Chapter 292: The Mythological World Sealed Off by Qin Shi Huang!
Upon emerging from the passage, the scene before Irina's eyes left her stunned.
The world before her was in a terrible state. If one were to describe it in a word, it would be—hell.
But in truth, this was not hell; it was heaven.
She had seen recordings of this mythological space known as heaven, which originally matched the imagined paradise perfectly.
No, it was even more beautiful than the heaven in her own world. To correct that further, "beautiful" wasn't quite the right word—it was more magnificent.
Yet now, this mythological world looked like hell at a glance.
What should have been a place bathed in holy light now had a sky that was dark red, as if bleeding, with some areas continuously erupting with pitch-black lightning.
The once exquisite buildings had now turned into rubble.
Most of the beautiful floating islands had been shot down, and the few remaining ones hovered precariously in the sky.
Irina also saw the celestial river flowing through the air, which should have been clear but was now polluted, with fragmented corpses—angels, devils, and even some machinery—floating on its surface.
"Irina, Irina!"
"Ah!"
Snapped back to reality by the call, Irina hurried to catch up with the team and Le Fay.
Unable to return home, they didn't want to sit idle, so they had joined the effort.
However, they weren't on the front lines; they served more as support personnel.
Over time, they had adapted to this world and could now wield power nearly equivalent to what they had in their own world.
In the blink of an eye, they arrived at a place where a gate stood.
"Beyond this gate lies the human world, right?"
Irina murmured to herself.
However, this gate was unusable.
Not just this one—all the gates that Qin Shi Huang had expanded and connected with that metal were now sealed and inaccessible.
It could be said that the mythic realms were cut off from the human world.
This was likely the last measure Qin Shi Huang had used to protect humanity before his defeat.
But this isolation didn't seem to be mutual: while those in the mythic space couldn't travel to the human world, it appeared that humans could still come here.
At that moment, Irina spotted a figure and immediately called out.
"Göll!"
"Huh? Irina~"
The girl trotted over, and the two greeted each other with a cheerful high-five.
This trainee Valkyrie was Irina's closest friend here.
"How are things now?"
"Things? Not so great."
Göll replied with a hint of gloom, then updated her on the recent battles over the past few days.
Although some divine realms had been reclaimed—even if they were in ruins, they could be rebuilt—the crucial ones were still fiercely contested, with the war growing increasingly brutal.
Also, no one knew how her sister Brunhilde was doing.
Since the final battle between humans and gods ended, her sister had become deeply despondent and her mood had soured terribly.
It wasn't just because they lost the ninth round; before that, that mysterious person had promised to help resurrect Brother Siegfried, hadn't he?
But there was no sign of him.
It was as if he had vanished without a trace after the ninth round concluded.
"I see... Who knows how long this will last?"
Irina murmured gloomily.
"I wonder how things are back in our world."
Le Fay added softly.
For a moment, both of them sank deeper into melancholy.
So far, there had been no news about their own world—had it been invaded too?
If it had, how was the battle going? Were their loved ones and friends safe?
Seeing them so disheartened, Göll parted her lips as if to speak, hesitated, and finally sighed.
Suddenly, two figures caught Göll's eye, and she grew flustered.
"Wh-what happened? Miss Rossweisse, Miss Serafall!"
Both were badly wounded, looking quite severe, so Göll hurriedly fetched medical supplies to treat them.
"What's wrong with you?"
"Were you ambushed?"
Irina and Le Fay quickly stepped forward to help, their voices filled with concern.
After hearing their explanation, they realized these two had also gone directly to the front lines.
"Really, please don't do such dangerous things again!!!"
Göll couldn't help scolding them.
Though it sounded like scolding, it was actually concern mixed with a hint of guilt.
She felt that these people ending up here was partly due to faults in this world dragging them in.
"As a Valkyrie, how could I possibly sit in the rear? What kind of Valkyrie would I be if I didn't go to the front lines?"
Rossweisse declared.
"Urk"
Göll expressed that she felt hurt.
"Hehe, seeing them fight so passionately, I just couldn't resist~"
Serafall said this while making some cute gestures.
Only on the battlefield could she better enhance her power and understand this world's strength.
She didn't know how Sefaira was doing. That child hadn't gone to the front lines either, staying in the rear with Irina and the others.
But that child was researching the teleportation spell, trying to see if she could contact her own world or teleport back.
"I'll go get it"
Le Fay suddenly volunteered. Seeing that medical supplies were running low and knowing where they were, she immediately broke into a light run.
About fifty meters away, near the mechanical gateway connecting to the human world, supplies were piled up.
Hmm, this should be it.
"Eeek~"
Suddenly, she stepped on something and lost her balance, crashing into the light screen beside her.
Thud—!
Her face smashed right into it, hurting a bit.
Huh?
Eh?
Was it an illusion?
Le Fay thought she saw something strange—when the box in her hand accidentally hit the light screen, it suddenly underwent an abnormal transformation.
It was like in sci-fi movies when someone enters a virtual world, and objects briefly glitch, momentarily turning into data.
Such changes would make one realize they're in a virtual world, not the real one.
But since it was just a flash, it might have been Le Fay's imagination...