With a huge hole torn in its hull and filled with twisted tentacles, the *Nirvana* slowly sank through the seawater, finally getting stuck on the mountaintop where the Olympus Divine Hall once stood.
The Roman stone pillars, long eroded by the seawater, were easily crushed beneath it.
The Pantheon.
This was the dwelling place of the gods in Ancient Greek mythology. Repaired countless times, it recorded the legends of gods and the epics of heroes.
Zeus threw parties here, the Twelve Titans once received sacrifices, War God Ares seduced his sister-in-law here, and both Caesar and Octavian carved their stories onto its stone tablets.
Now,
a four-hundred-meter-diameter, cross-shaped "drifter ship" from the stars had sunk here.
Looking up from the deep seafloor toward the light above, Shi Ming arrived at this mountain peak for the third time. Characters flickered in his eyes as he probed the secrets of the *Nirvana*.
