Chapter 535 – A Time to Pray

Chapter 535 A Time to Pray

The man’s heart was finally settling down.

He had escaped from that building infested with subspace shadows, from those terrible mirrors and burning flames, and had come to the assembly ground watched and blessed by the Holy Lord, and now, trustworthy compatriots surrounded him, the wavering lamps conveyed reassuring strength, and the encouragement and concern of like-minded people were little by little dissolving all the panic and tension.

Nothing terrible seemed to be happening.

So the man in the thick black coat let out a long breath, and then picked up the glass of water that Duncan handed to him, ready to moisturize his throat, which was a bit dry because of this running all the way.

But as soon as he picked up the cup and saw the sloshing water inside, he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, and a vague uneasiness flooded up from the bottom of his heart, so he put the cup back down again.

Obviously, this was the “aftermath” of the horrible experience, and he felt that it would be best if he didn’t touch the drink in the cup again for a few hours at the very least – if not, he could find a straw later.

“So what the hell happened?” The withered-haired, shady-faced cultist next to him, who had just handed over the glass of water, asked rather concernedly, “What kind of trouble did you run into?”

Around the round table, the other Annihilationists also turned their gazes this way, all with curious and serious expressions on their faces.

“That dream realm …… the Dream of the Nameless One mentioned by the Final Preacher has intricate structures within it and is protected by a barrier,” the man in the black jacket sighed and said heartily, “The entrance didn’t ‘naturally manifest’, I don’t know what happened to the other compatriots who tried to enter, in any case, my side was blocked, even those sun remnants were blocked out, but that’s not the worst of it, the worst of it …… “

The man stopped suddenly, glancing at his compatriot sitting beside him with some confusion, his brow furrowing slightly, “Duncan, are you all right? I feel like you look terrible ……”

“Me? I feel fine,” the yellow-haired “Annihilationist” laughed, and there seemed to be a bit of hoarseness in his laughter, “You’re too nervous.”

“You are indeed overwrought, Duncan has always had this sickly look on his face,” the other man at the round table shook his head, “Go on, what’s the worst thing about it – unusual events don’t cause you to react this way. reaction.”

“…… Duncan Ebnomar, the cursed specter who returned from subspace,” the man in black spoke heartily, “he intervened in that ‘Dream of the Nameless One’ ‘.”

There was instant silence in the assembly hall, as if an invisible wind of freezing had blown through the place, causing the air in this basement to suddenly seem sticky and still.

In this suddenly descending, unbearable dead silence, the man in black felt a heavy pressure, but he still quickly adjusted his emotions and continued to speak, “I first encountered a very tricky psychiatrist, and that psychiatrist broke through the ‘Psychology Chamber’ that I had specially set up. Then in the open area of the Dream of the Nameless One, I met the even more difficult ‘Witch of the Sea’ – things weren’t really too bad up to here, those sun remnants slowed down the witch’s actions, but suddenly, Duncan Abnormale appeared! ……

“That apparition stirred things up, those sun remnants and their ‘blood relatives’ were simply too much to handle, the outside information was wrong, Duncan Ebnomar and the ‘Witch of the Sea’ were not hostile at all –Duncan Abnormale and the ‘Witch of the Sea’ are not hostile at all.

“Remember the news from Frost? I even suspect …… that the Lost Home Fleet was never disbanded at all, that the Radiant Star and the Sea Mist were secretly carrying out that apparition’s orders from the beginning to the end, and that the apparition, and a pair of his children, whom I …… just happened to crash into this time, were surely also paying attention to the ‘Dream of the Nameless One’ matter ……”

The man in black spoke quickly, his mind active as never before, the previous frightening experience now began to reorganize and string together in his mind, supplemented by the various intelligence that had been covertly disseminated through various channels in recent times, and finally it was assembled into an extremely convincing, at the very least sufficiently convincing chain of logic to convince himself, and in this statement, he felt that he had finally straightened out his disorganized thoughts –and understood everything.

However, a substantial gaze from across the round table suddenly fell upon him, interrupting the man in black’s statement.

“Wait,” the owner of that gaze spoke, a majestic old man with gray hair, a torch-like gaze, and a voice low with a hint of a leader’s seriousness, “Are you telling me that you encountered that Subspace Shadow in the Dream of the Nameless One, and that you’ve been targeted by Him? ”

“Yes …… yes,” replied the man in black, feeling a pang of nervousness, and instinctively wincing a little under the gaze of the Messenger, but answering, stiffly. “He tracked me to the real world and tried to invade my hideout with the help of the mirrors, but I found the pattern of his invasion of the real world and blocked those ‘passages’ ……”

He said so quickly, and finally gradually felt the coldness from the “messenger’s” gaze, and then his slow and numb mind reacted, and he finally realized – the noise that had been haunting his mind, and the invisible things jumping and writhing at the edge of his vision. The thing that had been

He stood up slowly, his muscles shaking slightly, and he accidentally bumped into his nearest “compatriot”, who looked up and gave him a friendly smile, but deep inside that smile, there was a hidden, indefinable flavor.

The black-robed man’s heart tightened for no reason, hesitantly and nervously opened his mouth, “Duncan, why do you …… your face look more …… than just now?” The “Annihilationist” with yellow hair and a sickly, gloomy face sighed and shook his head with some regret.

“Annihilationists – from a certain perspective, your peculiar ‘symbiotic ecology’ actually has a natural resistance to me, because the Profound Demon’s perception is very sharp and does not have sufficient intelligence to weigh the pros and cons, so it only It takes a very short time for these demons to collapse, and immediately afterward, the ‘carrier’ that was transformed using you as the material will be damaged, and at its best it can only be used for ten minutes or so ……”

The “Annihilationist” called “Duncan” said unhurriedly, and along with his words, a kind of crackling and snapping sound came from all over his body, and a dark shadow vaguely bound by chains seemed to struggle and dissipate behind him, and his body was quickly covered with a dark, dark, dark, dark, dark, dark shadow. His body was rapidly covered in black cracks, and disintegrated and fell apart a little.

Duncan slowly opened his hands, the shadowy demon that had lived with this body had died, and the body gradually turned to ash.

“But the good news is, even if it was short, I still heard quite a few useful things.”

The torso was completely ashed out, and uncountable black ashes scattered silently in the swaying, dimly lit lamplight.

The man in black watched the scene in horror, and for a few brief seconds, he couldn’t even tell if it was fear, remorse, or anger that first flooded his mind, and then he snapped out of it, and looked up at the Emissary sitting on the opposite side of the round table, “I’m guilty! –“

“You are guilty.”

The white-haired “messenger” said expressionlessly, raised his hand and pointed forward, in the darkness, a silent and invisible shadow suddenly appeared, and silently disappeared in the assembly hall, just such a short moment, the “guilty” man in black clothes had already hung his head, and his body crumpled to the ground. The man in black who was “guilty” had already dropped his head, and his body collapsed on the chair.

After a few more seconds, the body quickly spontaneously combusted, black flames instantly engulfed his flesh and blood, emitting a gust of disgusting odor.

The cultists in the assembly arena watched this in silence, not a single one of them making a sound, and it wasn’t until the burning black ashes had completely poured down that a tall figure hesitantly broke the silence, “Emissary, let’s ……”

The one called “The Messenger” didn’t say anything, the pale-haired cult leader just calmly scanned the room, then got up without expression and went to close the entrance to the assembly hall and lock the secret door for emergency evacuation, and then whispered prayers in front of these two doors…. -Black thorns grew rapidly at his prayer and sealed the doors in the blink of an eye.

The skinny cultist who was responsible for leading the way for the visitors before immediately stood up when he saw this, “Messenger! You are ……”

“Duncan was one of the earliest members among us,” the cult leader said with a calm expression, his gaze sweeping over the two piles of black ash beside the round table, “When, do you think, was he ‘transformed’? ”

The Annihilationists in the room looked at each other in disbelief, and finally reacted, one by one, with expressions of horror rising up after their epiphany on their faces.

“He is among us,” the messenger said slowly as he returned to the round table and looked at the assembled believers, “Any moment, any person, any face – he has come in. ”

“What shall we do?” Someone at the round table spoke up.

“From now on, do not discuss the secrets of our Lord, do not exchange information about the Order – in our mortal bodies, we are powerless against the shadows of subspace, but the Lord will still bear witness to our courage and fortitude, and we will not divulge any more information to that specter, no matter what intimidation He may wish to impose here and compel ……”

“The Messenger” said slowly, and then he spread his hands wide, and continued to speak as solemnly as if he were giving a sermon–

“I will find a way to pass on the information about the subspace ghost, including his invasion methods and compulsion power, and in the meantime, I will stay here with you, and as you can see, I have sealed all the passages here.

“Believers, the time has come to prove our loyalty to the Lord; let us pray – that in the kingdom of the deep and profound, the blessings of the Lord will make our souls eternal, and that all the sufferings of this day will be paid for in that eternal kingdom.

“Now, begin to pray.”

(End of chapter)