#18. Eternal Winter0

The journey through the passage was disorienting, and after passing through a strange, nauseating sensation where their entire bodies were instantly twisted and their bones and muscles shook, as if they were rapidly passing through a wormhole of inverted spacetime, they arrived in a forgotten and lost past—an era that no one on the continent had ever experienced.0

"It is an eternal winter," Sophien said.0

It was an eternal winter of ten thousand years, a world where everything had been frozen.0

“Yes, that’s right. Fortunately, it isn’t unbearably cold. I wonder if that’s because it’s almost time to wake up?” Epherene replied.0

Sophien and Epherene looked around at the blue, frozen continent. The cosmos and the earth were in perfect hibernation, just as they had been before the destruction, waiting for the spring that would soon come.0

“But we should go now, since we can’t stay here for long.”0

However, there was no time to stand around, and therefore Epherene took the lead and opened the lighthouse door, and Sophien calmly followed her.0

Tick, tock—!0

At that moment, the sound of a clock in her ears made Epherene's body freeze...0