Allen quietly looked at the young woman in a white dress in front of him.
Her long golden hair flutters in the wind, like flowing light; her eyes are also a rare golden color, coupled with her delicate and white face like porcelain, and her facial features that are close to perfect proportions, giving people a rather unreal feeling.
Against her, Catherine, who is petite, has baby fat on her face, and has freckles, looks more like a girl next door in the fields.
"Elani Bright..." Allen muttered the name silently in his mind, and suddenly remembered something.
Just as some memory fragments in Allen's mind were gradually waking up, he heard Elani say again:
"Ilya, to be honest, I really didn't expect that you would discover the secrets of this world so quickly."
Hearing this, the corners of Allen's mouth raised slightly.
Although the smile on Irani's face looked calm and perfect, Allen knew that she was actually caught off guard by his sudden appearance in the temple.
"Actually, before I came here, I just had an inference, but I wasn't sure whether it was correct," Allen replied calmly, "It wasn't until you appeared here that I was completely sure of this guess.
"By the way, my name is Allen, not Ilya."
"Okay, Ilya," Ilani, a blonde woman in a white dress, chuckled, looked at him and said, "Thousands of years have passed, and you are still as smart, cunning, and perceptive as before.
"I put a lot of effort into setting up this trap, but I didn't expect that I still didn't deceive you. I'm very curious about how you found the flaw."
Allen smiled faintly and replied: "There are too many wrong things in this world. For example, the sun has been hanging in the sky for a long time, and the small town that seems beautiful and harmonious but lacks details has not been repaired for more than seventy years.
The temple, the prophecy of the 'Sun God' that appeared coincidentally, and the chaotic timeline...
"I know you may want to say that it is usually difficult for people in dreams to notice the wrong things in their dreams, and they will take them for granted.
"I was really confused at first.
“At that time, I really thought that I had arrived in a brand new dimension, and I was still trying every possible way to gain a foothold and spread my faith.
“And the development of things around me has gone smoothly beyond my imagination.
"When I needed faith, the residents of the town came to me with their belief in the Sun God. They even regarded me as a messenger of the Sun God. If all this is true, then this will undoubtedly be an extremely convenient thing for me in the future.
acting identity.
"And after I gave up the idea of pretending to be the messenger of the Sun God, I easily made the town residents accept the existence of the God of Darkness, making them believe that the Sun God was just a false god. Before that, they were still firm.
A devout believer in the moving sun god.
"This went so smoothly, it was like everything I wanted to do came true."
"This doesn't prove anything," Elani, the priestess in white dress, interrupted him coldly, "When you first established the Dark Temple, it went smoothly beyond imagination."
"This really doesn't prove anything. I just have some doubts." At this point, Allen paused for a while, then changed the subject and asked with a smile, "Do you know what the nature of dreams is?"
However, before Ilani could answer, Allen said to himself: "According to some books I have read before, dreams are the satisfaction of suppressed desires. Of course, some desires are difficult to talk about, so these
Desire must be disguised and appear in dreams in another form.
"Faith can be said to be my most urgent need, so as soon as I came to this dream world, I saw a group of small town residents who admired me extremely.
"As for Saint Isabella, her most painful experience in the past was probably being wounded on the battlefield and being captured, and had to stay in the prison of the Church of Light's trial center for two years. Although there was a poor bastard who took her place
She was punished, but because of the existence of the Holy Light Array, she could not escape from the prison. She could only live in fear and worry day and night, witnessing the perverted referee and the prisoners playing perverted games.
'.
"Because of this, what she longs for most deep down in her heart, if I'm not mistaken, is 'freedom'.
"However, as a saint of the Dark Temple, she once swore an oath to serve the gods for life, so it is impossible for her to really talk about 'freedom'.
"So, the shadow in her memory became a slave arena, and her pursuit of freedom also turned into slave riots and resistance. And in the name of spreading the teachings of the Dark Temple, she was able to lead the slaves to break through the siege and occupy Egypt.
The northwest frontier county of the Sa Empire.
"As for Delphi and the others... I think that although they have been the mainstay of the Dark Temple over the years, in the final analysis, they are just mortals, and they also long to enjoy an ordinary and happy life in a warm and pleasant place.
"But their beliefs and sense of responsibility certainly don't allow them to do that.
"So, these repressed desires can only appear in dreams through disguise.
"That's why Delphi and the others chose to temporarily station themselves in Luoxue Town to inquire about information and obtain legal status. They each found a job and integrated into the lives of local civilians.
"Perhaps deep down in Delphi's heart, he also wanted to put down the heavy burden on his shoulders, leave the cold Arctic ice sheet, find a warm town, and work as an ordinary accountant in an inconspicuous inn.
"It's a pity that he is the high priest of the Dark Temple.
"As a high priest, he can only suppress this desire for a long time, which is to write in his notes, 'After I die, let Isabella and the others bury me in this sunny plane.'"
“What they saw and heard further confirmed my suspicions.
"We are in a collective dream woven by you, right?"
Priestess Elani listened to him quietly without interrupting.
She was silent for a moment, then looked into Allen's eyes and said: "Ilya, mortals are just ants, why should you pay too much attention to their thoughts?"
Allen smiled and replied: "The role of faith is mutual."
Ilani was unconvinced by his pretentious words.
I only heard her say calmly: "Although you saw through the nature of this world so quickly and disrupted my original plan, you did me a big favor by coming here today."
Having said this, her eyes fell on Catherine behind Allen.
Under the gaze of that golden gaze, Catherine felt as if she had seen a natural enemy, her whole body trembling violently, her hands grabbing the hem of Allen's clothes, her face as white as paper.
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ps: The part about dreams mainly refers to Freud's "The Analysis of Dreams".
ps2: Sorry, it’s a little laggy. I wasn’t satisfied with the original one and overturned it and rewrote it. This chapter is a little late.