Chapter 472: The Curtain Falls

One year later, Shengcheng Pan Duola.

This piece of wasteland that was still barren a year ago now has an incomparably majestic huge city sitting on it. Whether it is the city wall that towers into the clouds, the various buildings standing tall in the city, the steam pipes that seem chaotic but reveal a sense of neat beauty upon closer inspection, or the various special machines on the streets, etc.

All of this makes this city appear out of place in this world that should only be at a medieval level.

And unlike the population of only about 150,000 when the city was just built a year ago, the current permanent population of Pan Duola has already approached 500,000. These are people who have fled here from all over the world over the years. Most of them are poor people who could not bear the oppression of the Church and the imperial nobles.

Originally, these people actually wanted to flee to the City of Sin, but they discovered this new city near the City of Sin, and it was also unafraid of the Church and the Empire, so they turned to flee here instead. And once they entered the city, the various sights that transcended the era shattered these people's worldviews. Plus the Machine Sect's doctrine that particularly resonated with these people's hearts, they were quickly absorbed by the Machine Sect and became a new batch of workers.

In short, everything seems to be developing in a good direction.

And at the very center of Pan Duola City, few people know that beneath the landmark building, the Monument of Heroic Spirits, there is actually a huge mechanical factory. And at this moment, in the factory's laboratory, a young girl wearing a nun's habit is standing at the laboratory's huge glass window, looking down.

What is seen through the glass window is a huge warehouse that looks like a square below. And at this moment, in the warehouse, countless "Adams" are standing neatly.

Well, to be precise, it is the Adam Type II War Doll. Dorothy was lazy again and used her own father's model.

This batch of dolls is different from the mass-produced Adam puppets in that war a year ago. These are war-specialized mechanical puppets redesigned and improved. Each one is a standard war killing machine.

They are also the Heroic Spirit armaments that the Home Witch specially prepared for the first batch of Heroic Spirits about to awaken. As ghost bodies, Heroic Spirits are originally good at various soul attacks, and if they possess, combined with the powerful physical destructive power of these war puppets, that combat power is very exaggerated.

"Sigh, it's a pity that there isn't much time left for me. Being able to create such an army of Heroic Spirits is also the last family foundation I can leave for Sophie Liya."

Dorothy sighs, sighing with some regret.

The first act of this Witch's Night is about to end. After all, the Shengcheng Pan Duola has been built almost completely. Just today, after that grand celebratory festival, this group of trial Witches can almost exit the stage.

At this moment, in the Home Witch's field of vision, a countdown with only two hours left is ticking. This is the last time she can stay.

However, for them, the end of this first act just means the beginning of the second act, just like playing a game and entering the next level immediately after finishing one; a loading bar and you are in in seconds.

But for the NPCs of the plot, who knows how many years will pass between this first act and the second act.

This time, they are here as internal test personnel, descending in advance, and the following second act is probably the public beta version. By then, the main student force should also be arriving soon. And in order to accommodate so many descenders at once, the timeline will definitely come to the mid-to-late stage of the God King's awakening. But according to history, that is at least several hundred years later.

Thinking that she might disappear for several hundred years all at once, leaving Sophie Liya alone to face such a big mess, Dorothy feels very guilty.

After all, Sophie Liya's fate was modified by her. Reasonably and emotionally, she should have seen it through to the end. But now, because of force majeure factors, she has to disappear for so long, which is quite irresponsible.

Although Sophie Liya and Michael on the Church side should also disappear together, with Sophie Liya's ability, she should be able to play a game of chess with the Church. But Dorothy is still not very at ease, which is why she has been trying to find ways to leave more family foundation for her childhood sweetheart.

And just as the Home Witch is thinking, suddenly someone comes to her side. Dorothy is startled, turns around to look, and discovers that it is none other than Sophie Liya.

"Ah, this, Sophie Liya, why are you here? The festival above still needs you to preside over it."

Seeing the main person come over, Dorothy asks somewhat unnaturally. She actually originally thought about leaving without saying goodbye. After all, she also didn't know how to explain and say goodbye.

"The festival is the same without me. Mia and the others are helping to preside over it. And if I don't come to see you again, I probably won't be able to see you for the last time."

Sophie Liya shakes her head, then looks straight at the younger sister in front of her, saying somewhat dissatisfied.

"Uh, how did you know?"

Dorothy is greatly shocked. She never expected that the matter of her leaving would actually be known by Sophie Liya. Is this kind of NPC catching a player logging off a bit too meta? It's a bug.

But thinking that the designer and GM of this game are actually the good sister in front of her, the Home Witch suddenly doesn't know what to say.

"I'm not blind. I saw this in the room."

Sophie Liya takes out a planning document almost two meters thick, and then rolls her eyes at this younger sister.

Seeing this, Dorothy scratches her head somewhat embarrassedly.

It's not that she can't let go of Sophie Liya, so she thought about leaving some clever tips or something. But concern leads to chaos; writing and writing, the advice that should have been just a small note expanded into the encyclopedia as thick as it is now.

And this encyclopedia was also hidden by her in Sophie Liya's room. She even specially used magic to hide it, and the magic used for hiding was also time-limited. Only after she left would the magic automatically lift.

But she ultimately still underestimated this future God King. She didn't expect that her hiding magic would actually be discovered by Sophie Liya directly. This is very awkward.

So the question comes, how should she explain it now? Should she say she has something to do and wants to elope with the sisters first, and will come back after having fun for a few hundred years?

Forget it, I always feel that after saying this, she will have to personally experience what it feels like to be an enemy of the God King today.

And just when the Home Witch is worrying, Sophie Liya takes the initiative to speak.

"Alright, don't waste your brain thinking of reasons to fool me. I didn't intend to ask you the reason either. I have long had a vague premonition that this day would come sooner or later."

This young lady shepherdess, who has already cultivated an extraordinary bearing because of presiding over the Machine Sect's affairs for a long time and has become somewhat majestic, lowers her eyes and says somewhat lost.

She is not stupid; how could she not have discovered the abnormality of this childhood sweetheart for so long?

At first, she could still deceive herself about the magic and such, but later, as Dorothy took out more and more good things that transcended this era, she vaguely realized that something was wrong, especially when she herself gradually became powerful and understood the magic of magic. She had vague guesses in her heart.

This childhood sweetheart of hers is clearly not a person belonging to this era. She has a high probability of being a traveler across time and space.

It is just that, whenever such thoughts popped up in her mind, she would always ignore this guess for some inexplicable reason, as if someone was hindering her from discovering this point. It is just that as she became more powerful, such hindrance became more and more difficult to maintain. Recently, she has already been able to resist the cognitive hindrance that seems to come from being out of control, and also seems to come from herself.

Even, recently, she could vaguely perceive that this world seems not very real, just like a dream.

And looking at Sophie Liya's gaze that seems to be able to cross the timeline, Dorothy only feels her scalp tingling.

Mom, is this the true qualification of a king? Being able to vaguely touch the laws of time and space so early, she has almost pierced through the essence of this dream of the Witch's Night.

When Truman discovers that his world is just a fiction, what will happen? This is hard to say.

Only then did she realize that her previous worries were really self-indulgent. Sophie Liya, this future God King, is not a fake who would become a useless person without her. She is a true peerless genius, the savior of the Witch World destined by fate, a true protagonist-like figure.

She has indeed been in the limelight during this period, even once overshadowing the brilliance of this God King, making people feel that the God King is just playing a supporting role and it is all up to her to carry. But now it seems that all of this is an illusion.

Just like her hiding magic couldn't fool Sophie Liya's eyes, plus the other party's strength that had long reached the ceiling of the world, this good sister was probably cooperating with her performance all along, not playing a supporting role, just not wanting to steal the limelight from her younger sister, and perhaps her own existence even hindered her performance.

Thinking about it carefully, it is also true. The reason why she performed so super-model during this period is entirely because she is super-model in reality. Now it is just reviewing the knowledge that was already mastered.

And she can recover her memory through this review, so why can't Sophie Liya? And her real identity...

Hiss...

Ah, this, the clown is actually myself.

Realizing this point, Dorothy's face feels hot. She reaches out and conjures a clown mask, then puts it on her face to cover her face that is as red as a monkey's butt.

"I'm sorry, it was my self-indulgence. Let's just pretend this book never happened."

She still wanted to take back that thick encyclopedia, but the book was taken back by Sophie Liya at light speed.

"You, Dorothy, you want to take back something you've already given me? Impossible."

The young lady shepherdess glares at this younger sister somewhat angrily.

However, she also quickly realizes that her hiding of her talent seems to have been exposed, and for a moment, she is also somewhat awkward.

Fortunately, in this way, both sides are awkward, and neutralizing it makes them equal to each other again.

"How long are you going to be gone?"

After a long silence, Sophie Liya speaks again.

"Not clear, maybe decades, maybe hundreds of years."

Dorothy also answers truthfully.

Afterward, the two fall into silence again.

And just at this time, holy light shines in the Monument of Heroic Spirits above, and humanoid spirits exuding rich light of faith descend from the sky, and then are guided by the formation prepared on the ground to fall into the mechanical puppets below.

Heroic Spirits are born.

And this also means...

"Alright, it seems there is no time. Sophie Liya, I'm sorry, I broke my promise."

Looking at the countdown with only a few minutes left in her field of vision, Dorothy finally gathers her courage, overcomes the awkwardness, and confesses like this.

And regarding this, the young lady shepherdess shakes her head.

"You have nothing to be sorry for to me, Dorothy. It is I who should thank you. And don't worry, I will guard everything in Pan Duola City for you. After all, this is a home we built together. I will wait patiently here for the day you return."

"Then, goodbye."

"Goodbye..."

After the final farewell, soon, Dorothy's consciousness suddenly feels a sensation of floating in water. What she sees last is her own body that suddenly collapses.

Ah, this, so this logging off is not disappearing suddenly, but lying down as a corpse.

This is Dorothy's last thought.

And on the other side, Sophie Liya in place reaches out and holds this younger sister who seems to have suddenly lost her soul in her arms. Then, she seems to have suddenly perceived something, looks up and looks at her own reflection projected on the glass window in front of her.

"Why do you have to deceive yourself and others like this, Sophie Liya?"

That reflection, which is much more beautiful, much more majestic, and much colder than the young lady shepherdess, speaks.

"This is just a substitute. Why play house with such a fake for so long?"

The reflection also looks at the body that has lost its soul in Sophie Liya's arms, with complex eyes.

"Who is the one deceiving themselves and others? God King?"

Sophie Liya is not afraid at all. She first settles her younger sister on the side, then her gaze seems to pass through time and space, dreams and reality, meets that gaze like a god, and asks back like this.

"This is a soul from another world, a time-space traveler naturally unaffected by time-space paradoxes. If you weren't feeling guilty, why seal the memory of her growing up with me before?"

"You and I both know very clearly that she is Dorothy, a gift from the gods to us."

"You ruined your own gift, now don't be jealous of mine."

The young lady shepherdess looks straight at the reflection on the glass, just watching that shadow like a god become somewhat angry.

"What yours or mine, we are one body."

The shadow says like this.

"One body, but not completely. Who let you be cowardly and afraid of losing again, and thus created me, this avatar, to fight for you?"

Sophie Liya retorts again.

Thus, just like this, the person and the shadow look at each other, and finally, the shadow snorts coldly and dissipates.

"Then you work hard. If you cannot clear this dream, then everything is just empty talk."

... God King trembling in anger.... ===== CHAPTER 473 =====