Deep Sea Embers Chapter 434: Looking into the distance

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The mirror image turned into ashes, the darkness began to recede, the phantom of the queen's guard disappeared, and the profane creations that invaded the city-state also disintegrated, turning into black mud that quickly dried up, and the sound of guns and guns everywhere in the city-state fell silent. ——What was replaced was an unspeakable fear and silence that enveloped the whole city.

Everyone can see that huge existence, the one standing in the boundless sea, overlooking the city-state from the clouds.

Just a few minutes ago, the mirror image Frost was turned into ashes in the hands of the "giant", and no one could have guessed what would happen next.

Only the dark green flames spreading across the city and covering the sea are still burning—but these flames don't hurt people, they just pass through the real world like phantoms, and when touched, they can All I could feel was a harmless warmth.

Agatha lowered her head and casually helped the high-level deacon with a bad face. The flames burning on her arms made the latter a little nervous, but compared to the atmosphere that enveloped the whole city at the moment, this little tension seemed insignificant .

"Next..." The high-level deacon's face was a little pale, he looked at Agatha, at the ghostly green spirit fire burning on her body, which was the same as the flames that filled the whole city at this moment, his voice was still a little trembling, "What happens next?"

Agatha thought for a while, then shook her head: "I don't know."

The senior deacon's eyes widened: "You don't know?!"

"...I didn't ask," Agatha said frankly, "The situation was urgent, and I had no other choice."

The high-ranking deacon was stunned, he had many questions to ask - the origin of the "giant" on the sea, the nature of these flames in the city, the reason why Agatha looked like this at the moment, but he couldn't ask any of them for a while come out.

Agatha didn't pay attention to the reaction of the high-ranking deacon. She just turned her face slightly, watching the last delicate pale ash slowly fall on her shoulder.

The fluttering ashes in the city-state had ceased at some point, and it seemed that it was the last piece that fell on her shoulders——in a trance, she felt as if someone had patted her on the shoulder.

"I have to leave," she heard someone whispering in her ear, "The journey in this world is over, and there is still a farther road waiting for me to go."

"Bon voyage, Bishop Ivan."

There is a wind blowing from afar, blowing through the gate of the Great Cathedral of Silence, blowing across the square in front of the gate, rolling up the piece of light ashes, and letting it dissipate quietly in the wind.

…

On the top of the bell tower at the back of the church, Shirley in a black dress looked at the street below. He muttered: "It's quiet..."

"Everyone seems to be terrified..." Nina stood on the small platform behind Shirley, looking up at the sky while talking, "I was also shocked..."

"Who doesn't feel scared when they see it?" Shirley shrank her neck, carefully looking at the huge and hazy figure on the distant sea, "I never thought that Mr. Duncan would use this method to solve this trouble in the end— —It’s even bigger than the last time in Purland.”

"Uncle Duncan said that the root of the Frost Crisis is the mirror image, so to solve the problem, the mirror image must be completely solved-the rituals of sealing or stopping the cultists can only be safe for a while, and the solution once and for all is to pull out the mirror image by its roots , pull it to the real world and burn it," Nina looked serious, "but the scale of the mirror image is too large, so he needs a big enough 'fire field'..."

"Okay, okay, I got it, I got it, you set fire really well, right? I'll definitely mention this matter to Mr. Duncan later," Shirley waved her hands again and again, then raised her head with some doubts, "But then again... what is Mr. Duncan doing now? Isn't the matter settled? When will he come back?"

Hearing this, Nina raised her head, looked at the huge figure on the sea outside the city, thought for a while and said, "Then I'll go up and ask?"

"Go, go," Shirley waved her hand quickly, "Don't forget to tell Mr. Duncan when you go up, just say that our homework was eaten by the deep hound..."

Before she finished speaking, Nina had already turned into a bright arc of flame in mid-air, and then rushed straight to the shadow outside the city.

…

At a height that could overlook the entire frosty sea, Duncan gazed through the gap between the clouds, quietly observing the sea and the city below.

The sea is boundless and extends far away. The city-state is like a disc floating on the sea, bathed in the light of the sky alone. At the end of the sea and the sky, there is a majestic fog that can be vaguely seen. The fog is like a wall. , presenting a faintly visible arc, encircling the entire frontier of civilization.

This is an unprecedented perspective - he has never observed the world from this position, presumably no one in this world has ever done anything similar.

He can feel that the "flame" supporting his current posture is gradually extinguishing on the sea surface and in the city-state. This state of standing in the sky cannot be maintained for a long time, but before the accumulated energy is exhausted, he still wants to Take a second look.

At this moment, a cluster of small flames bursting out from the clouds suddenly entered Duncan's field of vision.

The cluster of small flames jumped among the clouds, like a light swallow, and when the flames approached him, he heard Nina's voice coming into his ears: "Uncle Duncan! What are you doing? ?”

"I'm observing the world," Duncan smiled, and whispered to the cluster of "flames", and raised his finger again, letting the latter jump on his fingertips, "Why did you come up?"

"Shirley asked me to come up, she was curious about what you were doing," Nina said cheerfully, the flames were shaking at Duncan's fingertips—even though her current posture had swelled into a cluster of flames bigger than the clock tower , is still very small in Duncan's eyes, "You say you are observing the world? What's so interesting?"

Duncan smiled and raised his chin: "Look, below."

The cluster of flames swayed to the side.

"...wow."

"It's amazing, isn't it," Duncan said softly, "No one has ever overlooked the boundless sea and the city-states on the sea from this height—and the fog in the distance, so huge, even from my current perspective , I feel suffocated when I see it.”

Nina thought about it seriously: "...But if it is a normal-sized human being, it will not feel it when it is at the border of the eternal veil, because it can't see everything."

Duncan was stunned for a moment, then suddenly laughed.

"Yes, what you said is right. When ordinary people really come to the fog wall, they will not realize the feeling of oppression and suffocation, because they can't see the whole thing... We are at a high place, what we see Too many."

"Uncle Duncan, why do I feel... Your words seem to have another meaning?"

But Duncan didn't respond to Nina's question, he just looked into the distance quietly, and after a while he suddenly said: "Are you curious, what is... on the other side of that fog?"

"...The book says that the fog is endless, there is no opposite, and there is only fog outside."

Duncan looked at his fingertips: "This is what the book said, what about your own thoughts?"

"...I think the book is just the speculation of scholars. Mr. Morris has said that all things related to the world outside the civilized world are speculations of scholars-the so-called research is to verify along the lines of conjectures. process," Nina happily said of her thoughts, "there may be another world behind that fog!"

Then she paused, as if she suddenly realized: "Ah! Uncle Duncan, are you planning to walk through that thick fog? Are you really going to try? This is very close to the northern border, and you are so Gao, maybe it's true..."

"Unfortunately, it's not feasible," Duncan shook his head lightly, interrupting the excited Nina, "I can't maintain this state for a long time, let alone leave this sea area in this state—ceremonial methods have limits , what we can do now is to watch here."

Nina seemed a little depressed for a moment, and after a while, she tentatively said, "Then... can I go over and have a look? I can fly in the sky now~"

"But you can only fly for a short while, you know your limit very well," Duncan shook his head again, "and I don't recommend you to do this, we know too little about that thick fog, adventurous spirit It's not the same as acting recklessly."

Nina was silent for a while, and then stretched her voice: "Oh—then we really can only have a look here."

"The first step in setting off is to look into the distance," Duncan's lips curled up. He felt that the flames supporting him began to fade rapidly. Before the projection, he was still smiling, "And what we want to see is not just the distance, Nina, have you noticed the appearance of the city-state? Such a regular disk, so neat that it doesn't look like a natural product, and the sea below , deep and vast, we still don't know what's on the bottom of the sea...

"The cultists firmly believe that this world will eventually be destroyed ~IndoMTL.com~ and they can create a new world. The Holy See firmly believes that following the guidance of the four gods is the only way to maintain the eternity of the world, but there are too many unknown things in this world There are too many...Whether it is the cultists, the Orthodox Church, or the scholars of various city-states, everyone's views on the boundless sea are one-sided."

Between the sea and the sky, the huge body of the giant is quietly dissipating, and the mirror-like sea gradually resumes its undulations.

A flame fell from the clouds towards the city-state.

The conversation between Duncan and Nina is still going on:

"Okay, Nina, let's go back, we still have a lot to do."

"Oh... that's right! Uncle Duncan! I forgot to tell you, Shirley and I's homework was eaten by the deep hound!"

"It's okay, Morris and I will prepare new ones for you."

(End of this chapter)