It was not easy to survive.
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation A magical fortress in another dimension, cut off from the outside world and without any resources to sustain its survival. The storm caused by the Great Mana Tide had destroyed the Stasis Hall and the large-scale material warehouse. Kamal and his fellow Watchers had to plan carefully for the coming days.
"We are participants in the experiment of the Abomination. Everyone has undergone the final stage of mutation, which allows us to survive longer than ordinary humans. However, the lack of resources is still a big problem. We believe that the situation will turn for the better and that all problems will be solved one day. But first, we have to survive until that day. Under the leadership of the grand magus, everyone began to save every resource and began to repair the remaining facilities in the fortress. "
Kamel led Gwen and the rest through a series of abandoned areas. They were close to the edge of the fortress. The magic wave had destroyed many things in this area. Broken rooms and corridors were the most common sight here. But as a powerful magic barrier was still in effect, these areas were not uninhabitable.
"First, we restored the supply of magic energy. This fortress built in a different dimension has its own energy circulation system. We can directly draw energy from the external environment to maintain the operation of this place. Then, we repaired most of the damaged internal walls and barriers to prevent the dangerous magic energy of Chaos from seeping in. Finally, we began to try to reactivate the magic gate to the outside world. However, this attempt failed.
"The Great Mana Tide has changed the operating mechanism of the magical door. It wasn't damaged, but it couldn't be activated. We've transferred half of the fortress's energy to the magical door, but it couldn't even open a small crack. And in the process of continuous experiments and research, our resources became less and less, and the health of every member began to deteriorate.
"It's not that the magic wave did not affect us at all. In fact, its influence was everywhere and subtle. As time went by, everyone's bodies began to have problems. It turned out that the transformation of the Abomination did not allow us to live forever. Claude Pirin was the first to die. A rapid illness caused him to collapse in the laboratory. Then, the eldest son of the Pardini family …
"There were also some who died in accidents. The Colden siblings were knocked out of the platform by a floating boulder when they were trying to repair the barrier. Schilder was killed in an explosion when he was trying to repair the Mana Focuser. Our numbers have been dwindling, but we still can't see any hope of leaving this place. It would be good if we could release a Mage's Eye to see the situation outside. Unfortunately, the door is closed and can't be opened at all."
Heti's eyes dimmed. "Then … everyone died …"
"Humans are very fragile creatures, both physically and mentally." Carmel let out a sigh that trembled with energy. "We couldn't maintain order until the very end. In the last few decades, we had a very serious outbreak of … chaos. The heavy pressure crushed everyone's hope, and even the grand magus couldn't maintain it anymore. It was here that more than half of the people found … 'freedom'."
Kamel brought Gwen to a very open place. It seemed to have been a gathering hall, but half of it had been completely destroyed. The floor, walls, and roof fragments were floating messily in the dark space. An energy barrier shrouded the broken boundary.
Traces of destruction by powerful spells could be seen everywhere.
"After everything was over, the survivors calmed down and realized how stupid they had been. But it was too late. There were only a dozen people left, and they did not have long to live."
"We quietly accepted our fate. At the very end, we managed to retain the last bit of dignity we had as Imperial Archmages."
Gwen looked at Kamel's body full of energy. "Then … how did you become like this?"
Kamel was silent for a moment before he slowly said, "I was the last one. I don't know if I was lucky or unlucky. The 'abomination' I carried out on myself was very successful. I became the healthiest and longest-lived one here. After everyone died, I did not show any signs of weakness.
"I spent a dozen years in a daze. During this time, I arranged the bodies of all my colleagues. As you can see, I let them sit there as if they were still alive … I thought I might have gone crazy, but I could not remember what a normal person's mind should be like. After that, I wandered around the empty fortress for a few more years, continuing my work. I checked the old equipment, counted the things in the warehouse, observed the changes in the external environment, left records, occasionally did some experiments, occasionally talked to myself, occasionally went to talk to the people sitting in the great hall...
"But I still did not die. The day of my death seemed to be far away. And during this process, I found that my mental condition was deteriorating.
"So, I decided to end my life prematurely — using the method I chose."
"The method you chose?" Tyre looked at Kamel curiously. "What method would make you … like this?"
"As I said before, this is the place where White Star fell. The God of Nature fell here three thousand years ago. The entire 'Disobedience' fortress was built with 'White Star' as the core and the foundation. I paid the price for this place for my life, so I decided to end my life with 'Her' —"
Kamel stopped. An isolation wall covered with runes and made of some unknown metal blocked their view. As Kamel released a spell to activate the rune array on the wall, the heavy metal wall began to vibrate. As the runes on the wall lit up one by one, it slowly and solemnly rose in front of them.
Outside the isolation wall was a translucent energy barrier. Through the energy barrier, the real situation outside the facility finally appeared before Gwen's eyes.
This was indeed not the Umbra Realm, but a place more bizarre and chaotic than the Umbra Realm. Countless broken boulders floated in the dark and deep space. These dense floating boulders formed the boundless' land 'in this space. Above the shattered land were chaotic clouds that would never dissipate. Streaks of strange dark lightning raged silently in the sky, outlining all kinds of indescribable and terrifying illusions in the chaotic clouds. In this chaotic world, there was something that deeply attracted everyone's attention.
It was a huge, mountain-like white deer. It floated between the broken boulders. Countless thick chains bound its limbs, and a hazy white light shrouded its body. Around the giant deer, there were many broken, floating metal and crystal remains. The huge metal remains were so distorted that Heti could not imagine what they originally looked like and what they were used for. But Gwen vaguely felt that the huge metal remains were like some kind of flying device. They had a tail structure like a propeller and an extended skeleton like a weapon rack. These structures were completely incomprehensible to the people of the Roren Continent!
More importantly, the texture of the metal and crystal was very similar to the Eternal Slate!
Gwen felt his heart pounding. He heard Kamel's voice coming from the side. "Look, this is the fallen White Star, the god of nature that Druil once worshipped — Amoun the Giant Deer!"
"The god of nature!" Heti finally could not help but exclaim. "Oh my god!"
"Don't worry, the 'barrier' will protect your mind." Kamel seemed to think that Heti was worried about the consequences of facing the god. He raised his hand and pointed to the hazy energy barrier outside the metal barrier. "This barrier is the most valuable result we found from the wreckage around the god's body. We simulated the energy waves of the wreckage and found that the magic of the same frequency can offset the damage of the god's power to the mind of mortals. As long as the barrier is still there, you will be safe."
Gwen looked at the translucent energy barrier in shock. Through the barrier, he looked at the metal wreckage around the divine body of Amoun the Giant Deer. He never thought that he would come into contact with the secrets of the gods and the relics of the deicide so quickly. When all of this happened before his eyes, he was not only surprised but also shocked from the bottom of his heart.
This was the place where the god fell, this was the fallen god, this was the 'weapon' that killed the god …
The people who made the weapon had left, but their creation was still here, and the 'surveillance satellite' they left in this world was still in operation today.
Gwen withdrew his gaze and looked at Kamel not far away. "So, it was the power of the gods that turned you into this?"
"I am still not sure if my mind had been affected by the gods. Although there is this barrier, I have been here with the god's body for hundreds of years. My mind can't be completely normal," Kamel said self-deprecatingly. "I opened the door and entered the unprotected space. I did not bring any protective equipment, nor did I activate any protective spells. I walked to the giant deer and guided its energy into my body, hoping to kill myself in this way. Then the energy exploded, and my body was torn apart by the impact of the divine power, and finally … I became like this."
"Now that you've become an energy creature, it's even harder for you to die." Gawain wiped Tyr's saliva away and looked up at Kamael, who had been transformed into a life form. "How many years have passed since then?"
"I can't remember clearly. After my life form was transformed, my memory is in a state of intermittent state," Kamal said helplessly, raising his finger to point at the armor plate on his chest. "I engraved these on myself to remind myself to prevent myself from completely turning into an unconscious monster. But if I hadn't suddenly met you, I'm afraid it would only be a matter of time before I became an unconscious monster …"
"When we first met, you questioned whether we were real." Heti still remembered what happened at the beginning. "What did that mean?"
"You know, before you appeared, I had 'seen' living people appear in front of me at least seven times." Kamel's voice was full of bitterness. "I saw someone find this forgotten fortress, I saw someone open the magic door, I saw my colleagues who had retreated back then return to this place, they came to pick me up and told me that the mission was over … I was hallucinating, hallucinating again and again. At first, I thought there was something wrong with my mind, but later I found out that it was the power of God that was constantly affecting me. Its power would occasionally seep through the barrier and create all kinds of hallucinations in front of me. So when I saw you, I wondered if you were an illusion, and if there was something wrong with the barrier again …"
Gwen finally figured out what was going on with Kamel's strange behavior at the beginning. He looked at the ancient sorcerer in front of him and lamented that the sorcerer's mind could be maintained to this day. Although his own 'history' was many times longer than Kamel ', he knew that it was because his life form had mutated from the beginning. But this person in front of him … he had been a human for hundreds of years before the transformation of his life form!
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