Levi opened his eyes, and his body couldn't help but tremble.

In front of him, flames burned in every arch of the palace, and in the midst of the blazing flames, he vaguely saw four figures.

His father's face showed no signs of age, he looked young and handsome, and his dark eyes flowed with a wise and steady radiance.

The mother's expression was always so gentle, and the sister looked at her with fear, Nineveh...... Why can't I see Nineveh's face clearly......

A huge shadow swept through the night sky, and Levi subconsciously raised his head, and saw a fire dragon covered in red scales hovering in the sky, its mouth full of fangs, and the flames tilted above the palace like a flood—

"Destruction—"

A low, hoarse whisper echoed in the sky, and as the sound came, the flames seemed to grow even more violent, and Levi could no longer see the figure in the palace.

He took a deep breath and turned around, looking down at the entire Emerald Silk. The ancient buildings that dotted the forest like stars were drowned in the firelight, and countless flaming meteorites fell from the night, exploding and burning in the dense forest, turning the city into a sea of fire.

The streets crisscrossed the woods, the ancient trees and houses were set on fire, the wails and weepings came and went, and the quiet night was shrouded in ashes of despair, making the jade silk fall into hell.

In the distance, a huge ancient tree towering into the sky made a dull "squeak" sound, its torso covered with charred scars, and the canopy resembled a giant torch, and the red light of the fire lit up the entire night sky.

The Tree of Eternity was bathed in exuberant flames that were as high as the sky, and behind the curtain a terrifying silhouette of shadows emerged: its sharp horns pointed to the sky, its wings like a gigantic skeleton, its claws like five twisted blades, and its heavy knives covered with cobweb-like cracks.

It's him—

Levi clenched his fists, and the scene of destruction around him faded like a tidal wave, revealing an endless white background.

In this infinitely white space, a woman stood across from Levi's, staring at him quietly.

Her facial features are upright, and her facial lines are as cold and hard as a knife cut, making it impossible to distinguish her race and age, revealing a beauty mixed with divinity and demonism.

On the right side of her forehead was a thin, twisted threaded horn, but on the left side of her forehead was smooth and incongruous; Her right eye is a demonic red pupil, and the pupil of her left eye is a deep blue light, containing a miniature sea of void stars.

Her long pale hair fell behind her, not a single vein could be seen on her slender neck, and under her beautiful collarbone, a pair of white mutton fat breast* chambers were exposed to the air, and a semi-transparent light black veil was wrapped around her waist, which wrapped around the sides of her hip bones and rested on her forearms.

"Who are you?"

Levi asked with a frown.

He found that he was naked, but the black veil on the woman in front of him couldn't block his vision at all, and since the other party was honest, he didn't need to care about these details.

"Nice to meet you, Levi." The woman replied, "I have no name, and you can continue to call me the crown of the cracks, as you are accustomed to." ”

A faint smile appeared at the corner of her mouth, which, combined with her indifferent eyes, looked no different from expressionless.

Hearing her answer, Levi's eyes narrowed, he was silent for a while, and said slowly, "If you are the crown of the cracks, then where am I now?" ”

He looked up and spun around, all around him empty, with only a white halo taking over all of his vision.

"Am I inside you?" He asked.

"You've been in my body since I entered Jiling." The woman said calmly, "I am both the crown of the cracks and the tomb itself. ”

Although he was silent, Levi's heart had tended to believe her words. However, he still had a lot of questions, but he didn't know how to speak.

"What did you just make me see?" Levi decided to raise his top concerns first.

"You know better than I know what that is." "It's a shadow in your heart," the woman said, "and the fear and remorse in it is so strong that you have forgotten some parts of yourself." ”

She paused, looked Levi's eyes and said, "However, these memories are intact in your heart and have never disappeared...... I'm just going to make you watch it again, in a way that makes it realistic. ”

Levi didn't speak, he pondered for a moment, not just digesting the words of the woman in front of him, but also recalling the information he had read from the crown of the cracks before.

At this point, he could be sure that [Duke of Splendour] Gustav Blaze had appeared in the Emerald Silk Plague nine years earlier, and that Gustav was the demon with a charred skeleton and huge horns!

To his surprise, the deepest shadow in the heart of the silver Gihir was Gustave Blaze, a piece of information of great value.

In this way, it is at least certain that Levi's previous suspicion is correct: Archduke Gustav is one of his enemies, and he can even assert that Duke Brilliant is a member of the Flame of Destruction.

While Levi was thinking, the woman didn't seem to be in a hurry at all, just looked at him quietly.

Levi gathered his thoughts and looked at the woman across from him again: "Why are you showing me this?" ”

"It's in my nature to create reality." The woman replied, "I saw the reality that was yours, and I created it, and I got tired of it and destroyed it, and I don't need a reason for it." ”

Levi raised his eyebrows and said, "The crown of the cracks...... It's really in your nature. ”

"My nature is also full of twists and contradictions."

"This is a good way to maintain the mirrored form of the Himereung." Levi commented pertinently, "But, to be honest, I'm surprised that the relict has a personality. ”

The woman shook her head, nodded again, and said, "Maybe I'm not a personality, maybe it's some kind of weird personality, but as far as I know, Long Xin also has his own thoughts. ”

"Probably this is the magic of the superior holy relics." Levi said with emotion.

He paused and asked, "Will you talk to everyone who uses you?" ”

"No, you can enter my body because you hold the central seal of Ji Ling...... I told you that I am the tomb itself. The woman said lightly, "The crown is one of my material forms, and Ji Ling is a gap between the void and reality, and it is another manifestation of my material form." ”

Levi stretched out his right hand and stared at the dark blue symbol in his palm. All along, he relied on this mark to invoke the power of Ji Ling and thus cast magic.

He couldn't help but smile, this power came from the Crown of the Cracks in the final analysis, but he didn't expect that he was also one of the users of the Crown of the Cracks.

"Why did you let me in here?" Levi touched his chin and asked with a strange expression, "If I'm not mistaken, you don't have the concept of communicating with others in your consciousness." ”

"I really didn't, but you came in on your own initiative." The woman replied.

"How is that possible?" Levi laughed and said, "I was tortured to death by your temper, and I fainted." ”

"Your soul is badly damaged, and the central imprint is connected to your spirit, and it calls on my power to heal you without authorization, so your soul enters my consciousness." The woman said calmly, "Here you will be healed, but it will consume my spirit, so I will soon fall into a deep sleep." ”

I can't believe things get so complicated......

"If you are Ji Ling itself, then what is the purpose of sleeping?" Levi asked curiously.

"My body is damaged, but I have a long time to repair it."

"Understood." Levi nodded, "How long do I have to get out?" ”

"It doesn't take too long." A look of exhaustion appeared on her face, "Because I'm already feeling drowsy." ”

Levi looked at the "Crown of the Seams", and the corners of his mouth curled slightly. I have to say that he likes this simple holy relic very much, and since he has encountered this opportunity, he needs to know more things to make the most of it.

"You just said, you know Dragon Heart? Or that it also has a consciousness of its own? ”

The woman seemed to be completely unaware of Levi's mind and did not resist it, and she replied as she should: "The dragon's heart is placed in my body, and I can naturally feel it. ”

Infinite starlight flowed in her left eye: "I still remember a thousand years ago, when the master created me, he also created it, but there is a false memory in its consciousness, and for the holy object, the memory full of human emotions is impurity. ”

Levi savored the Crack Crown's answer, and he guessed that the "master" she was referring to was probably Saladin, and that the "false memory" was supposed to be the culprit that made Dragonheart think that he was the queen of the shadows.

As a result, it can be used as a trap to devour Terella's soul and cannot be separated, and the only means of separation is to use the Intimidation Essence, a purifying potion that is supposed to be able to remove the "false memories" that are impurities.

Although Levi had already used the Intimidation Essence, he was still a little worried about the situation in the outside world, but since his soul was still alive and sound, it should mean that he had at least saved his life.

"Do you know where the real heart of the Shadow Queen is?" Levi asked inch by inch.

"You're talking about the shrine." The woman replied with a blank face, "It is staying in the northeast corner of the Himereung." ”

Is it really Terella's heart? Levi's expression changed for a moment, and he continued to ask, "Why is her heart ...... What did it look like? ”

The woman shook her head and said, "I don't know. ”

Since the crown of the cracks was not clear, and Levi was not able to pursue her, he turned to another question: "Do you know what a shrine is?" ”

The woman nodded: "The shrine is a failed holy relic, and it is also a mutilated holy relic, it can hold a large number of souls, this is all I know. ”

She paused, and said, "I can vaguely sense that an ancient soul has escaped from the shrine, and he has taken possession of a certain body. ”

"Thorne?" Levi said with a frown.

"No, it's a magician, and her name is Archer Blaze." The woman shook her head and said, "Like the shrine, the dragon's heart seems to have fallen into her hands. ”

As the main body of Ji Ling, she reads most people's memories with the help of a huge pillar of light, and is able to watch the wind and grass in the mausoleum.

Levi's face showed a hint of surprise, before he fainted, the dragon's heart was clearly in Terella's body, how could it fall into the hands of Archer? And why did that ancient soul choose Archer's body?

"I'm tired, Levi...... Nice to see you. ”

After saying that, the crown of the cracks repeated like a machine: "It's nice to meet you, goodbye." ”

She seems to be deliberately learning the way humans greet and say goodbye.

Levi noticed that the white light around him became very dazzling, and the figure of the crown of the gap gradually disappeared into the white light.

"Goodbye, Crown of the Gaps." He felt himself slowly withdrawing from the place, unsure if he could hear him, and exclaimed, "If you don't mind, I suggest you change your name." ”

He thought about it for a moment and decided to get closer to the pronunciation of "crack."

"Clara, for example, how's that?"

The white light engulfed everything, and he didn't get any response.

……

In the darkness, Levi felt as if his body had regained his sense of touch, and he was lying on some kind of cold lump, the cold air around him that slowed his blood flow, and he felt very comfortable both physically and mentally.

He opened his eyes to find himself in a transparent ice coffin, and as he awoke, cracks appeared on the lid, and in a matter of seconds, the ice coffin shattered, causing him to slide gently to the floor.

"Are you awake, Levi?"

A familiar voice came.

Levi wiped the ice slag from his cloak and sat up from the dark wooden floor, greeted by a small room and a warm sun.

Terella sat down in the round window, looking at him with a calm expression. She swayed her calves slightly, her long, silky hair turned ice blue, and her exposed armor changed back to an ice blue dress.

The Crown of the Seams was placed on her head at random, and beneath her feet rested half of the Frost King's metal head.

Levi looked at her in a daze, with a hint of vigilance in his eyes: "Do you remember who I am?" ”

Terrella said lightly, "Do you wish I had forgotten you?" Our pact is not yet complete. ”

Looking at Terella's calm expression, Levi felt a rare mixture of apprehension and relaxation, and his eyes moved to the side, revealing a large body curled up in the corner:

It was a dragon-like creature, but not as large as the dragons, it was black, with a long body, slender limbs, sharp, large claws, and bat-like wings that hung to the ground, burying its head in revealing only a pair of twisted threaded horns.

Levi was silent for a moment, as if he didn't know how to speak. He hadn't seen it with his own eyes, but when he saw Terrella and the massive shell, he had the answer.

"I remember everything."

Tyrella glanced at Levi, then shifted her gaze to the shadows in the corner, her gaze resting on her body, her eyes flashing with an inexplicable glimmer of obscurity.

"Ironic, right?"

Levi was silent, he hesitated, still not knowing how to respond.

Under the circumstances, he had no other way or choice but to use the intimidation stock left behind by Saladin...... But he eventually destroyed Terella's body with his own hands, turning her into this.

Terella didn't blame him, she just calmly accepted the result, even if it was only superficially calm, but it made Levi feel annoyed for no reason.

If he could see through Saladin's intentions, if his plans were more conservative......

"Even so, are you going to go back to this body?" Levi asked softly, turning his head away from Terella's gaze.

Terella was silent for a moment, she reached out to hold her chin and smiled slightly, "yes, I'm not a woman who relies on appearances anyway. ”

Her tone was lighthearted, and Levi's heart shook slightly.

Inadvertently, he began to hate Saladin even more, even though he had never met the king of all kinds.

"Okay."

Half an hour later, Levi replied.

"Next, I'll go retrieve your heart."

Since you don't care about Saladin's revenge, there's no reason for me to stop there.

Archer Blaze holds both the dragon's heart and the shrine with the mysterious soul within her, located in the northeast corner of the tomb......

Go ahead and fulfill the promise.

("Bones will eventually become sand.") —Anonymous Diary Fragment)