His consciousness kept falling.
Time became blurry.
His senses seemed to have been crushed and stretched infinitely.
One second turned into an eternity.
There was no concept of up, down, left, right, front, back, cold, hot, heavy, fast, slow, and so on.
All concepts returned to chaos.
Perhaps, this was the feeling when entering a black hole singularity?
A thought suddenly flashed through Tang En's mind. Perhaps, the Chaos Gate was equivalent to a black hole?
In this case, he felt that he seemed to have infinite time to think, and nothing could limit the speed of his thinking.
The memories of what happened after he came to Prandal began to quickly rewind. Soon, he returned to the time when he first came to Prandal. Then, his memory became blurry again. He felt like his consciousness was wrapped in a thick liquid, and he was moving forward with difficulty in a bubble.
Strange, why can't I remember these memories?
His consciousness began to quickly go deeper. He saw the DNA in his cells constantly breaking and recombining, and he also saw some changes happening to his body. However, his consciousness didn't stop there. Instead, it continued to go back to the microscopic world.
His consciousness came to an empty space. There were countless tiny light spots floating in the space. Tang En didn't know what they were. From afar, it looked like a galaxy.
His consciousness continued to go deeper. It was already an extremely small world, but when his consciousness passed by those light spots, he felt that those light spots were incomparably huge.
He saw something extremely huge in an extremely small world.
It was an extremely contradictory feeling.
His consciousness was like an inflated balloon, constantly contracting and expanding.
The strange feeling challenged his remaining willpower.
Finally, he reached the deepest part of his soul.
There, a weak, transparent, crystal-like flame was constantly breaking, recombining, and burning. Traces of strange power extended from there to other areas, protecting his fragmented consciousness and soul.
It was the power of the void!
…
"What is he doing?!"
Sylphlia looked at the Chaos Gate in the distance. In the center of the Chaos Gate, Tang En's body was as small as a speck of dust. It had been a year since he jumped in, and Prandal's situation was getting worse and worse. They were still struggling to hold on.
Back then, Sylfreia had been watching the battle from afar, but when the battle was about to end, for some reason, Tang En had jumped into the Chaos Gate of his own accord!
At that time, she was scared out of her wits.
However, when she sent the news back to Ellington, she learned that Jean and Angus had died in battle!
The news of Tang En jumping into the Chaos Gate was simply one disaster after another. Everyone went crazy.
Aiguín, who had been fighting without sleep for months, fainted when she heard the news. If it weren't for Mathilda, who happened to be by her side to protect her, she would have become the third Legendary hero to die in battle after Jean and Angus.
When Fiona, Aurelia, and the others heard the news, they panicked at first, but they quickly calmed down.
They knew that Tang En wouldn't do anything he wasn't confident in.
What they needed to do was to persevere until he returned. They couldn't let the spark of order be extinguished.
Thus, when the defensive line continued to shrink and the fighting power became more and more scarce, Aurelia finally gave the order for the civilians to accept the call of war and join the battle.
The battle situation was very dangerous. Now was not the time to be soft-hearted.
Apart from that, the artificial soul combat robots that Histisa, Klotto, Dobin, and the others worked together to develop finally appeared!
These robots were made of Oricha steel and had the ability to fight independently. They didn't feel fatigue, fear, or corruption. Although their overall strength couldn't compare to Wumianzhe, their advantage was that they wouldn't lose control!
Histisa's artificial soul technology guaranteed the controllability of all robots. They had an independent artificial consciousness, but they were also connected to each other through the artificial magic network. They could form a more complete consciousness.
Whether it was an independent consciousness or a collective consciousness, they would all be limited. The one with the highest level in their command network was Tang En. He was the one and only Monarch.
Unfortunately, before Tang En could use his authority to do anything, Tang En entered the Chaos Gate.
"If I'm not wrong, he's using himself as a purifier to purify this Chaos Gate."
Nisclaire completely suppressed her power, but she didn't dare to look at the Chaos Gate. Their gazes would cause the Chaos to resist.
"This is why you called him here?"
Aurelia glared at Gaia. "Using the power of the Void he carries when he travels through the Void, treating him as a special 'Void Bomb'?"
"No, we didn't plan to do that."
Nisclaire said very calmly. "I said a long time ago that we didn't choose him to save this world. He chose to save this world himself. Everything he does is his own decision. We won't interfere."
"But he's already decided to sacrifice himself!"
Nisclaire said calmly. "But a year has passed. Have you seen him die?"
Although a year had passed, Tang En was still floating in the center of the Chaos Gate. He didn't go in, nor did he leave. His body was wrapped in a strange aura of Chaos, as if he was a hostage imprisoned by the Chaos Gate.
The world's consciousness floated in front of him, a faint light enveloping the two of them. This was perhaps the only hope that supported everyone.
"If he's really using himself as a vessel to purify the Chaos Gate, then a year has passed. It should have shrunk a lot, but why hasn't the Chaos Gate changed?"
"I don't know. We don't even know what's happening to him."
Nisclaire shook her head. "All we can do now is wait."
"Now there are armed militias joining the battle, and there are also artificial soul robots to supplement the combat power. After mixing with our soldiers, the overall combat power will not decrease. We can still hold on. The hope in our souls is eternal. If possible, we will hold on forever!"
Fiona looked at the Chaos Gate. After a moment, she had to look away. She said with a little pain, "The problem is, I need to know how long it will take!"
"Maybe a day, maybe two days, maybe a year, maybe two years … maybe forever …" Nisclaire muttered.
How would she know how long it would take for Tang En to wake up?
"What's that!?"
Suddenly, Sylphlia shouted in shock. "Look at Tang En — he's on fire!"
Everyone endured the pain of being attacked by the Chaos and stared at Tang En with their eyes wide open.
Fiona, who was very familiar with Tang En, exclaimed, "— That's the Nether Flame!"
Although the Nether Flame had no color, no mass, no temperature, and was almost transparent, it looked like an incandescent flame against the black Chaos Gate.
The Nether Flame on Tang En's body was getting stronger and stronger. It even caused a strong resistance from the Chaos Gate outside. A large amount of thick Chaos aura rushed over and tried to devour him, but the Chaos aura was ignited by the Nether Flame instead!
Tang En was like a torch suspended inside the Chaos Gate, constantly burning the Chaos aura inside!
"Although I don't know what happened, at least this is good news!"
"Perhaps, he will wake up soon!"
However, they did not expect that the fire on Tang En's body would burn for an entire year!
In the year 857 of the Order Calendar, the third Chaos invasion had been going on for two and a half years.
Thick dark purple clouds covered the sky, completely blocking the sunlight outside. The world was dark. In two and a half years, the people of Prandal did not see a trace of sunlight.
The temperature outside was maintained at minus ten degrees all year round, and the ground was covered with thick layers of snow. The snow was not a good thing. The snow itself was a terrible pollution source because it was tainted with the Chaos aura.
Fortunately, Nola's power was protecting this place. The snow would be purified when it fell to the ground.
Since the outbreak of the battle, it had not stopped for a moment. Everyone's eyes were red from the killing. Everyone was on the verge of breaking down.
"It's only been two and a half years …"
Brian glanced at the wine bottle and threw it to a dirty corner with a bang. He muttered, "If it wasn't for the time shown on the TV, I would have thought that two hundred years had passed."
At this moment, Brian looked abnormally old. It was only two years, but he seemed to have aged a hundred years — although he did not look young before.
Now that humans had been forced to move to the underground world by the Chaos creatures, although there were still a few stronghold cities on the surface, there was no longer any meaning to them.
Ellington, Alinx, St. Georges City, New Bul-Kathos, Emerald Corolla, Hammer Forger Fortress … these were the only remaining torch of human civilization.
All the non-combatants were arranged to be transferred to the underground cities, while the rest were sent to Lorita and Loria through the teleportation portal. In two years, the underground world's space had been expanded to accommodate 50% of the survivors.
Now, the underground world was no different from the surface world. The air was more polluted, the living space was more cramped, the light was dark, and the living environment was hot and humid …
Looking back at the comfortable lives of the past few years, everyone was doubting how they had persevered.
"Hope lives forever in our souls!"
This sentence seemed to be filled with infinite power. It allowed them to maintain their last hope in such a hopeless situation.
However, at the same time, the higher-ups of the Prandal Alliance realized that there was a slight change in the war situation …
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