There was a shadow, a shadow beyond Silandis, that always floated in this vast dark space constructed by Silandis's dreams and memories.

Now, for the first time, Duncan discovered its existence.

"Rahhem's name!" Lune's eyes widened as he looked at the massive structure that finally emerged from above the dark space under the glow of the dark green fire, and exclaimed, "What is that?!" ”

Duncan didn't answer, he just stepped to the window, and stared at the dark structure that seemed to be crushed above Silandis, but frozen for a moment, and after a while, his eyes finally changed slightly, as if he suddenly understood something—

"Great Annihilation...... So that's ......"

……

Corruption and distortion are spreading in the forests, in the land, and throughout the world.

Something intangible is "dipping" into this elven homeland, and where it pervades, the earth squirms and undulates like swollen flesh, endless fangs and eyes open in the shadows, and trees grow and dissolve like flames...... Everything seems to have lost its existing order, and has become something else in a kind of crazy and grotesque nightmarish drastic change.

Shrill and terrifying roars and whistling echoed through the forest and through the vast canopy of Sylantis, reverberating through heaven and earth as if they were about to tear souls apart.

Shirley looked at the earth below in horror, looking at the place that had been lush and lush a moment ago that had turned into an absurd purgatory that even a nightmare could not describe in the blink of an eye, looking at the abyssal maws and the flesh and shadows that were opening in the forest, and subconsciously grasping the bulge on the edge of the "paper boat".

"Is this thing really not going to fall?"

She glanced at the "small boat" made of paper under her feet, and confirmed to the witch lady beside her very uneasily.

Not long ago, when the whole forest suddenly erupted with a terrible "erosion" phenomenon, and there was no way out, Lucrecia took out a piece of paper in front of her, folded a small boat, and pulled her to jump onto the boat - Shirley couldn't understand the principle of this strange "witchcraft" at all, she only knew that the ship was now floating above that terrible land, and the touch of paper from her feet made her breathe.

Even the dog beside him carefully retracted his paws and shrunk into a ball, as if he was afraid of accidentally cutting through the bottom of the paper boat.

"I haven't fallen anyway," said Lucrecia, who had already pulled out more blank paper and skillfully folded more oddly shaped things without raising her head, "If you're too uneasy, close your eyes and pretend you're lying on the couch at home." ”

"How can this be done!" Shirley subconsciously screamed, then let out another exclamation because the boat shook in the wind, and then she noticed the movement of Lucrecia's hand, "What are you still folding?!" ”

"Soldiers, the kind of 'winged flyers' that Ginny Hedaway described in Clouds," Lucrecia said casually, "we need to know what's going on elsewhere, and if we do encounter an enemy, we need to have the fighting power to protect the ship." ”

As she spoke, she threw the folded origami figurines into the air outside the paper boat—several delicate origami figurines spread their wings in the air, and their size quickly became life-like, and they bent in the direction of Lucretia in salute, and then quickly flew off into the distance.

Shirley watched this scene dumbfounded, but just as she opened her mouth to say something, a voice seemed to drill directly into her head, interrupting her communication with Lucrecia: "...... Initially, there was those 'erosions', and at the borders of the world, things began to look weird and terrifying......"

Shirley and Lucretia looked at each other at the same time, and they both heard the voice—a childish-sounding voice that looked like that of a little girl.

It was the voice of Silandis.

The howling wind kicked up more dust, but the storm in the desert dissipated at some point, and only the chaotic dust and mist rose in the field of vision, blurring the vision and distorting the distant scene.

"When the weather just changed, there were warnings from academics, and they called on people to prepare – but what to prepare?"

The giant's voice sounded in the wind and sand, thick and calm, like a stone standing in the wind.

Vanna stood in the endless wind and sand, looking at the "giant tower" in the distance.

She had followed the giant back to the place called the "Archive", to the pit that symbolized the end of civilization, she didn't know why the giant had brought him back here, but she could feel that something earth-shaking was happening—with this "Archive" as the center, something terrible was kicking off.

The sound of something tearing apart suddenly came, and the noise was loud enough to shatter the mountains.

Vana looked up in astonishment, at the great red crack in the sky, at the red light that represented the end—in the blood-colored light, she saw the undulating shadows, the thing that had destroyed the world, and finally began to show a trace of its true face before her eyes—

There was a fire in the forest—without a definite source, as if in a matter of moments, countless trees became flaming torches, and in the blink of an eye the devastating tide began to burn the tree of the world that covered the earth.

Shirley watched in horror as the flames spread across her vision, at everything - the twisted earth, the lush forests, the shadows in the air, the tentacles and flesh that spread between heaven and earth, all enveloped in flames in an instant.

She heard a loud noise, countless creatures screaming in the flames, and she heard a terrible thunderclap, but the thunder did not come from the sky, but the branches of Silandis broke in the flames and twists, and fell to the earth like a continuous peak.

The terrible sight of the paper boat swaying left and right in the roaring heat wave, and the terrible sight of the sky and the earth burning at the same time made Shirley subconsciously curl up in the boat, she looked up at the sky in the curled up, and saw the branches and leaves on the edge of Sylantis break and fall in the sky, burning flames whizzing and falling from the boat, and in the collapse of the canopy, she can finally see the sky as it really is.

A suffocating shadow filled her vision, and she felt as if her heart had stopped beating for a moment.

She heard Sylantis speak in her heart—or perhaps the whole world was telling her about the destruction and death that had taken place eons ago—

“…… Then the sky fell, and the invisible struck our world, slowly...... We can't see it, we can't understand it, we can't think about it...... What about you? Can you see what grows out of the darkness? ”

Vanna's eyes widened as she watched the blood-colored rift in the sky bloom in her vision, tearing apart like some kind of cracked eggshell, and then sinking towards the center in a chilling way, and then, a sea of burning fire slowly crushed down from the torn sky—

"As their 'god', I felt the arrival of 'it' one step ahead of them, I felt that something intangible was approaching our world, I felt the end of history - on the chronological pillar in my hand, a crack appeared, after which everything was no longer recorded, a flame...... Extinguished at the end of my vision. ”

A low, suppressed whistling sound and an eerie creaking sound came from the sky and the earth, as if the world itself was giving its final groan, and Vanna finally understood what she was seeing, and finally understood the "answer" that the giant had been unable to understand.

A tall figure stepped out of the corner of his eye and came to the edge of the crater.

Vanna saw the giant standing there, looking up at the sky.

"Beginning with fire and stones, ending with fire and stones - traveler, I feel it, 'it' again...... You saw it, right? You see better than I do...... Because you come from a different stream of time than I do, you come from after the darkness, and you have a pair of eyes that were born after that, and you can understand it......"

In the paper-folded boat, in Shirley and Lucrecia's vision, the upside-down earth hung lower, and they could finally see the many structures on its surface—

At a certain moment, Shirley felt as if she had seen the mountains and rivers on the upside-down continent, the giant city with stone towering on the mountains and plains, and the huge canals and roads connected by countless lights, and under the lights, countless fertile fields.

But in the next moment, she saw that the land was suddenly desolate, and after some kind of ...... "boiling" vision, the land became full of desert and rubble Gobi.

Another world has been crushed down.

The earth that fell from the sky first touched the canopy of Silandis.

Silently, the final collapse of all things begins with that "point of contact" and spreads to the whole world......

In the increasingly chaotic wind and sand, the giant tower, which symbolizes "the last man in the world", seems to have changed before Vanna's eyes.

It began to shake, it began to crack, and the surface layer of its upper layer, which looked like charred black rock, suddenly cracked, and when it disintegrated, it took on a kind of grayish-white ...... "skin".

The giant tower began to shrink, as if it had turned back in time, it was shrinking little by little, and little by little it was changing back to the appearance of a "human".

An upside-down, burning forest had completely replaced the sky, and another continent had crushed the world, and in that burning forest, Vanna finally saw some of the terrain that her companions had described as they had seen as they had seen in the Dream of the Nameless.

That "tower" finally collapsed.

The whole world recalls this moment of the end of the world, and he also remembers his original appearance in the memory.

He became a man.

A Senjin man with rock-like skin and metallic textures.

His size continued to shrink, and soon, it was going to shrink to the point where Vanna couldn't see it from this distance.

He seemed to be crying out in horror - in the last minute before this great annihilation, this "man" who had been frozen for countless years finally took a step in the flow of time.

"Traveler," came the giant's voice, and the old god in rag robes bent down towards Vanna, thrust the great staff into the ground, and then took the other hand in his bosom and placed something in front of Vanna, "Take it." ”

Vanna looked in amazement at what the giant had handed her.

It was a shining light that was burning quietly in the long river of time...... Sun.

She looked up, but before she could open her mouth to ask, the giant shook his head slightly, "You can take it now—Traveler, I've remembered, I've remembered everything...... Our sun is free, take it away, it should not continue to sink into this dream. ”

Vanna held out her hand a little dazed—the bright ball landed in her palm.

Exudes warm heat.

The giant laughed, slowly straightened up, and turned his head.

"What are you going to do?" Vanna asked behind him, stunned.

"Don't be afraid."

"Wait ......"

"It's okay, traveler, the journey will come to an end, and we'll have to say goodbye to each other someday...... Because Tarijin died, died a long, long time ago.

"Also, the cane is given to you as a souvenir."

The giant didn't look back until the end, he just waved his hand, and then took a step towards the pit.

With each step, his body grew taller.

But with each step, his figure became more unreal.

The ruins of the so-called "Archive" are also gradually disappearing in the footsteps of giants.

The gods who recorded history finally disappeared in the wind and sand, and the last person recorded by history also disappeared in the slow and unstoppable collision of the two worlds-

In this boundless barren and windy sand, Vanna slowly raised her head.

The burning Silandis hangs high above the world.

Now time is the last second of the Great Annihilation.

The world of the Senjin was destroyed by the final collision with Silandis.

(End of chapter)