"Hey, my true self." The illusion actually spoke: "Have a difficult night?"
The boy didn't reply.
Not only because he bit off his tongue, but also because he was in severe pain and had no intention of replying.
In despair, he even wanted to die, but a phantom exactly like him appeared in front of him.
...What are you doing?
"I just want to tell you that if it's too painful, you can escape." The boy's phantom continued to talk to himself: "I was born because of you, and I exist to help you survive the difficulties. I was born to protect you.
You. Let's switch. You fall asleep and leave all the pain to me. And I will protect you."
Unknowingly, the phantom had arrived in front of the young man and got very close.
"Poor child.
You are so lonely that you have to create another personality to resist this loneliness.
You are in so much pain that you have to create another personality to bear the pain.
Then I will fulfill your wish, be your friend, and be your shield."
The phantom hugged him tightly.
"------Then you will be fearless."
As if realizing that he could finally be freed, the young man gradually closed his eyes.
Close your heart, shield your pain, shut everything out of the door of reason, and then wait for the inevitable fate to come.
------Sinking into endless darkness and living in harmony with despair.
"It's unbelievable." When Menis came over to check the situation the next morning, he saw the young man crawling out of a blood-red cocoon: "Evolved...?"
The boy no longer looked like a human at all. He became a lizard man wearing pure white scales.
------The dragon people who were once forgotten by history.
He opened his eyes.
"What?" Merlin was startled by the sudden change.
He originally planned to pour [stasis gel] into the special helmet to stop Elaine's physiological activities (at least brain activities). However, he did not expect that the White Bear Man had already woken up before doing so.
"It's in the way." When Prime Minister Merlin was surprised, Elaine, who was originally lying on the hospital bed, suddenly got up, pushed Merlin away, and at the same time took off the strange helmet and threw it to the ground.
Also present were the Knights of the Round Table Constantine and King Arthur. When these two people saw Elaine suddenly waking up, they were also stunned.
"No!" Merlin stood up and exclaimed, "It's too late! Another light soul in his body has already taken shape!"
Constantine was surprised, but also looked at Elaine with a desperate look. If Merlin was right, another light soul had awakened in Elaine's body, replacing Elaine's original light soul, and receiving
Get off this body.
And Elaine's original light soul is trapped in that different world nine hundred years later. Even if they find a way to rescue that light soul later, the real Elaine's light soul will never be able to return to this white bear man.
Go into your body!
This is equivalent to pronouncing Elaine's death sentence - the death penalty for the real Elaine's soul!
However, the Elaine who suddenly woke up in front of them looked a little strange?
"The personality used for mental pollution has been activated, codenamed E373-Beta (Beta)." Elaine said without emotion, her tone was so mechanical that there was no fluctuation at all: "It was detected that the main personality E373-Alpha (Alpha) is offline. Searching now
Solution."
"What are you talking about, Elaine?" Constantine was confused and couldn't help asking.
As soon as he finished speaking, his head was pinched by the white bear man.
"Where is Alpha?" Elaine not only asked without emotion, but there was even a threatening element in his protracted tone. His eyes were shining with the same red light.
King Arthur, who was observing calmly from the side, suddenly asked: "Are you Elaine's secondary personality? Is that kid actually a dual personality?"
"[Beta] is the substitute personality of E373. When E373's main personality [Alpha] endures extreme stimulation and has to go offline, [Beta] will be awakened." Elaine replied: "At the beginning of creation, it was
It was designed this way."
"Created? Elaine is also an artificial human?" the King of Knights deliberately said to deceive the other party.
"Cyborg. The only successful one in the N series of transformation experiments." Elaine's sub-personality replied: "Other than that, I have no comment."
"It's a spell." Merlin said solemnly, "Really? No wonder. During the previous examination, it was found that the light soul in this kid's body was turbid and unclear. It turned out that someone used a spell.
Technique, constructing another incomplete light soul in this kid's body."
"Is he dangerous?" Arthur asked. At this time, King Arthur had already put a hand on the hilt of the sword at his waist. If it was determined that Elaine was a dangerous existence, the King of Knights would not hesitate to draw his sword and kill him.
------ Even if the White Bear Man is not cut off his head, at least two of his arms will be cut off.
"Hmm... I don't know." Merlin shrugged and signaled King Arthur to calm down: "The virtual personality created by spells is usually activated when certain conditions are met. For example, if the person under the spell is injured and becomes comatose,
When the brain is still active; or when the main personality's mind is controlled by hostile hypnosis. In order to keep certain secrets, the caster will also use spells to portray a virtual personality on the person. When the secret is about to be leaked, the virtual personality
The personality will awaken, and it may run away with all its strength, it may commit suicide, it may even attack the people around it indiscriminately."
"[Beta] is not such a dangerous personality. [Beta] only wants to protect the main personality [Alpha]." Elaine said mechanically, interrupting the long speech Merlin originally wanted to make.
"Anyway," Merlin looked at the current Elaine up and down curiously: "It's already very rare for an ordinary avatar to be able to complete one thing according to the program, and they can't speak at all. Who can use spells?
To create such a virtual personality that can act independently and speak clearly...the person who casts the curse is definitely a genius among spellcasters."
"Is now the time to sigh?" Constantine covered his head irritably and complained.
"Then ask again, N373-Beta." Arthur continued to ask: "Can the real Elaine return to this body again? Will he not be rejected by this body?"
"No. This is his [container]. Before [Alpha] comes back, [Beta] is only temporarily controlling it." Elaine replied.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"Reflective question." Elaine asked again: "The existence of [Alpha] cannot be detected in this body. Where is [Alpha]?"
"He is trapped in a rather troublesome place." Arthur replied calmly, as if the bizarre things happening in front of him had nothing to do with him: "We are now trying our best to find ways to rescue him."
"[Beta] wants to participate." Elaine said without emotion, as if it was a matter of course.
"It's... impossible for you, a mere magical virtual personality, to actually want to travel through time and space to save people------"
Bang! Only halfway through Merlin's words, Elaine impatiently grabbed Merlin's face with one hand.
"[Beta]. Want to. Participate." Elaine repeated in a protracted tone again. There was no fluctuation in her tone, but she acted extremely forcefully.
"I know! I know! Let go!" Merlin said a little panicked, which was rare for him to show panic.
"This is definitely not Elaine." Looking at all this, Constantine said in a disappointed tone. The real Elaine would not be so rough, and there is no way he would dare to attack Merlin, even if he just grabbed the other person's face.
"Whether it is true or not, it is always good to have one more ally." King Arthur remained extremely calm.
Elaine transformed into a dragon and jumped out of the hospital bed. The originally crowded medical room compartment naturally couldn't accommodate the white bear man's big, white and fat body. The purpose of transforming into a dragon was to better get out of the way among this group of troublesome people.
Walking through: "Take [Beta] with you. Go now."
"The [Tree Species] haven't been adjusted yet, so even if you try to set off, it's in vain." Merlin hummed a little unhappily: "If you touch the unadjusted [Tree Species] randomly, your consciousness may be ejected to a certain place at the end of time and space."
Go to an unknown place and never come back."
"[Beta] Don't care. Act now." Elaine still said without emotion, and pushed the door open and walked out.
"Why are you so unreasonable?" Merlin was afraid that Elaine would talk nonsense outside and reveal the matter of time travel, so he quickly chased after her.
"This is also the first time I've seen Merlin look so panicked." The King of Knights said with a bad smile, "There's something good to watch."
Constantine shook his head.
Ten minutes later, in the tactical conference room of the British battleship [Attack Palamedes].
Elaine stared intently at a tree species placed on the table. The small tree species was surrounded by black air, as if it was scorched and emitting strange black smoke. Everything about it looked so...
It's unknown, no sane person would be willing to reach out and touch such a strange thing.
"I feel it." Elaine said: "[Alpha]'s faint breath...is inside."
I'm afraid this guy really has no sense, and he didn't hesitate to touch the tree that was emitting black smoke.
Snap! But of course, before he touched the tree species, he encountered some kind of barrier, and his hand was bounced back by the powerful barrier.
"I was afraid that someone would touch this thing with too many hands and add a layer of insurance to it." Merlin arrived shortly afterwards, panting: "It seems that all the hard work was not in vain."
"Untie it. Now." Elaine said in a command tone.
"No." The great mage Merlin pouted, his tone returned to calm and tough from the previous panic: "Let you touch the tree species, and then run to an era that I can't monitor to make a big fuss.
To mess up the history and destiny of the world? Oh no, absolutely not!"
The white dragon man rolled his eyes at Merlin and suddenly stretched out his hand to grab the tree seed.
Snapssssssssssssssss!!!
The powerful barrier set up by Merlin repels outsiders and keeps bouncing off the hand of the white dragon Elaine. However, that guy is very stubborn and has brute force. Even if his palm is constantly bounced off by the power of the barrier, he still persists.
Reach out and grab the twin trees.
The barrier is like thousands of slender and powerful blades, or hundreds of hammers, hitting Elaine's palm. If he doesn't give up, his palm will naturally become bloody and bloody in a very short period of time, and his whole body will be covered with blood.
It was a wound. However, even so, Elaine did not show any pain at all, as if he could not feel the pain at all. The calm expression of water under the severe pain was not what a living thing should have.
"You don't understand." Elaine (Beta personality) whispered: "[Beta] has been watching. Watching in his body. The child... was crying alone in the dark. No one said anything to him.
He reached out. He knew he had to be strong. But he couldn't."
He turned around and gave Merlin another look: "Since he can't do it, let me do it for him!"
Bang!! Under the fierce squeeze of the white dragon man, something broke into pieces!
Merlin's barrier is naturally unparalleled, although it is neither the barrier nor the tree species, but the palm of Elaine the White Dragon. It was completely shattered, and it was a tragic scene of skin, flesh and bones shattering and flying outward.
.That also means heart-breaking, bone-piercing pain.
Others would have fainted from the severe pain. But Elaine gritted his teeth and endured the severe pain, and continued to stab the tree species with his right arm that had lost his hand!
He was born from darkness and peered into the light.
A lifetime exists only for one person.
He is his shield and the completion of his personality. He is the product of the extremely weak and kind boy's desire to become stronger.
Born from a wish, he tried his best to realize the boy's wish, which was his meaning and the value of his existence.
Even if you burn your life, burn it, burn it again. Burn it until there is no ashes left.
Bang! Under his desperate attack, this time the barrier set up by Merlin was shattered. Naturally, Elaine's arm also suffered greater damage, with pieces flying out from his arm in all directions.
Flesh and bone.
"So, don't cry." Elaine said, using his only half-broken arm to poke at the unprotected tree species.
"I'll come and save you right away."
The moment he touched the twin tree species, Elaine lost consciousness and fell. The personality who called himself E373-beta was brought to the other side of time by the power of the twin tree species.
Merlin looked at the mess at the scene and fell into panic again.
"A mere magical avatar..." He murmured in a tone of contempt and fear.
"Merlin, use your fastest speed to re-adjust the tree species to a level that we can use. How long will it take?" King Arthur, who arrived slowly at this time, asked calmly.
Merlin also cheered up: "At least five hours... no... give me three hours and I will definitely help you complete it."
"Did you hear that, Constantine?" Arthur turned to look at the young Knights of the Round Table: "Urgent military order. No matter where Bediwell is, summon him immediately. You too, within these three hours,
Be fully prepared."
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Constantine, the Knight of the Round Table, bowed and saluted, and then flew away. (To be continued)