Ashes Of Deep Sea

Chapter 680 - 680 677 Pilgrimage

?Chapter 680: Chapter 677 “Pilgrimage Chapter 680: Chapter 677 “Pilgrimage Pilgrimage Ark—Ever since Duncan had laid eyes on these “giant ships” that resembled small City-States, ever since he learned of their unceasing pilgrimage across the sea, he’d harbored doubts about these astonishing creations.

What did the Pilgrimage Arks truly signify, and their peculiar “pilgrimage” activities… Were they merely “patrolling”?

People in the City-States often said that the Pilgrimage Arks represented the mighty powers of the Four Gods, they were the symbol of the Church’s highest military force, as well as the “mobile palaces” of the four true gods in the mortal world. The Church commanded the arks to patrol the Endless Sea, to deter the heretics, to protect the City-States from contamination by malevolent beings from Subspace. Initially, Duncan hadn’t doubted this explanation, but the more he dealt with the Church of the Four Gods, especially after learning more and more inside information from Fenna, Morris, and Agatha, he began to notice discrepancies.

The ones truly responsible for combating heretical abominations were the Judges and the guardian system of the City-States. The ones really responsible for intercepting heterodox believers at sea and for rescuing mariners were the conventional fleets of the Church of the Four Gods. The ones in charge of guarding against subspace contamination and fortifying the City-States’ Defenses were the chiming of church bells, the bishops’ prayers, and the strictly planned church-belltower system. Meanwhile, the four awe-inspiring Pilgrimage Arks… In fact, never partook in any affairs related to the mortal world.

They spent three-quarters of the year patrolling on some secret routes, invisible and immeasurable to the mortal world, seemingly situated between the fissures of reality, far from any city. And during the remaining time, they took turns patrolling near the “Eternal Veil” on the borders, only minimally communicating with the Church’s border fleets, never dealing with any City-States—and even deliberately avoiding the patrol fleets of the border City-States.

Only on the rarest occasions did these arks anchor at City-States—such as after a major event like the Black Sun crisis in Prand—only then would they appear before the eyes of the world.

Apart from this, the arks had no further contact with the mortal world, even within the upper echelons of the four grand churches, they were always shrouded in a veil of mystery—most clergy spent their lives without ever setting foot on a Pilgrimage Ark, only those designated as “saints” were privileged enough to be taken to an ark during their apprenticeship, but even they were restricted to certain areas and after completing the necessary studies and training, they were sent back to their original cities—these “saints” never had a chance to encounter the true secrets of the arks.

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