Chapter 5: Dusk and the Bottom
Safron.
I don't know when Garton sat on his throne in contemplation, motionless.
He seemed to have a premonition of something, quietly waiting for the end to come.
And his followers, Shanes, Etus, Orather, Zelagar...... and so on, each of them stood aside, without saying a word, as if they empathized with this stagnant atmosphere.
"Actually, you can leave."
Garton said suddenly, a smile still hanging on his lips.
"In fact...... 'believer' is not an iron rice bowl."
Shanes immediately said with a bitter face: "What, boss, don't you want me?" I don't eat much......"
Garton smiled, and instead of kicking him away, he nodded.
"Yes, you're all unemployed, I don't want you anymore. I'm tired of staring at your faces every day, so get out of here, with your skills, it shouldn't be difficult to find something to do in the Kadra Plateau. β
With that, he swept over each believer, but did not find a look of relief or relaxation on their faces.
"What, do you want me to bomb you away?"
Garden's face darkened.
"Get out! Don't you understand? β
However, no one responded to him, and Shanes knelt down on one knee, still smiling as usual.
"If you tell me to get out, then I'll get out, after all, today's patrol mission hasn't been completed......"
With that, he rolled all the way down the dome.
Ertus also bowed slightly and said, "Boss, I know what you said is angry, so except for Shanes, everyone else shouldn't have to 'get out', let's just walk back normally." In addition, I have prepared the statue you want, and I can move it up with some details polished, and I have prepared four sets of plans for the relief of the palace and the columns of the dome, and I will show you it later, and I will leave without much to do, and I am busy with work. β
One by one, the other believers departed, returning to their respective positions, until finally, Miller stood behind Garton with his sword in hand, still silent.
"What about you?" "You've been here for the shortest time, so why don't you go?" β
"You said, 'Every man has his own life, and he deserves to die.'" Miller replied.
Garton sighed.
"Yes, 'everyone has a life, and he deserves to die', and I have finally waited for this day......"
As he spoke, a door appeared in front of him, and a familiar figure stepped out of it.
"It's ...... you"
Seeing the person clearly, Garton couldn't help but be stunned, as if he had seen something unbelievable.
"How could it be your ???"
Mu Yan didn't answer, but looked at the tide messenger who was bound by the divine power next to the throne, and walked straight over.
As soon as he took a step, the dome instantly turned into a sea of fire, as if every inch of air burned into a golden flame, squeezing towards him with teeth and claws.
However, Mu Yan just snapped his fingers lightly, and the scene in front of him seemed to stand still in time.
The flames stopped a few millimeters away from him, and Garden's hideousness and consternation still lingered on his face, and his eyes were full of incredible shock.
Miller tried to swing his sword at Mu Yan, but the latter only threw him an indifferent gaze, and the former chief priest felt as if his soul was frozen, his eyes went black, and he completely lost consciousness.
Mu Yan walked forward, pulled out the sword, and gently stroked the sword body, and the rich soul power continued to pour into the sword from his fingertips, and then the dazzling tidal power rose.
He glanced back at Garton, then raised the sword and swung forwardβ
From the portal he passed, the tide poured in, and the portal grew larger and larger, gradually becoming overwhelmed, becoming a huge hole connecting the Endless Sea with the Land of Fire.
For a moment, the entire Safron was filled with the sound of water and fire annihilating each other, and the boiling white gas quickly broke through the sea of clouds, tearing the fiery red mist apart......
Mu Yan came to Garton and didn't say anything, but there was a deep pity in his eyes.
Garden was originally free, but he was a believer in the Word from the bottom of his heart.
And Kanrosh handed over all his authority to Mu Yan, and when Mu Yan realized all this, Garton became his follower.
He can't kill them like Ikali did, but when Garden strikes at him, he can easily restrain him and use the Tidebringer's ability to control the sea to destroy his body......
This door is the one located above the Corpus Forest, and it was also Mu Yan's escape route at the beginning.
He just stood like this, and as the time passed minute by minute, as the sound of water and fire in his ears gradually weakened, the golden flame that originally surrounded Mu Yan also faded little by little, lost its gorgeous golden glow, turned back to red, and even orange, and finally retracted back into Garden's body a little bit.
At this time, Mu Yan untied his shackles.
"What about my believers?" Garden immediately asked, "You didn't do anything to them?" β
Mu Yan shook his head.
"They, they're still alive?"
Mu Yan nodded.
Garden seemed relieved, grinning, "So, Ikari is going to finish the game, right?" β
Mu Yan nodded.
"Very well, then I'll be relieved. Since you're here to take back this life that belongs to you, then take it away, I've lived enough anyway. β
He turned and sat back on his throne, as usual, quietly waiting for death.
Until the last flame of Safron was extinguished, and Garton, who was seated on the throne, closed his eyes forever.
Mu Yan held the tide messenger in his hand, drained the only remaining tide in Suffronli, looked at the scorched earth, and turned to leave.
But he didn't close the door before leaving.
Not long after he left, a scholar dressed in the Wheel of Time arrived, armed with a black and white sword......
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Seven months later, on the last day of the first year of twilight, this day is also the origin of the "twilight era".
It's as if the end of the world has been brewing for a long time, and it has finally arrived......
The sea has flooded the Kadra Plateau, and what was once the eastern line of defense is now a new beach, and it is slowly being swallowed up......
But it's the sky that makes people desperate compared to the catastrophe on the ground......
Even if you stand on the Kadra plateau and look east, you can see a large cloud of green that is constantly wriggling in the eastern sky.
Get closer and you'll see hundreds of millions of geists crying and roaring around the sky, like moths on a summer night, swirling around the magic street lamps. If anyone is in Heru, you can find that the fog that haunts the sky all year round has completely dissipated, revealing two crescent moons, one gold and one red, and the soft light illuminates the land of Heru for the first time.
Ordinary people can only see this amazing vision, and they don't know exactly what happened, but all the mages can see, or feel, that there is a huge soul vortex. The gravitational pull is so strong that it seems to pull their perception all the time, and every time they look at the eastern sky, it is like undergoing a torture.
Most of the people who tried to come forward to find out the specific situation were seriously injured and fell, including Mr. Zha.
He was the closest to the vortex and the most injured.
Teacher Zha, who was rescued by Gustavo, woke up as if he had lost his soul, repeating the words in his mouth, and his eyes looking at the vortex were full of shock.
"That's Nilfheim......"
"That's the soul from the River Styx......"
"That's ...... It's ...... him."
Those who understood remained silent, and those who could not understand remained silent.
They could feel the soul vortex constantly expanding, and the pulling force was getting stronger and stronger!
However, when this pull reaches a limit, it begins to decline suddenly! The eastern sky was no longer filled with shrill wails and screams...... It's as if the previous whirlpool was just trying to crush those geists.
When the last of the green was sucked away and the sky cleared again, people felt a strange emotion.
The solemnity of the mountain rain is coming.
Then, the sky was split!
Without warning, a crack suddenly opened! The clouds tumbled, and an even more dazzling golden light poured out of the cracks and poured down......
The mages all felt a lightness on the top of their heads, as if some kind of shackles had been lifted, and the air was so free at this moment!
But at the same time, people realized that the pouring down was not golden light at all, it was golden sand!
The sand broke through the cracks like a waterfall, tearing at the size of the gaps, and in the blink of an eye, it was visible to the naked eye, and it was still spreading towards the Kadra Plateau!
Soon, the smell of earth was felt on the plateau, and at the same time, the originally clear air began to quickly become cloudy and dim......
The sun was obscured, everything was as dead and silent as at dusk, and the chaos and thick sand and dust also cut off the warmth of the sun, and the temperature continued to drop.
The onlookers panicked and began to cry and flee in all directions......
But at this moment, as if expected, a milky white shield spread out from the peak of Hogarth behind him, and the soft white light extended to the edge of the Kadra Plateau in the blink of an eye, protecting all the creatures on this plateau!
People froze in place, hesitated for only a moment, and then began to shout and carnival frantically, everyone burst into tears, and the joy and sorrow on the verge of life and death were enough to make anyone so devastated......
Especially the Jialan people, this is no stranger to them...... Because this is the all-domain silent enchantment they are most familiar with.