The laughter came from high in the sky, extremely far away, but it clearly reached the ears of everyone in the venue. People subconsciously looked out through the windows of the venue, only to find that it was as dark as night outside the venue.
With a "boom", the entire east wall of the venue collapsed, and the darkness began to spread toward the room.
Amidst the noise, someone shouted: "What happened? Where are the people outside? What are those mercenaries doing?"
The area shrouded in darkness answered with deathly silence.
Realizing something was wrong, people began to attack the mysterious darkness. None of the guards of this group of rich people was weak. In the blink of an eye, hundreds of magic blasted into the darkness.
Darkness continues to expand its territory.
"elelyoh (the Most High)!"
Gottfried released a magic spell towards the darkness, but as always it had no effect. He quickly pulled Habiba and said, "Master, take action quickly!"
Habiba stared at the darkness nervously and wiped his sweat: "Don't be stupid! Let's run away quickly!"
"Escape?" Gottfried was stunned, "Why? There are so many of us!"
"What's the use of having more people! What we are facing is the disciple of the false Christ, the 'apostle' Clodis! We are lucky to be alive, run away!"
——Counterfeit Christ? apostle?
These two familiar and unfamiliar words brought back Ella’s memories of Antilia. She hadn't heard the word "apostle" in two years, since Jaber's death.
Although Ella has never forgotten that there are four such magicians in the Tianfang Empire, the two years of comfortable life since defeating Ragnar have made the oppressive feeling brought by this word fade away.
After all, she had never faced an apostle directly.
The venue soon became commotion. In stark contrast, is the darkness that coldly engulfs everything.
No one can see clearly what is in the darkness, it is pure black, even worse than night.
No one can stop the spread of darkness. It seems to be nothingness, but it seems to have weight. The wind blows on it, like hitting a solid wall; the fire burns on it, but it feels like falling into something. There is no deep valley.
It is extremely quiet. No matter how loud a person's voice is, once it is wrapped in the black mist, their voice will be instantly silenced. No matter how loudly his companions shouted outside, they could not get any reply.
One can no more stop its spread than one can stop day from turning into night.
More and more people are choosing to flee. They rushed to the venue door on the other side. Ella followed the crowd and took a step forward, but reluctantly gritted her teeth and stopped, turning back to glare at the darkness.
How could she show her ugly face in front of Tianfang Empire, the biggest enemy?
At this time, Ella calmed down. She chose a seat and sat down, looking down at the people on the high platform who were desperately trying to escape. In order to get out of that road first, they pushed and pulled. If someone unfortunately fell, he would be trampled to death by the people following closely.
She looked at the ugly crowd and pondered something.
It wasn't until the darkness was about to touch her that Ella stood up and walked down step by step at the same speed as the darkness spread.
The darkness actually didn't spread very quickly. Judging by the size of the exit and the number of people inside the venue, if it was safe outside, everyone would be able to escape.
Ella figured this out.
If anyone looked up at this moment, they would be surprised by the calmness shown by this girl, and mistakenly think that she controls the darkness behind her.
However, soon, the crowd poured back from the exit.
"Don't come this way!" The people who came back shouted at the door, "There are all these dark things outside!"
After hearing such a sound, Ella turned back and stared into the darkness.
And the darkness stared back at her.
For some reason, when looking at the darkness, Ella thought of the pitch-black void that enveloped the sun, moon, and stars. It quietly drew a dividing line between heaven and man in the venue, and continued to push this dividing line forward.
Ranwen
People huddled around the round platform, looking at the unstoppable darkness in fear. Some people cried, some screamed, and some knelt down to beg for forgiveness.
But Ella felt an incomparable sense of intimacy from the darkness. She reached out, intending to touch it.
Darkness enveloped her.
Ella felt the weight from the void, pressing her down and making her breathless.
But when she raised her head, she saw the orbs more clearly than ever before.
She saw Aphrodite, Ares, Hermes, Cronus, and Zeus. These celestial spheres revolved slowly around her, telling some kind of hidden and mysterious story. A pattern that does exist.
She saw the movement of the celestial sphere. Outside the celestial sphere, there is a layer of darkness moving in the opposite direction. Ella knew that it was the original moving sky, and it was precisely because of it that the celestial sphere would go retrograde at certain moments.
This is the law of the universe revealed to the world by Ptolemy, an astronomer who lived in the Seven Hills Empire more than 800 years ago.
It is under this harmonious order that the celestial sphere has revolved around the world unchanged for thousands of years.
Ella forgot her own danger and sighed sincerely: "It's so beautiful."
"It's so beautiful, huh?"
An old man suddenly appeared in front of Ella. He wore the traditional toga of the Seven Hills Empire and a red hat. He came to Ella, looked at Ella up and down, and asked with interest:
"Are you not afraid of the stars at all?"
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Gregory watched all this from an inconspicuous corner. He knew very well that the darkness itself was not dangerous. As long as Clodis had no murderous intention, after the darkness dissipated, those who disappeared in the darkness would wake up one after another.
He had no reason to stop Clodius. Gregory could only think of one reason why Clodis came here, and that was the "Chariot Technique".
Gregory no longer had any expectations for Habiba, Gottfried and other members of the ancient Abrahamic church. Since all the knowledge will eventually be found in the "Chariot Ascension Technique", there is no need for him to continue hiding his magic.
Even if Clodius did not appear, Gregory was already ready to take action on the book, but Clodius took action and saved his trouble.
There were still those who were unwilling to give up and continued to release magic against the darkness. The poor level of magic made Gregory shake his head repeatedly. Clodis is immortal, and as far as Gregory knows, there is no magic in the world that can get rid of him. He just hoped that Clodis could move more neatly. Judging from the current slow diffusion rate, Clodis is completely joking.
However, at this moment, an old man holding a snake staff suddenly walked tremblingly in front of the box containing the "Chariot Ascension Technique" and protected it with his body.
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