Ed held the flower tremblingly, and before he felt the power it contained, it was its weight that he felt more directly.

It was heavier than a flower made of gold, so heavy that he could barely hold it on one hand. As he hurriedly added his other hand, he felt that it seemed to be getting heavier again.

"Don't be too nervous. "If you think of it as just a flower, it's just a flower." If you think too much...... It can weigh the weight of a whole world on you. ”

Ed didn't feel like he could afford the whole world. He glared at the flower, and after a moment of panic, began to try to imagine it as the other—the one in Naria's hair. He thought, he could still afford it...... I'm more than willing to bear that kind of weight.

And then, it really returns to him with the rich fragrance of roses.

The aroma soothed the hunger in his stomach that grew stronger and stronger as soon as he noticed it. When he spoke, his voice was no longer hoarse.

"I'm kind of ...... Someone who has seen two artifacts. He carefully held the flower, and sighed, and couldn't help but be proud.

Trini's Rose is a Rose, and Nyo's Tear is a tear, it's a ...... It's hard to say. When he touches them, when he really feels them, he can actually feel the faint resonance in his body.

He never resisted his bloodline too strongly, but he only reluctantly admitted it with a little resentment and unwillingness to be manipulated. But that was just an existing and immutable fact, and he should probably accept it more calmly...... It's like receiving a tear and a flower.

The road was still long, and the time became incalculable, but the closer you got to the tower, the denser the remains of the dead city became. Once again, Ed found the words carved into the stone, and this time, he could decipher the meaning in a matter of moments.

"The city is called Tasha, which means shell. "And this is a port, Vanis...... It means Kawazu surrounded by flowers. ”

He looked around. The flowers were long gone, but not far away there was indeed a very wide ravine, not very deep, and there was not a drop of water in it, just like the land they had walked on, it had not dried up to crack, nor was it a little wet, and there were some strange black patterns entwined on it, like the marks left by rotten plants.

He couldn't help but think of Visa. The Viinz River flows through the city, and the water is not very deep, and he can dive to the bottom of the river in one go......

In the dead silence of the wind, he remembered the shredded sunlight he had seen at the bottom of the river on a summer day, of the white sails of the river harbor of Visa, of the complex smell that rose with the steaming of the damp water, which was really unpleasant, and of the song of the old sailor who sat on the shore at dusk in a hoarse voice.

Has anyone ever sung a song like that here?

He looked at the silent ruins in front of him, imagining the prosperity of the city, and suddenly became more desperate to know why the world had come to an end.

Along the way, they had seen only the skeletons of some very small animals, but not a single person, or the bones of a human. Judging from the scale of these ruins, the intelligent races that once lived here should have a height similar to that of humans or elves, and the architectural style is slender and strange, reminiscent of animals with slender legs such as spiders, with a fragile and regular beauty, but not disgusting.

The strange stone statue he had seen before, with a slender neck like a snake, a ridiculously small one, a wrinkled head, and crowded but serious features...... But the proportions of limbs to the body are similar to those of humans.

But there are very few such stone statues, and the remaining recognizable patterns in the ruins are almost all plants, let alone the kind of reliefs or frescoes used for narratives, so it is difficult to tell whether the stone statues are inhabitants or some kind of imaginary existence.

"Maybe they're like us," Ed tried to make the most optimistic guess, "and found another world to live in when this world was on the verge of extinction." ”

But who would love to be forced to leave their homeland if they don't have no choice?

Closer to the tower, in an even more magnificent city, they found a stone tablet lying on the ground in a messy square, with the writing still written on the cracked black rock, and on closer inspection it was a fairly complete code.

"They also have their own gods. Ed's finger was on one of them, "It reads, 'Anyone who steals the property of the temple or the palace will be punished by death, and whoever receives stolen goods from him will also be sentenced to death.'" ’”

But in the ruins, it is impossible to tell where is the temple and where is the palace.

Ed's heart sank, and he felt that they were not walking in another world, but in ...... After their failure, they had to give up their own world.

"We've built towers like that. He looked at the gray tower that was getting closer and closer, and used self-deprecation to ward off the growing gloom in his heart.

"It's never a mistake to yearn for the sky. Sackses replied in a low voice, "There have also been dragons who have gone out of their way to fly upwards to the stars, not to get anything, but simply to ...... What's there?"

“...... And then?" Ed couldn't help but ask.

"It flew exhausted and fell off. ”

Ed shuddered, unable to imagine what that would be.

In this way, until they reached the tower, they did not know much about the vanished civilization, nor did they know if there was an answer in the tower.

The body of the tower is simple and unpretentious, just made of stone bricks, no carving, no writing, and the gray and white tower is solemn to holy, but it is really extremely high - perhaps even higher than the three-storied tower. Standing at the foot of the tower, you will break off your neck with your head tilted, and you will not see the top of the tower, which has not been obscured by clouds.

Ed was suspicious that the shadow in the sky wasn't a cloud at all.

"There are traps in the tower. ”

Before pushing open the half-closed wooden door, Ed was already in good spirits. He died so quickly that he didn't feel anything...... But I've died here once!

He took a deep breath and cautiously poked out half of his foot—the place he remembered had just entered should be no danger......

However, he could not go any further. A tremendous force dragged him and jerked outward.

"Wait!" Sachses said in an unusually stern voice.

He stared at the light behind the door that seemed to be surging like a wave, and there seemed to be a trace of fear in his eyes.