Chapter 118: The Great Ruin
A feast of fear, despair.
Under the melody of wailing and screaming.
Bloom in Arkham with an evil flower of flesh and blood.
Today is destined to be an unforgettable day.
One night passed.
The world began to fade, and the world began to return to the land of rebirth.
A touch of morning light, composed of the rules of the world, sprinkled on Arkham.
Finally brought a touch of warmth to the icy metal city, and it became clear again.
The warmth dispelled the icy fog of loss, all kinds of negative emotions.
With all the weird creatures gone.
The bloody curtain ended, and all that was left was mess all over the place.
Flesh covered every inch of Arkham.
The vivid red color is like a delicate rose petal spreading all over the earth.
Those who are still alive lie motionless in flesh and blood.
There was only numbness, fear and confusion in his eyes, and he just looked at the sky.
In the sky, the steam airship is still hovering, and the red festive text panel that hangs down from above:
Celebrate Arkham's 101st Anniversary!
It's so glaring at this point.
"Bell~Bell~Bell~"
The dull chimes are driven by delicate gears, at this moment at six o'clock.
Ringing from a giant wall clock reverberates around every corner of the city.
Someone finally regained his consciousness in a trance at the sound of this bell.
Weeping, wailing, helpless...... Smile.
A different kind of melody began to intertwine.
Of course, it's not any one of Arkham who is smiling.
There is always happiness based on the pain of others.
This smile comes from Shen Shen, who is watching all this from the perspective of God.
Everyone in Arkham was once again reminded of the deepest old fears.
Sadako, a pig-headed butcher...... Shen Gray all the weird and weird talk about the hero.
In this bloody night, a lot of negative emotions and flesh were harvested.
Their power will grow from this, and they will continue to grow stronger.
Then, it's time for the final stage.
This event is called by the surviving people in Arkham.
- Great ruin.
The reconstruction work after the destruction took ten days to complete.
After a survey of the number of people, nearly 20,000 people died in the great ruin.
This was undoubtedly a painful blow and an unforgettable event that they will go down in history.
For some time afterward, none of the weird creatures reappeared.
It's like disappearing completely.
But among Arkham, he has always seemed lifeless.
It's better than the appearance of weird creatures from time to time than the big breakdown.
And no one knows if the next big ruin will come again, or how long it will take.
This unknown fear is the sword of Damocles hanging over their heads.
Let them have trouble sleeping.
And because of the Great Breakdown, Arkham's pattern has also begun to change.
There are fewer and fewer people consolidating conservatives.
Mere reverence doesn't keep them safe.
More and more people are joining the radical faction.
They set out to investigate the world, investigating weird creatures.
Although it conflicts with their fears, it has to be carried on.
Six months later, strange creatures began to reappear.
But the frequency of occurrence is not very high, and it does not affect them much.
The progress of the investigation into the world and the strange and strange creatures is enough to describe it as difficult to move an inch.
They can't enter the world in the fog, otherwise they will be lost, and their lives will fail.
Strange and strange creatures are also beings that they can't cope with with the steam technology they have.
But during this period, a large number of people with mental abnormalities due to the Great Breakdown Event.
Started dreaming the same type of dream, this one made up of the deep sea, made of whispers, made up of unspeakable tentacles.
This undoubtedly has something to do with the artworks created by the radicals in the beginning.
Some people even fall into extreme madness and arrogance because of these dreams.
They claim to have seen something, but they can't tell it.
Thus an Arkham asylum was established.
Shut up all these crazy people.
The radicals have again evolved into two categories.
One is that the dream is calling them.
To think that this is real, this must be a projection somewhere.
And it is a place where they can be blessed and safe from this world.
The other faction naturally thinks that this dream is ominous.
Just like those weird creatures, you shouldn't touch them.
There should be no delusional attempts to find out.
Time passed again, near the end of the year.
All sorts of weird creatures appear more and more frequently.
It's exactly the same as it was before the last big.
Everyone began to prepare for the response, but nothing was substantively prepared.
Because they don't even know what to do.
Until it was another year of Arkham Founding Celebration.
The Great Destruction came as expected.
This time, no one celebrated in the streets, but they all stayed in their homes and hid in fear.
Until the next morning, when the city was sprinkled with light, most of the people were unharmed.
Only a few places were destroyed and killed.
According to statistics, the number of dead and missing is around 5,000.
Compared with the 20,000 deaths in the previous year's devastation, it is simply a world of difference.
Those who survived were extremely fortunate to stay at home on the day of the Great Ruin.
If you're lucky, you're safe, and if you're unlucky, you're one of the five thousand corpses.
But under such odds, there is finally a hope.
It's just that the fear of the unknown and uncertainty still hangs over Arkham.
This is naturally the restriction that Shen Ash set for Sadako and them.
After all, the transformation from the surface world to the inner world is called the day of the great ruin.
Just to harvest fear, and to pave the way for the Cthulhu faith to follow.
If it's for the sake of simple killing, then there's no point in making them grow up.
After another three years, nothing changed much in Arkham.
It's just that the number of people in the asylum has increased.
Shen Shen felt that it was almost time, and it was time to completely open up the connection between Arkham and the Sea of Death.
The power of the world's origin began to intertwine in the space under Shen Ash's control.
The rules change, and the fog of death and negativity begin to be repelled from it.
The extent of the Land of New Life expanded again, eventually to a diameter of 107 km.
Completely connected to the Sea of Death.
And the deep divers in the Sea of Death continue to build their own cities.
Although they found that there was some kind of change outside, they preferred to stay in their own sea.
There is no thought of going ashore for the time being.
It's different in Arkham, though.
The people of Arkham have been keeping an eye on the world and trying their best to investigate.
For the expansion of the new land, it was discovered at the first time.
It immediately attracted great attention and began to send personnel to investigate.