Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 1049: Becoming Stronger and Crazy

"You mean, in those... dream sequences, Angel might be in danger?"

In the faculty office of Hoy University, Audrey was still standing by the door, frowning and asking.

As a Beyonder who could travel through dreams, she would often enter the dreams of residents of different classes in Backlund through the collective subconscious ocean in the middle of the night to familiarize herself with her Beyonder abilities and digest the corresponding potions.

During this period, she occasionally entered the dreams of some extraordinary people, including demigods of various origins. But firstly, these extraordinary people hiding in the metropolis were very cautious. Even if they felt that their dreams were invaded, they would not easily fight back after confirming that the other party was harmless. Secondly, most extraordinary people actually did not have a strong control over their dreams. After being accidentally invaded by Audrey, they rarely reacted. Therefore, she never really encountered danger in her dreams.

But an angel's dream was too dangerous... Audrey became anxious when she thought about how she accidentally fell into the depths when she first entered the dream of the Archon of Death and saw the inverted pyramid mausoleum that was split in half and all the symbols of death.

"Don't worry. As a saint, Angel has the ability to protect herself in these dreams. Even in those dream fragments that would restrict my supernatural powers in my subconscious, she can try to restore her power. The price is just to disturb the dream and make her rejected..."

After Mr. Azik pondered for a moment, a smile appeared on his face again, and he explained in detail.

"But will she not dare to take actions beyond the limits of the dream because she is worried about causing trouble to you?" Audrey was still a little worried. "Besides, Miss Angel is already... a Sequence 2 angel."

"Ok?"

This news was obviously beyond Azik's expectations. He sat up straight in his chair, put his knuckles on his temples, and stroked the inconspicuous black mole under his ear.

"How long has it been outside?"

He suddenly asked, and then added:
"How long has it been since the end of June, 1350?"

This Archon of Death must have fallen asleep at that time... Audrey thought about it and quickly replied:

"It is now the end of January 1351, exactly seven months from the time you mentioned."

Then, she considerately told Azik, who was isolated from the world in his deep sleep, about some major events that had happened recently, such as the death of King George III and the invasion of the Feysac Empire.

"Feysac invades..."

This incident brought back Azik's memories, and his expression softened again, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

"This castle, the one where I am sleeping, was built after the battle between Loen and Feysac over the border more than 1,300 years ago. At that time, I obtained my own title and fiefdom, and returned here with my family emblem and knight's ribbon to marry my bride..."

He said in a gentle tone.

"Unfortunately, in my dream, my memories of that life no longer completely belong to me... At that time, I was suspicious, sensitive, and moody, and sometimes even showed a cruel side that was not in line with human morality... I would rather stay in the sunny and fresh-air Tingen City, teach the history of the Fourth Epoch, go home in the evening to enjoy the fireplace and cigars, and go to the Tussock River for rowing on weekends..."

He talked to Audrey, whom he met for the first time, like a talkative old man, and the latter listened quietly with a smile on her face, like a simple "audience".

But Azik suddenly stopped, looked out the window with some confusion, and said in a hurried tone after a moment:
"The dream fragment of 'Baron Ramde'...Angel should be there!"

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In the small town of Ramde, the castle with its gates tightly closed had been surrounded by a large number of Feysac soldiers. They pushed a catapult and threw burning bamboo baskets into the city wall. The Loen soldiers on the city wall responded with arrows, and soldiers from both sides kept falling.

After realizing that the scale of the war had reached a level that an "ordinary person" like her could not control, Angel retreated to the back of the castle, avoiding the frontal attack of the castle by the Feysac soldiers.

She found that the attacking army was like robots with a set goal. As long as she did not appear in front of them, no one would chase her, but they would mechanically attack the castle where Baron Ramd was.

A steady stream of Feysac soldiers came from the north, surrounding the front of the castle. This scale was obviously beyond common sense, making Angel once again doubt the true symbolic meaning of this dream.

“Could it be that this dream is not the life that Mr. Azik longs for… that Feysac’s invasion will eventually destroy the castle and kill everyone he knows, symbolizing that he has lost everything he gained in that life?”

Angel frowned as he looked at the chaotic battlefield. There were only dozens of male knights on the city wall throwing stones and shooting arrows, while the Feysac invaders below had already exceeded a thousand. It was only a matter of time before the castle was captured.

Compared with this huge disparity in numbers, the several teams of soldiers that Angel had just killed with her skills and experience were not even a fraction of them. Unless she immediately recovered her "witch" ability and used disease or black flame to turn the tide of the battle, she could only watch Mr. Azik's life being completely destroyed.

In this situation, Angel finds it difficult to judge whether he should try to use death to escape from the dream, or establish a connection with reality, break through the blockade of the dream, and restore his extraordinary abilities.

"What a pity. Audrey must have also been lost in the dream. Otherwise, she could have given me some suitable advice or directly brought me out of the dream..."

She muttered to herself, her gaze fixed on the tower in front of Baron Ramde's castle. That was the place where the cold-blooded baron had thrown the dagger to her. It was now ignited by the fire thrown into the city. In the billowing smoke, the bronze-skinned baron who looked exactly like Azik was shouting and commanding his soldiers to fight back in vain.

At this moment, a soft voice came to Angel's ears:

"Thinking about me?"

It was Audrey... Angel immediately recognized the owner of the voice and breathed a sigh of relief.

Immediately, everything in her sight began to become blurred, and her perspective continued to rise, quickly passing through the thick smoke and dark clouds and rising high into the sky.

From this angle, she could see that there were still a large number of Feysac soldiers surrounding the town and they were constantly surrounding the castle, like a tide about to submerge the last reef on the sea.

……

When his vision cleared again, Angel found himself back in the room of the castle where he was before entering the dream, still sitting on the single sofa, with Audrey holding his wrist tightly. The difference from before was that the dark coffin in the depths of the room was gone, and it was replaced by a double bed covered with velvet quilt, which added a lot of life to the room that originally had a somewhat weird atmosphere.

Mr. Azik, wearing a shirt and vest, sat at the head of the bed, holding a thick book in his hands, looking over here with concern.

At this moment, Angel was sure that he and Audrey were still in the dream, just in a different "scene".

"Good evening, Mr. Azik."

She took the initiative to stand up and greet him.

Azik nodded, put down the book "The Terensost Empire: Legend or History", stood up from the bedside, walked to the two of them, sat on another armchair, and said to Audrey, who had a calm expression and curious eyes:

"Thank you for rescuing Angel from that dream fragment. Now can you let me talk to her alone?"

"I'll be waiting outside the door."

Audrey answered obediently, walked out of the room, and closed the vermilion wooden door.

"A 'manipulator' who can control his curiosity." Azik commented with a smile on his face, then looked at Angel, "You seem to have encountered some troubles in the dream just now?"

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“In fact, I still don’t understand what’s going on there…” Angel complained, pointing at the bloodstains on her dress. Of course, it was all the blood of the Feysac soldiers. “That should be the place where you lost your memory and joined the Loen army after the Pale Disaster and were awarded the title. But why did the Feysac army invade, and they were about to capture the castle when I was taken away from the dream?”

Hearing this, Azik showed a somewhat vicissitudes of life smile, he put himself in a comfortable position on the chair and replied:

"This is also one of the problems I face... You should have noticed that there is a subtle difference between Baron Ramde and me now. That was actually my true state after my first 'resurrection', while the me now is the state after I have died and resurrected many times and experienced different lives."

"That's all you. The cold-blooded Archon is you who has been affected by the spiritual imprint within your Beyonder characteristics. The gentle father, filial son, and kind teacher is you who has lost your past memories and has abundant humanity."

Angel immediately reminded.

These were the words she and Klein used to advise Azik in the mausoleum of the god of death Salinger deep in the Raging Sea, just before Azik was about to regain all his memories.

Azik smiled and nodded, and said with some emotion:
"Now that I understand these things, I am no longer troubled by my past identities, but in dreams, the two identities still conflict... The young 'manipulator' just mentioned that when he first fell asleep, he accidentally reached a deep level of dream and saw a split inverted pyramid mausoleum and a symbol of death. That was the state of my soul...

"Before the next 'resurrection' to repair this damage, my dreams will present a binary split state. The dream fragments close to the present time point symbolize my humanity, representing my expectations and desires; those close to the Fourth Epoch, which is the dream fragment you just experienced, symbolize my fears and worries...

"My fear of that life mainly came from the deserted castle, the tragic death of my son, and the extinction of my family... The dream made my fear come true in the form of 'the castle was invaded'... So I don't like to go there. I only go to the castle to spend some time when I miss my wife and children...

"This ability to actively control and choose dreams is something I gained during my sleep this time... This should be a gift from a certain existence. If not, you, who have been promoted to an angel, should not be restricted by dreams...

"Haha, the little girl just told me about you becoming an angel, as well as many other terms and concepts in psychology. She is suitable to apply for a lecturer position at Hoy University and provide counseling to those psychologically fragile college students."

You're welcome, we are all believers of Mr. Fool... Angel muttered in his heart, worried about Azik having to face the negative emotions in his dream, but also happy that Audrey could get the recognition of this angel.

The two had another brief exchange. After learning how Audrey met Mr. Azik, Angel did not ask in depth. Instead, he took advantage of the other party's good mood and quickly got to the point:

"Mr. Azik, I visited your dream this time mainly to learn about the history of the Fourth Epoch, about your father, the God of Death Salinger's experience between the Four Emperors' War and the Pale Calamity... Do you still have any memories of that time?"

"Before I left you that day, I remembered everything," Azik nodded, his expression becoming more serious. "What do you want to know?"

"Everything you know about the uniqueness of the Red Priest path, the Level 01 Sealed Artifact No. 0, the Blood Flag of Salinger or the Flag of the Fall of God."

Angel read out all the names representing "0-01" in one breath, hoping to trigger Mr. Azik's memories and get useful information.

The name "Salinger Blood Flag" moved Azik. After thinking carefully for a moment, he answered:

"My father became the final survivor in the Four Emperors' War, and the uniqueness of the Red Priest fell into his hands, but he never tried to use this contaminated power... until the Original Witch came to the southern continent to find him, declaring that she would avenge the Blood Emperor Tudor and let all the Seven Gods of the northern continent fall...

"During the preparations for war, some accidents occurred. My father was instigated by the 'Original Witch' and bewitched by another god. He tried to use the Sequence 0 of the 'Death God' path and the power of the Styx to accommodate the uniqueness of the non-adjacent 'Red Priest' path...

"He became stronger, but also crazier..."

I'm afraid that Salinger must have gone crazy before that, daring to accommodate the uniqueness of non-adjacent paths, even though the promotion requirement of the "Old Days" is only to accommodate the uniqueness of adjacent paths... He is similar to Alistair Tudor, who was promoted from the "Black Emperor" path to the "Red Priest", and the latter is also a half-crazy god... What is the power of the "River of Styx"? The river deep in the "Underworld" opened up by the previous Death God Graygari? It can't be the source substance "River of Eternal Darkness"...

And the "Original Witch" cooperated with the God of Death to bring about the Pale Disaster in order to avenge the "Blood Emperor"? I remember that they had a pair of divine sons. Could it be that there was true love between the two, no, the two gods?

Thoughts kept coming to Angel's mind, and he asked casually:

"Who is the spirit that bewitched your father?"

Azik shook his head:
"My father did not reveal it, and when He started to have problems, he and the 'Original Witch' soon launched a war against the Northern Continent, and no one knew this secret... But from some clues, I have guessed that the god who bewitched my father and instigated Him to forcibly accept the uniqueness of the 'Red Priest'...

"It should be 'True Creator'."

(End of this chapter)