The strange throbbing made Lu Yu and Lulu subconsciously raise their heads and look at the sky, but there were only falling snow specks and gray clouds in their field of vision.
The figure of the demon-eating tree that provided shelter for the two of them was hazy, and in the next moment, it turned into orange light spots all over the sky and disappeared.
Lu Yu, who had not given the order to disperse, looked at his hands in shock. The increasingly strong impulse caused the magic power in his body to rush uncontrollably, and his skin turned red, as if he was about to bleed.
Lulu began to be out of breath, and a strong sense of oppression came from top to bottom, as if there was a thousand kilograms of weight on her petite body.
Trying to adjust his disordered breathing, Lu Yu covered his chest and said with difficulty: "Something... is coming..."
A touch of soft yellow light appeared out of thin air not far in front of the two people, like paint that someone accidentally dripped while painting on the canvas. As it penetrated, the color of the halo became darker and darker, covering up the vague outline.
.
The hazy light completely blurred his vision, and Lu Yu could not see anything clearly. He could only vaguely feel that something was gradually appearing where there should be nothing.
The terrifying sense of oppression came and went almost instantly. The two people, who could hardly look directly at the halo, carefully raised their heads, and then...
Lu Yu was shaking all over and his scalp was numb. He resisted the urge to lower his head and stare at the portrait, turned his neck stiffly, and then lowered his head.
His eyes met with Lulu's, and each could see the surprise and even...fear in the other's eyes.
Vanessa, wearing a turquoise floor-length dress, walked gracefully on the ground, right in front of them, walking out of the halo that had made them both feel palpitating.
Her eyes were slightly hollow, as if there was nothing in contact with her eyes. Her indifferent expression made people wonder if this was just a doll, which was completely different from the gentle and quiet appearance in the portrait.
"Soulless puppets." Lu Yu subconsciously thought of this word and the puppets he saw in Twilight City.
Lulu, who couldn't understand the way "Vanessa" appeared in front of her at all, felt her hair stand on end just looking at her, but it was strange...
"I can't feel any hostility toward her at all... It seems like a strange voice is telling me... This is wrong." Lulu described it to Lu Yu in a low voice.
Lu Yu's feelings were exactly the same as Lulu's. After seeing "Vanessa" appear in such a strange form, it was foreseeable that the hostility rose up due to the fear of the unknown, vigilance and instinct. However, Lu Yu couldn't feel it.
Seeing these two emotions, on the contrary, he seemed to feel a hint of kindness and warmth towards Vanessa in front of him?
Vanessa was floating in the air, her indifferent eyes staring at the crystal giant who chanted her name over and over again. Then, she turned her head and locked her eyes on Lu Yu and Lulu.
"It is up to you to witness." As the pleasant female voice sounded, an invisible barrier rose from the ground, isolating the inside and outside, isolating the magic power, and sealing the four of them together.
At the same time, outside the barrier, the figures of the four people seemed to have been erased by an eraser and ceased to exist.
The strong attraction separated Lu Yu's consciousness from his body. No matter how hard he struggled, he could only watch his spirit drift away from himself and float above his body. The same was true for Lulu...
Vanessa in the middle raised her hand towards the crystal giant: "Start, reveal."
"The witness is up to you."
As soon as they finished speaking, the two of them seemed to fall into an endless abyss. The strong sense of weightlessness made Lu Yu and Lulu hold hands tightly.
Endless light curtains flashed around the two people. In that short scene, which only lasted a moment, Lulu vaguely saw...the first invasion of Infestation, the giant owl snow monsters risked their lives one by one, and sacrificed their lives with their own flesh and blood.
He resisted monsters that were ten times, or even a hundred times his size, and eventually became incapable of distinguishing between reality and illusion.
Lu Yu saw the giant dragon flying in the sky being hit by a huge dragon spear on its wings. The attached ice air corroded his body. Amidst the angry and shrill wails, the blazing dragon flames melted the rocks and
earth.
Along the river, armed with machetes, warriors with both magic and martial arts leaped on the dragon's scales, and then cut open the dragon's scales with their sharp blades. The dragon's blood spurted out, and angry roars resounded throughout the wilderness.
Based on the number and racial configuration of the people under siege, he vaguely discovered that this was the "Blood of Antosol" operation for all races to eliminate future troubles after the contamination ended.
"These are...the past?"
"No... this is memory... Vanessa is... showing us memories?" Lulu murmured, "But the perspectives of these memories obviously come from different people. How could she... not be able to do this? No one can do this.
, even the most powerful spiritual magic!”
Traveling through the vast sea of memories, with Vanessa's gently raised hand, the two of them slowly moved forward following the light golden path that appeared out of thin air.
As if breaking through some kind of obstacle and entering a strange world, a gray-haired, slightly stooped old man was sitting in front of the desk in a small room, writing something slowly with hands that were highly trembling due to old age.
With a wrinkled face, he would inevitably pause for a moment every time he wrote a long line, as if he was brewing or resting.
The old man did not notice at all that while he was writing seriously, there was a magician with wide eyes on the left and right sides of the desk. They stared at the signed name and were speechless for a long time.
This old man who gasps for breath when he talks and walks tremblingly is Sayer Lucamia, one of the magicians who transcended his time.
Outside the hut is full of greenery, shaded by bamboo trees, and butterflies and giants are following orders and patrolling over and over again, never stopping.
In the small house, next to the bookcase, in a coffin made of colorful flowers and vines, Vanessa was sleeping quietly.
Leaning against the coffin, Lu Yu and Lulu could both hear the slight shout, see the rising and falling chest, and gaze at the face with a calm smile even though it was sleeping, they both trembled for no reason.
Across time and space, they met for the first time the genius who seemed to guide them on her journey, Vanessa.
She just lay quietly in the flower coffin, with her hands folded on her abdomen. Sayer, the ninth-level magician well-known in Mera, was writing at his desk. From time to time, he would turn around and stare for a long time.
Vanessa's sleeping face, and then continued to write and draw on the scroll with bloodshot eyes.
It was a magic pattern that neither Lu Yu nor Lulu could understand. Sayer, who was completely beyond their scope of cognition, worked tirelessly to conceive of something. Whenever he got upset, he would immediately tear up the scroll in his hand, and then
, this old man who was nearly ninety years old knelt on the coffin like a child and cried loudly, constantly berating himself for his incompetence...
After a heart-rending cry, Sayer lay down next to the coffin and fell asleep with tears in his eyes. But not long after, he woke up with a fit of convulsions, and he ignored the warning signals from various parts of his body.
He continued to throw himself on the desk like crazy, and continued to repeatedly carve magic lines.
again and again.
I don’t know how many times I woke up from my dream with my tired body, and I don’t know how many times I cried in front of the coffin. Sayer was possessed. He almost never set foot outside the hut anymore. Scrap manuscripts were piled on the ground.
Ideas that cannot be understood are often rejected and turned into debris as soon as they are born.
Lu Yu tried to pick it up, but found that his hand had passed through the paper - here, he and Lulu were just spectators.
The white-haired Sayer finally collapsed during the high-intensity attempt, and the blood gushing from his mouth and nose frightened him.
"I can't die...I can't...before I wake you up...I want to live...live..."
Sayer wiped away the blood and staggered up, fearing that the bright red would be stained on the flowers he picked regularly and piled up next to Vanessa.
"I always deny you and always laugh at your naivety..."
"Vanessa...we made a promise, yes, we made a promise."
"Promise...yes, that's right, promise!"
"I'm going to fulfill my promise. I always keep my promise, every time... So this time after I fulfill my promise, please bless me and let me find a solution to all this..."
Sayer took out the purple-black box that he placed on top of the cabinet, which he cherished, and took out the scrolls and books inside. Already very weak, he walked to Vanessa.
"You see, these are spiritual magic...cough cough cough...these are the masterpieces you always want to write in the book...cough cough cough" Sayer, who almost coughed out his lungs, knelt on the ground and put his head close to his knees.
On the ground, shedding tears silently, "As long as they meet my minimum requirements, I will give them all... Vanessa, if you hate my extravagance, please get up and scold me... Please..."
If they hadn't witnessed it with their own eyes, no one would believe that this legendary ninth-level magician could be so humble.
Putting the box into the backpack and placing a ban on the entire hut, the patrolling giant and butterfly returned to the barrier and never left, guarding the sleeping Vanessa like demons.
Sayer turned back three times with one step, entered the distant ultra-distance teleportation circle, and left the Silent Mountains.
Lu Yu suddenly thought of something.
"This is the last time Sayer returns to Mera..."
Everyone thought that Sayer was still healthy at this time, but in fact, he was already suffering from illness and his body was decaying.
Everyone also believed that Sayer shared these magics out of his own good intentions, but in fact, he just suddenly remembered his unfinished agreement with Vanessa and his hope for good luck that existed in the dark.
Sayer, who single-handedly opened up the spiritual magic school for Mela, was disappointed after all. He still could not see any hope and future from the land ruled by the giant owl. The desperate occlusion shrouded every ordinary person.
Above the person's head, the reality that was contrary to Vanessa's imaginary world made Sayer feel despair.
He never believed that sharing could bring about change, but for Vanessa...he made a difficult choice and reluctantly passed on those great experiences that transcended the times - but there was a price...
Every spiritual magic below level seven is deliberately complicated, making learning cumbersome and painful, accompanied by unknown side effects.
Sayer gave it to schools that were bound to fall into a spiral of occlusion.
It is both a gift and a curse. Sayer shattered, reorganized, and distributed the correct knowledge equally. All the magicians who were greedy for this gift but put it away in the cabinet will eventually be burdened by it, and they will use their own
The body tastes the beauty of power, and the tragedy that subtle magic inevitably brings!
This is just a small trick, but it is enough to cause pain to erode the lives of those selfish people. Even if it will be cracked one day, the victims will die.
Lu Yu and Lulu saw with their own eyes that he buried a box covered with purple-black vines in an unknown forest. Under the surge of earth elemental magic, the box was squeezed deep into the ground and never saw the light of day.
Hundreds of years in the future, this box will appear in front of Lulu due to various coincidences.
The correct way to learn spiritual magic is a great work.
This is the richest and gentlest gift that Sayer, who hoped to believe but withdrew some of his trust in the end, could give to his descendants.
He doesn't believe in people, and he doesn't believe that this land will usher in light at some point in the future.
Sayer leaves everything to fate.
After doing all this, Sayer returned to the hut in the Silent Mountains, held Vanessa's hand, and told what he saw and heard along the way.
Sayer, who hated giant owls and everything miserable on this land, only talked about those beautiful things, and then he returned to his daily life again.
The portrayal failed again and again, and the heavy pressure defeated Sayer's illness. He finally fainted and fell to the ground after one portrayal.
"I...I thought of it..." Sayer, whose mouth was full of blood, opened his heavy eyes and shouted as if he was possessed.
"I thought of..."
"I got it…"
After repeating it again and again, Sayer's voice became smaller and smaller. He groped Vanessa's hand and whispered softly: "Human life is always short...The human body is also perishable...So, this is
It’s a helpless thing…”
"Vanessa...don't blame me...this is the most feasible way I thought of..."
"As long as you can wake up...even if I can't reach the other side with you, at least...at least..."
Sayer, who rested his forehead on the back of Vanessa's hand, murmured again and again, his eyes gradually becoming sharper.
He stood up and tremblingly took out a book from the secret compartment of the bookcase that he could not share with anyone.
"We have all studied summons, and we have all speculated on the reasons for the decline of summons." Sayer said, "You and I have similar views. 'He' exists and is watching each school."
"He cannot be called a god... nor does he have a specific consciousness, so... yes, that's it, your and my guesses will never be wrong."
"This is indeed feasible...as long as a certain base can be reached and this arrangement can be completed."
Lu Yu and Lulu swallowed, and they moved forward. On the page opened by Sayer, it was clearly written...