OBS Chapter 3819 Landslide
Chapter 3819 Landslide
Chapter 3819 Landslide
The cat on the shore looked like it had been waiting for quite a while, but Mia was clearly much faster at climbing out of the upper spring, so Stella asked:
"Mia, do you want to come out with me?"
But as soon as she asked the question, she immediately shook her head:
"No, it's dangerous outside. You should stay here and wait for Ellie. Be careful of anyone who comes here, and don't trust anyone except Ellie."
She manipulated the water droplets on her body to condense them into ice crystals, then shook her body to break off the ice crystals, causing her clothes to dry. The white-haired girl then reached out to touch Mia's head, but Mia naturally dodged her touch.
However, Stella smiled instead:
"Remember, never wander off alone. Even if you leave here, you must stay with Ellie."
After saying that, she hurriedly ran towards the cave exit, but after a couple of steps she turned back somewhat awkwardly. She retrieved Frostmourne, which had sunk to the bottom of the pool with her, before finally leaving the place.
The cat's amber eyes stared at her retreating figure, its face bearing a mysterious expression—or perhaps it was simply due to the dim light in the cave.
Stella didn't turn around at that moment. Worried about what was happening outside, the girl quickly crossed the passageway and walked out of the waterfall.
She had considered the possible scenarios outside, such as everyone besieging a very large, giant black snake, or a man in black robes unleashing his power within the ruins to defeat everyone.
But when she parted the curtain of water droplets, she saw a landscape of ruins under the setting sun. Yellow sand replaced the snow, burying the crumbling walls, and the sandstorm that swept over her even stung her skin.
Although the sun and moon were not visible in the sky, a dim, yellowish light still shone through. All was silent, as if she were the only person left in the entire world.
When I tried to retreat, there was no waterfall or cave entrance behind me, only that gray rock wall.
Stella was somewhat bewildered, but then she summoned [Ice and Snow] from her sloughed snake skin. Holding a blue ring in her left hand and a green ring in her right, she gripped the two rings and slammed them together—
Clang!
Amidst the hum of the ring, the surrounding scenery resembled a torn oil painting, revealing the true landscape that had been hidden.
Although snow was still falling in the ruins, the familiar moonlight and night deeply moved Stella. She was standing beside a small pool formed by the waterfall, and the ground before her was littered with the corpses of countless snake-like monsters.
Flora, Leona, Dorothy, and Lacey, who should have been there, were nowhere to be seen, and Stella was very worried. But just then, footsteps came from afar, and a man with snake-like eyes dressed in black robes walked over.
"Mr. Snake!"
The white-haired girl instinctively wanted to retreat back into the cave behind her, but remembering that Ellie and Mia were still in the cave, she suppressed her fear and did not retreat.
"Congratulations."
The snake gently clapped its hands twice:
"Throughout countless ages of being trapped in the seal, I have often wondered what the first mortal to complete the seven acts of the story would look like after the seal is broken. You are much younger and weaker than I thought, but you are very determined."
The snake stood in the snow and said to her:
"Those who used to protect you and help you have all been moved outside the ruins by me. Even the Summoner you relied on is currently trapped in the temple."
Stella Larson, the Snow Maiden of the North, now that you are the first candidate to complete Act VII, and the most qualified to be chosen, is there anything you wish to say to me?
The white-haired girl has gradually overcome her fears:
"I don't want to say anything to you, snake. This world will never be destroyed by you."
The snake made an inviting gesture:
"I admire your courage at this moment. In that case, how about we go and see some stories together? Those who made wishes to me and ultimately obtained the Ring of Destiny, each of them has their own story. You already know the story of the Eros, but there are many more stories you don't know."
Perhaps after reading their stories, you'll understand why the world needs an apocalypse.
Even if it was just to buy time, Stella should have accepted its invitation. But the white-haired girl was no longer the somewhat self-conscious and conformist girl who had arrived after the year-end holidays:
"This doesn't make sense. Everyone who should be here is missing, and the final battle that should have started hasn't begun. You're the only one here, yet you're still inviting me to see some kind of story."
Stella shook her head:
"This doesn't make sense, so is this really reality?"
She raised her two rings again and slammed them together in front of her—
Clang!
The veil that had been superimposed on the world was torn open once again, and the dizziness caused Stella to fall directly onto the snow.
The snakes had vanished, and she was still at the exit of "Upper Spring." Before her lay the snow-covered ruins, the corpses of numerous snakes of varying sizes gradually being buried by the snow.
Although there was no dim, yellowish light, she clearly felt that the environment around her was even closer to the apocalypse than before. Fortunately, she was now holding two rings, and a hand reached out to help her up.
It's Ms. White.
The white-haired girl was certain she was now in reality. Aside from the sound of the wind, everything was calm, yet Stella distinctly felt as if she were standing on a volcano about to erupt. Her intuition was frantically warning her of the impending danger, but this was precisely why Stella had come to the mountaintop:
"Madam, where are the others?"
After asking, they discovered that Ms. White's figure was actually semi-transparent, and the woman with snake eyes explained:
"I've taken over from them to guard the entrance to Upper Spring, and this is the last thing I can do right now. They've all gone to the temple. Act VII actually ended the moment you arrived at Upper Spring, but the Summoner blocked the snake inside the temple."
A small portion of the original seal is still functioning, but even so, the snake can easily free itself by struggling. The battle is currently raging at the entrance to the seal inside the temple. Besides the ladies who were originally there, some of the thirteen rings who entered from outside the ruins have also entered the temple.
She carefully soothed Stella's restless soul:
"Besides helping to hold the mountain together for a while to prevent it from collapsing, I don't have much strength left. Go, do what you should do, I'll stay here to protect everyone else."
"How much longer can Shad and the others hold off that snake?"
"I don't know, it could be anywhere from ten seconds to ten minutes."
As Ms. White spoke, she raised her right hand and cleaved a spatial rift in front of her, the other end of which led directly to the temple's main entrance. Stella felt her heart racing, but she calmly thanked the woman before rushing into the rift.
She had a feeling that this was probably the last time she would see this woman.
The temple doors were wide open, and when Stella burst into the temple, she was surprised to find that there were people admiring the murals.
Miss Paavo glanced at her, and upon realizing it wasn't the priest from the "Unity of All Things" group, waved her hand dismissively.
"They knew they wouldn't show up so early if they were inside. I've already guided three groups of people."
After speaking, she continued to look up at the murals. The seventh mural was now complete, but Stella didn't have time to examine it. She thanked her politely again and continued deeper into the temple. Even without Miss Pavo's directions, she could already sense the terrifying aura emanating from within the temple.
Beyond that wall lay a deep passageway. Stella was about to step into it when Miss Paavo suddenly spoke up to remind her:
"No, you don't need to go in."
Stella then asked shyly:
"Why, please tell me?"
She didn't know who this person was, but the other person's tone was very friendly when giving directions, so Stella was also very polite.
Miss Paavo pointed to the door:
"Go wait at the door, they're about to come out."
Before she could finish speaking, a rumbling sound came from beneath her feet, followed by a sudden clap of thunder, and then the ground began to shake violently.
"Oh!"
This was the biggest earthquake Stella had ever experienced in her life. The undulating ground was like a sailboat sailing in a storm, and she couldn't imagine what the consequences of such a strong earthquake would be.
However, Miss Paavo spoke up for her:
"If there is no force to hold the mountain together, it will probably collapse."
"A landslide?!"
Stella hurriedly turned around and ran towards the temple entrance, but before she could even leave, amidst the loud noises from inside the mountain during the earthquake, she heard the rumbling sound of an avalanche.
But amidst these two enormous noises, there is still a clear third sound—
At first it was just a whooshing sound, then it turned into a rumbling sound, until the loud noise no longer allowed Stella to associate it with any suitable scene.
Amidst the violent shaking, she grabbed the temple door and looked out. In the center of this large, flat area at the bottom of the ruins, crumbling walls, snow, and ice—everything was falling downwards, as if the mountain below the ruins were hollow.
In the few seconds that Stella observed this scene, the area of the collapsing ruins expanded from the size of a washroom to the size of two large theaters.
A dim yellow light emanated from the cave formed after the collapse of the ruins' ground. Before Stella could understand what this scene meant, several figures flew up from the still-expanding cave entrance.
First to appear were Miss Ingram, the Nightmare Witch of the Church of Nature, whom Stella had met a few times, and Professor Miller Stewart, the Iron Punisher of the Serxus Higher Medical School. Then, little Leona flew out in a panic as if being chased by something terrible. Stella couldn't recognize the two people following her because they were flying too fast, but they were probably also ring sorcerers from the church.
Five or six ring mages with twelfth or thirteenth rings floating behind them continued to fly out. After two seconds, a large number of red butterflies appeared, transforming into the chosen ones with butterfly wings behind them.
She snapped her fingers at the now enormous collapsed area below, and two 12-ringed, pointy-eared elves and a giant undead dragon and silver dragon appeared out of thin air. Then, exhausted, Flora transformed back into human form and was embraced by Shad, and together with the people who had flown out earlier, they flew towards the temple.