After the golden light spot, referred to as "Sibyl" by the pale figure, responded, the scene before Lumine's eyes suddenly became distorted and illusory, eventually turning into complete darkness.
Accompanied by a dazzling purple flash, that familiar voice gradually emerged in her ears.
"Hey! Lumine! Wake up! Don't scare me! Hey!"
Paimon's anxious voice gradually changed from blurry to clear, and the scene before Lumine's eyes returned to the brass-colored room.
"Am I... back? Or is it like the last time I passed by Lucine Fountain?"
Lumine thought to herself.
Seemingly noticing that Lumine had reopened her eyes, Paimon exclaimed with a hint of surprise:
"Ah! You've finally woken up! You really scared me just now!"
Hearing this, Lumine nodded gently, then struggled to stand up from the ground, patting off some dust that had clung to her clothes, and then she asked:
"Just now... did anything happen to me?"
Paimon nodded quickly, a hint of fear in her eyes, as if she was still shaken by what had just happened.
"I just saw... a ball of light fly out from this podium-like thing, and it hit you directly, and then you passed out. No matter how much I called you, you wouldn't wake up..."
"I even thought you were eaten by that light ball..."
Hearing Paimon's description, Lumine nodded with a wry smile, then reached out and patted Paimon's little head, saying:
"Don't worry about me, I'm fine. It's just that... I saw something different just now."
Hearing this, Paimon wiped the corner of her eyes and asked with a slightly hoarse voice:
"Wh-what was it?"
Lumine told Paimon everything she had seen and heard, and Paimon also fell into deep thought.
"A silvery-white ancient tree... a golden light spot, and a pale figure... why does it feel like guessing a riddle?"
Paimon gently shook her little head, the expression on her face gradually becoming confused.
She was really not good at thinking about such things.
Seeing Paimon's somewhat distressed look, Lumine sighed slightly; she knew Paimon couldn't be relied upon, and then began to think for herself.
...
Nonomi looked at the screen in front of her, then skillfully brought up her small panel, and began to study and compare the previous plot.
And the audience in the live stream, upon seeing the familiar electronic document, also chose to slow down the frequency of their bullet comments—
They knew very well that although Nonomi was unreliable in some matters, she was always excellent at analyzing plots and catching details.
After Nonomi briefly compared the previous scene with what Yuto had described... she nodded with a sudden realization.
"Let me conclude first, that pale figure just now was Remus, the founder of the Lemuria Dynasty."
"And that small golden light spot on the tree, which is similar to how we usually farm artifacts, corresponds to "Golden Bee" Sibyl. I don't know her specific origin."
At this point, Nonomi paused slightly, took a sip of water, and continued:
"From a worldview perspective... I feel like something big is coming."
"From that conversation just now, it can be seen that the primordial sea water existed even before the Lemuria Dynasty."
"And in Neuvillette's explanation... the primordial sea water is the source of life, which means there was an era before Remuria."
"Moreover, Remus is an Archon, which means the era created by the life nurtured by the Primordial Sea was long before the Archon War..."
At this point, Nonomi's brows furrowed slightly; she felt as if something had suddenly broken off, and the subsequent events seemed impossible to continue.
After thinking for a long time, Nonomi still couldn't find any further textual evidence or game lore in her memory to continue speaking, and finally sighed slightly.
"Ah... Although I still wanted to say something like The Nail of the Cold Heavens falling from the sky, there's no basis for it, not even room for imagination, so let's just drop it."
Nonomi shrugged, then turned her attention to the game in front of her, waiting for further revelations of the game content.
...
For Lumine, her thought process was not complicated, so... she did not directly connect Yuto's words with everything she had just seen—
Instead, she chose to link what she had just witnessed with "phobos" from that delirious whisper.
"Could the content of these conversations also be related to "phobos"?"
"But what is "phobos"? What exactly happened to the Lemuria Dynasty? And... why did that scene change just now?"
Lumine's mind was filled with all sorts of doubts, as if in the next second these doubts would converge in her heart and then burst open with a "pop."
For Lumine now... there were too many blank periods in this world that she couldn't understand.
Whether it was the Abyss or Sky Island above the Seven Archons, or the so-called era of the "Dragons," these things were almost completely blank to her.
"But... as long as I keep walking down this path, I'll know more and more, and then..."
"Then I'll probably be able to figure out what my brother is doing..."
Lumine thought to herself.
But she quickly shook her head again, as if to place those thoughts deep within her heart and consciousness.
The young girl quickly adjusted her emotions and turned her gaze to the brass-colored podium in front of her.
Unlike the brilliant light it had previously emitted, the podium was now dim, which allowed Lumine to see the full appearance of the "book."
It was less a book and more an old manuscript with only a cover, and even some damaged parts.
Almost the instant Lumine's gaze met the paper, the tattered manuscript instantly floated up and vanished from her sight in a flash.
Paimon, who witnessed this process, murmured in disbelief:
"How did it just... poof and disappear?"
Lumine gently shook her head; she also didn't understand what had happened, or rather...
She didn't really care about the paper's whereabouts.
After all, from the results just now, she had obtained the most crucial information, which might give Claude some inspiration.
Thinking of this, Lumine nodded quite naturally, then said to Paimon beside her:
"Let's go, let's find Claude first and see if he gets any new inspiration after hearing our experience."
Hearing this, Paimon nodded repeatedly, then followed Lumine through the watery curtain, preparing to return to Fontaine to plan their next exploration.
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