"No, no, no, my dear goddess. The troubadour pleaded with the mage, "You can't just leave me, the show is about to begin." ”

"Do you think I can't hear what you're saying?" said Catherine coldly, "your pillar doesn't want to perform at all, because you can't meet his demands for the role. For your sake, we'll wait three more minutes at most. If the show doesn't start after three minutes, don't waste any more precious time. ”

"Three minutes? That's too short. The troubadour lamented, "O my goddess, give me a little more time." ”

"You've lost a quarter of a minute. "Catherine is as precise as an hourglass.

"Mr. Quisling, oh my God, it's not fair. Can you persuade our goddess?" the troubadour had to turn to His Majesty the Demon King for help.

"Young man, if I were you, I would have found a way to persuade your pillars instead of wasting time here. Quisling smiled and said, "My female disciple is a very good person, and I can't change what she decides." ”

"You've run out of minutes. Catherine's words struck a deep blow to the troubadour's fragile heart. He covered his face, wailed in pain, and disappeared in front of the two of them.

"After three minutes, you're really going to leave like this?" the Demon King asked the mage in a low voice, "I can't persuade that pillar." ”

"What are you going to do if you don't go? You didn't see the dragon all start sleeping, God knows how long it will take. Catherine replied in a whisper, "You're interested, just stay." I'll look somewhere else and maybe find a way out of here. ”

His Majesty the Demon King shook his head and said, "If you want to go out to find it, it should be me, and you'd better stay here." I warn you, that dragon is an old acquaintance of ours. You still don't recognize it, do you?"

Catherine frowned, this was the second time the Demon King had mentioned this, but the female mage really didn't have any impression of the dragon.

"Why don't you ask it yourself?" said Quisling to his female disciple, "since you know each other, it will definitely say it." ”

"Why didn't you just tell me?" the mage asked rhetorically.

The Demon King reached out and patted Catherine on the shoulder and said, "Only what you try to know will be impressed." My dear female disciple, you should learn to be sensitive to the things around you. I'm not going to be there for you forever. "He's like a real teacher, patiently teaching his students.

Catherine looked at the Demon King suspiciously and said, "Your kindness has disturbed me. Logically, this makes no sense at all. Do you really think of yourself as Teacher Quisling?"

"I was your teacher. Quisling smiled and said, "Alright, my female disciple, I can't frame you here, it won't do me any good." Besides, it's you, not me, who knows the dragon. So of course, I still have to deal with you. ”

"That's good. The female mage grabbed His Majesty's wrist, "You have to come with me." ”

Catherine didn't wait for the Demon King to answer, and dragged him towards a large column. However, the two of them did not take a few steps before they stumbled at the same time, as if they were stepping on a sliding floor. The female mage let out a "ahh Together, they fell to the ground and rolled out in a whirlwind.

"Ahh The Demon King screamed loudly.

The female mage was so dizzy that she finally sat up, only to find that she was pressed against the stomach of His Majesty the Demon King, no wonder he screamed so miserably.

Catherine stood up with her arm on Ghisling's chest, and received a few more cries of pain from the Demon King.

"What's going on?" the mage looked around in surprise, "where are we?"

"You ask me, who do I ask? Alas, how did you become a disciple, you almost killed me. His Majesty the Demon King was lying on the ground with a snort, but he was also turning his head around and looking around.

Catherine looked at the sky quietly, she hadn't seen such a beautiful morning glow for a long time. The sky is full of red curtains, and a rising sun is slowly rising from the horizon. From below the great rising sun, a straight avenue of earth and stone extended. On both sides of the avenue are desert Gobi, and there is no end to the yellow sand and gravel. The female mage and the demon king were in the middle of the avenue, and there was a hill in front of them, which was neither tall nor low. From a distance, the mountains are bare and devoid of any vegetation.

"You explain. Catherine kicked the demon king lying on the ground with her toes.

"I can't explain it. The Demon King raised his hand and grabbed the female mage's ankle, "Don't be too rude, my female disciple. You should be lifting me up now. ”

"Helping you up won't solve anything. ”

"Then you shouldn't have pulled me just now. If I hadn't come with you, maybe I could have done something. It's good that we're all stuck in this weird place. ”

"If you don't let me ask the dragon, this won't happen. Catherine said in a calm tone, "Logically, we can't fall and come to another world. So there must be a reason, and if you find the reason, you can know the truth. ”

"If we know the truth, we may not be able to get out of here. The Demon King said angrily. He got up from the ground and patted the dust off his body.

"Look, we're mostly still in the Vortex Theater. "His Majesty the Demon King is well-informed after all," I think this place looks like a constructed soul illusion. However, it can include all of our souls, and it is definitely not as simple as an ordinary soul illusion. ”

"What is a soul illusion?" Catherine immediately asked.

"Of the countless ways to imprison souls, soul illusions are the most thankless. The Demon King explained to the mage, "Its purpose is to make the imprisoned soul not know that he is imprisoned. So create a fantasy world that is difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood, and let that soul get lost in it. Usually this kind of illusion is a familiar environment for the inmate, and there must be a large enough space to move around so that no flaws are exposed. Therefore, ordinary people can't create a soul illusion at all, or even if they do, they can't last a few minutes. As for the place we are in now, it seems that the place is not small, but I don't think the level of the illusion maker is high. If I handle it, it will definitely make the world a little more interesting. There are only stones and sand, which is really not tasteful. ”

The Demon King is like admiring a work of art. He also walked to the side of the road and grabbed a handful of stones and yellow sand and fiddled with them in his hands.

"If you can recognize it, you must know how to leave the soul illusion. "The female mage has waited for the demon king to play enough, and she gets straight to the point.

The Demon King shook his head and said, "Although the level of this illusion realm does not seem to be very good, it does not mean that we can leave easily. At least as far as I know, a soul illusion can usually only hold one soul. And there's definitely more than one soul here. ”

He closed his eyes for a moment, and then continued: "Of course, theoretically, when a soul does not lose itself in the illusion, there is always a chance to escape. If he can find the key to leave this world. ”

His Majesty the Demon King suddenly stopped talking about this, and he looked at Catherine with a "Hurry up and ask me" expression.

"Then how do you find the key?" asked the female mage with a cold face.

"You are very studious, my dear female disciple, and I am very pleased. His Majesty the Demon King, who shook his head, took two steps behind his back, "To put it simply, the Soul Illusion is an illusion that acts on the soul level. The most direct and effective way to crack illusion is, of course, to use reality. So that key is a thing from the real world that the illusion maker left in the illusion. ”

"Then let's start looking. Catherine turned to leave.

"No, no, no, my dear female disciple, the task of finding the key will be entrusted to you. The Demon King stood still.

"Why?" the mage had to stop and ask him.