She reached out, her warm fingers, full of absolute kindness, gently brushed away the wet, tear-soaked hair plastered to Wendy's cheek.
"Ugh..." The unfamiliar touch made Wendy flinch, and she raised her broken, hollow, blue tear-filled eyes, brimming with immense fear and sadness, looking blankly at Mira.
"Wendy! I feel her kindness!" Carla whispered in her ear immediately, her voice holding a hint of forced composure.
"Cait... Cait Shelter..." In her chaotic thoughts, Robinl's last words flickered like a faint candlelight in the dark—"There is the purest kindness there..."
The purest kindness... Is this it?
But... where is Grandpa?
Where is home?
Where are those companions?
Immense sorrow, like icy seawater, once again engulfed her.
Tears streamed out.
"Take her to the second-floor infirmary immediately!" Grandma Porlyusica's voice was decisive.
She had already moved to the other side, her withered but remarkably steady hand quickly resting on Wendy's cold wrist, the gem ring on her middle finger glowing softly, and gentle life magic flowed in like a trickling stream.
"Everyone not needed, clear out immediately! Maintain absolute silence! She was forcibly sent out by powerful spatial magic, and her internal power is in utter chaos!"
"Wakaba, Macao, clean up! Be gentle!" Mira said immediately, carefully helping Porlyusica support the almost strengthless Wendy, one on each side.
Wakaba and Macao, as if waking from a dream, quickly began to clear up the mess on the ground, trying not to make any noise.
"Oh my... the residue of this spatial magic... it's ancient and terrifying..." Alzack helped a chair upright, his skin trembling slightly from the magic elements floating in the air, and he whispered his awe to Bisca.
"Waaahhh—!!! Grandpa!!... Gone... everything's gone... it's fake... it's all fake... Waaahhh..." As she was being helped towards the stairs, Wendy finally could no longer suppress the searing pain in her heart, letting out a heart-wrenching wail of despair!
Her small body trembled and convulsed violently in their arms, every tear seeming to burn her soul, her voice hoarse and heartbreaking.
This cry of pain was a completely helpless release after losing all protection, and the most tragic mourning for a lost paradise.
Mira's eyes were filled with an unshakeable tenderness.
Grandma Porlyusica's stern face also softened slightly, tacitly allowing this outpouring.
Some wounds can only be washed away by tears... On the edge of the Chaos Mountains, the night was as black as ink.
In the void, as if an invisible giant brush dipped in the purest light magic, suddenly sketched a huge, deep, slowly rotating spatial vortex in the silent air.
The core of the vortex was pure white, as if connected to another dimension.
The surrounding air hummed with a low thrum due to this powerful spatial force.
Whoosh!
Figures, carrying sharp auras and residual spatial fluctuations, instantly crossed out of the pure white vortex and landed steadily on the weathered, rocky mountain surface!
Leading them was Ezreal, his golden hair gently fluttering in the night wind, his stern face devoid of any extra expression, his silver pupils scanning the desolate mountains before him like blades.
Behind him, Erza, in heavy armor like a guardian goddess, sharply scanned every corner where danger might lurk.
Gray followed closely, his body exuding a chilling aura that caused the surrounding temperature to plummet.
Cana landed lightly, her fingertips silently twitched, and a card was clasped in her hand.
Ikaruga held her ancient long katana sheath, like a white ghost, her eyes calm yet full of vigilance.
Marcus stood on a floating ball of gold sand, his keen gaze sweeping over the surroundings.
Yukino and Lucy clutched their Celestial Spirit keys, somewhat nervously following beside Cana.
Gajeel crashed to the ground, casually twisting his neck.
The last to descend was a ball of flames that almost tore through the air—Natsu, who didn't care about the high-altitude fall, flipped and landed steadily, while Happy nervously flapped his small wings to maintain balance.
"Hah... the air is terrible! It smells like rotten leaves!" Natsu dramatically shook his arms, as if trying to shake off the unpleasant smell.
"Quiet, Natsu." Erza said in a deep voice, her gaze directed towards the deeper, darker part of the mountains, "Is that the 'Chaos Mountains'? The magic here is more concentrated than I imagined..."
"That's right," Cana closed her eyes, her fingertip resting on a floating card, a thread of magic extending like a fine line into the depths of the darkness, "It's over there, there's a huge energy reaction... with a very strange sense of disharmony, like a kind of... artificial'splitting'?"
"Hmph, that bastard Jose, choosing such a godforsaken place for his base, it certainly fits his sewer rat habits." Gajeel scoffed.
Lucy looked at the distant, vast mountain range with some hesitation, "How are we going to find Cait Shelter? This place looks ridiculously huge..."
"Maybe we won't need to look." Ezreal raised a hand, signaling everyone to be quiet, he looked up at the depths of the mountains, and a soft white light illuminated his eyes, "Guys, I think we've arrived just in time."
No sooner had he spoken than everyone followed Ezreal's gaze.
Rumble rumble rumble!!!!!!
The entire world suddenly let out a deafening roar!
It was not an earthquake, but a burst of magic originating from the core of the earth, carrying an indescribably ancient will!
In the central area of the Chaos Mountains, an extremely thick, colossal pillar of light, piercing the sky, tore through the pitch-black night sky without warning!!
That pillar of light was by no means pure light or dark!
It presented an absolute dichotomy—one half was blindingly bright, pure light that seemed capable of purifying everything; the other half was viscous, turbid, deep darkness that constantly writhed and rolled like a living thing!
The two intensely intertwined, collided, and merged within the massive pillar of light!
Each fluctuation stirred the magic elements within hundreds of miles, like a ten-thousand-ton boulder thrown into a calm lake!
Immediately after, under the horrified gaze of everyone, in the slightly higher, vast central area of the Chaos Mountains, the earth groaned and cracked under an unbearable burden!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Six incredibly massive, thick stone pillars, like the trunks of ancient giant dragons, burst forth and propped up from deep within the fractured mountain rock layers amidst an earth-shattering roar!
They bore the unchanging color of ancient rock, their surfaces covered with mysterious magical runes, and each lift brought with it the collapse of tons of earth and stone!
Supporting the giant pillars was an entire vast and ancient stone city, standing in the center of the mountain range!
At this moment, this ruin, which had been silent for an unknown number of years, under the shroud of the immense pillar of light and the support of the six giant pillars, was like a slumbering ancient titan suddenly awakening, slowly, with a suffocating pressure, rising from the foundations of the mountain range!
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