From the moment I was chosen by the holy relic

The Twilight Tower Fragments, Fourth Era

Chapter Ten: The Dragonfire Era - The Battle to Destroy the Tower

The Voice of Calling: Echoes of the Dream Tower

[Date Marking]

Era: Dragonfire Era, Year 94

Chronology: Year 534

Campaign number: #DT-01

Allied Operation Codename: Operation Echoes of Windfall Ridge

Tower codename: Dream Curse Tower - Personality Lock Defense Line

[Operational Information Overview]

Battlefield Area: Windfall Ridge - Dream Curse Valley (formerly the Old Mine Fault Valley)

Taliban forces: approximately 55,000 (including the Yingke garrison, Tazhi militia, and the Cursed Puppet Squad).

Allied forces: approximately 21,000 (a mixed force of five races, including a magical support regiment).

Allied Support Units: Sixth Legion of Norstria, Ferian Burrowing Engineers, Iser Mage Squad, Astra Fireball Battalion, Elersil Ranger Archers

Supporting Dragon: Forest Spirit Dragon Loresia (Caller)

Operation result: The core of the Dream Curse Tower collapsed, and the Tower Soul System self-destructed, considered destroyed.

Total casualties: Coalition losses approximately 3100; Tajik confirmed deaths 8400+, with the number of those out of control unknown.

[Main Account of the Event]

"This is the first battle in the tower destruction campaign."

"For the first time, the alliance did not resist the tower's attack, but instead chose to launch a counterattack."

"And this battle will not rely on bows, spells, or swords."

"It relies on a 'name'."

【Prologue: The Silence and Mistakes of Dream Curse Valley】

The Dream Curse Tower is located at the bottom of the Fault Valley of Windfall Ridge. Its structure pierces vertically into the earth's veins and is referred to by sorcerers as the "Source of Personality Infusion." It neither speaks nor emits light, yet it can influence the entire valley through the "Dream Curse Chain," causing people to deny themselves, forget their identities, mistake relatives, and abandon their faith.

"You saw your comrades speaking the words of the enemy."

"You heard your mother say 'Come home' in your dream."

"You see yourself standing on the enemy's side."

Upon entering the Tower Valley, the allied forces had already lost one of their vanguard lines. Of the 500 heavily armed soldiers who advanced, 364 were killed in action, 33 committed suicide, and the whereabouts of the rest were unknown.

"The tower won't kill you; it will make you do it yourself. It will make you... become someone you're not."

[Turning Point: The Dragon That Calls Its Name Descends]

Year 534, Night 3: Lin Linglong and Loresia arrive at the battlefield.

She neither spread her wings nor spewed flames, but simply stepped into the Dream Curse Valley from the eastern foothills. With each step, the tower array vibrated slightly.

It wasn't because of her power, but because her existence made people begin to "affirm their self-identity."

【Calling Name & Resonance】

The seven core locks of the Dream Tower were activated simultaneously, and more than four hundred responders (those stripped of their personality memories) formed a defensive line.

Unconsciously, they drew their swords to intercept the approaching figures, but Loresia stopped in front of them.

She neither attacked nor chanted a curse, but merely emitted a low murmur. The sound was as light as a forest breeze and as slow as evening rain.

Then the first responder looked up: "I...I'm Evan Hess."

The second one cried and said, "My sister's name is Leona."

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

At that moment, the Dream Tower Personality System backfired.

The cursed locks collapsed, the magic network flowed back, and the personality implantation was cracked by the "reconfirmation." The "Personality Picture Book" area at the heart of the tower began to collapse.

[Epilogue - The Silence of Fengluo Ridge]

That night, nearly three hundred names echoed through Dream Curse Valley. Some had died in the tower battle years ago, while others had been missing for many years and had been expelled from their families.

They did die. But for a moment, "names" lived.

Lin Linglong did not enter the heart of the tower. She only stood at the bottom of the valley for a long time, then turned around and left.

The Dream Tower remains silent, never to be opened again.

[Tactical Notes: The Naming Mechanism and Tower System Collapse Logic]

The core mechanics of the Dream Tower are based on "Personality Stripping Technique" and "True Name Smearing Technique".

Through a deep dream spell structure, the tower erases the target's self-identity, causing them to lose their memories, will, and emotional connection, thus turning them into a controllable "Original Shell Warrior."

Lin Linglong Loresia's "humming" is not essentially a sound, but a special kind of spiritual pulse. This pulse can trigger a "self-structure oscillation" in the memory chain of the person who comes into contact with it, awakening their instinctive response to their "name". Once the individual calls out their "true name", it forms an extremely strong cognitive backflow, directly countering the personality stripping technique chain of the Dream Tower.

The spell array of the Dream Spell Tower relies on "belief weakening - identity implantation" to complete the erasure process, but when a large number of "true names" are actively invoked, the spell chain is subjected to large-scale resonance interference, forming "deterministic frequency interference". The spell recognition layer of the tower begins to contradict itself: it confirms the target's identity, but is unable to continue peeling away, thus causing the spell array to become disordered and the core spell runes of the tower to collapse.

Ultimately, the Dream Tower's defense and cognitive suppression mechanisms failed completely, a magical reversal occurred in the tower's core area, and the structure collapsed.

This battle was later named the "Name-Calling Collapse Incident".

[Excerpt from the Allied Forces' Commentary]

"This was a nominal victory in war, but in reality, it was a victory for the tyranny of the confrontation between 'humanity' and 'cognitive belonging'."

"We didn't take the tower."

"We are the ones who awakened the tower from their hands."

Heart of Shattered Frequency - Gold Tower Shattering Battle

[Date Marking]

Era: Dragonfire Era, Year 98

Chronology: Year 538

Campaign number: #DT-02

Allied Forces Code Name: Operation Jingyuan Mountain Assault

Tower codename: Forged Tower - Spectrum Defense Core Array

[Operational Information Overview]

Battlefield Area: Mirror Source Pass - Gold Tower High Zone

Tower forces: nearly 50,000, including the Blood-Sculpted Beastman Triad, a group of Spellcaster Apostles, wild beast hordes, and the Puppet Army.

Allied forces: Approximately 25,000, including elite brigades composed of five races, shield-forging units, high-explosive formations, and air cover units.

Support Dragon: Golden-Forged Dragon Karnrus (Blazing Edge - The Unreturner)

Operation results: The core of the Shadowstone was shattered, the Soul Mapping System was completely paralyzed, the structure of the Gold Forging Tower collapsed, and the magic field was permanently disabled.

Total casualties: Allied forces suffered approximately 4200 casualties; the Taliban confirmed over 12000 deaths, with nearly all of the Spellcaster Apostles wiped out, and the Taliban's soul signal disappearing.

[Main Account of the Event]

"This is not a decapitation strike."

"This is a war to make the tower forget itself."

[Prologue: Frequency Noise at Jingyuan Pass]

The Gold Tower is different from the Dream Tower. It does not induce dreams; it listens for "soul resonance."

The tower is made of Eternal Shadow Stone, a crystalline mineral that can record the frequency of the soul. By sensing the "will-resonance" structure of a living being, it establishes a set of spell numbers for it and thereby influences the target's behavior.

You did nothing wrong, but Ta said you "will betray," and that's how you got defined.

As soon as the allied forces arrived at the mountain pass, they were immediately affected by the magic field: the sorcerers lost their voices, their commands became chaotic, the priests heard echoes of their childhood nightmares, and the messengers shouted out the last words of their comrades.

The Golden Tower, without resorting to force, caused the first line of defense to crumble automatically. The Eternal Shadow Stone has begun to remember its inhabitants.

[Turning Point: The Blazing Dragon Arrives, Sweeping Through the Mountains]

Year 538, the afternoon of the second day, Gold-Forged Dragon Karnrus arrived at the front lines.

He climbed the steep slope from the east, without spreading his wings or chanting, relying solely on his bone armor to step, cracking the rock roots with one foot and shattering the frequency lines of the tower domain with the other.

Thirdly, he looked up at the tower and saw the first "structural interference" appear in the spiritual frequency system;

In the fourth step, he did not move, but merely "existed," which caused the tower to mistakenly record seventy-two sets of false targets;

Fifth step, Hengying Stone activates "emergency frequency clearing", and Tower Master Sawyer activates the spirit incantation calibration array.

They attempted to "induce Karnrus to raise his frequency," trying to use his "frequency resonance" as the tower's energy fuel. The tower then challenged him.

[Disintegration - Roaring Tower Shake]

On the eve of the fourth night, Carnerus's heart meridians trembled, and his consciousness became irreconcilable.

He roared to the sky for the first time. It wasn't a roar of anger, but a resonance. That roar tore through the layers of magic on the mountaintop, shattered the reliefs on the top of the tower, and caused the main core of the Eternal Shadow Stone to experience retrospective self-recording disorder for the first time.

The tower's spirit began to tremble.

The Spirit Apostles were the first to die. Their brain access systems vaporized directly during the regression, not from an attack, but from being torn apart by the Tower's own "self-frequency disorder." They died the moment "the Tower began to misunderstand itself."

[Final Strike - Collision]

At dawn on the fourth day, the allied forces launched a fierce attack on the core area of ​​the tower. The three-headed blood-sculpted beastman blocked Long Feng's advance. Karnrus did not engage in combat with him; he remained silent, only pressing forward step by step, entering the core shock zone.

He looked up from ten feet away from the center of the tower. Then, he jumped.

It was a mountain that took flight on its own.

He used his own "frequency" and "mass" to directly bombard the core of the Eternal Shadow Stone Array. That attack was not destruction, but "definition failure".

The Eternal Shadow Stone was shattered into dust between the last beats of his heart.

The tower collapsed, the lifeline was severed, and the monitoring system will never sound again.

[Tactical Notes: Frequency Inversion and the Mechanism of Shadowstone Breakage]

The Gold Tower Technique System is based on "frequency mapping," using the Eternal Shadow Stone to map soul fluctuations, emotional structures, and cognitive patterns into a "technique structure map," forming a triple monitoring chain of early warning, tracking, and manipulation.

Karnrus's own pulse frequency "naturally wanders on the spectral boundaries," a kind of "uncertain oscillation." Every step he takes disrupts the signal stability of the magical field, causing the Tower to mistakenly identify him as a "multi-target misaligned spirit." In the process of the Tower trying to "record" him, it is shaken back into the "self-recognition loop."

This behavior is known in technical terms as "frequency reversal".

Once the "recorder" itself makes a recognition error, the spell field becomes idle, the recognition logic collapses, and the system falls into "self-defined backtracking." As the core of the spell array, the Eternal Shadow Stone loses its frequency balance during the backtracking and eventually breaks at the "resonance saturation point," causing irreversible destruction.

This is known as the "Frequency Fragmentation Incident".

[Commentary from the Allied Forces' Technical Analyst Team]

"This is a victory for 'roaring' and 'existence'."

"We're not breaking down the tower, we're making it so that the tower can no longer define anyone."

"Its eyes are broken, its ears are burned, and its pen can no longer write."

Blood and Fire Reforged: The Battle of Blood-Sculpted Tower

[Date Marking]

Era: Dragonfire Era, Year 102

Chronology: Year 542

Campaign number: #DT-03

Allied Forces Codename: Operation Scarlet Plains Encirclement

Tower codename: Blood-Sculpted Tower - Structured Nervous Defense System

[Operational Information Overview]

Battlefield Area: Crimson Plains - Outer Defense Zone of the Blood-Sculpted Tower

Tower forces: Over 62,000, including the Blood-Sculpted Beast Legion, Wild Beast Packs, Constructed Synthetic Forces, and Bone Whip Guards.

Allied forces: approximately 35,000, a mixed force comprised of the seven races' warbands, including the Ferian Rune Array Heavy Infantry, the Northrian Iron Cavalry, the Elerhill Radiant Arrow Battalion, and the Leyline Assault Division, etc.

Support Dragon: Fire Dragon Azdaran (Burning Bones, Crimson Flame Lord)

Operation results: The Blood-Sculpted Tower's neural well collapsed, the structural network went out of control, the tower core melted and collapsed, and the regeneration mechanism was completely terminated.

Total casualties: Coalition losses approximately 18000, Tajik confirmed deaths approximately 27000, data on the effective structure is out of control and cannot be accurately calculated.

[Main Account of the Event]

"This is not a battle."

"This is blood and fire, a collective roar before a living tower."

【Prologue: The Formation on Scarlet Plains】

Red Scar Plains, a death plateau known as the "Crimson River Basin".

When the Alliance's main force arrived at this location, the Blood Shaping Tower was at the end of its expansion cycle: the entire tower resembled a bony spine tree trunk that rose abruptly, constantly secreting "regenerative sap" to the ground, spewing out biochemical structures, and growing "living camp walls" along the main trunk.

A tower is not a building. A tower is a living organism that is "growing".

At the third quarter of the morning, the eastern defense line began to shake.

Forty layers of defense were activated simultaneously, and the beastmen troops charged out from the front lines, with the constructs beginning their advance in formation. The Allied forces were responsible for the Nosterian Ninth Battleship Battalion and the Ferian Bomb Vanguard at the front. Within just four minutes of the battle starting, the Nosterian battleships had suffered more than half their losses.

The first wave of the enemy was the Blood-Shaped Beastman Vanguard: 5600 mutated orcs with steel bones embedded in their flesh, immune to berserk spells, and their running speed on all fours surpassed that of cavalry. The shockwave was like a mountain collapsing, tearing three rows of iron shields off their foundations, and trampling the mages behind them into the mud.

Ellerhill's Arrow Camp immediately launched a rain of arrows from the sky, with four waves of "heart-piercing arrows" clearing out the front ranks; but the wild beast horde arrived shortly after, numbering over 30,000, forming a "living wave" that continued to charge forward over the piles of their comrades' corpses.

This is not an offensive; it is a hellish trampling driven by bestial instincts.

[Intrusion - Neural Well Activation]

As the battlefield advanced to within twenty miles of the outer ring of the tower, the Blood-Sculpted Tower activated its true defensive core: the Structure Nerve Well, section L-01, began to spit out finished structures.

These humanoid constructs are three meters tall, equipped with embedded surveillance eyes, and possess highly durable armor and gravity-based skeleton armaments. They can be replenished in batches every 60 seconds, with virtually no upper limit.

The spellcaster attempted to break through the enemy's defenses by unleashing a high-level "Chain Explosion Array," and his Five-Strike Explosion Talisman technique created "Spine Tear," forcibly opening a 30-meter breach.

But soon, the tower itself extended its first batch of bone whips. This was not mechanical weaponry; it was the "Tower's neural chain" itself.

The bone whip possesses three functions: self-repair, precision, and nerve erosion. Its attack speed is extremely high; a single swing can pierce through two layers of shields, a cavalry general, and two sorcerers. Before the sorcerers could react, the rear command post was hit by the first piercing attack, disrupting overall command and tactical network operations.

The tower's "Spell Field Resonance Suppression Wave" covered the entire battlefield, causing spells to lose focus, spiritual consciousness to malfunction, healing arrays to short-circuit, and the sky spell array to be forced to shut down, plunging the allied forces into a state of "pure hand-to-hand combat".

【Burning Awakening: The Fiery Dragon Descends】

Year 542, Fourth Night: The southwestern sky was blazing with light, as bright as day.

Fire Dragon Azdaran, trailing flames, pierced through the clouds and swooped down to the ground.

He did not release the cursed fire. He himself is "fire".

The moment it landed, the lava layer beneath the entire Scarlet Plains erupted explosively, sending up a thousand-foot-high wave of flames. The regeneration center of the structure was shattered by the scorching vibration, and the nerve well stopped outputting.

At this moment, the Blood-Sculpted Tower began to twist violently, and the entire tower erupted in "bone-spine transformation," attempting to pull itself back into the ground. It wasn't fleeing; it was protecting itself, it was contracting, it was in "pain."

The tower emitted its first unstructured "wailing" signal.

It's not data, not terminology, but the real cry of a living being before its death.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, the Allied forces launched a full-scale attack. Ferian's "Burning Anchor Legion" drew up a curtain of fire, and the remnants of the Nostria army deployed the "Nine-Stage Impact Heavy Shield Formation". Ellerhill's arrow battalion cut diagonally on both flanks and released "Soul Split Feather Kill".

Everyone is heading towards Ta Chong.

[The Endgame: Meltdown and Tower Destroy]

The fire dragon shattered the tower's base, dragged out the main bone chain, and leaped up from the lava with a roar. Its tail swept across like a burning, world-severing axe, cutting the tower's core in two.

At that moment, the entire neural well went out of control, spontaneously activating the "Construct Defense Protocol." Thousands of construct units went berserk in reverse, attacking their own side, and the tower itself fell into a "neural backlash" state.

The entire tower began to "melt" from the inside.

The core burned out, the structure collapsed, the biological structure completely broke apart, the curse core evaporated, and a "Tower Flame Pit" thirty feet wide was burned into the ground.

The Alliance did not enter the tower's core. Because only "grey" remained there.

[Tactical Annotation: Destruction Mechanism of the Structure Chain Hub]

The core mechanism of the Blood-Plastic Tower is based on the "Neural Well-Structured Spinal Chain":

Structure manufacturing mechanism: The tower uses active flesh, bone minerals and spells to create bio-soldiers, which transmit signals and spiritual commands through neural wells to form "real-time combat formations".

Weakness Mechanism: The neural well relies on the "spiritual-flesh spine chain" under the tower to maintain its integration. Any "overheating interference" or "deep chain break" may trigger a chain collapse.

Fire Dragon Azdaran is a "Synchronizer of Earth and Fire Cores," and his body temperature frequency is just above the threshold of the Tower's neural tolerance.

Once its own frequency comes into contact with the neural well, the construct no longer obeys the tower's commands. The tower begins to be unable to define its own limbs. The neural command chain breaks, the construct becomes uncontrollably embedded, and the tower's core-spine chain melts.

[Commentary from the Allied Forces' Technical Analyst Team]

"This battle was not a miracle, not an awakening, and not a spiritual victory."

"In this battle, humanity and its allies burned down the enemy's 'arsenal'."

"The tower is alive; it's in pain, it's struggling, and in its final moments, it even wants to 'go back underground.'"

"But we won't let it have that chance."

Breaking Dreams: Deep Shadow Tower Assault Battle

[Date Marking]

Era: Dragonfire Era, Year 105

Chronology: Year 545

Campaign number: #DT-04

Allied Forces Codename: Dream Rift Project - Operation Interference Source Counterattack

Tower codename: Deep Shadow Tower - Dream Abyss Listening System Defense Line

[Operational Information Overview]

Battlefield Area: Deep within the Sunken Rift of the Old Royal Capital - Core Domain of the Dream Abyss of the Shadow Tower

Tower forces: Unknown (Dream Abyss has no concept of physical troops), known number of Dreambeasts exceeds 30,000, plus Dream Spirit creatures and multiple dream projections.

Allied forces: approximately 38,000, mainly composed of Dream Realm Adaptation Forces, Mental Stability Units, Mixed Dream Technique Divisions, and Spirit Frequency Observation Groups.

Supported Dragon Species: Phantom Dragon Solesel (Illusory Reality Reflection - Dream Disturbance Class)

Operation results: The Dream Rift monitoring system was completely paralyzed; Nakshu's Dream Soul was trapped in an eternal self-devouring cycle; the tower was destroyed.

Total casualties: The Allied forces confirmed over 16000 casualties, 70% of whom died from the collapse of their consciousness within the dream world, with no injuries on their bodies; the losses suffered by the Tower forces were incalculable, and the Tower's core was completely destroyed.

[Main Account of the Event]

"This is not a tower defense game."

"This is a challenge to the power of dreams."

[Prologue: The Silent Beginning of War]

The Deep Shadow Tower has never announced its existence.

Located at the bottom of the fifth rift valley after the old capital sank, it is a "dream listening device" that has completely disappeared from reality. Its core dream domain is completely undetectable under normal circumstances. But as long as you sleep, you may be heard by it.

Year 545, the first night of early winter: the three battalions of the Allied advance force entered the southern edge of the Rift Valley.

At 3:00 AM, all 362 members of the scout battalion simultaneously fell asleep, entering a state of "awake deep sleep." Their bodies were awake, but their consciousness was dormant, and they could not be awakened. Their eyes were open, but none of them were looking in any direction.

The military attempted to forcibly awaken the enemy, but on the second night, they were reversed and infected by the Dream Abyss's fluctuations, causing the entire Allied Forces' rear command camp to fall into the "Dream Syndrome": officers lost contact, spells became disordered, and orders were misplaced.

The soldier began dreaming of "dying in battle," and then in reality, he lost all vital signs.

"We were not defeated by swords."

"It was defeated by the script of a dream."

【Dream Abyss - The Enemy Has Not Yet Arrived】

Late on the third night, the Deep Shadow Tower released the first wave of "Dreambearers".

These dream spirits have no fixed physical form; they are shaped by the fear of their target, and their structure is made up of fragments of spiritual consciousness. They constantly combine and recombine to form a collection of nightmares.

Someone saw the deceased mother walking towards him, but she had a beard growing on her back.

Someone dreamed of their childhood house, and heard the sound of cracking walls coming from inside.

Someone dreamed that they were sentenced by a coalition military tribunal, and then... they couldn't wake up.

These deaths are impossible to count.

Because their bodies showed no external injuries, but their mental maps were completely shattered. They died in someone else's dream.

【Phantom Dragon Descends - Distortion of Reality and Illusion】

Year 545, Fourth Night.

The Radiant Dragon Sorezel suddenly appeared on the battlefield.

It wasn't that she flew in, but rather that they "were dreamt of her." Her appearance was the result of the entire allied force having the same dream:

"She stood there, the wind did not stir her wings, but her shadow slowly unfolded on the mountain wall."

Sorezel's ability is not to attack, but to "disrupt the definition itself".

Upon entering the dream realm, she immediately unleashed the "Reflection Scratching Array," plunging the Dreamcraft beast horde into self-devouring, misconception, and misattribution.

The Dream Abyss band began to split, with multiple personality projections intertwined, and the tower's listening system entered a state of "suspected information source flooding".

Mengyuan's listening log:

"Those who can identify bloodstains x9"

"Those who can identify bloodstains x17"

"Those who can identify bloodstains x36"

"Calibration failed".

[The Tower Master Appears - A Dream Overwhelms the Entire Army]

Tower Master Nakshu is the main soul that constructs dreams within the Deep Shadow Tower.

On the fifth night, he projected himself onto the heart of the tower, transforming into a semi-spirit and sitting cross-legged in the core of the dream.

He opened his eyes, and nearly three hundred soldiers knelt down on the spot, some of the sorcerers' minds collapsed.

This is "dream pressure," not fear, but rather the "default order" of the dream being superior to reality, forcing one to acknowledge that "the rules in the dream are true."

The tower master did not attack, but merely attempted to redefine the coalition as noise and rewrite the dream.

But Sorezel uses "illusion pollution" to construct a hundred illusory self-splitting entities, each of which is creating a false dream enemy.

The tower master began to lose his ability to distinguish friend from foe.

He began to attack his own dream images.

He began to correct the "false dreams".

Once the dreamer begins to correct the dream, it is tantamount to going against the dream itself.

【Dream Collapses, Tower Destroyed】

The tower master is consumed by self-destruction, and the dream master's will is fractured.

The spiritual patterns within the dream core revealed a distorted loop, and Nakshu was trapped in a "dream in the mirror" cycle.

The Deep Shadow Tower's listening system has completely collapsed. The Dream Rift band has vanished entirely, and all dream-entering structures have returned to zero.

At dawn on the sixth day, the main body of the Deep Shadow Tower appeared on the surface and collapsed completely three quarters of an hour later. The core of the tower sank, and the Dream Abyss Fault was reduced to nothing. The Dreambeasts turned to ashes, none surviving.

On the Allied lines, 16,000 men remained unconscious. Their bodies were normal, their breathing steady, and their nerves intact.

But his eyes no longer move, and his consciousness is forever lost.

"They are not dead."

"They just...never woke up again."

[Tactical Annotations: Dream Structure and the Principle of Listening Paralysis]

The core of the Deep Shadow Tower's magic is the "Dream Rift Listening System," combined with the "Dream Reconstruction Network" constructed by Nakshu's dream soul:

Dream constructing mechanism: By invading deep dreams, the target is identified as the source of information, and a "dream beast" is constructed through fear to carry out psychological attacks.

The Listening Chain: Tracks potential Bloodmarked individuals or sorcerers through "dream identification," altering, suppressing, and forcing them to deny their dream structures.

The biggest weakness: The monitoring system must maintain "consistency of logic within the dream." Once it encounters "illusion contamination + identity misconception + confusion between friend and foe," the monitoring tower master himself will fall into a logical paradox.

The Phantom Dragon Sorezel is the absolute disruptor of this weakness: she does not attack the structure itself, she creates "definition collapse", and she disrupts the mapping relationship between "dream and reality".

Ultimately, this prevented the Deep Shadow Tower from "defining who the enemy is."

This battle became a miracle in the history of Dream Wars, and was later known by sorcerers as "The Noise Awakening".

[Commentary from the Allied Forces' Technical Analyst Team]

"It wasn't us who defeated Deep Shadow Tower."

"It was Deep Shadow Tower itself that dreamt the wrong things about us."

"It can hear sounds and remember dreams, but it can't confirm who we are."

So it chose to remain silent.

The Final Chant of the Pure Realm, The Final Battle of the Tower of Abyss

This marks the end of the Five Towers Era.

This is the world's backlash and regeneration.

This is the final battle of the alliance, and also the final curtain call for a Night Whisperer.

[Date Marking]

Era: Dragonfire Era, Year 122

Chronology: Year 562

Operation codename: Final Chant of Purification - Operation Purification of Gray Seals

Tower Defense Core: Abyss Tower - Black Magic Mother

Allied Forces Strategic Concept: Five Dragons Formation, Three-Domain Breakthrough, Spirit Seal Purification

[Troop Strength and Organization]

Total coalition strength: over 60,000

The main forces of the five-race alliance: Nosteria, Isel, Elersil, Astra, and Ferian.

Allied Special Armed Forces: Dwarf Engineer Corps, Star Arrow Artillery Formation, Spirit Realm Observation Corps, Spell Cart Battalion, etc.

For the first time, all five members of the Five Dragons team will participate in the battle.

Total enemy strength: Approximately 85,000 (cannot be accurately counted).

Blackfire Infantry, Blood-Shaped Beastmen, Spirit Apostles, Wild Horde, Contaminated Assimilated War Slaves

The number of units infected by the logic of the tower is unknown.

Spirit Seal Main Core Guardian: Sawyer Elnot (Night Whisperer identity out of control)

[Battlefield Overview]

Battlefield: Corruption Field Projected by the Abyss Tower in the Northern Region of the Blue River Basin, on the Misty Ridge.

Corruption range: Spreading 12 kilometers across the ground, and reaching a radius of 30 kilometers in the upper atmosphere of the Spirit Seal Dome.

Battle duration: 17-day protracted tower siege battle + 3-day area clearing battle + 1-day "Battle of the Final Flame".

[The Final Song of the Pure Realm: Corrupted Mountain Domains - Alliance Three Domains Clash]

The gray, misty mountains, like the spine of death, lay in the first twilight of the sixty-second year of the Dragonfire Era.

At that moment, there was no sunlight. Only gray. From the sky to the foot of the mountain, to the whites of people's eyes, everything was gray.

On this fog-shrouded mountain front, 60,000 Allied troops were forced to form ranks.

"It's not poison, not smoke, not illusion," Allied southern front observation officer Sharold wrote in his report. "The Ethereal Ash is a logic. It doesn't kill you; it makes you forget whether you're alive or not."

This is the Alliance Warlocks' initial definition of "Whispering Ash": It cannot be dispersed by the wind, nor can it be purified by spells. It invades your language system, making you unable to understand military orders, spells, or remember your own name. It invades your sense of time, making you realize you are behind your enemies when you attack them; that you feel the blow you just delivered when you raise your shield; and that a single breath can exhale the air of yesterday and tomorrow simultaneously.

Of the 391 Allied soldiers, only one hour after exposure to the fog, they reported symptoms of hallucinations and illogical thinking. Some suffered from aphasia, others from paralysis, and the most severely affected committed suicide by drawing their swords.

The 7th Battalion of the Dwarven Medical Corps - Emergency Battlefield Log: "It wasn't that they wanted to die, it was that they considered themselves 'the enemy,' so they drew their swords and cut themselves."

Faced with the contamination barrier released by the tower, the allied forces deployed on the southern slope of the ridge using a "three-front war" strategy:

Western Front - Nostria Main Force: Heavy Cavalry Warband + Shield-Cracking Infantry + Dwarven Shock Troops

Eastern Front - Iser Spellcaster Corps and Rune Artillery Corps: Spell Array Construction + 300 Spell Cannon Positions

Southern Front: Elf Star Guardian Army + Astra Expeditionary Force + Spirit Realm Observer: Construct a Spirit Realm Surprise Attack and Aerial Interference Front

A total of approximately 42,000 personnel were deployed across the three domains, with the remaining 18,000 forming a reserve psionic force and a strategic observation division.

On the first night of the battle, there were no enemy drums, no assembly whistles. There was only one sound, a crisp "crack" from underground.

That was the sound of the Bonefire Gullies cracking. The sixteen Bonefire Gullies on the misty mountain ridge, like the mouth of the earth, spewed out tides of black fire infantry.

They wore old Allied armor, still bearing the wet insignia and bloodstains. But their eyes were blank.

They kept muttering, "I am the Allied Forces... I am the Allied Forces... I am..."

Then they started running.

They didn't shout or roar. They simply charged silently into the crowd, and three seconds before engaging the enemy, the first batch of Blackfire Soldiers spontaneously combusted. They became "running firemen," flames bursting from their chests, burning through themselves and the shield wall.

Day 1 - Western Front Collapse

The Tenth Shield Battalion of Nosteria, with a strength of seven thousand, deployed five rows of shields at the foot of Misty Mountain to meet the enemy.

The first rank didn't even engage in battle. The Blackfire Infantry transformed into fiery beasts, instantly crushing two ranks. Burning corpses spewed out highly poisonous fire droplets, melting armor upon contact and tearing flesh apart upon touch. The Dwarven Armor-Splitter Regiment quickly deployed in axe formations to provide support, but the fire surge came too fast. Within six minutes of the battle, a two-kilometer gap was torn open in the entire western front.

"We thought they were enemy troops."

"But when we swung our axes, all we heard was a wail in the Alliance language." - Axe-Slayer Kethro

They recognized the voices. They were the voices of fallen comrades, the brothers who had raised their glasses in the tavern.

Now, it is fire.

This army of human incinerators doesn't win by killing. It wins by corrupting humanity and the beliefs of the Honkai warriors.

[Day Two - Counterattack with Cursed Artillery on the Eastern Front]

The following morning, the Abyss Tower continued to "spit out soldiers" underground. The number of enemies did not decrease but increased, and the Bone Valley overflowed with a second wave of contaminated troops like a gushing spring.

The Grand Master of the Iser Sorcerers, Mora, personally entered the core of the Meridian Array to activate the 312 True Silver Spirit Anchors.

"We're not trying to blow up the enemy."

"We must blow this land up."

The "True Silver Meridian Array" erupted: three hundred spell cannon positions coordinated to fire a barrage of "Heavy Spell Silver Flames," with the spell cannons using psionic spell meridians to lock onto the corrupted areas.

Within two thousand paces, the Blackfire infantry were blasted into a bloody mist, and the ground was burned into more than a dozen deep craters.

But they continued their charge, and more than 3,000 remnants of the second wave broke through the sea of ​​fire, spontaneously combusting and launching a surprise attack at the edge of the artillery position.

They weren't afraid to die. They were already dead.

The Eastern Front Sorcerer Battalion suffered a 9% reduction in personnel, and its spell energy resources were exhausted.

Before nightfall on the third day, the initial signs of "belief slippage" were already visible along the entire southern front: some soldiers experienced mild hallucinations and began to "identify themselves as enemies."

Thus, the first phase of the tower assault was officially classified by the Alliance leadership as a "historic catastrophe" type of war.

They finally understood: The Tower of Abyss doesn't rely on soldiers. It relies on making your very existence "its continuation."

[Phantom Word Collapse - Tower Word Pollution Activated]

Year 562 · Dragonfire Era · Abyss Tower Final Battle Phase Two

"At that moment, it was our language that died first."

Fog settles at the foot of the mountain, inside the temporary command center of the Third Army Corps on the Eastern Front.

Warlock Hermes was reading the feedback from the day's tactical analysis:

"Language chain number: Z-13-587".

"The spell array is stable."

Logical connectivity: 97%.

"Psionic flow is normal."

He had just signed his name on the report.

The next second, his skull exploded into a brilliant cloud of blood mist.

At the same time, another thirty-eight sorcerers less than a hundred meters away from him died instantly.

It was not an attack.

It's not a technique explosion.

It's not a wrong curse.

It is language that has been killed.

[Spiritual Apostle - Tower of Logic Infector Activated]

"The Tower of Abyss spoke."

This was the last sentence left by terminologist Granvia in his diary.

"Not with the mouth."

"It's not a broadcast."

"It means making your language no longer your language."

The Spellcasters first appeared on the battlefield as "ordinary soldiers." They blended into the Allied infantry ranks, wearing identical armor, bearing the same family crests, and even knowing the names and command gestures of every general.

They "participated in the battle," but at one point they suddenly all "spoke up."

Their spells don't contain fire, light, or elements; they contain "structure."

A reverse language structure: If you say "Expand the barrier," the spell disk automatically closes. If you shout "Retreat," the spell chains lock in reverse, summoning a lightning spell. If you shout "Stabilize the spell," the psionic energy flow transforms into poisonous miasma that permeates your entire body.

The entire eastern front magic array instantly entered a state of "illusory speech disorder".

The technical chain rebounded, paralyzing the command system.

The Third Army Command of the Allied Forces experienced a self-immolation incident at the scene.

They didn't defect. It's because they could no longer believe every word they uttered.

The warlocks knelt in the mud outside the tactical vehicle, crying and begging themselves to shut up. Some plunged swords into the back of their tongues, trying to "seal their mouths"; others covered their ears and screamed "Stop talking!" but were still blowing themselves to ashes with their sleep-talking.

"We did not lose to magic."

"We lost to language itself."

[Spell Enhancement: Battlefield Silence Trap]

As the Spirit Apostles were activated on a large scale, the Tower of Abyss released "Tower Word Domain Light" in the sky. It was a gray-black spiral rune array that slowly rotated from the top of the sky, covering the entire southeastern foothills.

From this moment forward: all military orders are nullified; the spell begins to jump and self-destruct.

Language itself becomes a "weapon of mass destruction"—the more you speak, the faster you die.

When some soldiers tried to communicate using sign language, the Tower of Light immediately activated the "Structural Association Pollution" mechanism, causing them to automatically "translate" the sign language into the enemy's incantation in their minds.

Within five minutes, the eastern front had fallen. The Allied forces began organizing a silent retreat, communicating via flag signals and illusion spells.

[Dragon War Intervention - Fire Dragon Burns the Tower of Purification]

On the sixteenth day, the sky broke.

A deafening roar rose from the southwestern horizon, like a volcano piercing through the misty forest. It wasn't thunder, but dragon breath clearing a path through the fire.

Fire Dragon Azdaran has arrived!

He did not come from the sky, but crawled out from the "fire vein"! His body was not surrounded by flames, but by a subspace layer with the temperature of the Earth's core. When he swooped down to the misty forest pass, he did not roar, he did not circle, he did only one thing: he used the breath of the Earth's core to burn away the Tower Seal Ditch.

"Tayan is not a sound."

"The Tower of Words is a network of cursed seals beneath the earth."

"It is written on the bone groove and activated by the Spirit Apostle."

"Azdaran burned its roots."

His dragon claw slammed into the mountain, directly detonating the three chains of tower runes deep within the rock strata. The molten lava rose from below, completely repelling the "Black Tower Remnant" within the Spirit Apostle's body.

In the next second, they collectively shuddered, imploded, and turned to ash. They opened their mouths, but could no longer utter a single word. They weren't killed; they were "stripped of their etymology by the Tower of Words." They were "removed from the structure."

This "Purification War" became the only instance in the Alliance's successful "silencing" of Dark Magic's logic in a live battle.

This is also the first time the league has confirmed:

"Language itself can be a weapon of war."

"The tower isn't going to kill you."

"The tower is rewriting the concept of 'you are the enemy'."

[Battle Results Summary]

The spell storm subsided, the spell apostles turned to ash, four towers of the Tower of Insignia collapsed, and the Eastern Front Spell Chains were briefly restored.

However, this battle—

Coalition casualties: 13,756

Commander casualty rate: 71%

Fewer than three hundred warlocks survived with intact cores.

Regional control was briefly regained.

But everyone knows this is just a period of silence after the Tower relinquishes control over language and logic. The Tower hasn't finished playing its cards yet.

The fiery dragon soared into the sky, while silence fell beneath the clouds.

He left no name, nor did he accept any celebration. His dragon scales bore forty-six burn marks from spiritual incantations.

His arrival was like a truth that was allowed to be spoken—brief, but life-saving.

[The Final Chant of the Pure Realm: Awakening of the Abyss Tower - The Spirit Seal Dome Seals the Battlefield]

Year 562 · Dragonfire Era · Abyss Tower Final Battle Phase 3

"At that moment, we were no longer fighting in this world."

[The Tower Master Reveals His Form; The Tower of Abyss Begins to "Grow"]

After the tower siege on the 17th, the Tower of Abyss was no longer silent. Its silence was not a sign of defeat, but rather a preparation for a response.

Before dawn, the entire misty mountain ridge experienced a "reverse twisting of the earth's veins." From underground came a rumbling sound that did not resemble an earthquake, but rather the violent beating of a giant "heart."

Then, the tower began to rise from the mountain.

It's not a building. It's not a tower pulled from the ground, but rather "roots" drawn from the mountains!

Each spine-like segment of the tower is a "living sacrifice".

The Tower of Abyss began to "reconstruct its structure," extending section by section into the sky.

It is not growing taller, but rather growing, like some kind of underground behemoth awakening, revealing its spine and brainstem.

As the tower crown rose to a height of a hundred feet, it flipped over, transforming into an inverted brain sphere, its surface covered with imprinted spiritual remnants and deathly meanings.

When this brain sphere "pulsated," hundreds of people on the battlefield simultaneously fainted. Not from injury, not from unconsciousness, but from a reversal of consciousness.

[Fluctuations in Consciousness and the Disruption of World Logic]

The Tower of Abyss no longer fights with soldiers. It begins to use existence itself as its weapon.

What emanates from the core of the tower in all directions is an invisible yet powerful "consciousness absorption and emission wave".

The effect of this fluctuation is:

Time distortion: some people fall to the ground before they even swing their swords, while others are rewound to their memories before they go to war;

Language failure: No more spells can be activated, and all magical commands bounce off.

Self-destruction: Thousands of soldiers, due to a breakdown in logic, begin attacking themselves, mistaking their friends and family for "reverse enemy forces".

An elven warrior wrote in his log: "I saw myself running towards me from the opposite side and piercing me with a sword."

This illusion is not magic, but the language of the tower, which is "rewriting who we are".

The 9th Heavy Shield Regiment of the Norstria Army, after coming into contact with the "Consciousness Wave," mistook friendly forces for undead and was wiped out within twenty minutes.

The second array of the Iser Rune Army saw themselves die from a curse explosion in the spell disk, and then detonated themselves to confirm the future.

Tactical recorders refer to this as: "pre-illusion pre-planned behavior".

The future is predetermined, and you are simply destined to die according to the script.

[The "Spirit Seal Dome" Descends - The Tower Seal Domain Covers the Entire Venue]

The sixth hour after the tower master appeared.

A "spiritual seal dome" suddenly appeared atop the misty mountain.

It was a semi-real, semi-polluted runic barrier, as if the entire sky had been overturned and compressed into a spiral-shaped altar, slowly covering the battlefield.

This is not a defensive barrier, but a comprehensive dimensional blockade.

The sky is corrupted into a scroll of language; the earth is polluted and reconstructed into a field of incantations; the warriors are forcibly categorized by "logic of meaning" as "beings" or "enemy modifiers".

Within the area covered by the Spirit Seal Dome, five rules underwent changes:

Reality is no longer uniform: everyone perceives the world differently, making it impossible to form stable tactics;

The lines between friend and foe disappear: comrades kill each other, and the enemy identifies allies as "their own people" and ambushes them from behind;

Spell logic corruption: Warlocks are unable to cast spells, spells become mute, and spell chains turn against them;

The dead no longer die: Some of those who are knocked down will repeatedly respawn and die again at "logic breakpoints," repeatedly rebuilding themselves;

The tower master himself enters the scene: He begins to select "individuals" for direct logical pollution and value reconstruction.

In his final tactical draft, Lieutenant General Rein Brüzer, commander of the Third Command of the Allied Forces, wrote: "We are not in a war. We are in a scripted 'false reality,' forced to perform a defeat."

[Strategic Consequences]

The armies of the three domains have lost all contact; the seven groups of knights of the Dragon Rider Battalion have mistakenly entered the Tower Seal Illusion and killed each other; the Astra Magic Communication Corps has disappeared without a trace; only the Fire War Dragon and the Spirit Dragon remain, able to suppress its logical spread at the edge of the dome.

However, the barrier remained intact, trapping all the warriors inside.

The enemy forces ceased their advance, awaiting the next wave of "contamination." It wasn't troop strength, but the entire battlefield's "configuration," that had been altered by the Tower Master into an "inevitable failure."

The commander who participated in the battle recalled:

"That night, a soldier saw himself transformed into a Blackfire Infantryman and cried to himself on the ground."

"A commander was killed by his future self, muttering, 'You've made a mistake.'"

"The Tower of Abyss is not destruction."

"It is about rewriting a world."

[The Final Chant of the Pure Realm: Five Dragons Descend Together, the Final Battle of Spiritual Language]

Year 562 · Dragonfire Era · Final Battle of the Tower of Abyss Phase 4

"This is not war. This is a real confrontation, a battle between rules."

【Five Dragons Descend - When the Sky Breaks Through】

The Spirit Seal Dome of the Abyss Tower has completely sealed off the battlefield. The entire Misty Mountain has transformed into the core of a world constructed from semi-realistic incantations.

In this dead-end barrier, the five dragons, as the ultimate anchors of the laws of order, officially entered the battlefield. They did not "fly in," but rather "manifested" from the bones of the world, each bearing a segment of divine and destructive laws.

Fire Dragon Azdaran - Shatter the Tower Ridge, Burn the Roots

His landing was a roar from the Earth's core. Azdaran burst forth from the southwestern fiery rift, carrying pulses of molten lava from beneath the earth, piercing the battlefield from the heavens.

His target was not the enemy army, but the foundation roots of the Tower of Abyss. He melted the runic roots of the tower one by one with "Deep Vein Burning"; hundreds of "Tower Rune Roots" in the strata dissolved under his blazing flames; and the Ghost Ash lost its stickiness for the first time during the burning process.

The tower began to tremble. Not because it was attacked, but because its linguistic anchor had been destroyed.

Phantom Dragon Sorel - Creates frequency distortion, disrupts tower projection.

She wasn't releasing illusions; she was disrupting the rules of perception. Sorel appeared from the east, her body like a folded mirror, trailing a long chain of multicolored light behind her.

She unleashed a "frequency disturbance field" and entered the Tower of Words transmission layer: in an instant, she created thirty-six dream projections; each projection carried a different "pseudo-logic curvature"; the Tower of Abyss began to exhibit illusions that misidentified friend from foe, and its self-attack frequency increased.

She wasn't destroying the tower itself. She was making the tower "unable to hear what it was saying."

Lin Linglong Loresia - Dream Language Awakens the Corrupted Warrior

She wasn't fighting; she was saving "names."

She emerged from the verdant forests of the northern mountains, carrying with her the whispers of the entire forest. Each dragon's roar was an awakening of the soul.

The "Dream Whisper Wave" was used to cover the boundary of the Tower Seal Domain; the corrupted soldiers were awakened, and they were briefly brought back to consciousness; some warriors put down their weapons on the spot, knelt down and cried out their real names; and the Cursed Chain Legion used this to restore the spell guidance and restart some of the formations.

She was not fighting an enemy. She was responding to hope.

Golden Dragon Karnrus – Striking the tower pillar with golden bones, breaking the resonant rhythm

He never speaks. He plays music with his bones.

Karnrus plummeted from the sky, his golden wings reflecting the lingering light of every rune in the Spirit Seal Dome. His joints were not physical objects, but were forged from "Vibrational Golden Veins," each impact a "Law Resonance Hammer."

With its golden giant tail, it continuously struck the resonant pillars of the tower's ridge, disrupting the "rhythm nodes" that the tower master maintained in the domain; causing numerous "node voids" to appear in the Abyss Tower's spell structure; briefly causing the Abyss Tower to "go out of balance," with its domain fluctuating at out of frequency and its logic lagging behind.

Karnrus is the beat terminator that destroys the Tower's "self-harmony ability".

Spiritual Dragon Isovia – Purifying the Realm of Language, Rewriting a Polluted Reality

He is a ray of light.

After the four dragons suppressed the tower's main domain, only Isova flew up to the top of the tower, above the inverted brain core.

He exhaled "Pure Intent Breath," a silent and colorless language capable of rewriting rules; the pure breath penetrated the polluted structure, breaking down the Tower Master's polluted language chain segment by segment; even the "past reconstruction" phenomenon released by the Abyss Ash Tower was erased; the Ghostly Ashes began to evaporate on their own beneath his ascending flying circle.

He wasn't attacking. He was speaking with the accent of the New Age laws.

At that moment, the entire sky reversed, and the tower master fell silent for the first time.

The sixth Night Whisperer: Sawyer Elnot

Just as the tower was collapsing, a shadow appeared from the top of the tower.

It doesn't mean it walks out or flies away, but rather it appears slowly within the grammatical structure, like an "ancient sentence" that has been summoned.

That was him, Sawyer Elnot.

The last inheritor of the Five Towers, the "Silent Pen" among the Night Whispers.

His body is no longer flesh and blood. He is a "living inscription structure" pieced together from the remnants of the Five Towers. His entire body is forged from the words of the towers, and his spiritual core is formed by the fusion of the original seals of the Five Towers. His thoughts are the towers themselves.

He said: "Since the Five Pagodas have been destroyed, I will become the heart of the pagodas."

Upon hearing this, the Tower of Abyss trembled once more. Not out of fear, but in response.

Sawyer raised his hand. No spells were used. He simply activated his spirit core.

In an instant, the entire Abyss Tower shed its outer shell, revealing its core: a corrupted array of spiritual seals constructed upon language, slowly rotating like a star wheel. What followed was not an explosion, but a "reality deletion."

The Southeast Theater Command, encompassing nearly an entire area: it no longer exists; there are no more corpses, no more military flags.

Even on the tactical map, "that piece of land cannot be found".

That wasn't destruction; it was simply never having participated in the war.

They did not die, because they never existed.

At that moment, the entire command system, tactical logic, and tactical links fell into chaos, and the "meaning structure" of the entire war was forcibly deleted and altered by Sawyer using the language sovereignty of the Tower.

The frontline reporter's final words:

"I remember they were still there."

"But the map says: blank."

"Can you understand? We haven't just lost our comrades... we've lost every trace of their lives."

【The Final Chant of the Pure Realm: The Day of Finality】

Year 562 · Dragonfire Era · Final Battle of the Tower of Abyss Phase 4

"This is not war. This is a real confrontation, a battle between rules."

[Spiritual Dragon's Roar - Destruction of the Abyss Tower]

"At that moment, it wasn't that the war ended, but that the world as we understand it... turned a new page."

The sky slowly faded between black flames and dust.

After the Tower of Abyss unleashed the "Core of Logic Reconstruction," the world itself experienced a structural rupture. The wind was silent, the clouds were invisible, and time stood still like a spell awaiting judgment.

Isova, clad in grey-silver scales, slowly rose into the air at the center of the five-dragon battle formation, not soaring, but rather as if she herself had become a rising "narrative law".

His wings spread out, covering the entire Spirit Seal Dome. Then, he spoke, but no sound came out. What he uttered was "The Spirit Language Ends".

That wasn't a sound wave, but a beam of light composed purely of "meaning".

[The Spiritual Voice Resounds Finally, the World Turns a New Page]

That light did not illuminate.

"That light is a newly written draft of the existing world, after deletions and alterations."

At that moment, everyone present heard their own name, not just heard it, but felt a tremor in their hearts.

Everyone briefly glimpses the earliest memory within their own soul.

Some heard their mother's cry of "Come back quickly" when they were young; some saw the expression on their face when they picked up their first wooden sword; some... remembered the laughter of their long-dead brothers.

This is not a memory; it is a return to meaning.

The incantations on the Tower of Abyss, under that light, evaporated word by word, like gray words.

The tower no longer exists.

[Tower Destroyed, Sawyer Missing]

"The tower did not collapse."

"The tower is gone from language."

The destruction of the Tower of Abyss was not caused by flames, rubble, or explosions.

It was not "destroyed", but rather:

All words describing it—are ineffective;

All the stone tablets that recorded it—became empty;

All memories of witnessing it—turn into a blurry mist.

It was stripped from the "narrative power of the world" by the spiritual language.

This is what is meant by "meaning erasure".

Sawyer Elnot, the last Night Whisperer of the Five Towers, stood in the center of the out-of-control, collapsing structure, his body seemingly merging into the remnants of the Tower's language.

He did not fall or explode. Instead, at the moment the tower collapsed, he turned and walked into the fog. The fog was not a natural phenomenon, but the place where the meaning fell away after the spiritual seal structure disintegrated.

He left no body, no belongings, no echo of his soul; he vanished into the "erased fragments."

The Alliance warlock later said, "We tried to trace his causal path, but even the 'tracing spell' itself failed. Because the definition of 'him' no longer exists in a 'traceable' world."

[Battle Results Summary]

The allied forces have won. But this victory is not one of celebration, but one of survival.

The five armies of the Alliance paid the heaviest price; the Tower of Abyss collapsed completely and no longer exists in any grammar; the remnants of black magic that tainted the world were completely extinguished after its arrival; all Tower language spells were silenced after the "Final Cry of the Spirit Language".

But the cost is immeasurable.

Total casualties reach 45,000+

Of these, 31,412 were not actually dead. Rather, they lost their meaning in the Tower Master's "Reality Rewriting."

Their names cannot be recorded, their belongings have no physical continuity, they cannot be remembered; they are not "sacrificed," but "erased" from this world.

The sorcerers later called this the "Meaning Cataclysm," a mass disappearance that had never occurred in language before.

Post-war Account

On the third day after the war, Alliance Recorder Mills wrote on the ruins of the Broken Pass:

"After the Tower of Abyss, there is no more tower to build."

"Because no building is worthy of being called a 'world-defining' structure."

"And he, the last night whisperer, remained in the place where 'definition disappears'."

On the fifth day, the Allied forces erected a monument at the foot of Wuchen Mountain, but the inscription contained no name.

The monument bears only one inscription: This is the world's last attempt to explain itself.

The Twilight Tower Fragments: The Fifth Era

Chapter Eleven: The Five Pillars Era

"The destruction of the Tower of Abyss did not bring peace. It merely tore away the fig leaf of the old world."

[The Eve - The End of the Alliance]

Year 562

On the ninth day after the final battle at the Tower of Abyss, the Alliance declared victory. But after the victory came not glory, but desolation.

Without a unified command, without a celebration, the five legions withdrew from the battlefield silently, like the receding tide, as if none of them wanted to look back at the black tower that had been erased.

On the evening of the tenth day, a secret decree was sent from the frontiers of Nosteria: the Alliance of Five Dragons had completed its mission, and the alliance was automatically dissolved. Each nation's military power was restored to autonomy, and the joint rule of the various ethnic groups' armies ended.

This letter is known as "The Letter from the Fog".

Its signature was blank. No country signed it; this was the Alliance's final directive and irrefutable proof that "the world will return to division."

That very night, the first Astrakian army quietly withdrew north from the foot of Misty Mountain. The first to act were not the enemy, but their allies.

The Five Dragons Depart - The Miracle Ends

Almost simultaneously, another strange phenomenon occurred.

On the tenth night after the final battle at the Tower of Abyss, five giant dragons rose into the sky from their respective resting places:

Fire Dragon Azdaran soars into the sky from the Southern Grey Rock Canyon.

The Spirit Dragon Isova leaped into the top of the sky before dawn.

The Radiant Dragon Sorel departed in a beam of light above the Altar of Feren.

Golden Dragon Karnrus, silently soaring across the frigid northern plains.

Lin Linglong Loresia took flight with a final turn from the depths of Moonshadow Forest.

They did not respond to any magical summons. They hovered over the airspace of various countries, humming softly for a long time, and then flew away towards the distant shore of the sea of ​​clouds.

That night, the entire continent experienced its second "star shower," with five shooting stars streaking across the night sky.

People say that the five dragons transformed into light and disappeared, and since that day, no one has ever seen them again.

The five dragons became a myth.

It has also become a memory that is both coveted and worshipped by various countries.

The Rise of Five Pillars: The Establishment of a New World Order

After the alliance disintegrated, the world soon fell into a power vacuum.

Small and medium-sized countries, minor kings, and vassal lords of the old alliance began to fight their own battles. Some attempted to declare themselves kings; some directly raised armies to plunder; and some secret summoning guilds even began to study the "remnants of the Tower Language," intending to recreate the structure of the Dark Magic.

Within just three years, war broke out in seventy-two small border countries, more than forty old federal cities were captured, and thirty-seven city lords proclaimed themselves "Kings of the Territory".

Just as the situation was about to completely collapse, the five major powers launched the "Pillar Oath Agreement":

"Those who are willing to submit to the new order shall swear an oath of the Five Pillars, and shall be able to protect the borders and safeguard the territory, and their descendants shall be worshipped for generations."

"Those who violate this rule will be stripped of their titles and removed from historical records."

This system is known as the Five Pillars Order.

The five kingdoms were thus named the Five Pillar Kingdoms.

The Five Pillars of the Nation

Nostria – "Pillar of Military Law"

Dominating the western plateau, they proclaim themselves "the creators of the conquered order".

Retain the most complete former alliance army structure and establish a "warband city-state system".

Within seventeen years, the Western Frontier waged nine "pacification wars," annexed sixteen mountain cities, and suppressed four rebellious royal families.

A "no-war zone" was established on the border, and anyone who approached it without permission was considered a war criminal.

Nosteria believed that the fairest power was the sword.

Ysel – "Pillar of Spells"

It retains the most complete rune mage system on the continent.

The Tower of Abyss inherited a large number of technological remnants of the purification structure after the war.

Rebuild the "Seven Great Spell Towers" and establish an independent "Secret Seal Council".

While politically neutral, its Rune Legion has frequently appeared in border conflicts.

It's as if it's quietly maintaining some kind of "potential balance" in the world.

"Iser has no boundaries, only influence."

Astra – "Pillar of Royal Succession"

It has the longest history of founding a nation and claims to be the "true bloodline of humanity".

It possesses a powerful "crown prince oversight system," and the crown prince's power is comparable to that of the king.

In the tenth year of the Pillar Era, the "Star Council" was built to handle foreign affairs, disputes, and commercial and military matters in a unified manner.

It is the only state apparatus that simultaneously controls diplomacy and assassination.

Its affiliated chambers of commerce are spread throughout the continent, and the power struggles among its crown princes are still used as teaching materials for political courses in various colleges.

Astra's war was not fought on the border, but hidden in his study.

Ferian – "Pillar of Weapon Forging"

The land of dwarven artisans, possessing all the "artificial heritage" of the old era.

After the Battle of the Tower of Abyss, the "Soul Furnace Workshop" was reorganized to mass-produce the "Battle Puppet Legion".

It is the only country that can fuse magic and machinery into "psychic-powered armor".

The borders are mostly guarded by war puppets, and although there are few people, no one dares to invade.

He had a long-standing conflict with Astra over the patent of divine artifacts, which once triggered the "Forging Law Spell War".

Ferrien's border is not garrisoned by troops. Instead, it is garrisoned by a row of war machines that never sleep.

Elven Kingdom of Elf Elf – "Pillar of Blood Oath"

The only two pillar states not dominated by humans.

The entire area is shrouded in a "spiritual barrier," preventing ordinary people from freely entering.

Control the spiritual veins, medicinal herbs, and high-level archery resources in the southeast.

The "Alliance Passage" was opened only once a year, allowing envoys from other countries to exchange tribute.

The Elven royal family never signed a full military alliance with the Five Pillars, but their "Border Arrow Oath" is considered equivalent to a silent battle formation.

Elves do not speak of war. But their arrows speak for them.

[The Formation of the World Order and the Full Implementation of the Five-Pillar Order]

In the fifth year of the Five Pillars Era, the Five Pillars convened the "Spiritual Oath Council," establishing the following core provisions:

The Pillars of Law stipulated that any vassal state that recognized the rule of the Five Pillars must pay tribute annually and provide a son as a "witness to peace."

Alliance Relics Supervision Law: Relics from the Abyss Tower and the Spirit Seal Tower shall be entrusted to the Five Pillars of State for safekeeping. Any other relic kept privately shall be considered as belonging to the Tower's remnants and shall be subject to expulsion.

Dragon Tracks Forbidden Texts: All texts concerning the Five Dragons are listed in the "Forbidden Books of Religious Beliefs," and may not be studied, worshipped, or quoted without permission.

The war appeasement mechanism allows for "low-intensity conflict" in border disputes, but prohibits the escalation of full-scale war; any violation will be subject to collective sanctions by the council.

This system was called the "Cold Flame Rule" by various small countries, meaning that it appeared calm on the surface but harbored a hidden fire beneath.

A recorder from the Grim Oath Chamber later wrote:

"They quelled the war."

"But it also suppressed all those who wanted it to end completely."

"The world you live in is one where 'war waits in silence for its echo'."

"Those five pillars are not the foundation of the world."

"They are the five nails that firmly nailed the war down."

The author of "The Twilight Tower Fragments"

Chapter Eleven: Broken Prophecy

My name is Aslan Vain, formerly a wandering sorcerer of the Northern Tower Mountains of Nosteria. At the age of nineteen, I received a blood oath and was granted a Level Three certification from the Gold Tower, serial number II.1142. At the age of eighty-one, I was ordered to participate in the exploration of the "Starfall Relics," and was one of the thirteen blood donors. My bloodline was of the purest type, and I responded to the Stone Gate, becoming one of the only ones to enter.

But I failed to receive the spiritual resonance of the Radiant Sword. I saw the sword shine, but I saw no reflection of myself on it. At that time, I realized that I was not one of the "chosen ones".

I left the ruins.

I have tried to forget the dim light behind the silent stone gate, and I have also left my old home many times, hiding in the ruins of the tower and the abyss to avoid the world and make pronouncements.

But my dream has never left me.

In the seventh year, there was light in my dream. Not the light of a sword, but the fire that had been extinguished and then reignited.

I don't know if it's a prophecy or a spiritual remnant. But I'm recording it not so that people in the future will believe me, but only so that if someone can truly enter that "Gate of Blood," he or she might be able to recognize their own image from these words.

Therefore, this scroll was preserved and named "The Remnants of the Twilight Pagoda".

Broken Prophecy:

The sword of falling stars once shone on the other shore.

Where the fire is extinguished, ashes will rise again.

Although the five pillars are broken, the gate seal remains closed.

Walking at dawn, the seven dreams resound once more, the tower's echo continues.

He will appear in the shadows.

Holding the old sword, not for domination, not for glory.

He will not be sung about.

But he will make songs possible.

Therefore, this volume ends here. I am neither the chosen one, nor the master of the sword, nor a prophet, nor a hero. I only hope that this fragment, before the ashes have completely burned out, will fall into his hands. If what he holds is a sword forged in brilliance, may this book be the torch that illuminates it.

If he were to open the door—

May what I have recorded help him walk steadily;

If he loses the battle—

May my writings alleviate even a moment of loneliness.

If he never appears—

Then this scroll can remain sealed in the dust without regret.

The person destined to die has not yet arrived, therefore this lamp remains lit.

Autumn of the twentieth year of the Five Pillars Era, Aslan Vain put pen to paper.