Dawn broke.
Eternal Night Western Black Tortoise Frontline Seven had held.
When everyone walked out beyond the defense line and began digging eerie stones out of the Strange Entities' corpses to prepare for that night's defense, they saw two piles of ashes.
Neither bore any resemblance to a human.
But everyone knew who those two piles of ashes had been.
People merely glanced at them before hurrying on to dig out eerie stones, yet silently gave them a wide berth. From then on, the names Qiu Yisi and Tianyi were no more.
The former Group Leader and acting Group Leader of the Eternal Night Hall Western Region Operations Group.
They had died in battle on the second night of the Strange Entity Clan's All-Out Assault.
The elderly man in overall command of Eternal Night's Western Region Xuanwu Defense Line Seven was trembling as he piled up two small mounds of earth atop the wall. He had rummaged through Old Qiu's and Tianyi's temporary quarters for some Clothing and made two cenotaphs.
He had also found a diary among Old Qiu's clothes.
The first page described his excitement at joining Eternal Night Hall and becoming a member of its operations group.
The second and third pages recorded his marriage and the birth of his child.
The third and fourth recorded the deaths of his wife and child.
The fifth page was longer.
"All my kin are dead, and I alone remain. What else could I seek in my remaining years but to wash the long night in blood?"
The elderly man smiled as he leafed through it.
Old Qiu had already decided on his last words in his diary.
He had written that before he died,
he had to roar out one line—
"Qiu Yisi seeks nothing but death!"
Only then