It is not easy to survive.
A magical fortress left in a different space, cut off from the outside world, and internally without any resources sufficient to sustain long-term survival - the storm caused by the magic tide destroyed the Stasis Hall , also destroyed the large-scale material warehouse that accompanied it, and in the only remaining structure of the fortress, Kamel and his fellow watchers had to plan carefully for the days ahead.
“We are participants in the ‘Godly Evil’ experiment. Each of us has undergone the final stage of mutation transformation, which allows us to survive longer than ordinary humans. However, insufficient supplies are still a big problem. Problem. We firmly believe that the situation will improve and all problems will be solved one day, but first we have to survive until that day - under the leadership of the Grand Magister, everyone begins to save every resource and begins to repair the fortress. The remaining facilities."
Kamail led Gawain and his party through a series of abandoned areas, which were close to the existing edge of the "fortress". The demonic tide destroyed many things in this area. Shattered rooms and corridors are the most common sight here, but thanks to a powerful magical barrier still in effect, these areas are not unsurvivable.
“We first restored the supply of magic energy—this fortress built in a different space has its own energy circulation system. We can directly draw energy from the external environment to maintain the operation here, and then We repaired most of the damaged interior walls and barriers to prevent dangerous Chaos energy from penetrating, and finally began an attempt to reactivate the magical door to the outside world... an attempt that failed.
"The magic tide changed the operating mechanism of the magic door. It was not damaged, but it could not be activated. We transferred half of the fortress's energy to the magic door, but it could not open even a small crack. , and in the process of continuous attempts and research, our supplies are getting less and less, and the health of each member has begun to deteriorate.
"The demonic tide has not affected us at all. In fact, its influence is everywhere and subtle. As time goes by, everyone's health begins to have problems. Facts have proved that the transformation of the 'gods' has not affected us. We cannot survive forever. Claude Pillin was the first to die. A quick illness caused him to collapse in the laboratory, followed by the eldest son of the Pardini family...
< p>"Some people died in accidents. The Colden family brother and sister were knocked off the platform by a boulder floating in space while trying to repair the barrier. Sirold was killed while repairing the magic focus device. Yes, our number has been decreasing, but there is no hope of leaving here - even if we can release a mage's eye to take a look at the situation in the outside world, but it is a pity that the door is closed and there is no way. Open. "Hetty's eyes were gloomy: "Then... everyone died..."
"Human beings are very fragile creatures, both physically and mentally," Kamel Let out a sigh that vibrates with energy., "We failed to maintain order to the end. In the last few decades, we had a very serious... chaos. The heavy pressure shattered everyone's hopes, and the Grand Magister was unable to maintain it any longer. , right here, most of the people got...'relief'"
Kamail took Gawain to a very open place, which seemed to have been a party hall, but it extended outwards. Half of it has been completely broken, and fragments of the floor, walls, and roof are floating messily in the dark space, while an energy barrier covers the fragmented dividing line.
There are traces of damage caused by rape everywhere.
"After everything was over, the survivors who calmed down realized what a stupid thing they had done. However, everything was irreversible. There were only a dozen people left alive, and they all survived. It won’t be long.”
“We quietly accepted our ending, and in the end, we finally retained the last bit of dignity as an imperial magister.”
Gawain looked at Kamel's energy-filled body: "Then... how did you become like this?"
Kamel was silent for a moment and said slowly: "I am the last one - —I can’t tell whether it’s luck or misfortune, but the transformation I carried out on myself was particularly successful. I became the healthiest and longest-lived person here. Even after everyone died, I showed no signs of weakness.
“I spent more than ten years in a state of confusion, and during this time I placed the remains of all my colleagues, as you can see, letting them sit there as if everyone was still alive... …I think I might be crazy, but I don’t remember what a normal person’s mind is like. Then I wandered around this empty fortress for a few more years, continuing my work - checking the ancient equipment, counting the contents of the warehouse, observing changes in the external environment, leaving records, doing occasional experiments, and occasionally Talk to myself, and occasionally talk to the people sitting in the hall...
"But I am still immortal. My end of life seems far away, and in the process, I discover my spirit The situation was getting worse.
“So, I decided to end my life prematurely—by a method of my own choosing. ”
“The method you chose? Tyr looked at Kamel curiously, "What method will turn you into... like this?" "
"I have said before that this is the place where the White Star fell. The God of Nature fell here three thousand years ago, and this entire 'disobedience' fortress is centered on the 'White Star'. I have paid a lifetime price for this place to build its foundation, so I also decided to end my life with 'Him'——"
Kamail stopped and painted a line The runic separation wall made of some unknown metal blocked everyone's eyes. As Kamel released some kind of spell to activate the rune array on the separation wall, this heavy metal wall immediately opened.It began to vibrate, and as the runes on it lit up one by one, it rose slowly and solemnly in front of everyone.
There is a translucent energy barrier outside the isolation wall, and through that energy barrier, the true situation outside the facility finally appeared before Gawain's eyes.
This is indeed not the Shadow Realm - but it is a weirder and more chaotic place than the Shadow Realm. Countless fragmented boulders are floating in the dark and deep space. These densely packed floating stones are composed of The boundless "earth" in this space has been destroyed, and above this fragmented earth are hovering chaotic clouds that will never dissipate. Strange dark lightnings are raging silently high in the sky. In the chaotic clouds Various indescribable, terrifying and abnormal illusions are outlined in it, and in this chaotic world, there is something that deeply attracts everyone's attention.
It was a huge, hill-like white deer. He was floating among the fragmented boulder floating islands. Countless thick chains bound his limbs, and there was a hazy feeling. A white light shrouded his body. Beside the giant deer, you could also see many broken and floating metal and crystal debris. Those huge metal debris had been severely distorted and deformed, and their shapes were so weird that Hetty could only imagine them. He didn't know what their original appearance and function were, but Gawain vaguely felt that those huge metal debris looked like some kind of flying device when put together - they had tail structures that looked like propellers, and weapons hangers. Frame-like extended bones, these structures are completely incomprehensible to humans in Loren Continent today!
And more importantly - the texture of those metals and crystals is like an eternal stone slab!
Gawain felt his heart pounding, and he heard Kamel’s voice coming from the side: “Look, this is the fallen white star, the natural god that the druids once worshiped— — Giant Deer Amorn! "
"God of Nature!" Hetty finally exclaimed uncontrollably, "Oh my God!"
"Don't worry, the 'barrier' will protect your minds." Kamel seemed to think that Hetty was worried about the consequences of facing the gods directly, so he raised his finger and pointed at the hazy energy barrier outside the metal isolation wall, "This layer The barrier is the most valuable result we found from the wreckage around the god's corpse. We simulated the energy fluctuations of those wreckage and found that the magic power of the same frequency can offset the damage caused by the god's power to the mortal mind. As long as the barrier is still there, you are Safe."
Gawain looked at the translucent energy barrier with shock, and looked at the metal remains around the "Giant Deer Amorn" corpse through the barrier. He never thought that Never before had he come into contact with the secrets of the gods and the relics of those "god-killers" so quickly, and when all of this was truly presented before his eyes, he felt nothing but surprise and shock from the bottom of his heart. ——
This is where the gods fell, this is the fallen gods, this is the killing of the gods.The "weapons"...
The people who built the weapons have left, but their creations remain here, and the "monitoring satellites" they left in this world are still operating today. .
Gawain withdrew his gaze and looked at Kamel not far away: "So, it was the power of the gods that turned you into this?"
"I still can't I am sure that my thoughts at that time had been affected by the gods. Although there was this barrier, after all, I have been here with the corpses of gods for hundreds of years, and my mind cannot be completely normal," Kamel said self-deprecatingly. He said, "I opened the door and entered the unprotected space. I did not carry any protective equipment or activate any protective spells. I walked towards the giant deer and guided its energy into my body, hoping to use it. This method kills myself - then the energy exploded, my body was torn apart by the divine impact, and finally... turned into this."
"You became an energy creature. , and it is even more impossible to die." Gawain wiped away Tyr's saliva beside him and looked up at Kamel, who had been transformed into a life form, "How many years have passed since then?"
"I can't remember clearly. After my life form was transformed, my memory was in an intermittent state," Kamel said helplessly, and raised his finger to point to the armor piece on his chest, "I carved these on myself. , just to remind myself to prevent myself from completely becoming an unconscious monster, but if I hadn’t suddenly met you, I’m afraid it would have been only a matter of time before I became an unconscious monster..."
"When we first met "When you questioned whether we were real," Hetty still remembered what happened at the beginning, "What does that mean?"
"You know, before you showed up, I had already' I saw living people appear in front of me at least seven times," Kamel's voice was filled with bitterness. "I saw someone find this dusty and forgotten fortress, I saw someone open the magic door, I saw Those colleagues who had evacuated back then returned to this place. They came to pick me up and told me that the mission was over... I was having hallucinations, hallucinations again and again. At first I thought it was my mental problem, but then I realized I found that it was the power of the gods that was constantly affecting me - its power would occasionally seep through the barrier and create all kinds of illusions in front of my eyes, so after I saw you, I would wonder if you were phantoms, and if the barrier was out again. The problem..."
Gawain finally figured out what was going on with Kamel's weird behavior at the beginning. He looked at the ancient magister in front of him with emotion, and lamented that the other person's mind could actually It has been maintained to this day - although his own "history" is countless times longer than Kamel's, he knows that it is because his life form has mutated from the beginning, and the man in front of him... He is in the life form Before the transformation, he persisted as a human for hundreds of years!
After a long silence, he breathed a sigh of relief: "Don't worry, we are real."