When everything returned to calm again, a long time passed.
Only some passengers dared to poke their heads out of the cabin to look outside... But they could not see anything, only the tranquility amidst the noise.
The lights were brightly lit on the almost ruined deck, and the embarrassed captain directed most of the injured but not seriously injured sailors to sort things out. The sounds of packing and cleaning, accompanied by a few painful ouch sounds from time to time, made the place seem unexpectedly noisy.
However, above the sea, it was peaceful. There was no smoke, no body parts, and no remaining power of the path visible to the naked eye.
The sea, which was even darker under the light, looked like an abyss swallowing life.
——It looked like an earth-shattering battle had taken place here, but surprisingly, the backbone of the ship was not damaged.
"Let's all go back!"
The captain looked at the passengers who appeared, and advised in a rough voice: "The problem has been solved, the enemy has been eliminated - we are safe !”
“Is it a sea monster?”
Someone asked.
"It's a 'Sea Bride'!"
The captain did not shy away, but said directly: "But the problem has been solved - the sea monster has been killed!"
"Sea Bride!"
"That's... Poseidon!"
Some passengers live in fishing areas and are well aware of sea monsters. Everyone felt uneasy, fearful, or grateful about this.
With their explanation, people were able to truly confirm that they had indeed hit a sea monster.
In some relatively backward coastal areas, people have no way to deal with sea monsters - these are older than many pillar gods and require a fifth-level transcendent to destroy them alone. Ancient creatures, the only way for most races is to feed them with blood.
Based on a primitive religious belief, those villages often call sea monsters "sea gods". Because even extraordinary beings who are inhumanly powerful will often die miserably if they fight against them, so it is not an exaggeration to call them gods.
And they would "appease" these sea gods by regularly sacrificing young children as blood feed. The amazing thing is that these "sea gods" can actually stay calm for a while after eating - because they are here to eat souls and do not rely on flesh and blood to survive, and their real needs are really not much.
In the simple brains of the "Poseidons", as long as food appears in this place regularly, they will think that this is their food refresh point.
Not only will they not attack here, they will even protect their "own food refresh point" from the invasion of monsters and tides, forming a "shelter" in a physical sense.
They often attack villages that have stopped worshiping, not out of "anger", but out of "doubt" - is there something wrong here? knockKnock and see.
Hey, why are you so wet?
Those brave villages that "continue to fight against the evil sea god and win" are not because the sea monster is afraid of them, but because they have long found that food is not refreshed here and they cannot repair it, so they gave up. .
"Who saved us?"
Someone asked eagerly: "Is it the conservator?"
Many of them None of them knew Professor Laxmi, but people who could go to the Theocracy, even if they were not extraordinary people, often had enough understanding of extraordinary people.
The dim yellow light that spread throughout the cabin and protected them came from the "preservation technique" unique to the extraordinary people on the dusk path.
In Star Antimony, which has a relative lack of priests and a large number of legal necromancers, people have always held an attitude of respect and awe towards preservationists.
——Because they can be their own doctors and their own forensic doctors.
"It's not him!"
Other passengers denied: "We heard it - it was Miss Crawley! The conservator was completely powerless against the sea monster. He Please call 'Miss Crawley' to help!"
Other passengers also came out to confirm that this was indeed the case.
Because several pieces of the deck were shattered at the time, many passengers heard about it.
"Okay, go back quickly! That lady doesn't want anyone to disturb her, and she has to rest!"
Just before people continued to communicate, this ugly and ferocious lady The fierce captain threatened everyone with a straight face: "We have to continue cleaning up the deck! Get off!"
Then, the sailors drove all the passengers off.
Someone suddenly asked: "Who is Miss Crawley who saved us?"
Hearing this, the captain also fell into deep thought.
He thought for a while and gave a definite but somewhat vague answer: "That is a black-haired lady with beautiful appearance and noble temperament. She is a human being."
"She's beautiful?"
Someone captured the key detail.
“Very beautiful.”
The captain nodded without hesitation.
And this sentence aroused people's imagination. The benefactor who saved them in a desperate situation, defeated Poseidon's "God Killer", saved everyone but didn't come out to accept gratitude at all.
If you add such an identity to a "very beautiful" appearance... then there is no doubt that this will become a very good news stunt!
"Miss Crawley...who is she?"
The passengers also had different reveries facing the chaotic unknown.
At this moment, Aleister was in his room, leisurely playing with the newly sealed Magic Card. Carefully study the card surface full of various hints, mysterious knowledgeConstantly leaching out from it and being greedily absorbed by Aleister, who has a pure heart of transcendence.
This card was originally "Temperance", but now it is called "Art" or "Alchemy".
In the middle of the tarot card is a strange man with two heads - this person has both male and female characteristics, with two heads, one male and one female, placed on the left and right of the picture like mirrors.
He was pouring water and fire into the crucible. On both sides of the crucible stood a white male lion and a red female eagle respectively - their positions were similar to the "Lovers" card, but their colors were opposite. The Lovers card is a red lion and a white eagle, and the expression and figure are exactly the opposite.
At this moment, the white male lion placed his paw on the crucible, dripping with red blood; while the fiery red female vulture spit out white saliva - there are some opinions It is believed that these creatures flying high in the sky do not have saliva, or that they have to hold their own saliva when flying. Once they are attacked and spit out, they will perish.
So they can also symbolize the earth and wind respectively.
At this moment, the crucible overflowed with water burning with flames. They stepped on this cold fire, but they showed no pain. In that crucible, something brilliant seems to be about to be born - that androgynous two-headed monster, whose heart is also burning with the brilliance of the sun.
"Temperance" can be understood as "restraint" or rational "restraint". But its correct interpretation should be "using non-real things to control something real", and this will lead to a result - equilibrium.
What this card tells is the process of "things being purified and purified" under the influence of the power of balance. And this is precisely the origin of alchemy.
In this tarot card, the strange man has the moon on his head and the sun on his chest. The mirror reflecting the male and female sides just connects the sun and the moon. It also seems to symbolize the subtle relationship between the twin mirrors, Eternal Self, Xi Tiansi and... As the founder of alchemy, the "predecessor of Huan Tiansi".
In a sense, this card is extremely closely related to Aiwass.
Aiwass and Aleister happen to be in this androgynous state. And he also happens to "connect the sun and the moon with the power of mirrors and balance." And the reconstruction of the wind, earth, water and fire in the crucible seems to be related to the act of creating a magic card with Aiwass.
"So that's it..."
Aleister murmured.
She suddenly got a hint from this card - or a revelation of a truth that had already existed but no one cared about.
As we all know, alchemy is closely related to metaphor.
Alchemists like the Star Antimony School do not believe in the existence of the Philosopher's Stone, but yearn for the refining of "Star Antimony" - "The Triumph of Antimony" written by Valentine I "Che" tells the story of the transcendent way of sublimating animal nature into God.
AndThe red phase of Star Antimony was a good friend of Valentine I.
He recognized this book as a method to verify the "perfect man", and felt that the seven-fold promotion method of "sublimating animal nature to god" was equivalent to the process of ridding the Moon Child of its animal nature. .
Although Aleister felt that Valentine I did not mean this...but what was outrageous was that Hong Xiang was facing this book that was actually not about this matter at all. Developing magic skills forcefully. Judging from the final result theory, he actually succeeded!
It can only be said that this is a kind of Ouyang red look.
But in fact, while "Star Antimony" is a metaphor, the Philosopher's Stone can also be a metaphor - if you put your mind in the crucible of your body and plunge into dreams, fears,... Hope, desire, refining earth, fire, water, and wind, purifying everything in oneself...then a truly perfect thing can be born.
That is, the "Philosopher's Stone" - the greatest alchemy that can turn stone into gold. This also means making incompetent, "stubborn" people shine... turning those dark things into bright light.
And this...
"...is exactly what I am doing."
Aleister murmured.
She found the entry point.
Don’t the alchemists of the Star Antimony Style realize that there is actually no problem with the Philosopher’s Stone theory?
I'm afraid not.
But they can no longer go back - they would rather make a mistake than make a mistake.
Thinking about this, Aleister shattered the projected card into bubbles
Its attributes flashed through her mind:
< p>[Spell Card: Star Ice (Art)][Required: Water 4]
[Action, Summoning, Non-Contact]
[Effect: Summon colorful star ice, simply shape its posture and stay there for a while. Anyone who looks directly at the Star Ice and tries to destroy it or understand it will fall into a deeper and deeper illusion; those who fall into the illusion due to this effect will be frozen; those who are completely frozen due to this effect cannot actively escape from the illusion. Even though Star Ice no longer exists]
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