It's not easy to survive.

A magical fortress left behind in another dimension, cut off from the world on the outside and without any resources to survive on the inside - a storm caused by a demon tide destroyed the Hall of Stasis and the massive warehouse that accompanied it, and in the fortress's last remaining structure, Kamal and his fellow watchers had to plan for the days ahead.

"We are participants in the 'Divine Sin' experiment, and everyone has undergone the final stage of mutation, which allows us to survive longer than normal humans, but the lack of supplies is still a big problem. We firmly believe that the situation will improve and that all problems will be solved one day, but first we will have to live until that day - under the leadership of the Archmage, everyone will start to conserve every resource and start repairing the remaining facilities in the fortress. ”

Kamel led Gawain through a series of abandoned areas, close to the existing edge of the "fortress", where the tide had destroyed much of the area, and shattered rooms and corridors were the most common sight, but with a powerful magical barrier still in effect, these areas were not yet unviable.

"We first restored the supply of magical energy - the fortress built in another dimension has its own energy circulation system, and we can draw energy directly from the outside environment to keep it running, then we repaired most of the broken internal walls and barriers to prevent dangerous Chaos magic from infiltrating it, and finally we began to try to reactivate the magic door to the outside world...... Attempts in this regard failed.

"The magic tide has changed the operation mechanism of the Magic Gate, it is not damaged, but it cannot be activated, we have transferred half of the fortress's energy to the Magic Gate, but it can't even open a small crack, and in the process of continuous attempts and research, our supplies are getting less and less, and the health of each member has begun to deteriorate.

"The Tide is not completely unaffected us, in fact its effects are ubiquitous and subtle, as time goes by, everyone's body begins to have problems, it turns out that the 'Divine Sin' transformation does not allow us to survive forever, Claude Pilling was the first to die, a quick illness caused him to collapse in the laboratory, followed by the eldest son of the Pardini family......

"There are also people who have died in accidents, the brothers and sisters of the Cordon family were knocked off the platform by a boulder floating in space while trying to repair the barrier, and Szyrode was killed while repairing the magic focuser, our numbers have been decreasing, but there is no hope of leaving here - even if we can release a mage's eye and take a look at the outside world, but unfortunately, the door is closed and cannot be opened at all."

Hetty's eyes darkened: "And then ...... Everybody's dead......"

"Humans are fragile creatures, both physically and mentally," Carmel let out a sigh with a trilling energy, "we failed to maintain order to the end, and in the last few decades, we had a very serious outbreak...... The chaos and heavy pressure shattered everyone's hopes, and the Grand Magus was unable to sustain it any longer, and it was here that most of the people were ...... 'freed'. ”

Kamel led Gawain to what seemed to have been a meeting hall in the open, but half of its outward extension had been completely shattered, and the floor, walls, and roof fragments were all floating messily in the dark and dreary space, and an energy barrier hung over the shattered dividing line.

Everywhere you look, you've been damaged by powerful spells.

"When everything is over, the survivors who have calmed down realize what a stupid thing they have done, but everything is irreparable, and there are only a dozen people left alive, and none of them will live long."

"We quietly accepted our end, and in the end, we finally retained the last vestiges of dignity as an Imperial Magus."

Gawain looked at Carmel's energetic body, "Then you are ...... How did it come to this? ”

Kamel was silent for a moment, then said slowly: "I'm the last - I can't tell if it's lucky or unlucky, I've been extraordinarily successful in transforming myself into a god, I've become the healthiest and longest-lived one here, and I don't show any signs of weakness after everyone dies."

"I spent more than a dozen years in the muddy space, and during that time I placed the bodies of all my colleagues, as you can see, and let them sit there as if they were still alive...... I thought I might be crazy, but I don't remember what a normal human mind should look like. I then wandered around the hollow fortress for a few more years, continuing my work—checking the old equipment, counting the contents of the warehouse, observing the changes in the external environment, keeping notes, occasionally doing experiments, occasionally talking to myself, occasionally talking to the people sitting in the hall......

"But I'm not dead, and my end of life seems like no time away, and in the process, I find myself mentally deteriorating.

"So, I decided to end my life early – in a way of my own choosing."

"Your own method of choice?" Tyr looked at Kamel curiously, "What will turn you into a ...... What does this look like? ”

"As I said before, this is the place where the white star fell, where the god of nature fell three thousand years ago, and this entire fortress of 'disobedience' was built with the 'white star' as the core, and I paid the price of my life for this place, so I also decided to end my life with 'him'——"

Kamal stopped, and a barrier painted with runes made of some unknown metal blocked everyone's eyes, and as Kamal released a spell to activate the rune array on the wall, the heavy metal wall began to vibrate, and as the runes on it lit up one by one, it slowly and solemnly rose in front of everyone.

There was a translucent energy barrier outside the wall, and through that energy barrier, the real situation outside the facility was finally revealed to Gawain.

This is indeed not the Shadow Realm - but it is a stranger and more chaotic place than the Shadow Realm, with countless fragmented boulders floating in the dim and deep space, these dense volleys of floating stones constitute the boundless "earth" in this space, and above this fragmented earth is a never-dissipating chaotic cloud, and strange dark lightning is silently raging in the sky, outlining all kinds of indescribable, terrifying and abnormal visions in the chaotic cloud. And between this chaotic world, there is one thing that deeply attracts everyone's attention.

It was a huge, mountain-like white deer, floating between the shattered boulder floating islands, countless thick chains bound his limbs, and a hazy white light shrouded his body, and beside the giant deer, many broken, floating metal and crystal remains could be seen, those huge metal wrecks had been severely twisted and deformed, and their forms were so strange that Hetty couldn't even imagine what they looked like and what they did. But Gawain vaguely felt that those huge metal wrecks were put together like some kind of flying device—they had a tail structure like a thruster, and an extended skeleton like a weapon pylon, which was completely incomprehensible to humans in Loren today!

And what's more—the metal and crystal feel like eternal slate!

Gawain felt his heart pounding, and he heard Kamel's voice coming from the side: "Look, this is the fallen white star, the nature god that the druids once worshipped, the giant deer Amorne!" ”

"God of Nature!" Hetty finally exclaimed uncontrollably at this moment, "Oh my God!!" ”

"Don't worry, the 'barrier' will protect your minds," Kamal seemed to think that Hetty was worried about the consequences of confronting the gods, and raised his finger to the hazy energy barrier outside the metal barrier, "This barrier is the most valuable result we have found from the debris around the god's corpse, we simulated the energy fluctuations of those wreckage, and found that the magic of the same frequency can counteract the damage of the god's power to the mortal mind, and as long as the barrier is there, you are safe." ”

Gawain looked at the translucent energy barrier with shock, looking at the metal remains around the corpse of the "Giant Deer Amon" through the barrier, he never thought that he would come into contact with the secrets of the gods so soon, and the relics of those "god killers", and when all this was really presented in front of his eyes, in addition to the accident, he only had a heartfelt shock in his heart-

This is where the gods fell, this is the fallen gods, this is the "weapon" that killed the gods......

The man who made the weapon is gone, but their creation is here, and the "surveillance satellites" they left in this world are still in operation today.

Gawain retracted his gaze and looked at Kamel not far away: "So, it was the power of the gods that turned you into this?" ”

"I'm still not sure if my mind was under the influence of the gods, and despite this barrier, I've been here with the god's corpse for hundreds of years, and my mind can't be completely normal," Kamel said self-deprecatingly, "I opened the door and entered the unprotected space, without any protective gear or any talisman spells, and I walked to the giant deer and channeled his energy into myself, hoping to kill myself in this way- Then that energy exploded, and my body was torn apart in the onslaught of divine power, and finally ...... It became like this. ”

"You've become an energy creature, and you can't die," Gawain wiped away the saliva from Tyr beside him, and looked up at Kamel, who had been transformed into a life form, "How many years have passed since then?" ”

"I don't remember exactly, my memories are in a state of intermittent after the life form was transformed," Kamel said helplessly, and raised his hand to point to the armor piece on his chest, "I carved these on myself to remind myself to prevent myself from completely becoming an unconscious monster, but if I hadn't met you suddenly, I'm afraid it would only be a matter of time before I became an unconscious monster......"

"When we first met, you questioned whether we were real," Hettie, remembering what had happened at the beginning, "what does that mean?" ”

"You know, I've 'seen' living people appear in front of me at least seven times before you appeared," Kamel's voice was bitter, "I saw someone find this forgotten fortress, I saw someone open the magic door, I saw the retreated colleagues return to this place, they came to pick me up, and told me that the mission was over...... I was hallucinating, hallucinating again and again, and at first I thought it was my own mental problem, but then I realized that it was the power of the gods that was constantly affecting me—its power occasionally seeped through the barrier, creating all kinds of illusions in front of my eyes, so after seeing you, I wondered if you were phantoms, and wondered if there was something wrong with the barrier......"

Gawain finally figured out what was going on with Kamel's strange behavior at the beginning, and he looked at the ancient magister in front of him with emotion, and sighed that the other party's mind could be maintained to this day - although his own "history" was countless times older than that of Kamal, he knew that it was because his life form had mutated from the beginning, and the person in front of him ...... He persevered as a human for hundreds of years before his life form was transformed!

After being silent for a long time, he breathed a sigh of relief: "Don't worry, we're real." ”