Chapter 573 – Destabilization
Chapter 573 – Unstable
With an inexplicable sense of concern, Duncan led Alice quickly to the huge “vine” that lay dormant in the shadows of the building.
It was even larger than Duncan had imagined.
Even at the end of its spread, the diameter of this “vine” exceeded the height of a person, while its even thicker “source” extended down from a slope deep in the street, as if it directly merged into the night like dissolving in the depths of the darkness, and could only Seeing a huge structure of shadows in the shadow of the building between the bulging, entangled, as if there is something more huge, more complete “body” in general.
However, that “body” of astonishing scale was shrouded by a sense of haze, no matter how one looked, one could not see it truly, even the “sunlight” that poured down through the gaps in the canopy of the trees in the sky seemed to be unable to penetrate that hazy texture.
Alice was dumbfounded by this unprecedented thing, holding the puppet maid’s head, she opened her eyes wide and tried to see clearly the “source” of the vines spreading on the street, and only after a long time did she speak dumbly, “Captain…. . is this a ‘plant’ too?”
Duncan didn’t answer her, he was still observing the giant vine that almost blocked the street in front of him, and after a long time, he stepped to the end of the vine, bent down at its “end”, and cautiously stretched out his fingers to touch its rough and hard surface.
Lucrecia’s voice came from the puppet head Alice was holding in her arms: “Daddy, did you find something? Did you find the ‘dreamer’?”
“We didn’t find the Dreamer, but we did find an amazingly sized …… vine,” Duncan said without looking up, “It looks different from any of the other plants in the streets, it’s very large, but it seems to be just a part of an even larger ‘plant’. Somehow I always felt as if the vine were …… alive, or rather, active.”
He raised his head and swept his gaze over the shadows of the gnarled trees that surrounded him on the street.
Lush plants filled the entire neighborhood, but these plants brought him a feeling of deadness, as if they were mere phantoms that lacked vitality, the only thing that brought him a hint of a living thing-like feeling was the huge vine in the center of the street.
After hesitating for a few seconds, Duncan gently inhaled and decided to try to establish a connection with this unusual “vine”.
A green flame wrapped around his fingertips like flowing water, and then quietly seeped into the vine, the light flickering away in the darkness.
After controlling the flame to spread through the “foreign object” in a familiar way, and telling Alice to pay attention to the surrounding movements, Duncan then closed his eyes slightly, and began to sense the information that the flame was sending to him, and tried to communicate with and understand the “vine” that seemed to be spreading out from a huge dream world. “Vine” ……
In the darkness, it was as if something was rising and falling, coalescing and dissipating.
Duncan “opened” his eyes in the darkness, trying as best he could to see the outlines of what was coalescing and dissipating in the darkness in this weak and blurred connection – a mist rising from the darkness.
A mist rose from the darkness, and something was emerging from its depths.
There really was something here!
Duncan’s heart fluttered, and he immediately drew closer to the vague outline, feeling himself transformed into a swift wind or shadow that darted through the darkness and mist, and as he drew closer, the hazy shadow rapidly expanded in his vision and gradually began to show more detail.
Duncan couldn’t help but speed up his “walking”, and the blurred details quickly became clearer to his eyes, and gradually he began to distinguish something – the head of a towering, majestic ship.
The towering prow of the ship, the dark color of the hull, the gunnel covers lined up under the sides, the intricate structure of the masts and cables, the translucent texture of the sails high above the ship. ……
Duncan paused in dismay.
He tilted his head back in the darkness and stared dazedly at the familiar sight that appeared at the end of this misty landscape, at his …… Lost Country.
……
Nina, who was cautiously making her way through the rugged and difficult forest trails, suddenly stopped and frowned as she listened sideways to the commotion coming from the depths of the dense forest.
After a moment, she turned her head, “Mr. Morris, did you hear anything?”
“It’s the sound of the wind, the wind has suddenly risen, and the wind direction is confusing …… not quite a normal movement,” Morris’ face gradually became serious, and he glanced at Nina, who was following his side, “You ‘ go up’ and look at the situation in the distance, don’t stay in the sky for too long, pay attention to safety.”
“Good!”
Nina immediately agreed, and immediately after that, she suddenly transformed into a leaping arc of flame, rushing straight up into the sky – the bright flame arc rapidly circled above the forest, and almost at the same time, this forest condensed by the dreamscape reacted to this, the trees that were illuminated by the flame arc began to grow wildly, emitting creaking and crunching sounds. The sound extends towards the sky, and the clouds in the sky also begin to converge towards Nina’s direction, gradually forming an encircling circle …… But Nina only hovered in the sky for a few seconds before the forest’s reaction became even more intense and dangerous, and she flew back down to Maurice’s side.
“Scary …… This place really doesn’t welcome me ……” she said, patting her chest somewhat afterward.
“Perhaps your light is too strong for this ‘Otherworld’, most Otherworlds instinctively reject ‘invading forces’ that are strong enough to pose a threat to themselves,” Maurice said, “Anything in the distance?”
“There’s an area deep in the forest where I don’t know what’s going on, it looks dark, the trees and ground look like they’re rotting, but it’s far away from us, and in the other direction you can see very tall, rolling shadows that look semi-transparent, the same as the curtains of light, and other than that there’s not much to be found… …”
Nina spoke quickly about what she had seen in the few short seconds she had been hovering high in the sky, while raising her hand to gesture the general direction of what she had seen, but just as she was in mid-sentence, another whistling wind suddenly rang out from the depths of the dense forest, and the ensuing chaotic winds that pierced through the forest as well as the sudden creaking noises of the trees around her then interrupted her movements.
The whistling sound of the chaotic wind seemed to be mixed with countless blurred hissing noises, and a strange sense of tension and rejection instantly surged through Nina and Maurice’s bodies and minds.
It was as if this forest shaped by dreams was suffering some kind of huge external impact, as if everything here suddenly began to shake.
The two of them subconsciously glanced at each other, and immediately afterward, they saw the giant trees in the distance begin to shake and collapse like a phantom, the sky was quickly covered with a thin crack, the light and shadow of the real world seemed to be shining through the crack, and the feeling of waking up from the dream world surged into their hearts.
At the same time, in another corner of the deep forest, Shirley also heard the whistling noise that was rapidly approaching from afar, and immediately afterward, the Annihilationist who was walking in front of her suddenly stopped.
Sherry was instantly flustered, but she quickly controlled the expression on her face, “Huh? What happened?”
“Dream stability is down, the operation is over, everyone is out of the Dream of the Nameless One,” Richard turned back to her, a questioning look finally appeared on his face as he spoke, “You didn’t get the message?”
Shirley was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly adjusted her expression with an innocent and bewildered look on her face, “I don’t know ah – maybe I missed it carelessly ……”
“Careless?” The Annihilationist who called himself Richard stared at Sherry’s eyes, he seemed to have finally noticed the sense of dissonance that this “young compatriot” on the opposite side had brought to him along the way, a hint of vigilance and questioning appeared in the bottom of his eyes, “Compatriot, I seem to have forgotten to ask… …which city-state in the real world are you operating in?”
Shirley noticed the subtle change in the other party’s eyes at the first moment – she was incredibly sensitive to the slightest hint of malice coming from strangers, but still maintained the harmless expression on her face, “I’m in the city-state of Moco, there are many elves over here… …”
“‘Fellow’,” Richard suddenly spoke up and interrupted Shirley, his voice changed, as if he was speaking with some other obscure syllables suddenly mixed in, he stared into Shirley’s eyes, as if some kind of compelling power was spreading through the opening and closing of his mouth, and “We are forbidden to reveal our true location in the real world to outsiders during our operations, even if we meet ‘our own people’, what a pity ……”
The malevolent magic had gathered silently in his mouth, the power of the tell-tale bird passing along the symbiotic chains into the cultist, who sensed that the spell had locked onto the mental entity of the girl in front of him, while the other party seemed to have been completely unresponsive up to now, still just standing dumbfounded across the room.
Seeing this scene, he finally became more certain of his judgment–
Knowing nothing about the power of the Demonic Spell, this couldn’t possibly be a true subject of the Profound Holy Lord.
Although he didn’t know where she came from, or how she made this fake disguise, or what happened to the seemingly flawless “Profound Hound”, there was no doubt that this “compatriot” was a fake! –Luckily, I realized it in time, and the other party seemed to have no combat experience.
The time has come to say goodbye, and no one is safe from the curse of the Death Bird. ……
It was all in a flash – a flash of judgment and emotion in Richard’s mind, and a sudden, cheerful smile on Shirley’s face.
Richard was stunned to see the girl across the room suddenly smiling brightly at him, and he was only stunned for a moment – he didn’t have time to react or see what was going on before the girl who called herself “Sarah” jerked her arm toward him and raised it. He saw the girl, who called herself “Sarah”, raise her arm, and then a hideous black shadow came crashing down on him!
Shirley’s hand was on the dog, and the chain whistled as it smashed into the cultist’s head–
“See you again, mom!”
(End of chapter)