Chapter 24: The Fall

For the first time, Ctesiras saw the legendary one from the East

"Immortals". The two emissaries were twice as tall as the average Atlanteans, dressed in oddly styled jumpsuits, with serious faces, gloomy eyes, and fluent in the Spanish language.

They call themselves the Drowgins, from the Garden of Eden in Asia Minor, and are the protectors of the nations bordering the Sea of the Earth.

They expressed great anger at the aggression of Atlantis, and hoped that the king of Ctesiras would put away his sword and soldiers, discourage the idea of attacking Greece, and withdraw the troops that had been stationed in Africa from Egypt and stay in the continent with peace of mind.

Tesiras suppressed his anger and treated the two envoys kindly, and verbally agreed to their requests.

He ordered the troops attacking Greece to withdraw to Maxima, but left the troops who had already occupied Egypt behind.

Ctesiras calculated that Egypt was a rare base for Atlantis to explore the unknown world, and he did not want to give back the hard-won territory in the future, and at the same time, he also wanted to test the bottom line of the Dzorkins.

Half a year passed, and the Atlanteans were gaining ground in Egypt, and the Dzorkins did not send another emissary to protest, and Ctesiras took the risk and succeeded, believing that the Dzorkins were nothing more than Err.

However, as far south of Egypt was a vast expanse of desert that could not be crossed by desolation and silence, he once again set his sights on the northern shore of the Sea in the Middle Earth.

Having built a thousand warships and recruited 50,000 elite warriors, Ctesiras decided to lead his army into Greece again.

On the eve of his departure, his friend and former Grand Regent, Chabas, told Ctesiras that he had been trapped by a nightmare in which the entire continent was engulfed by floods, and he advised Ctesiras not to act recklessly, or else he would be damned.

Tessiras also had a faint feeling in his heart that the Great Western Continent would one day suffer the doom of destruction, but because of this, he must lead the people of Atlantis out of the Great Western Continent in his lifetime, and he decided to lead the fleet to the expedition despite Chabas's persuasion.

As soon as the fleet set out, it was hit by a hurricane in the Atlantic, and thousands of warships were beaten by the wind and waves in the vast ocean, like patches of rootless drifting.

A month later, the fleet traveled to the Bay of Cádiz, near the Pillar of Hercules, and a speedboat came from west to east, and the people on board reported to Thesyras that not long after the departure of the army, the east coast of the Great West Continent was attacked by heavenly fire, and several huge discs flew over the capital of the country of Punses, from which a huge fireball was sent out and landed on the ground, the fireball exploded on the ground, emitting a dazzling white light, and a huge smoke rose to the sky.

Hundreds of people in the city were burned to death by fireballs, and the entire city was burned to the ground. Tessyras was terrified, and for the first time felt at a loss.

There were two paths before him, forward and backward, and Ctesiras chose the former. He anchored his fleet in a sheltered harbor in the Gulf of Cádiz, and then ordered his entire army to land and storm the Greek city of Selivia on the coast, but the Selivian defenders put up little effective resistance and were defeated in just one day.

As Tessyras marched through the city and prepared to march along the northern shore of the Sea of the Earth, a second speedboat from the Great West Continent rode the waves to Celivia to report to Ctesiris that the capital Atlantic City had also been attacked by fire, and that the attack was in much the same condition as the previous one, except that this time there were more casualties and the entire capital was now in ruins.

As Ctesiras was secretly alarmed, the retributer reported that two more messengers of the Drakin were outside the hall asking for an audience.

When the two Zolkin envoys met with Ctesillias, they first rebuked him for his actions, saying that Ctesiras had acted in disobedience, and instead of withdrawing his troops from Egypt, he had gone back on his word and encroached on the lands of Europa; They claimed that the Dzolkins were far superior to Atlantis, and that if Ctesiras insisted on going his own way, they would end up destroying themselves.

Eventually, they asked Ctesiras to follow them to the Garden of Eden, where they apologized to the leader of Dzolkin and promised never to cross the borders of the Great West again.

In a fit of rage, Thesiris ordered his men to tie up two messengers, cut off their ears, and tell them to return and tell their leader that the Atlanteans would never submit to the might of force, let alone the aliens, and that one day he would strike at the Garden of Eden and prepare the Dorgins, who could only use their magic to set fire to the heavens, to be killed.

The two messengers left in a rage, and Ctesiras was hesitant. A few days after the expulsion of the Dzorkin envoys, Chabas sent a letter saying that the chief monk guarding the temple had an important matter and asked to consult with the king in person.

Fearing the ruined capital and the wavering morale of his army, Ctesillas ordered the army to return to Atlantis.

On the way back, the sea was overcast, and everyone's mood was as overcast as the weather. Back in Atlantic City, the once-prosperous capital is in ruins.

Ctesiras ordered the rebuilding of the capital while purging the army to boost morale. At this time, the chief monk came to the king's tent to ask for advice on whether Tessiras could activate the means of communication with the gods outside the heavens that they had been guarding but had never used.

Tessiras suddenly remembered that there was such a thing, and hurriedly ordered the monks to contact the gods in the distant sky through Piro.

At dawn the next day, the Monk Leader entered the depths of Piro's misty and activated the ancient mechanism, and a dazzling beam of light shot out from the spire of Piro's miraculous and shot straight into a bright star in the southern sky that rose with the sun.

At the same time, more than a hundred other monks serving the temple gathered in the huge open space in front of Piro, each with their hands folded, their eyes closed, their pious faces facing the rising sun, and their mouths murmuring.

Immediately after, under the leadership of the chief monk who had walked out of Piruo, all the monks prostrated on the ground, touched the ground with their foreheads and outstretched palms, and prayed with all their hearts.

In the faint morning light, Pi Ruo was fascinated by a huge shadow that enveloped all the red-clothed monks, and there was a desolation between heaven and earth.

On the night of the call for help, all the creatures on Earth experienced an unusually bright night.

First, sleepless people noticed that an unusually bright star appeared on the skyline, and then this star continued to expand and grow at a speed visible to the naked eye, just like a silver-white balloon in the night sky that was constantly inflated.

At dawn, all the Atlanteans, including Ctesilias, heard or felt a low rumbling sound in their sleep, which came from far and near overhead, striking the heart as if it were about to burst the eardrums, but it seemed to be inaudible.

The remaining residents of the capital, Atlantic City, were awakened by the violent tremor of the ground beneath their feet, and in their horror, they vaguely heard the raging waves of the sea hundreds of thousands of cubits away.

The sun, which was supposed to shine in the early morning, gradually dimmed, and a large ghostly shadow slowly enveloped the entire Great Western Continent.

Above the shadows was a hopelessly large lead-gray canopy, filled with strange craters of all sizes.

This huge curtain pressed against the skyline, slowly descending from west to east over the Great West Continent, as if an eerie devil slowly pulled up the huge curtain, announcing that a terrifying stage play was about to begin.

The earth, which had always been so solid, seemed to be frightened by the terrible devil, and it could not help but tremble violently, and the earth cracked through huge cracks, and the tents of houses and cars fell into deep ravines, and were spit out by the blazing magma, and the trees were uprooted, and with men and livestock, as if they were being pulled by the hand of the devil, they flew into the sky in the sweeping wind.

Along with these horrific scenes came a frenzied downpour, a continuous thunderbolt of lightning and thunder, and a huge wave hundreds of cubits high, sweeping over the sea, which seemed to exist only in the imagination of the last days.

The dense jungles, vast plains, and mountains and rivers of the Great Western Continent, as well as the golden cities embedded in the green fields like chess pieces, all collapsed and shattered along with the entire continent, and then were swept into a huge ocean of annihilation.

This land, which is equivalent to one-third of Oceania, is almost entirely swallowed by the sea. The huge gray canopy floated from the west shore of the Great West Continent to the east shore, and the wind and waves under it washed the entire continent from west to east, and then the canopy moved from east to west, and the sea water under the canopy seemed to be packed into a bumpy and incomparably huge bathtub, tearing and swaying with the pull of the canopy.

The huge canopy swam back and forth several times like this, the speed became faster and faster, and the waves beat more and more violently, and the Daxi Zhou under it seemed to be pulled violently by an invisible giant hand, and finally slowly collapsed, and then it was ruthlessly swallowed by the raging sea.

In less than half a day, the Great Western Continent, and the entire Atlantean civilization, like a table of crumbling cups and plates that were tossed to the ground by the hands of giants, sank forever in the depths of the ocean, leaving behind only the huge wind and waves that still lingered, and a huge and desperately large lead-gray planet on the wind and waves, half mocking and half indifferent, emitting a low roar as if from hell.