On September 20, 981, after three days of rainy weather, Salius finally had a wonderful sunny day.
At one o'clock in the afternoon, a carriage carried a guest to the door of the Salius Library. This is the largest library in the entire Salius Province and one of the landmark buildings in the city. It has a history of hundreds of years.
History.
"Sir, the library is here." The coachman stopped the carriage and reminded.
"Ah, thank you." The guest in the car thanked him softly and handed the other person the fare.
"It's bigger than I thought. I hope I can find some useful information." After standing still, Morse raised his head and observed the building in front of him.
After that night, Hillerton never contacted him, and the actions of the Shrine became bigger and bigger day by day, which made him dare not act rashly.
So, after three days of consideration, Morses decided to go to the Salius Library first to look for clues about the place name "Termode".
After thinking for a moment, Morses walked into the door of the library.
The style inside the library is extremely weird. It is not so much a library as it is a "spiral corridor" - a staircase spiraling up along the wall, and at the same time, rows of bookshelves are placed outside the stairs.
, and the table was placed against the inside. This style made Morsis feel dizzy when he looked up, so he had to lower his head.
"I heard that this decorative style was very popular in the early days of the Tasok Empire, and was a product of the fusion of the Momoa Empire." Morsis rubbed the corners of his eyes and walked up the stairs.
After arriving on the third floor (herein refers to the height of the third floor in a general sense, because the library does not have the concept of floors), Morse began to carefully observe the rows of bookshelves.
After searching for half an hour, he sat down at the table with a stack of books in his arms and began to read them one by one.
"This is a map of the Ocean of Storms from the early days of the empire. I hope I can find something." Morses opened the extremely old atlas and murmured.
There is no "blank history" between the Third and Fourth Era, so an empire like the Tasok Empire whose history spans two eras must have some maps recording ancient place names.
The atlas in the hands of Morsis at this moment is actually not a product of a thousand years ago, but has been renovated within a hundred years. The Tasok Empire will always ensure that similar ancient maps are preserved out of various considerations.
.
"Is this the Ocean of Storms a thousand years ago? Compared with the degree of exploration today, it is still far behind." Morses looked at the map and sighed secretly in his heart.
Until now, the Ocean of Storms has not been fully explored. In fact, nearly 40% of its area is still completely unknown. Every year, countless explorers flock to the Storm for some legendary treasures.
Deep in the ocean, most of these fanatics will die in unpredictable natural disasters. A few may enter unknown places, but what they get may not be treasures, but some ancient curses.
The Ocean of Storms is filled with many ancient ruins or so-called "miracles". These areas are the places that explorers flock to, but they are also often the places where their bones are buried.
And today, the "Telmod" that Morses is looking for is undoubtedly one of the "ancient ruins".
"Although I don't have high hopes, I still feel a little frustrated when I really can't find it." After twenty minutes, Morse finally gave up the struggle, put down the album in his hand, and leaned on the back of his chair.
,Sighed.
On that map, the word "Termode" did not appear at all, let alone its related information.
"In the library of the Tasok Empire, it would be difficult to find any information about the ruins of the Momoa Empire... Well, maybe I should change my mind?" Morses sat up straight, as if he had thought of something.
Said something.
He still remembered that "Desolation" was initially able to enter "Telmod", but later it was unable to enter due to lack of strength.
"Then, we should be able to find some clues by looking for the records of the Tasok Empire's extermination activities against the Fallen Wasteland!" Morses thought of this and immediately picked up a book on the table, which recorded the Tasok Empire's annihilation activities.
A book about quelling civil strife in the Sok Empire.
"Since the establishment of the Tasok Empire, those who resisted the 'Twelve Emperors' have never disappeared. In the early days of the establishment of the empire, there was the 'Falling Wasteland'. And in the past few hundred years, there are still 'Honkai Hidden'
A large-scale resistance organization." Morses thought silently in his heart.
"Honkai Hidden" is the largest existing resistance organization in the Tasok Empire. It has many subordinate small organizations. For example, "Tianyin" who made a deal with Yuehuang is one of the larger ones, but regardless of these organizations
Regardless of their action patterns, they all have one thing in common.
The "initial collapse" of faith.
It is said that this was one of the three gods of the main continent. In the third era, this god once cooperated with "Qiming", but was beaten by the latter and fell into a deep sleep.
This is what is described on the first page of the book. Of course, this book was written by the Tasok Empire, so naturally it would not say anything unfavorable to itself. When Morses was reading it, he also based it on the secrets he knew.
Got some ideas.
"It seems that the empire also attaches great importance to Honkai Impact, even compiling this kind of book and putting it on the front page." Although Morses was also quite interested in the information about Honkai Impact, he didn't read more.
It turned directly to the part about the Desolation.
Records about the Fallen Desolation are basically concentrated in the early third era. In that era when the empire was first established, the Fallen Desolation was still a force that was enough to give the church a headache.
"In the first few hundred years of the empire's founding, the Fallen Wasteland was an extremely dangerous force, but after hundreds of years of attrition, this force was still defeated." In a paragraph of this book, it is used like this.
One sentence describes the end of Yuanhuang. It is very concise, but to the point.
Morsis also understood that whether it was the "Meteor Desolation" back then or the "Hengkai Hidden" today, there was a common problem.
That’s the resource!
In this land dominated by the Tasok Empire, it is difficult for them to always control part of the resources, so this gives the Tasok Empire the capital to drag.
Yuehuang has been dragged down. Judging from the current situation, if "Hengkai Hidden" does not have the support of gods, it will end up like this sooner or later.
"During the period when the Fallen Wasteland gradually transformed from a large organization into a small secret organization, the last real war between the empire and the Fallen Wasteland took place." After reading two more pages of text that was not nutritious, this description came out.
caught the eye of Moses.
"This was a naval battle that took place on the Sea of Storms, and neither side was prepared before the incident.
"Due to the heavy fog that day, the empire's exploration fleet stopped at a small island in the waters outside the Craig Islands, and the fleet of three transport ships and five warships in the Fallen Wilds collided head-on with the exploration fleet in the fog.
Up.
"After analysis afterwards, we learned that the target of this fleet was supposed to be in the direction of the Singer Empire.
"After reinforcements from the Craig Islands Navy, the Empire successfully defeated the enemy and captured three ships of loot.
"Afterwards, specialized personnel tried to deduce where this fleet came from, but to no avail. The captured members of the Desolation were unwilling to speak no matter how they were tortured, and they seemed very excited."
This description ends here. It seems like it is just a very ordinary narrative, but Morse is already a little excited.
"Three ships of trophies?" He murmured to himself, "In the past descriptions, the empire would tell the story of its trophies without any scruples... But this time, there are three ships, and not even one thing is mentioned."
Thinking of this, Morses immediately opened the map of the empire and found the location of the Craig Islands.
It is a place located in the northern section of the Ocean of Storms, not far from the main continent and the eastern continent. It currently belongs to the Tasok Empire.
"But the Craig Islands is one of the most famous maritime trade areas of the Tasok Empire, and it's quite lively there... So the origin of the Desolation Fleet should be farther away..." Morsis thought as he
, while drawing on the map with your finger.
"Although the Craig Islands are on the shipping route, they are also relatively remote shipping routes... and further out." Morsis's finger came to a specially marked gray-brown area, "Shadow Area No. 13...
"
On the Ocean of Storms, there are many places where fixed dangers exist, such as the famous "Red Ocean", which is an area full of living kelp-like creatures that the fleet cannot enter at all.
But the shadow area is different from these explored dangerous areas. In the shadow area, you can't tell what will happen. Maybe a sea monster appears there today, and it disappears tomorrow, and the entire area
But it turned from a sunny day to a prohibitive heavy rain.
"Never bet against the shadow zone, unless you want to risk your life." This is a sentence often heard by sailors who have been at sea all year round.
There are twenty-four areas like this in the entire Ocean of Storms that have been explored, and the "Shadow Area No. 13" that Morses is pointing to now is one of them.
It is located on the edge of the explored area, a long way from the Craig Islands, and the most important thing is that part of it is connected to the unexplored area.
Yes, part of the shadow area No. 13 is connected to the unexplored sea area, so people cannot yet determine the size of this shadow area, and this also makes it one of the most special shadow areas.
Although Morses is still not sure that the so-called "Telmod" is in this shadow area, there is no doubt that this is likely to be the correct answer!
"It seems that we finally have some clues." Morsis smiled.
