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Chapter 1807 Character Card 'City of Recurrence' - The Gods Are Watching (Long Chapter, Requesting Monthly Tickets)

“That looks like Dawn City.” Sert looked up at the reflection above him.

“This scene looks somewhat familiar,” Christos said hoarsely, frowning slightly.

"That guy seems to be trying to get some kind of 'promotion'!" Just then, a deep voice rang in everyone's ears.

Christos turned around and looked to his side, only to see Victor emerge from the purple mist.

Victor pulled out a small exoskeleton and handed it to Smith, who attached it to his body, quickly unfolded it, and regained his mobility.

Selena then released her grip on Smith's hand.

At this moment, Christos also turned his head and looked in the direction of the huge 'Gateway to the Underworld'.

Before that magnificent gate, Dester's body had become twisted and terrifying, engulfed by raging flames, burning him into a skeleton constructed of fire.

But the skeleton was completely distorted in shape, as if it had eight or nine arms and seven or eight legs, but these bones of arms and legs contracted and disappeared from his body in a short time.

But no matter how it changed, the skeleton held the illusory badge tightly in its hand, and surging purple light burst forth from the illusory badge, like a river pouring into a canal, rushing towards the skeleton's body.

The skeleton twisted and changed violently, even interrupting its fierce words. The body writhed and struggled, constantly expanding and contracting, expanding and contracting again.

The flames in the void trembled and fluctuated violently at a high frequency, as if they were painful roars and howls.

Behind this enormous skeleton, overlapping phantoms slowly emerged.

Those appeared to be completely different skeletons burning into flames, standing illusory behind the huge, twisted skeleton, as if they had lost their own minds and were just floating aimlessly.

The phantoms of these skeletons overlapped one another, like the feathers of a peacock spreading out, densely adhering to the twisted bones and releasing a terrifying power.

The entire spacetime, along with the dense fog, was slightly distorted and changed by this tremor, and even the solidification process of the Gate of the Underworld was slightly affected.

“It doesn’t look like a promotion,” Selena said, looking up at the skeleton in the sky. “It seems to be forcibly absorbing what it’s holding.”

As she spoke, everyone's gaze instantly turned to the illusory badge held in the skeletal figure's hand.

However, no matter how they shifted their gaze, they could not make out the exact appearance of the illusory badge.

"That thing seems hard to see," Sert whispered.

“Perhaps that’s not the true form of that thing,” Victor pondered after hearing Selena’s words. “That thing probably has a true form hidden deeper inside, one that cannot be spied on, cannot be seen, and cannot be carried.”

"What do you mean?" Christos realized something and looked at Victor.

“The badge in his hand is very likely an angel-level item,” Victor whispered.

"Is he trying to absorb an angel-level item?" Christos snapped out of his daze and looked up at the sky.

"So what does this mean?" Sert asked, somewhat bewildered. "Is he trying to ascend to the angelic realm?"

“It’s not an advancement,” Victor shook his head and said in a low voice, “He’s probably trying to absorb that angel-level item, to fuse himself with it through some special ritual and method, in order to control angel-level power.”

"So what's the difference between this and a promotion?" Sert asked quickly.

“Promotion can maintain rationality, but absorption cannot,” Victor said slowly. “Judging from his current state, he is being controlled by this angel-level item, and it’s only been a short time.”

Selena glanced at Viktor but didn't reply. Ever since Viktor came out, she had kept a certain distance from him.

“But in any case, this means that an angelic being will briefly appear in the skies above Dawn City,” Smith stood up and looked up, “and that angelic being is hostile to us.”

He turned to Christos and asked, "Can you get in touch with the legion commander?"

“No,” Christos shook his head. “I’ve tried many times. Given the current state of Dawn City, if the Legion Commander could come back, he would have already done so.”

“But he didn’t come back,” Seth said in a low, hoarse voice.

“It might be an angel from Aines who stopped him.” Selena frowned slightly, looking at the thick fog around her. “I just received a message from Aines that a similar thick fog appeared there, but there wasn’t such a huge gate to the underworld.”

"Aines has it too?" Now it was Christos's turn to be surprised.

“Yes, and it should have already covered the entire Aines,” Selena nodded slightly. She turned to look at the thick fog around her, where faint points of light were flickering at the edge of the fog. “It seems that Dawn City will be here soon too.”

Christos turned his head and looked at the shimmering lights.

It appeared to be a shape constructed from some kind of special magic array.

"The Church of Death has also set up a magic array in Dawn City," he sighed softly. "It seems they have been preparing for many years."

“If the legion commander is in Dawn City, there’s no point in setting up any more magic arrays.” Smith rubbed his temples and sighed.

"The reflection in the sky seems even more distinct now," Victor suddenly remarked.

Everyone looked up again, staring at the sky.

The fog above them was so thick that, apart from the enormous gate to the underworld, they could barely see anything in the sky, or even the sky itself.

Even so, they could see the reflection in the sky, watching it gradually become clearer, as if the reflection hanging in the sky was rapidly 'falling' towards them.

“The Upside-Down City of Dawn.” Just then, Selena gazed at the upside-down city and murmured to herself, vaguely remembering something.

“This kind of scene seems to have happened before,” Sert said slowly. “Sert saved us during the previous attack on the Palace of Glory.”

"Sort is back?" Smith, standing nearby, was also somewhat surprised. He looked up at the sky. "He's not dead?"

“It is Him,” Christos said hoarsely, gazing at the reflection in the sky.

He was somewhat surprised, yet also seemed not so surprised.

Selena, standing to the side, also gazed at the sky, her eyes slightly lowered, as if recalling something.

boom--

At that moment, a deafening and distorted sound rang out violently from the sky, and the thick fog trembled rapidly as if boiling.

Space and time seemed to warp at that moment, and everyone's gaze was once again drawn to the sky ahead.

The gate to the underworld, whose radiance had been fading, finally revealed its complete form at this moment. At this moment, the trembling spacetime could no longer affect this ancient and magnificent gate.

An ancient yet distorted sense of oppression resonated in people's hearts.

Everyone stared at the dense patterns on the gate, as if they were looking at an ancient tombstone.

Swish swish swish—

The crisp sound of flowing water rang out in the mist, initially hidden in the sudden downpour, then gradually amplified, eventually drowning out the sound of the rain.

A river is flowing through the sky, emerging from the mist.

People instinctively looked up and followed the sound of the water.

No one saw what the river looked like, but everyone knew at that moment that beside them, in the mist, there was a river.

That is the boundary between life and death, the dividing line that separates the realm of the living from the realm of the dead.

Ah~~
Ancient and melodious songs rose from the mist, piercing through the thick fog, like birds guiding people, lingering in everyone's ears.

The once noisy crowd fell completely silent at this moment. Regardless of fear or surprise, people calmed their minds and listened to the distant singing.

The song was like a mother's hand, brushing across their faces, their bodies, and their souls.

The irritable find peace at this moment, the cunning cease their thoughts, the wise relinquish their worries, and the blind return to their sincere nature.

That was the mother's song, bringing everything back to eternal tranquility, back to the chaos before the birth of life.

In the past and in the future of life, there is only death.

People closed their eyes and slowly moved forward following the song.

The sound of flowing water in the void became clearer.

boom--

At that very moment, a thunderclap streaked across the sky, its booming sound awakening the slumbering souls.

Selena was suddenly awakened from her peaceful 'sleep'.

She subconsciously raised her head and looked ahead, where a huge skeleton stood before the ancient door.

The skeleton's body was smaller than the door, and thin arms stretched out from behind it. Sometimes the arms spread out behind it like an open umbrella or a peacock spreading its tail, and sometimes they closed up, as if it only had one pair of arms.

The raging fire engulfed the skeletal body, its intense flames illuminating the thick fog around it.

Before this enormous, burning skeleton, a series of slender figures, as if they had lost their souls, slowly moved forward, rushing towards the flames beneath the skeleton.

Selena turned her head and saw Catherine walking slowly forward beside her. She quickly reached out and grabbed Christos.

She looked into Christos's pupils and saw only a pair of unfocused eyes.

“Vice Mayor Sert?” she called out quickly.

But Sert didn't seem to hear her voice and continued moving forward blankly.

At that moment, another hand reached out from the crowd and grabbed Sert.

That was Christos.

Christos looked up at Selena. "You were woken up too?"

“That guy successfully absorbed the angel-level item,” Selena said quickly, then she suddenly realized something and looked up at the sky, “It was that lightning bolt just now.”

boom--

Just then, a second clap of thunder sounded in the sky.

Sert, who was being held back by the two men, was awakened in that instant.

One by one, the figures were awakened by the thunder, and they looked up at the sky.

The enormous skeleton standing before the gates of the underworld also raised its head and looked up at the sky.

A massive yellow lightning bolt streaked across the sky and descended into the thick fog.

—A Moment Ago—

Within the hazy, distorted purple mist, fragments of a ruined city were slowly rising and falling.

At the very center of this urban fragment, beneath the enormous statue, a yellow figure is hovering slightly.

The world was eerily quiet, as if it were dead.

In this deathly silence, the humanoid radiance suspended in the city center flickered slightly and opened its eyes.

A rich radiance gathered on his body.

Almost at the very moment of that brilliant flash, a surge of yellow light swept across the entire ruined city and the desolate land.

In an instant, the entire city was bathed in a fierce yellow glow.

Then, without hesitation, the radiance rushed towards the body that was shimmering with yellow light.

However, the yellow light paused slightly the moment it touched the body.

He seemed to sense some kind of invisible 'power' wrapped around this yellow, radiant body.

In the instant the yellow light paused, the purple mist enveloping the entire city suddenly surged and boiled.

The mist suddenly billowed up, and a blurry purple humanoid figure tore through the void and descended upon the city.

Then the purple humanoid reached out and grabbed the yellow humanoid below.

At this moment, the yellow glow of the entire city suddenly stirred, seemingly angered by the purple humanoid's brutal 'snatching' of its prey.

A surge of yellow light erupted instantly, blocking the purple humanoid figure.

However, the purple humanoid seemed not to see it at all, and directly reached out and cut through the barrier of yellow light, appearing below.

The surging yellow light seemed to have not anticipated that the purple humanoid would unleash so much power. It enveloped the radiant humanoid below and rushed forward without hesitation, enveloping the purple humanoid completely.

In the instant the two were locked in combat, behind the purple mist, streaks of orange light that stretched across the sky appeared.

The orange light descended from the sky like a sharp sword, slicing through the yellow light and reaching the radiant humanoid figure.

Just as it touched the radiant humanoid and was about to carry it away, the orange light paused slightly.

In that instant, the radiant humanoid figure leaped out, passing through the opening created by the orange light, and jumped downwards.

The enormous city trembled slightly, as if it were helping the radiant humanoid figure.

As the radiant humanoid figure fell, its body solidified, transforming into the form of 'Soter'.

He turned around and looked at the sky above the city.

Above the sky, after the orange glow and purple mist had dissipated, a gray, eye-shaped sun hung quietly.

It gazed at everything below, but made no move, silently observing.

In the next instant, the radiant 'Soter' cleaved through space and time.

Two thunderclaps, accompanied by a yellow flash of lightning, pierced through the thick fog and descended upon the earth.