no respond.
The huge magic power is like an overdose of anesthetic, plaguing the mind where the magic power originated. Here, they cannot maintain their ability to think in the real world at all. They can only seize a moment in this chaotic dreamland.
Lu Ning couldn't judge the real history, just as she didn't know whether letting magic power return to the world would be beneficial or harmful to the world.
She can feel that she is not bound by this place, but it will take some time to really find the way back. Perhaps she just needs to re-establish the connection with the real world, and the magic here can easily accomplish this, as long as someone uses it She could observe magic.
As far as Lu Ning knew, there were many people secretly using magic on Bamu Island.
After briefly identifying the magic power in the air, Lu Ning walked towards a magic pillar spurting into the sky. In her current state, she was walking very fast on this huge corpse, which may be related to the fact that she was no longer in a physical state. After only two or three minutes of physical sensation, she had already arrived under the pillar where magic power was gushing out.
There is no magic origin crouching here, instead there are some apostles squatting there digging at the ground. On the gravel-like desert beach, there is a depression like a crater, but the area is not very large. The magic pillar erupted from here.
Lu Ning stood on the edge and looked into the pit. In the suffocating magic power, there was a huge object embedded in the center, as if it was this thing that had created such a big pit.
Relying on the fact that she was currently in a subtle state of isolation from magic, Lu Ning walked carefully down the pit, but soon she discovered that she didn't need to be careful, because whether she was walking on a flat surface or an incline, she was walking on flat ground.
After approaching the center, she finally saw the true appearance of the object in the center of the dense magic. It was the tip of an arrow that had been enlarged to about two meters in length. Obviously, there should have been an arrow shaft here, but Soaked in magic, it seems to have been completely eroded.
So...this is a wound?
Lu Ning raised her head and looked into the distance. There were many magic pillars like this. There were more than a dozen within the range of her sight, and there were probably more further away. Compared with this huge corpse, these seemingly huge magic pillars are probably not as good as even a human hair. Lu Ning still doesn't know how big this corpse called "magic" is.
When she walked out of the pit, she suddenly heard a hoarse roar.
Several apostles wrapped in rags were standing around. Their eye sockets had been corroded by magic power until only burning flames remained. The rags on their bodies were not clothes, but alienated skin. They are not seriously distorted by magic like the origin of magic. They still maintain a humanoid shape, but that's all.
"You...are you talking to me?" Lu Ning pointed at herself.
One of the apostles rustled and nodded slightly. It raised its hand and drew a trace in the air with its withered yellow fingers. But it didn't form any words that could form a meaning. Even if it did, Lu Ning would definitely not understand the words of the previous era.
The apostle obviously realized this and lowered his head, seeming a little annoyed. However, several apostles next to him came over and looked at each other. It seemed that the communication was completed in that moment. Immediately afterwards, they turned neatly in the same direction, and then stretched out their arms straight, pointing into the distance.
"In which direction do you want me to go?" Lu Ning looked in the direction of their fingers. Naturally, he saw nothing. It must be not far away.
The apostles did not answer, but remained standing and pointing into the distance, waiting for a response.
Lu Ning nodded and took steps.
She could have a premonition that she might not be able to stay here for too long. She established a connection with this place by accidentally peeking into the condition of "Sora Tsuburaya" inside the body. Even the person who arrived here was not a flesh and blood body, this was a human being. Occasionally, her connection to this place is not stable, and even the magic power here can only float on her body surface.
At the weird speed, Lu Ning could see the ground retreating rapidly under her feet. There were actually some plants growing on this huge corpse. However, thinking of the Hell Flower Ants she had seen before, she felt that anything could grow here. is normal.
This kind of flyby lasted longer than before, and Lu Ning even doubted whether he could see what the apostles instructed before going back. At this moment, a halo appeared in front of his eyes.
In this dark space, except for the ability to observe things with the help of magic, there is almost no light, so this halo is quite conspicuous.
What is glowing is a tree that looks like a stone. Its branches are gathered into a ball at the crown of the tree. The leaves at the top of the branches have completely died, and they are all in the state of stone, but the ones under the ball are There are still young leaves on the branches.
This was the first normal thing Lu Ning saw in this ghost place.
The roots of the stone tree penetrated deeply into the ground, and there were also magical air pillars spurting upward all around. However, the pressure brought to Lu Ning here was far less than other spurting points. She approached the tree and saw something shrouded wrapped between the bulbous branches.
Eight Eyes Island.
A miniature eight-eye island is wrapped in the middle of the branches. It's just that the island is already covered with ruins, and both the main building and the annex have collapsed. Only some of the plants on the island are still dense and have not been corroded or directly dead on a large scale.
This is not the magical scene created by Lista that can cycle endlessly, but an island that truly exists in history and was used by Renix to perform rituals. But now, Rennix is in a wonderful state of being recalled, so the tree also takes on the current appearance of prosperity and decline.
"Why did those apostles want me to come here?" Lu Ning murmured to herself. She could see the island and understood that this tree probably represented Rennix's anchor point in this world. But knowing this What can be done? Apart from the abilities given by the distribution center, she does not have the abilities of a true god. She can't save anyone.
Suddenly, she saw several humanoid things looking down between the dead branches and leaves on the tree.
"There is actually someone..."
The creature above muttered, and then flowed down between the branches and leaves. The sticky oil formed a rough human shape under the tree, and a crack opened where the mouth probably was.
"Why do you still maintain this appearance? Your skin should have rotted long ago, your flesh and blood has been reshaped by magic, and your life form...ah, you have a familiar smell on your body."
It lay down, and several bubbles exploded on its oily body.
"Who are you?" Lu Ning tried to ask.
"We are the guards here, although there is no need here... The roots of the origin of magic are extremely strong, and unless another origin of magic attacks, there will be no damage. The origin we serve has left, but he will soon Back, soon... He couldn't escape, and though he tried, he couldn't keep his form. Magic... it makes us suffer so much, but it also takes us beyond."
"Do you still remember what you looked like before?" Lu Ning asked.
"I used to have the same 'face' as you." The oily body expanded, forming a face directly near the abdomen, "But I don't know you, and you don't know me. We are here For a long time, we have been waiting for a... final washout. We will usher in the withering of historical life, and then be reborn from the magic. This place retains the most essential magic, too much, you see... this dose, As long as a mere piece of territory is converted into magic power and thrown into the world, people will immediately be immersed in the huge magic power and be transformed by the magic power..."
"Why do you know this?"
"Connection, history, memory, we are already creatures of this side."
When Lu Ning asked questions, she was also looking at that face. She did not recognize this face, but she felt a little strange, as if she should know this face. She did not think this feeling was an illusion. After thinking for a moment, she asked: "Renix... do you know him?"
"He walked in the world and used this name. Did he deceive me? However, for me now, whether he deceived or not is meaningless. I finally failed to leave alive. I should not have set foot too deep. We are retained After being here, I was reshaped into what I am now through the absorption of rhizomes, and I can still speak... Maybe after a while, our language-"
Snap, snap.
Other things fell from the trees, some like dust, some like pure liquid. None of them could maintain their human form. Only one belt that finally fell from above dropped a lot of paper scraps, and delicate brushstrokes left a face on a piece of cardboard.
That's Escher the butler.
"Degeneration will take shape as this place withers away completely. Before that, we can still retain consciousness for a period of time. This... intruder, why can you come here? Why can you resist the magic here? Are you not here? exist?" Escher asked.
"I am indeed not, and it seems that everyone who was on the Eight Eyes Island is already here." Lu Ning looked around, "Renix turned you all into apostles... Oh, not everyone. .”
"Only us." Escher said, "The head of the family has been gone for a long time. He felt the call and thought this was an opportunity. After he left, the progress of the magic assimilation here did slow down, but this was not enough. We can only maintain some communication ability during the budding period, and we spend more time sleeping and searching for more remnants to accumulate here. This behavior is not controlled, and you are lucky, now is the budding season."
"I……"
Just as Lu Ning was about to answer, she felt that a spell was activating the magic power nearby, and her body had already begun to respond.
"Whatever you want, just say it." Lu Ning looked at Escher.
"The end, as long as it's the end, anything is fine." Escher smiled at Lu Ning with the painted face, and then Lu Ning felt a huge pulling force. She had been called by magic, and with that The magic power spiraled up into the sky.
A ray of light shone out from the darkness, and then the surrounding scenery returned to the scenery in the room. She didn't know when she was lying on her bed. The room was already dark, and the lights were not turned on. It was already dark. , the sound of rain hitting the window makes people feel more sleepy.
She felt a little tired, but she still managed to get up.
The time now happened to be when the family banquet had just begun. At this time, Escher and the servants would temporarily block the banquet hall for the family banquet. However, she already knew the content of the family banquet. She and Tsuburaya Temple Sora were not here. Then there will be two less people present.
Lu Ning poured herself a glass of water. She could still understand the words of Escher and the others on the magic corpse, but understanding did not mean that she had no doubts. The tree that wraps around the Eight Eyes Island is in a strange state, and can what Escher and the others say really be believed? Why did those guiding apostles guide her there?
The increase in mysteries didn't particularly bother her, because Lu Ning wasn't too interested in analyzing the worldview behind it.
She rubbed her temples and walked out of the house. After all this time, no one noticed that something was wrong with her. That was because her body went back to rest on its own. This was very similar to the state where she let the character act on its own when she was not in control.
After resting for a while, she went out.
Lu Ning was familiar with the route to the maid's room and didn't even meet anyone along the way. The servants would bring their personal belongings to this place. Although Lu Ning and others had checked before after the servants died, they did not find many personal belongings worth seeing.
What Rennix told his children at the family dinner was not a lie. After Lu Ning learned the stories behind many people, there were fewer and fewer candidates who fit Rennix's description. In view of the various backgrounds of the servants, But there was a difference. Even if she played this role, she might not be able to know everything. She felt that she should go and see what the servants' room was like in the normal life of the servants.
But when she walked into the house, she saw a servant sitting on a seat outside. The servant lowered her head slightly, as if she was resting, and the collar of her uniform, which belonged to the Howard family, had a musk deer pattern embroidered on it.
Lu Ning's body stiffened slightly. She never expected that such a thing would happen again.
Musk has never appeared on the island from beginning to end. Under various known backgrounds, she died before the scene started. Except for the fact that Watanabe Fuchiko borrowed this name when she was pretending to be a ghost, she should not have Appeared again.
should……
The servant had raised her head, but Lu Ning felt that she could not form a specific understanding of her appearance. Although her facial features were all there, she could not form an impression in her heart at all.
Her heart beat violently, and she felt that the blood in her body was emitting abnormally high temperatures.
(End of chapter)
