Chapter 526 – Attack in the Sun

Chapter 526 – Attack Under the Sun
The monstrous and horrifying monstrosity hung high above the forest, perched in the sky, with countless coiled and twisted tentacles supporting its glowing “shell”, and the “sunlight” that could penetrate through the entire forest came from this nightmare-like terrifying intruder.

How long has it been hanging around in this dream world? Was it there from the beginning? Why didn’t anyone notice the sunlight? And with what ghastly purpose was it overlooking this forest of who knows how many layers of dreams mixed and jumbled together?
Heidi tilted her head, as if attracted by some powerful force, and couldn’t help gazing at the small “sun” supported by the horrible limbs.

She gazed at the pale, giant eyes that were guarded by the tentacles.

In an instant, she felt as if her mind had established a connection with an even larger and more distant being, and through those giant pale eyes overlooking the sky, something entered her mind directly, and she heard an explosion in the depths of her spirit, and sensed that an ancient idea was watching this dream, and its uninvited guests, through the sun in the sky.

A thousand voices murmured or hissed in her mind, and she heard one of them, which burrowed into her consciousness like a dreamy voice-

“…… is hidden in the deepest recesses of their memories …… before our sunlight goes out ……”

At the whispering voice that burrowed into her mind, Heidi could not help but feel a sense of conversion.

Yet in the very next second, a burning heat suddenly came from her chest, and Heidi awoke abruptly at the burning sensation, as if 10,000 thunderclaps had boomed beside her ears, and she felt the connection between herself and those voices instantly torn to shreds.

Her heart thumped like a drum, her ears echoed with a noise-like sharp sound, Heidi’s mind rose and fell violently, while a kind of celebration of survival was delayed for several seconds before it rose from the bottom of her heart, and as soon as she awoke from the shock, she firstly and with great difficulty averted her eyes from the sky, and at the same time, subconsciously grasped the amethyst pendant on her chest.

The pendant was still emitting scorching heat, but it wouldn’t burn her, so she turned her head in fear and looked at the “witch lady” standing beside her.

Lucrecia was expressionlessly extending her hand towards herself, and at the fingertips of this “witch”, three colorful gems were floating in mid-air and slowly rotating, and the light from the gems’ fingertips jumped around, interweaving a dreamy and deadly magnificent light.

Heidi instantly felt a heart palpitation.

“I’m awake! I’m awake!” She hurriedly cried out, fearing that this witch would actually make a move, “I’m not tainted-“

Lucrecia nodded, her gaze sweeping over the crystal pendant on Heidi’s chest, and the three colored gemstones flew up with it, returning to the small adornment in her hair.

She then thought for a moment, and seemed to feel the need to explain, “I didn’t try to kill you.”

“Eh ……” Heidi didn’t expect the other woman to say this, and her face twitched in expression, “I just thought you were about to do it.”

“It would only be a violent shock, if you’ve only suffered a shallow level of mental contamination, this shock would evoke the fear of death in your subconscious mind, and then force the uncontaminated part of your mind out of this dream, afterward you’d lose a little bit of your recent memories at the most,” Lucrecia explained, “This is a dream detachment technique invented by Master Taran El, the ‘Sudden Death Method’.”

Heidi stared, “Didn’t you say before that this ‘Sudden Death Method’ was unreliable?!”

“It’s unreliable on Talan-El himself,” Lucrecia glanced at the great scholar not far away, who was still maintaining his “mental sculpture” state, “He’s already on the verge of sudden death if he doesn’t have nightmares. ”

“Then I ……”

“You have a good physique.”

Heidi was dumbfounded for a moment, and there was an awkward silence for several seconds before she raised a palpitating finger to the sky – no longer daring to look up at the eerie, ghastly thing in the process, “Ms. Lucrecia, that thing… …”

“Looks like that’s the real intruder,” Lucrecia said casually, her hand brushing the air in front of her, an illusory round mirror surrounded by beautiful floral patterns with a courtly style appeared in front of her out of nowhere, and through the reflection of this magical mirror, she cautiously surveyed the scene in the sky, ” The ‘curtain’ in this dream world is to block the ‘prying eyes’ of this thing.”

She paused, a thoughtful look on her face.

“Much like the handiwork of that group of Black Sun worshippers, that thing in the sky looks exactly like the ‘Sun Heir’ they follow ……”

“Heir of the Sun ……” Heidi was shocked in her heart, as a Prendergast, as a witness of the “Black Sun Incident”, she knew more than anyone else the horror behind this term, however, immediately after that, she knew that this term was not the same as “Heir of the Sun”. Terrible, however, immediately after, she felt even more confused, “But the ‘intruder’ I saw in the dream world at the beginning was obviously an Annihilationist ……”

“An Annihilationist?” Lucrecia frowned, “Then …… this is even worse.”

Heidi opened her mouth and was about to ask this “Witch of the Sea” what she meant, but in the next second, a slight rustling sound suddenly came from nearby, causing her to snap to silence.

“Did you hear something?” Heidi asked quickly with a hint of nervousness.

“It looks like the ‘protector’ of that freak in the sky is here,” Lucrecia but only spoke with a calm look on her face, “We found ‘it’ and ‘It’ gets scared, and then finds a way to destroy any intelligent creature that sees ‘it’, as is the case with the Children of the Black Sun-” The rustling of strange noises suddenly disappeared.

But a great sense of alarm and crisis came like a tidal wave the moment the sound disappeared!

In the next instant, Heidi saw a shadow out of the corner of her eye – under a nearby bush, in a corner that had looked nothing out of the ordinary a second before, an indeterminate form of darkness squirmed, surged, and split into sinister limbs that looked like the blades of spears, lashing out in the direction of her and Lucrecia.

Heidi did not have the time to think carefully, her body had already violently collapsed to the side, and at the same time raised the golden cone in her hand to slice through the air in front of her – a residual shadow was left in the position she was in before she collapsed, and in the next second, this residual shadow was mercilessly penetrated by the assailant.

The black shadow suddenly retreated, while the “figure” that had been penetrated remained in place, the figure shook twice, and its blurred outline quickly became clear, turning into another “Heidi”.

At the same time, there was a sharp popping sound that suddenly came from Lucrecia’s direction.

A shadow snaking on the ground like a sinister viper spread to the feet of the “Sea Witch” and suddenly transformed into countless thorns, spikes, blades and wrists, which rose and shrank with uncertainty, attacked Lucrecia from all directions, and engulfed the latter’s figure in the blink of an eye.

However, in the midst of the interlacing shadows, Lucrecia’s body suddenly transformed – she suddenly turned into an extremely thin “image” as if she were a piece of paper, and then her body turned in the air, and “floated” away from those interlacing deadly killing strokes. Immediately afterward, her body turned in the air and “floated” out of those interlocking deadly killing moves, and immediately afterward, her figure reshaped itself in the open space next to her, and in her hand there was a baton in her hand that seemed to be the baton that a musician would use to conduct an orchestra on the stage.

She lifted that short baton and gently tapped it on a pitch-black tentacle that had coalesced in midair, and gently ordered-

“Minor key.”

The tentacle emitted a slight popping sound, and then the popping sounds rang out one after another, actually resembling a musical piece, and in the continuous popping, the tentacle disintegrated into countless illusory and colorful musical notes, which danced around and dissipated in the air.

All the “shadows” connected to the black tentacle emitted continuous bursts, and the horrible curse made them turn into countless musical notes, colorful and fluttering in the air.

This scene was as magnificent as a dream, but also bizarre and frightening.

Lucrecia elegantly flung her baton and turned her head to look at Heidi, who had already split into a third personality, with a hint of surprise in her eyes.

“Your ‘body guarding’ is good, and judging from your stance, you’ve trained in the real world as well?”

“There has to be some means to protect myself, after all, in our line of work, not only do I have to deal with the mentally ill, I also have to deal with their mental illnesses – my father has often taught me that a girl has to learn how to protect herself,” Heidi gasped a few times, and with a slight hint of pride said, followed by a hint of wonder and awe in her gaze towards Lucrecia, “Your power …… is indeed as strong as rumored.”

“Because my father taught similar words.” Lucrecia smiled faintly, then turned around, her gaze calmly gazing at the figures that were emerging from the air one after another.

The destruction of a few tentacles and a few shadows did not mean that it was over, for the followers of the Black Sun, their loathsome limbs could always afford to be more consuming.

The true form of the assailant revealed itself.

They were several tall figures, wearing long black jackets of unknown material like trench coats, under which seemed to be hiding countless creepy and monstrous flesh and blood, writhing and undulating and making slimy and disgusting noises, while their faces were hidden in the shadows brought about by wide-brimmed hats, so that no tangible features could be seen, and they could only feel endless emptiness and cold malice towards all living beings.

“…… are the ‘inferior beings’ of the sun’s children,” Heidi discerned the identities of these seemingly inhuman beings in a flash, and both she and her personality doppelganger showed a wary look, while at the same time couldn’t help but frown, “…… But I’ve never heard of these guys having the ability to invade the dream world ……”

Lucrecia, on the other hand, noticed something else.

“They don’t have umbrellas.” The sea witch said with a slight frown.

As an “explorer” who had traveled in the borderlands for years and had dealt with all kinds of dangerous and bizarre forces from time to time, she was not unfamiliar with the various followers of the Black Sun, and had had several head-on encounters with them.

These “remnants” of the Sun’s children who appeared in the dream world did not wear the iconic, grotesque black umbrellas.

They stood in the light, openly bathing in the “sunlight” that penetrated the forest.

Just like …… the banished are in their homeland.

(End of chapter)