Using his ability to connect, Hobart did detect a problem with the connection between the soldier named Bruce Weir and the spirit world.

This is a difficult problem to notice, and it is only when the other person acts accordingly that he can use the relevant powers to perceive that his connection to the spirit world seems to be very obscure.

Before Hobart could remind everyone, Soldier Bob said that Bruce had died two months ago!

Reminded by Bob, Egbert also "remembered": "Yes, we buried him together, and we buried him in ...... Buried on the way to this watchtower. ”

Bruce was at first at a loss, and then seemed to remember, "yes! I'm dead! ”

At this moment, his military uniform became old, the pupils of his eyes disappeared, turning completely white, and there were a few signs of decay on his cheeks.

Boom~

The next second, he fell straight to the ground.

Immediately after, from Bruce's corpse, a pale green vague figure floated up.

This change frightened the soldiers, but Hobert kept "locking" them there with an "air cage", and he couldn't even retreat.

Instead of attacking the green shadow right away, Hobert asked, "Who are you?" ”

The pale green phantom turned a deaf ear to Hobert's questioning, and he asked the soldier next to him, "Why are you starting a war?" ”

The soldier took a deep breath and said in a somewhat trembling voice, "Because...... Because of justice! ”

"No, no side in this war is just!" The pale green phantom finished speaking, and rushed towards the soldier.

The soldier closed his eyes in horror and waited for death, and the others thought that the soldier was going to die.

But at this critical moment, a black film suddenly appeared in front of the soldier, and the phantom hit the film and was bounced away.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief at this time, and then everyone heard Archduke Hobert ask again, "Who are you?" Where did it come from? ”

The soldiers immediately understood that the black film was Duke Hobert's ability, and Captain Egbert was a little surprised, and sighed in his heart that the level of Grand Duke Hobert had once again exceeded his expectations.

Still not answering Hobert's question, Green Shadow asked the other soldiers, "Why are you going to war?" ”

The soldiers had different answers: "For the king!" ”

"I don't know."

"Because politicians are curly baboons."

"For the sake of profit."

……

When it was Egbert's turn at last, he replied: "If we can win, I will receive an officer's allowance, and my family will live in abundance." ”

The pale green phantom didn't seem satisfied with any of these answers, and asked around before finally asking Hobert, "Why are you going to war?" ”

Hobert asked, "Why should I answer your question?" ”

The phantom was slightly stunned by this rhetorical question: "Why can't you answer?" ”

"Well, let's make a deal, and I'll answer one of your questions, and you'll answer one of my questions." Hobert Road.

The soldiers and the archbishop of the Church of the Goddess of the Night were stunned: could this still be bargained?

But what they didn't expect was that the phantom actually said, "Yes." ”

So Hobart said, "Please repeat your question." ”

"Why are you going to war?"

Hobart replied, "For me, war is waged because of the creation of the kingdom of ideals. ”

The Phantom seemed to be interested in this answer, and then asked, "Why do you need to use the form of war to build the ideal kingdom?" ”

"It's my turn to ask." Hobart smiled, "You need to answer my first question before I can answer your question." ”

"Excuse me."

Hobart asked, "Who are you?" ”

"I am the epitome of your war."

Hobert immediately said, "Please be clear. ”

The phantom doesn't eat this: "This is your second question?" ”

"It's not." Hobert looked at the phantom, "But you've already asked the second question, and I've already answered it." ”

Egbert and the others were stunned: Grand Duke Hobert...... Even monsters are pitted!

Bin on the side almost burst out laughing: this is the end of playing word games with the "lawyer".

The phantom was stunned on the spot, obviously not expecting that he had made a low-level mistake.

Hobart continued: "My answer is very clear, and your answer is difficult to understand, and such an answer is obviously not good.

"I ask you to explain it before you can continue with the question, and if you don't know the answer, you can automatically skip to the next question.

"Plus, you owe me the answer to a question at the moment."

The phantom obviously paused again before saying, "I come from the unwillingness, helplessness, and the smell of corpse decay in the war. ”

Hobert and Bing suddenly understood: it turned out that the phantom was manipulating the corpse through the breath of corruption just now, no wonder they didn't feel the power of the "Death" path.

"You see, if you don't explain it, it's not the same as your answer just now." Hobert said, "Then let me ask you a second question: Are you a collection of the undead born of war?" ”

The phantom didn't answer immediately this time, but seemed to think for a moment before answering: "I'm more like the emotional resonance of the war, and then formed with the support of 'external forces'. ”

It paused and asked, "Why would you rather start a war and die so many people than build your ideal kingdom?" ”

"Because it is a sacrifice, it is the darkness before the dawn." "First of all, I want to make it clear that there are two sides to everything.

"I am very disgusted with that kind of brainless anti-war behavior, because some wars are inevitable, or the fire of war can temper human society.

"For example, the war I launched in the Southern Continent is different from the war in the Northern Continent.

"After the end of the war, the Duchy of South Bailang will carry out major construction, which will allow more people to live and live better.

"The war in the Northern Continent is just a few people, or a group of people fighting for interests, the meaning of the war is different, and the result is certainly different.

"So, in my opinion, in order to have fewer deaths in the future, it is necessary to wage war now, and some wars will come sooner or later, so it is better to find the kind of time that can kill as few people as possible.

"In addition, we have saved hundreds of thousands of people who would die of hunger and cold in the civil war in the Principality of South Bailang so far, and the war against the Highland Kingdom has saved thousands of slaves and maidens who are about to be sacrificed to the evil gods.

"That's the meaning of war, we don't want to fight, but there are always reasons to have to!"

These words not only stunned the phantom, but even the soldiers such as Egbert and the archbishop guest fell into deep thought.

Hobert then asked, "According to your description, you should have been on the battlefield of those tragic tug-of-wars, why are you here?" ”

The phantom replied, "Because here is the opportunity for me to form." ”

Then it explained: "This opportunity just appeared a few days ago. ”

The phantom asked again: "Then why did the war in the Northern Continent kill so many people, and it still makes people feel that the war in the Southern Continent is not as meaningful?" ”

"Because they don't wage war for the well-being of ordinary people." Hobert also explained: "Or that the people who wage war don't care about the lives of ordinary people.

"The meaning of their war is for the sake of interests and other cold things, and thinking about the meaning of war is only carried out by people with warmth, so there is no way out for thinking about this kind of war."

Then He asked, "Did you speak of the opportunity from the stars?" ”

When he asked this question, Hobert raised his hand and "distorted" everyone's hearing, so Egbert and the others did not hear the word "starry sky".

The Phantom replied, "I don't know, but I do have a certain amount of starry sky power. ”

It asked: "You just said that the Duchy of South Bailang saved so many people, so how many people died on both sides in the war?" ”

Hobert said: "The current losses of our army are that the extraordinary ones have sacrificed more than thirty people, and the ordinary soldiers have sacrificed more than fifty people!" ”

This number shocked Egbert and the others again, just killed so many people to attack the capital of the Highland Kingdom?

"As for the enemy, their losses are relatively large." Hobert said: "The Extraordinary alone has already killed four or five hundred people, and the death toll of ordinary soldiers is about eight hundred.

"They were in the service of the nobles, and when the nobles fled or surrendered, they were scattered, so the casualties were not great.

"But civilians died a lot, more than 300,000 civilians died in the city of Asune alone."

Hobert then asked, "Where is the telescope on the third floor?" ”

"I don't know." The phantom said, "You can change the question." ”

Hobert asked again: "Where is Leonid at the moment?" ”

"I don't know."

Hobert spread his hands: "This is the end of our Q&A. ”

As he spoke, a black crystal wrapped around a pale green phantom.

But then, a phantus of the same color appeared outside the window, and it floated outside and said: "It's useless, there are too many people killed in this war, and every rotting corpse represents a doppelganger of mine."

"Your body will decay sooner or later, so why don't you let me help it decay now."

Hobert said: "I'm different, if it weren't for external forces, I would have lived for a long, long time, so I don't need your help." ”

As he spoke, he "distorted" the space and led everyone out of the watchtower, and in a few breaths, they came to the south side of the mountain range.

Hobart said to them, "Go ahead and talk about your names and dates of birth. ”

Since this verification method is so simple, it is definitely necessary to verify the rest of these people again.

Fortunately, everyone else spoke about themselves very smoothly, and there were no problems like Soldier Brooke's.

Hobert said to them, "You guys go first, I'll try to deal with that guy." ”

Without waiting for everyone to answer, Hobert hurried back to the watchtower.

At this time, the watchtower had no breath of life, and even the phantom was gone.

Hobert went to the third floor, stood in front of the telescope, and pulled it off the shelf with both hands.

Hobert then sealed the telescope with the "Order Crystal", but his spirit soon realized that the connection between the telescope and the starry sky was not closed.

The telescope was indeed a passage in the first place, and turned the telescope into a Level 3 seal, which could unleash curses on those around it.

If you use a telescope for a long time, you can still suffer from unknown pollution.

But after the channel is established, it doesn't matter if it exists or not.

Standing in front of the empty shelves of the telescope, Hobart pondered what to do with the phantom.

First of all, this phantom has no substance, and physical attacks have no effect.

The point is that this phantom has a very high level of intelligence, and it is difficult to trick it into gathering all the clones together, so sealing this path with the "Order Crystal" will not work.

The only thing Hobart could think of at the moment was to cut off its source of power.

But how to cut it off is another problem, according to the phantom's own statement, it comes from the unwillingness, helplessness and the smell of corpse decay in the war.

At present, Hobert does not have the energy to end the war and burn all the corpses that died in the war!

This idea obviously didn't work, so Hobert changed his mind: where did the power of this phantom come from?

By its own admission, part of its power comes from the stars, and Hobart first thought of the outer god associated with the breath of decay: the Fallen King.

Although Hobert is unaware of his exact authority, it sounds a bit like the god of war, and this outer god also seems to symbolize decay to some extent.

This reminded Hobart of an ice-blue metal cylinder in the "Land of Disorder", which was suspected to have something to do with the "Declining King".

The cylinder was captured by Hobert when he killed Herwin Lambis of the Psychic Alchemy.

At this time, Hobert thought of the previous phantom saying that it "originated from the unwillingness and helplessness in the war", which is all a display of emotion or emotion.

This is obviously not the same thing as the authority of "decay", but somewhat similar to the authority of the "audience" pathway, but with obvious differences.

At that time, Hobart wondered why he would "find" the extraordinary person of the audience if the ice-blue metal cylinder was related to the "Declining King".

Now it seems that the "Declining King" may still have some authority similar to the "audience" path, so this seal will fall into the hands of the Psychological Alchemy Society?

Hobert shook his head, not thinking about this question for a while, but following the train of thought just now: Is the moment when the phantom said that he appeared when the seal in Leonid's hand showed signs of losing control?

This is very likely, and the seal is probably also related to the "Decaying King" of the outer gods, so its loss of control has caused the "corruption" of the corpses on the battlefield and the emotions of unwillingness and helplessness to connect the "Decaying King" in the starry sky through this telescope, forming a phantom.

If this conjecture is correct, then finding the seal may lead to an opportunity to cut off the source of the Illusory Power.

As for how to find the seal, Hobert had a good idea, he took out the crystal box containing the ice-blue metal cylinder from the "Disordered Country", opened the seal on his behalf, took the cold cylinder in his hand, and used it to "associate" the seal in Leonid's hand.

As Hobart expected, he soon found a certain connection, and the seal in Leonid's hand was indeed not far away.

Having basically determined Leonid's position, he made some simple preparations and immediately attacked.

Following the connection between the two, Hobert soon found Leonid in the dense forest, who was glowing with dusk light.

He was sitting cross-legged on the ground, in front of him a flesh-colored crystal that was constantly changing shape, and if it weren't for the reflection of the surface of the stone, it would have looked more like a piece of rotten flesh that was constantly moving.

At this time, the surrounding circle of the stone emitted a twilight light, which caused the surrounding trees to quickly dry up and decay, and it was obvious that Leonid was trying to seal the seal.

Hobert was about to snatch it, but Leonid suddenly stepped back and stopped controlling the seal.

Hobert was slightly stunned, but immediately realized that this guy was about to lose control of the seal in front of him, and he wished that someone would take over at this time.

But why didn't Leonid pray for the power of the god of war?

While thinking about Hobert, he condensed a "Order Crystal" and put it on the "Flesh-colored Crystal Stone", and this seal was immediately honest.

Leonid was stunned when he saw this, and he seemed to hesitate to come back and snatch the seal.

Instead of immediately putting away the seal, Hobert asked, "Why has this seal been so active lately?" ”

Prior to this war, there had been three large-scale wars in the Fifth Age alone, and all of them had very long war cycles.

If it really appeared because of the illusion of large-scale war, then it should have appeared a long time ago, after all, many people died in classical wars, and there were plagues and famines after the war, especially civilians, who would have died a lot.

If it were only because of the war, the phantom would have appeared a long time ago.

Combined with Leonid's efforts to seal the "flesh-colored crystal stone" just now, Hobert believes that this seal has been too active recently, which is the main reason for the appearance of the phantom.

Leonid sneered, not meaning to answer.

Hobert said, "If I can't properly seal this seal due to lack of information, then I will throw it on the body of an angel of the God of War Church while you are fighting with the Night Goddess Church." ”

Leonid was stunned for a moment before saying, "That's because the Night Goddess has not strengthened the power of the barrier in the astral realm recently, so some outer gods have the opportunity to infiltrate some power into the real world." ”

At this time, Hobert was thinking in his heart: this is definitely on purpose!

First of all, this is a sign of weakness, and the goddess of the night says that she is too busy to take care of the barrier.

The point is that the Goddess of the Night has long known that the God of War Church has the seal of "Flesh-colored Crystal Stone", and at the beginning of the war, she planned to let Hobert, who has the "Order Crystal", take it.

At this time, there were a few loopholes in the barrier, and the "Declining King" infiltrated a little power into the real world, making the "flesh-colored crystal stone" seal that the goddess of the night had been hoping for suddenly come alive.

Hobart doesn't believe it could all be a coincidence.

Then He asked, "Why don't you ask the god of war for help?" ”

Leonid, who was about to leave, paused: "This is the secret of our church. ”

After speaking, his whole person turned into a twilight-colored light and disappeared into the dense forest, and at this time, the spiritual world suddenly flashed a twilight-colored light, and Leonid's figure was quickly outlined, and he left through the spiritual world.

Hobert thoughtfully picked up the seal on the ground, and Leonid's answer seemed to explain that the god of war seemed to be unable to provide any help for some special reasons.

Returning to the third floor of the watchtower, Hobart lifted the seal, and the flesh-colored crystal stone became active again.

Hobert poured spirit into the crystal through the air, and the beauty of the sea and the dense forest in front of him suddenly appeared like a broken color picture, with a black hole in the middle.

This hole gives people a very profound feeling, as if they are leading to the depths of the universe.

Hobart "magnifies" and "distorts" the power of the real world, as if piling up the space around him in the direction of a black hole, and quickly fills the hole.

"It's useless, the power from the starry sky is just the initial power that formed me, and I don't need it anymore." At this time, the phantom once again floated outside the third floor:

"Unless you end the war, unless you burn all the rotting corpses, I will always exist, and I will grow stronger and stronger."

Hobert temporarily sealed the "flesh-colored crystal stone", and he frowned: This is not okay?

It's really a bit difficult to do, there are too many sources of power for this phantom.

And as the war continues, it will indeed be given more nourishment.

The Phantom knew that it couldn't hurt Hobert, so it gathered around her, saying things that made her give up.

Hobart thought for two or three minutes, but he couldn't think of a good way, and he was about to ask the goddess of the night for help again, but suddenly remembered the method he had just found to identify the soldiers.

Then he had a very good idea, and smiled at the phantom, "You are very redundant in the real world. ”

As he spoke, Hobert first prayed to the "Founder", and then began to arrange the "Spirit Wall" in earnest, and added a layer of "Order Crystal" barrier to the "Spirit Wall".

Only then did he enter the "Land of Disorder" with confidence, take the "0-78" spiritual field that had just been seized from the stone platform, and project the power of the "founder" into the real world through his own stars.

After seeing the phantom, which was still "fearless", the "founder" picked up the "spiritual field" full of barbs and began to build a "spiritual cage" between the spiritual world around the phantom and the real world.

The phantom seems to have encountered something wrong and immediately wants to escape from the "cage".

The "founder" was "magnified", and in an instant, a third of the Minersk Mountains were suddenly covered by a "spiritual cage"!

The "Founder" sitting on the "Iron Throne" held the "spiritual field" in his hand, and began to use the power of "association" to quickly find the connection between the virtual shadow and the spiritual world.

As Hobart had predicted, its connection to the spirit world was abnormal, and at this time, these connections were blocked from the real world by the "spiritual cage".

Hobert uses the "spiritual field" to "dismantle" these connections little by little for spiritual manipulation.

Even if the phantom shuttles between doppelgangers does not help, Hobert can always find the past along the spiritual connection and continue to "dismantle".

It wasn't until the Phantom was cut off from the whole world in terms of spirituality and the spirit world that Hobert came to the Bell Hall unhurriedly.

At this time, although the phantom could still use the decaying clone to shuttle through the "spiritual cage", it could clearly feel that the whole world was rejecting it more and more.

Boom~

At this time, a distant bell suddenly rang in mid-air.

The sound of the bell stirred up flocks of birds in the woods, adding a touch of agility and vitality to the mountains that had just begun to bud.

The phantom stood there in a daze, and suddenly, a young face appeared in the phantom: "I can't die here, my mother is still looking forward to my coming home......"

Immediately after that, a twenty-seven or eighteen-year-old officer appeared in the phantom: "Am I going to die?" Will I never see my wife and newborn daughter again? ”

The image of the phantom is constantly changing: "...... Why? Am I not going to get married with my fiancée, but I'm going to die in this mud? ”

“…… Why do you want to kill me when I surrender? ”

“…… I didn't start the war, but why should I die? ”

“…… Hehe, this world, why is it only cold? ”

“…… Child, did you escape safely? You're only 7 years old, what are you going to do in the future? What should you do? ”

“……”

At this moment, Hobert in the bell tower was reluctant to continue pushing the bell hammer, but in the next second, he gritted his teeth and rang the "bell of order" again.

Boom~

There should not be a phantom in this world, disappearing in an instant.

(End of chapter)