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Part 2: The Blue Storm, The Sixth Sura, Ancient Memories

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    When viewed from the air, the ocean in Namibia is a light green, like a piece of clear emerald.  ¡÷Sometimes guests from the outside world mistakenly think that it is an endless grassland.

    So vast, so vast.  The indigenous people of Namibia have never had the opportunity to explore all the mysteries of this ocean.  Their crudely made rafts or flat-bottomed boats could not withstand the huge waves and storms of the ocean, and their technical level in astronomy and mechanical manufacturing was not enough to support them in inventing precise positioning capabilities and not losing their way on the vast ocean.

    The Athas have not been in this world for long, but they quickly defeated the few primitive nations here.  Although these outsiders have magic ships that can sail in the astral realm and magic carpets that can fly in the air, their numbers are limited and they are unfamiliar with the ocean. They also fail to explore the unknown areas in depth.

    In this sea area far away from the main fishing grounds and shipping routes, many reefs are dotted like a string of broken necklaces.  Marine life clings to these reefs, giving them a variety of bright colors, ranging from eerie purple to brilliant blue to kitsch bright yellow.

    Some reefs are exposed out of the water, and suddenly lose their colorful coat, revealing their core wrapped in marine life.  They were huge skeletons, standing tall against the sky and on the ground, like rows of stooped giants.  Some of the bones have been broken, and weeds blown by the wind have grown stubbornly on the sections.  In some places, the bones are relatively well preserved, with huge ribs emerging from the water hanging together in mid-air.  Although the ancient creatures have long since perished, the remaining rib cage is still amazing.  Such a huge creature can be supported by the entire planet's biosphere.  Just a few at most.

    In the middle of the turquoise ocean, next to the necklace outlined by rocks and reefs.  There is a blue speck, and that is the Psion's destination.

    It reminds Mohadi of the Great Blue Hole on Earth.  But much bigger.  Like its smaller counterparts on Earth, the seawater suddenly changes color when it reaches here, becoming a very deep, very dull dark blue.  In the middle of the endless sea, this deep blue hole looks like an eye on the sea.

    Water depth is the main reason for the color change. This blue spot looks so deep and quiet. It seems to make ordinary people fearful, wondering what inexplicable existence lurks in the dark depths of the sea.

    The Psion walks out of the portal.  There was a slippery reef surface under his feet, and the steamy sea breeze blew across his face.  Mohadi broke out into a violent cough and had to bend down, and everything in front of him became blurry.  He felt weak in his limbs, and even his internal organs seemed to be tangled together.

    The cancer has grown much faster than Muhadi expected, and the diseased body has become more and more dilapidated, as if it can no longer support the heavy load of thought.

    A hand pressed on his shoulder. After a while, the psychic warlock felt that the physical discomfort subsided a little, and he tried to stand up straight.  "I'm fine."

    "Rejecting the facts is the first reaction of ordinary people when facing drastic changes." Satiri said.  He took his hand back.  "I believe this is your Psions' own theory."

    "That's right." Muhadi's mouth tasted like rust.  "But don't mages often say that will is stronger than body? The inconvenience caused by my body is negligible."

    "If you don't want to give up this body, you can choose to receive divine treatment."

    "Unfortunately that is not an acceptable option for me." The psychic said, feeling that his body had regained some strength.  "It doesn't matter. Once I resolve the division among the believers, I will naturally change to a better body Now, let us focus on the task at hand."

    "Are you really surethat the mastermind of the polyp coral is in this big blue spot?"

    "Unless there are two kinds of creatures on this planet that grow on the bottom of the sea, can use psychic energy, and can create sea monsters. Of course I am sure." Muhadi said.  "We go down to the bottom of the ocean. And we negotiate with them."

    "My intuition tells me that I will take risks with you. Nothing will go so smoothly." Coral Witch said half-jokingly.

    "With you by our side, we can handle any risks." The psychic replied with a shrug.  ¡°Besides, what¡¯s an adventure if everything goes well?¡±

    "Some people really won't have any unexpected adventures when they take risks. But if some people take risks, they can meet the messenger of the ancient god's return even if they have a glass of wine in a tavern, or they can go to the unknown ruins.  You can pick up the destiny tablet engraved with the future of the gods." Satiri said with certainty.  "You fall into the latter category."

    "You are exaggerating. How could any idiot hide such a precious thing in a random ruin." The psychic took a deep breath.  "are you ready?"

    ?"I'll be fine when you're fine."

    The psychic warlock walked to the edge of the reef, then concentrated on manifesting his power, and then he jumped out.

    The water here is colder than he expected, but it may be that he is too familiar with the hot environment on Atas.  The bottom of the water is pitch black and unfathomable.

    There are fish in the water, and they are not the terrifying predators created by the druids of Starhespense, nor the sea monsters that suddenly appeared and wreaked havoc on Namib.  Instead, there are many small fish with slender bodies and blue scales.  Schools of fish gather together to swim and eat together, maintaining wonderful synchronicity.  Sometimes the fish seem to have discovered water rich in food and swim in circles, as if a hurricane is blowing under the sea.

    There are many bright sea anemones or sea urchins on the uneven edges of the reef, and those large or small caves have become perfect habitats for fish schools.  Creatures that look like enlarged electric eels live in caves in the underwater parts of the reef.  Only their snake-like heads are exposed, and most of their long bodies are hidden in caves.  When prey approaches, it will suddenly spring out and drag the unfortunate victim back to its cave to enjoy.

    The school of fish was frightened and suddenly turned collectively and swam away.  The Coral Witch used magic to create a bubble around herself, which could be easily suspended in the water. It seemed much more elegant than Muhadi's method.

    As the depth decreases, the temperature of the seawater gradually decreases.  The surroundings are getting darker and darker.  When I dived five hundred feet below the surface, the sunlight had completely disappeared.  The psychic looked at Satiri with some concern.  In this environment, the female mage's strength will be greatly limited.  But the latter gave him a relaxed smile in the blister, indicating that there was nothing wrong with him.

    Although there is no sunshine.  But it is not completely dark at this depth. Some deep-sea organisms have biological light sources on their surfaces, which are used as a means of courtship or as bait for prey.  The stars are dotted and look particularly weird.

    The thinking of deep-sea creatures is relatively simple, and some are worse than ordinary animals. It is almost impossible to detect their existence through the fluctuation of thoughts.  Due to the stratification of seawater caused by different water temperatures and salinity, it is difficult for diving psychics to detect the actions of sea creatures in advance through sounds and vibrations.

    It wasn¡¯t until the turbulent water hit him that Muhadi realized that two huge sea monsters had almost touched him.  The shapes of the two behemoths couldn't be seen clearly in the darkness, but the mottled light emitted from their bodies.  Intimidating.

    The psychic was shaken by the current, and then he concentrated on creating an ultrasonic wave with extremely high frequency.  On Earth, scholars can use similar ultrasonic waves to drive away whales or schools of fish, and it should be equally effective here.

    Sure enough, the two sea monsters were attacked by ultrasonic waves and were immediately frightened away.

    "You look like you were shocked." The sweet voice of the Coral Witch came to my ears.  "But before I could cast the spell, you screamed and scared them away."

    "I'm not afraid," Muhadi said as he dived.  While jokingly using superpower communication.  "I was responding to their mating calls."

    "It turns out that being frightened when courting is indeed the most anger-provoking behavior in wild animals."

    ¡°It¡¯s not just wild animals, I mean it¡¯s the same for people too.¡± The psychic responded.

    "Is this the knowledge you have learned? Or is it based on experience?"

    Mohadi thought for a while.  "No comment."

    There is a light that should not appear from the depths of the sea.  It was just a haze at first, then gradually spread, like in the early morning.  The sky is the same as before the sun rises.  Next, the brightness of the light began to increase.  It became the color of the sky on a cloudy day.

    The psychic began to feel powerful thought fluctuations coming from below. It was a kind of fluctuation that he had never experienced before.  Unlike humans, elves, murs, or other humanoid races.  It is completely different from the Baatezu Devil in the Nine Hells of Baator or the Divine Attendant on the Seventh Heaven Mountain, but the specific difference is not clear to Muhadi for a while.

    The water here is about two thousand feet deep. Although he can't see or hear, the psychic can feel that countless sea monsters have surrounded him and Satiri from all directions.  They are hidden in the dark depths of the sea where you can't even see them, in the twists and turns of the bottomless trenches, and in the soft mud of the seabed that no one has ever set foot on and has never been seen by anyone.

    The only light comes from a mass of indescribable biological structures, so huge that if it were completely above the water, it would be as huge as a small mountain.  It looks like a brain magnified a million times, and countless polyps are the cells in this giant brain.  Thick rhizomes firmly fix this giant brain in place.On the foundation stone at the bottom, the polyps that make up the brain sometimes glow and sometimes dim, causing countless abstract shapes to flash across the surface of this hill-like giant, like lightning flashing across the night sky.

    "In the history of mages, no one has ever discovered that such a huge creature exists without relying on magic at all." Satiri commented as if she had discovered something extraordinary.  "It's very incredible. I can't detect the existence of magic at all from this thing."

    "It's very possible that it has never realized that there is such a thing as magic. The multiverse must be a much simpler existence for it than we think." Mohadi said.  "But I felt the psychic power emanating from it. It was very powerful and very different. I have never seen anything like it."

    "Are you sure you can handle it?"

    "I'm not sure, but I'm sure you have a way to remedy it. Magic is omnipotent, isn't it?" said the psychic.

    "Your missionaries also claim that the First Cause is all-powerful. But as its emissary, you feel the same uncertainty. Even the Sun Mage, the user of magical arts, cannot handle every situation." The Coral Witch said in her  Said to Mohadi in the blisters.

    ¡°It doesn¡¯t matter, I guess I¡¯ll just have to try my luck,¡± Muhadi said.  Then he swam forward.

    The giant brain composed of countless polyps grew larger and larger in front of him.  Until all the details were visible to him.  Individual polyps occasionally emit neural currents, but it's unclear whether they do so for self-defense or communication.  So many polyps gathered together.  The currents emitted are powerful and unpredictable, almost comparable to their ever-changing luminous patterns.

    The psychic reached out his hand and smoothed out all the messy thoughts in his mind until he was completely calm and had no more distracting thoughts. Then he came into contact with the other person's mind.

    The shock of the moment made him almost lose control of his body, his heartbeat immediately became disordered, various hormones were secreted crazily, and his limbs swayed hysterically, like the last struggle of a drowned person before death.

    Too much information flowed into Muhadi¡¯s mind at once.  Almost drowning his own will.  So vast, so profound, that for a moment, these words seemed to take on a whole new meaning.

    He swam in the oceans of the entire planet, the warm water flowing past him, his tentacles able to feel the slightest current.  Colorful fish that cannot be called civilians hunt around and clean the parasites and bugs attached to their bodies.  The world is huge yet small, with billions of similar beings merely connected together without distinguishing each other.

    He saw so many things at the same time.  From the bottomless trench in the center of the Amber Ocean to the still boiling and roaring submarine volcano in the center of the Green Sea.  He saw hundreds of millions of fish swimming through the shallow turquoise sea, mating, and spreading seeds tens of thousands of times more than themselves.  He saw black smokestacks deep under the sea.  Unknown sea monsters inhabit the water that is overheated under high pressure, underwater forests composed of thousands of feet of kelp, and giant fishing boats carrying long fishing nets on the sea.

    The human brain cannot handle eyes that see the whole world.  The flood of information almost destroyed Muhadi's sanity.  But he gritted his teeth and persisted, using all his willpower.  Focus on the part you want to observe.

    This is almost equivalent to a spiritual confrontation between one person and the entire planet's polyp corals, with a slight degree of relaxation.  The psychic will be completely lost in the vast sea of ??consciousness of the opponent.

    In the blink of an eye, time seemed to be stretched as long as a hundred years, and Muhadi seemed to have spent every minute and every second of this hundred years clearly.  In this imaginary 3.15576 million seconds, one second of negligence can be fatal.

    But in the end, the polyp coral retreated, and the alien tide of thinking faded away, as if it had given up its plan to engulf the unknown foreign object. After all, Muhadi did not let his will show any weakness.  In every corner of the world, in the depths of the ocean floor, many originally healthy polyp corals withered in an instant.

    The original plan of the psychic was to negotiate with the polyps and get them to give up creating sea monsters and making the colonists hostile.  It would be better if we could figure out how they created those sea monsters.  But when he really entered the collective consciousness of the polyps, he discovered that his original plan might have to change.

    The collective consciousness of the entire planet's polyp corals showed no response to any inquiry sent by Mohadi, as if they were completely unable to understand the information sent by this alien being.  The psion thought for a while and felt that this might be because these things had no concept of negotiation and conversation.

    Thinking about it carefully, these things have existed in the depths of the sea unchanged for hundreds of millions of years, and they have formed a huge collective consciousness with each other. There is no point in negotiating their existence at all.  There are no intelligent creatures on this planet.I have tried to talk to them using psychic powers, but they are completely unaware that other intelligent species exist besides themselves.

    Now, the polyp coral seems to regard the invading Mohadi as a weird kind of creature. They can communicate with each other in consciousness, but there is no effective communication at all.

    If you can¡¯t negotiate, then force these polyps to obey your will.  The psion thought, and then concentrated, showing deep hints to the collective consciousness.

    This hint conflicts with the instinct of the polyp coral, and the collective consciousness that had retreated once again unites aggressively to confront the alien being, the psychic warlock.

    This time, victory came much easier than last time.  Mohadi has learned how to focus and not be overwhelmed by the sea of ??information.  Little by little, he distorted the collective consciousness of the entire planet.

    But this is not reliable enough, and the effectiveness of deep hints is limited.  To completely end the fight between these polyp corals and the colonists, the source of the dispute must be resolved.  After returning home, he had to convince the locals not to eat these things. Muhadi thought to himself that there would be one less famous dish in the world.

    After solving the main problem of this trip, the psychic began to explore his second goal, discovering the secret of these things to create sea monsters.

    The perception of time by polyps is very different from that of humans. The second they feel may be richer than the human experience of a century, but there are also centuries of dull years, which to them are as fleeting as the blink of an eye.  Their memory structure is also completely different from that of humanoids, which makes Muhadi's progress in the search extremely slow.

    The psychics quickly browsed through the billions of years of memories of the collective consciousness, trying to find the part about how they created the sea monster.  Finally, he found a clue in the intricate stack of memories. It was one of the oldest and most distant memories of polyps, and it seemed to be related to their ability to transform marine life.

    Mohadi¡¯s consciousness sneaked into this part of the memory and began to read it.

    A more ferocious and powerful attack than the previous consciousness attack suddenly appeared, crushing the psychic warlock's will and smoothing away all his thoughts of resistance.

    So helpless, so small, in Mohadi¡¯s experience, he only had a similar feeling when facing many wise men.

    "Indescribable and crazy, the proportions of the body shape change all the time, and strange figures that completely defy the rules of physics appear in these memories.

    In an instant, the psion realized what a big mistake he had made. The existence of the polyps was so ancient that it was far older than the Athas, or any race in the multiverse, or any false god.  That they are so ancient means that they have experienced the destruction of the multiverse by the indescribable Old Ones served by the Wise Ones and the Wise Ones, probably more than once.

    Did the polyps learn a little bit from those old beings and use them to transform sea monsters?  Mohadi didn't know.  But just a vague memory left by the Great Old Ones on these creatures eons ago completely surpassed all the training and will of the psion.

    All these thoughts flowed through the mind of the psychic at the moment he read those ancient memories, and then he fell into a deep coma.  (To be continued.)
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