Chapter 650 Drastic Measures (1/2)

Chapter 650 Drastic Measures

Sunny re as he could, until, finally, the Flaw forced hiriht — hoarsely:

"Maybe he just wanted to see you suffer"

Noctis laughed brightly, then nodded

"Oh, indeed! Maybe you are right Gods can be very cruel, sometimes After all, they are much more ancient and vast than kindness and compassion Or, maybe, it is not really our lives that keep the Demon bound, but instead our will and desire to keep her imprisoned Or maybe it is a test of our conviction… that is what the Sun Lord believes, at least Or maybe… maybe he actually hoped that ould free her Who knows?"

He shed, and finally added:

"If mortals like us could know the will of Gods, then we'd be Gods instead"

After that, a so shi+p

Sunny stared at the delicious food in front of hi that he had lost all his appetite

Hope… the De she was

Slowly, several things that had seeless fell into place

The jubilant crowd in the bloodsoaked Red Colosseu torture of the Sun Prince, the madness that burned in the eyes of the black steed… all of it was the result of her harrowing power

Hope held domain over desire, after all And with that power, she had reached through the tiny cracks in her prison, and drove a whole realhastly, hideous, demented hell Every aspiration, every desire, every dream, every hope were twisted, set aflame, and turned into a weapon An insidious, invisible weapon that struck at human hearts and minds from within

No one was immune to her power Neither mundane humans nor Awakened not even Saints Those ere closed and those ere far, all fell victim to the daemon's curse

And as her own hope? What was the De for?

Well, that was easy…

Hope wanted to be free

…Just like Sunny wanted to be free, really

She was driving her jailers mad, so that they would destroy each other And fro all too well Solvane was seeking out death, the two Transcendents of the Ivory City see to kill them all

The One in the North… Sunny didn't know about the last Chain Lord, but from the little bits of what the sorcerer had said, she was not in her right ht of the ti in reverse that he had witnessed at the very start of the Nightmare The Ivory Tower had descended from the sky, and the burned wasteland around it had turned into a beautiful white city

…Which meant that one day, perhaps soon, the Ivory City would be burned to the ground, and Hope's prison would then break off its seven chains and rise above the Chained Isles

And then, the Crushi+ng would be created, sorasped his two hearts