458 Nightmare Approaching
"Hey, have you heard, there's a cultist's curse on the New City (Morning Star City)!" A well-dressed drinker bragged to the bystanders.
"Heh," a drinker next to him smiled contemptuously, "Someone has already suggested to the lord of Snowman's Balkufu that another site should be chosen to rebuild the new city, but if the people just don't listen, what can the people below do." ”
"Who said no, this Balkufu is really mediocre, it is better to let me be this lord."
Another drinker interjected, but this person was dressed in rags, with a smell of wine and sweat, and was driven aside by several people as soon as he finished speaking, they have seen a lot of this kind of drunk, and after drinking a little wine, they feel that they can do anything, if they really have the ability, how can they not even afford a decent clothes?
However, after driving away the sloppy drinker, the first person to speak gave his companion another slap: "That's Barguf, not Balkuf!" ”
"Hey, it's pretty much the same," the other said, rubbing the back of his head, "but this Barguf is lucky, I heard that he returned to Snowman City before the curse broke out, and he did not survive." ”
"It's bitter for those people in the new city, but speaking of which, the bitter taro wine in the new city is really hard to drink......
The two chatted and chatted, and they didn't know where the topic was going, but they didn't notice that the faces of the few travelers around them were getting worse and worse.
"Sure enough, it spread." Izushi rubbed her temples and exhaled weakly.
"yes, it's spreading."
Lina and Anna nodded together, apparently having already figured out what this "curse" was.
Perhaps, it is not wrong that the disaster of New Morning Star City is called a "curse", but it is definitely not a curse of the "cultists", but from an even more terrifying existence - a demon god located in the realm of annihilation, the god of dreams and nightmares, Valmina!
However, it is not right to say that this is a "curse", after all, a demon god is not idle to curse a group of mortals, this is at most a trace of attention from the demon god Valmina, but even if it is just a trace of attention, it is not something that mortals can afford.
Perhaps at the beginning, this trace of attention only carries a trivial trace of Valmina's will, but when this trace of will comes to the present world and is contaminated with mortals, after being contaminated with Valmina's attention, it will independently attract the corresponding rules of the present world to reshape Valmina's "priesthood" - the plundering of dreams and the spread of nightmares.
Like a vicious circle, Valmina's will causes mortals to fall into nightmares, and the nightmare provides nourishment for this will, and when this will gathers enough power, it will spread with human contact, and eventually reconstruct an entire area, or copy a pseudo-priesthood, and eventually make the area a pseudo-demon god realm similar to the Nightmare Swamp.
It's like that house of fear in Marcus City.
Even the altar and demon artifact that are used as energy channels have been prepared, the demon artifact corrupt skull and the altar dedicated to this demon artifact are located on the top of the mountain not far from Morning Star City, and the rules contained in the corrupt skull are in the same vein as Val Mina, and the energy channel built is naturally larger and more stable, and the altar built by Val Mina's followers is not comparable to the small altar in the House of Fear.
Together, it would not be too simple to construct a pseudo-demon god realm that would envelop the entire Morning Star City.
"In other words, the correct way to complete this plot is not to make a choice between sacrifice and corrupt skull, as in the game, but to completely destroy the altar and seal the corrupt skull with absolute power, at least, a single legendary powerhouse will never be able to seal the corrupt skull alone."
Izuku sighed and made a final conclusion, and Lina, Anna, and Carl gasped as well, a cool breath running down their spines as if their sleepiness had been washed away.
Destroy the altar and seal the corrupted skulls?
Judging from the ending of the first cultist attack in Snow City and the end of Auston stealing the Ebony Blade, if you do this, you will inevitably face the attack of the demon god in the end, and even more dangerous, after all, in the first two examples, one only built a "pseudo-altar", while the other has the knowledge of having a demon artifact, unlike this time, the demon artifact and the altar are all in place.
Perhaps, it is possible to face a doppelganger of a demon god in the end.
What is the concept of the doppelganger of the demon god?
You must know that the simplest sentence for the definition of the mythical realm is: the demon god came into the world for mythology!
In other words, the doppelganger of the demon god who came to the present world must be in the mythical realm, and the difference is nothing more than which stage is between the first entry into mythology and the peak of mythology.
"It's not something we can do about it." Lina looked at Isu solemnly, "Isu, we need support from Silent City. ”
"I should say that, right?"
Isu quipped and stood up, "Let's go, go to Shadowblade's office in Mosar, at least, it'll give us a good night's sleep, and I think I could sleep at any moment." ”
"Me too."
Anna yawned and stood up with Lina, or rather, the whole person hung on Lina, one eye closed, the other half-squinted, as if she was about to fall asleep.
"Let's go, then!"
Carl said weakly, the whole person is about to collapse, in the past few days, Isu and the three casters can still take advantage of the twenty minutes of each meal break to meditate for a while to recover their energy, Carl, little Bolton and Sylvie can only rely on their will to support.
Even, little Bolton had already slept once when he approached Mosar, when he suddenly fell into the snow, if it weren't for Silvie behind him, he might have been trapped in a nightmare and frozen to death.
Fortunately, little Bolton fell into a nightmare, and after being flung by Carl's hands for a while, he woke up retching, but his spirit was still a little more sluggish.
The group was about to leave the tavern, but they heard the drinker just now say, "Hey, you've all heard about the vision in the new city a few days ago. ”
"Of course, doesn't that mean it's the curse?"
"No, no, no, it's not that simple," the drinker shook his finger mysteriously, "I heard from my cousin and her eldest brother's second aunt, you all know, she works under the lord, that's ......"
"Get down to business!"
"The news that the lord just came, just yesterday, the vision appeared again, it is said that the whole sky seems to be broken, the lord said, it is a world-spanning ...... Befall! ”