Gawain wanders in this waking dream.
He didn't know what the principle of this change was, but he guessed that the reason for this change was probably related to the unlucky Eversleeper cultist - in the process of devouring the remaining minds of the other party, he came into contact with it The sporadic knowledge of the Eternal Sleeper, that sporadic knowledge is not just as simple as memorizing data, as "knowledge" in the extraordinary realm, it is a kind of power in itself.
They gave Gawain the ability to move around in lucid dreams.
While walking, Gawain would shape something in his hands from time to time according to his thoughts, and in the process he discovered the limitations of this "shaping". Probably because he did not obtain the true power of the Eternal Sleeper, the things he created in his dreams still had full "fantasy" characteristics. They only had fake appearances, but had no real effect.
The drink he made has no taste, and the mobile phone he created based on his memory cannot be turned on.
And those fantasy items that do not exist in the real world are even more difficult to maintain their appearance for a long time.
But from this incomplete and useless ability, he continued to understand the nature of the special heretical sect of the Eternal Sleepers and their possible purpose.
Immersed in the eternal dream, trying to find relief in a false world - this is probably the pursuit of the eternal sleeper. In Gawain's view, their ability to create illusions in the dream world has reached the point where they can completely confuse the real with the fake. In fact, if the truth is not known in advance, anyone who enters the dream of the Eternal Sleeper will instantly be lost in that false world, and for People with weak minds can easily indulge in all kinds of beautiful things in the imaginary world, even if they know the truth in advance.
Although the outside world evaluates the Eternal Sleeper as "an expert in creating nightmares", after Gawain devoured the remaining mind of the cultist, he vaguely realized that what those cultists who weave people's hearts may really pursue In fact, it is a sweet dream - and creating nightmares is just a means to achieve their goals.
Gawain walked through the long corridor. In this strange place, his mind was as calm as water, and his thoughts were particularly quick.
To paraphrase a saying from the previous life, most people who are addicted to virtual worlds do so to escape from reality. In Gawain’s view, the Eternal Sleepers are like some kind of group escapist virtual world fanatics, but they Which part of the real world is it specifically being escaped from?
Is it the social collapse and deterioration of the living environment caused by the demonic tide? Is it the changes in the religious landscape and the crowding out of other sects? Or...is it the truth that the gods are dead?
The corridor in front of him reached the end, and a heavy oak door stood in front of him. Gawain frowned. He saw a somewhat familiar emblem on the oak door, which was the emblem of the Kant family.
Is it because I have been paying attention to the Kant family recently, so their family emblem appeared in my dream scene? Or rather……Is this really Kant’s Castle?
Gawain frowned and looked around. He confirmed that he had never been to this place. Under normal circumstances, things beyond his memory or cognition would not appear in human dreams, even if they did. The weird things are mostly subconscious distortions of the things we see in daily life, but all the scenes in this dream are stable and orderly, even the patterns on the walls and the light emitted by each magic crystal lamp. It was flawless. Thinking of the mind of the Eternal Sleeper that he had devoured, Gawain suddenly suspected that this scene might have been born out of the cultist's memory.
That cultist was active in Kant Castle?
After hesitating for less than a moment, Gawain stretched out his hand and pushed open the oak door in front of him.
Behind the gate is a cellar-like space, wide, deep, and shrouded in dim light. As an underground structure in the castle, the scale of this "cellar" has far exceeded what is necessary. It was as if the banquet hall on the surface had been moved underground. In such a wide and unusual space, Gawain saw upright pillars connecting the ground and the stone ceiling above. There seemed to be something on the surface of those upright pillars. Word.
Gawain moved closer to one of the pillars, and was shocked to see that there were no words on it at all, but countless deep indentations scratched with fingernails!
The moment he saw these dents, Gawain felt that his vision suddenly blurred, and then a large number of water-like ripples appeared in the dim space in all directions. , countless shadowy things broke away from the "disguise" of the subconscious level and appeared in front of Gawain's eyes.
They were human-like shadows one after another, with translucent, gray-white bodies, and faces that were vague and vaguely revealed a numb expression. They stood here layer by layer, indistinctly. Empty eyes stared blankly at the center of the entire "cellar".
Gawain was startled when these figures appeared, but the latter immediately realized that these shadows were not aware of his existence at all - or in other words, these shadows probably had no ability to think at all.
After calming down, he looked in the direction where these shadows were looking, and he suddenly saw an extra stone platform in the center of this "underground hall". Above, there is a huge and gorgeous coffin.
Gawain frowned and walked through the countless shadowy figures around him towards the huge coffin, but when he was halfway there, he heard an illusory and vague voice in his ears. , the sound seemed to be that two people were talking, but it was intermittently difficult to distinguish. Gawain carefully pricked his ears and heard a few clearer words:
"...How I hope this is just A nightmare, waking up from a nightmare, everything is still beautiful..."
"...What's the difference between dreams and reality..."
"I...don't know what to do, loseThey..."
"The Eternal Sleeper will help you, don't be afraid, don't believe those rumors that slander us, we are still committed to saving all sentient beings from pain just like we did seven hundred years ago. Rescue, it's just that seven hundred years ago we kept all living beings away from nightmares, and today we keep all living beings away from nightmare reality...
"You just need to put it here and provide it with sufficient nutrients, I believe Me, everything will be fine.
"The things that have passed away will eventually come back, not only in dreams, but also in reality..."
The voice of this conversation was low. It was blurry and had serious distortion, so that Gawain couldn't even tell the man or woman of the interlocutor, but one thing he was almost sure of was that one of the people speaking was the Eternal Sleeper cultist who was devoured by him! < /p>
After waking up from the dream, Gawain immediately called Hetty and Pitman.
"Ancestor, we have finished questioning the mercenary mage," He said. Ti also thought that Gawain called him here to inquire about the progress of the interrogation of the prisoners, so he said as soon as they met, "They are indeed working for the Kande family, but they don't know what their employer is doing by asking them to arrest refugees. , only one thing is certain - they have never seen the refugees they captured appear as slaves in the Kant Territory in the future, nor have they seen any slave traders take those people away from the Kant Territory. It seemed as if it had evaporated and disappeared into the land. "
Gawain frowned: "As expected..."
"As expected? Hetty was stunned, not understanding what Gawain meant, "Do you know anything?" "
"I'm afraid I have to go to Kant immediately to collect the information," Gawain had already made a decision before, and now he said bluntly, "The sooner the better. "
Hetty was really shocked this time: "Going to Kant Territory? What did you do there? Do you want to go to Viscount Kant in person to question the refugees? This kind of thing..."
"It's more serious than that," Gawain said seriously, "I came into contact with some fragments of his consciousness when I was confronting the Eternal Sleeper cultist. Those fragments just now The content emerged, and I saw that the cultist handed something to someone in the Kant Territory - most likely the current Viscount Victor Kant, and that thing was an evil thing, and it was already in the That land has been there for many years, more than ten years or even decades, during which time it has been absorbing the souls of living people and growing! ”
“An evil thing that absorbs the souls of living people? Pitman was shocked, "Could it be that the refugees who were captured in Kant's territory..."
"They were probably fed away," Gawain frowned, "That thing has grown to a very critical stage. , but it has not completed its final transformation, but once it is completed... I worry that all areas including Tanzanian Town, New Cecil and the Carol Territory further north will be enveloped by its power. ”
Gawain is not alarmist, because when the dream is about to end,, he has clearly felt the existence of a certain "item" that is growing and supporting the dream world.
He can feel the power spreading from that item, and can feel its influence on all human minds within a wide range. Perhaps it is because he has swallowed the mental fragments of the original owner of the item. Gawain has already interacted with the item. That thing established some kind of subtle connection, which made him almost 100% certain that once enough energy was absorbed, the cursed thing placed by the cultists in the Kant family castle would burst out with quite terrifying power. , and ordinary people in New Cecil Territory and Tanzania Town will be involved in it!
With the threat already looming over him, he could no longer sit back and do nothing.
Gawain's serious attitude also infected Hetty, who became nervous and felt a little worried: "Ancestor, you have already risked your life once in Tanzanian Town. This time... ..."
"No, it won't be that dangerous this time," Gawain shook his head. "As long as I find it in time, it will pose no threat to me - I have ways to control it. "
His answer was quite confident, which made Hetty feel a little relieved, but the latter still couldn't help but asked with concern: "But what if Viscount Victor Kant has been completely bewitched by the cultists? And control him, will he be harmful to you?"
"In this whole incident, there is only one person who has the ability to threaten me," Gawain looked at Hetty, who looked concerned, and said slightly. He laughed, "But that person has been destroyed by me in the conscious space."