Villain: Glory bows to me

Since the bridge was very empty, Catherine had no chance to turn back.

So she had no choice but to fight to the death.

However, the huge gap in strength left Catherine with almost no room for resistance. The monster slapped her and sent her flying several meters away, breaking the dagger in her hand.

Now Catherine had no chance to resist, she felt like all the bones in her front body were broken.

Unable to move, Catherine could only close her eyes silently and listen to the heavy footsteps of the monster approaching her.

Vito in the real world couldn't help feeling disappointed when watching this scene. It seemed that losing her memory had a huge impact on Catherine, turning her into a weak woman who was powerless. Vito also sentenced her to death in his heart.

"Forget it, let me think of a way to send my own people in to kill Chaos."

Vito looked at Catherine who was crushed into powder by the monster and was ready to think of other ways.

Suddenly, Vito felt that Catherine's breath seemed to still be in the dream world.

After all, this was a world conceived by Vito, and Vito naturally understood that Catherine was not dead, nor did she turn into waste in nightmare dreams.

So Vito immediately began to look for the location of this breath, and soon, Vito found it.

That’s right, it was in the chaotic dream created by Chaos that Catherine was lying intact in the sea of ​​flowers, but she was still in a coma.

An old man with a cane walked out of the small house in the chaotic dream, limped to Catherine, and then Catherine actually floated up out of thin air.

The old man walked into the cabin with Catherine, who was hanging in the air.

Vito found that the dying old man had no light in his eyes and looked no different from a dead person, but his body was shaking constantly.

That’s right, the old man was afraid, and what he was afraid of might be Chaos.

Since Vito has no way to control the chaotic dream, there is nothing he can do now and he can only wait for things to continue to develop.

Vito was actually very curious about what methods Chaos would use to win over Catherine.

So now Vito can only wait patiently for Catherine to wake up and see what happens next.

Catherine, who was still in a coma at this time, seemed to be having a very strange dream.

In the dim light, she saw a blood-red moon, which was getting closer and closer, as if it was about to reach her eyes and suck her in.

At this moment, the blood moon suddenly stopped moving, and a twisted strange hand stretched out from the blood moon.

The excavator had no intention of pulling Catherine, but it gave Catherine an unparalleled sense of affinity.

Catherine also silently raised her hand and reached towards the monster's hand uncontrollably.

Just as the two hands were about to touch, Catherine suddenly smelled the pungent smell of alcohol and blood. Accompanied by a terrible roar, Catherine woke up from her dream.

Catherine, soaked in sweat, woke up on a simple bed, and sitting on a chair next to her was an old man who was about to die.

The old man was wearing a black coat and an elegant gentleman's hat. There was no light in his lifeless eyes. His trembling hands were tightly holding his cane, making him look like a candle in the wind.

“Am I in heaven?”

Catherine didn't know what had happened, but when she touched her body, she found no wounds.

She had clearly been flattened by the monster on the bridge, but now she was intact.

“Haha… stop joking, little girl, this is not heaven, this is hell.

Don't take it seriously, welcome to the gathering place, I am the boss here, Cosmos."

The old man chuckled and introduced the place, which made Catherine even more confused.

"Assembly point?"

"Well, you see, the outside world is shrouded in darkness, and only here can you see the moon. So, the last hope of the world is gathered here. Isn't this a gathering place? It makes sense, right?"

With that, Cosmos stood up, limped to the window and pushed it open, and Catherine could clearly see the flower fields with full moon outside, and a bright moon hanging in the cloudless sky.

You know, since she came here, she has basically not seen any light.

The sky was covered by black fog, and everywhere was plunged into terrible darkness, which made Catherine's nervous heart relax a little.

However, Catherine also discovered that the house she was in was a different world. The walls were covered with various weapons and tools for repairing weapons.

This place looks more like a workshop.

As if noticing Catherine's strange look, Cosmos quickly began to explain.

“Hahaha, these things are all antiques from the past, I just keep them as a souvenir.

In the past, everyone called us apostles, but unfortunately, now I am the only one left in the world, so naturally no one will use these weapons anymore."

Cosmos' words shocked Catherine greatly. She didn't expect that the apostle she had heard of for so long was left with only this dying old man in front of her.

Catherine calmed down and began to ask Cosmos something else.

"So you saved me?"

Cosmos shook his head.

"No, God has chosen you, little girl. I wonder if you are willing to join the Apostles, inherit our will, and complete what we have not completed?"

"This...what do I need to do? And what can I get?"

Catherine did not agree immediately. She did not believe in the so-called God and felt that Cosmos was deceiving her.

"Hahaha, don't worry, if you join the Apostles, you will gain unparalleled power. At the same time, you can also recover your lost memories.

What we need you to do is to find a way to end the plague!"

Cosmos smiled slightly, and his words completely met Catherine's needs.

Finding a way to end the plague is her mission, although she doesn't know the reason because of her amnesia.

At the same time, you can regain lost memories and gain power, so why not do it?

Catherine agreed immediately.

This made Cosmos very relieved, and he immediately gave Catherine a gift.

A weapon and a gem.

The weapon was a large, sharp butcher knife, but strangely, it didn't feel heavy at all in Catherine's hand.

"You will face many terrible monsters. They are all irrational beasts with thick skin and flesh. You need these weapons to cut through their bodies."

Catherine agreed with Cosmos' words. After all, she had tried to stab the monster with a dagger, but the effect was like hitting a rock with an egg.

Then Catherine picked up the gem again. There was a strange symbol engraved on the blue gem.

It looks like some kind of hieroglyphics, and it seems to mean a person hanging upside down?

Cosmos did not explain much about this symbol, but just told Catherine its usage.

“You can use this gem to travel freely in this world, but please note that the condition for using this gem is that there must be a tombstone with the same symbol engraved on it nearby, otherwise the gem will not resonate.

Okay, little girl, I'll stop here. Next, go explore this world slowly according to your own ideas. Good luck. "

After saying that, Cosmos sat back in his chair and warmed himself by the fire as if nothing had happened.

Although Catherine was confused, she picked up her weapon and gem and walked out.

When she arrived outside the door, Catherine soon saw a tombstone with the same symbol engraved on it standing not far away.

There was a note next to the tombstone.

This was naturally a new hint given to her by Vito, but Catherine didn't know it and just thought that there was some mysterious being guiding her.

Catherine walked up and picked up the note, but the information on it left her completely confused.

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Regarding the so-called "gathering place", there is a very interesting setting, which applies not only to the dream world, but also to the Ed Continent in the real world.

I believe everyone knows that in my setting, the light of the continent of Ed is about to disappear, and at the same time, some changes have begun to occur in the world.

For this purpose, I deliberately added a unique setting, that is, "phototaxis", which means that all life on the continent of Ed will move towards the light.

Because the areas that lose their light will eventually be swallowed by the abyss.

So, if we change the term "gathering place" to "the end of the world", it might be easier to understand.

Finally, let me briefly mention that "Kosmos" is cosmos, which means universe in English. It is also the moon god in Japanese mythology and is related to the moon. Isn't it a coincidence?