This battle that had lasted for hundreds of years finally came to an end when the last human was transformed into a Naga - it ended in a way that exceeded the expectations of every human, and more than the Krakens expected.

At the end of the day, the strange phenomenon of the Naga is an unexplainable accident for everyone, and humans can't figure out how it works, even the Krakens.

In the deep sea, a deep-water shuttle with a streamlined shell is quietly skimming the bottom of the sea, Pettia stands by the porthole of the shuttle, her eyes sweep the dark and secluded waters outside and the rugged and rough seabed, in the dim light and shadow, you can see several temporary settlements, the newly transformed Nagas are resting in this calm seabed, and the settlement is full of Sirens who are taking care of their "new friends".

"I'm afraid it's going to take us a long time to study Naga," the Siren Queen whispered, "It's an incredible phenomenon...... One race, one that has nothing to do with the Kraken, has changed so dramatically, and it's clearly related to us...... The world is full of secrets, Rosalia. ”

Rosaria, the maid of the deep sea, floated beside Pettia and nodded lightly when she heard this: "As you say, Your Majesty." ”

Pettia hummed softly and asked casually, "Did the witches and the deep-water technicians come up with any conclusions?" ”

"There has been no substantial progress, but after questioning many reawakened Nagas and consulting human books on religion, the witches have some conjectures that this change may be related to the long-standing 'spiritual beliefs' of these self-proclaimed Storm Children."

"Oh? Let's be specific. ”

"These 'Children of the Storm' believe in a god called the Lord of the Storm, who is obviously our 'Great Squid'. According to the information shared by our Cecil allies, the belief of humanity creates a power connection that leads to a specific god, but the gods of the Children of the Storm fell many years ago, and we the Kraken ...... It is very likely that it has occupied the original position of this god, so it has always been believed in by the storm believers of this era of humanity...... I'm afraid it's all us, or strictly speaking, the 'Kraken' as a whole. ”

"Eva......" Petia whispered thoughtfully, her hands slowly clasped over her chest, "that's amazing." If we are to judge by the time, we began to dig for the Great Squid many years before the Season civilization, that is, the Stormchildren connected their faith to our race at the beginning of their religion...... And yet we didn't actually do anything, and we didn't even know about it. ”

"This is also one of the topics that the witches are studying," the sea maid Rosaria nodded, "The 'faith' of humanity seems to be an automatic thing, and it was initially transformed from a sense of reverence for natural phenomena or specific natural things, strictly speaking, the original belief in the storm should not have pointed to any god, but to the reverence of the sea itself, in this case, according to the information shared by Cecil's allies, humanity should have molded a new one out of the faith." God of Storms', but this process was unexpectedly interrupted by us - our excavation imprisoned an ancient god in an immortal state, and took its place, coupled with our substantial control over large swaths of the ocean, so human faith began to point to the 'de facto controller of the ocean', and this process ...... It's a natural occurrence. ”

"Will this 'pointing' have any effect on the Kraken?"

"It's not certain for the time being, the 'religious concept' of human beings is a difficult thing for us to understand," Rosaria shook her head, "but judging from the current situation, this 'direction' has been going on for many, many years, and even in previous civilizations, there may have been land-based people who feared the sea and pointed their faith at the Kraken, but it didn't have any effect on us, so this 'direction' is mostly harmless." ”

"It's harmless to us...... But it has unilaterally affected them," Pettia withdrew her gaze from the Naga's temporary quarters, and sighed in her tone, "Now it seems that it is the long-term belief in the Kraken that has influenced these humans, causing them to transform into a life form similar to the Kraken...... It is an incredible change that the power of so-called 'faith' can affect matter. ”

Rosaria responded, "The witches are studying the change—especially the opportunity for it. The faith of these Storm Children has lasted for thousands of years, but their changes have only recently begun suddenly, with no gradual process in between, which is puzzling. Master Hathaway currently has a conjecture that she believes is the result of the combined effects of the recent actions of the Stormchildren and the recent changes in Kraken society—

"Since last year, the Storm Children have become more aggressive, they have built a large number of strongholds on the 'border', which has caused them to get too close to the 'big squid' and too close to the Kraken, which has strengthened the 'connection' between them and us, and on the other hand, we preyed on the 'nature gods' created by humans in our last 'hunt', and the nature gods seem to have a biological influence - this influence may be the reason for the 'Naga' phenomenon."

Listening to the report of the maid of the deep sea, the kraken queen Petya fell silent for a while, and thought in silence.

After a period of thought, the ruler of the deep sea raised his head and sighed softly, "You can't eat indiscriminately in the future...... The world is dangerous. ”

The maid Rosalia also nodded in agreement: "...... It's still good to be in your hometown, and you can pick up everything on the seabed and eat it. ”

"So, speaking of the witches' research work - our human allies mentioned a mysterious signal they captured in their last contact, is there any progress on Hathaway's side?"

"Tide Master Tyre submitted the characteristics of the signal in his debriefing, and after comparing it with the deep-water technicians, it was confirmed that it was not released by Antavian, nor was it any of our communication bands," Rosalia replied immediately, "Master Hathaway took a great interest in it, and she thought that the way it was transmitted and the technology used by humans in the magic web communication was very helpful to us—for many years, due to the inability to perceive and understand the magical environment of this world, We have never been able to repair Antavian's main antenna array, but now there may be hope. ”

"Oh?" Petia's eyebrows rose slightly, "That's good news. ”

……

On the edge of the sunlit continent of Io, the imposing steel starship crawls like a mountain on the shoreline, and the waves gently rise and fall around the ship, licking the hull and deck of the migrant ship.

At the tail of the Antavian, on the platform on which the antenna array sits, the deep-water technicians are busy.

At the edge of the platform, Hathaway, the deep sea witch with long blue hair and scaly cheeks, withdrew her gaze to the beach in the distance.

The ship tilted and crashed on the planet, causing everything on the ship to be at an angle of about thirty degrees to the planet's own gravity, and the Krakens were unable to move the giant ship that had lost power, but they couldn't abandon the ship's massive supplies and precious living space, so after finally repairing part of the ship's functions, they first activated and reset the Antavien's gravity generator - by recalibrating gravity, The Sirens can stand comfortably on the tilted ship as if they were on the ground, which also makes them feel wonderful when they stand on the ship and look out:

The whole world is tilted.

"I think we should have an optical filter in all of Antavien's viewing areas," said Hathaway, the blue-haired witch, holding out her hand and gesturing between heaven and earth, to her assistant beside her, "Let this slanting scene 'square' be." Now this kind of scenery always looks dizzying. ”

“…… I think the main reason you're feeling dizzy is that you've drunk too much of the 'Deep Sea Drink,'" the assistant slapped Hathaway's dangling paws off with his tail, "that's almost twice as much as us." ”

"I need to stimulate my mind and maintain the ability to think at high speed," Hathaway poked the tip of her tail into the nearby alloy ground, making a "doo" sound, "The recent research projects are so exciting, I don't want to stop for a moment......"

The assistant glanced at the venerable deep sea witch who had a lot of problems in life, and shook his head helplessly: "'Stimulating the mind' is a human saying, master—where do we get our brains?" ”

Hathaway looked at the serious-looking assistant and shook her head, "Boring." ”

Then the deep sea witch who had experienced the "big crash" and was the same age as the queen slid her long snake tail to the antenna array not far away.

The massive ancient device stood majestically, its streamlined shell covering the superalloy frame, obscuring the intricate structure within, its end pointing high into the blue sky, and a highly sensitive array of sensing arrays ready to listen for signals that might come from all directions.

It was designed for interstellar faster-than-light communication, and was used to liaise with several other colonial ships that had escaped from their home planet.

However, today only Antavien crashed alone on this planet, the compatriots who fled together in the past have long disappeared into the depths of the turbulence of time and space, and the advanced and powerful faster-than-light communication array has also lost its effect on this planet with an abnormal environment, leaving only the most basic sensing devices that can barely function - not to mention receiving signals from space, even maintaining communication in the atmosphere requires the help of various auxiliary augmentation means.

Hathaway's gaze followed the casing of the antenna array all the way up, and at a height of about a hundred meters, she saw that part of the casing had been opened, where the Deepwater Technicians were busy reworking the ancient structures inside, the shimmering runic devices being installed into the original frame one by one, and the many additional cables and e-chains® extending from the "access hatch".

"Our human allies have generously shared a lot with us...... "The Witch of the Deep whispered, "We thought that the technology on land was very backward, but it turns out that even on backward land, the wisdom of the natives has merit......

The assistant's voice came from the side: "Master, do you think this transformation will really be useful?" After all, we've used all sorts of methods to transform other things before......"

"A year ago, the Krakens were completely unable to understand and perceive what the 'magic' of this world was, it was something outside of our worldview, and even something that our physiological structure was not 'compatible' - this was the result of a conflict of rules," Hathaway said in a low and serious voice, at this moment, she was already the deep sea witch worthy of the respect of all Krakens, her words made every Kraken around her couldn't help but show a look of thought and approval, "I predicted many years ago, If the rules of this world and the rules of the home world deviate by one ten-thousandth, then we will be wiped out the moment we enter this time and space, but fortunately, we did not encounter that additional one-ten-thousandth deviation, and we survived, but this survival is incomplete.

"Our ability to perceive and think is limited to our own life forms, in this world, we are like a defective race that is born unable to understand addition and subtraction, we are born unable to perceive and understand part of the structure of this world, so no matter how hard we try, we can't repair the spaceship, but will be pushed down again and again by the demon tide of this world.

"We can't fix the antenna, not because of a lack of wisdom and technology, but because we are 'blind' and 'deaf' in front of certain information.

"But this deficiency has now been filled.

"We can feel magic and understand what magic is, human runes are no longer a mess of symbols for us, and energy tremors in the air are no longer incomprehensible noises, and on this basis, every repair work we will carry out on the ship in the future will not be as random as before.

"We've managed to get a small portion of the Core Fusion Tower back up and running, and now Anta Vinn has reached 36 percent of its energy supply, which is an inconspicuous number, but it's enough to prove that we've taken a step forward.

"Sisters, our current efforts are all meaningful – let's start by repairing the main antenna."