As he walked through the layer of water condensed by moonlight, Hao Ren felt a chill spread from his limbs.It was not a cold that his nerves really perceived, but a cold that involved the soul more and seemed to spread outward from the depths of his consciousness, and when this cold hit, Hao Ren realized that he had entered a world ruled by the power of darkness.The upside-down sense of gravity confusion was fleeting, Hao Ren felt as if he was turning his head in the air, one second it was spinning, the next second he regained the feeling of being down-to-earth, the scene in front of him quickly stabilized, he found that he was still standing in the courtyard of the castle, but the entire castle and the sky above him had completely changed.Everything that catches the eye has faded to color, and the different layers of black and white tones outline everything in sight, and the whole world seems to have become a black and white photograph, monotonous, cold and gloomy, and the castle, which has collapsed more than half of the "outside world", is unexpectedly intact here, not only intact, but its scale is countless times larger than Hao Ren's memory - the courtyard of the castle has become an amazingly large square, and the square is full of stagnant fountains and strangely shaped sculptures, And those things didn't exist in the "outside world" before; The four towers of the square have become four towers that reach into the sky, like four pillars supporting heaven and earth, towering at the end of the distant line of sight, the top of the tower supports the cloudy sky, and the point where the spire touches the sky can also be seen a huge and terrifying whirlpool slowly flowing; Part of the castle ramparts stretched from the east side of the courtyard to the west side, and the walls were enlarged countless times like a giant dam, and hundreds of slender Gothic carved windows lined the walls, each of which showed a pale light, as if an endless feast was being held in the castle.High in the sky, black-and-white clouds freeze and cover the world.Hao Ren looked around at the huge and complex buildings around him in amazement, and he realized that the huge structures he could see were only a small part of the castle, and that the collapsed and dilapidated "Harron Castle" in the real world took on a strange state in this shadow world, perhaps some kind of asymmetrical projection that caused it to become like this here.The witches also emerged from the pool one by one, and the last one to jump out was Lily who was screaming with her eyes closed, but the sight of the shadow world made the husky girl instantly quiet, she stared around, and then looked back at the pool where she came: the pool that was originally less than ten meters in diameter had also expanded several times, and there were a large number of dark and twisted sculptures and patterns around the pool.Lily blinked and exclaimed, "Wow—is this what the Shadow World looks like?"
”"The shadow world can take on any shape, depending on the control of the dominant person and the distorted projection of the real world," says Hethiana, "and the shadow is always abstract, so it can often take on more than you think." ”Lady Mary opened her hands and looked at a small black flame beating in her palm: "The concentration of magic in this world is simply unimaginable......
I've never caught the power of free magic in the air so easily......
It's a paradise for black magic!
”"Restrain your desires.
Look, witch," Hethanna warned in a cold tone, "the magical power of this world belongs to Lord Vivien, and even the whole world is an extension of her, you can indulge in it, and I will not stop it, anyway, if you continue like this, you will soon become a part of the shadows, and be digested and absorbed by Lord Vivienne's dreams." ”Lily blinked, but seemed to think of something else, "So this is Vivien's dream?"
”"That's right," replied Hathanane casually, "Mistress Vivienne transforms her 'realm' in her slumber, which is detached from the real world and forms a protective 'shell' within which Mistress Vivien's subconscious mind dominates and creates everything. ”Lily scratched her hair: "Then it seems that she dreamed of having such a big house to live in......
Heatherian: "......"
Hao Ren: "......" this dog is really to the point!
The true meaning of daring to love this shadow world means that if Vivien wants to live a rich life, she can only dream?
The husky girl's unintentional words caused embarrassment for a long time, and after a while, Hao Ren coughed dryly and came back to his senses: "Ahem, we can wait for these things to subside and study them slowly."
Where do you go next, Hethanna?
”"Wait, I need to observe, too," Hethanna said as she spread her hands, and a pair of huge bat wings appeared in the air behind her, and countless shadowy, phantom-like little bats flew out of the shadows under her bat wings and scattered in all directions, "It's also my first time entering this place, and Lord Vivien usually ......
I don't like to bother very much, and most of what I know about this place is my own long-term research. ”Lily pouted: "It's a theoretician." ”"But I know a lot as a theorist," Hethanna glared at Lily, "and as much as Vivien doesn't like to be disturbed, she once told me about this Shadow World in a dream, and at the very least, I know where the Soulless Guard's control center is!"
”As she spoke, the little bat spirit's face suddenly changed slightly, and her gaze turned in a certain direction.Hao Ren asked curiously, "What's wrong?"
”"I saw a shadow node being disturbed, the wizard......
The wizard named Barn had already entered. ”The witches suddenly stirred slightly: the wizard Barn was equivalent to the "inner ghost" they had recruited, so any information about the other party made them quite nervous, and Hao Ren immediately asked, "Can you track down people?"
”"It's hard," Hethiana frowned and shook her head, "that wizard's strength is a bit unexpected, he's good at shadow magic, and he still has that key in his hand......
He erased most of his traces while hiding himself with the help of the environments of this world. ”"He'll always go to the depths of the seal anyway," Hao Ren looked up at the sky made of black and white blocks, and some faint black shadows appeared behind those frozen clouds at some point, "What are those?"
”"It's the Soulless Guard," Heathera glanced up, her expression immediately becoming serious, "The Shadow World has sensed our 'trespassing' this time, and the Soulless are gradually waking up.Come with me, let's go to the North Tower at once, we must first gain control of a part of this world!
”"Uh......"
Lily looked left and right, "I think the soulless ones you spoke of are already here......"
Almost at the same time as the husky girl's voice fell, the sound of "Kerala" stones breaking suddenly came from all over the square.In this square, which is several times larger than the real world, there are black stone sculptures with hideous and strange shapes erected everywhere, most of them have human bodies and beast limbs, and there are also bony spurs, bat-like wings and long tails on their backs, and now these strange stone sculptures are being broken one by one, after the stones collapse, revealing the body that seems to be amorphous smoke inside, and the broken stone chips are tumbling between the smoke, constituting the extremely strange form of these monsters."
Damn......
The Soulless One was captured in the gargoyle statue......"
Hethanna cursed in a low voice, and with a wave of her hand, a blood-red whip appeared in her hand, "Everyone retreat in the direction of the North Tower!"
Don't fall in love with war, you can't kill the soulless!
”As he spoke, a living "gargoyle" had already let out a terrible scream, like a cloud of smoke and dust!
A flash of light flashed, and the high-temperature flames of the plasma blade cut the monster made of shadow power and stones in half, Hao Ren held a spear in his hand to block the front of the team, and in the other hand he had already pressed the three locking buttons of the graviton grenade: "Lily, you just take Hasselblad with you!"
”After the graviton grenade was thrown, it exploded, instantly forming a gravity collapse with a radius of five meters, and several gargoyles that rushed in were instantly captured by the force field that was no less than a small black hole, and they were sucked into the dark dot in the center of the explosion while screaming miserably.This strange power instantly startled the witches and stunned Heatherian, who looked at Hao Ren incredulously: "What kind of power are you?"
It's not witchcraft!
”"I've got a lot of connections to the Nordic guys."
Hao Ren casually recklessly said.Lily carried Hasselblad on her shoulder, raised her leg and kicked a gargoyle away, shouting unhappily, "This uncle is so troublesome to carry!"
I don't want to carry him, I'm going to fight!
Landlord, you can't throw him in your personal space first!
”"I'm not so sensitive to the space I carry in this place, and I don't even know if something happens to him in there!"
Hao Ren said as he threw Lily an extremely heavy alloy two-handed sword, "Give this to you, just protect the two of you!"
”Lily threw Hasselblad on her other shoulder, caught the sword with her free right hand, and swung the huge two-handed sword with one hand, like a movie prop, "Okay, it's a stick!"
”After saying that, she slapped a "stick" on a gargoyle, and directly slapped the latter into a cloud of smoke.Heatherena and the witches also took action, and all kinds of magic and summons flew across the battlefield, and it was time to fight!
However, Hao Ren soon saw that it didn't take long for those gargoyles that had been scattered or even vaporized to reappear in the air, and even some monsters had split and multiplied after being dispersed, and there were more and more enemies in the square!
He finally realized what Hethanna meant when she said "soulless people can't be killed" - the roots of these monsters came from Vivienne's dreams, and as long as Vivien didn't wake up, these nightmare monsters would never really diminish!
On the contrary, with external stimuli, this nightmare will escalate more and more, and the number of monsters will increase!
Everyone realized this, and with Heatheriana leading the way, everyone fought and retreated, and began to move in the direction of the north tower of the castle.