The horrifically deformed monster hangs high above the forest, dominating the sky. Countless twisted and twisted tentacles support its luminous "shell", and the "sunlight" that can penetrate the entire forest comes from this...
Nightmarish and terrifying intruder.
How long has it been hanging in this dream? Has it been there from the beginning? Why didn't anyone notice the violation in the sunshine? What terrible purpose does it have, overlooking this unknown land?
A forest formed by the mixture of layers of dreams?
Heidi raised her head, as if attracted by some powerful force, and couldn't help but stare at the small "sun" supported by terrifying limbs.
She stared at the giant pale eyes guarded by tentacles.
In an instant, she felt as if her mind was connected to a larger and more distant existence. Through those pale giant eyes overlooking the sky, something directly entered her mind, and she heard the roar deep in her spirit.
Exploded, I felt that there was an eternal thought watching this dream through the sun in the sky, and the uninvited guests in the dream.
Thousands of voices were whispering or roaring in her head. She heard one voice among them, and the voice penetrated into her consciousness like a dream—
"...hidden in the deepest recesses of their memories...before our sunshine goes out..."
In this whisper that penetrated into her mind, Heidi couldn't help but feel a sense of refuge.
However, in the next second, a burning heat suddenly came from her chest. Heidi suddenly woke up from this burning sensation, as if ten thousand thunders exploded in her ears. She felt that the connection between herself and those sounds was instantaneous.
Was torn to pieces.
Her heart was beating like a drum, and there was a sharp roar like noise in her ears. Heidi's mind was fluctuating violently, and a feeling of happiness about surviving the disaster was delayed for several seconds before rising from the bottom of her heart. She had just woken up.
When she came over, she immediately turned away her eyes to the sky with difficulty, and at the same time subconsciously grabbed the amethyst pendant on her chest.
The pendant was still emitting scorching heat, but it would not burn her. She turned her head in fear and looked at the "Miss Witch" standing next to her.
Lucretia stretched out her hand towards herself expressionlessly. At the fingertips of this "witch", three colored gemstones were floating in the air and slowly rotating. The light on the gemstone fingertips danced, interweaving a dreamy and deadly
Magnificent light.
Heidi instantly felt a palpitation in her heart.
"I'm awake! I'm awake!" She shouted quickly, fearing that the witch would really take action, "I'm not contaminated -"
Lucretia nodded and glanced at the crystal pendant on Heidi's chest. Three colored gemstones flew up and returned to the small decoration at the end of her hair.
Then she thought about it and seemed to feel the need to explain: "I didn't want to kill you."
"Um..." Heidi didn't expect the other party to say this, and the expression on her face twitched, "I thought you were about to take action just now."
"It will only be a severe shock. If you only suffered a superficial mental pollution, this shock will arouse the fear of death in your subconscious, and then force the uncontaminated part of your mind to leave this dream. Afterwards, you will
At most, you will lose a little bit of recent memory," Lucretia explained. "This is the dream escape technique invented by Master Taran El, the 'sudden death method'."
Heidi stared: "Didn't you say before that this 'sudden death method' is unreliable?!"
"It's not reliable to put it on Taran El himself," Lucretia glanced at the academic not far away who still maintained the state of "mental sculpture", "He would have died suddenly if he didn't have nightmares.
"
"Then I..."
"You have a good physique."
Heidi was speechless for a moment, and remained in awkward silence for several seconds before she raised her finger and pointed to the sky with lingering fear - in the process, she no longer dared to look up at the weird and terrifying thing: "Ms. Lucretia
, that thing..."
"It seems that that is the real intruder," Lucretia said casually, her hand brushed in the air in front of her, one side was surrounded by beautiful patterns, and an illusory round mirror with a palace style appeared out of thin air.
In front of her, through the reflection of the magic mirror, she carefully observed the scene in the sky, "The 'curtain' in this dream is to block this thing's 'peeping'."
She paused, with a thoughtful look on her face.
"It looks very much like the work of those believers who worship the black sun. The thing in the sky looks exactly like the 'sons of the sun' they follow..."
"Children of the Sun..." Heidi was shocked. As a Plander, and as a witness to the "Black Sun Incident", she knew the horror behind this term better than anyone else. However, immediately after, she
I felt even more confused, "But the 'invader' I saw in the dream at the beginning was clearly an Annihilation cultist..."
"Annihilation cultists?" Lucretia frowned, "Then...this situation is even worse."
Heidi opened her mouth and was about to ask what this "sea witch" meant, but the next second, a slight rustling sound suddenly came from nearby, making her suddenly quiet.
"Did you hear anything?" Heidi asked quickly with a hint of nervousness.
"It seems that the freak's 'protector' in the sky is here," Lucretia just said calmly, "When we discover 'it', 'it' will feel fear, and then try every means to eliminate anyone who sees it.
To 'it' intelligent creatures, the descendants of the Black Sun are like this——"
The strange rustling sound suddenly disappeared.
But a huge sense of vigilance and crisis came like a tide the moment the sound disappeared!
The next second, Heidi saw a shadow in the corner of her eye - under the nearby trees, in a corner that looked normal a second ago, there was an amorphous darkness squirming, swelling, and...
It split into menacing limbs like spear blades and pounced directly in the direction of her and Lucretia.
Heidi didn't have time to think about it, her body suddenly fell to the side, and at the same time she raised the golden awl in her hand and slashed through the air in front of her - an afterimage remained at the position before she fell. The next second, this afterimage was attacked by the
It penetrates ruthlessly.
The black shadow suddenly retreated, but the penetrated "figure" still stayed in place. The figure shook twice, and the blurred outline quickly became clear, turning into another "Heidi".
At the same time, another sharp explosion suddenly came from the direction of Lucretia.
A shadow crawling on the ground spread like an insidious poisonous snake to the feet of the "Sea Witch", and suddenly turned into countless thorns, spikes, blades and tentacles. These fearful things that were growing and shrinking attacked Lu from all directions.
Cressia swallowed up the latter's figure in the blink of an eye.
However, in the interlacing shadows, Lucretia's body suddenly transformed - she suddenly turned into an "image" as thin as a piece of paper, and then her body turned in the air, from those
She "floated" out from the staggered fatal moves, and then her figure was reshaped in the open space next to her. At some point, there was a conductor in her hand that seemed to be used by musicians to conduct the orchestra on the stage.
Great.
She raised the short stick, lightly tapped on a dark tentacle condensed in mid-air, and gently ordered——
"Minor tune."
The tentacle made a slight popping sound, and then the explosions sounded one after another, just like music. In the continuous explosions, the tentacle disintegrated into countless illusory and colorful notes, flying in all directions and dissipating in the air.
between.
All the "shadows" connected to the black tentacles emitted continuous explosions, and the terrible curse turned them into countless musical notes, colorfully dancing in the air.
This scene is as magnificent as a dream, yet so strange and frightening.
Lucretia waved the baton gracefully and turned to look at Heidi, who had already differentiated into a third personality clone, with a hint of surprise in her eyes.
"Your 'protection skills' are good. Judging from your skills, you have also trained in the real world?"
"You have to have some means of protecting yourself. After all, in our profession, we not only have to deal with mental patients, but also their mental illness - my father often taught me that girls must learn to protect themselves," Heidi took a few breaths.
, said with a hint of pride, and then she looked at Lucretia with a hint of wonder and awe in her eyes, "Your power... is indeed as powerful as the rumors."
"Because my father also taught similar words." Lucretia smiled slightly, then turned around and stared calmly at the figures that were emerging from the air one after another.
The destruction of a few tentacles and a few shadows does not mean that the matter is over. For the followers of the Black Sun, their abominable limbs can always withstand greater consumption.
The true identity of the attacker was revealed.
They were several tall figures, wearing long black coats of unknown material, like windbreakers. Under the coats, there seemed to be countless creepy deformed flesh and blood, which were constantly squirming and rising, making sticky and disgusting sounds, and their faces were hidden.
Under the shadow brought by the wide-brimmed hat, no tangible facial features can be seen, only endless emptiness and cold malice towards all living creatures can be felt.
"...They are the 'bad creatures' of the Sun's children," Heidi instantly identified the identities of these human-like and non-human beings. Both she and her personality clones looked on guard, but at the same time they couldn't help but frown.
"...But I have never heard that these guys have the ability to invade dreams..."
Lucretia noticed another situation.
"They don't have umbrellas." The sea witch said with a slight frown.
As an "explorer" who has been wandering in border areas all year round and often dealing with various dangerous and strange forces, she is no stranger to the various followers of the Black Sun, and has had several head-to-head confrontations with them.
These "residues" of the sun's descendants who appeared in dreams did not hold the iconic and weird black umbrellas.
They all stood in the light, calmly bathing in the "sunlight" that penetrated the forest.