You Still Have to Read This Book of Mine
Books. Everywhere.
An exquisite, magnificent crystal Silver Lamp hung beneath the glass skylight, ink-black words revolving around it like rings of stars, while light as soft as quicksilver brushed over row upon row of tightly packed bookcases. This was the largest library Ash had ever seen—or rather, a Library Labyrinth. He sat in the atrium on the bottom layer and looked up, estimating that the library had dozens of floors, and felt with painful clarity how small he was before knowledge.
The spines of books in different colors were like treasured swords. Hidden here, perhaps no one knew what sharpness lay within them, but the moment they were drawn, the entire world would have to submit to their brilliance.
This was the craving in the deepest part of Vesir's soul. She wanted to exhaust every truth and wield the authority of knowledge. Ash was surprised, yet also felt it made sense. Although the Silver Lamp he knew had spent her life aiming to destroy her own homeland, the reason Silver Lamp had become so steadfast in her belief in destroying the world came entirely from the Grey Fox Inheritance in the Dead City.
During that long, unknown night, the young Vesir underwent the most profound metamorphosis of her life. She saw through the destruction of the Grey Fox God Era and was shaken by its brilliance and greatness, and only then did she finally undo her moral shackles completely, accepting the world-destroying mission of bearing all evil.
It was precisely because they possessed knowledge that the Grey Fox Artificers could create the "Sanctuary" hidden in the cracks of time, but even so, they still could not change their ending. Yet inside the "Sanctuary," they prophesied Senluo's ultimate fate: either a painless