Ashes Of Deep Sea

Chapter 538 - 538 539 Sailing Towards the Sunlight

?Chapter 538: Chapter 539: Sailing Towards the Sunlight Chapter 538: Chapter 539: Sailing Towards the Sunlight After Taran El’s lengthy explanation, Duncan pondered for a long time.

Without a doubt, the ancient legends of the elves were special, even unique in this world, for one reason alone—they were complete.

After the Great Annihilation, during the Deep Sea Era, the old world had collapsed and overturned, new civilizations were reshaped, and communication between City-States had been severed for a long time. In addition to various impacts during the Dark Period, this led to the historical records of almost all City-States across the Endless Sea being fragmented, with almost no complete heritage preserved by any race.

The Four Gods’ faith, which emerged after the Deep Sea Era had begun, developed rapidly precisely because of this discontinuity of heritage and mythological void in the City-States.

However, among the elves, ancient myths were preserved and inherited. Even today, when the Four Gods’ faith encompassed the entire world and old belief systems were denounced as heretical, these things were still retained— restricted by population, the elves occupied only a small portion of the Endless Sea and were extremely dispersed, yet in these limited and scattered elven City-States, their culture, customs, and mythological systems still maintained consistency.

Could they achieve this solely because of their “longevity”?

“Such a complete system of myths… perhaps it really reveals some truths from before the Great Annihilation,” Duncan murmured softly to himself.

“Many scholars have always believed so. Elves are the only race that has preserved a complete system of ancient beliefs. Although many of our ancient texts have been ‘contaminated,’ the myths passed down orally… largely retain their original form,” Taran El said, spreading his hands helplessly. “Even so, we can only study them as ‘stories’; we can’t use them directly as historical data from before the Great Annihilation.”

Duncan furrowed his brow, recalling some words Morris had told him long ago that involuntarily surfaced in his mind: “…because of those vast contradictions between history and reality.”

“Yes, every scholar who tries to trace the Great Annihilation faces the harsh blows of ‘contradictions,'” Taran El sighed. “This we feel most acutely. The more complete the elven myth system is, the less it can explain the current state of the world. The greatest contradiction lies in the fact that… humans and Senkin People have no place in the story of Saslouka’s Creation.”

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