Ashes Of Deep Sea

Chapter 828: Chapter 825: Circular Convergence

Priest John left with a complex but still resolute expression. Before leaving, he asked nothing, and Agatha didn’t explain any further.

Now, once again, only Agatha remained in the prayer room—bright light struggled against the substantial darkness outside the windows, a few cold flames flickered on the candelabrum before the holy image, a wisp of smoke still rose from the extinguished brazier, and reflected in the floor mirror beside her was her fragmented body.

Agatha turned to face the holy image of Bartok, lifted her head, and with eyes covered in black cloth she “gazed” for a long time at the deity shrouded in the night. The statue was as always, but in her eyes, the tall sculpture was already full of cracks, as if a heap of debris that should have already collapsed was still maintaining superficial integrity, supported by some invisible force.

She sensed the breath within the cathedral—increasingly more breaths of the dead.

The “foundation” of this world is gradually cooling and dying, and now almost all living people are gradually “transitioning” towards the state of the dead. People who die without realizing it move about in the entire City-State, and the same is true in the cathedral. John died, died during a breath in midday prayer yesterday, Nun Lola died too, died in a shallow sleep—and now they continue to dutifully perform their duties within the cathedral, just like all the others.

All of a sudden, a hazy flame surged in the mirror beside her, turning the mirror’s surface pitch-black, and shortly afterward, a figure became clear within the mirror.

Agatha turned her head to find that it was not Captain Duncan who appeared in the mirror, but Tarrikin.

“My father helped me construct this channel, used to establish contact between those ‘blessed’ by his fire,” Tarrikin spoke up proactively, “Miss Agatha, how are things on your side?”

“…The number of dead within the cathedral is increasing,” Agatha sighed softly, “Many new deaths are from people who suddenly ‘transformed’ from living under normal circumstances. It seems this event itself can no longer be stopped, it’s not something that treatment or protective measures can resolve.”