Thunderous bangs came from all directions, the black mist collapsed like an avalanche, and the entire illusion disappeared within a few seconds. Lily shook her head dizzily, and when the scene before her eyes stabilized again, it was already Scenery in the Black Forest.
Lily blinked, and a trace of confusion flashed in her golden eyes. False cognition and real memory collided with each other for a while, and her memory gradually broke free from the ice: the previously blocked memory recovered, She remembered how she had come to this place, the herd of beasts she led, and her long-lost landlord.
Recalling the bowl of braised pork ribs that she couldn't eat in the illusion, the husky girl couldn't help but pouted, showing an aggrieved look.
Then she saw the monster on the ground struggling to escape, surrounded by smoke and black mist.
"Don't run!" Lily immediately raised her hand, but she grabbed it hard and found that the "brick" she touched in the illusion did not exist here. Although the conflict between reality and illusion made people feel a little confused, she still Immediately reacting, he summoned his own Frostmourne and Fire's very happy, crossed his two claw blades and pointed at the twisted lump of flesh, "Run and stab you to death! I can poke five holes in you with one claw!" !"
At this time, the movement she caused finally alarmed the other people in the camp. The human camp area was lit up. Calassius and two high-ranking templars grabbed their weapons and got out of the tent. The two guards at the edge of the camp The devil wolf and the old devil ape Geluglu also ran towards this side, and although the monster wrapped in smoke showed terrifying spiritual power in the illusion, it seemed much weaker in reality (of course, it may be It was hit by Lily's brick, and its limbs were paralyzed due to mental trauma), until it was surrounded by people, it still couldn't climb two or three meters.
After the two demon wolves came to Lily's side, they immediately lowered their heads and respectfully touched the shoes of the "lead wolf" with the tip of their noses. The old demon ape immediately realized what happened after seeing the smoky thing on the ground. , it showed a frightened look: "Head wolf! I was on guard just now, this strange thing is..."
"I know, it's not your problem." Lily waved her hand, pointing at the two dwarves who fell on the ground, "They brought it in."
The leader of the dwarf devil had also come to the wolf at this time. After hearing this, it immediately let out a scream of horror, and then rushed to find trouble with the two unlucky ones, but Lily also waved her hand to stop it: "Hey, don't worry, it shouldn't be their fault—if I guessed correctly, they were unknowingly parasitized."
The dwarf devil leader and the old devil ape looked at each other, looking a little at a loss.
At this time, Calassius took a step forward: "The wolf, what happened?"
"This thing has been hiding in the shadows of these two dwarves," Lily pointed to the "smoke monster" on the ground, "just now I saw that these two dwarves suddenly got up and walked towards your camp. They were attacked while living in them…”
As a domineering dog who has graduated from Peking University four times and writes for a living, Lily explained what happened just now in a few words, and at the same time, she also shared her guess—she ran around with Hao Ren for three years , nothing else, but at least her knowledge is much higher, so all kinds of unimaginable and weird things are not unusual to her, she guessed that this smoke monster might be something based on the mental power of the victim , even... This thing can parasitize in the spiritual world of the host.
Calassius was taken aback when he heard Lily's guess. He had been a church scholar for so many years, but he had never heard of any "monsters parasitic in the spiritual world". Chaos monsters with mental attacks, but a thing that can emerge from nightmares and burrow into the real world is a bit of a challenge.
He stared at the wolf with wide eyes, wondering how the mysterious and powerful leader of the herd came to such a conclusion, and was deeply curious about where the other party's incredible knowledge came from.
"I'm not just guessing." Lily could tell what Calassius was thinking when she saw the expression on his face, she shook her ears, "First of all, you were all present when these two dwarves came back, so I can be sure that there were no others. 'Things' mixed in, and secondly, when they came out of the camp just now, I watched them with my own eyes. I can be sure that the monster really came out of the shadows out of nowhere. Finally, I just had a fight with this thing shelf."
Lily curled her lips, thinking of the bowl of spare ribs she didn't get to eat again, she shook her head: "It created an illusion in my mind, and then I knocked it down in the illusion, and when I woke up, it was there Falling down in the real world. My bricks are a figment of my imagination, but this..."
As she spoke, she turned the monster of smoke and dust with her feet. Sure enough, on the other side... I don't know if it's the back, the head, the stomach, or something else. Black matter flowed out from there continuously, falling to the ground to form a puddle like mud. Obviously, it's a wound.
Lily discovered this wound just now, which is enough to confirm her guess:
She wounded this monster in the spiritual world, and the other party had the same wound in the real world, so this thing fell out of the spiritual world.
Reasonable and convincing.
Calassius frowned. He instinctively felt that there was something wrong with the wolf's guess, but he couldn't tell where the problem was, so in the end he had to leave the topic behind. Anyway, there is no doubt about one thing:
The ability of this "smoke monster" is inseparable from the connection between the spiritual world and the real world. It has unheard of attack methods, and it poses a huge threat to unsuspecting ordinary people.
And it's not afraid of Symmetra.
The smoke monster twisted and struggled on the ground, and the pure light of order released from Lily shone on the monster, which seemed to cause some pain to it, but no matter what, it was maintained under the light of order Normal mobility, even attacking, this level of resistance not only far exceeds that of ordinary Chaos servants, it even surpasses corrupted monsters.
"This is obviously a minion of Chaos, but it is a form I have never seen before..." The senior monk bent down, and after applying a few protective magics to himself, he stretched out his hand to touch the monster's body. Shrouded in black mist, he touched a cold, soft, disgusting body that was constantly changing in shape. The touch made him feel sick, "Disgusting... like some kind of cold-blooded mollusk."
Lily also used the fire to pull those translucent tentacles floating around the monster. Surprisingly, her claw blade directly passed through those tentacles that looked like jellyfish: "And these tentacles have no entity, you see … like special effects."
The senior monk didn't know what special effects were, but he could understand what Lily wanted to express. These untouchable tentacles seemed to further confirm what the wolf said: this is a nightmare monster between reality and illusion.
"Old wolf, I hope you can lend me this prey," Calassius said with a sincere attitude, bowing his head to Lily, "I just borrowed it for research. I am a scholar, and researching this kind of monster is my job."
"Whatever you want," Lily waved her hands indifferently, "Anyway, this is not edible, so I can just give it to you. But try not to kill it, after you find the landlord, maybe he can figure out what it is Woolen cloth."
The wolf always said strange things, and he often mentioned a person called "the landlord", who seemed to be an important person she had been looking for. Calcius was used to this, so he also Without asking in detail, he just nodded gratefully, and then ordered the templar behind him: "Go and get the stone of imprisonment."
The two templars had been looking at the monster on the ground as if they were enemies from just now, and when they heard the order, they were naturally a little slower to respond, and Calassius frowned dissatisfiedly: "Why are we so nervous? The purpose of coming to this continent is to investigate the changes of chaos, and now we can finally start working. Hurry up, don’t think that you are really refugees when the spaceship crashes, the Sanctuary people are not so easily discouraged!”
Only then did the two Templars react as if they had just woken up from a dream, and ran to the camp. Soon they brought back the Stone of Imprisonment and the matching rune chains used to imprison the Chaos monsters.
The so-called Stone of Imprisonment is actually a pitch-black stone, about the size of a fist, with a metallic luster and a faint red light floating on the surface. This stone is inlaid on a shield-like metal plate, densely packed It is engraved with the original text of the covenant bestowed by the goddess of creation to mortals, and four chains glowing with light blue cold light extend around it.
This set of devices was specially made by the Order to capture Chaos monsters: it has two functions, the first is to restrain the monsters and prevent them from escaping back into the sea of Karnos, and the second is to block the light of order and prevent them from The bound monsters die prematurely in the light world.
It is precisely because of the perfect procedures for capturing and researching Chaos monsters that the religious group in the sanctuary can understand the enemies that mortals have to face, and continue to create various targeted holy objects to maintain the order of the Kolo world Not to be completely overturned.
When the Stone of Imprisonment approached, the monster twitched violently. It raised half of its body suddenly, and many pairs of blood-red eyes emerged from the black smoke-filled body. These terrifying eyes were deadly. Staring at Lily, there was an unforgettable hatred.
It finally cried out—in a voice like thunder: "You damned, stupid, ignorant, short-sighted mortal! You have no idea what you're dealing with..."
Lily crossed her hips: "If you have the ability, you can make out my bowl of ribs."
The monster uttered a mournful cry, and then fell silent again.
Lily shrugged her shoulders: "I knew all your tricks were fake, who are you?" (To be continued~^~)