Act V: The Sacred Wall of Eruin
The tiny golden threads in the sky finally met the vast horizon, and the fragments of the moon fell to the ground one after another, not only in the Bankel region, but even not only in the Cruz Empire, in every corner of Vaynd, disaster struck at the same time.
Burning debris swept over the forest, and the forest was instantly set on fire, and the forest's indigenous people, such as gray deer, badgers and bears, fled in panic.
The townspeople watched as rats ran into the streets in droves, scurrying around the streets as if they were crazy, dogs barking, and wild cats and domestic cats all climbing onto the rooftops and making strange screams like spring.
A golden line crossed the sky and fell into the horizon, and a spot of light lit up in the distance, and a moment later, two or three spots of light shone densely.
The shock wave arrived a few seconds later, and the place a little closer to the point of the fall directly vaporized, and anything wooden, including the trees themselves, instantly caught fire and burned, completely oxidized into coke in a matter of seconds, and people and livestock were directly turned into dust, and the heat licked the ground, and the quartz in the sand immediately crystallized into shiny glass.
A little farther away, a hurricane of air formed a hurricane through the town, rolling up bits and pieces, white tin signs rattling desperately, and the streets were filled with screams, shouts, cries, and the sound of broken bottles and cans. Waves of air were seen kicking up miles of smoke and dust, lakes and rivers being sucked up into the sky by tornadoes, and then falling again, with dead fish crackling and smashing on rooftops.
In some places, thousands of miles of swamps and lakes are evaporated as burning debris sweeps across the sky, and hot air rises rapidly before turning into torrential rain and hail, and the temperature of the ground drops rapidly. In the blink of an eye, it was covered in snow and ice, and a blizzard was howling.
In Rokozy, the Black Fire Cultists even took to the streets to celebrate, but this quickly alarmed the local garrison, and the two sides clashed fiercely, resulting in bloodshed.
One of the largest meteorites flew over the heads of both sides. The high temperature ignited something that could be ignited, and even the metal turned into juice and fell and re-solidified on the ground, while the robes on the cultists were mostly woven of linen, and the ignition point was even lower-
Balls of fire are wailing on the ground or running around the streets, wells have long since evaporated, and even the entire street is a scorching hellscape.
The devastated air wave instantly took away a qiē, and the meteorite fell to the junction of the Broken Sword Mountain Range, and the explosion triggered a terrifying geological catastrophe - a volcanic eruption. This was followed by an earthquake, where the ground subsided, mountains and rivers shifted, and a radius of thousands of miles was reduced to rubble, burying villages, towns, people, and livestock.
Half an hour later, a new rift appeared on the map, stretching for hundreds of miles, and even causing the sublime inland sea to pour in. A future lake is taking shape.
The province of Rokozi disappeared from the empire, along with the 1.3 million people who lived there.
But in Eruin. But it's a different story.
Freya, who was awakened by the nightmare, heard the screams in the courtyard outside, put on her clothes and pushed open the window, it was one or two o'clock in the morning, but the sky was shining with a fiery red light.
Beams of glittering light are piercing through the clouds, falling towards the Mintai, Gendenel, and Anlek plateaus to the north, or to the east to the Karasu, Goran-Elsen, and Viero territories.
A larger flare is parting the clouds overhead. The golden-red clouds were cut through the middle like flowing oil, and the burning fire path stretched forward, heading straight to the Black Forest south of the fir realm.
As it skimmed over the Grahar ridge, there were sparkling fires on the mountain. The servants ran and shouted like headless flies in the courtyard, and the servants took basins and tried to fetch water, for the stables were already burning.
Freya stood at the window and frowned, and shouted, "Take my horse out, I'm going to Valhalla to see Her Royal Highness, the others will organize the people to put out the fire, and the rest will go and open the cellar, so that the woman and the child can hide under the ground first." ”
As soon as her words fell, a strange scene appeared.
Between the mountains of Chablis, above the lake surrounded by tranquil forests, a pillar of light rises from the middle of the lake and soars into the sky; Then to the south of Tonigel, in the direction of the Ring of Trade Winds, a second pillar of light rises.
Near Pragues, in the valley where the remains of the Sage were, a third pillar of light rises. Then a pillar of light rose from West Fah, Ash Mountain, Corcova, Jean Denel, and Lantoniland.
Eight pillars of light shone in the night sky for a long time, supporting the sky of Eruin.
Moments later, a dense series of flashes erupted above the clouds, and the falling debris in the sky seemed to hit an invisible cover.
Above Fort Fir, a golden ring of flames was spreading, the sky was roaring, and the falling meteorite was splitting apart.
This was followed by a series of more intense explosions, the clouds seemed to be ignited, the wind blew down from the sky, and the castle immediately resounded with the sound of dense tiles falling off, and the surrounding black pine forests fell like wheat fields in autumn twilight.
The servants froze for a moment when they saw the spectacle of the night sky reflected in their eyes, and Freya was silent for a while. She gave another order for the servant to lead her horse out, then closed the window and returned to the house.
Sue opened the door and walked in.
She had her folded uniform in her hand, and Freya gave her a grateful look, took it from the latter's hand, and said as she changed into her dressing gown, "Thank you, Sue." ”
Sue walked behind her, holding up the Valkyrie's long hair with her hand, carefully braiding it into fine braids, a trivial gesture, but Sue was extremely nimble in her hands, and she stopped when she wrapped the braids behind Freya's ears.
Freya felt her movements and couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong?" ”
"Shall we die, Miss Freya?"
"Everyone will die, princes and generals, peddlers and pawns, and one day they will not escape the judgment of time."
"My father once said that when a person dies, he gradually loses himself, his name gradually fades in the memory of his loved ones, and finally disappears from this world completely. I had a lot of relatives when I was a child, but they all died, and most of them, I don't remember the names anymore...... Miss Freya, if one day I die. Will you remember me? ”
Freya looked back at Leto's daughter. "Why do you think that?" Then she thought of something: "Is it because of the invasion of the undead?" ”
"I've been dreaming a lot lately about me and my father escaping from Lydonburg."
"It was a horrible experience, but thank you for saving me, Sue."
Su was speechless.
There was silence for a long time before she silently spoke, "I like you, Miss Freya. ”
"I like you too. Sue, we've been friends for a long time, haven't we? Freya smiled, and she fell silent again, remembering the nightmare scene and worrying in her heart.
Su continued to silently braid her hair.
"Sue, your braids are so good, I'm almost used to you being around me." Freya suddenly remembered her aunt's family again.
"Hmm."
……
Half an hour ago, the first meteorite finally patronized the thousand-year-old imperial capital of Ruschta.
The debris swirled and fell on the outskirts of the city with a long tail flame and high temperatures, completely evaporating and drying up a nearby river. The subsequent shock wave crashed into the White Wall of Ruthta, a dozen miles away.
Thousands of years later, the city was once again guarded by the blessing of Akroma, and a bright halo lit up above the white walls, neutralizing nearly two-thirds of the impact, leaving the aftermath scattered into the city, directly turning half of the southern city into white ground.
The three canals in the city boiled and evaporated in an instant, and the hot water vapor rose into the sky, and the fire ignited everywhere. Thick smoke is formed, mixed with water vapor. Hanging over the entire outer city.
In the shoemaker's quarter, next to the Dude River, between sixteen and nineteen oak trees, there is a Heated Aquatic Shop owned by a hillbilly who sent Hill to the city, a proud title of the people of the Imperial Capital, who deals mainly in the transshipment and management of the seafood of the noble inland sea and the imperial capital. Because it monopolized the business of the aristocracy, it was quite famous.
When disaster struck, this famous old shop, like most of the shops on the street, was on fire, with a creaking sound. It collapsed with a bang, but fortunately, the owner of the shop went to the white maple forest outside the city that night to go on vacation, and escaped by luck.
After a few quarters of an hour of fire, the stone-covered door of the nearby cellar was propped open by a dusty little hand, and a little boy crawled out of it, and he fell to the ground, and could not help but jump on the ground.
Behind him, a tall young man crawled out, and then a girl with thick eyebrows.
The three of them took out the pots and other utensils from under the cellar, hurried to the nearby Dude River to fill the water, and then began to extinguish the fire. Once the fire was extinguished, they turned over the hot bricks and wood, and pulled out all kinds of aquatic products, mostly cooked and burnt, from under the ruins of the fish shop.
The fish was filled with several wooden crates, and then they climbed back to the cellar with the boxes.
The cellar was now filled with seven or eight men, both men and women, and one of them was a young man dressed in the robes of a black Esoteric Order, with curly hair and sweat, and the thick hood of the robe had been pulled down for him.
When the thick-eyebrowed girl climbed down the ladder, he was still shouting to the others: "Lord Eroma has come, and the flame of vengeance will evolve." ”
The thick-eyebrowed girl stood aside with the box in her arms, listening to these words with interest.
Then came the big young man, who glared at him fiercely as he came down: "Shut up. ”
"How can you shut me up?" The young man said angrily: "Are you the lackey of Her Majesty the Queen?" ”
"Old Grandmother is a believer in the Temple of Fire, she has believed in Lord Martha for eighty years, and if you talk about this nonsense in front of her, do you believe that I threw you out?" The big man said nonchalantly, "Don't forget who took you in." ”
"We're just staying temporarily." Someone complained.
"So you're going out now?"
The people who spoke immediately stopped speaking, they didn't come in to avoid the meteorite, but were driven in by the wolves summoned by Kou Hua, but they didn't expect to escape. Grandmother Ogis was usually hostile to them because of her belief in the temple, but when she let them in for refuge, the old man, who was already blind in his eighties, did not say a superfluous word, but only asked his grandson to open the cellar door.
It was known that the old lady's son had also died in the war in the South not long ago, and that he was dependent on his grandson, and that the owner of the Hisaid Bakery took pity on the grandfather and grandson, and vacated the cellar for them to live in free of charge. And being at the bottom of the society of this era, it is impossible to be picky about the accommodation conditions.
The little boy finally climbed down, and looked at the extra people in the cellar with his mouth closed, and seemed a little recognizable. He silently walked up to his grandmother, who smiled and patted him on the back: "Go and pour some water for everyone." ”
"There's not much water left, Grandmother Ogis, the river is going to dry up outside." The big man replied with a frown.
"You have to drink water, there's always a way, go ahead, everyone's mouths are dry." The old man's cloudy eyes stared directly at the air in front of him, as if there was something there, and replied with a slight smile on his wrinkled face.
The big man was silent, he was the apprentice of old Heatid, and the girl with thick eyebrows was the daughter of the owner of the fish shop, and neither of them had anything to do with the old grandmother.
The water was in a dried clay jar, less than a third of the shallow one, and the little boy stood on tiptoe with a wooden spoon and scooped it alone, and the big man, seeing how he was struggling, went over and took the wooden spoon, poured half of the water from the spoon, and handed it to the clergyman.
The latter glared at him, but did not dare to attack, and silently took the spoon and drank it.
Everyone fell silent and drank their water in silence.
When Hipamela opened her eyes, she saw exactly this scene.
"Are you awake?" The girl with thick eyebrows kept staring at Hipamela.
In fact, it is difficult for anyone not to notice such a delicate man, with beautiful curly hair as gold, skin as white as ceramic, lips as rosy as cherries, and a nose with a curled nose dotted with a touch of freckles, both playful and lovely.
After she saw the other party's eyes blink, she opened them slightly, her hazy eyes, and the long eyelashes that were raised were as thick and neat as a brush, and she couldn't help but marvel at the beauty of the other party.
"Oh my God, how can there be such a beautiful person, she must be the daughter of those nobles in the inner city."
The girl with thick eyebrows pondered in her heart.
"What is this place?" Hipamela slept dazedly, and asked weakly, but fortunately she at least remembered what had happened before she fell unconscious, she had been wounded while dodging the dragon queen Gwendoline's pursuit, but she didn't know why the other party had suddenly abandoned her.
…… (To be continued......)