I've run out of money to protect Arad

Chapter 343 Meeting Minutes
"Meeting Minutes"

会议时间：1014年5月5日0：00
Meeting place: Seria Tree Cave, Central Park, Demon Realm
Moderator: Celia
Participants: Duan Chao, Katie, Kaitla, Shokuhou Misaki, Da Keer
Attendees: Yan Wangyue
Theme of the meeting: Discussing Arad and the Passage of the Demon Realm
Minutes: Sonal
After figuring out Yan Wangyue's origin, Celia hosted a small-scale meeting.

"It is now confirmed that the passage between the Demon Realm and the Arad Continent has reappeared."

As soon as the meeting started, Celia threw out the conclusion without any nonsense.

The participants were not surprised - the appearance of Yan Wangyue is the best proof.

"Although I don't know why the passages that had disappeared originally appeared at the same time, but this is an opportunity for us." Celia glanced across the faces of everyone and showed a smile, "A passage that allows us to return to Allah." opportunities for virtue."

Hearing this, the others were fine, but Yan Wangyue's breathing suddenly became short of breath.

If you can return to Arad with Duan Chao and others, then, that would be a great contribution!
You must know that since the disappearance of the Silent City and the interruption of the connection between the heaven and the demon world, Queen Isabella of the Delos Empire has never given up looking for members of the Joint Investigation Team, the Adventurer Alliance and the Violent Hunting Team headed by the adventurer Duan Chao.

No one knows what happened in the Demon Realm that year.

Arad calendar 1006 years.

A stream of meteors, dense and shining, pierced the night sky of the heavenly realm.

Strange thunder and ominous lightning followed.

People were awakened from sleep, talking about this rare vision, and even wanted to call friends to go to the tall buildings to observe the sky more closely, but they were stopped by the cries of children.

They seemed to have been terribly frightened, and their fearful crying lasted all night, until the thunder and lightning stopped, and they fell asleep.

And it turns out that the child's intuition was right.

This night, on Cronus Island, the silent city that connects the heaven and the demon world is disappearing.

The airflow around the entrance is chaotic, and any laws of time and space are shattered at this moment.

The life forms of the entire island are affected, some are directly cut into pieces by the space that is constantly splitting at a high speed, some are involved in the turbulent flow of time, and turn into dust in the distorted time, while a very small number of people are Into eternal stasis.

At the same time, weightlessness occurred in a wide range of sea areas in the heavenly realm.

Ships and sea water in the sea hundreds of kilometers away were pulled into the air, forming a scene of raised peaks on the sea level.

Then, the floating sea water and ships fell heavily, setting off a huge tsunami.

It took two days for the engulfing tsunami to subside.

However, the crisis at sea has not dissipated, and a huge vortex occupies the entire sea area, which has brought great obstacles to rescue operations.

By the time Ghent's army reached the Isle of Cronos and the Isle of Foreign Lands, it was several weeks later.

The Silent City is gone.

There is no living body on the entire island, and the deadly magic fog appears and disappears from time to time.

Once a creature is involved, it will produce hallucinations at least, or disappear directly, and be thrown into an unknown dark space.

When people reacted from a series of changes, they only knew that the apostle had disappeared from Arad—and along with the disappearance were the Tower of Despair and the Silent City in the Canyon of the Dead.

People who went to the devil world never came back.

Since then, people have continued to search, but only found fragments of sentences, unable to piece together the truth of the year.

Until three years later, a team that came to explore Cronus Island salvaged a broken document in the nearby waters.

"The sky is shattering above my head...

All those involved in these rifts were reduced to unearthly fragments, and died in horrors I cannot describe.

Inkpots, corpses, and tents all floated as I recorded this, hoping someone will read this transcript, warning...

Don't get involved in such a terrible..."

The record ends here.

This record not only did not wake up the world, but caused a greater wave of exploration.

Isabella, Skadi, Meiya, and Aska even jointly signed a reward order of up to 8 million—as long as someone can find Duan Chao and his team.

Under the reward, there must be a brave man.

In the following years, scientists and adventurers from various countries came to investigate one after another.

It's just that some of them disappeared as soon as they set foot on the island, some went deep into the waters of the nearby sea, but most of them never returned, and more disappeared without a trace even before they could leave their last words.

Experienced fishermen nearby will quickly direct their partners to return to port when the water turns an unnatural color.

Because that usually means there's a crazy sea beast or school of fish nearby.

Those crazy sea beasts and schools of fish will attack each other, and willfully attack other life forms, sometimes even chasing fishing boats to the beach.

It was also in the bodies of these sea beasts that the heavens discovered some strange stones for the first time—mutated Terra stones that contained the breath of the apostles.

According to the "Arad Strange Records", in 1006, different degrees of anomalies occurred in various parts of the continent of Arad.

"The sky trembled, and for a split second, clouds scrambled to escape the ominous light...

A strange-colored aurora shone in the center of the magic circle, and then, a black filthy rain fell, and many people and animals fell down in this weird rain. "

These visions not only include catastrophes such as filthy rain from the sky, deformed fetuses, and madness of humans and animals, but also auspicious signs such as spring coming from dead trees, clear springs gushing out of swamps, and terminally ill patients recovering without medicine.

So in the beginning, people didn't connect all the visions together.

Until the next few years, more and more strange rocks appeared on the mainland. With the development of research on these rocks, more serious changes occurred.

"Livestock in the village gave birth to deformed stillbirths one after another...

I hate to associate this with the weird weather outside the window.

Until today I was told that those are also found in newborns...

Is it a plague, or a virus? "

——Alchemist Morgan's diary, March 1009, 3 in the Arad calendar

"The asylum is overcrowded, and my patients, or prisoners, are becoming more and more manic.

First they bit each other in the room, and then they began to smear strange patterns with blood and feces...

In short, don't send new patients in!

Then give me more guards!
Otherwise, you can change someone to manage this garbage dump! "

—Letter from the Director of the Northmar Asylum, May 1011, 5, Arad

The countries finally realized the seriousness of the matter. After a multi-party joint investigation, all the events after 1006 in the Arad calendar were connected in series, and a terrible truth was finally deduced.

(End of this chapter)