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Myths were history reflected in a funhouse mirror, filled everywhere with the unimaginable, yet you could always find the shadow of truth within them.
Anyway, after learning the truth behind so many human myths, I honestly felt like crying. Though I had no idea whether the two were connected, I sincerely felt that the rumors about 2012 must have had some infuriatingly stupid and balls-aching beginning. Maybe the Mayans had simply realized they'd run out of room while making their calendar. Maybe Ding Dang woke up one day and forgot to turn on the lights for the world. Or perhaps, on some ancient day, two hours and twelve minutes after sunset, a group of aliens holding an outdoor barbecue had shown up...
The enormous continent of Atlantis hovered above the sea of clouds beyond the World's Edge for a while. Only after the Nightfall Ritual ended did it continue descending, vanishing completely into the indescribable mist. Massive beams of light still hung in the sky and slowly swept across the heavens. Symbolizing the giant cannons the gods had once used to scour the earth hundreds of thousands of years ago, the laser beams illuminated portions of the sky. Thick clouds churned and surged within those bright patches, like a roaring ocean hanging upside down from the heavens. Though each beam only swept across a small section of the sky, those fleeting glimpses of the rolling cloud sea gave people a strangely magnificent feeling, as though...
The entire world were collapsing down upon itself.
With the Nightfall Ritual over, the monsters' banquet also drew to a close. Most of them left through the Teleportation Gates and returned to Monster Town, while some simply shamelessly went down the mountain to crash with Atlantis friends they knew. Marisa, whose