Number One, who was portrayed by Lu Yu, an outsider, was blocked by world consciousness after the battle in Twilight City. The convenient door that was not filtered and screened because of Lu Yu's identity as a visitor from another world was closed.
In a sense, No. 1, this summoned creature that was inspired by Gehros and mixed with other characteristics of Christian literature, allowed Lu Yu to officially gain recognition from the world and gain the authority and power of a pioneer.
There are only three people who have truly witnessed No. 1 and tasted his original, most complete and unfettered power, the summoner Lu Yu, the puppet master Clorens, and...the world consciousness itself!
"The sightings and contact information about No. 1 have been erased from the world's consciousness. The suppressed and still too powerful mental pollution is beyond my control now, so it cut it, sealed it, and issued a warning to me." Lu Yu The corners of his mouth turned up. "I obey the warning. Although I know that it was trying to convey goodwill to me as my creation from the beginning, that goodwill is too heavy and too terrifying for me to bear."
Gaslow's thoughts have been shrouded in endless darkness, and evil chants linger in his mind. Every moment, his "vision"... No, he refuses to witness it, but the light and shadow are still flickering in front of his eyes.
He couldn't refuse.
The concept of time has been lost in the depths of consciousness. Gaslow's body looks like a baby one second, and an octogenarian the next. The space he is in is unpredictable, like a reflection in the water. Everything around him will be shattered by slight fluctuations. .
The song that seemed to come from the depths of time became more and more profound. Multiple voices converged into one. The rhythm produced by singing in unison made Gaslow's all-out resistance seem ridiculous. The spirit body that entered Lu Yu's consciousness instantly The time was fragmented, and the surface consciousness was also stained by the shadow cast by the bright red eyeball.
"Have you guessed it?" Gaslow wanted to escape and cut off the thoughts that penetrated into Lu Yu's consciousness, but it was too late. The spreading madness rushed into his surface consciousness, and he could still hear the sound coming from the abyss. The coming sound of silence!
"No, I know nothing about your tricks, nor about the virtuality and reality you constructed, but you twisted and blocked my summoning ritual again and again, making me realize that you were trying to gain my knowledge, and you You always avoid answering the question 'If I have fallen into hallucinations and dreams and am at your mercy, why don't you kill me'... I have a guess, it's not that you don't want to, but that you can't."
"You have always been hinting to me that reality and illusion are both defined by you, and you want to obscure my judgment. Although those words are said in a careless and malicious tone, my intuition tells me that you are trying to pry open my judgment. Mental defense.”
"In other words, there is a reason why you must dominate me in the spiritual world!"
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!"
Lu Yu's inference was like the last straw that broke the projection of Gaslow's consciousness. The pollution of No. 1 made his body covered with starlight. The dazzling light broke out from the projection full of cracks, but the lingering sound of madness was not heard. It can affect Lu Yu in the slightest.
As strong as Clarence, who just glanced at No. 1 and his separated spirit was reduced to ashes. Gaslow was able to escape under the gaze of No. 1's big eyes, and the aftermath of the pollution could not shock Lu Yu. mind...
"It's still a little weak. It seems that the last correction of world consciousness prevented you from appreciating its peak power. At this point, I deeply regret it, but it seems... you are still unable to resist it."
Gaslow's projection exploded, and some vague spiritual fragments rippled in Lu Yu's mind.
Lu Yu sinks his mind and feels it, and discovers that they are fragments of Gaslow's memories. They are messy and cannot distinguish the specific details. Beyond that, there is a incomplete, strange pattern similar to the magic circle map, and points to the center of the island. obsession.
Back to reality, in front of Lu Yu, the figures of Serra and Gaslow disappeared together. There was no one in the splendid castle, and the strange black mud and the constantly rippling lenses disappeared into nothing.
Lu Yu started the summoning ceremony casually. This time, there was no further hindrance. The flesh and blood chariot came out in response, like a child who had run away from an adult. As soon as it saw Lu Yu, it waved its tentacles and came closer.
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, I'm fine." Lu Yu patted the tentacles and raised his chin, "It's time for us to find him now, let's drive!"
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Gaslow's expression turned into black mud in front of Lulu, revealing the outline of his facial features. There seemed to be endless starlight inside the black mud, and the dazzling light bloomed from the inside out, making it look like a galaxy.
Gaslow shouted in pain, and the sound of wind and rain tore his voice into pieces, leaving only a few shrill reverberations.
Lulu laughed loudly: "So I said, you made a common-sense mistake. As long as you exhaust Lu Yu's physical strength to the extreme and trap him in your distorted 'reality', then his secret, no matter what Whether it was through hints or torture, you could easily get it, but you chose to pry."
"You must have seen it. As an outsider, he was not in the scope of world consciousness interference at the beginning, and he constructed a creation with information that belongs to another world." Gaslow's miserable appearance made Lulu aware. Lu Yu was out of trouble, and she waved her hand proudly, "That is a treasure left by the most imaginative and brilliant soul from another world. It has transcended time and space, and has been spread here through Lu Yu. It is spreading here." Lu Yu’s mind sparkled.”
"O arrogant deceiver, welcome the judgment from another world!"
Gaslow, who regarded himself as superior to others, shouted tremblingly in pain: "Don't think you have won, as long as 'He' is here...'He' is still there, I am invincible!"
Watching Gaslow's projection fall apart in a joking manner, Lulu smiled even brighter: "It seems that No. 1 has given you such a shock that you haven't realized that the most serious problem is What."
Lulu pointed to the sky, where dark clouds surged like ocean tides, and thunder roared and pierced the darkness, casting a blue electric light like the judge's sword standing in front of the Tribunal. The sharp sword pointed at the decay and filth that shrouded the earth.
"Everything you constructed is an illusion and a fraud. Eling used the living as a formation to cover up the distortion for you, but it is something that is not recognized after all." Lulu reminded, "The memory you are peeping at, The other participant is the one you are trying to deceive in every possible way... If you perceive him, he will also perceive you. He is indeed unconscious and slow to respond, but Gaslow, how much time do you have left to make amends? ?”
The bright starlight stretched the black mud projection of Gaslow into a balloon and floated into the air. After a muffled sound in the violent wind and rain, it turned into dots of starlight and disappeared.
Lulu's mind suddenly felt refreshed, and the weirdness and incongruity that had always lingered disappeared. There seemed to be something invisible loosening on the entire Whining Island, so that all the creatures living here felt it and looked towards The very center of the island.
Lulu summoned the shaping elemental wind.
"Come on, let's go see the 'root' of all the distortion."
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In the center of Sob Island, on top of the towers surrounded by countless castles, Gaslow, who was in the center of the array, woke up as if he was electrocuted. He seemed to have been hit by an invisible cannonball. He flew out upside down and hit the ground straight. There was blood spitting from the mouth on the thick wall.
His back was burning, and his ears were ringing due to the bump on the back of his head, but none of these could wake Gaslow's consciousness from the horrific nightmare - there were still stars in front of his eyes, as bright as the starry sky, so close at hand.
The murmurs continued, and the chaotic and noisy reverberation made him unable to think.
Gaslow tried to stop the horrific thoughts from spreading, but it was futile on his own.
"Damn it, his memory is actually the pollution itself!"
"The alien...his knowledge should belong to me, making people jealous, this abominable summoner!"
Gaslow hammered the wall with both fists, and the pain temporarily dispelled the lingering grunts and evil voices. This moment of opportunity allowed him to concentrate and call out the existence that could contain the curse.
The space next to Gaslow was distorted, and in the void, an amorphous object that was exactly the same as the black mud that Lu Yu and Lulu had seen appeared. Every time he blinked, it took on a different form, floating silently. , without any fluctuation of magic power in his body.
Black mud fell and covered Gaslow's head. The sticky liquid spread like tentacles into his ears and nose, and more tentacles wrapped around Gaslow's body, lifting him up.
After a long time, there were noises like snowflakes all over the black mud, as if being grabbed by a pair of invisible hands. The shapeless body briefly stayed like a long bar that resembled a baguette, and then instantly turned into a misty mist, dissipating in the air. In the dark.
Gaslow covered his head with his hand, because No. 1 was still hurting so much, and shouted irritably: "It has been twisted and cured, why is it still hurting? It's only such a short time, can it really leave such a serious wound?" !"
He temporarily blocked part of the memory of his contact with Lu Yu, for fear that he would touch something indescribable again because of his recollection.
"I haven't lost yet... Time is on my side. As long as we deal with these rats before 'He' notices it, Weeping Island is still under control."
"This is my 'god'. I don't allow anyone to take away this power. He must belong to me!"
The magic circle was operating, and Gaslow sensed Serra's existence. His brain was still in pain and could not continue to operate the projection. The black mud that had distorted his mental pollution was temporarily unable to perform the next distortion... He needed to defeat the weakest guy first!
"Shu~~~~"
The nodes of the magic circle all over the center of the island dimmed one after another, and the observation through the magic circle was instantly interrupted. The tentacles extended by the magic power seemed to have hit a wall and no longer responded.
"You damn rabbit!"
"Oh, it seems that there is no problem with my handling. I can really chat with you by doing this." On the other side of the magic circle, Rabbit was talking and breathing in cold air. "My head hurts, Gaslow, you The pain of looking through my memories makes me uncomfortable.”
"Why did you wake up so quickly? You should have been twisted."
Gaslow felt that everything seemed to be out of control. Serra, as the first person to arrive at the central area of the island, relied on his exquisite understanding of the magic circle to quickly learn about his layout and destroy many key nodes that could affect the Whining Island.
In order to deal with her, Gaslow had to return from Lu Yu, go straight into Sera's consciousness, and completely destroy her will to resist.
According to estimates, even for an outstanding magician like Sera, it will take a lot of time to completely repair the messy memory...
"Tell me, why, you will never wake up so quickly, how can you get rid of this power that is so close at hand!" Gaslow yelled crazily, even though he had a headache and was sweating like rain at the moment.
"Yeah...why can I get rid of it?" Sera's accumulation of magic power eroded the surrounding magic circle, and the sound of the nodes being damaged was like a symphony. "To be honest, I don't really know. You took me to that horrible year." During the severe cold wave, I watched my parents die again and again, watched the believer of the Theocracy who saved me give me the last food, and I died in distress... again and again..."
"But suddenly... I saw silver maple leaves falling from the sky, like a brilliant, silver rain." Serra said, "Then I woke up."
"What a joke!"
"It seems that you are not willing to believe it, but it is true." Sera smiled, "Actually, I once had a similar dream in the Theocracy, as if I traveled through time and returned to when a certain silver maple tree was still a seedling. I spent a long time with it... It was the only serious illness I had in the Theocracy. I had a fever, a high fever that wouldn't go away, and a plague. The doctors in Theocracy anxiously poured various medicines on me at my bedside. But none of them worked.”
"Everyone thought I was hopeless, but I suddenly recovered." Serra said, "Just like this time, I accompanied the silver maple tree through its life."
Gaslow was stunned. It was stunned for a long time, and then gritted its teeth and said: "By the way, you are the divine choice of the Theocracy. You are the divine choice that attracts everyone's attention. You are the end of a huge faith, and you enjoy the protection from nothingness." ...You monster!”
"Am I a monster too?" Sera laughed, "Actually, I'm very grateful to you. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have been able to realize that the faith that originally belonged to the Theocracy had already brewed a god that was enough to cast the warm sun on the earth. ', He is growing slowly. Although he has no physical body, he has the ability to protect his followers, although he can only protect them a little... Although this believer is very bad and has stolen his tribute. He does not learn well and does not follow the glorious magic school. , changed to playing puppetry, and even surrendered to the enemy to study necromancy... But He is still willing to tolerate me."
"The chosen one, the bug with the devil living in his memory, the little one who knows the secrets of magic, how come the three of you came to the Whimpering Island at this right time!"
The continuous pain made Gaslow more and more lose his composure, and these words that should have been hidden in his heart blurted out.
"Who knows... maybe, this is fate?" Sera said with a bad smile, "You would say that. It seems that you have already peeked into Lu Yu's memory... How about that guy, does he look good?"
(End of chapter)
