Something was emerging from the even gray-white background, like a long tunnel coming to an end, and the light at the exit came into view.

Shirley climbed onto the mast nimbly with her hands and feet, stared into the distance with wide eyes of excitement, and happily shouted in the direction of the deck: "There's something ahead!" It's not a phantom, it looks like something solid! ”

The sight that had emerged at the end of the "route" gradually became clear, and the uniform gray-white background around it began to melt away like a morning mist in the sun, and Duncan first discerned the sparkling light from the rapidly clear scene—and then the mist floating on the water, and many shadows, large and small, in the distance.

Those large and small shadows float on the water, gradually becoming a clear island.

That's the mysterious "archipelago" that Captain Kalani mentioned in her journal!

Everyone on the Lost Land came to the deck, with inexplicable excitement, and faintly nervous mood to look at the sea and the archipelago that seemed to suddenly emerge from nothingness, they saw that the flooded sea quickly spread to the near, spread to the side of the Lost Land, the sound of the water suddenly sounded, and then the whole ship came from a shock and vibration - the Lost Land sailed into this sea water, after experiencing that long and strange "time and space gap journey", The sound of the breaking waves crashing against the hull of a ship sounded so good.

The sailor clutched the steering wheel in his hand, looking at the sea and the archipelago that quickly filled the entire field of vision from the high platform at the stern, and the fragmented memories seemed to be awakened, and countless coherent and incoherent images rolled in his mind, and an indescribable sense of time dislocation came to him—

He remembered the place, and he remembered that when the Sea Song finally reached an island after a long drift, the chaotic sounds of the ship, the seafarers like the walking dead woke up from a long nightmare, the priest who had lost himself suddenly regained his senses, and the people prostrate on the ground, kissing the rusty and crumbling deck, and then turning into spirits and ashes in the sea breeze......

He remembered the place - he even felt like he had never left, that he had always stood on the bridge of the Sea Song.

It wasn't until his hands gripping the steering wheel suddenly felt a slight tingling pain that he suddenly woke up from the illusion of the misalignment of time.

He looked down and saw a thin layer of flame floating on the surface of the dark steering wheel, which then dissipated and the stinging was gone.

"I still have a task...... Yes, there are still tasks to be completed...... Thank you for waking me up......" The sailor muttered to himself, thanking the Lost for waking itself up when he was about to go missing, then looked up again, carefully calibrating the course between the familiar islands and muttered, "Captain Kalani, I'm back......"

Sailing the vast sailing expedition ship carefully sailed through the misty seas, weaving between the dark "islands" in search of gaps in the fog, and the Brilliant Star slowed down, carefully following the Lost Land.

After a while, many more white shadows flew out of the deck of the Bright Star, and they were countless paper-folded seabirds, flapping their wings through the mist, hovering first around the Lost Country and the Bright Star, and then cautiously expanding their circle little by little, flying over the surrounding islands.

Duncan looked up at the Scouts unleashed and controlled by Lucrecia, and saw that they had not been attacked or corrupted or distorted—they seemed safer than expected.

"There are a lot of slender shadows around these 'islands', hidden under the water, like some kind of limb spreading out," Lucrecia's voice sounded in Duncan's head, "Also, when you look down from the air, you can see that the shape of these 'islands' is very similar, and some of the islands can still be distinguished from the surface of the biological structure...... As mentioned in the journal, they were all Leviathan corpses. ”

"Hmm." Duncan replied softly, his eyes sweeping over the "islands" floating in the mist, and in some of the shallower waters, he also noticed the shadows that spread from beneath the islands—those shadows were "elongated" compared to the islands, but each one was still larger than the hull of the Lost Land, stretching stiffly in the water, unresponsive to the approach of outsiders, as if they had been dead for a long time.

Duncan recalled the massive tentacles and the big pale eyes he saw beneath the frost.

He knew that the "Leviathan Behemoths" that carried the city-state were actually "fakes" created by the Netherworld Holy Lord, and the real Leviathans were here.

"His children died around Him and rested at the ends of the world......"

Morris's voice came from the side, with a slight metallic tremor, and Duncan followed the sound to see that Morris had transformed into the "cast form" again at some point, and the sound of gears and valves opening and closing could still be heard from time to time in the depths of the brass shell.

Morris turned his head, and a reed tremor sound came from his chest: "It's one thing to imagine in your head, it's another thing to see it with your own eyes, right?" ”

Then he paused, and then raised his hand to point at his body: "It never hurts to be cautious, flesh and blood are very fragile in this place. ”

“…… If your flesh and blood are broken, you can still ask Vanna to help treat it, but if your copper shell is broken, you'll have to find a fitter - there are no fitters on the ship. ”

"Nina can help," said Morris casually, "I've given her the blueprint of my body, and she's pretty good at it now." ”

Duncan thought about it and felt it made sense.

It's just a bit of an evil sect.

At the same time, Vana was standing at the edge of the foredeck, looking somewhat distractedly at the distant sea, a hazy shadow standing in the mist beside her.

"I ...... I could hear His voice like never so close," she whispered as if to herself, "everywhere, as if the whole sea was His whisper...... He spoke in my ear, but I couldn't hear it. ”

"Maybe it's because we're too close, or maybe it's really just meaningless babbling," Agatha's voice came from the shadows, "Either way, you need to be more cautious here than anyone else—you are a saint, you are more sensitive to His hearing and perception than others, and you are more susceptible to His influence, even with the protection of the Captain, you have to beware of your mind drifting away from human nature." ”

"I know," Vana nodded slightly, "thanks for the reminder." ”

Agatha didn't say anything more, just stood thoughtfully in the fog, and after a long time she whispered, "You say...... What would Bartók's kingdom look like? ”

Vanna blinked, but didn't know how to answer the question.

His sons died around Him...... Here, the dead Leviathan has become an archipelago, and the Storm Goddess is surrounded by them, which makes me suddenly curious about the place where the other gods rest," Agatha said slowly in thought, "My teachings tell me that the souls of the dead will pass through that gate and usher in eternal peace in Bartók's kingdom, and my memories tell me that the 'messengers of death' are real, and that they will pass through the spirit realm to answer the call of the gatekeeper......

"But where is that gate? Standing somewhere at the end of the world? Were the messengers there, too? Those who died...... Will the wilderness of the soul they finally arrive in the center of such a sea?

"I feel...... It's hard to imagine. ”

Vanna's eyes widened slightly, and she looked at the figure standing in the fog with some consternation—these doubts should not have come from the mouth of a saint, a former gatekeeper, but she couldn't help but be stirred by Agatha's series of questions, and even began to have the same curiosity.

She turned her head and looked into the depths of the mist in the distance.

What would the temple described in the Storm Book look like "reigning over all storms and anchoring the foundation of the sea"?

"There's a very large island ahead," Lucretia's voice sounded in Duncan's heart with a hint of excitement, "There seems to be a large building on the island!" ”

The fog seemed to recede around the Lost Homeland, a gap appeared in front of the ship's bow, and at the end of the sea, which suddenly became clear, a huge island appeared in everyone's eyes under the mysterious shimmer of chaos from the sky.

It was an "island" that seemed to be "piled up" by countless huge black boulders, not so much a natural artifact, but more like a "wonder building" artificially built by an ancient civilization, large and small rectangular stones that had been precisely cut and intricately arranged rose from the sea and piled up into an undulating structure that could not be seen at a glance, and the huge "palace" stood on top of countless rectangular stones.

It is also made of stone-like "materials", with a surface of black or dark green, and a crystal-like green material embedded in the stones, forming a gloomy, complex and mysterious façade. The "palace" as a whole presents a structure of elevated layers, with astonishing pillars supporting its heavy lower rim, and the upper part of the palace with many strange cutouts, as if deliberately set aside for some kind of huge creature to enter and exit.

"Amazing ...... structure," Morris looked at the huge palace standing in the glimmer of light, the joint of his jaw almost fell off, and he was stunned for a long time before he said, "How was it built?!" ”

"Anyway, it's definitely not something that the current city-state civilization can build." Duncan said casually, and then out of the corner of his eye, he noticed the ...... "things" that spread out of the side of the lower area of the palace.

It was some kind of massive limb, like the tentacles of a sea beast, that stretched from the gap in the side of the palace to the sea.

Gemona is there.

"We're leaning in," Duncan said in a deep voice, "and we've found her." ”

(End of chapter)