Another continent hangs upside down from the sky, and the two worlds are destroyed by a "slow collision" beyond her understanding, a surreal "collision" of sorts, not just a physical touch—Lucrecia is vaguely aware of the twist, chaos, and madness that spreads through the forest.

On another occasion, she would have been glad to embark on a long and arduous study of the matter, and to do so by making contact with the scholars of the city-states, and bringing together the minds of the wise men to find out all the secrets of the collision.

But now is clearly not the right time.

The paper folded boat is shaking wildly in a violent impact, like a flat boat caught in a storm, this impact is centered on the collapsing Silandis, wantonly released towards the whole world, and then as if reflected by the "end" of the world, it reverberates between heaven and earth again and again.

In the midst of the violent impact and tearing that far beyond human power could resist, the small paper boat emitted an unsettling tearing noise, and even the mighty "Witch of the Sea" felt that her control over the ship was flying to the limit.

Shirley saw the solemnity in Lucrecia's face at a glance, and suddenly exclaimed loudly while holding Ah Dog's head: "Are we going to fall!! ”

Lucrecia frowned tightly, she didn't answer Shirley's cry, but quickly swept her gaze across the shattered world that was rapidly on the verge of destruction, and then suddenly raised her hand to the distant land: "Let's go and land over there." ”

"Wouldn't that be looking for death!" Shirley suddenly shouted, "Do you think there's still a place on the ground where you can stay?!" ”

"The 'erosion' has stopped, and at this stage it is the flames that are burning everything - nothing but fire, far friendlier than those eeriely distorted shadows." Lucrecia turned her head to look at Shirley, ignoring the latter's reaction, and began to steer the crumbling paper boat towards the less burning part of the forest.

The paper-folded boat broke through the smoke of the forest with Shirley's scream, and walked between the two worlds that had turned into purgatory, the canopy of Sylantis crumbling above their heads, the burning trees and leaves falling from around the boat to the earth like a crumbling nightmare, and the upside-down land was still slowly falling, and now Shirley could almost see the ravines and undulating sand dunes above—

It fell so slowly, as if the process could last forever, but it was so unstoppable that it continued to end, like a slowly approaching doom, shattering everything in the world inch by inch.

Lucrecia steered the boat with all her might, her eyes constantly sweeping the forest, trying to find a relatively "safe" landing site in the purgatory.

A faint flash of light suddenly caught her eye.

In the next second, the boat sped in that direction—so fast that Shirley thought it was a runaway fall—and it flew through the rain of fire that fell from the sky, through the sand that had begun to permeate the heavens and the earth at some point, floating and rolling like a phantom, and rushing straight for the flash of light in the depths of the forest.

The flash of light became clearer.

It was a roughly tapered barrier supported by a light curtain.

Shirley also saw the light curtain, she lay on the edge of the paper boat in amazement, stared down for a long time with wide eyes, and finally recognized the two familiar figures from the barrier: "Ah! It's Nina, and the old man! ”

With Shirley's shouts of surprise, the paper boat carrying her and Lucrecia whizzed across the last distance, finally reaching its limit in the last moment of contact with the ground, where it shattered in the impact and turned into fine dust in the blink of an eye.

Shirley hugged the dog, jumped out in embarrassment at the last moment, and rolled on the ground in a ball of one person and one dog for more than a dozen times before finally stopping in front of the cone-shaped shimmer.

She looked up and saw Nina standing inside the barrier, and Mr. Morris next to her with a shocked expression on his face.

A swirling pile of colored paper landed beside Shirley, and Lucrecia condensed from the paper.

Nina beckoned to them from the barrier.

Shirley and Lucretia glanced at each other, and without hesitation, they stepped into the seemingly fragile "light curtain" that actually blocked the tide of destruction in the forest.

For a moment, it was as if the whole world had fallen silent.

The terrifying noise whistling through the forest became inaudible, the scorching storm that swept across the land was blocked out of the light curtain, the acrid smoke and poisonous mist steaming in the firelight were also kept out, and Shirley even felt a breath of fresh air rushing towards her—she looked down and even saw a few green grasses under her feet, and a small bush beside her.

"Awesome......" she looked up in dismay, looking at Nina and Maurice, "how did you come up with this?" Lucrecia and I have to flee to the sky......"

"It's not us." Nina only shook her head slightly, then turned sideways and raised her hand to point in a direction behind her and Maurice.

Shirley looked there in surprise, and the next second, her eyes widened slightly.

A small tree quietly took root there, rooted in this land that was falling apart.

Her trunk was slender and delicate, and its long branches spread all the way to the sky, and then dangled at the edge of the canopy, swaying gently in the breeze.

With this small tree as the center, a cone-shaped light curtain forms the final safe haven.

In a trance, Shirley seemed to hear a voice-

"Come with me, I'll take you to the Wall of Silence......"

Then, the voice melted into the wind.

"We're here now," Nina turned her head and looked into Shirley's eyes, "Finally, the real Wall of Silence." ”

Shirley was stunned for a moment, and slowly came to the small tree, the branches hanging from the edge of the canopy swept over her shoulders, feeling a little itchy.

She turned her head and looked beyond the thin curtain of light.

The world is collapsing, the majestic canopy of Silandis is gradually bending under the "weight" of another world, disintegrating, collapsing, the forest is burning, the distant earth is lifted by an invisible force, slowly rolling up towards the inverted desert in the sky, the flames seem to have spread to the desert, in the haze, a layer of hazy smoke is emerging on the surface of "that world".

But all the sounds were distant, as if they were coming from another world, like the gentle waves coming from a closed window at dusk.

"yes...... Really quiet. ”

Even Shirley knew that the silence probably wouldn't last long.

But at least for this second, the world that had fallen apart stopped chasing her, even if it was all in the way...... Just a nice layer of bubbles.

What happens next?

Vanna's eyes narrowed slightly in the wind.

She saw that the upside-down world had gradually touched the earth beneath her feet—the first contact was the astonishing "World Tree", whose canopy had now touched the surface, where the giants had last disappeared, and now it had become the "contact point" between the two worlds for the first time, and then the distant mountains, where the mountains in the forest had touched a mountain range at the end of the desert, where there was now a continuous flash of light, as if a storm was brewing that could tear the world apart.

A sea of fire flowed above her head, and she could see the lush world being torn apart in flames—and the desert beneath her feet.

But the "collision" of the two worlds is getting slower and slower, as if some force is forcibly slowing down its progress and intervening in this apocalypse.

Vanna lowered her head and looked at the brilliant ball of light in her hand—tiny flames were flowing on the surface of the sun, and the light that burst out of that flame once shone on a brilliant civilization before the Deep Sea Age.

To this day, the sun is still shining.

She looked up again and looked not far away beside her.

The great cane still stood silently in the dunes, and the sea of fire that hung upside down in the sky shone on its rough body and head like tree trunks and stones, and the light flowed on its rocky surface, and the light and shadow reflected the countless words carved by the giants on it.

In a trance, Vana seemed to read them—she looked at the fine words and symbols on them line by line, as if she heard the giant's deep, gentle voice still whispering in her ear.

“…… Here they learned to use fire.

"Here they discovered the secrets of farming.

"Here, there was a flood – a flood that overflowed the land, bringing death and panic, and then leaving behind fertile ground......

"They learned to build ships......

"They learned to harness the power of thunder......"

Vanna slowly made her way to the cane, looking up at the last blank space at its end.

Now it's not empty there.

At some point, the giant had carved the last line of words there—the god of history, completing his last note on the chronological pillar:

"Tarijin completed his last journey with the Traveler."

Strange breaths and unsettling rustling sounds came from afar, and unusual heat was flowing through the air, condensing invisibly.

Vana turned and looked in a certain direction in her perception.

She saw the streams of light that were converging—the raging fires and distorted shadows of the two worlds colliding, the distorted streams of light burrowed into the place through some kind of "gap", and those streams of light gradually emitted scorching heat and converged into a larger and larger fireball in the sky not far away.

The fireball began to take on a sun-like posture, its edges shaking, spurting flames, and it began to levitate between the two worlds like the sun, unleashing unleashing unsettling waves of pressure and heat—and then, gradually lowering its altitude in the desert, slowly turning its true side towards Vanna.

Countless twisted and piled up tentacles were hidden in the glorious sun's shell, and the non-human eyeballs stared indifferently at the Inquisitor standing by the sand dunes.

"Get on your knees."

The heir of the god said.

(End of chapter)