Deep Sea Embers

Chapter 781: Life in the Hourglass

After a slight hesitation, Duncan reached out, picked up the hourglass and blew away the dust.

The complex symbols and text on the surface of the hourglass are clearly visible.

Gomona? Duncan reacted immediately and glanced at the hourglass in his hand in surprise... I didn't expect it to actually work. I just gave it a try.

Yes, thank you for your casual try - in the time flow in the temple, I am in a state of complete death, and the hourglass preserves a short period of life, which is used to allow me to talk to you if necessary... Bartók once said when he was building an hourglass, you will definitely turn it over.

Listening to the gentle voice in his mind, Duncan suddenly raised his eyebrows in surprise: Wait, you mean... you know I will definitely come, I will turn this hourglass over, I will definitely talk to you here... Is everything doomed?

On the day this shelter was born, its time had already closed. The Fire Usurper... In our eyes, the time in this narrow dwelling is not a river or a line, it is an unobstructed plane. ——On this unfolding 'Scroll of Time', everything that could happen has ended...

The gentle voice paused for a few seconds, then continued softly:

As for you, Fire Usurper, your arrival is the only event at the end of this scroll of time that is certain to happen, but not sure how it will end.

I have learned a lot about the issue of time flow... I can imagine what you are talking about, but it is difficult to connect it to reality in the first place. As Duncan said, he raised his head and looked around this place. The time flow in the temple No wonder... after we stepped into this temple, neither I nor Fanna could sense your 'activities' anymore, and after seeing those on the platform...

When he said this, he subconsciously glanced at the figures standing aside, and then quickly looked away.

After seeing those bones, I vaguely guessed that there seemed to be some kind of 'difference' between the inside and outside of this temple - after stepping here, we seemed to have entered a unique 'choice'. Why is this so?

In order to delay the 'rot' of the external barrier, Gemona said softly, we are rotting, fire usurpers, we must find a way to 'lock' our own rot, otherwise the world will not wait until the life span of the shelter reaches its limit. It will be eroded away by the 'fester' we unleash.

Duncan immediately came to the doll, and following the direction of the latter's finger, he saw an object covered with dust and torn pieces of cloth in the corner of the altar.

It was a strange, delicate and ancient hourglass.

No, Miss Lucretia just said, these bones are not standard human or elf bones - I don't think they belong to the Sen'jin either. The sternum of the Sen'jin is a whole bone plate. Anomaly 077 immediately Breaking the silence, and I still remember... the sailors of the Sea Song finally melted into the fog and foam near the island, thus gaining 'peace'. It is impossible for them to leave any remains in the temple.

Duncan did not speak, but looked solemnly at the other things scattered around the bones - some fragments of armor or clothing, some remnants of weapons and sacrificial utensils, and the small altar that had collapsed.

Fanna, who was next to him, suddenly noticed something and broke the silence softly: These clothes... are very similar to what I saw in the vision, those who once made pilgrimages to this island...

Duncan looked at the relics scattered around the bones with a hint of amazement - outside the palace, everything in the old era had long turned into that weird black shriveled substance, or as the sailor described it, turned into fog and The foam in the sea changes into a form that humans cannot recognize.

Why are these bones and relics preserved?

At this moment, Alice's voice suddenly came to mind, interrupting Duncan's thinking: Captain, look! What is this?

...Don’t think so much first, go down and take a look at the situation. Duncan pondered for two or three seconds and took the lead to step forward, followed by the others.

They stepped into the rotunda, which was so wide that one suspected that it violated the rules of the architectural structure. They stepped onto the circular stairs that descended layer by layer. They seemed to be walking towards a vortex towards the water pool at the end of the stairs. The huge and pale tentacles of Queen Vitan lie nearby, and the smaller branches extending from the tentacles have merged with the black stones that make up the building like roots, and withered between the steps. .

Duncan suddenly had a feeling. He felt that this huge palace and even the black island carrying the palace were like a huge, man-made shell, and the ancient sea beast that had been endowed with divinity was inside this shell. The flesh and blood of the giant beast died, and the flesh and blood withered and shrank, leaving many chambers - those corridors, rooms, and halls.

A pilgrim on this island? Duncan sounded a little surprised, the generation before the Great Annihilation? !

What Vanna saw in the vision was undoubtedly the scene when the storm goddess Gemona was still the Queen of Leviathan. It was a record left by a civilization that developed symbiotically with the Leviathan beast before the Great Annihilation. Just like the elven civilization before the fall of Silendis, or the era in Tarijin's memory... Can the material from that time survive until now?

Those skeletons were too small compared to Queen Leviathan's body, and they were scattered in a corner, so that no one noticed their existence when they first entered the hall.

Who could this be... left behind? Nina was a little nervous and fearful. She subconsciously hid behind Duncan. The explorer who arrived before us? Sea Song?

It can't really be such a coincidence, right?

Duncan glanced up at Vanna with a subtle expression, but saw that Vanna also turned to look at him. As soon as their eyes briefly touched, they immediately turned away strangely.

There were debris like tables, chairs, altars, and...human skeletons? !

Lucretia was the first to notice those bones. She was stunned for a moment, and came to the stone platform in a few steps. While observing carefully, she frowned and spoke slowly: They are not standard human or elf bones, but from Structurally similar to... at least some kind of humanoid.

Duncan also walked over, frowning and looking at the situation on the platform.

They walked in the shell of the giant beast, stepping on the cavities left after the flesh and blood withered, and came little by little to the stopped beating heart of the giant beast.

The green fire spread on the steps, dispersing the surrounding darkness. Duncan came to the location where the circular pool and the steps connected, and noticed that there was actually an arc-shaped stone platform slightly higher than the surrounding one. A mass of pale tissue, about the size of a neighborhood church roof, poked out of the pool and lay lifeless on the platform, and beside it, on the edge of the platform...

Frankly speaking, for a few brief seconds, Duncan even had a ridiculous and disturbing thought - was he too late?

Just because she was a little slow when setting off, or was delayed for a moment on the way, the Storm Goddess, who had been delayed in death for ten thousand years, did not wait for her to enter the door, and truly and completely died here? Her will has dissipated?

But this somewhat absurd idea quickly dissipated from Duncan's mind - he confirmed that until the Homeless Ship docked next to the island, Vanna had also read the mind of the storm goddess Gemona, which meant that at least at that time The latter is still in some operating state...

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