Chapter 171 The Legend of the Eternal Dark Sea
In any case, Kant Ling had to go there, and Gawain had to go there in person.
The Ansu Kingdom has a loose system, and the royal family's protection of remote areas is as low as its dominance. Moreover, the southern region has been in peace for a long time, and the military and military families with strong combat power will slowly decline in this environment, so they are in the extreme south. It is almost impossible for Gawain to count on any support from a third party (this circumstance is probably one of the reasons why the cultists are able to encroach on the area), and not being able to wait for support is just one of the reasons that Gawain decided to do it himself factor, another reason is that he saw something in that "dream".
He mentioned to Hetty and Pittman that the Eternal Sleeper had left an evil thing in Kant Castle, but he did not say what the "bad thing" was, but in fact he had seen it and recognized it it.
That thing is located in front of the gorgeous stone pavilion in the center of the underground hall. It is placed on a small altar like a "sacred object" to be enshrined. It is an exquisite magic lantern. More than 700 years ago, high Vin Cecil gave it as a gift to Selena Gerfen, who was serving as a chaplain in the Trail Blazers at the time.
She used to be a gentle and quiet lady, a goddess of dreams who was deeply trusted by the pioneers and used dreams to heal the wounds of countless soldiers in the age of darkness and panic. Her devout faith and outstanding Her contribution made her a dream bishop in the Northern Pioneering Army before she was thirty years old. If fate didn't make a bad joke, then she might even become one of the candidates for the Pope of the Dream Church, a person like Gawain. ·A famous pioneering hero like Cecil.
But in that mysterious ceremony that tried to communicate with the gods, she followed the then-Dream Church Pope to the Ancestor's Peak. No one knew what happened at that ceremony and the meeting that followed. Gawain only knew that in After that fateful day, several sects, including the Druid Sect, the Church of Dreamland, and the Church of God of Storms, became the enemies of human society.
There was no openly announced break, no debate in the religious hall, and several sects rushed out of the Ancestral Summit venue as if going crazy at the same time, and then their followers all over the continent seemed to have received some kind of order. Like leaving their respective churches and meeting places at the same time, an invisible huge spiritual net seems to have enveloped every member of the dark sect since that day. In just a few days, several major churches have fallen one after another. disappeared before the eyes of the world.
Since the entire Ancestral Peak at that time was blocked by the armed priests of the Church of Holy Light and the Church of God of War,
Therefore, no one knows what happened that day. After that, the spokespersons of the major gods explained to the outside world that "a small number of extreme churches could not accept the conditions of peaceful coexistence with other beliefs, so they chose to defect." In Searle, and in Gawain's mind in the future, he always had doubts about this explanation.
As for Selena Geerfen, she has never appeared since that day. In the past, she used dreams to soothe the pain of the soldiers, and the gentle goddess trusted by the pioneers disappeared. She may be like a part of the fallen German. Rui rushed into the wasteland of Gondor like that, and he may have turned into some kind of more distorted and darker existence. Gawain didn't know the final outcome of that old friend. He only knew that seven hundred years later Today, a relic of Selena Gerfen appears here, housed in the Kant family's old castle as the centerpiece of some evil sacrificial ritual.
He thinks it's necessary for him to reclaim that thing, which may help him understand what happened on the Ancestral Peak seven hundred years ago, or at least understand that the original priests were born when they fell into cultists. what kind of change.
The evil forces that are growing and transforming in Kant Castle have not yet reached their heyday. According to the progress sensed in the dream, Gawain can slowly prepare to arrange for himself a place that can enter Kant Castle without causing Vic. A chance for Viscount Do Conde to be vigilant and suspicious - he didn't intend to break in with all his arms, but to find a chance to stop the incident before it broke out.
It is very troublesome and interesting for a duke to visit a viscount, but it is not so complicated for a duke who currently has only a title and is essentially just a pioneering lord to visit a "neighbor". Gawain knew Kant. A large part of the food and herbs produced by the leader will be sent to Tanzania, and then purchased by Cecil, and not long ago, Cecil purchased a group of slaves from Tanzania (regular, by slaves sold by slave traders), which means that there is actually a lot of trade between the two territories, which is a reason to visit.
He prepared a set of speeches and told Hetty to do it: "Send a messenger over and say that I will visit to discuss the purchase of food and medicinal materials in the coming year-Cecile understands the purchase of large quantities of materials, and these things come from Tanzania. The market in the town not only increases the price, but also delays the effort. We can establish a new trade route between Cecil and Kant. Anyway, we are also preparing to develop the north bank of Baishui River. This matter is worth my visit. Talk to him."
Hetty nodded: "I understand."
After arranging this matter, Gawain rubbed his brows and turned his attention to another matter.
"Have you two heard of the 'Eternal Dark Sea'?"
Hetty and Pittman were stunned for a moment and looked at each other.
When Gawain saw the expressions of these two people, his heart suddenly sank: It seems that there is not much hope.
Hetty is a mage who has received orthodox aristocratic education and has acquired a lot of knowledge of mysticism. He should be regarded as an expert in orthodox history and natural history knowledge, while Pittman has received social education and has acquired a lot of knowledge of cheating and abduction. The amusing comparison is also regarded as an expert in the anecdotes and bluffing of people. The knowledge of these two complement each other, and they are almost like an alien version of Zhihu - if they have never heard of "Eternal Dark Sea" "If that's the case, then he probably won't be able to find out about this in the knowledge field of normal people.
"This sounds like a term that superstitious sailors would make up," Hetty frowned and speculated, "The ocean is shrouded in magical whirlpools and storms all the year round. Few ships dare to challenge the deep sea, and occasionally there are daring ones. Adventurers go out to sea trying to find the waterway, and few people come back alive. Over time, sailors have made up all kinds of superstitions related to the ocean, and they have also created various strange sea areas that the adventurers who have returned from madness have talked about. Various names... Ancestor, where did you hear that name?"
"It's also from the memory of the Eternal Sleeper cultists," Gawain didn't hide this, and then looked at Pittman, "You seem to have something to say?"
Although the old Druid was at a loss when he first heard the words "Eternal Dark Sea", he gradually showed a thoughtful look when Hetty told the superstitious stories of those sailors, so Gawain curiously asked him.
"Yes, my lord, if you are interested in some strange stories of unofficial history, I can tell you those stories that are circulated in the folk and cannot be on the stage," Pittman nodded, "I have indeed heard of 'Eternal Darkness'. "Sea area", but it is not a word created by humans, in fact, it originated from the silver elves, and it is a story spread among the elves - so I didn't think of it all at once."
"The bizarre story of the silver elves?" Gawain was suddenly surprised. He did not expect that the "Eternal Dark Sea" mentioned by an eternal sleeper cultist turned out to be a word derived from the silver elves, "The super-living long ears Would you still spread such a thing?"
"The silver elves living in the southern part of the continent established the oldest civilized society on this land, tens of thousands of years earlier than the rise of humans in the middle of the continent. Now, although the original elf empire has been lost in history, the new silver empire has Inherited many historical documents of the ancient elf empire, but because the age is too old, and the various elemental creatures and alien beasts active in ancient times are easily mixed with myths and legends, those historical documents also have a large number of errors and omissions. It’s normal for them to turn into bizarre myths, after all, elves are just mortal species,” Pittman laughed, “and about the Eternal Dark Sea, it is the most bizarre of all elves legends.”
Then he cleared his throat and continued: "Cough. In the legend about the Eternal Dark Sea, the elves talked about the origin of their own clan - it is said that there were no silver elves at all, and there were no gray elves, dark elves, etc. A subspecies of elves, only one 'primordial elves' born with great power and immortality live on another continent far away.
"One day in ancient times, a disaster occurred on that continent, so a group of primordial elves escaped from their ancestral continent in an 'ark' that could float and gallop above the sea. I was lost at sea, and after being lost for half a month, I suddenly broke into a sea area that was always in the dark and shrouded in starlight. In the center of that sea area, stood an extremely magnificent and extremely tall giant tower. A mountain-like figure, its top poking straight into the starry sky.
"The lost primordial elves were touched by the giant tower and the starry sky, so they prayed devoutly under the starlight, hoping to find a new habitat, and their prayers were conveyed to the ears of the gods in the stars through the giant tower, so The starlight descended and blessed, and the giant tower opened its gate, allowing the primordial elves to step into it.
"All the primordial elves walked into the tower, and they saw endless wonderful things in the tower, the projection of the cosmic starry sky, and the evolution of various animals, minerals, and plants in the world. Realizing that this tower contains incredible knowledge, they became greedy - they were no longer satisfied with sheltering from the wind and waves on the outer layer of the tower, but tried to enter the inner and upper layers of the tower to touch that knowledge.
"So the giant tower descended on punishment, and a radiance filled the whole tower. Those primordial elves who tried to steal knowledge were shrouded in radiance. According to the degree of their intrusion, they were transformed into their life forms in the rays of light, becoming sun-fearing creatures. Dark elves, small grey elves, sea elves who can't leave the water for a long time, and silver elves with the fewest flaws - because the silver elves fear the power of the tower, they do not step into the forbidden area too much, so they are punished. Also the smallest.
In this way, the immortal and powerful primordial elves turned into subspecies elves with various flaws, and these subspecies fled the tower in horror, returned to their ark, and left the area they called In the 'Eternal Dark Seas', a mysterious place with a giant tower standing forever shrouded in night and starry sky, and they drifted to the current Loren continent, it was after that. "
Pittman took a breath and stroked his beard: "Sir, this is the legend about the Eternal Dark Sea."
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