Where is this giant taking himself?

Curious and confused, Vanna followed the giant's footsteps and stepped into the endless yellow sand—the wind-swept dust seemed to form a hazy barrier in the distance, as if blurring the boundary between heaven and earth, and at some point, the ruins of the city made of black craggy boulders had disappeared into the depths of the dust, and when Vanna tried to look back, there was nothing to see.

The sky is getting brighter, and the heat in the desert is rising little by little.

With a wave of her hand, Vanna summoned a greatsword made of ice, using the protection of the Storm Goddess against the discomfort of the desert while glancing up at the sky.

The huge rift that emitted an ominous red light still covered the entire world, and I don't know if it was an illusion, but the bloodshot that permeated the edge of the rift seemed to be a little larger than when I first saw it.

The sun is still nowhere to be seen, but the sky is still getting brighter and brighter—this gives Vana the feeling that the concept of "sunshine" has been imprinted into some kind of "cycle" between heaven and earth, and even if the sun is gone, the light and heat it leaves behind will still appear in the world "on time".

The giant was drawn to the ice greatsword in Vanna's hand.

He'd seen the greatsword in the other's hand before, but he hadn't seen Vanna summon it—he seemed to find it amazing.

"Your sword is made of a power that does not belong to this world, and this power is incredible, and it can induce miracles in the yellow sand—I haven't seen 'ice' in a long time."

"This is the power given to me by the gods I believe in," said Vana at once, "He is the Lord of the Storm and the Sea, and the Ice is the authority of the Storm." ”

"A god who rules the sea?" The giant whispered thoughtfully, "Storms and seas...... It's a far, far away from the coastline, and the so-called sea has now dried up. But I remember that they built a splendid city by the sea, with a pure white façade and many blue roofs, and they named it after a jewel, and built the first ship in the city that could cross the ocean......"

Vana quietly listened to the giant tell her about those forgotten ancient things, and relayed the information she heard to others who were acting in the dream realm, and the heat around her was still rising, so she took the giant sword in her hand and put it to her mouth and took a bite, chewing the ice cube while asking curiously, "And then?" ”

"Then, the city disappeared in the bubble, and when the erosion happened, many things changed in ways I couldn't understand," the giant said, looking down at Vana and looking down at the Ice Sword that had been bitten by a gap in the other's ...... So that's how it was used? ”

"It's a little hot in here," Vanna, a little embarrassed, "I ...... Relatively sensitive to heat. ”

"It's good to be afraid of the heat, it's good to feel uncomfortable in the environment, it's proof of being alive," said the giant, and then he stopped, "Here we are, Traveler." ”

Vanna stopped, her expression suddenly a little stunned as she followed the direction of the giant's gaze.

There is a huge ...... ahead. The sinkhole, like an astonishing scar, was embedded in the earth, and she and the giant had reached the edge of the crater, just a few steps away from the pit wall.

After a brief moment of astonishment, she cautiously took a step forward, observing the situation in the pit, she saw that the walls of the pit were like glass, and the pitch-black rock showed the same molten and solidified shape as the ruins of the city before, and she saw that the yellow sand around the pit had receded, and the exposed ground took on a terrifying crack, and the pit was so large that it seemed to be large enough to accommodate a city-state as large as Plant......

In the center of the crater, a towering object can be faintly seen - it looks like a tower of astonishing scale, but at this moment only the twisted and hideous appearance remains, and the melted road and the staggered ...... can be seen around the "tower" Stone.

"What's that?" Vana asked, pointing to the tower, surprised.

The giant did not answer her directly, but slowly came to the edge of the pit, sat down on the ground, put the huge staff beside him, and meditated quietly.

It didn't take long for him to break his silence.

"I can't remember a lot of things, but I remember this place...... Realizing that the world was crumbling and that humans couldn't save it, they built a huge archive here, and the big hole you see is the ruins of the archive - they try to leave all the evidence of their existence in this world in a single building.

"Everything you can think of, culture, art, history, countless scrolls and crafts, but also seed vaults and huge sculptures, all piled up in well-guarded and fortified warehouses, and they also made huge stone slabs, and carved in stone simple descriptions of the world and civilization in the most stable materials.

"Books decay quickly, advanced recording devices are prone to failure, delicate storage media cannot be read directly, and the words carved in stone can be preserved for thousands of years, if not longer, so those stones are placed in the center of the archive, regarded as the 'heart' of the place.

"They couldn't find a safer, longer-lasting way to keep track of it."

"That'...... And then what? Vanna couldn't help but ask, even though she knew the answer before she could speak.

"The stone turned into a bubble," the giant looked down into Vanna's eyes, "in a second." ”

Vanna suddenly felt a suffocation.

"The work of art melted, flowed like water, seeped into all the crevices, the scroll became a shadow and was imprinted on the wall, the sculpture sublimated in the air and turned into a pale mist, and then the whole building began to sink and shatter, and the whole earth sank with it," the giant said, pointing to the pit, "where the people gathered, the last survivors, who were going to mourn their civilization and be ready to die calmly, but the truth is that mourning and dying calmly is also a luxury."

"Right in front of them, everything they recorded turned into ...... The unspeakable.

"This is the reality: when the world itself is destroyed, nothing recorded in the 'world' will be preserved."

"Then ......" Vana opened her mouth for a long time before she hesitantly raised her hand and asked again, "The tower ......"

"When the whole building began to crumble, it was the last safe place," the giant whispered, "and they ran there, just as many, many years ago, when the first fire spread to the settlements in the forest, they ran down from the trees and ran to the safety of the plains, only this time, the 'fire' was going to burn more than the forest......

"In the end there was only one man who ran there, I don't remember what he looked like, I don't remember if he was a man, a woman, an old man or a child.

"He stopped there, and then he died standing up.

"In the last minute of his death, he grew as fast as a mountain, even as if it was about to touch the sky, and the scene was as if it were ...... There was something wrong with the scale because their 'science' told me that the human body structure could not support a body of that size......"

The giant raised his head and looked at the "tower" in the center of the pit, as if after all these long years, the long-standing confusion still lingered in his heart.

Vanna finally knew what it was.

That's the last person in this world.

Her eyes widened slowly, and in shock, she stared at the center of the "big pit".

Even from such a distance, she could see the astonishing size of the "tower", which was taller than the tallest tower in the city of Plander, and even grander than the cathedral of the city-state...... Will it be personal?

Gradually, however, Vana finally saw the chilling details of the strange and hideous appearance of the "tower" in the distance, and she saw the molten and deformed structure that was raised like an arm, and the torso that rotated and twisted, and for a moment, she even felt that she saw a creepy ...... somewhere in the tower Face.

But she knew it was an illusion, and at such a distance, even if there was such a detail on the tower, she couldn't see it clearly.

What's more, they have been distorted to the point where they can't be seen at all.

Vana couldn't describe what she was feeling at the moment, she only knew that her heart was shocked, and the huge questions almost overwhelmed her mind, she stared at the black "tower" for a long time, at the last tombstone left by the last man of the destroyed ancient civilization, and then slowly raised her head again, and stared for a long time at the sky covered in red fissures and with no sun visible.

After a while, perhaps to divert the heavy feeling in her heart, she suddenly asked, "Sun...... Did the sun disappear at that time? ”

"The sun?"

Vana raised her hand and pointed to the sky: "It wasn't supposed to be like this, the sun that shines on this world?" ”

"Oh yes, the sun, I almost forgot, it's the sun......"

The giant muttered softly, with a sigh in his tone that Vana did not understand, and then he raised his hand and groped through his tattered robes, as if at last he had found something in the deepest part of his clothes, and then took it out and placed it in front of Vanna.

"The sun is here."

The giant said gently.

Vanna stared at him dumbfounded, at what he showed herself, at the ...... who was lying quietly in the palm of the giant's hand, as if it were the size of her own fist

Radiant Sphere.

It radiated a bright glow, and a little bit of temperature, and it seemed to float there, floating in a dimension parallel to reality.

So ...... Small and calming.

"It fell," the giant continued, looking at Vana calmly, "I picked it up. ”

(End of chapter)