Chapter 742: Hope (2/2)

Succuates slowly moved Torturously slowly, one side of the any ap and entered the Ivory Tower

Soon, he saw the faht that streah tall s Seven chains sprawled fro out of it, each ending in a broken shackle The shackles were bleak and marred, their metal torn

There was fresh blood on the broken shackles, suffused with a radiant golden glow

And between theered and involuntarily fell to his knees

Every passion, every desire, every enited, breaking out of control

In the center of the great hall, surrounded by a swirling hurricane of light and darkness, a vague and graceful silhouette towered above the broken chains He couldn't quite tell where the light ended, and where her nuan… perhaps Hope had no body at all, and was instead made of pure radiance, pure darkness

He felt as if her nebulous visage was almost human-like, but also inexplicably alien The shapes and contours were both correct and wrong… both fa

And beautiful… so beautiful…

She was thehe had ever seen

She was thehe had ever seen

She was…

Divine, unholy, unknown, unknowable

…A dae

Sunny couldn't see much, but he clearly understood that Hope was ready to disappear Maybe she was already half-gone, and all he saas an afterie

And yet, he had to… he had to…

His mind was scattered and empty, and he didn't quite remember what he wanted to do

What he desired…

Sunny gritted his teeth, and then screa his desire dictate the question:

"Wait! Don't go! Tell ht did this! Why did the Gods imprison you?! Why couldn't they just kill you?! Why?!"

The Deht that he would not receive an answer

But then, soed

Hope moved, and was suddenly beside hiht and darkness, encompassed the whole world Her radiant eyes peered into the deepest, most hidden parts of his soul

And then, a voice that sounded like the rustle of countless leaves, like a myriad of prayers, like the wind that bleeen the stars whispered into his ear:

"Because we are their Flaw"

Sunny's eyes greide

And then, everything becahtmare was over