The Destruction That Once Was
It felt like being cast to the end of time. So had the apocalypse really happened?
Even as he deeply contemplated his own miserable predicament, Fu Qian still couldn't help thinking about the central question.
He even recalled Su Gao's Mom's story with its two endings.
It could all just be the product of an overactive imagination, but if he treated it as unofficial history, a few things suddenly fit together--
The apocalypse had really happened, starting from this very spot...
The barrier mentioned vaguely in the previous mission summary was real. Mother of Gospel had taken a different path and finally led the people of the Institute into disaster, successfully breaking through...
The miracle beneath the Institute of Curses was indeed likely connected to the apocalypse. The reason it could only be activated nearby was that this was where the apocalypse had descended...
And the "Ark" that had drifted through time and space for a thousand years had been drawn here for the same reason, coming to rest in the place from which it had first set sail...
The Ark's homeland had been endowed with some kind of supernatural quality connected to a Higher Being named Meria, who seemed to take Snow Tree as her symbol...
And, most importantly, the apocalypse had happened very recently—not a thousand years ago—so recently that it even involved people he knew...
It all sounded perfectly reasonable. There was just one problem: the apocalypse—where had it gone?
If it had already descended, why had Mother of Gospel been sneaking around and causing trouble at Silver Mist Manor not long ago?
Could it really be a completely unrelated parallel universe?
Of course not.
Most of the events above had clearly taken place in the real world he had experienced.
So