Chapter 170: Growing in the Shadows

Gawain wandered through this lucid dream.

He didn't know how this change worked, but he guessed that the reason for the change was mostly related to the hapless Cultist of the Eternal Sleeper - in the process of devouring the remnants of the other party's mind, he came into contact with the bits and pieces of knowledge of the Eternal Sleeper, which was not just a simple memory, as the "knowledge" of the transcendent realm, it was a power in itself.

They gave Gawain this ability to move in lucid dreams.

As he walked, Gawain shaped something in his hands from time to time according to what he wanted in his heart, and in the process discovered the limitations of this "shaping". Probably because he did not have the power of the true Sleeper, the things he created in his dreams still had a full "fantasy" character, only having a fake appearance, but no real effect.

The drinks he made didn't have any taste, and the phones he had made from memory couldn't be turned on.

And those fantasy objects that don't exist in the real world at all are even more difficult to maintain their appearance for a long time.

But it was from this useless ability that he continued to learn about the nature of this particular cult of the Eternal Sleepers, and their possible aims.

Immersing yourself in eternal dreams and trying to find liberation in a false world is probably what the Sleeper seeks. In fact, if they didn't know the truth in advance, anyone who entered the dream realm of the Eternal Sleeper would be instantly lost in that false world, and for those with weak minds, even if they knew the truth in advance, it was easy to indulge in all kinds of beautiful things in the imaginary world.

Although the Eternal Sleeper is described as "a master at creating nightmares", Gawain, after devouring the remnants of the cultist's mind, is vaguely aware that what the cultists are really pursuing is actually a dream—and creating nightmares is just a means to their ends.

Gawain walked down the long hallway, in a strange place, his mind as calm as water, and his mind remarkably quick.

To paraphrase a phrase from a previous life, most people who indulge in the virtual world do so to escape reality, and the Eternal Sleepers seem to Gawain to be some kind of mass escapist fanatics in the virtual world, but what part of the real world are they escaping?

Is it the social collapse and the deterioration of the living environment caused by the demon tide? Is it a change in the religious landscape and the exclusion of other denominations? Or ...... Is it the truth that the gods are dead?

At the end of the hallway in front of him, a heavy oak door stood in front of him, and Gawain frowned, he saw a somewhat familiar emblem on the oak door, the coat of arms of the Kant family.

Is it because I have been paying attention to the affairs of the Kant family recently, so their family crest appears in the scene of my dream? Or rather...... Is this really Kant's Castle?

Gawain frowned and looked around, he confirmed that he had never been to this place, and under normal circumstances, there would be no things beyond his memory or cognition in human dreams, even if there were strange things, it was most likely that the things he saw on weekdays were distorted subconsciously, but all the scenes in this dream were stable and orderly, and even the patterns on the walls and the light emitted by each magic crystal lamp were flawless, thinking of the mind of the eternal sleeper that he devoured, Gawain suddenly suspected that this scene might have been born from the memories of the cultist.

That cultist was active in Kant's castle?

After hesitating for less than a moment, Gawain reached out and pushed open the oak door in front of him.

Behind the gate was a cellar-like space, wide, deep, and shrouded in dim light, as an underground structure in the castle, the scale of this "cellar" had far exceeded the necessity, as if the banquet hall on the surface had been moved underground, and in such a large and unusual space, Gawain saw that there were upright pillars connecting the ground and the stone ceiling above, and the surface of those upright pillars seemed to have words on the surface.

Gawain approached one of the pillars and was shocked to see that it was not written at all, but countless deep dents scratched with his fingernails!

The moment he saw these indentations, Gawain felt that his vision suddenly blossomed, and then a large number of ripples like water appeared in the dim space in all directions, and in the ripples, countless shadowy things broke away from the "camouflage" of the subconscious layer and appeared in front of Gawain's eyes.

It was one phantom after another human-like figures, with translucent, grayish-white forms, and vague faces that faintly revealed numb expressions, and they stood here in layers of shadows, their empty eyes staring vacantly into the center of the entire "cellar".

Gawain was startled when the figures appeared, but the latter realized that the shadows were not aware of their existence at all—or rather, they were probably incapable of thinking at all.

After composing himself, he followed the direction of the shadows, and saw that in the center of the "underground hall" there was a stone platform at some point, and on that platform was placed a huge and ornate coffin.

Gawain frowned, walked through the countless shadows beside him, and walked towards the huge coffin, but as soon as he was halfway there, he heard an illusory and vague voice in his ears, the voice seemed to be two people talking, but it was intermittent and difficult to distinguish, Gawain carefully pricked up his ears, and only then did he hear a few clearer words:

“…… How I wish it was just a nightmare and that everything would still be fine when I woke up from it......"

“…… What is the difference between dream and reality......"

"I ...... I don't know what to do, I lost their ......"

"The Eternal Sleeper will help you, don't be afraid, don't believe the rumors that slander us, we are still committed to saving sentient beings from suffering as we did seven hundred years ago, except that seven hundred years ago we kept sentient beings away from nightmares, and today we keep sentient beings away from nightmarish realities......

"You just have to put it here, give it plenty of nutrients, and trust me, everything will be fine.

"He who is gone will eventually return, not only in dreams, but also in reality......"

The conversation was low and indistinct, and so distorted that Gawain couldn't even tell the man or woman of his interlocutor, but he was almost certain that one of the people who spoke was the Cultist of the Eternal Sleeper who had been devoured by himself!

After waking up from the dream, Gawain immediately called Hetty and Pitman.

"Ancestor, we've already finished questioning the mercenary mage," Hetty thought Gawain had called him to inquire about the progress of the interrogation of the captives, so he said as soon as they met, "They are indeed working for the Kant family, but they don't know what their employers are doing for them to capture the exiles, only one thing is certain—they have never seen the exiles they captured appear in the Kant Territory as slaves in the future, nor have they seen any slave traders take those people from the Kant Territory, The exiles who were captured disappeared into the land as if they had evaporated. ”

Gawain frowned: "Sure enough, ......"

"Sure enough?" Hetty was stunned, not understanding what Gawain meant, "Do you know anything?" ”

"I'm afraid I'll have to go to Kant immediately," Gawain had already decided, and said bluntly at the moment, "the sooner the better." ”

This time Herty was really shocked: "Go to Kant? What do you go there for? Do you want to go to Viscount Kant personally to inquire about the homeless? This kind of thing ......"

"It's more serious than that," Gawain said solemnly, "I came into contact with some of the fragments of his consciousness when I was fighting against the Eternal Sleeper cultist before, and the contents of those fragments just now surfaced, and I saw that the cultist gave something to someone in the Kant Territory - most likely the current Viscount Victor Kant, and that thing is an evil thing, it has been in that land for many years, ten years or even decades, during which time it has been absorbing the souls of living people and growing!" ”

"An evil creature that sucks the souls of the living?" Pittman was taken aback, "Are those exiles who were captured in Kant's territory ......?"

"Probably fed," Gawain frowned, "that thing has grown to a critical point, but it hasn't completed its final metamorphosis yet, but once it's done...... I fear that all areas, including Tanzania, New Cecil, and the Carol Territory further north, will be enveloped by its power. ”

Gawain was not alarmist, because when the dream was about to end, he had clearly felt the existence of a growing "object" that supported the dream world.

He could feel the power of that item, and he could feel its effect on the minds of all humans in a considerable area, perhaps because of the devouring fragments of the mind of the original owner of the item, Gawain had established some kind of subtle connection with the thing, which made him almost 100% sure that once enough energy was absorbed, the cursed thing that the cultists had placed in the ancient castle of the Kant family would erupt with rather terrifying power, and the ordinary people of New Cecil and Tanzania would be swept up in it!

The threat was already on his head, and he couldn't sit idly by.

Gawain's seriousness also infected Hetty, who became nervous and worried: "Ancestor, you have already risked your life once in Tanzanian Town, and this time ......"

"No, it won't be so dangerous this time," Gawain shook his head, "as long as I find it in time, then it's no threat to me - I have a way to control it." ”

His answer was quite confident, which made Hetty feel a little more at ease, but the latter couldn't help but care: "But if Viscount Victor Kant has been completely bewitched and controlled by the cultists, will he be unfavorable to you?" ”

"In this whole incident, there is only one person who has the ability to threaten me," Gawain looked at Hetty with a concerned look on his face, and smiled slightly, "but that person has been destroyed by me in the space of consciousness." ”

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