"Yes, your Highness, they... carry the souls of our greatest prophets in the past."
Anaris's voice unique to the dead was not emotional, but Soshiyan could still feel the sorrow in it. Nothing was more sad than seeing everything he knew most well into ruins.
“Are they still there?”
"When you go back to your Highness, all the souls of Titans are there, just falling into a deep sleep."
"That's good, it's a little comfort."
When we arrived at the end of the passage, there was a hall, surrounded by many scattered facilities and crystals. It was obvious that there seemed to be a very urgent accident. In the center of the hall, a beam of light was projected from above to the floor. There were six crystal statues in the light column. They were men and women, wearing prophet robes, holding hands with each other, forming a circle, raising their heads slightly, as if they were performing some kind of ritual.
"Eliot, Bells, Cely, Viglin, Porzingis, Fok...I'm back...I'm late..."
Anaris read out the names of the six prophets in that trance tone, then walked over with a shaking sound, and finally roared and fell to the ground.
"I...is late..."
The entire spine of the Netherworld Prophet seemed to have lost its strength and bent downwards, his head lowered and his arms rested on the ground.
Soshiyang looked quietly, guessing that these six prophets might have used all their strength to block the Titan Temple at the moment when the end of the Ark came, so that they could isolate it from the outside world from both physical and subspace levels. This is indeed quite sad.
Doral once told him that there were countless arks scattered during the Great Desolation. With the population base of the Aida Empire at that time, even one percent of the people were self-exiled, it was a very large number. There is no accurate estimate of the specific number of arks to date. The numbers circulated from Comoros were more than 10,000, and the history of the Aletok Ark Library recorded more than 5,000, but no matter what, it is much more than today's era.
The great fall was just the beginning, and the subsequent unrest and crisis made no ten wanderers who escaped.
After a long silence, Anaris slowly raised his right arm and extended it towards the column of light.
At the moment of contact, the six prophet crystals shattered like smoke and dust, and at the same time, six soul stones fell to the ground. Only then did Soshiyang see that there was something around them, an exquisite hexagonal box.
Anaris put away the soul stones of six former companions and friends, then picked up the box, turned around and bent down.
"Your Highness, this is the beacon of the Path of the Ancients and the road map explored by the predecessors."
Duran took the box, turned to Soshiyang and slowly opened it.
I saw a golden ball lying in the snow-white velvet cloth, which is also the most commonly used storage method for Aida.
Soshiyan nodded and looked at Anaris.
“Does the ancient path have a separate entrance?”
"Return to Your Highness, the Path of the Ancient is the main network channel that runs through the Milky Way. Its protective measures and concealment are also unusually high. Our ancestors once guessed that perhaps the gods deliberately hid this path of the Internet, but the reason is unknown. It is like the aorta in the body, which can enter from any branch. However, it requires special methods, because the means used by our clan for navigation of the Internet do not seem to be very effective in the Path of the Ancient. For this reason, we transformed a path arch and directly explored into the Path of the Ancient... and this beacon points to the location of the special arch."
"Is it necessary to renovate the mesh archway? Is it complicated?"
"It's not complicated, it's just that you need to understand how to break through the path of the ancients, like secretly prying a brick off a wall."
Soshiyang nodded, expecting that things were not that simple, and then he asked another question.
"About Lunasade's treatment, I want to hear your opinion. After all, you are the only indigenous people who can communicate now. Generally, for this kind of ark with serious corruption and destruction, the Wangting's treatment plan is either to dismantle, remove the useful part, or push it into the star to completely destroy it. However, the corruption of this ark was almost done by me, but the destruction was even more serious. I have sent someone to check it out. I guess it should have hurt the main ridge of the keel. This has a great impact on the overall structural stability of the ark. What do you think?"
After a moment of silence, Anaris replied:
"Your Highness, Lunasade is useful to you and the royal court. It was built for long voyages and explorations. Therefore, its power is the best in all arks. When it sails at full speed, no ships of any lower race in the Galaxy can catch up with it, and it is also very mobile, not the kind of slow pack beast."
Soshiyan believed that the other party said this. He could guess from the sharp arrow-like shape of Lunasad that the ark must be very fast.
"...In the years before the Great Desolation, our ancestors traveled all over the corners of the Milky Way and the Internet, and found many lost Internet roads, as well as blocked Internet portals and lonely paths that traveled to the sky. Therefore, there are 119 arches of all large and small, which are definitely the largest number of all arks. These arches connect many secret realms and secluded barbarian kingdoms. Even if some of them are destroyed in the Great Desolation, there should be a considerable part of them. Lunasade is the only platform to them."
After hearing these two points, Soshiyan was basically convinced, and the other party's last point made him determined.
"...Lunasad is also the fastest in the Internet. It is also the only ark that has entered the Path of the Ancient. With just a little transformation, it can become an excellent tool for exploring the Path of the Ancient. This route has been hidden for too long. Our clan has only explored part of it, and the rest needs to be explored."
"I understand, but it is not easy to repair the seriously damaged ark. Many of its facilities are damaged and it takes longer..."
Suddenly, Soshiyang thought of something and asked:
"Analis, do you mind it being settled by others?"
Anaris shook his head.
"Our clan has been destroyed, and I will be very pleased if Lunasad can accommodate new compatriots."
"The prophet is righteous."
Soshyan had already had a problem in his mind. After the Beyetan Ark was broken, they could only exist in the form of a fleet. Although they had been saying that they would rebuild the ark, the Beyetan Ark was originally built with ships, and it was not so easy to fight back. The lack of a fixed home led to the loss of Beyetan's population. Many people either went to join the Death Army or went to the royal court to find a stable life. If Lunasad was used as the territory of the royal court, the displaced Beyetan residents would definitely accept it happily. In this way, the restoration work could be done by them, and this powerful ark world could be completely brought under the royal court.
Chapter completed!