This battle that lasted for hundreds of years finally came to an end when the last human was transformed into a Naga—it ended in a way that was beyond the expectations of every human being, and also beyond the expectations of the sirens.
In the final analysis, the strange phenomenon of "Naga" is an unexplainable accident for everyone. Human beings can't understand its principle, and the same is true for sea monsters.
In the deep sea, a deep-water shuttle with a streamlined shell was quietly skimming the seabed. Petya stood by the porthole of the shuttle, looking at the dark and deep water outside and the rugged and rough seabed. During this period, several temporarily built settlements could be seen. The Naga who had just completed their transformation were resting on this peaceful seabed, and there were sea monsters taking care of their "new friends" everywhere in the settlements.
"I'm afraid we will spend a long time slowly studying the 'Naga'," the Siren Queen said softly, "This is really an incredible phenomenon... A race, a race that has no biological relationship with the Siren, has produced Such a huge change, and this change is obviously related to us... This world is full of secrets, Rosalia."
Rosalia, the maid of the deep sea, floated beside Petiya, and nodded slightly when she heard the words: "As you said, Your Majesty the Queen."
Petya hummed lightly, and asked casually, "Have the witches and deep-water technicians come to any conclusions?"
"There is no substantive progress for the time being, but after asking many nagas who have recovered their sobriety and consulting human books about religion, the witches have some guesses—they think this change may be related to the long-standing behavior of these humans who call themselves the Sons of the Storm. spiritual beliefs'."
"Oh? Tell me more specifically."
"These 'sons of the storm' believe in a god called the Lord of Storms, obviously our 'squid'. According to information shared by our Cecil ally, human beliefs create power connections that point to specific However, the god of the Son of the Storm has fallen many years ago, and our sea monster... has very likely occupied the original position of this god, so for a long time, what the storm believers of this era believe in... I'm afraid it's all us, or strictly speaking, it's the Siren as a whole."
"Eva..." Petya whispered thoughtfully, slowly crossing her hands on her chest, "this is amazing. Judging by the time, we started excavating the big land many seasons before civilization. The Squid, that is, the Sons of the Storm linked their beliefs to our race from the very beginning of their religion... yet we actually did nothing and didn't even know about it."
"This is also one of the subjects that the witches are studying," Rosalia, the maid of the deep sea, nodded, "Human's 'belief' seems to be something that operates automatically, and it starts from awe of natural phenomena or specific natural things. Strictly speaking, the original storm belief should not point to any gods, but to the awe of the ocean itself. In this case, according to the information shared by Cecil's allies, human beings should start from the faith A new 'Storm God' was created in the middle of the world, but this process was interrupted by us accidentally - our excavation behavior imprisoned an ancient god in a state of life and death, and occupied its position, plus We have substantial control over large swaths of the ocean, so human beliefs began to point to the 'substantial controllers of the ocean', and this process ... happened naturally."
"Will this 'pointing' have any effect on the Siren?"
"It's not certain yet, the 'religious concept' of human beings is something we don't understand very well," Rosalia shook her head, "But judging from the current situation, this kind of 'pointing' has been going on for a long time. For many years, and even in the previous few seasons of civilization, there may have been people on land who feared the sea and pointed their beliefs at sea monsters, but they have not had any impact on us, so this 'pointing' is mostly harmless."
"It's harmless to us...but it has affected them unilaterally," Perthia looked away from the temporary living area of the Naga, and sighed in his tone, "It seems that it is a long-term belief in sea monsters. It has affected these human beings and transformed them into life forms similar to sea monsters... It is an incredible change that the power of the so-called 'faith' can actually affect matter."
Rosalia responded: "The witches are studying this change—especially the opportunity for this change. The beliefs of these children of the storm have lasted for thousands of years, but their changes have only recently begun suddenly, and there is no gradual process in the middle. This is very puzzling. Lady Hathaway currently has a conjecture. She believes that this is the result of the dual effects of the recent actions of the Son of the Storm and the recent changes in the Kraken society—
"Since last year, the Sons of the Storm's actions have become more aggressive. They have established a large number of strongholds in the 'Border', which caused them to get too close to the 'Big Squid' and too close to the Kraken, which strengthened the relationship between them and us' connection'; on the other hand, we preyed on the 'god of nature' created by humans in the last 'hunt', and the god of nature seems to have biological influence-this influence may be to lure 'na Jia' phenomenon."
Listening to the report from the Maid of the Deep Sea, Petiya, the Siren Queen, fell silent for a while, thinking in silence.
After thinking for a while, the ruler of the deep sea raised his head and sighed softly: "You can't eat indiscriminately from now on... This world is really dangerous."
The maid Rosalia also nodded in agreement: "...It's better to go to my hometown, you can pick up and eat everything on the seabed."
"So, speaking of the research work of the witches—our human allies mentioned a mysterious signal they captured during the last contact. Has Hathaway made any progress on this?"
"The tidal master Tire submitted the characteristics of the signal when he reported the situation. After the comparison of the deep water technicians, it can be confirmed that the signal was not released by Antaveen, nor is it any of our communication frequency bands. Rosalia immediately replied, "Master Hathaway is very interested in it. She thinks that the transmission method of the signal and the technology used by humans in the magic net communication are very helpful to us—for many years, Due to our inability to sense and understand the magical environment of this world, we have never been able to repair Antaveen's main antenna array, but now there may be hope."
"Oh?" Perthia raised her eyebrows slightly, "This is really good news."
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On the edge of the continent of Io under the sun, the majestic steel starship crawled on the coastline like a mountain, and the waves gently undulated around the spaceship, licking the shell and deck of the immigrant ship.
At the end of the Antavien, on the platform where the antenna array is located, deep-water technicians are busy.
On the edge of the platform, Hathaway, a deep sea witch with long blue hair and many scales on her cheeks, withdrew her gaze from the beach in the distance.
The spaceship crashed on the planet at a tilt, causing everything on the ship to have an angle of about 30 degrees with the gravity of the planet itself. The Krakens were unable to move the giant ship that had lost power, but they could not Abandoning the ship's massive supplies and precious living space, after finally repairing some of the ship's functions, they first activated and reset the gravity generator of the Antaveen—by recalibrating the gravity, the Krakens Being able to stand comfortably on this tilted ship as if they were on the ground also gave them a wonderful feeling when they stood on the ship and looked out:
The whole world tilts.
"I think, we should set up an optical filter in all the viewing areas of Antaveen," the blue-haired witch Hathaway stretched out her hand, gesticulating between the sky and the earth, and said to the assistant beside her Said, "Let's 'right' this slanted landscape. It always looks dizzy now."
"...I think the main reason you feel dizzy is because you drank too much 'Deep Sea Special Drink'," the assistant slapped Hathaway's claws dangling in the air with his tail, "that's almost double our amount. "
"I need to stimulate my mind and maintain the ability to think at a high speed," Hathaway poked the tip of her tail at the nearby alloy ground, making a "do-duo" sound, "The recent research projects are so exciting, I don't even think about it for a moment." stop… "
The assistant took a look at this respectable deep-sea witch who had a lot of problems in her life, and shook her head helplessly: "'Stimulating the mind' is a human saying, master—where did we get our brains?"
Hathaway looked at the serious assistant and shook her head: "It's boring."
Then the deep sea witch who had experienced the "big crash" and was of the same age as the queen slid her long snake tail and came to the antenna array not far away.
This large-scale ancient device stands majestically. The streamlined outer shell is covered with a super-alloy frame, concealing its internal complex structure. Its end points to the high blue sky, and a set of extremely sensitive sensing arrays monitors all directions at any time. incoming signal.
It was once designed for interstellar super-light communication, and was used to contact several other colony ships that had escaped from the parent star.
However, today only Antaveen crashed on this planet alone. The compatriots who fled together in the past have long since disappeared in the depths of time and space turbulence. The remaining set of the most basic sensing devices can barely operate—not to mention receiving signals from space, even maintaining communication in the atmosphere requires various auxiliary enhancement methods.
Hathaway's line of sight followed the shell of the antenna array all the way up. At a height of about 100 meters, she saw that a part of the shell had been opened, and the deep-water technicians were busy there, making drastic changes to the ancient structure inside. , the shimmering rune devices are being installed into the original frame one by one, and there are many extra cables and drag chains extending from the "inspection port".
"Our human allies have generously shared a lot with us..." the deep sea witch said softly, "We thought that the technology on land was very backward, but it turns out that even on the backward land, the wisdom of the local people is worthwhile at... ”
The assistant's voice came from the side: "Master, do you think this kind of transformation is really useful? After all, we have used various methods to transform other things before..."
"A year ago, the Krakens were completely unable to understand and perceive what the 'magic power' of this world was. It was something outside of our world view, and even something that was not 'compatible' with our physiological structure—this is The result of a conflict of rules," Hathaway said in a low and serious voice, at this moment, she is already the deep sea witch who deserves the respect of all sea monsters, and her words made every sea monster around her unable to restrain their thoughts and approval. "Many years ago, I predicted that if the rules of this world and the rules of the home world deviate by one ten-thousandth, then we will be wiped out the moment we enter this time and space, but fortunately, we We survived without that extra ten-thousandth deviation, but the survival is incomplete.
"Our ability to perceive and think is limited to our own life form. In this world, we are like a flawed race who are born unable to understand addition and subtraction. We are born unable to perceive and understand part of the world's structure, so no matter what we No matter how hard we try, we won't be able to repair the spaceship, but we will be overthrown again and again by the demon tide of this world.
"We can't fix the antenna, not because of lack of wisdom and technology, but because we are 'blind' and 'deaf' in front of certain information.
"But that deficiency has now been filled.
"We can perceive magic power and understand what magic power is. Human runes are no longer a mess of symbols to us, and energy tremors in the air are no longer incomprehensible noises. On this basis In fact, every repair work we will do to the spaceship in the future will not be a random beating and trying like before.
"We have successfully restored a small part of the core fusion tower to normal operation, and now the energy supply rate of Antaveen has reached 36%. This is an inconspicuous figure, but it is enough to prove that we are indeed moving forward. Take a step.
"Sisters, what we're doing right now is worthwhile—let's start by fixing the main antenna."