The figure that used to be the Pope of the God of War stood quietly under the magnificent throne. He had once been the carrier of the madness of the gods, the source of the spiritual pollution that spread among the upper echelons of Typhon and the army. He had single-handedly facilitated the 'war' between Typhon and Cecil, and indirectly led to the liquidation and dismantling of the Church of the God of War by the Royal Family of Typhon.
He had also been captured by Rosetta Augustus himself and used as a 'sacrifice' to guide the God of War to descend to the mortal world in advance.
There were very few people who could become a turning point in history books, and Malcolm Dunnett was one of them, even though his role in this turning point was not glorious.
But all of this had become a distant past, and to this phantom who could not be considered a ghost or a heroic soul, everything that had happened in the mortal world was meaningless. He was just an insignificant servant in this disintegrating divine kingdom, guarding the last illusion left by the gods, guarding the door of this collapsing kingdom.
"I didn't expect to have visitors here." Malcolm Dunnett raised his head and looked at the people in front of him with a hint of curiosity. An ancient arcanist full of energy, a burly Holy Light 'Priestess' equipped with heavy armor, and EsGod who had descended here in the form of a projection … Such a team was an unimaginable existence in the era he was familiar with. "What are you doing here? This is just a ruin that is constantly collapsing. "
"We are here to explore the secrets of the gods." Kamel looked at the old man in front of him calmly. No matter what the old man's identity was, it was meaningless now. He only treated him as an ordinary source of information. Of course, in this process, he also maintained basic caution to prevent the 'ghost' wandering in the divine kingdom from having any polluting power. "What about you? How did you retain your intelligence after your own death and the fall of the gods, and wander here for so long? "
Malcolm Dunnett was silent for a moment before he smiled. "I don't know … probably because I hope so."
Kamal remained silent and glanced at Milmina who was silent as well. He then nodded. "We're going to continue exploring this place. Are you going to stop us?"
"No … There is no need for me to stop you," Malcolm Dunnett said calmly. "The mortals have defeated the gods, and this divine kingdom is your spoils of war. This is the rule acknowledged by my Lord — move freely, this is what all humans have won."
Kamail heaved a sigh of relief. Even though he didn't think that this old man who had turned into a specter had the ability to stop a team of explorers protected by a god's incarnation, this was the God of War's divine kingdom after all. Any unplanned and violent actions could cause unpredictable changes here, so it was naturally best to avoid conflict.
But just as he raised his hand and was about to order the White Knight to continue exploring the other areas, Malcolm Dunnett's voice suddenly rang out again. "There's a place that I want to show you."
"A place?" "What do you want us to see?" Kamal looked at the phantom warily. "What do you want us to see?"
"Relax, I mean you no harm." Malcolm Dunnett seemed to have sensed Kamel's change in mood. This may be some kind of "intuition" unique to ghosts. There was a smile in his voice. "At the edge of the divine kingdom, I saw something that shouldn't be here. I think you may be interested in that scene. It's not far away. It won't take long to cross this place. "
Carmel's curiosity was piqued. After a brief moment of hesitation, he decided to follow the spirit. "Lead the way."
Malcolm Dunnett nodded and walked silently to a door next to the throne. The explorers followed under Kamel's lead. Mirmina walked at the back of the team, vigilant of any changes in the environment.
They passed through the outer wall of the arena and entered a new area from another door opposite the cheering walkway. There were also countless towering, windowless buildings with iron-gray roofs and high walls and towers decorated with swords and spears. The servants who once served the gods in this city had all disappeared. Only the empty wind blew under the dim light, stirring up some dust on the empty streets.
After the fall of the gods, dust began to appear in this once spotless divine kingdom.
But Malcolm Dunnett just shook his head slightly and did not lament. He had been wandering here for a long time, and his lament had probably faded. He just led the explorers all the way through the silent palaces and streets, all the way to the edge of the divine kingdom.
And as they gradually approached the edge of this space, Kamel noticed that the surrounding environment was quietly changing. The turbid light in the sky had become dimmer and dimmer, as if night was gradually falling. The surrounding buildings were more and more weathered and damaged. The once sturdy high walls and bright roofs had cracks and even gaps that should not be there. Even the stone streets under their feet had become bumpy as they moved forward. The intact stone slabs were full of cracks.
It was as if the closer they got to the edge of the divine kingdom, the more the space was eroded and disintegrated by some kind of power.
He could not help but look at the senior advisor in the team. The beautiful 'noblewoman' who was as tall as three meters noticed the gaze from the side. She showed a complicated smile under her veil and said softly, "This is what the divine kingdom looks like when it's constantly disintegrating … It will start from the edge and be slowly eroded and disintegrated by the disorderly ripples in the deep sea. If the thoughts accumulated by generations of mortals were a gradually carved reef, then the ripples in the deep sea would be the waves. While the reef may look sturdy, once it loses the 'support' of the thoughts, under the endless erosion of the waves, it would sooner or later peel off and disintegrate layer by layer.
"The disintegrated part will return to the chaotic state in the deep sea, and what you see … is just the initial stage of the process."
Kamel listened to the knowledge of the former god without missing a word. If it were in the past, it would have been extremely dangerous to directly impart such knowledge to mortals because it was the 'truth' that lay outside the cognitive system of mortals and would directly point to the mystery of the operation of the gods. But today, the exploration team composed of mortals had stepped into the divine kingdom, and Kamel and the White Knight led by him were using their own eyes to witness the various mysteries here. So, some of the knowledge that was originally taboo was now accessible to mortals. It was a kind of 'symbolic' effect, and also one of the most basic principles in the realm of the gods.
At the same time, the exploration team gradually passed through the city at the edge of the divine kingdom. As the light from the sky dimmed, the scene in their sight also became more dilapidated and collapsed.
There were fewer and fewer intact buildings, and more and more collapsed ruins in their sight. The towering palace walls and buildings were reduced to broken bricks and tiles. There was even a building that collapsed in front of the explorers. It was a silent collapse, which looked particularly eerie.
Mirmina raised her hand, and a light ball rose from her palm. The light from the illumination spell dispelled the darkness in the surrounding area, but further away, the chaotic darkness was still surging. There seemed to be invisible clusters or shadows in the darkness, and layers of dark spots piled up in the deepest part of the chaos like a visual illusion.
Kamel glanced at the chaotic darkness and suddenly felt that the scene did not seem unfamiliar. After a short moment of recollection, he finally realized where he had seen a similar scene before — the Realm of Looming Shadow.
The 'sky' of the Realm of Looming Shadow was almost exactly the same state of chaotic darkness!
"It seems that you have noticed it too." Mirmina's voice came at this time. "The area where the divine kingdom floats is called the 'deep sea', and the deep sea is, in a sense, the deepest part of the Realm of Looming Shadow. Unlike the clear structure of the Realm of Looming Shadow and the present world, the separation between the Realm of Looming Shadow, the deep sea, and the divine kingdom is not so obvious. Especially when the border of the divine kingdom is broken, the boundary will become more and more blurred."
"Can we go directly to the Realm of Looming Shadow from there?" Kamel could not help but ask curiously. As a scholar, his curiosity and deduction ability began to kick in. "If the 'direction' is right, can we even go to the Disobedience Courtyard?"
"… Unfortunately, it's not that simple." Mirmina laughed softly. She shook her head and said, "What you see may not be able to reach. What you can reach may not be seen. What you can see and reach may not exist. What exists may not be known. That is the bottom of the world. The birth and mapping of everything is not as simple as what mortals know. Even the gods don't know the specific mystery behind it, but I think … perhaps one day, you will be able to figure it out with your own efforts. "
Kamel carefully pondered the mysterious and obscure words that Mirmina said. At this time, Malcolm Dunnett's voice suddenly came from the front. "We have arrived, the border of the divine kingdom. The vision I want to show you is just ahead."
Kamel was awakened from his contemplation. He looked up and saw the scene of the divine kingdom's border!
They had reached the end of War God City. The ground in front of the exploration team seemed to have been snapped by an invisible force, showing a shocking and fragmented state. On the other side of the line of demarcation, the ground had completely disappeared. The wreckage of the buildings separated from the Divine Kingdom and rolled up and down like a sea of clouds. At the end of the ground, the broken walls and the edges of the buildings were also in a state of being torn apart. Crushed sand and dust flowed down from those cracks like water and fell into the unsettling sea of clouds outside the Divine Kingdom.
Mirmina raised her hand, and another light ball rose into the air and floated above the sea of clouds. The light ball emitted a boundless light, illuminating the entire sea of clouds so that Kamel could see the situation further away.
He saw countless vortexes everywhere in the sea of clouds, and the end of the sea of clouds was in a state of boiling and steaming. There was a very obvious boundary between the chaotic darkness and the sea of clouds in the distance. The substance that escaped from the divine kingdom was constantly swallowed by that boundary, turning into fine particles in the blink of an eye and dissipating in the next instant.
This was the scene of the divine kingdom after death being constantly swallowed by the ripples in the deep sea. Even the tough White Knight could not help but be shocked after seeing this spectacular scene that no one had ever seen before. He let out a low cry of surprise.
However, what Malm Dunnett wanted to show Kamal and the others was not just the "Devouring Divide", nor was it just the rolling sea of sand and dust.
The former War God Pope raised his finger and pointed into the distance. A low and hoarse voice came from the depths of his spirit body. "Do you see that? That's the biggest vortex. What I want to show you is that thing. "
Kamel's eyes focused in the direction of the Pope's finger. In the next second, the two points of arcane light on his head suddenly shrank.
In the depths of the sea of clouds, a huge vortex was rolling, and the ruins of buildings were undulating around the vortex. A huge spatial fissure appeared in the surging sea of clouds. That fissure came from nowhere, and no one knew where it led. Its curved edges showed an arc, as if it was a small part of a larger structure that was accidentally exposed. It was located at the center of the vortex, and the floating debris around it would be instantly torn apart and swallowed by that fissure when they got close.
And in the depths of that fissure, a strange, eye-catching blue light surged like water waves, with a texture that Kamel was very familiar with.
He had not seen such a light for a thousand years.
Kamel stared in that direction for a long time before he slowly reached out his hand after careful consideration. His hand crossed the broken boundary at the edge of the divine kingdom, and almost the moment he crossed the boundary, he felt the feeling of magic exhaustion disappear. A strong magic reaction came from the distant fissure, and the magic "radiation" it released seemed to permeate the entire sea of clouds.
Kamel retracted his hand, understanding something in his heart.
The broken boundary under his feet was the current "complete limit" of the divine kingdom of the War God. On the inner side of the boundary, the power of the divine kingdom was in a complete state, it repelled magic and maintained a "magic vacuum" within the boundary. But on the outer side of the boundary, the repelling effect of the divine kingdom disappeared, and the entire sea of clouds (the "swallowing transition" zone between the divine kingdom and the deep sea) was filled with magic escaping from the fissure.
Kamel was no stranger to it … It was the magic of the Deep Blue Well.
A term that had gradually become a hot topic of discussion among the top scholars of the empire suddenly came to his mind: the Deep Blue Mesh.
"Will the Deep Blue Mesh appear near the divine kingdom?" Kamel suddenly turned his head and looked at Mirmina.
"The Deep Blue Mesh runs through all the realms of the entire planet. In theory, whether it is the Realm of Shadows, the Realm of Shadows, the Elemental Realm, or the divine kingdom, they are all within the range of the Deep Blue Mesh," Mirmina immediately said, but then she changed the topic with a hint of uneasiness in her voice. "But this … is not the normal Deep Blue Mesh."
"Not the normal Deep Blue Mesh? What do you mean? "
"It is a fissure, a leak point. Do you understand? The normal Deep Blue Mesh is a smooth flow of magic power. It contains extremely powerful energy, but it is like blood wrapped in blood vessels. It will only flow in its own 'track.' But this … the situation of this fissure is obviously wrong! "
(End of Chapter)
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