Chapter 35: Dissipation
The sky overhead was getting darker and darker, and the thick lead cloud seemed to be poured into a pot of clear water, boiling and pulling out a heavy black and strange outline. The uneasiness in Sovereign's heart grew stronger, a premonition of impending danger. "Let's go...... Let's go......" He suddenly grabbed Tandra and Old Sean and ran quickly towards the stunned crowd.
"What the hell is that purple ball of light, and why has the entire City of Temples become like this?!" Berosio asked aloud.
Sovereign quickly rolled over his horse. "It's the jewel in the Soul Urn! it contains the truest power of Iselel, the Lord God of Fate!" he clutched the reins and tried to explain, "If you want to live, get out of here now!, the sooner the better!"
Berosio was stunned, although he didn't know what Soveran was talking about, he could feel the seriousness of the situation. "Turn the horse's head! Get out of here now!" he yelled at his men of the mercenary group.
The whole team immediately got up to speed, turned around and left the square in front of the city walls, and ran towards the stone bridge. At this moment, a series of huge cracking sounds came from behind them, and many people couldn't help but look back with curiosity, but the sight they saw made their mouths dry, and they subconsciously tried their best to urge the war horses under their crotches, and they wanted to leave this place as if they were dying.
The temple city of the Kujitan people collapsed completely, the towering walls crumbling like broken building blocks, and large boulders were pulled up from the ground by mysterious forces, and flew out of their original positions into the air, countless clouds of mud and sand swayed down like a shower, splashing a cloud of rising smoke.
The walkways, the squares, the stone carvings, the stone pillars, everything that could be seen was dismembered, and even the most magnificent temple was torn to pieces of stone. The deep purple gems hovering in the air were still burning, and the circles of light that spread out were like the death knell of the city's destruction, and they vibrated and shattered countless boulders flying in the air until they were reduced to the most primitive dust.
Suddenly, a dazzling crack flashed in the middle of the bright ball of light, and the gravel and dust in the air seemed to have found an outlet for catharsis, and were attracted to form countless thick pillars of wind, circling and twisting and flying into it. From a distance, it looked like an invisible giant had taken a deep breath above the city, sucking everything on the ground and destroying it completely.
The crowd running for their lives on the stone bridge was already stunned by such a scene, what was happening in front of them was simply beyond the reach of mortal power. What they didn't expect was that an even more terrifying scene had just begun.
Between the calm lake and the lead clouds in the sky, countless dark blue balls of light suddenly appeared in a deafening "crackling" sound, and the flickering and dimming spheres seemed to be rubbing against the air, and seemed to be accumulating terrifying power, becoming more and more dazzling. At the moment when everyone could no longer even see the way forward, countless heart-rending thunderbolts exploded above their heads.
Lightning, countless dark purple lightning bolts slashed down from the sky, whipping on the surface of the lake like a long whip, the originally calm lake water was lifted into the air, crumpled into fine pale water foam, the whole lake trembled and rolled out layers of pitch-black waves, hitting the piers inserted into the water, making a rumbling trill.
The stone bridge leading to Taittingchi crumbled in the force of destruction, and large swaths of stone bricks collapsed behind the speeding crowd and fell into the tumbling lake, and the tall and majestic stone statues were bombarded by lightning to reveal small cracks, some of which were directly blown to pieces, and some of which overturned onto the bridge deck and fell into broken stones.
Thousands of years later, the lives devoured by the "Holy Lake Rotoya" seem to have been completely awakened, through the electric snakes dancing on the water, countless white ghosts screamed and rushed out of the water, venting their resentment in mid-air, and finally being shattered by the lightning, purified, and finally breaking free from the fate of being bound here forever.
Riding wildly, Sauveray couldn't even see the road ahead, and in this apocalyptic scene, there was only one thought in everyone's hearts - hurry! Hurry up! Get as far away from here as possible!
Tandra in front of him suddenly turned his head and shouted something against the pouring water, and Soveran whipped his horse with all his might, trying to hear his voice clearly, but found that Tandra's face suddenly became extremely pale. "Little ...... ......"This is the only voice Essaouiran hears.
A blinding light surged from behind him, and the whole world suddenly turned pale. The next moment, the light suddenly retracted, and a loud sound that seemed to tear the soul exploded above the city of temples, and the instantaneous tinnitus caused Solveland to fall into a brief period of deafness, only a buzzing sound in his ears, the blood throbbed madly in his temples, and his head seemed to be pressed against something, and it was about to burst.
He felt a vibration that became more and more violent, as if the road had become twisted, and suddenly his whole body was light, and Sovereign was lifted into the air. In his shaking gaze, he saw that the rolling waves of air had flattened the turbulent waters of the lake, stretching the surface of the lake straight, and the water in the center of the lake had been washed out of a curved concave by the exploding gems, and the artificial island built by the Kujitan people seemed to be heavily crushed. Beside him, the rapidly falling stone bricks, figures, and war horses smashed large splashes in the lake water, took a sharp breath, and the sudden coldness instantly surrounded him.
The people who fell into the water struggled to swim to the shore, and the only thing that was fortunate was that when they were lifted into the air, they were not too far from the shore. Exhausted as he lay on the gravel in the shallows, he struggled to look back, and the horrific scene had vanished, leaving only the agitated, unsettled waves on the lake behind him. However, the reconverging waters of the lake have submerged the land that originally housed Taitinchi, the last temple city of the Kujitan people, and has truly become a legend of the past.
Suo Weilan sighed softly, pinched the "Destiny Shard" in his arms, and then turned his gaze to the people beside him. Tandra and old Sean, who were carrying their greatswords, helped each other to the shore, and the latter smiled and waved at him; Peslin led his horse to sit down next to Sovereign and dumped the stagnant water from his boots; in the distance, Kull seemed to be looking for something, and Thomas, who was standing nearby, muttered indifferently: "Praise the Lord God! at least he left me a lens!"
Sovereign smiled happily. "With these companions by his side, it is enough, my sheriff......" he thought to himself.
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In the hall of fate at the end of the corridor, Gadore stared at the long sword in his hand with a fierce expression, and then threw it towards the golden mountain next to him. "Damn! shit! damn it......" he roared, his angry expression suddenly turning into collapsed despair, his twisted features covered with tears and snot, his messy hair stained with sweat sticking to his scalp, he didn't look like a high-ranking sheriff anymore.
After Essaoweran left the hall, the pendulum of fate did not stop its footsteps, and still indifferently turned back time. Gadore tried countless methods, even committing suicide under the pendulum countless times, but he was awakened by the loud sound of the stone door falling and made it to the entrance of the hall again. The only change is that he lost his right hand forever, as if the moment the pendulum stood still, everything that happened at that time was remembered and became the only exception.
The endless cycle of reincarnation has almost tormented him to madness. "Let me out...... Damn Sovereign!" Gadore's voice was hoarse, and the nails of his left hand were chipping and peeling off the boulder, leaving a trail of crooked blood.
Suddenly, a low roar caught Gadoré's attention, and he pressed his ear to the stone wall, and the sound grew closer and more urgent, like a thousand wild beasts, galloping in the corridor outside the boulder.
With a "boom", a violent force struck the boulder, sending Gado Thunder Shock flying out and falling to the pile of gold coins in the hall. The sheriff immediately scrambled to his feet, looking around in alarm, and the voice seemed to envelop the hall heavily, and a low sound poured into his ears from all sides.
The ground trembled slightly, and the gold and silver treasures that filled the room pulsed with the sound of metal clashing. "What happened?!...... what happened" Before Gadore could finish speaking, a majestic column of water gushed out from the crack in the stone door, and soon, the four walls of the hall burst open, and the raging lake almost instantly washed everything and poured in.
The raging undercurrent dragged Gadore to the bottom of the lake, and in the faint light, he saw the rapidly sinking boulders, as well as the gold coins and gems flowing like fine sand into the darkness below, the pendulum of fate with a small whirlpool passing by him, he waved his arms and swam up, but no matter how hard he tried, he could not stop the sinking body.
The air in his chest became less and less, and finally, a large mouthful of lake water choked into the lobes of Gadore's lungs, the pain of suffocation and the fear of dying tormented his **, and the muffled sound brought out countless rising bubbles from his mouth, but he didn't see it, the pendulum of fate below moved again, and the two swinging arms switched places, "clicking"......
Gadore felt as if he had been sucked into a vast vortex, everything spinning and even his soul being pulled out of his body. Finally, he noticed that his eyes lit up, and with severe pain all over his body, he was thrown to the ground hard, and the sound of a boulder falling to the ground was heard behind him again.
"No! no......" The sheriff coughed violently, curling up like a shrimp, and the instinct triggered by the drowning sensation had not all dissipated. He is still alive, but as Essaouiran said, he will be trapped here forever, and he will not even be qualified to die.