Chapter 1168: 155. A Vast Region

Within the effective range of the Silent Covenant?

Muen’s heart was shaken. Originally, he had thought that the so-called Silent Covenant was just a treaty signed between a bunch of old undying fellows in order to deceive the people below them. Its effect was merely that some things absolutely could not be casually revealed, and it had no influence on ordinary people.

Now it seemed that ordinary people were the ones most deeply affected.

Without anyone realizing it, everyone’s cognition had been distorted, including his... Their horizons and thoughts had been completely confined within this one and only “Tia Continent.” As for existences beyond the continent, they actually had not the slightest sense of awareness or desire to explore.

They would not even think in that direction.

Too terrifying.

This kind of influence, silent and imperceptible like moisture seeping into things, was the most terrifying thing in this world... because it was terrifying enough to make you not even realize its terror.

“Relax. To completely distort human hearts over such a vast range, aside from an Evil God, no one can do it.”

Hamreign said, “This is only a kind of logical suggestion. It is still far from rewriting cognition. Its purpose is to prevent those who have not yet reached that level from accidentally seeing... or coming into contact with things they should not know.

“—You should know that among the current Evil God Pollution incidents on the Tia Continent, aside from those lunatics causing trouble, most of them happen because of this. Seeing, touching, even recognizing something can all become mediums through which an Evil God transmits Pollution.”

“I... can understand that.”

Muen took a deep breath. To be honest, after experiencing so many incidents, his tolerance for certain things was still quite high. After all, on one side he had to suffer the lash of Evil God cultist terrorists, and on the other side he had to be arranged this way and that by his own teachers and elders while they all acted like riddle-people. If his tolerance were not high, he would have long since gone off laughing and giggling to hold hands with the madmen and play house... So did this damn well count as him getting used to being mentally manipulated? ℴ

“Other than that, what other important information has been sealed off? I assume it should not be only this one point.”

“You will know those things later.”

“...”

Here it fucking came again.

Either do not say it, or say it completely. You people reveal things only a tiny bit at a time every single time. Aren’t you afraid that when you get old, every time you inhale oxygen, someone will let you inhale only half before pulling out the tube?

Old bastards who act too inhuman will have to pay the price sooner or later!

Muen stared at the sky with dead-fish eyes. Damn it, his mood was bad. Even the sun seemed not as bright as in his memory.

“Since you will not tell me about the other things, then saying a little more about this fog should still be fine, right? Just which side outside the Tia Continent is this Fog Wall roughly on?”

After being melancholy for a while, Muen took out the map again. While Miss Dragon still had the mood to chat idly, he had to hurry and squeeze out more intelligence. Otherwise, if he wanted to squeeze things out of Teacher Mela later... who knew how that bratty old loli would humiliate him.

She would probably directly stuff her little white-stockinged foot into his mouth, then keep going “oh my, oh my” nonstop. Just thinking about it made him angry.

“Is it on this side?”

Muen first pointed at the eastern region of the continent on the map.

The eastern part of the continent was outlined by deep-blue sections into a vast ocean. The ocean was even divided into several regions. For example, the sea not far east of Belrand was called Asol, which meant calm and peaceful in the ancient language.

Although Muen had not yet gone to the seaside in this world, according to the books, several coastal towns in the eastern Empire had extremely fine scenery and were holy lands for dates. He had originally planned to go have fun there before, but unfortunately he was too busy and could not free up the time.

Farther east of that region was the famous Storm Sea—just hearing that vulgar-as-hell name was enough to know that sea area was an extremely dangerous region.

That sea area was called a forbidden zone for humanity. It was said that no one knew how many famous fleets had sunk in that sea area, but there were always adventurers with iron skulls who spent enormous sums of money building sturdier ships to explore that unknown sea.

Because while it was dangerous, there were indeed people who had brought back large amounts of gold, treasure, and all kinds of rare materials found only in the deep sea from there.

Muen felt that if there were still regions unknown to humanity, they were probably deep within that sea area.

“No.”

Who would have known Hamreign would immediately deny it? “It is on the other side.”

“The other side?”

Muen froze slightly, his gaze falling on the map.

The other side... On the other side of the Storm Sea and the Asol Sea was the Empire. On the other side of the Empire was the Abyss, imprinted upon the earth like a scar. On the other side of the Abyss... was the vast western desert.

This desert... although its presence was not very strong either, Muen still had some impression of it.

After all, many ascetics would go to the western desert to train, tempering their bodies and minds, feeling the true meaning of life at the edge of death... such as King Indra.

“It is said that no one has ever been able to successfully cross that desert. It is a completely dead land.” Muen touched his chin, recalling the information about the western desert.

“There are.”

Hamreign said, “But those who can cross it naturally have the qualification to know more things. And once they know, they keep their mouths shut.”

“That... makes sense.”

The corner of Muen’s mouth twitched... So they were using this region as a place for tempering or screening?

“I did not expect that at the western end there was still such a strange region. It is really that places like the Abyss and the desert are too easily regarded by people as a ‘boundary.’”

After all, unlike the ocean, which, though dangerous, was full of vitality and opportunity, that western desert truly was the sort of place that only ascetics who had tortured themselves to a perverse degree would go to... This was probably also why the Silent Covenant could so easily influence people’s cognition in this regard, Muen guessed inwardly.

“There is a little of that reason, but actually, what you pointed at is not completely wrong either. From the east, one can also reach this place,” Hamreign said. “If one sails a ship straight toward the east.”

“I know that. After all, a planet is a sphere.”

Muen curled his lip.

“So whether going from the west or the east, as long as the direction does not deviate, one can always reach the destination.”

“Oh?”

Hamreign’s golden pupils glanced over in surprise. “You are rather open-minded. I remember that over these past few hundred years, over whether the ground is flat or spherical, some old things have always argued until their faces turned red. It would not be unexpected at all for them to fight over it and persecute each other. Truly foolish! For such a simple question, wouldn’t flying a little higher give the answer? That is why most humans are not very intelligent fellows. Even coming into contact with them makes one annoyed.”

“...I think, for the most part, not everyone can fly this high as easily as Miss Dragon can.”

While grimacing and complaining, Muen subconsciously hugged his shoulders. Flying to a position too high in the sky, even with his physical constitution, he felt somewhat cold.

“Hmph.” Hamreign coldly snorted and said nothing more. It seemed that she probably really did hate humans.

“Right, speaking of which, just how large is this region? Are there many areas inside the fog like Annabawei?”

Muen still gazed far toward the end of the horizon, trying to find the edge of this fog-shrouded region. But with Miss Dragon’s flying speed, after so long, he still had not seen any boundary.

Naturally, he was very curious.

“Actually, it cannot be considered too large.”

Hamreign also raised her enormous dragon head and looked into the distance. In a place Muen could not see, her golden pupils flickered.

“It merely occupies half of this world’s land and one third of its ocean, that is all.”

“Is that so? Then it indeed cannot be considered too large, only half of the... Huh? Wait!”

Muen’s eyes gradually widened. “How much did you say?”

“Half the land, one third of the ocean.” Hamreign rarely repeated herself.

Muen opened his mouth wide in shock. “Th-th-th... such a large region, wouldn’t that be about the same as an entire continent? No, that is not right. It is even far larger than a continent. And it is all covered by this kind of fog?”

“Yes.” Hamreign answered concisely.

“Gulp...”

Muen could almost hear the sound of himself swallowing. At first, he had thought this was Miss Dragon’s joke. After all, such a massive range was somewhat horrifying no matter how one put it.

But immediately afterward, he suddenly remembered...

Miss Dragon simply did not know how to joke.