Chapter 1412 - History Thereafter (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

This was the real reason why the lost city of Ertos had become what it was today.

It was not that Vivian could not remember the city, it was that she had never been there before. The one who controlled the city was her Malevolence, who pushed the entire city into an alien dimension. Everything was beyond Hao Ren’s conjecture. It was totally unlike his understanding of the concept of the Malevolence’s unique existence.

It was a surprise that there was such a unique individual in the Malevolence.

Hao Ren still had many questions, but he tried not to speculate. Pulling himself out of confusion, Hao Ren kept asking what happened after that. The condition of the giant statue army and the Spirit of Ertos suggested that something must have happened after the city was plunged into the alien dimension.

“After the city fell into the other dimension, what did you experience?” he asked Ertos telepathically.

“At that moment, the last surviving resistance in the city also died in the space-time tremor. After that, the ‘master’ stood on the top of the pyramid of the Grand Temple for a long time, at least for hundreds of years. I did not know what she was thinking, maybe she thought nothing at all. So during that time, I slowly recovered from my injury.”

“Injury?” Lily blinked. “What injury?”

“Do you really think that I was unaffected under the omnipresent moonlight?” Ertos said with a sense of helplessness in her voice. “Even the spirit of the chaotic wanderers could not resist the weird crimson moon. I did not know what it was, but the light almost shattered my soul, and its bad energy continued to exist hundreds of years after the city plunged into the alien dimension. I thought that this situation would go on forever. But then the moonlight slowly faded, and I was able to breathe a sigh of relief.”

“And then what happened to the master? Why did she return to the pyramid?” Lily asked as she could not hold back her curiosity.

“I have no idea. But since the city fell into the alien dimension, the power of the master had been steadily declining. I am only a spirit, but I could still feel it. She had stood on the pyramid for a long time until the power of the moonlight faded, she returned to the Grand Temple suddenly, and then fell into a deep sleep—all of which I could never understand the logic of her actions.”

“There was no logic in her actions,” Vivian said. She forced a smile and shook her head. “At least after she went crazy, there would be no logic.”

Y’zaks thought for a moment and then asked, “After the master slept, did you take over the remaining stone statues?”

“They are my body,” Ertos replied. “The city residents cut my armor and bones and made them into a variety of things, including stone soldiers. But it did not matter, I was just lending them my body for a while; after the people in the city died, I will take back my body.”

When the voice of Ertos trailed off, the giant statues suddenly moved again. They turned around in a rumble and began to line up in a square formation. When Rollie saw this, her hair puffed up and she jumped half a meter high in the air. Rollie then arched her body and growled while scuttling back to behind Hao Ren.

Meanwhile, Hao Ren had roughly figured out what happened. “So these stone soldiers did not guard the master. They were watching her!”

“Not really. I know the power of these stone soldiers well. If the master woke up, these stone soldiers could not stop her. I was just monitoring this place to prevent people from wandering into this dimension and awakening the sleeper in the Grand Temple. In those long years, such things have happened more than once. The alien dimension would somehow always come into contact with the primary material world, and once the adventurers entered the Grand Temple, it would have unpredictable consequences. I remember that the last group of people who came in even stood under the steps of the Grand Temple. They were just a group of humans but possessed incredible weapons and tenacious fighting spirit. Fortunately, I stopped them.”

While Ertos’ voice trailed off, stone soldiers stepped forward from behind the formation. It opened its palm, and some twisted metal and tattered uniforms sloughed down the gaps between its fingers.

“The British army,” Vivian said as she instantly recognized it. “It is the British army uniforms during World War II.”

“Many soldiers disappeared mysteriously in history. Half of them, unfortunately, fell into a different dimension,” Hessiana said, shaking head with a sigh. “These alien dimensions are legacy of the Mythological Era, and they still pose a threat to people nowadays.”