"What do you mean?"
"This is a super vortex formed by the confluence of different seawater!" Madeline was trembling all over. "There are two abysses hidden under the seawater that separate the oceans... A total of four sea areas have converged together... Oh my God! So this is the God-given vortex... Is the legend of the Sun King true?"
When she mentioned the Sun King, Hitzfeld immediately reacted.
She thought of the Age of Cataclysm and the changes in heaven and earth that she had seen in the historical scrolls.
That extinct sword changed the world. If it was the "base point" of that sword, it seems not impossible that this strange scenery remains...
But why is it divided by a cross?
Wait...I think I saw something similar in the Book of Howlers...
Pinching his brows, Hitzfeld summoned his past memories and recalled the carvings he saw on the first few pages when he first studied the code book.
Potato……
The rings on the potatoes...
The second circle...
The two circles overlap to form a cross...
Is this the place where two wars between gods intersected?
She woke up suddenly, feeling a chill in her heart.
The flaming sword swung by the Sun King was what triggered the Age of Cataclysm, so why did she swung it? Obviously, it was because the enemy needed her to do something.
Two circles mean that a similar thing happened twice... That means two wars between gods. This is actually the intersection of the wars between gods!
"Madeleine, you..." She looked at the woman with astonishment, but found that Madeleine Bakinsa's eyes had changed since some time.
No longer the normal pupil color as before, the two eyes had turned into silver-gray, and were still faintly emitting silver light.
Silver-eyed gull...
Is that why she can see?
Before Hitzfeld could be surprised any more, the next moment, the Silver Eagle's situation was reversed again.
Amid the screams of the crew members and the howling of Captain Mal, the iron ship actually began to move in the opposite direction when it was about to be sucked into the center of the vortex!
It's not as simple as being rolled back backwards... If I had to describe it, Hitzfeld thought of mosquito coils.
The mosquito coil has two layers of vortices, one is forward and the other is reverse, spliced together. The current situation is like the Silver Eagle has reached the end of the forward vortex and started to fly out in the reverse vortex!
It was really flying - the speed was so fast that it returned to the outermost circle in just a short while, and then the speed became faster and faster, and finally it soared into the sky with the sea breeze, and was lifted into the sky by a mysterious airflow!
"what is that?"
The two ghost-like figures looked up and their jaws almost dropped.
They were now floating above the whirlpool, roughly level with its highest point, and at least several hundred meters away from the bottom.
Because the focus was on the Silver Eagle, they had never raised their heads to take a look at the top. It was not until this moment when the Silver Eagle was swept up by the air currents and they looked up and saw that thing that they truly realized what it was like to be shocked.
From a distance, it looks like an island.
It floats in the sky, right above the vortex. From the outer contour to the bottom center, there are irregular rocks that gradually converge. The overall shape is an inverted cone, and you can barely see the exposed metal pipes around it.
There is a transparent cyclone connecting its bottom and the center of the vortex. It seems that it was driven by this cyclone that the Silver Eagle was swept out of the seabed.
The ship spun in the air with a muffled scream, then, as if choosing a direction at random, it plunged into the fog and became motionless.
“… Chase?”
Madeline swallowed and turned back to ask Hitzfeld.
"No need." Hitzfeld kept staring at the floating island.
"Unless the Silver Eagle pulls us back, there are more important things for us to investigate."
Yes, she knew exactly what it was.
The legend among legends was still a legend even in the last era and the era before that.
"Floating city..."
Madeline pronounced the name in a difficult and obscure tone, shook her head and said, "I don't believe you now, Miss Hitzfeld... I suspect that everything, including you, is fake... This is just a weird dream I had..."
Hitzfeld ignored her and floated upwards, getting closer and closer to the floating island.
As she got closer, she was able to see more details of it.
Endless metal pipes and rough gears are combined together. The gears are still working and turning, spewing black and white smoke from thousands of upward pipes.
It is not a continuous whole. Its structure consists of a main island and hundreds of small islands. It is suspended in the air thousands of meters high. You can only realize how big this thing is when you get closer.
Three minutes ago, Hitzfeld had thought it was an island at best.
A minute ago, Hitzfeld had reversed his opinion and thought it was probably as big as the town of Elnak—which was pretty big.
But now she wanted to overturn everything that had happened before: this thing was at least four times the size of the town of Elnak, it was simply a floating kingdom floating in the sky.
At that moment, she thought of the Kingdom of God.
I can only say that it is worthy of the name...
She floated in the sky, facing this country, looking down at the clouds below, and felt that the whirlpool was like an open eye of the sea.
She was still fantasizing - fantasizing about how the prince in the fairy tale was thrown away from here...an inexplicable smile appeared on the corners of her mouth.
I really didn’t expect… to make such a discovery.
This floating city was located at the top of the intersection of the gods' war. When she returned to reality, she could roughly guess the location of the vortex. Doesn't that mean it isn't too difficult to find this place?
The only trouble was that the whirlpool seemed to be able to only throw the ship to a certain height, and then the mysterious cyclone would send them into the gray fog, and they would have to find another way to get up.
Then we must not miss the opportunity to explore.
Hitzfeld didn't wait for Madeline and floated up first.
She summoned the dead bone ice needles to wander around her, ready to guard against any danger. The next moment, her feet stepped on the land of this country, but she could not see anyone.
This is a deserted city.
The floor was covered with moss and algae, and various plants emerged from the buildings toward the sun.
Although it can be judged that this place was once prosperous, there is no doubt that when Mal discovered this place - that is, long ago in real time, this sky kingdom had already died.
Walking on the deserted street, Hitzfeld saw a square at the end of the road.
At the entrance to the square stood a broken statue, which looked much more lifelike than any statue of a goddess Hitzfeld had ever seen before, so real that Hitzfeld couldn't help but wonder if this was the appearance of the Sun King when he was young - until she saw a monument under the statue.
As I approached the stone tablet, I saw words carved on it.
The words are in Sarai, and the content is [The sinner will spend the rest of his life guarding the abyss until he falls asleep, to atone for the sin he committed due to his arrogance.]
The signature is [Evan Gale].
[An unknown prophecy apprentice].
Chapter 75: The Battle of the Kingdom of God
Ivan Gail?
It sounds like a woman's name... What is her relationship with Ivanria?
It's not that Hitzfeld has too many associations, but - "Ivenger" sounds like the most orthodox Sara pronunciation, but if you read it according to the Golian accent, its pronunciation is very close to "Ivenria".
The northernmost city of Goli, the harbor overlooking Nanxinze and Sara, was named after a person? I accidentally found the truth about the origin of Ivanria in the floating city on the abyss?
His heart skipped a beat, and Hitzfeld immediately thought of the palace in Iverria.
Indeed, the mountain that supported the palace had dense pipelines hidden inside. The scope of the pipelines far exceeded the needs of water extraction and was more like some kind of steam pipeline for energy transmission.
Look at this holy city again - there are also densely arranged pipes between the buildings, and the architectural styles of the two are almost identical.
Then Ivanria must be related to this place...she thought to herself.
Looking at the many floating islands around, perhaps the small hill was originally formed by the fall of a floating island. The earliest Goliaths found records about "Even-Gale" on that floating island, and in order to commemorate this person, they named the city "Evenria"...
This made sense logically, and this discovery boosted Hitzfeld's spirits - it would be best if he could find out what was going on in the real palace where everyone was while investigating the floating city.
She also knew that time was running out and the underground spring water was about to flood the steps, which meant that she couldn't stay in the dream world for too long, so she did not miss any opportunity to obtain text information and walked around the stone tablet and statues several times.
The statue is not supposed to be of the Sun Goddess, that is, the Sun King.
She looked like a real person, wearing a wide robe similar to the ancient Greek style, kneeling on her knees with her hands clasped together, bowing her head in prayer towards the sunset in the west.
Combined with the information on the stone tablet, this should be "Even Gale", who calls himself "an unknown prophecy apprentice."
"Prophecy?" Hitzfeld's brows twitched.
She is quite good at logical analysis, but when it comes to fortune-telling, this involves her blind spot in knowledge.
I have indeed heard that there were various schools of prophecy in ancient times, and some of their branches have even survived to the present day and still insist on claiming that they have the ability to predict fate.
But time has long proved that they are liars. To Sarah now, the prophecy school is actually like an antique. Its existence itself is only valuable for recording and remembering history, but it is actually almost useless.
But at present, this seems to be prejudice.
The prophetic school was useful—perhaps only a few hundred years ago, but useful nonetheless.
A useless faction could not be associated with the floating city. This statue and stone tablet were the most conspicuous and solemn buildings on the entire floating island. Hitzfeld felt that there would never be a more solemn moment for the island than when it was completed. Even at such a solemn moment, "Even Gale" was still willing to call herself "prophecy apprentice", which showed that she loved the school from the bottom of her heart. Even if she became a sinner and was ready to sacrifice everything for atonement, she was deeply proud of her profession.
So the question is: Why did she atone for her sins? Was it because the prophecy was wrong about something?
There was nothing written on the stone tablet. She walked around it several times and only saw those two lines of words. She didn't see any inscriptions anywhere else.
"Miss Hitzfeld... " Madeline didn't catch up until then. Theoretically, they shouldn't feel tired in this form, but Madeline was very afraid of the things in her "dream" and the tail end of her voice was trembling when she spoke.
She felt that there was no other explanation, my ancestors were silver-eyed seagulls, the undead fleet, and the floating city...
If only one or two of these elements were combined, she would believe it was real, but there were so many of them that she really doubted it was fantasy.
As the only element in her fantasy that she could confirm was real in reality, Hitzfeld undoubtedly became her backbone. She felt uneasy when she couldn't see the girl for a moment.
"Well...is there any way we can end the dream and get out of here..." she asked the girl cautiously.
Hitzfeld turned his head and looked at her with a strange look.
"What I mean is," Madeline swallowed, "even though you might just be my imagination, but since I did this, it means that deep down in my consciousness I believe you have this ability."
The logic is quite clear...but how can you talk in your sleep with such clear logic?
Hitzfeld pursed her lips slightly. She didn't think this was an occasion suitable for laughter.
"Come here, Madeleine... come here." She pulled Madeleine under the statue, pointed at the inscriptions and asked her: "If they are true, what do you think is going on?"
"How can this be true?" Madeline refused to make any associations. "I've had enough of my imagination... Sometimes I do have strange dreams, but I have to say this is the most outrageous... What kind of prophet is this? He's just a liar!"
No matter what Hitzfeld said, she just wouldn't do it. In the end, she even thought that the girl was a monster in her imagination and that "her heart was testing herself in this way."
In order to face her own heart and to further strengthen her beliefs, Madeline stopped listening to what the girl said and lay on the ground singing.
"Madeleine Baginsa is going out to sea... Ho-ho-ho-ho↓!"
"Captain Madeline, hoist the sails~~~Ho-hey-lo!"
Hitzfeld had given up on her completely.
A stubborn and stupid woman... She is so different from Xia. She has a bad brain and her songs are terrible. How can the Sea God's followers be such people...
She continued to study the statue, looking into the distance from time to time at the towering buildings hidden in the white clouds and thick smoke.
What are those buildings used for?
If this statue... the place where it is located can be called a "square" and seems to be used for people's activities, then the buildings around it don't look like that.
From a distance, they look a bit like high-rise buildings, standing in an interlaced manner, forming a dense steel forest.
But in fact, this is not the case at all. There is not a single building in this steel forest that has windows. The whole building is completely closed and dense, and each "building" is made up of regular long prisms.
It's a bit like mosaic style.
Whether from the perspective of a native or a modern person, Hitzfeld could not tell what these buildings were used for. The only guess she could make was that they did not seem to be for people to live in, and there might be solid structures inside.
So what is the meaning of this island, this floating city?
Why does it stay at the intersection of the gods' battle - the top of the big vortex below? Is there any reason for this?
"Captain Madeline cuts through all the obstacles~Captain Madeline rides the wind and waves~~~~"
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