"Pure White Realm... Pure White Realm... Is there a towering peak made of diamonds there, a pillar of the world holding up the sky so it would not collapse? It takes a year to climb it, and a year to go around it. Every hundred years, a two-headed bird the size of a sparrow comes there, sharpens its beak against it twice, and then flies away. When that diamond mountain has been worn flat, the pillar collapses, the heavens fall to the earth, and the first second of eternity has passed."
Nora rarely smiled, and a trace of nostalgia showed in her eyes. "Your memory is quite good."
This was what Nora had once told Theus, to warn him of the terror of the Transcendence curse.
Times had changed. Nora had been reduced to nothing but a head, yet she still could not die. That truly proved the immense price of immortality—or rather, Transcendence.
Sadly, there was no going back.
Theus felt somewhat discouraged. "Isn't that just a legend? Besides, the book my... friend saw said that person's location was most likely in the Storm Ocean. Could the White Calamity not appear there?"
Nora fell silent for a moment before speaking slowly. "If the White Calamity truly exists in the Storm Ocean, then it can only mean disaster..."
The White Calamity could not be resisted. Even the White Crow Duchy had perished because of it. If it were to devour the Storm Ocean...
Theus licked his lips, startled by the possibility as well.
"Forget it, let's not talk about that for now. I'll have my friend look through the books again... Could you tell me more about the resistance?"
Theus intended to investigate the matter of the shell further. Now, it seemed that even the Silent Temple, which knew the