As Matilda's gaze moved across the sky, he gasped, and the whole person, or the whole group of horses, was stunned, as if he had seen all the horrors contained in the starry sky, Matilda's four feet seemed to be nailed, and he could not move. He lowered his head and shook his head vigorously, and the familiar surroundings called home and the summer plants seemed to have become poison in his eyes, and he looked up again without giving up.

The fear of the stack enveloped him—the stars in the sky were completely out of their rightful place.

A feeling of falling struck, hearing the scream of a familiar and unfamiliar voice in his ears, Matilda came to his senses, he felt his face wet, he opened his eyes only to find that he didn't know when he had fainted on the ground and lay in the muddy water, and the strange starry sky and the rotten smell in the air that he had just witnessed in his memory filled the centaur chief's heart full of vigilance and uneasiness.

Matilda quickly rolled over and stood up with his hands and four hooves, and he looked up at the sky again, only to find that it was covered in a thick fog and could not see anything. The inability to observe the stars made the centaur feel as if a part of his life had been cut off, and he had no choice but to focus on his immediate eyes, at which point he felt the stiffness of his limbs, but his attention was already on his surroundings.

Unlike before, the terrifyingly silent centaur tribe gathering place not far away made Matilda realize that something was wrong, and there were drag marks caused by horses' hooves on the ground next to his tent, and it seemed that the centaurs were dragged into the star lake next to him by something, and he took a few steps towards the lake, but the sense of danger made him stop immediately.

A restless Matilda lifted the doorcloth of her tent and went inside, only to find that the contents of his house had been overturned, and Matilda ignored the treasures on the ground and the statues and insignia of the gods that the centaurs believed in, but simply removed the bow, arrows and spears that he had not used for a long time since he became chieftain.

Armed with the courage of his weapons, Matilda began to try to call out to his people and walk towards the Star Lake, but received no response or discovery, and he could only start walking towards his tribe's settlement, but not long after the sound of his horse's hooves sounded, he was speechless in a shudder—the tribe of centaurs, whom he had spent so much effort and pride, had become a ruin of corruption, only the desolate earth and gray mist that rushed towards him. The once verdant grasslands all withered and turned into a charred black land, and a dull gray mist roamed the withered and dead jungle.

Filled with grief, Matilda called out her people's names in vain, and suddenly, the clatter of hooves made him pause, and his gaze rested on a mirror he had trampled on, the beloved treasure of the tribe's most popular foal, Pretty Umi, a gift from her after she had secretly befriended the Hufflepuff Witch who had strayed into the Forbidden Woods—even the centaur old and angry Bane turned a blind eye to it and did not say anything to her.

Matilda picked up the mirror that he had stepped on, but he saw that there seemed to be something on his face from the mirror, Matilda subconsciously took the mirror closer to himself to take a closer look, and he was stunned to find that his face seemed to have an extra scar that had been stitched up, black, like a reptile, lying on his left cheek.

He touched the scars and was examining them carefully, and suddenly found that his chin and forehead began to appear one after another black thin lines, even on the back of his hand, these thin lines were spreading rapidly, Matilda was so frightened that she threw the mirror back a few steps, only to feel her scalp tingle.

Matilda, whose mind was in a state of confusion, was pulled back to her senses by the scratches that began to tickle, and the itch made her mane stand on end, and in a trance, she found that several scars on her hands seemed to have just agitated. He stretched out his right hand and trembled as he approached the scar on his left arm.

But at that moment, the scar cracked, revealing what was inside, and it was not flesh and blood, but an eyeball, and the pale eyes of a dead man even gurgled and turned in the cloudy whites of the eyes to stare at Matilda, and the other scars began to crack one after another, and the feeling of it letting him know that it was still happening.

The tide of madness and pain enveloped Matilda, and she leaped out of the mirror on the ground, cold sweat falling into her eyes, and the tingling sensation instantly took over the nerves, and the restless heart beat faster and faster—but all disappeared in an instant, including his scars and the eyes in the scars.

These nightmarish scenes corroded Matilda's mind, and his brain grew chaotic to the point of feeling like he was going mad, but in the end, these emotions turned to despair and caused him to wander unconsciously among the tribe that he once knew so well.

The sky above them had completely darkened, and shadows enveloped him, as if the light around them had been slowly sucked away, and as the light dimmed, the summer air became exceptionally cold under the influence of the thick fog.

After some time, Matilda saw the figure of a centaur faintly revealed in the gray mist, like an oasis in the desert, and Matilda, full of expectations, immediately jumped towards the centaur with his hooves.

But before she could get closer, Matilda froze in horror, and the words for help choked in her throat and her heart ached, it was Ronan, who had been with him for many years, his face had rotted and emitted a foul smell, and Matilda could only identify him from the other party's ornaments and residual hair.

He then tried to walk towards Hogwarts to ask for help, but he found that he couldn't get out of the Forbidden Forest no matter how he turned, even though the Hogwarts castle was not far away, even if he even heard the Aurors talking when he was closer, he just couldn't get there, where his eyes could see, and Matilda was gripped by vague, unspeakable fear.

And as he walked, as he repeated the place he had already walked, he noticed that there were more corpses of his people on the ground, and he realized that he was trapped here, trapped in this completely dead world, a barren world covered in ashes, ruins and dead bodies.

Later, Matilda opened his hooves and began to run towards the Star Lake, trying to use the power of the Star Lake to do divination and figure out what was going on - he had subconsciously and selectively ignored the fact that there were no stars in the sky now.

But Matilda ran to the Star Lake next to his tent, and was horrified to find that the lake that had been sparkling when he first left was now only a dry riverbed, and the whole body of water was gone, leaving only many fish of different sizes that had lived in it on the dry riverbed, just like the centaur chief at this time, these fish were constantly gasping for breath in despair, wagging their tails desperately trying to get out of the predicament in front of them.

Suddenly, a fish flew up into the sky on the riverbed, and Matilda just looked up when more fish fell towards the sky.

The reason why it is said to fall is because it seems that the sky and the earth are reversed, and the sky, which was originally the favorite of the horses and can be used for astrological divination, is now occupied by a body of water, which is clearly the color of the lake that has disappeared without a trace.

Just as Mathil was faced with the horror of an existence that could not have belonged to this world, and began to tremble mentally and physically, the torrent that was surging in the sky began to weigh down.

Sweeping away the entire centaur tribe, Matilda was also photographed in the water, the water pressure was not as strong as he had expected, but the pain from time to time on his body still made him use his hands in vain to block his face and prevent the debris that had washed out around him from hitting his head.

When the current calmed down a little, he was washed into the bottom of the star lake after choking a few mouthfuls of water, and he desperately paddled his limbs, trying to penetrate the water. Finally emerging from the surface of the lake, Matilda lay on the shore of the lake and gasped violently for several seconds before she had the strength to observe the situation, the scenery above the lake was different from what she had imagined, it was still the barren and ruined centaur tribe she had just woken up to.

And not far from Matilda's tent, a living horseman appeared on all fours, slumped on the ground and seemed to be asleep.

Matilda judged from the other's undulating belly that he was still alive, and struggled to get up from the mud on the shore of the lake to get closer to the horseman, but as he approached, the familiar and unfamiliar aura of the other made him more and more uneasy and frightened, and finally these horrors turned into reality, and it was himself who had fallen to the ground unconscious in front of him.

Just as Matilda recognized himself, the scars on the other party's body that he had seen in the mirror before burst out of thin air, and all of them opened involuntarily, and the pupils in those eyes all turned to stare at Matilda.

Then there was a loud bang behind him, and a huge black seemingly uncontrollable surge of matter rushed out of the star lake, and patches of red light roared in it.

"Silently?ah!!hhh

Matilda, who had just recognized what it was, had just finished speaking, his voice turned into a scream, and he was instantly caught by the tentacles of the thing in front of him with black mist, and began to drag him towards the lake.

The black substance quickly wrapped around his entire body, and Matilda weakly stuck his hooves into the dirt to try to resist and struggle, but then realized that the hoof prints left by the centaurs he saw being dragged into the black lake were his own, and the huge shock brought by this made him lose his mind and forget to resist, and finally soon under the coercion and drag of this black substance, he was instantly swallowed by the water of the star lake, and the stirring water splashed in all directions, slapping Matilda's face as he collapsed on the shore......