Deep Sea Embers

The Great Annihilation was the turning point in all history of this world and the beginning of what is now called the "Abyssal Age."

Based on what Nina told him, Duncan finally understood the earth-shattering changes that had taken place in the world, and also realized that the world was not as strange and dangerous as it is now.

According to historical records, the world before the Great Annihilation was a prosperous and safe paradise.

The ocean at that time was not the "infinite sea". At that time, the limited seawater did not occupy more than 95% of the world's surface as it does today. At that time, humans still lived on vast and safe land, and even In the ocean, there are no dangerous phenomena such as the spiritual world, the deep, and the subspace.

The "Era of Order" recorded in the history books feels more like the world he is familiar with. Although modern people will look back at that ancient era with no "abnormalities" with surprise and disbelief, for Duncan To a large extent, the way the world looks now is completely wrong.

There is no detailed explanation of the key event of the "Great Annihilation" in the history books. Although the archaeological community has been making efforts in this area, great differences in ancient history among various city-states and ethnic groups have always existed. No one knows what the so-called How did the Great Annihilation occur? I don’t know what the actual nature of that disaster was. Huge chaos and fog shrouded that drastic change, and after the fog, it was now the Deep Sea Age.

The sea water that came from unknown sources submerged more than 90% of the land. The remaining civilization survivors established city-states and fleets on the remaining islands and small pieces of land. The boundless sea and sea fog also brought about what is known as " Weird things like "abnormalities" and "visions" are still threatening the survival of civilization.

Nina didn't know that there was a ghost captain from a foreign land in front of her who was absorbing knowledge from her words. She only thought that this was her uncle testing her homework. It had been a long time since her uncle had been in such a good mood. She just felt that She was very happy, and even felt that this moment was particularly precious, because she was worried that Uncle Duncan would become the same again at some point... and based on past experience, this was almost inevitable.

As soon as the strong alcohol loses its effect or the painkillers are gone, my uncle will become particularly irritable, irritable, and hysterical.

So before Uncle Duncan got sick again, she wanted to show him all her progress. This might keep his good mood going for a day or two longer.

"...Old Mr. Morris is very interested in the history of the Kingdom of Crete. He is an expert in this field. He told us that although the ancient Kingdom of Crete only lasted for a hundred years, it was the first one after the advent of the Deep Sea Age. A civilization that stood up from the ruins to fight against anomalies and visions. The experience they developed over a hundred years is still guiding most people in the world today. The most important one is their understanding of 'abnormalities' and phenomena. Classification method of 'vision'..."

"How to classify 'abnormalities' and 'anomalies'? Have you already learned this?" Duncan raised his eyebrows, not forgetting to guide him in his words.

He had been very concerned about it since he just listened, and now he became more and more convinced that in the eyes of ordinary people in this world, there should be a strict distinction between those things that are unreasonable, and some things are called "abnormal", and even There were numbers, but other things... seemed to be called "visions" individually, rather than being lumped together into "anomalies" as he had in mind before.

He had never heard detailed knowledge in this area from the goat head on the Lost Home before, and now what Nina learned in school could finally make up for his lack of common sense in this area.

Nina nodded, and while recalling what she heard in class, she said: "Mr. Morris taught us that the simplest way to divide anomalies and anomalies is scale.

"Generally speaking, the scale of anomalies is small, often limited to one item, an animal, or even a 'person';

"Most anomalies can be moved manually, and their scope of influence is also limited. Many anomalies even only affect one target at the same time. And with specific methods mastered, most anomalies can also be safely sealed or isolated. Some of them are more Harmless exceptions can even be 'exploited' in specific ways, just like tools.

"The scale of the vision is much larger than the abnormality. The smallest vision is as big as a house, and the larger ones can cover the entire city-state, and are even bigger than that... too big to be imagined.

"A considerable number of anomalies cannot be moved artificially. They are either fixed in one place or run according to their own will, and their influence ability far exceeds that of anomalies. Under normal circumstances, anomalies can have unlimited influence within their own effective range. There are so many goals that they can almost be equated with 'natural phenomena', hence the name 'vision'.

"Unlike anomalies, almost all 'anomalies' cannot be sealed or controlled. They exist in the world like natural phenomena, operate without external interference, and naturally affect all qualified targets within the range. Because Most visions are dangerous, so all people can do is stay away from these dangerous visions, or use specific methods to avoid becoming the effective target of the vision...

"Fortunately, the most dangerous anomalies usually don't move. The pioneers have helped us detect these dangers, so we can safely keep a distance from them..."

Nina said seriously, then she seemed to suddenly remember something, and quickly added: "Ah, by the way, the old gentleman also specifically mentioned to us that these judgment methods and characteristics are only 'usually valid', abnormal and Visions are irrational things, so no matter how people summarize their experience, there will always be abnormalities or visions that do not meet the definition that suddenly appear. Sometimes abnormalities and visions are even interchanged, and there are also cases where visions are replaced by visions. The situation of human intervention and elimination.

"For example, in the year 1830 of the New City State Calendar, there was an out-of-control anomaly called 'mycelium' in the city-state of Lensa. The local church guardians spent a lot of money to banish the out-of-control anomaly to a nearby island. That island was recognized as a vision in 1835, and later became the Fungus Island. But in 1844, the great saint Paladin put the Fungus Island into his own urn at the cost of his life, so the Vision 'Fungi Island' It was delisted in the same year, and it became an 'anomaly' again, known as 'Paladin's Mushroom Bottle', and is now sealed in the underground reliquary of the cathedral in the city-state of Renza..."

Duncan listened intently to everything Nina said, his mind running rapidly, and at the same time he concealed the ups and downs in his heart with a calm expression.

In this short breakfast, the information he collected has exceeded the total of the past many days on the Lost Home!

Establishing communication with the land and setting up an outpost in the surface city-state is indeed the right idea. Civilized society is the summary of most information in the world!

He subconsciously looked at the girl who was still talking in front of him, feeling quite enlightened.

A civilization that normally develops to the industrial stage will definitely find ways to compress and summarize the basic knowledge of social operations in its own education system. It may be difficult for a child living within this system to realize that the textbooks they come into contact with on a daily basis What a treasure house it is:

That is the knowledge accumulated by countless people over countless years, and has been sorted and integrated over the years into a structure that is most suitable for learning and absorption. What is constructed in those books is the most exquisite "nutritional compressed package" in the world, in order to strive for success in the world. Within the minimum cost of time and energy, a person as blank as a piece of paper can quickly become a part of the running of society.

At this point, even Nina, who usually loves learning, cannot realize that only Duncan, a "foreigner", can realize how valuable this knowledge is and how easy it is to absorb.

Nina didn't notice what Duncan was thinking. She just remembered what her respectable history teacher once said in class.

"...So Mr. Morris told us at the end of the last class. He said that people have summed up countless rules in the process of dealing with 'abnormalities' and 'visions', but only one rule is the real rule. What is always valid is that 'no matter how many laws we summarize, there will definitely be anomalies or anomalies that do not conform to the laws in the world'.

"This law is also called the 'Eternal Article Zero' by scholars and is ranked by default at the top of books and papers in all related fields. Based on this, people also proposed the famous 'Law of Permanent Misalignment of Anomalies and Anomalies' , until today, this law has never been broken..."