Chapter 59: Leaving the Illusion
In the fantasy Castle Black, in the velvet-carpeted room where the villagers were imprisoned, Lijielit showed Roth the still alive head of Skena as if she were showing some rare object.
Roth couldn't think of any reason for Ligeret to arrest him again, so he had to find the thing himself.
Even if you don't look at the fact that Lijielit has the strength of almost the master of the world in this illusory realm, her own realm alone is not something that ordinary legends can resist, and Sken may have broken through the legend in these decades, but how can he have the courage to trouble Lijielit?
Skeng's mouth opened, but he couldn't speak, without his lungs and throat.
"Lot, would you like to hear what he has to say?" asked Ligerett.
Roth didn't quite know what to say, "I'm really curious about what kind of mentality he has, but I don't want to hear it that much...... What are you going to do with him?"
In Roth's opinion, in the original past, the man died that night, and now he is just a phantom deduced by divine magic, and it doesn't matter if he is dead or alive.
"It depends on the mood...... Lijliet said with a shake of her hands, and a throat and lungs suddenly appeared under Sken's head, like a folded book that has been opened, which is really a little scary to look at, and Roth couldn't help but jump his eyelids.
"Please let me be your servant! I know I'm wrong!" was the first thing Skeng said as he regained his ability to speak.
Roth looked at him helplessly and said, "What did you think about earlier......
"Yes, it's me who is arrogant! I, I've been promoted to the limit of space after I was promoted to legend, and that feeling makes me feel like I'm omnipotent, I'm ......"
Lijielit smiled: "Uh-huh, it is difficult for a person like you to become a legend, once you become a person who is a good person, it is easy to have a sense of omnipotence because of the knowledge of the top level in advance, I have also seen one or two examples." But ah, didn't I get through your malicious teleportation once again? Why don't you have a long memory, huh?"
"I, no, the villain, I don't know the height of the sky, I feel that I have touched a higher realm, so I have delusions that I shouldn't have......"
Lijielit's hand shook again, and Sken's entire body was thrown out by her like this, but there was no skin, and the red, yellow, and white were directly exposed to the air, "I'm not resisting your spell, if it didn't take effect before, then you think that you have a high level of being yourself and do have a chance to break through my resistance." But didn't I resist in the first place, your spell took effect, but I just wasn't teleported away, even if you want to take revenge, you should start from other directions, right?"
"Ghost, ghost, I'm ghost......" Skeng begged for mercy.
"After all, if you hadn't watched my battle, you wouldn't have had a chance to become a legend, and you're so embarrassed...... Forget it, for the sake of Roth's lack of intercession, I'll let you go, and the servants won't need anything, get out. Ligeret let go of Sken's head, and his body was completely restored, and he collapsed naked on the ground.
He got up and made a strange gesture of etiquette to both Ligeret and Roth, and immediately teleported away.
"What a nondescript ......," Lijlitt shook her head and asked Roth again, "Roth, what do you think?"
Roth replied, "What's the point, didn't he ask for it?"
"Hmph~ don't you think it's too cruel?" asked Lijlit.
This must have been a whim, Roth thought to himself, "Damn people can survive, where can it be said to be cruel, besides, this is just a fantasy, and you also said that this can't really change the past." Anyway, since that guy has become a legend, is Jieli's life over? But I feel like it's only been a month. ”
"I wanted to see more than her generation's life, so the time coefficient is a little bit faster than you think. As for Jie Li, she ...... Well, with the blessing of her children and grandchildren, she ended her ordinary life as an unknown nun. "It's been a boring life, but it's a good life, and her faith is flawed because of her encounter with me, but she didn't try to be a great priest, and it didn't make any difference in the end." She has lived as a vampire for hundreds of years, and she has never forgotten her belief in the god of light, and her life has been very entangled, especially when her belief in the god of light is gradually declining, and she is miserable every day, compared to such a short life, it may indeed be very happy. ”
The decades she had lived as a human had been more important to her than the hundreds of years since she became a vampire...... I was supposed to be born as a human being, but I lost my early memories, and now I've lived as a monster from the beginning, so I don't understand why she's like this. After being trapped here, I didn't suppress this uncontrollable state of death, in addition to helping me relieve my boredom, maybe I also wanted to use this to solve my doubts. At this time, Lijielit held out her hand, and the scene of the village, which had not changed for decades, appeared in front of Lot's eyes, and a young girl who looked very similar to Jieli was walking on the way to the village church.
Roth asked, "If you're just looking at this, wouldn't you just rewrite this illusion?"
"You know the name of the Lost Realm, but you don't seem to know how it actually works, do you?" said Lijlit, "I don't know what would happen if the true gods intervened, and if I tried to rewrite the past, the illusion would burst like a soap bubble in no time." ”
Roth frowned, "It was Sken who rescued the villagers this time, but I didn't do anything that could change his ending...... Or would Sken have died at the hands of Kosei?"
Ligerlit shook her head, "It's also the first time I've seen the development of the illusion really changed...... Who knows? I actually found myself less interested when I saw her granddaughter's generation, but you've only been there for a month...... Anyway, if you don't eat, drink, or sleep, you can really entertain yourself with this long knife for so long, I was ready to fish you out at any time...... Isn't there something wrong with your mental state as a human being?"
Roth said: "I do feel like I can't practice anything, and it doesn't matter. So are you going to let me go now, and what are you going to do after that?"
He didn't answer...... Ligeret wondered why.
"I'm leaving too. Thanks to you, this state of vanity seems to be complete, and now I have the ability to stop it. And the power of filth...... It's a bit irresponsible to say that, but in order to deal with that guy who can't see his face clearly, I have collected all the blood and qi that was originally used to balance the power of filth, and now it may be a bit chaotic outside......" Lijielit was a little embarrassed, "Anyway, if I sacrifice most of my strength, I can get out now, but there is one thing that will be more troublesome." ”
After hearing this, Roth was shocked and said, "If it is really like what you said, then I can't take off the hat of this calamity!"
"Scourge, you seem to have thought about this term a few times in a fantasy, what is it?"
Rott told Lijielit about his conflict with the evil man, and halfway through the conversation, it occurred to him that Lijielit was also an immortal, the kind that might be longer than the elves, could he give any advice?
Unexpectedly, Lijielit actually said: "Ah, there are such people." ”
"What, really, really?" Roth's luck was dealt a heavy blow.
"But I don't think you're a disaster star, isn't every time you encounter something finally solved? Like this time, after I run out with you, this black castle will be a rootless tree, and I'll help you arrange it again, so that you can solve everything as soon as you go out, then aren't you a disaster star?"
Is a person who can solve the disaster he encounters still a disaster star?
Maybe it depends on whether those disasters can be avoided.
That big bang Roth felt that he couldn't do anything about it anyway, and he really couldn't solve it.
The appearance of the clown was not a disaster in the first place, and what happened in the elven kingdom didn't seem to have anything to do with him.
But this time, if it weren't for him, Lijielit didn't know how long she would last, and she ...... Is this a solution to the problem?
Ligeret continued as Roth pondered, "This is the first time I've heard the word Calamity, but I've seen a lot of people with a specific destiny like this. For example, some people have food luck, and they can eat local specialties everywhere they go, even if the conditions are so harsh that they can only eat on the night of a certain day in a particular month. Or some people are just war-lucky, and after becoming a mercenary, they will fight everywhere they go. I'm not a theological person, and I don't know if this fate has anything to do with God's arrangement, but I can say that you certainly don't have bad luck. ”
“...... Can you help me convince the Evildoers?" asked Roth.
"I don't want to! I don't even plan to show my face!" Ligillet refused, "Do you think it's easy to deal with the power of filth? You people have the blessings of the true God, but I don't! I don't know if I can remain human after I get out......"
Roth didn't expect it to be like this, "So what are you going to do?"
“...... What would you do if I said I'm going to drain everyone around me of blood?" asked Lijlit.
"I don't have the position or ability to stop you, if you let me go, I guess I'll have to take the initiative to find the evil people and let them lock me up. Roth thought with a stinky face.
"Even if you let me out, you won't want to arrest me personally?"
"Even if you say I'm not a scourge, if you really kill the people in this city outside, I'll feel like I'm a calamity. The most important thing I should do is to cooperate with those experienced evildoers to minimize the harm they cause, instead of chasing after you and causing harm to people everywhere knowing that I am a plague. Roth smiled bitterly.
Lijielit stared at him for a while, and said with a smile: "Just kidding, just kidding! You people all have the power of the true god in you, I suck your blood, who knows what will happen, I don't dare!"
There are other problems with this, right? Roth wondered, "No, how can you live if you can't even suck blood?"
"So I'm going to follow you first, don't say you don't want to!" said Ligerlit.
Roth has mixed feelings, and he doesn't know whether he is happy or unhappy.
After all, she can't follow her like a human being, and the feelings she gets along with in this situation are pure, but Roth feels that he doesn't have such a big pursuit in this regard......
But let's not talk about whether he can refuse or not, he doesn't want to refuse this matter either.
Ligeret looked at his expression, listened to his heart—yes, he was still in the illusion she controlled—and began to think that Roth was a little interesting in his own right.
"Yes, yes, I just don't know what's going on out there......" Roth sighed.
This question made Lijielit a little embarrassed, "I really can't see what it's like outside after the balance of power is destroyed, but it should be fine, in the black castle outside, isn't Jieli's shadow always blocking the adventurers from letting me make a move? ”
It turns out that the female guard is really Jieli after becoming a vampire......
Roth didn't ask about the ending of the vampire Jieli, but he asked something else, "What are you going to do with these villagers in the illusion?"
Lijielit didn't seem to understand what he was asking, "What to do, I can't watch them for the rest of my life, even if they are the descendants of Jieli." ”
That's the reason.
And not because it's a fantasy so it doesn't make sense.
The previous Sken was completely saved, and it was obviously just a part of this illusion.
"For the long-lived species, the joys, sorrows, loves, hatreds, and hatreds of the short-lived species in just a few decades will be no different from this state of vain death?" Roth asked.
Ligeret tapped him on the head, "Oh, that month didn't turn you into a madman, but made you a philosopher? ”
"Meaningful?"
"How can the time I have experienced be meaningless?"
This sentence was a bit too dazzling for Roth.
He held the long knife that had been used by the Men in Gray.
The knife has lost its ability to store internal forces, but its real changes are elsewhere.
A knife is enough.
Roth knew that his ego still existed as a result of the Grey Man's carefulness and care.
"Let's get out of here, it's not good if there's one outside!"
Ligeret was not in a hurry at all.
"Okay, let's go. ”
The wheel of divine power kept spinning around Lista.
A black thorn was cut by the twin swords, and a female archer who was almost pierced by the thorn sat on the ground in fright.
"Don't make a move on that guy if you don't have enough skills!" Lista yelled at her, "Don't hurry up and run!"
The archer, who was also supposed to be an adventurer, thanked him unwillingly, and then fled as fast as he could, in the opposite direction of the battlefield.
Lista breathed a sigh of relief, then turned to look at the shadow of the woman standing at the top of the black castle and gritted her teeth.
Several black thorns appeared almost out of thin air, and the wheel of divine power spun again, and the figure of Lista suddenly disappeared, and then appeared outside the thorn encirclement.
He didn't make senseless attacks on the thorns, just looked for anyone else in crisis.
It's only been half a day since Lista left the illusion.
All the adventurers who entered the illusion, except for Rot, were thrown out at the same time as Lista, and he didn't know if Rott had left the illusion, but he felt that Rott might not be able to come back.
Since then, many changes have taken place in the city, and according to the information, some shadows have begun to fade away, and some new shadows have begun to appear, including the female guard who has been holding back the adventurers.
The Adventurers' Association forced all adventurers to leave the castle for the sake of safety, it's not that the Adventurers' Association doesn't have the courage to take risks at all, it's just that they know that there must be people who secretly investigate here without the Association, and these people may not choose to wait and see.
In this case, it is better to let those who are not willing to do things according to the system take risks for them, in the eyes of the Adventurers Association, even if there is no brand and soldier ants, it is better than those "adventurers" outside the system.
Of course, they are also gathering those who don't have a brand, promising all kinds of benefits that will be discounted if they leave the association, and plan to find an opportunity to send them to find out the situation.
It's just that before they could find out the situation, the situation came to them.
The female guards, who had begun to fade away, could no longer stop those who were advancing towards the throne, and of course, the shadow of the true owner of Castle Black was alarmed.
And the improvised city where the adventurers lived was destroyed in an instant.
Countless black thorns filled with filthy power appeared without warning, as if the entire land had been replaced.
Fortunately, except for the adventurers in the city, they are also members of the association, and the association's assessment of the danger of the castle is very high, because this place is at least a metal-level person, or at least a person who is considered to have metal-level strength, and no one can even survive the initial change.
Of course, there are also some low-level adventurers who have heard that entering the black castle for the first time will not be dangerous, sneaking in with the dream of becoming famous in one fell swoop, entering the castle from a place other than the main entrance, and those adventurers will not care about it, and Lista does not want to care.
Fortunately, the mysterious owner of the castle did not seem to have any intention of leaving the castle, but kept sending bloody thorns to chase down all the adventurers around the castle, most of whom chose to flee, but some chose to stay and fight because the initial attack was not very aggressive.
It's just that the more you resist, the stronger the thorn becomes.
Lista takes the Wheel of Divine Power everywhere to rescue adventurers in danger, and in the eyes of the other departments of the association, this is a very responsible adventurer, but it seems very bizarre to the personnel who directly manage the adventurer's adventurer guild.
Isn't this supposed to be like this?
Three swords of fighting spirit burst through the air, pointing directly at the shadow standing at the top of the castle!
However, three thorns appeared out of thin air, and although they were shattered by the sword of fighting energy, they also consumed their strength.
When the surprise attack failed, the sword of Dou Qi flew back to its master, and a person walked in the air, stepping on the long sword forged by Dou Qi with every step.