The monster that shone like starlight and was always wriggling indefinitely launched a fierce attack on Gawain. Its indescribably weird limbs seemed to be able to transform into countless forms full of destructive power, whether it was sharp claws or Huge swords, even crossbows and tentacles can be continuously condensed from that piece of "starlight aggregate". This changeable form may hint at its essence: a created dream product, it is like Nightmares are generally nameless, endless, and ever-changing.
Gawain, on the other hand, resisted every attack of it, and chopped off those proliferating limbs and mimicked weapons time and time again.
"Steel Storm!"
Gawain's sword blade was activated by the magic power and turned into countless scorching light blades. The shock wave swept away in front of him, and the slate ground along the way and the mutated limbs extended by the monster were instantly torn into pieces by the powerful impact. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Gawain immediately jumped up, released the long-settled "Champion Slash", and the sharp blade wrapped in white light descended from the sky, striking Lilith Kant's body in the air.
Lilith Kant's body was almost torn in half by this blow, but in the next second, the lavender radiance filled the lantern again, and her torn body was also quickly repaired under the shining starlight. Gathered together, the crazy woman held up a lantern and laughed: "It's useless, hahaha, it's useless! I've merged with the power of dreams, you can't kill a dream! As long as I refuse to wake up , I will never die!!"
Gawain smiled slightly, and casually chopped off a sharp claw that came from a blind spot in his vision: "Is there anything in your dreams... It seems that the teachings of the Eternal Sleeper have really been deeply ingrained in your mind."
"Give up, I admit that you are powerful. In terms of combat power alone, no one in this land can defeat you, but no amount of power can destroy a dream. Likewise, I can't kill you," Lilith Kant's frenzied expression calmed down in an instant. She looked at Gao Wen coldly, and said indifferently, "You can pretend that nothing happened here, and I can promise you that you will not take any action against your leaders."
"I can see the madness in your eyes, ma'am, the power of that dark magic weapon has eroded your mind, and I won't believe any promises you made when you held the lantern," Gawain regained his posture again, taking a step Step by step towards Lilith, who has shown a semi-fused state with the "Starlight Aggregator", "And why did I give up, didn't you notice? Your regeneration is slower than once."
"Huh?!" Under Gao Wen's reminder, Lilith Kant finally noticed the changes in her body. She gasped and looked at her enemy angrily, "What did you do?!"
"It seems that Knight Philip has found the real 'pillar' for maintaining your dreams," Gawain raised his long sword, "How long can you hold on now?"
In the ruins of the stables behind the main building of the castle, Knight Philip smashed the secret door in front of him. As the power of the nightmare weakened, the doors that were originally indestructible due to the blockade of the dream now lost their ability to protect themselves. When the long sword with magic power is cut down, no matter whether it is wood or steel, it will be torn apart in an instant.
Behind the secret door is a staircase leading to the ground, and at the end of the staircase is an astonishingly vast underground space.
Seeing the scene in the underground space, Knight Philip frowned tightly.
The vast underground hall is illuminated by dim magic spar lamps. In the obscure light, one can see neatly arranged square stone pillars standing there. Countless obscure and incomprehensible words are engraved on each stone pillar. Magic runes and lines, but what really made the young knight angry was not the evil runes on the stone pillars, but the "things" surrounding the stone pillars.
Rectangular platforms are arranged with stone pillars as the center, forming a neat matrix-like structure, and on each platform, a skinny, twisted, shriveled human body can be seen. These people are still alive, but life is worse than death. They lay on a layer of dark brown soft material, and some kind of "biological tissue" like umbilical cords or blood vessels connected them to those square stone pillars. Branches, piercing into the skulls of everyone on the platform.
Those people maintain the operation of the entire dream world under such circumstances. Their brain power is squeezed and drained, and they sink into continuous dreams without being able to wake up. Their limbs left in the real world occasionally There was a slight twitch, and low and hoarse murmurs came out from their throats from time to time, but all these were just the most basic nerve reflexes.
On the ground between the rectangular platforms and square stone pillars, there are dead bones: they are exhausted "firewood", homeless people who have disappeared on this land for 30 years and do not belong to Kant .
"This is... how... evil!!"
Philip growled angrily, raised his long sword high, and slashed at the stone pillar closest to him.
In the underground cellar of the North Tower, the rune brilliance on the stone pillars was being extinguished one by one, and the power maintaining the continuous regeneration of the "Starlight Aggregator" was also declining sharply. Gawain easily cut off this changeable Every proliferating limb on the monster once again exposed Lilith Kant's body, but this time, the latter's regeneration had almost completely stagnated, only sporadic lavender rays of light that could not be formed flickered in the air. floating.
The mad woman growled, "How would you know... how would you know!"
"Because you asked the butler Carter to divert our attention, but you accidentally exposed your last secret." Knowing that the situation was settled, Gao Wen couldn't help sighing softly, "If I'm not wrong, the butler may also be a The product of the dream, the real Carter should have died many years ago. No one can disappear into Amber's sight out of thin air, because the most powerful shadow master in the world can't do this. He disappeared near the ruins of the stable, It can only show that there is the 'inner border' of the dream... "
"In the final analysis, you are not a professional nightmare master. Although the Eternal Sleeper allowed you to master powerful power, but that power was displayed with the help of an ancient lantern, and you... are just half-baked."
The expression on Lilith Kant's face became more and more distorted. When she heard Gawain's words, she suddenly grinned and said, "You reminded me that I still have this lamp... Although it is not finished yet, this lamp has accumulated The energy has been... what?!"
She looked down at her hand in astonishment, but the lantern emitting magical radiance had been replaced by an ordinary horse lantern at some point, and only then did Amber's figure emerge from a distance. Unexpectedly, the lantern had already reached her hand.
The half-elf thief smugly waved the lantern in his hand, speaking presumptuously and twitching: "Let me tell you, not being able to pry your door open is already the biggest shame in my career! If I can't steal your lamp again, I will I won’t be in this business anymore!”
This time even Gao Wen had to look at Amber with an expression of surprise and admiration: He really didn't expect this guy to be able to succeed in this, how many levels did she have in the sneaking skill tree? !
But on the other side, Lilith Kant, who had lost her lantern, calmed down strangely. The starlight aggregate behind her gradually dissipated, while another dark shadow gathered at her feet. Looking at Gawain and Amber, this The Viscountess of Kantland suddenly showed a strange smile: "Do you think you have won?"
Gawain frowned.
"Our son... is coming home soon."
Lilith smiled and opened her hands, as if she was going to welcome her son who had traveled far away for many years, her voice was full of joy and pride: "Belm, my proud child, he has traveled abroad for decades, he has grown up For a real man, a real heir! Today is the day for him to go home... Did you hear that? The bell of the carriage has already rang on the stone road outside the castle, and he is returning to the place where he was born, as Kant The heir of the family, come to inherit this family business and glory... and you, will never be able to stop his inheritance!"
Gawain clenched the long sword in his hand instantly, he did hear it, he heard a phantom sound of carriages and horses rang in his ears, he heard an inhuman creature born from a nightmare getting off the carriage Come towards the castle!
This is what this thirty-year dream really conceived. This is the true interpretation of the words he heard in the memory fragments of the cultists of the Sleeper:
"The lost ones will eventually return, not only in dreams, but also in reality..."
For thirty years, everyone in this land has a traveling "Master Belm" in their hearts. Although he has never appeared in the territory, the letters from other places, the descriptions from the lord, and the The rumors of this person have completely outlined the existence of this person, and Lilith Kant spent thirty years and the lives of countless people accumulating a huge amount of magic power, shaping this "individual" that originally only existed in dreams.
Her real purpose is not only to keep her husband by her side, she even wants to revive her son in reality!
But in this dark and corrupt ritual, what she resurrected could only be a monster, an indescribable monster covered in human skin, piled up by the subconscious whispers of countless people!
The Lantern had been separated from Lilith Kant, so it was meaningless to kill the Viscountess in front of him, but Gawain had already predicted the worst situation in advance, so he was not afraid, but held his long sword tightly, Waiting for the heir of the Kant family to step into this castle and come to this place.
The new nightmare creation is not invincible. After Knight Philip destroyed the maintenance power of the dream, the "Master Belm" was just an ordinary monster with flesh and blood that could be defeated.
At the gate of the castle, a black carriage was parked in the rainy night, and a "visitor" wearing a long black trench coat with no facial features came to the gate of the castle, he knocked on the gate, and after a while, the door The heavy door opened, and the butler Carter stood behind it with a smile.
A welcome team appeared in the main hall of the castle in an instant, and the band began to play, welcoming the return of the heir of this territory.
In the cellar of the North Tower, Lilith Kant's vitality began to flow away at a speed visible to the naked eye. She was as pale as a dead body, and her legs could no longer stand. She knelt and sat beside the stone pavilion in the center of the cellar, looking at the Gawain and Amber had provocative smiles on their faces.
But at this moment, the oak door of the cellar was suddenly pushed open.
The figure of Viscount Victor Kant appeared at the door.
Lilith's eyes widened at this moment, and she looked at the figure standing at the door in surprise and even horror.
"Honey... why are you here?!"
Victor Kant's body seemed hazy, even a little transparent, as if covered with a layer of tulle. He walked towards the center of the cellar with a low and gentle tone: "Come and see you, come and see me, come and see … our son."
"No...you don't come here, you can't come here!" Lilith exclaimed, and even miraculously stood up again, "You can't come here!"
"Madam, don't stop me," Victor Kant's figure shook for a moment, and then continued to walk forward, "Don't disturb my spirit anymore, this is my last wish in this nightmare."
In the main hall of the castle, the faceless visitor walked past the servants who lined up to greet him, accompanied by the butler Carter. There was a hoarse and chaotic voice in the visitor's body, which was a language that could not be understood by the human brain, but Carter But as if he understood, he kept nodding with a smile on his face, and accompanied his "young master" across the hall and through the corridor.
In the cellar of the North Tower, the Viscountess rushed to her husband in vain. She ran her fingers through his body, causing her to cry, "How can this be a nightmare? How can this be a nightmare! This..."
"This is a nightmare for all of us, Lilith," Viscount Kant looked down at his body, and then at his wife in front of him, "Give up, you should wake up, and you have already woken up."
He went straight past the Viscountess, came to the stone pavilion, and put his hands on the coffin lid.
Before pushing it away, Viscount Kant looked back at Gao Wen.
"Thank you for your help, Duke Gawain Cecil, as the epic says, you are a hero who saves the people."
The heavy coffin lid was pushed open.
Viscount Kant looked inside, and he saw a fragmented skeleton. Beside the skeleton, there were several obviously thinner bones.
And between the two skeletons lay quietly the real body of a woman, Lilith Kant, with her eyes closed, already buried in this stone pavilion.
"It's finally dawn..."
With a sigh, Victor Kant's figure gradually disappeared into the air, and "Lilith Kant" standing outside the stone pavilion also disappeared into thin air at the same time.
An angry roar came from the direction of the main building of the castle until the end, the faceless visitor still failed to step into the real world after all.
Knight Philip left the underground hall wearily, and after climbing up to the surface, he looked at the sky with a little surprise: the rainstorm had stopped at some point, and a gleam of light was rising from the horizon.
"It's finally dawn..."
The young knight grunted.