Chapter 146: The Fallen Primordial God

Hundreds of meters above the ground, Xia Zhi seemed to be walking on an invisible staircase.

The fierce wind in the air blew toward him; he looked down at the town below that changed every day, and within his sight, the former ruins, architectural remains, and post-war wreckage... and so on, none of these could be found anymore.

The ground, riddled with holes and desolate to the eye, had also been completely smoothed over.

Buildings of various characteristics were densely packed and layered, forming the appearance of a European medieval town with a somewhat magical style and color.

Although the current scale of this city was not very large, its boundary was expanding bit by bit. Perhaps given time, it would indeed become the Royal Capital Londinium that Vivian imagined, grand and magnificent.

——The degree of its shock to the heart...

——would probably only appear in those game CGs where true and false are almost indistinguishable.

And to achieve this, it probably wouldn't take long, after all, the number of fairies would surely enter a period of great explosion in the future, and naturally following that would be prosperity and brilliance like a golden age.

Although they seemed to have just suffered a devastating blow, with their numbers greatly reduced, looking like an endangered species.

But one must also consider the changes in the survival environment of the outside world.

The once-in-a-millennium Great Calamity had already passed...

Moss's Curse could not be said to be completely eliminated, but most of it had been erased; to become a threat again would probably take a long time...

The curse originating from the Horned God Cernunnos was the same; to accumulate again and threaten the survival of fairies could not be done in a short time...

Under such circumstances, the fairies' survival would almost no longer face any threat; there would be no risk of Moss Disease outbreak causing large-scale infectious assimilation, one death and a large area; nor would they suffer curses from divine wrath, dying inexplicably.

Without such threats, newborn fairies almost had no natural mortality rate...

However many were born, that many would survive...

Thus, their numbers would naturally shoot up like moss after rain, zooming up, without needing to worry about their growth rate at all.

After all, the Original Six Wings back then relied on just six fairies to hard-derive this race's numbers to hundreds of thousands; in a sense, this race's reproductive ability was also very strong.

So, the most important resource of this Fairy Kingdom was indeed the fairies themselves, because they could almost be equated with all natural resources: stones, soil, minerals, timber, and even more precious various magic materials...

And the most important point was that they themselves were renewable.

To be honest, there really was no better leek than this.

Not to mention that true humans did not exist in this Lostbelt World; even if there were true humans, they would hardly be more valuable than fairies...

Various values in all aspects.

After circling the sky above the town once and confirming there were no problems, Xia Zhi thoughtfully withdrew his gaze, glanced again at Oberon's direction, then turned his body on his own and shot toward the sky.

In the blink of an eye—

His figure turned into a small black dot at the end of the twilight-colored sky, and then completely disappeared.

By reversing the planet's gravity, Xia Zhi turned himself into a fired shell and was directly launched to an altitude of twenty thousand meters.

Then through a secondary reversal and adjustment of gravity, he quickly entered a subtle balance state, allowing himself to stably hover at this height.

Below was the spreading cloud sea.

Above his head was a vaster sky, the sun in the east hanging like a background at the end of the distant horizon, its brilliant light sweeping over, dyeing the sky and layers of clouds with layers of golden color.

"Truly beautiful..."

Standing quietly at such a height, a trace of a very strange emotion surged in Xia Zhi's heart.

Relying on his own power, naturally standing above the high heavens, looking down at the cloud sea beneath his feet and the great sun at the horizon's edge—such a scene was an unimaginable fantasy splendor; mortals who had not truly experienced extraordinary power would find it hard to understand that heartfelt sense of exhilaration.

Even he, so knowledgeable, had not been able to truly comprehend such a scene before this, until this very moment.

After sighing quite a bit, Xia Zhi slightly gathered his mind, then looked around.

At such a height, one could not yet see the planet's curvature, but it was enough to see the scenery beyond the island. Under the endless vast sky lay the boundless sea surface, calm and dead silent.

Xia Zhi slightly narrowed his eyes, carefully observing the vast ocean beyond the island.

Speaking of which, he actually had not mastered the skill "Clairvoyance," mainly because he had not found a good opportunity, and also because this skill's positioning was somewhat subtle.

The effect concerned the quality of eyesight, capturing distant targets, dynamic vision increased; generally speaking, it was more excellent performance in the physical sense, the ultimate enhancement of vision, after all, so-called Clairvoyance, as the name implied, referred to eyes that could see very far.

Therefore, regarding this skill, Xia Zhi fully understood what it meant to be tasteless to eat and a pity to discard.

The so-called tasteless to eat, a pity to discard.

Although the highest level of Clairvoyance would transcend the physical level, able to see through the past and future, cross the River of Time, and see the end of humans and even planets, worthy of being called a divine skill... however, this was an eye only Crown Casters would possess.

Among all Heroic Spirit candidates currently possessing such skill information, only Solomon, Merlin, and Gilgamesh.

Solomon no longer existed, having abandoned all his existence, abandoned the fact that he was a Heroic Spirit, therefore could not be summoned.

As for Gilgamesh, in the posture of descending as a Caster class, he did not carry Clairvoyance information; whether something went wrong there, or whether he had self-sealed it for some reason, was uncertain.

In short, these two were not stable channels, and one could not obtain "EX-Rank Clairvoyance" skill information from them.

Only Merlin remained...

However, similarly unable to be summoned, designated gacha draws received no response from the server side.

Xia Zhi also seriously studied it, finally concluding that it should be the reason Fujimaru Ritsuka mentioned: that Merlin had never sat on the Heroic Spirit Throne, because that famous Magician had simply never died.

In the Seventh Singularity, the reason he could be summoned as a Servant was because Merlin himself exploited a loophole in the World's rules and actively pretended to be a Servant to be summoned.

And this also showed that under normal circumstances, Merlin actually could not be summoned; even if conditions were met for an abnormal summoning, this Magician would still have to actively cooperate... however, Xia Zhi could not think of any good method for the time being.

Exactly how could one make a Crown Magician with EX-Rank Clairvoyance actively jump into the Pig Butchering Scam he prepared and heavily spend Gold Coins?

This was undoubtedly a difficulty.

So, basically, that was the situation.

Because the highest level of Clairvoyance had no available channel for the time being, and he did not think much of non-EX level Clairvoyance. After all, his own visual ability was very sharp; just to see farther and clearer, there was no need for ordinary Clairvoyance skill enhancement.

Boundless...

Vast...

Expansive...

The desolate great sea had nothing, like a frozen plane, calm and dead silent.

Even exhausting the limits of his vision, Xia Zhi did not see anything unusual within his line of sight, but he was not disappointed either; after all, this had only just begun, and he had not harbored extravagant hopes of immediately discovering any valuable clues.

If it were truly that simple, there would have been no need for him to make a special trip.

He observed the Britain Island beneath his feet, then looked at the Sun in the sky, discerned the Direction slightly, and then instantly tore through the air, blasting out a string of Sonic Boom Clouds that erupted with a low, thunderous Movement like Mors Thunder above the cloud layer at ten thousand meters altitude.

Because he had set out from Britain Island, he Naturally headed in the Direction of Europe.

Although that very likely no longer Existed.

However, since his purpose was to confirm, he naturally still had to search according to Common Sense; the positions of those most obvious continental plates were naturally the key parts that should be investigated first.

Xia Zhi's speed was not fast, nor did he push it to the Limit.

He simply advanced steadily at twice the speed of sound, simultaneously Searching the perceptible range along the way to the maximum extent.

It was just that there was no harvest; he did not encounter any Dimensional Rift Storm or Storm Wall, and very easily left the sea area near Britain Island and entered the deep Ocean, yet saw nothing along the entire way.

The Endless Sea was indeed the Endless Sea.

As if everything of the mortal world had sunk beneath the waves, not a single trace left behind.

Under the stable Anti-Gravity Flight Mode, after a period of time that was not brief, he estimated that with straight-line travel he should have long since entered the Europe Continent's range... yet still saw nothing.

The Scenery seemed eternally unchanging, exactly the same, always that same sight.

If not for the Cloud Layer flowing in the sky, and he Exactly knew he was advancing, he might have thought he was Suspended in the High Altitude, motionless for so long.

He disengaged the Anti-Gravity Flight Mode, and Xia Zhi slowly came to a stop; he rapidly Casually Scanned the surroundings, then immediately extended his slender Finger and gently drew a line downward.

A distinct white line appeared on the Ocean...

Amidst Long Yin's huge trembling roar, the Sea was split apart as if cut by a sharp Sword, hard and alive...

Endless waves rolled up on both sides, surging huge waves forming astonishing Height, their length even more boundless, extending all the way to the End of the horizon as wave crests...

Effortlessly recreating the Miracle of parting the sea, the youth standing in the High Altitude Squinted Eyes and looked at the exposed seabed below: "Indeed the entire Continent has sunk? In that case, perhaps the other plates are the same."

Not wasting magic power to maintain the parted Sea, he casually let the surging angry waves roll back and fill in, utterly unconcerned that this would trigger a terrifying Tsunami.

Anyway in this World it could not Influence anything.

As for the Britain Island side, the periphery also had Storm Walls blocking; even Nuclear Bombs could not blast them open, so there was no need to worry about being affected.

Without Delay, he activated the Anti-Gravity Flight Mode again, violently dragging out several clusters of Sonic Boom Clouds in the atmosphere; rings of air Ripples Fluctuated and Dispersed, blasting through the surrounding Cloud Layer, shredding the nearby clouds!

Full speed advance did not take too long before the youth once again slowly came to a stop.

He rapidly Casually Scanned the surroundings, then plummeted downward at high speed, piercing through the sea surface in one go, accelerating continuously as he fell.

The seabed's image soon appeared below; beneath the dim, lightless deep-sea world, it revealed that faint, vague Outline...

Not only Terrain, but also traces of vast, vast Construction Integration clusters from prehistoric times, like the ruins of a Kingdom after sinking; even after enduring the erosion of ages and the abyss, one could still discern the faint Splendor of the primordial Mythology Civilization.

Of course, there were also Shocking Wounds Exposed on the seabed...

Considering this was actually a sunken Continent, it could also be regarded as a huge Wound torn out of the Surface World...

—Should be a Battlefield region from back then...

—The primordial Civilization should have also tried to resist the White Destruction's steps here, only to fail all the same...

Xia Zhi Subconsciously thought this, then immediately with sharp eyes spotted a huge shadow lying quietly on the seabed, and Intentionally swam toward that side.

Very quickly, he arrived before that thing, frowning as he looked up and examined that bizarre Outline.

The Outline was extremely huge, as if broken from the middle...

Only the front half remained, deeply embedded into the ground...

A... no, half a Universe Spaceship?

"..."

"..."

The youth's gaze was somewhat Complex; he Faintly thought of something: "Could this be the Machine God Main Body of a fallen Greek Chief God?"

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(PS: Got scans done, no major issues... but incidentally found out my health isn't great, Doctor urged me to watch my diet, exercise more, stay up less... sigh, really not young anymore())

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