"Don't you regret it?"
"I have no regrets in this life."
Elizabeth was slightly dazed. She seemed to see the shadow of her former self.
Unlike the army that had once sought to stir up the great tide of revolution, the Falas Undying Squad was the very reason the Falas Empire had been founded.
They were the ones who stood guard within the darkness.
"Born in darkness, die in obscurity."
"We are the sharp sword in the darkness!"
"Control, surveillance, until death!"
"Everything is nothing but an illusion. It never existed, and need not exist."
"Forever loyal to civilization."
Amid hazy light and shadow, the oath that had vanished into history echoed once more like crashing waves.
The last captain of the Falas Undying Squad knelt on one knee, head bowed, the longsword in his hand plunged deep into the earth.
Blaze burned, and candlelight flickered dimly.
Like a bonfire kindled in the darkness, it brought long-lost light.
The world began to tremble. The ground shook as rubble kept falling.
At some point, the wolf in the relief had awakened and vanished into the darkness.
Ghostly blue flames burned in Elizabeth's eye sockets as she gazed into the distant depths of darkness.
There lay the purest black, as though it could devour even one's gaze.
Corruption.
The calamity that had once appeared in Kolo had been jointly sealed away by every race. It could only be sealed, and the Falas Undying Squad had been the army assigned to watch over it.
The place of sealing was naturally not Kolo, but another special space connected to Kolo through the Falas Imperial Capital region.
As Corruption devoured everything, that connection had naturally been severed.
Elizabeth had not expected that space to be linked to Chaos Land.
Yet on second thought, it made