Late at night, it was raining in the sky. I'll tell you, the fastest update of the novel is the eye.

In the dark streets, men in overcoats provoked wind lanterns.

The rain seemed to be endless, and with a greedy chill falling on the man's robe, penetrating the heart.

The cold frosted on the shell of the wind lamp, and the light was dim. The darkness lit up a few feet in front of him. Where the lights are not shining, it is all darkness in the rain.

Darkness and rain were distorted all around, and only lightning flashes illuminated the towering fortress behind him. On the fortress, the stone beast squatted on the dripping mouth, with green moss marks, spitting out rainwater.

When the wind lamp is raised, it illuminates the man's face.

He looked very old, with green eyes and a snow-white beard.

There was an unusual smell in the air, for whether it was rain falling on the ground, electric lights flickering in the clouds, or the old man's low breathing, and the whole city carrying the same strangeness.

Because, there is not the slightest sound here!

In such a silent world, even the real sense of breathing and heartbeat is gradually stripped away. The faint-hearted will not be afraid to come here, because fear has long been frozen by the silence.

Gaius had been here many times, but each time he felt that the ruined city was assimilating him, making him indifferent and like a walking corpse.

――Even ghosts can't survive in such silence, right?

When he looked up and breathed, he could feel that the ruined city was filled with something unseen, the 'aether' that was all over the atmosphere and dirt, the aether resonated with his heart, and then coldly drained all sounds.

When he looked down, he could see the rain on the ground fluctuating with the ether. The ripples are overlapped, and they resemble the silk of the Orient. The 'silk' spread from his feet to the dark streets.

It's a gorgeous cage.

The sound is swallowed up by the enchantment here, and the aether sleeps here, and even the musicians of the heavens and earth cannot communicate with the aether here—this is the dragon's sleep enchantment.

In the silence, Gaius suddenly looked up, and he felt something approaching.

Because the darkness is thick.

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In the twisted curtain of rain, the darkness struggled like some kind of amorphous creature, frantically dancing its minions...... To escape, to tear yourself apart, to expel that thing out of your body.

So, the darkness was separated.

In this silence, rain and wind swept through. There were gray-white shadows coming out of the darkness. The gray color was like boiling lime, the sharp edges of marble.

They had left thirty-one, and when they returned, only nine, their gray robes covered almost with terrible blood. The leader staggered, holding a slender thing in both hands. The thing was wrapped in a filthy white cloth that supported his body from falling.

When Gaius saw him, he couldn't help but take a step back.

Half of his face was scorched, his wounds had not healed, and he was white from the rain. Water droplets fell from the side of the face, all with a faint layer of blood.

"Hein?"

He muttered in astonishment, but suddenly realized that he couldn't make a sound.

Hine tugged at the corners of his mouth as if he were smiling. This man was known as having a handsome face like a celestial being, but now he was as ugly as the asuras in hell.

Gaius didn't have time to say anything, he turned around, hurried his time, and pushed open the gates of the fortress.

For a moment, he peeked behind Hein, cautiously.

Behind Hine, the Grey Friars stood silently, carrying a massive, heavy object on their shoulders, which was wrapped in layers of white cloth and exposed only a sharp edge.

Gaius felt his eyes tingle and didn't dare to look at it again.

The gate closed silently, engulfing the trail of the group.

Thunderous light flashed through the clouds, and the lion-headed stone beast on the dripping mouth on the fortress stared at the sky, grinning like a sneer.

A deep wind blew from the darkness.

It's like walking into the world of Hades.

They were spiraling downward, as if there was no end to it.

Torches on the walls illuminated the long corridor, Gaius leading the way, heavy brass spoons dangling around his waist and silently colliding with each other.

With the twist of the key, the sixth black iron door opened. Each time, Gaius could feel the bronze hubs and massive structures behind the door rubbing. The violent vibration seemed to rush into his body with the key, and it was about to completely destroy his old bones.

With every step, he couldn't help but want to look back, to look back at the thing behind Hein. The thing was calling to him, telling him to turn around quickly and take a closer look at it.

In that calling, his mind was in turmoil. The invisible palm tugged at the soul in his body, and whispered:

"Turn around. ”

The voice said, "Turn around." ”

Look at me.

Look at me.

- Look at me!

He shuddered as the silent call roared in his ears!

A palm pressed against his shoulder, causing his heartbeat to be silenced. He was sober, only to feel soaked in cold sweat.

Only now did he find himself standing in front of the last door for a long time, immersed in some kind of hidden temptation, unable to extricate himself.

That thing is demonic!

Gaius looked back and smiled hard, but Hine simply withdrew his palm and motioned for him to move on.

By the time the last key was inserted into the keyhole, Gaius felt exhausted that he was about to die.

The three-meter-thick iron gate opened in a tremor, and with the twist of the machine, the torches were lit and the darkness dissipated. The icy wind blew from behind the door, and it was dizzy with a pungent and burning smell.

But Gaius breathed a sigh of relief that his mission was finally complete, and so was theirs.

He looked up at the inscription on the iron gate:

-- The Well of the Ruins.

Behind that iron gate is the abyss.

In the darkness, light rose from the abyss, rippling and illuminating their pale faces.

In Eastern legends, there is a whirlpool at the end of the ocean called Guiru, which is the ember left behind when the previous world passed away, so it represents death. Dead stars and dead waters fall from that whirlpool, into endless darkness, never to return.

But there is only darkness in the ruins, where is this kind of light like the world burning?

In the dark abyss, there was a blazing light.

It was as if silver and gold were melted, hot copper and molten iron tumbled in the kettle, gathered into a whirlpool, tumbling endlessly, and the silver-white and cold light illuminated the faces of each of them.

After watching it for a long time, I felt dizzy and wanted to plunge into it and jump into the whirlpool.

This is the Well of the Ruins, the end of the world, the place where all life is gone.

Even Aether will be killed here.

Those elements with divine power floated in the abyss, scattered like ashes. But before they die, they come together and flow through the air like boiling molten iron, turning into a whirlpool of pain.

Under the whirlpool, there is death.

"It's finally here. ”

Gaius muttered silently, and looked back at Hein, only to see the astonishment and horror in Hein's eyes.

Because in the silence, a faint voice sounded in Pingbai.

The faint sound was incomparably subtle, but in this terrible silence, it was incomparably clear. It roared, surging like the tide of the sea, and the sound spread in the air, causing ripples.

Because on the shoulders of the Friars, in the layers of shrouds, that thing was there...... Breathe!

Gaius and Hein's faces froze, and they turned back to see only one last scene—a man's body collapsed and fell to the ground in the midst of the scarred grey-robed friars.

Just a moment when he was swept by the ripples, his face shattered, and his body was scattered all over the ground, like sand. There was no blood on the ground, for all the flesh was absorbed into the sound of breathing!

As a result, the sound of breathing became furious like a tsunami!

Collapse!

A screech like an iron plate scraping rose from the aftermath of breathing! The scream was so high-pitched, so tactful. At the same time as the eardrum shatters, it feels like it is singing.

Acura this world!

At first it was a faint tremor, but now it has turned into a roar!

Like a sword and axe slashing, the scales of a dragon rubbing together, and the earth cracking when the stars fall. The never-ending scream spreads, condensing into huge ripples, trying to break free from the shackles and shackles on its body.

A violent earthquake erupted, and the air wave swept through.

- Dragon's Sleep Enchantment, shattered!

In the abyss below the well of the ruins, the light rolled.

The iron flow vortex bursts with a bang!

The hot and shiny fluid boiled again! Huge points of light rose from the surface of the lake like steam, accompanied by a fierce wind, and rippled in the scream!

In the face of this scream, the human body was lifted like a fallen leaf, pressed against the wall, and the lungs seemed to be stuffed with iron sand, unable to breathe. The force that crushes people's bodies into stones, turning their flesh into mud!

Immediately after, the layers of shroud shattered.

In the hallucination of the whirling world, Gaius only felt that his brain was blank, but he finally saw the shape of the thing...... It's a coffin of steel!

The cross-shaped steel coffin, the layers of chains trembling uneasily, fell apart with the loud thud of its landing. Steel burned out in that power!

The iron coffin shook violently, and the copper nails that tenoned the lid of the coffin popped out quickly, and they were afraid of the monsters hidden in it, and they wanted to flee. Finely cracked crept up from above, like a living thing growing, spreading rapidly.

The screams are getting louder and louder!

The screams were frenzied, like the hands of demons, slapping the Greyfriars into mud on the walls. But on Hine's body, that terrifying pressure was bounced away.

Because Hine raised his head, and his eyes lit up with golden fire!

As if possessed by divine power in his body, he broke free and crawled towards the iron coffin with incredible speed - like falling into an abyss, like a moth to a fire.

He whispered something, and his hands slammed into the iron coffin!

For a moment, the screaming faded away.

A moment of silence is incomparably long.

Immediately after that, the scream erupted a thousand times more!

The terrible tremor turned into substance, rushing down his arm and up his body.

The skin of the arm cracked inch by inch, and the blood splattered out, but it was atomized in the twisting wind, but the blood qi burrowed into the cracks of the iron coffin and disappeared without a trace.

First the palms, then the arms, and finally the body. Hein's body was rapidly withering and shriveling, and his life was about to be sucked away with blood! He looked back with difficulty, looking at Gaius, his lips opening and closing, trying to shout something.

Gaius was stunned.

He looked down and saw the slender package rolling down beside him. It was what Hine had brought back all the way, and as it shook and tumbled, the shroud that bound it was unraveled, revealing the holy relics within.

Like a spear poured from pig iron, rough and wild, the blade is blunt, but it is stained with layers of blood. In the midst of the scream, its blade lit up, humming, and emitting a burning light.

The glow was blazing, cutting through Gaius's shackles.

With all his might, he bent down and clenched his spear.

For a moment, I felt infinite strength rushing into my body, and I had courage. The terrifying roar was gone, and only the sound of his own heartbeat lingered in his ears like rolling thunder.

The divine power filled his body, causing his blood to burn, his heart almost bursting, and he was addicted to it, wanting to release it.

If there is iron in front, it will pierce iron, if there is a dragon in front, it will penetrate the dragon, if there is an enemy in front, let him be crushed to pieces, and if there is a god in front, he will ......

His consciousness was dominated by this power, and he involuntarily stood up and took seven steps forward, his footsteps imprinted into the stone.

Now he stands in front of the enemy.

The iron coffin trembled.

He glared at the crack in the iron coffin, glared at the darkness within, clenched his spear in both hands, and stabbed it with all his strength and courage!

There is the sound of blisters bursting.

As if the iron coffin was just a phantom, the spear easily pierced through the chasm, piercing into the darkness and stabbing out from the other end.

As delusional, he heard what looked like the dragon's mournful cry before it died.

In the midst of the scream, the screaming came to an abrupt end, and the dancing etheric light suddenly froze, then condensed, turned into a torrential rain, and returned to the abyss.

Silence reigned again, and the iron coffin fell dead once again.

The abundant power was gone, and Gaius staggered to turn and try to lift Hine up on the ground.

The burly man had now withered into a baby. When touched, it shatters and turns to ashes. Only the head rolled to the ground, its shriveled eyes staring at Gaius.

He's dead.

Gaius closed his eyes for him and turned to walk towards the iron coffin.

Like a mayfly shaking a tree, the old man pushed the iron coffin with all his might, squeezing every ounce of strength from his bones, little by little, pushing deeper.

Until the last of its strength is exhausted, push it into the whirlpool of the ruins where the iron stream boils!

The iron coffin fell, tumbling in the air, and sank into the whirlpool without a sound.

The rough spear still pierced deep into the iron coffin, sinking into death as it sank.

In the final moments, he saw the terrifying totem engraved on the iron coffin.

As if out of a nightmare, it had a brass face, a black iron body, three heads, and traces of birds, beasts, and men, and was large and hideous, with countless arms holding flames, frost, blight, knives, axes, water bottles, and bones......

It doesn't look like a humanoid, but it looks like this...... Beauty!

Perfect to the point of frightening.

This is the mythical creature, the son of the god and the mother earth, a demigod full of wrath and power.

-- Hundred-armed giant.

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As Gaius walked out of the ruined city, he heard the sound of the waves.

Maybe after staying in the silence for too long, even the sound of the waves feels like a kind of redemption.

In the cold rain, the carriage waited quietly in the dark. The man in the carriage beckoned to him, he was stunned for a moment, got into the carriage, and the carriage took him on the way back.

The interior of the car was warm, the smell of incense lingered, and the décor was gorgeous.

It's just that he still feels that the coldness is hanging over him and can't be dispelled.

The man sitting across from him brought a hand stove, and he felt a precious warmth, but his face was still pale.

"Welcome back to earth. ”

The white-haired Oriental man turned on the lights and illuminated his face.

Like all Oriental nobles, Bai Heng wore a silk robe, and the robe faintly revealed the silver silk embroidered mark. It was like a flame with a full sense of majesty and arrogance.

In addition to his white hair, Bai Heng still looks very young and energetic, and there are no wrinkles on his face. It was only when he looked him in the eye that Gaius felt: this guy was really as old as himself.

"When did you come?" asked Gaius softly.

"Followed, so I had time to take a look from afar. ”

Bai Heng lowered his eyes, and his palpitations did not disappear: "Just looking at it, I feel that my heart is about to be lost." It's desperate. ”

"There is nothing to despair. ”

Gaius muttered in a low voice, remembering Hein's face, his withered head and shriveled eyes, and his expression darkened: "Isn't all we can do from beginning to end is 'pay the price'?"

"I'm just afraid that we can't afford that price. Bai Heng said softly: "I lost dozens of musicians and accompanied the dragon slaying spear that was named 'St. George', just to deal with the sleeping dream of the hundred-armed giant." In the eyes of those monsters, it's ridiculous that humans are so resistant, right?

Like an ant, even dying is worthless. ”

Gaius was silent.

After a long time, he sighed softly: "Bai Heng, twenty years ago, when the 'Silver Calamity' destroyed the Wolf City, I was in the city. ”

"Huh?" Bai Heng was stunned.

"I was standing on the wall and watching it come from afar, the waves were overwhelming, with brilliant neon, it was really ...... Beauty. So, rest assured, that kind of magnificent destruction will make people feel that it is not a pity to be buried in it. ”

Bai Heng was stunned for a long time, and suddenly laughed softly: "Human beings are really ridiculous." When I heard that I could die prettierly, I felt less regretful. ”

"So, let's worry about the problem when you're still alive. ”

Gaius closed his eyes and chanted the dogma softly:

- Fear of the ether. ”

Bai Heng was silent.

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The silence continued until the carriage stopped.

Outside the car is the harbor, and a sea ship waits to set sail on a rainy night.

Through the window, Gaius heard the sound of the waves, and he had left the confines of the Dragon's Sleep Enchantment, and the sound returned to this world.

After staying in the silence for too long, even the sound of the waves that I usually feel noisy feels like salvation. Gaius couldn't help but glance back into the distance.

But in the distance, in the dark, I couldn't see anything clearly.

"Well, leave it at that. His Majesty the Pope is still waiting for my report. ”

He got out of the car and looked back at the car: "Are you going back to the East too?"

"yes, after all, I have another ...... in my family Her Majesty the Arrogant Empress. Bai Heng sighed: "If I'm not here, maybe something bad will happen, right?"

Gaius smiled: "It's really hard to be a rebel and a thief, Bai Heng." ”

"It's the Regent. Bai Heng corrected it seriously.

"Goodbye, then, Mr. Regent. ”

"Goodbye, Your Highness the Duke. ”

The carriage door closed.

In the midst of the rainstorm, Gaius watched silently as the man's carriage disappeared into the rain.

Amid the sound of countless rains, he stared back into the darkness where the fortress was, as if he could hear the monster's roar through countless layers of blockade.

"I really can't figure it out. ”

His eyes were deep: "You monsters, why can't you linger in the human world?"

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This year, there was a rare phenomenon of two moons shining in the sky, and the pale moon and the blue moon hung high at the same time.

There have been six earthquakes on the ground, and some areas are still dry, and others are flooded. Some claim to have found a black liquid that can burn in desert areas, some say that the continent is moving, some say that the earth is round, and others say that the ancestors of humans were monkeys.

These are the details.

This year, the revolutionary army occupying the New World was still in its infancy, and natural disasters in the dark world were still raging.

Some countries are borrowing heavily from national debts that they can never afford to pay, while others are aggressively expanding their legions. The war between nations over relics and ancient technology continues.

The Holy City was responsible for forgiving the sins committed by mankind, while the nobles of the East were responsible for selling silk to the dead.

Everyone is fighting, killing, and they seem to be very busy.

Few people have noticed that the Dark Ages have been over for hundreds of years, and that the fragile peace between humanity and natural disasters has been maintained for far too long.

The world is still so big, but unfortunately most of it is still hidden in the dark.

Nine of the twelve kingdoms were now left, struggling to occupy a tiny corner of the world, slowly and carefully expanding their territory in unknown directions.

Some people look to the other side of the ocean.

Because the wind brings the sound of the tide of the new era.