The starlight-like monster that was always wriggling and wriggling launched an onslaught on Gawain, its indescribably strange limbs that seemed to be able to transform into countless destructive forms, whether it was sharp claws or huge swords, even bows and tentacles could be continuously condensed from the "starlight aggregate", this changeable form may be hinting at its essence: a created dream product, it is as nameless as a nightmare, without a source, And always in flux.

Gawain, on the other hand, fended off each of its attacks, severing the proliferating limbs and mimicry weapons again and again.

"Steel Storm!"

Gawain's blade was stimulated by the magic and turned into countless scorching blades of light, and the shockwave swept away directly in front of him, and the stone slabs along the way and the mutated limbs extended by the monster were instantly torn to pieces by this infinitely powerful impact, taking advantage of this opportunity, Gawain immediately jumped up and released the long-standing "Champion Slash" - a sharp blade wrapped in white light fell from the sky and slashed at Lilith Kant's body in the air.

Lilith Kant's body was almost torn in half under this blow, but in the next second, the lantern was filled with lilac brilliance again, and her torn body was quickly repaired and gathered together in the starlight, and the crazy woman held the lantern and laughed: "It's useless, hahaha, it's useless!" I've become one with the power of dreams, and there's no way you can kill a dream! As long as I refuse to wake up, I will never die!! ”

Gao Wen smiled slightly, and casually cut off a sharp claw that sneaked from the blind spot of his vision: "Do you have everything in your dreams...... The teachings of the Sleepers really seem to have taken root in your mind. ”

"Give up, I admit that your strength is strong, in terms of combat power alone, no one in this land can defeat you, but no matter how strong the power is, it is impossible for me to destroy a dream, and in the same way, I can't kill you," Lilith Kant's manic expression instantly calmed down again, she looked at Gawain coldly, and said lightly, "You can pretend that nothing happened here, and I can promise you not to make a move on your people." ”

"I can see the madness in your eyes, ma'am, the power of that dark artifact has eaten away at your mind, and I won't trust any of the promises you made while holding the lantern," Gawain regrouped again, walking towards Lilith, who was already semi-fused with the Starlight Aggregate, "and why should I give up—didn't you notice?" You're regenerating more and more slowly. ”

"Huh?!" Under Gawain's reminder, Lilith Kant finally noticed the change that had happened to her, she gasped and looked at her enemy in anger, "What did you do?!" ”

"Looks like Knight Philip has found your true 'pillar' to sustain your dreams," Gawain raised his sword, "how long can you hold on now?" ”

In the ruins of the stables behind the main building of the castle, Knight Philip directly slashed the secret door in front of him - with the weakening of the nightmare's power, the doors that were originally impregnable due to the dream blockade have now lost their ability to protect themselves, and the long sword wrapped in magic power will be cut down with a sword, whether it is wood or steel, it will be torn apart in an instant.

Behind the secret door is a staircase that leads underground, and at the end of the staircase is a surprisingly large underground space.

Seeing the scene in the underground space, Knight Philip's brow furrowed tightly.

The vast underground hall was illuminated by dim magic crystal lamps, and in the obscure light, square stone pillars could be seen standing neatly arranged, each of which was carved with countless obscure magical runes and lines, but what really made the young knight angry was not the evil runes on those stone pillars, but the "things" that surrounded the stone pillars.

The rectangular platforms are arranged around the stone pillars, forming a neat structure like a matrix, and on each platform you can see a thin, twisted, shriveled human body, these people are still alive, but they are worse than dead, they lie on a layer of dark brown soft material, and some kind of umbilical cord or blood vessels like some kind of "biological tissue" connects them to the square stone pillars, one end of which is submerged into the stone pillar, and the other end divides into several branches, piercing into the skull of each person on the platform.

Those people kept the whole dream world running in this situation, their brains were drained, drained, and they could not wake up in continuous dreams, their limbs left in the real world occasionally twitched slightly, and their throats were muttered low and hoarse from time to time, but all this was just a basic nerve reflex.

On the ground between the rectangular platforms and square stone pillars, there are dry bones: they are the exhausted "firewood", the homeless people who have disappeared from this land for thirty years and do not belong to Kant's territory.

"It's ...... How...... Evil!! ”

Philip roared angrily, raised his sword high, and slashed at the nearest stone pillar.

In the cellar beneath the North Tower, the runic brilliance on the stone pillars was extinguishing one by one, and the power that maintained the continuous regeneration of the "Starlight Aggregate" was also drastically declining, Gawain easily cut off every growth limb on the body of this changeable monster, once again exposing Lilith Kant's body, and this time, the latter's regeneration had almost completely stalled, and only the sporadic lilac light that could not be formed floated in the air.

The mad woman growled, "How do you know...... How would you know! ”

"Because you asked the butler Carter to divert our attention, but accidentally revealed your last secret," Gawain couldn't help but sigh softly knowing that the situation was settled, "If I'm not mistaken, that butler is probably also a dream product, and the real Carter must have died years ago - no one can disappear into Amber's sight out of thin air, because the most powerful Shadow Master in the world can't do that, and his disappearance near the ruins of the stables only means that it is the 'inner border' of dreams ……”

"After all, you're not a professional master of nightmares, and while the Eternal Sleeper has given you great power, that power is unleashed with the help of an ancient lantern, and you're ...... It's just a half-ass. ”

The expression on Lilith Kant's face became more and more distorted, and when she heard Gawain's words, she suddenly grinned and smiled: "You reminded me that I still have this lamp...... Although it is not yet complete, the energy accumulated by this lamp has ...... What the?! ”

She looked down at her hand in astonishment, but the lantern that glowed with magic had been replaced by an ordinary lantern, and Amber's figure had only emerged from a distance at this time, and the lantern had reached her hand at some point.

The half-elf thief shook the lantern in his hand triumphantly, and his words were presumptuous and unscrupulous: "I tell you, not being able to pry open your door is already the first shame in my career!" If I can't steal your lamp again, I won't be in this business anymore! ”

This time, even Gawain had to look at Amber with an expression of surprise and admiration: he really didn't expect this guy to succeed even here, how many levels did she have on the skill tree of stealing chickens and dogs?!

But on the other side, Lilith Kant, who had lost her lantern, was strangely calm, the starlight aggregate behind her gradually dissipated, while another dark shadow gathered at her feet, looking at Gawain and Amber, the Viscountess of Kant suddenly showed a strange smile: "You think you have won?" ”

Gawain frowned.

"Our son...... I'm about to go home. ”

Lilith smiled and opened her hands, as if to welcome her son, who had traveled far away for many years, and her tone was full of joy and pride: "Bellm, my proud child, he has traveled abroad for decades, and he has grown into a true man, a true heir!" Today is the day he returns home...... Did you hear that? The bell of the carriage was already ringing on the stone pavement outside the castle, and he was returning to the place where he was born and raised, to inherit the family business and glory as the heir to the Kant family...... And you will never be able to stop his inheritance! ”

Gawain instantly clenched the long sword in his hand, he did hear it, he heard the sound of a carriage ringing illusory in his ears, he heard an inhuman creature born from a nightmare getting out of the carriage and striding towards the castle!

This was what the thirty-year-old dream really bred—this was the true interpretation of the phrase he had heard in the fragments of the memories of the Cultist of the Eternal Sleeper:

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

For thirty years, there is a "Young Master Bellm" who has traveled abroad in the hearts of all people in this land, although he has never appeared in the territory, but those letters from other places, descriptions from the lord, and rumors from the market have completely outlined the existence of this person, and Lilith Kant has accumulated a huge amount of magic in the lives of countless people for thirty years, and shaped this "individual" that originally only existed in dreams.

Her real purpose is not only to keep her husband by her side, she even wants to resurrect her son in reality!

But in this dark and corrupted ritual, she can only resurrect a monster—an indescribable monster clad in human skin, piled up by the subconscious murmurs of countless people!

The lantern had been separated from Lilith Kant, so there was no point in killing the viscountess in front of him, but Gawain had already anticipated the worst-case scenario, so he was undaunted, but clenched his sword and waited for the heir of the Kant family to step into this castle and come to this place.

The newborn Nightmare Creations are not invincible - after Knight Philip destroyed the Dream's sustaining power, the "Young Master Bellm" was nothing more than an ordinary monster with flesh and blood to be defeated.

At the gate of the castle, a black carriage was parked in the rainy night, and a "visitor" wearing a long black trench coat with no facial features came to the castle gate, he knocked on the door, and a moment later, the heavy door opened, and Carter, the butler, stood behind it with a smile on his face.

In the main hall of the castle, a procession of greetings appeared, and the band began to play to welcome the heir of the realm.

In the cellar of the North Tower, Lilith Kant's life force began to pass at a speed visible to the naked eye, she was as pale as a dead corpse, her legs could no longer stand, she knelt by the stone pavilion in the center of the cellar, looking at Gawain and Amber in front of her, with a defiant smile on her face.

But just then, the oak door of the cellar was suddenly pushed open.

The figure of Viscount Victor Kant appeared in the doorway.

Lilith's eyes widened at this moment, and she looked at the figure standing in the doorway in surprise and even horror.

"My dear...... How did you come here?! ”

Victor Kant's body seemed to be shrouded in a veil of hazy, even a little transparent, and he walked towards the center of the cellar, his tone low and gentle: "Come and see you, come and see me, come and see...... Our son. ”

"No...... You don't come here, you can't come here! Lilith exclaimed, and even miraculously stood up again, "You can't come here!" ”

"Madame, don't stop me," Victor Kant's figure swayed, and then continued to walk forward, "and don't disturb my spirit any more, this is my last wish in this nightmare." ”

In the main hall of the castle, the faceless visitor walked past the line to greet his servants, and the butler Carter accompanied him, and a hoarse and chaotic voice came from the visitor's body, which was a speech that could not be understood by the human brain, but Carter seemed to understand, smiling and nodding, and accompanied his "young master" across the hall and through the corridor.

In the cellar of the North Tower, the Viscountess rushed in vain to her husband - her fingers ran through the other's body, which made her cry: "How can this be a nightmare? How can this be a nightmare! This ......"

"It's a nightmare for all of us, Lilith," Viscount Kant looked down at his body and then at his wife in front of him, "give up, it's time for you to wake up, you're already awake." ”

He walked straight past the viscountess to the stone pavilion and put his hands on the lid of the coffin.

Before pushing it away, Viscount Kant glanced back at Gawain.

"Thank you for your help, Duke Gawain Cecil, you are a hero who saves the people, as the epic says."

The heavy lid of the coffin was pushed open.

Viscount Kant looked inside, and he saw a broken skeleton, and next to the skeleton, there were several pieces of skeleton that were significantly more slender.

And between the two skeletons, there lies the true body of a woman with her eyes closed, Lilith Kant, who is already resting in this stone pavilion.

"It's finally dawn......"

With a sigh, Victor Kant's figure gradually dissipated into the air, and the "Lilith Kant" standing outside the stone pavilion also disappeared at the same time.

An angry roar came from the direction of the castle's main building—and in the end, the faceless visitor had never been able to step into the real world.

Horseman Philip left the underground hall wearily, and after climbing to the surface, he looked at the sky with a little surprise: the rain had stopped for some time, and a glimmer of light was rising over the horizon.

"It's finally dawn......"

The young knight grunted. 8)