Chapter 25: Nightmare
The people came to a glade.
In the center of the clearing, a small open-air altar was piled up with stone pillars, on which were carved mysterious ciphers. Eleanor glanced around and said in the channel:
"No enemy ...... found"
Her tone was a little surprised, as Aske said that he would meet the first boss here, and his predictions had never been wrong before.
"No, the boss is already here." Asker said.
Everyone followed his gaze and saw two identical Nora standing at the back of the line. They looked at each other warily, their eyes full of disbelief.
"Disguise?" Medea frowned and said, "Is it the ability of the hallucination sequence?" ”
"I don't know! She ...... "The two Nora were shouting in a panic in the telepathic communication channel at the same time, and before they could finish speaking, they were stopped by Medea:
"Don't speak! No matter which of you is the real Nola, the other fake, although it is disguised by the enemy, it is impossible to know enough about your personality and can only temporarily disguise your appearance. The more you talk, the more information is revealed to it! Stay calm and wait for us to figure out how to identify it. At the moment when we see through its true face, it is impossible for it to be actively exposed to harm you! ”
Suddenly, both Nora fell silent. Her mind is not stupid, but she has encountered supernatural phenomena for a while, and she is a little at a loss.
Since Medea was right, the two Nora regained their composure at the same time, just frowning and staring coldly at each other. The others were also staring at the two girls with full attention, for fear that one of them would suddenly burst out and hurt someone.
"That's right." Asker walked over, "In the future, you will face a lot of paranormal phenomena, such as being suddenly teleported to a certain place, a companion or yourself has a mutation, being sucked into a mirror world, or a shadow being warped into an enemy or something. There is only one thing to remember: no matter how weird the phenomenon is, the first thing to do is to keep yourself calm. ”
When the two Nora heard this, they showed expressions of wanting to cry without tears at the same time, and their resentful eyes seemed to say, "Captain! Is it time for you to teach? Can you get rid of the fake on the other side first! ”
"As Medea said, this first boss nightmare can only disguise its appearance for the time being, and its memory is still flawed. However, each mature nightmare has the ability to sequence minds, and can continuously read the memories of the surrounding mental bodies, so once time drags on enough, it will become completely indistinguishable from Nora. Asker pressed his sword with one hand and came to the front of the two Nola, "As for the identification method, it is actually very simple, as long as the characteristics of the mental sequence are used in the opposite way." ”
His expression suddenly turned cold, and he said to the two Nora in a cold voice:
"Now! Nola, repeat what I said right away! 'Eat grapes, don't spit out the skins, don't eat the grapes, don't spit out the skins!' ’”
Nora on the left half opened her mouth, but she couldn't utter the strange voice of the straight voice, and her face was full of ??? 's bewildered expression. Nora on the right subconsciously said:
"Eat grapes without spitting out grape skins......"
"Why do you know how to speak Chinese?" Asker suddenly drew his sword, and in a flash of cold light, the fake Nora was slashed in the chest, and the figure immediately dissipated in place, leaving only a splash of blue blood on the ground.
"It's not dead, be careful!" Medea voices a warning in psychic communication.
"Nora stood in the middle, and the others formed a circle with her as the center of the circle, with their backs to her!" Aske was also quick to give orders.
So the people gathered together quickly, and surrounded Nora in the central circle, each facing outward, and stood on guard.
Looking at the appearance of this boss, it is obvious that he is proficient in hallucination and invisibility, and it is not fun to backstab someone in the back. The way to crack it is, of course, to form back-to-back circles, so that the other party can't get in even if they want to backstab.
Sure enough, it was probably invisible and circled, but it really couldn't find a suitable place to start, and the nightmare appeared at a distance of more than twenty paces in front of everyone.
It was a humanoid monster with blue skin all over its body, with long, eerily slender limbs, and a bundle of hair scattered behind its head, fluttering as if it were windless. Her feet were suspended more than ten centimeters above the ground, and her palms with six fingers were spread out to everyone, and invisible mental ripples rippled in the air.
Is that the hypnotic power of the dream sequence? Medea's pupils constricted. No, it's me!
A huge drowsiness rushed from his chest to his head, his whole mind began to paralyze, and his consciousness was rapidly falling into a coma. Medea, who is about to fall into a deep sleep, finally understands why the dream sequence is the natural enemy of the succubus - the stronger the psychic ability, the more acute the perception of the mind body, the easier it is to be hit by the ability to face the dream sequence......
Her eyelids drooped, she fell into a complete slumber, and her spirit became bleak and introverted. Almost immediately, the others realized that something was wrong, because the state of psychic communication that had been maintained had been cut off!
Asker quickly took aim at the Nightmare, pulled the trigger and fired three shots in quick succession. I saw that the nightmare stretched out a finger and calmly drew a circle in the air. The bullet entered the circle it drew and disappeared as if it were a stone falling into a lake, sending only ripples in the air.
Dream materialization! This is an advanced ability of the dream sequence, which connects the collective subconscious and reality into an entrance. The bullet entered the portal, and it was transformed from physical to illusory, and transported into the collective subconscious.
Then the nightmare put her fingers together and clenched her fist lightly, and Medea, who was sleeping, snorted, and her body twitched like a sharp pain.
Under the control of Nightmare's abilities, bullets fired into the collective subconscious mind pierced her mental body, causing her spirit to suffer damage equivalent to being shot!
"Heal!" Aske reminded loudly, and with the others, he drew his sword and rushed towards the boss.
Nora hurriedly held her up, and the healing touch power of Life I was activated, and she found that three of her internal organs had undergone abnormal changes, two in the lobes of the lungs and one in the stomach, and her tissue cells began to atrophy and die spontaneously as if they had been injured. Through the treatment of extraordinary abilities, Nora finally stabilized her injuries from deterioration, only to find that cold sweat was dripping behind her back, and her whole person was so nervous that she almost collapsed.
Suddenly Medea snorted and woke up weakly. The nightmare in front of him had already turned around, and his palm aimed at Peggy, who was the first to approach with the help of high speed, and activated the hypnotic ability again.
Paige immediately fell into a coma as she ran, falling to the ground and sliding a few meters away. Nightmare sat back, her hips resting lightly against the back of the sleeping Peggy, snapping her fingers at Aske and Eleanor, who were rushing after her.
Dream Dolls!
In the middle of the two of them and the nightmare, as if emerging from the void, was a tall, translucent figure. He wears angular steel power armor and is two meters tall. In his left hand, he holds a large zither-shaped shield, and in his right hand, he holds a steel spear. A triangular flag was nailed to the tip of the spear, on which a white swan was painted. At the end of the gun was a thick iron chain, the other end of which was attached to the armarmor of his right hand.
"Is this, father?" Eleanor was stunned in the sprint, but her pace did not slow down. Almost instantly, she knew that this was an illusion created by the other party. Combined with what Asker said earlier, it should be a false spirit created by reading his own memories!
She sank into the charge and swung her shield at her father's vision. The tall illusion also lowered its shield at the same time, and the two shields collided, and from above came an unshakable force. The two of them leaned over again almost at the same time, and the entity and the illusory spear struck each other, making a muffled sound like a bell.
Actually, use my father's martial arts in my memory to deal with me! Eleanor's deep anger was ignited, and she roared and spun her forearm, her waist spinning with all her might, and flicking the barrel of the spear, which was the Weiss family's special spear technique "Cutting Iron", picking up the spear like a war hammer to crush the enemy. With the help of the strength of the waist and abdomen, it can be quickly launched at close distances.
The two of them were very close at this time, and the tall illusion didn't have time to turn the shield, but just put the spear in his hand on the shield, barely blocking the slash. His body leaned forward suddenly, and his right foot kicked back to the ground, and the whole person was actually pressed back half a step alive. Eleanor had already put the gun back into her arm, her right leg bent and half kneeling, and then she bounced up with all her might, and stabbed the spear violently with the help of an upward momentum.
Bavarian Lion Marksmanship: Piercing the Clouds (Durchlöchern Wolkendecke)!
This blow came so quickly that the tall illusion didn't have time to parry, so it could only twist the spear with his backhand and attack it with the same slashing iron. Eleanor's spear rushed through his weakly armored jaw, and the spear pierced through his skull from the bottom up. If it were a normal lifeform, this blow would be fatal.
However, the other side is only an illusion made of spirits, and does not follow the law that life is injured and dies. In the face of the enemy's counterattack, Eleanor could only move the tail of the gun to block slightly.
Cleaver struck her in the tail and chest, sending her and her people flying. In the air, she spat blood directly, and fell to the ground and rolled a few times, her face almost deformed from the intense pain.
The Meteorite armor withstood the blow perfectly, allowing her to avoid the fate of being broken in two on the spot. However, just the strength of being weakened by the dispersion of the breastplate almost cost her half of her life.
The whole process on her side seemed to be full of dangers, but in fact, it only took six or seven seconds. Over there, Asker had already passed over the two of them and pounced on the Nightmare Boss with his sword.
Draw your sword and slash! Pulled violently from its sheath, the Parameen single-edged curved sword (which can also be seen as a knife due to its one-sided blade) pulls out a ripple of cold light in the air and slashes straight at the enemy's neck. The nightmare, on the other hand, has a solemn expression and taps in the air, silently activating the ability to materialize dreams.
In front of the invisible distorted space is the sleeping mind of Peggy's collective subconscious. If Asker's slash is really cut, he can only kill Peggy.
Therefore, the rushing sword momentum suddenly stopped, and Aske had already taken three steps in a row, and with a short but skillful step, he actually stuck to the nightmare and walked a C-shape, and instantly circled its back.
Nightmare quickly turned around, and another sword light came to him. The Nightmare could only stare at it, and activated the innate supernatural ability that it relied on to survive.
Nightmare to sink!