According to incomplete statistics, there are many principalities in the Land of Stars, and the number of principalities has remained between 70~110 for a long time.

The reason why the statistics are incomplete is that the vast majority of the principalities are too small in size and the situation is very unstable, which has led to the long-term division and unification of the country, and countless royal families in exile.

For hundreds of years, the civilization center of many principalities has been led by the six principalities, and has been radiated by the great empire of Aurora in the distant central plains, but with the continuous search for truth by scholars for hundreds of years, the scholar system has become more and more perfect and powerful.

Standing behind these two principalities were the grim figures of scholars.

At this moment, these three people are from the Duchy of Sealand and the small Duchy of Satya, which is controlled by the Sealand puppet.

Born into a small aristocratic family by the standards of the Duchy of Sealand, Ailan ran the maltose business in the northeastern part of the Duchy, but as she matured as a famous beauty magician, she gradually attracted the idea of an heir of the Duchy's Leah family.

The Leah family, who ran the most lucrative slave business in the Duchy of Sealand, were inextricably linked to the Duchy's royal family.

With the support of Leah's family, she also successfully entered the Royal Academy of Natural Sciences of Zealand, where she learned more advanced knowledge of the laws of nature, and now she is not yet 50 years old, and she is trying to obtain a bachelor's degree in extraordinary scholars.

This kind of achievement can be regarded as the level of genius that will be born only one person out of every 1,000 scholars!

Although it can't be compared to those legendary monsters, it is also a very rare genius.

Reminiscing about the past, she picked up her tea in the sandcastle shelter, and by the flickering firelight, she looked at her two companions who were gradually falling asleep, and estimated her duty time.

"Mr. Seck, wake up. ”

She called out to the old scholar, who was the most cautious and decisive of the three.

In the past month, several crises have relied on his decisiveness to get through the danger, similar to yesterday's strange situation, and he was the first to take action to prevent it from happening.

"Hmmm......"

The old man moved, but it seemed that the baby who was sleepy was still sleeping.

This is not normal for scholars.

Ailan's face changed slightly, she stretched out her right index finger, and the energy runes on her nails emitted a pale silver light, which was the ink she had carefully mixed with 1.5g of Mithril and three high-grade demonic beast bone powders to strengthen her impact on the natural environment.

The water in the Furnace Desert is so scarce!

Even if she tried her best, after spending a lot of energy, the amount of water she could gather was really pitiful, and a "poof" fell on the old man's face.

"You!!"

What is amazing is that after the old man woke up, his first reaction was extremely angry.

Although in an extremely short period of time, the old man rationally controlled his emotions, but Ailan knew that at that moment just now, he almost instinctively wanted to kill himself!

Whoop, whoop, whoop......

Alan gasped and stared at the old man.

The old man gradually relaxed, and then pressed his head in great annoyance.

"How much time did I sleep?"

"An hourglass time. ”

Ailan also relaxed, wanting to wake up the female scholar in black in the same way, but saw the female scholar leaning on the black wolf raised her eyes in the shadow of the cloak, and said in a low voice: "No need, I didn't sleep." ”

Ailan was stunned for a moment, nodded, and the two looked at the elderly on the side.

He lost his mind and muttered, "Has it only been an hourglass time? In my dream, we have spent half a month ......."

"We?"

The female scholar in black asked.

"Yes, the three of us left here together, and luckily found an ancient ruin, and we were discussing going back. ”

The old man kept looking at his old palm, shook his head in annoyance, and said: "There is a pond that can restore the vitality of cells, I seem to be back to twenty years old, and you too, keep sighing for your beauty, everything is so beautiful." ”

He jerked his head up, full of longing, and looked at the two of them.

"Tell me, is it reality now, or is it just reality? Why is it so real! I've never dreamed so real! If it's reality, why is it so short and it's so long?"

Ailan and the female scholar in black glanced at each other.

This erudite, resolute, and cautious old scholar is so flustered and fragile at the moment, and even a little crazy, which makes them feel deep down about sleep, or the dream after sleeping...... Even more frightened.

Especially the female scholar in black.

It was because of fear that she did not fall asleep.

"Master Saike, I can tell you very responsibly, it's the real world now!"

Ailan said firmly.

"Really?"

The old man muttered in a low voice, and then seemed to think of something, and looked at Ailan, his expression gradually becoming strange.

"Then how can you be sure that this is the real world and you are not asleep?"

"Me?"

Ailan was about to deny it as a matter of course, but suddenly felt a sense of weightlessness, and then the world spun around and suddenly came to her senses.

"Alan, you're finally awake!"

When he opened his eyes, what Ailan saw was the concerned face of the old scholar Saike.

The black-clothed female scholar on the side anxiously explained: "You fell asleep just now, we can't wake you up no matter how we call it, the moisture in the air here is very scarce, and I have no choice but to use weightlessness and inertia to wake you up." ”

"Wait, I remembered......"

Alan rubbed her forehead to hide the fear in her eyes.

"It seems like it was my turn to be on duty, but I fell asleep? How long did I sleep?"

"It's been less than a minute, because I don't dare to sleep, so I've been reading, and when I found you asleep, I tried to wake you up, but I didn't expect you to wake up anymore. By the way, how much time has you just spent in it?"

Ailan raised her head and looked at the two seriously.

Now, she wasn't sure if it was a dream within a dream or a real reality.

It is as if an invisible devil, disturbing the shadow of his spiritual cognition, interfering with himself behind his back, absorbing the deep fears of his soul, and destroying his rational will with weariness.

"It's been an hourglass time. ”

Ailan replied in the affirmative.

"An hourglass !?"

Saike said incredulously: "If you compare the time flow between dreams and reality, you can sleep for one day, and four months have passed in it!

Alan frowned, staring at Seke.

She said slowly: "Then how can you be sure that this is the real world, and you are not asleep?"

Seke stared at Alan, and he froze.

Immediately after, the three of them looked around at each other, and they all felt the unprecedented strangeness and fear on each other's bodies, and a cold breath rose from the tail vertebrae in the back to the back, causing goosebumps.

......

Deep underground.

Lei Luo couldn't even move a little finger, but he didn't die.

Silence and dullness, in this maddening darkness, he seems to be a myriad of ruins submerged in the ground, quietly waiting for the baptism of time to gradually disappear.

"It's the fifteenth day. ”

Although this essence clone will continue to strengthen with the continuous improvement of the natural laws of the closed cycle of the astral body, even if it wants to be promoted to the second-level biological level, I am afraid it will take two years.

Desperately, the environment he was facing at this moment was that even if he was promoted to the third-level biological level, he didn't want to get out easily.

"Huh?"

Suddenly, in the gravel, Lei Luo opened his eyes.

"The pressure on it seems to be getting lighter. ”

Relo sensed it right.

A moment later, with the sound of a beast's gasp, a palm jerked him out of the ground.

"Quack, quack, quack, you devil, you are really here...... This must be the real world!"

Lei Luo stared over, his eyes narrowing slightly.

The dark skin and scrawny figure are almost indistinguishable from walking skeletons.

He...... Or her sunken eye sockets, one eyeball is missing, and the other eyeball has lost its divine light, without a trace of waves.

With such an image, if it weren't for the black bachelor's uniform on her body, I'm afraid it would be difficult for Lei Luo to recognize that she was the young and beautiful female bachelor under the black robe.

"What the hell have you done to us! Alan is crazy, and Seck is crazy, they can't tell the difference between reality and dreams, I sacrificed my eyes, and the answer I got was because I was too close to you!"

The monster pinched Lei Luo to death.

"Tell me, you devil, what have you done to us!!!"