Chapter 1806: Chapter 1805: Character Card ’Circular City
"That looks like Dawn City." Sett lifted his head, gazing at the reflection above.
"This scene seems somewhat familiar," on the other side, Christos slightly furrowed his brow and said hoarsely.
"That guy seems to be trying some kind of ’Ascension’!?" At this moment, a deep voice sounded in everyone’s ears.
Christos turned back, looking to his side, and only saw Viktor emerging from the purple mist.
Viktor took out a small exoskeleton frame and handed it to Smith, who quickly affixed it to his body, regaining the ability to move.
Selena also released her hand from supporting Smith.
At this moment, Christos also turned his gaze forward, looking in the direction of the gigantic ’Gate of the Underworld’.
Before that magnificent gate, Dest’s body had already become twisted and horrific, wrapped in fierce flames burning him into a fiery bone structure.
However, the bones twisted entirely in shape, seemingly with eight or nine arms, seven or eight legs, but these arms and leg bones quickly contracted inward, disappearing from his body.
No matter how it changed, the skeletal hands tightly clutched the illusory badge, with surging purple brilliance pouring forth like a river flowing into his skeletal body.
The skeleton fiercely twisted and changed, even interrupting the fierce words just spoken, as the entire figure writhed and struggled, allowing the body to continually expand, contract, and expand again.
The void’s flames fluctuated intensely at a high frequency, as if in painful roars and howls.
And behind this gigantic skeleton, layer upon layer of illusions slowly emerged.
These seemed to be entirely different flame-consumed skeletons, illusorily standing behind the gigantic twisted skeleton, floating aimlessly as though they lost their senses.
The overlapping phantom of these skeletons, akin to the spread feathers of a peacock, densely adhered to the twisted skeleton, releasing fearsome power.
The entire space-time, along with the dense mist, slightly distorted and changed in the trembling, even affecting the solidification process of the Gate of the Underworld slightly.
"It doesn’t look like Ascension," at this moment, Selena lifted her head, looking at the sky’s skeleton, observing its twisted change, she whispered, "He seems forcibly ’absorbing’ things he holds?"
With her words, all eyes instantly turned towards the skeletal figure clutching the illusory badge.
No matter how they adjusted their gaze, they couldn’t discern the exact form of the illusory badge.
"The thing seems unclear." Sett murmured.
"Perhaps that’s not its core," Viktor, hearing Selena’s words, pondered, "That thing likely hides deeper, cannot be peeped, seen, or carried, at its core."
"What do you mean?" Christos realized something, looking at Viktor.
"The badge in his hand is likely an Angel-level item." Viktor spoke softly.
"He’s trying to absorb an Angel-level item?" Christos regained his senses, gazing skyward.
"So what does it mean?" Sett wondered, "Is it him trying to ascend to Angel?"
"Not Ascension," Viktor shook his head, softly saying, "He should be trying to absorb that Angel-level item, using some special ritual and method to merge himself and that item, thereby controlling Angel-level power."
"What’s the difference from Ascension?" Sett quickly asked.
"Ascension maintains reason, absorption does not," Viktor calmly said, "Seeing his current state, he’s controlled by the Angel-level item, just a matter of brief time."
Selena glanced at Viktor, refraining from speaking. Since Viktor emerged, she maintained some distance from him.
"Anyhow, this signifies an Angel-level existence briefly appearing above Dawn City," Smith stood up, looking skyward, "Moreover, it’s a malevolent Angel-level existence towards us."
He turned, looking at Christos, "Can you contact the Legion Commander?"
"No," Christos shook his head, "I’ve tried many times. Given Dawn City’s current situation, if the Legion Commander could return, he should have returned already."
"But he hasn’t returned." Sett spoke hoarsely.
"Perhaps it’s Ains’ Angel blocking him." Selena frowned slightly, gazing at the surrounding dense mist, "I just received news from Ains, they too have similar dense mist appearing, though without such a massive Gate of the Underworld."
"Even Ains has it?" Christos sounded surprised.
"Yes, and it may already cover all of Ains," Selena nodded slightly, turning to look at the surrounding mist, at its edge faintly flashing light points appeared, "Dawn City seems close too."
Christos turned towards the flashing points.
Those seemed to form shapes using some special array.
"The Church of the Grim Reaper also laid the array in Dawn City," he sighed, "Looks like they’ve been preparing for years."
"If the Legion Commander were in Dawn City, these arrays, regardless of quantity, would be meaningless." Smith rubbed his forehead, sighing.
"The reflection in the sky seems more obvious now," Viktor suddenly said.
Everyone lifted their heads again, looking upwards.
Even though the mist above them was so dense, dense enough that besides the massive Gate of the Underworld, they could hardly see anything in the sky, not even the sky itself.
Yet, they could see the reflection in the sky, its clarity growing as if that reflection hung in the sky was swiftly ’descending’, approaching them.
"The inverted Dawn City." At this moment, Selena watched the suspended city, whispering something faintly remembered.
"Scenes like this appeared before," Sett said softly, "During a previous attack on the Glorious Palace, Sot saved us."
"Has Sot returned?" Smith was somewhat surprised, looking skywards, "Is he not dead?"
"It’s Him." Christos gazing at the sky’s reflection, said hoarsely.
He was somewhat surprised, yet not entirely.
Selena gazed at the sky, her eyes slightly falling, seemingly recalling something.
Boom—
At this moment, a thunderous and twisted sound erupted fiercely from beneath the sky, the dense mist instantly boiled like a rapid tremor.
At this moment, space-time distorted, drawing everyone’s gaze again upwards.
The fading brilliance of the Gate of the Underworld finally revealed its complete form, at this instant, the trembling space-time could no longer affect this ancient and majestic door.
Ancient and twisted pressure rang in people’s hearts.
Everyone watched the door’s intricate patterns, as if gazing at an ancient tombstone.
Splash, splash—
Crisp water sounds echoed within the mist, initially hiding within intense raindrops, then enlarging, ultimately drowning out the rain sound.
A river was traversing from the sky, emerging from the mist.
Instinctively, people lifted their heads, following the water sound.
No one saw the river’s form, yet all knew, right beside them, within this mist, a river existed.
That is the boundary between life and death, the dividing line between the realm of the living and the realm of the dead.
Ah~~
Ancient and distant songs arose in the mist, piercing through the thick haze, like guiding birds, entwined at everyone’s ear.
The once noisy crowd was now completely silent, regardless of fear or wonder, people calmed their minds and listened to the distant song.
The song seemed like a mother’s hand, brushing across their faces, sweeping over their bodies, and caressing their souls.
The agitated found peace at this moment, the cunning paused their thoughts, the wise abandoned their laborious thoughts, the blind returned to their sincere heart.
It was a mother’s song, bringing everything back to eternal tranquility, returning to the chaos before the birth of life.
In the past and future of life, there is only death.
People closed their eyes and slowly moved forward to the rhythm of the song.
The sound of water in the void became clearer.
Boom——
At this moment, a thunderclap streaked across the sky, with a roaring sound, awakening the slumbering souls.
Selena suddenly awoke from the serene ’dream’.
She instinctively raised her head and looked ahead; a gigantic skeleton was standing in front of that ancient gate at this moment.
The skeleton’s body was slightly smaller than the gate, with several slender arms extending from its back, sometimes spreading out behind it like an opened umbrella or a peacock displaying its feathers, and sometimes gathering together as if it only had two arms.
Fiery flames engulfed the skeleton’s body, with roaring fire illuminating the surrounding thick mist.
And in front of this huge flame-wrapped skeleton, countless silhouettes, like lost souls, were slowly moving forward, heading towards the flames beneath the skeleton.
Selena turned her head and happened to see Sett beside her, who was slowly moving forward; she hurriedly reached out and pulled Christos.
She looked into Christos’s pupils and only saw a pair of dilated eyes.
"Sett Deputy Mayor?" she quickly called out.
But Sett seemed not to hear her voice, continuing to move forward with a blank expression.
And at this moment, another hand in the crowd reached out and pulled Sett.
It was Christos.
Christos raised his head and looked at Selena, "You woke up too?"
"That fellow absorbed the Angel-level item successfully," Selena quickly said, then suddenly realized something and looked up at the sky, "It was just now, that lightning."
Boom——
And at this moment, a second thunder echoed in the sky.
Sett, who was being pulled by both of them, woke up at this instant.
One silhouette after another awoke at this moment, raising their heads to gaze at the sky.
The gigantic skeleton standing in front of the Gate of the Underworld also raised its head, looking at the sky.
A huge yellow lightning streaked across the firmament, descended into the thick mist.
——Moments before——
In the hazy and twisted purple mist, fragments of a broken city floated slowly.
At the center of these city fragments, beneath a huge statue, a yellow silhouette was slightly suspended.
The world was surprisingly quiet, like a dead silence.
And in this serene dead silence, the luminous figure suspended at the center of the city slowly flickered and opened its eyes.
The dense brilliance gathered on its body.
Almost at the blink of the illumined moment, a turbulent yellow radiance surged through the entire ruined city and barren land.
In an instant, it coated the entire city in a layer of fierce yellow brilliance.
And then this brilliance, without hesitation, rushed towards the body that shimmered yellow.
But upon touching that body, the yellow radiance slightly paused.
It seemed to have perceived some intangible ’force’ entwined on the body of this yellow radiance.
In the moment of the yellow radiance’s pause, the purple mist enveloping the city suddenly boiled.
The fog whirled up, a vague purple humanoid form tore through the void, descending upon this piece of city.
The purple figure directly reached out and grasped towards the yellow silhouette below.
At this moment, the yellow radiance of the whole city suddenly grew restless, seemingly enraged by the purple figure’s abrupt ’snatching’ of the prey.
Turbulent yellow brilliance surged forth instantaneously, confronting the purple figure.
But the purple figure seemingly ignored this, directly extending its hand, slicing open the shield of yellow brilliance, appearing below.
The surging yellow brilliance seemed unprepared for the purple figure to bring so much force, it wrapped around the radiant humanoid below and without hesitation, rushed forward, enveloping the purple figure.
And in the moment of their struggle, behind the purple mist, strands of orange radiance spread across the sky.
This orange radiance descended from the sky like a sharp sword, cutting through the yellow brilliance wrap, reaching the luminous humanoid in front.
And when it touched the illuminated humanoid, ready to carry it away, the orange radiance slightly paused.
At that instant, the luminous figure suddenly leapt, through the opened gap of orange brilliance, jumping downwards.
The gigantic city subtly trembled, seemingly helping the radiant humanoid.
And as the radiant humanoid was falling, its body solidified into the form of ’Suote’.
He turned back, looking at the sky of this city.
Above the sky, after the departure of the orange brilliance and purple mist, a gray eyeball sun quietly suspended there.
It silently watched everything below, but did not make any movements, quietly observing.
In the next moment, the luminous ’Suote’ sliced through time and space.
Two thunderclaps, with a yellow lightning, piercing through thick mist, descended upon the earth.
