Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 800

[Chapter 782: Life in the Hourglass]

Frankly speaking, for those brief seconds, Duncan even had a ridiculous and disturbing thought – was he late?

Just because he was a little slow when starting, or was delayed for a moment on the road, he was already dying. The Storm Goddess, whose state had been “delayed” for ten thousand years, had just not waited for him to enter the door, and truly and completely died here? Her will had dissipated?

But this somewhat absurd idea quickly dissipated from Duncan’s mind – He confirmed that until the Homeless Ship docked next to the island, Vanna had also “read” the thoughts of the storm goddess Gemona, which showed that at least the latter was still in some kind of “running” state at that time… ..It

can’t be such a coincidence, can it?

Duncan looked up at Vanna with a subtle expression, but saw that Vanna also turned to look at him. The two people’s eyes briefly touched, and then immediately turned away strangely.

…..Don’t think too much about it yet, go down and take a look at the situation. “Duncan pondered for two or three seconds and took the lead to step forward, followed by the others.

They stepped into this circular “hall” that was so wide that it was suspected that it violated the rules of the architectural structure, and stepped onto the The circular stairs sinking downward layer by layer, as if walking towards a vortex, heading towards the pool at the end of the stairs. The huge and pale tentacles of “Queen Leviathan” lie nearby, with smaller tentacles extending out of the tentacles. The branches were like roots that had merged with the black “stones” that made up the building, and were lying between the stairs.

Duncan suddenly had a feeling that this huge palace, and even this building, was carrying a lot of energy .

The black islands in the palace are like a huge, man-made “shell”, and the ancient sea beast that has been endowed with “divine nature” is the flesh and blood in the shell. When this giant beast dies, its flesh and blood withers and shrinks, leaving behind There were many “chambers”

, corridors, rooms, and halls.

They walked in the “shell” of the giant beast, stepping on the cavities left by the withered flesh and blood, and gradually came to the stopped beating heart of the giant beast. In front.

The green fire spread on the steps, dispersing the surrounding darkness. Duncan came to the location where the circular pool and the steps connected, and noticed that there was actually a curved stone platform slightly higher than the surrounding one. , a group of pale tissue about the size of the church roof on the block poked out of the puddle and lay lifelessly on the platform, and next to it, on the edge of the platform…

there were debris like tables, chairs and altars. And… Human skeletons?!

Lucdoncia was the first to notice those skeletons. She was stunned for a moment, and came to the stone platform in a few steps. While observing carefully, she frowned and said slowly: “No. Standard human or elf bones, but structurally similar… at least some kind of humanoid. “

Duncan also walked over, frowning and looking at the situation on the platform.

Those skeletons were too small compared to the body of Queen Leviathan, and they were scattered in a corner, so that no one noticed it when they first entered the hall. “Who could

this

be… left behind?” Nina was a little nervous and fearful. She subconsciously hid behind Duncan, “The explorer who arrived before us? The Sea Song?”

“No, Miss Lucdoncia just said that these bones are not standard human or elf bones – I don’t think they are Sen’jin. The Sen’jin’s sternum is a whole bone plate,” Abnormal 077 immediately Breaking the silence, “And I still remember…the sailors of the Sea Song finally melted into the fog and foam near the island, thus gaining ‘peace’. They could not leave any remains on the temple.” “

Duncan didn’t speak, but looked solemnly at the other things scattered around the bones

– some fragments of armor or clothing, some remnants of weapons and sacrificial utensils, and the small altar that had collapsed.

Next to him Vanna suddenly noticed something and broke the silence softly: “These clothes… are very similar to what I saw in the vision, those who once made pilgrimages on this island…

” Pilgrimage on this island People?” Duncan said with some surprise in his tone, “The generation before the Great Annihilation?!” What

Vanna saw in the vision was undoubtedly the scene when the Storm Goddess Gemona was still the “Queen Leviathan”. It was the scene before the Great Annihilation. Before it happened, the records left by a civilization that had developed symbiotically with Leviathan were like the elven civilization before the fall of Silantis, or the era in Tarijin’s memory… the “matter” of that time “Can it survive to this day?

Duncan looked at the relics scattered around the bones with a hint of surprise. Outside the palace, everything in the old era had long turned into that weird black shriveled substance, or as the sailor described In that way, it becomes fog and foam in the sea, taking on forms that humans cannot recognize.

Why can these bones and relics be preserved?

At this moment, Alice’s voice suddenly came to mind, interrupting Duncan’s thinking: “Captain, look! What is this?”

Duncan immediately came to the doll and followed it. In the direction of the latter’s finger, he saw an object covered with dust and broken pieces of cloth in the corner of the altar.

It was a strange, delicate and ancient hourglass.

After a slight hesitation, Duncan reached out and picked up the hourglass. Blow away the dust on it.

The complex symbols and words on the surface of the hourglass are clearly visible.

“An hourglass?” Moss looked at the thing in the captain’s hand in surprise. The lens group extending from the eye socket expanded and adjusted, and then he seemed to notice. There was some kind of violation, “Strange…

Vanna subconsciously said: “What’s strange?”

Moss thought for a while: …The style feels different from the overall style of this temple, especially the words on the hourglass… There are also many runes on the outer wall of the temple, but they are obviously not the same system as those on the hourglass. This thing is a bit similar…

Listening to the analysis of the old scholar, Duncan was thoughtful, and then he suddenly noticed something. Things:

The overall outline of the hourglass looks like two inverted triangles when viewed from the side. The shape formed by the decorative outer frame and the inner hourglass body seems to be… the door of Tok.

…..Like some of the sacred artifacts of the Church of Death!” Moss said quickly.

The Church of Death. Saint… A creation of Bartok, the God of Death?

Duncan’s expression condensed, and then he vaguely guessed When he reached something, he thought about the preserved bones and relics in this palace, and an idea gradually came to his mind.

After a moment of reflection, he turned around and stared at the lifeless remains of the giant beast by the pool, and then lightly.

He

gently turned the hourglass in his hand.

The pale golden sofa in the hourglass made a soft rustle that could not be detected by human ears. Quicksand fell from the container like mist, flowing between the two inverted “Death Doors”.

For a second, the whole world quieted down, as if there was some kind of force that separated the world into two parts: life and death. Everything in Duncan’s field of vision turned into the black and white gray tones of the spiritual world, and layers of layers of smoke filled the boundaries of everything. There were stacks of phantoms that were constantly shaking, and in the phantom, everyone’s figures disappeared, leaving only himself holding the hourglass next to the stone platform, and…the remains that were rapidly reorganizing and growing flesh and blood

. Turned into living people – two tall men wearing armor, with serious faces, who looked silent, and a young woman wearing a white robe, looking at him with a smile.

Duncan looked at the three in surprise .

He saw the “reversal of life and death” figure in front of him, but before he spoke, the woman in white robe shook her head at him and quietly retreated to the side.

At the edge of the pool, the huge pale body like a church roof swayed slightly, and then its surface shimmered like water, and a gentle voice came into Duncan’s mind –

“We finally meet, Fire Usurper.”

“Gemona?” Duncan reacted immediately and glanced at the hourglass in his hand in surprise… I didn’t expect it to actually work. I just gave it a try. “

Yes, thank you for your convenience – try it. In the time flow in the temple, I am in a state of complete death, and the hourglass preserves a short life for me to talk to you if necessary.” …Bartók once said when he was building the hourglass, you will definitely turn it over.

Listening to the gentle voice that sounded in his mind, Duncan suddenly raised his eyebrows in surprise: “Wait,…you know I will definitely come, – I will definitely flip this hourglass, and I will definitely be here with you.

“

Conversation…Is everything destined?”

“The day this shelter was born, its time was already closed. The Fire Usurper… In our eyes, the time in this narrow snail’s nest is not a line. The river is not a line, it is an unobstructed plane – on this unfolding ‘volume of time’, all things that may happen have ended…

The gentle voice paused for a few seconds , and then continued softly:

“As for you, the Fire Usurper, your arrival is the only event at the end of this scroll of time that can be sure to happen, but cannot be sure how it will end.”

“I am not sure about the issue of time flow. I have learned a lot…I can imagine what you are talking about, but it is difficult to connect it to reality at the first time,” Duncan said, raising his head and looking around this place, the flow of time in the temple… No wonder, after we stepped into this temple, neither I nor Fanna could sense your ‘activities’ anymore, and after seeing those on the platform…”

He said this subconsciously I glanced at the figures standing aside, and then quickly looked away.

“After seeing those bones, I vaguely guessed that there seemed to be some kind of “difference” between the inside and outside of this temple. As soon as we stepped in, It seems that we have entered a unique ‘selection branch’. Why is this?”

“In order to delay the ‘corruption’ of the external barrier,” Gemona said softly, “We are decaying, Fire Usurper, we must find a way to put ourselves “Shut down” the rot, otherwise the world will be completely eroded by the “corrosion” we unleash before the lifespan of the shelter reaches its limit.