Ashes Of Deep Sea

Chapter 501 - 501 502 Go South

?Chapter 501: Chapter 502: Go South Chapter 501: Chapter 502: Go South An unfamiliar and bizarre word reached his ears, its mysterious and stiff pronunciation not resembling any language Terran knew.

He looked down at the document in astonishment, seeing the “stone sphere” sketched with precise strokes, and it took a long while before he looked up, “Father? What did you just say? ‘Moon’… is that what this object is called? Do you recognize this mysterious sphere?!”

Duncan, however, seemed as though he hadn’t heard, still staring intently at the familiar image of the moon on the paper, until Terran had asked twice more, Duncan seemed to snap out of it and quickly spoke, “You just mentioned Lucresia, what exactly is going on?”

“Uh… this is the information she sent from the Brilliant Starship,” Terran hesitantly spoke, his father’s unusual reaction making him uneasy, but under that intensely pressuring gaze, he still spilled everything he knew, “Recently, a mysterious glowing object fell from the border area, and Lucy discovered it. She has been researching it, and this peculiar sphere is the ‘core’ of the fallen object…”
Terran then elaborately explained the entire situation, including the scholars at Light Breeze Harbor’s assessment that the “fallen object comes from phenomenon 001” and the current research progress on the “stone sphere”—along with all the difficulties they faced, he laid it all out.

Throughout his narration, Duncan did not interrupt, just listening with a sullen and unusually serious silence—as if deeply etching each word into his mind and dissecting each character over and over again.

After about ten minutes, the domed office quieted again.

Duncan was silent for a long time and finally, before the air could become even stiffer, he gently exhaled, “Why did you not mention this to me earlier?”

“…Lucy hoped to contact you after some progress had been made in her research, and more importantly… at the time, we were in the midst of the Frost crisis.”

After a while, as Duncan’s pounding heart slowly calmed down, he finally nodded slightly upon hearing Terran’s words, “This object is now at Light Breeze Harbor, right?”

“Uh… yes,” Terran quickly nodded, his lips feeling dry and his anxiety increasing as he watched his father’s expressions shift. After hesitating several times, he couldn’t help but ask again, “Do you recognize this mysterious sphere?”

“…It is called the Moon, at least it appears so, but the Moon I know is not ten meters in diameter, and it certainly wouldn’t float on the sea to be hauled back to the City-State by a ship with steel cables,” Duncan slowly said, “Perhaps it is just a kind of artificial item mimicking its form, perhaps just from the Ancient Crete Kingdom…”

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