In the last connection with the paper boat, Lucrecia tried her best to control it to fall towards the Lost Homeland which was flying over the forest.

The Lost Homeland also noticed the small boat that was swaying in the sky and about to crash. It suddenly accelerated in mid-air. The huge ship was as light as a gust of wind in its spiritual state, and it arrived below Lucrecia and others in almost the blink of an eye.

The torn paper boat was like a cloud out of control. After several thrilling adjustments in direction, it finally crashed into the deck of the Lost Hometown.

Shirley and Agou almost tumbled out of the paper boat, and rolled on the deck for several times before they finally stabilized. Then, a tall figure appeared in front of them - Duncan bent down, reached out and pulled up the dizzy Shirley, and then grabbed Nina who had also rolled over.

Shirley seemed a little dazed. After she stood up, she shook her head vigorously and her eyes gradually regained focus. She saw the situation around her clearly and finally felt relieved: "Finally I survived... I thought I was dead this time..."

"Uncle Duncan!" Nina cheered happily and threw herself on Duncan.

Duncan smiled and patted Nina's hair, hugged her gently, and looked up at a distance.

Maurice stood steadily on the deck, supporting himself with a cane in one hand and holding a delicate mechanical device like a gyroscope in the other, looking at this side with a smile, while Lucrecia lightly landed from a nearby mast - just as the paper boat was about to hit the deck, she flew out of the paper boat one step ahead.

Then it was hung on the mast just now.

"It seems like you're all in good shape," Duncan smiled and nodded at them, "But to be honest, flying into the burning sky on a paper boat is a bit risky."

Lucrecia, who was walking towards this side, suddenly showed a trace of embarrassment on her face: "...This spell does have room for improvement."

Nina immediately tugged at Duncan's arm and pointed at the light curtain in the sky that seemed to separate the two worlds: "Uncle, look up there--"

Duncan nodded slightly: "I have seen it."

A brilliant curtain of light, as if cast by sunlight, is covering the sky between the two worlds, like a low-hanging "shell", enveloping the continent covered with yellow sand.

The height of the Lost Homeland was gradually increasing, and now it had reached the limit above the forest. The brilliant sunlight barrier was almost brushing the top of the highest mast of the Lost Homeland. A faint ripple was spreading from the top of the mast to the surroundings, looking gentle and harmless.

"Fanna might be trapped over there," Morris walked over and said solemnly, "This barrier is the power of the 'Creeping Sun Disc'. The person who built the barrier was targeting the 'sun' that Fanna mentioned. We just ran into this barrier..."

Duncan nodded. "I know—this barrier is trying to keep me out."

"So what should we do now?" Nina looked up curiously, "Can we just smash it in?"

Duncan looked at her helplessly and said, "You have been led astray by Shirley - girls should not always be obsessed with smashing things, and should not always think of such rough methods."

As he spoke, he looked up at the magnificent "curtain of sunlight" floating above the Lost Homeland.

The next second, a slight creaking sound came from deep within the Lost Homeland, and then this ghost ship burning with blazing spiritual fire suddenly increased its altitude, and then rushed directly towards the undulating and burning sea of ​​​​light.

A gravity reversal occurred - at the moment of the reversal, the Lost Homeland rolled violently in the light curtain to cope with the change in gravity direction after crossing the critical point between the two worlds.

When Shirley climbed up from the deck again in a daze, she found that the Lost Homeland was already sailing on the surface of the hot and undulating light curtain. Under the light curtain was the vague desert land, and the familiar forest and Silandis, which had almost turned into ruins, were hanging upside down above her head.

The "sunlight curtain" that separated the two worlds responded almost immediately, just like when the paper boat approached it not long ago. The scorching sun turned into raging flames in the blink of an eye, and began to surge towards the uninvited guest sailing on the surface of the light curtain in waves - the flames were like a mountain, rushing and roaring!

However, every ray of light that approached the Lost Homeland was dyed with a layer of faint green almost in the blink of an eye, turning into a gentle spiritual fire that surrounded the Lost Homeland.

The next second, these dark green flames began to spread on the barrier, just like the gradually spreading pollution, covering an increasingly larger area and spreading faster and faster.

This seemingly magnificent barrier is being burned and melted at a speed visible to the naked eye!

Nina opened her eyes wide, watching the golden light curtain outside the ship turn into a spreading green sea of ​​fire in the blink of an eye. She couldn't help but exclaimed softly: "Woooooo——"

Duncan did not speak. He just stared quietly at the "dividing line" between the two worlds, and a thoughtful look gradually appeared on his face.

He was still recalling the phenomenon he observed at the moment when gravity reversed.

The direction of gravity changes instantly - there is no "balance point" between the two worlds where gravity is zero, and as I approach this dividing line, I do not feel the "gradual process" of gravity gradually weakening and reversing.

This further proves that the "collision" of the two worlds is not a simple physical process, nor is it that the two celestial bodies have come into contact at the physical level - they are so close at this moment, but the gravity of the two lands is still clearly independent of each other, as if...

Incompatibility in general.

While this "incompatible" state was present, a strange "erosion" phenomenon also appeared in the two worlds of forest and desert. Everything was distorted, and indescribable things grew from the shadows. Silantis began to collapse and spontaneously combust even before the inverted desert approached. This gave people the feeling...

It’s like “spiritual pollution” on a world level.

Two worlds that are completely unable to interpret, establish, or be compatible with each other are distorted at the same time as they approach each other.

Duncan raised his head and looked at Silantis, which was hanging upside down in the sky and completely collapsing in flames. The World Tree had been completely changed, and as it collapsed, the elves' home world was gradually being completely eroded by darkness, melting and disintegrating in chaos.

The unique racial characteristics of the elves constructed this strange dimension called "The Dream of the Nameless One", where Silandis was trapped in an eternal nightmare. The scene before him was the deepest part of the nightmare.

This moment is before the deep sea era begins, and the great annihilation is happening.

The essence of the Great Annihilation... is the collision of two worlds.

Duncan frowned suddenly.

Two worlds? Are there really only two worlds?

He suddenly remembered the "warrior" who had turned into living metal, the world of swords and magic that collapsed at dusk, the "moon" of his hometown, the endless fog outside his apartment, the contradictory historical records that now remain in various city-states, the countless bizarre legends recorded in the volumes of the Dark Ages, those ancient civilizations that could not be verified, those inexplicable historical relics that did not belong to any known civilization, and the... strong pollution that those relics carried.

The very existence of certain historical relics seems to be "toxic" to the world. Just by being placed there, they will distort and pollute everything around them.

And there are some other things that are not even allowed to appear in reality. There is no way to contain or render them harmless. Destroying them immediately is the only safe way to dispose of them. They are fearfully called... "blasphemous prototypes" by the world.

Duncan stood quietly on the deck of the Lost Homeland, in the narrow gap between two worlds that were destroying each other, before the end of the world when everything was annihilated, he finally understood the truth of the Great Annihilation.

Lucrecia suddenly felt something.

It was as if an invisible wind was blowing on the deck, and a suffocating heavy pressure was forming around me.

She hurriedly looked in the direction where the heavy pressure came from.

A bright starlight was standing quietly not far from her, outlining a hazy human figure - the starlight seemed to be standing right in front of her, but at the same time it seemed to be standing infinitely far away. It did not look very tall, but gave people a weird feeling of endless hugeness, as if its boundaries could never be accurately seen.

Lucrecia remembered that she had seen this starlight before. It was when she first met her father not long ago. At a certain dangerous moment, in a fleeting glimpse, she had seen some of the "truth" behind her father's body.

But this time things are different.

All optical laws and visual perception seemed to be invalid in front of the starlight. Lucrecia was shocked to find that her vision was being distorted in the starlight. All kinds of "logic" that she could not understand were brewing in the starlight. She tried to look away, but found that she could not do it at all.

Her gaze seemed to have become part of the starlight.

However, the next second, just when she thought her sanity was about to be completely devoured and assimilated by the giant starlight, all the starlight disappeared.

A broad hand blocked her eyes.

Lucrecia was stunned for a moment before she realized that this was her father's hand.

She grabbed the hand in a daze, pushed it away carefully, and looked towards the place where the bright starlight was just now.

The starlight has collapsed back into Duncan's image.

"Don't be afraid," she heard her father say to her gently, "I'm still here."

"What happened just now?" Lucrecia blinked. She finally felt relieved after hearing Duncan's voice. However, the "burn mark" left by the bright starlight just now seemed to be deeply imprinted in her mind. "Just now you..."

"Nothing," Duncan said softly, "I just suddenly understood something."