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Or perhaps, only by forcibly merging the two beings, "god" and "dragon," which are capable of subverting common sense, to give birth to an unimaginable chaotic product, can an ultimate variable be created that can tear apart the old order?
"Move forward regardless of everything..."
Matouchi's Garan Demon Eyes narrowed slightly, the intense pain in his eye sockets seemingly transforming into a key to understanding this madness.
Reason is the means, emotion is the core.
Thirty years of planning was the prelude, and the instantaneous sacrifice was the climax.
Creating gods is the process; breaking the order is the end.
Hartres, this man of extreme contradictions, is launching the most resolute, most insane, and most reckless charge against the wall of order that binds all things, using gods as sacrifices and dragons as hammers!
Matou Ike watched as Iskandar's final divine radiance completely merged into the bronze veins, and watched as Albion's cold, ancient vertical pupils, deep within the temple, erupted with an even more violent light due to the infusion of this divine nourishment.
So he thought that offering sacrifices to the final dragon was more important than establishing order in the magic of the Age of Gods?
Chapter 645 Sixteen Thousand Years (4k)
The scorched crimson earth turned into churning blood and mud, and the torn sky flowed with wounds of molten gold. The primal power unleashed by Albion's awakening had already caused ripples of destruction that extended beyond the underground of London, beyond the borders of Britain, and even... beyond the limits of human cognition!
Boom-! ! !
That was not caused by tectonic movement, but by an ultimate "heartbeat" that was so heavy that it could cause the soul to collapse, directly affecting the very foundation of the planet's existence, and it exploded in some immeasurable deep dimension!
next moment--
London, the ancient city of fog, is groaning with the weight of its millennia-old bricks!
The gold paint on Buckingham Palace's dome peeled off amidst the violent tremors, the hands of Big Ben swung wildly and emitted a piercing, mournful sound, and the Thames River surged back, forming turbid waves that crashed against the banks.
The streets were like paper strips being crumpled by an invisible giant hand, instantly covered with cracks, and the ancient buildings twisted and tilted amidst tooth-grinding groans!
Screams, alarms, shattering glass, collapsing walls... all blended into a symphony of despair!
Britain, the coastline of this island nation is crying out!
The white cliffs of Dover crumbled like fragile biscuits, plunging into the churning North Sea! The mountains of the Scottish Highlands groaned deeply, as if a sleeping giant were turning over!
The ancient rock strata of the Benning Mountains were torn open by an invisible force, creating a bottomless rift!
Rivers changed course, lakes boiled, and the land undulated like a lone boat on a raging ocean!
And then... the whole world!
Paris! The Eiffel Tower swayed violently like a reed in a gale, and the Seine River overflowed its banks onto the boulevards! The Louvre's glass pyramid was covered in spiderweb-like cracks!
Berlin! The statue of Victory atop the Brandenburg Gate crashed down with a deafening roar, shattering into pieces! The Spree River surged with turbid, gigantic waves!
Rome! The ancient columns of the Colosseum groaned under the weight of the world, and dust fell from the dome of the Pantheon! The Tiber River overflowed its banks!
New York! The steel forest of skyscrapers crumbles like building blocks being shaken by a giant, glass curtain walls raining down! The torch of the Statue of Liberty flickers and trembles! The Hudson River surges with black, raging torrents!
Tokyo! The tip of the Tokyo Skytree traces a breathtaking arc, the sea of neon lights flickering and then flashing wildly again in an instant! The waters of Tokyo Bay churn as if boiling!
Cairo! The Giza Plateau trembled in the dust, and the face of the Sphinx seemed contorted in agony! The muddy waters of the Nile overflowed its millennia-old banks!
Sydney! The Opera House's iconic shell roof cracked with a chilling sound! The Harbour Bridge's cables screamed in agony under extreme strain!
From the most bustling modern cities to the most remote ancient villages, from equatorial rainforests to polar ice caps... the entire planet, every corner, every inch of land, every ocean, was simultaneously gripped by an unprecedented, all-encompassing convulsion of terror!
This is not a localized earthquake!
This is a globally synchronized, unprecedented planetary-level earthquake!
Panic, like the deadliest virus, spreads and erupts at the speed of light throughout the network of human civilization!
People screamed as they fled from the shaking buildings, stumbling and trampling on the cracked streets! Communications were down, power was cut off, and transportation hubs were reduced to ruins!
In hospitals, equipment tipped over, and surgeries were interrupted! Schools, shopping malls, train stations... all places where people gathered were turned into vortexes of panic!
The fear of the unknown and the despair of the impending apocalypse instantly shattered the dam of reason! Cries, prayers, and hysterical roars echoed across every trembling piece of land!
The magic world was horrified: deep within the Clock Tower headquarters, even with layers of protective barriers, dust was falling from the ancient stone walls, and the stored magical artifacts were exploding one after another!
The bureaucrats in the Department of Law and Politics could no longer maintain their composure; their faces were filled with disbelief and horror!
Magic workshops, spiritual vein nodes, and heritage sites in various places, magicians who are usually high and mighty are now all pale-faced, feeling the violent pulse from the earth veins beneath their feet, like the dying wails of a planet!
The magical foundation upon which they depend for survival and which they are proud of is being completely shaken by a tyrannical and unreasonable planetary force!
The lament of the earth's veins: For those who can sense the spiritual veins, this disaster is even more direct and terrifying!
The global spiritual network, like the nerves and blood vessels within a planet, is currently being torn apart, twisted, and overloaded by the "existential spasm" triggered by Albion's awakening!
Invisible etheric torrents surged violently between heaven and earth, forming destructive energy storms!
Those magical facilities built on key spiritual vein nodes were instantly melted down like candles thrown into a furnace!
The intricate barrier burst like a soap bubble! The ancient seal teetered on the brink of collapse under the onslaught of the raging earth's ley line energy!
"The planet... is turning over... is it really going to be this serious?"
Deep in the mountains of the Far East, amidst the smoke and dust of a collapsed temple, the emperor gazed at the distorted horizon in the distance and murmured to himself.
Albion, the son of the planet slumbering beneath Britain, awakened for the first time with a "turning over," and its first "heartbeat" proclaiming its existence, triggered a geological disaster that was not localized.
The global spasm of terror has not yet subsided; the roar of collapsing bricks, the desperate cries of crowds, and the shrill screams of the earth tearing apart still echo over every continent.
However, this physical disaster that destroyed buildings and tore the earth apart was merely the most superficial and "mild" prelude to this catastrophe!
Following closely behind, and even occurring simultaneously with that planetary-scale tremor, was a cognitive tsunami that was even more thorough and fundamentally upending to human civilization—
A mysterious leak!
That heavy "veil" woven by the Magic Association over a thousand years with countless lives lost and conspiracies—
The absolute ironclad rule of concealing the mysterious and isolating oneself from the ordinary world—in the convulsions sweeping across existence caused by Albion's awakening on this planet, it was ruthlessly and thoroughly torn apart like a fragile spider web!
For the first time, the mystery that had been carefully concealed and isolated "inside" was presented directly to billions of ordinary people across the planet in the most brutal, irrefutable, and overwhelming way!
Above the turbid, raging waves of the Thames, there are not only floating ruins.
In the churning river water, countless translucent, phosphorescent, and twisted "spirits" that resembled drowned vengeful ghosts surged out with the crashing waves!
They defied the laws of physics, piercing through collapsed bridges and weaving through panicked crowds, leaving behind a chilling chill and insane babbling!
As the hands of Big Ben swung wildly, their shadows projected huge, clear, and constantly rotating runes onto the cracked plaza floor, radiating ominous magical energy!
The Seine water that flooded the streets was not a muddy yellow, but rather a strange, dark red color, like diluted blood!
What's even more chilling is that countless tiny "fairy" silhouettes, seemingly made of light and shadow, float on the water's surface. They emit sharp, piercing laughter that only a few can hear, chasing after the fleeing vehicles!
Inside the Louvre's shattered glass pyramid, those dusty antique armors, right before everyone's eyes, seemed to be driven by invisible knights, slowly and stiffly... stood up!
The dust storms rising from the Giza Plateau are not just filled with collapsed boulders.
A gigantic, indistinct, yet ancient and majestic phantom of the Sphinx, composed of pure yellow sand, looms above the pyramid complex!
They roared silently, each breath whipping up an even more violent sandstorm! In the murky floodwaters of the Nile, enormous, house-like, scale-covered shadows could be vaguely seen swimming in the depths!
The streets lined with ancient temples trembled as countless ema (wooden plaques for making wishes) rained down from the shrine's shelves.
However, these ema did not land. Instead, they burst into a ghostly blue flame in mid-air, revealing hideous demon faces and twisted characters within the flames. They transformed into a real rain of curses, which fell upon the terrified crowd!
The ancient stone lanterns lit up on their own, casting not a warm light, but terrifying shadows that twisted and writhed like a procession of demons!
Towering trees collapsed in swathes under an invisible force, revealing massive stone ruins buried deep underground, engraved with incomprehensible totems.
The surface of the ruins shimmered with a fluorescent green light, and the air was filled with an intense, nauseating aroma of vegetation and... the oppressive force of some immense will awakening!
Strange, magical hissing and roaring sounds, never before recorded, echoed from every corner of the rainforest!
This is no longer a vague legend, a imagined ghost story, or an "unsolved mystery" that science cannot explain for the time being!
This is a living, mysterious entity that cannot be explained by the existing scientific framework and directly affects our senses and reality!
In shaky footage taken by ordinary people with their mobile phones, ghosts roaming the streets, fairies floating in the air, and giant beasts made of sand and dust were clearly recorded!
The global communication networks, which were paralyzed and then briefly restored, are filled with hysterical descriptions from witnesses and bizarre photos and video clips!
The hospital's emergency room was overwhelmed with patients exhibiting unprecedented symptoms such as "magical erosion," "mental pollution," and "spirit possession"!
Doctors were helpless in the face of these symptoms and could only watch as patients writhed in pain and madness!
The church bells were drowned out by the believers' desperate prayers and their fearful cries of "divine punishment"!
Panic escalated into a complete cognitive collapse in an instant!
Faith is wavering!
The foundations of science are crumbling!
The stable and orderly worldview that humanity has built up over thousands of years was torn to shreds at this moment by countless cold and eerie "hands" reaching out from "the inside"!
The Magic Association's millennia-old ironclad rules have been utterly broken at this moment!
The principle of concealment —
This is considered the absolute principle upon which the magic world survives, transcending all factional struggles—
Faced with the planetary-level convulsions and mysterious revelations triggered by Albion's awakening, it all became a pale and powerless joke!
Deep within the Clock Tower headquarters, a deathly silence replaced the previous horror.
The magicians of the Clock Tower looked ashen-faced as they watched the supernatural images spreading wildly around the world on the monitoring screens, witnessing the absolute understanding of the "mystery" spreading like a virus in the collective consciousness of humanity.
They knew that all attempts to cover up, correct, or manipulate memories were futile in the face of a leak of this scale, so visceral, and so globally synchronized.
Hiding is no longer meaningful.
The mystery has been laid bare to the light of day.
Human civilization has been forcibly dragged into a new era filled with unknowns and terrors, where cognition has been overturned, rules have been rewritten, and understanding has been overturned!
Pandora's box was completely opened by Albion's unintentional "turnaround".
At the heart of this global catastrophe, in the deepest part of the Albion Tomb, shrouded in the light of divine dissolution and boiling blood and mud, a destiny journey spanning sixteen thousand years is unfolding with unstoppable force!
The Dragon of Albion—has moved!
It was no longer the unconscious throbbing of a sleeping behemoth, but a clear, definite, and almost tragic drive of will—engraved in the very essence of existence!
The cold, ancient bronze veins that made up its massive body, now flowing with golden light due to their fusion with divinity, erupted with unprecedented pulsating light, like billions of awakened galaxies! Each pulsation was like the roar of an engine propelling the stars, eliciting even deeper groans from the earth's crust! Under the unimaginable pressure, the rock layers and divine skeletons covering it shattered and peeled away completely, like fragile eggshells!
The cold, vertical pupils that had once opened a crack deep within the temple, reflecting the phantom of the inner sea of stars, are now fully open!