In the sky, the burning river of souls responded to the call and poured into the flames.
They passed the final flames and heat to each other, converging light and power into the holy fire. Finally, they turned into gray embers and fell one after another, like a blizzard.
Those souls were completely burned out. As a price, what was exchanged was the powerful sacred fire!
The flame condensed by the memories, lives and souls of countless Romulus people!
"—Elsa!"
Ye Qingxuan stood up from the ground against the terrible pressure and looked up at this girl who had become so strange. He vaguely understood something, but couldn't believe it.
"Have you heard my voice?"
He hissed: "Answer me!"
A drop of rain falls from the sky.
fell on his face.
Those are tears.
In the flames, the pair of empty pupils finally lit up.
She curled up in pain, enduring the pain of the holy fire burning her body, looking at Ye Qingxuan, her eyes were blank and painful.
"Don't be afraid, I will come right away..."
Ye Qingxuan trudged forward through the ruins, his feet sinking deeply into the gray dust, as if he was trudging through the cold snow.
"-do not come!"
Elsa murmured softly, but the sound was like a roar, and the frantic pressure burst out, lifting him up and blowing him away. Ye Qingxuan clawed at the crack in the broken wall, raised his head, and looked up at the girl in the sky.
She held her head and struggled in pain.
"I am... she... no, I am... I am..."
She murmured incoherently, but her voice suddenly stopped.
He just stared blankly at the crack on his chest and the non-human flame in the crack.
"-What am I?"
Ye Qingxuan opened his mouth to speak, but a torrent of flames fell from the sky.
Flames engulfed her.
…
At that moment, everyone saw it.
The bright and magnificent sacred fire rose into the sky.
It covered the glory of the Kingdom of Heaven, and also covered the soil of the abyss, and even... extracted the power of both sides and swallowed up the huge ether torrent!
"what!"
In the trembling dark sky, Crowley frowned, the sound of the piano was shrill, and the darkness soared into the sky, transforming into a giant hand, clawing at the fire.
But then, the movement of the giant hand suddenly stopped and was frozen in mid-air.
Because in the holy fire, a pocket watch engraved with the double snake emblem flew up from nowhere and issued a low and distant whisper:
"Stop, time."
it says:
"-Just because no matter you compare with it, everything is magnificent."
It's like a key being inserted into the lock cylinder.
At that moment, in the sky, on the earth, and in the ruins, countless alchemical matrices were awakened. They absorbed the power from the holy fire and suddenly activated.
It's as if time has suddenly stopped here, just because the flame is so beautiful.
All foreign music theories are forcibly frozen in this sky, all changes are forcibly solidified, and even the dust cannot escape its shackles.
This is the product of the combination of the School of Change and the School of Forbiddenness, the pinnacle of "Faust"!
Then everything was suddenly frozen.
Only the sacred fire formed by countless household fires was burning vigorously in midair.
In the shining of light, one after another phantoms emerged from the sky, which were the last traces of the long-gone souls and eras.
In the call of the Holy Fire, the overlapping crack between the material world and the etheric world suddenly fluctuated.
On the earth, the huge shadow became thicker and thicker.
And in the midst of the roaring melody, the cracks suddenly bulged and expanded... Immediately afterwards, there was a huge earthquake, and a huge city "fell" from the etheric world, passed through the nine-layer etheric sea, and emerged from the material world!
It was a city that seemed to have been sleeping for thousands of years. It was full of gorgeous carvings and towering spiers, exuding a sharp and flamboyant beauty. Just above the city, there is a terrifying emblem of two entangled snakes engraved on it.
The sacred flame slowly descended on the altar in the city, shining brightly.
In a horrified silence, the sharp-edged city hung high between the sky and the earth, casting a terrifying shadow that covered the entire Auschwitz.
The whole world is suffocated!
…
"So...that's it...that's it!"
At that moment, among the ruins, Colt finally understood. He gritted his teeth and murmured in a low voice: "Those Romulus people tried their best to extract the power of heaven and the abyss, create a scepter, and kill people." Turn into a natural disaster... Become a god! That guy Caligula is simply... "
Exactly what
Audacious? Or are you audacious
He had no time to think about it.
He was shocked by what he saw.
From the earth to the sky, everything as far as the eye can see is covered by the light of the alchemical matrix. Everything is connected into a whole. Those who step into it are the variables in the "formula". No matter how hard they struggle and resist, there is nothing. significance.
Because the outcome on the other side of the equation has already been determined.
Is there anyone in this world who can complete an alchemical matrix of such terrifying scale? And hide it under everyone's nose...
What kind of monster did those Romulus people find
Colt was consumed by the chill.
…
…
"Yes, I did it."
In the Palace of Saints, Hermes nodded: "It was I who set up the alchemy matrix in Auschwitz, and it was I who moved the holy fire they have inherited to this day into Elsa's body. It was I who arranged the attracting shadow. Aoi’s Matrix, I was the one who found the Yellow King for them... In the end, I handed that city over to them."
"Why? Hermes."
In the air, the gentle voice asked: "We both know what that city means to you. It is your source. If you give yours to them, then you will have nothing to survive. - This is suicide ."
"It's very simple, Nibelungen."
Hermes was smoking his pipe and suddenly laughed softly: "Have you ever thought about truly being a human being? Not a monster, not a god, but truly a living person?"
“…”
The Nibelungs were silent.
"To be honest, it was really difficult to make this decision."
Hermes sighed: "When I think about my body being deformed and getting fat, I can't accept it. But there is nothing I can do if I can't accept it. After so many years of hesitation, there must be a result. Now, I am finally not a monster anymore. To be honest, this feeling is quite good, except that I will die, there are no other disadvantages."
"It was 'Aeneas' death that inspired you."
"That's part of the reason."
Hermes shrugged: "Who told me that I owed him a favor back then? I didn't care at that time, but when I looked back, I realized that the interest on this favor debt was too high. I wanted to pay it back, but the hole in the bill was already there. It’s so big that it can’t be blocked... So, since you have to make sacrifices, why not be generous and give what you don’t want to others?”
Nibelung was silent, and after a long time said: "We cannot understand."
"You don't need to understand."
"Don't you hate killing people the most?"
Nibelungen asked: "Then why was Caligula's daughter sacrificed?"
"First of all, Elsa is not Caligula's daughter. She inherits the bloodline of Aeneas. She was born with the responsibility of inheriting the flame."
Hermes said lightly: "If the empire still exists, then she should be the contemporary Emperor Romulus and the 'Augustus' of all Romulus people. Unfortunately, the empire is no longer, and the people are displaced and struggling. Survival, precarious, almost to the edge of destruction... She must shoulder this responsibility. It is the sacred fire that only she can pass on. She will not die, but will gain strength and become a new Holy Spirit. But as a price, all her memories They will all be used as firewood and burned up. This is a cruel thing, I understand, but someone has to sacrifice, not to mention... "
He paused, his expression became expectant and complicated, and whispered softly: "What's more, I'm also very curious."
"—Is there anything in the human heart that cannot be burned?"