Chapter 431: Chapter 432: The Call of Fire_2 Chapter 431: Chapter 432: The Call of Fire_2 “Ordinary citizens? Get them to seek shelter…” Lister began instinctively, but he got only halfway through his sentence when a ruckus of shouting and scuffling rapidly approached from the corridor. Almost imdiately after, he heard the voice of a young girl outside, yelling at the top of her lungs—
“Everybody f*cking move! Make way! Ti is precious! What’s the word for it… window, oh, the window of opportunity is just f*cking this brief!”
Lister looked up in astonishnt, and the next second, he saw two young girls burst through the soldiers’ blockade and forcefully storm into the critical command center.
One was short and slim, dressed in a black cotton dress, yet she single-handedly pushed two burly soldiers away from the door. The other was slightly taller, clad in a simple brown coat and cotton dress, her complexion seemingly a bit tense.
Both girls looked to be only sixteen or seventeen, the slim one even younger-looking.
“Get out imdiately,” Lister demanded right away, irritably, and his tone was not pleasant. “This is no place for your shenanigans. If you’ve got separated from the refuge crowd, then…”
“Are you the boss here? We’ve got sothing important to do,” the slim girl interrupted mid-sentence, speaking rapidly, “Is there a space nearby that you aren’t using at the mont? We need to start a fire…”
“Start a fire?” Lister couldn’t help but be startled, and then realized this must be so kind of sick joke—he couldn’t comprehend why two utterly random civilians would show up here causing trouble now, but then, his professional vigilance kicked in, and he imdiately ordered loudly, “Soldiers, take them into custody!”
Several soldiers rushed in headlong to seize the two strange girls. The shorter one began to hop and jump agitatedly: “We really do have sothing important! The aspect of this place is too perfect, just a patch of empty ground would do! You…”
She suddenly stopped, her eyes widening as she gazed out the window as if she’d seen sothing.
“Hey! That’ll work! The whole avenue is empty, and it leads right to the coastline!” The girl leaped up high, struggling free from the grasps of two or three soldiers. Then, she turned to her companion, signaling, “Nina, you head over there, and along with the two arson points, we found to the south earlier, the City-State side will definitely have enough!”
“Ah… okay!” Nina, the girl referred to, responded instantly. Then, she turned back around, bowing slightly to Lister with embarrassnt and apology, “I’m… sorry, sir. My friend isn’t very good at dealing with people. We’ll be leaving now…”
Lister stared with wide eyes, the absurdity unfolding before him leaving his mind in a bit of a whirl, but he still took a step forward instinctively, “Hold on, you…”
He didn’t finish his sentence.
Because sothing even more outrageous happened.
Warm currents suddenly surged around the young girl before him, and in the blink of an eye, she morphed into a leaping, glaring arc of fla. This fire soared within the room, its blinding light as if a single glance could set one’s soul ablaze—The next second, the fla darted toward the open window, like a teor flying in reverse, heading straight for a high platform near the harbor zone.
Lister watched in shock, but before his mind could catch up, the firebolt rushed back into the room.
The fla bowed, outlining the girl’s silhouette, as a polite yet crackling voice ca through, “Thanks for protecting the city, I’m off! Goodbye!”
The arc of fla dashed out of the room once more.
“Goodbye, goodbye!”
The room echoed with the voice of the small-statured girl, who then saw a dark rift suddenly erge beside her. Shadows churned within, pulling her into oblivion before everyone’s eyes.
“What the… what the f*ck is all this…”
Lister watched dumbfounded, impulsively rushing toward the open window, only in ti to see an arc of intense fla streaking up into the sky from afar.
Below that fierce fla, the coast, bathed in piercing light, suddenly burst into fla!
“The Frost Coast has been set ablaze!”
On the lookout tower of the Sea Mist, an undead sailor picked up a gaphone and began to shout loudly.
The waves surged, and the cold wind curled backward as Tyrion stood like an unwavering rock at the edge of the bow deck, and in his single eye reflected the Frost Coast, where several large fires were being ignited.
A bright fla danced above the City-State, continuously igniting the deserted areas along its edge—towering cliffs jutting out of the water, reefs, abandoned towers, damaged artillery.positions, one by one, the flas connected, resembling… a continuous line of candlesticks.
Around the Sea Mist, the vast and endless sea was ablaze in great swaths.
The remnants of the counterfeit fleet were burning, ships of the Mist Fleet or of the Frost Navy were burning, the leaked oil was burning.
The entire ocean was being set on fire by the battles.
And in this burning sea was reflected the mirrored world’s distorted and strange lights and shadows—the constantly surfacing ghost fleet, the bizarre and terrifying mirrored Frost, and the endless darkness that enveloped these twisted beings.
“Captain!” First Mate Aiden ran over and said loudly next to Tyrion, “The last barrel of oil has been poured, and the fire is about to sweep onto the ship!”
“I know,” Tyrion said calmly, a slow smile actually erging on his face, “Any reaction from the Frost Navy?”
“They also, following our orders, lit the excess whale oil, but they still don’t understand what we’re trying to do, they’re just blindly following along in confusion—they’re hoping we can give them an explanation.”
“An explanation…”
Tyrion muttered softly, slowly raising his hand, pointing it around the Sea Mist, at the increasingly dark and eerier sea being covered by an even thicker darkness.
“Aiden, what do you think this sea looks like?”
Aiden was startled for a mont and looked up around him.
The next second, his expression gradually stiffened, and even a hint of fear appeared.
The sea, where the wind and waves had quickly subsided to nothing, was engulfed in boundless darkness, giving the entire mariti area a mirror-like quality.
The flas were burning in front of the mirror, from the Frost Coast to the mariti area where fleets clashed in combat, the continuous battle fires… like a ceremonial candelabrum in front of a mirror.
The sound of wind and waves and cannons on the sea seed suddenly to diminish, everything felt as distant as if it ca from another world, and in this strange and brief silence, Aiden heard his captain speak softly.
“My father said, if you want to seek him out, find a mirror and then light a fla in front of it.”
Tyrion slowly opened his arms, facing the sea that was gradually turning into a pitch-black mirror.
“The fire has been lit, are you there?”
And so, the Frost waters opened their eyes.
“I am here.”
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