Chapter 170 Breeding in the Shadows

Gawain walked in this lucid dream.

He didn't know what the principle of this change was, but he guessed that the reason for this change was mostly related to the hapless Eternal Sleeper cultist-in the process of devouring the remaining minds of the other party, he came into contact with the scattered knowledge of the Eternal Sleeper, those Sporadic knowledge is not as simple as memorizing data. As "knowledge" in the mortal realm, it is a power in itself.

They gave Gawain this ability to function in lucid dreaming.

As Gawain walked, he fashioned something in his hand from time to time according to what he thought, and in the process he realized the limitations of this "shaping". Probably because he didn't get the real power of the Eternal Sleeper, the things he created in the dream still had the characteristics of "fantasy", which only had a fake appearance, but had no real effect.

The drink he made had no taste, and the phone he fashioned from memory couldn't be turned on.

And those imaginary objects that do not exist in the real world are even more difficult to maintain their appearance for a long time.

But it was from this crippled and useless ability that he kept learning about the nature of this particular heretical sect of the Eternal Sleepers, and their possible purpose.

Immersed in eternal dreams, trying to find liberation in a false world - this is probably the pursuit of the eternal sleepers. In Gawain's view, their ability to create illusions in the dream world has reached the level of being completely fake. In fact, if they didn't know the truth in advance, anyone who entered the dream of the Eternal Sleeper would be instantly lost in that fake world. People with weak minds, even if they know the truth in advance, can easily indulge in all kinds of beautiful things in the imaginary world.

Although the outside world's evaluation of the perpetual sleeper is "an expert in creating nightmares", after Gawain devoured the remaining mind of the cultist, he vaguely realized that what those believers who weave people's hearts are really pursuing is probably a beautiful dream - and Creating nightmares is just a means to their end.

Gawain walked through the long corridor. In this unfamiliar place, his mind was as calm as water, but his thoughts were extraordinarily quick.

To paraphrase a sentence from a previous life,

Most of the people who are addicted to the virtual world are to escape from reality. In Gawain's eyes, the eternal sleepers are like some kind of virtual world fanatics who are escaping from reality in a group, but which part of the real world are they escaping from?

Is it the social collapse and the deterioration of the living environment caused by the magic tide? Is it a change in the religious landscape and the exclusion of other denominations? Or...the truth that the gods are dead?

At the end of the corridor in front of him, a heavy oak door stood in front of him. Gawain frowned. He saw a familiar emblem on the oak door, the emblem of the Kant family.

Is it because I was paying attention to the Kant family recently, so their family emblem appeared in the scene of my dream? Or... is this really Kant Castle?

Gawain frowned and looked around, he confirmed that he had never been to this place, and under normal circumstances, things that he remembered or recognized would not appear in human dreams, even if there were strange things, Most of the things that you see on weekdays are distorted in the subconscious, but all the scenes in this dream are stable and orderly, even the patterns on the walls and the brilliance of each magic spar lamp are flawless. Thinking of the Eternal Sleeper's mind that he devoured, Gawain suddenly suspected that this scene might be born out of the memory of that cultist.

That cult was active in Kant Castle?

After hesitating for a moment, Gawain stretched out his hand and pushed open the oak door in front of him.

Behind the gate is a cellar-like space, wide, deep, and shrouded in dim light. As an underground structure in the castle, the scale of this "cellar" is far beyond necessary, so that it seems to be a banquet on the surface. The hall was moved underground, and in such a wide and unusual space, Gawain saw that there were upright pillars connecting the ground and the stone ceiling above, and those upright pillars seemed to have writing on their surfaces.

Gawain approached one of the pillars, and was shocked to see that there were no words on it at all, but countless deep dents scratched with his fingernails!

The moment Gawain saw these dents, Gawain felt that his vision suddenly faded, and then a large number of water-like ripples appeared in the dim space in all directions. The "camouflage" of the subconscious layer appeared in front of Gawain.

It was one after another human-like phantoms, with translucent, gray-white bodies, and faces that were blurred and faintly numb. They stood here in layers and shadows, their empty eyes staring blankly. The center of the entire "cellar".

When these figures appeared, Gawain was startled, but the latter immediately realized that these shadows did not notice his existence at all—or rather, these shadows may not have the ability to think at all.

After calming down, he looked in the direction the shadows were looking at, and suddenly saw that there was a stone platform in the center of this "underground hall" at some point. On that platform, there was a mouthful of Huge and ornate coffin.

Gawain frowned, walked through the countless shadowy figures beside him, and walked towards the huge coffin, but just as he was halfway there, he heard an illusory and vague voice in his ears. The individual was talking, but it was difficult to distinguish intermittently. Gawain raised his ears carefully, only to hear a few clearer words:

"...how I wish it was just a nightmare, from which I woke up and everything was still fine..."

"...What's the difference between a dream and reality..."

"I... don't know what to do, losing them..."

"The Eternal Sleeper will help you, don't be afraid, don't believe those rumors that slander us, we are still committed to saving all beings from suffering just like seven hundred years ago, but seven hundred years ago we kept all beings away Nightmares, and today we keep beings away from nightmarish reality...

"You just put it here, feed it well, and trust me, everything will be fine.

"The one who passed away will eventually return, not only in dreams, but also in reality..."

The conversation was low, vague, and so distorted that Gawain couldn't even judge the male or female of the person speaking, but he was almost certain that one of the people who spoke was the Eternal Sleeper who was swallowed up by himself. Cultists!

After waking up from the dream, Gawain immediately called Hetty and Pittman.

"Ancestor, we have finished inquiring about that mercenary mage," Hetty thought that Gawain had called him to inquire about the progress of the interrogation of the prisoners, so he said as soon as they met, "They are indeed working for the Kant family, but They don't know what their employers are doing to arrest the refugees, only one thing is certain - they have never seen the refugees they captured appear on the Kant collar as slaves in the future, nor have they seen any The slave traders took those people from Kant, and the refugees who were taken back disappeared into the land like steam."

Gao Wen frowned: "Sure enough..."

"Sure enough?" Heidi was stunned, not understanding what Gawain meant, "Do you know anything?"

"I'm afraid I have to go to Kant immediately to pick it up," Gawain had made a decision before, and said bluntly at this moment, "The sooner the better."

This time Hetty was really shocked: "Go to Kant Land? What are you doing there? Do you want to go to Viscount Kant to ask about the refugees in person? This kind of thing..."

"It's more serious than that," Gawain said solemnly, "I came into contact with some fragments of his consciousness when I was fighting against the Eternal Sleeper cultist. The contents of those fragments emerged just now, and I saw the cultist put One thing was handed over to someone in Kant’s territory—most likely the current Viscount Victor Kant, and that thing was an evil thing, it had been in that land for many years, even more than ten years. For decades, it has been absorbing the souls of living people and growing!"

"Evil things that absorb the souls of living people?" Pittman was shocked. "Are the refugees who were caught in Kant's territory..."

"Mostly it was fed," Gawain frowned, "That thing has grown to a critical time, but it hasn't completed its final transformation, but once it's done... I'm worried that it will include Tanzania Town, Xinsai Searle and all areas further north, including Carroll Land, will be enveloped in its power."

Gawain is not alarmist, because when the dream was about to end, he had clearly felt the existence of a growing "object" that supported the dream world.

He could feel the power spread out from the item, and its influence on the minds of all human beings in a considerable range. Perhaps because of devouring the mental fragments of the original owner of the item, Gawain had established some kind of subtle relationship with the item. The connection made him almost 100% certain that once he absorbed enough energy, the cursed object placed by the cultists in the Kant family castle would explode with quite terrifying power, and the new Cecil led the way. And ordinary people in Tanzania will be involved in it without exception!

He had already threatened himself, so he couldn't just sit back and watch.

Gawain's serious attitude also infected Heidi, who became nervous and worried: "Ancestor, you have already risked yourself once in Tanzania, this time..."

"No, it won't be so dangerous this time," Gawain shook his head. "As long as I find it in time, then it's not a threat to me - I have a way to control it."

His answer was quite confident, which made Heidi feel a little more at ease, but the latter still couldn't help but care: "But if Victor Kant has been completely bewitched and controlled by the cultists, will he be right? Are you disadvantaged?"

"In this whole incident, only one person has the ability to threaten me," Gawain smiled at Hetty who looked concerned, "but that person has already been destroyed by me in the consciousness space."

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