This was the true reason the Lost City Ertos had become what it was.
It wasn't that Vivian had lost her memories of the city. She had never been here at all—the one who had ruled the city was her Evil Spirit doppelgänger, and the one who had destroyed the city and cast it into an alternate dimension was that Evil Spirit as well. Everything had gone far beyond Hao Ren's initial conjectures, even beyond his previous understanding of the special existence known as an "Evil Spirit."
So there were actually such special individuals among the Evil Spirits?
But many questions remained unanswered. In the end, he forcibly suppressed the various guesses and doubts in his heart and continued asking about what had happened afterward. Judging from the current state of the Giant statue soldiers and the spirit of Ertos, something else had clearly happened after the city fell into the alternate dimension.
"What happened after the city fell into the alternate dimension?" he asked Ertos mentally. "What did you experience afterward?"
"The moment the city fell into the alternate dimension, the last surviving resistors within it also died in the spatiotemporal shock. After that, the 'Dominator' stood atop the pyramid of the Great Temple for a very long time. I think it was at least several hundred years... I couldn't understand what she was thinking. It was also possible that she wasn't thinking about anything at all. During that process, I slowly stabilized my injuries."
"Injuries?" Lily blinked. "What injuries?"
"Did you think I could remain unharmed when that omnipresent moonlight descended?" Ertos's voice held a hint of helplessness. "Even the spirit form of a Chaos Wanderer could barely resist that strange red moon... I don't know what it was, but its radiance nearly tore my soul into pieces,