Finally, only Gawain, Amber, and Viscount Kant were left in the study. Knight Philip was guarding the door, and the room was extremely quiet for a while.
Viscount Kant exhaled slowly, feeling his strength gradually recovering, he smiled wryly: "It's just a nightmare."
"Yes, it was a nightmare." Gawain looked down at the old Viscount, "I don't think you know the reason for your butler's sudden change of temperament, do you?"
"As I said just now, I really have no clue." Viscount Kant seemed to be in a daze for a moment, then shook his head bitterly, "He has taken care of me for decades and has been serving the Kant family loyally. , but just now he seemed to be a different person... "
"Have you heard of the Eternal Sleeper?" Gawain suddenly interrupted Viscount Kant, staring into the latter's eyes and asked bluntly.
Amber next to her couldn't help but quietly put her hand towards the dagger at her waist, while shrinking her body into Gawain's shadow.
"Eternal sleepers?" Viscount Kant frowned, then nodded slowly, "Yes, I've heard that they are fallen believers of the God of Dreams, and they are said to sneak into the consciousness of victims when people are having nightmares, controlling even Replace the latter's mind. Could it be that Carter is controlled by the eternal sleeper?"
Seeing Viscount Kant's reaction, Gawain remained expressionless without showing the slightest emotion, and then he shook his head: "Anyway, what you need most now is to rest and sleep for a while to recover your strength, and I suggest that you better ask a few more servants to accompany you, you are getting old, and you have lost too much energy this time, so you need someone to take care of you to be safe."
Viscount Kant bowed his head sincerely: "Thank you for your concern."
Gawain and Amber left the study, and Knight Philip, who was waiting at the door, immediately stepped forward: "My lord, how is the situation inside?"
"Viscount Kant has recovered, except for a little weakness," Gawain said in a low voice as he walked forward quickly. "The current clues all point to the old butler, at least on the surface."
Knight Philip froze for a moment: "On the surface? Do you have any other doubts, my lord?"
"The timing of that butler Carter's 'temperament change' is just right," Gawain frowned, "If he is a disciple of the Eternal Sleeper or a Transcendent who was bewitched by the Eternal Sleeper, then he should have done it before we arrived at the castle." Everything should be dealt with, and if he is not ready, then simply don't take any action, because all the slave arrest plans are signed by the Viscount Kant, and the Viscount's "resurrection" will also lead the suspicion to Victor Kant, That Butler Carter can do nothing, so he can naturally not be contaminated with any suspicion. The suspicion has long been on Viscount Kant."
Amber blinked, and slowly recalled: "I remember that when we were discussing the suspicion of Viscount Kant, the butler Carter suddenly assassinated... This is to transfer the suspicion to himself? So the real purpose of the butler is actually Are you protecting your master?"
Immediately afterwards, she suddenly realized: "No wonder! No wonder that dagger will avoid the vital point!"
"In this way, we can be more sure that Viscount Kant is the main messenger of all this!" Philip showed a look of eagerness on his face, and the sense of justice began to thump in the young knight's chest, "My lord, destroy the cult's plan!" The time has come!"
Gao Wen's face was serious, and he still felt that he had missed something, but finally he had to nod: "It is true that there is no delay. But before alarming Viscount Kant, we must first find the core that maintains the 'illusory space' and put this ritual The magic terminated and separated Viscount Kant from the magic core. If my judgment is correct, the thing that maintains this magic should be a lantern."
"A lantern? Does that Viscountess always carry a lantern?" Amber suddenly remembered that she was very sensitive to anything that seemed to be more valuable, and that lantern seemed very valuable, "That's right. That? Then I can steal it here, right?"
"The appearance is indeed the same, but the lantern in Lilith Kant's hand is probably just a replica." Gawain shook his head, "The real lantern has a very obvious magical reaction, and it should be placed where Lilith Kant usually stays. near the place."
The three had already returned to the guest room at this time, Gao Wen poured himself a glass of water, but he didn't drink it, but looked at Amber after a short thought: "I need you to do something to do your old job. "
"No problem, I'm good at this kind of thing." Amber patted her chest proudly, "Tell me, where is the Kant family's ancestral grave?"
"...I didn't ask you to dig someone's ancestral grave!" Gao Wen almost didn't come up in one breath. He said to himself that he hadn't drank any water, otherwise he would definitely be choked to death by the shame of all things. Steal your lantern if you can!"
"So we still have to steal the lamp in the end." Amber rolled her eyes, "That should also give a rough range, right? This castle is huge!"
"North Tower, Lilith Kant lives in the North Tower all year round. If I'm not mistaken, it's in the cellar," Gao Wen said, "Nominally, she stays there because of her weak constitution and photophobia, but It was more like some kind of house arrest."
Amber raised her eyebrows: "The cellar? That kind of place has very strong shadow power, and it's where I cast it!"
After Amber left, only Gawain and Knight Philip were left in the room. The latter stood quietly near the door in charge of guarding, while Gawain was holding a water glass, thinking carefully about the source of the sense of disobedience in his heart.
Knight Philip broke the silence: "My lord, is it really okay to let Amber steal the core of the ceremony? With her fighting power..."
"If everything goes well, she doesn't need to fight at all, and if she really encounters the enemy and is difficult to win, then she will definitely run back immediately." Gawain shook his head and said, his eyes fell on the water glass in his hand, His face was reflected on the slightly rippling water, while his thoughts drifted farther away. During the wandering of his thoughts, the lantern in Lilith Kant's hand suddenly appeared in his mind.
He vaguely remembered that after he gave the lantern to Selina seven hundred years ago, the latter combined the power of the lantern with his dream magic, but what was the specific usage
Selena seems to have mentioned... She wanders in the warrior's nightmare, which is often filled with twisted and disordered roads and layers of fog, and the lantern can guide her to the correct path, so that she will not be in the dream world. Lost in the dream, and let her see the real appearance of the dream...
Lanterns to lead the way... Lanterns? !
Gao Wen suddenly realized where his biggest blind spot in thinking was.
While realizing this blind spot of thinking, a weird, unbelievable truth also rapidly formed in his guess. This truth is so unreasonable and unimaginable, but this is probably the real truth in this castle. Things that happened!
Gawain stood up abruptly, and put the water glass on the table. Knight Philip, who was standing at the door, was startled: "My lord?"
"We made a mistake!" Gao Wen quickly walked towards the door, "We made a mistake from the very beginning!"
Cavalier Philip was taken aback by Gawain's endless words: "What's wrong? What's wrong?"
Gawain put his hand on the doorknob, turned his head and frowned and stared into the eyes of the young knight: "This is not Viscount Kant's dream! Come with me!"
The two left the room, and while walking quickly through the entire corridor, Gawain quickly told the knight beside him of his conjecture and discovery.
Philip's eyes opened wider and wider, and in the end he was completely stunned: "How... there is such a thing?"
Immediately afterwards he realized: "Then Amber is really in danger?!"
"No, according to my judgment, she will not be in danger at this stage, because the dreamer hasn't woken up yet," Gawain said quickly, "It's just that we have to split up now...Philip, I have a mission to hand over." for you."
"My lord, please order!"
"Go to the back of the main castle building, find an abandoned stable, use your detect evil ability to search for it..."
Cavalier Philip led the order, while Gawain quickly walked through the corridor, up the stairs, and arrived in front of Victor Kant's study.
The study room was still shrouded in the same weird and dark atmosphere as before. Viscount Victor Kant sat quietly behind the heavy desk, motionless like a sculpture.
The old Viscount's eyes fell on the few pieces of paper in front of him, and it wasn't until Gawain walked in front of him that he slowly raised his head and said in a calm tone, "You are here, Duke."
Gao Wen looked into the Viscount's eyes quietly, and he saw a trace of sadness and relief in the other's eyes, but there was no fear.
"You seem to... know I'm coming."
"It's just a premonition." Viscount Kant smiled stiffly, "You can do what you want now."
"I came here just to tell you a story." Gawain himself moved a chair from a corner and sat opposite Viscount Kant. He looked at the other's old face with a gentle and gentle tone, "This The story begins more than 30 years ago, on a rainy night...
"On that night, Kant led the young Viscount, that is, you, to gallop in a carriage in the rainy night, with your wife and son sitting in the carriage.
"Because of a slippery mud or rock, the carriage skids into a mountain stream and unfortunately, you are thrown out of the carriage.
"Mr. Victor Kant, you and your son were killed on the spot.
"And your even more unfortunate wife, Mrs. Lilith Kant, obviously couldn't bear such a blow and pressure...
"So, she chose to 'die' herself and let her husband and son 'survive' at least in her dreams, that's how it went.
"That's all, Monsieur Viscount."
Victor Kant sat quietly on the chair, and suddenly sighed, his ethereal voice seemed to come from another world: "It's just a nightmare, isn't it?"
"Yes, it was a nightmare."
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