After kissing goodbye, Luvia returned to the "Land of Plenty Inn" to rest, while Shad returned to Tobesk's home and met Mia, whom he hadn't seen for the whole day.
As for the time key, he still had no clues. So he planned to go to the local black market tomorrow, Thursday, and then go to see the old man who owed him 10 pence as mentioned by Father Augustus. If he still had no clues, he would wait until Margaret arrived at the Randall Valley on Friday, and Her Royal Highness might be able to help him.
This should have been a peaceful night, and Shad turned off the gas lamp in the room after washing up. However, when he said goodnight to Mia beside the pillow and closed his eyes as usual, he immediately realized that he was going to dream.
Only this time, he did not fall into the dream of gazing at the huge silver moon on the ridge of the field. Instead, he kept falling in the air, and finally fell on the grass in the woods under the moonlight like a light feather.
The vegetation was lush, with green grass and flowers growing on the ground below. The moonlight passed through the gaps in the treetops, leaving streaks of light in the forest, and the calls of animals, birds and insects echoed with the sound of the evening breeze blowing through the forest.
The firefly-like points of light swayed gently in the woods and on the grass. This scene was like the most real fairy tale.
Xia De stood up with the help of the ground. He first looked at the golden spots on his body, then raised his head to look at the three full moons in the sky, and finally looked around in this open space in the forest.
"Is this a dream... a whispering element... the Emerald Dream?"
Yes.
Borrowing the "Oak's Luck Potion" to increase your own luck, the price is that within a week, you may enter the angel-level relic "Emerald Dream". Shade knows this relic. It is rumored that it is a part of the Dreamland split, a strange semi-real world constructed by nature and the earth.
Shade used the potion on Tuesday morning and everything was fine last night, but he didn't expect the dream to happen tonight.
"What a strange relic, what a strange dream..."
Because he had entered the real forest, he knew that this peaceful forest under the moonlight was so dreamy and peaceful. Although it was an angel-level relic, the mental resistance of Shade in the dream was extremely strong, so he was almost completely immune to the influence of this place.
In the Emerald Dream, he cannot leave the dream on his own initiative, but he can wait for his natural awakening. Although he is rated as an angel, there is no ill will towards him here.
Thinking in his heart, he bent down and sat down again on the grass, wanting to quietly wait for the end of the dream. However, when he tried to lie down, lying among the green grass and flowers, looking at the stars above from the clearing in the forest, he noticed a slight tremor in the ground.
"Hmm? Earthquake? Earthquakes in dreams too?"
Suddenly, black mud seeped out from the soil. When Xia De got up in a panic, the disgusting black mud had already submerged at least one-third of the grass. The center of the mud seepage was exactly in the center of the clearing in the forest, which was Xia De's position.
"What?"
Just touching the flowing mud gave him a terrible feeling that stung his soul. At first, it just seeped from the soil, but soon it turned into a small black mud fountain. While Shade kept backing away to prevent himself from being drowned by the mud, the force of the black mud gushing out was no less than the fountains that were opened for show at banquets held by noble manors in the summer.
The black mud flowed along the ground from the clearing in the forest to all directions. At the same time, the fairy-tale-like dreamy scene around it began to decay and collapse. The malice in the dream was undisguisedly displayed to Shade. Even the three moons in the sky seemed to be turning into three huge blood-red eyeballs.
"Emerald Dream is a relic, but could this happen? Old John didn't mention this situation."
Shade had no idea what was going on, but that didn't stop him from pointing his finger:
"Silver Moon!"
The spells cast in the dream still consumed spirit, but the power of the magic was greatly enhanced. The burst of moonlight illuminated the entire forest, and even reduced the size of the "mud spring" by at least one third. The mud on the ground under my feet completely disappeared, and a layer of holy silver light appeared on the bare ground exposed by the corrosion of flowers and green grass.
But soon the "spring" exploded and spewed out black mud again, flooding the earth again. Shade originally planned to call for the light of the silver moon again, but he did not expect that dense black hands stretched out from the mud, trying to grab his body, forcing him to retreat continuously until the edge of the clearing in the forest.
Perhaps because they were also afraid of Shade, the direction of the mud flowed obviously avoided his position, but the corruption of the entire dream was still accelerating. Densely packed hands disappeared from the black mud, and with an astonishing roar, a brand new behemoth flew out of the mud.
The wings that covered the moon spread out in the sky, scales like skeleton armor attached to the body, and the huge tail seemed like a battering ram that could knock away all obstacles.
The gray-green dragon circled in the sky, and as it opened its mouth, a black mud ball filled with malice continued to grow larger in its mouth.
"Dragon? Unfortunately, in my dream, I don't have a Higgs dragon head stone."
Roar~
Without giving Shade any chance to dodge, the dragon roared and the huge black mud ball turned into a ray and hit Shade, but as the moonlight sword pierced under his feet, the golden spherical shield exploded and completely blocked the attack:
"I have to fight just to dream. It really doesn't give me a moment's rest."
With his toes lightly tapping the ground, Shade leaped high into the sky. As the dragon's tail swept over him, his body disappeared into the air and then appeared above the dragon's head:
"But luckily this is just a dream... Moonlight Greatsword!"
The divine afterglow on his body stained the greatsword in his hand. As Shade thrust the sword downward, the two-handed sword quickly grew in size, and finally pierced through the dragon's body like a stone pillar thrown by a giant, nailing it to the ground. But this was not the end. Three other giant moonlight swords summoned by the Blade of Chaos Time and Space emerged from the void, piercing through the dragon's body together and nailing it to the mud in the clearing in the forest.
In the real world, Shade cannot repeat such a move.
The black dragon disintegrated and turned back into mud. Before Shade could take further action, more monsters flew out of the black mud. Bats, poisonous snakes, rotten birds, and poisonous scorpions densely covered the sky and the earth, forcing Shade to retreat step by step:
"Do you think you can defeat me with numbers?"
Xia De took a deep breath, and the sun's rays floated on his fingertips. Although the Night Watchman was not in his hand and he could not use the "Sunlight Cannon", this was in a dream, free from most of the constraints of the flesh. In terms of soul form alone, Xia De could do more things. Not to mention firing the "Sunlight Cannon" with his hands, he even planned to... ...
"Don't fight them, it's useless, these things are endless."
Kasenrick appeared behind Shade, and before Shade turned around, a strange man had walked up to him from behind. But before the strange man spoke, Shade didn't even sense his presence.
It's not that he has no perception, he just appears directly.
It was certainly possible to meet other people in the Emerald Dream, just as it was possible to run into other people in the narrow space between life and death. However, the middle-aged man who appeared at this moment was obviously abnormal. Xia De's first impression of him was that he was a dead soul, and then he noticed that there were very shallow traces of petrification on the spirit body.
"What kind of power can petrify the soul?"
The first thing that came to his mind was the robed stone statue in the main hall of the Forgotten Church in Randall Valley City, but then he realized that although both of them were middle-aged men, their faces were obviously completely different.
"Endless? Sorry, do you know what this black mud is?"
Xia De asked, and the middle-aged man stretched out his hand forward. The surging black mud bypassed the two of them like a divided river, and the monsters seemed to have lost their target and could not see them, and turned into black mud again.
"The wrath of the mad earth, the malice of the mad earth."
The man said, and as he spoke more and more, Shade vaguely realized that the man's Carsonrick language was also the Randall Valley accent. Or, at least, the accent of the southwestern area of Carsonrick.
The guess was immediately confirmed:
"Since you have lured them out in the Emerald Dream, you must have been to the Randall Valley. I will send you away. Although your soul is extremely powerful, more powerful than all the souls I have ever seen combined, there is no need to fight these endless things."
"Please wait a moment... What do you know? What is in the Randall River Valley? What does this black mud have to do with that city?"
Xia De frowned slightly and asked. The man looked at him:
"Mortals can get sick, and the land in the mortal world can get sick too. When the land gets sick, it becomes crazy. This is almost a natural phenomenon, and the black mud is just a manifestation of it... Don't worry, this is a small matter, don't take it to heart."
The half sentence after the slowness is a lie.
Under normal circumstances, "she" cannot help Shade judge lies, but this is a dream, and it is Shade's dream, so Shade's perception is also amplified.
"I see..."
At this time, the speed at which the black mud was gushing out was getting faster and faster. The surrounding woodlands were almost completely corrupted. The originally brilliant starry sky had been shrouded in lingering red mist. The three huge, shrinking eyeballs of Tong Kong were rotating in the air, as if trying to search for Shade's location.
"Since this is a small matter, why don't I help you? How should we resolve the source of the earth's malice?"
Xia De suggested with a smile. The man was obviously a little surprised. He didn't expect Xia De to ask this, but he organized his words in the next second:
"It can't be solved for now, it can only be stopped temporarily, but there are people doing these things, like me and others, we can do these things... Oh, sir, we can't talk anymore, I have to send you out, even the Emerald Dream can't resist these malicious intentions. If the Emerald Dream gets out of control because of this black mud, it will be a real big trouble."
The strange man held out his hand to Xia De. Xia De knew that this was not a lie, so he asked one last question:
"Thank you for your help. But is there really nothing I can do for you? Since you helped me, I want to help you too."
These were sincere words. The man in the dream also had the ability to sense emotions. He nodded this time:
"If you insist... well, if there is a chance, sir, go to the reality outside of dreams and purify the resentment of the earth. Your soul is so pure and powerful, and your little help can make it a little easier for those of us who are resisting malice. I will teach you a spell that requires a strong soul as support, which is very suitable for you... Please help this land."
"Okay, I promise you... Is the madness of the earth really just a small matter?"
The strange man gently pushed Xia De, and Xia De felt the power merge into his body. Under the effect of the push, he unconsciously took a step back, and the next moment he seemed to fall into an abyss.
The last scene in the dream was that the man turned into a green light and rushed towards the source of the black mud.
The feeling of falling in the dream forced Shad to wake up, and then he realized that something was touching his cheek in reality.
Outsider, you have obtained the spell "Power of the Earth·Healing Aura". To soothe the mad earth, you need normal soil as the material for the spell.
Note that this spell is extremely energy-intensive.
"Crazy Earth... I knew that since Luvia, who had experienced six apocalypses, mentioned that city, there must be something wrong with the Randall Valley... But who was that soul that died just now? Could it be... the Chosen One?"