This is endless darkness. After losing all the light, only those pairs of quietly burning eyes are left here. Watson feels even more stressed. She breathes and feels that time and space are gradually going away.
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"Do you know what's down here?"
The voice came from the front. Seni Lothair seemed to have been here many times. His reaction was much more calm than Watson's. His hand lightly brushed the wall of the well made of holy silver, and he judged the way forward with the faint light.
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"I don't know, I never thought there were stairs here."
Watson replied that the Well of Sublimation has always been an alchemical device within the Demon Hunting Order. Although it is mysterious, it has not been used many times, and no one has thought about what else is hidden under this dark well.
She followed Seine Lothair closely. This darkness seemed to be alive. It was slowly squirming, swallowing the blood and flesh of living people. The demon hunter's pure flame could not burn at all, and the light could only
Illuminate a corner not far in front of you, about two or three steps away.
Watson has a strange premonition that if the light disappears and is swallowed by darkness, something terrible will happen here.
"Remove the magazines and make the material more pure. The beautiful things rise upwards and the dirty things fall downwards..."
Seny Lothair whispered.
"sublimation."
Watson from behind replied.
"That's right, you should also have thought about what is down here, right?"
Watson took a deep breath and answered slowly.
"Those dirty things.
The secret blood is extracted from the well of sublimation. It is sublimated, and the filth that has faded away is thrown into the well."
"Yes, filth, the filth and malice of this world. Since the emergence of the Demon Hunting Order and the beginning of the casting of the Well of Sublimation, the filth has been accumulating in the darkness below. There are more and more of them, even accumulating abnormal amounts.
It turned into some strange living creature."
Seni Lothair suddenly stopped, turned around and looked at Watson behind him.
"The Temple of Stasis is alive."
Watson nodded stiffly as she answered.
"I know this. The secret blood of all demon hunters comes from a certain demon that has been alive since ancient times, and our [gaps] are also connected together by a system called the Heart Network.
This is why we hear commands from the Silver Bolt."
She hadn't experienced such emotions for a long time and continued talking.
"So there is only one conclusion. The 'Stasis Temple' itself is the ancient demon... and now it is in the deepest part of the darkness below, right?"
Seni Lothair nodded. Now that the information is integrated, the mystery will only become clearer, and under the protection of the Well of Sublimation, they don't have to worry about attacks from the Silent Ones for the time being.
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"016, there is another very interesting point in this information. You have noticed it, too. The Silent Ones hunt humans and only hunt those who touch the [truth]. They are protecting this secret."
“The [truth] behind [the border].”
Watson responded in a low voice.
"Then have you ever thought about the meaning of the existence of this Well of Sublimation?"
Seny Lothair gently stroked the ancient patterns on the well wall, his voice filled with doubts and surprise.
"This is a building that is completely beyond the capabilities of modern technology. Even with today's advanced steam technology, we cannot dig out such a building so deep underground, let alone that it is entirely made of holy silver and is spliced together.
There are no cracks.”
After Seny Lothair accidentally entered this place, he returned to explore more than once. Every time he returned, his mind was more violently shocked.
"This is a craft beyond our knowledge. I don't even know where such a huge amount of holy silver comes from."
He retracted his arm and looked at Watson. In the dark abyss, a fishy smell and a bone-chilling cold rose from below.
"With the outbreak of the Holy Night, the entire system of the Demon Hunting Order suffered a devastating blow. After I took power, I tried to restore this glory, but I couldn't do it. There was nothing left."
Seine Lothair's autobiography.
"Until I was at the end of my rope, until I set my sights on the well of sublimation."
There was a smile in his voice and he asked again.
"Guess what else I found here? 016."
"I can not guess it."
Watson also reached out and touched the well wall gently. When she stepped into the well of sublimation, she had already noticed the patterns carved on the well wall. First it was the majestic kingdom of heaven, then the battlefield between angels and demons, and then the ferocious...
Terrible map.
This is a picture of heaven and hell, from top to bottom.
So, what about hell?
Watson's eyes fell on the unknowable abyss at his feet. If what was depicted on the wall of the well had its purpose, then what else was there in the abyss under this hell?
"Follow me, this will take some courage, and you will soon see the [truth]... at least part of the [truth]."
Seine Lothair's voice was very soft, and his body seemed to have lost its support. He fell forward and fell into the dark abyss.
"Raphael!"
Although he said that Raphael was dead, Watson still couldn't help but shout out this name that was not a name. She stretched out her hand and tried to grab him, but under the strange coldness, her movements became sluggish.
All he could do was watch as Seine Lothair fell into darkness.
The light of the pure flame was shrouded in darkness, and in the blink of an eye, Watson lost sight of Seny Lothair, and now she was the only one left in this lonely darkness.
After hesitating for a moment, Watson made the same move as Seine Lothair, leaning forward and falling into the unknown darkness together.
The fall did not take long, and only for a brief moment Watson touched the ground. The mottled sword blade pierced the somewhat soft earth. She slowly stood up and saw Seni Lothair standing in front of her.
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Looking back, Watson could vaguely see the stairs in the darkness. It turned out that the stairs had reached the end.
"I'm very courageous. I hesitate for a long time every time. It's not that I'm afraid of death, I'm just afraid that I will stay here forever. If that happens, I will never know the [truth] again."
The sound of chains sounded, and Seni Lothair handed the chain in his hand to Watson.
"Hold it tightly, we can easily get lost in this endless darkness. This is our certificate of return."
Watson didn't say much. According to what Seine Lothair said, she also grabbed the chain and followed him.
This is an extremely strange space. The sharp eyesight of the demon hunter is of no use here. Even the firelight has faded and cannot dispel the thick darkness at all.
The tip of my nose was filled with that fishy smell, the air was cold, and frost condensed on the blade of the sword.
While moving forward slowly, Huasheng seemed to have kicked something. She stopped and stared at that thing. Then the fear of the unknown occupied her eyes. She looked elsewhere, and all the blurry things were the same.
At this moment, Seny Lothair's voice sounded slowly.
"I have always been curious about the ending of the witchers. Although most of us will die in the fight with monsters, there will always be one or two lucky people who survive to the end. But there is no such thing as a certain time.
At a special point in time, all the demon hunters will disappear, and then new demon hunters will appear."
He lowered his body and straightened a head that was so corroded that his face could barely be seen.
"Or the secret execution within the Demon Hunting Order. I have also thought about this. After all, as we grow older, our control over the secret blood will become weaker and weaker. These are understandable... until I discovered
here."
He cut his wrist, and the hot blood fell to the ground. At the same time, burning white flames rose above it, lighting up the dim space.
Watson felt a little suffocated for a moment. She looked at the place illuminated by the light. It was a land of scarlet flesh and blood, and there were countless corpses on the ground. Each of them was a demon hunter, and the corpses were like
Like nutrients that nourish this land, they are corroded, devoured, and integrated into one body.
It originates here and ends here.
"Although there is no "Apocalypse", I have also found the technology to imitate the secret blood. It is here. It is like a spare weapons depot. Perhaps the predecessors have long thought that one day the Demon Hunting Cult will be attacked.
If there is an era-defining strike, this is the emergency weapons depot. Every corpse here contains holy silver, and the holy silver is wrapped with stable secret blood."
"Is this where the New Order was born?" Watson asked.
"Of course, although it is cruel, at least we are still here."
To all this Seny Lothair answered very calmly.
"An extremely huge demon, [Messiah] level, a demon called Leviathan..."
Watson gradually remembered the classification and records of demons in the Demon Hunting Order. She looked at the countless corpses and the endless flesh and blood under the corpses. 600
These are not legends, but real existence. She is in the body of a monster beyond imagination, and this monster is wrapped in a structure made entirely of holy silver, just like the relationship between the silver bolt and the secret blood.
, and in these long years, it is still growing...
Watson was a little afraid to continue thinking. She thought that after obtaining the power Gabriel and obtaining [Sublimation], she had come into contact with the [Truth], but compared with what she saw now, she was still too small.
Already.
"The other thing is, have you ever thought about how long humans have existed? 016."
Seine Lothair dragged the chain and moved on. He was very happy. These secrets had been hidden in his heart for too long, and it felt good to be able to share them now.
Watson did not respond, and she felt that her thoughts had froze under the continuous information.
This is the end of hell.
"Hundreds of years? Thousands of years? Tens of thousands of years? If human history is really that long, then why is there no record of that past era?"
He continued to ask questions.
"016, haven't you ever thought about where those technologies that transcend modern times come from? Such as the Silver Bolt! Such as the Heart Network!"
"The age of origin, the age of darkness, the age of silver...the age of gold."
Watson whispered an idea that Lorenzo Medici had proposed, and his ideas coincided with those of Seigne Lothair.
Yes, in that more distant era, an era that no one remembers.
"This is a barrier made of holy silver, but what exactly is it protecting? 016."
Seine Lothair murmured.
"It blocks the progress of the Silent Ones. In other words, when it was originally designed, it was responsible for protecting something from being destroyed by the Silent Ones. And you also know that those monsters are driven by the [truth] and destroy everything that dares to cross the [border]
] things.”
"What the barrier protects is [the truth]."
Watson replied, and in a daze she felt that she had thought everything through.
"Do you know? 016, I have always felt that I should be written into the history books of the Evangelical Church. I will be the greatest pope and the king of kings."
Seny Lothair suddenly started boasting for some reason. He was so arrogant and powerful.
"I confirmed the existence of that era. In that era when people had forgotten it, I confirmed its existence."
There was a hint of madness in the words, and under the firelight, the face of the corpse looked like a devil carved on the wall of the well.
"Do you still remember [Baptism of the Gods]? 016."
he asked suddenly.
"Aren't you curious about that magnificent and fantasy world?"
"Have you never thought about the connection between that world and ours?"
"After you mastered the power of Gabriel, haven't you realized the essence of [Baptism of God's Favor]?"
Continuous words hit Watson. She thought she was the person closest to the truth, but in front of Seine Lothair, she was like a toddler. No one could have imagined that in the past years
, what exactly did this demon-like guy in front of me pay?
Watson thought about it.
In an instant, it was as if another door had opened to her, and as if the heavy curtain had been torn away, she saw the [truth] of [the baptism of divine favor].
"Yeah...is that so? Every demon hunter comes into contact with the [Gap] for the first time..."
The pupils of the eyes gradually became frightened. The connection between the demon hunters and the "Stasis Temple" was not only the blood connection, but also that they had come to the "Stasis Temple" in the beginning, or the "Stasis Temple".
"Clearance】.
This is the essence of [Baptism of Divine Favor].
In that ancient ritual, the demon hunter's will was connected with the huge monster at his feet. The so-called network connecting the heart actually entered the "gap" of this monster.
Those magnificent and fantastic worlds, those things I saw and heard, everything is the memory of this monster.
It has witnessed that unknown era.
"This is the purpose of this barrier. It is protecting this monster... protecting the past that this monster remembers."
Seine Lothair looked tenderly at this land of flesh and blood.
"That magnificent and fantastic world is that unknown era. This is our past, our past glory, so what happened? Will everything become like this?"
He smiled.
"Aren't you curious?"
"So...is this where my value lies? You want me [Gap] to invade this monster, called Leviathan, to find [the truth] from that ancient memory."
Watson couldn't help but clenched the blade of the sword. This was Seine Lothair's purpose. He wanted to use himself to spy on the [truth], but this was also what Watson wanted to do. For a while, she couldn't even find anything.
Reason for rejection.
After so much sacrifice and so many deaths, the [truth] of this world is right in front of our eyes.
"No……"
Seine Lothair contained his ecstasy, knowing very well that this was not the time yet.
"The risk of doing this is too great. This is an extremely perfect barrier. After so many years, it is still protecting [the truth]. Maybe there are some defenses inside it that we don't know yet.
016, your power is very precious. Once something unexpected happens, it will only make us say goodbye to [the truth]. Rather than doing those risky things, it is better to try it with him first."
Seine Lothair stepped aside, and then Watson noticed a corpse kneeling in front of him. No... that was not a corpse. The withered chest was still rising and falling slightly. In this hell
At the end of the world, there are still people alive.
Watson saw the man's face clearly. Perhaps the information she learned today was too shocking. Watson's mood at this moment did not have any fluctuations. She also felt that this guy's appearance here was in line with the development of the situation.
"Then I'll trouble you, 016."
Seny Lothair grabbed the old pope's head, opened his eyelids with his fingers, and forced him to look at Watson.
"Please invade his [gap]."
"No...no! You can't do this!"
The old pope seemed to realize what was about to happen. He cried bitterly and made a whimpering sound. He wanted to stop it all, but he couldn't do anything.
In front of his eyes, Watson and Seine Lothair had completely transformed into devils. They were driven by their bewildering curiosity and headed towards the secret that should not be remembered.
"No, you don't understand what happened at all, you have no idea what we are facing!"
The burning fire engulfed the old pope. Watson had already approached him, his eyes burning brightly. No one would stop in front of this temptation.
"Kill me! It's time for you to show up!"
The old Pope collapsed and shouted, but this time he was not talking to the two of them, he was calling for something.
Therefore, countless eyes slowly opened in the darkness of nothingness. They saw all this. Someone crossed the [border]. They also tried to stop them, but the barrier of holy silver stopped their progress.
[An exception occurred in the Requiem program.]
【Abnormal.】
【abnormal.】
After repeated attempts, the Silent Ones whispered mechanically. They looked at each other in the void, and finally spoke in unison.
【Needs correction.】
【Confirm correction.】
【Awakening...】
The will of nothingness dissipated, and the sound of vivid heartbeats sounded deeper in the depths, breaking the silence that lasted for thousands of years. The life born in it let out bursts of children's sobs, like whispering in a dream, it whispered.