Knowing what was written in the old mottled travelogue, Amber had a feeling of "why am I wasting my time here looking at this thing" - so much so that she even forgot for a moment how special the book was, and that it was because of this book that her adoptive father lost his life.

But then again, it was probably all the more sad for her to remember this fact—the book was so much more than she had expected.

But she soon noticed Gawain's serious expression, and realized from this expression that there must be something useful in the follow-up of Mordir's travelogue.

"His attempt was successful," Gawain said, turning the page and pointing to it, "what's behind it...... Very informative. ”

Amber quickly straightened out her expression and leaned her head over again—

"On the day of the Xth month, after the ...... After many failures, I think I've found a pattern.

"My camouflage plan didn't work out, but that doesn't mean I'm thinking badly - trying to soften the hostility of the Shadowdwellers and 'blend in' is the right thing to do, the problem is that my camouflage is only 'ingenious' to humans, but in the eyes of the real Shadow Creatures, it's probably very clumsy.

"So, when the Shadow Dwellers see me, it's as if a real-world human saw a monster in human skin—the skin is still bloody. Not surprisingly, this only provoked greater hostility and tension, and it is understandable that I was attacked more violently.

"Realizing this possibility, I decided to make a more radical switch, a ...... A more risky conversion than before.

"I drained my soul...... Using the methods I 'learned' from a lich's head in my early years, with a little improvement, I was able to maintain the 'humanity' of the soul and return to its original body at any time.

"Here I need to warn any subsequent reader that my method is not informative, it is very dangerous and can easily get out of hand, even if you know the Lich well, do not be blindly confident that you are as powerful and knowledgeable as Mordil Wild, and that my attempts are based on your own circumstances, and that anyone who imitates me ...... Well, I was dead by then, anyway, don't blame the mighty Mordir Wild for not reminding me. ”

"There's really something wrong with this man's brain!!" Amber finally couldn't help but exclaim, and blurted out a foul language, "Drain your soul and go to the Shadow Realm to 'contact' those natives?" Why is he so motivated? ”

“…… To be honest, I was also a little surprised, it was beyond the courage of the pioneers...... Probably that's the explorer's obsession," Gawain shook his head, "but he succeeded anyway." ”

Yes, this crazy operation of extracting the soul and transforming it has succeeded, as Modir Wild wrote in his travelogue:

“…… I succeeded, and it was a wonderful feeling to see the world through the eyes of a soul, and my body was lying there quietly, my old servant Malfoy nervously guarding 'it,' which was so reminiscent of what I would be like at a funeral years later...... But now is clearly not the time for crankiness.

"In the soul state, I can still use spells, and use spells to do many things that only a living person can do (like writing things). I have completed the preparation of the ritual, and this time, I will transform my soul - without the drag of my body, this transformation will hardly carry any 'breath' of the physical world, and the soul will leave no trace after the transformation, it will be the true Shadow Soul, almost exactly like the Shadow Dwellers...... Theoretically, yes.

"I believe in my own theory, in the name of the surname Wilde.

“…… On October X, I came to the Shadow Realm again, in the form of a 'Shadow Soul'. After wandering for a while, I finally caught the breath of the shadow dwellers again...... Good luck to me.

"I made it! I just completed a successful contact! I stood in front of the cloth-wrapped creature, swaying, no conflict, everything went smoothly - the creature seemed curious about me, he circled around me for a while, but in the end he didn't attack, and then he began to mumble strange phrases to me...... I'll highlight these phrases, the language of the Shadow Dwellers, who used to mumble dream-like sounds when we had conflicts, but I couldn't understand them at the time, but now things seem to have changed—perhaps because of the Souls of Shadow, I think I vaguely understand what they mean!

"It's going to take me a while to decipher the language of the Shadow Dwellers, and to deal with some of the Shadow Dwellers, who have intelligence and memory, as well as emotions and logic - they don't seem to be like humans, but I've experienced their emotions deeply, so good relationships are essential for the next step......"

Gawain slowly flipped the pages, and after that came a more boring account, Modir Wild wrote a lot about it, and it was clear that this wonderful adventure in the Shadow Realm meant a lot to him, and soon his account reached the more crucial part:

“…… I've been in this world for quite some time, only occasionally returning a few times to replenish my soul energy and confirm the real world (mainly the mental state of old Malfoy, who was a little nervous looking after my body, and I feared that he would bury me if I didn't show up for a long time). For now, I need to document my progress here.

"I've been able to communicate with the shadow dwellers, relatively smoothly.

"It's amazing how well these shadow dwellers are able to communicate with each other...... Friendly. They weren't completely alienated, ferocious creatures as I thought they were, in fact, they were even a little ...... Lazy and sluggish. I can only think of words like that to describe them, because all the shadow dwellers I come into contact with, without calling, exhibit similar qualities, they wander the world in a muddle, their minds are slow, they don't have much of a rich daily life, they don't seem to pay attention to the changes in the world, they don't think much about their own affairs, and although they do have intelligence, they don't use it most of the time - which is very dashing.

"Of course, it's another case for them to get angry...... Since I have already described the details before, I will not go into more detail here.

"All in all, the Shadow Dwellers give me the feeling of being ...... Sleepwalking, they seem to be immersed in a half-dreaming dream, and wandering because of it, but they are shallower than human 'sleepwalking', they can communicate with me, as long as I take the initiative to reach out and ask some questions repeatedly, there will be interpretation by the shadow dwellers, although many times their interpretation is also muddy, but at least I can be sure that they are communicating with me.

"I can't help but wonder if the 'sleepwalking' of the shadow dwellers is a normal trait of this race? That's how it is when they're sane and sober? Or is it ...... I met half-asleep shadow dwellers, and they were completely 'awake'...... I'm not sure about that, or if it's a good idea to 'wake them up', so I didn't try further.

"After many exchanges, I learned some interesting things from these shadow creatures, based on their worldview. They obviously know about the material world, but they call our material world 'shallow world', a strange name, and it took me a long time to grasp what it meant...... Shallow world? Interesting.

“…… After asking me a lot, the Shadow Dwellers told me another word called 'Deep', which seemed to correspond to 'Shallow Realm', and when I inquired about this word, I got an incredible harvest - the Shadow Dwellers said that they were all born from the 'Deep', but when I subconsciously asked if 'Deep' was 'this world' (Shadow Realm), they told me - no!!

"They were not born in the Shadow Realm, although they roam this space to survive, but the place where they were truly born is a world called the 'Deep Realm', which anthropologists have never known about!!

"I've taken into account the difference between the words of the Shadow Dwellers and the words of the present world - they call the physical world 'the shallow realm', so their 'deep realm' may correspond to a place known to man, but the statement is different, but after many inquiries, I have found no evidence of this...... There is no evidence of what the Shadowdwellers refer to as to the 'Deep', and it is a mystery......

"I think I'll need to stay here a little longer.

"There was a shadow dweller who had a good relationship with me, and I began to try to get more 'knowledge' from him. Unfortunately, I couldn't write down the name of my new friend - the Shadow Dweller didn't have a name, and though I tried to call him a few names, he didn't seem to like it...... I'll call him 'Brian' in private."

"Brian wasn't able to help me solve the mysteries of the Deep, and in this regard, he revealed similar information to other Shadow Dwellers, but in more conversations, Brian told me something beyond the Deep...... He referred to the Shadow Dwellers themselves, and he didn't care what the 'shallow' mortal race called themselves, he just said—'We walk on the edge of a dream, wandering along the borders of the waking world,' and that's what he said......

"A very mysterious and seemingly metaphorical sentence, I tried to decipher it, but I struggled with the lack of key clues, what is this 'dream'? Brian didn't answer......

"After many attempts, I can only conclude this: all the Shadow Dwellers are wanderers walking on the edge of the dream, which seems to be a dream from the Deep Realm, which has been maintained for many years, and the Shadow Dwellers ...... They seem to be part of this dream in a sense, at least that's what they themselves think. They wander along the boundaries of dreams, walking in circles over and over again, as if to draw the line between dreams and waking worlds in this way......

"I thought about how I felt about them – they were a half-dreaming race, sleepwalking, and I think I had found evidence of that feeling, that they were really sleepwalking......

"This gave me a little creepy and further felt that ...... 'awakening' these Shadow Dwellers was probably not a good idea.

"In addition to the progress I've made on that treacherous 'Dream of the Deep', 'Brian' has helped me learn more about the Shadow Realm and the Deep and Shallow Realms......

"They say that there is a connection between the 'deep world' and the 'shallow world', that the two overlap each other, but that the deep and the shallow world cannot be directly connected, and that only a few people with the most gifted have perceived their interlaced moments, but those lucky ones cannot understand it, it is beyond human intellect......

"They also talked about 'hometown', the mysterious 'deep realm', they said that the deep realm is not static, it was a stable and beautiful place when the Shadow Dwellers were first born - I'm not sure if the 'beauty' in the mouth of the Shadow Dwellers and the 'beauty' in the minds of ordinary people in the material world are the same concept, the aesthetics of the two races may be very different, but I can feel the loss and frustration from 'Brian' and the other Shadow Dwellers I know well- The deep realm of peace and beauty is gone.

"In Brian's parlance, it is now a twisted, desolate, barren and gradually mad realm, the Deep is coming to an end, and although it has had a brief 'recovery', the decay and extinction of the whole seems unstoppable...... This is why the Shadow Dwellers have left the Deep Realm and wandered closer to the Shallow Realm.

"In addition, they mentioned that it was a major event—a rare occurrence to be recorded as a major event in the entire Shadowdwellers' Shadowders—and they mentioned that not all Shadowdwellers were hovering on the edge of the eternal 'Deep Dream', and that there was once an individual who accidentally fell into the 'lucid trap' and took a wrong step out of the group's sight......

"Brian told me that it was the only Shadow Dweller ever to 'wake up'.

"Of course, the Shadow Dwellers don't have a 'history,' 'historically' is just an adjective.

"Strangely, although the Shadowders call this a 'big deal', they don't seem to care that much about it during the conversation, they don't want to find the 'missing' clansman, and although many of the Shadowders, including 'Brian', regret it, they don't seem to care more about it......

I asked Brian about it, and his answer was intriguing, and he said—

"'Why bother looking for it – we're all going to wake up eventually.'"