When everything returned to calm again, it took a long time.
Only then did some passengers dare to stick their heads out of the cabin and look outside... But they could not see anything, only the tranquility amidst the noise.
The almost ruined deck was brightly lit, and the embarrassed captain directed most of the injured but not seriously injured sailors to tidy up. The sound of packing and cleaning, accompanied by a few painful ouch from time to time, made this place
It seemed unexpectedly noisy.
However, above the sea, it was peaceful. There was no smoke, no body parts, and no remaining power of the road visible to the naked eye.
The sea, which was even darker under the light, looked like an abyss swallowing life.
——It looks like an earth-shattering battle took place here, but surprisingly, the backbone of the ship was not damaged.
"Everyone go back!"
The captain looked at the passengers who had emerged and advised in a rough voice: "The problem has been solved, the enemy has been eliminated - we are safe!"
"Is it a sea monster?"
someone asked.
"It's a 'Sea Bride'!"
The captain did not shy away, but said directly: "But the problem has been solved - the sea monster has been killed!"
"Sea Bride!"
"That's... Poseidon!"
Some passengers live in fishing areas and are well aware of sea monsters. They all feel uneasy, fearful, or lucky about this.
Only with their explanation could people really confirm that they had indeed hit a sea monster.
In some relatively backward coastal areas, people have no way to deal with sea monsters - for these ancient creatures that are older than many pillar gods and require a fifth-level transcendent to destroy them alone, most races
The only way is to feed with blood.
Based on a primitive religious belief, those villages often call sea monsters "sea gods". Because even extraordinary beings who are so powerful that they are inhuman will often die miserably if they confront them, so it is not enough to call them gods.
Pass.
And they will "appease" these sea gods by regularly sacrificing young children as blood feed. Miraculously, these "sea gods" can actually be peaceful for a period of time after eating - because they are originally here to eat souls, not
Relying on flesh and blood to survive, there are really not many real needs.
In the simple brains of the "Poseidons", as long as food appears in this place regularly, they will think that this is their food refresh point.
Then not only will they not attack here, they will even protect "their food refresh point" from the invasion of monsters and tides, forming a kind of "shelter" in a physical sense.
They often attack villages that have stopped worshiping, not out of "anger", but out of "doubt" - is there something wrong here? Check it out.
Hey, why did you get so wet?
Those brave villages that "continue to fight against the evil sea god and win" did not do so because the sea monster was afraid of them, but because they found that food was no longer refreshed here and they could not repair it themselves, so they gave up.
"Who saved us?"
Someone asked urgently: "Is it the conservator?"
Many of them do not know Professor Laxmi, but those who can go to the Theocracy, even if they are not extraordinary people, often have enough understanding of extraordinary people.
The dim yellow light that spread throughout the cabin and protected them came from the unique "preservation technique" of the extraordinary people on the dusk path.
In Star Antimony, where there is a relative lack of priests and a large number of legal necromancers, people have always had an attitude of respect and awe towards preservationists.
——Because they can become their own doctors and their own forensic doctors.
"not him!"
Other passengers denied: "We heard it - it was Miss Crawley! The conservator was completely unable to fight against the sea monster. He asked someone to call 'Miss Crawley' to save his life!"
Other passengers also came out one after another to express that this was indeed the case.
Because several pieces of the deck were shattered at that time, many passengers heard about it.
"Okay, go back quickly! That lady doesn't want anyone to disturb her, and she has to rest!"
Just before people continued to communicate, the ugly and fierce captain threatened people with a straight face: "We will continue to clean up the deck! Everyone get off!"
Then, the sailors drove the passengers out one after another.
Someone suddenly asked: "Who is Miss Crawley who saved us?"
Hearing this, the captain also fell into deep thought.
He thought for a while and gave a definite but somewhat vague answer: "That is a black-haired lady with beautiful appearance and noble temperament. She is a human being."
"She is very pretty?"
Someone captured the key details.
"very beautiful."
The captain nodded without hesitation.
And this sentence aroused people's imagination. The benefactor who saved them in a desperate situation, defeated the "God Killer" of Poseidon, saved everyone but did not come out to accept gratitude at all.
If such an identity is coupled with a "very beautiful" appearance... then there is no doubt that this will become a very good news stunt!
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"Miss Crawley...who is she?"
The passengers also had different reveries facing the chaotic unknown.
At this moment, Aleister is in his room, leisurely playing with the newly sealed Magic Card. Carefully studying the card surface full of various hints, mysterious knowledge is constantly leached from it, and is filled with pure transcendence.
Aleister greedily absorbed it.
This card was originally "Temperance", but now it is called "Art", or "Alchemy".
In the middle of the tarot card is a strange man with two heads - this person has both male and female characteristics, with two heads, one male and one female, placed on the left and right of the picture like mirrors.
He is pouring water and fire into the crucible. On both sides of the crucible, there are white male lions and red female eagles - their positions are similar to the "Lovers" card, but their colors are opposite. The Lovers card is
The red lion and the white eagle have opposite expressions and figures.
At this moment, the white male lion placed his paws on the crucible, dripping with red blood; while the fiery red female vulture spat out white saliva - some people believe that these creatures are flying in the sky.
There is no saliva, or in other words, they have to hold their own saliva when flying. Once they are attacked and spit out, they will fall.
Therefore, they can also symbolize the earth and wind respectively.
At this moment, the crucible overflowed with flaming water. They stepped on the cold fire, but they showed no pain. In that crucible, something brilliant seemed to be about to be born - that androgynous creature.
The two-headed monster, his heart is also burning with the brilliance of the sun.
"Temperance" can be understood as "restraint" or rational "restraint". But its correct interpretation should be "using unreal things to control something real", which will lead to a result -
-balanced.
What this card tells is the process of "things being purified and purified" under the influence of the power of balance. This is precisely the origin of alchemy.
In this tarot card, the strange man has the moon on his head and the sun on his chest. The mirror reflecting the male and female sides just connects the sun and the moon, which also seems to symbolize the twin mirrors, the eternal self, Xi Tiansi and...
...As the founder of alchemy and the "predecessor of Huan Tiansi", he has a subtle relationship.
In a sense, this card is extremely closely related to Aiwass.
Aiwass and Aleister happen to be in this androgynous state. And he also happens to "use the power of mirrors and balance to connect the sun and the moon." And the recreation of wind, earth, water and fire in the crucible also seems to be related to
It can be connected with Aiwass’ behavior of creating magic cards.
"So that's it..."
Aleister murmured.
She suddenly got a hint from this card - or a revelation of a truth that had already existed but no one cared about.
As we all know, alchemy is closely related to metaphor.
Just like the alchemists of the Star Antimony school, they do not believe in the existence of the Philosopher's Stone, but yearn for the refining of "Star Antimony" - "The Triumphal Carriage of Antimony" written by Valentine I is about this.
The transcendent way of sublimating animal nature into God.
The red phase of Star Antimony is a good friend of Valentine I.
He recognized this book as a method to verify the "perfect man", and felt that the seven-fold promotion method of "sublimating animal nature to god" was equivalent to the process of ridding the Moon Child of its animal nature.
Although Aleister felt that Valentine I probably didn't mean this...but what was outrageous was that Hong Xiang put the forceful research and development of magic skills in front of this book that was actually not about this matter at all.
Judging from the final result theory, he actually succeeded!
It can only be said that this is a kind of Ouyang red look.
But in fact, while "Star Antimony" is a metaphor, the Philosopher's Stone can also be a metaphor - if you put your mind in the crucible of your body, throw yourself into your dreams, fears, hopes, desires, and refining the earth
Fire, water and wind purify everything about yourself... then you can give birth to something truly perfect.
That is, the "Philosopher's Stone" - the greatest alchemy that can turn stone into gold. This also means making incompetent, "stubborn" people become sparkling...turning those
Dark things turn into bright light.
This……
"...that's exactly what I'm doing."
Aleister murmured.
She found an entry point.
Don’t the alchemists of the Star Antimony Style realize that there is actually no problem with the Philosopher’s Stone theory?
I'm afraid that's not the case.
But they can no longer go back - they would rather make a mistake than make a mistake.
Thinking like this, Aleister smashed the projected card into nothing.
Its properties flashed through her mind:
[Spell Card: Star Ice (Art)]
[Required: Water 4]
[Action, summoning, non-contact]
[Effect: Summons colorful star ice, simply shapes its posture and stays for a period of time. Anyone who looks directly at the star ice and tries to destroy it or understand it will fall into a deeper and deeper illusion; trapped by this effect
People who are hallucinating will be frozen; people who are completely frozen due to this effect cannot actively escape from the hallucination, even if the Star Ice no longer exists]
