Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 625
[Chapter 623 Howling Shadow]
In the ruins of the World Tree covered in ashes and black slag, Maurice, Nina, and Taran El and their party have successfully found several knowledge guards who have awakened from the phantoms.
As Morris judged, these knowledge guards who were equivalent to “first dreams” were dispersed to random locations in the wreckage area of Silantis, but fortunately, most of them were not scattered too far, and Nina’s A fireball was very eye-catching after it took off. These scattered knowledge guards came to check the situation at the same time, which quickly brought them together.
Except for the last person.
“Still no trace of Lord Ted Leal,” a knowledge guard wearing a short robe, holding a scroll and a revolver returned to the temporary settlement, and told Taran El, Morris and others who were waiting here. He said, “I didn’t see the sign of the promise, and I didn’t respond to my spiritual call.” “
Is it because he hasn’t ‘awakened’ yet?” Taran El frowned subconsciously, “It shouldn’t be… the amount of medicine given to him It’s quite big, even with the physique of the Keeper of Truth, it can take effect smoothly…”
Nina looked at the slightly uneasy Knowledge Guard opposite, and then at Taran El, who was frowning and thinking, and hesitated for a moment before deciding. He couldn’t help but say: “Could it be that the dose of medicine is too much…”
Taran Ayre was stunned for a moment, then waved his hands repeatedly after realizing it: “It’s impossible, it’s impossible, I’m a rigorous scholar, how could I do this? There is a dosage error, and Mr. Ted Leal is proficient in pharmacy, and he is also sure of the dosage of the medicine…” His voice became
smaller and smaller as he spoke, and finally hesitantly added: “…Probably. “
Nina & Morris: “…?”
“How much blood crow mixture did you prepare for Ted Leal?” Morris couldn’t help but ask.
Taran Ayre thought for a while, raised his hand and gestured: “A bottle is about this high…”
Morris was stunned: “…you asked him to use a beer bottle to drink a bottle of mixture?! This is what ordinary people use. It’s a dropper!”
“Please, that’s the Keeper of the Truth.” Taran Ayre spread his hands. “It would be too difficult to make him suffer a ‘suspended death’ at the level of mental dissociation. For ordinary people, it would be enough to cause sudden death. The biggest effect of this dose on him is to quench his thirst. What can I do? Mr. Ted Leal even purified the potion, otherwise he really wouldn’t be able to drink so much…” Morris
said He listened blankly, and after a long time he muttered with a strange expression: “I remember that the Keeper of the Truth was not so exaggerated when I was in school…” “
Teaching the graduating class,” Taran Ai said. You waved his hand and said, “First he used wine to relieve his sorrow, then he used neurotoxins to relieve his sorrow. Now I don’t dare to think about what was in the cup he drank from after class… Anyway, it’s definitely not blood. There is something wrong with the ‘dose’ of the Raven’s Potion.”
“Sir Ted Leal may be trapped deeper in this dream, a place that even psychic calls cannot reach.” A knowledge guard next to him saw that the topic was getting deeper and deeper. Coming to Yue Wai, he quickly found an opportunity to speak, “This place feels very weird. Just now we searched the nearby ruins in groups and found that as long as you walk beyond a certain distance, you will have a trance, a blank mind, and even temporary amnesia. The psychic communication between them also became intermittent…”
“That’s true,” another knowledge guard nodded immediately, “Selanie even said that she completely forgot who she was for a few seconds. Things in the real world make me feel like I was born here, and I want to stay here forever…”
Nina looked at the two knowledge guards who spoke, thought about it, and said: “It’s really not because the dosage is too high. Is it too big?”
“The dosage I gave is absolutely fine!” Before the two guards could speak, Taran El was the first to hold back, “Miss, please believe in the value of a first-class pharmacist license—— What’s more, I am the inventor of the ‘sudden death method’, and no one knows it better than me…” “
Just because you invented such a ‘sudden death method’, the Institute of Truth should revoke your pharmacist license,” Morris couldn’t bear it. Zhu muttered, but still shook his head after thinking carefully, “It probably has nothing to do with the side effects of the potion. The situation mentioned by the two knowledge guards is more like the ‘Dream of the Nameless One’ itself affecting them.”
Ni Na blinked as she listened: “But the two of us have been operating here for such a long time, and we don’t feel this way…” Morris thought for a moment
, raised his head and looked at the majestic canopy remains in the distance. , and those phantoms wandering confusedly among the wreckage: “Perhaps… because we are not elves after all.”
Nina instantly understood what the teacher meant, and Taran Ayre and the surrounding elven guardians also showed a thoughtful expression. The look of thinking.
After a brief silence, Taran El slowly stood up and came to a nearby boulder, looking into the distance with a complex expression.
Stretching blackened remains extended and undulated in his field of vision. The majestic tree crowns collapsed and collapsed, turning into mountains and valleys on the earth. Ash covered the earth, and dead branches were crisscrossed in the ashes.
Like a giant city falling from the sky to the earth, its ruins falling apart, the desolate memory still lingers on this land after destruction, melting into the wind and dust.
Taran El tried his best to imagine what this place must have been like.
There was once a forest here, a lush forest under the shade of the World Tree. The valleys and hills here were once full of life. The roots of giant trees undulated on the earth. Clear streams ran through the valleys, and many creatures lived there. Here – birds, beasts, elves.
Those were “ancestors” that he had never seen before, living in another era.
The lushness and vitality of that era far exceeded the imagination of today’s people, but compared to that vitality, what may be more difficult to imagine is order and tranquility.
It is said that the distant Pland and Frost have already ushered in this kind of peace – but the “Captain Duncan” also said that even the “tranquility” of Pland and Frost now is not as good as the world before the Great Annihilation. .
Taran El found that his imagination had hit a wall.
He found that no matter how much he imagined, what emerged in his mind was not a vivid picture – the cold words from the books he had read diffused into his memory, but what was sketched in his mind could only be a superficial and general impression. He finally understood what the “forest” looked like from his dream, but he couldn’t imagine how the birds and animals could live in this boundless green ocean, and how the elves could coexist with such a “forest”…
People It is said that the ancient elves’ books and oral stories have left the most complete inheritance. If one day, archaeologists can really restore the appearance of the world before the Great Annihilation, it will definitely look like the world sleeping in the light. In Fenggang and Moko’s libraries.
But now Taran El realized—that was no longer the case.
One day a long time ago, when the sea swallowed up the world, it withered away with Selendis.
But…what exactly destroyed Silantis? What exactly caused the Great Annihilation to occur?
A scorching wind suddenly blew from nowhere, carrying an unsettling sharp noise – not the intermittent and disorderly breeze in the ruins, but a more intense one that seemed to be filled with panic and disillusionment. , a roar that can directly sweep through the mind.
Taran El suddenly woke up from his reverie.
This fierce whistling wind almost swept him away from the earth. He struggled to stand firm in the wind, but found that the surroundings had been plunged into darkness and chaos at some point, as if the light of the entire world had converged in an instant. When I stood up, the ruins of the giant trees in sight turned into high and low twisted shadows, and huge smoke rose from the sky above those shadows, as if the World Tree began to burn again, and the original gathering here The other knowledge guards at the foothold, as well as Morris and Nina, have disappeared from his sight.
The strong wind began to howl, and the dark sand and dust swept past the burning World Tree. Taran Ayre fell from the boulder in embarrassment, and rolled several times before he hit a huge “branch”. He stopped – it was a huge branch that was slightly curved like a spine. He hit its root, and then subconsciously looked up at the sky.
The sky is “sunken”.
In the chaos, Taran El saw an unimaginable sight.
The hazy red light penetrated the clouds, and the dim sky collapsed downwards as if it was being squeezed by something. The clouds were twisting, and the light in the clouds was even bending, as if something huge and terrifying was gradually crushing it. Down, he even wanted to “flatten” the whole world. The huge terrifying pressure brought by this scene even made him suffocate instantly, and even his thinking became stagnant. And in this suffocation and fear, he saw the white floating Light.
Dots of white glimmers filled the air from the burning remains of Sirantes, gradually converging into light streams in the air. The glimmers of light flowed between the huge branches and the scorched earth, as if they were sensing something. , gradually gathering in front of Taran El.
Taran El’s eyes widened. He felt a warm power in the stream of light, but for some reason, great panic and uneasiness surged into his heart at the same time – he stared at the light until The latter gathered into a hazy ball of light in front of him.
The light group had no form, but it seemed to have intelligence. It slowly rotated around Taran El, seeming to be observing something curiously.
Then, it suddenly stopped.
Taran El heard a sharp whistling sound – the whistling sound seemed to drill directly into his brain and drill a hole out of his brain.
The voice was childish, filled with great fear and a kind of crazy anger.
“No! You are not elves!”
(End of Chapter)
***Commenting is only available on the Novel Description Page.