Serious Witch's Travel Book

Of course she didn't dare to tell the sages about this kind of rebellious idea, so it became a little obsession in Gnicia's heart.

Even now that she can communicate with people casually, as long as she has the courage—but the inflated obsession in her heart still exists—she wants to go to places where there are many people.

Pinecandle Castle is actually pretty good, and Gnicia was happy when she saw it from a distance, but it was a pity that the second day she arrived there was a war, and the townspeople obviously couldn't move normally, except for wounded soldiers and patrols Except for the armed civilian husbands, Gnicia actually didn't see many people.

Then of course here it is.

When the coachman said that he didn't go to the city in a hurry, Gnicia, who was full of disappointment, thought she was going to miss this place, but she never thought that she would come back here by chance. Although it may not be a good thing, I'm afraid This is fate, right?

The coachman said that the number of residents here is more than ten times that of Pinecandle Castle, and Gnicia has indeed seen the difference in urban layout brought about by high population density.

There is no wide tree-lined avenue that runs directly between the two rows of houses in Pinecandle Castle, but there are only rows of houses and small alleyways that criss-cross behind the houses.

The roof here.The overall tone is reddish brown, which is similar to the most common hair color of elves, and it is not known whether they were related before.

Gnicia patiently gazed at the crowds gathering in the middle of the city.

This is a city built on a trading bazaar, and the entire south-central city is developing around the declining imperial economy.

All kinds of people come from all kinds of places and have different purposes—some want to make money, some want to shop for treasures, and some want to exchange their cherished people for the materials they need. In short, many A mess of people gathered in this city on the border territory of the empire.

Gnicia thought of all the weird people she saw yesterday.

She saw elf craftsmen selling small crafts and amulets from stalls, and dwarves who were short, quick-tempered, and haggling loudly.

It's a pity that she left in a hurry yesterday, and now I'm strictly restricted from going in and out. Looking down the hill from here, I can only see a dark blurred shadow, which naturally can't meet Gnicia's needs.

After watching it for a long time, Gnicia began to think a little bit.

It is definitely impossible to go out. Looking carefully at dawn today, the girl found that there were some gendarme-like people standing guard around the villa. It was impossible for her to leave here.

Uh, not physically possible.

Gnicia suddenly remembered that her current identity was a druid.

What are druids best at?

In addition to manipulating the majesty of nature, it is the change of all things.

As long as she is skilled enough, she can even turn herself into a cat and slip out—it's impossible for those military police to even stare at the cat, right?

It's a pity that she has not received relevant training, and "change" does not belong to the category she can apply now.

But she still has a way, and that is dreams.

A druid's dream is not just a play after falling asleep.

Druids can dominate the dream world. A powerful Druid can transform her dream world into what she likes. Another perspective is that if she gives up the need for independent dreams, she can also walk in dreams. The way to operate in the real world level, but unable to interact with other people that's all.

The girl kept an eye out, she knew that someone would probably come to deliver the lunch, so she prepared to wait until noon.

She walked around the female mage's dormitory a few times. If the previous communication did not allow Gnicia to establish a clear understanding of Emily's professionalism, then she really has a lot of Emily now. Kind of respectful.

She at least deserves the title "professional".

There are at least a hundred active plants in Emily's dormitory, most of which are covered with various glass containers. It can be seen that almost all of them are rich in magic essence. Regardless of the specific efficacy, they should at least be valuable.

There are still some that are more clear, and they are spices—there are about thirty bottles and jars. Gnicia smelled a few bottles, and the smell is very strong, which is obviously not ordinary.

In addition, there are some books, hand-written scrolls, and many exquisite gadgets that seem to be made by individuals.

Gnicia only looked at the cover, but did not read the contents inside. She was worried that Emily would not share her knowledge and research results with outsiders—this should be taken for granted.

Sure enough, without her ordering, a maid brought her lunch at noon.

Gnicia, who was worried in her heart, locked the door after the maid left. She filled a few mouthfuls of food, and then threw herself on Ms. Emily's big soft bed.

It's time to go... I don't know if I can do it.

The girl stretched her body nervously on the bed, like a young and beautiful mummy.

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Chapter 114 029. Dream Walker

If you want to use dreams, the most important and fundamental point is to make yourself aware that you are in a dream.

This is actually a very difficult thing, because if there is no preparation in advance, the process of the transition of the person's consciousness into the dream is basically seamless, just like Gnicia was killed by that inexplicable thing on the outskirts of Bruyères before. Just like being drawn into its dream, she didn't even realize that her mental state had undergone earth-shaking changes during the process from falling asleep to waking up in the dream.

Moreover, this is when she has had a little exposure to education on how to enter the dream world, and understands "dreams" better than ordinary people.

If she wanted to maintain herself in the dream, she had to let herself wake up and enter the dream first, instead of being guided by someone and then gambling on luck to regain consciousness.

Gnicia was lying on the bed. She kept herself in a relaxed but somewhat restrained sleeping position. She felt that this would make it easier for her to gather energy while falling asleep.

As for her plan this time... it is relatively basic, to enter the "Pure Land".

What is "pure land"?

According to the druid classics, it is a "public" dream.

In order to master this interesting ability, Gnicia read several condensed books to facilitate her understanding of "Pure Land". The classics prepared by sages often seldom have a definitive conclusion, but take out some "at least reasonable" teachings Let Gnicia distinguish by herself. Naturally, there are two differences in the interpretation of "what is the pure land":

One believes that the pure land is a plane of existence beyond the world.It may be some kind of divine spirit beyond imagination, or some extremely powerful deity.His powerful power is enough to make him the ruler of dreams, so he naturally has the authority to let everyone enter his domain.

The second is that the pure land is a complex "network" system woven by the nature of the whole world—possibly based on the ground veins or something—in which every intelligent creature acts as a network point. "It will extract the information owned by the intelligent creatures included in it, and share it with others, and then form a complete dream world in this way.

There is some truth to either statement, of course.For an apprentice-level druid like Gnicia who has just started, in-depth research is not something she should do, all she needs is understanding-to understand that "Pure Land" is a common dream for many intelligent creatures.

She might meet other dreamwalkers in it, and might even be in danger... She had to be aware of that.

As for the method of entering the pure land, the easiest way is to take the relevant potions.

"Duckweed" can make people appear in a relatively random place in the world, "Wine of the Sea Tide" can make the dream have a fishy smell, and "Poet Bazaar" can send the user to a certain place in the dream. A specific corner... But there seems to be no potion that purely throws people into the pure land without any collateral effects, at least there is no record in the "Calliosterlo's New Little Key Book" in her hand.

Probably due to the strong nature of the potion itself, although there are formulas to reduce side effects, sometimes it is better to make the side effects more clear.

Of course, although this method is mentioned and it is feasible to a certain extent, Gnicia is unable to do it now. She has no materials at hand, and she does not have the conditions to move freely, and she still does not have a witch's costume to use , causing her to be unable to utilize the innate talents endowed to her by the sages at all, so she could only retreat to the next best thing and use a more rustic method.

A properly guided "lucid dream".

The so-called lucid dream is a state in which a person can stay awake in a dream. It is said that with proper training, even ordinary people have a good chance to try this kind of interesting dream, but if you want to access the pure land, you must rely on Training is not enough, it is either a coincidence, or a little bit of occult methods must be used.

Gnicia guided the magic essence flowing in the body, extracted them from the lower abdomen, and guided them to the head.

As a mortal who has received extra privileges, Gnicia can quickly and non-destructively transform the magic essence in her body into various other properties. She uses natural power to wrap her consciousness with magic essence, and then uses those Tiny particles act as a bridge, "sewing" it with the "Pure Land" through spiritual power.

Although it is easy to say, it is actually very difficult to direct one's consciousness directly to a virtual level. If a genuine rookie Druid is to do it, it may take several years of practice to barely stabilize it. Get this job done before she falls asleep, but it's much easier for Gnicia to do it—this kind of skill can only be regarded as a little bit deep, and she can rely entirely on the "talent" brought by the luggage to achieve it.

When her consciousness was enveloped by the magic element, she gradually began to feel sleepy.

This is normal, because her soul began to no longer be able to control her body at will, so there was such a stress reaction. The girl endured sleepiness and fabricated her spiritual power from the sea of ​​consciousness into a tentacled form , and infiltrate it into a layer of virtual "fog" that seems to be close at hand and far away in the sky.

After a while, Gnicia felt a little lighter suddenly.

She was briefly confused—for a few minutes, she thought she was awake, but it was a successful operation after all, when she saw the surrounding walls, the extra entangled wooden structures and After Ivy, she was sure that she had succeeded.

"Great--!"

The girl was excited for a rare moment, because it meant that even if the imperial military police wanted to put her under house arrest, she could go out and wander freely.

She immediately jumped up from the bed, although the movement was not fast, but there was a slightly blurred phantom behind her.This is the first time for a girl to successfully enter the Pure Land in the mortal world—she must have been pulled into that monster’s dream before—the public dream of the Pure Land will be based on the general mentality of the local people, the geographical environment The subconsciousness of the residents leads to some subtle differences between the scenes in the dream and the actual local conditions.

Bruyères is a city adjacent to the mountains and forests, and it has a strong old-time color and druid beliefs mixed in it.

So when the girl opened the door and ran to the corridor of this typical Roman-style courtyard villa, the first thing she saw was the "Hui"-shaped hollow courtyard full of vigorous green plants.

Mixed red and green creepers hang on gray and white stone pillars and walls, and green vines hang down from the red tiles and the slightly dilapidated sunshade frame in the courtyard, like sparse green waterfalls falling from the sky, blocking the view in the center of the courtyard Mostly.

Gnicia looked towards the end of the corridor. There was a chair at the foot of the stairs, and a young maid was sitting there listlessly. It seemed that she was assigned to monitor her.The girl cautiously stomped her feet a few times away, but the maid didn't respond, so she became more courageous, walked up to her, and waved her hand almost close to her face.

Still nothing.

This time, the corner of the girl's mouth gradually formed a smile.

She bypassed the maid and went downstairs.

On the first floor of the villa, there were a few clerks in white coats and brown robes sitting beside tables and chairs in the corner. They were talking in whispers about the unsatisfactory implementation of the court’s decree in the local area. Walking past them, no one saw her.

She is on a different level from these people... What she sees is not these people themselves. Strictly speaking, this should be called an "echo".

The consciousness of the non-dreamer is weakly connected in the pure land, and the consciousness of the actor himself will transmit his information into the network of the pure land, and the mutual observation of other people will also perfect this behavior, and finally form a projection "Echoes" in dreams.

These people are normal as a whole, but the outlines are obviously blurred. Although the voices sound generally normal, but if you carefully identify them, there are more or less ripples like the echoes of valleys.

Everything in the dream is slightly blurred because it has a certain distortion - Gnicia trusts the second version of the cause of the pure land because she has found that when an area has been left unnoticed for a long time, it becomes It would be more blurred and dimmer, as it was in the chapel, and it is now.

Amid anxiety and excitement, the girl walked out of the villa all the way, opened the door in front of the guards, and stood on the street again.

Why didn't the guards notice such an obvious behavior?

Sure enough, this is just a "concept"—"pushing the door" may just be Gnicia's subconscious response to her "should do this", but in essence she didn't actually do it. The guard may subconsciously feel that something is wrong with this change, but he certainly cannot see the slightest movement of the door in reality... it should be so.

The feeling of regaining freedom is undoubtedly a little exciting. Gnicia made a face at the military police standing still holding a spear on the gate post. She even wanted to try to kick the guard, but she Her feet stopped when they just touched the guard. The opponent was like a mass of colored air with strong repulsion in front of her. Although she could see it, she couldn't touch it.

The girl didn't want to stay in front of this big house any longer.

She walked back the way she knew.

The whole street seemed to be covered under a layer of fuzzy tulle. Although it was a sunny and beautiful afternoon, the rules in the dream were different from normal times. No one noticed Gnicia. The people walking are no longer ordinary residents of Bruyères, most of them have become more blurred phantoms - the traffickers did not record their customers and passers-by so clearly, but they went back and forth Coins coming back into circulation are much clearer.

As she walked to a crowded place, the voice became very noisy.

The city in this dream is very interesting. Its overall structure and residents look the same as during the day, but if you look carefully at the various details, you can easily find out its differences.

City streets became more "natural".

There are plants everywhere on the street. Under the big trees on the street, there are clusters of colorful flowers blooming against the season. On both sides of the main road in the commercial area, dark green ivy climbs on the walls of the second and third floors. , They spread wantonly on the wall and the ground like the blood vessels of the forest, adding a sense of desolation and coldness to this crowded street.

The excitement of escaping from the villa gradually calmed down, and the girl walked alone on the street where no one could see her, thinking about what she should do now.

She just came out to have fun. In the "Pure Land", Gnicia, who has only the lowest strength, obviously has no ability to communicate with those outside the dream, unless she meets people who grow up in the dream like herself. A real traveler, otherwise she can only enjoy her eyesight here.

Fortunately, although she can't communicate with people as usual, Gnicia still has some ideas about "where to go".

She plans to walk around the place where she walked yesterday to see if she can find the coachman who came here together, and then go to Emily - nothing can stop her from running around now, she is going to see these empires What kind of people are the gendarmes meeting with, and... the special envoy of the lord of the Vosges Valley, what is his attitude towards a person like her who was arrested by the security forces from Gaul.

According to such a plan, Gnicia quickly walked along the route of her activities after entering the city.

She passed the Bruyères market on the outskirts, and was glad she was right not to go in.The market was too chaotic. In broad daylight, it might be a good time for merchants to display their goods and seek trade cooperation. She even heard someone yelling loudly for slave auctions. The continuous bidding made it sound like a The cockfighting arena... girls can't bear this kind of scene.

Maybe it was the bustle of the market that made the nearby people restless. She found that the more lively the place, the more blurred the faces of ordinary people who did not receive much attention. She deliberately approached and stayed away from a certain standing The tavern servant who was recruiting customers on the street basically determined that this vague feeling should have nothing to do with her observation from a distance. The information of these people came from everyone passing by, not from herself.

That's kind of weird... If she got to an area where, uh, no one was there at all, would she see darkness?Or... some afterimages from a long time ago.

The girl calmed down a little, she was going to find Emily's meeting place, remember she was going to the mayor's mansion?Then just look for a taller and more beautiful house, right?

However, she only took three or five steps, but suddenly heard a very clear sentence.

"Wait, Misha, we can't provoke the military police!"

Chapter 115 I want to run away.

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I am sorry.

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If you want to use dreams, the most important and fundamental point is to make yourself aware that you are in a dream.

This is actually a very difficult thing, because if there is no preparation in advance, the process of the transition of the person's consciousness into the dream is basically seamless, just like Gnicia was killed by that inexplicable thing on the outskirts of Bruyères before. Just like being drawn into its dream, she didn't even realize that her mental state had undergone earth-shaking changes during the process from falling asleep to waking up in the dream.

Moreover, this is when she has had a little exposure to education on how to enter the dream world, and understands "dreams" better than ordinary people.

If she wanted to maintain herself in the dream, she had to let herself wake up and enter the dream first, instead of being guided by someone and then gambling on luck to regain consciousness.

Gnicia was lying on the bed. She kept herself in a relaxed but somewhat restrained sleeping position. She felt that this would make it easier for her to gather energy while falling asleep.

As for her plan this time... it is relatively basic, to enter the "Pure Land".

What is "pure land"?

According to the druid classics, it is a "public" dream.

In order to master this interesting ability, Gnicia read several condensed books to facilitate her understanding of "Pure Land". The classics prepared by sages often seldom have a definitive conclusion, but take out some "at least reasonable" teachings Let Gnicia distinguish by herself. Naturally, there are two differences in the interpretation of "what is the pure land":