After Annan helped Benjamin up, it was obvious that Benjamin became silent a lot.
Or, maybe it's calmed down a lot
Picking up the lamp, Benjamin continued to pull Annan forward. But he didn't look for topics anymore, he just concentrated on finding the way.
... Benjamin Did you find something
Obviously at the very beginning, he never stopped talking to Evelyn...
Although in Annan's view, the child's topic was very embarrassing - he talked to Evelyn about the fortress of the Necromancer Alliance with great interest, just like talking with his girlfriend who was an art student about new military equipment all afternoon. …
No idea how the real Evelyn would respond.
Just keep smiling and listen quietly
"… Huh?"
Benjamin made a puzzled voice: "Why is this door open..."
The last time he was here, it seemed to be closed...
"… What's wrong?"
Annan's heart tightened slightly, and he asked softly, "Where is this?"
He has already noticed that in front of them is his original "birth point", which is the "prison".
"I remember this... the teacher said."
Benjamin frowned slightly, trying to remember: "This seems to be... a place where corpses are stored."
"... dead bodies?"
Annan was stunned.
Isn't it a prison
Benjamin hummed, and asked with some concern: "Are you afraid? If you're afraid, you won't watch it."
"...will there still be bodies in there?"
"Certainly not."
Benjamin replied: "The Silver Jue Church has already been cleaned once."
"Then... I want to see it."
Annan made a very soft sound.
Benjamin was silent for a while, and held Annan's hand a little tighter.
"good."
The young Benjamin answered briefly.
He led Annan into the "prison" and raised the green fire chandelier in his hand.
Only then did Annan finally see clearly the environment inside the "prison"—
This is a public space similar to a public bathhouse, much larger than Annan's initial imagination.
Inside the back-shaped room, in the middle is a low wall that was once engraved with inscriptions, but now the inscriptions on it have been violently scratched off with a sword. The low wall is only over one meter high, just reaching half the height of the room.
Around the low wall in the middle, there is a chain hanging down with some familiar "handcuffs" every two meters. In the entire room, there are about twenty such "chains and handcuffs" facilities.
What Annan was in at the beginning was just the "position" closest to the door.
"… What's this?"
Annan asked subconsciously.
Benjamin did know what it was.
"Do you know the Half-Dead Daughter?"
Benjamin replied in a low voice: "The priests of the Pale Princess are not living... and although they are priests, they have no place in the Pale Tide.
"Because they are both the living and the dead; neither the living nor the dead—the Pale Tide, only accepts the dead to join. If they want to participate in the Pale Tide, they can only fix themselves here first."
As Benjamin said, he subconsciously walked to the shackle closest to the door, that is, the shackle that bound Evelyn's wrist in the dream.
Pointing to the shackles, he explained to Annan—or "Evelyn" very carefully but somewhat absent-mindedly: "They will bind their necks or wrists here, and then release their souls—Teacher It has been said that half-dead daughters can leave their souls out of their bodies. But if they leave their bodies for too long, they will never go back... They are no longer half-dead daughters, but infinite souls. Homeless ghosts.
"And you see...there's a tiny blade here. If the hoop is under heavy pressure, over time, the blade will come out and cause them to feel more and more pain.
"The half-dead girl feels the more intense pain in her body, so she won't be lingering on the pale tide, but will return to her body immediately. The body is the home of the soul."
"...is it like a clock?"
Annan asked.
He knows that in this era, there are already clocks that can keep time.
Benjamin nodded: "Yes. Actually, it's the kind of timing watch that can time a certain period of time... the one I showed you! It won't run like an ordinary pocket watch, but it can accurately time the time. When it is turned on and released, it will Reverse the flow, and there will be a ding at 00:00—it is said that transformation wizards have this thing, it is for the experiment... um, sorry."
Realizing that he had gone off topic while chatting again, Benjamin stopped talking abruptly.
But Annan has obtained very critical information—
For the half-dead daughter, the body is the home of the... soul
He immediately remembered his main mission in the dream world.
go home…
At that moment, Annan's pupils shrank slightly.
——In the dream world, Annan will hear the song played backwards from the reflection in the lake.
— After each death, I would return to reality from my dream.
—The task requires that "Evelyn" must keep her limbs intact in the dream.
—Completing the task of sacrifice must be done in reality.
as well as…
The Pale Princess is also known as the Unbound Daughter, and her priests, the Half-Dead Daughters, cannot love anyone.
Among them are themselves.
… Naturally including Benjamin.
Annan subconsciously glanced at Benjamin.
He probably understood.
"Evelyn" may have been dead for a while, and that so-called dream... should be the essence of the church seen after the soul of the half-dead girl left her body.
Ordinary people will be seriously ill after seeing the pale tide once, let alone Evelyn who has watched the whole dance of the pale princess up close like an obsession.
She was probably dead by then.
But obviously, the pale princess is interested in her pure soul.
It's like the skeleton can make the dead "Ai Lei" active for a while... "Evelyn" may be the "Ai Lei" of Pale Princess. Today's Evelyn is already half a half-dead daughter. That's why she can hear the voices of the undead, and that's why she faints from time to time and enters another world in her dreams...
For Evelyn, this is a "precognitive dream."
But she didn't see the future, but entered the "True Pale Church" in a soul state!
Therefore, when she opened the "prison door" in the soul world, the door in the real world would also open wide.
The statue of the fallen soldier at the door may also be because "David" in the dream moved it away violently—
Evelyn suddenly asked Benjamin to accompany her to the Pale Church, probably because the last step of her transformation into a half-dead daughter had to be completed by Benjamin.
"Evelyn" fell into the water and fell down the stairs again, perhaps because she was instinctively rejecting this—she hoped that Benjamin could leave here.
But if Benjamin really leaves here, she won't be able to be reborn as a half-dead daughter—she won't be able to follow the "Dancer under the Moon", and she will die completely after returning home.
That's why, in reality, Annan received the task of "can't go home"!
Because if she gave up the sacrificial ceremony, she would lose the favor of the Pale Princess and turn into a corpse.
This may be the original ending for Evelyn.
If she really loves Benjamin, with her pure heart that can be watched by the Pale Princess, she will not be willing to let Benjamin cut off her own head.
Therefore, the main task that Annan got actually refers to the "next main task".
He should go through the "dream world" a few more times before he can get the "real" main mission that finally allows him to leave the nightmare!
... Now that this is the case, there is only one problem left.
- Whose nightmare is this