Act Seven: William Coulter's Quest (5)

If Flick had to use one word to describe the situation that was now mapped in front of them, it would be "the end of the world." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The sky seemed to have been torn open with a sharp weapon, and a strange red light flowed out of the mouth like blood, climbing up to every corner of the horizon in an instant, illuminating people's nervous faces. The inhabitants of the city had apparently not expected such a change, so when they noticed the strange phenomenon of the change in heaven and earth, they all fell into an uncontrollable panic.

Of course, the destruction caused by the collapse of the double moon is not only the fragments of moonstones that are about to fall to the ground, but also the overall change of the planet's magical network and tidal gravity. The ensuing natural disasters not only destroy everything on the ground, but also have permanent and irreversible effects.

The phenomenon that the sorcerers have constructed with their own will weaving is a joke when they truly see the destructive power of nature, and they no longer think that they can become the masters of matter and time on their own, because it is too superficial.

Red and black sparks rained down on the ground, igniting everything they touched...... Trees, people, and even rocks were not spared, burning in the flames of destruction. After witnessing the flames turned into torches, some people rushed into the houses to take refuge, but the houses where they were hiding did not escape the end of being burned.

In the end, without mercy and unreasonableness, the giants on the streets fled in panic, but there was probably no safe place in this world. The merciless catastrophe easily consumes life, and they can only watch themselves and their civilization turn to ashes.

Frick once thought he wasn't a man of few words, but the sight left him speechless, and he didn't know what words to use to express his inner thoughts. After witnessing the terrifying destructive power of nature, I can only feel a complete sense of powerlessness from the bottom of my heart.

The flame-red sky was filled with sparkling light, and the colorful aurora spread out like a carnival at the far end of the sky. In the rain of fire that ignited the world, Frick seemed to hear the sound of the world collapsing, and the whole planet seemed to be shaken in the roaring wind.

Although their appearance may be somewhat different, their reactions are not much different from those of humans. Realizing that this was a catastrophe of unprecedented proportions, everyone was desperately struggling to survive, whether it was a richly dressed nobleman or a well-dressed commoner, whose identities no longer mattered.

But where is it safe?

Those who tried to flee from the streets to the nearby river were lit by falling fires, and those who hid in their houses were buried by burning ruins, and the few who survived the magical walls were only struggling to hold on. It won't be long before the city is in ruins in the ensuing catastrophe.

All the creatures that live on this planet are still too small to match the forces of nature. In the event of a natural disaster, they can only hide in what they think is safe, praying to gods who do not know if they exist, hoping to escape.

That's right, they are weak and can't do anything to stop it from happening, and they are almost desperate to save their lives. The corpses burned beyond recognition by the flames had no time to take care of, but were just piled up on both sides of the road and allowed the red and black flames to spread.

Of course, the hotel chosen by Dr. Frick and Kurt as a base has long since been engulfed in flames, and the heat has condensed a tornado of flames around the building. The people who lived here had either fled or had been reduced to ashes, and only the two of them were left in the fire.

However, even in the vortex of flames that burned everything, they did not feel the slightest heat—after all, it was only an illusion in a dream based on the fragments of memory. It won't be long before the hotel, the city, will be destroyed, and the dream will be over.

But there is no hypocrisy in the wails and screams that continue to pour into the ears, they are the original owners of these fragments of thought, the aborigines who have been mercilessly destroyed by the disaster.

"That's what it is...... Is it the end of the age of mythology?"

It took a while for Flick to barely squeeze a few words out of his throat, and the dry sound made it hard for him to believe it was his own. They are just observing, looking at what happened in the past from the perspective of being in it, but they feel more at their own insignificance.

Not only the civilization that is about to be destroyed, but also the human beings who have lived for thousands of years and all the intelligent beings known to the present day have no way to resist in the face of a natural disaster of this magnitude. They have thought countless times about the possibility of the end, but have naïve expectations for the brutal truth.

However, even in the mythical age of the fact that "gods" are real, when disaster strikes, Frick does not see any existence that seems to be "gods" coming. There seems to be no hope and no salvation, only equal death and calamity to descend on the earth, which was alive and well a few moments ago.

Could it be that there was no omnipotent god even in the age of mythology, or was the destruction of the city a predetermined matter planned by the gods? Watching the scattered giants set on fire in pieces, Frick once again became suspicious of the so-called gods.

The question of what kind of being can be called a god has been debated by religious and philosophers for a long time, and no definite answer has been reached until now. But only one thing Frick can be sure of is that the so-called gods should not be individuals with great power or technology, but more transcendent beings in nature.

After all, there are so many things in this world that are so powerful that mortals seem to be gods, but they are closer to natural disasters than gods. Even if they do not have any ill intentions of their own, their actions alone can cause devastating damage, and the so-called "Scourge Designation" is a creature of this magnitude.

No, it might be too hasty to say that they are living beings, after all, some of the individuals in the "Scourge Designation" can hardly be called living things, but are closer to a phenomenon. They don't have much of an anomaly when they are not activated, but when they are active, they are dangerous situations that require urgent population relocation.

There are currently more than 30 "Scourge Designations" found around the world, and seven locations requiring constant vigilance have been observed within the Empire alone. In order to ensure that their activation is detected in a timely manner, the scribes of the Observatory have to keep an eye on those areas at all times.

Acts of natural disasters - this alone is enough to show how dangerous the existence of the "natural disaster designation" is, especially those that bring catastrophic weather are included in the key observation objects, and the slightest abnormal reaction can make the central government nervous for a long time.

However, even if all the "Scourge Designations" on this planet were activated at the same time, it would not be enough to cause massive damage of this magnitude. The Twin Moons Collapse has changed the environment of the planet on a large scale, and the original fast-growing civilization has almost been beaten back to the era of gold and stone.

Frick estimated from the intelligence gathered from his previous training that the civilization that controlled the city had reached at least the level of the late Middle Ages, and that the tools of steel had become highly ubiquitous and the scale of production was gradually expanding. In other words, after this catastrophe, it took at least nearly 2,000 years for the embers scattered all over the place to catch up with the level they once had, and then finally to make the progress they have now.

He thought inexplicably of the story he had heard from Eric Hothka that night, the cursed city that had caused their party to be destroyed and the decayed city of the end of the North had once prospered. Obviously, it was also a city that was destroyed by a natural disaster, and it is even possible that it belonged to the same civilization as the city that was burning in front of us, and it was destroyed on the same day.

They were destroyed in a completely different way, only the fragments of their thoughts were still sleeping deep beneath the Gate of the North, and the place was burned by the fire that fell from the sky, but the city of decay was surprisingly well preserved. It is likely that something went wrong with the planet's magic network when the two moons collapsed, so the magic of confusion set off completely different and devastating phenomena in various places.

"I think you can imagine how powerful this catastrophe is, and ancient texts excavated around the world mention the devastating blow it has inflicted on the planet. ”

William Coulter, who was standing beside him, squeezed out these words as if sighing: "But only by the information we have gathered now, we can really know too little truth, and the documents found so far at the end of the Age of Mythology only mention the existence of natural disasters and the fact of the collapse of the two moons. As for the propaganda of the Southern Order, saying that the 'Holy Lord' they believed in made a covenant with God to save the world or something, I don't believe it at all. ”

From ancient times to the present, religious scholars or prophets everywhere have preached the so-called end-the-end doctrine, trying to preach those illusory salvations with such a threat that does not exist in reality. However, when the natural disaster that is truly enough to destroy everything comes, there is no one who can lend a helping hand.

William Kurt believed in the terrible natural disasters that destroyed the Age of Mythology, and in the great sorcerers of this age who wielded great power and could almost be called gods. On the other hand, he was suspicious of the gods and what they did, which only existed in ancient texts.

Of course, not all sorcerers are atheists, but William Kurt has made it clear to those around him more than once that he does not believe in the propaganda of religious ists. The end may be a definite future, but the only people who can save the world are those who have mastered the actual technology.