Chapter 795

Chapter 795: Primal Water

Xifnailin, a name both familiar and unfamiliar.

Looking at the glowing letters above, Lan Hilly felt a sense of nostalgia.

In the original plan of the Primal Heart faction, she and three other special souls were given unique names. She represented wind, Kluatide represented fire, while Xifnailin represented water. If classified by forms of existence, she represented gas, Kluatide represented plasma, Xifnailin represented liquid, and Brunner represented solid.

According to records, Xifnailin should have perished along with the other two Primals during the great calamity. So how could her name appear on this starship? Was she also revived like Keti from the distant past?

With many questions in mind, Lan Hilly pondered quietly.

After some time, she sensed something unusual and turned around. The people on the sea vessel seemed frozen, motionless on the ship, as if time had stopped—or rather, was indeed paused here.

This area of the sea was surrounded by a special domain that caused time to almost cease.

Night Spirit kicked off the deck, preparing to jump down, while Aitexi supported Erin. Both looked in astonishment at the underwater starship. Others maintained their postures, unmoving.

Above was an endless pitch-black sky, and the surroundings were exceptionally silent. In this isolated abyss, a feeling of loneliness arose. Apart from Lan Hilly, only the sea snake that brought them here still retained its consciousness and could move.

Lan Hilly slowly floated up in the seawater, looking around. It was all dark and cold seawater, except for the ancient starship buried in the mud, which emitted faint light, like breathing, changing in brightness at a very slow rate.

Did this sea snake bring her here for a purpose?

Lan Hilly found it hard to understand, but she guessed it might be related to this starship.

She swam around, searching for the entrance of this whale-like starship.

After some time, she realized things were not so simple.

The material of this starship was seamless, and even with her extraordinary perception, she couldn’t detect any gaps. It was like a living entity, always whole from the beginning.

Its texture was semi-transparent and extremely resilient. Even the young lady, using her extraordinary weapons to the fullest, couldn’t tear open the surface. If an extraordinary being were to attack it, perhaps only a Sequence 9 could cause minor damage.

This indicated that its technology and craftsmanship far surpassed those of ancient humans and even the Divine Winged Sun. At least they couldn’t create such strong materials.

“Deep Sea Alliance,” the young lady murmured to herself. This was one of the extraordinary factions alongside the ‘Tree of Life,’ ‘Primal Heart,’ ‘Mechanical Parliament,’ and ‘Traceback Cloud’ during the Age of Twilight.

During the Mechanical Parliament’s unification of Earth, this human extraordinary faction seemed to have different plans, starting to explore the mysteries of interstellar travel early on.

Perhaps, as the records left by Traceback Cloud suggested, some members of this human faction left the planet before the Mechanical Parliament unified Earth, embarking on their own journey among the stars.

But the Deep Sea Alliance didn’t have divine crowns. How did they traverse the vast expanse of space?

With these questions in mind, the young lady kept moving around the surface of the starship, using water currents to separate the mud and search for possible entrances.

After a long fruitless search, Lan Hilly recalled something. She slowly rose, looking up at the sea snake blocking the view above.

If this sea snake was created by the starship, then there must be an exit for it to come out. Analyzing its form as a blue whale, the young lady shifted her gaze to the part of the starship buried in the mud.

The blowhole of a blue whale should be located on its back. The young lady cautiously summoned water currents to clear away the mud covering the starship.

The process wasn’t smooth. The mud was heavy, and underwater, her magic couldn’t effectively manipulate the water currents.

If she had previously learned about ocean sequences, she would have been more regretful as she watched the slow progress below.

Gurgle, a loud sound of water swirling. Suddenly, Lan Hilly noticed that the light above had brightened significantly. The giant sea snake was spiraling down.

Its long body slowly moved above the starship, with lightning flashing between its black scales. The starship below also responded, emitting soft blue light. They seemed to communicate through these rhythmic lights.

The water currents became turbulent, following the outline of the starship. Wherever they went, blue light filled the area, and the mud gradually dispersed. The entire starship slowly revealed its complete shape.

Finally, Lan Hilly discovered a tiny hole at the center axis of the starship.

She swam above the starship, pressing her finger against the small coin-sized hole. Instantly, a strange current spread throughout her body, awakening her senses.

The current seemed to convey special signals, pulsating in a melody similar to music.

Even in the silent depths of the ocean, a distant melody rose in the heart of the young lady. It seemed as if the music was played by the trembling of her bones, or perhaps it was transmitted directly through neural signals.

Vom Messias, Hallelujarefrain～

The music was ethereal and joyous, like flowers blooming anew after everything had been destroyed and shattered in the world’s end. It was a song of hope born from endless emptiness and despair, making people feel blessed and joyful.

As the music reverberated repeatedly in her mind, Lolan Hill couldn’t help but start to repeat the song. The melodious voice resonated with the starship in the depths of the sea, as if two twins were playing in harmony at the same time.

The faintly glowing starship gradually brightened under this melody. The blue-green fluorescence flowed incessantly, leaping like notes and spreading out like ripples on the surface, as if awakening slowly from a deep sleep.

Finally, amidst the echoing music, that small hole began to rotate and open, revealing a circular entrance shimmering with white and blue light.

Lolan Hill lightly touched the opening, and a warm sensation spread from her fingertips. Inside the starship was clear liquid.

She lightly jumped into the opening, entering the interior of the starship enveloped by the comfortable liquid.

Virtual holographic screens inside the starship lit up, like guards lining up to welcome the new owner, waiting for inspection.

“Welcome~ traveler on another path.”

On the pale blue screen, the same phrase appeared in various languages.

Then, the screens dissipated, and the surrounding clear liquid began to change color, then morphing into scenes that looked as real as life.

This was the view from outside Earth.

Countless years ago, this blue planet still rotated within the solar system, and the four-star maps were as familiar and comforting as in memory.

But the good times didn’t last long. Tiny lights began to flicker on the surface of the planet; these were the flames of war. In the late Twilight Era, major factions began their life-and-death struggles.

But not all factions participated in this. Some with foresight started building ships capable of space travel.

When the war was most intense, spaceships were launched into space one after another by rockets.

Metallic fighter planes patrolled the skies, intercepting these ships heading into space. Most were shot down, but a few managed to break through the blockade and each headed into the lonely depths of space.

These ships shared a common name: ‘Deep Sea Alliance.’

After gaining extraordinary powers, they did not want to rely on machinery and AI to build a unified world like the ‘Mechanical Parliament,’ nor did they have the grand vision of the ‘Primordial Heart’ to create a heavenly kingdom on earth.

“Not all problems can be solved, nor are all problems worth solving.”

As the population grew larger, constructing a harmonious social structure became increasingly difficult.

People’s thoughts diverged more and more, and their forms of existence became increasingly different.

In the end, the solutions offered by the world were either physical unification (Mechanical Parliament) or mental unification (Primordial Heart).

This was undoubtedly successful and powerful, but it could not be denied that individuals who differed from mainstream thought were uncomfortable. They had to accommodate the standards of the majority, distorting their individual inclinations and desires.

“If gathering only brings pain, it’s better to maintain distance and go our separate ways.”

The ideology of the ‘Deep Sea Alliance’ was like a solitary whale beneath the surface of the ocean, unwilling to erase their individuality and integrate into a unified collective, yet acknowledging the strength brought by unity.

So they chose to leave.

After leaving Earth, these ships became like solitary whales entering an empty ocean, wandering freely in the quiet depths of space.

This branch of humanity missed the most glorious era of ancient humans. When the fleets of the Mechanical Parliament spread across the galaxy with the Moon Crown, they were as insignificant as grains of sand in the sea, almost indistinguishable.

However, the glory of ancient humans did not last long. Though it shone brightly, it vanished like a meteor streaking across the night sky.

After the Great Calamity, billions of lives perished in the waters of Ajeka, turning into toxins flowing through the world. Meanwhile, the ‘Deep Sea Alliance’ ships continued their hibernation in space, slowly heading toward their predetermined stars.

By the time they awoke, it had been a very long time.

During their long journey through the stars, these solitary whales gradually started from scratch, slowly improving their technology and learning how to live in space.

They no longer settled on specific planets because doing so would attract chaotic phantoms, instead choosing to wander everywhere.

Centuries, millennia, tens of thousands of years passed slowly.

Though they could not rise exponentially in skill and craftsmanship like the Mechanical Parliament, they gradually surpassed them over the long passage of time.

At this point, the members of the ‘Deep Sea Alliance’ had great differences from the original human form, even their genetic sequences were different.

Living long-term in starships, to make life easier, they gradually transformed their bodies to resemble mermaids. Because they spent their entire lives inside the starships, their legs…

What was once necessary became more comfortable in the buffering and protective liquid.

And this form of human no longer needed such an inefficient method of consuming nutrients and energy through food. They could directly absorb nutrients from the liquid through their skin or lungs, and expel useless waste in a manner similar to sweating through their pores.

If energy was required, the body could directly absorb electric power from the liquid as a supplement.

After living and wandering in space for tens of thousands of years, these lone whales occasionally met, and finally a small part began to miss their home, that blue mother planet.

However, at this time, there was no trace of Earth in the solar system, as if it had vanished into thin air.

The lost lone whales scattered again, sailing towards the distant depths of space. Some among them had already begun to consider leaving this galaxy filled with toxins and heading to even more distant star systems.

Only the leader of one starship persisted in her own idea, that faint feeling in her dreams guiding her direction.

She selected her kin who still shared the same thoughts, gathered resources, and built a new ship, setting sail toward that vague distance. To commemorate this leader with lofty ideals, the ship was named after her.

Xiaofan—Sifnaylen.

The image of Sifnaylen, the mermaid songstress, appeared in the light and shadow imagery.

The lone whales returned home, diving through a long journey. They searched one star system after another, traversing countless empty starless dark zones. The passengers on board changed from generation to generation.

Following Sifnaylen’s instructions, they gradually approached this remote star system at three times the speed of light, traveling for nearly 2400 years before finally arriving at their last stop.

‘That blue planet is so beautiful. Even though it is my first encounter in this life, I instantly knew that this is the homeland we have been searching for.’

With anticipation, hope, and expectation, many beautiful visions, the starship slowly descended upon this lush and beautiful planet.

But what greeted them was not a harmonious and beautiful world.

At that time, Earth was still full of conflict. Giants scorched the land, dragons’ frost froze the sky, and the fight between the sun and moon continued to affect this planet.

The Deep Sea Alliance discovered remnants of the past, understanding the source of everything, but without the four original ones, they could not repair the shattered divine throne.

But they were not without hope. In the historical records, it was shown that Sifnaylen might be the individual reborn from the primordial water.

Although Sifnaylen had already passed away, the legacy she left behind still demonstrated her compatibility with the divine throne.

‘We believe that one day, Sifnaylen will awaken from her slumber, spread her wings, and connect all the descendants of humanity across the stars.’

The mermaids began to live in the sea amidst the giants and dragons. Though the future would change many times, the prophecy remained passed down. Just like the song Loran Hill once heard in school.

[The white-robed son under the blue fruit tree]

[Wings are swords, wings are flames]

[Wings are the key to the world]

[Heir, do not cry]

[It will belong to you even after many years]

[You will return like the sun]

[Earth, sky, sea]

[Illuminated and protected by your wings]

[On some day in the future]

[Together with everyone]

[We will meet again]

[Fallen angels of the mortal world]

The vast, deep blue waters, the original angel of music and rhythm, Sifnaylen.

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