Captain – Chapter 535 – When the Firmament Falls

When divine artifacts are displaced, destiny begins to stir.

“Clank, clank…”

Without reason, those faint chain sounds that seemed to drift from the “firmament” began to become clear and dense.

If someone were to look up at this moment, they would discover that those chains that had been extremely docile, like hibernating grass snakes, were now dancing wildly.

As if trying to use this madness to conceal what was about to awaken—the world’s most profound terror.

Caine did not look up.

He only silently and resolutely fastened the small shield’s straps to his left hand.

This divine artifact was the reason he would risk great peril to set foot in this deadly place. Even knowing that the possibility of leaving alive was slim, he had to grip it tightly.

Just like gripping his own destiny.

After completing this task, he walked toward the direction he had come from. In his emotionless blue eyes, starlight was occasionally reflected—those were characters that endlessly appeared from the stone walls and ground, the Mourning Tongue that had been haunting him.

What they expressed was nothing but that sentence he had witnessed, like a verdict.

“Welcome to hell.”

Just like that devil standing in the distant distance, bowing to the visitors who entered this place, sincerely expressing his joy, then asking them not to leave.

Just please… be buried here.

Together with that key.

“Crack.”

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A light sound, as if something invisible had shattered.

Had it begun?

Before long in his advance, the young man stopped again, because he saw that strange phenomenon, and after brief contemplation, understood the true meaning of this trap.

What entered his vision was still starlight, but it was increasingly bright until it became blinding radiance.

They blazed up, scattering light like fire, until all the Mourning Tongue lost meaning. Countless rays of light intertwined and spread, gradually covering the entire underwater world.

Like the fire of dawn rising from darkness, finally completely burning the scroll of the old era.

But in Caine’s eyes, those were not light, much less fire, but rather…

Cracks.

Cracks forged by boundless mighty power.

They flowed across the ground, and the black rock silently cracked open. They climbed up the mountains, and the peaks quietly toppled. Finally, they even touched that sky.

That false sky, which was the only thing containing vitality in this deathly silent place.

Truly…

Because the strange rocks and peaks collapsed and cracked in the starlight, the obstacles overhead that blocked his vision diminished. That sky curtain, which was violently undulating and gradually being covered by cracks, was completely reflected in the first mate’s eyes.

What a grand scheme.

He thought silently, no longer having any intention of taking another step.

It was meaningless now. At this moment, all preparations and contemplations had lost meaning. No one could have imagined that the devil’s killing move would actually use the destruction of a world as its price.

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Even though this world had no vitality and was not as vast as the present world, it was still unimaginable. After all, when mortals look up at the sky, they never think that…

One day, the sky would fall.

That formless and substanceless distance would suddenly be filled with countless brilliant, dazzling cracks, followed by a “crack” sound, welcoming endless fragments and sulfurous fire rain.

The entire world was being destroyed—where could you escape to?

This was the true face of hell.

With his exceptional vision, the young man could clearly see that on that ghostly wall like a broken mirror, ink-black seawater was silently, ferociously roaring.

Like a trapped beast, wave after wave crashed against the barrier.

Then without warning, the moonlight was extinguished.

Crystal-like fragments and sulfurous rain-like dark currents finally poured into this world.

This was a true desperate situation, one that only transcendent beings could survive.

But even if he truly transformed into a devil at this moment, able to command boundless mighty power, how could he escape that evil spirit’s pursuit in this hellscape?

Oh, so this trap wasn’t prepared for the captain.

Looking at that apocalyptic scene, listening to the tremendous sounds of mountains collapsing and seas boiling, thinking of that evil spirit awakening from its dream, Caine suddenly gained understanding.

So that devil’s trap in the great triangle was never for a possible betrayal by his descendant, much less for the offspring of great people coming to invade after thousands of years.

This was a pure killing trap, designed to kill… his greatest enemy in the world.

So this was prepared for the Lady?

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Knowing that he understood too late, or rather, that even that deity had not seen through this chess game clearly, Caine smiled bitterly, feeling that he had truly collided with the wrong target.

But fortunately, it was he who collided with it.

While the young man was deep in thought, whether it was an illusion or not, he felt that time had slowed considerably. Those falling fragments and surging tides had all slowed down.

Including sounds, and even his breathing.

In this delicate perception, Caine keenly caught an anomaly amid the tremendous sounds, so his eyebrows rose slightly, and the calm on his face turned to astonishment.

That was the sound of powerful wind, the sound of flapping wings.

Something was coming, and getting closer to him.

Turning to look toward the source of the sound, the first mate quickly saw that rapidly approaching figure, heard that warning-like low roar, and the bitterness at the corner of his lips grew thicker.

You shouldn’t have come, really…

So disobedient.

The black shadow swept across the collapsing valley, grabbed the young man’s helplessly raised hand, and at the critical moment, carried him away from the shadow cast by the falling mountains.

It struggled to flap its wings, dodging falling fragments and powerful water columns that could knock a person unconscious, carrying the first mate toward the mountain range they had come from.

But… in just a few short breaths, the scenery over there had changed completely.

The dark, high mountains that had crouched like giant beasts were now all covered by starlight, with countless rocks falling like the collapse of the Wailing Wall described in holy scriptures.

Faith and hope all departed with it.

That cave symbolizing vitality had long been buried under rubble and water flow.

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At this point, the two visitors had no way out.

Destruction continued, and this otherworldly place would eventually fall into darkness…

Eternal darkness.

After an unknown time, all sounds were extinguished, and this strange secret place fell into silence again, or rather deathly stillness, with seawater seeming to fill every corner.

Only no one could see that in that darkness, among countless rising bubbles, a massive dark shadow slowly sank down, stopping at the height where the dome used to be.

“Splash…”

After a low sound of flowing water, ghostly light suddenly flickered, gradually becoming brighter and more complete.

That was a green eye, brilliant like the sun.

Then, in an extremely short moment, one “sun” after another appeared on the seabed.

As that mountain-like massive shadow continued to sink, those seemingly unbreakable chains broke and shattered like tofu, piece by piece, finally completely separating from that monster from the old calendar, like a pressing black cloud.

After breaking free from the chains, that black cloud continued to sink until it approached that rift valley.

The green “suns” dispersed in pairs, casting ghostly light that fell on the ground, penetrating through countless cracks between rocks and dome fragments, as if searching for something.

But soon, those “suns” regrouped, projecting green light toward the sea surface, as if something there was calling and attracting it.

Accompanied by boundless dark currents, the black cloud slowly floated up, leaving this already destroyed wasteland.

Heading toward that new world.