From the moment I was chosen by the holy relic

She said:

"The first battle was the quietest battle."

"The Dream Curse Tower is built in a fault valley below Windfall Ridge. Its body is plunged downwards into the earth's veins, like a poisonous needle inserted upside down into the world's nerves."

"That tower assault was the first time the league had taken the initiative."

"The League has never fought a battle like this before. It's not a siege, not a hunt, it's a tower assault."

As she spoke, she threw a piece of dry firewood into the fire, sparks leaping up like battle flags fluttering in the wind.

"At that time, the Alliance mobilized the elite forces of the five major races: the Sixth Legion of Northria, the explosive spell engineers of Feren, the Ither Mage Order, the Astra Fireball Battalion, and the Elerhill Ranger Archers. There was also a combined command of the sorcerer alliance."

"Twenty-one thousand men surrounded an entire eight-mile valley."

"They carried large shields, cannons, spell arrays, and protective platforms, advancing layer by layer into the Tower Valley. That day, the sunlight was blocked by the spell curtain, and the sky was so overcast it looked like it was going to snow."

"But the first casualties did not come from arrows or wild animals."

She glanced at Eric: "It came from the tower itself."

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"The moment you step onto that land, it will begin to suspect you."

"You will see your compatriots turn pale and speak words you do not understand; you will hear your mother urging you to lay down your sword; you will see yourself standing in the enemy ranks, ready to draw your bow against you."

"Memory reversal, misplaced family ties, distorted beliefs... Seven layers of curses advance one after another. The closer you get, the less you resemble yourself."

"On the first day, a section of the front line collapsed."

"The vanguard battalion of the heavy armored legion stormed into the Tower Valley. Of the 500 men, 364 were killed in action. Thirty-three committed suicide, and the rest went missing and cannot be found."

Leah couldn't help but bite her lower lip: "They weren't killed? Or did they go mad?"

Eileen nodded.

"The tower won't kill you; it'll make you do it yourself."

"Lin Linglong arrived the following evening."

She spoke softly, as if a valley breeze was blowing.

"She didn't fly in, she walked. She stepped into the valley from the eastern foothills, without cavalry, without horns, and without fire."

"She had just stopped when everyone saw her."

"When that foot landed, the tower formation experienced its first disruption."

"It's not because of her strength, it's because she's too quiet."

"Every step she takes is a testament to her conviction."

"Do you know what the tower relies on to strip away personality? You're not sure."

"But her arrival shook all the uncertainties."

"The tower has activated all seven locks."

"A guard of the shell, consisting of more than four hundred Bloodstained Ones, has appeared in the core area of ​​the tower."

"They are not orcs, nor are they puppets. They are real people, former warriors, sorcerers, and commoners."

"But they have been stripped of their names."

"They can't see us. They don't even know they're holding a sword."

"And then the dragon walked up to them."

"She didn't breathe fire."

"He just lowered his voice."

"Like a bird's song, but deep."

"Like vines gently brushing against the tower stones in the wind, but slowly."

"I don't know how to describe that sound."

But after she finished calling out—

"The first person, raise your head."

He said, "I...I'm Evan Hess."

The second one cried and said, "I remember my sister, her name is Leona."

The third one threw down his sword and said, "I am not a shell-bearer, I am myself."

Eileen's voice was tense at this moment: "The Tower Heart Mantra Lock has begun to vibrate on its own."

"The True Self Smearing Technique failed to counteract the shock; cracks in the core of the tower array are visible to the naked eye."

"The entire Dream Tower wasn't toppled; it was torn apart by 'names'."

"That night, nearly three hundred names echoed through Dream Curse Valley."

"Some we recognize, and some we thought were dead long ago."

"They are indeed dead."

"But at that moment, they returned, even if only for a breath."

"Lin Linglong did not enter the heart of the tower."

"She just stayed in the valley for a long time without saying a word."

"Some soldiers tried to approach her, but she turned and walked away."

"After that night, the Dream Curse Tower fell silent forever."

Eileen looked at the fire and said softly:

More than three thousand people died in this battle.

"But the Alliance destroyed a tower for the first time."

"It's all thanks to a name."

Eileen sat by the campfire, quietly watching the flickering light. Her voice was not as soft as it had been in the last battle; this time, it was as if she was suppressing something, each word heavy like metal.

"The second battle was not as quiet as the first."

"The second battle is a roar."

"The Golden Pagoda".

As she uttered those three words, a flash of fire appeared, and for a moment it seemed as if the shadow of a mountain was swaying behind the fire.

"You know, it's a tower that hears."

"It doesn't look at you, it doesn't touch you, it just listens."

"Listen to who you are, listen to what you think, listen to the echo of your soul, and then 'record' it."

"It is not aggressive."

"But it can ensure that you can never escape its definition."

"That battle lasted for four days and four nights."

"The mountains have cracked open."

She paused, looked up at the fire, as if she were looking at the ruins of the tower.

"The allied forces are approaching the Tayu from the north. At the foot of Jingyuan Mountain, four spirit frequency observation posts were filled with spirit spell apostles early in the morning. Every stone step and every ridge is a frequency capture point."

"Our mages, priests, guides, and messengers, as soon as they enter the spirit realm, begin to hear their own heartbeats being lengthened, amplified, and analyzed."

"The first line of defense has been shattered by its own power."

"Some people covered their ears and fell down, some started calling their own names, and some started calling out other people's names."

"That's the signal that the Gold Tower is activating the Eternal Stone recording program."

"It has already started engraving."

"The next afternoon, Carnerus arrived."

She didn't say "Jin Zhulong" or "the dragon we sent out," she only said his name.

It's as if it's saying—a mountain has come of its own accord.

He climbed the mountain.

"step."

"The earth's veins are cracked."

"Two steps."

"This is the first time the tower has experienced a conflict in its vibration frequency."

"He took three steps and then stopped."

He didn't speak.

He simply tilted his head towards the tower.

"On the third day, Sawyer moved."

"He's not stupid. He knows that Karnrus is attacking with 'heartbeats,' and that he's using resonance to interfere with the Shadowstone."

"He mobilized seven hundred spirit spell apostles, along with thirty-six spirit frequency harmonization arrays, to carve a huge anti-frequency calibration net on the tower."

"You can think of it as him putting a pair of noise-canceling earmuffs on the entire tower."

"Then, they started to induce."

"Induce Kahnrus, turn up the frequency."

"higher."

"Higher."

"A little higher."

"It was so profound that even his own heart began to resonate with it in a misaligned way."

"At that moment, Carnerus roared to the sky for the first time."

Eileen's voice rose slightly.

"That sound flattened a section of the mountaintop."

"The relief on the top of the tower is broken."

"The Everlasting Shadow Stone has begun to spin out of control."

"Can you imagine? A soul recorder starts to forget itself."

"It was originally meant to record others, but now it's recording itself."

"The Spellcaster Apostles die the fastest."

"Because they are directly connected to the tower."

"Their skulls shattered, and their souls burned away."

"They weren't killed, they were evaporated by the frequencies they connected to."

"He didn't even have time to utter a curse."

"Early morning of the fourth day."

"The Allied forces forcibly pushed through the tower gate, but the three-headed blood-sculpted beast-blooded deity was dispatched to intercept them."

"They can't stop Carnerus."

He finally reached the tower.

"He looked at that trembling tower, still spinning with memories."

He lowered his head slightly.

"Then jump."

With a gentle wave of her right hand, Eileen caused the fire to burst into flames with a "boom".

"He crashed into the heart of the tower."

That wasn't a collision.

"It was half the weight of the entire mountain that he smashed through the soul disk with that one blow."

"The Eternal Shadow Stone is shattered."

"It didn't explode, it broke."

"It's like you've crushed a mirror that once tried to define the world."

"It no longer shines."

"It no longer remembers people."

"It can no longer hear."

Eileen whispered:

"The ground is shaking, the tower is crumbling, and people are still shouting."

"But in the end, all the sounds left behind were just one word."

"broken."

The fire crackled, and Eileen didn't speak immediately this time, but slowly drew the short dagger from her waist.

She looked at the blade, as if she could see an entire battlefield, burned to ashes, reflected in the metal.

she says:

"This is the third battle."

"That day, it wasn't one person, or a dragon, who won."

"On that day, more than 30,000 people used their blood, fire, and lives to knock down a tower."

"You've heard of the Blood-Sculpted Tower, haven't you?"

"But you haven't seen what it really looks like."

"That tower doesn't look like a tower."

"It's like a pile of unformed flesh and bone, like a constantly growing spine, inserted into the center of the wasteland. The tower is multiplying, the tower is growing, and with each expansion, it spews out new structural legions."

"That morning, the Alliance lined up at Scarlet Plains."

"The wind was hot, the ground was scorching, and even the war drums started to crack after being struck three times."

"This is the only alliance match where there was no surprise attack, no ambush, and no magical array for cover."

"The alliance will fight head-on."

"Forty defensive structures have been erected on the east side of the tower."

That's not a building.

"Those were layers upon layers of living military camps."

"The first wave is the advance team of the Blood-Sculpted Beastmen."

"Five thousand six hundred, fully armed, with steel-boned bodies, capable of swallowing three rows of heavy shields in a row."

"They rushed in too fast; when the first wave hit, our dwarven shield array hadn't even had time to deploy."

Have you ever seen someone's sternum flipped inside out after being hit by a car?

"That's really terrifying."

"The 9th Battle Battalion of Nostria was halved within four minutes of engaging the enemy."

"They are not in retreat."

"They were completely erased."

"The second route is a herd of wild beasts."

"More than 30,000 head of cattle surged forward like a tidal wave."

"The first platoon of the Elf Star Knights used four rounds of Piercing Bow Rain to slow down the beast tide's sprint."

"The league thought it had slowed down."

"Wrong."

"The beast tide only paused for a moment, and then began to trample itself."

"Do you understand? They kept rushing forward, stepping over their own corpses."

"Like waves crashing against the shore, one layer dies, then another, one layer dies, and another surges over."

"The third level is the structural humanoid unit."

"These are soldiers created by the tower itself. Every sixty seconds, the Blood-Sculpted Tower spews out a batch of mature beings from the nerve well. They are three people tall, with steel-boned arms, and have rune-embedded surveillance eyes on their heads."

"They have no mouths, no eyes, no commands, only one goal."

"Kill everything that is alive."

"The Alliance mobilized the Ferian Bursting Talisman Legion, using the Explosive Barrage Technique to tear open the first structural spine wall."

"But this is only the outer perimeter."

"The tower hasn't revealed its true form yet."

"The alliance had just pushed into the outer ring for twenty miles when the Blood Sculpting Tower activated the 'Structural Nerve Well' self-defense mechanism."

"The entire tower seems to have come alive."

"The tower's veins extend into the ground and begin to spew out bone strands, its nerve whips, lashing out at the rear, breaking spellcasters, disrupting shield walls, and piercing knights."

"Do you know what it sounds like when a bone whip three times your size is lashed out?"

"Buzz—Snap!"

"That sound could blast your meninges apart."

"The spellcaster attempted to activate the Sky Line, but the spell was interrupted by the resonant impact released by the tower."

"What's pressing down from the sky isn't magic."

"The entire Spirit Realm was turned into a black wave by the will of the tower, crashing into the minds of the Alliance."

"The rear command team completely lost control of their minds."

"There are no more orders from the front."

"Everyone is left with only one choice."

"Charge forward."

"Azdaran, that fire dragon, descended from the southwestern sky through the clouds."

"He did not hover, he did not soar, he did not fly."

"He fell."

"He didn't come to save us."

"He came to melt this tower down from the ground."

"The moment he landed, the entire lava layer beneath the Scarlet Ground was ignited."

"He doesn't breathe fire."

"He was standing there, and then the surrounding area started to burn."

"Regenerated structures cannot be regenerated."

"Every proliferation channel in the neural well broke off in the lava."

"The tower is hurting."

"For the first time, the tower let out a mournful cry."

"It's not a spell, it's not a command."

"It's the kind of pain that comes when metal and flesh are torn apart, real pain."

Finally, Azdaran, dragging a broken piece of the tower whip, leaped up, whipped the whip around, and snapped the tower's core in half.

"Three seconds later, the nerve wells inside the Blood-Sculpted Tower began to collapse in a chain reaction."

"The heatwave has turned the entire central area into a hollow."

"None of them survived."

"The Alliance destroyed the Bloodsculpt Tower."

"There are fewer than 15,000 people left."

"Of the 35,000 who participated in the war, nearly half did not return."

"But that battle was the first time the Alliance had uprooted the enemy's 'Legion Manufacturing Center'."

"Since then, no more mature constructs have appeared."

"Their elite troops are slowly running out."

After saying this softly, Eileen finally sheathed the dagger.