In that final moment, a sharp cold light appeared in the depths of the boundless void and chaos, and the flood of broken information almost drowned out the tiny flame that seeped into the "sample".

In a slight trance, Duncan heard Shirley next to him exclaiming, "Be careful!"

The trance consciousness and the real world overlapped again, Duncan instinctively took a half step back, and the next second, he saw a sword tip glowing with silver light appeared in front of him.

The tip of the sword stopped only ten centimeters from the tip of his nose, and it was still slowly extending forward.

"Aggressive!" Ted Lear, who had been staring at the containment sample next to him, reacted instantly, he let out a low breath, and then he quickly slapped the large book in his hand, and a shimmer of light diffused outward from the page, covering the surface of the sample in an instant, and quickly condensed, thickened, and turned into a barrier layer by layer.

At the same time, Duncan also withdrew the flame that had infiltrated the sample, and at the same time, he quickly became conscious, and his eyes were once again on the "sample" in front of him.

On the containment platform, the already solidified iron-gray metal mass suddenly deformed just now, and part of its "shell" instantly protruded and condensed into a sword-like form.

But the "sharp sword" that suddenly condensed did not stab anyone, it only reached out halfway, and then it seemed to be dragged by great force, and it is still slowly extending outward little by little, this scene is not so much "stabbing" out...... It's more like a sword is being "drained" from the sample.

Lucrecia had a small "baton" in her hand at some point, she quickly took two steps forward, and took advantage of Ted Lear's magic to control the sample, and directly pointed the baton in the middle of the "long sword", but just as she was about to further destroy the structure, Duncan suddenly stopped her: "Wait."

Lucrecia stiffly stopped the spell that was about to be launched, turned her head to look at her father with some confusion, and Ted Lille and Nina, who were about to take the next step, also hurriedly stopped and cast a puzzled look.

Duncan waved his hand at them, then carefully bypassed the blade, which was still slowly extending outward, and he came to the side of the iron-gray mass of "living metal", staring at its "shell".

It is not really "activated", only the blade that has been extended outwards has changed, and the rest of the specimen is still in a stagnant, frozen state as before.

The chaotic and fragmented information still swirls in his mind, as if a person's memories have been completely torn into pieces, mixed up randomly, and then "collapsed" in front of his eyes, Duncan sorted through those broken memories over and over again, trying to reassemble them into useful information.

He saw many things—ominous crimson, scars across the sky, warriors on departure, fallen companions, a world that was distorted and decaying, a meaningless journey, great confusion, anger, fear, the death and calm that followed, and all sorts of bizarre images that kept emerging in the midst of insanity.

Duncan suspected that if other ordinary people had seen these things—even just a small part of them—they would have been completely tainted by some of the dangerous knowledge that the information carried.

But these polluting "knowledge" are just chaotic fragments to him, and in the process of sorting and recalling them again and again, he has begun to gradually combine them into continuous memories.

Then he looked up at the sword, which had already stretched out more than halfway, and after a moment's hesitation, he stretched out his finger and touched its surface.

The touch of cold, hard metal came from the fingertips.

Duncan slowly closed his eyes, and he could feel that the chaotic fragments of memory in his mind had become clearer and more coherent when he touched the sword, and although they were still incomplete, they were enough for him to understand what had happened.

He opened his eyes to see the last fragment of that distant and ancient world, the nameless warrior's last counterattack towards the end - he gently pinched the fragment, felt the connection it transmitted to himself, and slowly pulled it outward.

The flames gave the longsword, which had not been able to fly out of the sky, an extra strength, and it had finally broken free from the living metal once and for all.

Well-made, with a slender blade, a fine linen wrapped around the hilt, and a gauntlet inlaid with brilliant crystals of unknown purpose and material, it has now crossed a long time and is here in its original and "correct" form..... The Deep Sea Age.

Everyone in the room, including Ted Lear, stared at the scene in disbelief, and Lucrecia finally couldn't help but speak, "Dad, what is this?"

Duncan lowered his head, looked at the nameless sword in his hand, and thought for a long time before slowly speaking, "This is the weapon that was planned to be used to fight the end of the world."

"Against the end of the world?" Shirley's eyes widened instantly, "With a sword? Is this the kind of artifact in the legend that can split the sea? The kind blessed by the four gods?"

Duncan shook his head, "It's just a sword—their best sword, it's sharp, but even if used to the extreme, it can only be used to slash larger beasts or armed humans...... That's the limit of what they can do."

Lucrecia and Ted Learle looked at each other and couldn't understand for a moment, but Nina vaguely understood and immediately asked, "What do you see?"

Duncan was still sorting through the messy and fragmented memories in his mind, but after a brief moment of thought, he broke the silence by speaking: "Just fragments, something that happened a long, long time ago.....

He described what he saw – in as understandable a way as possible.

He didn't say it fast, because there were so many fragments in it, there was so much information that even he couldn't quite understand, and he had to find a way to complete the incoherent parts, or find a way to explain some concepts that were difficult for Nina and the others to understand.

For the first time, he tried to explain to the people of this world what a "planet" was—and after the last time he talked to Alice, he finally decided to try it that way.

But to explain an unfamiliar concept, it takes ten more basic knowledge points, and each unfamiliar knowledge point needs more knowledge to supplement, and there are countless things that are completely contrary to common sense and intuition for people in this world, even if all of them are explained clearly, no one can imagine and reorganize them in their minds.

Ted Lear and Lucretia struggled to understand, and the questions they threw kept prolonging the lecture - and finally Duncan realized that if he wanted to explain all the basic concepts, it would take at least half a year of full-time instruction to do so.

Therefore, he can only pass by many things, or temporarily fill in the gaps in knowledge and concepts in a metaphorical way.

In the end, despite his many efforts, Nina and the others could obviously only understand partially, but at least, this time, they generally understood what was happening.

Shirley was still immersed in the shock of a long "story", and Nina was still thinking about the strange words that Duncan had just mentioned, and the two scholars on the scene ...... Lucrecia and Ted Learle looked like water, and they had clearly thought about it.

"The end of the world......" Ted Learle whispered to himself, "if what you see really points to an apocalypse, then when it happened......

"Before the Great Annihilation," Duncan affirmed the unspoken question, and then raised his long sword, "The 'black wall' that has long stood in front of the eyes of historians has now opened a gap, and this sword ...... Perhaps the first relic that can be confirmed, from before the Great Annihilation to the present deep-sea age'."

"A historic moment...... And so it happened." Ted Lear sighed lightly with a complicated face, in front of this news that was enough to shake the entire academic world, he only felt that his mind was in chaos, and suddenly countless information appeared to impact the knowledge system he had established for a long time, and even impact his perception of the world, so that he couldn't help but pray to Lahem in his heart, and put mental protection and psychological hints on himself to prevent himself

of sanity is impaired.

Lucrecia suddenly raised her head after a long period of silent thought, and looked into Duncan's eyes, "You just mentioned a lot of strange concepts, those are the things you mentioned earlier that are difficult to explain to me?"

"Just a small part of it, a very, very small part," Duncan whispered, "I should have told you this sooner."

Lucretia only shook her head slightly, she neither complained, nor asked her father why he was willing to explain those things to her now—he must have done so for his reasons, and when he was willing to do so, he would have said it.

She was just a little curious as to why her father knew about these unbelievable things.

That knowledge...... Is it derived from subspace?

On the other side, Ted Lille suddenly realized a problem after thinking about it for a while.

"As you can see, under the influence of that 'red light', the world is engulfed in lava, the earth is torn apart, and everyone is dead..... And how did the deep sea age begin?"

He raised his hand and gestured, his palm slashing downward, mimicking a fault.

"It's incoherent, Captain Duncan—after the destruction of that world, before the beginning of the Deep Sea Age, there should be a process of change in between, and the world you see can't correspond to any race, place, or lore in the Deep Sea Age today.....

"Indeed, it can't be corresponded," Duncan nodded slightly, his gaze falling on the mass of "samples" on the platform, and after a long time, he finally uttered a guess he had in mind a long time ago, "So..... That world didn't pass down much like the world of humans, elves, and senjin, and what we saw in front of us was all that was left of that world."

"'That world'.... Ted Lear and Lucrecia looked at each other for a moment, and at this moment, they finally understood what Duncan meant.

In Duncan's mind, the "moon" of his hometown finally appeared in front of him again.

Along with it, Alice once smiled at the words she said to herself--

"Captain, is this a brain teaser?".

The expression on Duncan's face changed slightly, and the muscles at the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, finally turning into a smile that neither Nina nor Lucrecia could understand.

"yes, that's a brain teaser.....

He whispered in a voice that only he could hear.