Although I don't know how "Pale Empress" describes the cooperation between Numinous Episcopate and Angel, we can get a glimpse of it from the very cooperative attitude of "Spirit Medium".
From her detailed narration, Angel learned that Numinous Episcopate's "Royalist Faction" had a three-person team hidden in Tizamo Town. They were led by captain Pena and a "Royalist Faction" Nightmare", composed of one "Weapon Master", has been living in the town under various names since the end of the last Dream Festival. After a year, he has completely integrated into this place, and even some outrageous actions are not easy to arouse suspicion.
This combination surprised Angel but also found it very reasonable. One of "Spirit Medium" and "Nightmare" has a special sense of Spirit Body and the undead, and the other can actively enter the dreams of others, which is of great help in exploring the truth of "Dream Festival". "Weapon Master" can not only have an advantage in frontal combat, but also belongs to one of the three Pathways of "River Styx" or "River of Eternal Darkness" like the other two, but Sequence is not so high that it is easily affected by Sefirah.
Apart from the rationality of Potion Pathway, this three-person team also collected a large amount of useful information during their lurking period.
Some of the results have been informed by "Pale Empress" Sia Eggers to Angel, but Pena's introduction is more detailed:
There is a peculiar phenomenon in the funeral records kept by Church of the Eternal Blazing Sun. About 80% of the deaths were concentrated in the three months after mid-December, but most of them were caused by attacks by nearby primitive tribes. Apart from these, the mortality rate of Tizamo Town was not much different from that of surrounding towns;
During the same period of time, many residents in the town will experience various strange symptoms. Women mainly suffer from nausea, bloating, pantothenic acid and other early symptoms of pregnancy. After a doctor's examination, it is found that they are not pregnant. Men have limb pain, numbness, dizziness and other abnormalities. After going to the church to receive Purification, most of these hallucinations will be improved;
Although a small number of residents are not Beyonder, but have high Spirituality, and in the words of Spirit Medium, "are easy to relate to Spirit World", they will occasionally dream of a Tizamo Town that only exists for themselves late at night, and show a certain degree of destructive desire and other suppressed desires. After "Nightmare" confirmed, this is not an illusion;
Several surrounding primitive tribes still believe in "Death" and have a certain Potion inheritance, which can drive corpses and manipulate the undead. This, combined with the various hysterias of the townspeople, led the officials to regard the deaths concentrated within three months as the curse of the primitive tribes and revenge against the colonists. Since Intis would abandon the place soon after losing the war, there was no in-depth investigation.
At the end of the introduction, Pena concluded:
"Based on Lucas's Dream Invasion exploration and his risky personal attempts, we confirmed that Tizamo Town does have a 'dream' that completely replicates the real town, but there are no people or animals in it, and it is surrounded by a strange fog. This is very similar to 'Dream Festival' recorded by the first exploration team, but there are no other participants."
Lucas is the "Nightmare", and possesses a piece of Sealed Artifact that is roughly equivalent to level "2", which strengthens the ability to control dreams.
Angel nodded, this was the same dream she entered last night.
Moreover, according to the information collected by the Pena team, this dream is not completely closed outside the time of "Dream Festival". Occasionally, residents will enter here in their sleep, but because nothing abnormal occurs, they regard it as an ordinary dream and do not pay attention to it.
The residents who died in "Dream Festival" will be killed by the primitive tribes who believe in "Death" and receive some kind of inspiration in the form of invasion to avoid inexplicable causes of death; those who are only injured will only treat their inappropriateness as hysteria or hallucinations, and at most go to the church to accept Purification because of rumors that the primitive tribes control dead souls and ghosts.
Under these intentional or unintentional forgetting and concealment, "Dream Festival" has never been discovered by the outside world.
"In addition, there is another thing that people are concerned about," Spirit Medium Pena's light blue eyes flickered slightly, and his tone was a little erratic, "Lucas saw himself, another self, in his dream during the recent 'Dream Invasion'."
Another self...Mirror Person?
Angel immediately thought that this was not limited to "Demoness" Pathway, but would occur in many areas contaminated by Sefirah, especially the strange phenomenon of Trier. However, after thinking about it, it was unlikely that such a problem would occur in a dream, so he tentatively asked:
"Is that a real person, or some Nightmare product that imitates me?"
"Lucas doesn't know either, because he woke up from his dream after seeing his other self. I secretly observed him for a few days, and other than his mood becoming a bit ups and downs and complaining about the meaningless squatting here for a year, I didn't find anything unusual about him."
Pena replied.
Emotional ups and downs... This is related to the phenomenon that "Pale Empress" mentioned that the residents of this town are too peaceful, but will release their negative emotions in dreams during "Dream Festival"... By the way, Pena did not mention this issue. Is she hiding it, or has she lived here for too long and experienced similar changes, but does not think it is "abnormal"?
Angel thought about it, and after comparing this state with various Potion Pathway, he thought that it was somewhat similar to the Temperance concept of "Chained" Pathway, such as Sharron, Reinette, etc. Rose School Temperance Faction members will suppress their various emotions in normal times and only explode necessary extreme emotions during battles.
But even the "Chained God" that Angel fought with does not seem to have the ability to absorb the negative emotions of the entire town for three hundred and sixty-four days a year and let them explode in "Dream Festival". Instead, the adjacent "Demon" Pathway has similar power, such as "Desire Apostle"...
Thinking of this, Angel's thoughts first diverged and then converged, feeling that the doubts surrounding Tizamo Town became more confusing.
Fortunately, Dream Festival will be there in two days, and no matter what the problem is, it will be exposed in front of her eyes.
Before that, she can also find her own "think tank" to discuss issues related to dreams and the soul.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, streaks of crimson light flashed across the grand palace shrouded in Gray Fog, and the members of Tarot Club gathered together again.
Angel, who was able to see the faces of other members clearly through Gray Fog due to the preferential treatment of "Fool", glanced at the faces of other members with different expressions. Under the leadership of "Justice" Audrey They all stood up and bowed to the head of the long table. After "Fool", who was clearly represented by "Worm of Spirit" and concisely announced the start of the party, fell silent, as expected, "Magician" Fors asked questions.
"Miss Empress, Mr. World, do you know what happened to 'Yarnam City' on the island called Partis located deep in the Berserk Sea?"
The member who has joined Tarot Club for more than two years and has been promoted to Demigod asked the question with some trepidation. She has not become more confident because of the change in her strength. After all, this is Meeting Before God, and the people she is asking are two real Angel.
Yanan... She wouldn't still be worried about being "watched" by a bunch of Marionette, right? In fact, Magician Merlin and his female assistant were played by me and Klein... Angel muttered, glanced at the "world" Klein, and found that he was still in a daze, so he explained:
"That is a Marionette City, involving some problems beyond your ability. Of course, it has been solved now, and there will be no hidden dangers left."
As she said that, she glanced at "Judgment" Miss.
The latter was also teased by the duo Magician played by Angel and Klein, and was asked embarrassing questions by Arrodes. At this time, his cheeks were slightly red, and he did not make any cover up because of the Gray Fog.
It is beyond the scope of my ability, that is the personality of Angel... Fors was stunned for a moment, then lowered his head and responded, and stopped asking related questions.
At this moment, the "world" Klein's dull eyes at the other end of the long table returned to normal. He looked at "Magician" Miss and said in a low and hoarse voice:
"You can publish your experiences into biographies and stories, my only request is that it be done as soon as possible.
"As a reward, you have the opportunity to record some more powerful abilities."
Experience? Publish?
Fors, who is both the best-selling book Author and a member of the secret organization, frowned slightly and immediately understood what Mr. "World" meant.
That Marionette City is inseparable from this Angel, and it is probably his role, or even a ceremony to promote the next Sequence!
The weirdness and mystery of promoting "Yarnam City" are probably part of the ritual.
This kind of thing is familiar to Fors. The two popular themes in her hands, the "The Great Pirate" and "The Great Adventurer" series were written for the two Angels of Tarot Club, aiming to promote their deeds and reputations and turn loyal readers into the "anchors" of Mythical Creature.
The only problem is that as the plot develops, many readers have different requirements for the direction of the story. Enthusiastic fans will even send letters to the publishing house, asking the editor to convey their needs, or even issue some kind of plea or threat.
Some of them hope that the content in the "complete version" that is not part of the main text will be corrected, or at least mentioned in the side; some want to have more linkage between "The Great Pirate" and "The Great Adventurer", and are saddened by the inseparable relationship between Angelica and Gehrman; some feel that Mad Adventurer The story of Gehrman wandering among many female pirates, but nothing really happened is too appealing, and they hope to have some "key plot"; some feel that the author is whitewashing the pirates and Adventurer, and those with high bounties are definitely not good people, especially the Angelica Zaki who is worth millions, more than the long-lost "King of the Five Seas"...
Some of these suggestions and opinions Fors thought were very reasonable and she was ready to use them in her next novel, but some of them scared her even just thinking about them, so she could only secretly destroy them and hide the secrets in her heart.
Compared with the reasonable and unreasonable diverse needs of readers, adding Yarnam City as a rumor to "The Great Adventurer Gehrman Series: Queen Anne's Revenge", which is already almost the End, is not a big problem.
Thinking of this, Fors agreed wholeheartedly.
Even if there is no remuneration, the sales of the series of books themselves can bring her good income, and "World" Gehrman Sparrow has helped her so much in the past two years, and the kindness is not over at all.
But as the divergent thoughts gradually converged, Fors realized another problem:
If the "world" that is already Sequence 2 is really using Yarnam City as its own Promotion Ritual, wouldn't it...
Is Archangel about to become Sequence 1?