Ashes Of Deep Sea Chapter 456

Chapter 456: Chapter 457: The Favor of Wisdom (?) Chapter 456: Chapter 457: The Favor of Wisdom (?) The atmosphere in the captain's chamber was awkwardly silent and subtly tense for a long time.

Finally, it was Duncan who broke the silence first. He shifted his gaze from A Dog and looked seriously at the old Mr. Morris nearby, “Logically, do you think this makes sense?”

Morris blinked slowly, his face contorted with confusion as if he had been dragged at 2:30 in the morning to revise a thesis. He felt the tests he faced when he was promoted to Saint were much simpler than the problem at hand, and after struggling for a while, he managed to say, “Throughout history… there has never been such an occurrence… It's beyond my comprehension.”

“It certainly is–A Dog may be the only Profound Demon ever to learn how to read,” Duncan said with a complicated expression as he pinched the bridge of his nose, “Does your doctrine ever mention that the God of Wisdom would bless Profound Demons?”

“How could that be possible?” Morris responded, his expression ghostly, “Profound Demons are sworn enemies of civilized society, not to mention the God of Wisdom, the doctrines of the other three gods definitely wouldn't have anything of that sort…”
Just as Morris finished speaking, Fenna, who had been stunned throughout the conversation, suddenly remembered something and added in a low voice, “But it's also mentioned in the doctrines of the God of Wisdom that Rahm equally cherishes every creature with Spiritual Intelligence, bestowing upon them the wisdom to comprehend the world and protecting them with a veil of folly from the terrifying realities… There is no clear exclusion of Profound Demons from 'intelligent beings.'”
“Since when do Profound Demons possess Spiritual Intelligence?” Morris exclaimed without thinking, but the next second, he turned his head in a bizarre expression, looking at A Dog who was obediently lying on the floor.

“Given A Dog's learning progress, next year this time we might even be able to have it take the middle school exam,” Duncan murmured, “Perhaps one day it could even become Nina's desk mate.”

“… I'm a bit confused, I need to calm down,” Morris finally shook slightly and, rubbing his forehead, slowly made his way to a nearby chair. Resting his arms on the armrests and sitting down, he lifted his head and looked at the dog in the center of the room with a complex gaze, “Aside from those visions that emerged in your mind, what else did you feel? Did you hear Him speak to you? Or have a spontaneous new understanding of some knowledge?”

“No,” A Dog shook its head heavily, “I just saw those lights twice and both times I was startled, besides that, I heard nothing and felt nothing.”

“Just saw 'Him'? No revelations whatsoever?” Morris seemed to have calmed down, now pondering seriously, “Then did you feel any enhancement in your calculating or memory abilities? After staring at those 'lights' for a long time, did the world look different when you returned to reality?”

“No, none of that–And I didn't even stare at those 'lights' for long; I just glanced at them, and then I was pulled back to the real world,” A Dog continued to shake its head.

“Glanced at it? Then you were pulled back to the real world?” Morris was taken aback, obviously this contradicted his understanding, “That's not right… The gaze of the God of Wisdom is accompanied by prolonged intellectual interaction, even if mortals can't comprehend this interaction, the entire process certainly wouldn't be as brief as 'a glance'… How were you pulled back?”

“It felt like I was pulled back by Sherry,” A Dog pondered, then raised its head and nudged Sherry's arm, “I had just begun to feel like I was being 'taken away' by the lights when I sensed a great force coming from the Symbiotic Chains, and then I woke up–although Sherry herself doesn't seem to remember.”

The few gazes in the room immediately fell on Sherry again.

The girl who became the center of attention instinctively shrank her neck, but then she smiled proudly, as if a child flaunting after having done something impressive.

Only Duncan's expression became increasingly bizarre after a few changes.

Beside him, Fenna still puzzled, “I've never heard of a Symbiotic Chains between a human and a Profound Demon having this kind of power to block the gaze of a deity… Could it be that the symbiotic relationship between Sherry and A Dog is more intimate than those of the average devotees?”

“Cough cough, maybe it wasn't the power of the Symbiotic Chains that pulled A Dog back,” Duncan coughed twice, pointing at Sherry who was still gleefully smiling, “It could also be the power of illiteracy.”

Fenna: “…?”

Sherry: “…?”

Everyone was dumbfounded; Sherry's expression was vividly marvelous, and Morris looked at Duncan with a shocked gaze–he knew the captain's thoughts were broader than most, but he had never considered this direction!

However, after a brief moment of shock, Morris couldn't help but follow that train of thought, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt… somehow it was reasonable?

“Perhaps at that moment, there was a 'struggle' in the Transcendent realm on A Dog, one side being the gaze of the God of Wisdom, and the other his illiterate partner, and ultimately, the fact proved…” Duncan rubbed his temples, his tone laced with a sigh, “The desperate illiterate overcame the deity seeking to enroll.”

“Logically… Logically…” Morris opened his mouth, muttering several times but ended up spreading his hands, “Forget it, I don't know how to calculate this logic anymore, this matter might be enough for the scholars of Moco to fight a bloody battle at the City-State center, let's just assume it's true after all.”

A nuanced and tense atmosphere enveloped the captain's chamber while Sherry stood in the center, seemingly about to cry. She looked at Duncan, then at Morris, and finally, with a miserable face, pointed at A Dog, “Then… then did I hold back A Dog? It was about to… it truly was…”
At this moment, perhaps the only moment in her life, a thought that she should truly study hard suddenly emerged in Sherry's mind, but the next second, Duncan's voice interrupted her, “Don't rush to conclusions, perhaps… this matter is not as simple as we thought?”

Sherry immediately shook off her discouragement, “Ah?”

Duncan didn't answer her confusion immediately but turned to Dog, “Dog, did you just say you felt like you were being 'taken away' while you were focusing on those lights?”

Dog immediately nodded.

Duncan then turned to Morris, “Does someone blessed by the God of Wisdom Rahm get this feeling of being 'taken away'?”

“No,” Morris seemed to come to a realization as he shook his head and his tone gradually became serious, “The normal blessing process is a friendly mental communication and enlightenment, the mind of the blessed is clear and joyful, there should never be a tendency to lose control.”

“What would happen if a Profound Demon were really 'infused' with wisdom by the God of Wisdom Rahm or received some kind of… divine grace?” Duncan immediately continued asking.

“…I do not know, such a thing has never happened, but logically, it could be a very dangerous process,” Morris quickly grasped Duncan's point, “There is a natural conflict between the Four Righteous Gods and the 'maddened uncontrollable ancient gods,' not limited to literal 'struggles', but a fundamental 'mutual exclusion' between their creations or followers–Profound Demons, as derivatives of the Profound Saint, naturally possess chaotic corrupt traits; and for the God of Wisdom…”

Morris paused, his expression serious as he looked at Sherry, “Even if our Lord has no ill intent, its radiance would naturally destroy Dog's mind, and the result would be…”

Morris did not finish, instead, the others in the room fell into their own thoughts. Meanwhile, Ai Yi, who had been resting with eyes closed at the chart table, suddenly jumped up, flapping his wings vigorously while making sharp, strange screams, “Hot hot hot hot hot hot hot!”

After making a loud fuss, he suddenly darted up and then fell back onto the table with a “thud” like a rock, floundered to stand up, then walked around casually as if nothing happened, coming to stand next to the goat head, cocking his head, “Recharge for Q coins, no?”

Everyone was startled by this pigeon spirit's bizarre and spastic behavior, and no one could understand what it was yelling about, yet Duncan's expression subtly shifted.

The next second, a phrase inexplicably surfaced in his mind–
Two incompatible operating systems, data communication could cause a fatal error.

Accompanied by a moment of sudden realization and a mess of associations in his head, he slowly turned to look at Dog.

“Could there be a data conflict between the Profound Saint and LH-02…”

“Ah?” Dog didn't catch on immediately, “Captain, what are you talking about?”

“No, nothing,” Duncan knew it was difficult to explain to others the myriad of thoughts he had in a flash, merely waved his hand and looked again at Sherry, who still wore a puzzled look. He mentally reorganized his vocabulary several times before finally coming up with a phrase, “Sherry, it might be beneficial to 'pull' Dog back–I mean, it's just 'possible' it might prevent Dog from being 'corrupted' or 'consumed' by the will of the God of Wisdom Rahm.”

Sherry quickly processed this in her mind, seeming to finally understand Duncan's point, her eyes immediately sparkled again, “Ah, so… keeping distance from that God of Wisdom is actually a good thing?”

What else could Duncan say? He simply nodded.

The moment he nodded, Sherry's face lit up immediately, “Then do I have a reason not to do my homework anymore?! I need to pull Dog back!”

Duncan: “…?!”

He never expected that this would be the girl's first thought!

However, before he could speak, Morris reacted first, “It's not that simple.”

Sherry was taken aback, “Ah?”

The old man looked serious, “Our Lord's blessings are not merely based on academic level, and vice versa–I have observed, even if you do your homework every day, it won't prevent you from being rejected by the God of Wisdom.”

Sherry: “??”

Chapter end

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