All known history of this world began with the "Great Annihilation" in ancient times!
If the "Great Annihilation" is regarded as a wall, then this invisible wall is obviously not a simple "event node" but in fact "cuts" the time flow of the entire history!
Everything before the Great Annihilation was unknown. Archaeologists have exhausted all their wisdom and efforts, but they have been unable to restore any information before that time point. There is not even any historical relic in the world that can point to the time before the Great Annihilation - Even if it’s a stone with words engraved on it!
This "black wall" of despair has stood in the eyes of scholars for 10,000 years, and now Duncan Boat, who has returned from the subspace, has given this wall an appropriate name!
As the leader of the Academy of Truth and the Pope of the God of Wisdom, Luen can understand the existence of that black wall and the subtlety of the term "horizontal limit" more deeply than anyone else!
"Our world seems to have been created out of thin air at a certain moment after the Great Annihilation. The fragmented and contradictory history is just an ironclad proof of the existence of that horizon limit."
In front of his three old friends, Lu En said with emotion: "Since the rise of city-states, and even since the Dark Ages, countless scholars have tried to trace back to the past, trying to find the source before the Great Annihilation. It's like drilling deep into the dark earth, only to be blocked by that invisible barrier in the end!
"One second, even the second before the outbreak of the Great Annihilation, is blank and unverifiable, even if it is the three nights mentioned in the book of blasphemy obtained by the Annihilation cultist Duncan Shipchong. It is only describing the history from the Great Annihilation to the establishment of the Ancient Kingdom of Crete - the information before the horizon limit is still blank!"
"It is dangerous to use the heresies of cultists as reference material!"
Death Pope Banst couldn’t help but remind him!
Rune shook his head slightly: "The danger of heresy lies in its demagoguery and the motivation to lead people to do evil. Apart from these effects, 'Three Nights' itself is still a subject worthy of study. We have a clear understanding of the collapse of the ancient kingdom of Crete." There were many achievements in the Dark Ages that followed, which were based on the research on the Sun Sect and the Annihilation Sect!"
All in all, what you want to say is that you cannot explain what is going on with Leviathan under the city-state.
And those Leviathan beasts carrying the church ark can’t give us the answer.
Frame broke the silence, "Because this is an event that occurred before the Great Annihilation, all information pointing to it is unknowable, unfathomable, and unverifiable!"
Rune said nothing, acquiescing to Frame's words!
Helena, after thinking for a moment, suddenly said: "But you can at least tell us where the Academy of Truth found the four Leviathans - at least the giant beasts carrying the four church arks were indeed discovered and resurrected by you. Is not it?"
They came from the border, after a huge border collapse'!
"Eastern seas?" Banst frowned subconsciously!
"Yes, it's near the old site of Wesselan's Thirteen Islands," Rune nodded.
"Since the terrible subspace disaster a century ago, the Eastern Eternal Veil has always been a fragile node. The dense fog there often collapses inward or temporary abnormal areas appear on the sea. You should also know this. !
"
Helena and Frame nodded silently, and Bancet had a thoughtful look on his face, but they did not interrupt Rune's words, but motioned for the other to continue!
"When the Academy of Truth was responsible for patrolling the border, one of our ships encountered something strange there," Lu En continued while sorting out his memories. "The specific situation is no longer available, because the crew of that ship were involved in the incident. Severe cognitive confusion and memory blanks occurred, and it was impossible to accurately describe the experience during the incident afterwards, but there was a hastily written note on the ship that recorded part of the situation at that time!"
The sea suddenly sunk inwards, like a weird 'bowl' with smooth and calm edges, and the water seemed to have solidified. However, the ship did not sink with the sunken sea, but floated above the sunken sea!
The ship lost power, could not move forward or retreat, and was suspended hundreds of meters above the sea in a terrifying way!
A huge thing emerged from the sunken sea area, like some kind of creature!
"The above is the record written hastily by a crew member on that ship before cognitive confusion and memory damage!
"
Later, another of our fleets found the missing patrol boat. It was slowly drifting out of the mist. It had lost all power, its steam core was cold, and everyone on board was sleeping. And on that ship Deep in the mist that gradually dissipated behind them, four behemoths appeared in the sight of the search and rescue personnel!
"That is the Leviathan we found on the sea - the beast moon recorded in the original book of storms that has long since disappeared in the Chang River of history, the apostle of the Storm Goddess!
"
You will know what happened next. The Academy of Truth found a way to resurrect those legendary beasts, and built a huge church ark on them and handed them over to the Four Gods Church for use!
Rune's narration ended, Frame and Banster were still thinking, but Helena gradually frowned: "Are those Leviathans one of the border relics? No wonder you have been avoiding talking about these details before. It turns out that It’s related to the border collapse!”
"Awareness of border collapse will increase the probability that border collapse will occur within the civilized world. The closer the time, the higher the probability. This was a century ago, when Duncan Abnomar was still a great explorer. The rules summarized.”
Rune nodded.
"But now that it has been decades since the Academy of Truth discovered Leviathan and the border collapse incident, it is no longer so dangerous to mention these things again!"
"I have some doubts!"
Frame suddenly spoke at this time, "Although the size of the Church Ark is large, it is obviously not on the same level as the city-state. If the biological structures at the bottom of the city-state are really Leviathan, then their size is sufficient. It is several times the size of Leviathan, the church’s ark. Are these really the same species?”
"Who knows?"
Rune spread his hands, maybe the four Leviathans we found at the border are just some kind of 'small individuals' or 'juveniles'?
"Theoretically, this shouldn't be the case," Helena shook her head. "I often communicate with Leviathan of the Church Ark, although the previous events had the appearance of being rebellious."
"Then the problem lies with those biological organizations at the bottom of the city-state. Perhaps they are extremely large-scale mutated individuals.
also possible! "
"It has something to do with the influence of those blueprints in the deep sea!" Lu En guessed as he said: "After all, if the information from the Lost Home is good, then all the city-states on the boundless sea can actually be counted as creations of the ancient gods. Even the biological structures at the bottom of the city-state are likely to be the result of secondary processing by Holy Lord Netherworld!
At this point, Rune suddenly stopped, then shook his head somewhat self-deprecatingly, brushed his eyes with his hands, and made a gesture of praying to Lachem, the God of Wisdom: "May the Lord forgive me for talking about these heretical remarks. How weird!”
"May the Lord forgive you"
Helena and Frame also made gestures of prayer, confessing to the Storm Goddess and the Eternal Fire behind them!
As the leaders of the church, they can view these topics that are on the verge of taboo and even heresy from a higher perspective. They can analyze the information from heretics with a calmer attitude and a more practical perspective, but as The spokesmen of the Four Gods, they also abide by the injunctions of their respective sects and are bound by their beliefs. When talking about certain dangerous topics, the disobedience and conflict in their hearts are inevitable after all!
Only the spokesperson of the God of Death, the tall, thin and old-looking Banster, has never spoken, as if he has been deep in thought since just now!
"Banster"
Rune's attention was focused on the silent spokesman of death. "You seemed absent-minded from the beginning!"
"I'm thinking about a question, Rune." Banster finally raised his head, his sunken eye sockets as dark as night, "The Thirteen Islands of Visselan - the place where Leviathan was discovered was in the Thirteen Islands of Visselan incident. Being near the sea, don’t you think this deserves attention?”
Luen nodded calmly, obviously he had expected that Bancet's attention would fall on this detail!
"I know what you want to say - Homeless!"
The elf old man said slowly, "A hundred years ago, the Lost Home opened a door to the subspace on the Thirteen Islands of Wetherland, dragging all the islands and residents into the depths of the terrifying world. This incident also caused the space-time structure of the entire sea area to be extremely fragile, and anomalies occurred frequently!
From this point of view, there is a certain causal connection between the incident that happened to the patrol ship of the Institute of Truth and the incident on the Thirteen Islands of Wesselan several decades ago!"
Having said this, he suddenly paused, then raised his head and looked at Banster seriously, and continued: "But we cannot simply think that the Homeless Ship sent the Leviathan beast into the real world. Lack of evidence, not enough yet
Theoretical support!”
"But it is indeed possible that the four Leviathans entered our real world due to some kind of continued influence from the Thirteen Islands of Veseland. The Rune matter was actually risky from the beginning!"
"You don't want the Ark of your church?"
"want!"
