Chapter 623: Wuthering Shadows
Chapter 623: Wuthering Shadows
Inside the area of the wreckage of the World Tree covered in ash and black slag, Maurice, Nina, and Taran-El and their group had managed to find several Knowledge Guards who had awakened from their phantoms.
Just as Morris judged, these Knowledge Guards who were equivalent to “first time dreamers” were scattered to random locations in the Silentis wreckage area, but fortunately, most of them were not scattered too far away, and Nina’s fireball was very eye-catching after it went up in the air, so these scattered Knowledge Guards came to check out the situation in unison! , which brought them all together quickly.
Except for the last one.
“Still no sign of Lord Ted Riel,” said one of the Knowledge Guards, dressed in short robes and armed with a scroll and revolver, as he returned to his makeshift landing place and spoke to Taran-El and Maurice and the others who were waiting, “There is no sign of the agreed upon mark, and no response to the psychic call. ”
“Could it be that it hasn’t ‘woken up’ yet?” Taran-El subconsciously frowned, “It shouldn’t be ah …… The amount of medicine given to him is quite large, even the Truth Keeper’s physique is enough to take effect smoothly ……”
Nina looked at the slightly uneasy Knowledge Guard across the room, and then at Taran Elle who was frowning in thought, hesitated for a moment or couldn’t help but open her mouth, “Could it be that the amount of medicine was too large then ……”
Taran Ayr froze at that moment, and waved his hand repeatedly after reacting, “No way no way, I’m a rigorous scholar, how could I make this kind of dosage mistake, and His Excellency Tad Reel is well-versed in pharmacy, he is also sure about the intake of the potion …… “
The more he spoke, the lower his voice became, and finally added hesitantly, “…… probably.”
Nina & Maurice: “……?”
“Just how much Blood Raven Hopper did you have for Ted Riel?” Morris couldn’t help but ask.
Taran-El thought for a moment and raised his hand to gesture, “About this high a bottle ……”
Morris was dumbfounded, “…… You let him dry a bottle of Hopium in a beer bottle? That’s the stuff normal people use droppers for!”
“Come on, it’s the Secret Keeper of Truth,” Taran-El said, “It’s too hard to make him ‘fake death’ at the level of mental dissociation, and a dose that’s enough to kill a normal person ten times over is only good for quenching his thirst, I can’t do that. What can I do about it? His Excellency Ted Reel even made a special purification of the potion, otherwise he just couldn’t drink that much ……”
Morris listened with a blank stare, and only after a long time did he mutter with an odd expression on his face, “I remember when I went to school this Truth Keeper was not this exaggerated ……”
“Took the graduating class with him,” Taran-El waved his hand, “Started off with a drink to drown his sorrows, then a neurotoxin to drown his sorrows, and now I can’t even begin to think of what he puts in the glass of water he drinks out of after class …… Anyway Either way, it certainly wasn’t the ‘dose’ of Blood Raven Compound that was the problem.”
“His Excellency Ted Riel may be trapped deeper into this dream realm, a place that cannot even be reached by a psychic call,” one of the Knowledge Guards next to him saw that the topic was getting more and more skewed and hurriedly looked for an opportunity to speak up, “This place gives off a very eerie feeling, and just now, we grouped together to search the nearby ruins and found that as long as one walks more than a certain distance, the phenomenon of mental trance, blankness of mind and even short term memory loss will occur, and the psychic energy sensing between each other also becomes intermittent ……”
“Indeed,” another Knowledge Guard immediately nodded, “Serenity even said that she had a few seconds where she completely forgot who she was and what was going on in the real world, and just felt like she was born here and wanted to stay here forever… …”
Nina looked at the two Knowledge Guards who had opened their mouths to speak, and after a moment’s thought, spoke up, “It really wasn’t from too much medicine?”
“The dosage I gave is absolutely fine!” Before the two guardsmen could speak, Taran El was the first to fail to hold his tongue, “Miss, please believe in the gold content of a first-class apothecary’s license-not to mention that I’m also the inventor of the ‘Sudden Death Method’, and there’s no one who understands it better than I do ……”
“Just because you invented such a ‘Sudden Death Method’, the Truth Academy should take back your apothecary license,” Morris couldn’t help but mutter, but still shook his head after careful consideration, “It should have nothing to do with the side effects of the potion It should have nothing to do with the side effects of the potion, the situation mentioned by the two Knowledge Guards is more like the ‘Dream of the Nameless’ itself is having an effect on them.”
Nina blinks as she listens, “But the two of us have already been moving around in here for so long, and we don’t feel that way either ……”
Maurice did a little thinking and raised his head to look at the magnificent wreckage of the canopy in the distance, as well as the phantoms that wandered confusedly between the wreckage, “Perhaps …… because we are not elves after all.”
Nina instantly understood her teacher’s meaning, and Taran-El and the surrounding elven guardians also revealed thoughtful looks.
After a short silence, Taran-El slowly got up and went to a nearby boulder, gazing into the distance with a complicated expression.
Stretches of charred black debris stretched and undulated in his field of vision, the magnificent canopy of trees collapsed and tumbled into mountains and pits and valleys on the earth, ashes covered the earth, and withered branches crisscrossed through the ashes.
Like a giant city falling from the sky to the earth, the wreckage fell apart, and bleak memories still coiled in the land after the destruction, melting in the wind and sand.
Taran El did his best to imagine what this place had once looked like. There had been a forest here, a lush forest under the shade of the World Tree, a place where valleys and hills had been teeming with life, where the roots of giant trees had rippled across the land, where clear streams had flowed through the valleys, and where many beings had lived – birds, beasts, and elves.
Those were the “ancestors” he had never seen, living in another time.
The prosperity and vitality of that time was far beyond the imagination of the world today, but more difficult to imagine than that vitality was perhaps order and peace.
It is said that the faraway Prand and Frost have already welcomed this kind of peace – but the “Captain Duncan” also said that even the “peace” of Prand and Frost nowadays is not as good as that of the world before the great annihilation. The World Before Annihilation.
Taran El found his imagination hitting a bottleneck.
He realized that no matter how much he tried to imagine, what came to his mind was not a vivid picture – the cold words from the books he had once read roamed into his memory, and what came to his mind was only a rough and general impression, and it was not easy for him to know what the “forest” really looked like from his dreams. “In the end, but can not imagine how the birds and beasts to live in this boundless green sea, and the elves and how to be able to coexist with that kind of” forest “……
People say, the elves of the ancient scrolls and stories passed on by word of mouth left the most complete heritage, if one day, archaeologists can really restore the world before the annihilation of the appearance of the appearance of the world, that appearance must also be dormant in the light wind harbor and the library of the MoKo.
But now Taran El realized – that likeness was no longer there.
It had gone with Silantis’ withering sometime a long, long time ago, when the sea swallowed the world.
But …… what exactly destroyed Silantis? What exactly caused the Great Annihilation to occur?
A searing wind suddenly blew from nowhere, a wind with a disturbing, sharp noise – not the intermittent, disorganized breeze of the ruins, but a much cooler, as if filled with panic and devastation, a whine capable of sweeping right through the mind.
Taran El snapped out of his musings.
The wind was so strong that it almost swept him away from the earth, and he stood firmly in the wind with great difficulty, but he found that his surroundings had been plunged into darkness and chaos, as if the light of the whole world had been converged in an instant, and the ruins of the giant trees had turned into twisted shadows, and a huge smoke rose from the sky above those shadows, as if the Tree of the World had begun to burn once again! The other Knowledge Guards that had gathered at this landing spot, as well as Morris and Nina, had all disappeared from his sight.
The wind began to howl, and dark dust swept over the burning World Tree, and Taran El fell down from the boulder in a terrible state, rolling several times before stopping due to hitting a huge “branch” – a huge branch that was slightly curved like a vertebrae, and was slightly curved like a vertebrae. It was a huge branch that was slightly curved like a spine, and he hit the root of it, then subconsciously looked up into the sky.
The sky was “sinking”.
In the midst of the chaos, Taran El saw an unimaginable sight.
The hazy red light penetrated the clouds, and the dark sky was collapsing downward as if it was being squeezed by something, the clouds were distorting, and the light in the clouds was even bending, as if something huge and horrible was gradually crushing down, and even wanting to “flatten” the whole world, and the huge and horrible pressure brought by the scene even caused him to be suffocated instantly. This scene brings a huge and terrifying pressure even let him instantly suffocate, and even the thinking is followed by the stagnation, and in this suffocation and fear, he saw the white floating light.
Stars of white shimmering light diffused out from the burning wreckage of Silantis, gradually converging in the air to form a stream of light, the shimmering light flowed between those huge branches and scorched earth, and as if sensing something, it gradually converged towards Taran-El in front of him.
Taran El’s eyes widened, he felt a warm power in that stream of light, but for some reason, great panic and uneasiness surged into his heart at the same time – he stared at that light until the latter converged into a hazy ball of light in front of him.
That light mass had no form, but it seemed to have a spirit, and it slowly rotated around Taran-El, as if it was curiously observing something.
Then, it suddenly stopped.
Talan-El heard a sharp whistling sound – it was as if the whistling was going to drill right into his brain, drilling a hole out of it.
The voice was childish, tinged with great alarm, and a kind of frantic irritation.
“Nope! You’re not elves!”
(End of chapter)