Claire denies the results brought back by Lu Li. She does not believe that Chris is a traitor, nor does she believe that the gardener is Asammonth.
"He looks like Asammonth, and his memory is Asammonth, so he is Asammonth."
Lu Li told her what Claire once said.
Claire would question Asammonth, but not Lu Li: "Maybe it's a misunderstanding...? It's impossible for mother to betray Midnight City..."
"You can question Asammons face to face." Lu Li walked towards the bedroom: "In the form of a dream."
A few minutes later, Claire fell asleep peacefully on the bed. Lizard Maid No. 1, who had become trustworthy, stayed in the bedroom to guard her. Lu Li then fell into a dream, awakening Claire's consciousness that had sunk in the dream, and led him to the cemetery where he was waiting.
Dream halo.
Lu Li and Claire, who had merged into the dream, appeared in a long corridor of honor of the Giant Tree Academy.
The man in front of him stood in front of the portrait of a strange professor, looking at it nostalgically. Asammonth, with long hair and a hooked nose, did not look gloomy, and his face was as resolute as a knight.
It's just that Claire's dislike of him resurfaced.
Asammonth smiled at Claire, turned to Lu Li, put his hand on his chest and saluted: "Thank you, Exorcist, for allowing me to still exist in a human body."
"I want to know everything that happens in Midnight City." Even when dealing with the dean of Jushu Academy, Lu Li, he still adheres to the principle of directness.
"And me," Claire said.
"This story may be very long."
The scene changed. Asammons, who had the control over the dream, took them to the dean's office, sat down in front of the fireplace with burning matches, and coffee appeared out of thin air.
Lu Li caught the coffee floating in front of him: "Dreams can pass very slowly. And your recovery is a staged victory. It will be fine even if we don't do anything next."
The familiar environment made Asamons relax: "Let me think about where to start...well...it starts when Chris lured me into the bottomless abyss..."
On the eve of the March Contest, Chrissy informed Asammonth of the changes in the Abyss.
The Abyss is the source of Asammonth's power. There are only a few people who know about this. However, Asammonth never doubted Chris and left the competition to Chris to arrange and hurried to the Abyss. He was there.
He was attacked there, failed to resist and was killed there... At that time, Asammons didn't feel betrayed, he just thought it was too late.
"Then, the abominations that attacked me did not know that my soul was immortal, and I heard them talking, mentioning the deal with the Dragon Mother."
Dragon Mother Chris is what people in Midnight City call the vice-president of the Giant Tree Academy who has the power of a dragon.
"It's not just mothers who are called Mother of Dragons." Claire couldn't help but retort.
"Of course I know, so I never connected Chris with the Mother of Dragons, thinking it was just a coincidence or conspiracy." Asammons became depressed: "Until... I saw her being surrounded by earth dwellers and coming from the blood and
The fire came out, devouring my remains and polluting my soul..."
Immortal Asammonth, as the Abbot was called.
Because he is almost immortal. But few people know the truth. Asammonth's soul belongs to the bottomless abyss. As long as the bottomless abyss exists, his soul will exist and he will not die.
Including Chrissy.
Chrissy, who knew the weakness of the immortal Asammonth, knew that iron blocks could not be broken open by a pickaxe, but would rust due to sea water.
Chrissy used the power of the Midnight Church to pollute Asammonth's soul and became the weird gardener of Midnight City.
Therefore, Asammonth never appeared in the illusion of Midnight City, and the Midnight Church never appeared in the illusion.
"What's the purpose of Chris doing this?" Lu Li suppressed the excited Claire and temporarily followed Asammonth's answer.
"I don't know..." Surprisingly, Asammons, who was betrayed, didn't know Chris's motives: "I have been polluted and have been sleeping, and I was only awakened by you not long ago. I have never been like this in a few months.
Sober up..."
"What do you think it is?" Lu Li continued to ask.
"Maybe it has something to do with the Guardian of the Earth." Asamon, who was briefly awake, thought of a possibility: "Kris needs to swallow mythical creatures to gain strength... You have seen the Guardian of the Earth, and its existence is like the legendary dragon.
"
Chrissy and the earth dwellers, who coveted power together, eliminated the guardian of the earth. The swamp, which had lost its natural enemies, swallowed up the Midnight City. Some kind of terrible truth was pieced together based on clues.
"Do you believe what he said?" Claire treats Lu Li and Asammons at two extremes: extreme trust and extreme suspicion. "Assamonth is not worthy of trust."
Lu Li lowered his eyes slightly: "But nothing he said was a lie, and he did prove his identity."
No matter memory or soul.
"My mother is not that kind of person! In your memory..."
"The illusion is not all real, child." Asammons looked at Claire with pity, who was also betrayed, and betrayed by his own family: "It can be manipulated at will, and what's even more sad is that maybe the illusion of Midnight City does not exist at all.
, it’s just Chris playing with your Lore..."
Then Lu Li thought about the survivors of Midnight City who had never looked for him, and Fudot, who had appeared in the illusion and was another survivor.
"I don't believe it..." Claire just repeated this sentence.
…
"Then do you believe it?" Swamp Mother asked.
"I have no idea."
"You are always like this..." The businessman did not convey the helplessness of the Swamp Mother very well: "Even if the evidence is conclusive, it is not certain to draw a conclusion."
Lu Li didn't answer and looked at the thin silhouette curled up on the bed.
Soon after, the businessman came back with a new inquiry: "What happened next?"
"I asked Asammonth what to do next."
…
"Exorcist, you want to find more survivors, right? I will help you, but only a few, I can't be exposed..."
After leaving the dreamland, Asammonth will take the initiative to re-adhere and sew the pieces of flesh that polluted the soul, so that it will not be noticed by Chris.
"I can contact you through dreams." Lu Li replied: "Do you know who the farmer and the head chef are?"
"I think the chef is someone I know."
"Who is it?"
"I don't know yet." Asammonsi looked deeply at Lu Li and said, "Exorcist, Claire has been alarmed. I'm not sure whether she has memory... Probably not, otherwise you won't be able to wake me up. It's best not to...
…Watch her, be vigilant, don’t expose her…”
"This is what happened today."
Lu Li ends the narrative.
"I'm sorry that I can't provide you with any more solutions..."
"It's enough to protect the land of light." Lu Li looked at Claire who was curled up on the bed, enjoying a sweet dream.