"Ah——!h

The gray-robed man opened his eyes suddenly, struggling to adapt to the infinite darkness.

Fear, falling, the sky falling...... It's like waking up from a dream, weirdly abnormal.

Clutching the sword in his hand tightly, the gray-robed man gasped sharply, instinctively looking around.

"It's... What place?!"

His face was full of horror, and in the darkness he could no longer feel the whereabouts and figures of the other night watchmen... No, you can't feel even the slightest bit of light, sound, or temperature!

What is this place, what the hell is going on? Is it some kind of hallucination?

In fear, he gritted his teeth and forced his composure to prevent his body from losing control due to fear.

This irrepressible coldness is piercing......

"The night watchman of the Empire, the dog of Ruth Infinit... Are you scared too?"

The black-haired wizard's calm and indifferent voice came from his ears, with a hint of sarcasm.

"Loren Turin?!"

The gray-robed man turned back suddenly, his face was difficult to see - the other party's voice, he couldn't judge the location!

"Where are you?!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a chuckle came from the darkness.

"Before I talk about it, I want to ask you what you think of what you are seeing. Loren said disapprehantly, ignoring his fears:

"Do you feel particularly lonely, dark, cold, and almost hopeless?"

The frightened gray-robed man did not answer, and walked forward step by step according to the memory before falling into the darkness, and the bayonet sword in his hand had already been raised.

Although I can't see or hear anymore... But all the Night's Watch had been trained to walk in the dark, and could walk in a straight line within a hundred steps.

"I... I'm not good at names. In the darkness, Loren's voice continued: "This high-level spell was not intended to be used in the first place—because the cost was too great and the risk was too great; ”

"So, the dream... It's a dream of despair. ”

Despair?

The gray-robed man was still approaching step by step, but his body had begun to tremble instinctively.

"If you can't hear sound, you can't tell your bearings, if you can't see light, you can't know the time, if you don't feel balance, you can't know whether it's hot or cold... That means that you may not even be able to feel death. ”

The black-haired wizard calmly and in detail "explained": "Unknown... It's the biggest fear. ”

"When fear is at its peak, it turns to anger... When anger turns to despair, that's when the signs of death appear. ”

"Bell ——!"

The sound of the blades colliding came, and although he still couldn't tell the direction, the gray-robed man knew that it must be the black-haired wizard who was blocking his blade!

"You're right, I really don't know what the hell you're up to. ”

The fear on the gray-robed man's face gradually turned into anger: "But I know one thing, and that is all high-level spells... If you lose the caster herself, they'll all disappear!"

In the next second, the gray-robed man withdrew the bayonet sword in his hand, and stabbed it again with years of experience, and the fierce sound of the torrential spurt continued to sound in the darkness.

"And, do you think you'll be able to defeat a full twenty-two Night's Watch in this way?!"

"You're too arrogant!"

Loren didn't explain anything, only a sneer from him could be heard in the darkness.

The gray-robed man stopped suddenly, his sword-wielding right hand trembling, as if he was completely stunned, and his face was extremely pale.

"Disappear?"

The black-haired wizard sarcastically hooked the corners of his mouth:

"If I tell you, even if you kill me, a dream... Isn't it going to end?"

"I guess you're almost aware of it, right?"

The gray-robed man standing with his sword in his hand exuded endless fear in his eyes.

"How-how can this be?!"

In response to him was a sneer from the black-haired wizard.

"Surprise, surprise?"

"As long as the 'Dream' does not stop, the spiritual temple and consciousness of all people who are enveloped by it will be blocked... Don't say 'beyond perception', you won't need even the most ordinary firefly spell!"

"The biggest hole card, the most relied on strength, the feeling of suddenly disappearing......"

"Isn't it... Superb?"

The black-haired wizard's voice changed from a sneer to a cold and gloomy voice.

"So... The reason why you didn't run away was not because someone told you, even Edward's betrayal was expected by you......" The gray-robed man's eyes widened, and even then he couldn't see anything:

"You planned it?!"

"You deliberately set up an ambush in the Summer Twilight Courtyard, taking advantage of the royal guards and our fear of you to delay time... Just to wipe out all the night watchmen in the imperial capital?!"

"That's smart, got it right again. Chuckling, Loren shook his head in the dark.

"Twenty-two elite night watchmen, no matter how arrogant and confident I am, are no match for all of you combined—the only end of a head-on confrontation or even escape is death. ”

"In order not to die, you must first prepare for death... Even if there is only a 1 in 1,000 possibility, it must be fully utilized in order to gain a glimmer of life. ”

The gray-robed man's eyes trembled, and the blade of the sword in his hand continued to stab: "So... That's why you secretly prepared this high-level spell, and even the people around you don't know anything about it?!"

"No, you're wrong... This spell was not intended for you in the first place. At this moment of fighting, the black-haired wizard's voice still couldn't hear the slightest breath:

"But 'power' has never been a thing to be obsessed with... Or only when used at the right time can it return 100% effect. ”

"This moment is very appropriate. ”

"Hubris——!

The gray-robed man wrapped in fear grew more and more angry, and the bayonet sword in his hand swung like a storm, and even if he couldn't see clearly, he could feel that the enemy's defenses in front of him were becoming more and more stretched, and there were several holes.

Spellcaster Loren Turin... Without the power of the spell, you are nothing more than that!

"Dark ......"

"Dead ......"

"It's just a little trick... How dare you use it to stop us, the Night's Watch?!"

The black-haired wizard bowed slightly, his eyes narrowed into a slit.

"That's the end of the foreplay, it's almost time for the next part... Seriously, I thought you could detect it. ”

"What did you say?!"

The palms of the gray-robed man were covered with cold sweat, and the hand holding the sword was constantly trembling.

"It's very simple, you can think about it. Loren said coldly:

"In the darkness, you can't hear a sound, you can't see each other's faces—what are the night watchmen going to do in such a situation?"

The gray-robed man didn't speak, he was so frightened and angry that he just gritted his teeth and fought with the enemy in front of him.

"That's right, they're killing each other. Opening his eyes slightly, Loren said slowly:

"Even if they didn't, the dream would have forced them to do it... Because the scope of this dream is centered on me, shrinking towards the center - those who refuse to run to the center will fall into the abyss of the void, lose control of their consciousness and die!"

"The only way to put an end to this dream is to kill everyone but yourself... Only in this way can you wake up from your 'dream'. ”

"In order to wake up from a terrible dream, in order not to fall into the abyss, the only way is to kill the people around you and buy a glimmer of life for yourself. The black-haired wizard sighed softly:

"Dream... The name is casual, but it is a prophecy. ”

"Then I'll kill you first——!!!!"

With the roar of the gray-robed man, the cold stabbing sword broke through the last line of defense on the opposite side, and slashed the dagger in the darkness, piercing the blade through the opponent's body.

Right in the middle of the torso!

Won... A flash of surprise flashed in the gray-robed man's eyes, and at the same moment, the darkness in front of him quickly dissipated, and the blinding light temporarily blinded him, and it was only a moment before he regained his sight.

The gray-robed man's eyes widened suddenly, and the bayonet sword in his hand pierced through the throat of another night watchman!

No... Wrong... It shouldn't be like this... Something must have gone wrong......

Slowly bowing his head, a gray-blue sword stabbed out of his chest, already tearing his heart apart.

"I'm sorry, but I never told you... I am the one who fights you. ”

The black-haired wizard stood still, and with a horizontal gesture in his hand, the gray-blue sword slashed the gray-robed man's torso in two!