What happened
The screams came from the magic horse pulling the carriage. The magic horse seemed to be frightened, neighing and dragging the carriage to another direction. James shouted outside the carriage: "Rift-level monster! How could it appear here?"
"Oh no, we are almost at the barrier of the City of Pride. I remembered that there seems to be a crack leading to hell nearby!" Eden said, "This monster is a fire-type beast, use an ice-type barrier!"
"I'll hold the horse!" Burton shouted, "Mr. Wade, you..."
The carriage was completely diverted by the magic horse. It was galloping in another direction and could throw the tilted carriage onto the ground at any time. Lucian supported himself with one leg and used the other leg to feel through the fur and found the dagger with blue flames that he had found in Cecil's old house.
He pulled out the dagger, stuck it deep into the wall of the car, and fixed it to use as support for himself. Then, relying on this support, he tried to move his feet and wanted to get out of the car.
The car door was blown open at this moment.
A dark figure walked in from the car door. There was still some blood on his face, and his expression was still stern. He supported himself with one hand outside the car, and stretched his other hand inside. Lucian also pulled out the dagger at this time.
"Hold on to me," Wade said.
Lucian stretched out his hand towards him. Not far away, he could hear the sound of James Eden fighting with a rift-level demon. At this moment, he suddenly heard a light "click" sound under his feet.
"No!" he heard Burton shout, "Over there... there's a cliff!"
At this moment, Lucian was held by Wade's finger.
The wheels slipped and the carriage rushed out of the cliff. It fell down at the fastest speed, followed by James's exasperated voice: "This stupid horse, if it wants to escape, why not find a better place to run? Isn't it looking for death by rushing to the cliff?"
"Master Witt! Master Louis!" This was the voice of Eden, who was still used to calling them by pseudonyms.
Amid all the calls, the carriage fell straight down the cliff. In the strong sense of weightlessness, Lucian was caught in Wade's arms.
"I… "
At that moment he felt Vader's strong emotional fluctuations, right in his arms.
There was a dark abyss below the cliff. Wade kicked and let their bodies leave the carriage. The speed of falling was very fast. Lucian heard the sound of his long hair fluttering upwards. His mind was blank, and he looked down and saw that there seemed to be dark red mist surging at the bottom of the abyss.
And tens of millions of ghosts extending outwards!
"There..."
"Deep in the cracks, the entrance to hell. Hold on to me!"
Lucian held onto Wade's body tightly. They were falling so fast that the crack was right in front of them. Just before reaching the crack, Lucian suddenly heard a sound like a soap bubble bursting.
It was as if they had entered some kind of .
But the sound was so subtle that it seemed like an illusion. At that moment, under the intense fear of weightlessness and imminent death from free fall, the huge black wings suddenly spread out.
Those were definitely not angel wings, but dark wings that belonged to the devil. The huge dark wings stretched out at that moment to become a salvation from death, and a black feather even landed on Lucian's forehead. The next moment, Wade grabbed Lucian and pulled him up before he fell into the devil's trap!
They flew up!
There was a whistling sound of wind beside his ears. Lucian couldn't open his eyes. He opened his mouth to breathe, but when something fell on his lips, he subconsciously bit it.
Furry.
Lucian: ?
Vader carried him flying for a long time, and he still held the thing in his mouth when he landed. The place where they landed looked like a dilapidated square. Vader held his waist and put him on a bench.
It was only then that Lucian realized what he had in his mouth...
It was the black feather that fell from Vader.
Lucian: …
The usually shrewd and cunning beauty showed a silly expression. Wade stared at his face, and thought of how Lucian had been rubbing against him during the flight, and he felt a little relieved.
Then he heard Lucian's voice.
"You seem to be losing your hair." Lucian said, grabbing the feather.
Vader: …
Lucian retreated and shrank back, pretending to be scared. Wade paused, ignored him, and turned around to look around.
Lucian followed him.
What appeared before his eyes was a desolate and dilapidated square. It could be seen that the square must have been magnificent and grand many years ago, but now time and Baisha Square have washed away the former glory, and only dust remained. There was a stone tablet on the side of the square, on which were engraved some words that were now obscured by dust.
It is worth mentioning that the area was foggy. It seemed that the entire square and the entire city were covered in thick, cold white fog, and the view was unclear even a few meters away. Lucian whispered, "Where is this place? You just flew, why didn't you take us back to the cliff?"
"When trying to ascend, I noticed there was a barrier here," Wade said. "If we don't find a way to break it, it will be difficult for us to leave here."
"Boundary?"
He saw Vader walk towards the dusty stone tablet, wipe the dust off with a towel, and check the words on it. Lucian rubbed his hands and looked around - the mist was desolate and there was no sign of any living creatures here.
The city seemed to be still—still in someone's dream, or in his memory.
"Elvis..." He heard Wade whisper the name.
"What?"
"This is the name of the last lord of the City of Pride." Wade said, "That is to say, here..."
"The city of pride."
Lucian got up from the bench, crossed his arms and walked to Vader's side: "The City of Pride? Isn't there a barrier there? A barrier that no one can enter."
Lucian's question was not a question he had already known. In the original novel, no one could enter the barrier of the City of Pride, except for Wade. The blood of the Cecil family in his body made him mistakenly judged as "allowed to enter" and successfully entered the barrier.
—“The one who was allowed to break in” was the warrior of Cecil’s family who killed the last lord of the city.
He didn't understand why he could get in. He was clearly not of Cecil's bloodline... But after seeing the dagger hanging on his waist, Lucian understood.
Because this dagger was stained with the blood of the former city lord, Elvis. Perhaps because of this, the barrier identified him as the descendant of Elvis.
Vader lit a flame on his fingertips. He looked around, and Lucian stood up, cast a spell to replace shoes on his feet, and followed him.
The two walked in silence in the city. Lucian remembered that in the original book, Vader arrived at the castle of the City of Pride and dripped blood on the stone slab in front of the castle, which triggered the plot of entering the dream. In the plot, Avis could not let go of the past between him and the "warrior" of the Cecil family, Cyril, until his death. Vader finally played Cyril in the dream because of his remaining consciousness, and simply and roughly defeated Avis and solved the dream.
Now they were the only two people to enter the dungeon. Lucian knew that in the original book, it took Vider a long time to find the stone slab, but he didn't have the luxury of walking with Vider for three days - maintaining the spell to protect his feet was also very tiring. He then said, "Since this is Avis' dream, why don't we go to his castle?"
Wade finally stopped and looked back at him.
"I… "
"Go up."
Lucian: ?
He looked at Wade, then at himself, and finally, with evil amusement and pretending to have misheard, he said in horror: "You... you want to do it here?"
Vader: … … …
Wade snorted coldly and turned to look for the castle. Just when Lucian felt a little unsatisfied, Wade turned back and pressed the seal on his head as quickly as possible.
Lucian: ...I should have known.
He turned into a white long-haired cat again, with the dagger tied to his waist. In his field of vision, Wade looked exceptionally tall with his long legs. Seeing Wade stretching his legs out to him, Lucian turned over, facing him with his belly, and meowed pitifully.
… Vader flipped him over mercilessly, grabbed him by the scruff of his neck and stuffed him into his arms.
Lucian: ...That’s great.
He huddled in Wade's arms, poking his head out to follow Wade around the city. Just as he was about to doze off, Wade finally found a map in the square that indicated the location of the castle.
Vader stopped in front of the long bridge.
In front of the long bridge leading to the castle gate stood a chess table, on which a chess game was being played. On both sides of the chess table stood guards in iron armor.
When Wade's toes touched the ground, all the guards were ready to attack.
Lucian meowed, pointed his paw at the chessboard, and signaled Wade to play. According to the correct puzzle-solving method, Wade only needed to complete the chessboard to qualify for crossing the bridge.
…
Wade sneered, and stretched out his other hand that was not holding the cat, with blazing black flames, pointing it at the guards.
Lucian: …
He buried his head in Vader's arms, waiting obediently for him to finish the fight.
Soon all the iron guards collapsed. The black flames were then retracted. Vader walked past their "corpses" in a cold and solemn manner - this scene was really handsome, if Lucian, a lazy and spoiled cat, was not lying in his arms.
Vader looked at the stone slab on the castle door. It was a white marble slab with complex patterns engraved on it. He reached over the slab and lowered his eyes, as if trying to feel the magic patterns on it.
Lucian lay in his arms and realized the seriousness of the matter.
In the original novel, when Rivid arrived at the stone slab, his body was covered in blood. It was for this reason that when he first examined the stone slab, he instantly entered Elvis' dream with the blood that dripped into it...
But now Wade's palms were smooth and uninjured. If he directly relied on puzzle magic to open the stone slab, he would not be able to enter the dream.
If you can't enter the dream, you can't remove the barrier, let alone get the lord's token from the soul of the lord of the City of Pride to inherit this city-state.
If he can't inherit the city-state, Vader can't be the Demon King of the Demon Realm...
Lucian made a prompt decision.
"I am doing this to make the plot develop according to the logic of the original book." He muttered to himself, "If not, how can I hold on to the advantage of being able to foresee the plot?"
This was not to help Wade get everything he was supposed to get.
He told himself.
Wade was tracing the patterns on the stone slab with his fingers, trying to find clues to unlock the seal, when he felt the fur in his arms move.
Lucian's white cat head emerged from his arms, and his round eyes stared at the stone pattern, as if he was also solving a puzzle. Wade had always found these furry little things boring, and he had never liked cats. But after seeing Lucian turn into a cat, he showed this expression on his face as a cat...
He found this very interesting.
This interest made him allow Lucian to stretch out his claws. Lucian stretched out his claws as if to touch the stone slab. Wade stared at his head, wondering what Lucian was up to.
After…
Lucian's claws were as fast as lightning, and he scratched Wade's finger with one claw!
Vader: ?
Blood dripped down his fingers, and at the same time, Lucian let out a shrill cat cry. Vader wore a storage ring on his finger, and when he clawed, Lucian's claw was scratched by the edge of the ring, and blood dripped from the injured pad.
"you… "
The two drops of blood merged into the stone slab at the same time. Before Vader could get angry about Lucian's "revenge", he was already attracted by everything that happened on the stone slab.
After the blood dripped in, the lines on the stone slab were illuminated by blue light. The blue light was reflected in Wade's eyes, and before he could say a few words, Lucian, who was originally held in his arms, was also illuminated by the blue light and showed his original human form.
He was instantly teleported.
He used the last of his strength to clamp down on Lucian's waist as he was struggling to escape, and was sucked into the stone slab along with him.
After they left, the armored guards climbed up from the mountain. They stood back on the guard post with difficulty, waiting for the arrival of their new master.
…
Lucian woke up in a bed.
Soon he realized that it was not his body that he was in.