The darkness was churning violently, and a hint of rancid smell could be smelled in it.

When the last rays of the moon's light disappeared below the horizon, a tidal darkness immediately invaded all parts of the city. They were viscous as oil, flowing freely through the deserted streets, mercilessly swallowing the qiē they touched.

The heaps of ash deposited on the ruins seemed to melt into the darkness, and the gray and white colors that covered the ground disappeared little by little, replaced by the endless darkness. The glimmer of light that had been lit earlier had been swallowed in an instant, and only a few points of light like fireflies flickered in the darkness.

Beneath the top floor of the stone tower, illuminated by the glow of magic, the staircase the two had previously walked through was obscured by shadows, and the only sound of machinery in the space where they could not see their fingers could be seen. The rotten mechanisms were driven by the power to work again, but the rough sound was unsettling.

Looking down, the stone tablets left in the darkness still have a little brilliance. They moved very slowly under the dull metallic sounds around them, like dying people trapped in the mire, struggling in vain, as if trying to break free from the darkness.

As the stele moved, the strange words engraved on the stone flickered one after another, and the patterns of the seemingly strange patterns also depicted a wonderful trajectory. Faint white light gradually appeared on the stone tablets, but compared to the heavy black around them, these lights seemed so weak.

"A dawn where you can't see the sun...... I guess that's why that guy made us speed up. Lizzie looked in the opposite direction of the moon setting, where there was only a thick dark shadow. "I really didn't expect such a 'world' - or was it man-made?"

With a slight movement of her fingers, the refined magic power in her body immediately flowed back into her body after constructing a rigorous Rubik's Cube. In an instant, Liqi's eyes flashed with a circle of blue-white magic, and the godless eyes looked like a gloomy ghost fire burned in them.

Dark vision, which is a spell that uses magic to correct the light information that the eye can capture, allowing the caster's eyes to see through the darkness for a period of time. The only thing you see is monotonous black and white, but that's basically enough.

So Lizzie saw it clearly. Those who live in the thick darkness recheck the ghosts: "And those things...... I guess that's what he said, 'There are no burned-out embers', right? But this feeling of reality - I'm afraid it's more dangerous than ghasts. ”

If you look closely, those beings who look like phantoms are giants staggering and moving. There's a thick sludge flowing from their massive bodies - no, I'm afraid it's become a part of their bodies. As they walk, muddy bubbles continue to bubble.

It's like the statue you saw on the central platform before. They are of an unusually human size. Even if Curt was on tiptoe, he would probably only be able to reach their ankles. On that muddy body, the stinking sludge continued to be swallowed from the strange cowering head.

Covered in dark filth...... Or rather. Engulfed in darkness, I am afraid that the souls in the bodies of these giants have been dyed black, so that only dregs remain. They wandered blankly through the ruined homes, staggering through the dark streets.

She noticed that most of the people walking the streets were similar in size to the giant statue of the Sun Emblem in the central tower, but they were relatively smaller. They bowed their heads in exhaustion and walked around the city with heavy steps, leaving a sticky smudge wherever they went.

The giants with mutations in all parts of their bodies looked like soldiers, and the twisted limbs counted as their weapons and shields. Even though they, like all the giants, were now all looking lost and dejected, they were still able to form a neat queue.

However, they are not idle, but mechanically repeating some seemingly ritual process. These wandering giants moved slowly, and when they came into contact with their oncoming compatriots, they did not hesitate to wave their weapons and smash them at the opposite giants.

In an instant, the black sludge that had accumulated on the giant's body splattered everywhere under the head-on blow, and then gradually merged with the darkness.

The struck giant raised its head and let out a silent wail at the sky, and it took two swift steps forward, grabbing its attacker by the throat with its mud-stained hands. It exerts constant pressure, with great force enough to break any slightly slender tree in two.

Puff -

The pinched part broke like styrofoam, spewing a massive amount of sludge from the inside of the shrunken skull. The darkness stained the murderer's cheeks, and then corroded his face into a torn outline—a stain of filth in its already distorted features.

Giants fight each other, and the neatly lined "soldiers" also line up and fight fiercely with similarly dressed enemies. The weapons kept swinging, and there were always a few giants who held the rank of soldiers falling to the ground...... However, it didn't take long for them to melt into the ground.

What was supposed to be a life-and-death struggle turned out to be a farce, with the fallen giants melting into muddy sludge and the reinforcements that followed kept repeating the same ending. They emerge from the darkness and return to the darkness when they "die".

"These giants...... I guess they were all once inhabitants of this world. ”

Sharing what he saw from Lizzie's vision, Curt said as if sighing, "I once built a great city and boasted of my honor in beautiful words. And yet now...... They are embers consumed by darkness and unable to even become the walking dead. ”

The slaughter continued, and the stiff giants fought each other without hesitation, their hands and bodies covered in slimy black sludge. As each giant fell, the darkness around them grew thicker, as if it had absorbed flesh and turned into fertile soil.

It may have been the product of some failed spell, the filthy black mud that had eaten away at the giants' bodies and polluted their souls at the same time. By the time the last giant became a member of the black mud, the entire city had already fallen—perhaps the nearby lands that had been destroyed.

Not a single grass grows, and all that remains is the endless gray wasteland—not a trace of life, and even the vigorous weeds have turned into crystals that shatter at the slightest touch. They were assimilated by the darkness that came from all directions, and they took on a strange appearance just like the giants.

But this is not the end, when everything that can move is returned to the sludge, like a liquid darkness once again a series of churning blisters. It was as if some strange creature was hiding in the thick darkness, and it was coming out of it step by step.

Sticky upper arms, followed by thick arms...... In an instant, another giant crawled out of the darkness, followed by countless similar bodies. At the same time, a sludge giant similar to him crawled out of the sludge directly opposite him.

The previous scene was played out again, and the giant who had "resurrected" from the black mud rushed directly to the enemy who appeared on the opposite side, regardless of the three-seven-twenty-one. It swung its fist the size of a battering ram and slammed it into the enemy, sending the foes that had not yet recovered their shape back into the black mud once again.

Constantly getting up, being knocked down, melting into the mud, and getting up from the darkness again...... Their fates repeat themselves in an infinite loop like an Ouroboros. The giants have no objection to this act, but simply and mechanically repeat the process again and again.

"Indeed, their life force has been swallowed up by the black mud, and I can't even sense if there is still a little life force left in their bodies. Lizzie closed her eyes and tried to sense the giants' souls further, "Not only that, but their souls have also deteriorated quite strictly. ”

There was no magic and no soul vibration, and no matter what way Lizzie tried to sense them, all she could get was a hollow echo. Those giants wandering in the streets are like phantoms one after another, which can only be watched from a distance, and the slightest touch is wishful thinking.

If it was a vicious spell that Lizzie had never seen before, she could only say that there was nothing she could do about it. She couldn't feel the flow of magic, except for the boy and the two of them in the central tower in the distance, the magic of the entire city had dried up.

Maybe it was based on some principle she didn't know, after all, this was a "foreign" land, and she knew almost nothing about the world. No one knows exactly how many worlds there are, and studying summoning spells can only give people a little bit of access to the world around them.

Attempts to extrapolate the unknown with common sense end up with only biased personal thoughts that may be close to the facts, but they cannot be asserted by facts.

The qiē of the world is organized into countless pieces of information, and understanding their existence is the basic skill of every spell researcher. Even the most brilliant magicians would not dare to claim to have traveled all over the world, let alone a foreign land far from their homeland.

The muddy sludge spread silently, and the cycle of death and life continued to play out on the streets with it. The meaningless actions of the giants continue indefinitely, but they lack souls, let alone despair, and I am afraid that even the emptiness of battle can hardly be felt.

"Leave them alone. ”

Liqi looked at the structure that had begun to operate steadily, hugged her chest and said, "We really don't know much about this place, and the longer it drags on, the worse it will be for us." Now that the crystals of this tower have been placed as required, let's rush to the next location as soon as possible. ”

-- even though it means rushing into the streets that have been swallowed up by the turbidity current. (To be continued!)

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