Although it was already late at night in Huntington City, the vampire Mr. Bernhardt was still holding a wine glass and standing on the second-floor terrace of his manor, watching the black clouds covering the falling snow clouds at a speed visible to the naked eye.
His keen sense made him vaguely aware of the truth represented by the black cloud, and the slight trembling on the ground indicated that something big was about to happen next. He looked at the ripples on the red liquid surface in the wine glass in his hand, closed his eyes and prayed softly
.
It was already dark in Tobesk City, but Tifa and Luvia still hadn't rested. Little Mia was sleeping on the sofa next to Luvia, and at the same time the diffuse "click" sound sounded in the swamp.
, the cat suddenly opened its eyes.
Luvia then turned to look to the southwest. In Tifa's confused look, she reached out and pressed her chest:
"Shadow."
Although Shade delayed and even defeated the "Chosen One of Knowledge and Wisdom", when the starry sky reached the correct position, the evil things in Pantanal still followed the instructions of Luvia of Tobesk and the vampire prophet of Huntington City.
Just as Mr. Johnson predicted, he broke free from the seal and returned to the material world. The shattering of the seal core of the entire Everglades also means that other subspace evils that were sealed throughout the Everglades will also return to the real world.
Corpses with mushrooms on their backs were running in the swamp, and blood-colored and gray-green vines flowed like long snakes from the feet of the high-ring warlocks fighting in the air. The firelight dyed the swamp red with the Pantanal Lake as the center.
The core area of the Great Swamp, and a green barrier invisible to ordinary people is rising from the edge of the Everglades.
The Orthodox Church has begun preparing magical rituals for the worst case scenario, at least to ensure that evil things will not break through the Pantanal region.
On the top of the lighthouse on the island in the center of the lake where the wind and snow were swaying, Sister Devlin's gray hair on her forehead was already soaked with sweat as her palms were pointed at the large kerosene lamp in the center. In the Stonehenge under the tower, excessive weakness almost caused Shade to
Unsteady standing.
He wanted to say something else, but the violently shaking ground forced people to look around. Amidst loud noises, cracks clearly appeared on the surface of the island. As the earth shook violently, dense ravines seemed to lead straight to the underground abyss.
A loud sound echoed throughout the island.
At the bottom of the ravine, a penetrating red light emerged, and denser thick gray-green tentacles crawled out along the stone wall. All of this was exactly what the vampire soothsayer said.
"careful!"
Ground cracks also appeared under the lighthouse in the northeastern part of the island. The light from the top of the lighthouse forced the cracks to stop, but they still penetrated Stonehenge.
Without anyone expecting it, thick tentacles shot out from the cracks in the ground like a swarm of snakes, sweeping towards the three people in Stonehenge. But with the light of the dark golden scales and the sword light of the [Night Watch], that
The group of tentacles was swept away, but there was still one tentacle that wrapped around the right leg of Lykins Prisha, who was weakly lying on the ground, and dragged him underground.
At this time, no one cared about Lykins Prisha's life or death. The high-level warlocks who could reach here took off one after another, preparing to face the final battle that was about to begin.
Sister Devlin at the top of the lighthouse is also ready for battle at this moment. Even if she fails to burn the evil thing in the worst case, she is willing to sacrifice herself to trap the evil thing on this island forever and trap it.
Once again exiled from the material world.
People tacitly agreed not to talk to the God Caller who was suspected of becoming the "Chosen One of Knowledge and Wisdom" by unknown means. The heavy fog that flowed to the ground during the cracking of the earth also completely obscured the witches' understanding of Stonehenge.
The perception of what is happening in the center.
At this time, Iluna had already stumbled towards Shade and hugged him as he fell beside the bonfire in the center of Stonehenge:
"Shad, Shad!"
She shouted a few times in panic, then raised her head and looked around. Deep in the thick fog, densely packed giant tentacles stood and squirmed like pillars supporting the sky. In just a few minutes, she at least heard
The words of the fifth sublimation of the thirteen-ring warlocks.
The traces of chaotic elements seriously confuse perception. This doomsday-like scene in the snowstorm is a result that Iluna did not expect:
"We have obviously defeated the chosen ones, but..."
"It's okay. This scene is destined to happen, I know it."
Shade struggled to open his eyes and held Iluna's right hand. He now felt that every part of his body was urging him to sleep immediately:
"Don't worry, I will always be prepared for anything I do."
The overflowing state of divinity was about to completely subside. Shade tried his best to open his eyes wide and look into the eyes of Iluna who was holding him:
"Do you believe me?"
"certainly!"
The seventeen-year-old girl nodded quickly.
"Luvia's dream made me guess a lot of things; the vampire's prophecy also said that this is the first step to the end. How could I not be prepared? Iluna, retreat outside Stonehenge, I want to use this
Ancient ritual arrays enhance my words of ascension. Remember, protect yourself."
The vibrations on the ground seemed to never stop. Smoke, black snow, explosions, fires, and apocalyptic scenes had surrounded everything living here. The girl with long brown hair tried hard to control the urge to cry. She always felt that Shade was now
Existence is so vague, as if it is about to leave in the next moment:
"You'll always be here, right?"
"Don't worry, our story is not over yet. Are you ready to give me a New Year's gift? I can hardly keep my eyes open."
Iluna endured the endless worries in her heart, helped Shade up, and asked him to stand up while holding the [Night Watcher] pierced into the ground, while she ran towards the outskirts of Stonehenge:
"As promised, you have to accept my New Year's Day gift alone!"
Probably because the thirteen boulders from ancient times are still exerting their power, there is only one crack in the ground that penetrates the Stonehenge ground, and it has been closed. Iluna rode her skeleton horse into the air, watching the thick mist completely destroy the boulders.
Surrounded by the formation, she could only see the thirteen bonfires in Stonehenge and the black shadows of the stone pillars.
Shade, who struggled to stand by the central bonfire, straightened up with his sword in his hand. The voice of "her" in his ear made his consciousness slightly clearer:
[Since you are prepared to face this scene in advance, do you need to use divinity? 】
"No, only to deal with gods does one need to use divinity."
He made a request in his heart:
"I don't want to see some purple-eyed fortune teller crying and cooperating with me, so I want to forcefully use the word of sublimation."
He could no longer distinguish whether the strange and terrifying visions that appeared in the thick fog and firelight in the dark night, as well as the buzzing in his ears, were real or his own hallucinations before he was about to fall into coma:
"help me."
[Forcibly using the words of sublimation requires paying a price. 】
"I understand, but no matter what, I can't make that so-called prophecy come true. Otherwise, what's the point of me coming here?"
In the thick fog, a circular black shadow appeared behind Shade. Amidst the sound of whistles and bells, the shadow moved from far to near, and the life ring was suspended behind him:
"Doctor Schneider said that forcibly using the language of sublimation requires the cooperation of the 'other self'. Moreover, the final power of divinity overflowing, coupled with this Stonehenge. Come on."
In a daze, he heard a sigh from the sky. Shade, whose spirit was completely in decline, was forced to kneel on the ground on one knee, trying to maintain his final consciousness.
He heard the sound of the bell. It was not the sound of the bell when the life ring appeared, but the sound of the bell that came from higher and farther away, from the other end of time. Finally, he was sure that the sourceless bell actually came from
himself.
The night was already deep, and the blizzard was shaking on the island like a doomsday scene, flying between the tentacles and the ring wizards in the sky.
Dang! Dang! Dang!
The bells that rang again and again were finally heard clearly by everyone, but no one could confirm the source of the bells like Shade.
Only Iluna, who was worried about Shade above the Stonehenge, saw the shadow of the giant tree rising from the Stonehenge, and saw the thirteen stone pillars shining at the same time. This time it was the same as the one used by Lykins Prisha just now.
Time is different, and the runes on each stone pillar light up at the same time. The leaf-shaped runes are responding to the great power that belongs only to time.
"Echoes of Time and Space"
A soft murmur came from Shade's mouth. He felt another existence appear behind him, but he had no way of knowing what exactly appeared behind him.
He felt a gentle body appear behind him. The body was back to back with him, and the life rings emitting the ultimate spiritual light were suspended above their heads.
Never before, even when using divinity, had he so clearly perceived the "other me" and the existence of "her". At this moment, "she" was behind him, and he
You can even feel the touch of the long hair brushing your neck, and you can even see the blurred reflection of the silver figure on the shining silver sword in front of you:
"Shaking, sleeping."
The five wise men's pyroxenes embedded in [Aiken'Aura - Arrow of the Chosen] shone brightly, and the turbulent passive bells had spread from the island in the middle of the lake to the entire swamp.
During the sound of the bell, the snowflakes fluttering in the strong wind appeared to have a strange lag every ten seconds. And the dark night was also inexplicably cast a layer of gray during the sound of the bell.
"strength."
He finished reciting his words of sublimation, feeling sleepy in his heart, but he never heard any words from "her" behind him.
However, he felt the great sleeping powers and the traces of the departed gods, but he could not wake up any of the sleeping gods.
"I"
He no longer had the strength to do anything, and even his hands could no longer hold the hilt of the sword tightly, and his body inevitably fell towards the fire.
At this time, gentle hands supported Shade's body from behind. He felt the body behind him hugging him from behind, allowing him to stand up. When he tried his best to open his eyes, he seemed to see silver translucent arms.
, and then circled in front of him:
[My dear stranger, it is not the gods of the past you are trying to awaken.]
"What is it."
A chuckle, as if the soft moonlight shone on me again. The original sleepiness was gradually disappearing. The sound echoed from the island in the middle of the lake to the Great Swamp, from the Great Swamp to the west of the Old Continent, and from the west of the Old Continent.
To the bells of the entire material world, Xia De gave the answer in his heart:
【Those people you/I have been attached to in time.】