Deep Sea Embers.

Chapter 435 Looking into the distance
The mirrors turned to ashes, the darkness began to recede, the phantoms of the Queen's Guard disappeared, and the profane creations that invaded the city-state disintegrated, turning into black mud that quickly dried up, and the sound of guns and guns everywhere in the city-state fell silent-replaced by However, it was an unspeakable fear and silence that enveloped the whole city.

Everyone can see that huge existence, the one standing in the boundless sea, overlooking the city-state from the clouds.

Just a few minutes ago, the mirror image Frost was turned into ashes in the hands of the "giant", and no one could have guessed what would happen next.

Only the dark green flames that spread throughout the city and covered the sea are still burning—but these flames don’t hurt people, they just pass through the real world like phantoms, and when they touch it, you can feel it. Just a harmless warmth.

Agatha lowered her head and casually helped the high-level deacon with a bad face. The burning flame on her arm made the latter a little nervous, but compared to the atmosphere that enveloped the whole city at the moment, this little tension seemed insignificant.

"Next..." The high-level deacon's face was a little pale, he looked at Agatha, at the green spirit fire burning on her body, which was the same as the flames filling the whole city at the moment, and his voice was still a little trembling, "Next what happens?"

Agatha thought for a while, then shook her head: "I don't know."

The senior deacon's eyes widened: "You don't know?!"

"...I didn't ask," Agatha said frankly. "The situation was urgent, and I had no other choice."

The senior deacon was dumbfounded, he had many questions to ask - the origin of the "giant" on the sea, the nature of the flames in the city, the reason for Agatha's current appearance, but he couldn't ask any of them for a while.

Agatha didn't pay attention to the reaction of the high-ranking deacon. She just turned her face slightly, watching the last delicate pale ashes slowly fall on her shoulders.

The fluttering ashes in the city-state had ceased at some point, and it seemed that it was the last piece that fell on her shoulders——in a trance, she felt as if someone had patted her on the shoulder.

"I have to leave," she heard someone whisper in her ear, "The journey in this world is over, and there is still a farther road waiting for me to go."

"Bon voyage, Bishop Ivan."

There was a wind blowing from afar, blowing through the gate of the silent cathedral, blowing across the square in front of the gate, rolling up the piece of light ashes, and letting it dissipate quietly in the wind.

……

On the top of the bell tower at the back of the church, Shirley in a black dress looked at the street below. She was sitting on a wall extending from the edge of the eaves, with her legs drooping outside, dangling in a bored way, chanting : "Be quiet..."

"Everyone seems to be terrified..." Nina stood on the small platform behind Shirley, looking up at the sky while talking, "I was also shocked..."

"Who doesn't feel scared when they see it?" Shirley shrank her neck, carefully looking at the huge and hazy figure on the sea in the distance, "I really didn't expect that Mr. Duncan would use this way to solve this trouble in the end—than above This time, there was even more commotion in Prand."

"Uncle Duncan said that the root of the Frost Crisis is the mirror image, so to solve the problem, the mirror image must be completely solved - the rituals of sealing or stopping the cultists can only be safe for a while, and the way to do it once and for all is to pull out the mirror image and pull it to The real world will be burned," Nina said with a serious face, "but the scale of the mirror image is too large, so he needs a large enough 'field of fire'..."

"Okay, okay, I got it, I got it, you set the fire really well, right? I'll definitely mention this to Mr. Duncan later," Shirley waved her hands again and again, then raised her head in some doubts, "It's just a matter of words." Then again... what is Mr. Duncan doing now? Isn't the matter settled? When will he come back?"

Nina raised her head when she heard the words, looked at the huge figure on the sea outside the city, thought for a while and said, "Then I'll go up and ask?"

"Go, go," Xue Li hurriedly waved her hand, "Don't forget to tell Mr. Duncan when you go up, just say that our homework was eaten by the deep hound..."

Before she finished speaking, Nina had already turned into a bright arc of flame in midair, and then rushed straight to the shadow outside the city.

……

At a height that could overlook the entire frosty sea, Duncan gazed through the gap between the clouds, quietly observing the sea and the city below.

The sea is boundless and extends far away. The city-state is like a disk floating on the sea, bathed in the light of the sky alone. At the end of the sea and the sky, there is a majestic fog that can be seen dimly. The fog is like a wall, showing The faintly visible arc surrounds the entire border of civilization.

This is an unprecedented perspective - he has never observed the world from this position, presumably no one in this world has ever done anything similar.

He can feel that the "flame" supporting his current posture is gradually extinguishing on the sea surface and in the city-state. This state of standing in the sky cannot be maintained for a long time, but he still wants to take a look at it before the accumulated energy is exhausted. .

At this moment, a cluster of small flames bursting out from the clouds suddenly entered Duncan's field of vision.

The cluster of small flames jumped among the clouds, like a light swallow, and when the flames approached him, he heard Nina's voice in his ears: "Uncle Duncan! What are you doing?"

"I'm observing the world," Duncan smiled, and whispered to the cluster of "flames", and raised his finger again, letting the latter jump on his fingertips, "Why did you come up?"

"Shirley asked me to come up, she was curious about what you were doing," Nina said cheerfully, the flames were shaking at Duncan's fingertips—even though her posture at this moment had swelled into a cluster of flames bigger than the bell tower, Duncan The eyes are still very small, "You say you are observing the world? What's so interesting?"

Duncan smiled and raised his chin: "Look, below."

The cluster of flames swayed to the side.

"……Wow."

"It's amazing, isn't it," Duncan said softly, "No one has ever overlooked the boundless sea and the city-states on the sea from this height - and the fog in the distance, so huge, even from my current perspective, looking at It’s suffocating when you get to it.”

Nina thought about it seriously: "...But if it's a normal-sized human being, he won't feel it when he's at the border of the eternal veil, because he can't see everything."

Duncan froze for a moment, then suddenly laughed.

"Yes, you are right. When ordinary people really come to the fog wall, they will not realize the oppressive and suffocating feeling, because they can't see the whole thing... We are at a high place, and we see too much .”

"Uncle Duncan, how do I feel... Your words seem to have other meanings?"

Duncan didn't respond to Nina's question, he just looked into the distance quietly, and after a while he suddenly said, "Are you curious, what is there... on the other side of the fog?"

"...The book says that the fog is endless, there is no opposite, and there is only fog outside."

Duncan looked at his fingertips: "This is what the book said, what about your own thoughts?"

"...I think the book is just the guesswork of scholars. Mr. Morris has said that all things related to the outside of the civilized world are the guesswork of scholars. The so-called research is the process of verifying along the lines of guesswork. Nina said her thoughts happily, "There might be another world on the other side of that fog!"

Immediately afterwards, she paused, as if she had a sudden reaction: "Ah! Uncle Duncan, are you planning to walk through the thick fog? Are you really going to try? This is very close to the northern border, and you are so tall now. Not sure really..."

"Unfortunately, it's not feasible," Duncan shook his head lightly, interrupting the excited Nina, "I can't maintain this state for a long time, let alone leave this sea area in this state-there is a limit to ritual means, we are now All you can do is watch here."

Nina seemed to be a little depressed for a moment, and after a while, she tentatively said, "Then... can I go over and have a look? I can fly in the sky now~"

"But you can only fly for a short while, you know your limit," Duncan shook his head again, "and I don't recommend you to do this, we know too little about that thick fog, adventurous and reckless are different."

Nina was silent for a while, and then she stretched her voice: "Oh—then we really can only have a look here."

"The first step in setting off is to look into the distance," Duncan's lips curled up. He felt that the flames supporting him began to fade rapidly. , he still smiled, "And what we want to see is not only the distance, Nina, have you noticed the appearance of the city-state? Such a regular disc, so neat that it doesn't look like a natural product, and the sea below, deep and vast , we still don't know what's on the bottom of the sea...

"The cultists firmly believe that this world will eventually be destroyed, and they can create a new world. The Holy See firmly believes that following the guidance of the four gods is the only way to maintain the eternity of the world, but there are too many unknown things in this world... Whether it is evil Be it believers, Orthodox Church, or scholars from various city-states, everyone's views on the boundless sea are one-sided."

Between the sea and the sky, the huge body of the giant is quietly dissipating, and the mirror-like sea gradually resumes its undulations.

A flame fell from the clouds towards the city-state.

The conversation between Duncan and Nina is still going on:

"Okay, Nina, let's go back, we still have a lot to do."

"Oh... that's right! Uncle Duncan! I forgot to tell you, Shirley and I's homework was eaten by the deep hound!"

"...It's okay, Morris and I will prepare new ones for you."

(End of this chapter)