Chapter 4: Dusk
As early as May of this year, two months after the flooding of Esola, Calypso found a crystal of divine power in the Temple of Tides, which was very familiar, and she couldn't help but think of the human who made her gnash her teeth with hatred half a year ago.
Attached to the crystal was a letter, written in the language of the dragon, in the style of the Destroyer.
It was a letter of apology, to the effect that the Destroyer was sorry for not being able to control his chosen one, and now that the problem had been resolved, the Divine Power Crystal was given as a gift.
The handwriting was written with the power of a cocktail, and every stroke had an air that fascinated Calypso, who almost greedily ripped it off, trying to uncover the mystery.
She wanted to solve her current predicament more than the crystallization of divine power.
However, this is doomed to be futile, as long as 10,000 years is not enough time for her to research the results, and now it is naturally doomed to failure. Calypso accepted Alduin's reparation, and immediately absorbed the Divine Power Crystals after careful examination.
In the process, the endless sea boiled and roared, the sea grew at a rate visible to the naked eye, and the ocean flooded the plains of herding horses, enveloping the momentum of swallowing all the land, reaching the Kadra Plateau.
When you look down from the plateau, you can see a deep blue.
Calypso had never been so inflated as she had been, and even though the underlying problems had not been resolved, she still let herself go, assuming the air of declaring war on Ikali.
The sea water floods from the Muma Plain to the west, straight to the Kadra Plateau, blocked by the Hengduan Mountains to the south, and intercepted by the Panlongji to the north. And the sea did not only invade from the eastern coast, but also swallowed up large swaths of land everywhere, the sulphur fire wasteland, the scorched black stone forest and the eagle's nest mountain all became lakes, and the sunset forest and ash valley at the foot of the Hengduan Mountains have long been bays.
But to Calypso's dismay, even though she had the Sea Clan explore these places in the first place, she didn't even find half a figure......
Not to mention the dwarves and elves, even the giants of the Sulphur Wasteland didn't drop half of their corpses, as if they had all gone with the humans to the Kadra Plateau......
Are they not afraid of war? Are there fewer inter-ethnic strife on land?
The truth is the same as Calypso thought, but it is different, almost all the species of Lokan are concentrated in the Kadra Plateau, and the races that originally had an extremely strong sense of territory have remained silent, and even the orcs, who are extremely sensitive to foreign invasions, have not expressed any dissatisfaction.
After all...... They are not stupid.
When a man bursts into your house, you can think of him as a robber and kill him...... But when everyone but you runs to your house and sees it as your last refuge, your home is no longer your home. Instead of being irritable and aggressive at this time, it is better to help them as much as possible to avoid becoming a vent bucket for the end of the world, and to do your part in the friendship of the landlord.
The continuation of any intelligent species requires cooperation, and this is the ancient wisdom that runs in the blood of orcs. As for the bullshit in the back, I'll wait until I survive this flood.
Calypso's feeling was very peculiar, she had fantasized about opening the prelude to 'Ragnarok' with her own hands, and let her followers wantonly slaughter those land creatures on their home turf to force their gods to appear, but only to punch the air, except for the initial flood and engulfment, there was no "game experience" at all.
It wasn't until there was a traitor among the human race that she saw a glimmer of hope, and without hesitation, she sent the most important Prince Encore to personally lead his troops to the land.
However, this single attack made her lose this believer forever.
Just last night, the mighty prince was left on land with his invincible armada, "Tidebringer",
This enraged Calypso, who felt provoked, decided to fully absorb what was left of her divine power and flood the Kadra Plateau with the Endless Sea, fulfilling her promise to turn the land into an ocean, and only the top of Hogarth could stand above the sea.
At that point, it was the moment when her followers laid siege to Safron and pulled Garton out of it.
……
The elemental realm above the magic web, Ikali seemed to ignore all this, and still sat on the throne.
The only two remaining servants stood behind her, their eyes flickering from time to time as they glanced over the lifeless Ancients.
Their former followers and territories are now all occupied by Calypso.
And will their future be like that of the ancients......
Ikali seemed to be waiting for something.
Finally, the voice came.
"Lord of the Elements......
The call seemed to come from the bottom of her heart, and it seemed to come from her ears, and for Ikali it was only a moment since she had last heard it, but now it was different.
Out of reserve, she didn't respond to the other party immediately, until the originally bland greeting turned into a mockery.
"What the hell do you want?"
She was not angry at the ridicule, but there was some helplessness.
In that conversation a year ago, she mocked each other for trying to turn Lokan into a battlefield, and she stayed out of it, which was impossible......
But now, this has been achieved.
The weak sea god she had once overlooked, the child who seemed to her to be a threat at all, had now grown into a terrifying force, and she had become a part of this world, the vast Endless Sea, and was about to become all of Lokan......
The situation of the two sides has been reversed......
If she was previously the owner of the manor and Calypso was a prisoner, now the prisoner is one with the manor, and as the master, she is confined to a room......
Now, who exactly are the prisoners?
"Huh...... Didn't I say what I wanted? ”
The World Destroyer laughed, his tone was gentle, but the sarcasm in it was self-evident.
"I asked you for the collectibles that you withheld, but you refused, I showed you kindness, but you also refused......"
"I can give you all now."
"Oh...... Sorry, I don't need to. The Destroyer said slowly: "The reason I asked for the collection was to use it to urge my chosen ones to 'work hard'...... And the reason why I show you kindness is because I am afraid of your mighty power. ”
"So you're going to come to Lokan, and you're going to let this world end?"
"I'm not as stupid as you, Lord of the Elements...... Nor will I come to Lokan to fight the invincible Calypso...... I just wanted to offer you a new deal. ”
"Speak."
"I want your followers."
Ikali looked at the two behind her, and Isu and Ral were furious at her.
"You want them?"
"That's right, I want them...... Do you know how to give them to me...... It's for me completely, not an empty shell. ”
"It can't be!"
"Huh...... Don't worry, don't you listen to my chips? ”
"No chips!"
"Even if I can free you from the confines of the net?"
Ikari was silent.
It took her a long time to come out of the shock.
"Is this another lie?" She snorted.
"I knew you would think so," Alduin smiled, "and the greatest constraint for you is the magic web, which binds you to the skies far from the land, away from your followers...... So, if you want to get out of trouble, in addition to rewriting the rules, you still have one way to go, and that is to break the bondage. ”
"You mean destroying the net?"
"That's right, destroy the net...... Just imagine, how many other human beings are your believers? No, not one. My Chosen One has spread the primordial elemental manipulation techniques among the human race, and the web has long since lost its role in helping you control the humans...... Moreover, by abandoning the magic net, you will be able to control all the sand and dust in the elemental realm to flood Lokan, which will be enough to fill the Endless Sea, kill all the sea tribes, and also kill the Calypso that gives you a headache......"
The Destroyer's voice revealed a hysterical madness, but it was so deeply suppressed that even Ikali shuddered when she heard it.
But she can't deny it, it's tempting......
It's a desperate plan to kill two birds with one stone.
"What the hell do you want......
"What I wanted, I told you from the beginning...... The soul, the living soul perished, the soul trembled...... The thought that after you did this, hundreds of millions of beings in the Endless Sea would be sent to Heru, I trembled with excitement, can you imagine...... I never wanted to get involved in Lokan, after all, Heru is where I belong. ”
Ikali fell silent again.
This time she hesitated for a long time.
"What should I do? What are you going to do. ”
"Huh...... I am not your servant, the master of the elements, you only have the choice of whether to accept it or not, and you are not qualified to ask questions. ”
"I see."
Ikali nodded, cutting off contact on her own initiative, then looked back at Isu and Ral.
The two servants seemed to know their fate, each smiling self-deprecatingly.
"I knew there was going to be such a day." Izuku smiled.
"What about you?"
Ikali looked at Ral, her most taciturn child.
Ral's gaze fell to the ground, as if looking for the direction of Imotru.
"That guy was right."
He said, his voice dry and hoarse.
"He said he could keep a whole corpse for me."
Subsequently, the two of them were each wrapped in the water and vines that symbolized the elements, and their souls did not even have the qualifications to escape, so they turned back to the most basic elements.
Since the death of the Ancients, Ikali seems to be dissatisfied with the tenacious vitality of her divine servants, and even the effort she has to put in to kill them, so she has made great "optimizations" in this regard.
Judging from the happy deaths of these two, this is a positive optimization, but there are not many opportunities left for her to experience.
After the deaths of Izu and Ral, the elementals returned to Ikali's body, and the power of faith that had nowhere to be stored turned into a long stretch of sand, and a few more wisps of dust in the elemental realm.
That's why she didn't hesitate...... She will give nothing to the Destroyer but her soul.
At the same time, two powerful souls descended on Heru, and before they fell into the River Styx, they were swallowed by a flash of black shadows, and then a wanton dragon roar sounded, with a thick mockery, resounding through the sky and dispelling the fog of Heru.
"Hahahahaha......"
“sahlo-sahlo-sahlo——”
[Dragon Language: Stupid-Stupid-Stupid!!] ]
Alduin is insane!
"This is the true way to kill the first creation...... Alduin folded his wings and stopped in front of his minions.
The young scholar was shrouded in black robes, his expression was calm, and his eyes were lowered, like a lifeless puppet.
"The mission of the first creation is to pass on, and the power of faith is a shackle used to imprison them, but if there are no believers, no belief in their creation, the first creation is not worth mentioning......" He looked at Mu Yan approvingly: "You can actually understand this, you are worthy of being a 'legendary scholar'...... Well done, my servant. ”
The scholar nodded mechanically.
"The only two remaining believers of Ikali are Calypso...... The other one is me. But soon, she was left with nothing. ”
The huge amber dragon eye looked at Mu Yan without concealing its greed, as if it was looking at a perfect work of art.
"But until then, I need you to do something for me."
The scholar got down on one knee.
"Remember how you beat Garton in Safron...... Again, go again and get back what you left there.
"This time, I will give you strength."