All known history of this world begins with the "Great Annihilation" in ancient times.
If the "Great Annihilation" is regarded as a wall, then this invisible wall is obviously not a simple "event node", but actually "cuts" the time flow of the entire history.
Everything before the Great Annihilation is unknown. Archaeologists have exhausted all their wisdom and efforts, but they cannot restore any information before that time point. There are even no historical relics in the world that can point to the time before the Great Annihilation——
Even if it is a stone with words engraved on it.
This "black wall" of despair has stood in the eyes of scholars for ten thousand years, and now Captain Duncan, who has returned from subspace, has given this wall an appropriate name.
As the leader of the Academy of Truth and the Pope of the God of Wisdom, Rune can understand the existence of that black wall and the subtlety of the term "horizon limit" more deeply than anyone else.
"Our world seems to have been 'created out of thin air' at a certain moment after the Great Annihilation. The fragmented and contradictory history is only an ironclad proof of the existence of the 'horizon limit'," said his three elders.
In front of his friends, Lu En said with emotion in his tone, "Since the rise of city-states, and even since the beginning of the Dark Ages, countless scholars have tried to trace back to the past, trying to find the 'source' before the Great Annihilation. They are just like in the dark
Drilling deep into the earth, in the end they were all blocked by the invisible barrier.
"One second, even the second before the Great Annihilation broke out, is blank and unverifiable, even the 'Three Long Nights' mentioned in the 'Book of Blasphemy' that Captain Duncan obtained from the Annihilation Cult.
, and it is only describing the period of history from the Great Annihilation to the establishment of the Ancient Kingdom of Crete - the information before the 'Horizon Limit' is still blank."
"It is very dangerous to use the heresies of cultists as reference materials." Death Pope Banst couldn't help but remind him.
Rune shook his head slightly: "The danger of heresy lies in its demagoguery and motives that lead people to do evil. Apart from these effects, the 'Three Long Nights' itself is still a subject worthy of study. Our understanding of the aftermath of the collapse of the ancient Kingdom of Crete
There are many achievements in the Dark Ages, which are based on the research on the Sun Sect and the Annihilation Sect."
"...In short, what you want to say is that you can't explain what's going on with the 'Leviathan' under the city-state, and the Leviathan beasts carrying the church ark can't give us the answer," Frame broke
Silence, "Because this is an event that occurred before the Great Annihilation, all information pointing to it is unknowable, unmeasurable and unverifiable."
Rune said nothing, acquiescing to Frame's words.
Helena suddenly spoke after thinking for a moment: "But you can at least tell us where the Academy of Truth found the four Leviathans - at least the giant beasts carrying the four church arks were indeed discovered and resurrected by you.
'Yes, isn't it?"
"...They came from the border. After a huge 'border collapse'," Rune finally had a clear answer this time, "The specific location...is near the Eternal Veil in the Eastern Sea."
"Eastern seas?" Banster frowned subconsciously.
"Yes, it's near the old site of Wesselan's Thirteen Islands," Rune nodded. "Ever since the terrible subspace disaster a century ago, the Eastern Eternal Veil has always been a fragile node.
You should also know that fog often collapses inward, or temporary abnormal areas appear on the sea."
Helena and Frame nodded silently, and Bancet had a thoughtful look on his face, but they did not interrupt Rune's words, but motioned for the other to continue.
"When the Institute of Truth was responsible for patrolling the border, one of our ships encountered something strange there," Lu En continued while sorting out his memories. "The specific situation cannot be determined because the crew of that ship were involved in the incident.
Severe cognitive confusion and memory blanks occurred during the incident. It was impossible to accurately describe the experience during the incident afterwards. However, there was a hastily written log on the ship that recorded part of the situation at that time——
"The sea suddenly sunk inward, like a strange bowl. The edge of the 'bowl' was smooth and calm, and the water seemed to have solidified. However, the ship did not sink with the sunken sea, but floated above the sunken sea.
...The ship lost power, could neither move forward nor retreat, and was suspended in the air hundreds of meters above the sea in a terrifying way... A huge thing emerged from the sunken sea, like some kind of creature...
…
"The above is a record written hastily by a crew member on that ship before cognitive confusion and memory damage.
"Later, another of our fleets found the missing patrol boat. It was slowly drifting out of the mist. It had lost all power, its steam core was ice-cold, and everyone on board was sleeping. But on that boat
Behind the ship, deep in the gradually dissipating mist, four behemoths appeared in the sight of the search and rescue personnel.
"That is the Leviathan we found on the sea - the giant beast recorded in the original book of storms, which has long disappeared in the long river of history, and the apostle of the Storm Goddess.
"You will know what happened next. The Academy of Truth found a way to 'resurrection' those legendary beasts, and built huge church arks on them and handed them over to the Four Gods Church for use."
Rune's narration ended, Frame and Banster were still thinking, but Helena gradually frowned: "Are those Leviathans one of the border relics... No wonder you have been avoiding talking about these details before,
It turned out to be related to the border collapse."
"Awareness of border collapse will increase the probability that border collapse will occur within the civilized world. The closer the time, the higher the probability. This is what Captain Duncan Abnomar said a century ago when he was a great explorer.
The rules that have been summarized," Lu En nodded, "but now that it has been decades since the border collapse incident when the Academy of Truth discovered Leviathan, it is no longer so dangerous to mention these things."
"...I have some doubts," Frame suddenly said. "Although the size of the Church Ark is large, it is obviously not on the same level as the city-state - if the biological structure at the bottom of the city-state is really Leviathan
If so, then their size is several times the size of the Church Ark Leviathan... Are these really the same species?"
"Who knows?" Rune spread his hands, "Maybe the four Leviathans we found at the border are just some kind of 'small individuals'? Or are they 'juveniles'?"
"...Theoretically this shouldn't be the case," Helena shook her head. "I often communicate with Leviathan of the Church Ark. Although it doesn't know what happened before the Great Annihilation and the truth at the bottom of the city-state, it once clearly said
, it’s the adult Leviathan.”
"Then the problem lies with the biological organizations at the bottom of the city-state. Maybe they are 'mutated individuals' of extremely large scale, or...maybe... related to the influence of those 'blueprints' in the deep sea," Runn guessed as he said, "
After all, if the information from the Homeless Ship is true, then all the city-states on the boundless sea can actually be regarded as the 'creations' of the ancient gods. Even the biological structures at the bottom of the city-states are likely to be the Holy Lord Netherworld.
The result of secondary processing'..."
Speaking of this, Rune suddenly stopped, then shook his head somewhat self-deprecatingly, brushed his eyes with his hands, and made a gesture of praying to Lachem, the god of wisdom: "May the Lord forgive me for talking about these heretical remarks.
It’s really weird.”
"May the Lord forgive me."
Helena and Frame also made gestures of prayer, confessing to the Storm Goddess and the Eternal Fire behind them.
As the leaders of the church, they can view these topics that are on the verge of taboo and even heresy from a higher perspective, and can analyze the intelligence from the heretics with a calmer attitude and a more practical perspective, but as the four
Spokespersons of God, they also abide by the precepts of their respective sects and are bound by their beliefs. When talking about certain dangerous topics, the disobedience and conflict in their hearts are inevitable after all.
Only the spokesperson of the God of Death, the tall, thin, old-looking Banster, never spoke, as if he had been deep in thought from just now.
"Banster," Luen focused his attention on the silent spokesman of death, "you have seemed absent-minded from the beginning."
"I'm thinking about a question, Rune," Banster finally raised his head, his sunken eye sockets as dark as night, "The Thirteen Islands of Visselan - the place where those Leviathans were discovered was on Visselan Thirteen.
The island incident occurred near the sea area, don’t you think this is worthy of attention?”
Luen nodded calmly, obviously he had already expected that Bancet's attention would fall on this detail.
"I know what you want to say - the Lost Home," the old elf said slowly. "A hundred years ago, the Lost Home opened a door to the subspace on the Thirteen Islands of Wetherland, bringing that
All the islands and residents were dragged into the depths of the terrifying world. This incident also caused the space-time structure of the entire sea area to be extremely fragile, and strange phenomena occurred frequently... From this point on, the patrol ship of the Academy of Truth decades ago
The incident encountered has a certain causal connection with the incident on the Thirteen Islands of Wesselan."
Having said this, he suddenly paused, then raised his head and looked at Banster seriously, and continued: "But we cannot simply think that 'it was the Homeless Ship that sent the Leviathan into the real world.'
, this lacks evidence and does not have sufficient theoretical support.”
"But it is indeed possible that the four Leviathans entered our real world due to some follow-up effects of the Wesselan Thirteen Islands incident. Rune, this matter was actually risky from the beginning."