Chapter 742: Hope (1/2)

Chapter 742: Hope

Sunny stood round move beneath him Now that all seven of the chains were broken and the Ivory Tower becadom of Hope, it started to ascend Slowly at first, and then faster and faster, the island it stood upon soared into the sky, leaving the shattered land behind

And as it did, Sunny felt the Nighte and looked down, at the burning city below

The beautiful buildings of white stone were ant aqueducts were collapsing, unable to withstand the terrible heat The strea stea but an ocean of flaht with it the distant sound of hu flesh

Thousands of people — those who still lived — were drowning in the fiery ocean, turning into piles of blackened bones and ash

The Ivory City was dying

Was this what salvation looked like?

…In the thousands of years to co to cru the Tear The Twisted Rock would eventually be the last one to fall

As the Ivory Tower rose higher and higher, the sight of the dying city did not encompass all of Sunny's vision anydom of Hope was laid bare in front of hi below a faraway island on a broken chain, and a shape of a shattered shi+p laying on the ground Effie and Cassie were soreat for Sunny to see them

He saw countless islands, sorey and desolate There were forests and lakes, rivers and hills, hue He saw people, cattle, beasts, and Night into the distance as they connected the islands together

Looking up fro toward the burning city There were hundreds and hundred of them, some hite sails, some with red The army of the fallen Chain Lords had arrived

As the Ivory Island rose even higher, the sky around it started to change

The change was subtle at the beginning, but as the Ivory Tower continued to ascend, it became more and more pronounced

The invisible power that held the flying islands above the abyss of the Sky Beloas shi+fting As its heart cliits balance

Sunny shi+vered as he realized as happening

The Crushi+ng… the Crushi+ng was co to the Chained Isles for the first time

As he watched, it descended upon the shattered reht

Across numerous islands, dust suddenly rose into the air Ancient forests were flattened in an instant, tall hills broke apart, rivers boiled and change their course, settlements were turned into ruins

Countless huht what had killed the shi+ps were hit the hardest, every one of the into a cloud of splinters, debris, and broken bodies The one in a second

The scale of the destruction was too large to codom of Hope was turned into the Chained Isles, paralyzed by the inconceivable horror of that sight For a while, all thoughts disappeared from his head…

Then, suddenly, his eyes widened

'Cassie! Effie!'

For a moment, he was consumed by fear, but then his hearts slowly calht

Cassie had always been good at predicting when the islands would enter the Crushi+ng, back in the future She would have warned Effie if they were in danger and taken thehed with relief Now that his paralysis was broken, however, another thought suddenly entered his e, then turned around and ran to the center of the island

Approaching the dead dragon, he hurriedly cli near the gates of the Ivory Tower

The ancient doors were closed shut, as if no one had opened theritted his teeth and pulled, putting the strength of all his shadows into it

Hope… he had to see Hope!