All the known history of this world began with the "Great Annihilation" in ancient times!
If the "Great Annihilation" is regarded as a barrier, then this invisible barrier is obviously not a simple "event node" but actually "cuts" the entire historical time flow!
Everything before the Great Extinction is unknown. Archaeologists have exhausted all their wisdom and efforts, but they are 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 Extinction - not even a piece of stone with words engraved on it!
This "Black Wall" of despair has stood in the eyes of scholars for ten thousand years, and now the captain Duncan who returned from the warp has given this wall a fitting name!
As the leader of the Academy of Truth and the Pope of the God of Wisdom, Rune understood the existence of the black wall and the subtlety of the term "horizon limit" better than anyone else!
"Our world seems to have been created out of thin air at some point after the Great Annihilation. Its fragmented and contradictory history is only an ironclad proof of the existence of the 'horizon limit'."
In front of his three old friends, Rune said with emotion: "Since the rise of the city-state, or even since the Dark Ages, countless scholars have tried to trace back to the past, trying to find the source before the Great Annihilation. They are like drilling deep into the dark earth, but in the end they are all blocked by that invisible barrier!
"One second, even the one second before the Great Annihilation, is blank and unverifiable. Even the three long nights mentioned in the blasphemous book that Duncan got from the Annihilation Cult only describe the history from the Great Annihilation to the establishment of the Ancient Kingdom of Crete. The information before the limit of the horizon is still blank!"
"It is very dangerous to use the heresy of cultists as reference material!"
Death Pope Banster couldn't help but remind him!
Rune shook his head slightly: "The danger of heresy lies in its deception and motivation to lead people to do evil. Apart from these influences, the Three Long Nights itself is still a topic worth studying. We have made many achievements in the dark ages after the collapse of the ancient Kingdom of Crete, which are based on the research on the Sun Cult and the Annihilation Cult!"
In short, what you mean is that you can't explain what's going on with Leviathan under the city-state.
And the Leviathans that carry the church's ark cannot give us an answer.
Frame broke the silence, "Because this is an event that happened before the Great Annihilation, all the information pointing to it is unknowable, unmeasurable, and unprovable!"
Rune didn't say anything, which was considered as his tacit agreement with Frame's words!
After thinking for a moment, Helena suddenly said, "But you can at least tell us where the Academy of Truth found the four Leviathans. At least the beasts carrying the four church arks were indeed discovered and resurrected by you, right?"
They came from the border, after a massive border collapse!
"Eastern Sea?" Banster frowned subconsciously!
"Yes, it's near the old site of the Thirteen Islands of Veselan," Rune nodded.
"Since the terrible warp disaster a century ago, the Eastern Eternal Veil has always been a fragile node. The thick fog there often collapses inward or temporary anomalies appear on the sea. You should also know this!
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Helena and Frame nodded silently, while Banster looked thoughtful. However, they did not interrupt Rune, but motioned for him to continue.
"When I was patrolling the border at the Academy of Truth, one of our ships encountered something strange there," Rune continued as he sorted out his memories. "The specific circumstances are no longer known, because the crew of that ship suffered from severe cognitive confusion and memory loss during the incident, and were unable to accurately describe their experiences during the incident afterwards. However, there was a hastily written report on the ship that recorded part of the situation at the time!"
The sea suddenly sank inward, like a strange 'bowl' with smooth and calm edges. The water seemed to have solidified, but the ship did not fall with the sunken sea, but floated above the sunken sea!
The ship lost power, could neither move forward nor backward, and was suspended in the air hundreds of meters above the sea in a terrifying manner!
A huge creature emerged from the sunken sea, like some kind of creature!
"The above is the record hastily written by a crew member on that ship before his cognition became confused and his memory was damaged!
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Later, another fleet of ours found the missing patrol boat, which was slowly drifting out of a mist, with no power, a cold steam core, and everyone on board sleeping. In the depths of the gradually dissipating mist behind the boat, four huge monsters appeared in the sight of the search and rescue personnel!
"That is the Leviathan we found at sea - the giant beast Yue recorded in the Storm Original Book that has long disappeared in the river of history, the apostle of the Storm Goddess!
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You all know what happened next. The Academy of Truth found a way to revive those legendary beasts, and built a huge cathedral ark on them and gave it to the Church of the Four Gods for use!
Rune finished his story. Frame and Banster were still thinking, but Helena gradually frowned: "Those Leviathans are actually one of the border relics? No wonder you have been avoiding talking about these details before. It turns out that it is related to the collapse of the border!"
"The knowledge of border collapse will increase the probability of border collapse occurring within the civilized world. The closer the time, the higher the probability. This is a law summarized by Duncan Abnomer, a great explorer, a century ago."
Rune nodded.
"But now it has been several decades since the border collapse incident when the Academy of Truth discovered Leviathan. It is not so dangerous to bring up these things again!"
"I have some doubts!"
At this time, Frame suddenly spoke up, "Although the church ark is large in scale, it is obviously not on the same level as the city-state. If the biological structure at the bottom of the city-state is really a Leviathan, then their volume is several times the size of the church ark Leviathan. Are they really the same species?"
"Who knows?"
Rune spread his hands. Perhaps the four Leviathans we found at the border were just some kind of "small individuals" or "juveniles"
"Theoretically, it shouldn't be like this," Helena shook her head. "I often communicate with Leviathan of the Church Ark. Although the previous incident was not very specific,
"The problem lies with the biological tissues at the bottom of the city-state. Perhaps they are mutants of an exceptionally large scale.
also possible!"
"It has something to do with the influence of the blueprints in the deep sea!" Rune speculated, and said: "After all, if the information sent by the Lost Hometown is good, then all the city-states on the vast sea can actually be regarded as the creation of the ancient gods. Even the biological structures at the bottom of the city-states may also be the result of secondary processing by the Lord of the Deep!
At this point, Rune suddenly stopped, then shook his head in self-mockery, and brushed his hands across his eyes, making a gesture of praying to the god of wisdom, Lahem: "May God forgive me, it feels so strange to talk about these heretical remarks!"
“May God forgive me”
Helena and Frame also made prayer gestures, confessing to the Storm Goddess and the Everburning Flame behind them!
As the leaders of the church, they can look at these topics that are on the verge of taboos, or even heresy, from a higher perspective, and can analyze the intelligence from the heretics with a calmer attitude and a more practical perspective. However, as the spokespersons of the Four Gods, they also abide by the teachings of their respective sects and are bound by their beliefs. When discussing certain dangerous topics, the disharmony and resistance in their hearts are inevitable!
Only the representative of the God of Death, the tall, thin, and old-looking Banster, remained silent, as if he had been lost in thought since just now!
"Banster"
Rune focused his attention on the silent spokesperson for the god of death. "You seem absent-minded from the beginning!"
"I'm thinking about a question, Rune." Banster finally raised his head, his sunken eye sockets as deep as the night. "The Thirteen Islands of Veselan - the place where those Leviathans were found was near the sea area of the Thirteen Islands of Veselan incident. Don't you think this is worthy of attention?"
Rune nodded calmly. Apparently, he had expected that Banster's attention would be focused on this detail!
"I know what you want to say - Lost Homeland!"
The old elf said slowly, "One hundred years ago, the Lost Homeland opened a gate to the subspace on the Thirteen Islands of Veselan, dragging all the islands and residents into the depths of a terrifying world. This incident also caused the space-time structure of the entire sea area to become extremely fragile, and strange phenomena occurred frequently!
From this point of view, the incident that happened to the patrol boat of the Academy of Truth decades ago and the Thirteen Islands of Veseland incident have a certain causal relationship!"
At this point he paused, raised his head and looked at Banster seriously, and continued: "But we can't simply assume that it was the Lost Homeland that sent the Leviathan into the real world. There is not enough evidence to prove this.
Theoretical support!"
"But it is possible that the four Leviathans entered our real world due to some kind of follow-up influence from the Thirteen Islands of Veselan. The Rune incident was actually risky from the beginning!"
"You don't want the church ark anymore?"
"want!"
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