Amber, which lights up like a faint candlelight, is only consumed when you are in another world.
Using the memory of the stars itself as a sacrificial medium, burning millions of years of thoughts to protect the fragile hearts of mortals.
Perhaps they should be more vigilant about using this feature to confirm where they are.
But the gap between reality and illusion is not clearly visible to the naked eye. It cannot be as clear as "We are going to the beach, so prepare the boat; we are going to the mountain, so prepare the mountaineering equipment; it is going to rain, so prepare the rain gear." Judgment as it comes.
To judge, Mira, the only one in the team who has enough magic power to ignite it, can only hold the amber at all times.
However, the treacherous nature of the inner world makes it easier for you to stray into it the more you have a detailed and complete understanding of it and a continuous imagination.
'This looks like a mountain road'
'Sand Road? Where does it lead? '——Seemingly ordinary thinking can lead to extremely serious consequences.
If you know the road ahead, for example there is a village over there and what scenery is there along the way. There is such a strong awareness of the reality that locals living in places where the rift's influence is weak can even pass by it day after day without being affected.
But foreigners who know nothing about it and children who are still ignorant may not be spared.
Imagination based on the unknown is terrifying, and this terror is not exaggerated and does not stop at the mind. The moment you recognize it as a "road" but don't know "where the road leads", the boundary between reality and illusion becomes thin. As soon as you step out, you will suddenly realize that the surrounding scene is completely different.
This is one of the reasons why what Kazuto calls "Kamiyin" mostly happens to children and travelers, and the time is often in the evening, which is called "the time of encountering demons".
During the day, if you have a clear field of vision and can see far away scenes, and you have an accurate understanding of where the road leads, it will be less likely to cause accidents.
But accurate knowledge is also a double-edged sword.
If you know the existence of the inner world, or even strayed into it, you will have a complete imagination about it. Then when you imagine whether the unknown darkness ahead leads to it, you will be dragged into it more easily than the average person who is completely ignorant.
Only by knowingly giving yourself strong psychological hints and maintaining a clear understanding of the surrounding real space can you avoid stepping into it. This is a very contradictory psychology. You have to be wary of it, but you cannot feel that it really exists.
And people will get tired.
If you hold amber in your hand for several days in a row to keep an eye on the situation during your trip, you will most likely be dragged into it in the evening, late at night, or early in the morning when your mind is in a trance and you have loosened your awareness of reality.
I can't tell the specific location, so I don't know how to avoid it; and if you want to be vigilant around the clock and rely on Mira alone to hold the amber without a shift change, she is most likely to be paying too much attention to one person. In the moment of relaxation, I was dragged into it alone.
Difficult to avoid and difficult to identify. The only thing that can be done is to gather as many people as possible as soon as the mistaken entry is confirmed, and then find a way to escape as soon as possible before being seriously affected.
The fossil Henry bought in the medicine store earlier is essentially the same kind of thing as amber. In traditional medicine, the Japanese believe that it is some kind of aphrodisiac that can improve people's energy and spirit. To some extent, although their understanding is There is a deviation but it is not wrong.
Fossils ground into powder and taken directly with water can circulate in the human body to resist the poison from the outside world after entering the inner world, delaying the time when a person becomes insane and becomes a wanderer.
Although taking it in the real world has no effect.
The legend of Kazuto may have originated from the ancient understanding of the inner world, but most of the information has been lost but the specious "medicine effects" are still passed down from generation to generation.
Although fossils were once bones, they are no longer just bones. They are the crystallization of living things and the earth over millions of years. As biological remains, they can resonate with people and at the same time have the power of the stars themselves. This kind of preciousness does not only live for more than ten or twenty years. Comparable animal bones can be found everywhere.
"It tastes bad." The complaint came from Lulu's mouth again. Henry calculated the approximate effective time and would prompt the group to take a sip. The drinking water they carried was limited, and the sage redistributed it after adding the crushed fossils.
Drinking water containing fossil ingredients gives them a certain degree of resistance to the environment. In this way, the Luoan girl could hold the amber to make it glow without intentionally holding it. She wrapped it in a small cloth bag and hung it on her chest near the magic pool. The amber's brightness was suddenly reduced due to the influence of the magic emitted by the magician. At the same time, it can also reduce consumption.
The combination of the two can last longer than amber alone, but even so, it cannot last forever.
So we must rely on Mira’s knowledge.
The spatial distance in the inner world is disrupted. There are many scenery along the way that are similar to reality, but compared with the appearance of natural laws in reality, they look more like they have been pieced together haphazardly.
On the way out of the cave that resisted the attack, Ling had stopped and looked at it more than ten times. All the scenery here was incredible to her as Dr. Xingyong who was familiar with the astronomy and geography of Crescent Continent.
Southern broad-leaved shrubs and northern coniferous forests, which are unlikely to grow in the same area, appear one after another. The blood moon hangs high in the sky, motionless and emitting an eternal red light. Even the temperature in this area is uncertain - the cave they were in before and the whole way ahead seemed to be around 20 degrees, but they passed an area behind them that was inexplicably cold.
But once we passed through that area, the temperature immediately recovered.
But even more puzzling than that is the tranquility of the area.
This is a state of near-dead silence.
There is a complete cycle of existence in nature: herbivores eat vegetation, carnivores prey on them, and the decaying remains are first eaten away by insects and then become the foundation for the growth of plants and fungi.
But there are no insects here.
There are no fungi like mushrooms.
The fallen twisted trees and the strange dead grass have remained there, and they have always existed in that way, whether it has been thousands of years or tens of thousands of years.
There are no insects, no scavengers, no predators and prey, the lowest level of the biological chain in nature. She even suspected that even the minotaurs and ghouls that attacked them before were not eating.
——Because even they themselves.
——I don’t even feel hungry.
It's like a incomplete world, giving people a strange sense of unreality.
It seems that something is seriously missing, but even she, who has read the 4000 years of wisdom in the New Moon Continent and is now Dr. .
Because there are too many missing things but too few - it's like you live alone, but there are two sets of tableware, toiletries and even bedding at home. Everything tells about someone who once lived closely with you, but you can't search for any relevant information from your memory.
The sense of dissonance caused by the lack of sight and hearing made Aya, who has rich knowledge, quickly come to the conclusion that "this world cannot exist"——
——But everything exists here.
The more you try to understand, the more you realize how shallow your knowledge and wisdom is.
This is not a world.
This is a distorted, randomly selected fragment from a more complete and self-consistent real world that looks decent at first glance.
A scene forever frozen in time.
After she mentioned all this to Henry, the sage's reply was: "You are so perceptive. The Druids called this place the 'Eternal Desert', even though it looked lush with water and grass. This is a place that occupies a wider area in the inner world. In the shallow area, the deep layer will have a structure more similar to the real world. The little devils and salamanders we encountered before all ran out from there."
It seems that there are abundant aquatic plants and abundant vegetation, but it is impossible to utilize any of the resources without magical pre-processing. They don't belong here, and there's no room for them here. Just by existing on this land, breathing the air, standing on this land, under the light of the blood moon, people will melt from the inside out bit by bit.
Without the knowledge and protection of sages, they might not even have their own bodies.
Beyond the faint glow of amber, near the woods, they had already seen many traces that were obviously left by humans along the way.
Ancient logging axes, bows and arrows and even tachi were left in place. They still looked brand new, but Ling, who was familiar with the history of her country, could recognize that the family inscriptions on them belonged to the Chinese ethnic group that had perished two thousand years ago.
Sometimes there are fragments of ornate armor scattered around.
Was the master torn apart by something? Or have they themselves changed in some way?
Because some of the armor looked more like it was burst from the inside.
Silent and drinking water regularly, Mira tried hard to follow Henry's previous instructions and look for clues, while others carefully protected the surroundings.
The tranquility here is an illusion. Even if there are no residual thoughts everywhere around you to corrode your soul, there will still be a more real threat from prowlers wandering out from the depths.
But all those who hold weapons can feel at ease when facing monsters that once made people feel uneasy.
Because this is at least someone they can fight back and kill.
"This way." Part of the reason why the Luoan girl with her eyes closed could be the key for the group to get out of here is because of the unique spiritual connection between her and the unicorn Mitia.
Perhaps because of higher mental cognition and richer imagination, humans are more likely to stray into the inner world than other creatures. Similar to the concept that the space in reality can accommodate the passage of objects, if the crack itself is not large enough or stable enough, individuals with more active thinking will be dragged in alone.
However, there were no legends related to the hidden gods in this land before, and the moment he entered the inner world, he reached out and pulled out the supplies. He turned around and the horse disappeared, but the team members who were a little further away appeared in the same area. , Henry judged that "based on the different cognitions of humans and horses, they were not pulled in."
Based on this, our Luoan girl can give full play to her potential and try to strengthen her perception of Medea, which can become a guidepost for them to leave here.
A faint, vague white glow and a soft call.
"The entrance and exit do not exist physically. The weakness of the crack will initially fluctuate like breathing." The sage explained: "So don't deliberately pay attention to the direction behind us that came in before and seemed to be the entrance. Feel the attraction. The place where the force is strongest is most likely the exit of the current rift."
"Recognize and project the magic power there."
"Imagine a stone thrown into a pond. If there are rocks or duckweeds around it, the ripples will produce a tiny feedback when they hit it."
"Distinguish Mitiya's voice from it." He described it in this way. Although it sounded a bit purely based on feeling, Mira somehow understood what should be done.
But there are more than just benefits to this behavior.
"Hmm." His little white eyebrows furrowed.
"The noise was audible just now, but now it was getting louder and louder." She covered her head in discomfort.
"Which direction?" the sage asked, and Mira pointed to the left front.
"Hold the amber and stop feeling it." The visitor was unkind. After judging this, he held Claymore and looked around. There was a high slope on the right facing away from the forest.
"Go over there." He turned back and said to the group.
"Ready to fight."
"Attracted something else."
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