Wendell is a light seeker and may be the last light seeker. As a person who searches for the remaining light in the nine kingdoms, his age is far beyond the requirements. His body is too old and his spirit is dispirited.
, every part of his body kept reminding him that he was completely unfit to participate in this expedition, and that if he insisted on going his own way, he would only end up dying in a foreign land.
However, he still resolutely left the warm and comfortable Twilight City and embarked on this journey of no return.
And it is the second time to set off.
Wendell once challenged a light-seeking journey. At that time, he was traveling with twenty-eight companions, half of whom died of fatal diseases eroded by magic energy due to carelessness shortly after passing the first rainbow bridge.
The remaining people died one after another in the deadly poisonous fog of Niflheim. The entire army was nearly wiped out shortly after the light-seeking trip. In the end, Wendell and the only remaining teammate in the team dragged him away.
He barely managed to escape back to the Twilight City with his broken body, but the only teammate died miserably from nightmares and throbbing pains on the third day after returning home.
But our ancestors took pity on him and Wendell survived and is still living in good health to this day.
Ever since the sky and the earth collapsed, the light disappeared, and the world has been shrouded in scorching darkness. Hundreds of light seekers have embarked on a journey in the long night. They dive into the darkness and search for survivors after the apocalypse in the devastated wreckage of the world.
The dim light remains, but no one has ever brought back real good news. Most of the light seekers, like Wendell's friends, have become rotting corpses in the twisted wasteland. It is difficult to even preserve the whole body.
A very small number of light seekers are lucky ones like Wendell. They escape back to the shelter in embarrassment before being completely swallowed by the darkness, and for the rest of their short lives, they tremble to tell others about the fatality in the darkness.
Shadows and excruciating magic radiation. No one would laugh at those light seekers who were frightened and fled back. Because just stepping out of the Twilight City requires great courage, and it takes a lot of courage to experience it in the long night.
People who explore and come back alive. Their survival itself is already a great achievement worthy of praise.
Among all these light seekers, Wendell was the only one who returned from the night alive and set out on the journey again.
Some people said that he was a madman, while others praised his courage and thought that his almost irrational challenging spirit was comparable to those of the Enhelians in ancient times. However, Wendell dismissed all these comments and set out on his journey.
There is only one reason for the journey, and that is to fulfill a promise he made to his wife when he was young: to find the remaining glimmer of light in the long night.
So when he realized that he had only one challenge left in the rest of his life, and that there would probably never be a new team of light seekers set out in the Twilight City. He took the initiative to sign up for the last expedition team, and while others
With a mad look in his eyes, he set out with the blessed talisman.
This last team set out from the Twilight City, with only twelve members, the smallest lightseeker expedition in history. They followed the routes left by their predecessors, traveling through the ruins of the Nine Kingdoms, and tried their best to
Search for life and signs that the long night is about to recede.
However, no matter where they go, all they can find is the rotten and twisted earth and the air filled with magic energy. The remaining branches of Yggdrasil are growing interspersed among these terrible world wreckage, but there is no elven spring anymore.
These branches are flowing down. Just as it is said in the Doomsday Book: The branches of the World Tree have become diseased and dying. The nine kingdoms have collapsed, the entire universe has been extinguished, and the surviving human beings cannot reverse their fate.
Teammates fell one by one, and the strongest Bonem was radiated to death because he accidentally dropped the amulet. The brave Andrew fell into the depths of the cracks in the earth, and Helena also died. After crossing the Jotunheim rainbow,
When she was crossing the bridge, she disappeared into the gate. But she never appeared from the other side of the gate: the space storm swallowed her up. In the end, only Wendell and Tanarossa were left in the team, but Tanarossa did not survive today.
"Maybe I can't survive it." Wendell huddled in his small camp. His old body was wrapped in leather, and he felt that his heart was being burned by flames. But there was a biting coldness on his skin,
This was a sign that magic energy had invaded the nervous system. He felt a little ironic: the person who made it to the last step in the team was actually himself, and those who were younger, more flexible, and stronger than him all died before him.
Perhaps the experience brought by participating in a light-seeking trip and his adaptability to magic energy allowed him to live a few more days, but that was it.
Another wave of coldness spread, and Wendell subconsciously wrapped himself in leather. He looked at his threaded cane and the compass hanging on the cane. The pointer on the compass was spinning crazily, and the threaded cane was full of cracks. He knew that he
Lost, lost soon after burying Tanarossa, which made him a little regretful: if it weren't for this last obstacle, maybe he still had hope to reach Asgard, although he was sure that even if he reached Asgard
De will also die of radiation sickness in a short period of time, but he can at least see the legendary country with his own eyes and confirm the fact that supported him all the way here:
Did Asgard survive?
Wendell took out the blackened parchment from his arms with difficulty. There was only one scrawled sentence on the parchment:
"...Asgard...there is light."
This piece of paper was found by his team when they passed through Wat Alheim, and was firmly protected on the chest by a mummy wearing the equipment of a light seeker. Tanarossa believed that the light seeker was the one from a hundred years ago.
Members of an expedition team that was completely wiped out: The group of light seekers that set out a hundred years ago was considered to be the elite division most likely to successfully search all kingdoms in history. The Twilight City almost gave up all its last hopes.
However, no one in this team survived, which indirectly led to the end of this special group of "Lightseekers".
Based on the contents of the note, Tanarosa speculated that the light seekers who disappeared a hundred years ago successfully arrived in Asgard, the last remnant of the Nine Kingdoms, and found evidence of survival there. However, this
The team failed to bring the good news back to the Twilight City alive.
It was the content of this note that made Wendell persist until this moment. He no longer expected to return to the Twilight City. He only hoped to at least see Asgard, even if he had to crawl over, he would be fine.
Regret in this life.
However, it seems that regret will eventually turn into regret.
Another phantom cold hit from all directions, and Wendell felt that his mind was gradually sinking into the bottomless abyss. He tried to wrap himself in leather again, but this time he couldn't even control the movements of his fingers.
As his eyelids gradually grew heavy, he felt as if he had returned to the Twilight City, back to that narrow city covered by a light yellow film, filled with the smell of engine oil, and filled with steam and smoke. His little
The workshop appeared in front of him again, and his dear Sasha also came to life. She stood at the door of the workshop, wearing an old apron, looking here with a sad face.
He struggled to reach out, but felt that his field of vision gradually narrowed and darkened, and finally, everything was far away.
However, at the last second before he completely sank into darkness, a glimmer of light appeared in the distance.
A detection probe found the lost person, and Hao Ren and his party finally arrived at the other party before it was too late.
They found this inconspicuous little camp in the wilderness, hundreds of kilometers away from the Rainbow Bridge. There was only one old man in the small camp who was wrapped in old leather, stooped and weak. The old man was suffering from a high fever at the time, and his skin was swollen.
The normal bluish-white luster and weak breathing seemed to disappear at any time. The old mage Anthony immediately judged that this was a symptom of serious magic energy erosion.
"He is almost dead," Anthony said while setting up a barrier around the camp to isolate magic energy, "but he is not completely dead yet. Give me some time and I can bring him back from the brink of death."
When the barrier to isolate magic energy was established, the weak and comatose old man's condition immediately stabilized. Although he was far from getting better, he was at least temporarily free from the threat of death. While the old mage was busy setting up various purification circles, Wei
Wei An stepped forward to check on the old man, and she was surprised to find that he was a human being.
Although there are some differences from humans on the earth today, which may be a mutation caused by living in a mutated environment for a long time, this old man is indeed a human being.
"How did he survive in such an environment until now?" Vivian felt incredible.
Galadra searched around the old man and found something that emitted magic waves: "It's probably the effect of this amulet. I just sensed that this thing formed a barrier, continuously filtering the magic energy and poisonous gas in the air.
, but its effectiveness seems to be almost over, and the filtering effect is very poor.”
Hao Ren took the amulet and said casually: "It seems that this is the 'Light Seeker'."
At this moment, with Anthony's full treatment, the dying old man finally recovered and slowly opened his eyes. (To be continued.)