Chapter 59: Escape in the Dark, Wake Up in the Light.
Listening to this story, which only had a bad ending, Izzy immediately realized that something was wrong with them.
He had expected to be attacked by wild beasts or enemies, but unexpectedly, he was attacked by the grassland itself.
Turning his head to look around, the starry sky above his head, his feet on the green land, and there was no trace of the mountains in all directions, he inexplicably felt a sense of fear of being in a huge space.
Izzy's right hand began to ache again, his right hand, which had been restored with the elemental body, looked fine now, but the pain was so obvious, Izzy squeezed his right palm, and suddenly remembered a game he had played.
It once described a symptom that could be a mental illness, called phantom limb pain, and now my pain seems to be the same as that symptom.
Randreso watched with some concern as Izzy held his right hand with a pained expression, he didn't know how to help him.
Izzy endured in silence, the pain of his fingers connecting his heart, stimulating his spirit, and he forced himself to think.
If this is some kind of eerie space formed by the void, then the lake in the story must be the key to solving the problem.
But according to the description in the story, if you drink the lake water, you can leave, but you will be driven crazy by the void, proving that the lake water is absolutely undrinkable.
The pain in his right hand was gone, and Izzy squeezed his palm and entered the realm of the elemental horizon, perceiving the space.
Izzy felt that this place was very similar to the Sacred Mountain of Woshugu, where the energy of the Holy Light and the energy of the Void were blended and eroded by each other.
Thinking of this, Izzy couldn't help but speculate if there would be a lake of holy light corresponding to the void?
Izzy thought for a long time and shook his head, no matter how much he thought about it, he could only solve the problem by moving forward.
Fortunately, the hot summer will allow the Lava Hand to slowly absorb energy, and they don't have to worry that the Lava Hand will suddenly turn off.
Izzy thought about it for a moment and walked to the east, and both intuition and intellect told him that the direction of the sunrise was the brightest.
After walking like this for many days, as their dry food gradually ran out and the water source that Izzy could condense became less and less, they found the black lake in the story.
As described in the story, it was as dark as an abyss, and Izzy pinched his chin and thought, he walked towards the light, but found the black lake, could it be that he should walk towards the shadows in order to really find the light?
Walking towards the lake, Izzy looked around and finally found something.
On a relatively large stone, it seems that someone has used his fingernails to make a line of words.
"The brighter the light, the deeper the shadows cast. ”
Looking at this sentence, Izzy pondered what this sentence was trying to mean.
Is this a meaningless crazy message, or is there something in it?
So think about it the other way, so what if the more drowsy and dark it is?
Izzy couldn't help but think of some animals on Earth that had no vision, such as moles.
Moles don't have vision, but this animal acquires a more powerful sense of smell because it doesn't have vision, and moles can perceive more things that they can't see.
So?
The deeper the darkness, the more light it is?
Izzy came back to his senses and immediately broke out in a cold sweat, thinking something to himself.
After reading this sentence, he almost felt like he was being manipulated, thinking in a certain direction, as if he was obsessed.
No longer looking at the stone, Izzy sensed the lake, and his eyes could only see a darkness, but in the perception of the elements, he could perceive something different.
The depths of the dark lake are surging with the energy of light.
"Is light and darkness coexist?" said Izzy, who thought that if he could dive into the light at the bottom of the lake, he would be able to get out of this labyrinth.
But there is only one chance, either return normally, or die or go crazy.
This choice makes Izzy hesitate, if he is alone, fight to the death, and in the end no matter what, he has no regrets, but Lantreso is with him, and Izzy must be responsible for his life.
Maybe we can find a lake of light, maybe we just need to walk towards the shadows and get out.
These possible thoughts kept running through Izzy's mind, even though he knew in his heart that sometimes, when he kept interrupting, he would only suffer from it.
Without food to sustain them on, and with less and less water condensed by Izzy, he had to make a choice here.
Camped by the lake, faced with the choice of life and death, until the last moment, Izzy really couldn't make a decision, and he hoped to find more clues to prove his point.
As the sun began to set, Izzy watched the last rays of light sink into the earth, and suddenly his heart was terrified, stationed next to the lake of the void in the night?
"What the hell is wrong with me?" Izzy asked himself, doing such a stupid thing.
Just thinking this, the lake rolled, and the inky black water rose, changing shape, and a monster took shape.
It was like a huge black mist, with many sharp limbs sticking out, and Izzy looked in horror, and a little light suddenly flashed in the black mist, and a huge golden eye looked like some kind of distorted light.
His eyes rolled to Rantreso, who was closer, and a huge limb like a knife stabbed him.
Randriso made a cross-cut block, and the tip of the knife knocked him back several steps before stopping.
Izzy stomped at his feet, and the stone spikes rose and stabbed at the one-eyed in the black mist.
The stone thorn seemed to have hit nothing, but this attack successfully attracted the attention of the one-eyed monster, a blade, swept over, Izzy held up the round shield, down-to-earth, exerted all his strength, and with a dull collision, the ground under Izzy's feet dragged out two long marks, and Izzy blocked the attack with difficulty.
His arms tingled, and he watched as Randriso leaped high and swung his sword at the back of the monster's blade, looking like a soft arm.
The long-handled blade brought out a cloud of black blood, and the blade severed at the root, and the unknown one-eyed monster let out a piercing scream, causing the two of them to have a splitting headache.
Izzy endured the pain, and when the monster howled in pain, he slashed at the one-eyed monster's supporting leg, and when the knife entered the flesh, Izzy felt like he was slashing in the mud, and he successfully cut off one of the one-eyed monster's knife legs without hindrance.
The two of them tried to take advantage of the victory, but after the one-eyed howl in pain, the blade curled up into a ball and rolled into the night.
The two of them were stunned, and they ran away?
The gurgling, boiling sound of liquid pulled Izzy's mind back, and when he looked back, he immediately got goosebumps and a numb scalp.
Countless one-eyed monsters rose on the surface of the lake, and all the one-eyed monsters opened their eyes, looked at the two of them in unison, and rushed over without hesitation.
They stepped on the surface of the lake as if they were walking on the ground, and Izzy took advantage of such a gap to open the elemental horizon, and perceived the feeling of light towards the bottom of the lake, and the feeling of light rose a little.
After a moment's last moment's hesitation, Izzy shouted to Lanteriso:
"Jump into the lake, swim downstream, never drink into the lake, and approach the light at the bottom of the lake. ”
As he spoke, Ichi took the lava hand and rushed into the lake, closing his eyes and holding his breath, he felt like he had fallen into a small concentration of sulfuric acid, and his whole body stinged.
Rantreso followed, and Izzy grabbed his hand, manipulating the Hand of Glory towards the light.
This last breath was not enough to support them to get there, and as Lantreso erupted in a bubble, Izzy couldn't help it.
After several sips of lake water, his body tingling and his mind feeling like the screams of countless victims of suffering, Izzy ignored it, holding the reins of the lava hand in one hand and the palm of Lantriso in the other.
Izzy opened his eyes, they were close to the light, the lava hand dragging them to the bottom of the lake, Izzy full of hope.
Suddenly, the lava hand stopped, and many dark cracks appeared on the rock body, Izzy was shocked, and drank a few sips of lake water, he felt that he was going to drown, and with the last bit of sanity, Izzy swam over, pulled his left hand, and threw Lantreso into it first, and with both hands, dragged the lava hand into the light.
Thankfully, this is underwater, and the buoyancy of the lake makes the lava hand not so heavy.
Rushing into the light, Izzy rushed ashore like a drowning man, spitting out several mouthfuls of black water and breathing heavily.
At this time, there was a white light in Izzy's eyes, and he couldn't see anything, and his hands were messing around, and finally he touched Lanteriso.
At this time, he was like Izzy, frantically spitting out all the black water in his stomach and breathing heavily.
Izzy realized that they had rushed out of the dark waters of the lake into a bright space, their feet on the ground, and every breath they took was as if they had been healed, and the tingling pain in their bodies was relieved.
Izzy opened the Elemental Horizon, and the surrounding 100 meters were empty, like a wasteland.
The black water spat out by the two of them was like some kind of ooze monster, churning in pain.
Izzy was nauseous again, spitting out a few mouthfuls of sour water, he looked inside his body, each breath was purifying the effect of the black water, and each breath was like drinking a sip of black water, inhaling the extremely pure holy light energy.
Izzy breathed a sigh of relief, he preferred access to the Light to the Void, and God knows if the Void would turn them into tentacle monsters.
The Holy Light was gradually healing them, and at the moment when all the void in his body was purified, Izzy inexplicably felt as if he was about to wake up.
In the last moment, absorbing a stream of holy light energy with all his strength, Izzy regained his vision.
They returned, and the real Nagrand grasslands, with the warm breeze on their faces, and the mountains in the distance, looked so cheerful.
It's like Izzy and Rantreso feel like they're in a dream, flipping open their backpacks and consuming their empty dry food to remind them that those experiences were real.
Izzy and Randreso touched their bodies, not missing arms or legs, and the experience of not dying made them lie on the grassland and laugh.
Izzy rolled in the meadows, smelling the earthy smell of the earth and the scent of green grass, and was filled with joy.
The sound of cooing sounded at the same time, stopping the fun, the two looked at each other and smiled, they wanted to have a good meal.