The Frost Queen was silent for more than ten seconds. In her pair of jewel-like clear and calm purple eyes, it was impossible to discern her mood at the moment. It was not until the silence almost became suffocating that she nodded gently:
"oh."
Then she thought about it again and asked, "What's the situation with Hanshuang now?"
Duncan looked into her eyes and spoke in a calm tone: "...Tirion is the new consul, the Sea Mist Fleet is taking over the city-state, and the remaining Frost Navy will be reorganized and reorganized."
A smile appeared on Le Nora's face: "Ah, Tirian, one of the possibilities...fate is really an unclear thing. This result is not bad, what do you think?"
Duncan did not respond, but continued to say calmly: "There is another thing. The current leaders of the city-state church obey my orders."
Leigh Nora finally showed a slightly surprised expression, and she tilted her head slightly: "Huh? It sounds like...you are the actual controller of Frost now?"
"I have no interest in running a city-state - but you can think of it that way."
"Now I am more and more curious about what happened to make the situation like this in the frost." Leigh Nora's expression became serious. "I have arranged many things, but your appearance was beyond all plans. You
A disaster was mentioned, but in my estimation, even if He loses control to a certain extent, the situation will not deteriorate to the level you mentioned..."
"The army of replicas in the deep sea has invaded Frost, and a mirror city-state is about to rise to the real world," Duncan said solemnly, "When you tried to appease this tentacle in the deep sea, a group of cultists noticed it
The power he exudes—and the Frost City-State's continued exploitation of the boiling gold mine has 'helped' those heretics to a certain extent."
Next, Duncan did not hide anything. He told the former queen about what happened in Frostbite, including the changes caused by his intervention.
Le Nora did not interrupt from beginning to end. She listened quietly. It was not until Duncan finished his words that she breathed a long sigh of relief, and a complicated smile appeared on her face: "Compared with the ancient gods in the deep sea.
, it is true that crazy humans are more terrifying.”
Then she paused and sighed with relief: "But fortunately, in the worst direction, there is an ending that is not too bad - most people can survive."
"Even if the city-state eventually becomes the property of me, the 'subspace shadow'?" Duncan asked deliberately.
Le Nora just smiled, and then looked into Duncan's eyes seriously: "Then you will definitely become the most powerful guardian in the history of Frost."
"Your attitude towards me is different from others," Duncan said with some emotion. "Since I regained my humanity, I have come into contact with many people. Most of them looked surprised. Very few people can react like this when they first meet me.
Just stay calm, let alone have an optimistic attitude like you."
Leigh Nora shook her head: "This is not optimism, this is a fact. You have regained your humanity and helped Hanshuang. Then you are naturally the most powerful guardian of this city-state. I know that most people
There will be instinctive fear here, but I have embraced fear for too long and am used to looking at the true face of things through fear."
"...Now it's my turn to ask questions." After hearing the Frost Queen's words, Duncan was silent for two or three seconds, and then he organized his words and spoke, "When did the clone of Holy Lord Netherworld invade...
Real world? Could a similar 'invasion' happen again?"
"Sorry, I can't give a clear answer to the first question," Leigh Nora said with a trace of apology on her face, "When I became aware of His existence, He had already appeared in the deep sea, and at the beginning
In several contacts, I only heard one voice... He said that he was a wrong copy, and he said that he needed to terminate his operation."
"Contact?" Duncan noticed the word instantly, "How did you first 'contact' Him? And to hear you say...this clone took the initiative to tell you the situation, and even asked you for help?"
Leigh Nora nodded slightly: "I wonder if you have heard that I am a natural psychic?"
"...I have indeed heard rumors about this. They say you can even know everything from ancient to modern times."
"Many of the rumors are exaggerated. I can neither predict the future nor have insight into all things, but at least one thing is true. Natural psychics... can really 'listen' to 'voices' that ordinary people cannot touch," Lei
·Norah seemed to be lost in memories, thinking as she spoke slowly, "When I was very young, I often heard whispers from unknown sources, or saw weird and bizarre scenes in my sleep, just like most congenital
Like the psychics, these terrible 'diseases' are very dangerous and have even threatened the caregivers around me on several occasions——
"Can you imagine? You are caring for a child of two or three years old, and then the child is just sleeping and dreaming, and suddenly there will be a deadly scream and a squirming shadow in the room... before realizing
After the frequency of horrific anomalies in our home began with the youngest child, my parents had to send me to a church, and like other naturally psychic beings, I was handed over to... 'professionals'
care.
"I grew up in the deepest crypt of the cathedral until I was twelve years old. The well-armed silent monks and ascetics were my nannies, the specially made shackles and neck braces were my toys, and a blessed iron cage was my
In my bed, the gatekeeper came to check three times a week to confirm that my mind was still on the human side - until my twelfth birthday, my spirit and will became stronger, and my cognition became clearer. The archbishop thought that I
After I had stabilized on the 'human' side, I was blessed and baptized, and announced that I was a human being.
"After that, I received rigorous training to adapt to and control my talents, and at the same time learned to live peacefully with my 'nightmares.' Over the past four years, I gradually understood that my 'dreams' were essentially a kind of
The resonance with the world, and the murmurs, lights and shadows in dreams come from those beings who are outside the borders of reality and are trying to establish contact with the real world. After confirming that my mind can bear it, my mentors taught me how to use
A special way to listen to those voices, and to be yourself in the process...
"And it was during this process that my 'perception' began to be frequently led to the deep sea, and I began to perceive... His existence.
"In other words, He began to be aware of my existence.
"Every born psyker will have his own resonance tendency. Some tend to hear the voices in history. Most of them will become outstanding archaeologists and occult scholars. Some tend to hear the voices of the four gods.
As long as they can survive to adulthood, they are almost destined to be 'saints'. There are even more unfortunate ones who will resonate with the subspace - 99% of these people will not be able to leave the church cellar alive. The few who survive will become extremely
Rare 'secret keepers' or 'secret saints', retained by the church.
"And I have established a resonance with an ancient god who has awakened in the deep sea."
Leigh Nora stopped and looked towards the end of the room, towards the dark, chaotic and fragmented land. Then the darkness surged under her gaze, and the chaotic light and shadow representing the subspace faded away.
, the floating island in the endless deep sea and the silent "pillar" appeared in the dark depths.
That was her resonance, her nightmare, her fear and responsibility, the beginning and the end.
"Actually, most of the time, I couldn't hear what 'He' was saying at all - at first, I thought it was because of my lack of strength and lack of control over spiritual resonance, but as time went by,
I found that the reason actually lies with this 'ancient god'.
"He is incomplete, He is just a 'fake' mistakenly copied from a larger individual. He wakes up in this dark sea without knowing anything, and his chaotic and broken thinking is filled with only one thought - error
, terminate immediately.
"He repeated this thought in my mind thousands, tens of thousands of times."
Duncan finally spoke softly: "So, you started the Abyss Plan?"
"No, I first became the Frost Queen," Leigh Nora said lightly. "It took a little effort, but only by controlling the entire city-state can I have more ways to investigate and confirm what I 'heard'
content, and in the process, I discovered the anomalies deep in the Boiling Gold Mine, and the connection between all this and the 'deep sea' - the Submerged Abyss Project is the final result. For this final result, I have done countless things.
Less preparation.”
Duncan didn't speak for a while, but slowly stood up from the chair, went to the end of the room, and looked thoughtfully at the deep sea "landscape" emerging from the darkness, and the frost that penetrated the sky like a giant pillar.
The tentacles of "Blueprint".
After a long while, he turned back slightly: "So he doesn't have any ill intentions?"
"There is no malice and no kindness," Leigh Nora said. "In fact, he doesn't even have anything that can be called 'wisdom' - just a short period of messy and broken thinking, repeating simple judgments, which he can't even understand.
Of course, one's own existence cannot be said to have an 'attitude' towards those small and fragile creatures on the sea...
"He simply exists, existing in pain and confusion, in this cold darkness, but even such a simple 'existence' is enough to subvert our delicate and fragile so-called 'civilized world'."
Duncan muttered softly: "Existence itself is a threat..."
Leigh Nora's voice came from behind him a moment later: "Now I can answer your second question.
"Whether a similar 'invasion' will happen again - I think... it is possible, even certain."
Duncan turned around instantly: "Why?"
"Because this is not an 'invasion', Holy Lord Netherworld has not 'entered' our real world from his domain - He does not need to do this.
"His 'ingredients' naturally exist in the real world, in every deep sea, every city-state, and even every human body. What happened in the Frost Deep Sea was not an 'invasion', but an...'awakening'
'."
Leigh Nora slowly opened her hands, but with a strange calm look on her face. She looked into Duncan's eyes and told her what she had learned in this half-century of nightmare sleep.
The truth——
"Captain Duncan, in a sense, all of us, and even the city-states beneath our feet, are descendants of the ancient gods."