Chapter 612 – Morning and Evening Memories

Chapter 612 – Morning and Evening Memories
Where was this giant taking himself to?
Curious and confused, Vanna followed the giant’s footsteps and stepped into the endless yellow sand – the wind swept up the sand and dust in the distance as if forming a hazy barrier, as if blurring the boundary between heaven and earth, and somehow the ruins of the city made of black, jagged boulders had already disappeared into the depths of that sand and dust. When Vanna tried to look back again, there was nothing left to see.

The light of day was already brightening, and the heat of the desert was rising a little.

Vanna waved her hand and summoned a giant sword made of cold ice, fighting the discomfort of the desert with the shelter of the Storm Goddess, while at the same time looking up at the sky again.

The huge rift that emanated an unsettling red light still covered the entire world, and I wondered if it was an illusion that the blood filaments that filled the edges of the rift seemed to have widened a bit more than when I first saw it.

The sun was still not visible as far as the eye could see, but the whole sky was still getting brighter and brighter – this gave Vanna a feeling as if the concept of “sunlight” had been imprinted in some kind of “cycle” between heaven and earth. “Even if the sun had disappeared, the light and heat it left behind would still appear in the world “on time”.

The giant was attracted to the ice sword in Vanna’s hand.

He had seen the sword in his opponent’s hand before, but he hadn’t seen Vanna’s process of summoning it – he seemed to think the power was marvelous.

“Your sword, molded from a power that is not of this world, a power so incredible that it invokes miracles in the yellow sands – it has been a long time since I have seen ‘ice’. ”

“It is a power bestowed upon me by the gods I believe in,” Vanna said immediately, “He is Lord of the storms and the seas, and the ice is the authority that the storms extend.”

“The god who rules the sea?” The giant whispered thoughtfully, “The Storm and the Sea …… are far, far away from the coastline here, and the so-called sea is dry now. I do remember, however, that they once built a very splendid city by the sea, a city with pure white facades very many blue roofs, and they named that city after a jewel, and in it they built the first ship that could cross the oceans ……”

Vanna listened quietly as the giant told himself of the old forgotten things, and relayed the information she had heard to the others who were acting in the dream world, and as the heat around her was still rising gradually, she took the giant sword in her hand and placed it in her mouth and nibbled on it, chewing on the ice as she asked curiously, “And then what?”

“And then the city disappeared in a bubble, and when the erosion happened, many things changed in ways I can’t fathom,” the giant said, and couldn’t help but look down at Vanna twice more, looking at the chilled sword, which the other woman had chewed a gaping hole in, “. . so that’s how it works?”

“It’s a little hot in here,” Vanna said, a little embarrassed, “I …… am more afraid of heat.”

“Afraid of heat, that’s good, being able to feel discomfort in your environment is proof of being alive,” the giant said, then he stopped, “Here we are, traveler.”

Vanna stopped, her expression suddenly froze a little as she followed the direction of the giant’s gaze.

There was a huge …… sinkhole ahead of her, set into the earth like a startling scar, and she and the giant had somehow made it to the edge of the pit, only a few steps from its walls.

After a brief moment of dismay, she cautiously took a step forward, observing the situation in the large pit, she saw that the walls of the pit were like glazed glass, and the dark rock showed the same molten, solidified appearance as the ruins of the city before, and she saw that the yellow sands around the large pit receded, exposing the ground to show a ghastly cracked appearance, and that the large pit was of a great magnitude, as if it was big enough to hold a city-state as massive as Plande’s ……

In the center of the pit, you can vaguely see a towering thing – it looks like a tower of amazing size, but at the moment there is only a twisted and hideous appearance, the “tower” can be vaguely seen around the melted road and high and low staggered …… stones.

“What is that thing?” Vanna asked in surprise, pointing at the tower.

Instead of answering her directly, the giant slowly made his way to the edge of the large pit and sat down on the ground, placing the massive cane at his side in quiet contemplation.

After an unknown amount of time, he broke the silence.

“I can’t remember a lot of things, but I do remember this place …… After realizing that the whole world was falling apart, and that human power couldn’t save it, they built the huge archives here, and this great pit you see here is the ruins of the archives- -They tried to leave all the evidence that they had ever existed in this world in one building.

“Everything you can think of, culture, art, history, countless volumes and artifacts, as well as seed banks and huge sculptures, all piled up in well-protected, sturdy warehouses, and they made huge slabs of stone, and carved brief descriptions of the world and civilization into the stone, using materials of the most stable nature.

“Books decay quickly, advanced recording devices are prone to malfunction, delicate storage media cannot be read directly, and words carved into stone can last for thousands and thousands of years, if not more, so those stones were placed in the very center of the archives, and were seen as the ‘heart’ of the place.

“They couldn’t have found a more secure, long-lasting way to keep records.”

“And …… then what?” Vanna couldn’t help but ask, even though she knew the answer before she opened her mouth.

“The stone turned to bubbles,” the giant lowered his head and looked Vanna in the eye, “for a second.”

Vanna suddenly felt a wave of suffocation.

“The artwork melted and flowed like water, seeping into all the crevices, the scrolls turned to shadows and were branded on the walls, the sculptures rose in the air and turned into a pale mist, and then the whole building began to sink and shatter, the whole earth sinking with it,” the giant raised his hand and pointed to the deep crater,” People gathered there, the last survivors, where they were to mourn their civilization and prepare themselves to die gracefully, but the truth was that mourning and dying gracefully were also a luxury.

“Right in front of them, everything they had recorded became …… unnameable things. “This is the reality: nothing recorded on ‘the world’ will be preserved when the world itself moves into destruction.”

“Then ……” Vanna opened her mouth for a long moment before she hesitantly raised her hand and asked again, “the tower …… “

“When the whole building began to crumble, it was the last place of safety,” the giant said softly, “and they ran there, just as they had run down from the trees to the safety of the clearing in the plains when the first fires spread to the settlements in the forest many, many years ago , only this time, the ‘fire’ was going to burn more than just the forest ……

“In the end only one person ran there, and I don’t remember what he looked like, or whether he was a man, a woman, an old man or a child.

“He stopped there and then stood and died.

“During the last minute of his death, he grew as fast and as tall as a mountain, even as if he were trying to touch the sky, and the scene was as if the …… scale was out of order, for their ‘science’ told me that the human body structure could not possibly support a body of that size ……”

The giant lifted his head and looked at the “tower” in the center of the pit, as if after so many long years, that long-ago confusion still lingered in his mind.

Vanna finally knew what it was.

It was the last of the world.

Her eyes slowly widened in shock as she stared at the center of the “pit”.

Even from such a distance, she could see the astonishing scale of that “tower”, which was even taller than the tallest tower in the city of Prand, and even more magnificent than the cathedral of the city state, how …… could it be a person?
Gradually, however, Vanna finally saw those chilling details in the grotesque and hideous appearance of the distant “tower”, she saw the molten and deformed structure, like an arm raised, as well as rotating and twisting the torso, and for a moment, she even thought she saw a creepy picture of the tower inlaid in a certain part of it. creepy …… face.

But she knew it was an illusion, and at such a distance, even if such detail did exist on that tower, she would not be able to see it clearly.

What’s more, ta had been distorted to the point that it was impossible to tell what it originally looked like.

It was hard for Vanna to describe what she was feeling at the moment, all she knew was that her heart was pounding, and her mind was almost overwhelmed with questions as she gazed longingly at the black tower, the last tombstone of the last man of the destroyed civilization, and then slowly raised her head and gazed longingly at the red cracks on the tower. Then she slowly lifted her head and gazed longingly at the sky covered with red cracks, where the sun could not be seen.

After an unknown period of time, perhaps to divert the heavy feeling in her heart, she suddenly asked: “The sun …… sun also disappeared at that time?”

“The sun?”

Vanna raised her hand and pointed at the sky, “It wasn’t supposed to be like this originally, where is the sun that shines on this world?”

“Oh yes, the sun, I nearly forgot, it is the sun ……”

The giant mumbled softly, his tone carrying an emotion that Vanna couldn’t understand, then he raised his hand and fumbled around in his tattered robes for a while, seeming to finally find something from the deepest part of his clothes before holding the object out in front of Vanna.

“The sun is here.”

The giant said gently.

Vanna looked at him, dumbfounded, at what he was holding out to her, at the ……

glorious orb.

It glowed with a bright light, as well as a little bit of warmth, and it seemed to float there, in a dimension parallel to reality.

So …… small, and calm.

“It fell,” the giant continued, looking calmly at Vanna, “and I picked it up.”

(End of chapter.)