Chapter 136 – The End of the Dream

Chapter 136 – The End of the Dreamscape

The Spirit Body Flame gathered up and submerged into the interior of the broken pieces of flesh and blood.

The remains contaminated by the fire trembled and crawled, then crawled faster and faster and flew away to the end of the street.

This mass of flesh and blood, which was no longer thinking, was on its way home – but even Duncan wasn’t sure if it would actually make it back to some “body”, or if it would run out of life halfway there and dissipate on its own, or if it would be intercepted and purified by something.

He just tried to avoid all the hidden dangers as far as he could.

After Shelly fought with that strange black shadow, he was quickly analyzing what kind of “attacker” appeared in the nightmare, and at the same time guessing the ability of the other party, and after seeing the reaction of that thing facing the spirit fire, he was further determined that this attacker appeared out of nowhere was probably just a splintered “pathfinder”, and he was not sure if it was a “pathfinder”. “Pathfinder”.

The attacker had no will to fight after encountering the spirit fire, and its first reaction was to split up and break out in all directions, which could be interpreted as a hasty escape, but it could be interpreted as a “pathfinder” trying to send the information away – if this huge dream was really the work of someone behind the scenes. If this huge dream was really woven by someone behind the scenes, then the appearance of this “intruder” is undoubtedly significant information.

Duncan looked thoughtfully in the direction where the debris had disappeared, and after crawling a certain distance, the other party disappeared in a cloud of rising smoke, further confirming his suspicions:
This further confirmed his suspicion that the attacker who appeared out of nowhere was more familiar with this dream world than himself and Sherry, and that the other party had a more convenient way of moving around here, as well as knowing some unseen “passages”, which is why the figure with the umbrella appeared in the vicinity of the room without him realizing it.

In contrast, he, Shirley, Dog and other first-time “explorers” are like flies in the dream world, it is not easy to find those hidden guys.

But it doesn’t matter, the fire has been spread out, and a vague connection is still looming in his perception, Duncan believes that his spreading of the flame will yield something, and as soon as that little bit of spiritual fire starts to spread, a clearer perception will be established, and sooner or later he will find some hidden guys in the spreading fire… -and then Nina and Sherry wouldn’t have to have nightmares.

“Mr. Duncan ……” Shirley looked a little fearfully at the suddenly silent Duncan, and hesitated before saying boldly, “Do you know what just happened to that . . what that thing was?”

She was referring to the assailant with the black umbrella.

“…… can’t say,” Duncan shook his head after a moment’s thought, but immediately afterward he looked around at the burned-out streets and said thoughtfully, “But you remember on the way back from the museum earlier, I mentioned of that figure standing at the edge of the square?”

“The one that only you could see?” Sherry immediately recalled, “Ah, the one that attacked us just now was the one you saw ……”

“Can’t be sure it’s the same one,” Duncan shook his head, “but it’s definitely the same ‘kind’ and I suspect it has something to do with that group of cultists who believe in the Sun God- -Both times it appeared in scenes related to ‘fire’, which is suspicious.”

“Related to that gang of cultists ……,” Sherry blinks, reacting quickly, “Could it be the ‘sun children’ the cultists are talking about? ”

“Suspect so for now, though there’s little evidence,” Duncan exhaled softly, “but I’m more concerned about why this thing was inside your and Nina’s ‘dream world’ than the identity of the attackers What’s the connection between the …… museum site and your dreams?”

While speaking, he raised his head and swept his gaze over the tall tower.

At the top of the tower, Nina was still nowhere to be seen – but Duncan was almost certain that this was where Nina had been seen in her dream.

“Is this really Nina’s dream?” Shirley was also looking around curiously, full of incredulity, “How did you know?”

“She told me about this dream, and in it, she was standing on that tallest distillation tower overlooking the city-state after it burned,” Duncan raised his hand to point to a nearby tower as he spoke, “This location is roughly two blocks away from the hut in your nightmare, and while I don’t know why , but your dreams are clearly connected to each other on a deeper level.”

Sherry was surprised, she seemed to be about to ask something else, but suddenly Dog next to her seemed to notice something, “Hey Sherry look, the umbrella that guy was holding earlier seems to still be there!”

Shirley and Duncan coincidentally looked to the direction Dog was pointing to, and sure enough, they saw that there was a big black umbrella lying quietly on the side of the street!
Just now their attention was focused on the attacker’s body, after the latter’s body split this umbrella was left on the side of the road, for a moment no one noticed its existence.

Duncan stepped forward, he finally had the opportunity to observe the black umbrella up close, but after seeing the inner layer of the umbrella, he couldn’t help but let out an “eek”.

He had imagined what this umbrella, which was always held in the hands of the assailant, would look like – it could be a transcendent item inscribed with runes, or it could be an ordinary object that actually possessed a number of characteristics, but no matter what, considering the strange and terrifying abilities and form of the assailant, the umbrella should definitely be drawn in the direction of evil. umbrella should definitely be moving in an evil direction. However, the umbrella’s underside was very different from what he had imagined– he saw an extremely complex man-made structure.

He saw an extremely complex man-made structure, hexagonal delicate lattice densely arranged on the skeleton, forming a form as if it was some kind of …… solar panel, and between the gaps in the deep purple lattice, he saw subtle pipes and harnesses, and in the center of the umbrella, there was a delicate device like some kind of control hub connecting the umbrella’s handle and the surrounding lattice array. surrounding lattice arrays, all of which were far more sophisticated and complex than any of the steam organs in the city-state of Prand.

Duncan stared at the thing in dumbfounded amazement.

Technological, his first thought, was technological!
This thing is by no means a transcendent item, and the style of painting is very different from some “anomalies”, not to mention that it is not a device made by the current civilization of the city-state, this umbrella is an extremely sophisticated and complex technological artifact.

It …… comes from a civilization that modern city states cannot understand!

“What is this contraption?” Shirley looked at the internal structure of the umbrella in shock and confusion, she couldn’t understand what it was at all, and she also lacked Duncan’s cognition that came from another world, she only felt that this thing was a hundred times more complicated than she had imagined, and even looked a little dazzling, she subconsciously stretched out her hand, “It looks as if… …”

“Don’t touch!” Dog interrupted Sherry with a sudden outburst, “It looks like some sort of profane archetype.”

Sherry froze, “Blasphemous archetype? What the hell?”

“A creation from some forbidden history, something that shouldn’t be in the real world, but has been forcibly stranded in the real world,” Dog whispered gravely, “I don’t know how to explain this to you …… because I also don’t I don’t know what the principle behind this is, anyway, just remember that there are some histories in the long ages of this world that are ‘locked away’, and the things that have been born in these forbidden histories are profane archetypes, and usually, their very existence is harmful to the creatures of the real world… . don’t touch them if you see them!”

Shirley instantly tensed and withdrew her hand, while Duncan gave Dog a thoughtful look, “Is this the same ‘knowledge’ that is innate to the Spectral Demon?”

“Sort of,” Dog shook his head, “Not all Profound Demons know this, except that I was born closer to the head of the Profound Holy Lord, so my mind has more knowledge.”

Duncan gave a noncommittal hmmm, his eyes resting on the strange black umbrella, and just then, as if it had lost some of its “support”, the umbrella suddenly began to disintegrate and collapse before his eyes.

The delicate lattice structure gradually became transparent, the skeleton and wiring harness faded into gray debris floating in the wind, as the core of the complex device also melted and flowed down like heated wax, and before this thing completely dissolved, Duncan’s corner of the eye suddenly noticed that a certain part of the device was printed with a small text.

It wasn’t the common language used in the city-state today, or any other language he was familiar with – but the meaning of the writing still came to him:

“K-22 Spectral Filtering Crystal Core.”

In the next second, the entire umbrella, including this last part, floated away in the wind.

Duncan slowly stood up, and just then, Shirley, who was standing beside him, suddenly let out a small gasp, “Ah! How did my hand ……”

Duncan looked at Sherry’s arm and realized that the other party was not only her arm, but even her entire body was gradually becoming transparent and blurred.

Shirley was instantly shocked, “Save save save save ……”

“Save my ass!” Dog directly interrupted Shirley, “You that are about to wake up! You’re waking up properly from this dream for the first time – why don’t you thank Mr. Duncan?”

Sherry then responded and quickly looked over at Duncan, only to see that the other man’s figure was also fading away in the dream world.

Duncan smiled and waved a hand at the girl in front of him, “Good night, as well as good morning – don’t forget to wake Nina up for breakfast later.”

(End of chapter)