「…… The deeper you go into the endless ocean, the more you will feel like you are in a fog, although in fact there is no fog ......."
「…… The sunlight shining from the sky was pale and dim, making the surroundings faintly hazy, as if they were in another world, and they could basically communicate with the outside world......"
「…… Trying to go back to find the starting point of this anomaly, but I couldn't find it, it seemed to be a small, gradual process of change, from quantitative change to qualitative change, difficult to define ...... accurately."
「…… No matter how you position yourself according to the sun, stars, or surrounding environment, you will always return to a place you passed before, which is very different from flying from the ground to space......"
In the atomic universe, Lucian stared intently at the data in his hand, the experience of generations of magicians exploring the depths of the endless ocean, a valuable asset, just like the attempts of legendary magicians and archmages to fly from the ground to orbit instead of leaping into space.
According to them, from a certain altitude, the sky also gives people the feeling of being stuck in a fog like the depths of an endless ocean, and due to the existence of its own atmosphere, this feeling is more realistic and difficult to distinguish, so flying from the ground to the predetermined orbit will be more difficult than normal, even the legend would rather choose space jumping, but no matter what, this kind of flight will not spin in place, as long as it is positioned according to the stars, it will always fly out.
However, in the same way, due to the limitations of external and internal conditions, legendary magicians such as Douglas are currently unable to quantitatively give the dividing point of this feeling, and cannot figure out from what height it starts from.
After the failure of this "pursuit of the sun", Douglas's focus was on this, meditating hard, trying to find a way to locate the dividing point, and the idea seemed to hit the alchemy items with artificial intelligence to eliminate all subjective interference, so there was a lot of support for Heidi's research.
Wearing silver-gray full-body armor and holding the Sword of Truth, Natasha walked in in high spirits: "When are we leaving?"
The expansion of Rentat was on track, the knight's blood in her veins was boiling and calling for battle, if Lucian didn't go out, she was ready to venture alone to the abyss crevices in the Stroop Forest, and the mad chaos demons were more suitable as a combat option, because they were not so afraid of death after madness - the Blood Plains had been occupied by the demon kings of another abyss.
And Lucian did need a companion to concentrate on experimenting, recording data, and exploring the environment, and sometimes, the intuition of the Epic Knight is more effective than that of a legendary mage, especially when there are subtle changes in the body.
Lucian smiled and put down the information in his hand: "It seems that you have been delayed, not me, I can set off at any time."
It was the end of April 828, and Lucian had read the information about the depths of the endless ocean several times in order to wait for Natasha to finish dealing with the current matters.
Natasha laughed dryly twice, and said "righteously": "As a queen, how can I just leave, and it happened to be the most troublesome stage of Rentat's expansion, so it was delayed for a month."
Then she didn't wait for Lucian to answer, and waved her hand "heroically": "Let's go!"
Lucian smiled and shook his head, watching her two long legs move quickly and her back straight.
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The sky is pure and immaculate and transparent light blue, the sea is a rich and tumbling gloomy deep blue, and there is nothing but blue on all sides.
Suddenly, in the invisible wind, two figures slowly emerged, one was wearing a black double-breasted long dress, wearing a top hat of the same color, holding a silver-white pocket watch in his hand, as if looking at the "time to go to the banquet", and the other was a beautiful lady with long purple hair flying in the wind, and the silver-gray armor added a bit of indifference and rigidity to her.
"There is still some distance from the depths of the endless ocean, let's fly over slowly." Lucian looked up at the position of the sun, his eyes were deep, as if reflecting the stars obscured by the sun.
Natasha understood Lucian's thoughts, since she wanted to explore the secrets of the endless ocean, she definitely couldn't teleport directly to the vicinity, who knew if it had passed the place where the anomaly began to quietly emerge, so the best way was to get closer little by little from a farther place.
Before she nodded, Lucian said again: "Remember to grasp the changes in your body and don't let go of any small abnormal changes."
"Yes." She nodded slightly, a smile appeared on her face, like a cat that had stolen fish, "I can come in handy in your important experiments, I am really, affectionate, pampered, if I am surprised, ......."
The idiom "flattered" has been converted into a lingua franca by Lucian, but in order to accurately express the meaning, the sentence structure is quite complex and the length is amazing.
After hearing her answer, Lucian suddenly burst into laughter, it seemed that she was worried about her title of "Lab Destroyer".
"Of course, this is not a laboratory." How could Lucian let go of the opportunity to tease Natasha.
Natasha glanced at Lucian with a smile: "Be careful that I will not cooperate with your 'experiment' in the future, anyway, I am an experiment destroyer."
Lucian coughed, not knowing when the "experiment" would be successful.
The two of them flew slowly on the surface of the sea, making the sea creatures that had swam by look up at the sky strangely, how could anyone fly slower than us?
This flight lasted for two full days, and due to Lucian's magic, there was not a single sea creature or vicious bird that was good at "jumping" to disturb it.
Suddenly, Natasha stopped suddenly, looked up at the silver moon and sparse stars in mid-air a little strangely, and said uncertainly: "It seems to be a little heavier?"
The gentle smile on Lucian's face immediately subsided, and he took out a small and delicate metal cabin directly from the storage bag.
The magic fluctuations were generated, and the metal hut became bigger and bigger, turning into a relatively well-equipped laboratory in mid-air, and Lucian stretched out his hands, his fingers fluttered, and he manipulated different magic circles and alchemy instruments like playing a piano, determining important parameters such as gravity, humidity, wind level, temperature, and star position.
Natasha held a long sword and stood out of thin air, guarding her surroundings.
Time passed minute by minute, the quiet night only had the sound of undercurrents, Natasha looked around a few times, and then landed on Lucian's face, due to the position she was standing in, she could only see Lucian's side face, the handsome face that was usually familiar to the extreme had no habitual gentle smile at this time, no gaze on herself, only a preoccupied expression and deep eyes.
In this kind of relationship, Natasha not only did not feel bored and lonely, but had a sense of tranquility and warmth, and smiled while looking at Lucian's focused side face.
Suddenly, the sound of water below sounded, and a huge black shadow appeared on the sea.
Wow, a sea monster dozens of meters long appeared, black like a hill, it looked like a freshwater crocodile, but it was so huge, so strange, the scales all over the body shone mottled under the light of the silver moon, and the aura was strong and terrifying.
This is a sea monster that rules the nearby sea, and it senses the invasion of threatening creatures!
Natasha turned her head, her eyes narrowed slightly, and there seemed to be silver-gray sword light shining in her silver-purple clear pupils.
The sea monster suddenly froze in mid-air, and then turned around and dived down desperately, as if frightened.
Although they are sea monsters, they are more like monsters!
"Its instincts are sharp." Lucian's smiling voice reached Natasha's ears.
Natasha said a little embarrassedly: "Did I disturb you?"
Although the couple did not need to see each other, as a knight, Natasha still felt that she was a little negligent and did not fulfill her responsibilities.
"No, the data collection is complete." Lucian put away the portable lab.
Natasha smiled and said, "Did you find any problems?"
"A set of data still doesn't show anything." Lucian's answer seemed to indicate that he had a clear direction.
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In the depths of the endless ocean, Natasha looked at the small island covered with strange red plants in front of her, and said with a solemn face: "We are back to the place we just passed."
"Yes." In the past month, Lucian has collected a lot of data, but he still can't avoid this situation.
"What did you find?" Except for the slight changes in her body from time to time, Natasha didn't notice anything unusual at all, so she could only ask Lucian what she saw from the data.
Lucian replied: "I saw from the information that there is a mysterious 'Blue Gate' in the depths of the endless ocean."
"Yes, the 'Azure Secret Key' is a legendary material bred from the 'Azure Gate', and after being refined by generations of the strongest of the Sea Clan, it has become one of today's thirteen legendary fourth-order items, but the 'Azure Gate' is like the 'Chaos Starry Sky', only the strongest of the Sea Clan who have mastered the 'Azure Secret Key' can discover it, or be favored by luck." Natasha recalled the information she had read, "And many legendary powerhouses suspect that the 'Azure Gate' does not exist at all, and it belongs to the myth imagined by the Sea Clan based on the legendary item 'Azure Secret Key'."
"No matter what, I have to look for it." Lucian seemed to be trying to determine something.
Suddenly, a burst of ethereal singing came, making Lucian, a legendary third-order powerhouse, unable to help but feel dizzy, as if his soul was attracted by the shock.
"Be careful." Lucian used his magic, allowing Natasha, who was fighting hard, to quickly get rid of the abnormality.
"The singing of a mermaid? Legendary mermaids?" Natasha looked in the direction where the singing came from.
(End of this chapter)