Chapter 1522: Chapter 1522: Titles

A streak of light and shadow crossed the firmament, falling onto the surface of the sea.

Rote dizzily lifted his head, looking towards the direction of the port.

At this moment, a nearby crowd had already surged over, breaking through the wooden fences, and entering the vast port.

They quickly and systematically dismantled the surrounding planks or fences, crafting them into makeshift slides from the port dock to the sea surface, and poured nearby boiled hot water over them, swiftly freezing and securing them.

The crowd orderly and rapidly slid from the dock onto the frozen sea surface.

Rote stared blankly at all of this, his gaze filled with bewilderment and astonishment.

How was this achieved?

He lifted his head, looking at the sky where a gigantic luminous figure with open arms stood, “What exactly is that?”

And just as he spoke, the blizzard engulfing the sky intensified, and the clouds pierced by the radiance gradually thickened, obscuring that colossal luminous silhouette.

At this moment, several beams of blue radiance suddenly descended from heaven, tearing through the clouds and landing upon the earth.

Once the brilliance faded, one by one, blue, ancient blocks filled with historical aura appeared in the midst of the dissipating clouds, materializing between heaven and earth.

Soon after, these blocks rapidly unfolded, transforming into towering mechanical giants, each dozens of meters high.

Having just awakened, they immediately mobilized, rushing towards the nearby gigantic monstrous beings.

Though the distance made the scene somewhat blurry, Rote could faintly perceive under the dazzling light, that most of those blue mechanical giants were gathered at another exit of the noble district.

“Divine Being!!!”

Many who had successfully escaped to the sea surface saw this scene, prostrating on the ice, bowing towards the luminous figure in the sky.

However, that immense luminous figure seemed not to notice the people’s worship.

The clouds gradually thickened, and under their veil, the luminous figure also dimmed gradually.

Only the blurry outlines of those mechanical giants battling monsters remained.

But soon, the dense blizzard swept in, even obscuring the figures of those mechanical giants with its swirling snow.

“All the people will be evacuated here as you planned,” at this moment, He Ao finally spoke beside Rote, “and some will be outside the North Gate, they will move along the city wall towards here, you can also arrange people to meet them,”

He smiled swiftly, “With so many people here, how to stabilize them, form order, and avoid casualties, that is your problem, Governor.”

Hearing these words, Rote was slightly dazed, then nodded seriously, “Alright.”

Boom—

And at that moment, the brilliant aurora suspended in the sky seemed to tremble, some kind of invisible ripple swept over the world’s undercurrent.

He Ao immediately turned his gaze, looking towards the city center, preparing to leave.

“Wait a minute,” Rote hurriedly reached out, looking at He Ao, he quickly shouted, “that,”

There were many questions he wanted to ask, but in the end, only the one he most wanted to ask came to his lips, “Why are you helping us?”

Upon hearing his inquiry, He Ao paused slightly, glanced back at him, then looked up at the aurora in the sky, “Just did something beneficial for both of us.”

Finishing his words, his figure soared upwards, disappearing into the swirling snow.

Rote blankly watched as that figure vanished from his field of view, he gazed at the sky’s splendid ‘Fox’s Fire’, which seemed to be the ‘origin’ of this event.

Is ‘Hein’s’ true target the ‘Fox’s Fire’? Was his help in safely evacuating the city personnel to prevent all thirty thousand people in the city from being devoured by those monsters, becoming nourishment, hindering his fight against the ‘Fox’s Fire’?

But actually, there are other solutions to this matter.

For instance, killing all the city people before those monsters do.

As long as there are no living people, there’s no nutrition.

This isn’t a false assumption, but a plan that could actually appear on the table.

If it were the great nobles in the noble district, they would ‘agree’ to this plan.

This is also the education Rote received from childhood; if necessary, sacrifices can be made to the commoners to maintain the city-state’s stability.

Of course, now those great nobles have all been encircled in the noble district, becoming the craziest and most twisted among the monsters.

Or perhaps, ‘Hein’ chose not to kill because it would affect him?

Would it cause him to become infected by the greed and hunger carried by those monsters?

When those great nobles were ‘having meat soup,’ they had already become part of the monsters and the most ferocious and terrifying group among them.

He lifted his gaze, looking at the crowd amid the blizzard ahead.

Most of them were skinny and emaciated.

‘Hunger’ entangled not only the nobles but wrapped around every commoner.

Numerous thoughts flipped in Rote’s mind and then gathered together again.

This short period of experience and contact seemed like a dream, impacting his knowledge and judgment from what he learned and experienced over decades of life.

Or perhaps, he actually never really believed in the ‘education’ he had been receiving all along.

Nobles, commoners, the rules and ideas that have continued to this day may not be correct.

After all, he wasn’t a true great noble, just a figure from a peripheral family, lucky enough to take the position of governor.

He cast his gaze forward, swiftly scanning the crowd.

Soon he found someone he had appointed, a sheriff responsible for governing a specific area of the outer city among the crowd.

At this moment, this sheriff was supporting his elderly mother, slowly moving towards here along the ice.

He quickly walked over.

The sheriff lifted his head, looking at Rote walking over, slightly dazed, somewhat surprised, “Governor?!”

“It’s good that you’re here,” Rote quickly said, “Are these people around you the residents you manage? First, gather them together, divide the area, find some who are stronger-bodied, and we will quickly gather some ice to build walls to block the wind.”

The sheriff was slightly dazed and then quickly nodded, “Alright.”

He handed his mother to a brother beside him, just about to turn around.

“Wait,” at this moment, Rote suddenly spoke, he looked at the sheriff’s puzzled expression, opening his mouth to ask, “How did you know to come here?”

This time it was the sheriff’s turn to be puzzled, he scratched his head, seemingly falling into thought, after a while, he slowly opened his mouth, “I seem to have had many dreams, dreams of ‘escaping’ from the city to the port.”

He glanced at the people around, “In my dreams, it seemed like I walked this path dozens or hundreds of times, so it was very familiar actually walking it.”

“You have all had similar dreams?” Rote asked the people beside the sheriff.

“Seems like it, sir,” the sheriff’s mother thought for a moment, slowly opening her mouth, “In my dream, my son seemed to be supporting me just like this.”

People around also nodded, they seemed to have had the same ‘dream.’

“This must be Divine Inspiration,” someone spoke loudly, he lifted his head, looking at the vaguely existing luminous figure in the sky cloaked by clouds, “Sir, this must be Divine Being’s revelation to us! The great Divine Being is saving us!!!”

“Yes, yes,” the surrounding people wore expressions tinged with reverence, “this must be Divine Inspiration.”

“Alright, I understand,” Rote nodded, raising his head to look at the sheriff, signaling that the sheriff could leave.

Then he turned his gaze to the surrounding crowd and said slowly, “You’ll need to wait here for a while, I’ll come back to call you once everything is arranged.”

“Yes, sir.” The sheriff’s mother quickly said, and the people around her were ready to respond.

Upon hearing this, Rote, who was about to leave, paused slightly, raised his hand to interrupt them, and said softly, “There’s one more thing, do not call me master.”

At that moment, everyone was slightly bewildered, staring wide-eyed at Rote, their cloudy eyes filled with confusion and panic.

They seemed worried that they had misspoken, angering this noble lord.

“Then what should we call you?” The sheriff’s mother tensed up, lowered her head, and cautiously asked.

Rote looked at their puzzled and uncomfortable expressions and then gazed into the distance at the sky shrouded in brilliant, colorful light, with the faint shadows of giant creatures moving below.

After a brief pause, he slowly spoke,

“Call me sir.”

——City District——

Towering above the low buildings, surrounding the entire neighborhood.

Whoosh——

A glow, as cold as ice, streaked across the sky, striking a giant creature and instantly freezing it.

A woman in an elegant gown stood atop an ice wall, glancing at the dazzling colorful light emerging in the sky.

The light seemed to tremble slightly but perhaps didn’t.

Kela turned her gaze toward the heart of the fierce blizzard.

There, several Mechanical Giants cast shadows, blocking monsters within the city from escaping and sealing the southern exit.

She turned around, looking behind her.

Amidst the thick snowstorm, a dense mass of people was swiftly moving along the roads, evacuating.

This scene, akin to a Divine Miracle, profoundly shook her.

These people were leaving the city at a speed visible to her naked eye, like water flowing swiftly down a slope to the sea.

Since her birth, she had never witnessed such efficient crowds.

Ah~~

It was at this moment that some sort of distant yet piercing sound seemed to echo between heaven and earth.

It was as if a singer was singing loudly, or a multitude of people were crying out in pain.

As the sound emerged, the brilliant and resplendent light suddenly illuminated the sky.

Kela raised her head and saw the splendid ‘Fox’s Fire’ above her.

The glow was so dazzling at this moment that it pierced through the snowstorm, covering the sky, and even the glowing figure on the Firmament seemed completely overshadowed by this magnificent light.

As it radiated brilliance, the radiant light also seemed to extend downward from the dome of the sky like a curtain.

In that instant, her expression changed, and she leaped backward from the high wall.

Almost at the moment she jumped back, a blinding ‘light’ dropped onto the towering ice wall like a slender tendril.

Boom——

The light instantly penetrated the ice wall, with countless cracks spreading from the hole, cascading down the wall, which collapsed in an instant, turning into snowflakes scattered across the heavens and earth.

A narrow ice path swiftly formed in the void behind Kela, supporting her body as she slid toward the outside.

The light did not launch a second attack, but after piercing the ice wall, it quickly touched down.

Kela turned her gaze toward the distant hazy snow and ice.

Amidst the howling blizzard, the bodies of each Mechanical Giant had already been pierced by strands of colorful light tendrils, their structures suddenly disintegrating into scattered luminous fragments.

Subsequently, the light tendrils rapidly reached the ground, like a ‘curtain’ connecting heaven and earth.

Then, this curtain rapidly ‘drew back.’

Orderly stone edifices, like soft piles of snow, were instantly flattened, and all monsters along the path, whether frozen or struggling outward, were wrapped up by this curtain, converging toward the center of the entire noble district.

Upon seeing this, Kela immediately raised her hand.

The ice reindeer, stepping along the ice path, emerged out of the void, pulling a simple single-person sled across the sky.

Kela grasped the sled, her body smoothly and naturally sitting into it, as if dancing, rushing toward the city’s center along the ever-extending ice path.

——

Boom——

He Ao’s body landed in the city center, creating a pit in the district.

He raised his head, looking at the ‘aurora’ before him.

Inside the dazzling and divine light, at this moment, were dense ‘cheeks.’

They were ‘heads’ arranged to face outward.

Their bodies crowded the interior, stacked together, leaving only a head, or rather a cheek, facing outward.

Whether large monsters or small ones, they were now stacked together, forming a transparent, ice-like ‘giant sphere’ at the center of the noble district.

As if netted fish, they crowded tightly within the ‘net’ formed by the aurora.

Their bodies still writhed, though they seemed incapable of grand movements, merely cramming together.

But the stacking action made the gigantic ‘transparent monster ball’ reveal indescribable terror.

A fierce and hungry aura gathered around these monsters, spreading through the snowy ground.

Even the thick snow seemed to quiver, resonating with a sense of hunger.

He Ao raised his head, gazing at the sky.

The aurora that had once spanned the sky, hanging over the entire city, had now completely descended from the sky, transforming into this luminous ‘giant web’ encasing all the monsters.

Indeed, it has come down.

He Ao watched the massive monster sphere, observing the faces twisted and struggling within the rays of light.

This was the moment he had been waiting for, when the abstract aurora in the sky descended into reality.

The terrifying pollution congregated around, with the blizzard howling through the mountains.

Intense madness and hunger spread alongside the biting ice and snow.