"Is this the so-called afterglow of divinity? Why does it appear now?"
Divinity is hidden deep in your life circle and soul. You will only show this attitude in certain special places or in an environment where the power of the soul is prominent. So, now...
Xia De looked up at Miss Louisa who had stopped and was looking back.
"I see. Now, I am really in a dream."
"Oh, Shad, what's wrong with you?"
Miss Louisa asked in surprise, looking him up and down.
Xia De then noticed that the blonde girl with light makeup was particularly beautiful today. Perhaps because it was a little hot, the three golden buttons on the chest of her white shirt with lace cuffs had been unbuttoned at some point, and the clothes inside could be vaguely seen.
You feel...
"No need to remind me. If I still don't understand, I'd be a bit stupid. This plot is a bit vulgar and a bit clichéd... Besides, Miss Louisa never calls me by my name."
"Shad, why are you silent? You found traces of that thing, didn't you?"
Miss Louisa asked in a soft voice.
She took two quick steps towards Xia De, but somehow she suddenly fell forward and was about to fall into Xia De's arms.
But Shade did not reach out to catch her, but threw forward an arc of silver moonlight. The bright light illuminated the third floor corridor, which had become dark at some point, and passed through the body of "Miss Louisa".
The blonde girl turned into a ball of black smoke in the light and disappeared into the air.
Xia De did not relax his vigilance, but stood still alertly. The light around the corridor suddenly dimmed, as if the corridor itself was absorbing the light.
In this environment, the golden afterglow on Xia De's body appears even brighter.
Gradually, whispers were heard everywhere. But it was not the whisper of the woman in his heart, but the whisper of this dream. The chaotic and low voice seemed to be directly instilled into Shade's head. At the same time, in the shadows caused by the dim light, some crawling figures gradually appeared.
Once those sludge-like things that emerged from the dream appeared, their mental pollution ability almost directly affected Shade himself. The strong dizziness made him want to faint, but after two "trainings" of facing the gods directly, he could still endure the feeling now.
Then the silver moonlight lit up in the corridor, and an arc-shaped blade of light flew out from his hand. Although this light could not illuminate the increasingly gloomy corridor, it could effectively split the terrible things in the shadows.
As rays of silver moonlight flew out, the shadows in the dream gathered into wriggling sludge, and slender tentacles climbed up the side walls of the corridor, almost swallowing up the space.
Xia De knew that the current situation was not good, so he summoned the life ring behind him, took a deep breath, stretched out his hand and pointed forward. While using the magic with all his strength, there seemed to be some more golden light marks on his body in the silver moonlight.
The arc-shaped moonlight slashed across the corridor, splitting the terrible thing that violated the basic aesthetics of mankind. It did not gather again, but instead, with a sound like a soap bubble bursting in his ears, Shade was distracted and found himself standing in the corridor on the third floor again.
But the light was normal and there were no monsters, except that Miss Louisa was missing.
He looked down at the golden cracks on his body:
"It seems that I am still in a dream. Can you find out which direction contains the whispering element?"
All directions.
Shade nodded and looked around, the light growing dimmer again as he realized this was still a dream.
He tried to exit the third floor, but he could not get close to the boundary between the third floor and the stairs no matter what, as if the corridor itself was extending infinitely.
Just as Shad was trying to destroy the building that made up the dream, the door on the right side of the stairs was suddenly opened from the inside, and then Miss Louisa rushed out aggressively.
She looked furious, her face flushed red. Before Shade could test whether this was true or not, the blonde raised her hand towards him, and a handful of strange red flames appeared in her palm:
"Ha, here we go again. Instead of becoming a detective, why not become Luvia or Ray... huh?"
She looked Xia De up and down suspiciously, then quickly withdrew her hand and crushed the flame in her palm:
"Is it real this time? Detective, you actually realized that this was a dream before I found you? That's great, it seems I still underestimated you. But what are these golden cracks on your body? They look very beautiful. Are you okay?"
Xia De took a step back carefully, asking in his heart, and only after confirming that the girl in front of him had the four elements in abundance despite the whispers, did he breathe a sigh of relief:
"It's so nice to see you, Miss Louisa. As for this... decoration, it's useless."
He pointed at himself, and Miss Louisa raised her eyebrows. Miss Writer was not knowledgeable enough for her to recognize what it was:
"Well, I'll just pretend I didn't see anything. As long as you're alright, that's fine. Since you understand that this is a dream, I don't need to bother explaining the current situation. Really, I wanted to show you some new experiences and promised that there wouldn't be any accidents, but something like this still happened. I'm so embarrassed now."
She said with a hint of annoyance, and pointed forward:
"Let's leave the dream and return to reality first. Although the relic went out of control not long ago and the nightmare is not that strong, we can't fight it in the dream. This is too stupid."
"Then how do we leave?"
Xia De looked around, expecting Miss Louisa to conjure something like a hole out of thin air.
"The nightmare born from the Joyful Dream Pen has only absorbed the mental power and blood of an ordinary person, and it has only absorbed a part of it, so the capacity of the dream it can construct is limited. Let me blow it up!"
As he spoke, the brass life ring of the fourth-ring warlock appeared in the emerging steam mist. The various spiritual runes on the life ring flickered with light, illuminating the increasingly dim corridor:
"Detective, hold my hand tightly and don't get lost in the dream. This is an opportunity for me to show you how a ring sorcerer who is proficient in the element of enlightenment fights."
She held out her hand to Xia De, and Xia De shook it directly.
Miss Louisa's core spirit rune writer flickered, and then the enlightenment spirit rune flame also flickered:
"Detective, my ring wizard system is based on the ancient fairy tale "The Match Girl", connecting the first four rings. Each ring has a rune related to this fairy tale, which is used to construct the words of sublimation when the fourth ring is promoted to the fifth ring. First of all, it is like this..."
She stroked the air with her empty left hand, and earthworm-like fiery red runes seemed to be imprinted in the air. Then, the entire corridor was on fire, but Shade did not feel the heat.
In the suddenly fierce flames, he seemed to hear the sound of bubbles bursting. Then the flames suddenly disappeared, and they were standing in the corridor on the third floor of Professor Manning's house. The light here was normal and there was no flame.
The fourth-ring sorcerer is indeed powerful. Shade just broke through the dream with the help of a little power of the afterglow of divinity, but Miss Louisa can do the same thing with simple magic.
“It’s still a dream.”
Xia De looked around and then looked at himself.
"These marks on your body are quite convenient. The doctor's dream-entering ability is probably most afraid of people like you... Well, let's try again."
As she spoke, Miss Louisa's core spirit rune writer and spirit rune frozen person flashed with spiritual light. Ice-blue runes were engraved in the space, and the extremely cold air swept the entire corridor in an instant, until the dream was shattered again.