Chapter 484 (1/2)

The first painting had the richest contents

It depicted a throne constructed with swords and bones, and blood red long s and tall black columns were behind it It seeed her consciousness into it, she could even see the city outside the ith endless spires What caught her attention the h the city—if the spires around it were the buildings of Hermes residents, then the Stone Gates at least five times as tall as the church's Tower of Babel, which coainst common sense

What was ates was black, as if a large and s its middle However, as she looked closely, there seemed to be an immeasurable depth to the darkness The more she stared at it, the more uneasy she felt

Zero only focused her attention on thefor a while and soon turned it to the throne

She did not see the lord of the throne today

The things she saw in her e For exa on the throne, his head covered with a frightening black helh his eye sockets However, this was not very co to the records of secret history, this painting depicted the city where the deinated from and first appeared—the Northwestern corner of Land of Dawn

Zero agreed with this theory The painting's blood red colors and black spires were very si environments, and the helmet of the owner of the throne had a distinct dee part was that its body was exactly like that of a regular hu and horrific bodies of the Fearsome Demons or Lords of hell recorded in the Holy Book Thus, there were many speculations about its identity Some popes believed that it was the source of evil, while other witches thought that it was a uarded the secrets of God

The second painting was much more mysterious

It had few contents, which see At least in Zero's limited number of observations, she had never seen the saht blue water rippled backward against three large skeletons, which were completely hollow inside, but the water was somehow held outside the bones by an invisible barrier It was as if the giant skeletons were keels supporting the side ports, and she felt like she was in a boat and looking out through the —except these s spanned the entire wall

Zero was quickly enthralled by the strange scenery in front of her She was standing at the border betater and sky, with half of her underwater, and the other half floating above She could see the bright sunlight and sparse clouds above her, but her legs were encased in water Under the sun, she could clearly see the color of the water changing froreen, as it went deeper and deeper

Suddenly, the scene began to shake, and Zero felt the world tremble below her and almost fell over She subconsciously tried to open her eyes but stopped herself at the last second ”This isn't reality,” she told herself ”This is God giving you a sign”

The water was quickly rising and almost drowned out the sky

Or, perhaps the water was not rising, but she was sinking doards

Soon, everything outside the as covered by water, and she even saw red fish swi by the skeletons First, there were only a few of them, but then there were more and more, and the dense schools of fish surrounded the invisible barrier like a red ribbon The water gradually changed froreen to a dull black, until the scene was shrouded in a complete darkness and totally disappeared

Zero broke out of the painting, panting This was the first time she experienced such a clear vision, and when the darkness covered her eyesight, she felt like she was about to choke However, she did not find any useful clues—according to the secret history, the contents of the second painting were always changing Soiant eyeball, others saw a volcano spewing bubbles and yellow sht No observers had ever seen the sa