Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 140

A century ago, the Brilliant Star, like the Seafog, was a escort ship for the Lost Home.

However, few people know what happened to these two legendary warships after they broke up with the Lost Homeland, and how they became what they are now step by step.

The Seamist under the command of “Steel Vice Admiral” Tirian once became the main warship of the Frost City-state after several twists and turns. People called it the “unsinkable ship” and “breathing wreck”. It has been severely damaged many times during the battle, but it seems that there is an immortal soul dominating it, making it struggle again and again from the fate of being almost doomed to sink, and after repeated transformations that almost violate the principle of shipbuilding Gradually turned into a steel behemoth.

Legend has it that the ship would even feed directly on steel and seabed mineral deposits, growing turrets and armor plates on itself bit by bit during unnoticed night voyages.

As for the Bright Star inherited by the “Sea Witch” Lucrezia, it has a thicker veil of mystery because it is less close to the civilized world-in fact, except for a small number of members of the Explorers’ Association and those who often patrol the border Outside of the Holy See fleet, ordinary captains on the Boundless Sea had no chance to see the appearance of this ship with their own eyes.

And those who were lucky enough to see the Brilliant Star described the ship like this:

“It obviously doesn’t belong to our real world anymore, the ship actually sank at least once, and lost half of its structure in the Infinity Sea, Half of its hull is like a ghost, showing the appearance of a century ago, and the other half of its hull is distorted into strange and weird postures under the power of the witch, and its bow is covered with cursed things from the deep sea , full of clanking machines and magical equipment, the ship’s crew long dead, soulless clockwork men and cursed rag dolls have replaced normal seafarers running around the decks.

” , that ship was a sailing corpse—or rather, a half-deformed corpse dragging with it half its soul. Lucrezia

‘s eyes slowly swept across her own ship, and she nodded slightly in satisfaction.

The Bright Star is in good shape, and her crew are happy too.

She knew what the world had said of her ship–and what the world had said of her brother’s Seamist, and she knew that many captains feared their brother and sister second only to their father who had returned from the Warp.

But she didn’t care about that, she dealt with only a few human beings who either had a lot of guts, or a lot of learning, or at least had some real adventures, and those people could It is enough to communicate with her.

She and her brother are still regarded as members of the real world, and are regarded as “on the side of mankind”. Even if many people think that the Seafog and the Bright Star are cursed, the above perception will not change .

In the final analysis, there are too many cursed things in this world. Almost every city-state is accompanied by countless abnormalities and visions. Even modern human civilization is described as “cursed” Yes—in this damned world, there might be room for two monster ships.

Lucrezia slowly walked off her “stage” that was blooming like a mechanical flower, and walked to the bow deck. Two clockwork puppets in funny masks made clinking sounds and walked past her. A big doll made of velvet, silk and ribbon ran over from the side, and made a shrill voice in front of her: “Mistress! Mistress! Good morning! Good morning!” “It’s almost noon.

” Lucrezia said casually, she passed the doll and stood at the bow of the ship looking into the distance.

She saw an incomparably majestic wall of gray-white fog, standing on the distant sea like a giant curtain at the edge of the world, connecting the sky and the sea, presenting an extremely majestic and magnificent posture.

That is “frontier”.

That majestic wall of fog has many names – the border of the world, the majestic fog, the fog barrier, and its most official name should be “Eternal Curtain”.

But Lucrezia prefers to call it simply “frontier”.

That’s what my father called it back then.

Under normal circumstances, this eternal curtain is like a circular barrier, covering all known sea areas, and slightly undulating within a relatively fixed range, it will not shrink or expand, it is just a fixed natural phenomenon.

But on rare occasions, a part of its barrier will suddenly “appear” inside the territory of civilization, and cause terrible disasters in the process of collapsing inward. This fog wall that suddenly appears and collapses in the real dimension will put nearby entities Matter is dragged into the depths of the world, and even opens the door to the subspace—this kind of terrible disaster is called “frontier collapse”.

For the captains who often sail on the boundless sea, the collapse of the frontier is a more terrifying thing than storms, turbulence and mass hysteria.

The only good news is that such collapses don’t happen very often.

Lucrezia spends most of her time in the border area. She observes and studies the border. She also tried to sum up the operation law of the thick fog, trying to find out the reason for its sudden inward collapse——after a hundred Years ago, her father did the same.

But to this day, no one has been able to unravel the secret of this curtain.

At that time, what did my father discover, or what did he “hear” that he suddenly decided to go through the thick fog to find the zeroth anomaly?

Lucrezia withdrew her gaze towards the border.

In the Borderlands, do not stare at the Veil of Eternity for a long time. Although there is no clear evidence that the thick fog has the characteristics of devouring the mind and affecting thinking, on the vast sea, especially in places far away from civilized city-states, watch any Goals are inherently risky.

God knows what is here will spread with the “gaze”.

A melodious siren sound broke the calm of the border waters.

Lucrezia followed the prestige, and saw some small silhouettes suddenly appeared on the edge of the thick fog wall, and those silhouettes slowly approached, finally showing the outline of the ship.

Those were three ships, the most cutting-edge steel warships, driven by a surging and powerful steam core, they were heading towards the location of the Bright Star, but this was just a chance encounter.

The other party was the first to blow the whistle, which was to say hello—in this borderland, no matter who you met, as long as the other party was not an evil god of the subspace, it was something to be happy about.

“Mistress,” Luni said as she walked over, a dull voice came from the inside of the clockwork maid, “it’s the patrol formation of the Holy See… visually confirm, the Church of the Firebringers.” “…there are only Firebringers and

Storm Cultists We’re going to be so close to the Veil of Eternity on patrol,” Lucrezia sighed softly, “They’re all a bunch of desperate guys.”

“Want to respond?” Luni asked.

“…honk your whistle to them,” Lucrezia said softly, “to our continuing civilization.”

…

there were no customers in the antique shop today, except for a pair of unremarkable ornaments that were sold in the morning , no one stepped into the store again.

Nina was sitting by the counter holding a textbook on mechanics, concentrating on studying the delicate and complicated mechanical structures on it. From time to time, she picked up the draft pad next to her and sketched in the blank space. Duncan sat at the counter Inside, while flipping through Nina’s history textbook curiously, he made some records in his notebook.

Only Shirley had nothing to do. She wanted to go home, but she didn’t dare to leave. She wanted to talk to Nina, but she couldn’t understand what she was studying. Finally,

she couldn’t help mumbling

: “Is reading really so interesting?” Shirley took a look: “If you are really bored, you can find a book to read… I have a brief history of the city-state era here, do you want to read it?” Shirley

glanced at the few books Duncan had in hand, and opened Opened his mouth, with an embarrassed look on his face: “I…I don’t know how to read…”

Duncan suddenly stopped reading the book, and Nina beside him raised her head in surprise.

“Why are you so surprised?” Seeing the situation, Shirley widened her eyes as if she had been hurt, “I…I said that I sneaked into the school, and I…I never went to school. Is it strange, I was raised by a dog…”

Duncan was indeed a little surprised, but after seeing Shirley’s reaction, he was more emotional: “You don’t know how to read, but you can sneak into the school calmly, I really don’t know whether I should say you are overconfident, or believe in Agou’s unreliable cognitive interference ability.”

“Agou’s cognitive interference ability is very reliable!” Shirley immediately argued, “It’s just …It’s just…”

The girl’s face flushed slightly, and she didn’t seem to dare to say the following words, but Duncan guessed what the other party wanted to say, and he showed a smile: “You already dare to argue in front of me—look, It’s nothing to be afraid of, is it?”

“That’s right, my uncle is so kind,” Nina, a silly girl who didn’t understand anything, also said in a daze, “Although he was very irritable for a while, he’s not so angry now. Is everything all right!”

“I…” Xue Li opened her mouth, but suddenly she didn’t know how to communicate with the “uncles and nephews” in front of her, and held back for a long time without uttering a second word.

Duncan smiled and shook his head when he saw this, but just when he was about to say something more, a slightly familiar breath suddenly appeared in his perception!

Duncan was slightly taken aback, and in the next second, he could tell who the breath came from—

Fan Na! The young Inquisitor is approaching the antique shop… and fast!

(end of this chapter)