All the churches fell in a short period of time. Round after round of blazing "fireballs" rose from the ground everywhere in the city-state, burning the last anchor point of reality in Pland. The bells stopped one after another, but
In a matter of seconds, all that was left of this pearl on the sea were endless ruins and ashes.
Vanna rushed through the burning intersections and streets like a strong wind, rushing towards the cathedral in her field of vision that was burning with a pillar of fire reaching the sky. In her field of vision, the church had changed its appearance in a short period of time——
The main building has fallen, and the thousand-year-old main frame of the building has melted and collapsed like wax. In the blink of an eye, only the twisted red-hot skeletons of the towering wing buildings are left. And above all this, there is a ring with white edges and bright interior.
The "sun" as black and red as withered blood is floating quietly over the cathedral. It looks like a terrifying hole leading to the endless abyss, but it is constantly releasing destructive light and heat.
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The edge of this blasphemous sun disk is constantly dripping with red droplets - that is hot lava, or the plasma of the blasphemer.
What can you do by rushing over now? Kill a certain culprit? Reversal of the overlapping history? Or rely on this strength to prove your faith and loyalty heroically but in vain in the end?
Fanna didn't know, and she didn't know what else she could do, but she still instinctively rushed towards the church. At this moment, some twisted green light and shadow suddenly appeared in the corner of her eyes, as if there was something
The thing flashed through the sea of fire, and then, a majestic and deep voice sounded directly in her mind: "Go to the big bell tower."
The sound came so unexpectedly that Vanna stopped subconsciously. She looked for the direction from which the sound came, or any signs around her that could prove that the ghost captain was paying attention, but she only saw a sea of fire.
Molten dripping from that blasphemous dark "sun" is igniting the last inch of land near the cathedral.
But at this moment, a voice broke Vanna's brief hesitation.
She heard a sudden melodious sound of bells - the bells came from the ancient bell tower behind the cathedral.
The sound of the bell seemed to be as loud as if it would envelope the entire Purland again.
The bell tower had been completely burned by the flames and could no longer make any sound.
At this moment, Fanna put aside all the hesitations and worries in her heart and rushed towards the bell tower.
She no longer cares about the ghost captain's intentions, nor does she care about the consequences of following his arrangements - with all the churches falling instantly, and with the fact that the entire city-state has been burned, the path she can choose has already been
Only the bell tower is still ringing.
She crossed the square in front of the church.
The defense forces once assembled in the square have been completely wiped out. Only countless twisted and scrapped steam walkers and steam tanks can be seen in the rolling heat wave. The defense line built by the defenders and city-state guards has turned into layers of charcoal, covered in shocking ashes.
occupy.
She chopped down countless ash shadows swarming towards her, passed through the main church building and sanctuary that had been burned to ruins, passed through the wide open courtyard, and saw the bell tower standing high at the end of her field of vision.
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Hot ashes fell from the sky, and sparks danced like fireflies.
This reminded her of the scene she had seen on the other side of the "curtain" not long ago, and of the Planter she had seen that was destroyed by fire in 1889.
Pseudo-history covers the official history, and what is behind the curtain replaces the real world in front of the curtain.
But the bell is still ringing.
The door leading to the upper floor of the bell tower had collapsed, and the internal stairs had also broken and collapsed. After confirming this, Fanna gave up the idea of climbing the tower through normal roads. She came to the foot of the outer wall of the bell tower and looked up to make a simple confirmation.
route, he directly reached out to grab the raised structure on the wall and started climbing upwards.
The outer wall had been burned by flames for a long time and was as hot as a red-hot iron plate. However, Vanna's climbing speed was not affected at all. She was almost swept up like a gust of wind. In just a moment, she had reached the upper part of the bell tower and
Past the mechanical dial that had stopped working, we arrived at the top of the tower where the bonfire and the big clock were placed.
The place is very wide, with a spire structure open on all sides as a shield. In addition to the brazier, under the spire is a bell ringing device - a huge machine using gears and levers as a power generating mechanism.
The bell is placed beneath the mechanism, hidden in a resonance chamber.
Vanna jumped to the top of the tower, turned over and landed.
She looked back in the direction she came from and saw the city engulfed in flames beneath her feet. The hot lava flowed through the streets, leaving behind shocking ravines. She looked down at purgatory from the top of the city, and everything was ruined.
Immediately afterwards, she turned back and looked at the bell-ringing device that had obviously lost its power but was still operating continuously.
A figure...or a mass of char that barely maintained the outline of a human being, was clinging to the lever next to the bell ringing device, using human power to push the heavy gear to continue to rotate.
Vanna subconsciously stepped forward, and the charcoal seemed to be aware of her approach. He slowly raised his head, turned his face, and stared at the young judge who appeared on the top of the tower with a pair of human eyes.
"Guard... the bell tower..."
The ball of coke said hoarsely.
Then he fell to the ground with a crash, his completely carbonized body falling into pieces, and the red fire marks gradually extinguished among the still-heated remains.
A storm emblem symbolizing the Deep Sea Church rolled to the ground from the charcoal.
The last bell of Prand finally stopped.
"archbishop!"
Fanna recognized the eyes just now, and she rushed forward, wanting to save the pile of ashes, or to re-activate the stopped bell ringing device. However, as soon as she took a step, a sudden and powerful pressure stopped her.
Stopped the action.
Vanna stopped abruptly and turned her head to look in the direction from which the strong pressure came.
A tall and thin figure wearing a tattered gray robe, with a skinny and shriveled body, like an ascetic monk, was standing quietly on the edge of the high platform.
The "Ascetic Monk" looked at Vanna with compassionate eyes, and in the sky behind him, hot molten liquid was continuously dripping, and a dark sun was embedded with a dazzling bright edge.
The figure did not know when he appeared there, and his arrival was so silent that Vanna didn't notice it at all - as if he had been standing on this high tower from the beginning, from a long, long time ago, from this
It was as if he had been standing there before the fire started.
"You have struggled as hard as you can, my child. All of you have struggled as hard as you can, even delaying for several times longer than expected, but there is no point in delaying and persevering... No one will come to save you, in this closed-loop history
In the vision, any reinforcements are destined to be unable to reach Purland before the history is corrected..." The skinny black shadow said slowly, he raised his hand slightly, and the bone-like arm seemed to be floating with a layer of fire under the reflection of the dark sun.
, "Now, embrace this new future, the child reborn from the ashes... Your survival and return have not changed anything."
Fanna remained silent, just silently taking off the giant sword from her back.
"Oh, the negotiation broke down..." Evangelist Zhenyan saw Vanna's actions, but still looked compassionate and plain, "Of course you can kill me easily, but that is meaningless... The Children of the Sun have already prepared to welcome you.
Come and be prepared. As for me, I am just a witness at this final moment. I will witness it now and I will witness it in the future, and you... have you seen that sun?"
Vanna raised her gaze slightly, looking past the figure of the final preacher, and finally noticed that something seemed to be beating slowly in the darkness deep in the blasphemous sun disk, like a gestating embryo, a gradually growing embryo.
The resurrected heart.
A strange palpitation suddenly came to my heart.
She finally realized that the powerful oppressive force that suddenly descended just now did not come from the skinny and frail Evangelist in front of her - but from the black sun behind him.
Something is awakening deep in the sun!
"There have been many twists and turns in this plan, and a force that has never been clearly seen has interfered with our revision of history time and time again," Evangelist Zhongyan, with a look of compassion on his face, looked quietly into Vanna's eyes and spoke in a low voice.
, as if with some kind of bewitchment, "And the disturbance it brought made some eyes that shouldn't be opened detect the truth... You are actually only a little bit away from uncovering the whole truth. Really, it's just a little bit away."
Just a little bit - but that's fate.
"My child, fate is so unreasonable."
He sighed with compassion and walked forward slowly. He came to Vanna, who was still standing firmly, and said as if reading some kind of truth: "But you are blessed. You have been resurrected from the dead, and you will be reborn again.
You have received the highest blessing...and you have the opportunity to embrace it all."
Fanna clenched the hilt of the sword. For the first time in her life, she was driven by such strong hatred rather than by justice or duty. However, at the last second before raising the sword, her movements...
Suddenly, he was interrupted by a stream of flames igniting out of thin air at the edge of the high platform.
A green door of flames suddenly appeared behind the preacher, and a tall and majestic figure, covered in spiritual flames, stepped out of it.
The final preacher seemed completely unaware of the door that appeared behind him. He opened his hands to Vanna and declared like a prophet preaching to the world before the final judgment came -
"Blessed child, don't resist, as you can see, times have changed..."
He stopped suddenly.
An unspeakable fear suddenly penetrated his chaotic mind, and a chaotic noise that seemed to come directly from the subspace was mixed into the blazing fire of Plande. The madman wanted to turn back in a hurry, but before that