For Duncan, "The Great Annihilation" was finally no longer a completely unknown mystery. Deep in the endless and thick ancient curtain, the truth finally revealed a corner to him - a crucial corner.

It was the mutual "collision" of the worlds that led to the mass annihilation, and the "incompatibility" of different worlds distorted the ruins after the collision into today's bizarre and dangerous deep-sea era. This scene, which remains in the deepest part of Silantis' nightmare, is a microcosm of that collision.

But this is just a microcosm - there are definitely more than just these two worlds colliding.

Duncan could feel that as he "understood" these truths, some changes were happening to him.

Just now, for a moment, he even felt that everything in front of him had turned into chaotic and empty... colors. In the depths of those colors, he saw the essence of the world, and saw that they were all shaky starlight, and each cluster of glimmers was composed of abstract information descriptions;

He saw that everything was at the critical point of slow collapse. The contradictory nature of everything made them continue to collapse and reorganize in the depths of information. He seemed to understand the true side of the whole world and found the "only solution" to almost all contradictions and imbalances...

But it was only for a moment.

He seemed to be missing something, the most important "parameter".

Duncan's mind returned to reality. He blinked and felt as if countless voices were roaring in his mind. Then those roars gradually faded away, and he gradually resumed thinking.

I have understood the nature of the Great Annihilation and why the current deep sea era was formed... but what is the missing "key parameter"? I have understood the truth of the world, so what else do I still not understand?

Duncan's mind was still filled with the strong impression of seeing the real side of the world just now, and he couldn't help but think about these abstract and difficult problems, but soon he forced himself to control his thoughts and noticed the worried look from Lucrecia.

Now is not the time to continue pondering those questions.

"Nothing, I just suddenly understood something." He waved his hand, then turned his head and looked outside the ship's side.

The Lost Homeland was sailing on the surface of a light curtain made of false sunlight. The blazing spiritual flames were spreading rapidly on the light curtain, corroding and melting through this seemingly powerful barrier. The mutual impact of forces set off storms of light and flames in the distance.

But it seems that it will take some time to completely melt through this "light wall".

Unless... this barrier itself suddenly has a "weak point"...

Under the curtain of light and the sea of ​​fire, on that nameless world covered with yellow sand, a desert storm took shape once again, and deep in the storm, a huge flash of light erupted once again.

The strong wind that swept across the entire desert dissipated again. In the disordered and chaotic airflow, the curtain formed by the storm was torn into pieces, and sand and dust fluttered to the ground.

And in the gradually thinning dust and fog, a round of "sunlight" with increasingly dimmer light is gradually emerging. It floats above the overflowing magma lake, and its surface flickers visibly, expanding and shrinking.

The breeze rises, the ashes gather and gradually reshape.

"What the hell are you??!!"

The chaotic shaking roar finally sounded again. A language that humans could not understand was mixed in the horrible noise. Under the false corona shell, countless eyeballs of the sun's descendants trembled violently, staring at the figure that was walking out of the ashes.

Finally, there was a human-like emotion in its roar: anger.

Fanna slowly raised the giant sword, calmly staring at the "sun" falling on the ground in front of her, and slowly said: "After all, it is just a derivative of the ancient god, not that strong."

The Sun Child ignored her and continued to repeat: "What the hell are you?!"

Vanna finally lowered her head and took a look at her body.

The last wisp of ash was gradually returning to her body under the guidance of the spiritual flame. She could feel that her senses were recovering from paralysis, her blood was reappearing and starting to flow, and a heart - a human-like heart - had resumed beating in her chest.

She could even feel the heart being reshaped.

"Just a pile of ashes," she whispered as she took a step forward.

"Ashes? No... You are not ashes at all!" The hoarse and low tremors of the Son of the Sun came from afar, "Warp... You have the breath of the Warp. You are the Warp shadow that leaked into the real world - what are you?!"

Vanna suddenly stopped.

A trace of surprise appeared in her eyes, followed by thinking, and then, she seemed to understand something vaguely, and said thoughtfully: "You said, I am a subspace shadow?"

The Son of the Sun did not answer her question, but only made an unsettling, low and chaotic noise, and the flames and light gathered together again, repairing and reshaping the "corona" on its surface.

Vanna didn't care. She didn't expect to get all the answers from this blasphemous thing, or rather, she had already got the answers.

Yes, by definition, she is a Warp Shadow - it was the power of the Warp that reshaped the pile of ashes more than ten years ago into "Vanna", and in the process of that reshaping, she was essentially a Warp creation.

Therefore, the "being that returned from the subspace" should look like this.

"So...it turns out the captain is another kind of existence..."

Vanna muttered softly to herself, and then she seemed to feel something. She raised her head and stared quietly at the "sun" on the distant earth.

The Son of the Sun noticed her gaze, and sensed some disturbing meaning from it. Its surface swelled and shrank and squirmed, and it began to emit a low vibration, as if it was threatening or warning.

Vanna laughed, not paying any attention to the heat waves that were surging again around her, or the deadly "sunlight" that was gradually gathering on the descendants of the sun.

"You will be afraid too." She breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile.

Then, the sky was set on fire.

A sea of ​​fire that undulated like the ocean and surged and boiled like a storm suddenly appeared, covering one-third of the sky in almost the blink of an eye. The flames briefly dispersed the clouds and fog between the two worlds, and began to gradually sink towards the earth below.

A huge shadow emerged from the center of the sea of ​​fire, and gradually crushed down as if it was going to pierce through the sky. As the huge shadow continued to move in, layers of light golden "sunlight" briefly emerged at the edge of the sea of ​​fire, as if to rebuild the barrier to block this "invasion", but the next second, the sunlight shattered like glass - accompanied by an illusory cracking sound, the huge ship wrapped in flames finally fell from the sky.

The Sun's Son let out a series of chaotic roars and was shocked to find that the barrier he had carefully constructed had been melted through by an external force at some point, and even the flames on the barrier no longer obeyed his orders. Then, his "attention" was attracted by the huge ship that fell from the sky.

The "shell" made of flames and light opened, and the tentacles piled up inside the shell involuntarily extended and stretched outward in the sunlight. Eyeballs that did not resemble humans turned to the shadow of the Lost Hometown. They stared at the fire and a figure in the fire.

The truth has arrived.

A voice came from the sky: "You see me."

Then, the flames on the outer shell of the Sun's Offspring suddenly turned a layer of dark green - the dark green flames began to spread throughout the body of this ancient god's derivative like a living thing, igniting and transforming it from the inside out in the blink of an eye.

But it was not burned to ashes instantly - in the rapid burning of the spiritual flames, it struggled to float up from the ground, and then suddenly rushed into the sky.

Almost at the same time, a bright stream of flames burst out from the bow of the Lost Homeland.

It was a golden arc of flame - the flame stream rushed into the sky from the bow of the ghost ship like an eruption, and without hesitation pounced on the Sun Descendant who was dragging a long flame tail like a flying meteor, and pierced it in the blink of an eye.

However, the "fireball" was not dead yet. It just paused for a short while and then struggled to continue flying into the sky.

It almost escaped from this world.

But just when the fireball was about to turn into a shadow at the edge of the sky, a huge phantom suddenly appeared on its escape path.

It was a pitch-black billy goat.

He was as huge as a mountain, floating in the sky like a dark cloud, with illusory thunder leaping between His horns and a faint green flame reflected in His eyes. His body was formed from the sea of ​​spiritual fire flowing in the sky, and presented a chaotic posture - He lowered his head slightly in the direction of the Lost Hometown, and after a silent greeting, he turned his gaze to the fireball that was trying to escape from this place.

The goat took a few steps back in the clouds, then lowered its head and accelerated suddenly—the sea of ​​fire gathered behind it and spread under its feet to form a path. It began to run along this path of flames, like a dark meteor falling from the clouds. In the blink of an eye, it accelerated to a level that could not be captured by the naked eye, and then violently slammed into the fireball that was constantly accelerating into the sky.

The huge explosion and impact shattered the last remaining clouds between the two worlds, and even shattered the distant mountains and part of the already crumbling earth. The rising fireball was shattered into pieces by the impact, and the large and small fragments instantly turned into dust in the burning of the dark green flames. Another shining "core" fell from the sky, but just halfway down, it was swallowed up by a spiritual flame that appeared out of thin air and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

The Black Goat walked out of the fire storm caused by the huge explosion. He walked from the clouds to the earth and landed in front of Vanna together with the Lost Homeland.