Chapter 3773

The cat on the shore seemed to have been waiting for a while. Little Mia clearly climbed out of the Upper Spring faster, so Stella asked:

"Little Mia, are you going out with me?"

But as soon as she finished asking, she shook her head immediately:

"No, it's dangerous outside. You'd better stay here and wait for Aili. Be careful of people who come here. Don't trust anyone except Aili."

She controlled the water droplets on her body to condense into ice crystals and then shook her body to let the ice crystals peel off, making her clothes dry. Then the white-haired girl reached out and wanted to touch Little Mia's head, but was naturally dodged by Little Mia.

However, Stella showed a smile instead:

"Remember not to walk around alone. Even if you leave here, you must be with Aili."

After saying this, she ran hurriedly toward the cave exit, but after running two steps, she came back a little awkwardly. After fishing out 【Frost Mourning】 that had sunk to the bottom of the pool with her just now, she really left here.

The cat's amber eyes watched her back, with an unfathomable expression on its face. Of course, it might also be because the light in the cave was too dark.

Stella didn't look back at this moment. The girl, who was very worried about the situation outside, ran through the tunnel quickly and walked out of the waterfall.

She had thought about the situation that might appear outside, such as everyone besieging a very large giant black snake, or a man in a black robe already venting his power in the ruins and knocking everyone down.

But when the curtain-like water droplets were separated by her, what she saw was the ruin scenery under the sunset. Yellow sand replaced the white snow and buried the broken walls, and the wind and sand rushing toward her even made her skin feel stinging.

Although the sun or moon could not be seen in the sky, there was still a dim yellow light. Everything was silent, as if she were the only one left in the whole world.

When she wanted to retreat again, there was no waterfall and cave entrance behind her, only the gray rock wall.

Stella was a little confused, but immediately summoned 【Ice and Snow】 from the snake skin. With the blue ring on her left hand and the green ring on her right hand, after the two rings were held by her, they slammed into the middle—

Clang!

In the humming sound of the rings, the surrounding scenery was like a torn oil painting, revealing the true scenery that had been hidden.

Although it was still snowing in the ruins, the familiar moonlight and night color moved Stella very much. She was standing beside the small pool formed by the waterfall at this time, and there were countless corpses of snake monsters on the ground in front of her.

And Flora, Little Liana, Dorothy, and Princess Lei Qianya, who should have been here, were all gone. Stella was very worried. But at this moment, footsteps came from afar, and the man with snake pupils in a black robe walked over.

"Mr. Snake!"

The white-haired girl subconsciously wanted to retreat into the cave behind her, but thinking of Aili and Little Mia and the others still in the cave, she resisted her fear and did not retreat.

"Congratulations."

The snake clapped his hands gently:

"Trapped in the seal for countless eras, I have thought many times about what the first mortal to complete the seven-act story would look like after the seal was broken. You are far younger and weaker than I thought, but you have determination."

The snake stood in the snow and said to her:

"Those who could protect you and help you in the past have all been moved outside the ruins by me, and even the God-Caller you rely on is currently temporarily trapped in the temple.

Stella Larson, daughter of ice and snow in the North, as the first candidate to complete the seventh act and also the candidate most qualified to become the Chosen One, is there anything you want to say to me?"

The white-haired girl had gradually overcome the fear in her heart:

"I don't want to say anything to you, snake. This world will absolutely not be brought into destruction by you."

The snake made an inviting gesture:

"I admire your courage at this moment. In that case, how about going with me to see some stories? Those who once made wishes to me and finally obtained the Ring of Destiny each have their own stories. You already know the story of the Lover, but besides her, there are more stories you don't know.

Perhaps after seeing their stories, you will understand why this world needs the end."

Even if it was out of the idea of delaying time, Stella should have accepted his invitation. But the white-haired girl was no longer the girl who was a bit inferior and followed the crowd when she first came here after the Year-End Festival:

"This is unreasonable. Everyone who should be here has not appeared, and the final battle that should have started has not started. There is only you here, yet you are still inviting me to see some stories."

Stella shook her head:

"This is unreasonable, so, is this really reality?"

She raised her two rings again and slammed them together in front of her—

Clang!

The curtain superimposed on the world was torn open again, and the dizziness made Stella fall directly onto the snow at this moment.

The snake disappeared, and her current position was still at the exit of the "Upper Spring." In front of her was the ruins with snow falling, and the corpses of many snakes of different sizes were gradually being covered by snow.

It's just that although there was no dim yellow sky light at this moment, she clearly felt that the surroundings were an environment closer to the end than "Before the End." But fortunately, she was holding two rings now, and the hand reaching out from her side helped her up.

It was Ms. White.

The white-haired girl could be sure that it should be reality now. Except for the sound of the wind, it was very calm here, but Stella clearly felt that the ground under her feet was like a volcano about to erupt. Her inspiration was frantically reminding her of the danger about to appear here, but Stella appeared at the summit for this purpose:

"Ma'am, where are the others?"

After asking, she found that Ms. White's figure was actually translucent, and the lady with snake pupils explained:

"I replaced them here to protect the entrance of the Upper Spring. This is also the last thing I can do at the moment. They all went to the temple. The seventh act actually ended the moment you reached the Upper Spring, but the God-Caller blocked the snake inside the temple.

A small part of the original seal was still playing a role, but even so, as long as the snake struggled, it would soon be able to break free. Now the battle is breaking out at the seal entrance inside the temple. In addition to the ladies who were originally here, some 13th-tier sorcerers who entered here from outside the ruins have also entered the temple."

She carefully smoothed out the restlessness of Stella's soul:

"Except for the power to help maintain the mountain so it won't collapse in a while, I don't have much power left. Go, do what you should do, I will protect everyone else here."

"How much longer can Xia De and the others hold back that snake?"

"Not clear, it could be ten seconds or ten minutes."

Ms. White said, then raised her right hand and slashed a space crack toward her side, and the other end of the crack was exactly the entrance of the temple. Stella felt her heartbeat getting faster and faster, but she still pretended to be calm and thanked the lady before rushing into the crack.

She understood in her heart that this was probably the last time she would see this lady.

The temple gate was wide open. After Stella broke into the temple, she was surprised to find that someone was admiring the murals here.

Ms. Miss Pawo glanced at her, and after finding that it was not the priest from the 【Society of Ten Thousand Returns to One】, she waved her hand:

"They are inside... If I had known, I wouldn't have appeared so early. I have already guided three waves of people in this while."

After speaking, she continued to look up at the mural. The seventh mural was also complete at this moment, but Stella didn't have time to check the mural. After thanking her politely again, she continued to walk toward the depths of the temple. But in fact, she didn't need Ms. Miss Pawo to point the way; she could already feel the terrifying aura from inside the temple.

After bypassing that wall was a deep tunnel. Stella was about to step into that tunnel, but Ms. Miss Pawo suddenly reminded her:

"No, you don't have to go in."

Stella asked embarrassedly:

"Excuse me, why?"

She didn't know who this was yet, but the other party's tone was very friendly when pointing the way, so Stella was also very polite.

Ms. Miss Pawo pointed outside the door:

"You go to the door and wait, they are coming out."

Her voice hadn't fallen yet, first a rumbling earthquake came from under her feet, then a sudden thunderous sound rang out, and then the ground shook violently.

"Oh!"

This was the biggest earthquake Stella had experienced in her life. The undulating ground was simply like a sailboat sailing in a storm, and she couldn't imagine what consequences such a strong earthquake would bring.

However, Ms. Miss Pawo said it for her:

"If there is no power to maintain the mountain, I'm afraid the mountain will collapse."

"Mountain collapse?!"

Stella hurriedly turned and ran toward the temple entrance again, but before she went out, she heard the rumbling sound of an avalanche in the loud noise made by the mountain inside during the earthquake.

But in these two huge noises, there was still a clear third sound—

At first it was just splashing, then it became rumbling, until the loud noise made Stella unable to associate with any suitable scene.

She grabbed the temple gate in the violent shaking and looked out. In the center of this large flat area at the low part of the ruins, broken walls, snow and ice, everything was falling downward, as if the mountain under the ruins was empty.

Just in the few seconds Stella observed this scene, the area of the ruins that collapsed downward expanded from the size of a washroom to the size of two large theaters.

Dim yellow light radiated upward from the cave formed after the ruins ground collapsed. Before Stella understood what this scene represented, several figures flew up from the collapsed cave entrance that was still expanding.

The first to appear was Ms. 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 Success Higher Medical College. Then Little Liana flew out in a panic as if being chased by something terrible. The two people beside her were not recognized by Stella because they were flying too fast, but they were probably sorcerers of the Church.

Behind them, five or six sorcerers with 12th-tier or 13th-tier floating behind them continued to fly out. After waiting for two seconds, a large number of red butterflies appeared, turning into the Chosen One of Space with butterfly wings behind her.

She snapped her fingers at the collapsed area below that was now surprisingly large, so two 12th-tier pointed-eared elves and a huge undead dragon and silver dragon appeared out of thin air. Then the exhausted Flora turned back into a human form and was hugged by Xia De, and flew toward the temple direction together with the people who flew out before.