That monster—Of course Lily didn’t forget about that thing, it was caught just a few days after she led the team into the Black Forest, a monster that can parasitize in the victim’s mental world and manipulate dreams and hallucinations to play with The human heart, the disgusting thing that looks like a mass of black meat that is constantly smoking, Calassius named it "The Shadow of Nightmare", Lily is more used to calling it smoked meat, anyway, it is the same, that is It's a disgusting and stubborn bastard. If it wasn't for keeping it for the landlord to take credit for, our head wolf lady would have already torn it up and fed it to the wolves.
Because the monster has tricky and dangerous abilities, its spiritual parasitic power is almost an unsolvable instant-killing skill for people with unsteady minds, so Lily has been keeping a close eye on it for many days and set up a careful monitoring Process: The monster is guarded by a furbolg who can’t dream. It is guaranteed that the monster is locked by the stone of imprisonment for 24 hours. It is forbidden for ordinary soldiers to approach the cage when they are depressed. If you want to check the status of the monster, you must ensure that there are three groups of people at the same time. In the presence, the first group of people is close to the cage, the second group pays attention to the situation of the first group from a farther place, and the third group holds weapons and monitors the first and second groups from a farther place. Kill on the spot—these tight monitoring procedures made the monster's power useless, and kept the guy in safe custody to this day.
But this time something seems to be wrong
Lily stood up suddenly: "What happened?"
Duke Ulysses next to him also showed a nervous expression: he has known the origin of the beast tide and the situation of the sanctuary investigation team in the beast tide in the past two days, and naturally he also knows about the "catch" from the chaos storm Nightmare Shadow", as a logical Keluo person, he is 120,000 vigilant against anything from the depths of chaos. To be honest, if he can't beat the wolf, he will never agree with the other party. Keeping that thing in the dungeons below his castle...
"Don't worry, it didn't run away. In fact, it was the opposite..." Calassius showed a somewhat puzzled look on his face, "It looks a little weak."
"Weakness?" Lily was stunned for a moment, "It has been energetic all the way, why did it suddenly become weak?"
"It may be related to the ray of light just now," the high-ranking monk guessed, "There is a powerful force in that ray of light, which seems to be a high-level divine power of order. Power mostly has influence."
Lily blinked, and felt that what the dog-headed military division said made sense, so she slapped the table: "Then go, take me to see the situation."
Duke Ulysses hurriedly pulled out his precious 157-year-old silver wine glass from Lily's hand, only to find that it had been shot into a pancake...
Calcius nodded, but before the wolf left, he mentioned one more thing: "The wolf, there is something else to tell you."
Lily turned to look at him: "Say it."
"My subordinates and I should leave in a few days." The senior monk said frankly.
"Leave?" Lily was taken aback, "Is the food here good?"
"Ahem..." The senior monk suddenly coughed dryly. The wolf is good everywhere, but the brain circuit with nine turns and eighteen turns is often unresponsive. Nine times out of ten, he can flash when he follows the wolf's thinking. "That's not the problem. We came to Ansu with a mission, and I dare not neglect the important task entrusted by the Pope. And when we joined the team, we also said that after arriving in the Kingdom of Order, we will investigate The regiment is about to move freely."
As he said that, the senior monk showed a weird expression again, and reminded him in a low voice: "We also paid for joining the team..."
The implication is that the sanctuary investigation team has paid for the food and drink in the beast tide, and they didn't come in by prostitution...
After being reminded like this, Lily also reacted immediately, and the husky girl scratched her chin: "Oh, you are right. Well, I can't stop you if you want to leave, anyway, I will start in this Talos I've been looking for my landlord in the kingdom, and I probably won't be able to take care of you at that time. By the way, when are you going to leave?"
"No hurry, no hurry," Calassius waved his hand, "I just came to tell you in advance that the destination of the investigation team still needs to pass through half of the kingdom, and we can travel together for a while for the next part of the journey."
"Shadow of Nightmare" was temporarily detained in the dungeon of Black Rook Fortress.
This border fortress is a bridgehead against the invasion of Chaos. In peacetime, Black Rook Fortress and its surrounding vast expanse of wilderness and forests are the kingdom's territory. Villages and towns, large and small, are scattered around the fortress. At that time, Black Rook Fortress assumed the territory. The role of the capital, its dungeons are mostly used to detain criminals in the territory, but after the outbreak of the war, the population of the territory will immediately move towards the kingdom, and the political and economic center of the Crowland will also be moved to the inland area. In another city, the dungeon of the fortress is also free—in most cases, only a few soldiers who violated military discipline will be imprisoned here, but the Black Blade Legion and the Black Raven Guard have strict discipline, and most of the soldiers are well-trained. Rarely, so in a decade of Tides of Chaos, entire dungeon areas would be practically empty.
This empty dungeon is just right for holding a nightmare monster that cannot be easily touched.
At least that's what Miss Wolf thinks, but it seems that Duke Ulysses, the commander of Black Rook Fortress, is not very happy...
The dark dungeon was built with solid granite, and molten copper was poured between the boulders for reinforcement. On the stone wall, a flaming torch was inserted every few meters. The outline is even more eerie.
The Shadow of Nightmare is located on the deepest floor of the dungeon. There is only one single cell here. The circular cell is lined with an additional iron fence. Calassius hung a dozen prison cells on the iron fence. Stones, which are said to be powerful enough to crush even the fiercest monsters in Chaos.
The black, smoldering lump of meat was lying on the ground in the center of the cell, looking listless. Lily led her dog legs, Grand Duke Ulysses, and Brother Calassius to the dungeon. The abnormality of that piece of meat can be seen at a glance.
It seemed to have shrunk by at least one-third compared to before, and the black smoke that had been continuously emitting from the inside was also greatly reduced, almost so thin that the entity inside the black smoke could be seen, and the tentacles extending from the monster's body were also reduced. It was crumpled on the grass mat as if it had lost moisture, and it looked like it was dying.
Lily stepped forward, and poked the lump of meat with her claws: "Hey, wake up, what's wrong with you?"
The piece of meat squirmed twice, and many pairs of dark red eyes opened slightly in the black smoke, but then closed.
This is not in line with its usual style: in normal times, it should be cursing at Lily.
"Is this really overwhelmed by the light just now?" Lily's ears were shaking, and there seemed to be a glowing question mark on her head, "Why do I think I'm hungry? Anyway, I'm usually hungry. so."
The corners of Calassius's mouth twitched: "This monster doesn't eat at all, it doesn't even have a mouth—it's a magical creature, it should survive by devouring the original magic energy free in the air, and magic energy is everywhere in Colo , how could it be hungry."
"Oh," Lily touched her chin and continued to poke her "smoky meat" with her paws, "then you don't pretend to be dead, I'm not hungry, if you want to pretend to be dead again, I will poke you six times with my paws hole!"
The monster twitched again, opened its eyes slightly, and made a weak voice from the cloud of smoke: "Before... didn't you say... poke five holes at a time?"
Lily was taken aback for a moment, because she didn't expect the monster to discuss this with her, but she immediately realized: "I can poke you alone—you just talk too much nonsense!"
The monster didn't speak, but just shrank all its tentacles together, rolling and twitching, looking extremely painful.
"Hey, hey, hey! Don't scare people!" Lily became nervous when she saw the battle. She was not afraid of monsters attacking herself. What she was afraid of was that this thing would really die, so she wouldn't be able to show off in front of the landlord. , "I still keep you going back to the landlord to change the ribs!"
"Don't worry, I won't go back for the time being..." The monster twitched violently for a while and then suddenly quieted down again. At this time, the people around suddenly realized one thing: this strange creature from chaos now showed reason and communication tendency!
It speaks well and is actively communicating with Lily!
Calassius immediately wanted to remind the wolf when he realized this, but before he could speak, the soot monster had already turned his gaze: "That little guy over there... are you from the sanctuary? A monk of the church ? Bishop level?"
Calassius stared at the lump of meat on the ground. The state of the lump of flesh was very strange: "You... how do you know?"
"Remind your Pope..." The monster didn't seem to hear Calassius' words, it just said to itself, a hoarse and gloomy voice came from the smoke, "Lockmarton... is crawling out of the abyss of oblivion , the wardens of the ancient times have been corrupted... "
Calassius' eyes widened suddenly, and he almost looked at the monster with horror: "You... what are you?" (to be continued~^~)