Above The Sky
Chapter 260 - 260 248 Ian's Anger 13

260: Chapter 248 Ian’s Anger (1/3) 260: Chapter 248 Ian’s Anger (1/3) The Dragon’s Chant wafted from a distant beyond, compelling the two young people to peer into the infinite expanse of ice and snow.

They were currently perched above a solidly built range of icy hills, and beyond lay a glacier replete with peaks and valleys of uneven ice, with jagged crevasses and sharp icebergs intertwined in a complex landscape.

On the seemingly flat glacier fields on the other side, hidden beneath were many perilous ice holes leading to unknown frigid depths.

The wind and snow howled fiercely, with gusts coming swiftly from all directions.

Clearly, this place was connected to the outside, or perhaps the ruins’ air exchange system was still operating continuously a thousand years after the Calamity of Heavenfall.

Aside from these sounds, within the Ruins of Ice Abyss, the Dragon’s Chant resonated.

After listening for a long while, when Ian snapped his attention back and slowly shook his head, Yisen was still trying to make out the sounds more clearly through the blizzard.

“The Deep Sea Crystal Dragon is injured, but not gravely.

It originally intended to use the fluctuating Spirit Energy Field within the Labyrinth to advance to the Second Energy Level, but it was interrupted by the changes beneath the maze in the ruins, and now it is quite angry,”

Ian analyzed the information he had heard, finding a perfect match with the intelligence he had previously observed: “It seems that the Ruins of Ice Abyss are connected to the Crystal Dragon’s den, or rather, the Crystal Dragon occasionally comes to the Ice Abyss.

It isn’t surprising—this place is a large water and ice Spirit Energy Field.”

“The question is…

what exactly is this cold abyssal valley at the bottom level of the ruins?”

Truth be told, Yisen Gard couldn’t answer this question, and even if Master Gossay were to wake up and regain sanity, he wouldn’t have the answer either.

On the contrary, it was Ian who had secretly held the answer in his heart.

—What is an Ice Abyss next to a super-giant nuclear fusion power station?

—Isn’t that obvious, it’s a cooling circulation system!

But this was exactly what Ian found peculiar.

Gales whipped through the jagged, sharp valleys—this place’s cooling system was evidently working well, even forcibly creating an unimaginably spectacular icy landscape below ground—Ian felt that even the cold lands of the Empire’s Northern Territory, the ice fields of the Yenjiang Federation, and the mountaintops of the Nine Cold Desolate Lands didn’t possess such extraordinary scenery as this place.

So, why?

“Why would the South Sea Relic Cluster cause great storms due to abnormal heat dissipation?”

Having been reborn, Ian certainly remembered that he was born during that grand abnormal storm, and in this life, his father, the captain of the guard squad at Harrison Port, also went missing and perished in that great storm.

The great storm altered his fate, changed the fate of many people, and it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say it changed the fate of the world—Teacher Hiliad had speculated that it was a malfunction in the ruins’ cooling system that caused the excessive heat to be released through the evaporation of seawater, but now it seemed not to be the case.

The cooling system was working well.

Too well, in fact.

“Ian?”

At this moment, Yisen Gard was watching Ian closely.

He had originally been observing the surrounding frosty landscapes, but shortly, he became captivated by Ian’s expression at the moment.

The white-haired youth stood on the icy hill, hair fluttering, and the dim light passing through the flying frost shone upon him, making Ian’s already snow-like complexion seem as if it was about to blend into the surroundings, hidden amidst the wind and snow.

His eyes lit up with a faint aqua halo, from which curiosity and a thirst for knowledge should have shone.

But now, deep within his irises, there was a hint of an indescribable and nameless emotion stirring.

After a long gaze, he faintly came to understand that this emotion was named ‘anger’.

Ian was angry.

The white-haired youth stared angrily at the entire Ice Abyss, his heart filled with many questions and emotions, with anger burning fiercest among them.

—If the cooling system is normal, then why did the great storm occur?

The landscape here in the Ice Abyss obviously could not have been formed in merely a few decades, even a century would be deemed brief…

Who, or rather, what anomaly caused the cooling and heat dissipation systems to fail to synchronize?

If someone did this deliberately…

Do they not realize that such actions are not just creating natural disasters for the surrounding towns, causing countless deaths?

Do they not realize that if the heat dissipation system continues to malfunction, the fusion energy station beneath the ruins would gradually head towards self-destruction, even become thoroughly damaged, poisoning the entire sea region?

Do they not realize that Redwood Base, the Orbital Space Elevator, and the Accelerator ruins are precious legacies left to the entire civilization of Terra by the previous epoch, and to all intelligent life forms?!

In this age of ignorance…

If a civilization could completely comprehend the technology contained within these two artifacts of the previous epoch—then a united, peaceful, and prosperous era would undoubtedly descend!

If it wasn’t man-made, but merely an accident.

Then, Ian believed,

“I must resolve this issue.”

At that moment, Yisen Gard heard Ian’s voice, devoid of any hesitation, “The South Sea Relic Cluster is on the path to self-destruction, the formation of the Labyrinth is a harbinger—I must resolve this issue.”

“Not only will Harrison Port be destroyed by the relics’ self-demise…

Terra Continent will also inevitably lose the hope of returning to Sky above in the short term!”

Ian still remembered the ‘Prophetic State’ he had briefly entered six years ago.

Anyone can disbelieve a Prophet’s prophecy, simply because they do not understand what ‘prophecy’ is…

Only those who have experienced it firsthand can understand, it is not prophecy, but a certain ‘future of destiny’!

If nothing is done, if nothing is changed, as long as all things in Terra continue along their existing trajectory, then such a future is inevitable!

Because Ian could see destiny, he did not believe in destiny.

Because he could twist the future.

To see is to change.

To burn in darkness, to make noise in silence.

In this deep night when all the stars have faded away, only the flame in the youth’s heart is still burning fiercely.

“Let’s go, Yisen.”

Ian exhaled, and his sharp breath cut through the frost and snow, assuring himself that Master Gossay’s condition on his back was still acceptable, he then began to step forward, “Time waits for no one, we have many things to do next.”

“Okay.”

Yisen followed, still somewhat in a daze, this might be the first time he saw Ian with an expression other than calm, curious, or thoughtful.

Anger…

Was it anger towards the self-destruction of the relics, the destruction of Harrison Port, or the future of Terra Continent?

It seemed not that simple.

Yet not that complicated…

Ian did not know the thoughts of Yisen Gard, and even if he did, he probably could not provide an accurate answer.

In fact, during the journey, he was pondering another, more complicated issue.

—Terra was not Earth, he had ascertained this long ago.

The world of Terra had Origin Quality, Spirit Energy, and even many detailed data points that differed; the two worlds were far too different, almost difficult to say they belonged to the same universe model.

But precisely because the word ‘universe’ came to mind, Ian recalled terms like Terra Starfield and Obera Star Domain from the Silver Chip.

Clearly, the pre-era civilization of Terra had already made contact with multiple different extraterrestrial intelligent lifeforms, or at least extraterrestrial ecological lifeforms, and they might even possess considerable data related to extraterrestrial species, including…

a star map of their local universe!

The youth remembered the night sky without stars was so dark and still, silent like death itself.

But the sky of 1600 years ago definitely could not have been like Terra’s present one.

It should be a star map that shows the vast galaxy like Earth’s!

—The database of Redwood Base must be obtained.

—The data library cannot be allowed to be destroyed by those at Fiery Flame Land.

—The situation of Spark and the Heterogeneous Ecosystem must also be clarified.

With resolute beliefs and goals, Ian walked silently forward with Yisen, traveling on this glacier deep within the Abyss.

Until they heard, from the distant wind, the wailing, shouting, and sounds of battle.