In many cases, Nina is not actually aware of the powerful power she possesses and the deterrent effect of this power among ordinary extraordinary people - this certainly helps her maintain her "human" mentality, but there are certainly
Bad effect.
After all, no matter where a 6000°C Dabi Dou is stuck, it will be a ground-breaking surprise.
Fortunately, Duncan was paying attention to this issue from the beginning, and often guided and reminded Nina. He promptly made the girl understand the dangers of her own power, and found a way for her to control the power of the sun step by step, at least
Now Nina has gradually become familiar with and recognized a fact:
To her today, the world is a delicate but fragile house of paper that will burst into flames if she is not careful. She must carefully control her breathing and gaze to prevent everything from turning to ashes.
It now seems that Nina's understanding and control of her own power is successful. Except for extremely occasional and less harmful "out of control" incidents, she has never burned anything else. On the other hand, she
He has always maintained his "cognition" as an ordinary human being, and has not experienced arrogant and dangerous changes in his mentality due to his awareness of his own power.
In Duncan's opinion, this is good.
The dark sea surface rose and fell slowly in the field of vision. There was no clear boundary between the chaotic sky and the sea. The ghostly ghost fire surrounding the Lost Home illuminated the nearby sea surface. Where the light and shadow intersected, you could occasionally see it.
Weird and suspicious shadows flash through the air or water—
Those are the "aboriginals" of the spirit world. These chaotic and unintelligent beings are attracted by the intruder, the Lost Home, but as soon as they gather together for a moment, they will be burned by the flames of the spirit body, and then they will flee in all directions.
Nina ran to the edge of the stern deck and sat directly on the deck, dangling her legs outside the railing, curiously observing this strange and interesting "sea area" in her eyes.
Duncan warned Nina to be careful not to fall off the deck, and then continued to focus on the helm. After a while, he suddenly thought of a question.
"Fanna," he turned his head and glanced at Miss Inquisitor who was standing on the edge of the platform looking at the sea, "I suddenly have a question about the Storm Goddess."
Fanna immediately turned around with a serious face: "Excuse me."
"The Storm Goddess Gmorna is the guardian of the sea, right?" Duncan said, "The entire boundless sea falls under the protection of the Storm Goddess - so what about the sea in the spiritual world?"
The serious expression on Fanna's face instantly turned into astonishment, followed by embarrassment and thinking that lasted for more than ten seconds. After a long time, she shook her head hesitantly and said apologetically: "Sorry, I have never
I’ve thought about this issue…”
After saying that, she began to reflect: "It seems that my study on the way of faith is still too shallow. I pray all day but haven't seriously thought about the details behind these scriptures..."
"It is normal that there are no such details behind the scriptures, because since the establishment of the Deep Sea Church, there has been no situation where mortals can move freely in the depths of the spiritual world," Morris said casually. "Doctrines are used to explain to mortals
A tool of the truth of the gods, it only represents the known parts of the truth of the gods, not all..."
"Then where did the original 'doctrine' come from?" Duncan asked again, "In the early years when the city-state was first established, when the Four Gods faith was just born, who compiled the original doctrine and used it to
Explain the logic of how the world works - the mortals who first preached the religion, or the four gods?"
This time, Morris fell into thinking.
Duncan continued: "According to the current interpretation of scriptures by the Four Gods Church, doctrines can only come from God, right?"
"...Yes," Morris nodded. He seemed to have sorted out his words quickly and answered Duncan's question. "Doctrine is a partial manifestation of truth, and its source comes from the gods - according to the more generally accepted view, it is
The original Cretan prophets accepted God's "enlightenment", and God's thoughts entered their minds, and they naturally wrote the first precepts in their enlightenment. After that, there were hundreds of years of "the era of self-revelation of truth" and "
In the Age of Revelation, generations of prophets were enlightened and recorded their knowledge, eventually forming the current teachings and classics of the Four Gods..."
Duncan didn't speak for a while, but thought very seriously. After a long period of time, he broke the silence again: "Are there still such enlightened 'prophets' who can write new doctrines and truths?"
Morris and Vanna looked at each other.
"...As far as I know, no more." Morris shook his head. "Saints can listen to the voice of God, but usually it is just a vague hint or reminder, and the kind recorded in history can directly talk to God for a long time.
The 'prophet'... has not appeared since the end of the Dark Ages. On the contrary, those cultists who follow the Black Sun or the Deep Holy Lord often claim that prophets have appeared among them, but you also know that the 'prophet' they call is often
Just mentally contaminated lunatics..."
"That is to say, at least during the period between the Cretan Dynasty and the Dark Ages, the gods could frequently communicate with the earthly world," Duncan said thoughtfully, "They could even communicate to a certain extent.
They have long conversations with qualified mortals, but since the city-state era, their connection with the world has only been vague 'hints'?"
Listening to the captain's seemingly profound words, the expression on Vanna's face was somewhat strange. She couldn't help but say: "I... have never thought about it in this direction. Why do you suddenly ask these questions?"
Why are you suddenly asking these questions...
Duncan was silent for a moment, and in the silence, what came to his mind was the picture he saw in Tirian's office not long ago——
Moon.
As far as he knew, in the world where the moon existed, there were no four gods - there was no boundless sea protected by the Storm Goddess, there was no creation of the world hanging high in the sky, and there were no stars and demons hidden in the deep sea.
Ever since he saw the picture of the moon, his heart could not calm down, and countless speculations about the world... almost filled his mind.
"I'm just suddenly very interested in the oldest secrets in the world," he said slowly, then breathed out softly and nodded to Vanna and Morris, "I have seen how you are preparing to go to the deep sea.
There is nothing wrong with the 'warning' message conveyed by the church and the Academy of Truth. Please contact your Maritime Church headquarters."
Although they still had some doubts in their hearts and felt a little worried about the captain's preoccupied appearance in the past two days, Morris and Vanna did not ask any more questions, but lowered their heads at the same time: "Yes, Captain."
…
Lucretia wakes up from a series of chaotic, weird, terrifying and bizarre nightmares.
She looked out the window.
The thick curtains blocked the light outside the window, and only a little golden afterglow shone through the gaps in the curtains, making the room blurry. The familiar furnishings in the dark corners also seemed to have a weird atmosphere, like the remnants of a nightmare.
The power has seeped into the real world, curling up and dormant in the light and shadow.
There was a rustling sound coming from beside me.
"hostess?"
The weird and horrifying doll rabbit sat up from the side, tilted his head, and looked at Lucretia with his button-nailed eyes. The little girl's voice came from the cotton-filled body.
Lucretia casually pulled the rabbit doll over, held it in her arms and rubbed it hard, then raised her head and looked out the window: "What time is it now?"
"It's still an hour before your usual time to get up." The rabbit doll was being rubbed here and there by the hostess, while seeming to be observing Lucretia's face. "You're not in good spirits. You were sleeping very hard just now."
Not stable...are you having nightmares again?"
"I dreamed of some weird things..." Lucretia rubbed her forehead and let go of the rabbit doll, "Give me a drink."
"Okay," the doll agreed obediently, jumping from the bed to the floor, taking out a wine glass from the small cabinet next to it, and poured half a glass for his mistress. At the same time, he asked curiously, "What dream do you have?"
What happened? Is it because...the old master is coming, so you feel uneasy?"
There was a hint of nervousness in the little girl's voice, and she obviously felt great pressure when the words "Old Master" were mentioned.
Lucretia took the wine glass handed over by the doll and drank it down in one gulp, and then took a long breath: "I dreamed about the scene where the Brilliant Star almost 'falled' because it was too close to the thick fog at the border, but it was different from the memory.
The difference is that our ship fell out of the thick fog, but flew all the way upwards, 'falling' straight towards the creation of the world. There are many, many ships, twisted into various shapes, from the entire world
Falling into the sky...absurd and bizarre."
As she spoke, she threw the wine glass to the rabbit doll next to her: "'He' is coming, which does make me a little nervous, but this nervousness will not turn into a nightmare - Rabbi, he is after all
my father."
"Yes, Mistress," the rabbit doll immediately lowered his head obediently, but then couldn't help but remind him, "But you should still pay attention to it. Having nightmares on the ship is not a good sign. The old master... after all, and
It has something to do with subspace, he is approaching you now."
"I understand." Lucretia said casually, then got up from the bed, came to the window barefoot, and opened the heavy curtains.
Warm and bright "sunshine" instantly spreads throughout the room.
It's not yet time for the sun to fully rise - but on the sea not far away, the huge floating luminous geometric body has maintained "eternal daylight" for the entire sea area for a long time.
Lucretia squinted her eyes and bathed in the endless "sunshine".
The voice of the rabbit doll came from behind: "Mistress, are you going to the 'Stone Ball' today?"
"No," Lucretia shook her head and turned towards the dressing table, "I'm going to the city today to say hello to my old friends from the Explorers Association."