"You mean, in those... dream fragments, Angel might be in danger?"
In Khoy University's teacher's office, Audrey was still standing by the door, frowning and asking.
As a "Spectator" Pathway Beyonder who can travel in dreams, she often comes to the dreams of Backlund residents of different classes through the collective Sea of Collective Subconscious late at night to familiarize herself with her own Beyonder Ability and digest the corresponding Potion.
During this period, she occasionally entered some Beyonder dreams, many of which were Demigod of various Pathways. But firstly, these Beyonders hidden in the metropolis are very cautious. Even if they feel that their dreams are being invaded, they will not fight back easily after confirming that the other party is harmless. Secondly, most Beyonders actually do not have strong control over their dreams. They rarely react after being accidentally invaded by Audrey, so she has never really encountered danger in her dreams.
But the dream of Angel is really too dangerous... Audrey became a little anxious when he thought about accidentally falling into the depths when he first entered Death Consul's dream and seeing the inverted pyramid mausoleum that was split in half and various symbols representing death.
"Don't worry, as a Saint, Angel has the ability to protect herself in these dreams. Even in the few dream fragments that limit the extraordinary power in my subconscious, she can also try to restore her power. The price is just to disturb the dream and make her ostracized..."
Mr. Azik After thinking for a moment, a smile appeared on his face again and he explained in detail.
"But will she not dare to take actions beyond the limits of the dream because she is worried about causing trouble to you?" Audrey is still a little worried, "Besides, Miss Angel is already...Sequence 2's Angel."
"Huh?"
This news was obviously beyond Azik's expectation. He sat upright in the chair, put his knuckles against his temples, and rubbed the unobvious mole under his ears.
"How long has it been outside?"
He asked suddenly, and then added himself:
"How long has it been since the end of June 1350?"
This Death Consul should have fallen into a deep sleep at that time... Audrey thought about it and quickly replied:
"It is now the end of January in the year 1351, exactly seven months from the time you mentioned."
Then, she considerately told Azik, who was sleeping in isolation, about some major events that had happened recently, such as the death of King George III, and the invasion of the Feysac Empire.
"Feysac invasion..."
This incident brought back memories of Azik, his expression softened again, and the corners of his mouth turned up a little.
"This castle, the one I sleep in, was built after the battle between Loen and Feysac to divide the border more than 1,300 years ago. At that time, I obtained my own title and fief, brought my family's coat of arms and knight's ribbon back here, and married my bride..."
He said in a gentle tone.
"Unfortunately, in the dream, my memories of that life no longer belong entirely to me... At that time, I was suspicious, sensitive, emotionally changeable, and sometimes showed a cruel side that was not in line with human morality... I still prefer to stay in Tingen City with sunshine and fresh air, teach the history of Fourth Epoch, go home in the evening to enjoy the fireplace and cigars, and go rowing at the Tussock River on weekends..."
Like a talkative old man, he confided to Audrey, whom he met for the first time. The latter listened quietly with a smile on his face, like a simple "Spectator".
But Azik suddenly stopped, looked sideways at the window with some doubts, and said in a hurried tone after a moment:
"The dream fragment of 'Lamud Baron'... Angel should be there!"
On Lamud Town, the closed castle was surrounded by a large number of Feysac soldiers. They pushed a catapult and threw burning bamboo baskets into the city wall. The Loen soldiers on the wall responded with arrows. Soldiers from both sides kept falling.
After discovering that the scale of the war had reached a level that she, an "ordinary person", could not control, Angel retreated to the back of the castle, avoiding the Feysac soldiers from attacking the front of the castle.
She found that the siege army was like a robot with a certain goal set. As long as she did not appear in front of them, no one would chase her. Instead, they would mechanically attack the castle where Lamud Baron was located.
A steady stream of Feysac soldiers came from the north and surrounded the front of the castle. This scale was obviously beyond common sense, making Angel once again doubt the true symbolic meaning of this dream.
"Is this dream not the life that Mr. Azik longs for...Feysac's invasion will eventually destroy the castle and kill everyone he knows, symbolizing that he has lost everything he gained in that life?"
Angel frowned and looked at the chaotic battlefield. There were only dozens of Baron soldiers throwing stones and arrows on the city wall, but there were already over a thousand Feysac invaders below. It was only a matter of time before they captured the castle.
Compared with this huge disparity in numbers, the groups of soldiers Angel killed just now with skill and experience are not even a fraction. Unless she immediately recovers the ability of "Demoness" and uses disease or Black Flame to turn the tide of the battle, she can only sit back and watch Mr. Azik's life be completely destroyed.
In this case, it is difficult for Angel to judge whether he should try to use death to escape from the dream, or to establish contact with reality, break through the blockade of the dream, and restore Beyonder Ability.
"It's a pity that Audrey should also be lost in the dream, otherwise she could give me appropriate suggestions or directly take me out of the dream..."
She muttered in a low voice, her eyes fixed on the tower in front of the Lamud Baron castle, where the cold Baron had thrown the dagger to her before, and now Tinder had been thrown into the city. E was lit, and in the thick smoke, the bronze-skinned Baron, who looked exactly like Azik, was yelling and commanding his soldiers to fight back in vain.
At this moment, a soft voice came from Angel's ears:
"Thinking about me?"
It was Audrey... Angel immediately recognized the owner of the voice and breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
Immediately, everything in her sight began to blur, and her perspective continued to rise, and soon passed through the thick smoke and dark clouds, rising into the sky.
From this angle, she could see that there were still a large number of Feysac soldiers surrounding the town, constantly surrounding the castle, as if the tide was about to submerge the last rock on the sea.
When his vision became clear again, Angel found that he had returned to the castle room where he had been before entering Dream Invasion. He was still sitting on the single sofa, with his wrist held tightly by Audrey.
What is different from before is that the dark coffin deep in the room has disappeared. In its place is a double bed covered with Velvet Quilt, which adds a lot of life to the room that originally had a weird atmosphere.
Mr. Azik, wearing a shirt and vest, was sitting on the bedside, holding a thick book in his hand and looking here with concern.
At this moment, Angel was sure that he and Audrey were still in the dream, just in a different "scene".
"Good evening, Mr. Azik."
She took the initiative to stand up and say hello.
Azik nodded, put down the book "Trensoest Empire: Legend or History", stood up from the bedside, came to the two of them, sat on another armchair, and said to Audrey, who had a calm expression and curiosity in his eyes:
"Thank you for rescuing Angel from that dream fragment. Can I talk to her alone now?"
"I'll wait outside the door."
Audrey replied obediently, walked out of the room, and closed the vermilion wooden door.
"A 'Manipulator' who can restrain his curiosity." Azik commented with a smile on his lips, and then looked at Angel, "You seem to have encountered some troubles in the dream just now?"
"Actually, I still haven't figured out what's going on there..." Angel complained, pointing to the blood stains on his dress. Of course, this is all the blood of those Feysac soldiers, "That should be After the end of Pale Calamity, you lost your memory and joined the Loen army and obtained the fiefdom after the title. But why was the Feysac army invading and about to capture the castle when I was taken away from the dream?"
Hearing this, Azik showed a somewhat vicissitudes of life smile. He put himself into a comfortable position on the chair and replied:
"This is also one of the problems I face... You should have noticed that there is a subtle difference between the Lamud Baron and the current me. That was actually my true state after my first 'resurrection', while the current me is the state after dying and resurrecting again and again, and experiencing different lives."
"Those are all you. The cold 'Archon' is you who was influenced by Mental Imprint in Beyonder Characteristic. The gentle father, filial son, and kind teacher are you who have lost the memory of the past and are full of humanity."
Angel immediately reminded.
These were the words she and Klein exhorted Azik in Death Salinger's mausoleum deep in the Berserk Sea, before Azik was about to retrieve all his memories.
Azik smiled and nodded, and said with some emotion:
"Now I have understood these things and am no longer troubled by my past identity, but the two identities will still conflict in the dream... The young 'Manipulator' just said that he accidentally reached a deep dream when he just Dream Invasion and saw the split inverted pyramid mausoleum and the symbol of death. That is the state of my soul...
"Until the next 'resurrection' repairs this damage, my dreams will show a dualistic split. The dream fragments close to this point in time symbolize my humanity, representing my expectations and desires; the ones close to Fourth Epoch, the dream fragment you just experienced, symbolize my fears and worries...
"My fear of that life mainly came from the ruin of the castle, the tragic death of my son and the demise of my family... The dream made my fear come true in the form of 'the castle was invaded'... So I don't like going there very much. I only go to the castle to spend some time in memory of my wife and children...
"This ability to actively control dreams and choose dreams is something I only possess during this deep sleep... This should be a gift from a certain existence. If not, you who have been promoted to Angel should not be restricted by dreams...
"Haha, the little girl just now told me about you becoming Angel, as well as many terms and concepts in psychology. She is suitable to apply for a lecturer at Khoy University to provide guidance to those psychologically fragile college students."
You're welcome, everyone is a believer of Mr. Fool... Angel muttered in his heart, worried that Azik would have to face the negative emotions in his dreams, and also happy that Audrey could be recognized by this Angel.
The two had a brief exchange. After knowing how Audrey met Mr. Azik, Angel did not ask in depth. Instead, he quickly got to the point while the other party was in good condition:
"Mr. Azik, I am visiting your dreamland this time mainly because I want to know some of the history of Fourth Epoch, about your father, Death Salinger's experience between Four Emperors War and Pale Calamity... Do you still have memories of that period?"
"Before I left you that day, I had already remembered everything," Azik nodded, his expression becoming more serious, "What do you want to know?"
"Everything you know about Uniqueness of 'Red Priest' Pathway, Grade 0 Sealed Artifact of '01', 'Salinger’s Blood Banner' or 'Godfall Flag'."
Angel read out all the titles representing "0-01" in one breath, hoping to evoke Mr. Azik's memories and get useful information.
The title "Salinger’s Blood Banner" moved Azik. After thinking carefully for a moment, he answered:
"My father became the ultimate survivor in Four Emperors War, and 'Red Priest' Uniqueness also fell into his hands, but he never tried to use this contaminated power... until' Primordial Demoness' came to the Southern Continent to find Him, claiming to avenge 'Blood Emperor' Tudor and let all the seven gods of the North Continent fall...
"During the preparation stage for the war, some accidents occurred. My father was bewitched by Instigation of 'Primordial Demoness' and another God, and tried to use 'Death' 'Sequence 0 of 'Pathway uses the power of River Styx to accommodate the non-adjacent 'Red Priest' Pathway Uniqueness...
"He became stronger, but also became crazy..."
I'm afraid Salinger was crazy before that. He actually dared to accommodate Uniqueness who was not Adjacent Pathways. Even the promotion requirement of "Great Old One" was only to accommodate Uniqueness of Adjacent Pathways... He is similar to Alistar Tudor who was promoted from "Black Emperor" Pathway to "Red Priest". The latter is also a half-crazy God... What is the power of "River Styx"? That river deep in "Underworld" opened by the previous Death Gregrace? It can't be Sefirah "River of Eternal Darkness"...
And "Primordial Demoness" cooperated with Death to launch Pale Calamity actually to avenge "Blood Emperor"? I remember that they gave birth to a pair of divine sons. Could it be that there was true love between the two, no, the two gods?
Angel Thoughts kept popping up in his mind, and he asked smoothly:
"Who is the God who bewitched your father?"
Azik shook his head:
"My father didn't reveal it, but after he had problems with his condition, he soon launched a war with 'Primordial Demoness' against the North Continent, and no one knew the secret... But from some clues, I guessed that the person who bewitched my father and instigated him to forcibly accommodate 'Red Priest' Uniqueness's God...
"It should be 'True Creator'."