Gray Mist surged in front of Li Wen, twisting and changing like a living thing. Those tiny ash particles adhered to the surface of the cloak, making a subtle "hissing" sound, like countless insects gnawing at the cloth. She raised her hand to brush away the ashes on her shoulder, feeling a burning tingling sensation on her fingertips - these seemingly harmless dust were slowly eroding Emerald Star Cloak's protection.
"The Tide..." Li Wen subconsciously repeated this word, and the sound was swallowed up by the thick Gray Mist before it could spread.
The so-called "The Tide" is the prelude to Twilight of the Apocalypse. In her previous life, she had heard of this disastrous vision countless times, but it was only three times that she could witness it with her own eyes and leave deep memories.
The first time happened in the town where she lived, taking away her sister and almost all her companions. It is said that the Tide almost destroyed half of Kingdom of Arthur that time, and also paved the way for Dark Dawn to destroy the kingdom later; the second time happened in On the eve of her hunt for Frost Giant, the Tide swept through the three northern countries, turning the entire tundra into an eternal dead zone, which directly caused "White Death God" to descend from the void to Mortal World; as for the third time...
That was already a matter of Li Wen joining Strategy Group and accompanying the frontline troops to seek a way to save the world in the open sea. Li Wen still remembers that ordinary evening. The Tide came without warning and took away the lives of half of the members in an instant. That was the only time she faced and survived the Tide.
Only in this way can Li Wen react quickly. This Gray Mist and these ashes are all manifestations of the Tide's power.
No one has ever been able to completely define the form and operating rules of the Tide. It can come in any form and at any time and bring irresistible destruction. Li Wen According to his own understanding, the so-called the Tide should be a comprehensive collapse of the existing order and laws. Life is no longer life, and matter does not constitute things.
In this case, time naturally becomes chaotic.
Li Wen looked solemn. After she confirmed that this area was indeed affected by the Tide, she no longer felt that she could successfully find Short Hand through Ash Corridor. At least with her current strength, it is absolutely impossible to escape from the Tide without using Urd's Thorn.
However, she didn't intend to give up. Now that she was here, she should at least understand why the Tide appeared here, and what kind of situation and power the Tide here was operating.
Gray Mist There was a small cracking sound from deep, like countless mirrors shattering at the same time. Li Wen's boot sole suddenly sank into the ground - not sinking, but the material that made up the ground was decomposing. She looked down and saw that the black stone brick road under the ashes turned into fine sand and flowed from her feet. Each grain of sand continued to split during the falling process, and eventually turned into fluorescent powder that was finer than dust.
"The structure of matter is disintegrating..."
She reached out and touched half of the stone pillars beside her. As soon as her fingertips touched the surface, the seemingly solid rocks collapsed like frightened sand castles. What's even more weird is that the collapsed rubble suddenly solidified on the way down, then floated upwards contrary to common sense, and finally suspended at the level of her eyes, forming a broken three-dimensional puzzle.
The power of dusk filled the whole body, and Li Wen floated.
A faint blue phosphorus fire suddenly lit up in Gray Mist. Under the light of the fire, Li Wen saw his shadow being torn into seven. They vibrated at different frequencies: the shadow on the far left was raising the dagger in slow motion; the one in the middle had already completed the thrusting action; and the shadow on the far right simply turned into a flowing asphalt-like substance, seeping into nothingness along the cracks in the disintegrated ground.
Li Wen instinctively took half a step back, but the heel of his boot hit some kind of soft obstacle. She suddenly turned around, only to see a flesh-colored broken wall appearing behind her. Colorless mucus seeped out from the cracks in the wall. It was a substance between solid and liquid, and it was devouring the wall at a speed visible to the naked eye. When the mucus comes into contact with the floating gravel, both of them suddenly vaporize at the same time, leaving text-like traces in the air that disappear for a long time.
A burst of children's laughter floated from the fog.
Li Wen gripped the dagger and followed the sound. Gray Mist suddenly became thinner, revealing a little girl playing with a ball ten meters away. The child is wearing a faded blue skirt. Every time the ball bounces, it leaves a pale golden trail in the air. Those trails intertwine into a network, cutting the space into irregular geometries.
"Sister, do you want to play together?"
The girl turned her head and Li Wen saw that the left half of her face had a normal childish face, but the right half was covered with bark-like wrinkles. What's even more frightening is that when the girl talks, the corners of her mouth are torn to the base of her ears, revealing not her teeth, but countless eyeballs crowded together.
Li Wen's heart sounded alarm, she swung her dagger and slashed out a Spell-less Arc Light, the curved light blade flew towards the girl, but was swallowed up by Gray Mist who appeared at the right time. When Gray Mist came back, all the visions disappeared instantly. It seemed that whether it was the girl shooting the ball or the collapsed ground, they were all the hallucinations of Li Wen.
But Li Wen didn't act rashly, she didn't even cancel Witch State.
At this moment, a burst of light came from deep in front. Li Wen looked at it intently, only to see a familiar arc-shaped light blade fly out from the depth of Gray Mist, cutting off her neck very quickly, delicately and accurately.
Fortunately, Li Wen under Witch State can be said to be immortal - at least until the progress of Twilight Erosion is overflowed.
Li Wen straightened his head, and the wound disappeared in an instant. She quickly opened the character panel, only to find that the content on it had become garbled and irregular.
If you can't see the panel, you don't know how much time you have left. Li Wen simply stopped hesitating and started flying forward at full speed.
On the way forward, there were unknown objects flying towards Li Wen. Li Wen flashed past them one by one, but the unknown objects exploded the moment they approached. The flying fragments condensed into ice crystals in the air, and then turned into a group of fluttering gray moths. These moths had human faces on their wings, and each one was a face that Li Wen had an impression of.
Li Wen snorted coldly, and used her dagger to knock down the gray moths one by one before they flew towards her face. But the moment Li Wen killed the last gray moth, she suddenly lost her balance and fell heavily to the ground.
The petite body rolled on the uneven ground several times before stopping. When Li Wen stood up again, he found that he had forgotten how he had flown before.
Is this also the influence of the Tide?
Li Wen gritted his teeth, used Divine Prayer to recover from his injuries, then randomly determined a direction and moved forward at an extremely fast speed. This time, she no longer paid attention to anything or any situation. No matter what happened, she regarded it as an illusion. If the way forward was blocked, she would take a detour. If she couldn't get around, she would turn around and run in the direction she came from. If she kept going like this, she would always find an exit.
Speaking of which, what is she doing here?
Before Li Wen could recover from it, the Gray Mist in front of her suddenly cleared up, revealing a vast and clear field of vision - she had successfully passed through the Gray Mist.
What appeared in front of her was a vast gray desert with a dark and deep sky. In the desert stood the ruins of countless pyramid-shaped temples. Those temples gathered into mountains, supporting the remains of a city.
Li Wen looked down at the fine gravel at his feet, breathing calmly as never before. Finally she found it.
After hesitating for a moment, she walked towards the city, but before she took a few steps, she stopped and looked at Sky Dome with a frown.
She didn't know if it was her imagination, but the sky seemed darker than what she had seen before.
Soon Li Wen knew that this was not an illusion. The Sky Dome in her eyes was indeed changing slowly. It was getting darker and darker, but that was not a change in the weather, but another obvious situation - when a huge thing is approaching you, its shadow will naturally fall on you.
Li Wen's face was expressionless. She really didn't know what kind of expression or words to use to face the next situation, or that it all meant nothing.
The next moment, Sky Dome completely fell, destroying everything in the desert.
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Passing through the bronze door, walking out of the stairs, and arriving at the bottom of Amber City, Li Wen cautiously moved forward in this cold Gray Mist. The soles of his boots made a crisp sound when stepping on the uneven ground. It seemed that he had stepped on something. Of course, it could also be an illusion.
"Is this Outer City?"