With the crisp sound of jingling bells, the train shortened to only two carriages, and something like a steam train carriage crashed straight towards Angel along the metal track laid on the ground.
It's a tram... what an antique? No, it is already advanced technology for this era... Suddenly seeing a creation beyond the current era, Angel was a little dazed for a moment, and subconsciously wanted to take out the long sword composed of Flames of Destruction. He cut it in two, but then remembered that he had probably reached Western Continent by relying on "Mystic Ritual". He resisted his desire to destroy and nimbly turned his body sideways to avoid the speeding train.
After all, she was standing on the track, not the other party deliberately hitting her... She muttered, her eyes swept over the blue carriage passing by, and she saw clearly the passengers standing in the glass window.
They faced the street closely, but only their heads were floating in the air, with a bloody spine dragging below them.
The train passed by and the ringing sound faded away.
Angel is still standing where he is.
She slowly turned her neck to make sure that she was not left with only one head like those passengers, and then she chased the departing train with her eyes and watched it disappear at the end of the street.
I saw this street in Gray Fog for the first time after I "desperate" Potion digested it to a certain extent. The pedestrians, rickshaw passengers and rickshaw drivers there are all normal humans, but I just used Corpse Oil Candle to "Mystic Ritual" in the company of Mirror Person "" before, the people I saw showed signs of pollution to varying degrees, and now I am faced with a whole car of "flying heads"... As my Sequence improves, my connection with Sefirah becomes closer. What I see now is the true appearance of "City of Calamity"?
She thought about it and scanned the street again, and sure enough she spotted a two-wheeled car pulled by a man wearing a straw hat and hanging a towel. In the car sat a plump lady who covered her face with a round fan painted with flowers, plants, birds and animals.
But this time without the obstruction of Gray Fog, Angel clearly discovered that many parts of the coachman's face were rotten to the bone, and light yellow pus flowed down his chin, like sweat; the woman was wearing a waist-cinching long skirt made of silk, and her arms, side face and other unobstructed areas had swollen and shiny skin with bruises and patches.
Being watched by Angel, the lady seemed to feel something. She put down her fan, revealing a face that was also swollen and with facial features squeezed together. She opened her eyes with difficulty and looked this way.
The rickshaw also stopped not far from Angel. The driver turned back to look at Ms. Swollen, as if asking for her opinion.
The next second, there was a loud bang, the fan was raised, the driver pulled up the rickshaw, and flew into the alley next to it. The only sound left was the crunch of the wheels pressing against the stone slabs.
Ran away... they ran away...
Angel was originally prepared to communicate or fight, but when he saw that these two people were obviously contaminated and did not even know whether they were living people, they ran away "knowingly", and he didn't know whether to pursue them.
After a moment, she shook her head and did not try to catch up. Instead, she rose directly into the air and observed the street and the wider surrounding scenery from a bird's eye view.
She has discovered that she is not in reality, but inside a special Mirror World.
If I were not Demoness who had reached the Angel level and was extremely sensitive to Mirror Magic, I might not have been able to detect it... She thought, using Demoness's control over Mirror World, she quickly raised her body, her vision became clearer, and a huge city came into view.
The city is almost half the size of Backlund. A winding river rushes through it, with numerous bridges and bridges on both sides of the river. On both sides of the river are wide streets and cement houses of varying heights, but there are many ancient buildings mixed in. It seems like two modern and traditional cities are mixed together, or the rapid expansion caused by rapid development has led to an imbalance in the city's internal planning and a mess.
But Angel did not find any more tram trains, rickshaws, or the strange figures he had just seen in this city. The city in the mirror was dead and silent, with only appearance and no life.
One side of the deserted city was shrouded in dark and thick fog. In the center of the fog, a tall tower with narrow top and wide bottom, with regularly protruding cornices on all sides, was looming. The bottom of the tower was shrouded in darkness, and the eerie and terrifying atmosphere inside could be heard without concealment.
It seems that that is the core of this city, this Special Mirror World... Angel looked around, and then flew towards the tall tower in the black mist.
She came here just to clarify her doubts, so she naturally went wherever there was danger, without worrying about encountering any trouble that was difficult to solve.
After all, her body now inside the "Western Continent" seal is essentially just Spirit Body produced by Mystic Ritual, just as it was when she and Klein were exploring City of the Dead Calderon.
If it weren't for her close connection with "City of Calamity", she wouldn't even be able to reveal her physical form, let alone use various Beyonder Abilitys normally.
As for the possibility of encountering an irresistible crisis or even being subject to some kind of terrible contamination, she had already considered that Mirror Person was standing next to her body in a meditative state. Once an abnormality was discovered, she would be killed immediately, let her break the secret contract, and then resurrect at the prepared Mirror Substitution.
This is the profound lesson left by "Angel of fate" Ouroboros... She muttered and plunged into the gloomy fog and came to the bottom of the tall tower.
Looking upward from this angle, Angel discovered that the entire tower was actually just a hazy outline, as if it did not belong to this Mirror World, but it affected this place.
With Spirituality's intuition and Demoness's sensitivity to mirror magic, she realized that this tower and the surrounding fog were a kind of seal, isolating this Mirror World from reality. Even Angel, as "Catastrophe" Demoness, could not break through.
"Could it be that 'Blood Emperor' Tudor caused some kind of damage when he came here last time, and even created this Mirror World, causing the practitioners of the Western Continent to build a seal to block this place? Is it related to that 'Underworld Daoist'?"
She muttered, walked into the dark and deep tower, went down the spiral staircase, and came to the very deep underground. She saw an ancient well made of stones and covered with moss. Iron-black chains were nailed into the stones on the edge, and the other end hung down from the well mouth, tightly stretched.
The deep mist that spreads outside the tower is emitted from this ancient well.
The cold darkness underground had no effect on Angel. She pushed aside the mist and looked into the well. She found that the rich blood with a strange blood color was only a few meters away from the well mouth. The water surface was as calm as a mirror, reflecting the reflection of the well head and the iron chains. The iron chains carved with many evil ghost faces were densely packed in the depths of the blood water, almost forming a closed circle.
The mouth of the well, the iron black ring, the blood, the seal... is very similar to the design of Sauron's Red Swan Castle Depths of the Underground Palace seal "Conqueror" Vermonda... Well, according to the time relationship, this is the original one... It seems to be in Disturbing the Underworld Before, "Blood Son of Heaven" Tudor and Western Continent had some contact and even exchanges, and they came up with a lot of strange things... Angel was thinking about it when the terrifying and sinister aura came from the blood at the bottom of the well again, making her shudder.
I haven't seen that dragon as huge as the city yet. It couldn't be at the bottom of the well... The calm blood itself can also be regarded as a mirror... Is it possible to leave this sealed Mirror World from here? Angel has some guesses.
She first walked around and found that there was nothing worth paying attention to at the bottom of the tower except for the ancient well and the iron chains that were engraved with evil spirits but had become blurred in the long river of time. Then she returned to the well, climbed into the well and jumped down.
Silently, she passed through the mirror formed by blood and water, and was wrapped in the smelly and viscous liquid, as if she had returned to Physical World.
But Angel knew that this place was still part of the mirror, but there was another space at the bottom of the well, which seemed to be connected to an ocean made of blood. There was no sea surface here, and it was filled with blood-colored liquid. The smell of fish and rust rushed into Angel's mouth and nose, but it did not cause suffocation, but gave her a sense of fullness.
In the boundless blood-colored ocean, corpses passed over her floating body. Half of them were headless corpses, and the other half were flying heads dragging their spines. They were carried downwards by the current, like a dark river.
Angel did not try to break free, but followed the river of corpses, gradually going deep into the bottom of the sea of blood, and approached a huge figure.
The figure is entrenched on the bottom of the sea. It is almost the same size as the Mirror City above the ancient well. It is like a giant dragon in the East, but its body is shadowy and it is difficult to distinguish the real from the real.
The river formed by the corpses and heads bypassed the giant dragon and entered a spring under it. The number of corpses seemed to be blocking the spring, allowing more corpses washed by the water from behind to accumulate above, forming a dark cloud-like tide of corpses.
Why was it blocked as soon as I came...Angel frowned and did not disturb the corpses. But she noticed that some of these corpses were slightly intact and swollen with blood and water, and their bodies also showed signs of black and blue decay, which were somewhat similar to the lady who was riding a rickshaw before.
These corpses are from Mirror City? Is it Mirror Person in the real city? That giant dragon...Angel turned around and looked at the figure the size of a city, realizing that the other person was also in reality, not Mirror World.
She tried to get close to the giant dragon, but found that just as she had guessed, she couldn't really get close or contact it. Instead, she found a square with a radius of more than ten kilometers in front of where the dragon was entrenched, and was paved with gray-white floor tiles.
Huge black, gray or blood-red stone pillars were erected around the square. They pointed to the sky, holding up an invisible dome, blocking blood, water and corpses from entering.
The square supported by stone pillars, the invisible dome, the city in the mirror corresponding to reality, the seal below the city... isn't this the Trier of Fourth Epoch? Now the prototype of the method to seal the city contaminated by Sefirah has been found... The Seven Gods also have a way to connect to the Western Continent? Or maybe they just discovered this method from the legacy of Tudor?
Angel While reading in his heart, he penetrated into the invisible dome and landed on a square so wide that the edges were almost invisible.
The location where she landed was in the center of the square and many stone pillars. There stood a classical silver full-length mirror with complicated patterns around it, exactly the same as the one Angel had seen earlier in the "Blue Avenger" treasure house.
Is this... some kind of symbol, meaning the connection between "Blood Emperor" and Western Continent, or is it really a pair with the mirror in the Ghost Ship? Angel frowned slightly, carefully approaching from the side so that he would not be reflected in the mirror, using his own mirror to reflect and look inside the mirror.
The scene in the mirror is not the corridor surrounded by Starlight Gate, but the ruins of a magnificent palace. An arm covered with broken armor is supported on the ground, with the broken end pointing high into the sky. The exposed part is rotting and oozing pus. When the pus drips to the ground, it ignites invisible flames, causing the surrounding stone pillars and broken walls to be shrouded in high temperature, and the shadows keep shaking.
Angel's pupils dilated slightly.
She had seen the ruins of the building in the mirror before. It was the dilapidated palace in the depths of Fourth Epoch Trier that seemed to have been attracting her. It was the place where "Blood Emperor" Tudor fell.
This arm belongs to Alistar Tudor? If this square corresponds to Underground Area of Fourth Epoch Trier and has mystical similarities, then the location of this mirror is indeed where the ruins of the palace are. So if I step into the mirror, I can return to the Trier underground of the North Continent? Is this the channel that was opened when Tudor activated the sealed power of Sefirah?
Thoughts continued in her mind, but one hand involuntarily raised and touched the mirror, as if she wanted to touch the huge arm that was taller than the stone pillar.
Suddenly, the scene in the mirror changed. A hand, also covered in black armor, but not much bigger than Angel, stretched out from the mirror and grabbed her hand.