Goddess Wanhua Mirror

So before the operation started, Lude had to make a plan.

The next afternoon, Lude visited the lord's residence again.

Since the maid had been told to stop the old lady's medication the day before, the other person was awake when she came over this time.

It's just that when Lude entered the room, the old lady who had been in a daze suddenly screamed with screams, her voice was sharp and piercing, and her head shell buzzed.

Lu De hurriedly comforted him, and then he calmed down.

"Has the old lady always been like this before?"

"Except for Miss Young Master and Aunt Oma, all of them will trigger this kind of reaction from Madam. The magic can only make her quiet for a short while, and after the effect wears off, she will return to her old self."

When mentioning the old lady's mental illness, Athos looked sad, while Lude was thinking with a frown.When I came here yesterday, because the old lady had been in a coma and the physical examination was done by Romean, Lude didn't find anything particularly noteworthy at the time.

But just when the old lady went crazy, he faintly sensed a fleeting strange feeling, which immediately caught his attention.

So Lude came to the old lady who had regained her sluggishness, stretched out her hand and pressed her celestial cap, and the spiritual tentacles condensed with divine power immediately penetrated into the lady's body from the depths of his palm to start a carpet search.

After some searching, the old lady's physical body did not find any abnormalities, it was simply weakness caused by malnutrition.As long as you make up your body well, you can make a big improvement in the first half of the month of conditioning. The premise is that the old lady's current mental state, which is as unstable as a time bomb, can return to normal.

However, the tentacles of divine power cannot detect the soul, and the divine magic of spiritual comfort sounds like it can interfere with the soul, but the actual effect is the same as that of tranquilizers.

Lude deliberated for a moment, then turned to Athos and said.

"Knight Athos, I teach a unique secret technique, which may be effective in Madam's situation. But I must explain in advance that this secret technique is risky."

"What secret technique?"

"Psychic!"

Taking out a very old-looking booklet from his arms, Lude showed Athos the magic circle on one of the pages.

The so-called "psychic" ceremony is to communicate with the gods by secret methods and summon a heroic spirit from the lower realm.Heroic spirits are not gods, nor are they divine envoys created by gods, but former saints and heroes. After death, their souls are immortal and ascended to the realm of gods, so that they can serve at the side of gods.

To put it simply, it is the ghosts of the establishment that have been mixed into the system!

So in essence, heroic spirits and undead are similar existences, but heroic spirits are recognized by the gods and can be sublimated into the realm of the gods, so they are more advanced and powerful than undead, and they will not take the initiative to harm mortals.

However, heroic spirits, like undead, have the ability to enter dreams, so Lu De planned to summon a heroic spirit to save the old lady's soul.

A set of settings that sounded awesome, although Ados didn't understand it, but subconsciously felt it was very powerful.Coupled with the "authority" brought by Lude's various identities, he couldn't help but believe it.

"Then how to do it specifically? Master!"

"I need to prepare a little bit for the summoning ceremony. The location is in the hall of my temple. After all, this is to borrow someone from the goddess."

"When exactly?"

"Just tonight, the specific process is like this..."

According to Luther's request, Athos got a "sedan chair" and carried the old lady to the temple.The psychic ceremony place has been arranged here, and the benches in the hall have been temporarily moved out. In the center of the vacated hall, a magic circle exactly like the one in the book has been painted with golden paint. The texture looks very complicated. , has a unique beauty.

It is worth mentioning that the prototype of the magic circle is the human body formation formation in "Fullmetal Alchemist", which is Lude's favorite cartoon when he was in middle school.I have often copied the Lian Chengzhen in the comics. I don’t know how many times I have drawn it, and it has been engraved into the DNA together with many useless things.

But the magic circle is used to summon heroic spirits, so they don't need to put the old lady in it, just wait by the side.

The old lady had already drank the sleeping potion prepared by Lu De in advance, and the effect of the medicine was relatively mild, not as strong as the one given by the emperor.After drinking this potion, people's sleep is very light, and it becomes easier to dream.

After everything was ready, Lude looked at the crowd. Apart from himself, Aina and Shanis, the baron siblings and the three knights were also present, ready to participate in the psychic ceremony.

Originally, Lu De planned to hold a closed-door ceremony, and try not to let outsiders participate, but then he thought, why not call the relatives of the old lady together, and turn the ceremony into a "reality show" with a publicity effect.

"Let's get started! Aina, present the tribute."

"Yes, Master."

Under the watchful eyes of the Baron's family, Aina opened a basket, brought out a few plates of fragrant snacks, and put them in the center of the circle.

Looking at the plates of snacks, the three knights couldn't help showing a bewildered expression like "an old man on the subway looking at his mobile phone".

They had heard that this ceremony needed tributes to summon heroic spirits, and they thought it would be some rare and rare treasure, but it turned out that they only needed this thing, which always felt like a joke.

But no matter what, the ceremony has officially started. Lude and the two nuns have already knelt down in front of the circle, bowing their heads and praying silently.There was no sound in the hall for a while, and it was so quiet that even a needle dropped on the ground could be heard clearly!

And in this silence, the magic circle on the ground... lit up!

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The soft holy light rises from the runes on the magic circle like a erupting volcano, and then quickly condenses into a golden gate of light. Accompanied by a pleasant wind chime, the gate slowly opens, and a long shining long The beautiful woman came out from the door.

Witnessing this unbelievable scene with their own eyes, the baron siblings and the three knights all looked shocked, their mouths widened and they stared blankly at the somewhat illusory "Sister Heroic Spirit" in front of them.

The other party looked to be about 20 years old, with black hair hanging from his waist to his knees, and the front curtain was lifted left and right by the headband, revealing a delicate and pretty face.Wearing a set of well-made court robes, holding a thick hard-covered book in his hand, he feels more like a bachelor than a soldier.

But the most eye-catching thing is the part below her calf, which floats like a ghost, but it doesn't have the slightest cold and rancid smell at all.

At this time, Miss Yingling looked around, and her eyes finally fell on Lude who had stood up, stretched out her hand, and said in a very sweet voice.

"The mortal saint, I am Eleven, the scribe of the heroic spirit under the goddess Evelina, and I have come to answer your call. Tell me your request?"

"Your Excellency Ying Ling, I would like to ask you to do us a favor and use your power to enter a lady's dream."

In front of the baron's family, Eliwen, who pretended to be a heroic spirit, had a rivalry scene with Lude according to the previous rehearsal process.Relying on the extraordinary memory that she was proud of during her lifetime, she read out the lines that Lu De had written in advance verbatim. Although there was still a slight lack of emotion, it was enough to achieve the desired effect.

So the psychic ceremony was mainly to pave the way for Elaine to appear on the stage, and conveniently packaged her, an alien among the undead, into a tall "heroic spirit".

It is worth mentioning that in order to achieve the desired stage effect and make Eleven look more holy, Lu De spent a lot of effort.

Under normal circumstances, the holy light is the nemesis of the undead, and can cause tons of damage to undead creatures like them.Therefore, Luther couldn't directly use the Holy Light to bless Elaine, or she would be wiped out directly.

But Kumilad told Lude a way, that is to first apply a layer of non-holy magical defensive enchantment to Eleven, and then apply an additional layer of holy light outside the enchantment, so that It can make the undead, Elaine, look like a strong sacred aura lingers all over her body.

In practice, this method is indeed feasible. It did not cause any damage to Eleven, and it also achieved the visual effect Lude expected.

certainly!The negative effect of contacting the undead still exists, but the erosion effect also has a dosage threshold like poison.And because Elaine was in good spirits, she didn't fall into madness and degenerated into a wraith, and her yin energy was much weaker than that of ordinary undead.

One person, one ghost, one singing and one harmony, Lu De explained the situation, and Elaine pretended to think for a moment, then nodded.

Seeing this, Ados couldn't help being excited, feeling in his heart that the heroic spirit is really different from the undead!

"Beforehand, I can take you into this lady's dream, but the dream varies from person to person. Before entering, even I can't know what's going on inside the dream. We may see very scary pictures, or Peek into the privacy that a person does not want to be known by others..."

Before falling asleep, Elaine explained the precautions to everyone present in detail.

Lude called the Baron's family, not only to ask them to be witnesses, but also planned to take them with him when he fell asleep.Because they are the closest family members of the old lady, they have some blood and family ties, as well as shared fond memories.They are far more suitable than Lude, an outsider, who want to heal the old lady's wounded heart.

Under normal circumstances, psychological trauma is often reflected in nightmares, and what Lude has to do is to bring the baron siblings into the old lady's dream, turning the nightmare into a good dream of family reunion, so that the old lady can cheer up .

It sounds simple, but the dream itself is the biggest variable, because the dream world is often illusory and grotesque, and it is the product of distorted thinking, so it is very likely that you will encounter something that will make your SAN go crazy.

At Elaine's request, everyone sat in a circle around the old lady, and Lude gave each of them a sweet-smelling plum for them to keep in their mouths.This thing is soaked in medicine, which can help to fall asleep faster.

After everyone swallowed the medicinal plum, Elaine floated in the air, flying around them while softly humming an ancient lullaby.Everyone felt that their eyelids were getting heavier and heavier, and they all fell asleep after a while, and when they came back to their senses, they were already standing at a strange three-way intersection.

"We are..."

"It was in the old lady's dream."

It was Elaine who answered everyone's questions. In the dream, her appearance was completely restored to her previous appearance.For Elaine, this is a very memorable experience. Many undead like to invade the dreams of the living, not necessarily for the purpose of harming others, but for the sake of reliving the feeling of being alive again.

Lu De looked around, and at first glance, the environment was no different from reality, which showed that the dream the old lady was having was relatively "conservative".

At this time Miss Lisa suddenly exclaimed, pointing to a big tree not far away and said.

"I know where this is, this is our hometown!"

After all, Lisa was the first to recognize the place where she had lived for more than ten years.Thinking that her mother had dreamed of this place in her dream, the little girl was moved, and her nose couldn't help but feel a little sore, because this is also a place of memories with her father and brothers.

With Lisa leading the way, everyone walked along a path.

The little girl was a bit eager to return, and walked in a hurry ahead, while Lu De was observing the surroundings, and quickly noticed some unusual things.

When they first entered the dreamland, the scenery around the three-fork intersection was obviously in the hot summer. The vegetation on the roadside was lush and green, and the blue sky and white clouds above their heads made it a good weather for traveling.

But as we walked, the scenery on both sides of the road came to the cool and windy late autumn in a blink of an eye. The sky was covered by dark clouds, and the ground was covered with withered and yellow leaves.

The change of the dream meant that the mood of the dream owner was also changing, and Lude also keenly felt that there seemed to be some filthy thing exuding an ominous atmosphere in front of him.

Lude, who noticed the abnormality, couldn't help being taken aback, so he couldn't find anything when he used magic outside before.No matter what is in front of it, at least one thing is certain, it is indeed very good at hiding!

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Many people who can recall the experience in their dreams after waking up know that the scenes in the dream are very strange. They often walk and walk, even standing in the same place without moving, and the surroundings switch to another inexplicably. place.

The situation that Lu De and the others encountered in the old lady's dream was similar. Just now, they were still on the country road, and in a blink of an eye, flames burst out, and they "teleported" directly to the center of a burning village.

Lothar and Lisa felt very at a loss, this was not the hometown they remembered, but Ados and the others looked shocked.

"Here... is where we fought the captain!"

"Here? That village in the Duchy of Worton?"

"Ah."

Ados nodded. This village can be said to be a "sad place" that he will never forget in his life. The captain and seven brothers all died here, and they still appear in his nightmares from time to time. All of this was exactly the same as the scene in his memory.

But Lude discovered a problem. It stands to reason that the old lady had never participated in that battle, nor had she personally been to the village of the Roton Duchy. The same village, this is no longer just a coincidence!

Lude was about to ask Athos for more details about the battle, when there were bursts of shouts and roars of wild beasts not far away.

Lu De told Aina to take good care of the siblings and not let them leave a radius of one meter away from them. This time, he led everyone to follow the voice to find them.

Soon, a group of people came to the periphery of an open space and saw a scene that made them feel very incredible.Not far ahead, several human soldiers were fighting fiercely with a monster with a terrifying appearance.

The huge monster has the upper body of a human female, but its size is many times larger than that of ordinary people. Its arms are slender, its palms are shaped like sharp claws, and its lower body is like a mixture of a scorpion, a centipede and a crab. It is 30 meters long by visual inspection. It has hundreds of crab legs and three pairs of giant claws, and there is a scorpion tail spine at the end of the body.

Facing such a terrifying monster, human soldiers are obviously at a disadvantage.Ordinary swords slashed at monsters, and they couldn't even break through their defenses.But these soldiers did not retreat, because behind them in the dilapidated building was a group of unarmed villagers, and the old lady was among them.

Fighting, one of the human soldiers was accidentally caught by the palm of the monster's upper body, and several huge pincers immediately clamped the soldier's hands and feet, tearing the soldier alive in an extremely cruel and bloody way, splashing Blood plasma and minced meat sprayed everywhere.

Seeing this, Lu De hurriedly dodged in front of the siblings, preventing them from seeing this terrifying scene that was enough to cause a psychological shadow.

"That's Neo..."

Looking at the scene in front of them, the three of Ados looked excited. They recognized the soldier who had just been brutally torn apart by the monster at a glance, and the other soldiers who were fighting the monster were the deceased Captain Kirk and others. Brothers, even among themselves.

Once again, I saw the scene of the tragic death of my comrades in arms. Although the enemy had changed from a large number of bandits to a terrifying monster, the emotions of several veterans fluctuated greatly, and they were reminded of the most painful memories.In Earth parlance, it's called PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder).

Seeing the soldiers fall one by one, only the scarred Knight of Cork was left, the impatient Porthos obviously forgot that this was in a dream, he couldn't stand it anymore, even though Without any weapons, he also roared and rushed up.

It's a pity that just as he rushed out, the monster had already beaten the Cork knight into a puddle of meat paste with large pliers, and then everything around him disappeared, and it changed again in the blink of an eye.The village is still burning, but the monsters, soldiers and villagers have all disappeared.

Porthos, who was already in tears, looked around blankly, growling in pain and helplessness like a wounded lone wolf, Luther hurried forward and pulled him back.

According to what Elaine said before, as dream infiltrators, if they do not take the initiative to interact with the things in the dream, they can always watch by without being noticed, similar to the "observation perspective", and the things in the dream do not change. do any harm to them.

But if they take the initiative to contact first, then at the moment of contact, it is equivalent to "the game begins" and officially become a part of the dream.

But the current situation is not clear enough, Lu De is afraid that this upright Tie Hanhan will "start the monster" too early, so he can't wait to tie him up with a rope.

At this moment, there were bursts of cries again not far away, and a large group of panicked villagers ran over. They were all familiar faces, and the old lady was also among them. She was surrounded by the crowd and fled into the broken building. In buildings, like an ostrich with its head stuck in the sand, it seeks a false sense of security.

Immediately afterwards there was the familiar shout of killing, and the revived Cork knight led a group of soldiers to fight and retreat, while the enemies chasing them were hundreds of bandits with red eyes that did not look like normal humans.

The bandit's individual force value does not seem high, but the number is dozens of times that of the soldiers, and like a zombie, even if it is cut in half with a knife, the residual limbs can still move, crawling and merging with each other, and finally It turned out to be the terrible monster before.

After that, the plot became familiar. Knight Cork and his soldiers couldn't beat this monster, but in order to protect the villagers behind them, they still chose to fight to the death. In the end, all the members were brutally killed by the monster one by one. killed in front of the old lady.

However, Lude noticed that the Cork knight seemed to last a little longer this round, successfully evading the fatal blow of the previous round, and was finally killed by the tail needle swept out.

And with his death, the dream was reset again, like a movie that was ordered to play on a loop, repeated over and over again.

"Master! What's going on here?"

After watching the tragic death of the old man twice in a row, Ados felt that his brain was a little overwhelmed, but Lude did see some tricks.The old lady's dream was probably intentionally created, tormenting her repeatedly with the tragic death of her husband and son, which led to her insanity.

And those who have this dream-making ability can only be undead!

"It's interesting. This ghost hides very deeply. I'm afraid it has been hiding in the old lady's dream. That's why we didn't find anything when we used magic to detect the body in the real world. But now that we have found it , then the problem is much easier to handle.”

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It is ironic to say that, as the owner of the dream, the old lady does not have much initiative in her "turf". Her consciousness at the moment is actually very trance, but it is Lude and others who are the intruders, because they have complete Sober conscious, so capable of doing whatever they want.

Lu De's original plan was to take the siblings into the old lady's dream, and build a warm dream to heal her wounded heart.