"Anna—Anna—"

"My child—where are you—come here—"

The call came like a tidal wave, sometimes far away, sometimes close to the ear.

It's just that the voice has become neutral, and I can't tell if it's a man or a woman.

In the distance, on the covered glacier, a spiral-shaped opening gradually unfolds from the ice, revealing a downward staircase.

This entrance is bottomless, and even the light is swallowed up.

A suction force came from the spiral-shaped entrance, and Anna, who was floating in the air, moved uncontrollably towards the entrance for a short while.

"It's ...... Essentia? Is it such a coincidence? ”

Anna steadied herself and looked deep at the entrance.

Walk through the staircase with no end in sight, and inside it seems to be a city.

"Come in—my child—"

"Back to your place—"

The spirals of the entrance open and close, and they speak like a human mouth.

"Could it be that this is the City of Calamity?"

Anna instinctively felt a hint of closeness, and she slowly approached the entrance, as the essentia corresponding to this pathway, she didn't need to be overly careful.

The closer she got, the stronger Anna's sense of familiarity became.

It's the same as when I first saw myself under the water in the waterhole in Majia Village.

At the time, Anna thought that this familiarity was due to the extraordinary characteristics of looking like herself.

Now Anna understands that the familiarity behind all this is actually from here.

This essentia in the name of the calamity is the driving force behind leading Anna step by step to sequence 0.

Whether it's the current Anna, or another Anna.

In the Fifth Age, the City of Calamity was still sealed, but it had loosened somewhat.

As the timeline becomes chaotic, so does Calamity.

Anna realized something and floated in through the entrance.

The staircase with a sense of age is not real, but a door lock.

When a witch who has reached Sequence 0 arrives, the staircase transforms into a flying carpet that carries Anna deeper.

A dark city appeared in front of you.

It is immensely expansive and boundless, with the city's buildings decreasing in height from the center to the periphery, and the center of the city is a series of spires and towers.

Just looking at the silhouette, the city is more like a triangular cone.

In the center, there is a stone pillar that reaches to the sky, and the pillar is always high, and a flag is faintly floating at the top.

Anna headed straight for the flag.

She could clearly perceive that the voice was coming from there.

"I've finally found the source."

The voice of the unknown source is a mystery that haunts me since I woke up.

Today, Anna can finally find out.

When Anna reached the top of the flag, she realized that there was still a world here.

That flag could pass through, and through the flag, Anna reached another flagpole.

Looking up, she could see a city hanging upside down, symmetrical with the city on the other side, but not quite the same on closer inspection.

There are buildings, but there are many places where the ground is completely flat or even recessed.

Anna floated upwards and gradually understood the meaning of Calamity City.

The reflection above is the source of calamity.

She can create any disaster if she wants to.

The reflection above is a symbol that can control the stars in the universe.

As for creating a catastrophe on Earth, that's a big deal, and Anna herself has the ability to do so.

The City of Calamity, on the other hand, can control the cosmic catastrophe, so that any two planets collide with a single stroke to make them collide.

What's more, when Anna arrives, everything is so familiar, like she actually did it.

"So I've been here before...... I seem to be the owner of this place......"

Anna didn't continue to explore upwards, there was no need to move the stars now, and it was easy to alarm several outer gods who had already reached the solar system.

They are at least old-level strength, and they also have a part of essentia.

Anna retreated to the lower levels, and in this endless dark city, she only had a thought, and the city immediately changed according to her ideas.

Underneath the flagpole, a square was vacated, and then continued to sink downward, creating a bottomless pit.

Then the staircase that carried Anna in stretched out, sweeping in the thousands of monsters outside.

All she wanted was the uniqueness of the Red Sacrifice and the characteristics of the conqueror.

Thousands of treacherous creatures were melted into the pit, and the city dismantled and sifted them according to Anna's wishes.

Then most of the trickery was thrown out again and re-frozen.

In the end, only two crystals remained, emitting a seductive and dangerous glow, suspended above the crater.

"That's all I want, as long as I swallow it, I can become the root of the curse......"

But now, Anna hesitated.

It's not that she's worried about gender, the Red Sacrifice is a pathway, promotion will force a male, and a witch will be forced to become a female.

So these two pathways must have been genderless in the past, or inclusive of all genders.

But how could Anna care about appearance, she cared about risk.

According to history, the ancient sun god carried out a series of schemes to prevent God from awakening in his own body, which eventually led to failure.

Zhou Mingrui is also trying his best to prevent Tianzun from resurrecting on himself.

And God and Tianzun are both one of the three pillars.

This fourth pillar of Anna is only theoretically possible, and theoretically, the fourth pillar does not exist.

But what if?

What if this fourth pillar also existed and also wanted to be reborn in a container?

Once Anna is the old days, this fourth pillar may really recover, which is what Anna fears the most.

came to work, and in the end made a wedding dress for others.

But this hesitation only existed for a moment, and Anna left it behind.

Zhou Mingrui also knew that Tianzun's plan was to resurrect himself, but he still chose to continue.

Until now, unless you spit out all the extraordinary characteristics you have eaten, and actively downgrade to Sequence 2, you can get rid of the risk of recovery.

But that's not something Anna can accept.

"It's ironic at the end of the day." Anna's tone was filled with melancholy and emotion, "At the beginning, I was completely different from the Trickster, and when I used Black Flame and Frost without limit, Yang Jian's Tricky Eyes were about to recover. ”

"I never had to worry about revival of tricks, because I'm extraordinary, and I thought I was taking the right route, which was completely different from the costly way of being a trickster."

"But I didn't expect that in the end, I was most worried about the same problem as those tricksters I once looked down on, and I had to worry about recovery."