Deep Sea Embers

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 Plande. 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 pillars 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 had collapsed. Down, the thousand-year-old main frame of the building melted and collapsed like wax. In the blink of an eye, only the twisted red-hot skeletons of the towering wing buildings were left. And above all this, there was a ring with bright white edges, but the inside was like withered blood. The "sun" as black and red was floating quietly over the cathedral, looking like a terrifying hole leading to an endless abyss, but it was constantly releasing destructive light and heat.

The edge of this blasphemous sun disk is constantly dripping with bright red droplets - that is hot lava, or the plasma of the blasphemer.

What can I do by rushing over now? Kill a certain culprit? Reversal of the overlapping history? Or rely on this strength to prove my 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 suddenly 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 sound of bells - the bells came from the ancient bell tower behind the cathedral.

The sound of the bell was as loud as if it was about to cover the entire Purande again. The bell tower had been completely burned by the flames, and it was impossible for it to make any sound again.

At this moment, Fanna threw away 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 - when all the churches fell instantly, and before the fact that the entire city-state was burned down, the path she could choose had already been Only the bell tower is still ringing.

She passed through the square in front of the church. The defense forces that had been assembled in the square had been completely wiped out. Only countless twisted and scrapped steam walkers and steam tanks could be seen in the rolling heat wave. The defense lines built by the defenders and city-state guards had become Covered with layers of charcoal, it was completely occupied by shocking ash.

She chopped down countless gray 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 in her field of vision. The end.

Hot ashes fell from the sky, and sparks danced like fireflies.

This reminded her of what she had seen on the other side of the "Weimu" not long ago, and of the Pland she had seen that was destroyed by fire in 1889.

[To be honest, I have been reading books recently to catch up on updates. I can switch sources and read aloud with many sounds. It can be used on both Android and Apple. 】

Pseudo-history covers the official history, and what is behind the curtain replaces the real world in front of the curtain.

But the bells are 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, looked up and simply confirmed As soon as I got to the route, I reached out and grabbed the raised structure on the wall and started climbing up.

The outer wall had been burned by flames for a long time and was already as hot as a red-hot iron plate. However, Vanna's climbing speed was not affected at all. She almost rolled back up like a gust of wind. In just a moment, she had reached the upper part of the bell tower and Passing over the mechanical dial that had stopped working, we arrived at the top of the tower where the waiting fire was placed.

The place is very wide, with a spire structure open on all sides as a shield. Under the spire, in addition to the brazier, is the bell ringing device - a huge machine using gears and levers as a power generating mechanism.

The big bell is placed here

Underneath the mechanical device, a resonance chamber is hidden.

Fanna jumped to the top of the tower, turned over and landed.

She looked back at the direction she came from and saw the city falling into a sea of ​​fire beneath her feet. The hot lava flowed through the streets, leaving behind shocking ravines. She looked down at purgatory from the sound of the city and saw everything in ruins.

Then, she turned back and looked at the bell device that had obviously lost its power but was still operating continuously.

A figure...or a mass of charcoal 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.

"Hold...the bell tower"

The ball of charcoal said hoarsely, and 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 remains of the residual heat.

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 clear eyes just now. She rushed forward, trying to save the pile of ashes or restart the stopped bell-ringing device. However, as soon as she took a step, a strong pressure suddenly came on her. Stopped moving.

Vanna stopped abruptly and turned to look in the direction from which the powerful pressure came. A tall and thin figure wearing a tattered gray robe, with a skinny body, like an ascetic monk, was standing quietly on the edge of the high platform.

The "Ascetic Monk" looked at Vanna with pitiful eyes, and in the sky behind him, there was a dark sun that was constantly dripping hot lava and inlaid 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, and it has even delayed for several times longer than expected, but this delay and perseverance are meaningless... No one will come to save you. In this historical anomaly that has closed the loop, In the elephant, any reinforcements are destined to fail to reach Purland before history is corrected..."

The skinny black shadow said slowly, he raised his hand slightly, and his 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 who was 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 Zhongyan saw Vanna's actions, but he still looked pitiful and calm. "Of course you can kill me easily, but that is meaningless... The descendants of the sun have already been killed. Be prepared to welcome the coming. As for me, I am just a witness of 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. She looked 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 feeling suddenly came to my heart.

She finally realized that the powerful oppressive force that suddenly came just now did not come from the skinny and weak 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 an invisible force has interfered with our revision of history time and time again." The final preacher looked at Vanna's eyes quietly with a look of compassion, and his voice was low. , as if with some kind of bewitchment, "And the disturbance it brought made some eyes that should not be opened notice the truth... You are actually only a little bit away from uncovering the whole truth. Really, just 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 truth: "But you are blessed. You will be reborn after death."

And after you die, you receive the supreme 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 final 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" Ah, 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 , a hand has been gently placed on his shoulder.

"Change back."

A calm voice said.