Chapter 211 Fragments and Cores

"I can try, Lord Anvis."

Joem nodded calmly, took out a purple mystical array from the ring, and injected magic power into it to light it up.

After he made some slight operations, a map of the entire island suddenly appeared in the air above the formation.

At the same time, a faint green light suddenly lit up and flashed in a vague shadow area above the island, between the endless blue ocean.

"It seems to be on the north side of the island, five miles out to sea, in the same direction as the underwater ruins."

After looking at the map, Joem stated the results of the investigation with some confusion.

"It stopped at that underwater ruin? It didn't leave?"

Avis glanced at the map in confusion. The bright spot representing the ship was indeed hidden in the depths, making it appear extremely abrupt and conspicuous.

According to the old explorer Baigson, the underwater ruins are related to the Moon-Calling Cult.

Originally, due to a vague sense of danger, Avis had no intention of going there.

But the black ship was able to go to the mainland and then successfully return more than once, which means that there is a high probability that there is a magical device for guidance on it.

After a little hesitation, Avis finally made up his mind.

"Well, let's go around it from a distance, find a way to get the guidance device on that ship, and then leave immediately." . ….….The northernmost tip of the island mountains, the top of the mountain.

The lonely castle hangs precariously on the edge of a cliff, with a huge steel suspension bridge connecting it to the top of another mountain.

Surrounded by numerous gray thorns and strange roses, the towering outer walls of the castle were covered with dark green vines. Some of the vines even penetrated into the stone arched windows, giving it an ancient and eerie feeling.

The full moon rose, and the bleak purple moonlight enveloped the castle. When it seeped into the thick arched windows of the castle, it exuded an undisguised chilling feeling.

The howling mountain wind blew over the castle's sharp spires, bastions, and round towers, and shuttled back and forth between the narrow windows and semicircular arches, making a strange whistling sound.

Deep in the castle, a half-elf girl was moving forward carefully, holding a beautiful, slender one-handed sword in her right hand and a warm yellow lantern in her left hand.

After searching around for a while, Claire turned the mechanism, opened a secret door, and carefully continued to move towards the bottom of the castle.

It was almost there, she could already feel it, that soft thing calling her, just ahead.

During the exploration, she encountered some dangers, but for her, an experienced explorer, they were not too troublesome.

The most dangerous time was when a tower on one side of the castle suddenly collapsed, apparently due to "disrepair".

But luckily, she was used to escaping from all kinds of collapsed buildings.

At the moment before thousands of tons of ancient rock collapsed like the sky falling, the girl rushed out of the tower of Black Steel Rock in advance and survived.

There was a strange power fluctuation in the castle, which was completely different from any other place on the island, but Claire did not sense any danger. Instead, she felt strangely familiar with it.

It was as if she had known him for a long time.

The girl stopped in front of the last secret door.

The secret door was made of ancient blue-black metal, with a strange ancient symbol engraved on its surface.

For some reason, she suddenly felt something in her heart.

Prompted by this perception, she slowly let go of the lantern in her left hand and gently placed her white palm on the surface of the symbol.

The symbol lit up slightly, and the girl felt a slight numbness in her fingertips. A drop of blood was sucked out from her fingertips and merged into the symbol.

As if meeting certain conditions, the door slid open silently, revealing a long spiral staircase hidden in the darkness deep inside.

The black wooden staircase was covered with bright red carpet. The secret door opened to the middle of the staircase. Whether going up or down, Claire could not see the end.

Standing at the door, the girl clearly realized that the source of the attraction was at the top of the spiral staircase.

The warm yellow light illuminated the darkness of the spiral staircase. The girl, sword in hand, climbed cautiously toward the roof.

Even though it might be the end, Claire still didn't let her guard down.

Having witnessed many negative cases where explorers relaxed at the last moment of the expedition and fell into danger, resulting in disability or even death, she is well aware of the saying "a journey of a hundred miles begins with a single step".

Although the spiral staircase seemed long, as the girl continued to climb, the exit at the end finally appeared in front of her.

After walking out of the spiral staircase, a wide rock hall appeared in her sight.

Ancient silk banners were hung on the walls of the hall. The scarlet flags with gold edges were embroidered with a strange symbol, as if it was the symbol of an ancient country that had been destroyed long ago.

And on the stone throne in the center of the hall, something emitting light caught the girl's attention.

It was a beautiful and illusory fragment, with a bit of dreamy luster around it, and the wonderful colors were even difficult to describe in any language.

Looking at the fragments, an indescribable sense of familiarity came from the girl's heart.

It seemed as if, long ago, she had been very familiar with it.

“You…are here…”

When her eyes touched the fragments, a soft female voice like a clear spring suddenly flowed in the half-elf girl's heart.

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"Are you calling me? Can you help me solve the trait in me that will bring misfortune to my companions?"

Looking at the fragments floating above the throne in confusion, Claire asked softly.

"Yes... our 'core'..."

A circle of gentle ripples emanated from the surface of the fragments, brushing across the girl's tender white cheeks, as if expressing approval.

"What did you call me?"

The girl was slightly stunned.

"core……"

The fragments undulated gently.

"There is no doubt that you are one of the 'fragments', and you are the most important, indispensable, and only core fragment..."

"The power of the 'fragments' that want to merge into one will naturally attract you, and the 'doomed trait' in you is probably only related to our original body..."

"I am a 'core' fragment?"

The girl was a little surprised. She instinctively raised her hand to comb her golden hair and asked a question.

"So, before it broke... what were the fragments?"

"A broken mirror cannot reflect one's full self... Damaged body tissues also cannot reveal one's identity before death. The same is true for us..."

The illusory fragments rippled gently, and the light spots on the surface sometimes dispersed and sometimes condensed.

"If there is really a fragment that could possibly record my complete appearance... then I'm afraid it would only be you, the core, the brain..."

"Touch me, absorb me, and you will know all that I know..."

"Okay...if I absorb you, will your consciousness disappear?"

Claire nodded slightly, but because of the unspeakable intimacy in her heart, she couldn't help but ask hesitantly.

"I am you, and you are me. We are one, and there is no disappearance."

The fragmented female voice finally sounded, and at the same time, a scene of a huge purple moon in the sky outside the window suddenly appeared in the girl's heart.

"Go, deep beneath the castle, there are the legacies we left for ourselves. Take them, and leave here, leave this island that is about to end, with our common wish to reunite!"

(End of this chapter)