There are two pieces of news in front of Talos right now, one good and one bad.

The good thing is that there are indeed humans in this plane, and with the right means, he can still collect faith and strip away [laziness], but the bad thing is that mages make up a very high proportion of the human community, so high that even Talos can't believe it, and there is almost one mage for every five people.

You must know that in the main material plane, the pure mage group is the least among the three major professional systems, far less than the bloodline and the clergy, and it is not possible to find a single person with mage talent among a hundred people.

In the memory of the carrier, in the past, the spirit world was very lively, and every day there was a magic pillar of light that soared into the sky, which was a magic circle from the mages of the material plane, summoning spirit creatures to fight on the material plane.

- The spiritual creatures go to the material plane not to be the real body, but to the projection, even if they die in battle, it will not have much impact on the body, but the spiritual will is temporarily weakened for a period of time.

But I don't know when it began, the summoning from the mages of the material plane became less and less, and the spirit creatures in this area have not been summoned for nearly a hundred years.

There are usually two ways for spirits to strengthen themselves and increase their strength, one is to absorb magical energy, and the other is to devour the spiritual power of the mage.

Although the magical energy of the spirit world is rich, it is not mild - in fact, it is quite violent in any kind of magical energy - it is very difficult for spirits to absorb it directly, and it is generally necessary to find a place where the magical energy is relatively rich as a long-term residence, and through years of immersion to obtain natural absorption.

In comparison, it is much simpler to follow the principle of equal exchange to devour the pure spiritual power paid in the mage's summoning ritual, which is the fundamental reason why spirit creatures are willing to respond to the mage's summoning and go to the material plane to fight.

Talos led his seventy-six butterflies to fly in the void while thinking about problems, there is no doubt that the plane he came to this time was the most difficult to collect faith among the three planes, and the mages didn't care about any gods and beliefs.

Even the powerful divine powers such as the Lord of Agriculture and Harvest, the God of Knowledge, the God of Death, and the Moon Goddess failed to conquer the ancient Arcane Empire from the realm of faith, and could only turn to destroy from the material plane, what could he do in this plane with a small third order.

It is probably comforting that after a period of exploration, he has basically mastered the innate ability of this butterfly.

Spirits, that is, spirit creatures, are generally divided into two categories: energy bodies and spirit bodies, the former is represented by various elemental creatures, from small fire element spiders to large fire djinns, all of which belong to this category, and one of the representatives of the latter is the consciousness carrier of Talos's arrival on this plane, a butterfly that can freely use illusions and use spirit as a means of attack.

The strength of this butterfly is not high, basically only the first order, only the butterfly transformed by Talos, calcined by the soul fire and absorbed a lot of magical energy has reached the third order.

Considering the fact that the two consciousness carriers of the three-eyed octopus and the man-eating flower were polluted by the primordial desire after entering the surface world, and their strength was greatly improved, Talos opened the surface world, included all the butterflies next to him, and tried to absorb the rich magical energy in the spirit world.

There are four major elements and other magical energies in the surface world, and the concentration and quantity are basically the same as those of the main matter plane, and now when it is opened, a phenomenon similar to "air flow from high pressure to low pressure" suddenly appears.

Streams of light, fog, and aura rushed into the watch world, looking at it from afar like a long rainbow, which was very spectacular.

This phenomenon lasted for nearly half an hour before slowly disappearing.

Talos knew that the concentration of magical energy in the surface world was basically the same as that in the spirit world, and the next step was to consider how to connect with the material plane, which was the premise for spreading faith.

"Whew!"

"Whew!"

"Whew!"

The howl of the wolf was the first to break through the silence of the night, followed by the rapid and loud sound of the bell, which spread throughout the town.

"The wolves are coming, the wolves are coming!"

- It's still a very familiar dragon language.

People were awakened from their sleep, and a sense of panic immediately spread through the crowd.

"The wolves are here again!"

The blonde youth took his wand and rushed out of the gate, and soon came to the city wall, where the patrol guards and other men and women who had mastered magic were already standing among the first to spot the wolves.

On both sides of the rudimentary watchtowers, the archers were in full array, and Talos could even hear the sound of the bowstrings being tightened in extreme tension.

It was a dream, not of Talos, but of a human mage of the material plane.

After closing the Table World, Talos found a way to travel to the physical plane and enter the dreams of other intelligent beings.

He chose the right time, when he closed his eyes and used the ability granted by [Laziness], a dense number of jellyfish suddenly appeared in his sight, some drifting in the ocean, some hanging high in the sky, shimmering with different lusters.

Talos chose a relatively large jellyfish, entered it, and then saw the scene just now.

The wolves are attacking the city, there are mages, there shouldn't be too many problems, why the whole town is in a panic, Talos can't figure it out.

Soon, though, he knew why, because the movement of wolves in the distance was too loud.

Sure enough, what appeared in Talos' sight was not an ordinary wolf pack, but a pack of giant wolves.

As for how big it is, the humans in the town are not as big as the claws of a giant wolf!

It's not a wolf pack at all, it's a monster!

Even if these giant wolves don't have any spell-casting ability, their physical strength alone is a very huge threat, and it is no problem to trample a person to death with one foot, so it is no wonder that the people in the town are so panicked.

Fire Arrows, Storm Arrows, Venom Droplets, Quicksand, Vines, Fireballs, Curse of Slowness......

Hiding in the clouds, Talos condescendingly observed, and found that the mages who resisted the attack of the giant wolf were not of high level, and all the spells they used were the spells of the elemental faction of the main material plane, all of which were the shaping and use of the four elements or magical energy.

The fireball fell on the giant wolf like a little spark on a person, except for the pain of touching the skin, and then there was no more.

The giant wolf just shook his fur, extinguished the fire, and continued to run with a roar.

Without Talos, it would have been a nightmare for this dream to continue to develop, but since he was there, he would not have allowed the giant wolf to slaughter humans.

Moreover, Talos is also a little selfish, as early as the day when he awakened [Lazy] and gained the ability to dream, he wanted to try to show miracles and collect faith through dreams.

Now the time has come.

As soon as Talos thought about it, the content of the dream immediately changed, the clouds dispersed, the divine light bloomed, and the mages who were fighting the giant wolf and the townspeople who were terrified by the attack of the giant wolf turned their eyes to the sky at the same time.

It was a grotesque-looking creature, with a naked, sturdy upper body that was indistinguishable from a human, but it had two pairs of arms, and the lower half of its body was a swirling vortex of clouds and mist, with the occasional flash of energy lightning - this was also the image that Talos naturally manifested when he entered the dream realm.

Talos stretched out his right upper arm and made a move towards the sky, and a light rain fell, all towards the giant wolf, and the town was not affected at all.

The giant wolf was defenseless against the raindrops, and as soon as it was hit, it was a bloody hole, and there was a sound of broken bones.

This is Talos based on the bloodline specialty "Rainstorm" evolved in a dream, each drop of rain is a highly compressed stream, a drop weighs a ton, plus it fell from a high altitude, and it is only a problem that the giant wolf is not stoned to death.

After doing this, Talos didn't say much, and turned into a divine light and left.

Next, Talos entered the dreams of other humans, collecting clues and piecing together information about the physical plane, while performing miracles and eliminating nightmares when encountered.

For three days in a row, Talos wandered in the dream realm, and at the same time, he also determined the time ratio between the local plane and the main material plane, which was basically a year in the spirit world equivalent to one day in the main material plane.

However, what puzzled Talos was that 90% of the nightmares he encountered in three days were related to monsters, either giant wolves attacking the city, or giant python crises, and even animals such as cockroaches, dragonflies, rats, sparrows, and rabbits were huge and threatening to human survival.

The 90% ratio forced Talos to make a very bold assumption that what humanity experienced in the nightmare was not just a nightmare, but was actually playing out on the physical plane.

Maybe it's because the physical plane has undergone some kind of law change, the animal suddenly grows in size and becomes a monster, and the human being, who was originally the master of the world, has unfortunately become food and becomes one of the recipes of the animals, or maybe there is an accident in a magic laboratory......

Talos had a meeting and re-plugged it, deciding to continue collecting clues in his dreams while looking for a suitable agent.

On the seventh day of spiritual time, Talos once again entered the dream of the blonde youth in the dream of the giant wolf siege, and this time, he found the answer.

Not a world upheaval, not an experimental accident, but a curse, a curse from a witch.

It's very simple, a hundred years ago, the Emperor inadvertently offended an invited witch at a banquet because the cutlery was made of silver instead of gold.

The witch felt that she was not being treated with the respect she deserved, so she angrily cursed the entire human race of the kingdom, turning them into thumb men.

That is to say, the size of the giant wolf, python, mouse, and rabbit that Talos saw in his dream did not actually change, and what really changed was humans, only the size of a normal human thumb.

What once dominated the continent has become a full thumb country.

The Thumb Villain version of the mages had a significant drop in mental power, and the spirits that could be easily summoned from the Spirit Realm had become difficult.

What's even worse is that the second-class spirits who responded to the call are no longer as obedient as before, and there have even been several vicious incidents of spirits devouring mages.

Because of this, the mages gradually gave up summoning spells, and the monsters from the real world already hung a sword over their heads that could fall at any time, and there was really no need to summon creatures from the spirit world to harm themselves.

"Thumb Country?"

Talos didn't bother to think about whether this was the opportunity he was looking forward to, but thought very seriously about the level of a witch who could turn an entire empire of humanity into a thumb man.