Chapter 1741: [Shadow of the Deep Sea]

At the critical moment, Xia De opened his hands that were blocking in front of him to protect himself and took the initiative to embrace the darkness in front of him. The moment the darkness swallowed him, silver brilliance shone from his body, and then the burning original fire even suppressed the light of the silver moon, making Xia De like an orange-red torch burning, and the fire rising into the sky instantly lit up the entire sky.

This was something even Xia De didn't expect. He originally wanted to use the light on his body and the residual divinity to fight against the darkness after he fell into the darkness, but he didn't expect the original fire to be more sensitive to the darkness after the doomsday of the world.

It didn't even need him to do anything actively. The burning flames scattered the dark fish-man who was a black light in a loud noise.

The fish-man ignited by the fire was forced to retreat, turned into black water, and then re-condensed into the fish-man form transformed by Mrs. Lemaire. It made a threatening cry at Xia De, who was burning with the original fire, but neither its own shadow nor the tentacles lurking in the darkness dared to approach Xia De by half a point.

Xia De didn't know why the original fire reacted so strongly, but he also knew that this was not the time to explore. The chains of sin on his left and right hands flew out at the same time, instantly entangled with the tentacles behind the fish-man. The fire flow of the original fire spread along the six runes of 【Gluttony】, 【Greed】, 【Sloth】, 【Wrath】, 【Pride】, and 【Indifference】 to those black shadows. In the firelight that illuminated the entire square, the fish-man body continued to retreat in horror before touching the original fire.

But soon it adjusted its state, the tentacles and shadows were absorbed into its body, and the darkness covering the sky returned to its body. When the sky was covered by yellow sand again, making the St. Deran Square and the City of End submerged in yellow sand return to their original appearance, the fish-man head opened its mouth, and the ultimate darkness from the doomsday era turned into a terrifying light flow and gathered at one point.

This blow was enough to corrode and pierce any resistance in front of it, and Xia De also understood that he would not be able to block it no matter what. But fortunately, he didn't have to block it, because the only disadvantage of this blow that could destroy the world at the end of the fish-man was that it was really too slow.

All the sadness, pain, and alienation after the destruction of the earth and sky in the doomsday era finally gathered into Xia De's feeling for the power of the end:

"Black Moon!"

Covered in wounds and his right eye almost unable to see what was in front of him, Xia De held the middle section of the black wooden staff with his right hand and made a throwing action. Gathering his last breath, the brass Life Ring reappeared and floated behind him, and the 【End】 spirit rune flickered with spiritual light at the same time. The huge black moon symbol flashed under his feet. And as the staff was thrown, this blow caused a sonic boom just by its power.

Whoosh!

The 【Staff of Yggdrasil】 turned into black light and pierced the fish-man's charging mouth, pinning it to the ground. The dark power gathered in the fish-man's mouth tried to destroy the staff, but it couldn't shake it at all.

The staff pierced into the ground, symbolizing the "Black Moon Symbol" of the end, which completely appeared under the fish-man's feet. Accompanied by the appearance of the black moon symbol, the black fish-man body started from the mouth and gradually turned into ashes, which were blown away in the gale.

While the body dissipated in the wind, its two hands covered with fish scales actually made an upward flapping action, which was clearly the appearance of a drowning person struggling instinctively.

Xia De looked at this scene in the yellow sand in a trance, but in the end, no one saved it, and it disappeared completely...

The accumulated darkness turned into chaotic energy and returned to this dry doomsday era, and Xia De, who had used all his strength to throw this blow, had no time to check the result, so he lay on his back on the ground and didn't want to move anymore.

The time exploration of Past · Sixth Era does not limit the time Xia De stays. Even if he defeats a powerful enemy, as long as Xia De does not confirm the situation, the Tree Father will not force him to leave. But staying here is a punishment in itself. Physical strength and spirit cannot be replenished at all, so Xia De just lay on the ground and rested for half a minute, then got up with difficulty while coughing up blood, and limped to the original position of the fish-man where the dust had dissipated.

Like last time, because of Xia De's vigorous throwing, the 【Staff of Yggdrasil】 was directly pinned to the ground. And beside the black staff, the gale could not blow the cards that fell on the ground.

The back of the card is exactly the same as "Rod Cards" and "Cards of Fate." Pick it up and turn it to the front, the top of the card is written in gilded Delarion language:

【Shadow of the Deep Sea】

On the card face, it is the huge black fish-man transformed by Mrs. Lemaire looking up from the bottom of the water. Its figure is almost integrated with the darkness at the bottom of the sea, just looking at it will make people feel instinctive discomfort.

At the bottom of the front, there are three sentences written:

【Before the doomsday came, the soul that melted into the deep sea and fell into the darkness.】

【The disaster of darkness that swallows everything, comes from Cold Water Port.】

【Longing to hide in the deep sea to avoid disaster by incarnating into darkness, but not knowing that it itself is part of the disaster.】

After reading these sentences, the two memories of Mrs. Lemaire suddenly appeared in Xia De's head.

The first memory undoubtedly happened in Cold Water Port.

In the final battle of the Mermaid Song instigated by the Scarlet Cult, countless citizens who were infected with the curse or had fish-man bloodlines themselves, under the background of the dim yellow sky, stepped into the dim yellow sea step by step.

It is not just the power of the 【Lord of Scarlet Spiral】 believed by the fish-men, the power of 【Fury Storm】 and 【God of Deep Sea Drowned】, two of the three evil gods of Cold Water Port, also affected this sea area that had turned into turbid yellow. Fish-men, cultists who controlled water ghosts, and ring-warlocks who instigated thunder and storms fought against the Orthodox Church together.

Of course, the battle of ring-warlocks had nothing to do with the drowning woman, and stepping into the sea was a painful drowning, and in the deep sea, under the deep darkness, was the darkness that swallowed everything that could not be peeped.

Xia De was greatly surprised:

"Wait, when the Battle of Cold Water Port was last year, wasn't there only the Scarlet Cult of the 【Lord of Scarlet Spiral】? The other two cults didn't even show their faces, why..."

"Did the long-haired Lu Lu Weiya do extra things, causing the difficulty of her handling the Cold Water Port incident to increase? Or was the time she handled the Cold Water Port incident not the summer of 1853, but a year or two later, which caused the three hostile cults to collude, resulting in extra cultists?"

There are too many possibilities. It may be that the fermentation of time caused the three cults to unite for the same interests; it may be that the order of the Chosen One handled by Lu Lu Weiya was different from what Xia De experienced, and the appearance of the Chosen One forced the three evil cults to cooperate. The only thing that is certain is that the trouble faced by Cold Water Port in 【Past】 is far more terrifying than Xia De's experience.

And the second memory obviously happened in the Tobesk City that Xia De is familiar with.

He still took Mrs. Lemaire as the first perspective, watching "himself" get off a small boat on the Tairar River on a night without stars with dim yellow traces in the sky, then entered the city to unfold a massacre, and soon fought with the Orthodox Church.

At that time, "Mrs. Lemaire" had more strength than she just showed, which shows that in the doomsday era, even those evil things with doomsday power cannot reach their peak state.

Therefore, even the thirteen-ring "Sunlight Greatsword" of the Sun Church that Xia De is familiar with appeared, but in Mrs. Lemaire's memory, she could not suppress her for a while. But at the most anxious moment of the battle, a dazzling golden meteor flashed across the night sky.

Afterward, the huge "Sunlight Gun" that fell from the sky destroyed half a street while piercing and pinning this terrifying giant fish-man.

At the end of this memory, in the dazzling golden thunder and lightning, Yin Yi Yi Lu Na, who looked serious and not at all as lively as the seventeen-year-old girl Xia De knew, appeared. Her appearance clearly exceeded twenty years old, her childishness had completely faded, and the sharp temperament and undisguised powerful power on her body made other church ring-warlocks, including "Sunlight Greatsword," bow their heads and greet her.

And the long-haired Lu Lu Weiya also appeared wearing a hood at this time. Yin Yi Yi Lu Na nodded to her quite coldly. Obviously, although she knew the female diviner, the relationship was definitely not harmonious.

The memory ended, and the content in the second memory showed more information about Past · Sixth Era:

"The cultists actually took the initiative to attack Tobesk?"

In the time Xia De had experienced in the Sixth Era, this was completely unimaginable. Although the Church had not played a decisive role in the stories of the Chosen in each instance, the Church had not suffered any major losses so far; on the contrary, it had the upper hand compared to the cultists and illegal Ring Ringed Ringed Shushi organizations.

The order of Ring Mages and mysticism in the Old Continent, led by the three major academies and the Five Gods Church, still could not be shaken by any force in the "Present World."

Combining this information with Iluna's mature appearance in the memory of "Mrs. Lemeier the Fish-Face," if the time of the "opening of the 'Whispering Poem'" in the past life was also in the summer of 1853, then it meant that the duration of the "Whispering Poem" in the "Past Life" was quite long, and it was absolutely impossible for six Chosen to appear in less than a year as the Outlander had experienced.

And the Church of the Sixth Era in the past life had clearly lost its dominance and control over the situation step by step during the long confrontation.

Xia De took a deep breath and looked at the playing card he was holding, infinite worry and vexation washing over him. Having witnessed the end of the world, he was all the more worried about the future that was destined to come:

"Last time it was two memories, and this time it is also two; is this the hint that the 【Key of Yggdrasil】 and the Tree Father want to give me?"

The white fog was sweeping in from all around, and the square, destroyed by the corrosion of black water and energy bombardment, was being restored as if time were flowing backward. Looking at the familiar square that was gradually becoming blurred before his eyes, and looking at his own dilapidated house, his desire to stop all of this and protect everything he currently possessed became even stronger.

(End of chapter)