After knowing what was written in the ancient and mottled travel notes, Amber suddenly had a feeling of "Why am I wasting my time here looking at this thing" - so much so that she even forgot about it for a while. I realized how special this book was and forgot that my adoptive father lost his life because of this book.
But then again, she would probably be even more sad when she thought of this fact - the content of this book was beyond her expectations.
But soon she noticed Gawain’s serious expression, and realized from this expression that there must be some useful content in the follow-up of Modier’s travel notes.
"His attempt was successful in the end," Gawain turned over a page and pointed at the content above and said, "The things behind this... are very informative."
Amber then quickly adjusted her expression and leaned her head over again -
"On X month, X day, after... many failures, I think I have found the pattern.
"My disguise plan was not successful, but this does not mean there is something wrong with my thinking - trying to weaken the hostility of the shadow residents and letting myself 'blend into it' is the right direction in itself. The problem is that I The disguise is only 'clever' to humans, but in the eyes of real shadow creatures, this disguise may be very poor.
"So, when the shadow dwellers see me, they may be like humans in the real world seeing a monster wearing human skin - the human skin is still bloody. No surprise, this can only Incurring greater hostility and tension, it is understandable that I suffered more violent attacks
“After realizing this possibility, I decided to make a more radical transformation... than before. A more adventurous conversion.
"I pulled out my soul... using the method I learned from the head of a lich in my early years, plus a few small improvements, so that I can maintain the soul." Humanity', and can return to the original body at any time
"Here, I need to remind anyone who comes after me - my method is not a reference, it is very dangerous and can easily get out of control. You know the Lich stuff very well, and you must not be blindly confident and think that you are as powerful and knowledgeable as Mordir Wilder. My attempt is based on my own situation, and anyone who imitates me... ...Well, I was already dead by then anyway, don’t blame the powerful Mordel Wilder for not reminding me. ”
“There really is something wrong with this person’s brain!” ! "Amber finally couldn't help but exclaimed, and blurted out vulgar words," Even if you take out your soul, you have to go to the Shadow Realm to 'contact' those aborigines? Why is he so motivated? "
"...To be honest, I am also a little surprised. This is beyond the courage of the pioneers...Maybe this is the persistence of the explorer," Gawain shook his head, "But no matter what, he succeeded. . ”
Yes, this crazy operation of extracting the soul and transforming it was successful.Mordier Wild wrote this in his travel notes:
"...I succeeded. It feels amazing to observe the world from the perspective of my soul, and my body is lying there quietly now. , my old servant Malfoy is guarding 'it' nervously, which is very imaginative, and even reminds me of how I will look at the funeral a few years later... But now is obviously not the time to think about it.
“In the soul state, I can still use spells and use them to complete many actions that only living people can perform (such as writing things). I have completed the preparations for the ceremony. This time, I will transform my soul - without the drag of the body, this transformation will almost no longer carry any 'breath' of the material world, and the soul will leave nothing behind after the transformation. There are traces of it, it will be a real shadow soul, almost exactly the same as those shadow dwellers... That's the theory.
"I believe in my theory, in the name of the surname Wilder.
"...On X month X, I came to the Shadow Realm again, with a 'Shadow Soul' ' form. After wandering around for a while, I finally caught the scent of those shadow dwellers again...wish me luck.
"I succeeded! I just completed a successful contact! I stood in front of the creature wrapped in cloth, calmly, no conflict broke out, everything went smoothly - the creature seemed He was very curious about me. He hovered around me for a while, but in the end he didn't attack me. Then he started mumbling some strange phrases to me... I want to emphasize these phrases. This is the language of the shadow dwellers. When we had conflicts before, they often muttered this kind of sound that sounded like sleep, but I couldn't understand it at all at that time, but now the situation seems to have changed - maybe because of the 'Shadow Soul', I feel like I I can vaguely understand their meaning!
"It will take me some time to decipher the language of the shadow dwellers, and get along well with some of the shadow dwellers. They have intelligence and memory, and also have emotions and emotions. Logic - Although it seems different from humans, I have indeed experienced their emotions deeply, so a good relationship is crucial to the next development..."
Gowen slowly turned the pages of the book, After this is a relatively boring account. Mordel Wilder wrote a lot in this part. Obviously, this wonderful adventure in the Shadow Realm was of profound significance to him, and soon his record reached a more critical point. Part:
"...I have been in this world for a long time, and I only occasionally returned a few times to replenish my soul energy and confirm the situation in the real world (mainly the mental state of old Malfoy , he was a little nervous while taking care of my body, and I was worried that he would bury me if I didn’t show up for a long time). As for now, I need to document my progress here.
“I can already communicate with those shadow dwellers, and the communication is relatively smooth.
“Surprisingly, these shadow dwellersThe people are actually quite... friendly when they can communicate with each other. They are not completely alienated, ferocious and cruel creatures as I imagined. In fact, they are even a little...lazy and slow. I can only think of such words to describe them, because all the shadow dwellers I came into contact with - without calling them - all showed similar traits. They wandered around the world in a daze, their thinking was very slow, and they could not fight. There is no rich daily life, they don't seem to pay attention to the changes in the world, and they don't think much about their own affairs. Although they do have wisdom, they don't use it most of the time - which is very cool.
"Of course, it's another situation when they get angry... Since I have already recorded the relevant details before, I won't say more here.
"In short, Shadow The residents gave me the feeling that they were... sleepwalking. They seemed to be immersed in a half-awake dreamland, and were wandering because of it, but their "sleepwalking" was shallower than that of humans. They could communicate with me, as long as I If I take the initiative to contact and ask some questions repeatedly, the shadow residents will provide interpretations. Although many times their interpretations are unclear, at least I can be sure that they are communicating with me.
"I can't help but start to wonder, is the 'sleepwalking' of the shadow dwellers a normal characteristic of this race? Is it like this when they are rational and awake? Or... what I met was really half asleep and half awake. The shadow dwellers were still in a completely 'awake' state... I wasn't sure about this and whether it was a good idea to 'wake them up', so no further attempts were made.
< p> "After many exchanges, I learned some interesting knowledge from these shadow creatures, knowledge based on their world view. They obviously know about the material world, but they call our material world the "shallow world", a weird name. It took me a long time to understand its meaning...the shallow world? interesting."...After many inquiries, the shadow residents told me another word called 'deep realm'. This word seems to correspond to 'shallow realm'. When I inquired about this word in depth , I got incredible gains - the shadow residents said that they were all born from the 'deep realm', but when I subconsciously asked if the 'deep realm' is 'this world' (the shadow realm), they But told me - no!
"They were not born in the Shadow Realm. Although they wandered and lived in this space, the place where they were really born was an anthropologist called the 'Deep Realm'. A world we have never known! !
“I considered the difference between the vocabulary of the Shadow Dwellers and the vocabulary of the real world - they call the material world the 'Shallow Realm', so their 'Deep Realm' may also correspond to a place known to humans. , but the explanations are different. However, after many inquiries, I have not found any evidence in this regard... There is no evidence to prove what the 'deep realm' mentioned by the shadow dwellers is. This has become a mystery.A mystery...
"I think I need to stay here longer.
"There is a shadow dweller who maintains a good relationship with me, and I started to try to get some information from him. Get more 'knowledge'. Unfortunately, I couldn't write down the name of this new friend - the shadow dweller didn't have a name, and although I tried to call him something, he didn't seem to like it... I privately called him 'Boo' Ryan' bar.
"Brian also failed to help me solve the mystery of the 'deep world'. In this regard, the information he revealed was similar to that of other shadow dwellers, but in more conversations, Brian told Some things outside of the Deep Realm... He mentioned the Shadow Dwellers themselves. He didn't care what the mortal races in the 'Shallow Realm' called themselves. He just said - 'We are walking on the edge of a dream. , wandering along the border of the waking world', these are his original words...
"A very mysterious and seemingly metaphorical sentence. I tried to decipher it, but suffered from the lack of key clues. This 'dream' 'What on earth? Brian did not answer...
"After many attempts, I can only summarize this: all shadow dwellers are wanderers walking on the edge of dreams. This seems to be a story from the deep. This dream has lasted for many years, and the shadow residents... they seem to be part of this dream in a sense, at least they think so. They wander along the border of the dream, walking around it over and over again. , seems to be outlining the dividing line between the dream world and the waking world in this way...
"I think of my previous 'feeling' about them - they are a half-dream and half-awake race, as if they are sleepwalking. In a hazy state, I think I have found proof of this feeling. They are really 'sleepwalking'...
"This makes me a little creepy, and I further feel...'waking up' these shadow dwellers may really be..." Not a good idea
"In addition to the progress I made on the eerie 'Dream of the Deep', 'Brian' also helped me learn more about the Shadowlands and the Deep. Things about the shallow world...
"They said that there is a certain relationship between the 'deep world' and the 'shallow world'. The two actually overlap. However, the deep world and the shallow world cannot be directly connected. Establishing a connection, only a few gifted people have noticed the moment when they intersect, but those lucky ones cannot understand it, it is beyond human intelligence...
"They also talked about 'homeland', That is the mysterious 'deep world'. They say that the deep world is not static. When the shadow dwellers were first born, it was a stable and beautiful place - I am not sure whether the 'beauty' mentioned by the shadow dwellers is the same as the ordinary in the material world. Whether 'beauty' is a concept in people's minds, the aesthetics of the two races may be very different, but I can feel the loss and frustration - that stability - from 'Bryan' and several other familiar shadow dwellers. And the beautiful deep world is no longer there.
"UseAccording to 'Brian', it is now a twisted, desolate, desolate realm that is gradually heading towards madness. The Deep Realm is coming to an end. Although it has experienced a brief 'recovery', the overall decline and destruction seems to have Unstoppable... Therefore, the shadow residents left the deep world and wandered in the shadow world closer to the 'shallow world'.
"In addition, they also mentioned one thing, which is a big thing - it is recorded as a big thing in the overall muddle-headed shadow-dwelling ethnic group. Such a situation is rare - They mentioned that not all shadow residents are lingering on the edge of the eternal "Dream of the Deep". There was once an individual who accidentally fell into the "awake trap" and took a wrong step out of the sight of the group...
"'Bryan' told me that was the only Shadow Dweller ever to 'wake up'.
"Of course, the Shadow Dwellers do not have a 'history', and 'ever' is just an adjective.
"The strange thing is that although the Shadow Dwellers call this event a 'big event' ', but they didn't seem to care that much during the conversation. They didn't want to find the 'missing' clansman. Although many shadow residents, including 'Brian', expressed regret for this, They didn't seem to care more...
"I asked Brian about this, and his answer was intriguing. He said -
"'Why bother looking - in the end We all have to wake up'. ”