Chapter 106 World I:3 They both disappeared. Na…
They were both gone. Nadia looked around for a long time, but couldn't find them anywhere.
I don't know where I am, it's pitch black, I can only barely see within a meter of myself, the rest of the place is shrouded in darkness, like a rolling black fog.
"Click"
It was the sound of a drop of water falling. The darkness before Nadia's eyes instantly dissipated, and a different scene appeared.
It was so blinding, a blinding crimson, the sky seemed to be stained dark with blood, and the thick smell of blood made it hard for Nadia to breathe.
A familiar figure stood with his back to her, completely ignoring the blood covering him, and simply took out a cigarette and a lighter. With a crisp click of the lighter, the cigarette was lit, and a wisp of white smoke drifted upwards.
"How boring." A light, disappointed voice drifted into Nadia's ears, no longer the cheerful voice she knew, but a chilling indifference: "Is that all you've got? I kept you around for so long, and you're just a bunch of useless trash."
The person she knew, who was like a younger brother, muttered a few more words to himself, jumped off the mountain of corpses made up of his companions, set it on fire, and left without looking back.
It's so cold.
Nadia clenched her fist, feeling the coldness of her fingertips, but her heart was filled with confusion.
What's this?
Why is Tenas covered in blood? Why are his fellow guardians all lifeless? Why are they all dead? Why is Tenas setting their corpses on fire? ...Are those really their corpses?
Where is Reina?
Nadia wanted to chase after them and ask where they were, what they were doing, and what was going on. Why was Tenas doing this? Where was Reina? Was she also in the mountain of corpses?
But she couldn't move; it was as if an invisible force was holding her firmly in place, preventing her from even uttering a question.
The sky gradually darkened and then brightened again. This time, Nadia was in a room, which she discovered was Reina's office in the Guardian Base.
"I killed the president's child." Turner said casually, tapping the documents on the table with his finger, as if asking you what you'd like to eat for dinner.
"Pfft—" Reina spat out a mouthful of coffee, followed by violent coughing, as if she were coughing her lungs out: "Cough cough cough—"
"...Are you getting revenge on me?" Reina finally managed to stop coughing. Looking at Tenas, she saw a rare gloom in Nadia's eyes, coupled with heavy dark circles under her eyes, making her look like a demon crawling out of hell. Her tone was filled with barely suppressed anger: "Not again! How many messes have I cleaned up for you? Are you a murderer? Don't you know how much trouble you've caused me?"
Turner simply said calmly, "Nadia."
Reina froze instantly.
“If you don’t want to, I’ll drag her into this.” Turner smiled, looking gentle and approachable. “After all, we’re good friends. It’s just something I can do on the side. I believe we can resolve this by working together. It’s okay if you don’t agree.”
“She’s been threatening me…” Reina suddenly stood up, trembling with anger: “She knows nothing!”
"Who told you to keep her in an ivory tower?" Turnas was still laughing. "You want to prevent the filth of this world from harming her, to keep her from seeing any darkness. You've been settling everything for her, but I think Nadia should also get to see the world properly."
Reina stared at him for several minutes before finally slumping back into her chair, exhausted. "I understand. I'll help you sort this out this time too."
The bright office scene dissipated like smoke, and some figures reappeared in the darkness.
The figure, slightly shorter than her, had black hair that partially covered his eyebrows and eyes. Unlike his usual cloak, he was dressed in casual clothes this time and was surrounded by a group of people.
“Being shot dead at midnight is going too far,” Nadia said to Reina in the center, with a group of guardians supporting her behind her. “No matter what, this condition is too harsh. What if there’s an emergency? Are we just supposed to wait to die at home?”
"It's so noisy." Ethan held a white star hair clip in his hand, clipping up a strand of hair on his forehead to clear more of his view. He gave Nadia a smile that was unfamiliar, a kind of disdain that looked down on everyone, like watching a group of kittens meowing and teasing him: "Come on, let's all join in."
All the guardians attacked simultaneously, and a blinding white light flashed. The guardians were all wiped out in one move by Ethan, who had been gloomy but was now somewhat normal.
As the white light gradually dissipated, Nadia heard Reina's voice, which, unlike her usual calm demeanor, carried an extreme madness and a sobbing tone.
“Let us go.” Nadia saw Reina clutching Ethan’s cloak collar, covered in blood, shaking frantically. Her voice was shrill, a combination Nadia had never imagined could be so jarring: “Let us go! Don’t let it happen again! We don’t want to! I’ve already gone through it fifty thousand times. Nadia broke down on the forty thousandth time. Don’t let her remember it again—”
"We...we don't want to think about it anymore." Reina collapsed to her knees, tears streaming down her face, and murmured, "Please, let us go..."
Ethan, with his back to Nadia, remained silent and motionless, as blood dripped continuously from his hand.
"Click"
Tears fell onto the face of the person who looked exactly like Nadia on the pile of stones.
"What...what have I done..." Reina knelt helplessly on the ruins, tears streaming down her face. Looking at this place, which had been a bustling city not long ago, large tears rolled down her cheeks, her voice still filled with disbelief: "Did I do all of this? I...bombed the whole city? All of it?"
"Na... Nadia? Did I do all this?" Rena gripped the arm of the person in front of her, now cold, ignoring the warmth of her hand, and asked in a trembling voice, "Did I really do all this? Did I cause the destruction of this world? How could I do this..."
"What should I do, Nadia?" More tears fell on the face of the person on the ground, her voice broken and desperate: "What have I done? I killed everyone, I destroyed human civilization, there are no survivors left, I have killed them all."
The already cold body on the ground did not respond.
“Why, why won’t you speak? Nadia?” Reina held the body in her arms, choking back tears. “You don’t want to talk to me anymore? Because I did these wrong things? Please don’t treat me like this, Nadia? Don’t stop talking to me, don’t ignore me, how can you not talk to me? Are you angry? I was wrong, I know I was wrong, but I don’t know what to do anymore, what should I do? Nadia.”
Seeing that Reina was clearly mentally unstable, Nadia felt a spasm in her stomach and felt nauseous, with the urge to vomit gradually increasing.
Nadia simply couldn't accept this scene; her body gave the most appropriate reaction: stomach discomfort.
Nadia felt nauseous, but nothing came out.
She wanted to cry, but her mind was blank and not a single tear could come out. Only the physiological tears caused by vomiting slightly blurred her vision.
Want to change all of this? Your future.
A emotionless voice rang in her ears. Nadia looked up and around, but still couldn't see anyone except herself. Even the scene from just now had disappeared.
"They put too much pressure on your Reina, causing her to break down. They caused all of this." The voice rang in Nadia's left ear and then flew to her right, the softened voice filled with magic: "They deserve to die, they should die. In the future, the guardians of Starfall City became like that, harming many people. You never even realized that Tenas, whom you grew up with, had that kind of personality. Reina hid this fact to protect you, but she was powerless to stop them from doing evil, and could only keep cleaning up their messes."
My stomach cramped again, and a feeling of nausea surged up.
"Poor Reina, our poor Reina, driven to the brink of collapse by those people, she made a mistake and regretted it after losing everything. The world you entered before is actually the future of your world." The voice was seductive, disrupting Nadia's will: "Even if you find enough power later and regain the city's will, the future is already fixed. The world's ending will only leave behind a crazy Reina who refuses to believe she has lost everything."
“It’s really disgusting, isn’t it? They’ve destroyed everything, destroyed what was once a peaceful world. Even now, can you guarantee they really want to save their city’s will? They’re rotten to the core, along with the city’s will.” Nadia’s shoulders were covered by hands from behind, and the woman’s voice entered Nadia’s ears more clearly: “Look, Nadia.”
The scene changed again. The blond man was holding a head in one hand and using the other hand to knock all the people who were attacking him to the ground, watching them cough up blood in a sorry state.
"This is the City Will of Yangyan. As everyone knows, a City Will and a Guardian aren't that different." He hooked her chin, forcing Nadia to look at the images: "In the beginning of the world, the City Will was born in a daze, but it was already ruled by Yangyan. It was a capricious demon. It didn't even care whether the other party was also a City Will, it directly captured them and treated them like a beloved toy. If there was any resistance, it would torture that City Will with the most terrible methods. See that head? That's that poor City Will. Because its face was too beautiful, its head was twisted off."
Nadia saw it. That face, still bearing the traces of childhood innocence, clearly belonged to a child of about twelve or thirteen years old.
Perhaps He was only recently born when He was cruelly harmed by the will of the city, which should have been His companion. Perhaps He was still looking forward to the things He would encounter in the future, wanting to see this wonderful world, wanting to see more beautiful scenery, but because of this undeserved calamity, He lost His life forever.
Just like the millions of children she sponsors.
Nadia stood there, stunned, tears streaming down her face.
The scene shifts again, and a black-haired man with his entire face shrouded in darkness is holding a large axe. Ignoring the blonde girl's cries and pleas that she would do anything to be spared, he brings down the axe, splattering blood all over his body.
His bright red eyes were splattered with blood, adding to his ferocity, and the man was still sneering.
"This is the Starfall City Will, a rising star during the reign of the Sunflame Will. It swiftly countered him, becoming the most powerful city will in a short time, ruling for at least four times longer than the Sunflame Will." Sensing Nadia's trembling body, the voice subtly added a hint of pleasure: "It surpasses the Sunflame Will in its cruelty and brutality, relentlessly pursuing and killing that poor, innocent girl many times. Each time, it would find her alive and cruelly harm her, because that girl had offended it."
As the darkness dissipated, the figure behind Nadia was revealed. She turned Nadia's head so they could look at each other, and Nadia saw golden eyes that were exactly like Reina's.
The person in front of her... was the Will of Novigrad, whose appearance Rena had described to her.
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The author's note: As I finished writing, thinking about what I had written, I couldn't help but laugh.
Does anyone have a good memory and can guess where this scene is from?
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