Sword of Daybreaker

After climbing up the stairs of the mantle and leaving the North Tower from the ground, Gao Wen and Amber saw how the castle changed.

As Gao Wen speculated, the whole castle was enveloped in a long-term illusion. All the appearances of the castle were shaped by the dreamer Lilith Kant in the dream, but at the same time It is not a simple dream. The boundary between reality and illusion is particularly vague here. They overlap each other and affect each other. Things that happen in the real world can interfere with dreams, and things in dreams will also map into reality.

When the dream is completely removed, you can see the eroded ruin of the castle.

In the area where the dreams are most eroded, the tower of the tall scorpion has disappeared by half, and it has broken from it. The entire upper part has collapsed and collapsed many years ago. The remaining megalithic structure is like a broken sacrum. The ground points to the sky, showing a sly appearance in the early morning gleam, while the open space around the tower is full of brick and debris that has been buried in the loess and vines; the main body of the castle opposite to the North Tower is preserved. It’s still intact, there’s a place where “reality is better”, so the servants living in the main body of the castle really defended the castle. There are not many signs of collapse, but the walls can be seen everywhere. Uneasy cracks and vines and moss that grow freely, and with the fade of the power of dreams, some of the vines and moss have even climbed to the high spires of the main building.

On the way to the main building of the castle, Gao Wen and Amber met the Philip Knight who was rushing in.

The young knight did not experience the battle, but with his own power to destroy a huge magic center is enough to make him exhausted, Philip is very tired, and there is still a deeper, psychological fatigue in the eyes, but After seeing Gao Wen, he immediately cheered up and stood up straight: "Adult! I am very happy to see you safe and sound!"

Gao Wen looked at Philip's expression and nodded slightly: "It seems that you have seen something that is psychologically stressful."

"Yes, adults, as you expected," Philip sighed. "The place where the butler Carter disappears is the 'internal boundary' of dreams. There is a ceremonial field full of sin and sin. I can hardly describe it there. scene."

Gao Wen nodded: "Take me over and see if you should have not removed the whole place?"

"Of course not, adults, those are the evidence of cultists," Philippe nodded. "But those people... I am afraid I have not saved."

"...I guess," Gao Wen sighed. "Take me over and look at the situation. For Amber, you should go to the castle first. I guess the people there should have woken up, and they are panicking, you Go find the consultants in the castle, the treasurer, the chief knight and the pastor, let them settle down and call the supervisors and knights on the territory. I will go to the main hall to preside over the overall situation."

Amber blinks: "Do you confirm that those people will listen to me?"

"How much are you now the Duke's Guardian? Do you think that you have no right to speak in front of the ordinary servant's family servant?" Gao Wen glanced at the guy. "And now the dream is over, about the castle for the past thirty years. Correct perception is returning to everyone's brains, and this ridiculous shock can make everyone into a huge panic, and people can easily accept guidance."

Gao Wen’s second half of the sentence seems to have not entered the half-elf’s head. After the first half of the amber, the whole person has already begun to float. After running for a while, the brain has come out with at least sixty ways to make money. And the eighty methods of deception basically revolve around the central idea of ​​Hu Huwei, but unfortunately she just floated in a few seconds and was seen by Gao Wen, the latter directly blinked: "You have to dare to lend me The name of the pit is abducted, I will shoot you on the wall!"

Amber rolled his eyes: "You can't threaten another way?"

"Then shoot the ground," Gao Wen waved his hand and turned away. "In short, you have to dare to lie on the wall, dare to steal things and shoot on the ground..."

However, the straight Philip Knight, after keeping up with Gao Wen’s footsteps, asked with a worried question: “Would she lie to you after stealing something and say that she didn’t steal it?”

Gao Wen stopped and looked at Philip silently: "...has you considered ironing?"

"what?"

Gao Wenxin sighed: Sure enough, the most difficult thing to do is to communicate with the locals, even if the other party is a squat.

The two came to the underground hall where the Philip Knight found it.

The magical power of the entrenched hall in the hall has dissipated, and the sultry and madness has disappeared, but it is still a ghastly place. In Gao Wen’s sight, the platforms that are neatly arranged around the stone pillars are like a The **** and sloppy planing platform, on these planing platforms, the "Lamb" to be slaughtered is still alive.

Gao Wen noticed the tubular objects that resembled a biological tissue that connected the victim's head and stone pillars. They were entangled blood vessels and nerves, but apparently did not proliferate and mutate from the human brain. Their One end is attached to the base of the stone column, where there is an expansive, distorted flesh-and-blood structure, as if an independent organism is attached tightly to the rune of the stone column, and the other end is connected to the human body. It should be the result of some kind of parasitism (and possibly surgery).

As the Philip Knights destroyed the runes on the stone pillars, the "biological tissues" attached to the stone pillars showed signs of debilitation and sudden death at the moment, they began to shrink and crack, and there was a reddish liquid flowing out of the gap. More than half of the victims connected to them have died.

Even those who have not died can obviously not be saved. They have been connected with those "neural cords" for too long, and individual consciousness has long been completely wiped out. Brain tissue is irreversibly devastating and their remaining brains Nerve cells are just providing computing power for this huge "human brain array computer", and as the magical power dissipates here, they will soon die.

The only thing to be thankful for is that they have not felt the pain in this process.

"I can't recognize what it is," said the Philip Knight, who was reluctant to be disgusted. He and Gao Wen were kneeling near the foundation of one of the pillars. He used the scabbard to point to the biological tissues that were twitching and contracting in front. Even in the ancient books that recorded the most insane black magic, and in the slang words of the heretical villains, I have not heard of such creatures in the world. The perpetual sleepers are not druids, they have not modified species or The ability to summon life, these biological organizations should be where they find and breed, specifically for the extraction of the soul, but... Where did they find these things?"

"Maybe these are really things that will kill the dead people," Gao Wen frowned. "They have connections after all."

The Philip Knight is very surprised: "The cooperation between the cultists will be so close?"

"If the reason for their fall is as I thought, then the closeness of their cooperation will probably exceed the imagination of most people in the world," Gao Wen sighed. "Beyond these, I am more concerned about the use of those who have been sleeping." This 'technique'."

After all, Philip is a warrior, and he is somewhat sluggish in this regard: "Technology?"

"The letter left by Viscount Victor has mentioned that this is a 'computation node' built by the eternal sleepers," Gao Wen pointed to the victims who were connected by nerves. "They seem to be trying to create a kind of Replace the real world's 'real dreams' and use the power of dreams to achieve something, and this requires horrible computing power. You can simply understand it as brain power. The brain of any big magician can't accomplish this feat. So they came up with this crazy idea, which is to connect the brain and create a 'human brain array computer'. Do you know what it means?"

“Is it going to kill more people?”

"This is just an appearance. The deeper meaning is that this means that these cults are not only crazy, but also master the crazy technology!" Gao Wen said seriously. "They are still in the situation of being rejected by the mainstream society and escaping from the world." It has been constantly evolving and even developed new technologies that are far beyond the level of contemporary magic. It is important to know that only mad cultists who are crazy about thinking are not terrible. What is terrible is that these cultists even have research capabilities and even scientific research capabilities are not weak!"

As he spoke, he stood up and looked around the entire underground hall.

"The most terrible thing is that the crazy technology they created, if used in the right place, will make their technological progress even more horrible..."

After collecting some samples of rune and wreckage, Gao Wen and Philip Knight left the place.

After the dream power receded, the main hall of the castle was one of the smallest changing areas. Except for the aging signs of the accumulation of light in the past 30 years, except for the external walls, pillars, and ceilings, it is still bright and tidy. The cleaning activities of the servants in the castle on weekdays are real, and the characteristics of the intersection of dreams and reality ensure that their cleaning effect is not limited to dreams.

In fact, due to the end of the dream effect, the sinister atmosphere that has always been entrenched in it has disappeared, and the main hall of the castle is warmer and more peaceful than in the past.

It’s just that this warm and peaceful atmosphere has no way to calm down the people gathered in the hall.

Fear is shrouded in the minds of everyone, including the chief knight who has been loyal to guarding this place for 30 years.

When the dream is over, the talents in the castle are awakened, their shielded consciousness and memory are working, and in the moment of the ability to freely think, everything that has been experienced here for the past three decades has become eccentric. The nightmare sleepwalks in an aging castle, taking care of a phantom that has been dead for decades, a ghostly hostess squatting in the ruins of the North Tower, all of which are creepy.

For those older servants and knights, consultants, and supervisors, things are even more horrifying: they clearly remember when the old master and the little master’s bones were secretly sent back to the castle, and clearly remembered thirty. Years ago, the hostess used magic to control everyone's minds in madness. What happened every day, every change in the castle, was in their hearts.

And those who were called back and lived near the castle were also in fear, because as long as they frequented the castle, they were all affected by dreams, just compared to those thirty years. The servants and knights who have not left the castle, their fears are slightly lighter.

But in any case, no one can remain calm and calm as long as they realize what they have experienced.

Amber was standing on the high platform at the end of the main hall, and was anxious to scratch his head.

There is a place where the lords can stand on weekdays, but now no one is commenting on the "little girl" standing above, because everyone knows that it is the Duke's guard. In this emergency, she is the Duke. The spokesperson stood there, so instead of questioning her, everyone turned her eyes on expectations.

But this makes Amber want to find a chance to roll back to the shadows immediately. The feeling of the big man is not as good as it was before!

"Don't panic, don't be nervous... Don't be nervous! The Duke went to purify the last lair. He will not panic when he comes over, he will come over!"

Amber stood on the stage in vain to appease the crowd, and when she felt that she could not control the scene for another second, Gao Wen finally appeared with the Philip Knight.

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