Deep Sea Embers.

Chapter 110 "The Fire Usurper"

The sudden violent fall made Duncan's spirit quickly stripped from the scorching sun. He felt as if he was being dragged by a strong gravitational force through a deep and long tunnel. The burning corona and the flesh and blood supporting the corona Quickly moving away from the line of sight - the next second, he felt a solid touch from his back.

That's the back of his seat.

Duncan opened his eyes suddenly, panting heavily, he felt his heart was beating so powerfully before, and in his retina, it seemed that the dazzling light projected by the previous burning star still remained.

The truth of the flesh and blood under the sea of ​​fire was more strongly imprinted in his mind.

After a few more seconds, these strong impressions finally calmed down in his mind, and finally there was only that ethereal sentence, which still echoed in the depths of his memory——

"Fire usurper, put me out, please..."

Duncan frowned slightly, he was sure he really heard this sentence.

Is this... what the "sun" conveyed to me?That thing noticed his snooping, and then sent this... "help" signal to itself?

Duncan rubbed his forehead, while guessing the truth behind the "distress" signal, he also recalled all the details of that round of scorching sun.

Undoubtedly, that is what the followers of the "Ancient True Sun" worship, the "true sun" as they call it.

To be honest, at the short moment when he first saw it, Duncan really felt a surge of excitement in his heart. He was shocked by the scorching sun and sea of ​​fire, and thought that he really saw the "sun" in his memory and cognition. Thinking that what I saw was the round of stars I saw on the earth...

How excited he was at the time, and how stunned and bewildered he was when he saw the truth behind the sun.

The front of the sun is indeed exactly the same as the "real sun", and is exactly the same as the things described by the Sun Cultists, but that scene is just the outer shell of the sun, and inside it... is just a bunch of indescribable things.

Duncan recalled the pale and dark flesh, and the withered and dying state of the tentacles surrounding the pupils.

That... "creature" wrapped in the sun's shell, doesn't seem to be in a very good condition.

In fact, Duncan even thinks that it is already "dead"—the feeling of losing its vitality is so strong that even if you just peek at it from a distance, you can feel the breath of "death" coming from the depths of your soul .

It was simply a burning corpse of an ancient god.

And the corpse of the ancient god was begging him for help, hoping that someone could come and extinguish the flame on him.

The corpse is calling for help. This is a contradictory and terrifying situation. It is weird and outrageous, but it conforms to the abnormal "logic" of this world.

Duncan sorted out his chaotic mind bit by bit, and recalled that during that short peek, there was another point that was very interesting, that is, the name that "sun" called himself - he called himself "the usurper of fire." ".

Is that indescribable mass of flesh and blood really calling out to him? Did ta really sense the approach of this uninvited guest, so he made a sound? Isn't ta really shouting at will in a daze?
If the call for help was really addressed to him, then this is a very obvious title, fire usurper...

Duncan lowered his head, rubbed his fingertips lightly, and watched a cluster of flames burning quietly on his fingertips.

The green astral fire obediently waited for his command, waiting to pollute other flames and usurp other anomalous powers.

In the next second, Duncan dissipated the spirit fire in his hand.

No matter whether the "sun" is really talking to him or not, no matter what the "fire usurper" mentioned by the other party means, this is not something he can take care of right now——The group of cultists in the city-state of Puland He is still hiding in the dark until now, he has neither the ability nor the position to deal with the "Sun God" behind those cultists.

What's more, how would he know how to "help" the burning sun?Relying on this little fire of the spirit body to burn that big thing over again?Even if he is exhausted, he won't be able to burn it!Besides, the other party is just asking for help, which does not mean that the thing is "one of us" - God knows what will happen after the sun is extinguished, if the flame is a seal, there will be no words in the sun after it is extinguished Will the stuff come alive and kill the Quartet?At that time, will he still think of his "favor" for helping to "turn off the fire"?

It's not wise to deal with a god-like thing casually.

Duncan shook his head, just sighing in his heart—the so-called "Sun God" really wasn't the sun he was familiar with.

Perhaps, he will never see the real "sunshine" again in this world.

The golden mask in the shape of the sun is still quietly placed on the table, the luster on its surface is somewhat dim, as if it has exhausted its internal energy.

Duncan reached out his hand to pick up the mask, but the moment his fingertips touched the mask, a slight cracking sound came to his ears.

This originally very strong iron (copper-plated) mask seemed to have experienced millions of years of weathering and corrosion, and it turned into dust in his hands in the next second, blowing away with the wind.

Ai ran over bouncingly, spread his wings in front of Duncan and gestured: "Happy, pa, no more!"

Duncan didn't care about the behavior of the bird begging for beating, he had a faint realization in his heart——

After all, this mask is just an imitation "mass-produced sacred object". The Sun Cultists seem to be best at using various rituals to create such limited-efficiency fakes. These fakes have some power of the real ones, but their lifespan is worrying after all. .

The function of the sun mask should be some kind of communication channel. The low-level priests use this thing to contact the gods they believe in or the "children" of the gods. Just now, he used the fire of the spirit body to forcibly open the mask With all the power, it has the effect of "genuine product" for a short time, and glimpsed the appearance of the sun god in the passage-the "life" of the mask was directly exhausted in a few seconds.

"Maybe we have to figure out a way to make it real in the future..." Looking at the ashes floating in the air, Duncan said thoughtfully, "This thing can't help but burn every three seconds..."

He doesn't intend to really "save" any Sun God, but he is still very interested in the secrets kept by those Sun Cultists, and he is also full of curiosity about the history before the Great Annihilation. He feels that he will continue to study in the extraordinary field , the fleece on those cultists' bodies... what should be squeezed and must be squeezed.

But as his research deepened, he had to find a way to gather some high-quality wool.

After a short rest and recovery, Duncan left his dormitory.

Goat's head, who was in a daze at the nautical table, immediately turned his head when he heard the movement. He first checked whether the pigeons came out with him, and he was relieved when he found that only Duncan himself was there: "Ah, great captain, your loyal following omits I am working diligently to take the helm on your behalf. I wonder if your "far journey" is going well? I feel that your soul has gone to a far place again, but this time it seems that it is not a human city-state? If you want to travel far next time, you can actually in advance……"

"How much do you know about the 'real Sun God' that those Sun Cultists believe in?" Duncan waved his hand and asked bluntly.

After getting along with this goat head for a while, he has become more and more in control of the other party's temperament, and he has become more confident in his "captain identity". It's okay to ask questions that are irrelevant in nature.

By the way, this can test how much this weird goat-head knows about the extraordinary domain.

"The real Sun God?" The goat's head was stunned for a moment, and then he said with some hesitation, "To be honest, I really don't know. I only know that those followers of the Sun God are crazy and stupid, but I don't know what's behind them. What kind of thing is the god of the sun... But the "blessing" of the sun god does exist, and those believers will gain some strange powers if their beliefs are pious to a certain extent, which is why this cult can gradually develop... ..."

While talking, the goat head gradually came to his senses: "Ah, why did you mention this all of a sudden? Could it be that you just..."

"I was just thinking, if a so-called 'god' is roasted on the fire by his believers, and his believers still don't know anything about it, they are working overtime every day to add wood to the fire, and mistakenly Thinking that the 'corpse oil' baked from the gods is a blessing from the gods...then this matter is a bit ironic," Duncan said with a sigh, "It would be too hell to put it in a hell joke. "

There was some silence in the chart room, and the goat's head didn't pick up the conversation, which made Duncan look at him in surprise: "Why don't you talk anymore? Don't you usually talk a lot?"

Goat's head said sullenly: "...the topic is too powerful, I dare not say it, I dare not ask, I can only say that the captain is wise..."

Duncan immediately cheered up.

I don't know if it was an illusion, but he began to gradually feel that even the goat's head in front of him was not as dangerous as it was at the beginning, and the atmosphere on this ship... seems to be slowly getting better?

(End of this chapter)