a serious expression slowly shook his head, “I only remember the pipeline where the poisonous gas leaked out and the cultists who went berserk …… There were a lot of parties involved that night. But it seems that you were the only one who saw the roaring fire.”

Vanna didn’t say anything for a while, but just remained silent and thought for an unknown period of time before she suddenly spoke softly, “Except for the ‘fire’ thing, my memories and yours match …… At that time I didn’t understand anything, but now I’m know very well that this must be some kind of transcendent power exerting influence, and after so many years have passed and I have been promoted to become an acolyte again, this influence still hasn’t dissipated.”

“This means that either the bit of this influence is extremely high, so much so that it has branded a lifelong mark in your soul, or the source of the influence did not disappear as that incident subsided, but instead has remained hidden somewhere in the city-state – I’ve been investigating this matter for all these years, but regrettably, up to now there’s not much progress has been made.”

Dante Wayne’s tone took on a hint of apology towards the end, not only was he apologizing for not being able to resolve his niece’s distress, but also because he was harboring regrets for being the city-state’s consul but never being able to investigate an old case.

The “chaos” eleven years ago had left scars that were too long lasting.

Vanna knew that this matter was not only her own heart knot, but also has always been her uncle’s heart disease, but she is not good at comforting others, after half a day’s thought, she could only bring the topic away: “I remember that many cultists were arrested at that time, and from the aftermath of the liquidation, that incident was even bigger than the ‘Black Sun’ incident four years ago. The scale was even bigger.”

“Yes, thousands were captured, so many that I wondered how so many cultists could hide in one city-state, Prand,” Dante Wayne sighed, “and there was more than one sect …… There were followers of the Black Sun Sun heretics, the Annihilists who worshiped the Psi-Holy Lord, and even the Terminal Preachers who worshiped subspace itself …… All of these maggots in the gutter sprang up that night and went around destroying things in a deranged state of mind.” Vanna looked at Dante, “But according to the results of later interrogations, none of the thousands of saboteurs captured by the authorities could even be called ‘masterminds’, and none of them even knew why they were trying to cause chaos that night; rather than those cultists organizing themselves to wreak havoc, it’s more likely that they were just at the same time were triggered into a collective loss of control by the madness deep within their spirits.”

Dante didn’t say anything for a while, he pondered quietly, then suddenly looked into Vanna’s eyes, “I don’t think the reason you’re annoyed is just because of that nightmare – the sudden mention of all this has something to do with the unsettled situation in the city-state lately?”

Vanna didn’t avoid the question, “It does have some relevance – the Solar Heretics are converging on the City-State, looking for an ‘anomaly’ known as the Solar Shard, and the Lost Country has reappeared in the real world at almost the same time , with its ‘course’ vaguely pointing towards Prand, and although it’s still too early to say how these two events are related, this air of chaos …… always makes me unable to resist remembering that chaos eleven years ago.”

“…… I’ve ordered all ports to strictly check the movement of people, and I’ve gotten word to the consuls of other city-states, and quite a few solar heretics have been uncovered on the ships, and their flow into the city-states is basically snuffed out, and as for the ones that have already flowed into Plainland… . it’s still largely up to the Church to make the move on its part, and the Guardians are professionals at finding and targeting transcendental crimes.”

Saying this, the middle-aged consul suddenly paused, as if he was carefully deliberating whether or not something should be brought up now, but after a moment of hesitation he still made up his mind, “As for the matter of the Lost Country ship, I can’t be of much help in the transcendent realm, but in the mundane side, I have an idea.”

“Mundane side?” Vanna frowned, she was just about to say that the ghost ship Lost Country could have anything to do with “mundane” when she remembered a certain expression, “Wait, you mean ……”

“The captain of the Pioneer Explorer Bright Star, Lucrecia Ebnomar, and the pirate leader of the northern seas, Tirion Ebnomar, captain of the Sea Mist,” Dante said nonchalantly, “It’s true that the Lost Homeland is a ghost ship beyond the comprehension of reality, but as long as it was a member of the real world, the real world is not the same as the real world, and the real world is the same as the real world, and the real world is the same as the real world. a member of the real world, the real world has ‘anchor points’ where it once existed …… I wonder how Captain Duncan’s sons and daughters will react to the reappearance of their ‘father.’ .”

Vanna slowly widened her eyes, she was used to using simple and brutal methods to directly solve her enemies, but she had never considered things related to the Lost Country ship from this perspective, but she soon frowned, “But I heard that those two people hardly deal with the city-state forces …… They have formed their own forces on the Infinite Sea Each dominating one side and maintaining a cold or even tense relationship with all the city-states.”

“This is normal, after all, they are the children of that Ghost Captain, and the Radiant Star and the Sea Mist were even two of the Lost Country’s escort ships in the first place – despite the fact that they parted ways a hundred years ago, in the eyes of most of the city-states, anyone who has ever been involved with that Ghost Captain means curses and danger, and rather than them alienating the city-states, the city-states are actively avoiding them.”

Vanna frowned at her uncle, “Then do you expect them to come to the aid of Prand against their father?”

“Just a thought, but it’s worth a try,” Dante was surprisingly serious, “After all, we all know that the Radiant Star and the Sea Mist parted ways with the Lost Country more than a century ago, and Lucrecia and Tirion broke with their father before the events of the Thirteen Islands of Vesseland, more than half a century ago It was even rumored that certain ocean-going captains had witnessed the Sea Mist engaging the phantom of the Lost Country in the northern waters – by that time the Lost Country had become a ghost ship of legend, which might shed some light on the attitudes of those two captains when confronted with their ‘fathers’. ”

“More than half a century ago …… that was when the Sea Mist was still the general flagship under the Frost Queen, and that Captain Tirian might have just been under orders to protect the city-state,” Vanna said slowly as she pondered, “but you’re right. At least this is proof enough that the Sea Mist does have a track record against the Lost Country.”

However, she still had some doubts and voiced them after a few seconds of thought, “What if the Radiant Star and the Sea Mist ignore Prand?”

“So this is just an attempt,” Dante said quietly, “I’ll spread the word, find a way to get the Lost Country present and sailing to Prand to those two captains’ desks – that’s all I’ll do, and after that it’s up to the two captains how they react. two captains will react is up to them.”

(End of chapter)